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TIFF’s Essential 100

In 2010, the Toronto International Film Festival released its “Essential 100” list of films, which merged one list of the 100 greatest films of all time as determined by an expert panel of TIFF curators with another list determined by TIFF stakeholders. The list reads like a definitive guide to the best of world cinema.

1 THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
2 CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles)
3 L’AVVENTURA (Michaelangelo Antonioni)
4 THE GODFATHER (Francis Ford Coppola)
5 PICKPOCKET (Robert Bresson)
6 SEVEN SAMURAI (Akira Kurosawa)
7 PATHER PANCHALI (Satyajit Ray)
8 CASABLANCA (Michael Curtiz)
9 MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov)
10 BICYCLE THIEVES (Vittorio De Sica)
11 ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
12 8 ½ (Federico Fellini)
13 BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (Sergei Eisenstein)
14 RASHOMON (Akira Kurosawa)
15 TOKYO STORY (Yasujiro Ozu)
16 THE 400 BLOWS (François Truffaut)
17 UGETSU (Kenji Mizoguchi)
18 BREATHLESS (Jean-Luc Godard)
19 L’ATALANTE (Jean Vigo)
20 CINEMA PARADISO (Giuseppe Tornatore)
21 LA GRANDE ILLUSION (Jean Renoir)
22 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (David Lean)
23 PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman)
24 GONE WITH THE WIND (Victor Fleming)
25 SUNRISE (F.W. Murnau)
26 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Stanley Kubrick)
27 VOYAGE IN ITALY (Roberto Rossellini)
28 AMÉLIE (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
29 CITY LIGHTS (Charlie Chaplin)
30 STAR WARS (George Lucas)
31 SHERLOCK JR. (Buster Keaton)
32 RULES OF THE GAME (Jean Renoir)
33 THE LEOPARD (Luchino Visconti)
34 LA DOLCE VITA (Federico Fellini)
35 L’ARRIVÉE D’UN TRAIN À LA CIOTAT (Frères LumiereLouis Lumière and Auguste Lumière)
36 THE WIZARD OF OZ (Victor Fleming)
37 LA JETÉE (Chris Marker)
38 VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock)
39 NIGHT AND FOG (Alain Resnais)
40 PULP FICTION (Quentin Tarantino)
41 THE SEARCHERS (John Ford)
42 SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (Danny Boyle)
43 THE CONFORMIST (Bernardo Bertolucci)
44 CITY OF GOD (Fernando Meirelles)
45 TAXI DRIVER (Martin Scorsese)
46 APOCALYPSE NOW (Francis Ford Coppola)
47 SALÓ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
48 THE SEVENTH SEAL (Ingmar Bergman)
49 LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE (Georges Méliès)
50 METROPOLIS (Fritz Lang)




51 THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (Gillo Pontecorvo)
52 IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar Wai)
53 VIRIDIANA (Luis Buñuel)
54 LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (Roberto Benigni)
55 THE SORROW AND THE PITY (Marcel Ophüls)
56 PAN’S LABYRINTH (Guillermo del Toro)
57 THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE… (Max Ophüls)
58 BLADE RUNNER (Ridley Scott)
59 THROUGH THE OLIVE TREES (Abbas Kiarostami)
60 LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS (Marcel Carné)
61 BRINGING UP BABY (Howard Hawks)
62 SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (Stanley Donen)
63 JOHNNY GUITAR (Nicholas Ray)
64 A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (Stanley Kubrick)
65 MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
66 M (Fritz Lang)
67 SCORPIO RISING (Kenneth Anger)
68 PSYCHO (Alfred Hitchcock)
69 DUST IN THE WIND (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
70 SCHINDLER’S LIST (Steven Spielberg)
71 NASHVILLE (Robert Altman)
72 CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (Ang Lee)
73 WAVELENGTH (Michael Snow)
74 JULES ET JIM (François Truffaut)
75 CHRONIQUE D’UN ÉTÉ (Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch)
76 THE LIVES OF OTHERS (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
77 GREED (Erich von Stroheim)
78 SOME LIKE IT HOT (Billy Wilder)
79 JAWS (Steven Spielberg)
80 ANNIE HALL (Woody Allen)
81 THE BIRTH OF A NATION (D.W. Griffith)
82 CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Wong Kar Wai)
83 LA NOIRE DE… (Ousmane Sembene)
84 RAGING BULL (Martin Scorsese)
85 THE MALTESE FALCON (John Huston)
86 CHINATOWN (Roman Polanski)
87 ANDREI RUBLEV (Andrei Tarkovsky)
88 WINGS OF DESIRE (Wim Wenders)
89 VIDEODROME (David Cronenberg)
90 WRITTEN ON THE WIND (Douglas Sirk)
91 THE THIRD MAN (Carol Reed)
92 BLUE VELVET (David Lynch)
93 THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (Sergio Leone)
94 BREAKING THE WAVES (Lars von Trier)
95 A NOS AMOURS (Maurice Pialat)
96 CLEO DE 5 A 7 (Agnès Varda)
97 ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (Pedro Almodóvar)
98 EARTH (Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
99 OLDBOY (Park Chan-wook)
100 PLAYTIME (Jacques Tati)




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Béla Tarr (Sight & Sound) Top 10 Films

Béla Tarr is a Hungarian film director. His body of work consists mainly of art films with philosophical themes and long takes. Tarr began his directorial career with a brief period of what he refers to as “social cinema”, aimed at telling mundane stories about ordinary people, often in the style of cinema vérité. Over the next decade, the cinematic style and thematic elements of his films changed. Tarr has been interpreted as having a pessimistic view of humanity; the characters in his works are often cynical, and have tumultuous relationships with one another in ways critics have found to be darkly comic. Almanac of Fall (1984), his only colour film, follows the inhabitants of a run-down apartment as they struggle to live together while sharing their hostilities. The drama Damnation (1988) was lauded for its languid and controlled camera movement, which Tarr would become known for internationally. Satan’s Tango (1994) and Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) continued his bleak and desolate representations of reality, while incorporating apocalyptic overtones; the former sometimes appears in scholarly polls of the greatest films ever made, and the latter received wide acclaim from critics. Below are his top 10 choices for Sight & Sound’s Director film poll for 2012.

Alexander Nevsky 1938 Sergei M Eisenstein
Au Hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson
Berlin Alexanderplatz Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Frenzy 1972 Alfred Hitchcock
M 1931 Fritz Lang
Man with a Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov
Passion of Joan of Arc 1927 Carl Theodor Dreyer
The Round Up 1966 Miklos Jancso
Tokyo Story 1953 Ozu Yasujirô
Vivre sa Vie 1962 Jean-Luc Godard

Tarr Bela: I Used to Be A Filmmaker (Buy or Rent, watch online)
Béla Tarr, the Time After (Univocal) Paperback
The Cinema of Béla Tarr: The Circle Closes (Directors’ Cuts) Paperback
Béla Tarr Collection – 5-DVD Box Set ( Kárhozat / Sátántangó / Panelkapcsolat ) ( Damnation / Satantango / The Prefab People ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import – France ]
Organic Cinema: Film, Architecture, and the Work of Béla Tarr (Hardcover)




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Tsai Ming-Liang (Sight & Sound) Top 10 Films

Tsai Ming-liang is a Taiwanese filmmaker. He has written and directed ten feature films and has also directed many short films and television films. Tsai is one of the most celebrated “Second New Wave” film directors of Taiwanese cinema. His films have been acclaimed worldwide and have won numerous awards at film festivals. Below are his top 10 choices for Sight & Sound’s Director film poll for 2012.

400 Blows, The 1959 François Truffaut
L’Eclisse 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Goodbye, Dragon Inn 2003 Tsai Ming Liang
Mouchette 1966 Robert Bresson
The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton
The Only Son 1936 Ozu Yasujirô
Passion of Joan of Arc 1927 Carl Theodor Dreyer
Spring in a Small Town 1948 Fei Mu
Sunrise 1927 F. W. Murnau

Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness (Hardcover)
Tsai Ming-Liang (Paperback)
The River by Ming-liang Tsai (DVD)
The Hole by Ming-liang Tsai (DVD)
Ming-liang Tsai Films 1992-1997 (Rebels of the Neon God / The River / Vive l’amour) [Blu-ray]
Cinematic Absence: An Analysis of Tsai Ming-liang’s “Goodbye Dragon Inn” (Paperback)

 




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The 100 most beautiful films in the world

In 2008 Le Figaro polled 76 participants: critics, screenwriters and directors to come up with a list of the one hundred most beautiful films in the world. Citizen Kane predictably came top while Charles Laughton’s only film, The Night of the Hunter was second along with the highest ranked French Film from Jean Renoir, The Rule of the game. Charlie Chaplin is the only one to have five films listed. The most recent titles are Talk to Her by Pedro Almodovar (2002) and Mulholland Drive (2001).

1st : Citizen Kane, Orson Welles.
2nd tie : The Night of the Hunter, Charles Laughton; The Rules of the Game, Jean Renoir.
3rd : Sunrise, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau.
4th : L’Atalante, Jean Vigo.
5th : M, Fritz Lang.
6th : Singin’ the Rain, Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly.
7th : Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock.
8th tie : The Children of Paradise, Marcel Carné; The Searchers, John Ford; Greed, Eric von Stroheim.
9th tie : Rio Bravo, Howard Hawks; To Be or Not to Be, Ernst Lubitsch.
10th : Tokyo Story, Yasujiro Ozu.
11th : Contempt, Jean-Luc Godard.
12th tie : Ugetsu, Kenji Mizoguchi; City Lights, Charles Chaplin; The General Buster Keaton; Nosferatu, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau; The Music Room, Satyajit Ray.
13th tie : Freaks, Tod Browning; Johnny Guitar, Nicholas Ray; The Mother and the Whore, Jean Eustache.
14th tie : The Dictator, Charles Chaplin; The Leopard, Luchino Visconti; Hiroshima My Love, Alain Resnais; Pandora’s Box, GW Pabst; North By Northwest, Alfred Hitchcock; Pickpocket, Robert Bresson.
15th tie : Casque d’or, Jacques Becker; The Barefoot Contessa, Joseph Mankiewicz; Moonfleet, Fritz Lang; Madame de …, Max Ophuls; Le Plaisir, Max Ophuls; The Deer Hunter, Michael Cimino.
16th tie : L’Avventura, Michelangelo Antonioni; Battleship Potemkin, SM Eisenstein; Notorious, Alfred Hitchcock; Ivan the Terrible, SM Eisenstein; The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola; Touch of Evil, Orson Welles; The Wind, Victor Sjöström.
17th tie : 2001: The Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick; Fanny and Alexander, Ingmar Bergman.
18th tie : The Crowd, King Vidor; Eight and a half, Federico Fellini; La Jetee, Chris Marker; Pierrot le Fou, Jean-Luc Godard; The Story of a Cheat, Sacha Guitry.
19th tie : Amarcord, Federico Fellini; Beauty and the Beast, Jean Cocteau; Some like it hot, Billy Wilder; Some Came Running, Vincente Minnelli; Gertrud, Carl Th. Dreyer; King Kong, Ernest Schoedsack and Merian J. Cooper; Laura, Otto Preminger; The Seven Samurai, Akira Kurosawa.
20th tie : The 400 Blows, François Truffaut; La Dolce Vita, Federico Fellini; The Dead, John Huston; Trouble in Paradise Ernst Lubitsch; It’s a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra; Mr. Verdoux, Charles Chaplin; The Passion of Joan of Arc, Carl Th. Dreyer.
21st tie : Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard; Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola; Barry Lindon, Stanley Kubrick; The Grand Illusion, Jean Renoir; Intolerance,  DW Griffith; A Day in the Country, Jean Renoir; Playtime, Jacques Tati; Rome open city, Roberto Rossellini; Senso, Luchino Visconti; Modern Times, Charles Chaplin; Van Gogh, Maurice Pialat.
22nd tie : An Affair to Remember, Leo McCarey; Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkovsky; The Scarlet Empress, Joseph von Sternberg; Sansho the Bailiff, Kenji Mizoguchi; Talk to Her, Pedro Almodovar; The Party, Blake Edwards; Tabu, FM Murna; The Band Wagon, Vincente Minnelli; A Star is Born, George Cukor; Les Vacances de M. Hulot, Jacques Tati.
23rd tie : America America, Elia Kazan; El, Luis Bunuel; Kiss Me Deadly, Robert Aldrich; Once Upon a Time in America, Sergio Leone; Le jour se lève, Marcel Carné; Letter from an unknown Woman, Max Ophuls; Lola, Jacques Demy; Manhattan, Woody Allen; Mulholland Drive, David Lynch; My night at Maud’s, Eric Rohmer; Night and Fog, Alain Resnais; The Gold Rush, Charles Chaplin; Scarface, Howard Hawks; Bicycle thieves, Vittorio de Sica; Napoleon, Abel Gance.



