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Most Mainstream Films (#1-200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 2
2 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 5
3 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 11
4 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 1
5 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 10
6 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 8
7 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 7
8 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 14
9 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 21
10 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 31
11 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 25
12 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 17
13 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 9
14 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 15
15 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 23
16 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 13
17 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 3
18 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 41
19 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 45
20 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 39
21 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 16
22 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 19
23 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 4
24 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 34
25 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 46
26 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg 28
27 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 20
28 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 37
29 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 64
30 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 44
31 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 79
32 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 27
33 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 24
34 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet 66
35 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 49
36 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 51
37 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 60
38 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan 18
39 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 6
40 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 33
41 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 40
42 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 72
43 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 12
44 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 22
45 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 52
46 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 73
47 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 42
48 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 29
49 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 35
50 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 109
51 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 81
52 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 53
53 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 48
54 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 30
55 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 96
56 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 108
57 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 38
58 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 61
59 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 69
60 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 91
61 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 135
62 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 67
63 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 116
64 The Matrix 1999 Lana and Lilly Wachowski 26
65 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 71
66 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 85
67 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 75
68 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 68
69 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 58
70 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 142
71 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 59
72 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 87
73 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 134
74 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman 190
75 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 192
76 There Will Be Blood 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson 125
77 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 100
78 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 99
79 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 65
80 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 137
81 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 273
82 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 148
83 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 146
84 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 36
85 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 121
86 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 188
87 Seven 1995 David Fincher 90
88 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 237
89 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 86
90 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 117
91 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujirô Ozu 78
92 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 43
93 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry 56
94 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 138
95 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 57
96 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 88
97 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 200
98 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei Eisenstein 131
99 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg 308
100 12 Years a Slave 2013 Steve McQueen 235
101 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 126
102 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 161
103 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 362
104 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 70
105 Inception 2010 Christopher Nolan 74
106 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 76
107 No Country for Old Men 2007 Ethan and Joel Coen 101
108 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman 118
109 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 218
110 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 Guillermo del Toro 82
111 Moonlight 2016 Barry Jenkins 176
112 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 124
113 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand 115
114 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 62
115 Parasite 2019 Bong Joon Ho 165
116 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 127
117 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 139
118 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 47
119 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner 130
120 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 120
121 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 95
122 M 1931 Fritz Lang 84
123 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 162
124 Brokeback Mountain 2005 Ang Lee 111
125 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 50
126 Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki 32
127 The Lion King 1994 Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff 92
128 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 171
129 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 83
130 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 282
131 Mad Max: Fury Road 2015 George Miller 113
132 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 133
133 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 369
134 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 157
135 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 54
136 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 128
137 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 93
138 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 281
139 Whiplash 2014 Damien Chazelle 391
140 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 280
141 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 209
142 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 278
143 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 97
144 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 343
145 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 167
146 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz and William Keighley 265
147 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese 153
148 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 154
149 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 122
150 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer 152
151 Good Will Hunting 1997 Gus Van Sant 339
152 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 129
153 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 306
154 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 206
155 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch 89
156 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 222
157 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone 234
158 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 105
159 City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles 103
160 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 268
161 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 145
162 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 183
163 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 98
164 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 393
165 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 261
166 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 158
167 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 326
168 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 257
169 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 252
170 Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner 302
171 Airplane! 1980 Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker 196
172 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 311
173 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 191
174 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 294
175 Life Is Beautiful 1997 Roberto Benigni 258
176 Amélie 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 119
177 Boyhood 2014 Richard Linklater 536
178 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 239
179 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 203
180 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 448
181 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 150
182 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 227
183 Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton 246
184 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 182
185 The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 287
186 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 286
187 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola 172
188 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 386
189 The Social Network 2010 David Fincher 301
190 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 243
191 The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski 166
192 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks 202
193 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 309
194 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 215
195 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen 217
196 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 110
197 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison 437
198 In the Mood for Love 2000 Kar-Wai Wong 94
199 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 233
200 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 344
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