Cahiers du cinéma’s 100 Greatest Films

In 2008 French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma compiled a list of the 100 greatest films of all time. 76 people in the French industry were each asked to name their 100 best films. The list is notable for the absence of British made films such as Lawrence of Arabia and The Third Man.

  1. Citizen Kane – Orson Welles
  2. The Night of the Hunter – Charles Laughton
  3. The Rules of the Game (La Règle du jeu) – Jean Renoir
  4. Sunrise – Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
  5. L’Atalante – Jean Vigo
  6. M – Fritz Lang
  7. Singin’ in the Rain – Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
  8. Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock
  9. Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis) – Marcel Carné
  10. The Searchers – John Ford
  11. Greed – Erich von Stroheim
  12. Rio Bravo – Howard Hawkes
  13. To Be or Not to Be – Ernst Lubitsch
  14. Tokyo Story – Yasujiro Ozu
  15. Contempt (Le Mépris) – Jean-Luc Godard
  16. Tales of Ugetsu (Ugetsu monogatari) – Kenji Mizoguchi
  17. City Lights – Charlie Chaplin
  18. The General – Buster Keaton
  19. Nosferatu the Vampire – Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
  20. The Music Room – Satyajit Ray
  21. Freaks – Tod Browning
  22. Johnny Guitar – Nicholas Ray
  23. The Mother and the Whore (La Maman et la Putain) – Jean Eustache
  24. The Great Dictator – Charlie Chaplin
  25. The Leopard (Le Guépard) – Luchino Visconti
  26. Hiroshima, My Love – Alain Resnais
  27. The Box of Pandora (Loulou) – Georg Wilhelm Pabst
  28. North by Northwest – Alfred Hitchcock
  29. Pickpocket – Robert Bresson
  30. Golden Helmet (Casque d’or) – Jacques Becker
  31. The Barefoot Contessa – Joseph Mankiewitz
  32. Moonfleet – Fritz Lang
  33. Diamond Earrings (Madame de…) – Max Ophüls
  34. Pleasure – Max Ophüls
  35. The Deer Hunter – Michael Cimino
  36. The Adventure – Michelangelo Antonioni
  37. Battleship Potemkin – Sergei M. Eisenstein
  38. Notorious – Alfred Hitchcock
  39. Ivan the Terrible – Sergei M. Eisenstein
  40. The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola
  41. Touch of Evil – Orson Welles
  42. The Wind – Victor Sjöström
  43. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick
  44. Fanny and Alexander – Ingmar Bergman
  45. The Crowd – King Vidor
  46. 8 1/2 – Federico Fellini
  47. La Jetée – Chris Marker
  48. Pierrot le Fou – Jean-Luc Godard
  49. Confessions of a Cheat (Le Roman d’un tricheur) – Sacha Guitry
  50. Amarcord – Federico Fellini




51. Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête) – Jean Cocteau 
52. Some Like It Hot – Billy Wilder
53. Some Came Running – Vincente Minnelli
54. Gertrud – Carl Theodor Dreyer
55. King Kong – Ernst Shoedsack & Merian J. Cooper
56. Laura – Otto Preminger
57. The Seven Samurai – Akira Kurosawa
58. The 400 Blows – François Truffaut
59. La Dolce Vita – Federico Fellini
60. The Dead – John Huston
61. Trouble in Paradise – Ernst Lubitsch
62. It’s a Wonderful Life – Frank Capra
63. Monsieur Verdoux – Charlie Chaplin
64. The Passion of Joan of Arc – Carl Theodor Dreyer
65. À bout de souffle – Jean-Luc Godard
66. Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola
67. Barry Lyndon – Stanley Kubrick
68. La Grande Illusion – Jean Renoir
69. Intolerance – David Wark Griffith
70. A Day in the Country (Partie de campagne) – Jean Renoir
71. Playtime – Jacques Tati
72. Rome, Open City – Roberto Rossellini
73. Livia (Senso) – Luchino Visconti
74. Modern Times – Charlie Chaplin
75. Van Gogh – Maurice Pialat
76. An Affair to Remember – Leo McCarey
77. Andrei Rublev – Andrei Tarkovsky
78. The Scarlet Empress – Joseph von Sternberg
79. Sansho the Bailiff – Kenji Mizoguchi
80. Talk to Her – Pedro Almodóvar
81. The Party – Blake Edwards
82. Tabu – Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
83. The Bandwagon – Vincente Minnelli
84. A Star Is Born – George Cukor
85. Mr. Hulot’s Holiday – Jacques Tati
86. America, America – Elia Kazan
87. El – Luis Buñuel
88. Kiss Me Deadly – Robert Aldrich
89. Once Upon a Time in America – Sergio Leone
90. Daybreak (Le Jour se lève) – Marcel Carné
91. Letter from an Unknown Woman – Max Ophüls
92. Lola – Jacques Demy
93. Manhattan – Woody Allen
94. Mulholland Dr. – David Lynch
95. My Night at Maud’s (Ma nuit chez Maud) – Eric Rohmer
96. Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) – Alain Resnais
97. The Gold Rush – Charlie Chaplin
98. Scarface – Howard Hawks
99. Bicycle Thieves – Vittorio de Sica
100. Napoléon – Abel Gance




A Ranking of the 100 Most Influential People in the History of the Movies

The Administrators of the now defunct website ‘Film 100’ came up with a list of the most influential people in cinema history originally available on the site and then expanded for a book published 1998.

1. WK Laurie Dickson
2. Edwin S. Porter
3. Charlie Chaplin
4. Mary Pickford
5. Orson Welles
6. Alfred Hitchcock
7. Walt Disney
8. D. W. Griffith
9. Will Hays
10. Thomas Edison
11. John Wayne
12. J.R. Bray
13. Billy Bitzer
14. Jesse Lasky
15. George Eastman
16. Sergei Eisenstein
17. Andre Bazin
18. Irvin Thalberg
19. Thomas Ince
20. Marlon Brando
21. Louis B. Mayer
22. Greta Garbo
23. Robert Flaherty
24. Lon Chaney
25. Anita Loos
26. Georges Melies
27. Adolph Zukor
28. John Gilbert
29. Max Fleischer
30. John Ford
31. William Fox
32. George Lucas
33. Linwood Gale Dunn
34. Eadweard Muybridge
35. Katherine Hepburn
36. Winsor McCay
37. Stanley Kubrick
38. Buster Keaton
39. James Agee
40. Fritz Lang
41. Marcus Loew
42. Cedric Gibbons
43. James Cagney
44. Ben Hecht
45. Ingmar Bergman
46. Humphrey Bogart
47. Leon Schlesinger
48. Louella Parsons
49. Roger Corman
50. Edith Head



51. Bernard Herrmann
52. Gary Cooper
53. Mike Todd
54. Ernst Lubitsch
55. Sidney Poitier
56. Saul Bass
57. Billy Wilder
58. Bette Davis
59. Erich Von Stroheim
60. Max Factor
61. The Lumiere Bros.
62. Woody Allen
63. Clark Gable
64. David O Selznick
65. Greg Toland
66. Lillian Gish
67. William Cameron Menzies
68. Lucille Ball
69. Samuel Rothafel
70. Akira Kurosawa
71. Marilyn Monroe
72. Vittorio de Sica
73. Natalie Kalmus
74. Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert
75. Willis O’Brien
76. Shirley Temple
77. Yakima Canutt
78. Sam Peckinpah
79. Jackie Coogan
80. Federico Fellini
81. Leni Riefenstahl
82. Steven Spielberg
83. Sam Warner
84. Jean-Luc Godard
85. Robert De Niro
86. Fred Astaire
87. Francis Ford Coppola
88. Ted Turner
89. Clint Eastwood
90. Dalton Trumbo
91. Dennis Hopper
92. Richard Hollingshead
93. Melvin Van Peebles
94. John Chambers
95. Mark Sennett
96. Mark Scorsese
97. Karl Struss
98. Busby Berkeley
99. John Hubley
100. John Cassavetes




Channel 4’s 100 Greatest Movie Stars

In 2003 Channel 4 carried out a national survey to find the top 100 film stars in history, voted on by the British public. I suppose the issue with the list is the disparity between being a great movie star and being a great actor. For example some of the greatest actors of the 20th century such as Olivier, Guiness and Gielgud don’t make the list. Big stars of yesteryear such Charlton Heston and Kirk Douglas are also absent.

