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Empire’s 500 Greatest Movies of All Time

In 2008, Empire released the list of the 500 Best Movies of All Time, as voted by 10,000 Empire readers, 150 Hollywood filmmakers and 50 key film critics. Buy – Empire 100 Covers (Celebrating The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time)

 

 

 

1. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981)
3. Star Wars Episode V: Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980)
4. Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994)
5. Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
6. GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
7. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
8. Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, 1952)
9. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
10. Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999)
11. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
12. The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
13. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
14. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
15. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
16. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
17. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
18. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
19. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
20. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
21. The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
22. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977)
23. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
24. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001)
25. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1967)
26. Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb(Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
27. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
28. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
29. Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988)
30. Aliens (James Cameron, 1986)
31. Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood)
32. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969)
33. Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
34. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson, 2003)
35. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron, 1991)
36. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1969)
37. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
38. Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
39. The Matrix (Andy & Larry Wachowski, 1999)
40. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
41. The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
42. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949)
43. The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1998)
44. Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
45. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
46. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)
47. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982)
48. This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)
49. Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, 1987)
50. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)




51. 8 ½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
52. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
53. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)
54. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Peter Jackson, 2002)
55. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)
56. Casino Royale (Martin Campbell, 2006)
57. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
58. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
59. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
60. Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985)
61. The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer, 1995)
62. The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
63. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)
64. Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003)
65. Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby, 1971)
66. Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton, 1990)
67. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
68. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
69. Three Colours Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994)
70. Stand by Me (Rob Reiner, 1986)
71. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
72. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
73. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
74. The Treasure of Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948)
75. A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1946)
76. Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
77. Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick, 1960)
78. Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)
79. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)
80. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1943)
81. Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan, 2005)
82. The Great Escape (John Sturges, 1963)
83. Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)
84. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)
85. Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
86. Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976)
87. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, 1983)
88. Ferris Bueller’s Day off (John Hughes, 1986)
89. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
90. When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner, 1989)
91. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand, 1983)
92. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1984)
93. Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973)
94. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
95. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961)
96. American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999)
97. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, 1992)
98. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
99. Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995)
100. Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)




101. Raising Arizona (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1987)
102. The Hustler (Robert Rossen, 1961)
103. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
104. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
105. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)
106. A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann, 1966)
107. An American Werewolf in London (John Landis, 1981)
108. The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi, 1978)
109. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
110. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
111. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982)
112. I Am Cuba (Alexander Payne, 1964)
113. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Adam McKay, 2004)
114. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
115. Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974)
116. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
117. Miller’s Crossing (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1990)
118. Withnail and I (Bruce Robinson, 1987)
119. The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953)
120. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
121. Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel, 1950)
122. The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987)
123. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)
124. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)
125. A Bout de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
126. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah, 1973)
127. The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973)
128. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
129. Harvey (Henry Koster, 1950)
130. The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston, 1975)
131. The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann, 1992)
132. Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)
133. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
134. Seven (David Fincher, 1995)
135. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
136. Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984)
137. Dances with Wolves (Kevin Costner, 1990)
138. Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg, 1967)
139. Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981)
140. As Good as It Gets (James L. Brooks, 1997)
141. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand, 1937)
142. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
143. Cyrano De Bergerac (Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 1991)
144. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
145. Sophie’s Choice (Alan J. Pakula, 1982)
146. Shampoo (Hal Ashby, 1975)
147. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
148. Z (Costa-Gavras, 1969)
149. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
150. The French Connection (William Friedkin, 1971)




151. Gladiator (Ridley Scott, 2000)
152. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997)
153. The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961)
154. Betty Blue (Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1986)
155. Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)
156. Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, 1998)
157. True Romance (Tony Scott, 1993)
158. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992)
159. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
160. Being There (Hal Ashby, 1979)
161. The Year of Living Dangerously (Peter Weir, 1982)
162. A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven, 1984)
163. The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, 1957)
164. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
165. Partie de campagne (Jean Renoir, 1936)
166. Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton, 1964)
167. Don’t Look Now (Nic Roeg, 1973)
168. Tootsie (Sydney Pollack, 1982)
169. Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1961)
170. La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)
171. Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
172. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)
173. Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000)
174. Superman the Movie (Richard Donner, 1978)
175. Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998)
176. A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1944)
177. City of God (Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund, 2002)
178. Hellzapoppin’ (H.C. Potter, 1941)
179. Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter, 1999)
180. To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962)
181. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Russ Meyer, 1970)
182. Performance (Donald Cammell, Nic Roeg, 1970)
183. Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)
184. Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, 1971)
185. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
186. United 93 (Paul Greengrass, 2006)
187. The Big Country (William Wyler, 1958)
188. School of Rock (Richard Linklater, 2003)
189. Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman, 1984)
190. Big (Penny Marshall, 1988)
191. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005)
192. Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977)
193. Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994)
194. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
195. It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
196. Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1999)
197. Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991)
198. Fargo (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1996)
199. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
200. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater, 1995)




201. JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991)
202. The Killer (John Woo, 1989)
203. Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979)
204. The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935)
205. The Addiction (Abel Ferrara, 1995)
206. The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973)
207. The Misfits (John Huston, 1961)
208. The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006)
209. Local Hero (Billy Forsyth, 1983)
210. Platoon (Oliver Stone, 1986)
211. Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)
212. M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
213. Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson, 2000)
214. Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969)
215. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino, 1997)
216. Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Schlesinger, 1971)
217. The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges, 1960)
218. Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (Jacques Tati, 1953)
219. The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood, 1976)
220. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes, 2002)
221. McCabe & Mrs Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
222. Mother and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov, 1997)
223. Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995)
224. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies, 1988)
225. Get Carter (Mike Hodges, 1971)
226. Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann, 1996)
227. Léon (Luc Besson, 1994)
228. No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2007)
229. Festen (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998)
230. Howl’s Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki, 2004)
231. Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright, 2004)
232. Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
233. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984)
234. The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass, 2007)
235. Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, 2000)
236. Black Narcissus (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1947)
237. Delicatessen (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro, 1991)
238. Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
239. Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988)
240. Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994)
241. Brighton Rock (John Boulting, 1947)
242. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933)
243. Heimat (Edgar Reitz, 1984)
244. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, 1993)
245. Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2004)
246. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940)
247. All That Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979)
248. Pandora’s Box (Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1929)
249. My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946)
250. Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927)




251. Darling (John Schlesinger, 1965)
252. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1980)
253. First Blood (Ted Kotcheff, 1982)
254. The Verdict (Sidney Lumet, 1982)
255. Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, 1939)
256. Le Quai des brumes (Marcel Carné, 1938)
257. The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934)
258. The Blues Brothers (John Landis, 1980)
259. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)
260. Field of Dreams (Phil Alden Robisnon, 1989)
261. Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953)
262. The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999)
263. Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen, 1981)
264. American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973)
265. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
266. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2001)
267. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, 1989)
268. The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock, 1938)
269. A Place in the Sun (George Stevens, 1951)
270. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005)
271. Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (Tim Burton, 1985)
272. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento, 1970)
273. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941)
274. Sin City (Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, 2005)
275. My Neighbour Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)
276. Layer Cake (Matthew Vaughn, 2004)
277. On the Town (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, 1949)
278. Carlito’s Way (Brian De Palma, 1993)
279. National Lampoon’s Animal House (John Landis, 1978)
280. Mad Max 2 (George Miller, 1982)
281. Interview with the Vampire (Neil Jordan, 1994)
282. The Godfather Part III (Francis Ford Coppola, 1990)
283. Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
284. Scarface (Brian De Palma, 1983)
285. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
286. L’avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
287. Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh, 1996)
288. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis, 1988)
289. John Carpenter’s The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
290. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
291. Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti, 1960)
292. Le belle et la bête (Jean Cocteau, 1946)
293. La maman et la putain (Jean Eustache, 1973)
294. The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse, 1956)
295. The Untouchables (Brian De Palma, 1987)
296. All the President’s Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976)
297. It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934)
298. Le cercle rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970)
299. The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges, 1942)
300. Sawdust and Tinsel (Ingmar Bergman, 1953)




301. Love and Death (Woody Allen, 1975)
302. The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946)
303. Together (Lukas Moodyson, 2000)
304. Radio Days (Woody Allen, 1987)
305. The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, 2006)
306. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989)
307. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969)
308. The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984)
309. Transformers (Michael Bay, 2007)
310. Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984)
311. American History X (Tony Kaye, 1998)
312. Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)
313. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
314. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)
315. Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee, 1995)
316. Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 1996)
317. Midnight Run (Martin Brest, 1988)
318. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940)
319. The Lion King (Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff, 1994)
320. Braveheart (Mel Gibson, 1995)
321. Funny Face (Stanley Donen, 1957)
322. Aladdin (Ron Clements, John Musker, 1992)
323. The Last Seduction (John Dahl, 1994)
324. Lone Star (John Sayles, 1996)
325. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)
326. Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh, 1998)
327. The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick, 1993)
328. The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998)
329. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
330. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas, 2005)
331. The Green Mile (Frank Darabont, 1999)
332. The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan, 1999)
333. Grease (Randal Kleiser, 1978)
334. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
335. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
336. Titanic (James Cameron, 1997)
337. 300 (Zack Snyder, 2006)
338. Jules et Jim (François Truffaut, 1962)
339. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
340. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)
341. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)
342. The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin, 1925)
343. Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter, 2001)
344. The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese, 1978)
345. Fatal Attraction (Adrian Lyne, 1987)
346. Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl, 1945)
347. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)
348. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
349. Arthur (Steve Gordon, 1981)
350. Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968)




