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TOP 100 FILMS OF ALL TIME by the Video Detective

The Video Detective, a pocket-sized guide published in 1997 and written by film producer and movie buff Jim Riffel, suggested a top 1000 films and 100 films of all-time to provide advice on renting videos. Separate sections categorise movies as action/adventure, comedy, children/family, foreign, and drama. Each entry lists the director, primary cast, and offers a brief synopsis. Below are the top 100 films in alphabetical order. Buy – The Video Detective’s 1997 Guide to the Top 1000 Films of All Time

The African Queen (1951)
All About Eve (1950)
Amadeus (1984)
An American In Paris (1951)
Annie Hall (1977)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
Ben-Hur (1959)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Bonnie And Clyde (1967)
The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Casablanca (1942)
Chinatown (1974)
Citizen Kane (1941)
City Lights (1931)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Deliverance (1972)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying… (1964)
Duck Soup (1933)
E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
East of Eden (1955)
The Exorcist (1973)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Frankenstein (1931)
The French Connection (1971)
Gandhi (1982)
The General (1927)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather, Part II (1974)
The Gold Rush (1925)
Gone With The Wind (1939)
The Graduate (1967)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Harold and Maude (1971)
High Noon (1952)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
It Happened One Night (1934)
It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
The King and I (1956)
The Lady Eve (1941)
Laura (1944)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)




The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Manchurian Candidate (1961)
Manhattan (1979)
M*A*S*H (1970)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Modern Times (1936)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
My Fair Lady (1964)
North By Northwest (1959)
On The Waterfront (1954)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Ordinary People (1980)
Papillon (1973)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Patton (1970)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Psycho (1960)
Raging Bull (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Rear Window (1954)
Room with a View (1986)
The Searchers (1956)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Shane (1953)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Stagecoach (1939)
Star Wars (1977)
The Sting (1973)
Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
The Third Man (1949)
Top Hat (1935)
Touch Of Evil (1958)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
12 Angry Men (1957)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Vertigo (1958)
West Side Story (1961)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)



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Leonard Maltin’s 100 Must-See Films of the 20th Century

Published in the 2000 Edition of Maltin’s Movie and Video Guide, the list is in chronological order. The esteemed critic sticks to the classics and includes only includes two films from the 1980s and four from the 1990s. There one or two surprises such as The Freshman but overall it’s a strong list with plenty from world cinema as well the US. Buy – Leonard Maltin’s Movie and Video Guide 2000

 

The Birth of a Nation (1915, D.W. Griffith)
Intolerance (1916, D.W. Griffith)
Our Hospitality (1923, Buster Keaton)
Greed (1924, Erich von Stroheim)
The Gold Rush (1925, Charles Chaplin)
Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein)
The Big Parade (1925, King Vidor)
The Freshman (1925, Sam Taylor & Fred Newmeyer)
Metropolis (1926, Fritz Lang)
The General (1927, Buster Keaton)
Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau)
The Crowd (1928, King Vidor)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, Lewis Milestone)
City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)
M (1931, Fritz Lang)
Dracula (1931, Tod Browning)
Frankenstein (1931, James Whale)
Trouble in Paradise (1932, Ernst Lubitsch)
King Kong (1933, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)
Duck Soup (1933, Leo McCarey)
Sons of the Desert (1933, William A. Seiter)
It Happened One Night (1934, Frank Capra)
It’s a Gift (1934, Norman Z. McLeod)
A Night at the Opera (1935, Sam Wood)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935, James Whale)
The 39 Steps (1935, Alfred Hitchcock)
Swing Time (1936, George Stevens)
Modern Times (1936, Charles Chaplin)
Dodsworth (1936, William Wyler)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936, Frank Capra)
Grand Illusion (1937, Jean Renoir)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937, Ben Sharpsteen)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938, Michael Curtiz)
The Lady Vanishes (1938, Alfred Hitchcock)
Stagecoach (1939, John Ford)
Gone With the Wind (1939, Victor Fleming)
The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming)
His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940, John Ford)
Fantasia (1940, Ben Sharpsteen–production supervisor)
Sullivan’s Travels (1941, Preston Sturges)
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
The Maltese Falcon (1941, John Huston)
The Lady Eve (1941, Preston Sturges)
Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943, William A. Wellman)
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944, Preston Sturges)
Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder)
My Darling Clementine (1946, John Ford)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946, William Wyler)
Great Expectations (1946, David Lean)
The Bicycle Thief (1948, Vittorio De Sica)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, John Huston)
Gun Crazy (1949, Joseph H. Lewis)
All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Sunset Boulevard (1950, Billy Wilder)
Rashomon (1950, Akira Kurosawa)




