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Most Highbrow Films (#401-500)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
401 Kes 1969 Ken Loach 510
402 Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg 723
403 Shock Corridor 1963 Samuel Fuller 913
404 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 269
405 Walkabout 1971 Nicolas Roeg 729
406 Shame 1968 Ingmar Bergman 1194
407 Scenes from a Marriage 1973 Ingmar Bergman 799
408 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 128
409 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 224
410 W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism 1971 Dusan Makavejev 1226
411 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1964 Sergei Parajanov 1242
412 Man of Aran 1934 Robert J. Flaherty 1603
413 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 216
414 Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 Agnčs Varda 1070
415 Drugstore Cowboy 1989 Gus Van Sant 725
416 Seven Beauties 1975 Lina Wertmüller 887
417 The Killing 1956 Stanley Kubrick 550
418 Ed Wood 1994 Tim Burton 615
419 Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah 672
420 A Taste of Cherry 1997 Abbas Kiarostami 911
421 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 104
422 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 127
423 The Age of Innocence 1993 Martin Scorsese 547
424 Withnail & I 1987 Bruce Robinson 227
425 Rififi 1955 Jules Dassin 623
426 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens 307
427 Masculine Feminine 1966 Jean-Luc Godard 1312
428 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman 744
429 Imitation of Life 1959 Douglas Sirk 487
430 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 196
431 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston 557
432 El Topo 1970 Alejandro Jodorowsky 889
433 Detour 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer 757
434 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 148
435 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 267
436 Mon oncle d'Amérique 1980 Alain Resnais 1120
437 Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 Terence Davies 1002
438 The Bank Dick 1940 Edward F. Cline 380
439 The American Friend 1977 Wim Wenders 1279
440 Delicatessen 1991 Marc Caro and Jean-Marie Jeunet 662
441 Pixote 1981 Hector Babenco 1004
442 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944 Preston Sturges 433
443 Amores perros 2000 Alejandro González Ińárritu 776
444 The Thing from Another World 1951 Christian Nyby 482
445 The River 1951 Jean Renoir 1238
446 The Draughtsman's Contract 1982 Peter Greenaway 1245
447 Barren Lives 1963 Nelson Pereira dos Santos 1380
448 The Wild Child 1970 François Truffaut 1426
449 Vagabond 1985 Agnčs Varda 1069
450 Fitzcarraldo 1982 Werner Herzog 684
451 A Short Film about Killing 1988 Krzysztof Kieslowski 1149
452 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 260
453 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 1970 Vittorio De Sica 942
454 Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel 265
455 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid 906
456 A Touch of Zen 1969 King Hu 1282
457 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick 490
458 Topsy-Turvy 1999 Mike Leigh 785
459 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 96
460 El 1953 Luis Buńuel 1323
461 The Official Story 1985 Luis Puenzo 974
462 Fires Were Started 1943 Humphrey Jennings 1480
463 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 102
464 Dead of Night 1945 Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer 638
465 Room at the Top 1959 Jack Clayton 819
466 The Big Parade 1925 King Vidor 444
467 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 Luis Buńuel 1153
468 Dead Man 1995 Jim Jarmusch 782
469 Happiness 1998 Todd Solondz 747
470 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 1965 Russ Meyer 925
471 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 129
472 Burnt by the Sun 1994 Nikita Mikhalkov 1063
473 The Ladykillers 1955 Alexander Mackendrick 441
474 The Crime of Mr. Lange 1936 Jean Renoir 1184
475 Shoeshine 1946 Vittorio De Sica 1158
476 Port of Shadows 1938 Marcel Carné 1403
477 Get Carter 1971 Mike Hodges 468
478 To Live 1994 Yimou Zhang 1038
479 The Hour of the Furnaces 1968 Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas, and Santiago Álvarez 1685
480 Mouchette 1967 Robert Bresson 1293
481 The Long Good Friday 1980 John Mackenzie 663
482 My Neighbor Totoro 1988 Hayao Miyazaki 892
483 Safe 1995 Todd Haynes 772
484 Listen to Britain 1942 Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister 1838
485 'I Know Where I'm Going!' 1945 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 829
486 Casque d'Or 1952 Jacques Becker 1349
487 Pickup on South Street 1953 Samuel Fuller 656
488 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 873
489 Lacombe Lucien 1974 Louis Malle 1146
490 Red Sorghum 1987 Yimou Zhang 1178
491 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Ang Lee 205
492 Yeelen 1987 Souleymane Cissé 1246
493 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 232
494 Mephisto 1981 István Szabó 1145
495 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson 430
496 Loves of a Blonde 1965 Milos Forman 1447
497 A Room with a View 1985 James Ivory 443
498 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise 240
499 Faust 1926 F.W. Murnau 1249
500 The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch 457
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