351. Zulu (Cy Endfield, 1964)
352. Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges, 1948)
353. Bugsy Malone (Alan Parker, 1976)
354. Un chien andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1929)
355. Sunshine (Danny Boyle, 2007)
356. Napoléon (Abel Gance, 1927)
357. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)
358. Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2002)
359. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
360. The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev, 2003)
361. Clerks (Kevin Smith, 1994)
362. The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980)
363. Good Morning, Vietnam (Barry Levinson, 1987)
364. Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, 1994)
365. The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman, 2002)
366. Predator (John McTiernan, 1987)
367. Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972)
368. Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, 1980)
369. The Breakfast Club (John Hughes, 1985)
370. Rocky (John G. Avildsen, 1976)
371. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski, 2003)
372. Army of Darkness (Sam Raimi, 1992)
373. Wall-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)
374. Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, 2007)
375. Four Weddings and a Funeral (Mike Newell, 1994)
376. Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
377. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973)
378. The Goonies (Richard Donner, 1985)
379. Ratatouille (Brad Bird, 2007)
380. Children of Men (Alfondo Cuarón, 2006)
381. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, 1975)
382. Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)
383. Serenity (Joss Whedon, 2005)
384. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
385. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)
386. The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci, 1968)
387. Rain Man (Barry Levinson, 1988)
388. The English Patient (Anthony Minghella, 1996)
389. Election (Alexander Payne, 1999)
390. 2 Days in Paris (Julie Delpy, 2007)
391. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
392. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
393. Garden State (Zach Braff, 2004)
394. Cloverfield (Matt Reeves, 2008)
395. Casino (Martin Scorsese, 1995)
396. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)
397. Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968)
398. Killer of Sheep (Charless Burnett, 1977)
399. Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1924)
400. The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004)




401. Batman Returns (Tim Burton, 1992)
402. Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, 2006)
403. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
404. RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven, 1987)
405. Dirty Dancing (Emile Ardolino, 1987)
406. Iron Man (Jon Favreau, 2008)
407. The Jungle Book (Wolfgang Reitherman, 1967)
408. Zelig (Woody Allen, 1983)
409. Men in Black (Barry Sonnenfeld, 1997)
410. A Hard Day’s Night (Richard Lester, 1964)
411. Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi, 2004)
412. Heathers (Michael Lehmann, 1989)
413. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, 2003)
414. The Double Life of Véronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1991)
415. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1978)
416. Bad Taste (Peter Jackson, 1987)
417. Lords of Dogtown (Catherine Hardwicke, 2005)
418. V for Vendetta (James McTeigue, 2005)
419. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
420. Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe, 1996)
421. Lethal Weapon (Richard Donner, 1987)
422. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956)
423. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino, 2004)
424. To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, 1944)
425. Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson, 2000)
426. Enduring Love (Roger Michell, 2004)
427. Spring in a Small Town (Mu Fei, 1948)
428. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog, 1974)
429. Danger: Diabolik (Mario Bava, 1968)
430. Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter, 1986)
431. Electra Glide in Blue (James William Guercio, 1973)
432. X-Men 2 (Bryan Singer, 2003)
433. Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant, 1997)
434. The Cat Concerto (William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, 1947)
435. American Psycho (Mary Harron, 2000)
436. Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise, 1991)
437. Spider-Man (Sam Raimi, 2002)
438. The Lost Boys (Joel Schumacher, 1987)
439. Grosse Pointe Blank (George Armitage, 1997)
440. Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988)
441. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze, 1999)
442. Atonement (Joe Wright, 2007)
443. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975)
444. Hairspray (John Waters, 1988)
445. Dumb and Dumber (Peter and Bobby Farrelly, 1994)
446. High Fidelity (Stephen Frears, 2000)
447. Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002)
448. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)
449. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (George Lucas, 1999)
450. King Kong (Peter Jackson, 2005)




451. Speed (Jan De Bont, 1994)
452. Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan, 2000)
453. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, 2008)
454. The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass, 2004)
455. Top Gun (Tony Scott, 1986)
456. 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, 2002)
457. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1987)
458. Batman (Tim Burton, 1989)
459. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
460. Crash (Paul Haggis, 2004)
461. Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)
462. Dead Man’s Shoes (Shane Meadows, 2004)
463. Juno (Jason Reitman, 2007)
464. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Stanley Donen, 1954)
465. 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam, 1995)
466. Snatch (Guy Ritchie, 2000)
467. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, 1978)
468. The Crow (Alex Proyas, 1994)
469. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam, 1998)
470. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley, 1992)
471. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuarón, 2004)
472. Le Doulos (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1962)
473. Into the Wild (Sean Penn, 2007)
474. Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse, 1973)
475. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Gore Verbinski, 2006)
476. Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1989)
477. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955)
478. Flesh (Paul Morrissey, 1968)
479. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Norman Z. McLeod, 1947)
480. The Son’s Room (Nanni Moretti, 2001)
481. Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh, 1999)
482. Scream (Wes Craven, 1996)
483. The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller, 1980)
484. The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky, 2006)
485. The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)
486. Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Blake Edwards, 1961)
487. Superbad (Greg Mottola, 2007)
488. Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997)
489. Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005)
490. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton, 2007)
491. Ben-Hur (William Wyler, 1959)
492. Amores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2000)
493. In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute, 1997)
494. Sideways (Alexander Payne, 2004)
495. Jailhouse Rock (Richard Thorpe, 1957)
496. Superman Returns (Bryan Singer, 2006)
497. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)
498. Back to the Future Part II (Robert Zemeckis, 1989)
499. Saw (James Wan, 2004)
500. Ocean’s Eleven (Steven Soderbergh, 2001)

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Time Out’s Readers’ Top 100

Time Out’s Readers’ Top One Hundred was compiled in 1998 from readers who submitted their all-time Top Ten film lists. Although a readers poll it’s still mostly made up of critically acclaimed classics. Films like The Full Monty and Trainspotting have benefited from being released not long before the poll, but yet there is no place for the hugely popular Titanic. Remains of the Day and The Sound of Music also look out of place amongst such esteemed company.

