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Most Highbrow Films (#201-400)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
201 Night and Fog 1956 Alain Resnais 490
202 The Celebration 1998 Thomas Vinterberg 720
203 A Taste of Cherry 1997 Abbas Kiarostami 891
204 Ivan the Terrible 1944 Sergei Eisenstein 987
205 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 294
206 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 126
207 The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy 267
208 Akira 1988 Katsuhiro Ôtomo 175
209 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock 415
210 The Last Laugh 1924 F.W. Murnau 835
211 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 222
212 Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki 32
213 Hate 1995 Mathieu Kassovitz 442
214 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman 538
215 The Mother and the Whore 1973 Jean Eustache 922
216 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 75
217 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls 793
218 Mon Oncle 1958 Jacques Tati 822
219 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 99
220 Pandora's Box 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst 788
221 Ace in the Hole 1951 Billy Wilder 510
222 The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch 385
223 Vampyr 1932 Carl Theodor Dreyer 652
224 Chimes at Midnight 1965 Orson Welles 739
225 My Night at Maud's 1969 Éric Rohmer 1034
226 Amour 2012 Michael Haneke 551
227 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 387
228 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Ang Lee 140
229 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen 217
230 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 120
231 The Fly 1986 David Cronenberg 147
232 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang 594
233 The Innocents 1961 Jack Clayton 444
234 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 206
235 All That Heaven Allows 1955 Douglas Sirk 782
236 Farewell My Concubine 1993 Kaige Chen 729
237 Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg 421
238 Y tu mamá también 2001 Alfonso Cuarón 462
239 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 2007 Cristian Mungiu 778
240 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 200
241 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero 242
242 Werckmeister Harmonies 2000 Béla Tarr 874
243 The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1007
244 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger 464
245 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen 567
246 A Separation 2011 Asghar Farhadi 548
247 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 36
248 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore 275
249 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 Peter Weir 851
250 Voyage to the Moon 1902 Georges Méliès 377
251 Nanook of the North 1922 Robert J. Flaherty 587
252 Harakiri 1962 Masaki Kobayashi 753
253 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 425
254 Orpheus 1950 Jean Cocteau 797
255 Walkabout 1971 Nicolas Roeg 981
256 Talk to Her 2002 Pedro Almodóvar 714
257 The Double Life of Veronique 1991 Krzysztof Kieslowski 964
258 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 311
259 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 309
260 In the Realm of the Senses 1976 Nagisa Ôshima 758
261 Stranger than Paradise 1984 Jim Jarmusch 809
262 The Thin Blue Line 1988 Errol Morris 604
263 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 177
264 Secrets & Lies 1996 Mike Leigh 629
265 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 227
266 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 448
267 Persepolis 2007 Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi 334
268 The White Ribbon 2009 Michael Haneke 928
269 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 142
270 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 447
271 Hoop Dreams 1994 Steve James 250
272 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 323
273 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 542
274 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 Pedro Almodóvar 865
275 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid 823
276 If.... 1968 Lindsay Anderson 850
277 L'Âge d'or 1930 Luis Buñuel 989
278 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 775
279 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 132
280 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel 212
281 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma 159
282 A Prophet 2009 Jacques Audiard 692
283 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur 435
284 The Cranes are Flying 1957 Mikhail Kalatozov 1030
285 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Jirí Menzel 947
286 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 252
287 Daisies 1966 Vera Chytilová 859
288 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston 641
289 Princess Mononoke 1997 Hayao Miyazaki 205
290 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 642
291 Le Cercle rouge 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville 577
292 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone 234
293 Fantasia 1940 James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, David Hand, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, and Ben Sharpsteen 229
294 Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci 607
295 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 453
296 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 157
297 The Blue Angel 1930 Josef von Sternberg 937
298 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 273
