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Most Highbrow Films (#401-600)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
401 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson 319
402 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 224
403 Waltz with Bashir 2008 Ari Folman 400
404 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 1972 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1344
405 Lost Highway 1997 David Lynch 793
406 Gun Crazy 1950 Joseph H. Lewis 505
407 Bigger than Life 1956 Nicholas Ray 1282
408 A Touch of Zen 1971 King Hu 1265
409 Downfall 2004 Oliver Hirschbiegel 424
410 Yeelen 1987 Souleymane Cissé 1342
411 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 432
412 Landscape in the Mist 1988 Theodoros Angelopoulos 1744
413 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Stanley Kubrick 699
414 Early Summer 1951 Yasujirô Ozu 1536
415 Fantasia 1940 James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield 266
416 La Notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 1400
417 Claire's Knee 1970 Eric Rohmer 1367
418 Persepolis 2007 Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi 472
419 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 1366
420 Wavelength 1967 Michael Snow 1526
421 The Servant 1963 Joseph Losey 824
422 Deliverance 1972 John Boorman 404
423 The Trial 1962 Orson Welles 1244
424 Before Sunrise 1995 Richard Linklater 373
425 Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa 1225
426 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 396
427 Fireworks 1997 Takeshi Kitano 1069
428 Daisies 1966 Vera Chytilová 1138
429 Adaptation. 2002 Spike Jonze 888
430 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 19
431 I Was Born, But... 1932 Yasujirô Ozu 1392
432 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 1922 Fritz Lang 957
433 Strike 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 1176
434 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 97
435 The King of Comedy 1982 Martin Scorsese 604
436 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 330
437 Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty 1938 Leni Riefenstahl 790
438 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring 2003 Ki-duk Kim 1098
439 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 346
440 Audition 1999 Takashi Miike 511
441 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1965 Sergei Parajanov 1671
442 The Wind Will Carry Us 1999 Abbas Kiarostami 1486
443 Funny Games 1997 Michael Haneke 1080
444 Before Sunset 2004 Richard Linklater 315
445 Time of the Gypsies 1988 Emir Kusturica 1307
446 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974 Sam Peckinpah 1097
447 'I Know Where I'm Going!' 1945 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 672
448 Ghost in the Shell 1995 Mamoru Oshii 374
449 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz 440
450 Xala 1975 Ousmane Sembene 1514
451 The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967 Jacques Demy 1193
452 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 56
453 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 Luis Buñuel 1273
454 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone 225
455 Black Girl 1966 Ousmane Sembene 1379
456 Casque d'Or 1952 Jacques Becker 1360
457 Le Plaisir 1952 Max Ophüls 1851
458 Opening Night 1977 John Cassavetes 1242
459 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 Jacques Tourneur 864
460 Infernal Affairs 2002 Wai-keung Lau and Alan Mak 685
461 Through the Olive Trees 1994 Abbas Kiarostami 1499
462 Floating Clouds 1955 Mikio Naruse 2200
463 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock 523
464 Floating Weeds 1959 Yasujirô Ozu 1630
465 Russian Ark 2002 Aleksandr Sokurov 1325
466 L'Argent 1983 Robert Bresson 1495
467 The Sweet Hereafter 1997 Atom Egoyan 1025
468 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 1976 John Cassavetes 1402
469 The Triplets of Belleville 2003 Sylvain Chomet 601
470 The Phantom of Liberty 1974 Luis Buñuel 1799
471 Elevator to the Gallows 1958 Louis Malle 820
472 Hard Boiled 1992 John Woo 567
473 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 150
474 The Vanishing 1988 George Sluizer 795
475 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 517
476 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 766
477 The Blair Witch Project 1999 Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez 281
478 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 8
479 The Dead 1987 John Huston 1406
480 The Haunting 1963 Robert Wise 497
481 Germany, Year Zero 1948 Roberto Rossellini 1517
482 Love Me Tonight 1932 Rouben Mamoulian 845
483 Kings of the Road 1976 Wim Wenders 1545
484 Limelight 1952 Charles Chaplin 1485
485 The Gleaners & I 2000 Agnès Varda 926
486 The Killers 1946 Robert Siodmak 686
487 Salesman 1969 Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin 906
488 Tabu 1931 F.W. Murnau 1667
489 Le Boucher 1970 Claude Chabrol 1218
490 Through a Glass Darkly 1961 Ingmar Bergman 1770
491 Mother and Son 1997 Aleksandr Sokurov 1652
492 Hour of the Wolf 1968 Ingmar Bergman 1547
493 Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928 Charles Reisner 781
494 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 Karel Reisz 982
495 Grizzly Man 2005 Werner Herzog 629
496 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Howard Hawks 1142
497 Fall of the House of Usher 1928 Jean Epstein 1186
498 Accattone 1961 Pier Paolo Pasolini 1631