1. Al Pacino
2. Robert De Niro
3. Tom Hanks
4. Kevin Spacey
5. Harrison Ford
6. Jack Nicholson
7. Anthony Hopkins
8. Sean Connery
9. Ewan McGregor
10. Cary Grant
11. Samuel L Jackson
12. James Stewart
13. Audrey Hepburn
14. Steve McQueen
15. Brad Pitt
16. Paul Newman
17. Mel Gibson
18. Clint Eastwood
19. Robin Williams
20. Sigourney Weaver
21. Nicole Kidman
22. Johnny Depp
23. Jodie Foster
24. Dustin Hoffman
25. Susan Sarandon
26. Russell Crowe
27. Morgan Freeman
28. Denzel Washington
29. Julia Roberts
30. Marlon Brando
31. Christopher Lee
32. Tom Cruise
33. Nicolas Cage
34. Christopher Walken
35. Bruce Willis
36. Humphrey Bogart
37. Cate Blanchett
38. Katharine Hepburn
39. Marilyn Monroe
40. Gary Oldman
41. Jackie Vhan
42. Gene Hackman
43. Jack Lemmon
44. Michael Caine
45. Bette Davis
46. John Travolta
47. Jim Carrey
48. John Cusack
49. Bruce Lee
50. Charlie Chaplin



51. Will Smith
52. Sidney Poitier
53. Harvey Keitel
54. Arnold Schwarzenegger
55. Kate Winslet
56. John Wayne
57. Peter Sellers
58. Meryl Streep
59. John Malkovich
60. Jude Law
61. Robert Redford
62. Robert Downey Jr
63. Clark Gable
64. James Dean
65. Cameron Diaz
66. Gene Kelly
67. Eddie Murphy
68. Ingrid Bergman
69. River Phoenix
70. Richard Burton
71. Woody Allen
72. George Clooney
73. Hugh Grant
74. Angelina Jolie
75. Meg Ryan
76. Richard Gere
77. Elizabeth Taylor
78. Oliver Reed
79. Vivien Leigh
80. Dennis Hopper
81. Fred Astaire
82. Judy Garland
83. Ralph Fiennes
84. Doris Day
85. Daniel Day-Lewis
86. Grace Kelly
87. Winona Ryder
88. Juliette Binoche
89. Gwyneth Paltrow
90. Gerard Depardieu
91. Julie Christie
92. Amitabh Bachchan
93. Kevin Costner
94. Leonardo Di Caprio
95. Uma Thurman
96. Wesley Snipes
97. Burt Reynolds
98. Jane Fonda
99. Halle Berry
100. Michael Douglas



Top 50 Directors of All-Times

A list Compiled by Bill Mousoulis in 2003. Mousoulis is an award-winning Greek-Australian film director, with approximately 100 films to his name. He is also the founder of the online film journal Senses of Cinema in 1999, and the founder of the film co-operative Melbourne Super 8 Film Group in 1985.

