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Most Highbrow Films (#201-300)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
201 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 288
202 Naked 1993 Mike Leigh 632
203 Les Vampires 1915 Louis Feuillade 856
204 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 Pedro Almodóvar 539
205 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Ang Lee 165
206 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 290
207 Au Revoir, les Enfants 1987 Louis Malle 534
208 The Celebration 1998 Thomas Vinterberg 637
209 Alexander Nevsky 1938 Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev 523
210 Knife in the Water 1962 Roman Polanski 689
211 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick 357
212 Withnail & I 1987 Bruce Robinson 183
213 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 305
214 A Woman under the Influence 1974 John Cassavetes 557
215 The Mirror 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky 887
216 Gertrud 1964 Carl Theodor Dreyer 942
217 October 1928 Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein 839
218 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 337
219 The Exterminating Angel 1962 Luis Buñuel 735
220 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 377
221 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 60
222 Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders 473
223 If.... 1968 Lindsay Anderson 559
224 Secrets & Lies 1996 Mike Leigh 389
225 Night and Fog 1955 Alain Resnais 744
226 Farewell My Concubine 1993 Kaige Chen 601
227 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 73
228 Ivan the Terrible, Part II 1958 Sergei M. Eisenstein and M. Filimonova 930
229 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 106
230 Cyrano de Bergerac 1990 Jean-Paul Rappeneau 729
231 The Travelling Players 1975 Theodoros Angelopoulos 988
232 My Life to Live 1962 Jean-Luc Godard 1028
233 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 52
234 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 78
235 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 157
236 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola 254
237 Written on the Wind 1956 Douglas Sirk 484
238 Broken Blossoms 1919 D.W. Griffith 616
239 Henry V 1944 Laurence Olivier 375
240 Get Carter 1971 Mike Hodges 339
241 Crumb 1994 Terry Zwigoff 550
242 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 147
243 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Robert Aldrich 427
244 Manon of the Spring 1986 Claude Berri 617
245 Miller's Crossing 1990 Joel Coen 460
246 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray 486
247 Killer of Sheep 1981 Charles Burnett 667
248 The Lives of Others 2006 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 505
249 Rififi 1955 Jules Dassin 521
250 The Dead 1987 John Huston 841
251 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 162
252 The Sweet Hereafter 1997 Atom Egoyan 512
253 My Neighbor Totoro 1988 Hayao Miyazaki 554
254 Le Jour se lève 1939 Marcel Carné 965
255 Gun Crazy 1950 Joseph H. Lewis 425
256 Central Station 1998 Walter Salles 695
257 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 François Truffaut 699
258 Sans soleil 1983 Chris Marker 1033
259 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 34
260 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 247
261 The Tin Drum 1979 Volker Schlöndorff 644
262 Chimes at Midnight 1965 Orson Welles 1016
263 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 381
264 Diva 1981 Jean-Jacques Beineix 669
265 Oldboy 2003 Chan-wook Park 684
266 The Godfather: Part III 1990 Francis Ford Coppola 432
267 Hidden 2005 Michael Haneke 836
268 The Music Room 1959 Satyajit Ray 1317
269 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 10
270 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa 712
271 Y tu mamá también 2001 Alfonso Cuarón 457
272 Rushmore 1998 Wes Anderson 286
273 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry 176
274 The Mother and the Whore 1973 Jean Eustache 1087
275 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 125
276 There Will Be Blood 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson 533
277 Late Spring 1949 Yasujiro Ozu 855
278 Death in Venice 1971 Luchino Visconti 821
279 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 15
280 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 603
281 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 263
282 In the Realm of the Senses 1976 Nagisa Oshima 615
283 The King of Comedy 1982 Martin Scorsese 475
284 The Double Life of Veronique 1991 Krzysztof Kieslowski 1035
285 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese 488
286 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 Woody Allen 503
287 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 133
288 A Touch of Zen 1971 King Hu 1206
289 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 239
290 Voyage to the Moon 1902 Georges Méliès 517
291 Xala 1975 Ousmane Sembene 1234
292 The Long Good Friday 1980 John Mackenzie 499
293 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock 376
294 Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci 397
295 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 259
296 The Eclipse 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni 967
297 The Life of Oharu 1952 Kenji Mizoguchi 1044
298 La Notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 1299
299 Forbidden Games 1952 René Clément 766
300 The Ladykillers 1955 Alexander Mackendrick 333
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