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Most Highbrow Films (#501-600)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
501 The Night of the Shooting Stars 1982 Paolo and Vittorio Taviani 1429
502 Gimme Shelter 1970 Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin 726
503 Love Me Tonight 1932 Rouben Mamoulian 546
504 Underground 1995 Emir Kusturica 950
505 Way Out West 1937 James W. Horne 866
506 The Baker's Wife 1938 Marcel Pagnol 1580
507 Marius 1931 Alexander Korda and Marcel Pagnol 1454
508 Queen Christina 1933 Rouben Mamoulian 529
509 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford 659
510 Heavenly Creatures 1994 Peter Jackson 691
511 Horror of Dracula 1958 Terence Fisher 758
512 Tampopo 1985 Juzo Itami 1053
513 The Burmese Harp 1956 Kon Ichikawa 1494
514 My Beautiful Laundrette 1985 Stephen Frears 637
515 Curse of the Demon 1957 Jacques Tourneur 888
516 Sátántangó 1994 Béla Tarr 1110
517 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 413
518 Beau travail 1999 Claire Denis 1047
519 The Blood of a Poet 1930 Jean Cocteau 1504
520 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1986 John McNaughton 1084
521 Landscape in the Mist 1988 Theodoros Angelopoulos 1639
522 The Spider's Stratagem 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 1628
523 The Fly 1986 David Cronenberg 524
524 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Stanley Kubrick 877
525 Salaam Bombay! 1988 Mira Nair 1371
526 The Hidden Fortress 1958 Akira Kurosawa 987
527 Killer of Sheep 1977 Charles Burnett 1022
528 Near Dark 1987 Kathryn Bigelow 848
529 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 208
530 The Man in the White Suit 1951 Alexander Mackendrick 908
531 La Chienne 1931 Jean Renoir 1313
532 The Remains of the Day 1993 James Ivory 591
533 Like Water for Chocolate 1992 Alfonso Arau 611
534 Swept Away ... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August 1974 Lina Wertmüller 1078
535 She's Gotta Have It 1986 Spike Lee 808
536 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese 560
537 Fellini Satyricon 1969 Federico Fellini 1532
538 Bigger Than Life 1956 Nicholas Ray 1435
539 The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967 Jacques Demy 1331
540 Harlan County, U.S.A. 1976 Barbara Kopple 1139
541 Accattone 1961 Pier Paolo Pasolini 1687
542 Howards End 1992 James Ivory 835
543 Oliver Twist 1948 David Lean 784
544 Ballad of Narayama 1983 Shohei Imamura 1127
545 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1204
546 The Big Carnival 1951 Billy Wilder 830
547 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz 371
548 Heimat 1984 Edgar Reitz 1350
549 An Autumn Afternoon 1962 Yasujiro Ozu 1525
550 Run Lola Run 1998 Tom Tykwer 489
551 Our Hospitality 1923 John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton 1100
552 Kings of the Road 1976 Wim Wenders 1616
553 An Italian Straw Hat 1928 René Clair 1678
554 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 Wes Craven 451
555 La Bęte Humaine 1938 Jean Renoir 1497
556 Chelsea Girls 1966 Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol 1468
557 Mad Max 1979 George Miller 543
558 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 1251
559 Two English Girls 1971 François Truffaut 1438
560 Sweetie 1989 Jane Campion 1442
561 After Life 1998 Hirokazu Koreeda 1048
562 Roger & Me 1989 Michael Moore 926
563 Teorema 1968 Pier Paolo Pasolini 1669
564 Dumbo 1941 Ben Sharpsteen 507
565 The Round-up 1966 Miklós Jancsó 1661
566 28 Up 1985 Michael Apted 1507
567 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1962 Tony Richardson 832
568 The Ladies of the Bois De Boulogne 1945 Robert Bresson 1741
569 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 Guillermo del Toro 894
570 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola 353
571 My Brilliant Career 1979 Gillian Armstrong 860
572 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 1972 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1598
573 Through the Olive Trees 1994 Abbas Kiarostami 1490
574 A Brighter Summer Day 1991 Edward Yang 1015
575 Oh, Mr. Porter! 1937 Marcel Varnel 1446
576 Claire's Knee 1970 Eric Rohmer 1268
577 Lancelot of the Lake 1974 Robert Bresson 1335
578 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges 404
579 Chronicle of a Summer 1961 Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch 1769
580 Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa 1007
581 Land without Bread 1933 Luis Buńuel 1596
582 In Which We Serve 1942 Noel Coward and David Lean 764
583 Crash 1996 David Cronenberg 793
584 Salvatore Giuliano 1962 Francesco Rosi 1567
585 City of Sadness 1989 Hsiao-hsien Hou 1702
586 Antonia's Line 1995 Marleen Gorris 1126
587 Talk to Her 2002 Pedro Almodóvar 854
588 The Barbarian Invasions 2003 Denys Arcand 1045
589 Point Blank 1967 John Boorman 710
590 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick 695
591 Le Corbeau 1943 Henri-Georges Clouzot 1583
592 Time of the Gypsies 1988 Emir Kusturica 1686
593 The Right Stuff 1983 Philip Kaufman 364
594 Kanal 1957 Andrzej Wajda 1768
595 Down by Law 1986 Jim Jarmusch 881
596 The Puppet Master 1993 Hsiao-hsien Hou 1369
597 Happy Together 1997 Kar Wai Wong 1032
598 An Angel at My Table 1990 Jane Campion 998
599 Man of Marble 1977 Andrzej Wajda 1642
600 The Cloud-Capped Star 1960 Ritwik Ghatak 1675
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