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Most Highbrow Films (#401-600)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
401 Before Sunset 2004 Richard Linklater 314
402 The Devils 1971 Ken Russell 1010
403 Hard Boiled 1992 John Woo 649
404 Lost Highway 1997 David Lynch 940
405 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 1563
406 Stop Making Sense 1984 Jonathan Demme 622
407 The Triplets of Belleville 2003 Sylvain Chomet 646
408 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 16
409 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 500
410 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Howard Hawks 1482
411 The Gleaners & I 2000 Agnès Varda 927
412 Faust 1926 F.W. Murnau 1221
413 Dancer in the Dark 2000 Lars von Trier 632
414 Through the Olive Trees 1994 Abbas Kiarostami 1267
415 Pickup on South Street 1953 Samuel Fuller 939
416 Shaun of the Dead 2004 Edgar Wright 214
417 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson 318
418 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 405
419 The Silence 1963 Ingmar Bergman 1718
420 Black God and White Devil 1964 Glauber Rocha 1397
421 Koyaanisqatsi 1982 Godfrey Reggio 704
422 Ivan's Childhood 1962 Andrei Tarkovsky 1025
423 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola 172
424 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 848
425 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1965 Sergei Parajanov 1762
426 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 Charles Chaplin 1658
427 The Lady from Shanghai 1947 Orson Welles 1074
428 Before Sunrise 1995 Richard Linklater 263
429 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1684
430 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 895
431 Russian Ark 2002 Aleksandr Sokurov 1300
432 An American Werewolf in London 1981 John Landis 431
433 Histoire(s) du cinéma 1989 Jean-Luc Godard 1340
434 A Fistful of Dollars 1964 Sergio Leone 429
435 Zero for Conduct 1933 Jean Vigo 1499
436 The Evil Dead 1981 Sam Raimi 397
437 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich 530
438 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 Marcel Ophüls 766
439 Infernal Affairs 2002 Wai Keung Lau and Alan Mak 711
440 Blow Out 1981 Brian De Palma 872
441 Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks 665
442 The Last Emperor 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci 779
443 Adaptation. 2002 Spike Jonze 1050
444 Mouchette 1967 Robert Bresson 1393
445 Knife in the Water 1962 Roman Polanski 983
446 Dazed and Confused 1993 Richard Linklater 379
447 The Vanishing 1988 George Sluizer 743
448 Funny Games 1997 Michael Haneke 1077
449 Touki Bouki 1973 Djibril Diop Mambéty 1650
450 Zodiac 2007 David Fincher 507
451 Shane 1953 George Stevens 410
452 Gimme Shelter 1970 Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin 914
453 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 Jacques Tourneur 960
454 The Ox-Bow Incident 1942 William A. Wellman 701
455 Alexander Nevsky 1938 Sergei Eisenstein and Dmitriy Vasilev 1116
456 Dersu Uzala 1975 Akira Kurosawa 1533
457 La Belle noiseuse 1991 Jacques Rivette 1698
458 Underground 1995 Emir Kusturica 1365
459 Charulata 1964 Satyajit Ray 1425
460 Kwaidan 1964 Masaki Kobayashi 852
461 The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar 1974 Werner Herzog 1763
462 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 19
463 Forbidden Games 1952 René Clément 1599
464 Black Girl 1966 Ousmane Sembene 1181
465 The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 Clint Eastwood 690
466 Days of Being Wild 1990 Kar-Wai Wong 1329
467 Broken Blossoms 1919 D.W. Griffith 1275
468 Fireworks 1997 Takeshi Kitano 1204
469 Ivan the Terrible, Part II 1958 Sergei Eisenstein 1555
470 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 306
471 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 203
472 Floating Weeds 1959 Yasujirô Ozu 1483
473 Detour 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer 1271
474 Landscape in the Mist 1988 Theodoros Angelopoulos 1985
475 Sex, Lies, and Videotape 1989 Steven Soderbergh 909
476 The Tree of Life 2011 Terrence Malick 773
477 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 830
478 The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder 892
479 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 1922 Fritz Lang 1307
480 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974 Sam Peckinpah 1128
481 Le Jour se lève 1939 Marcel Carné 1576
482 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 68
483 The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978 Ermanno Olmi 1620
484 Ed Wood 1994 Tim Burton 674
485 Paris Is Burning 1990 Jennie Livingston 412
486 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 Luis Buñuel 1848
487 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 630
488 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 Karel Reisz 1190
489 Dont Look Back 1967 D.A. Pennebaker 910
490 Crumb 1994 Terry Zwigoff 932
491 The Trial 1962 Orson Welles 1244
492 The Iron Giant 1999 Brad Bird 173
493 Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah 683
494 Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928 Charles Reisner 974
495 Get Carter 1971 Mike Hodges 789
496 Godzilla 1954 Ishirô Honda 400
497 Salò 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini 1247
498 October 1928 Grigoriy Aleksandrov and Sergei Eisenstein 1939
499 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 280