Strangers on a Train (1951, Alfred Hitchcock)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
High Noon (1952, Fred Zinnemann)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954, Stanley Donen)
On the Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan)
The Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
The Searchers (1956, John Ford)
Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick)
The Seventh Seal (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
North By Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
The 400 Blows (1959, Francois Truffaut)
Some Like It Hot (1959, Billy Wilder)
Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
La Dolce Vita (1960, Federico Fellini)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)
8 1/2 (1963, Federico Fellini)
Dr. Strangelove (1964, Stanley Kubrick)
Mary Poppins (1964, Robert Stevenson)
Blow Up (1966, Michelangelo Antonioni)
The Graduate (1967, Mike Nichols)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Arthur Penn)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
The Wild Bunch (1969, Sam Peckinpah)
Midnight Cowboy (1969, John Schlesinger)
The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
Mean Streets (1973, Martin Scorsese)
The Godfather Part II (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
The Conversation (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
Blazing Saddles (1974, Mel Brooks)
Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)
Nashville (1975, Robert Altman)
Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen)
Star Wars (1977, George Lucas)
The Deer Hunter (1978, Michael Cimino)
Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)
E.T. – The Extraterrestrial (1982, Steven Spielberg)
GoodFellas (1990, Martin Scorsese)
Schindler’s List (1993, Steven Spielberg)
Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino)
Fargo (1996, Joel Coen)

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100 BEST MOVIES EVER MADE by Movieline Magazine

Movieline Magazine selected The 100 best English language films all-time in their December 1995 issue.  100 of the all-time greatest English-language films – actually 101. British director David Lean is notable by his absence, while the inclusion of Wyler’s Dodsworth, Shampoo and True Lies will surprise many. The films are listed in alphabetical order. Buy – Movieline Magazine, December 1995 (Volume VII Number 4) – Harrison Ford, The 100 Best Movies Ever Made

    • Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938, Michael Curtiz)
    • African Queen, The (1951, John Huston)
    • All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
    • Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen)
    • Badlands (1973, Terrence Malick)
    • Bambi (1942, David Hand)
    • Being There (1979, Hal Ashby)
    • Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946, William Wyler)
    • Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott)
    • Blow Up (1966, Michelangelo Antonioni)
    • Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch)
    • Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961, Blake Edwards)
    • Cabaret (1972, Bob Fosse)
    • Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)
    • Chinatown (1974, Roman Polanski)
    • Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
    • City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)
    • Conversation, The (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
    • Dodsworth (1936, William Wyler)
    • Don’t Look Now (1973, Nicolas Roeg)
    • Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder)
    • Dr. Strangelove (1964, Stanley Kubrick)
    • E.T. (1982, Steven Spielberg)
    • Elephant Man, The (1980, David Lynch)
    • Empire Strikes Back, The (1980, Irvin Kershner)
    • Face in the Crowd, A (1957, Elia Kazan)
    • Five Easy Pieces (1970, Bob Rafelson)
    • Funny Face (1957, Stanley Donen)
    • Gallipoli (1981, Peter Weir)
    • Gigi (1958, Vincente Minnelli)
    • Godfather Parts I and II, The (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
    • Gone with the Wind (1939, Victor Fleming)
    • Gun Crazy (1949, Joseph H. Lewis)
    • Hard Day’s Night, A (1964, Richard Lester)
    • Haunting, The (1963, Robert Wise)
    • His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
    • In a Lonely Place (1950, Nicholas Ray)
    • Informer, The (1935, John Ford)
    • Innocents, The (1961, Jack Clayton)
    • Intolerance (1916, D.W. Griffith)
    • It’s a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)
    • King Kong (1933, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)
    • Lady Eve, The (1941, Preston Sturges)
    • Last Picture Show, The (1971, Peter Bogdanovich)
    • Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948, Max Ophuls)
    • Lost Weekend, The (1945, Billy Wilder)
    • Love Affair (1939, Leo McCarey)
    • Manchurian Candidate, The (1962, John Frankenheimer)
    • Manhattan (1979, Woody Allen)
    • McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971, Robert Altman)
    • Meet Me in St. Louis (1944, Vincente Minnelli)
    • Miller’s Crossing (1990, Joel Coen)
    • My Man Godfrey (1936, Gregory La Cava)




