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Most Mainstream Films (#201-300)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
201 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 365
202 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks 208
203 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 151
204 Dodsworth 1936 William Wyler 643
205 Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding 794
206 Witness 1985 Peter Weir 472
207 Gunga Din 1939 George Stevens 562
208 All the King's Men 1949 Robert Rossen 797
209 The Life of Emile Zola 1937 William Dieterle 893
210 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 Frank Capra 589
211 Moonstruck 1987 Norman Jewison 376
212 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 297
213 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 276
214 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 300
215 Shakespeare in Love 1998 John Madden 246
216 Gentleman's Agreement 1947 Elia Kazan 1086
217 Fiddler on the Roof 1971 Norman Jewison 842
218 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman 117
219 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 249
220 The King and I 1956 Walter Lang 528
221 It's a Gift 1934 Norman Z. McLeod 498
222 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944 Preston Sturges 437
223 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 225
224 The Heiress 1949 William Wyler 827
225 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 56
226 The Big Parade 1925 King Vidor 461
227 Oliver! 1968 Carol Reed 506
228 Tom Jones 1963 Tony Richardson 423
229 Hud 1963 Martin Ritt 606
230 Animal House 1978 John Landis 277
231 Chariots of Fire 1981 Hugh Hudson 319
232 Lost Horizon 1937 Frank Capra 891
233 Woman of the Year 1942 George Stevens 770
234 Going My Way 1944 Leo McCarey 1249
235 Babe 1995 Chris Noonan 358
236 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 202
237 Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks 305
238 The English Patient 1996 Anthony Minghella 219
239 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 87
240 The Thief of Bagdad 1924 Raoul Walsh 612
241 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 Michael Anderson 1083
242 The Last Emperor 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci 524
243 My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava 499
244 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 68
245 The Greatest Show on Earth 1952 Cecil B. DeMille 1584
246 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 311
247 Goodbye Mr. Chips 1939 Sam Wood 672
248 Camille 1936 George Cukor 596
249 Bull Durham 1988 Ron Shelton 408
250 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 272
251 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen 349
252 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 Mervyn LeRoy 720
253 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols 452
254 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock 229
255 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen 560
256 The Diary of Anne Frank 1959 George Stevens 1208
257 Wings 1927 William A. Wellman 1106
258 The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey 462
259 Love Story 1970 Arthur Hiller 703
260 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 96
261 The Pride of the Yankees 1942 Sam Wood 663
262 Oklahoma! 1955 Fred Zinnemann 748
263 Sons of the Desert 1933 William A. Seiter 795
264 A Raisin in the Sun 1961 Daniel Petrie 1198
265 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 255
266 The Fugitive 1993 Andrew Davis 502
267 Coming Home 1978 Hal Ashby 1244
268 Sounder 1972 Martin Ritt 947
269 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 607
270 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 Oliver Stone 761
271 The Great Ziegfeld 1936 Robert Z. Leonard 1567
272 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner 178
273 The Defiant Ones 1958 Stanley Kramer 956
274 Born Yesterday 1950 George Cukor 654
275 Breaking Away 1979 Peter Yates 412
276 The Phantom of the Opera 1925 Rupert Julian 527
277 The Pink Panther 1963 Blake Edwards 751
278 Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel 265
279 Funny Face 1957 Stanley Donen 771
280 The Broadway Melody 1929 Harry Beaumont 1751
281 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz 415
282 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 257
283 Broadcast News 1987 James L. Brooks 541
284 The Freshman 1925 Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor 824
285 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 144
286 Days of Wine and Roses 1962 Blake Edwards 1545
287 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 347
288 She Done Him Wrong 1933 Lowell Sherman 1159
289 Splendor in the Grass 1961 Elia Kazan 712
290 Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton 195
291 South Pacific 1958 Joshua Logan 1278
292 Queen Christina 1933 Rouben Mamoulian 740
293 Sergeant York 1941 Howard Hawks 910
294 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger 507
295 Sleepless in Seattle 1993 Nora Ephron 630
296 Winchester '73 1950 Anthony Mann 900
297 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 1058
298 Cabin in the Sky 1943 Vincente Minnelli 2045
299 Leaving Las Vegas 1995 Mike Figgis 683
300 The Seven Year Itch 1955 Billy Wilder 723
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