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Most Highbrow Films (#201-400)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
201 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen 247
202 Day for Night 1973 François Truffaut 467
203 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 183
204 Killer of Sheep 1978 Charles Burnett 370
205 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock 251
206 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 279
207 Earth 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko 841
208 The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums 1939 Kenji Mizoguchi 1162
209 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 3
210 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 363
211 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 572
212 Voyage in Italy 1954 Roberto Rossellini 937
213 A Day in the Country 1946 Jean Renoir 1001
214 Ace in the Hole 1951 Billy Wilder 423
215 Grave of the Fireflies 1988 Isao Takahata 329
216 In the Realm of the Senses 1976 Nagisa Ôshima 589
217 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 68
218 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid 713
219 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 605
220 The Innocents 1961 Jack Clayton 442
221 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 662
222 The Travelling Players 1975 Theodoros Angelopoulos 1024
223 Vampyr 1932 Carl Theodor Dreyer 611
224 Chimes at Midnight 1965 Orson Welles 858
225 If.... 1968 Lindsay Anderson 559
226 Imitation of Life 1959 Douglas Sirk 519
227 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 113
228 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman 508
229 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 312
230 The Thin Blue Line 1988 Errol Morris 438
231 A Taste of Cherry 1997 Abbas Kiarostami 893
232 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 345
233 Werckmeister Harmonies 2000 Béla Tarr 890
234 The Blue Angel 1930 Josef von Sternberg 643
235 Princess Mononoke 1997 Hayao Miyazaki 265
236 The Life of Oharu 1952 Kenji Mizoguchi 986
237 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 292
238 Shadows 1958 John Cassavetes 460
239 Triumph of the Will 1935 Leni Riefenstahl 590
240 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang 429
241 F for Fake 1973 Orson Welles 640
242 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 Guillermo del Toro 146
243 The Passenger 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni 833
244 Memories of Underdevelopment 1968 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 1002
245 Orpheus 1950 Jean Cocteau 785
246 The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 819
247 Nostalgia 1983 Andrei Tarkovsky 943
248 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 2007 Cristian Mungiu 808
249 Faces 1968 John Cassavetes 938
250 Talk to Her 2002 Pedro Almodóvar 634
251 Stranger than Paradise 1984 Jim Jarmusch 578
252 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 193
253 The Color of Pomegranates 1969 Sergei Parajanov 1125
254 Les Vampires 1915 Louis Feuillade 903
255 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Jirí Menzel 680
256 All That Heaven Allows 1955 Douglas Sirk 744
257 A Separation 2011 Asghar Farhadi 747
258 Amores perros 2000 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 457
259 Naked 1993 Mike Leigh 639
260 The Double Life of Veronique 1991 Krzysztof Kieslowski 1004
261 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 85
262 Farewell My Concubine 1993 Kaige Chen 715
263 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 Charles Chaplin 1092
264 The Scarlet Empress 1934 Josef von Sternberg 913
265 Performance 1970 Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg 576
266 The White Ribbon 2009 Michael Haneke 946
267 The Music Room 1958 Satyajit Ray 1288
268 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 287
269 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 29
270 Y tu mamá también 2001 Alfonso Cuarón 426
271 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 Peter Weir 718
272 Mouchette 1967 Robert Bresson 1036
273 Le Cercle rouge 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville 656
274 I Am Cuba 1964 Mikheil Kalatozishvili 965
275 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock 355
276 Paisan 1946 Roberto Rossellini 1018
277 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston 562
278 An Autumn Afternoon 1962 Yasujirô Ozu 1187
279 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 249
280 Winter Light 1963 Ingmar Bergman 872
281 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 14
282 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick 226
283 Let the Right One in 2008 Tomas Alfredson 395
284 Secrets & Lies 1996 Mike Leigh 470
285 Detour 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer 707
286 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 34
287 The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar 1974 Werner Herzog 1141
288 Amélie 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 119
289 Death in Venice 1971 Luchino Visconti 778
290 Au Revoir, les Enfants 1987 Louis Malle 792
291 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 271
292 Band of Outsiders 1964 Jean-Luc Godard 985
293 Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg 674
294 Dancer in the Dark 2000 Lars von Trier 532
295 A City of Sadness 1989 Hsiao-hsien Hou 1388
296 Faust 1926 F.W. Murnau 835
297 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 283
298 Ivan the Terrible, Part II 1958 Sergei M. Eisenstein and M. Filimonova 1251
