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Most Mainstream Films (#201-358)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
201 Beauty and the Beast 1991 Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise 106
202 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 104
203 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 395
204 The Breakfast Club 1985 John Hughes 418
205 The Green Mile 1999 Frank Darabont 296
206 Dirty Dancing 1987 Emile Ardolino 423
207 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 284
208 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 336
209 Avatar 2009 James Cameron 149
210 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 220
211 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 260
212 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky 264
213 The Hurt Locker 2008 Kathryn Bigelow 221
214 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 408
215 La La Land 2016 Damien Chazelle 484
216 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 359
217 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 303
218 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 180
219 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 447
220 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 319
221 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 207
222 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 425
223 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 77
224 Get Out 2017 Jordan Peele 187
225 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 155
226 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 405
227 Interstellar 2014 Christopher Nolan 266
228 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore 275
229 Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson 204
230 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 283
231 The Kid 1921 Charles Chaplin 406
232 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 279
233 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 216
234 Shane 1953 George Stevens 410
235 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 251
236 Ghost 1990 Jerry Zucker 798
237 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 230
238 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 357
239 Pretty Woman 1990 Garry Marshall 443
240 Léon: The Professional 1994 Luc Besson 259
241 Up 2009 Pete Docter 112
242 Stand by Me 1986 Rob Reiner 307
243 L'Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 299
244 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman 245
245 Grease 1978 Randal Kleiser 355
246 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick 198
247 Million Dollar Baby 2004 Clint Eastwood 341
248 Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel 300
249 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 Billy Wilder 648
250 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 348
251 The Right Stuff 1983 Philip Kaufman 589
252 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann 350
253 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 500
254 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks 232
255 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim 473
256 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger 464
257 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 603
258 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 402
259 The Man with the Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov 240
260 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson 365
261 The Notebook 2004 Nick Cassavetes 439
262 The Lives of Others 2006 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 244
263 Inglourious Basterds 2009 Quentin Tarantino 164
264 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman 253
265 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 426
266 Pinocchio 1940 Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen 224
267 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 573
268 Out of Africa 1985 Sydney Pollack 1259
269 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 323
270 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 1258
271 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 354
272 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 456
273 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson 318
274 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 269
275 The Sixth Sense 1999 M. Night Shyamalan 168
276 La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini 366
277 Dr. No 1962 Terence Young 781
278 Ghostbusters 1984 Ivan Reitman 151
279 American History X 1998 Tony Kaye 458
280 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 820
281 Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 John Hughes 270
282 The Jazz Singer 1927 Alan Crosland 1132
283 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 80
284 Funny Face 1957 Stanley Donen 898
285 Spotlight 2015 Tom McCarthy 783
286 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 340
287 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens 966
288 WALL•E 2008 Andrew Stanton 55
289 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 830
290 Top Gun 1986 Tony Scott 816
291 Love Actually 2003 Richard Curtis 503
292 The Seven Year Itch 1955 Billy Wilder 1317
293 Wall Street 1987 Oliver Stone 1212
294 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 1211
295 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 734
296 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 630
297 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut 241
298 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 186
299 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler 1163
300 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols 559
301 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 194
302 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 102
303 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz 454
304 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 907
305 Before Sunrise 1995 Richard Linklater 263
306 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse 558
307 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 Steven Spielberg 370
308 Stalag 17 1953 Billy Wilder 544
309 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 461
310 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer 345
311 The Wolf of Wall Street 2013 Martin Scorsese 613
312 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 539
313 Finding Nemo 2003 Andrew Stanton 163
314 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 143
315 Three Colors: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 208
316 Dead Poets Society 1989 Peter Weir 291
317 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky 293
318 Field of Dreams 1989 Phil Alden Robinson 430
319 L'Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo 332
320 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 337
321 The Truman Show 1998 Peter Weir 236
322 Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer 514
323 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 223
324 Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks 665
325 Chariots of Fire 1981 Hugh Hudson 504
326 The Great Train Robbery 1903 Edwin S. Porter 777
327 The Decalogue 1989 Krzysztof Kieslowski 508
328 Dodsworth 1936 William Wyler 1669
329 Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann 254
330 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray 568
331 Bridesmaids 2011 Paul Feig 513
332 Oppenheimer 2023 Christopher Nolan 1446
333 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 848
334 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 542
335 Call Me by Your Name 2017 Luca Guadagnino 361
336 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967 Stanley Kramer 1517
337 Carmen Jones 1954 Otto Preminger 1438
338 Slumdog Millionaire 2008 Danny Boyle 403
339 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 277
340 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Stanley Kramer 936
341 Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov 255
342 A Woman under the Influence 1974 John Cassavetes 449
343 Jeanne Dielman 1975 Chantal Akerman 321
344 It's a Gift 1934 Norman Z. McLeod 1777
345 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene 174
346 The Last of the Mohicans 1992 Michael Mann 541
347 Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019 Céline Sciamma 452
348 My Left Foot 1989 Jim Sheridan 890
349 Army in the Shadows 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville 424
350 Dances with Wolves 1990 Kevin Costner 356
351 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 895
352 Jerry Maguire 1996 Cameron Crowe 487
353 Shaft 1971 Gordon Parks 866
354 Diner 1982 Barry Levinson 1677
355 The Man Who Would be King 1975 John Huston 921
356 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 453
357 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls 793
358 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean 211
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