499 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich 488
500 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 Billy Wilder 480
501 Jackie Brown 1997 Quentin Tarantino 722
502 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 708
503 Some Came Running 1958 Vincente Minnelli 1891
504 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 21
505 Touki Bouki 1973 Djibril Diop Mambéty 2134
506 Titicut Follies 1967 Frederick Wiseman 920
507 The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey 758
508 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 214
509 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter 106
510 Shock Corridor 1963 Samuel Fuller 1060
511 Elephant 2003 Gus Van Sant 1170
512 Happiness 1998 Todd Solondz 969
513 The Lady from Shanghai 1947 Orson Welles 865
514 Ossessione 1943 Luchino Visconti 1257
515 El Topo 1970 Alejandro Jodorowsky 780
516 The Evil Dead 1981 Sam Raimi 417
517 The Devils 1971 Ken Russell 1082
518 Land without Bread 1933 Luis Buñuel 1602
519 Summer 1986 Eric Rohmer 1778
520 They Live by Night 1948 Nicholas Ray 991
521 Days of Being Wild 1990 Kar-Wai Wong 1597
522 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 152
523 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 619
524 The Death of Mister Lazarescu 2005 Cristi Puiu 1509
525 The Party 1968 Blake Edwards 908
526 A Short Film about Killing 1988 Krzysztof Kieslowski 1522
527 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007 Julian Schnabel 895
528 Boudu Saved from Drowning 1932 Jean Renoir 1628
529 Rosetta 1999 Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne 1512
530 Jean de Florette 1986 Claude Berri 881
531 The Return 2003 Andrey Zvyagintsev 1320
532 Scorpio Rising 1963 Kenneth Anger 1122
533 The Holy Mountain 1973 Alejandro Jodorowsky 1202
534 Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby 199
535 Bowling for Columbine 2002 Michael Moore 630
536 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 134
537 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma 278
538 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 80
539 The Puppet Master 1993 Hsiao-hsien Hou 1665
540 Memories of Murder 2003 Bong Joon Ho 852
541 A Canterbury Tale 1944 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 1559
542 Ceddo 1977 Ousmane Sembene 1866
543 Sex, Lies, and Videotape 1989 Steven Soderbergh 582
544 The Fly 1986 David Cronenberg 223
545 Volver 2006 Pedro Almodóvar 1221
546 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 181
547 The Phantom Chariot 1921 Victor Sjöström 1464
548 Kwaidan 1964 Masaki Kobayashi 1161
549 Paris Is Burning 1990 Jennie Livingston 615
550 The Draughtsman's Contract 1982 Peter Greenaway 1116
551 Love Streams 1984 John Cassavetes 1457
552 The Tin Drum 1979 Volker Schlöndorff 980
553 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 157
554 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs 1960 Mikio Naruse 2127
555 Twelve Monkeys 1995 Terry Gilliam 354
556 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby 554
557 Autumn Sonata 1978 Ingmar Bergman 1409
558 I Vitelloni 1953 Federico Fellini 1343
559 Man on Wire 2008 James Marsh 689
560 The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover 1989 Peter Greenaway 1102
561 Odd Man Out 1947 Carol Reed 1230
562 The Piano Teacher 2001 Michael Haneke 1445
563 Duck Amuck 1953 Chuck Jones 1469
564 Rope 1948 Alfred Hitchcock 669
565 Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa 1416
566 Le Corbeau 1943 Henri-Georges Clouzot 1582
567 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2004 Quentin Tarantino 439
568 Loves of a Blonde 1965 Milos Forman 1428
569 The Shop on Main Street 1965 Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos 1121
570 Ring 1998 Hideo Nakata 889
571 Get Carter 1971 Mike Hodges 564
572 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 Werner Herzog 966
573 No Country for Old Men 2007 Ethan and Joel Coen 189
574 Vagabond 1985 Agnès Varda 1427
575 Crash 1996 David Cronenberg 756
576 Lone Star 1996 John Sayles 821
577 Marketa Lazarová 1967 Frantisek Vlácil 1818
578 The Last Emperor 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci 651
579 Zodiac 2007 David Fincher 1037
580 Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks 534
581 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 184
582 Teorema 1968 Pier Paolo Pasolini 1855
583 Spring in a Small Town 1948 Mu Fei 2354
584 Shoeshine 1946 Vittorio De Sica 1715
585 Our Hospitality 1923 John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton 1117
586 The Hidden Fortress 1958 Akira Kurosawa 1238
587 Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages 1922 Benjamin Christensen 994
588 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Woody Allen 848
589 Grey Gardens 1975 Ellen Hovde, Albert and David Maysles, and Muffie Meyer 670
590 À nos amours 1983 Maurice Pialat 1607
591 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 340
592 1900 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci 1600
593 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky 259
594 The Time to Live and the Time to Die 1985 Hsiao-hsien Hou 1725
595 Woodstock 1970 Michael Wadleigh 805
596 Safety Last! 1923 Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor 658
597 Cría Cuervos 1976 Carlos Saura 1710
598 Bob le Flambeur 1956 Jean-Pierre Melville 1247
599 The Straight Story 1999 David Lynch 916
600 Smiles of a Summer Night 1955 Ingmar Bergman 1108
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