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Top Popular Films (#1-200)

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Star Wars	1977	George Lucas	4
2	The Empire Strikes Back	1980	Irvin Kershner	29
3	Back to the Future	1985	Robert Zemeckis	30
4	The Matrix	1999	Lana and Lilly Wachowski	26
5	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	1991	James Cameron	54
6	The Dark Knight	2008	Christopher Nolan	18
7	Alien	1979	Ridley Scott	6
8	Inception	2010	Christopher Nolan	74
9	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	2001	Peter Jackson	35
10	Pulp Fiction	1994	Quentin Tarantino	8
11	Blade Runner	1982	Ridley Scott	12
12	Aliens	1986	James Cameron	50
13	The Shawshank Redemption	1994	Frank Darabont	45
14	The Godfather	1972	Francis Ford Coppola	2
15	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	2003	Peter Jackson	52
16	2001: A Space Odyssey	1968	Stanley Kubrick	3
17	Fight Club	1999	David Fincher	71
18	Jurassic Park	1993	Steven Spielberg	83
19	Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981	Steven Spielberg	28
20	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	2004	Michel Gondry	56
21	Forrest Gump	1994	Robert Zemeckis	72
22	The Silence of the Lambs	1991	Jonathan Demme	20
23	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	2002	Peter Jackson	58
24	Goodfellas	1990	Martin Scorsese	14
25	Schindler's List	1993	Steven Spielberg	21
26	WALL•E	2008	Andrew Stanton	55
27	The Godfather: Part II	1974	Francis Ford Coppola	23
28	Seven	1995	David Fincher	90
29	A Clockwork Orange	1971	Stanley Kubrick	36
30	The Terminator	1984	James Cameron	80
31	Saving Private Ryan	1998	Steven Spielberg	60
32	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	1982	Steven Spielberg	27
33	Spirited Away	2001	Hayao Miyazaki	32
34	The Shining	1980	Stanley Kubrick	22
35	One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest	1975	Milos Forman	39
36	Apocalypse Now	1979	Francis Ford Coppola	10
37	Die Hard	1988	John McTiernan	85
38	Psycho	1960	Alfred Hitchcock	1
39	Gladiator	2000	Ridley Scott	137
40	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	1966	Sergio Leone	48
41	The Lion King	1994	Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff	92
42	Return of the Jedi	1983	Richard Marquand	219
43	Casablanca	1942	Michael Curtiz	5
44	Interstellar	2014	Christopher Nolan	266
45	Taxi Driver	1976	Martin Scorsese	17
46	Inglourious Basterds	2009	Quentin Tarantino	164
47	Avatar	2009	James Cameron	149
48	Reservoir Dogs	1992	Quentin Tarantino	95
49	The Usual Suspects	1995	Bryan Singer	134
50	The Thing	1982	John Carpenter	63
51	Jaws	1975	Steven Spielberg	13
52	The Green Mile	1999	Frank Darabont	296
53	City of God	2002	Fernando Meirelles	103
54	12 Angry Men	1957	Sidney Lumet	66
55	Donnie Darko	2001	Richard Kelly	136
56	Rear Window	1954	Alfred Hitchcock	37
57	The Departed	2006	Martin Scorsese	153
58	Léon: The Professional	1994	Luc Besson	259
59	The Truman Show	1998	Peter Weir	236
60	Pan's Labyrinth	2006	Guillermo del Toro	82
61	American Beauty	1999	Sam Mendes	218
62	Toy Story	1995	John Lasseter	38
63	It's a Wonderful Life	1946	Frank Capra	46
64	No Country for Old Men	2007	Ethan and Joel Coen	101
65	Memento	2000	Christopher Nolan	145
66	Amélie	2001	Jean-Pierre Jeunet	119
67	Heat	1995	Michael Mann	182
68	Citizen Kane	1941	Orson Welles	11
69	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	1989	Steven Spielberg	370
70	Braveheart	1995	Mel Gibson	278
71	Ghostbusters	1984	Ivan Reitman	151
72	Kill Bill: Vol. 1	2003	Quentin Tarantino	262
73	Mad Max: Fury Road	2015	George Miller	113
74	The Big Lebowski	1998	Joel Coen	104
75	The Prestige	2006	Christopher Nolan	392
76	Seven Samurai	1954	Akira Kurosawa	24
77	Up	2009	Pete Docter	112
78	The Sixth Sense	1999	M. Night Shyamalan	168
79	Oldboy	2003	Park Chan-wook	141
80	Children of Men	2006	Alfonso Cuarón	193
81	American History X	1998	Tony Kaye	458
82	Life Is Beautiful	1997	Roberto Benigni	258
83	Titanic	1997	James Cameron	96
84	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	2003	Gore Verbinski	363
85	Scarface	1983	Brian De Palma	220
86	The Princess Bride	1987	Rob Reiner	47
87	The Pianist	2002	Roman Polanski	166
88	Metropolis	1927	Fritz Lang	43
89	Trainspotting	1996	Danny Boyle	197
90	Princess Mononoke	1997	Hayao Miyazaki	205
91	Vertigo	1958	Alfred Hitchcock	15
92	Finding Nemo	2003	Andrew Stanton	163
93	Requiem for a Dream	2000	Darren Aronofsky	293
94	Django Unchained	2012	Quentin Tarantino	411
95	Batman Begins	2005	Christopher Nolan	384
96	Lawrence of Arabia	1962	David Lean	25
97	Once Upon a Time in America	1984	Sergio Leone	157
98	The Wizard of Oz	1939	Victor Fleming	9
99	Fargo	1996	Joel Coen	67
100	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	1964	Stanley Kubrick	16
101	Planet of the Apes	1968	Franklin J. Schaffner	181
102	Full Metal Jacket	1987	Stanley Kubrick	198