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Derek Malcolm’s Top 100 Films of the Century

Invited by the Guardian newspaper to compile his best films of the 20th century at the turn of the millennium, distinguished film writer and critic Derek Malcolm chose and wrote essays on the one hundred films, by one hundred different directors, he personally felt best represented 20th century world cinema. This work was then published in book form – ‘A Century of Films: Derek Malcolm’s Personal Best’ – in November 2000. A decade later Malcolm said he would add A Separation, The Death of Mr Lazarescu, Festen and Silent Souls at the expense of Swing High Swing Low, Trash, Behind the Green Door and The Bitter Tea of General Yen. Whilst Malcolm listed the films in a numerical order he has always stated that they are in no particular order. Buy – A Century of Films: Derek Malcom’s Personal Best (Paperback)

  1. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
  2. The Music Room (Satyajit Ray, 1958)
  3. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
  4. The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978)
  5. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1926)
  6. The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953)
  7. Earrings of Madame De. (Max Ophuls, 1953)
  8. Fires Were Started (Humphrey Jennings, 1943)
  9. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
  10. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
  11. The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini, 1966)
  12. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1953)
  13. Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1961)
  14. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
  15. 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
  16. Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932)
  17. The Unfaithful Wife (La Femme infidèle) (Claude Chabrol, 1968)
  18. Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda, 1958)
  19. Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
  20. WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev, 1971)
  21. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
  22. LBJ (Santiago Alvarez, 1968)
  23. Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford, 1939)
  24. The Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau,1946)
  25. Shock Corridor (Sam Fuller, 1963)
  26. The Wind (Victor Sjöström, 1928)
  27. Pandora’s Box (GW Pabst, 1929)
  28. Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin, 1947)
  29. Pakeezah (Kamal Amrohi, 1971)
  30. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)
  31. Sons of the Desert (William A Seiter, 1934)
  32. The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi, 1978)
  33. La Collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer, 1967)
  34. The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973)
  35. Kind Hearts And Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949)
  36. Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1924)
  37. Closely Observed Trains (Jiri Menzel, 1966)
  38. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
  39. Fantasia (Walt Disney, 1940)
  40. The Enigma of Kasper Hauser (Werner Herzog, 1974)
  41. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
  42. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné,1945)
  43. The General (Buster Keaton, 1926)
  44. The Birth of a Nation (DW Griffith, 1915)
  45. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1939)
  46. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
  47. Cuba Si! (Chris Marker, 1961)
  48. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
  49. The King Of Marvin Gardens (Bob Rafelson, 1972)
  50. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)



  51. Burden of Dreams (Les Blank, 1982)
  52. Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen, 1984)
  53. A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935)
  54. Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomas Gutierrez Alea, 1968)
  55. Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
  56. A Short Film About Killing (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1988)
  57. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
  58. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)
  59. The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
  60. Man of the West (Anthony Mann, 1958)
  61. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou, 1991)
  62. Day of Wrath (Carl Dreyer, 1943)
  63. Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty, 1921)
  64. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell and Pressburger, 1943)
  65. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940)
  66. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
  67. Jules and Jim (François Truffaut, 1962)
  68. Blanche (Walerian Borowczyk, 1971)
  69. Swing High, Swing Low (Mitchell Leisen, 1937)
  70. The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg, 1934)
  71. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)
  72. The Travelling Players (Theo Angelopoulos, 1975)
  73. Kes (Ken Loach, 1970)
  74. Behind The Green Door (The Mitchell brothers, 1972)
  75. Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, 1976)
  76. Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)
  77. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1965)
  78. Oh, Mr. Porter! (Marcel Varnel, 1937)
  79. The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1985)
  80. Fat City (John Huston, 1972)
  81. Antonio Das Mortes (Gauber Rocher, 1969)
  82. Love (Károly Makk, 1971)
  83. Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)
  84. Boudu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir, 1932)
  85. Trash (Paul Morrissey, 1970)
  86. Boy (Nagisa Oshima, 1970)
  87. Strike (Sergei Eisenstein, 1924)
  88. The Round Up (Miklós Jancsó, 1962)
  89. Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders, 1975)
  90. Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964)
  91. Sullivan’s Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941)
  92. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963)
  93. Welfare (Frederick Wiseman, 1973)
  94. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang, 1956)
  95. Witchfinder General (Michael Reeves, 1968)
  96. Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
  97. Xala (Ousmane Sembene, 1974)
  98. Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi, 1961)
  99. Manila: In The Claws of Darkness (Lino Brocka, 1978)
  100. The Bitter Tea Of General Yen (Frank Capra, 1932)



Malcolm was educated at Eton College and Merton College, Oxford. He worked for several decades as a film critic for The Guardian, having previously been an amateur jockey and the paper’s first horse racing correspondent. In 1977 he was a member of the jury at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival. In the mid-1980s he was host of The Film Club on BBC2, which was dedicated to art house films, and was director of the London Film Festival for several years. After The Guardian, he became chief film critic for the Evening Standard, before being replaced in 2009 by novelist Andrew O’Hagan. He still contributes film reviews for the newspaper and is president of the British Federation of Film Societies and the International Film Critics’ Circle.

 

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Busan’s 100 Best Ever Asian Films

In 2015 the Busan International Film Festival compiled a list of the best ever Asian films as part of its 20th anniversary celebrations. Yasujiro Ozu’s acclaimed family drama Tokyo Story came first. It was followed in second place by Kurosawa’s Rashomon with Wong Kar Wai’s hypnotic tale of unconsummated love, In the Mood for Love in third place. The “Asian Cinema 100” initiative was a joint venture by the festival and the Busan Cinema Center. The list was compiled from the opinions of 73 prominent film professionals including film critics such as Jonathan Rosenbaum, Tony Rayns and Hasumi Shigehiko, as well as festival programmers, and film directors Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Bong Joon-ho and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Each contributor was asked to recommend his top 10 films. That resulted in 113 selections and 106 directors (including joint rankings) for the final 100 list. Japan accounted for 26 films on the list, followed by Iran (19) and Korea (15). Busan is planning to repeat the exercise every five years.

1 ) “Tokyo Story” (1953) Ozu Yasujiro (Japan)
2) “Rashomon” (1950) Kurosawa Akira (Japan)
3) “In the Mood for Love” (2000) Wong Kar Wai (Hong Kong)
4) “The Apu Trilogy” (1955) Satyajit Ray (India)
5) “a City of Sadness” (1989) Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan)
6) “Seven Samurai” (1954) Kurosawa Akira (Japan)
7) “A Brighter Summer Day” (1991) Edward Yang (Taiwan)
8=) “Spring in a Small Town” (1948) Fei Mu (China)
8=) “Still Life” (2006) Jia Zhangke (China)
10=) “The Housemaid” (1960) Kim Ki-young (South Korea)
10=) “Close-Up” (1990) Abbas Kiarostami (Iran)
12) Yi Yi (2000)
13) Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring (2003)
14) Oldboy (2003)
15) Late Spring (1949)
16) Taste of Cherry (1997)
17) Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
18=) Ugetsu (1953)
18=) The Music Room (1958)
18=) The Cloud Capped Star (1960)
18=) Where Is the Friend’s Home? (1987)
18=) Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
18=) Sopyonje (1993)
18=) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) Ang Lee
18=) Spirited Away (2001) Hayao Miyazaki
26) Tropical Malady (2004)
27) Mother (2009)
28) Poetry (2010)
29) A Separation (2011)
30=) A Touch of Zen (1971)
30=) Maynila sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag (1975) Lino Brocka (Philippines)
32) Mandala (1981)
33) A Moment of Innocence (1996)
34) Happy Together (1997)
35) The River (1997)
36) Blissfully Yours (2002)
37) Awaara (1951)
38) Floating Clouds (1955)
39) Pyaasa (1957)
40) The Lonely Wife (1964)
41) The Cow (1969)
42) Red Sorghum (1988)
43) Days of Being Wild (1990)
44) Farewell My Concubine (1993)
45) Vive L’Amour (1994)
46) The Adopted Son (1998)
47) Peppermint Candy (1999)
48) I Was Born, But… (1932) Ozu Yasujiro
49) The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)
50) Ikiru (1952)




51) Sansho Dayu (1954)
52) The House Is Black (1963)
53) Woman of the Dunes (1964)
54) Two in the Shadow (1967)
55) The Daughter-in-Law (1972)
56)  Dersu Uzala (1975)
57) In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
58) A Time to Live, a Time to Die (1985)
59) Through the Olive Trees (1994)
60) Children of Heaven (1997)
61) Osama (2003)
62) Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2002)
63) Paradise Now (2005)
64) Mukhsin (2006)
65) Secret Sunshine (2007)
66=) The Goddess (1934)
66=) Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)
66=) Street Angel (1937)
66=) The Life of Oharu (1952)
66=) Mother India (1957)
66=) Floating Weeds (1959)
66=) Good Morning (1959)
66=) Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959)
66=) The Naked Island (1960)
66=) Intentions of Murder (1964)
66=) A Man Vanishes (1967)
66=) Hyuil (1968)
66=) Cruel Sea (1972)
66=) Ilo Ilo (2013) Anthony Chen (Singapore)
66=) Insiang (1976) Lino Brocka (Philippines)
66=) Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
66=) Batch ’81 (1976) Mike de Leon (Philippines)
66=) Taipei Story (1985)
66=) The Runner (1984)
66=) My Neighbour Totoro (1988)
66=) Ju Dou (1990)
66=) Life, and Nothing More… (1992)
66=) The Puppetmaster (1993)
66=) Chungking Express (1994)
66=) The Scent of Green Papaya (1993)
66=) Gabbeh (1996)
66=) Hana-Bi (1997)
66=) Flowers of Shanghai (1998)
66=) Chunhyang (2000)
66=) The Colour of Paradise (1999)
66=) Unconcealed Poetry (2000)
66=) Blackboards (2000)
66=) The Circle (2000)
66=) The Day I Became a Woman (2000)
66=) Melancholia (2008) Lav Diaz (Philippines)
66=) Devils on the Doorstep (2000)
66=) Platform (2000)
66=) Kandahar (2001)
66=) Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
66=) The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
66=) Memories of Murder (2003)
66=) The World (2004)
66=) Bright Future (2002)
66=) The Host (2006)
66=) Wadjda (2012)
66=) The Owners (2014) Adilkhan Yerzhanov



 

 

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Tokyo Story (1953)

Director: Yasujirō Ozu Cinematographer: Yūharu Atsuta
Tokyo Story (1953) on IMDb

With his masterful ability for understanding the human condition, Yasujiro Ozu, by the time of his death in 1963 (aged just 60), had become, by common consent, Japan’s greatest director and his most famous and acclaimed film remains Tokyo monogatari (Tokyo Story), the poignant tale of a couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children. The elderly grandparents find their offspring too preoccupied with their jobs and families to spend much time with them. In fact, the only affection and kindness comes from their daughter-in-law Noriko, widow of a son they lost to war. Ozu combines his seemingly simple but distinctive minimalist filming techniques, (placing the camera, which rarely moves, at a low height as well as intricate cutting), with brilliant narrative control to deliver an emotionally rich yet subtle family drama that’s as close to everyday life as any the cinema has given us.

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Directed by Yasujiro Ozu
Produced by Takeshi Yamamoto
Screenplay by Kōgo Noda, Yasujirō Ozu
Music by Kojun Saitō
Cinematography Yūharu Atsuta
Edited by Yoshiyasu Hamamura
Running time 136 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese




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TSPDT: They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? 1,000 Greatest Films (2010 revision)

The theyshootpictures.com lists of the 1,000 Greatest Films of all-time are primarily compiled from individual critics’ and filmmakers’ personal lists/ballots of their favourite/best films.

1 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles
2 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock
3 La règle du jeu 1939 Jean Renoir
4 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick
5 8½ 1963 Federico Fellini
6 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola
7 The Searchers 1956 John Ford
8 Shichinin no samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa
9 Singin’ in the Rain 1952 Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
10 Bronenosets Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein
11 Tôkyô monogatari 1953 Yasujirô Ozu
12 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927 F.W. Murnau
13 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean
14 Ladri di biciclette 1948 Vittorio De Sica
15 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola
16 L’Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo
17 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz
18 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa
19 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese
20 La passion de Jeanne d’Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer
21 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles
22 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder
23 La dolce vita 1960 Federico Fellini
24 La grande illusion 1937 Jean Renoir
25 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin
26 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese
27 The General 1926 Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
28 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock
29 Les enfants du paradis 1945 Marcel Carné
30 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed
31 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder
32 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin
33 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick
34 À bout de souffle 1960 Jean-Luc Godard
35 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola
36 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski
37 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton
38 Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer
39 L’avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni
40 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott
41 Les quatre cents coups 1959 François Truffaut
42 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman
43 Andrey Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky
44 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock
45 It’s a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra
46 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Robert Wise, Fred Fleck, Orson Welles
47 Ugetsu monogatari 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi
48 M 1931 Fritz Lang
49 Jules et Jim 1962 François Truffaut
50 La strada 1954 Federico Fellini




51 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah
52 Le mépris 1963 Jean-Luc Godard
53 Det sjunde inseglet 1957 Ingmar Bergman
54 Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages 1916 D.W. Griffith
55 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin
56 Smultronstället 1957 Ingmar Bergman
57 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock
58 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks
59 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder
60 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson
61 Gone with the Wind 1939 Sam Wood, George Cukor, Victor Fleming
62 C’era una volta il West 1968 Sergio Leone
63 Il conformista 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci
64 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray
65 Il gattopardo 1963 Luchino Visconti
66 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Taurog, King Vidor, George Cukor, Victor Fleming
67 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim
68 Zerkalo 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky
69 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang
70 All About Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
71 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford
72 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch
73 Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel
74 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman
75 Fanny och Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman
76 Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini
77 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock
78 Madame de… 1953 Max Ophüls
79 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa
80 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks
81 Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson
82 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls
83 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford
84 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick
85 Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes 1972 Werner Herzog
86 Viaggio in Italia 1954 Roberto Rossellini
87 Sanshô dayû 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi
88 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati
89 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg
90 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick
91 La battaglia di Algeri 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo
92 Pierrot le fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard
93 L’année dernière à Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais
94 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan
95 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford
96 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese
97 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder
98 Roma città aperta 1945 Roberto Rossellini
99 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch
100 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey




101 Chelovek s kino-apparatom 1929 Dziga Vertov
102 L’âge d’or 1930 Luis Buñuel
103 Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens 1922 F.W. Murnau
104 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas
105 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen
106 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks
107 Hiroshima mon amour 1959 Alain Resnais
108 Napoléon vu par Abel Gance 1927 Abel Gance
109 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges
110 King Kong 1933 Ernest B. Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper
111 Gertrud 1964 Carl Theodor Dreyer
112 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky
113 Los olvidados 1950 Luis Buñuel
114 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen
115 Sherlock Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton
116 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa
117 El ángel exterminador 1962 Luis Buñuel
118 Paisà 1946 Roberto Rossellini
119 Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl 1919 D.W. Griffith
120 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston
121 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur
122 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg
123 Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica
124 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman
125 Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux 1962 Jean-Luc Godard
126 Popiól i diament 1958 Andrzej Wajda
127 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese
128 Sullivan’s Travels 1941 Preston Sturges
129 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford
130 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino
131 Dekalog 1989
132 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
133 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith
134 Un condamné à mort s’est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut 1956 Robert Bresson
135 La jetée 1962 Chris Marker
136 Zemlya 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko
137 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick
138 A Matter of Life and Death 1946 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
139 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg
140 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
141 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler
142 Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight) 1965 Orson Welles
143 Don’t Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg
144 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn
145 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor
146 Black Narcissus 1947 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
147 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean
148 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone
149 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1975 Milos Forman
150 Red River 1948 Arthur Rosson, Howard Hawks