1. Roberto Rossellini
2. Robert Bresson
3. Jean-Luc Godard
4. Frank Borzage
5. Chantal Akerman
6. Pier Paolo Pasolini
7. Jean Renoir
8. Michelangelo Antonioni
9. Yasujiro Ozu
10. Wong Kar-wai
11. Eric Rohmer
12. John Cassavetes
13. Luis Buñuel
14. Carl Theodor Dreyer
15. Frank Capra
16. Abbas Kiarostami
17. Jean Eustache
18. Claude Chabrol
19. Theo Angelopoulos
20. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
21. Jacques Rivette
22. Orson Welles
23. John Ford
24. Alfred Hitchcock
25. Jacques Demy
26. Alan Clarke
27. Andrei Tarkovsky
28. Ingmar Bergman
29. Michael Haneke
30. Jacques Tati
31. Max Ophüls
32. Mike Leigh
33. Ken Loach
34. Martin Scorsese
35. Jean-Marie Straub
36. Charles Chaplin
37. Philippe Garrel
38. R. W. Fassbinder
39. Tony Gatlif
40. Jerry Lewis
41. Chris Marker
42. Jon Jost
43. F. W. Murnau .
44. Ermanno Olmi
45. Kenji Mizoguchi
46. Vittorio De Sica
47. Jean Vigo
48. Agnes Varda.
49. D. W. Griffith
50. Wim Wenders



The Greatest Directors Ever by Total Film Magazine

Total Film, is a film magazine in the United Kingdom. It offers film and DVD news, reviews, and features. In 2007 the magazine came up with their list for the 100 Greatest Directors ever. Some will dislike Spielberg being placed as high as 3 and I wasn’t expecting to see Howard Hawks above the likes of Welles, Coppola, Bergman and Kurosawa. Kubrick is surprisingly only placed 8th!

  • 1. Alfred Hitchcock
  • 2. Martin Scorsese
  • 3. Steven Spielberg
  • 4. Howard Hawks
  • 5. Francis Ford Coppola
  • 6. Orson Welles
  • 7. Ingmar Bergman
  • 8. Stanley Kubrick
  • 9. Peter Jackson
  • 10. David Fincher
  • 11. Akira Kurosawa
  • 12. Quentin Tarantino
  • 13. Billy Wilder
  • 14. John Ford
  • 15. Steven Soderbergh
  • 16. Michael Powell
  • 17. David Cronenberg
  • 18. Coen Brothers
  • 19. Woody Allen
  • 20. Paul Thomas Anderson
  • 21. Clint Eastwood
  • 22. David Lynch
  • 23. Jean Renoir
  • 24. Tim Burton
  • 25. Hayao Miyazaki
  • 26. Robert Altman
  • 27. Sam Peckinpah
  • 28. Michael Mann
  • 29. Jean Pierre Melville
  • 30. Luis Bunuel
  • 31. Terence Malick
  • 32. Christopher Nolan
  • 33. Yasujiro Ozu
  • 34. Carol Reed
  • 35. Rob Reiner
  • 36. Roman Polanski
  • 37. Sergio Leone
  • 38. James Cameron
  • 39. Ridley Scott
  • 40. David Lean
  • 41. Ang Lee
  • 42. Frank Capra
  • 43. Preston Sturges
  • 44. Francois Traffaut
  • 45. Werner Herzog
  • 46. Alexander Payne
  • 47. Kryzsztof Kieslowski
  • 48. Fritz Lang
  • 49. Mike Leigh
  • 50. Sam Fuller




    • 51. Robert Wise
    • 52. Michael Haneke
    • 53. Don Siegel
    • 54. Brian DePalma
    • 55. John Huston
    • 56. Nicholas Ray
    • 57. Spike Lee
    • 58. Hal Ashby
    • 59. Jean-Luc Godard
    • 60. John Cassavetes
    • 61. Sam Raimi
    • 62. Robert Bresson
    • 63. John Carpenter
    • 64. Richard Linklater
    • 65. Bryan Singer
    • 66. Ken Loach
    • 67. Federico Fellini
    • 68. Pedro Almodovar
    • 69. Alexander Mackendrick
    • 70. Michael Curtiz
    • 71. John Sayles
    • 72. Sergei Eisenstein
    • 73. Nicolas Roeg
    • 74. Tony Scott
    • 75. Milos Forman
    • 76. Kenji Mizoguchi
    • 77. William Friedkin
    • 78. Oliver Stone
    • 79. George A. Romero
    • 80. Satyajit Ray
    • 81. Cameron Crowe
    • 82. James Whale
    • 83. Wes Anderson
    • 84. Carl Dreyer
    • 85. John Woo
    • 86. Lars Von Trier
    • 87. Gus Van Sant
    • 88. Buster Keaton
    • 89. Peter Weir
    • 90. Curtis Hanson
    • 91. D. W. Griffith
    • 92. Paul Verhoeven
    • 93. Alan J Pakula
    • 94. Wong Kar-Wai
    • 95. George Lucas
    • 96. M Night Shyamalan
    • 97. Baz Luhrmann
    • 98. John Sturges
    • 99. Sofia Coppola
    • 100. Abel Ferrara

