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Most Mainstream Films (#1-200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 5
2 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 4
3 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 1
4 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 7
5 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 2
6 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 15
7 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 32
8 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 21
9 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 8
10 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 6
11 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 14
12 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 10
13 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 9
14 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 28
15 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 17
16 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 19
17 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 13
18 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 23
19 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 18
20 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 12
21 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 33
22 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 25
23 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 3
24 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg 26
25 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 29
26 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 64
27 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 40
28 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 27
29 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 38
30 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 34
31 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 20
32 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 56
33 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 31
34 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 59
35 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 42
36 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 37
37 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 30
38 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 100
39 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 52
40 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 51
41 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 11
42 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 68
43 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 94
44 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 22
45 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 55
46 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 77
47 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 97
48 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 144
49 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 36
50 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 16
51 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 134
52 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet 73
53 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 118
54 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 24
55 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 43
56 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 125
57 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 159
58 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 48
59 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 53
60 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 50
61 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 136
62 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 89
63 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 44
64 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 92
65 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 41
66 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 75
67 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan 47
68 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 107
69 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 184
70 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 129
71 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 63
72 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 46
73 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 45
74 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 110
75 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 209
76 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 196
77 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 182
78 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand 104
79 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 83
80 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman 163
81 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 121
82 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 126
83 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 303
84 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 57
85 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 81
86 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 85
87 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz and William Keighley 212
88 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 130
89 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 95
90 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 88
91 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 131
92 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 54
93 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 67
94 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 62
95 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 112
96 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 171
97 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 172
98 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 91
99 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 74
100 The Matrix 1999 Lana and Lilly Wachowski 35
101 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 140
102 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 173
103 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 214
104 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 49
105 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 116
106 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 90
107 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 114
108 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 142
109 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 194
110 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 58
111 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 127
112 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 103
113 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 71
114 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 120
115 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 39
116 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 200
117 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg 285
118 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman 93
119 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 72
120 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 290
121 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 286
122 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 193
123 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 208
124 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 198
125 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 312
126 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 224
127 Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner 291
128 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 362
129 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 117
130 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 314
131 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 425
132 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone 225
133 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 181
134 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 330
135 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 213
136 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 60
137 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 137
138 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner 149
139 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 87
140 There Will Be Blood 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson 147
141 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 322
142 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 86
143 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 263
144 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 132
145 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujirô Ozu 70
146 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 254
147 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 299
148 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 78
149 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 283
150 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 162
151 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 279
152 Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel 206
153 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 98
154 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 271
155 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 185
156 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry 76
157 Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton 244
158 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 294
159 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 65
160 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 178
161 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 287
162 Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson 267
163 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 177
164 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 270
165 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 99
166 Beauty and the Beast 1991 Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise 154
167 Seven 1995 David Fincher 102
168 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison 464
169 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 80
170 Airplane! 1980 Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker 164
171 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens 772
172 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 493
173 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 234
174 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 336
175 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 786
176 Grease 1978 Randal Kleiser 365
177 Brokeback Mountain 2005 Ang Lee 153
178 The Jazz Singer 1927 Alan Crosland 679
179 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 372
180 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 109
181 12 Years a Slave 2013 Steve McQueen 543
182 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks 192
183 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 687
184 Shane 1953 George Stevens 341
185 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 221
186 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 143
187 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 96
188 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola 161
189 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 249
190 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 133
191 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 152
192 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim 321
193 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 401
194 Pinocchio 1940 Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen 233
195 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 391
196 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 139
197 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 66
198 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 432
199 Boyhood 2014 Richard Linklater 751
200 Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau 84
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