151 Belle de jour 1967 Luis Buñuel
152 Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975 Chantal Akerman
153 Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene
154 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick
155 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick
156 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli
157 Ivan Groznyy. Skaz vtoroy: Boyarskiy zagovor 1958 Sergei M. Eisenstein
158 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick
159 Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann
160 A Woman Under the Influence 1974 John Cassavetes
161 Rocco e i suoi fratelli 1960 Luchino Visconti
162 Viskningar och rop 1972 Ingmar Bergman
163 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam
164 Ivan Groznyy 1944 Sergei M. Eisenstein
165 Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo 1966 Sergio Leone
166 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola
167 Un chien andalou 1929 Luis Buñuel
168 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges
169 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston
170 Partie de campagne 1936 Jean Renoir
171 O thiasos 1975 Theodoros Angelopoulos
172 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch
173 Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel
174 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford
175 La belle et la bête 1946 René Clément, Jean Cocteau
176 La maman et la putain 1973 Jean Eustache
177 Freaks 1932 Tod Browning
178 Der letzte Mann 1924 F.W. Murnau
179 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee
180 Apur Sansar 1959 Satyajit Ray
181 Il vangelo secondo Matteo 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini
182 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 Charles Chaplin
183 Vampyr 1932 Carl Theodor Dreyer
184 Le notti di Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini
185 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin
186 Performance 1970 Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg
187 Morte a Venezia 1971 Luchino Visconti
188 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg
189 Jalsaghar 1958 Satyajit Ray
190 Céline et Julie vont en bateau: Phantom Ladies Over Paris 1974 Jacques Rivette
191 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick
192 Blowup 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni
193 L’eclisse 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni
194 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra
195 Banshun 1949 Yasujirô Ozu
196 Kumonosu-jô 1957 Akira Kurosawa
197 The River 1951 Jean Renoir
198 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin
199 Die Büchse der Pandora 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst
200 Angst essen Seele auf 1974 Rainer Werner Fassbinder




201 Sans soleil 1983 Chris Marker
202 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor
203 Schindler’s List 1993 Steven Spielberg
204 El espíritu de la colmena 1973 Víctor Erice
205 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino
206 Le salaire de la peur 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot
207 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer
208 Les parapluies de Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy
209 The Shop Around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch
210 L’argent 1983 Robert Bresson
211 Tabu: A Story of the South Seas 1931 F.W. Murnau
212 Written on the Wind 1956 Douglas Sirk
213 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale
214 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero
215 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols
216 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott
217 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood
218 Rosemary’s Baby 1968 Roman Polanski
219 Nema-ye Nazdik 1990 Abbas Kiarostami
220 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean
221 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray
222 Aleksandr Nevskiy 1938 Dmitriy Vasilev, Sergei M. Eisenstein
223 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell
224 La notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni
225 Imitation of Life 1959 Douglas Sirk
226 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Howard Hawks
227 Solyaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky
228 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980
229 Le samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville
230 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock
231 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli
232 Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot 1953 Jacques Tati
233 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor
234 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper
235 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan
236 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard
237 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding
238 Nuovo Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore
239 Nanook of the North 1922 Robert J. Flaherty
240 Orphée 1950 Jean Cocteau
241 Tirez sur le pianiste 1960 François Truffaut
242 Journal d’un curé de campagne 1951 Robert Bresson
243 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 William Cottrell, David Hand, Perce Pearce, Ben Sharpsteen, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey
244 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 Woody Allen
245 Sátántangó 1994 Béla Tarr
246 Faa yeung nin wa 2000 Kar-Wai Wong
247 Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège 1933 Jean Vigo
248 Professione: reporter 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni
249 Senso 1954 Luchino Visconti
250 Ultimo tango a Parigi 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci




251 Germania anno zero 1948 Roberto Rossellini
252 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle 1967 Jean-Luc Godard
253 Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini
254 Zangiku monogatari 1939 Kenji Mizoguchi
255 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann
256 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch
257 Der Himmel über Berlin 1987 Wim Wenders
258 Saikaku ichidai onna 1952 Kenji Mizoguchi
259 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron
260 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks
261 Der blaue Engel 1930 Josef von Sternberg
262 L’albero degli zoccoli 1978 Ermanno Olmi
263 La nuit américaine 1973 François Truffaut
264 Fantasia 1940 Samuel Armstrong, Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske, Paul Satterfield, James Algar, Jim Handley, Ford Beebe Jr., David Hand, Wilfred Jackson, T. Hee, Bill Roberts, Norman Ferguson
265 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion
266 Shane 1953 George Stevens
267 Vredens dag 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer
268 Fargo 1996 Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
269 Ai no korîda 1976 Nagisa Ôshima
270 Novecento 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci
271 Ukigumo 1955 Mikio Naruse
272 Mouchette 1967 Robert Bresson
273 Lola Montès 1955 Max Ophüls
274 Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner
275 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
276 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero
277 Le crime de Monsieur Lange 1936 Jean Renoir
278 All That Heaven Allows 1955 Douglas Sirk
279 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks
280 Miracolo a Milano 1951 Vittorio De Sica
281 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse
282 Ma nuit chez Maud 1969 Éric Rohmer
283 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich
284 Nuit et brouillard 1956 Alain Resnais
285 Le million 1931 René Clair
286 Make Way for Tomorrow 1937 Leo McCarey
287 Salvatore Giuliano 1962 Francesco Rosi
288 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger
289 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger
290 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Alexander Hammid, Maya Deren
291 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström
292 Sanma no aji 1962 Yasujirô Ozu
293 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock
294 Im Lauf der Zeit 1976 Wim Wenders
295 Aparajito 1956 Satyajit Ray
296 The African Queen 1951 John Huston
297 The Kid 1921 Charles Chaplin
298 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Robert Aldrich
299 The Scarlet Empress 1934 Josef von Sternberg
300 Rebel Without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray




301 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray
302 Tóngnián wangshì 1985 Hsiao-Hsien Hou
303 Aliens 1986 James Cameron
304 El verdugo 1963 Luis García Berlanga
305 Stachka 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein
306 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston
307 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford
308 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma
309 Shadows 1959 John Cassavetes
310 Il deserto rosso 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni
311 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen
312 Idi i smotri 1985 Elem Klimov
313 Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders
314 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock
315 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh
316 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich
317 Wavelength 1967 Michael Snow
318 Eraserhead 1977 David Lynch
319 Charulata 1964 Satyajit Ray
320 Chung Hing sam lam 1994 Kar-Wai Wong
321 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone
322 The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey
323 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman
324 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet
325 Triumph des Willens 1935 Leni Riefenstahl
326 Killer of Sheep 1978 Charles Burnett
327 Tengoku to jigoku 1963 Akira Kurosawa
328 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock
329 Beiqíng chéngshì 1989 Hsiao-Hsien Hou
330 The King of Comedy 1982 Martin Scorsese
331 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler
332 Oktyabr 1928 Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein
333 El 1953 Luis Buñuel
334 Pinocchio 1940 Ben Sharpsteen, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson, T. Hee, Bill Roberts, Norman Ferguson
335 The Thief of Bagdad 1940 Alexander Korda, Ludwig Berger, Tim Whelan, Michael Powell, Zoltan Korda, William Cameron Menzies
336 Yôjinbô 1961 Akira Kurosawa
337 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock
338 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack
339 Le plaisir 1952 Max Ophüls
340 F for Fake 1973 Gary Graver, Oja Kodar, François Reichenbach, Orson Welles
341 Accattone 1961 Pier Paolo Pasolini
342 Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol 1964 Glauber Rocha
343 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper
344 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson
345 Man of Aran 1934 Robert J. Flaherty
346 Marnie 1964 Alfred Hitchcock
347 Mad Max 2 1981 George Miller
348 Les yeux sans visage 1960 Georges Franju
349 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick
350 The Wedding March 1928 Erich von Stroheim




351 Casque d’or 1952 Jacques Becker
352 Mon oncle 1958 Jacques Tati
353 The Cameraman 1928 Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton
354 Heat 1995 Michael Mann
355 The Navigator 1924 Donald Crisp, Buster Keaton
356 Ostre sledované vlaky 1966 Jirí Menzel
357 Deliverance 1972 John Boorman
358 Memorias del subdesarrollo 1968 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
359 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 1976 John Cassavetes
360 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski
361 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis
362 I vitelloni 1953 Federico Fellini
363 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean
364 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer
365 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis
366 A Canterbury Tale 1944 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
367 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter
368 Providence 1977 Alain Resnais
369 Stranger Than Paradise 1984 Jim Jarmusch
370 Francesco, giullare di Dio 1950 Roberto Rossellini
371 In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden 1978 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
372 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino
373 Fellini – Satyricon 1969 Federico Fellini
374 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch
375 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme
376 Dont Look Back 1967 D.A. Pennebaker
377 Love Streams 1984 John Cassavetes
378 Point Blank 1967 John Boorman
379 The Dead 1987 John Huston
380 Listen to Britain 1942 Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister
381 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock
382 Breaking the Waves 1996 Lars von Trier
383 Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928 Charles Reisner, Buster Keaton
384 Lásky jedné plavovlásky 1965 Milos Forman
385 Le genou de Claire 1970 Éric Rohmer
386 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974 Sam Peckinpah
387 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill
388 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan
389 Sayat Nova 1969 Sergei Parajanov
390 The Servant 1963 Joseph Losey
391 Tristana 1970 Luis Buñuel
392 Scorpio Rising 1963 Kenneth Anger
393 Our Hospitality 1923 John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton
394 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean
395 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra
396 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone
397 Chelsea Girls 1966 Paul Morrissey, Andy Warhol
398 Jeux interdits 1952 René Clément
399 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott
400 ‘I Know Where I’m Going!’ 1945 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger




401 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale
402 The Lady from Shanghai 1947 Orson Welles
403 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang
404 The Big Lebowski 1998 Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
405 Les vampires 1915 Louis Feuillade
406 Muriel ou le temps d’un retour 1963 Alain Resnais
407 The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France 1944 Laurence Olivier
408 Alice in den Städten 1974 Wim Wenders
409 India Song 1975 Marguerite Duras
410 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel
411 Xiao cheng zhi chun 1948 Mu Fei
412 Offret 1986 Andrei Tarkovsky
413 Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage 1926 F.W. Murnau
414 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse
415 Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby
416 Meghe Dhaka Tara 1960 Ritwik Ghatak
417 Pyaasa 1957 Guru Dutt
418 Dersu Uzala 1975 Akira Kurosawa
419 Tonari no Totoro 1988 Hayao Miyazaki
420 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick
421 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner
422 A Hard Day’s Night 1964 Richard Lester
423 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur
424 Les demoiselles de Rochefort 1967 Jacques Demy
425 Seven Chances 1925 Buster Keaton
426 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter
427 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet
428 It’s a Gift 1934 Norman Z. McLeod
429 Khane-ye doust kodjast? 1987 Abbas Kiarostami
430 Some Came Running 1958 Vincente Minnelli
431 Nostalghia 1983 Andrei Tarkovsky
432 Le ballon rouge 1956 Albert Lamorisse
433 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise
434 Lola 1961 Jacques Demy
435 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones
436 Trois couleurs: Rouge 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski
437 Nun va Goldoon 1996 Mohsen Makhmalbaf
438 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas
439 Limelight 1952 Charles Chaplin
440 Gu ling jie shao nian sha ren shi jian 1991 Edward Yang
441 Love Me Tonight 1932 Rouben Mamoulian
442 Evil Dead II 1987 Sam Raimi
443 Masculin féminin 1966 Jean-Luc Godard
444 Terra em Transe 1967 Glauber Rocha
445 Lancelot du Lac 1974 Robert Bresson
446 Yi yi 2000 Edward Yang
447 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby
448 Da hong deng long gao gao gua 1991 Yimou Zhang
449 Le voyage dans la lune 1902 Georges Méliès
450 Local Hero 1983 Bill Forsyth




451 Kes 1969 Ken Loach
452 Tystnaden 1963 Ingmar Bergman
453 Scarface 1932 Richard Rosson, Howard Hawks
454 Mitt liv som hund 1985 Lasse Hallström
455 Breakfast at Tiffany’s 1961 Blake Edwards
456 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens
457 Les dames du Bois de Boulogne 1945 Robert Bresson
458 La terra trema 1948 Luchino Visconti
459 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen
460 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg
461 They Were Expendable 1945 John Ford, Robert Montgomery
462 Foolish Wives 1922 Erich von Stroheim
463 Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg
464 Soy Cuba 1964 Mikhail Kalatozov
465 The Right Stuff 1983 Philip Kaufman
466 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon
467 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949 John Ford
468 An Affair to Remember 1957 Leo McCarey
469 Faces 1968 John Cassavetes
470 Detour 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer
471 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson
472 Dead Man 1995 Jim Jarmusch
473 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet
474 Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg
475 French Cancan 1955 Jean Renoir
476 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 1986 John Hughes
477 Il Casanova di Federico Fellini 1976 Federico Fellini
478 Teorema 1968 Pier Paolo Pasolini
479 The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976 Nicolas Roeg
480 Dumbo 1941 Samuel Armstrong, Ben Sharpsteen, Jack Kinney, Wilfred Jackson, John Elliotte, Bill Roberts, Norman Ferguson
481 The Age of Innocence 1993 Martin Scorsese
482 Otona no miru ehon – Umarete wa mita keredo 1932 Yasujirô Ozu
483 Cet obscur objet du désir 1977 Luis Buñuel
484 Suspiria 1977 Dario Argento
485 Blow Out 1981 Brian De Palma
486 Olympia 1. Teil – Fest der Völker 1938 Leni Riefenstahl
487 Le carrosse d’or 1952 Jean Renoir
488 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
489 The Man Who Would Be King 1975 John Huston
490 L’armée des ombres 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville
491 The Last Detail 1973 Hal Ashby
492 Tini zabutykh predkiv 1965 Sergei Parajanov
493 La caduta degli dei (Götterdämmerung) 1969 Luchino Visconti
494 The Innocents 1961 Jack Clayton
495 Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi 2001 Kirk Wise, Hayao Miyazaki
496 All the President’s Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula
497 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 Karel Reisz
498 À nous la liberté 1931 René Clair
499 Scener ur ett äktenskap 1973
500 The Devils 1971 Ken Russell