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EMPIRE MAGAZINE’s 50 Greatest Independent FILMS

The British film magazine Empire came up with a list of the 50 greatest non-studio films ever made. While it can be difficult deciding on what qualifies as independent cinema Empire’s poll “takes into account the quality of the film, the circumstances behind its production, the achievement of the filmmakers despite monetary and logistical constraints and its influence on subsequent projects.”

    • 1. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
    • 2. Donnie Darko (2001)
    • 3. The Terminator (1984)
    • 4. Clerks (1994)
    • 5. Monty Python’s Life Of Brian (1979)
    • 6. Night Of The Living Dead (1968)
    • 7. Sex, Lies And Videotape (1989)
    • 8. The Usual Suspects (1995)
    • 9. Sideways (2004)
    • 10. Mean Streets (1973)
    • 11. Bad Taste (1987)
    • 12. Eraserhead (1977)
    • 13. Memento (2000)
    • 14. Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
    • 15. Blood Simple (1984)
    • 16. She’s Gotta Have It (1986)
    • 17. City Of God (2002)
    • 18. Withnail And I (1987)
    • 19. Lone Star (1996)
    • 20. Slacker (1991)
    • 21. Roger And Me (1989)
    • 22. Nosferatu (1922)
    • 23. The Evil Dead (1981)
    • 24. Happiness (1998)
    • 25. Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
    • 26. Lost In Translation (2003)
    • 27. Dark Star (1974)
    • 28. In The Company Of Men (1997)
    • 29. Bad Lieutenant (1992)
    • 30. Sweet Sweetback Baadassss’ Song (1971)
    • 31. Pink Flamingos (1972)
    • 32. Two Lane Blacktop (1971)
    • 33. Shallow Grave (1994)
    • 34. The Blair Witch Project (1994)
    • 35. THX-1138 (1971)
    • 36. Buffalo ’66 (1998)
    • 37. Being John Malkovich (1999)
    • 38. Grosse Point Blank (1997)
    • 39. The Passion Of The Christ (2004)
    • 40. The Descent (2005)
    • 41. Dead Man’s Shoes (2004)
    • 42. Swingers (1996)
    • 43. Shadows (1959)
    • 44. Amores Perros (2000)
    • 45. Mad Max (1979)
    • 46. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
    • 47. Blood Feast (1963)
    • 48. Cube (1997)
    • 49. Run Lola Run (1998)
    • 50. El Mariachi (1992)

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Entertainment Weekly’s 50 Greatest Directors

Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture. EW compiled this list of best directors in 1996. Kubrick doesn’t even make the top 20 while Hitchcock once again tops a best directors list. Buy – Entertainment Weekly Magazine (The 50 Greatest Directors & Their 100 Best Movies, April 19 , 1996)

