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Most Highbrow Films (#101-200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
101 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 100
102 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 161
103 Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica 391
104 La Jetée 1962 Chris Marker 480
105 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 230
106 The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 Víctor Erice 543
107 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Yimou Zhang 363
108 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 13
109 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Andrzej Wajda 444
110 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore 192
111 Jeanne Dielman 1975 Chantal Akerman 751
112 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 266
113 Stairway to Heaven 1946 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 265
114 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 4
115 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 572
116 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 21
117 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 33
118 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 249
119 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls 477
120 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 66
121 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 77
122 Diary of a Country Priest 1951 Robert Bresson 604
123 Un chien andalou 1929 Luis Buñuel 410
124 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 297
125 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 9
126 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 18
127 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 72
128 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 96
129 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 56
130 Black Narcissus 1947 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 335
131 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky 509
132 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 20
133 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 19
134 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 123
135 The Scarlet Empress 1934 Josef von Sternberg 631
136 The Last Laugh 1924 F.W. Murnau 591
137 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 6
138 Chungking Express 1994 Kar Wai Wong 579
139 Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki 174
140 Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov 407
141 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy 368
142 Zero for Conduct 1933 Jean Vigo 595
143 All about My Mother 1999 Pedro Almodóvar 402
144 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 118
145 Three Colors: White 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 493
146 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 190
147 The Killer 1989 John Woo 398
148 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 212
149 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch 310
150 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 613
151 Amélie 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 182
152 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 163
153 Cries and Whispers 1972 Ingmar Bergman 443
154 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini 660
155 Yi yi: A One and a Two... 2000 Edward Yang 678
156 The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 585
157 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Jirí Menzel 664
158 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 Guillermo del Toro 353
159 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 117
160 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 248
161 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 177
162 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 108
163 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 136
164 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 390
165 Le Samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville 504
166 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 242
167 My Night at Maud's 1969 Eric Rohmer 805
168 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 590
169 Nights of Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini 440
170 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 150
171 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 104
172 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock 206
173 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 342
174 Breaking the Waves 1996 Lars von Trier 456
175 Celine & Julie Go Boating 1974 Jacques Rivette 727
176 Shadows 1959 John Cassavetes 611
177 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 83
178 Close Up 1990 Abbas Kiarostami 762
179 Triumph of the Will 1935 Leni Riefenstahl 465
180 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen 194
181 Voyage in Italy 1954 Roberto Rossellini 992
182 Day for Night 1973 François Truffaut 414
183 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 138
184 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 Marcel Ophüls 599
185 Eraserhead 1976 David Lynch 280
186 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras 489
187 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 257
188 Jean de Florette 1986 Claude Berri 386
189 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 369
190 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 483
191 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 173
192 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 Charles Chaplin 755
193 A Day in the Country 1936 Jean Renoir 696
194 Paisan 1946 Roberto Rossellini 871
195 Lola Montès 1955 Max Ophüls 730
196 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 155
197 The Thin Blue Line 1988 Errol Morris 478
198 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 152
199 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 41
200 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 202
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