501 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma
502 Underground 1995 Emir Kusturica
503 The Devil Is a Woman 1935 Josef von Sternberg
504 Nattvardsgästerna 1963 Ingmar Bergman
505 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise
506 Zendegi va digar hich 1992 Abbas Kiarostami
507 Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 Terence Davies
508 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 Jacques Tourneur
509 Die Ehe der Maria Braun 1979 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
510 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam
511 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick
512 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty
513 Trois couleurs: Bleu 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski
514 Midnight Run 1988 Martin Brest
515 On the Town 1949 Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
516 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron
517 Bande à part 1964 Jean-Luc Godard
518 Two-Lane Blacktop 1971 Monte Hellman
519 Stromboli, terra di Dio 1950 Roberto Rossellini
520 Bigger Than Life 1956 Nicholas Ray
521 Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant 1972 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
522 Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel
523 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson
524 Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle 1974 Werner Herzog
525 Le roman d’un tricheur 1936 Sacha Guitry
526 The Barefoot Contessa 1954 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
527 O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro 1969 Glauber Rocha
528 The Producers 1967 Mel Brooks
529 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford
530 Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 1973 Sam Peckinpah
531 Odd Man Out 1947 Carol Reed
532 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis
533 La double vie de Véronique 1991 Krzysztof Kieslowski
534 L’enfant sauvage 1970 François Truffaut
535 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry
536 Les diaboliques 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot
537 The Circus 1928 Charles Chaplin
538 Barton Fink 1991 Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
539 Husbands 1970 John Cassavetes
540 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman
541 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 1970 Russ Meyer
542 Un chant d’amour 1950 Jean Genet
543 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz
544 Le sang d’un poète 1932 Jean Cocteau
545 Zire darakhatan zeyton 1994 Abbas Kiarostami
546 Dip huet seung hung 1989 John Woo
547 Ossessione 1943 Luchino Visconti
548 Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution 1965 Jean-Luc Godard
549 Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah
550 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher




551 Le jour se lève 1939 Marcel Carné
552 Okraina 1933 Boris Barnet
553 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 Peter Weir
554 Cléo de 5 à 7 1962 Agnès Varda
555 The Killing 1956 Stanley Kubrick
556 7 Women 1966 John Ford
557 The Party 1968 Blake Edwards
558 Der Tiger von Eschnapur 1959 Fritz Lang
559 Vidas Secas 1963 Nelson Pereira dos Santos
560 Dom za vesanje 1988 Emir Kusturica
561 If…. 1968 Lindsay Anderson
562 America America 1963 Elia Kazan
563 Passion 1982 Jean-Luc Godard
564 Gun Crazy 1950 Joseph H. Lewis
565 Xia nü 1971 King Hu
566 Get Carter 1971 Mike Hodges
567 Now, Voyager 1942 Irving Rapper
568 Letyat zhuravli 1957 Mikhail Kalatozov
569 Liebelei 1933 Max Ophüls
570 Duel in the Sun 1946 Otto Brower, Sidney Franklin, David O. Selznick, King Vidor, William Dieterle, William Cameron Menzies, Josef von Sternberg
571 Fat City 1972 John Huston
572 ¡Que Viva Mexico! – Da zdravstvuyet Meksika! 1979 Sergei M. Eisenstein
573 MASH 1970 Robert Altman
574 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan
575 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks
576 Bambi 1942 Samuel Armstrong, Paul Satterfield, Graham Heid, James Algar, David Hand, Bill Roberts, Norman Wright
577 Van Gogh 1991 Maurice Pialat
578 The Hart of London 1970 Jack Chambers
579 Pépé le Moko 1937 Julien Duvivier
580 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Vincente Minnelli
581 Holiday 1938 George Cukor
582 Bob le flambeur 1956 Jean-Pierre Melville
583 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont
584 Le fantôme de la liberté 1974 Luis Buñuel
585 Die Blechtrommel 1979 Volker Schlöndorff
586 Gycklarnas afton 1953 Ingmar Bergman
587 Hellzapoppin’ 1941 H.C. Potter
588 Sauve qui peut (la vie) 1980 Jean-Luc Godard
589 La hora de los hornos: Notas y testimonios sobre el neocolonialismo, la violencia y la liberación 1968 Fernando E. Solanas, Octavio Getino
590 The Verdict 1982 Sidney Lumet
591 Ivanovo detstvo 1962 Eduard Abalov, Andrei Tarkovsky
592 La région centrale 1971 Michael Snow
593 Heaven’s Gate 1980 Michael Cimino
594 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman
595 Salesman 1969 Charlotte Zwerin, David Maysles, Albert Maysles
596 Down by Law 1986 Jim Jarmusch
597 They Live by Night 1948 Nicholas Ray
598 Potomok Chingis-Khana 1928 Vsevolod Pudovkin
599 Funny Face 1957 Stanley Donen
600 Fitzcarraldo 1982 Werner Herzog




601 Splendor in the Grass 1961 Elia Kazan
602 Diner 1982 Barry Levinson
603 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan
604 Las Hurdes 1933 Luis Buñuel
605 Unfaithfully Yours 1948 Preston Sturges
606 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli
607 Xala 1975 Ousmane Sembene
608 Beau travail 1999 Claire Denis
609 Angel 1937 Ernst Lubitsch
610 Yôkihi 1955 Kenji Mizoguchi
611 Kohayagawa-ke no aki 1961 Yasujirô Ozu
612 Man of the West 1958 Anthony Mann
613 Sedmikrásky 1966 Vera Chytilová
614 Sommarnattens leende 1955 Ingmar Bergman
615 Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa
616 Ludwig 1973 Luchino Visconti
617 Ba wang bie ji 1993 Kaige Chen
618 Hitler, ein Film aus Deutschland 1977 Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
619 The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 Clint Eastwood
620 Cidade de Deus 2002 Kátia Lund, Fernando Meirelles
621 Les amants du Pont-Neuf 1991 Leos Carax
622 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
623 The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek 1943 Preston Sturges
624 The Tarnished Angels 1957 Douglas Sirk
625 La femme d’à côté 1981 François Truffaut
626 Blood Simple. 1984 Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
627 The Fly 1986 David Cronenberg
628 La kermesse héroïque 1935 Jacques Feyder
629 Hôtel Terminus 1988 Marcel Ophüls
630 Giulietta degli spiriti 1965 Federico Fellini
631 The Thing from Another World 1951 Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks
632 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 Howard Hawks
633 The Godfather: Part III 1990 Francis Ford Coppola
634 Boudu sauvé des eaux 1932 Jean Renoir
635 Gilda 1946 Charles Vidor
636 La ronde 1950 Max Ophüls
637 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton
638 Fires Were Started 1943 Humphrey Jennings
639 The Woman in the Window 1944 Fritz Lang
640 Heimat – Eine deutsche Chronik 1984
641 Grey Gardens 1975 David Maysles, Muffie Meyer, Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles
642 The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch
643 Ta’m e guilass 1997 Abbas Kiarostami
644 Anatahan 1953 Josef von Sternberg
645 Nicht versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt, wo Gewalt herrscht 1965 Jean-Marie Straub
646 Mat 1926 Vsevolod Pudovkin
647 Raising Arizona 1987 Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
648 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler
649 Mon oncle d’Amérique 1980 Alain Resnais
650 Suna no onna 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara




651 Wagon Master 1950 John Ford
652 Morocco 1930 Josef von Sternberg
653 Design for Living 1933 Ernst Lubitsch
654 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle
655 The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice 1951 Orson Welles
656 Horí, má panenko 1967 Milos Forman
657 The Matrix 1999 Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
658 Die 3 Groschen-Oper 1931 Georg Wilhelm Pabst
659 Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach 1968 Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
660 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick
661 Aranyer Din Ratri 1970 Satyajit Ray
662 Gimme Shelter 1970 Charlotte Zwerin, David Maysles, Albert Maysles
663 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 1965 Russ Meyer
664 Walkabout 1971 Nicolas Roeg
665 Animal House 1978 John Landis
666 The Misfits 1961 John Huston
667 Xi meng ren sheng 1993 Hsiao-Hsien Hou
668 Hana-bi 1997 Takeshi Kitano
669 Ace in the Hole 1951 Billy Wilder
670 Hallelujah 1929 King Vidor
671 Orlando 1992 Sally Potter
672 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough
673 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges
674 Naked 1993 Mike Leigh
675 Straw Dogs 1971 Sam Peckinpah
676 Dead Poets Society 1989 Peter Weir
677 Shock Corridor 1963 Samuel Fuller
678 Todo sobre mi madre 1999 Pedro Almodóvar
679 Le rayon vert 1986 Éric Rohmer
680 The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 Martin Scorsese
681 The Fallen Idol 1948 Carol Reed
682 Huang tu di 1985 Kaige Chen
683 Pakeezah 1972 Kamal Amrohi
684 Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son 1969 Ken Jacobs
685 The Heiress 1949 William Wyler
686 La belle noiseuse 1991 Jacques Rivette
687 Ceddo 1977 Ousmane Sembene
688 Johnny Got His Gun 1971 Dalton Trumbo
689 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer
690 Witness 1985 Peter Weir
691 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin
692 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese
693 Kaagaz Ke Phool 1959 Guru Dutt
694 Safe 1995 Todd Haynes
695 Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler 1922 Fritz Lang
696 Le chagrin et la pitié 1969 Marcel Ophüls
697 Rushmore 1998 Wes Anderson
698 Sous les toits de Paris 1930 René Clair
699 O Lucky Man! 1973 Lindsay Anderson
700 There’s Always Tomorrow 1955 Douglas Sirk




701 Moonfleet 1955 Fritz Lang
702 I soliti ignoti 1958 Mario Monicelli
703 The Player 1992 Robert Altman
704 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 Wes Anderson
705 Yukinojô henge 1963 Kon Ichikawa
706 Oldeuboi 2003 Chan-wook Park
707 Jungfrukällan 1960 Ingmar Bergman
708 Hatari! 1962 Howard Hawks
709 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly
710 Histoire(s) du cinéma: Toutes les histoires 1989 Jean-Luc Godard
711 Zelig 1983 Woody Allen
712 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner
713 Hai shang hua 1998 Hsiao-Hsien Hou
714 Akahige 1965 Akira Kurosawa
715 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor
716 Körkarlen 1921 Victor Sjöström
717 Pickup on South Street 1953 Samuel Fuller
718 A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate 1923 Charles Chaplin
719 Gregory’s Girl 1980 Bill Forsyth
720 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen
721 Wo hu cang long 2000 Ang Lee
722 Genroku Chûshingura 1941 Kenji Mizoguchi
723 Bad ma ra khahad bord 1999 Abbas Kiarostami
724 RoboCop 1987 Paul Verhoeven
725 Roma 1972 Federico Fellini
726 La maschera del demonio 1960 Mario Bava
727 Vargtimmen 1968 Ingmar Bergman
728 The Docks of New York 1928 Josef von Sternberg
729 Il bidone 1955 Federico Fellini
730 The Man from Laramie 1955 Anthony Mann
731 Sans toit ni loi 1985 Agnès Varda
732 Limite 1931 Mario Peixoto
733 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann
734 Night of the Demon 1957 Jacques Tourneur
735 La ley del deseo 1987 Pedro Almodóvar
736 Le trou 1960 Jacques Becker
737 The Sun Shines Bright 1953 John Ford
738 La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV 1966 Roberto Rossellini
739 El laberinto del fauno 2006 Guillermo del Toro
740 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges
741 Excalibur 1981 John Boorman
742 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 1970 Billy Wilder
743 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt 1956 Fritz Lang
744 Sciuscià 1946 Vittorio De Sica
745 The Naked Spur 1953 Anthony Mann
746 Rue cases nègres 1983 Euzhan Palcy
747 You Only Live Once 1937 Fritz Lang
748 Ordinary People 1980 Robert Redford
749 The Reckless Moment 1949 Max Ophüls
750 Le procès 1962 Orson Welles




751 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 Charles Crichton, John Cleese
752 My Own Private Idaho 1991 Gus Van Sant
753 Hable con ella 2002 Pedro Almodóvar
754 Bakushû 1951 Yasujirô Ozu
755 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola
756 The Thin Blue Line 1988 Errol Morris
757 Koroshi no rakuin 1967 Seijun Suzuki
758 Vale Abraão 1993 Manoel de Oliveira
759 Dances with Wolves 1990 Kevin Costner
760 The Lusty Men 1952 Robert Parrish, Nicholas Ray
761 Avanti! 1972 Billy Wilder
762 Le cercle rouge 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville
763 Plácido 1961 Luis García Berlanga
764 Peter Ibbetson 1935 Henry Hathaway
765 The Informer 1935 John Ford
766 Das indische Grabmal 1959 Fritz Lang
767 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger
768 Miller’s Crossing 1990 Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
769 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Stanley Kubrick
770 While the City Sleeps 1956 Fritz Lang
771 Judex 1963 Georges Franju
772 Pursued 1947 Raoul Walsh
773 Das Leben der Anderen 2006 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
774 W.R. – Misterije organizma 1971 Dusan Makavejev
775 Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie 1965 Wojciech Has
776 Hotaru no haka 1988 Isao Takahata
777 Les maîtres fous 1955 Jean Rouch
778 Hong gao liang 1988 Yimou Zhang
779 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg
780 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson
781 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson
782 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Woody Allen
783 Crash 1996 David Cronenberg
784 Subarnarekha 1965 Ritwik Ghatak
785 There Will Be Blood 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson
786 Assault on Precinct 13 1976 John Carpenter
787 Dazed and Confused 1993 Richard Linklater
788 Chronique d’un été (Paris 1960) 1961 Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin
789 Caro diario 1993 Nanni Moretti
790 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan
791 Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt 1927 Walter Ruttmann
792 Kameradschaft 1931 Georg Wilhelm Pabst
793 Shanghai Express 1932 Josef von Sternberg
794 Starship Troopers 1997 Paul Verhoeven
795 The Blues Brothers 1980 John Landis
796 Der müde Tod 1921 Fritz Lang
797 The Sweet Hereafter 1997 Atom Egoyan
798 The Big Parade 1925 George W. Hill, King Vidor
799 La bête humaine 1938 Jean Renoir
800 The Art of Vision 1965 Stan Brakhage




801 Broadway Danny Rose 1984 Woody Allen
802 Opening Night 1977 John Cassavetes
803 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover 1989 Peter Greenaway
804 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky
805 The Man in the White Suit 1951 Alexander Mackendrick
806 The War of the Worlds 1953 Byron Haskin
807 Yeelen 1987 Souleymane Cissé
808 Ju Dou 1990 Fengliang Yang, Yimou Zhang
809 Le quai des brumes 1938 Marcel Carné
810 The Shanghai Gesture 1941 Josef von Sternberg
811 Queen Kelly 1929 Erich von Stroheim, Richard Boleslawski
812 The Wrong Man 1956 Alfred Hitchcock
813 Artificial Intelligence: AI 2001 Steven Spielberg
814 Csillagosok, katonák 1967 Miklós Jancsó
815 The Fountainhead 1949 King Vidor
816 Une femme est une femme 1961 Jean-Luc Godard
817 Mephisto 1981 István Szabó
818 Le feu follet 1963 Louis Malle
819 The Times of Harvey Milk 1984 Rob Epstein
820 Detstvo Gorkogo 1938 Mark Donskoy
821 Die Nibelungen: Siegfried 1924 Fritz Lang
822 New York, New York 1977 Martin Scorsese
823 Die Marquise von O… 1976 Éric Rohmer
824 Midnight 1939 Mitchell Leisen
825 Portrait of Jennie 1948 William Dieterle
826 Dracula 1931 Tod Browning
827 Murder by Contract 1958 Irving Lerner
828 Cul-de-sac 1966 Roman Polanski
829 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1962 Tony Richardson
830 Strategia del ragno 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci
831 Out 1: Spectre 1972 Jacques Rivette
832 Schaste 1935 Aleksandr Medvedkin
833 Les enfants terribles 1950 Jean-Pierre Melville
834 La chienne 1931 Jean Renoir
835 Rio Grande 1950 John Ford
836 La collectionneuse 1967 Éric Rohmer
837 Touki Bouki 1973 Djibril Diop Mambéty
838 Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco 1981 Hector Babenco
839 Douce 1943 Claude Autant-Lara
840 Il sorpasso 1962 Dino Risi
841 El Dorado 1967 Howard Hawks
842 3 Women 1977 Robert Altman
843 Trois couleurs: Blanc 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski
844 Un coeur en hiver 1992 Claude Sautet
845 Narayama bushikô 1983 Shôhei Imamura
846 Pink Flamingos 1972 John Waters
847 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison
848 The Year of Living Dangerously 1982 Peter Weir
849 Duel 1971 Steven Spielberg
850 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Robert Zemeckis