(1) The Godfather (1972), d. Francis Ford Coppola, US

(2) Casablanca (1942), Michael Curtiz, US

(3) Citizen Kane (1941), d. Orson Welles, US

(4) Blade Runner (1982), d. Ridley Scott, US

(5) Vertigo (1958), d. Alfred Hitchcock, US

(6) Apocalypse Now (1979), d. Francis Ford Coppola, US

(7) Some Like It Hot (1959), d. Billy Wilder, US

8) Taxi Driver (1976), d. Martin Scorsese, US

(9) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), d. Stanley Kubrick, US

(10) It’s A Wonderful Life (1946), d. Frank Capra, US

(11) GoodFellas (1990), d. Martin Scorsese, US

(12) North By Northwest (1959), d. Alfred Hitchcock, US

(13) Pulp Fiction (1994), d. Quentin Tarantino, US

(14) Seven Samurai (1954), d. Akira Kurosawa, Jap

(15) The Third Man (1949), d. Carol Reed, GB

(16) Lawrence of Arabia (1962), d. David Lean, GB

— Raging Bull (1980), d. Martin Scorsese, US

(18) Gone With The Wind (1939), d. Victor Fleming, US

(19) A Matter of Life and Death (aka Stairway to Heaven) (1946), d. Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, GB

(20) Schindler’s List (1993), d. Steven Spielberg, US

(21) Rear Window (1954), d. Alfred Hitchcock, US

— The Searchers (1956), d. John Ford, US

(23) Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) (1945), d. Marcel Carne, Fr

(24) Chinatown (1974), d. Roman Polanski, US

(25) Manhattan (1979), d. Woody Allen, US

(26) Star Wars (1977), d. George Lucas, US

— Withnail & I (1986), d. Bruce Robinson, GB

(28) Singin’ In The Rain (1952), d. Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly, US

(29) The Night of the Hunter (1955), d. Charles Laughton, US

— Psycho (1960), d. Alfred Hitchcock, US

— The Wild Bunch (1969), d. Sam Peckinpah, US

(32) The Shawshank Redemption (1994), d. Frank Darabont, US

(33) Three Colors: Red (1994), d. Krzysztof Kieslowski, Fr/Pol/Switz

(34) The Big Sleep (1946), d. Howard Hawks, US

(35) One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), d. Milos Forman, US

(36) Paris, Texas (1984), d. Wim Wenders, WGer/Fr/GB

(37) Blue Velvet (1986), d. David Lynch, US

(38) Tokyo Story (1953), d. Yasujiro Ozu, Jap

(39) The Deer Hunter (1978), d. Michael Cimino, US

— Three Colors: Blue (1993), d. Krzysztof Kieslowski, Fr

(41) Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), d. Sergio Leone, It

(42) The Piano (1993), d. Jane Campion, NZ/Fr

(43) Double Indemnity (1944), d. Billy Wilder, US

— Once Upon a Time in America (1983), d. Sergio Leone, US

(45) L’Atalante (1934), d. Jean Vigo, Fr

(46) Aliens (1986), d. James Cameron, US

(47) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying… (1964), d. Stanley Kubrick, GB

— Performance (1970), d. Nicolas Roeg/Donald Cammell, GB

(49) Wings of Desire (1987), d. Wim Wenders, WGer/Fr

(50) Brazil (1985), d. Terry Gilliam, GB



— The Double Life of Veronique (1991), d. Krzysztof Kieslowski, Pol

(52) The Maltese Falcon (1941), d. John Huston, US

(53) La Regle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game) (1939), d. Jean Renoir, Fr

— The Wizard of Oz (1939), d. Victor Fleming, US

(55) Fargo (1996), d. Joel Coen, US

(56) Don’t Look Now (1973), d. Nicolas Roeg, GB

(57) Touch Of Evil (1958), d. Orson Welles, US

(58) Annie Hall (1977), d. Woody Allen, US

— Cinema Paradiso (1988), d. Giuseppe Tornatore, It/Fr

— L.A. Confidential (1997), d. Curtis Hanson, US

— The English Patient (1996), d. Anthony Minghella, US

(62) The Apartment (1960), d. Billy Wilder, US

— The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), d. Orson Welles, US

— Un Coeur en hiver (1991), d. Claude Sautet, Fr

(65) Jules and Jim (1962), d. Francois Truffaut, Fr

— Reservoir Dogs (1991), d. Quentin Tarantino, US

(67) High Noon (1952), d. Fred Zinnemann, US

(68) Mean Streets (1973), d. Martin Scorsese, US

— The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), d. Sergio Leone, It

(70) His Girl Friday (1940), d. Howard Hawks, US

— Mirror (1974), d. Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR

— The Usual Suspects (1995), d. Bryan Singer, US

— Trainspotting (1995), d. Danny Boyle, GB

(74) Chungking Express (1994), d. Wong Kar-Wai, HK

— Seven (1995), d. David Fincher, US

(76) The Sound of Music (1965), d. Robert Wise, US

— The Thing from Another World (1951), d. Christian Nyby, US

— Battleship Potemkin (1925), d. Sergei Eisenstein, USSR

(79) Amadeus (1984), d. Milos Forman, US

— The Age of Innocence (1993), d. Martin Scorsese, US

— The Seventh Seal (1956), d. Ingmar Bergman, Swe

(82) Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), d. Robert Hamer, GB

— The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), d. Peter Greenaway, GB/Fr