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Orson Welles
3. John Ford
4. Howard Hawkes
5. Martin Scorsese
6. Akira Kurosawa
7. Buster Keaton
8. Ingmar Bergman
9. Frank Capra
10. Federico Fellini
11. Steven Spielberg
12. Jean Renoir
13. John Huston
14. Luis Bunuel
15. D. W. Griffith
16. Ernst Lubitsch
17. Robert Altman
18. George Cukor
19. Woody Allen
20. Vincente Minnelli
21. Francis Ford Coppola
22. Michael Powell
23. Stanley Kubrick
24. Billy Wilder
25. Satyajit Ray
26. Roman Polanski
27. Francois Truffaut
28. Preston Sturges
29. Sergei Eisenstein
30. Fritz Lang
31. Jean-Luc Godard
32. Sam Peckinpah
33. F. W. Murnau
34. David Lean
35. Werner Herzog
36. Nicholas Ray
37. Josef Von Sternberg
38. Douglas Sirk
39. Max Ophuls
40. Louis Malle
41. Sergio Leone
42. Sidney Lumet
43. Oliver Stone
44. Bernardo Bertolucci
45. Jonathan Demme
46. Jacques Tati
47. Otto Preminger
48. Spike Lee
49. Tim Burton
50. Jerry Lewis

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The Times Top 100 Films Of All-Time

A list compiled in April 2008 by the UK newspaper ‘The Times.’

“The point of The Times Top 100 Films of All Time is to stimulate argument, and sharpen your own thoughts about the ingredients that make great movies.” (Chief Film Critic, James Christopher, Times Online)

1. Casablanca
2. There Will Be Blood
3. ET: The Extra-Terrestrial
4. Chinatown
5. The Shining
6. Vertigo
7. Kes
8. Sunset Blvd
9. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
10. The Godfather
11. The Sound Of Music
12. Alien
13. 2001: A Space Odyssey
14. The Jungle Book
15. Apocalypse Now
16. Metropolis
17. Annie Hall
18. Don’t Look Now
19. The Exorcist
20. The Wizard Of Oz
21. The Towering Inferno
22. The Breakfast Club
23. Some Like It Hot
24. The Philadelphia Story
25. Picnic At Hanging Rock
26. GoodFellas
27. A Clockwork Orange
28. Gone With The Wind
29. Duck Soup
30. Rebel Without A Cause
31. His Girl Friday
32. Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
33. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
34. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
35. Withnail & I
36. Jaws
37. Beau Travail
38. Rear Window
39. The Graduate
40. Monty Python’s Life Of Brian
41. A Star Is Born
42. Blue Velvet
43. Terminator II: Judgement Day
44. A Streetcar Named Desire
45. The Life & Death Of Colonel Blimp
46. All About Eve
47. Fargo
48. Shoah
49. High Society
50. Blade Runner




51. Cabaret
52. La Dolce Vita
53. Mildred Pierce
54. Roman Holiday
55. The Matrix
56. Whisky Galore
57. Raging Bull
58. Dr Zhivago
59. Pulp Fiction
60. The Crying Game
61. Rashomon
62. Taxi Driver
63. On The Waterfront
64. Do The Right Thing
65. The Thin Blue Line
66. Toy Story
67. The Piano
68. The Maltese Falcon
69. Cache
70. The Conversation
71. This Is Spinal Tap
72. Days Of Heaven
73. Great Expectations
74. Rosemary’s Baby
75. The Good The Bad & The Ugly
76. From Here To Eternity
77. Pather Panchali/Aparajito/Apur Sansar
78. The Lady Eve
79. Deliverance
80. Tokyo Story
81. North By Northwest
82. Chungking Express
83. Spartacus
84. Festen
85. Dog Day Afternoon
86. Nosferatu
87. The Silence Of The Lambs
88. Wild Strawberries
89. Touch Of Evil
90. Trainspotting
91. Short Cuts
92. Breathless
93. Cool Hand Luke
94. La Haine
95. Grand Hotel
96. Lost In Translation
97. Point Break
98. My Fair Lady
99. Beauty & The Beast
100. Jurassic Park



James Christopher is the former Deputy Theatre Editor on Time Out and was a film Critic at The Times (UK). He also has an MA in theatre direction and has written and directed plays.

100 FAVOURITE BRITISH FILMS of the 20th Century

“The British cinema is made of dullness and reflects a submissive lifestyle, where enthusiasm, warmth, and zest are nipped in the bud. A film is a born loser just because it is English. Francois Truffaut, 1957

In 1999 the British Film Institute invited a large amount of people working within the film and television industry to take part in finding the 100 top British films of the 20th century. The film’s listed below show how wrong Truffaut was!