851 Mädchen in Uniform 1931 Carl Froelich, Leontine Sagan
852 The Pilgrim 1923 Charles Chaplin
853 Our Daily Bread 1934 King Vidor
854 Tom Jones 1963 Tony Richardson
855 Tagebuch einer Verlorenen 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst
856 American Gigolo 1980 Paul Schrader
857 Seconds 1966 John Frankenheimer
858 Huo zhe 1994 Yimou Zhang
859 Wild at Heart 1990 David Lynch
860 Lost Highway 1997 David Lynch
861 Konets Sankt-Peterburga 1927 Mikhail Doller, Vsevolod Pudovkin
862 Wild River 1960 Elia Kazan
863 Hamlet 1948 Laurence Olivier
864 They Died with Their Boots On 1941 Raoul Walsh
865 Un chapeau de paille d’Italie 1928 René Clair
866 Le corbeau 1943 Henri-Georges Clouzot
867 Ensayo de un crimen 1955 Luis Buñuel
868 Lone Star 1996 John Sayles
869 Chun gwong cha sit 1997 Kar-Wai Wong
870 Plein soleil 1960 René Clément
871 The Nutty Professor 1963 Jerry Lewis
872 Le deuxième souffle 1966 Jean-Pierre Melville
873 The Long Day Closes 1992 Terence Davies
874 Moana 1926 Frances H. Flaherty, Robert J. Flaherty
875 Punch-Drunk Love 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson
876 Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss 1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
877 Il portiere di notte 1974 Liliana Cavani
878 Festen 1998 Thomas Vinterberg
879 Samson and Delilah 1949 Cecil B. DeMille
880 Europa ’51 1952 Roberto Rossellini
881 True Heart Susie 1919 D.W. Griffith
882 Chikamatsu monogatari 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi
883 Charade 1963 Stanley Donen
884 Ed Wood 1994 Tim Burton
885 Zorns Lemma 1970 Hollis Frampton
886 Les glaneurs et la glaneuse 2000 Agnès Varda
887 A Diary for Timothy 1945 Humphrey Jennings
888 L’argent 1928 Marcel L’Herbier
889 Unter den Brücken 1946 Helmut Käutner
890 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan
891 Voyna i mir 1966 Sergey Bondarchuk
892 Nazarín 1959 Luis Buñuel
893 Le boucher 1970 Claude Chabrol
894 Ride Lonesome 1959 Budd Boetticher
895 Rose Hobart 1936 Joseph Cornell
896 U samogo sinego morya 1936 Samad Mardanov, Boris Barnet
897 Lacombe Lucien 1974 Louis Malle
898 Tobacco Road 1941 John Ford
899 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 Philip Kaufman
900 Night Moves 1975 Arthur Penn




901 The World According to Garp 1982 George Roy Hill
902 Two for the Road 1967 Stanley Donen
903 Out of Africa 1985 Sydney Pollack
904 Orfeu Negro 1959 Marcel Camus
905 City Girl 1930 F.W. Murnau
906 Mia aioniotita kai mia mera 1998 Theodoros Angelopoulos
907 The Far Country 1954 Anthony Mann
908 Léolo 1992 Jean-Claude Lauzon
909 7th Heaven 1927 Frank Borzage
910 The Bridges of Madison County 1995 Clint Eastwood
911 Female Trouble 1974 John Waters
912 Bend of the River 1952 Anthony Mann
913 E la nave va 1983 Federico Fellini
914 Se7en 1995 David Fincher
915 Radio Days 1987 Woody Allen
916 Poison 1991 Todd Haynes
917 Rocker 1972 Klaus Lemke
918 Jour de fête 1949 Jacques Tati
919 Sonatine 1993 Takeshi Kitano
920 Fort Apache 1948 John Ford
921 Cutter’s Way 1981 Ivan Passer
922 Moartea domnului Lãzãrescu 2005 Cristi Puiu
923 L’amour fou 1969 Jacques Rivette
924 Way Down East 1920 D.W. Griffith
925 Spione 1928 Fritz Lang
926 Il posto 1961 Ermanno Olmi
927 Prelude: Dog Star Man 1962 Stan Brakhage
928 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 Mervyn LeRoy
929 Trop tôt/Trop tard 1982 Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
930 Heaven Can Wait 1943 Ernst Lubitsch
931 Gösta Berlings saga 1924 Mauritz Stiller
932 Do lok tin si 1995 Kar-Wai Wong
933 Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet
934 Gishiki 1971 Nagisa Ôshima
935 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson
936 Le signe du lion 1962 Éric Rohmer
937 Million Dollar Baby 2004 Clint Eastwood
938 Abschied von gestern – (Anita G.) 1966 Alexander Kluge
939 La femme du boulanger 1938 Marcel Pagnol
940 Scarlet Street 1945 Fritz Lang
941 Raba lyubvi 1976 Nikita Mikhalkov
942 Le diable au corps 1947 Claude Autant-Lara
943 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson
944 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 John M. Stahl
945 La notte di San Lorenzo 1982 Vittorio Taviani, Paolo Taviani
946 Varieté 1925 Ewald André Dupont
947 El sur 1983 Víctor Erice
948 Nora inu 1949 Akira Kurosawa
949 V lyudyakh 1939 Mark Donskoy
950 En passion 1969 Ingmar Bergman




951 The Pillow Book 1996 Peter Greenaway
952 Akibiyori 1960 Yasujirô Ozu
953 The Unknown 1927 Tod Browning
954 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen
955 Bienvenido Mister Marshall 1953 Luis García Berlanga
956 Koyaanisqatsi 1982 Godfrey Reggio
957 Moy drug Ivan Lapshin 1985 Aleksey German
958 Kanal 1957 Andrzej Wajda
959 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras
960 Les deux Anglaises et le continent 1971 François Truffaut
961 Strangers When We Meet 1960 Richard Quine
962 Shin Heike monogatari 1955 Kenji Mizoguchi
963 Arsenal 1929 Aleksandr Dovzhenko
964 The Song of Ceylon 1934 Basil Wright
965 A Letter to Three Wives 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
966 Fury 1936 Fritz Lang
967 Simón del desierto 1965 Luis Buñuel
968 The Roaring Twenties 1939 Raoul Walsh
969 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 William A. Wellman
970 Camille 1936 George Cukor
971 Elephant 2003 Gus Van Sant
972 L’amour l’après-midi 1972 Éric Rohmer
973 Toni 1935 Jean Renoir
974 Éloge de l’amour 2001 Jean-Luc Godard
975 Tout va bien 1972 Jean-Pierre Gorin, Jean-Luc Godard
976 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 Quentin Tarantino
977 Toute une nuit 1982 Chantal Akerman
978 The Ballad of Cable Hogue 1970 Sam Peckinpah
979 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1962 Vincente Minnelli
980 Dracula 1958 Terence Fisher
981 Mothlight 1963 Stan Brakhage
982 Krótki film o milosci 1988 Krzysztof Kieslowski
983 California Split 1974 Robert Altman
984 Menschen am Sonntag 1930 Robert Siodmak, Fred Zinnemann, Curt Siodmak, Rochus Gliese, Edgar G. Ulmer
985 Forty Guns 1957 Samuel Fuller
986 A Time to Love and a Time to Die 1958 Douglas Sirk
987 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes
988 Central do Brasil 1998 Walter Salles
989 Prima della rivoluzione 1964 Bernardo Bertolucci
990 Near Dark 1987 Kathryn Bigelow
991 One, Two, Three 1961 Billy Wilder
992 Skazka skazok 1979 Yuriy Norshteyn
993 La baie des anges 1963 Jacques Demy
994 The Bells of St. Mary’s 1945 Leo McCarey
995 The Straight Story 1999 David Lynch
996 Mr. Arkadin 1955 Orson Welles
997 Husbands and Wives 1992 Woody Allen
998 The Truman Show 1998 Peter Weir
999 You Can’t Take It with You 1938 Frank Capra
1000 Nobi 1959 Kon Ichikawa



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TSPDT: They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? 1,000 Greatest Films (2018 Revision)

The theyshootpictures.com lists of the 1,000 Greatest Films of all-time are primarily compiled from individual critics’ and filmmakers’ personal lists/ballots of their favourite/best films. View the films ranked 1001-2000.

1 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles
2 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock
3 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick
4 La règle du jeu 1939 Jean Renoir
5 Tôkyô monogatari 1953 Yasujirô Ozu
6 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola
7 8½ 1963 Federico Fellini
8 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927 F.W. Murnau
9 The Searchers 1956 John Ford
10 Shichinin no samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa
11 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola
12 Singin’ in the Rain 1952 Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
13 Ladri di biciclette 1948 Vittorio De Sica
14 Bronenosets Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein
15 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese
16 La passion de Jeanne d’Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer
17 À bout de souffle 1960 Jean-Luc Godard
18 L’Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo
19 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman
20 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa
21 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola
22 Chelovek s kino-apparatom 1929 Dziga Vertov
23 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese
24 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin
25 Les quatre cents coups 1959 François Truffaut
26 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock
27 Andrey Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky
28 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder
29 Zerkalo 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky
30 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles
31 La dolce vita 1960 Federico Fellini
32 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz
33 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean
34 Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer
35 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson
36 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder
37 L’avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni
38 The General 1926 Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
39 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott
40 Le mépris 1963 Jean-Luc Godard
41 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock
42 La grande illusion 1937 Jean Renoir
43 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton
44 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin
45 Faa yeung nin wa 2000 Kar-Wai Wong
46 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed
47 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati
48 Dr. Strangelove… 1964 Stanley Kubrick
49 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski
50 Ugetsu monogatari 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi




51 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick
52 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder
53 M 1931 Fritz Lang
54 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks
55 Fanny och Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman
56 Smultronstället 1957 Ingmar Bergman
57 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang
58 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky
59 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray
60 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock
61 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch
62 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah
63 Les enfants du paradis 1945 Marcel Carné
64 C’era una volta il West 1968 Sergio Leone
65 Pierrot le fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard
66 La battaglia di Algeri 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo
67 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin
68 Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann
69 La strada 1954 Federico Fellini
70 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Robert Wise,Orson Welles
71 Det sjunde inseglet 1957 Ingmar Bergman
72 Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini
73 Banshun 1949 Yasujirô Ozu
74 Viaggio in Italia 1954 Roberto Rossellini
75 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino
76 Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel
77 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese
78 Il gattopardo 1963 Luchino Visconti
79 It’s a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra
80 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch
81 Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson
82 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick
83 Gertrud 1964 Carl Theodor Dreyer
84 Il conformista 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci
85 Jules et Jim 1962 François Truffaut
86 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen
87 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman
88 Nema-ye Nazdik 1990 Abbas Kiarostami
89 Un condamné à mort… 1956 Robert Bresson
90 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford
91 L’année dernière à Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais
92 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim
93 Sanshô dayû 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi
94 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick
95 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg
96 Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du… 1975 Chantal Akerman
97 Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes 1972 Werner Herzog
98 Blowup 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni
99 Sans soleil 1983 Chris Marker
100 Sátántangó 1994 Béla Tarr




101 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch
102 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone
103 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Mervyn LeRoy, George Cukor, King Vidor, Victor Fleming
104 A Woman Under the Influence 1974 John Cassavetes
105 Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages 1916 D.W. Griffith
106 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen
107 La maman et la putain 1973 Jean Eustache
108 L’eclisse 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni
109 La jetée 1962 Chris Marker
110 Gone with the Wind 1939 Sam Wood, George Cukor, Victor Fleming
111 El espíritu de la colmena 1973 Víctor Erice
112 Hiroshima mon amour 1959 Alain Resnais
113 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa
114 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks
115 Sherlock Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton
116 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas
117 All About Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
118 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg
119 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1975 Milos Forman
120 Madame de… 1953 Max Ophüls
121 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford
122 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls
123 L’âge d’or 1930 Luis Buñuel
124 Don’t Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg
125 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick
126 Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux 1962 Jean-Luc Godard
127 Gu ling jie shao nian sha ren shi jian 1991 Edward Yang
128 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott
129 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock
130 Partie de campagne 1936 Jean Renoir
131 Yi yi 2000 Edward Yang
132 Los olvidados 1950 Luis Buñuel
133 Roma città aperta 1945 Roberto Rossellini
134 Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens 1922 F.W. Murnau
135 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges
136 Un chien andalou 1929 Luis Buñuel
137 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder
138 Angst essen Seele auf 1974 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
139 El ángel exterminador 1962 Luis Buñuel
140 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick
141 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks
142 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola
143 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford
144 A Matter of Life and Death 1946 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
145 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee
146 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch
147 Rosemary’s Baby 1968 Roman Polanski
148 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean
149 Histoire(s) du cinéma 1989
150 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan




151 Il vangelo secondo Matteo 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini
152 Beau travail 1999 Claire Denis
153 Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo 1966 Sergio Leone
154 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey
155 Viskningar och rop 1972 Ingmar Bergman
156 Idi i smotri 1985 Elem Klimov
157 Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight) 1965 Orson Welles
158 Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel
159 L’argent 1983 Robert Bresson
160 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino
161 Professione: reporter 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni
162 King Kong 1933 Ernest B. Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper
163 The River 1951 Jean Renoir
164 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
165 Black Narcissus 1947 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
166 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford
167 Napoléon vu par Abel Gance 1927 Abel Gance
168 Mouchette 1967 Robert Bresson
169 Dekalog 1989
170 Imitation of Life 1959 Douglas Sirk
171 Zemlya 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko
172 Les parapluies de Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy
173 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
174 There Will Be Blood 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson
175 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin
176 Rocco e i suoi fratelli 1960 Luchino Visconti
177 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam
178 Céline et Julie vont en bateau: Phantom Ladies Over Paris 1974 Jacques Rivette
179 O thiasos 1975 Theodoros Angelopoulos
180 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur
181 Der letzte Mann 1924 F.W. Murnau
182 Xiao cheng zhi chun 1948 Mu Fei
183 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick
184 Belle de jour 1967 Luis Buñuel
185 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock
186 Performance 1970 Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg
187 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler
188 Kes 1969 Ken Loach
189 Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica
190 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa
191 Nuit et brouillard 1956 Alain Resnais
192 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper
193 Red River 1948 Arthur Rosson, Howard Hawks
194 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
195 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg
196 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick
197 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford
198 Morte a Venezia 1971 Luchino Visconti
199 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion
200 Le notti di Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini




201 Caché 2005 Michael Haneke
202 Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini
203 Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi 2001 Kirk Wise, Hayao Miyazaki
204 Le samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville
205 Nanook of the North 1922 Robert J. Flaherty
206 Chung Hing sam lam 1994 Kar-Wai Wong
207 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman
208 Beiqíng chéngshì 1989 Hsiao-Hsien Hou
209 Schindler’s List 1993 Steven Spielberg
210 Ivan Groznyy. Skaz vtoroy: Boyarskiy zagovor 1958 Sergei M. Eisenstein
211 Breaking the Waves 1996 Lars von Trier
212 Paisà 1946 Roberto Rossellini
213 Der Himmel über Berlin 1987 Wim Wenders
214 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin
215 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols
216 Sullivan’s Travels 1941 Preston Sturges
217 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg
218 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle 1967 Jean-Luc Godard
219 Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene
220 Wavelength 1967 Michael Snow
221 Popiól i diament 1958 Andrzej Wajda
222 Vampyr 1932 Carl Theodor Dreyer
223 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
224 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer
225 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli
226 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston
227 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor
228 Solyaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky
229 Journal d’un curé de campagne 1951 Robert Bresson
230 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis
231 Sayat Nova 1969 Sergei Parajanov
232 Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol 1964 Glauber Rocha
233 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood
234 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Howard Hawks
235 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn
236 El verdugo 1963 Luis García Berlanga
237 Germania anno zero 1948 Roberto Rossellini
238 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry
239 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese
240 The Tree of Life 2011 Terrence Malick
241 Saikaku ichidai onna 1952 Kenji Mizoguchi
242 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray
243 Tabu: A Story of the South Seas 1931 F.W. Murnau
244 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Alexander Hammid, Maya Deren
245 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli
246 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson
247 The Thin Blue Line 1988 Errol Morris
248 Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège 1933 Jean Vigo
249 Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders
250 The Shop Around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch




251 Sud pralad 2004 Apichatpong Weerasethakul
252 Trois couleurs: Rouge 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski
253 Ukigumo 1955 Mikio Naruse
254 Ivan Groznyy 1944 Sergei M. Eisenstein
255 La notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni
256 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero
257 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 Woody Allen
258 Trois couleurs: Bleu 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski
259 Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 Terence Davies
260 Faces 1968 John Cassavetes
261 Zangiku monogatari 1939 Kenji Mizoguchi
262 Tonari no Totoro 1988 Hayao Miyazaki
263 Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl 1919 D.W. Griffith
264 Ma nuit chez Maud 1969 Éric Rohmer
265 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick
266 Le salaire de la peur 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot
267 F for Fake 1973 Gary Graver, Oja Kodar, François Reichenbach, Orson Welles
268 Kumonosu-jô 1957 Akira Kurosawa
269 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray
270 Freaks 1932 Tod Browning
271 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard
272 Die Büchse der Pandora 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst
273 Love Streams 1984 John Cassavetes
274 Memorias del subdesarrollo 1968 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
275 Nuovo Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore
276 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 Charles Chaplin
277 La belle et la bête 1946 René Clément, Jean Cocteau
278 Eraserhead 1977 David Lynch
279 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston
280 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith
281 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks
282 Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner
283 Sanma no aji 1962 Yasujirô Ozu
284 Im Lauf der Zeit 1976 Wim Wenders
285 Jalsaghar 1958 Satyajit Ray
286 The Matrix 1999 Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
287 Underground 1995 Emir Kusturica
288 Apur Sansar 1959 Satyajit Ray
289 Husbands 1970 John Cassavetes
290 Offret 1986 Andrei Tarkovsky
291 Touki Bouki 1973 Djibril Diop Mambéty
292 Todo sobre mi madre 1999 Pedro Almodóvar
293 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor
294 Vredens dag 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer
295 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980
296 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter
297 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell
298 Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot 1953 Jacques Tati
299 Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby
300 The Kid 1921 Charles Chaplin




301 A Canterbury Tale 1944 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
302 Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg
303 Il deserto rosso 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni
304 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse
305 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner
306 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich
307 Killer of Sheep 1978 Charles Burnett
308 Orphée 1950 Jean Cocteau
309 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 William Cottrell, David Hand, Ben Sharpsteen, Perce Pearce
310 Terra em Transe 1967 Glauber Rocha
311 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis
312 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino
313 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero
314 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan
315 Tóngnián wangshì 1985 Hsiao-Hsien Hou
316 Xi meng ren sheng 1993 Hsiao-Hsien Hou
317 Khane-ye doust kodjast? 1987 Abbas Kiarostami
318 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
319 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman
320 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale
321 Listen to Britain 1942 Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister
322 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet
323 Lola Montès 1955 Max Ophüls
324 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford
325 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Stanley Kubrick
326 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger
327 Make Way for Tomorrow 1937 Leo McCarey
328 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 1976 John Cassavetes
329 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra
330 Cidade de Deus 2002 Kátia Lund, Fernando Meirelles
331 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Robert Aldrich
332 Ai no korîda 1976 Nagisa Ôshima
333 Le crime de Monsieur Lange 1936 Jean Renoir
334 Marnie 1964 Alfred Hitchcock
335 El 1953 Luis Buñuel
336 Written on the Wind 1956 Douglas Sirk
337 Le rayon vert 1986 Éric Rohmer
338 Russkiy kovcheg 2002 Aleksandr Sokurov
339 Lost Highway 1997 David Lynch
340 Oktyabr 1928 Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein
341 Xia nü 1971 King Hu
342 Otona no miru ehon – Umarete wa mita keredo 1932 Yasujirô Ozu
343 Chun gwong cha sit 1997 Kar-Wai Wong
344 Werckmeister harmóniák 2000 Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky
345 Heat 1995 Michael Mann
346 Les yeux sans visage 1960 Georges Franju
347 Soy Cuba 1964 Mikhail Kalatozov
348 Zire darakhatan zeyton 1994 Abbas Kiarostami
349 Cléo de 5 à 7 1962 Agnès Varda
350 Stromboli, terra di Dio 1950 Roberto Rossellini




351 The King of Comedy 1982 Martin Scorsese
352 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges
353 Ultimo tango a Parigi 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci
354 Topio stin omichli 1988 Theodoros Angelopoulos
355 In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden 1978 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
356 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann
357 Tirez sur le pianiste 1960 François Truffaut
358 All That Heaven Allows 1955 Douglas Sirk
359 Suna no onna 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara
360 Tiexi qu 2002 Bing Wang
361 Le voyage dans la lune 1902 Georges Méliès
362 El sol del membrillo 1992 Víctor Erice
363 Teorema 1968 Pier Paolo Pasolini
364 Wanda 1970 Barbara Loden
365 Nostalghia 1983 Andrei Tarkovsky
366 Le locataire 1976 Roman Polanski
367 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme
368 Stranger Than Paradise 1984 Jim Jarmusch
369 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill
370 Ivanovo detstvo 1962 Eduard Abalov, Andrei Tarkovsky
371 Tristana 1970 Luis Buñuel
372 Aliens 1986 James Cameron
373 Ah fei zing zyun 1990 Kar-Wai Wong
374 Dont Look Back 1967 D.A. Pennebaker
375 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet
376 An Affair to Remember 1957 Leo McCarey
377 La double vie de Véronique 1991 Krzysztof Kieslowski
378 Festen 1998 Thomas Vinterberg
379 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean
380 If…. 1968 Lindsay Anderson
381 Dogville 2003 Lars von Trier
382 Salvatore Giuliano 1962 Francesco Rosi
383 Tengoku to jigoku 1963 Akira Kurosawa
384 Brokeback Mountain 2005 Ang Lee
385 Fitzcarraldo 1982 Werner Herzog
386 Man of Aran 1934 Robert J. Flaherty
387 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont
388 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen
389 L’armée des ombres 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville
390 The Innocents 1961 Jack Clayton
391 Les demoiselles de Rochefort 1967 Jacques Demy
392 Novecento 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci
393 Yôjinbô 1961 Akira Kurosawa
394 Suspiria 1977 Dario Argento
395 Heaven’s Gate 1980 Michael Cimino
396 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher
397 Meghe Dhaka Tara 1960 Ritwik Ghatak
398 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma
399 WALL·E 2008 Andrew Stanton
400 Sedmikrásky 1966 Vera Chytilová




401 ‘I Know Where I’m Going!’ 1945 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
402 Shadows 1959 John Cassavetes
403 Da hong deng long gao gao gua 1991 Yimou Zhang
404 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones
405 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor
406 Out 1, noli me tangere 1971 Jacques Rivette, Suzanne Schiffman
407 Chelsea Girls 1966 Andy Warhol, Paul Morrissey
408 The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey
409 Scener ur ett äktenskap 1973
410 French Cancan 1955 Jean Renoir
411 La nuit américaine 1973 François Truffaut
412 Charulata 1964 Satyajit Ray
413 The Dead 1987 John Huston
414 Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg
415 Nun va Goldoon 1996 Mohsen Makhmalbaf
416 Bakushû 1951 Yasujirô Ozu
417 Das weiße Band – Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte 2009 Michael Haneke
418 Vargtimmen 1968 Ingmar Bergman
419 Vidas Secas 1963 Nelson Pereira dos Santos
420 The Cameraman 1928 Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton
421 Mon oncle 1958 Jacques Tati
422 Ta’m e guilass 1997 Abbas Kiarostami
423 Khaneh siah ast 1963 Forugh Farrokhzad
424 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson
425 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman
426 Two-Lane Blacktop 1971 Monte Hellman
427 Las Hurdes 1933 Luis Buñuel
428 À nos amours 1983 Maurice Pialat
429 Opening Night 1977 John Cassavetes
430 Hable con ella 2002 Pedro Almodóvar
431 Loong Boonmee raleuk chat 2010 Apichatpong Weerasethakul
432 Le plaisir 1952 Max Ophüls
433 L’albero degli zoccoli 1978 Ermanno Olmi
434 La hora de los hornos 1968 Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas
435 Les glaneurs et la glaneuse 2000 Agnès Varda
436 The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch
437 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise
438 Masculin féminin 1966 Jean-Luc Godard
439 Ostre sledované vlaky 1966 Jirí Menzel
440 Pyaasa 1957 Guru Dutt
441 Huang tu di 1984 Kaige Chen
442 Punch-Drunk Love 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson
443 Withnail & I 1987 Bruce Robinson
444 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks
445 Dersu Uzala 1975 Akira Kurosawa
446 Koyaanisqatsi 1982 Godfrey Reggio
447 A torinói ló 2011 Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky
448 Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa
449 The Lady from Shanghai 1947 Orson Welles
450 Wo hu cang long 2000 Ang Lee




451 Le chagrin et la pitié 1969 Marcel Ophüls
452 Moartea domnului Lãzãrescu 2005 Cristi Puiu
453 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding
454 Zhantai 2000 Zhangke Jia
455 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron
456 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter
457 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter
458 Some Came Running 1958 Vincente Minnelli
459 Senso 1954 Luchino Visconti
460 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström
461 Muriel ou le temps d’un retour 1963 Alain Resnais
462 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock
463 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper
464 Marketa Lazarová 1967 Frantisek Vlácil
465 Mad Max 2 1981 George Miller
466 Elephant 2003 Gus Van Sant
467 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson
468 Shane 1953 George Stevens
469 The Scarlet Empress 1934 Josef von Sternberg
470 Bad ma ra khahad bord 1999 Abbas Kiarostami
471 Fantasia 1940 Samuel Armstrong, Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske
472 Grey Gardens 1975 David Maysles, Muffie Meyer, Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles
473 Aleksandr Nevskiy 1938 Dmitriy Vasilev, Sergei M. Eisenstein
474 Oldeuboi 2003 Chan-wook Park
475 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet
476 Letyat zhuravli 1957 Mikhail Kalatozov
477 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock
478 Safe 1995 Todd Haynes
479 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman
480 Gimme Shelter 1970 Charlotte Zwerin, David Maysles, Albert Maysles
481 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack
482 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse
483 La région centrale 1971 Michael Snow
484 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich
485 Naked 1993 Mike Leigh
486 Les vampires 1915 Louis Feuillade
487 Limelight 1952 Charles Chaplin
488 Francesco, giullare di Dio 1950 Roberto Rossellini
489 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski
490 Accattone 1961 Pier Paolo Pasolini
491 India Song 1975 Marguerite Duras
492 Nattvardsgästerna 1963 Ingmar Bergman
493 Das Leben der Anderen 2006 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
494 All the President’s Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula
495 Pinocchio 1940 Ben Sharpsteen, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson
496 Chronique d’un été (Paris 1960) 1961 Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin
497 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola
498 Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle 1974 Werner Herzog
499 Triumph des Willens 1935 Leni Riefenstahl
500 Melancholia 2011 Lars von Trier




