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Most Highbrow Films (#401-500)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
401 I Am Cuba 1968 Mikheil Kalatozishvili 1159
402 The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski 470
403 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen 354
404 Foolish Wives 1922 Erich von Stroheim 1211
405 The Navigator 1924 Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton 1415
406 Masculine Feminine 1966 Jean-Luc Godard 1434
407 La Terra Trema 1948 Luchino Visconti 1220
408 Lone Star 1996 John Sayles 659
409 Senso 1954 Luchino Visconti 1346
410 Mon oncle d'Amérique 1980 Alain Resnais 1300
411 Fires Were Started 1943 Humphrey Jennings 1456
412 Barton Fink 1991 Joel Coen 907
413 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 1074
414 Vagabond 1985 Agnčs Varda 1170
415 The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 Charles Crichton 677
416 Burnt by the Sun 1994 Nikita Mikhalkov 1244
417 The River 1951 Jean Renoir 1229
418 Gimme Shelter 1970 Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin 741
419 Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg 707
420 The Crying Game 1992 Neil Jordan 547
421 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson 352
422 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 222
423 The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch 421
424 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 1972 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1650
425 Sonatine 1993 Takeshi Kitano 1079
426 Dazed and Confused 1993 Richard Linklater 433
427 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges 437
428 The Age of Innocence 1993 Martin Scorsese 570
429 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang 566
430 W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism 1971 Dusan Makavejev 1458
431 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 Quentin Tarantino 351
432 Walkabout 1971 Nicolas Roeg 770
433 Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks 328
434 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 121
435 Tampopo 1985 Juzo Itami 981
436 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Mike Newell 267
437 Grave of the Fireflies 1988 Isao Takahata 771
438 Topsy-Turvy 1999 Mike Leigh 752
439 Sex, Lies, and Videotape 1989 Steven Soderbergh 520
440 Drugstore Cowboy 1989 Gus Van Sant 902
441 War and Peace 1967 Sergei Bondarchuk 1019
442 Two-Lane Blacktop 1971 Monte Hellman 867
443 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 1970 Vittorio De Sica 1082
444 Kings of the Road 1976 Wim Wenders 1521
445 Underground 1995 Emir Kusturica 996
446 Betty Blue 1986 Jean-Jacques Beineix 890
447 Russian Ark 2002 Aleksandr Sokurov 1566
448 Slacker 1991 Richard Linklater 1142
449 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 130
450 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid 1020
451 The Kid 1921 Charles Chaplin 502
452 Detour 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer 702
453 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1233
454 Werckmeister Harmonies 2000 Béla Tarr 1414
455 The Virgin Spring 1960 Ingmar Bergman 1110
456 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 Wes Anderson 516
457 A Room with a View 1985 James Ivory 526
458 A Brighter Summer Day 1991 Edward Yang 1108
459 An Angel at My Table 1990 Jane Campion 1265
460 After Life 1998 Hirokazu Koreeda 1135
461 Pixote 1981 Hector Babenco 1298
462 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Stanley Kubrick 853
463 The Professional 1994 Luc Besson 282
464 The Big Carnival 1951 Billy Wilder 728
465 The Shop on Main Street 1965 Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos 956
466 The Big Red One 1980 Samuel Fuller 619
467 Bigger Than Life 1956 Nicholas Ray 1461
468 Claire's Knee 1970 Eric Rohmer 1304
469 Salň 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini 1310
470 Mephisto 1981 István Szabó 1179
471 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 26
472 Lacombe Lucien 1974 Louis Malle 1151
473 A Canterbury Tale 1944 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 1656
474 Time of the Gypsies 1988 Emir Kusturica 1637
475 The Puppet Master 1993 Hsiao-hsien Hou 1443
476 The Remains of the Day 1993 James Ivory 594
477 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 313
478 Chelsea Girls 1966 Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol 1489
479 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 658
480 Mother and Son 1997 Aleksandr Sokurov 1471
481 Smiles of a Summer Night 1955 Ingmar Bergman 760
482 Man of Aran 1934 Robert J. Flaherty 1772
483 To Live 1994 Yimou Zhang 1221
484 Kanal 1957 Andrzej Wajda 1319
485 Down by Law 1986 Jim Jarmusch 792
486 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski 350
487 Port of Shadows 1938 Marcel Carné 1708
488 Red Sorghum 1988 Yimou Zhang 1362
489 Hope and Glory 1987 John Boorman 786
490 The Cloud-Capped Star 1960 Ritwik Ghatak 1664
491 Where is the Friend's Home? 1987 Abbas Kiarostami 1419
492 Louisiana Story 1948 Robert J. Flaherty 1523
493 Lola 1961 Jacques Demy 1882
494 Pickup on South Street 1953 Samuel Fuller 675
495 Bowling for Columbine 2002 Michael Moore 840
496 The Blood of a Poet 1930 Jean Cocteau 1528
497 My Own Private Idaho 1991 Gus Van Sant 991
498 A City of Sadness 1989 Hsiao-hsien Hou 1761
499 The Red and the White 1968 Miklós Jancsó 1933
500 Bad Lieutenant 1992 Abel Ferrara 1238
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