— The General (1927), d. Buster Keaton/Clyde Bruckman, US

(85) La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life) (1960), d. Federico Fellini, It

— Miller’s Crossing (1990), d. Joel Coen, US

— The Battle of Algiers (1965), d. Gillo Pontecorvo, It/Alg

— Top Hat (1935), d. Mark Sandrich, US

(89) My Life as a Dog (1985), d. Lasse Hallstrom, Swe

— The Full Monty (1997), d. Peter Cattaneo, US/GB

(91) Black Narcissus (1946), d. Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, GB

— Halloween (1978), d. John Carpenter, US

— Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948), d. Max Ophuls, US

— M (1931), d. Fritz Lang, Ger

— Ran (1985), d. Akira Kurosawa, Fr/Jap

— Secrets & Lies (1995), d. Mike Leigh, GB

(97) A Bout de Souffle (Breathless) (1959), d. Jean-Luc Godard, Fr

— Andrei Rublev (1966), d. Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR

— L’Avventura (The Adventure) (1960), d. Michelangelo Antonioni, It

— Delicatessen (1991), d. Jean-Pierre Jeunet/Marc Caro, Fr

— Great Expectations (1946), d. David Lean, GB

— The Remains of the Day (1993), d. James Ivory, US




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Cinepad’s 139 Best Movies Of All Time

Jim Emerson, the administrator of the Cinepad website came up with this list in 1998 based on the performances of  films on other lists.

  • 1.  Citizen Kane  (1941)
  • 2.  The Rules Of The Game  (1939)
  • 3.  Vertigo  (1958)
  • 4.  8 1/2  (1963)
  • 4.  Battleship Potemkin  (1925)
  • 6.  Singin’ In The Rain  (1952)
  • 7.  The Gold Rush  (1925)
  • 8.  City Lights  (1931)
  • 8.  L’Avventura  (1960)
  • 10.  Schindler’s List  (1993)
  • 11.  The Searchers  (1959)
  • 12.  2001: A Space Odyssey  (1968)
  • 13.  The Bicycle Thief  (1948)
  • 14.  Annie Hall  (1977)
  • 15.  Greed  (1924)
  • 16.  On The Waterfront  (1954)
  • 17.  The Passion of Joan of Arc  (1928)
  • 18.  All About Eve  (1950)
  • 19.  The Magnificent Ambersons  (1942)
  • 20.  The Best Years Of Our Lives  (1946)
  • 21.  West Side Story  (1961)
  • 22.  Intolerance  (1916)
  • 22.  L’Atalante  (1934)
  • 22.  Persona  (1966)
  • 25.  Casablanca  (1943)
  • 26.  Amadeus  (1984)
  • 26.  The Godfather  (1972)
  • 28.  Gone With The Wind  (1939)
  • 29.  Lawrence Of Arabia  (1962)
  • 30.  Ugetsu Monogatari  (1953)
  • 31.  The Bridge On The River Kwai  (1957)
  • 32.  Star Wars  (1977)
  • 33.  One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest  (1975)
  • 34.  Ben-Hur  (1959)
  • 35.  Raging Bull  (1980)
  • 36.  E.T. – The Extra Terrestrial  (1982)
  • 37.  The Deer Hunter  (1978)
  • 38.  The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre  (1948)
  • 39.  The Genral  (1927)
  • 40.  The Godfather, Part II  (1974)
  • 41.  High Noon  (1952)
  • 42.  It Happened One Night  (1934)
  • 43.  Midnight Cowboy  (1969)
  • 43.  Seven Samurai  (1956)
  • 43.  Tokyo Story  (1953)
  • 46.  The Apartment  (1960)
  • 47.  Goodfellas  91990)
  • 48.  Pulp Fiction  (1994)
  • 49.  Louisiana Story  (1948)
  • 50.  Taxi Driver  (1976)




