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Most Highbrow Films (#101-200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
101 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi 459
102 Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica 334
103 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati 351
104 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 521
105 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 3
106 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer 228
107 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 56
108 Alexander Nevsky 1938 Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev 383
109 Day for Night 1973 François Truffaut 322
110 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls 403
111 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 185
112 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 164
113 Diary of a Country Priest 1951 Robert Bresson 519
114 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 16
115 Three Colors: Blue 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski 277
116 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks 280
117 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 171
118 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 423
119 Cries and Whispers 1972 Ingmar Bergman 365
120 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 19
121 Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann 479
122 Lola Montès 1955 Max Ophüls 497
123 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 170
124 A Man Escaped 1956 Robert Bresson 565
125 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock 223
126 Zero for Conduct 1933 Jean Vigo 518
127 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski 348
128 Stairway to Heaven 1946 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 242
129 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 211
130 Henry V 1944 Laurence Olivier 286
131 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 144
132 Diabolique 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot 327
133 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 258
134 Triumph of the Will 1935 Leni Riefenstahl 432
135 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 234
136 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 97
137 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson 562
138 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 176
139 Paisan 1946 Roberto Rossellini 616
140 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 218
141 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 197
142 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 122
143 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 33
144 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 135
145 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 25
146 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 285
147 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini 592
148 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 160
149 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 18
150 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 294
151 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 410
152 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 233
153 Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci 271
154 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 113
155 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 Marcel Ophüls 502
156 Performance 1970 Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg 414
157 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 552
158 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell 287
159 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy 377
160 Day of Wrath 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer 607
161 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 125
162 The Scarlet Empress 1934 Josef von Sternberg 505
163 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 8
164 Black Narcissus 1947 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 318
165 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky 513
166 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 121
167 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 295
168 The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 512
169 Written on the Wind 1956 Douglas Sirk 405
170 Jeanne Dielman 1976 Chantal Akerman 661
171 The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 Víctor Erice 612
172 Gertrud 1964 Carl Theodor Dreyer 689
173 Broken Blossoms 1919 D.W. Griffith 501
174 Olympia 1938 Leni Riefenstahl 477
175 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper 298
176 Nights of Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini 425
177 Les Vampires 1915 Louis Feuillade 697
178 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 262
179 The Killer 1989 John Woo 355
180 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa 581
181 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 368
182 À Nous la Liberté 1931 René Clair 634
183 The Travelling Players 1975 Theodoros Angelopoulos 768
184 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 15
185 Le Jour se lève 1939 Marcel Carné 676
186 October 1928 Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein 766
187 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 220
188 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras 483
189 A Day in the Country 1936 Jean Renoir 604
190 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 12
191 Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks 315
192 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel 173
193 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 222
194 Voyage to the Moon 1902 Georges Méliès 473
195 The Thin Blue Line 1988 Errol Morris 525
196 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore 192
197 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock 400
198 Knife in the Water 1962 Roman Polanski 620
199 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 526
200 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 203
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