    • Night of the Hunter, The (1955, Charles Laughton)
    • North By Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
    • Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)
    • Ox-Bow Incident, The (1943, William Wellman)
    • Palm Beach Story, The (1942, Preston Sturges)
    • Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick)
    • Peeping Tom (1960, Michael Powell)
    • Petulia (1968, Richard Lester)
    • Philadelphia Story, The (1940, George Cukor)
    • Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
    • Purple Rose of Cairo, The (1985, Woody Allen)
    • Queen Christina (1933, Rouben Mamoulian)
    • Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)
    • Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
    • Rebecca (1940, Alfred Hitchcock)
    • Road Warrior, The (1981, George Miller)
    • Schindler’s List (1993, Steven Spielberg)
    • Searchers, The (1956, John Ford)
    • Shadow of a Doubt (1943, Alfred Hitchcock)
    • Shampoo (1975, Hal Ashby)
    • Sherlock Jr. (1924, Buster Keaton)
    • Singin’ In the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
    • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937, Ben Sharpsteen)
    • Some Like It Hot (1959, Billy Wilder)
    • Star Is Born, A (1954, George Cukor)
    • Strangers on a Train (1951, Alfred Hitchcock)
    • Sullivan’s Travels (1941, Preston Sturges)
    • Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971, John Schlesinger)
    • Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau)
    • Sunset Boulevard (1950, Billy Wilder)
    • Sweet Smell of Success (1957, Alexander Mackendrick)
    • Swing Time (1936, George Stevens)
    • Third Man, The (1949, Carol Reed)
    • 39 Steps, The (1935, Alfred Hitchcock)
    • To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, Robert Mulligan)
    • Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)
    • Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948, John Huston)
    • Trouble In Paradise (1932, Ernst Lubitsch)
    • True Lies (1994, James Cameron)
    • Two for the Road (1967, Stanley Donen)
    • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
    • Unbearable Lightness of Being, The (1988, Philip Kaufman)
    • Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
    • West Side Story (1961, Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins)
    • Wind, The (1928, Victor Seastrom)
    • Wizard of Oz, The (1939, Victor Fleming)
    • Year of Living Dangerously, The (1983, Peter Weir)

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The One-Line Review Presents “The 50 Greatest Films”

A 2009 poll of film-makers, critics, bloggers, historians, and other assorted cinephiles by The One-Line Review blogging site to find the greatest films. Below is the top 50.

  1. Citizen Kane (1941) .. Orson Welles
  2. Vertigo (1958) .. Alfred Hitchcock
  3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) .. Stanley Kubrick
  4. The Godfather (1972) .. Francis Ford Coppola
  5. Casablanca (1942) .. Michael Curtiz
  6. The Third Man (1949) .. Carol Reed
  7. Taxi Driver (1976) .. Martin Scorsese
  8. Seven Samurai (1954) .. Akira Kurosawa
  9. Psycho (1960) .. Alfred Hitchcock
  10. Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) .. Stanley Kubrick
  11. The Godfather: Part II (1974) .. Francis Ford Coppola
  12. The Searchers (1956) .. John Ford
  13. Rear Window (1954) .. Alfred Hitchcock
  14. Singin’ in the Rain (1952) .. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
  15. Persona (1966) .. Ingmar Bergman
  16. Chinatown (1974) .. Roman Polanski
  17. Sunset Boulevard (1950) .. Billy Wilder
  18. Sunrise (1927) .. F.W. Murnau
  19. Tokyo Story (1953) .. Yasujiro Ozu
  20. Pulp Fiction (1994) .. Quentin Tarantino
  21. La Règle du Jeu (1939) .. Jean Renoir
  22. 8½ (1963) .. Federico Fellini
  23. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) .. David Lean
  24. The Night of the Hunter (1955) .. Charles Laughton
  25. Apocalypse Now (1979) .. Francis Ford Coppola
  26. City Lights (1931) .. Charles Chaplin
  27. Bicycle Thieves (1948) .. Vittorio De Sica
  28. Annie Hall (1977) .. Woody Allen
  29. Touch of Evil (1958) .. Orson Welles
  30. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  31. Blade Runner (1982) .. Ridley Scott
  32. M (1931) .. Fritz Lang
  33. The General (1927) .. Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton
  34. Some Like It Hot (1959) .. Billy Wilder
  35. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) .. Sergio Leone
  36. The Four Hundred Blows (1959) .. Franτois Truffaut
  37. Duck Soup (1933) .. Leo McCarey
  38. Double Indemnity (1944) .. Billy Wilder
  39. Raging Bull (1980) .. Martin Scorsese
  40. All About Eve (1950) .. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  41. A Clockwork Orange (1971) .. Stanley Kubrick
  42. The Apartment (1960) .. Billy Wilder
  43. La Grande Illusion (1937) .. Jean Renoir
  44. Ikiru (1952) .. Akira Kurosawa
  45. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) .. Frank Capra
  46. Rashomon (1950) .. Akira Kurosawa
  47. The Wizard of Oz (1939) .. Victor Fleming
  48. Do the Right Thing (1989) .. Spike Lee
  49. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) .. Sergio Leone
  50. L’Avventura (1960) .. Michelangelo Antonioni