  • 51.  Unforgiven  (1992)
  • 52.  Pather Panchali  (1955)
  • 53.  From Here To Eternity  (1953)
  • 54.  Le Jour Se Leve  (1939)
  • 54.  M*A*S*H  (1970)
  • 54.  The Wizard Of Oz  (1939)
  • 57.  The Graduate  (1967)
  • 58.  It’s A Wonderful Life  (1946)
  • 59.  Some Like It Hot  (1959)
  • 60.  The Silence Of The Lambs  (1991)
  • 61.  La Terra Trema  (1948)
  • 62.  The African Queen  (1951)
  • 63.  An American In Paris  (1951)
  • 63.  Psycho  (1960)
  • 65.  Chinatown  (1974)
  • 66.  Brief Encounter  (1945)
  • 66.  Le Million  (1931)
  • 66.  Wild Strawberries  (1957)
  • 69.  The Maltese Falcon  (1941)
  • 70.  Dr. Strangelove …  (1964)
  • 70.  Ivan The Terrible  (1945)
  • 72.  Bonnie & Clyde  (1967)
  • 73.  Rocky  (1976)
  • 74.  Mr. Smith Goes To Washington  (1939)
  • 75.  Double Indemnity  (1944)
  • 76.  North By Northwest  (1959)
  • 77.  My Fair Lady  91964)
  • 78.  Rear Window  (1954)
  • 79.  King Kong  (1933)
  • 80.  The Birth Of A Nation  91915
  • 81.  A Streetcar Named Desire  (1951)
  • 82.  A Clockwork Orange  (1971)
  • 83.  Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs  (1937)
  • 84.  Day For Night  (1973)
  • 84.  Fanny And Alexander  (1982)
  • 84.  Kramer Vs. Kramer  (1979)
  • 84.  L.A. Confidential  (1997)
  • 84.  Marty  (1955)
  • 84.  Nashville  (1975)
  • 84.  Ran  (1985)
  • 84.  Red  (1994)
  • 84.  Terms Of Endearment  (1983)
  • 84.  Wild Reeds  (1994)
  • 84.  Z  (1969)
  • 95.  All Quiet On The Western Front  (1930)
  • 96.  The Sound Of Music  (1965)
  • 97.  Fantasia  (1940)
  • 98.  Rebel Without A Cause  (1954)
  • 99.  Tootsie  (1992)
  • 100.  Network  (1976)
  • 101.  The Manchurian Candidate  (1962)
  • 102.  Shane  (1953)
  • 103.  The French Connection  (1971)
  • 104.  Forrest Gump  (1994)
  • 105.  Wuthering Heights  (1939)
  • 106.  Dances With Wolves  (1990)
  • 107.  American Graffiti  (1973)
  • 108.  Modern Times  (1936)
  • 109.  Fargo  (1996)
  • 110.  Duck Soup  (1939)
  • 111.  Mutiny On The Bounty  (1935)
  • 112.  Frankenstein  (1931)
  • 112.  Platoon  (1986)
  • 114.  Patton  (1970)
  • 115.  The Jazz Singer  (1927)
  • 116.  A Place In The Sun  (1951)
  • 117.  Bringing Up Baby  (1938)
  • 118.  Yankee Doodle Dandy  (1942)
  • 119.  Amarcord  (1973)
  • 119.  Around The World In 80 Days  (1956)
  • 119.  Atlantic City  (1981)
  • 119.  Farewell, My Concubine  (1993)
  • 119.  Gandhi  (1982)
  • 119.  Get Out Your Handkerchiefs  (1978)
  • 119.  Gigi  (1958)
  • 119.  How Green Was My Valley  (1941)
  • 119.  In The Heat Of The Night  (1967)
  • 119.  Leaving Las Vegas  91995)
  • 119.  The Life Of Emile Zola  (1937)
  • 119.  The Lost Weekend  (1945)
  • 119.  Mon Oncle  (1958)
  • 119.  Ordinary People  (1980)
  • 119.  Pixote  (1981)
  • 119.  Raise The Red Lantern  (1991)
  • 119.  The Shop On Main Street  (1965)
  • 119.  The Story Of Women  (1988)
  • 119.  La Strada  (1954)
  • 119.  The Tin Drum  (1979)
  • 119.  War And Peace  (1956)




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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




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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.

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CENTENARY TOP 100 FILMS

The list was compiled to mark a hundred years of cinema in 1995 by London magazine Time Out. Directors, producers, actors, programmers and critics were polled to name their top ten films. There can be few arguments with the top 5 and good see Bertolucci’s visual masterpiece The Conformist as high as 12th. timeout.com/film

  • 1. Citizen Kane (1941)
  • 2. The Godfather (1972)
  • 3. The Rules Of The Game (1939)
  • 4. Vertigo (1958)
  • 5. Seven Samurai (1954)
  • 6. Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
  • 7. Raging Bull (1980)
  • 8. Touch Of Evil (1958)
  • 9. Tokyo Story (1953)
  • 10. L’ Atalante (1934)
  • 11. The Night Of The Hunter (1955)
  • 12. The Conformist (1969)
  • 13. Children Of Paradise (1945)
  • 13. A Matter Of Life And Death (1946)
  • 15. 8 1/2 (1963)
  • 15. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
  • 17. Apocalypse Now (1979)
  • 17. North By Northwest (1959)
  • 19. Chinatown (1974)
  • 20. The Sweet Life (1960)
  • 20. The Searchers (1956)
  • 22. The Wild Bunch (1969)
  • 23. The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp (1943)
  • 23. Some Like It Hot (1959)
  • 23. Taxi Driver (1976)
  • 26. Napoleon (1927)
  • 26. Rear Window (1954)
  • 28. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  • 28. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
  • 28. Performance (1970)
  • 31. The General (1927)
  • 32. Breathless (1959)
  • 32. Mean Streets (1973)
  • 32. Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)
  • 32. Rio Bravo (1959)
  • 36. Once Upon A Time In America (1983)
  • 37. All About Eve (1950)
  • 37. My Darling Clementine (1946)
  • 37. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  • 40. The Piano (1993)
  • 40. Pierrot le fou (1965)
  • 42. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
  • 42. The 400 Blows (1959)
  • 42. Gone With The Wind (1939)
  • 42. The Lady Eve (1941)
  • 42. Last Year In Marienbad (1961)
  • 42. Letter From An Unknown Woman (1948)
  • 48. The Battle Of Algiers (1948)
  • 49. The Gold Rush (1925)
  • 49. The Grand Illusion (1937)
  • 49. A Day In The Country (1936)
  • 49. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
  • 49. Pickpocket (1959)
  • 49. Schindler’s List (1993)
  • 49. The Shining (1980)
  • 49. The Third Man (1949)




