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Most Mainstream Films (#101-200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
101 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 147
102 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 142
103 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 254
104 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor 270
105 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 202
106 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz and William Keighley 155
107 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 144
108 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 224
109 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 163
110 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 50
111 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 148
112 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 232
113 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet 156
114 Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks 268
115 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 20
116 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 204
117 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 111
118 Giant 1956 George Stevens 412
119 Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson 263
120 The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder 341
121 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton 421
122 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 207
123 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 225
124 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 221
125 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 133
126 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 332
127 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 31
128 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967 Stanley Kramer 564
129 Marty 1955 Delbert Mann 462
130 Rain Man 1988 Barry Levinson 296
131 Gigi 1958 Vincente Minnelli 426
132 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 43
133 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 161
134 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 103
135 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 135
136 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 80
137 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 239
138 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 95
139 Field of Dreams 1989 Phil Alden Robinson 219
140 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 William A. Wellman 396
141 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 413
142 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 337
143 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 216
144 Now, Voyager 1942 Irving Rapper 328
145 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens 307
146 The Producers 1968 Mel Brooks 217
147 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 170
148 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton 448
149 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Edward Dmytryk 577
150 An Affair to Remember 1957 Leo McCarey 455
151 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 222
152 Stalag 17 1953 Billy Wilder 508
153 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 249
154 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison 319
155 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim 162
156 The King and I 1956 Walter Lang 475
157 The Color Purple 1985 Steven Spielberg 481
158 Funny Girl 1968 William Wyler 516
159 Gunga Din 1939 George Stevens 388
160 Moonstruck 1987 Norman Jewison 349
161 Bambi 1942 David Hand 311
162 On Golden Pond 1981 Mark Rydell 587
163 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 211
164 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 309
165 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 220
166 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 290
167 Mister Roberts 1955 John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy 681
168 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 330
169 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 106
170 The Bank Dick 1940 Edward F. Cline 380
171 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 323
172 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 197
173 The Jazz Singer 1927 Alan Crosland 528
174 Woman of the Year 1942 George Stevens 566
175 Pinocchio 1940 Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen 245
176 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 324
177 Driving Miss Daisy 1989 Bruce Beresford 652
178 Ordinary People 1980 Robert Redford 389
179 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson 320
180 Mrs. Miniver 1942 William Wyler 701
181 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges 360
182 Atlantic City 1980 Louis Malle 374
183 Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding 677
184 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 48
185 My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava 515
186 Camille 1936 George Cukor 437
187 Apollo 13 1995 Ron Howard 375
188 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann 428
189 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 262
190 Saturday Night Fever 1977 John Badham 346
191 The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey 393
192 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols 435
193 The Heiress 1949 William Wyler 650
194 Oklahoma! 1955 Fred Zinnemann 651
195 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty 452
196 Born Yesterday 1950 George Cukor 541
197 Out of Africa 1985 Sydney Pollack 445
198 Dead Poet's Society 1989 Peter Weir 310
199 McCabe and Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 251
200 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 94
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