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Most Highbrow Films (#201-300)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
201 Celine & Julie Go Boating 1974 Jacques Rivette 649
202 Forbidden Games 1952 René Clément 597
203 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 392
204 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 Charles Chaplin 669
205 Ivan the Terrible, Part II 1958 Sergei M. Eisenstein and M. Filimonova 786
206 Death in Venice 1971 Luchino Visconti 703
207 Au Revoir, les Enfants 1987 Louis Malle 460
208 Chungking Express 1994 Kar Wai Wong 593
209 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 140
210 Eraserhead 1977 David Lynch 397
211 McCabe and Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 251
212 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Jirí Menzel 716
213 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 335
214 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 14
215 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 80
216 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero 273
217 The Exterminating Angel 1962 Luis Buñuel 655
218 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 384
219 Freaks 1932 Tod Browning 306
220 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 183
221 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 619
222 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 132
223 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Luchino Visconti 769
224 La Jetée 1962 Chris Marker 687
225 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 249
226 If.… 1968 Lindsay Anderson 533
227 Jean de Florette 1986 Claude Berri 385
228 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 90
229 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 41
230 Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders 431
231 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Robert Aldrich 418
232 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 François Truffaut 596
233 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock 238
234 Chimes at Midnight 1965 Orson Welles 841
235 Breaking the Waves 1996 Lars von Trier 472
236 Voyage in Italy 1954 Roberto Rossellini 1041
237 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 207
238 Le Samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville 535
239 A Woman under the Influence 1974 John Cassavetes 540
240 The Godfather: Part III 1990 Francis Ford Coppola 387
241 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 239
242 The Red Desert 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni 931
243 My Life to Live 1962 Jean-Luc Godard 966
244 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur 338
245 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 29
246 The Mirror 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky 973
247 Le Boucher 1970 Claude Chabrol 780
248 Vampyr 1932 Carl Theodor Dreyer 834
249 The Tin Drum 1979 Volker Schlöndorff 561
250 Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov 570
251 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 30
252 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 Pedro Almodóvar 584
253 City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles 331
254 Suspiria 1977 Dario Argento 456
255 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray 453
256 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 255
257 Farewell My Concubine 1993 Kaige Chen 548
258 The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy 317
259 Strike 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 858
260 The Eclipse 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni 794
261 Smiles of a Summer Night 1955 Ingmar Bergman 635
262 Odd Man Out 1947 Carol Reed 741
263 Mon Oncle 1958 Jacques Tati 666
264 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 47
265 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 675
266 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 166
267 Close Up 1990 Abbas Kiarostami 736
268 Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki 246
269 The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978 Ermanno Olmi 770
270 In the Realm of the Senses 1976 Nagisa Oshima 660
271 The Double Life of Veronique 1991 Krzysztof Kieslowski 952
272 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 191
273 Tristana 1970 Luis Buñuel 935
274 In the Mood for Love 2000 Kar Wai Wong 511
275 The King of Comedy 1983 Martin Scorsese 480
276 Three Colors: White 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 542
277 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 68
278 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 17
279 Yi yi: A One and a Two... 2000 Edward Yang 773
280 Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg 679
281 Woman in the Dunes 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara 827
282 Dracula 1931 Tod Browning 340
283 1900 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci 814
284 Stranger than Paradise 1984 Jim Jarmusch 537
285 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 Woody Allen 488
286 La Terra Trema 1948 Luchino Visconti 909
287 Cyrano de Bergerac 1990 Jean-Paul Rappeneau 696
288 Foolish Wives 1922 Erich von Stroheim 946
289 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen 243
290 Naked 1993 Mike Leigh 658
291 The Road Warrior 1981 George Miller 370
292 Shadows 1959 John Cassavetes 742
293 Secrets & Lies 1996 Mike Leigh 436
294 Miller's Crossing 1990 Joel Coen 478
295 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 1922 Fritz Lang 1113
296 The Passenger 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni 905
297 All about My Mother 1999 Pedro Almodóvar 534
298 The Music Room 1958 Satyajit Ray 1208
299 Gun Crazy 1950 Joseph H. Lewis 434
300 Ossessione 1943 Luchino Visconti 869
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