  • 57. Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964)
  • 57. The Reckless Moment (1949)
  • 57. Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
  • 60. Blade Runner (1982)
  • 60. Blue Velvet (1986)
  • 60. Song Of The Little Road (1955)
  • 60. The Samurai (1967)
  • 60. Sunless (1983)
  • 60. Sweet Smell Of Success (1957)
  • 66. I Remember (1973)
  • 66. Greed (1924)
  • 66. The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (1928)
  • 66. Persona (1966)
  • 66. Rashomon (1951)
  • 66. The Treasure Of Sierra Madre (1948)
  • 72. All That Heaven Allows (1955)
  • 72. Black Narcissus (1946)
  • 72. Double Indemnity (1944)
  • 72. Intolerance (1916)
  • 72. Notorious (1946)
  • 72. Out Of The Past (1947)
  • 72. The Red Shoes (1948)
  • 72. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
  • 80. Casablanca (1942)
  • 80. City Lights (1931)
  • 80. Ran (1985)
  • 80. The Spirit Of The Beehive (1973)
  • 80. Sunrise (1927)
  • 85. The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie (1976)
  • 85. The Word (1954)
  • 85. Three Colours: Red (1994)
  • 88. Aliens (1986)
  • 88. Amadeus (1984)
  • 88. The Adventure (1960)
  • 88. Badlands (1973)
  • 88. Bary Lyndon (1975)
  • 88. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
  • 88. The Colour Of Pomegranates (1969)
  • 88. Don’t Look Now (1973)
  • 88. Earth (1930)
  • 88. Fanny And Alexander (1982)
  • 88. The Pier (1962)
  • 88. Kind Hearts And Coronets (1949)
  • 88. The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)
  • 88. Mirror (1974)
  • 88. Pandora’s Box (1928)
  • 88. The Quiet Man (1952)
  • 88. Sansho The Bailiff (1954)
  • 88. The Seventh Seal (1956)
  • 88. Ugetsu (1953)
  • 88. West Side Story (1961)

Time Out is a publishing company based in London, England. The company’s best known product is the Time Out weekly listings magazine. The listing magazines for particular cities contain information about events in film, theatre, fashion, literature and all other artistic events happening, as well as eat out and night out sections.




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Sight & Sound Top Ten Director’s Poll 2002

Sight & Sound is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI). Every decade, Sight & Sound asks an international group of film professionals to vote for their greatest film of all time. Since 1952, Critics have been asked to provide a top ten list and in 1992, directors were invited to participate in a separate poll.

All the films which received more than 4 votes from directors.

Film Votes Rank
Citizen Kane (Welles) 42 1
THE GODFATHER PART 1 & 2 (Coppola) 28 2
8½ (Fellini) 19 3
Lawrence of Arabia (Lean) 16 4
Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick) 14 5
Bicycle Thieves (De Sica) 13 6
Raging Bull (Scorsese) 13 6
Vertigo (Hitchcock) 13 6
La Régle du jeu (Renoir) 12 9
Rashomon (Kurosawa) 12 9
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) 12 9
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) 11 12
Sunset Boulevard (Wilder) 11 12
The Apartment (Wilder) 10 14
La dolce vita (Fellini) 10 14
Mirror (Tarkovsky) 9 16
Psycho (Hitchcock) 9 16
Tokyo Story (Ozu) 9 16
Apocalypse Now (Coppola) 8 19
Casablanca (Curtiz) 8 19
City Lights (Chaplin) 8 19
Fanny and Alexander (Bergman) 8 19
Singin’ in the Rain (Kelly, Donen) 8 19
Andrei Roublev (Tarkovsky) 7 24
L’Avventura (Antonioni) 7 24
Chinatown (Polanski) 7 24
La Grande Illusion (Renoir) 7 24
Some Like It Hot (Wilder) 7 24
La Strada (Fellini) 7 24
The Searchers (Ford) 7 24
Amarcord (Fellini) 6 31
Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) 6 31
Breathless (Godard) 6 31
Jules and Jim (Truffaut) 6 31
Children of Paradise (Carné) 6 31
On The Waterfront (Kazan) 6 31
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer) 6 31
The Seventh Seal (Bergman) 6 31
Taxi Driver (Scorsese) 6 31
Touch of Evil (Welles) 6 31
The Conformist (Bertolucci) 5 41
Once upon a Time in the West (Leone) 5 41
Persona (Bergman) 5 41
Pickpocket (Bresson) 5 41
Ran (Kurosawa) 5 41
Sunrise (Murnau) 5 41
Sweet Smell Of Success (Mackendrick) 5 41
The Third Man (Reed) 5 41
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston) 5 41
The Wizard of Oz (Fleming) 5 41

