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Most Highbrow Films (#501-600)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
501 Mouchette 1967 Robert Bresson 1612
502 'I Know Where I'm Going!' 1945 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 804
503 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 74
504 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan 701
505 The Big Red One 1980 Samuel Fuller 591
506 The Ladykillers 1955 Alexander Mackendrick 401
507 The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 Charles Crichton 651
508 Salesman 1968 Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin 929
509 The Evil Dead 1981 Sam Raimi 454
510 Faust 1926 F.W. Murnau 1246
511 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 9
512 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 204
513 Crash 1996 David Cronenberg 754
514 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 2001 Steven Spielberg 584
515 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse 605
516 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 46
517 Lacombe Lucien 1974 Louis Malle 1110
518 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 702
519 Beau travail 1999 Claire Denis 878
520 The Wild Child 1970 François Truffaut 1406
521 Black Orpheus 1959 Marcel Camus 1030
522 The Crime of Mr. Lange 1936 Jean Renoir 1261
523 Ossessione 1943 Luchino Visconti 1133
524 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 1922 Fritz Lang 1264
525 Fellini Satyricon 1969 Federico Fellini 1664
526 The Haunting 1963 Robert Wise 486
527 Dumbo 1941 Ben Sharpsteen 520
528 Vagabond 1985 Agnès Varda 1036
529 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 William A. Wellman 442
530 Xala 1975 Ousmane Sembene 1339
531 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 108
532 A Brighter Summer Day 1991 Edward Yang 1064
533 Memories of Underdevelopment 1968 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 1200
534 Boudu Saved from Drowning 1932 Jean Renoir 1353
535 The Remains of the Day 1993 James Ivory 594
536 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 Wes Anderson 563
537 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Howard Hawks 968
538 Listen to Britain 1942 Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister 1497
539 Manon of the Spring 1986 Claude Berri 655
540 Underground 1995 Emir Kusturica 982
541 Two-Lane Blacktop 1971 Monte Hellman 1027
542 Time of the Gypsies 1988 Emir Kusturica 1546
543 Werckmeister Harmonies 2000 Béla Tarr 1413
544 Hate 1995 Mathieu Kassovitz 871
545 Shock Corridor 1963 Samuel Fuller 950
546 Our Hospitality 1923 John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton 1206
547 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel Coen 496
548 Down by Law 1986 Jim Jarmusch 861
549 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 Jacques Tourneur 949
550 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 Charles Crichton 344
551 Diner 1982 Barry Levinson 618
552 The Long Day Closes 1992 Terence Davies 1207
553 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford 668
554 The Shop on Main Street 1965 Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos 826
555 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 1976 John Cassavetes 1354
556 Howards End 1992 James Ivory 904
557 The Blair Witch Project 1999 Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez 313
558 Winter Light 1962 Ingmar Bergman 1226
559 Dazed and Confused 1993 Richard Linklater 548
560 Withnail & I 1987 Bruce Robinson 205
561 Man of Aran 1934 Robert J. Flaherty 1679
562 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 197
563 A City of Sadness 1989 Hsiao-hsien Hou 1667
564 Kings of the Road 1976 Wim Wenders 1572
565 The Ladies of the Bois De Boulogne 1945 Robert Bresson 1656
566 Sex, Lies, and Videotape 1989 Steven Soderbergh 483
567 O Lucky Man! 1973 Lindsay Anderson 1366
568 Hidden 2005 Michael Haneke 1056
569 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 353
570 War and Peace 1967 Sergei Bondarchuk 997
571 Princess Mononoke 1997 Hayao Miyazaki 622
572 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 216
573 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton 308
574 Pixote 1981 Hector Babenco 1162
575 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973 Sam Peckinpah 896
576 Band of Outsiders 1964 Jean-Luc Godard 1310
577 Downfall 2004 Oliver Hirschbiegel 689
578 The Incredibles 2004 Brad Bird 428
579 Dersu Uzala 1975 Akira Kurosawa 1108
580 The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 Clint Eastwood 636
581 Gilda 1946 Charles Vidor 641
582 Lancelot of the Lake 1974 Robert Bresson 1537
583 Forbidden Planet 1956 Fred M. Wilcox 373
584 The Man Who Would be King 1975 John Huston 620
585 Port of Shadows 1938 Marcel Carné 1517
586 Stolen Kisses 1968 François Truffaut 1070
587 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 311
588 Straw Dogs 1971 Sam Peckinpah 808
589 I Vitelloni 1953 Federico Fellini 1313
590 Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa 1138
591 Babette's Feast 1987 Gabriel Axel 555
592 Red Sorghum 1987 Yimou Zhang 1322
593 The Time to Live and the Time to Die 1985 Hsiao-hsien Hou 1719
594 Miracle in Milan 1951 Vittorio De Sica 2013
595 The Long Good Friday 1980 John Mackenzie 595
596 Heavenly Creatures 1994 Peter Jackson 747
597 The Man in the White Suit 1951 Alexander Mackendrick 957
598 Drugstore Cowboy 1989 Gus Van Sant 903
599 A Short Film about Killing 1988 Krzysztof Kieslowski 1306
600 The Cloud-Capped Star 1960 Ritwik Ghatak 1587
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