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Most Mainstream Films (#201-382)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
201 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel 186
202 Whiplash 2014 Damien Chazelle 583
203 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks 175
204 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 228
205 M 1931 Fritz Lang 69
206 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 664
207 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 1074
208 Dances with Wolves 1990 Kevin Costner 318
209 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 155
210 Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks 534
211 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 289
212 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 113
213 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 280
214 The Sixth Sense 1999 M. Night Shyamalan 187
215 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 248
216 Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding 1274
217 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 61
218 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 405
219 Saturday Night Fever 1977 John Badham 587
220 Field of Dreams 1989 Phil Alden Robinson 385
221 The Breakfast Club 1985 John Hughes 456
222 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 379
223 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 183
224 Giant 1956 George Stevens 641
225 Now, Voyager 1942 Irving Rapper 612
226 Superman 1978 Richard Donner 275
227 The Right Stuff 1983 Philip Kaufman 603
228 Fantasia 1940 James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield 266
229 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 396
230 Stand by Me 1986 Rob Reiner 325
231 Dirty Dancing 1987 Emile Ardolino 477
232 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 320
233 The Lion King 1994 Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff 138
234 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor 574
235 Apollo 13 1995 Ron Howard 776
236 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 568
237 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 246
238 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler 1136
239 Chariots of Fire 1981 Hugh Hudson 450
240 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton 544
241 No Country for Old Men 2007 Ethan and Joel Coen 189
242 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 619
243 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 340
244 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 306
245 Wall Street 1987 Oliver Stone 868
246 Spotlight 2015 Tom McCarthy 1373
247 Jerry Maguire 1996 Cameron Crowe 382
248 Dr. No 1962 Terence Young 742
249 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz 440
250 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 301
251 Dodsworth 1936 William Wyler 1212
252 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges 273
253 Mad Max: Fury Road 2015 George Miller 377
254 Marty 1955 Delbert Mann 1150
255 Bambi 1942 David Hand 311
256 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 415
257 Out of Africa 1985 Sydney Pollack 930
258 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer 123
259 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 708
260 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 359
261 Deliverance 1972 John Boorman 404
262 Pretty Woman 1990 Garry Marshall 521
263 Love Story 1970 Arthur Hiller 1209
264 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 363
265 The Social Network 2010 David Fincher 514
266 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 122
267 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 111
268 Funny Face 1957 Stanley Donen 899
269 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 683
270 It's a Gift 1934 Norman Z. McLeod 1068
271 The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 229
272 Gun Crazy 1950 Joseph H. Lewis 505
273 Oliver! 1968 Carol Reed 757
274 La La Land 2016 Damien Chazelle 1016
275 All the King's Men 1949 Robert Rossen 1900
276 The Seven Year Itch 1955 Billy Wilder 1425
277 Atlantic City 1980 Louis Malle 784
278 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 150
279 Winchester '73 1950 Anthony Mann 668
280 The Life of Emile Zola 1937 William Dieterle 1936
281 Gigi 1958 Vincente Minnelli 1031
282 Ghost 1990 Jerry Zucker 740
283 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 288
284 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols 448
285 The Kid 1921 Charles Chaplin 338
286 The Hurt Locker 2008 Kathryn Bigelow 399
287 Going My Way 1944 Leo McCarey 1876
288 Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks 905
289 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1943 Preston Sturges 884
290 Wings 1927 William A. Wellman 1283
291 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 345
292 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 Jim Sharman 386
293 The Man Who Would be King 1975 John Huston 764
294 The Great Train Robbery 1903 Edwin S. Porter 688
295 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray 361
296 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann 838
297 Moonlight 2016 Barry Jenkins 741
298 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 482
299 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 252
300 The Ox-Bow Incident 1942 William A. Wellman 539
301 The Thief of Bagdad 1924 Raoul Walsh 813
302 Shakespeare in Love 1998 John Madden 592
303 Gentleman's Agreement 1947 Elia Kazan 2150
304 Dracula 1931 Tod Browning 530
305 Top Gun 1986 Tony Scott 693
306 The King and I 1956 Walter Lang 997
307 She Done Him Wrong 1933 Lowell Sherman 2069
308 Gunga Din 1939 George Stevens 1213
309 Finding Nemo 2003 Andrew Stanton 168
310 Sleepless in Seattle 1993 Nora Ephron 738
311 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 605
312 The Broadway Melody 1929 Harry Beaumont 2590
313 Chicago 2002 Rob Marshall 617
314 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 381
315 The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder 691
316 Sons of the Desert 1933 William A. Seiter 1066
317 Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini 367
318 Stormy Weather 1943 Andrew L. Stone 2204
319 Ghostbusters 1984 Ivan Reitman 169
320 On Golden Pond 1981 Mark Rydell 1773
321 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 179
322 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 268
323 The Big Parade 1925 King Vidor 1076
324 Destry Rides Again 1939 George Marshall 836
325 Funny Girl 1968 William Wyler 1137
326 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 202
327 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 572
328 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 101
329 Tom Jones 1963 Tony Richardson 1043
330 Mrs. Miniver 1942 William Wyler 1496
331 Fatal Attraction 1987 Adrian Lyne 879
332 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger 513
333 Babe 1995 Chris Noonan 492
334 The English Patient 1996 Anthony Minghella 510
335 The Public Enemy 1931 William A. Wellman 753
336 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner 166
337 Call Me by Your Name 2017 Luca Guadagnino 892
338 The Music Man 1962 Morton DaCosta 1114
339 The Bank Dick 1940 Edward F. Cline 1028
340 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton 714
341 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 Michael Anderson 2078
342 Slumdog Millionaire 2008 Danny Boyle 394
343 An Affair to Remember 1957 Leo McCarey 794
344 A Few Good Men 1992 Rob Reiner 1335
345 Dunkirk 2017 Christopher Nolan 1439
346 Oklahoma! 1955 Fred Zinnemann 933
347 Basic Instinct 1992 Paul Verhoeven 796
348 Queen Christina 1933 Rouben Mamoulian 1462
349 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 Frank Capra 1191
350 Driving Miss Daisy 1989 Bruce Beresford 1945
351 Glory 1989 Edward Zwick 625
352 Stalag 17 1953 Billy Wilder 633
353 Ordinary People 1980 Robert Redford 959
354 Bullitt 1968 Peter Yates 627
355 Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations 1938 Leni Riefenstahl 734
356 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 1673
357 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse 486
358 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 585
359 The Way We Were 1973 Sydney Pollack 1502
360 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty 1204
361 Lady and the Tramp 1955 Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske 811
362 Lost Horizon 1937 Frank Capra 1248
363 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 293
364 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock 355
365 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1921 Rex Ingram 2222
366 Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty 1938 Leni Riefenstahl 790
367 Diner 1982 Barry Levinson 1084
368 Camille 1936 George Cukor 2006
369 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 766
370 Henry V 1944 Laurence Olivier 960
371 Killer of Sheep 1978 Charles Burnett 370
372 The Freshman 1925 Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor 1489
373 The Guns of Navarone 1961 J. Lee Thompson 1303
374 Toy Story 3 2010 Lee Unkrich 261
375 Animal House 1978 John Landis 360
376 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982 Amy Heckerling 536
377 Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci 451
378 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls 571
379 The Pride of the Yankees 1942 Sam Wood 1014
380 High Society 1956 Charles Walters 1795
381 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman 170
382 Broken Blossoms 1919 D.W. Griffith 900
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