The Godfather (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
On the Waterfront (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
Touch of Evil (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
A Long Hard Look at ‘Psycho’ (BFI Silver) Paperback
Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
Chinatown (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
The Wizard of Oz (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
City Lights (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
La dolce vita (BFI Film Classics) Paperback




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Sight & Sound Top Ten Poll 2002 Critic’s Results

Sight & Sound is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI). Every decade, Sight & Sound asks an international group of film professionals to vote for their greatest film of all time. Since 1952, Critics have been asked to provide a top ten list and in 1992, directors were invited to participate in a separate poll.

All the films which received more than four votes from critics.

Title Votes Rank
Citizen Kane (Welles) 46 1
Vertigo (Hitchcock) 41 2
La Régle du jeu (Renoir) 30 3
Godfather / Godfather: Part II (Coppola) 23 4
Tokyo Story (Ozu) 22 5
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) 21 6
Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) 19 7
Sunrise (Murnau) 19 7
8½ (Fellini) 18 9
Singin’ in the Rain (Kelly, Donen) 17 10
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) 15 11
The Searchers (Ford) 15 11
Rashomon (Kurosawa) 14 13
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer) 12 14
Breathless (Godard) 11 15
L’Atalante (Vigo) 11 15
The General (Keaton) 11 15
Touch of Evil (Welles) 11 15
Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson) 10 19
Jules and Jim (Truffaut) 10 19
L’avventura (Antonioni) 10 19
Le Mépris (Godard) 9 22
Pather Panchali (Ray) 9 22
La dolce vita (Fellini) 8 24
M (Lang) 8 24
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi) 8 24
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick) 7 27
Les Enfants du paradis (Carné) 7 27
Ivan the Terrible (Eisenstein) 7 27
Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov) 7 27
Metropolis (Lang) 7 27
Some Like It Hot (Wilder) 7 27
Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi) 7 27
Wild Strawberries (Bergman) 7 27
Andrei Roublev (Tarkovsky) 6 35
The 400 Blows (Truffaut) 6 35
Fanny and Alexander (Bergman) 6 35
La Grande Illusion (Renoir) 6 35
The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles) 6 35
Modern Times (Chaplin) 6 35
Psycho (Hitchcock) 6 35
The Seventh Seal (Bergman) 6 35
Taxi Driver (Scorsese) 6 35
The Third Man (Reed) 6 35
Bicycle Thieves (De Sica) 5 45
Blade Runner (Scott) 5 45
City Lights (Chaplin) 5 45
Greed (von Stroheim) 5 45
Intolerance (Griffith) 5 45
Lawrence of Arabia (Lean) 5 45
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Ophuls) 5 45
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford) 5 45
Mirror (Tarkovsky) 5 45
Ordet (Dreyer) 5 45
Pierrot le fou (Godard) 5 45
Rio Bravo (Hawks) 5 45
Sansho Dayu (Mizoguchi) 5 45
Shoah (Lanzmann) 5 45
The Travelling Players (Angelopoulos) 5 45
Two or Three Things I Know about Her (Godard) 5 45

The Godfather (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
A Long Hard Look at ‘Psycho’ (BFI Silver) Paperback
2001: A Space Odyssey (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
Touch of Evil (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
La dolce vita (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
City Lights (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
Vertigo (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
La Grande Illusion (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
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The Sight & Sound Top Ten Poll: 1992

Sight & Sound is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI). Every decade, Sight & Sound asks an international group of film professionals to vote for their greatest film of all time. Since 1952, Critics have been asked to provide a top ten list. 1992 was the first poll which included top ten choices for directors as well as critics.

Directors’ poll

Critcs’ poll

    • 1. Citizen Kane (Welles)
    • 2. La Regle du Jeu (Renoir)
    • 3. Tokyo Story (Ozu)
    • 4. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
    • 5. The Searchers (Ford)
    • 6. L’Atalante (Vigo)
    • 6. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
    • 6. Pather Panchali (Ray)
    • 6. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
    • 10. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)

The Godfather (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
Vertigo (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
2001: A Space Odyssey (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
L’Atalante (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
The Searchers (BFI Film Classics) Paperback

 

 

 




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The Sight & Sound Top Ten Poll: 1982 Critics’ poll

Sight & Sound is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI). Every decade, Sight & Sound asks an international group of film professionals to vote for their greatest film of all time. Since 1952, Critics have been asked to provide a top ten list.

        • The Searchers (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
          Singin’ in the Rain (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
          The BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema (Paperback)
          Seven Samurai (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
          Vertigo (BFI Film Classics) Paperback

 




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