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Roger Ebert’s TEN GREATEST FILMS OF ALL TIME

In 1991 film critic Roger Ebert made a list of what he considered the 10 greatest films of all-time. The list is in alphabetical order. Ebert always appeared to be suspicious of such lists but he relented, naming a list of classics, later visual masterpieces of New American cinema, documentaries and international art-house including a relatively obscure entry of Yasujiro Ozu (best known worldwide for Tokyo Story).  Nice to see 28 Up listed, one of Michael Apted’s ground breaking documentary series and that’s not Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate but Errol Morris’s (The Thin Blue Line) late 70s documentary about pet cemeteries.

    • Casablanca
    • Citizen Kane
    • Floating Weeds
    • Gates of Heaven
    • La Dolce Vita
    • Notorious
    • Raging Bull
    • The Third Man
    • 28 Up
    • 2001: A Space Odyssey

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Sight and Sound Directors Poll 2012 Top Films

The top films as voted by film directors from around the globe for Sight & Sound’s 2012 poll. There’s some notable differences to the critics poll of the same year with Vertigo knocking off Citizen Kane for the number 1 spot while Hitchcock’s masterpiece only placed 7th with directors.

1. Tokyo Story (1953)
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2. Citizen Kane (1941)
4. 8 1/2 (1963)
5. Taxi Driver (1976)
6. Apocalypse Now (1979)
7. Vertigo (1958)
7. The Godfather (1972)
9. The Mirror (1975)
10. The Bicycle Thief (1948)
11. Breathless (1960)
12. Raging Bull (1980)
13. Persona (1966)
13. The 400 Blows (1959)
13. Andrei Rublev (1966)
16. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
17. The Seven Samurai (1954)
18. Rashomon (1950)
19. Barry Lyndon (1975)
19. Ordet (1955)
21. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
22. Modern Times (1936)
22. L’Atalante (1934)
22. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
22. The Rules of the Game (1939)
22. Touch of Evil (1958)
26. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
26. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
26. La Strada (1954)
30. Stalker (1979)
30. City Lights (1931)
30. L’Avventura (1960)
30. Amarcord (1973)
30. Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
30. The Godfather, Part II (1974)
30. Come And See (1985)
37. Close-Up (1990)
37. Some Like It Hot (1959)
37. La dolce vita (1960)
37. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
37. Playtime (1967)
37. A Man Escaped (1956)
37. Viridiana (1961)
44. Once Upon a Time In the West (1968)
44. Contempt (Le Mépris) (1963)
44. The Apartment (1960)
44. Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen) (1968)
48. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
48. The Searchers (1956)
48. Psycho (1960)
48. Man With the Movie Camera (1929)
48. Shoah (1985)
48. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
48. L’Eclisse (1962)
48. Pickpocket (1959)
48. Pather Panchali (1955)
48. Rear Window (1954)
48. Goodfellas (1990)




