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Most Mainstream Films (#1-100)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 2
2 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 29
3 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 5
4 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 6
5 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 11
6 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 12
7 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 35
8 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 53
9 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 38
10 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 24
11 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 33
12 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 1
13 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 13
14 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 71
15 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 45
16 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 69
17 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 19
18 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 40
19 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 14
20 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 68
21 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 22
22 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 41
23 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 34
24 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 3
25 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 28
26 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 52
27 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 109
28 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 120
29 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 81
30 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 8
31 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 15
32 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 18
33 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 9
34 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 96
35 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 99
36 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 10
37 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 57
38 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 37
39 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 30
40 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 23
41 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 84
42 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 21
43 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 44
44 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 47
45 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 93
46 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 117
47 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 152
48 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 62
49 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand 87
50 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 85
51 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 4
52 Shane 1953 George Stevens 146
53 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 7
54 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 100
55 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 16
56 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 55
57 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 150
58 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 101
59 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 56
60 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone 119
61 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 169
62 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 60
63 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 17
64 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 76
65 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 179
66 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg 32
67 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 72
68 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 186
69 Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner 178
70 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 27
71 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 132
72 The General 1927 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 42
73 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 300
74 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 92
75 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman 141
76 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 112
77 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 257
78 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 39
79 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 125
80 Dances with Wolves 1990 Kevin Costner 165
81 Fantasia 1940 James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield 158
82 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 70
83 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 121
84 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 153
85 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 107
86 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 190
87 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 86
88 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 313
89 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 167
90 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 51
91 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 113
92 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 183
93 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 75
94 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 122
95 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 49
96 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler 299
97 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 236
98 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 26
99 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 342
100 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 114
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