1. The Third Man (1949)

2. Brief Encounter (1946)

3. Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)

4. The 39 Steps (1935)

5. Great Expectations (1946)

6. Kind Hearts And Coronets (1949)

7. Kes (1969)

8. Don’t Look Now (1973)

9. The Red Shoes (1948)

10. Trainspotting (1996)

11. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)

12. If… (1968)

13. The Ladykillers (1955)

14. Saturday Night And Sunday Morning (1960)

15. Brighton Rock (1947)

16. Get Carter (1971)

17. The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

18. Henry V (1944)

19. Chariots Of Fire (1981)

20. A Matter Of Life And Death (1946)

21. The Long Good Friday (1980)

22. The Servant (1963)

23. Four Weddings And A Funeral (1994)

24. Whisky Galore! (1949)

25. The Full Monty (1997)

26. The Crying Game (1992)

27. Doctor Zhivago (1965)

28. Monty Python’s Life Of Brian (1975)

29. Withnail And I (1987)

30. Gregory’s Girl (1980)

31. Zulu (1964)

32. Room At The Top (1958)

33. Alfie (1966)

34. Gandhi (1982)

35. The Lady Vanishes (1938)

36. The Italian Job (1969)

37. Local Hero (1983)

38. The Commitments (1991)

39. A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

40. Secrets & Lies (1995)

41. Dr. No (1962)

42. The Madness Of King George (1994)

43. A Man For All Seasons (1966)

44. Black Narcissus (1947)

45. The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp (1943)

46. Oliver Twist (1948)

47. I’m All Right Jack (1959)

48. Performance (1970)

49. Shakespeare In Love (1998)

50. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)




51. Tom Jones (1963)

52. This Sporting Life (1967)

53. My Left Foot (1989)

54. Brazil (1985)

55. The English Patient (1996)

56. A Taste Of Honey (1961)

57. The Go-Between (1970)

58. The Man In The White Suit (1951)

59. The Ipcress File (1965)

60. Blow-Up (1966)

61. The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner (1962)

62. Sense And Sensibility (1995)

63. Passport To Pimlico (1949)

64. The Remains Of The Day (1993)

65. Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971)

66. The Railway Children (1970)

67. Mona Lisa (1986)

68. The Dam Busters (1955)

69. Hamlet (1948)

70. Goldfinger (1964)

71. Elizabeth (1998)

72. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)

73. A Room With A View (1985)

74. The Day Of The Jackal (1973)

75. The Cruel Sea (1952)

76. Billy Liar (1963)

77. Oliver! (1968)

78. Peeping Tom (1960)

79. Far From The Madding Crowd (1967)

80. The Draughtman’s Contract (1982)

81. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

82. Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)

83. Darling (1965)

84. Educating Rita (1983)

85. Brassed Off (1996)

86. Genevieve (1953)

87. Women In Love (1969)

88. A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

89. Fires Were Started (1943)

90. Hope And Glory (1987)

91. My Name Is Joe (1998)

92. In Which We Serve (1942)

93. Caravaggio (1986)

94. The Belles Of St. Trinian’s (1954)

95. Life Is Sweet (1990)

96. The Wicker Man (1973)

97. Nil By Mouth (1997)

98. Small Faces (1995)

99. Carry On Up The Khyber (1968)

100. The Killing Fields (1984)

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The Official Story (1985)

The Official Story (1985) became the biggest international success in Argentina’s film history when it won an Academy Award for best foreign language film. Directed by Luis Puenzo the film is set in 1983, in the waning days of the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 and waged a dirty war of torture and murder against its opposition. It centres on a middle-class high-school teacher of history who gradually discovers that the infant she had adopted was born in prison to a mother who been seized by the military and never seen again.

Portraying the painful enlightenment of a conventional woman, Norma Aleandro, who had fled Argentina in 1976, won an award for her performance at the Cannes film festival.


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