59. Blowup (1966)
59. The Conformist (1970)
59. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
59. Gertrud (1964)
59. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
59. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
59. Blue Velvet (1986)
59. La Grande Illusion (1937)
67. Badlands (1973)
67. Blade Runner (1982)
67. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
67. Ugetsu (1953)
67. Singin’ In the Rain (1952)
67. In the Mood For Love (2000)
67. Journey to Italy (1954)
67. Vivre sa Vie (1962)
75. The Seventh Seal (1957)
75. Cache (Hidden) (2005)
75. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
75. M (1931)
75. There Will Be Blood (2007)
75. The Shining (1980)
75. The General (1927)
75. Mulholland Drive (2001)
75. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
75. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
75. Kes (1970)
75. Husbands (1970)
75. The Wild Bunch (1969)
75. Salo Or The 120 Days Of Sodom (1975)
75. Jaws (1975)
75. The Young And The Damned (1950)
91. Pierrot Le Fou (1965)
91. Un Chien Andalou (1929)
91. Chinatown (1974)
91. The Mother and the Whore (1973)
91. Beau Travail (2000)
91. Opening Night (1977)
91. The Gold Rush (1925)
91. Zéro de conduite (Zero For Conduct) (1933)
91. The Deer Hunter (1978)
91. L’argent (1983)
132. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
132. The Tree of Life (2011)
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Sight & Sound 2012 critics top 250 films

“by far the most respected of the countless polls of great movies—the only one most serious movie people take seriously.” Roger Ebert

In 2012 Sight & Sound magazine asked film critics from around the world to name their top 10 films and these votes were compiled into the published list of the top 250 films. There are actually 282 films due to some having the same number of votes.

1 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock
2 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles
3 Tôkyô monogatari 1953 Yasujirô Ozu
4 La règle du jeu 1939 Jean Renoir
5 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927 F.W. Murnau
6 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick
7 The Searchers 1956 John Ford
8 Chelovek s kino-apparatom 1929 Dziga Vertov
9 La passion de Jeanne d’Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer
10 8½ 1963 Federico Fellini
11 Bronenosets Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein
12 L’Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo
13 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard
14 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola
15 Late Spring 1949 Yasujirô Ozu
16 Au Hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson
17 Shichinin no samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa
(=17) Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman
19 Zerkalo 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky
20 Singin’ in the Rain 1952 Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
21 L’Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni
(=21) The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola
(=21) Contempt (Le Mepris) 1963 Jean-Luc Godard
24 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa
(=24) Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer
(=24) Faa yeung nin wa 2000 Kar-Wai Wong
27 Andrey Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky
28 Mulholland Drive 2001 David Lynch
29 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky
(=29) Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann
31 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese
(=31) The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola
33 Ladri di biciclette 1948 Vittorio De Sica
34 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock
(=34) The General 1926 Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
36 Satantango 1994 Béla Tarr
(=36) Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang
(=36) Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975 Chantal Akerman
39 La dolce vita 1960 Federico Fellini
(=39) Les quatre cents coups 1959 François Truffaut
41 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray
(=41) Journey to Italy 1954 Roberto Rossellini
43 Pierrot Le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard
(=43) Close-Up 1990 Abbas Kiarostami
(=43) Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder
(=43) Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati
(=43) Gertrud 1964 Carl Theodor Dreyer
48 Histoire(s) du cinéma 1989 Jean-Luc Godard
(=48) The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo
50 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin
(=50) Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi
(=50) La Jetee 1962 Chris Marker
53 North By Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock
(=53) Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock
(=53) Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese




56 M 1931 Fritz Lang
57 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti
(=57) Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles
59 Sherlock Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton
(=59) Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick
(=59) The Mother and the Whore 1973 Jean Eustache
(=59) Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi
63 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman
(=63) Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin
(=63) Sunset Boulevard 1950 Billy Wilder
(=63) The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton
(=63) Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson
(=63) Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks
69 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott
(=69) Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch
(=69) Sans Soleil 1983 Chris Marker
(=69) A Man Escaped 1956 Robert Bresson
73 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed
(=73) L’Eclisse 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni
(=73) Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné
(=73) La Grande Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir
(=73) Nashville 1975 Robert Altman
78 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski
(=78) Beau Travail 1999 Claire Denis
(=78) C’era una volta il West 1968 Sergio Leone
81 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Robert Wise, Orson Welles, Fred Fleck
(=81) Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean
(=81) The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 Víctor Erice
84 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman
(=84) Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz
(=84) The Color of Pomegranates 1969 Sergei Parajanov
(=84) Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim
(=84) A Brighter Summer Day 1991 Edward Yang
(=84) The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah
90 A Day in the Country 1936 Jean Renoir
(=90) Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes 1972 Werner Herzog
(=90) A Matter of Life and Death 1946 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
93 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman
(=93) Un Chien Andalou 1929 Luis Buñuel
(=93) Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith
(=93) Yi Yi 2000 Edward Yang
(=93) Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
(=93) Touki Bouki 1973 Djibril Diop Mambéty
(=93) Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
(=93) Imitation of Life 1959 Douglas Sirk
(=93) Earrings of Madame De. 1953 Max Ophüls