299 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 386
300 Naked 1993 Mike Leigh 802
301 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 Woody Allen 904
302 Performance 1970 Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg 791
303 Amores perros 2000 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 612
304 Au Revoir, les Enfants 1987 Louis Malle 819
305 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols 559
306 Band of Outsiders 1964 Jean-Luc Godard 953
307 Scenes from a Marriage 1974 Ingmar Bergman 1018
308 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz 454
309 An Autumn Afternoon 1962 Yasujirô Ozu 1306
310 Point Blank 1967 John Boorman 727
311 The Passenger 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni 1060
312 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise 298
313 Blood Simple 1984 Joel Coen 609
314 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 539
315 Elevator to the Gallows 1958 Louis Malle 706
316 Kes 1969 Ken Loach 576
317 Withnail & I 1987 Bruce Robinson 407
318 Down by Law 1986 Jim Jarmusch 961
319 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock 574
320 The King of Comedy 1982 Martin Scorsese 875
321 The Producers 1967 Mel Brooks 420
322 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 104
323 Harlan County, U.S.A. 1976 Barbara Kopple 550
324 Happy Together 1997 Kar-Wai Wong 735
325 Lola Montès 1955 Max Ophüls 1169
326 Shadows 1958 John Cassavetes 669
327 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 426
328 Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg 725
329 Memories of Underdevelopment 1968 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 1463
330 The Killing 1956 Stanley Kubrick 502
331 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 451
332 The Sacrifice 1986 Andrei Tarkovsky 1202
333 I Am Cuba 1964 Mikhail Kalatozov 1072
334 Death in Venice 1971 Luchino Visconti 944
335 Children of Men 2006 Alfonso Cuarón 193
336 The Life of Oharu 1952 Kenji Mizoguchi 1299
337 Dogville 2003 Lars von Trier 869
338 Paisan 1946 Roberto Rossellini 1120
339 The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey 827
340 Delicatessen 1991 Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet 730
341 Where is the Friend's Home? 1987 Abbas Kiarostami 1170
342 Make Way for Tomorrow 1937 Leo McCarey 1279
343 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 257
344 F for Fake 1973 Orson Welles 951
345 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 861
346 The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums 1939 Kenji Mizoguchi 1631
347 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 194
348 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 44
349 Deliverance 1972 John Boorman 556
350 Triumph of the Will 1935 Leni Riefenstahl 877
351 Waltz with Bashir 2008 Ari Folman 367
352 Written on the Wind 1956 Douglas Sirk 1278
353 The Killer 1989 John Woo 569
354 Earth 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko 1330
355 A City of Sadness 1989 Hsiao-hsien Hou 1443
356 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 197
357 Barton Fink 1991 Joel Coen 905
358 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz and William Keighley 265
359 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson 982
360 La Notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 1454
361 Ghost in the Shell 1995 Mizuho Nishikubo and Mamoru Oshii 324
362 Run Lola Run 1998 Tom Tykwer 750
363 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby 601
364 Rushmore 1998 Wes Anderson 330
365 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 49
366 Les Vampires 1915 Louis Feuillade 1069
367 The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967 Jacques Demy 1111
368 Faces 1968 John Cassavetes 1510
369 The Kid 1921 Charles Chaplin 406
370 Evil Dead II 1987 Sam Raimi 288
371 The Scarlet Empress 1934 Josef von Sternberg 1434
372 The Red Desert 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni 1583
373 The Music Room 1958 Satyajit Ray 1417
374 The Color of Pomegranates 1969 Sergei Parajanov 1815
375 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 770
376 The Hurt Locker 2008 Kathryn Bigelow 221
377 Winter Light 1963 Ingmar Bergman 1464
378 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick 198
379 L'Argent 1983 Robert Bresson 1257
380 Audition 1999 Takashi Miike 463
381 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring 2003 Kim Ki-duk 1064
382 The Servant 1963 Joseph Losey 1000
383 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 François Truffaut 1291
384 The Virgin Spring 1960 Ingmar Bergman 1084
385 Two-Lane Blacktop 1971 Monte Hellman 984
386 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Stanley Kubrick 595
387 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 1972 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1314
388 'I Know Where I'm Going!' 1945 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 903
389 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Woody Allen 990
390 Dead Man 1995 Jim Jarmusch 679
391 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras 929
392 Miller's Crossing 1990 Joel Coen 553
393 The Travelling Players 1975 Theodoros Angelopoulos 1627
394 Gertrud 1964 Carl Theodor Dreyer 1872
395 Nostalgia 1983 Andrei Tarkovsky 1478
396 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse 558
397 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 1032
398 The Blair Witch Project 1999 Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez 271
399 A Day in the Country 1946 Jean Renoir 1625
400 A Touch of Zen 1971 King Hu 1293
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