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Most Mainstream Films (#101-200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
101 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 221
102 Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner 241
103 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 177
104 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler 412
105 Dances with Wolves 1990 Kevin Costner 213
106 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 127
107 The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder 380
108 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 61
109 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim 209
110 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 74
111 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 263
112 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 417
113 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 201
114 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens 392
115 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 144
116 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 225
117 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 253
118 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 163
119 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet 154
120 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 191
121 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 307
122 Marty 1955 Delbert Mann 555
123 The Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 32
124 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 259
125 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor 358
126 Pinocchio 1940 Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen 217
127 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison 343
128 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 235
129 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 393
130 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 157
131 The King and I 1956 Walter Lang 519
132 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 73
133 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 160
134 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 49
135 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel 180
136 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 281
137 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 313
138 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 383
139 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 26
140 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 67
141 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 100
142 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 155
143 The Bank Dick 1940 Edward F. Cline 429
144 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 76
145 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 122
146 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 277
147 Gigi 1958 Vincente Minnelli 532
148 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 William A. Wellman 525
149 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 242
150 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 84
151 Giant 1956 George Stevens 605
152 Now, Voyager 1942 Irving Rapper 361
153 Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks 330
154 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 409
155 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman 119
156 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen 580
157 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 15
158 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 382
159 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 190
160 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton 540
161 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 305
162 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton 535
163 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 527
164 Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau 105
165 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 71
166 The Producers 1968 Mel Brooks 184
167 Saturday Night Fever 1977 John Badham 360
168 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 325
169 Bambi 1942 David Hand 323
170 The Jazz Singer 1927 Alan Crosland 666
171 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 103
172 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967 Stanley Kramer 778
173 It's a Gift 1934 Norman Z. McLeod 515
174 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 135
175 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 257
176 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 337
177 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 251
178 Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks 328
179 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 300
180 My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava 538
181 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 80
182 Beauty and the Beast 1991 Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise 246
183 Dodsworth 1936 William Wyler 698
184 The Public Enemy 1931 William A. Wellman 426
185 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 Frank Capra 654
186 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock 206
187 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 63
188 Mister Roberts 1955 John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy 863
189 On the Town 1949 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 506
190 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 90
191 The Big Parade 1925 King Vidor 461
192 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma 269
193 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 288
194 Funny Girl 1968 William Wyler 628
195 Tom Jones 1963 Tony Richardson 435
196 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 248
197 Born Yesterday 1950 George Cukor 690
198 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 403
199 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 285
200 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 70
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