102 Wavelength 1967 Michael Snow
(=102) Il conformista 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci
(=102) The Travelling Players (O Thiasos) 1975 Theodoros Angelopoulos
(=102) Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Alexander Hammid, Maya Deren
(=102) 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her 1967 Jean-Luc Godard
(=102) The Tree Of Life 2011 Terrence Malick
(=102) Ivan The Terrible 1944 Sergei M. Eisenstein
(=102) Last Year At Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais
110 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges
(=110) The Young And The Damned 1950 Luis Buñuel
(=110) Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks
(=110) Performance 1970 Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg
(=110) The Passenger 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni
(=110) Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel
(=110) L’Age D’Or 1930 Luis Buñuel
117 A Canterbury Tale 1944 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
(=117) Mouchette 1967 Robert Bresson
(=117) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick
(=117) Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau
(=117) The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
(=117) Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch
(=117) A City of Sadness 1989 Hsiao-Hsien Hou
(=117) Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini
(=117) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford
(=117) Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick
127 Spring in a Small Town 1948 Mu Fei
(=127) Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee
(=127) Out 1, noli me tangere 1971 Jacques Rivette, Suzanne Schiffman
(=127) Tropical Malady 2004 Apichatpong Weerasethakul
(=127) The River 1951 Jean Renoir
(=127) Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut
(=127) Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino
(=127) Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli
(=127) L’argent 1983 Robert Bresson
(=127) Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa
(=127) Three Colors: Blue 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski
(=127) Don’t Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg
(=127) Celine and Julie Go Boating 1974 Jacques Rivette
(=127) Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen
(=127) The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder
(=127) The Last Laugh 1924 F.W. Murnau
(=127) Hiroshima mon amour 1959 Alain Resnais
144 Blowup 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni
(=144) The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin
(=144) Memories of Underdevelopment 1968 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
(=144) Diary of a Country Priest (Journal d’un curé de campagne) 1951 Robert Bresson
(=144) Chungking Express 1994 Kar-Wai Wong
(=144) To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch
(=144) A Woman Under the Influence 1974 John Cassavetes
(=144) Napoleon 1927 Abel Gance
(=144) Vivre sa Vie 1962 Jean-Luc Godard
(=144) The Wizard of Oz 1939 Mervyn LeRoy, George Cukor, King Vidor, Norman Taurog, Victor Fleming




154 Marketa Lazarova 1967 Frantisek Vlácil
(=154) Cache (Hidden) 2005 Michael Haneke
(=154) The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick
(=154) Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky
(=154) Chimes at Midnight 1965 Orson Welles
(=154) The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin
(=154) Letter From an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls
(=154) Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean
(=154) In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray
(=154) Black Narcissus 1947 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
(=154) My Neighbor Totoro 1988 Hayao Miyazaki
(=154) Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Howard Hawks
(=154) Vampyr 1932 Carl Theodor Dreyer
(=154) Come And See / Idi I Smotri 1985 Elem Klimov
(=154) Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 Terence Davies
(=154) Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone
(=154) Cries and Whispers 1972 Ingmar Bergman
171 King Kong 1933 Ernest B. Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper
(=171) Werckmeister Harmonies 2000 Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky
(=171) Star Wars: A New Hope 1977 George Lucas
(=171) Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock
(=171) His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks
(=171) Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese
(=171) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy
(=171) A Trip to the Moon 1902 Georges Méliès
(=171) Sweet Smell Of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick
(=171) Kind Hearts And Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer
(=171) Tabu 1931 F.W. Murnau
(=171) Earth (Zemlya) 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko
183 Breaking the Waves 1996 Lars von Trier
(=183) The Grapes Of Wrath 1940 John Ford
(=183) Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders
(=183) E.T.,The Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg
(=183) Rome Open City 1945 Roberto Rossellini
(=183) Faces 1968 John Cassavetes
(=183) The Music Room 1958 Satyajit Ray
(=183) Zangiku monogatari 1939 Kenji Mizoguchi
(=183) A Touch of Zen 1971 King Hu
(=183) Listen to Britain 1942 Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister
(=183) Day of Wrath 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer
(=183) The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick
(=183) Eraserhead 1977 David Lynch
(=183) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper
(=183) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel
(=183) The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola
(=183) Out Of The Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur
(=183) Otona no miru ehon – Umarete wa mita keredo 1932 Yasujirô Ozu
(=183) I Know Where I’m Going! 1945 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger




202 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu 2005 Cristi Puiu
(=202) Red Desert 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni
(=202) Chelsea Girls 1966 Andy Warhol, Paul Morrissey
(=202) Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick
(=202) Kings of the Road 1976 Wim Wenders
(=202) There Will Be Blood 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson
(=202) Wall-E 2008 Andrew Stanton
(=202) Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980
(=202) Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg
(=202) Daisies (Sedmikrasky) 1966 Vera Chytilová
(=202) Loong Boonmee raleuk chat 2010 Apichatpong Weerasethakul
(=202) Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen
(=202) Cléo de 5 à 7 1962 Agnès Varda
(=202) Tie Xi Qu: West Of The Tracks 2002 Bing Wang
(=202) Russian Ark 2002 Aleksandr Sokurov
(=202) Skazka skazok 1979 Yuriy Norshteyn
(=202) Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki, Kirk Wise
(=202) La strada 1954 Federico Fellini
(=202) Paisan 1946 Roberto Rossellini
(=202) The Shop Around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch
(=202) The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks
(=202) Killer of Sheep 1978 Charles Burnett
(=202) Wanda 1970 Barbara Loden
(=202) Germany Year Zero 1948 Roberto Rossellini
(=202) The Life Of Oharu 1952 Kenji Mizoguchi
(=202) L’Armee Des Ombres 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville
(=202) Salo Or 120 Days of Sodom 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini
(=202) Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey
(=202) The Devil, Probably 1977 Robert Bresson
(=202) The Turin Horse 2011 Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky
(=202) Love Streams 1984 John Cassavetes
(=202) The Exterminating Angel 1962 Luis Buñuel
(=202) Ukigumo (Floating Clouds) 1955 Mikio Naruse
235 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion
(=235) Gone with the Wind 1939 Sam Wood, George Cukor, Victor Fleming
(=235) Melancholia 2011 Lars von Trier
(=235) The House Is Black 1963 Forugh Farrokhzad
(=235) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene
(=235) Red River 1948 Arthur Rosson, Howard Hawks
(=235) A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick
(=235) Two-Lane Blacktop 1971 Monte Hellman
(=235) An Autumn Afternoon 1962 Yasujirô Ozu
(=235) The Thin Blue Line 1988 Errol Morris
(=235) Apur Sansar 1959 Satyajit Ray
(=235) The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 1933 Fritz Lang
(=235) My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford
(=235) The Double Life of Veronique 1991 Krzysztof Kieslowski
(=235) Kes 1969 Ken Loach
(=235) Three Colors: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski
(=235) The Big Lebowski 1998 Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
(=235) Where Is the Friend’s Home? 1987 Abbas Kiarostami
(=235) All That Heaven Allows 1955 Douglas Sirk
(=235) Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini
(=235) Husbands 1970 John Cassavetes
(=235) The Puppetmaster 1993 Hsiao-Hsien Hou
(=235) All About Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
(=235) How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford
(=235) Belle de Jour 1967 Luis Buñuel
(=235) Sicilia! 1999 Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
(=235) The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli
(=235) The White Ribbon 2009 Michael Haneke
(=235) F for Fake 1973 Oja Kodar, Gary Graver, Orson Welles, François Reichenbach
(=235) Nun va Goldoon 1996 Mohsen Makhmalbaf
(=235) The Wind Will Carry Us 1999 Abbas Kiarostami
(=235) Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Luchino Visconti
(=235) Sud sanaeha Aka Blissfully Yours 2002 Apichatpong Weerasethakul
(=235) Flowers of Shanghai 1998 Hsiao-Hsien Hou
(=235) Juventude Em Marcha 2006 Pedro Costa
(=235) Death in Venice 1971 Luchino Visconti
(=235) All About My Mother 1999 Pedro Almodóvar
(=235) The Cloud Capped Star 1960 Ritwik Ghatak
(=235) Pandora’s Box 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst
(=235) Le Samourai 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville
(=235) By The Bluest Of Seas 1936 Samad Mardanov, Boris Barnet
(=235) Stromboli 1950 Roberto Rossellini
(=235) A Nos Amours 1983 Maurice Pialat
(=235) Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa
(=235) Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica
(=235) The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967 Jacques Demy
(=235) Sullivan’s Travels 1941 Preston Sturges
(=235) Shadows 1959 John Cassavetes
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Total Films 100 Greatest Movies Of All Time

