The Top 50 'BFI' Movies

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The Top 50 'BFI' Movies
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
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10 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa NR -
15 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa NR -
27 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa NR -
37 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa NR -
47 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa NR -
74 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujirô Ozu NR -
105 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa NR -
193 The Hidden Fortress 1958 Akira Kurosawa NR -
219 Sanjuro 1962 Akira Kurosawa PG13 -
235 Late Spring 1949 Yasujirô Ozu NR -
271 The Innocents 1961 Jack Clayton NR -
310 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati NR -
337 Eyes Without a Face 1960 Georges Franju NR -
395 Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer NR -
412 Stray Dog 1949 Akira Kurosawa NR -
454 Band of Outsiders 1964 Jean-Luc Godard NR -
484 Beauty and the Beast 1946 Jean Cocteau NR -
746 Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa NR -
801 The Devils 1971 Ken Russell NR -
818 Night and the City 1950 Jules Dassin NR -
851 The Bad Sleep Well 1960 Akira Kurosawa NR -
1155 Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953 Jacques Tati NR -
1228 An Autumn Afternoon 1962 Yasujirô Ozu NR -
1229 Drunken Angel 1948 Akira Kurosawa PG13 -
1240 The Phantom of the Opera 1925 Rupert Julian NR -
1312 Red Desert 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni NR -
1361 Good Morning 1959 Yasujirô Ozu PG -
1468 Faces 1968 John Cassavetes R -
1479 Early Summer 1951 Yasujirô Ozu NR -
1807 L'Age d'Or 1930 Luis Buñuel NR -
1848 Celine and Julie Go Boating 1974 Jacques Rivette NR -
2094 Where the Sidewalk Ends 1950 Otto Preminger NR -
2273 Journey to Italy 1954 Roberto Rossellini NR -
2307 Philomena 2013 Stephen Frears PG13 -
2320 You Were Never Really Here 2017 Lynne Ramsay R -
2525 Gaslight 1940 Thorold Dickinson NR -
2534 Shadows 1959 John Cassavetes NR -
2555 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 Karel Reisz NR -
2599 Late Autumn 1960 Yasujirô Ozu NR -
2603 Alice 1988 Jan Svankmajer NR -
2635 Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini NR -
2739 Tokyo Twilight 1957 Yasujirô Ozu NR -
2751 The Last Metro 1980 François Truffaut PG -
2991 Black Girl 1966 Ousmane Sembène NR -
2997 Cria Cuervos 1976 Carlos Saura PG -
3065 Cold War 2018 Pawel Pawlikowski NR -
3089 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1962 Tony Richardson NR -
3153 Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 Terence Davies PG13 -
3271 Seventh Heaven 1927 Frank Borzage NR -
3310 Funeral Parade of Roses 1969 Toshio Matsumoto NR -

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