500 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel Coen 591
501 The River 1951 Jean Renoir 1589
502 Splendor in the Grass 1961 Elia Kazan 1189
503 Central Station 1998 Walter Salles 1151
504 Pinocchio 1940 Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen 224
505 The Tenant 1976 Roman Polanski 1421
506 Local Hero 1983 Bill Forsyth 1088
507 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 573
508 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 121
509 Grizzly Man 2005 Werner Herzog 682
510 Malcolm X 1992 Spike Lee 555
511 Synecdoche, New York 2008 Charlie Kaufman 1078
512 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 745
513 Opening Night 1977 John Cassavetes 1634
514 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 348
515 Punch-Drunk Love 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson 689
516 The Circus 1928 Charles Chaplin 1121
517 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 110
518 I Was Born, But... 1932 Yasujirô Ozu 1538
519 Jackie Brown 1997 Quentin Tarantino 688
520 Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa 1326
521 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 167
522 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 636
523 For a Few Dollars More 1965 Sergio Leone 476
524 Early Summer 1951 Yasujirô Ozu 1723
525 My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava 1216
526 Twelve Monkeys 1995 Terry Gilliam 331
527 Clerks. 1994 Kevin Smith 399
528 Volver 2006 Pedro Almodóvar 1282
529 Claire's Knee 1970 Éric Rohmer 1756
530 The Ladykillers 1955 Alexander Mackendrick 616
531 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges 1119
532 Spring in a Small Town 1948 Mu Fei 1952
533 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese 404
534 Charade 1963 Stanley Donen 1009
535 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 395
536 Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa 1437
537 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 Wes Anderson 546
538 The Phantom Chariot 1921 Victor Sjöström 1476
539 Two or Three Things I Know about Her 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 2283
540 After Hours 1985 Martin Scorsese 1021
541 The Ascent 1977 Larisa Shepitko 1466
542 Inland Empire 2006 David Lynch 1273
543 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 David Lynch 963
544 A History of Violence 2005 David Cronenberg 769
545 Tabu 1931 F.W. Murnau 1884
546 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 Werner Herzog 992
547 Tampopo 1985 Jûzô Itami 1246
548 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 344
549 The Haunting 1963 Robert Wise 428
550 Safety Last! 1923 Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor 687
551 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 Wes Craven 248
552 Masculine Feminine 1966 Jean-Luc Godard 1948
553 Lone Star 1996 John Sayles 1179
554 Downfall 2004 Oliver Hirschbiegel 526
555 The Cameraman 1928 Edward Sedgwick 1409
556 The Handmaiden 2016 Park Chan-wook 590
557 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 2001 Steven Spielberg 655
558 Memories of Murder 2003 Bong Joon Ho 657
559 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985 Paul Schrader 1248
560 Alice in the Cities 1974 Wim Wenders 1943
561 The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover 1989 Peter Greenaway 1102
562 The Death of Mister Lazarescu 2005 Cristi Puiu 1603
563 Bambi 1942 David Hand 342
564 2046 2004 Kar-Wai Wong 1142
565 Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019 Céline Sciamma 452
566 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford 1332
567 Bigger than Life 1956 Nicholas Ray 2028
568 Vagabond 1985 Agnès Varda 1545
569 Limelight 1952 Charles Chaplin 1773
570 Deep Red 1975 Dario Argento 784
571 District 9 2009 Neill Blomkamp 329
572 Possession 1981 Andrzej Zulawski 1176
573 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 359
574 Rope 1948 Alfred Hitchcock 856
575 Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 Terence Davies 1571
576 The Public Enemy 1931 William A. Wellman 1068
577 Amélie 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 119
578 Kings of the Road 1976 Wim Wenders 1818
579 The Sweet Hereafter 1997 Atom Egoyan 1427
580 The Road Warrior 1981 George Miller 325
581 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007 Andrew Dominik 713
582 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 Charles Crichton 598
583 Winchester '73 1950 Anthony Mann 786
584 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 93
585 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 Frank Capra 656
586 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 67
587 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick 1089
588 My Own Private Idaho 1991 Gus Van Sant 728
589 A Face in the Crowd 1957 Elia Kazan 1006
590 Through a Glass Darkly 1961 Ingmar Bergman 1845
591 Strike 1925 Sergei Eisenstein 1795
592 They Live by Night 1948 Nicholas Ray 1472
593 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 626
594 Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages 1922 Benjamin Christensen 996
595 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 237
596 RoboCop 1987 Paul Verhoeven 213
597 Le Trou 1960 Jacques Becker 1706
598 Senso 1954 Luchino Visconti 1700
599 Ossessione 1943 Luchino Visconti 1731
600 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks 232
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