Total Film’s 100 Greatest Movies was compiled from the movie magazine’s 5-star reviews in 2010. The list is in alphabetical order. Half Nelson stands out as the one film that would struggle get a 5-star review in most publications.

2001: A Space Odyssey
Alien
All About Eve
Amadeus
Amelie
American Graffiti
Annie Hall
The Apartment
Apocalypse Now
Avatar
Back To The Future
Badlands
Bambi
The Battle Of Algiers
Belle De Jour
The Bicycle Thieves
The Big Lebowski
Black Narcissus
Blade Runner
Blue Velvet
Bonnie And Clyde
Boogie Nights
Brazil
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Casablanca
Chinatown
Cinema Paradiso
Citizen Kane
City of God
The Conversation
The Dark Knight
Das Boot
The Deer Hunter
Die Hard
Dirty Harry
Donnie Darko
Don’t Look Now
Double Indemnity
Dr Strangelove
ET: The Extra-Terrestrial
The Exorcist
Fargo
Fight Club
Finding Nemo
Gladiator
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Godfather
Goldfinger
Gone With The Wind
Goodfellas
Half Nelson
Halloween
Heat
His Friday Girl
It’s A Wonderful Life
Jaws
King Kong
L.A. Confidential
Lawrence Of Arabia
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
M
Manhattan
Metropolis
Millers Crossing
Monty Python’s Life Of Brian




Nashville
Network
Night Of The Living Dead
No Country For Old Men
North By Northwest
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Persona
The Philadelphia Story
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Rear Window
Reservoir Dogs
The Seventh Seal
Sideways
Singin’ In The Rain
Some Like It Hot
Star Wars Ep IV: A New Hope
Star Wars Ep V: The Empire Strikes Back
Sunset Boulevard
The Sweet Smell of Success
There Will Be Blood
The Third Man
This Is England
This Is Spinal Tap
Tokyo Story
Touch Of Evil
The Truman Show
Vertigo
West Side Story
When We Were Kings
Withnail and I
The Wrestler

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IGN’s TOP 25 SCI-FI MOVIES OF ALL TIME

IGN.com published a list of the top 25 sci-fi films in September 2010. There’s little to surprise here, with Blade Runner and 2001 once again listed at the top of the genre. Star Wars and Alien earn their high places as also landmark sci-fi films.

25 – Moon
24 – District 9
23 – The Thing
22 – Avatar
21 – Jurassic Park
20 – Close Encounters of the Third Kind
19 – Forbidden Planet
18 – Brazil
17 – Back To The Future
16 – Metropolis
15 – Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
14 – Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
13 – A Clockwork Orange
12 – E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
11 – Aliens
10 – T2: Judgement Day
9 – The Road Warrior
8 – The Day The Earth Stood Still
7 – The Matrix
6 – Planet Of The Apes
5 – The Empire Strikes Back
4 – Alien
3 – A New Hope
2 – 2001: A Space Odyssey
1 – Blade Runner



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All-time favourite science fiction films

In 2008 New Scientist magazine polled staff and readers to find their favourite sci-fi films. Below is the top 5. Serenity is perhaps a surprising choice and maybe there are stronger classic examples of sci-fi than Forbidden Planet, but it is lauded as a precursor to the modern space exploration films we now enjoy.

1. Blade Runner
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Serenity
4. Forbidden Planet
5. The Matrix