299 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 130
300 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur 452
301 Walkabout 1971 Nicolas Roeg 853
302 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 44
303 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen 459
304 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras 584
305 Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci 451
306 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero 307
307 The Cameraman 1928 Edward Sedgwick 1041
308 Dogville 2003 Lars von Trier 626
309 Alexander Nevsky 1938 Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitriy Vasilyev 760
310 A Prophet 2009 Jacques Audiard 842
311 Hoop Dreams 1994 Steve James 284
312 Koyaanisqatsi 1982 Godfrey Reggio 538
313 Scenes from a Marriage 1974 Ingmar Bergman 950
314 Point Blank 1967 John Boorman 489
315 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger 513
316 Barton Fink 1991 Joel Coen 733
317 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 François Truffaut 807
318 Dead Man 1995 Jim Jarmusch 541
319 Where is the Friend's Home? 1987 Abbas Kiarostami 1297
320 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel 186
321 Written on the Wind 1956 Douglas Sirk 978
322 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 2
323 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1174
324 The Cranes are Flying 1957 Mikheil Kalatozishvili 931
325 The Sacrifice 1986 Andrei Tarkovsky 987
326 Run Lola Run 1998 Tom Tykwer 594
327 Pickup on South Street 1953 Samuel Fuller 542
328 Crumb 1994 Terry Zwigoff 621
329 Make Way for Tomorrow 1937 Leo McCarey 949
330 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 Woody Allen 647
331 Underground 1995 Emir Kusturica 1010
332 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 263
333 Blood Simple 1984 Joel Coen 506
334 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 95
335 Down by Law 1986 Jim Jarmusch 703
336 October 1927 Grigoriy Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein 1217
337 Amour 2012 Michael Haneke 725
338 Ivan's Childhood 1962 Andrei Tarkovsky 818
339 The Killing 1956 Stanley Kubrick 447
340 Delicatessen 1991 Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet 654
341 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 675
342 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 415
343 Salò 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini 928
344 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 Marcel Ophüls 709
345 The Virgin Spring 1960 Ingmar Bergman 1003
346 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Ang Lee 191
347 Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 Terence Davies 973
348 The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski 269
349 Zero for Conduct 1933 Jean Vigo 1071
350 Lola Montès 1955 Max Ophüls 1181
351 The Killer 1989 John Woo 437
352 The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy 255
353 Akira 1988 Katsuhiro Ôtomo 204
354 Knife in the Water 1962 Roman Polanski 799
355 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 585
356 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson 581
357 Harlan County, U.S.A. 1976 Barbara Kopple 598
358 Histoire(s) du cinéma Jean-Luc Godard 1184
359 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 336
360 The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978 Ermanno Olmi 1096
361 A History of Violence 2005 David Cronenberg 509
362 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 Pedro Almodóvar 739
363 There Will Be Blood 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson 147
364 Dersu Uzala 1975 Akira Kurosawa 1224
365 Two or Three Things I Know about Her 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 1569
366 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols 448
367 Le Jour se lève 1939 Marcel Carné 1124
368 Kes 1969 Ken Loach 478
369 Charulata 1964 Satyajit Ray 1140
370 Safe 1995 Todd Haynes 1021
371 Two-Lane Blacktop 1971 Monte Hellman 716
372 Stop Making Sense 1984 Jonathan Demme 700
373 Black God and White Devil 1964 Glauber Rocha 1197
374 The River 1951 Jean Renoir 1216
375 Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations 1938 Leni Riefenstahl 734
376 Forbidden Games 1952 René Clément 1089
377 The Red Desert 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni 1415
378 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 301
379 Gimme Shelter 1970 Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin 830
380 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 167
381 Broken Blossoms 1919 D.W. Griffith 900
382 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 270
383 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse 486
384 The Kid 1921 Charles Chaplin 338
385 Central Station 1998 Walter Salles 883
386 The Tenant 1976 Roman Polanski 1034
387 The Silence 1963 Ingmar Bergman 1318
388 Miller's Crossing 1990 Joel Coen 466
389 Ed Wood 1994 Tim Burton 435
390 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 209
391 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 551
392 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 299
393 Happy Together 1997 Kar-Wai Wong 816
394 Alice in the Cities 1974 Wim Wenders 1375
395 Senso 1954 Luchino Visconti 1364
396 La Belle noiseuse 1991 Jacques Rivette 1254
397 Dont Look Back 1967 D.A. Pennebaker 749
398 La Terra Trema 1948 Luchino Visconti 1376
399 Le Trou 1960 Jacques Becker 1352
400 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese 398
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