501 Dead Man 1995 Jim Jarmusch
502 Lola 1961 Jacques Demy
503 Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928 Charles Reisner, Buster Keaton
504 Le fantôme de la liberté 1974 Luis Buñuel
505 Wagon Master 1950 John Ford
506 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese
507 Tini zabutykh predkiv 1965 Sergei Parajanov
508 Hai shang hua 1998 Hsiao-Hsien Hou
509 Hoop Dreams 1994 Steve James
510 Miracolo a Milano 1951 Vittorio De Sica
511 Point Blank 1967 John Boorman
512 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale
513 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang
514 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis
515 Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 1973 Sam Peckinpah
516 Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant 1972 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
517 Barton Fink 1991 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
518 Skazka skazok 1979 Yuriy Norshteyn
519 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen
520 Tystnaden 1963 Ingmar Bergman
521 La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV 1966 Roberto Rossellini
522 Artificial Intelligence: AI 2001 Steven Spielberg
523 Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution 1965 Jean-Luc Godard
524 La caduta degli dei (Götterdämmerung) 1969 Luchino Visconti
525 The Wedding March 1928 Erich von Stroheim
526 No Quarto da Vanda 2000 Pedro Costa
527 The Devils 1971 Ken Russell
528 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan
529 Rebel Without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray
530 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean
531 Bigger Than Life 1956 Nicholas Ray
532 The Servant 1963 Joseph Losey
533 Jodaeiye Nader az Simin 2011 Asghar Farhadi
534 La terra trema 1948 Luchino Visconti
535 Plácido 1961 Luis García Berlanga
536 Ba wang bie ji 1993 Kaige Chen
537 Down by Law 1986 Jim Jarmusch
538 Inland Empire 2006 David Lynch
539 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby
540 Providence 1977 Alain Resnais
541 Lásky jedné plavovlásky 1965 Milos Forman
542 Juventude Em Marcha 2006 Pedro Costa
543 Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet
544 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger
545 Cet obscur objet du désir 1977 Luis Buñuel
546 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 Peter Weir
547 Our Hospitality 1923 John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton
548 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur
549 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch
550 El laberinto del fauno 2006 Guillermo del Toro




551 No Country for Old Men 2007 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
552 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974 Sam Peckinpah
553 My Own Private Idaho 1991 Gus Van Sant
554 Splendor in the Grass 1961 Elia Kazan
555 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle
556 Le diable probablement 1977 Robert Bresson
557 Grizzly Man 2005 Werner Herzog
558 Boudu sauvé des eaux 1932 Jean Renoir
559 Deliverance 1972 John Boorman
560 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston
561 I vitelloni 1953 Federico Fellini
562 Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage 1926 F.W. Murnau
563 Aparajito 1956 Satyajit Ray
564 Sånger från andra våningen 2000 Roy Andersson
565 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan
566 Scorpio Rising 1963 Kenneth Anger
567 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler
568 Secrets & Lies 1996 Mike Leigh
569 Limite 1931 Mario Peixoto
570 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin
571 Hana-bi 1997 Takeshi Kitano
572 Salesman 1969 Charlotte Zwerin, David Maysles, Albert Maysles
573 A Hard Day’s Night 1964 Richard Lester
574 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 Wes Anderson
575 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen
576 Alice in den Städten 1974 Wim Wenders
577 Hatari! 1962 Howard Hawks
578 Nazarín 1959 Luis Buñuel
579 Rushmore 1998 Wes Anderson
580 Fellini – Satyricon 1969 Federico Fellini
581 Detour 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer
582 Love Me Tonight 1932 Rouben Mamoulian
583 Zendegi va digar hich 1992 Abbas Kiarostami
584 Rosetta 1999 Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne
585 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock
586 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick
587 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 Jacques Tourneur
588 Der blaue Engel 1930 Josef von Sternberg
589 Le cercle rouge 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville
590 Walkabout 1971 Nicolas Roeg
591 Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler 1922 Fritz Lang
592 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma
593 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer
594 Stellet Licht 2007 Carlos Reygadas
595 Arrebato 1979 Iván Zulueta
596 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan
597 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock
598 The Killing 1956 Stanley Kubrick
599 Sud sanaeha 2002 Apichatpong Weerasethakul
600 Bande à part 1964 Jean-Luc Godard




601 Cabra Marcado Para Morrer 1984 Eduardo Coutinho
602 Evil Dead II 1987 Sam Raimi
603 Dancer in the Dark 2000 Lars von Trier
604 Les amants du Pont-Neuf 1991 Leos Carax
605 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean
606 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock
607 Seven Chances 1925 Buster Keaton
608 Local Hero 1983 Bill Forsyth
609 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks
610 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Woody Allen
611 Bu san 2003 Ming-liang Tsai
612 La belle noiseuse 1991 Jacques Rivette
613 The African Queen 1951 John Huston
614 Foolish Wives 1922 Erich von Stroheim
615 They Live by Night 1948 Nicholas Ray
616 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
617 U samogo sinego morya 1936 Boris Barnet, Samad Mardanov
618 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky
619 The Fly 1986 David Cronenberg
620 La haine 1995 Mathieu Kassovitz
621 Se7en 1995 David Fincher
622 The Age of Innocence 1993 Martin Scorsese
623 Titicut Follies 1967 Frederick Wiseman
624 Stachka 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein
625 Die Ehe der Maria Braun 1979 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
626 Scarface 1932 Richard Rosson, Howard Hawks
627 Children of Men 2006 Alfonso Cuarón
628 Fat City 1972 John Huston
629 Zodiac 2007 David Fincher
630 The Party 1968 Blake Edwards
631 Breakfast at Tiffany’s 1961 Blake Edwards
632 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens
633 Before Sunset 2004 Richard Linklater
634 Lancelot du Lac 1974 Robert Bresson
635 O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro 1969 Glauber Rocha
636 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam
637 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron
638 Nouvelle vague 1990 Jean-Luc Godard
639 Funny Games 1997 Michael Haneke
640 Szegénylegények 1966 Miklós Jancsó
641 Mat i syn 1997 Aleksandr Sokurov
642 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford
643 Der Tiger von Eschnapur 1959 Fritz Lang
644 The Man Who Would Be King 1975 John Huston
645 Yeelen 1987 Souleymane Cissé
646 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh
647 Dazed and Confused 1993 Richard Linklater
648 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton
649 Xala 1975 Ousmane Sembene
650 Orlando 1992 Sally Potter




651 Krótki film o zabijaniu 1988 Krzysztof Kieslowski
652 Wandafuru raifu 1998 Hirokazu Koreeda
653 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra
654 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone
655 Nostalgia de la luz 2010 Patricio Guzmán
656 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson
657 Un chant d’amour 1950 Jean Genet
658 Zelig 1983 Woody Allen
659 Y tu mamá también 2001 Alfonso Cuarón
660 Les dames du Bois de Boulogne 1945 Robert Bresson
661 Bambi 1942 Samuel Armstrong, Paul Satterfield, Graham Heid
662 Gummo 1997 Harmony Korine
663 Synecdoche, New York 2008 Charlie Kaufman
664 L’enfant sauvage 1970 François Truffaut
665 Passion 1982 Jean-Luc Godard
666 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges
667 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan
668 Mitt liv som hund 1985 Lasse Hallström
669 El sur 1983 Víctor Erice
670 Le fils 2002 Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne
671 Crash 1996 David Cronenberg
672 Edvard Munch 1974 Peter Watkins
673 Europa ’51 1952 Roberto Rossellini
674 Uzak 2002 Nuri Bilge Ceylan
675 Roma 1972 Federico Fellini
676 The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy
677 Possession 1981 Andrzej Zulawski
678 Le genou de Claire 1970 Éric Rohmer
679 The Navigator 1924 Donald Crisp, Buster Keaton
680 RoboCop 1987 Paul Verhoeven
681 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick
682 Les diaboliques 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot
683 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick
684 W.R. – Misterije organizma 1971 Dusan Makavejev
685 Superman 1978 Richard Donner
686 Yuki yukite, shingun 1987 Kazuo Hara
687 Miller’s Crossing 1990 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
688 La femme d’à côté 1981 François Truffaut
689 Sans toit ni loi 1985 Agnès Varda
690 Shock Corridor 1963 Samuel Fuller
691 Flaming Creatures 1963 Jack Smith
692 Seppuku 1962 Masaki Kobayashi
693 Le carrosse d’or 1952 Jean Renoir
694 Harlan County U.S.A. 1976 Barbara Kopple
695 Ai qing wan sui 1994 Ming-liang Tsai
696 Vremena goda 1975 Artavazd Peleshian
697 Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel
698 Sanxia haoren 2006 Zhangke Jia
699 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Vincente Minnelli
700 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott




701 Gun Crazy 1950 Joseph H. Lewis
702 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel
703 4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile 2007 Cristian Mungiu
704 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 1986 John Hughes
705 Dip huet seung hung 1989 John Woo
706 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 1965 Russ Meyer
707 Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse 1933 Fritz Lang
708 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan
709 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann
710 An Angel at My Table 1990 Jane Campion
711 Casque d’or 1952 Jacques Becker
712 Die Blechtrommel 1979 Volker Schlöndorff
713 Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach 1968 Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
714 Moy drug Ivan Lapshin 1985 Aleksey German
715 Titanic 1997 James Cameron
716 The Thief of Bagdad 1940 Alexander Korda, Tim Whelan, Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell
717 Sommarnattens leende 1955 Ingmar Bergman
718 Le ballon rouge 1956 Albert Lamorisse
719 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson
720 Airplane! 1980 Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker
721 La pianiste 2001 Michael Haneke
722 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 Karel Reisz
723 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg
724 Idioterne 1998 Lars von Trier
725 Les maîtres fous 1955 Jean Rouch
726 Jungfrukällan 1960 Ingmar Bergman
727 Kaagaz Ke Phool 1959 Guru Dutt
728 Sang sattawat 2006 Apichatpong Weerasethakul
729 Le procès 1962 Orson Welles
730 Ace in the Hole 1951 Billy Wilder
731 Dodesukaden 1970 Akira Kurosawa
732 Hong gao liang 1988 Yimou Zhang
733 Voskhozhdenie 1977 Larisa Shepitko
734 Ghost Busters 1984 Ivan Reitman
735 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols
736 A Idade da Terra 1980 Glauber Rocha
737 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone
738 The Circus 1928 Charles Chaplin
739 Starship Troopers 1997 Paul Verhoeven
740 Blow Out 1981 Brian De Palma
741 Wild at Heart 1990 David Lynch
742 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner
743 It’s a Gift 1934 Norman Z. McLeod
744 La montaña sagrada 1973 Alejandro Jodorowsky
745 Du rififi chez les hommes 1955 Jules Dassin
746 A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate 1923 Charles Chaplin
747 The Last Emperor 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci
748 Vale Abraão 1993 Manoel de Oliveira
749 Blood Simple. 1984 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
750 The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek 1943 Preston Sturges




751 Olympia 1938 Leni Riefenstahl
752 Dom za vesanje 1988 Emir Kusturica
753 Hitler, ein Film aus Deutschland 1977 Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
754 The Right Stuff 1983 Philip Kaufman
755 La mujer sin cabeza 2008 Lucrecia Martel
756 Jeux interdits 1952 René Clément
757 Fukushû suru wa ware ni ari 1979 Shôhei Imamura
758 Van Gogh 1991 Maurice Pialat
759 The Last Detail 1973 Hal Ashby
760 A History of Violence 2005 David Cronenberg
761 Ossessione 1943 Luchino Visconti
762 The Long Day Closes 1992 Terence Davies
763 Le quai des brumes 1938 Marcel Carné
764 La Ciénaga 2001 Lucrecia Martel
765 Moonfleet 1955 Fritz Lang
766 The Sweet Hereafter 1997 Atom Egoyan
767 Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages 2000 Michael Haneke
768 La noire de… 1966 Ousmane Sembene
769 Avatar 2009 James Cameron
770 Hunger 2008 Steve McQueen
771 The Blues Brothers 1980 John Landis
772 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras
773 Le sang des bêtes 1949 Georges Franju
774 Morocco 1930 Josef von Sternberg
775 Crumb 1994 Terry Zwigoff
776 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner
777 Il grido 1957 Michelangelo Antonioni
778 Sauve qui peut (la vie) 1980 Jean-Luc Godard
779 The Ladykillers 1955 Alexander Mackendrick
780 The Lusty Men 1952 Robert Parrish, Nicholas Ray
781 Salinui chueok 2003 Joon-ho Bong
782 Dog Star Man 1964 Stan Brakhage
783 The Producers 1967 Mel Brooks
784 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly
785 The Misfits 1961 John Huston
786 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949 John Ford
787 Numéro deux 1975 Jean-Luc Godard
788 7 Women 1966 John Ford
789 Le million 1931 René Clair
790 7th Heaven 1927 Frank Borzage
791 Blue 1993 Derek Jarman
792 I soliti ignoti 1958 Mario Monicelli
793 The Breakfast Club 1985 John Hughes
794 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes
795 They Were Expendable 1945 John Ford, Robert Montgomery
796 The New World 2005 Terrence Malick
797 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover 1989 Peter Greenaway
798 The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 Martin Scorsese
799 Dumbo 1941 Samuel Armstrong, Ben Sharpsteen, Jack Kinney
800 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli




801 C’eravamo tanto amati 1974 Ettore Scola
802 Spione 1928 Fritz Lang
803 Ludwig 1973 Luchino Visconti
804 Gwoemul 2006 Joon-ho Bong
805 Saturday Night Fever 1977 John Badham
806 Mononoke-hime 1997 Hayao Miyazaki
807 He liu 1997 Ming-liang Tsai
808 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
809 Pickup on South Street 1953 Samuel Fuller
810 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger
811 Deep End 1970 Jerzy Skolimowski
812 Au revoir les enfants 1987 Louis Malle
813 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg
814 La nuit du carrefour 1932 Jean Renoir
815 Million Dollar Baby 2004 Clint Eastwood
816 Pink Flamingos 1972 John Waters
817 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas
818 Mujeres al borde de un ataque de “nervios” 1988 Pedro Almodóvar
819 Rope 1948 Alfred Hitchcock
820 Le jour se lève 1939 Marcel Carné
821 Koroshi no rakuin 1967 Seijun Suzuki
822 Akira 1988 Katsuhiro Ôtomo
823 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon
824 Fires Were Started 1943 Humphrey Jennings
825 New York, New York 1977 Martin Scorsese
826 Utomlennye solntsem 1994 Nikita Mikhalkov
827 O Lucky Man! 1973 Lindsay Anderson
828 Akasen chitai 1956 Kenji Mizoguchi
829 Kohayagawa-ke no aki 1961 Yasujirô Ozu
830 Vozvrashchenie 2003 Andrey Zvyagintsev
831 Topsy-Turvy 1999 Mike Leigh
832 Night of the Demon 1957 Jacques Tourneur
833 L’enfance nue 1968 Maurice Pialat
834 The Ladies Man 1961 Jerry Lewis
835 Sicilia! 1999 Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
836 Fort Apache 1948 John Ford
837 Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss 1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
838 L’intrus 2004 Claire Denis
839 The Hart of London 1970 Jack Chambers
840 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg
841 Central do Brasil 1998 Walter Salles
842 Les deux Anglaises et le continent 1971 François Truffaut
843 Forbidden Planet 1956 Fred M. Wilcox
844 The Sun Shines Bright 1953 John Ford
845 Il fiore delle mille e una notte 1974 Pier Paolo Pasolini
846 Hôtel Terminus 1988 Marcel Ophüls
847 Qing mei zhu ma 1985 Edward Yang
848 La chienne 1931 Jean Renoir
849 Orfeu Negro 1959 Marcel Camus
850 Léon 1994 Luc Besson




