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Most Mainstream Films (#1-100)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 5
2 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 6
3 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 40
4 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 3
5 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 37
6 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 44
7 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 7
8 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 10
9 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 2
10 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 33
11 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 58
12 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 20
13 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 17
14 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 41
15 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 25
16 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 39
17 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 16
18 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 92
19 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 1
20 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 69
21 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 48
22 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 11
23 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 31
24 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 28
25 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 126
26 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 47
27 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 120
28 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 102
29 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 12
30 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 88
31 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 18
32 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 156
33 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 57
34 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand 89
35 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 52
36 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 9
37 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 23
38 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 34
39 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 24
40 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 14
41 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 109
42 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 62
43 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 4
44 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 145
45 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 142
46 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 106
47 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 115
48 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 22
49 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 19
50 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 79
51 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 8
52 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 68
53 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone 146
54 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 97
55 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 35
56 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 124
57 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 45
58 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 56
59 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 164
60 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 128
61 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 86
62 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 114
63 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 108
64 Shane 1953 George Stevens 200
65 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 27
66 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 172
67 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 237
68 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 104
69 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 220
70 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 140
71 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 51
72 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 72
73 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 198
74 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 137
75 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 54
76 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 161
77 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 125
78 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 138
79 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz and William Keighley 153
80 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 13
81 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 85
82 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 338
83 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 151
84 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 447
85 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg 29
86 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 356
87 Fantasia 1940 James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield 199
88 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman 141
89 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 197
90 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 234
91 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 30
92 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 250
93 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 181
94 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 101
95 Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson 252
96 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 121
97 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 229
98 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 152
99 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 226
100 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 99
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