103	Toy Story 3	2010	Lee Unkrich	169
104	Rocky	1976	John G. Avildsen	108
105	Once Upon a Time in the West	1968	Sergio Leone	76
106	Gone with the Wind	1939	Victor Fleming	31
107	Iron Man	2008	Jon Favreau	376
108	There Will Be Blood	2007	Paul Thomas Anderson	125
109	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	1977	Steven Spielberg	110
110	L.A. Confidential	1997	Curtis Hanson	139
111	Monty Python and the Holy Grail	1975	Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones	105
112	The Avengers	2012	Joss Whedon	313
113	The Exorcist	1973	William Friedkin	62
114	Brazil	1985	Terry Gilliam	114
115	Twelve Monkeys	1995	Terry Gilliam	331
116	Akira	1988	Katsuhiro Ôtomo	175
117	The Dark Knight Rises	2012	Christopher Nolan	438
118	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2	2011	David Yates	375
119	Whiplash	2014	Damien Chazelle	391
120	North by Northwest	1959	Alfred Hitchcock	49
121	The Bourne Ultimatum	2007	Paul Greengrass	315
122	Singin' in the Rain	1952	Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly	7
123	My Neighbor Totoro	1988	Hayao Miyazaki	144
124	RoboCop	1987	Paul Verhoeven	213
125	The Incredibles	2004	Brad Bird	184
126	Edward Scissorhands	1990	Tim Burton	199
127	Good Will Hunting	1997	Gus Van Sant	339
128	Predator	1987	John McTiernan	374
129	Guardians of the Galaxy	2014	James Gunn	312
130	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	2004	Alfonso Cuarón	305
131	Casino	1995	Martin Scorsese	404
132	The Fly	1986	David Cronenberg	147
133	Minority Report	2002	Steven Spielberg	413
134	Some Like It Hot	1959	Billy Wilder	19
135	District 9	2009	Neill Blomkamp	329
136	Parasite	2019	Bong Joon Ho	165
137	Chinatown	1974	Roman Polanski	34
138	Snatch.	2000	Guy Ritchie	645
139	V for Vendetta	2005	James McTeigue	524
140	Monsters, Inc.	2001	Pete Docter	327
141	The Fifth Element	1997	Luc Besson	529
142	Unforgiven	1992	Clint Eastwood	120
143	Shrek	2001	Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson	338
144	Raging Bull	1980	Martin Scorsese	44
145	Sin City	2005	Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez	737
146	Groundhog Day	1993	Harold Ramis	93
147	A Beautiful Mind	2001	Ron Howard	572
148	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	2001	Chris Columbus	333
149	Mulholland Dr.	2001	David Lynch	89
150	Solaris	1972	Andrei Tarkovsky	170
151	The Wolf of Wall Street	2013	Martin Scorsese	613
152	The Nightmare before Christmas	1993	Henry Selick	231
153	The Intouchables	2011	Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano	853
154	The Great Escape	1963	John Sturges	154
155	Cinema Paradiso	1988	Giuseppe Tornatore	275
156	Shutter Island	2010	Martin Scorsese	638
157	Dead Poets Society	1989	Peter Weir	291
158	Star Trek	2009	J.J. Abrams	522
159	Amadeus	1984	Milos Forman	190
160	Life of Brian	1979	Terry Jones	194
161	Ben-Hur	1959	William Wyler	188
162	To Kill a Mockingbird	1962	Robert Mulligan	109
163	Arrival	2016	Denis Villeneuve	466
164	Sunset Blvd.	1950	Billy Wilder	41
165	Her	2013	Spike Jonze	422
166	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	2018	Bob Persichett, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman	189
167	Shaun of the Dead	2004	Edgar Wright	214
168	Moon	2009	Duncan Jones	495
169	Gran Torino	2008	Clint Eastwood	699
170	The Iron Giant	1999	Brad Bird	173
171	The Sting	1973	George Roy Hill	343
172	Stand by Me	1986	Rob Reiner	307
173	Million Dollar Baby	2004	Clint Eastwood	341
174	Casino Royale	2006	Martin Campbell	358
175	The Apartment	1960	Billy Wilder	59
176	Beauty and the Beast	1991	Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise	106
177	Avengers: Endgame	2019	Anthony and Joe Russo	373
178	The Lives of Others	2006	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	244
179	Kill Bill: Vol. 2	2004	Quentin Tarantino	445
180	Modern Times	1936	Charles Chaplin	61
181	The Goonies	1985	Richard Donner	335
182	The Deer Hunter	1978	Michael Cimino	121
183	Stalker	1979	Andrei Tarkovsky	195
184	Gravity	2013	Alfonso Cuarón	371
185	Drive	2011	Nicolas Winding Refn	469
186	The Third Man	1949	Carol Reed	42
187	Blade Runner 2049	2017	Denis Villeneuve	472
188	The Sound of Music	1965	Robert Wise	135
189	Black Swan	2010	Darren Aronofsky	440
190	How to Train Your Dragon	2010	Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders	347
191	Ratatouille	2007	Brad Bird	285
192	The Grand Budapest Hotel	2014	Wes Anderson	467
193	Ghost in the Shell	1995	Mizuho Nishikubo and Mamoru Oshii	324
194	Inside Out	2015	Pete Docter	276
195	Avengers: Infinity War	2018	Anthony and Joe Russo	436
196	City Lights	1931	Charles Chaplin	40
197	Catch Me If You Can	2002	Steven Spielberg	733
198	Lost in Translation	2003	Sofia Coppola	172
199	The Day the Earth Stood Still	1951	Robert Wise	298
200	The Great Dictator	1940	Charles Chaplin	222

Top Popular Films (#1-200)

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