851 The Ice Storm 1997 Ang Lee
852 3 Women 1977 Robert Altman
853 Cul-de-sac 1966 Roman Polanski
854 Diaries Notes and Sketches 1969 Jonas Mekas
855 The Bridges of Madison County 1995 Clint Eastwood
856 Assault on Precinct 13 1976 John Carpenter
857 Hadaka no shima 1960 Kaneto Shindô
858 Malu tianshi 1937 Muzhi Yuan
859 Excalibur 1981 John Boorman
860 Get Carter 1971 Mike Hodges
861 News from Home 1977 Chantal Akerman
862 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer
863 Huo zhe 1994 Yimou Zhang
864 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise
865 The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice 1951 Orson Welles
866 Giulietta degli spiriti 1965 Federico Fellini
867 Mes petites amoureuses 1974 Jean Eustache
868 Gilda 1946 Charles Vidor
869 Mother India 1957 Mehboob Khan
870 Nóz w wodzie 1962 Roman Polanski
871 Le trou 1960 Jacques Becker
872 The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 Clint Eastwood
873 The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth 1944 Laurence Olivier
874 The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957 Jack Arnold
875 2046 2004 Kar-Wai Wong
876 Hotaru no haka 1988 Isao Takahata
877 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler
878 Odd Man Out 1947 Carol Reed
879 Genroku Chûshingura 1941 Kenji Mizoguchi
880 Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö 1990 Aki Kaurismäki
881 Love and Death 1975 Woody Allen
882 Nicht versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt, wo Gewalt herrscht 1965 Jean-Marie Straub
883 As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 2000 Jonas Mekas
884 La bête humaine 1938 Jean Renoir
885 Ed Wood 1994 Tim Burton
886 Liàn liàn fengchén 1986 Hsiao-Hsien Hou
887 On the Town 1949 Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
888 Ensayo de un crimen 1955 Luis Buñuel
889 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson
890 Near Dark 1987 Kathryn Bigelow
891 Il posto 1961 Ermanno Olmi
892 Simón del desierto 1965 Luis Buñuel
893 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen
894 MASH 1970 Robert Altman
895 L’enfant secret 1979 Philippe Garrel
896 Dracula 1958 Terence Fisher
897 Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom 2003 Ki-duk Kim
898 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
899 Mon oncle d’Amérique 1980 Alain Resnais
900 Uccellacci e uccellini 1966 Pier Paolo Pasolini




901 Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah
902 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty
903 Louisiana Story 1948 Robert J. Flaherty
904 Gregory’s Girl 1980 Bill Forsyth
905 Angel 1937 Ernst Lubitsch
906 Une histoire de vent 1988 Joris Ivens
907 Animal House 1978 John Landis
908 Elephant 1989 Alan Clarke
909 The Godfather: Part III 1990 Francis Ford Coppola
910 Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt 1927 Walter Ruttmann
911 Narayama bushikô 1983 Shôhei Imamura
912 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 Howard Hawks
913 Anatahan 1953 Josef von Sternberg
914 Before Sunrise 1995 Richard Linklater
915 Holiday 1938 George Cukor
916 Yume 1990 Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda
917 The Reckless Moment 1949 Max Ophüls
918 Il Casanova di Federico Fellini 1976 Federico Fellini
919 Midnight Run 1988 Martin Brest
920 El Dorado 1967 Howard Hawks
921 El Topo 1970 Alejandro Jodorowsky
922 Exotica 1994 Atom Egoyan
923 Horí, má panenko 1967 Milos Forman
924 Sholay 1975 Ramesh Sippy
925 Zabriskie Point 1970 Michelangelo Antonioni
926 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz
927 Moi, un noir 1958 Jean Rouch
928 Trop tôt/Trop tard 1982 Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
929 The Verdict 1982 Sidney Lumet
930 Le bonheur 1965 Agnès Varda
931 Yol 1982 Serif Gören, Yilmaz Güney
932 Le fond de l’air est rouge 1977 Chris Marker
933 Duel in the Sun 1946 Otto Brower, Sidney Franklin, King Vidor, David O. Selznick
934 Pépé le Moko 1937 Julien Duvivier
935 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille
936 A Diary for Timothy 1945 Humphrey Jennings
937 Outer Space 1999 Peter Tscherkassky
938 Finding Nemo 2003 Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
939 Bob le flambeur 1956 Jean-Pierre Melville
940 The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976 Nicolas Roeg
941 India: Matri Bhumi 1959 Roberto Rossellini
942 The Tarnished Angels 1957 Douglas Sirk
943 Mamma Roma 1962 Pier Paolo Pasolini
944 Ukikusa 1959 Yasujirô Ozu
945 Une femme est une femme 1961 Jean-Luc Godard
946 Chikamatsu monogatari 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi
947 Subarnarekha 1965 Ritwik Ghatak
948 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann
949 Häxan 1922 Benjamin Christensen
950 Dah 2002 Abbas Kiarostami




951 Ceddo 1977 Ousmane Sembene
952 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 David Lynch
953 La collectionneuse 1967 Éric Rohmer
954 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1962 Tony Richardson
955 Shanghai Express 1932 Josef von Sternberg
956 L’arrivée d’un train à La Ciotat 1896 Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière
957 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 1970 Russ Meyer
958 Bab el hadid 1958 Youssef Chahine
959 Kaidan 1964 Masaki Kobayashi
960 Phantom of the Paradise 1974 Brian De Palma
961 Yôkihi 1955 Kenji Mizoguchi
962 Gycklarnas afton 1953 Ingmar Bergman
963 True Heart Susie 1919 D.W. Griffith
964 Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie 1965 Wojciech Has
965 Xiao Wu 1997 Zhangke Jia
966 Witness 1985 Peter Weir
967 Voyna i mir 1966 Sergey Bondarchuk
968 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze
969 À nous la liberté 1931 René Clair
970 Qiu Ju da guan si 1992 Yimou Zhang
971 Dalla nube alla resistenza 1979 Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
972 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 Quentin Tarantino
973 Lone Star 1996 John Sayles
974 Okraina 1933 Boris Barnet
975 Touchez pas au grisbi 1954 Jacques Becker
976 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 Jim Sharman
977 Design for Living 1933 Ernst Lubitsch
978 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill
979 O Bandido da Luz Vermelha 1968 Rogério Sganzerla
980 Scarecrow 1973 Jerry Schatzberg
981 Ruggles of Red Gap 1935 Leo McCarey
982 Hellzapoppin’ 1941 H.C. Potter
983 Mothlight 1963 Stan Brakhage
984 Das indische Grabmal 1959 Fritz Lang
985 Akahige 1965 Akira Kurosawa
986 The Fountainhead 1949 King Vidor
987 Bad Timing 1980 Nicolas Roeg
988 The Big Red One 1980 Samuel Fuller
989 Johnny Got His Gun 1971 Dalton Trumbo
990 L’amour fou 1969 Jacques Rivette
991 Unsere Afrikareise 1966 Peter Kubelka
992 The Nightmare Before Christmas 1993 Henry Selick
993 They Live 1988 John Carpenter
994 Heimat – Eine deutsche Chronik 1984
995 Éloge de l’amour 2001 Jean-Luc Godard
996 Dead Poets Society 1989 Peter Weir
997 Husbands and Wives 1992 Woody Allen
998 L’humanité 1999 Bruno Dumont
999 Oasiseu 2002 Chang-dong Lee
1000 Sorcerer 1977 William Friedkin




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The Pendragon Society’s 1000 Greatest Films (2018) 940-921

Introduction

940. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini, 116 mins.

Loosely based on the book The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade, the film focuses on four wealthy, corrupt Italian libertines, during the time of the fascist Republic of Salò, who kidnap eighteen teenagers and subject them to four months of extreme violence, sadism, and sexual and mental torture. It was still banned by several countries going into the 21st century and with such graphic content, it’s not hard to see why the final work of the notorious Pasolini has been called one of the most sickening films of all time. While much of Salo is extremely difficult to watch, some critics and film historians still see it as essential cinema.

939. Shaun of the Dead (2004) Dir. Edgar Wright, 99 mins.

A British horror comedy starring Simon Pegg as Shaun, a man attempting to get some kind of focus in his life as he deals with girlfriend and family problems while also having to cope with an apocalyptic zombie uprising. Not just a parody of George A. Romero and zombie films in general, Shaun of the Dead is full of wonderful witty satire and plenty of gore.

938. Gods and Monsters (1998) Dir. Bill Condon, 105 mins.

A British-American period drama adapted from a speculative novel ‘Father of Frankenstein’ by Christopher Bram. The film recounts the last days of the life of troubled film director James Whale who directed Frankenstein and its sequel Bride of Frankenstein. Ian Mckellen, who was nominated for an Oscar, provides a notably affecting performance as Whale in an imaginative and engrossing film.

937. Manhunter (1986) Dir. Michael Mann, 124 mins.

The first film adaptation of Harris’ Hannibal Lecktor novels focuses on FBI profiler Will Graham who comes out of retirement to lend his talents to an investigation on a killer known as the “Tooth Fairy”. In doing so, he must confront the demons of his past and meet with Lecktor (Brian Cox), who had previously nearly killed him. Reappraised in more recent years Manhunter is now noted for its stylish direction and gripping intensity.

936. The Sound of Music (1965) Dir. Robert Wise, 174 mins.

Based on the memoir ‘The Story of the Trapp Family Singers’ by Maria von Trapp, the film is about a young Austrian woman (Julie Andrews) studying to become a nun in Salzburg in 1938 who is sent to the villa of a retired naval officer and widower to be governess to his seven children. Those who can excuse the more corny moments should be pulled along by the classic songs and charming story.

935. Catch Me If You Can (2002) Dir. Steven Spielberg, 141 mins.

The film is based on the life of Frank Abagnale, who, before his 19th birthday, successfully performed cons worth millions of dollars by posing as a Pan American World Airways pilot, a Georgia doctor and a Louisiana parish prosecutor. Lighthearted and hugely enjoyable, the film also considers the effects of a broken home, which along with Abagnale, director Spielberg also experienced as a teenager.

934. Planet of the Apes (1968) Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner, 112 mins.

The film tells the story of an astronaut crew who crash-lands on a strange planet in the distant future. Although the planet appears desolate at first, the surviving crew members stumble upon a society in which apes have evolved  into the intelligent dominant species and humans are mute creatures. While there is some thought provoking social commentary, it’s the fast paced entertaining action that makes Planet of the Apes still a film to see.

933. Billy Elliot (2000) Dir. Stephen Daldry, 110 mins.

Set during the 1984–85 coal miners’ strike in north eastern England, the film follows 11 year old Billy who aspires to become a professional ballet dancer, but must deal with his bully of an older brother and his miner father’s negative stereotype of male dancers. The film is charming, visually inventive and Julie Walters shines as the boy’s spirited ballet teacher. It also features a great soundtrack (particularly the songs of T-Rex).

932. Good Will Hunting (1997) Dir. Gus Van Sant, 126 mins.

If you can accept the central premise and the predictable outcome there’s plenty to take from the Boston set drama about a 20-year-old labourer, Will Hunting, who is an unrecognised mathematical genius until his talent is discovered by a renowned MIT professor. Robin Williams is on Oscar winning form as the therapist who tries to help Hunting (Matt Damon) after he assaults a police officer. A real breakthrough for Damon, who also wrote the script with pal Ben Affleck.

931. Pharaoh (1966) Dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 180 mins.

Released just 3 years after Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s famous Hollywood epic Cleopatra, this Polish adaptation of Bolesław Prus’s novel seems an age away in terms of style and authenticity. It helps that some of the tale of fictional pharaoh, Ramses XIII, and his power struggle with priest Herhor, was filmed at authentic Egyptian locations as well as other parts on meticulously created sets in a studio in Lodz. Revealing the mechanisms of power and the influence of religion the film features accomplished performances and some unforgettable sequences. It is among 21 digitally restored classic Polish films chosen for ‘Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema.’



930. The Legend of 1900 (1998) Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore, 121 mins.

Tim Roth stars in the title role as a virtuosos musician born at sea, who leads a brilliant, but rather unconventional life staying entirely within the confines of a trans-Atlantic steamer. With a stunning score by Ennio Morricone, Tornatore’s charming fable, his first English-language film, has some magical moments enhanced by beautiful imagery.

929. True Grit (2010) Dir. Joel & Ethan Coen, 110 mins.

The Coen brothers revisionist western is a more faithful adaptation of Charles Portis’s novel than the 1969 version starring John Wayne. The film follows 14 year-old farm girl Mattie Ross who hires Rooster Cogburn, a boozy, trigger-happy US Marshall to help her track down and apprehend an outlaw named Tom Chaney who murdered her father. A solid, occasionally moving character study with a particularly likeable performance by Jeff Bridges as Cogburn.

928. The Child (2005) Dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Lucy Dardenne, 95 mins.

The Belgian Palme d’Or winner follows a teenager surviving on welfare cheques who gives birth to a baby boy. The baby’s father, a small-time thief who shows know interest in wanting the child, sells the infant against the mother’s wishes on the black market. Authentic characters and a complex narrative combine to create an affecting film about how desperation can lead to all the wrong choices. The film was named the fourteenth “Best Film of the 21st Century So Far” by The New York Times in 2017.

927. Tokyo Twilight (1957) Dir. Yasujiro Ozu, 140 mins.

One of Ozu’s lesser known and darker films, Tokyo Twilight tells the story of two sisters who are reunited with the mother who left them as children. Understated and melancholic, the story still finds emotional depth and even retains some hope.

926. Oliver! (1968) Dir. Carol Reed, 153 mins.

Based on the stage musical, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart, and Charles Dicken’s novel, the story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Twist travels to London, where he meets The Artful Dodger, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal, Fagin. Winning the best film Oscar in 1968, Oliver! is triumph of great characters, music and production design and was a fitting swan-song for The Third Man director Carol Reed. The British Film Institute ranked Oliver! 77th in their list of the greatest British films of the 20th century.

925. Antonio das Mortes (1969) Dir. Glauber Rocha, 100 mins.

Rocha’s highly stylised, inverted western masterpiece is set in the wilderness of the Brazilian north east. Having already appeared as the hired bandit killer for the church and landlords in Black God, White Devil, the eponymous mercenary is back, but this time he turns away from corrupt authority and becomes a revolutionary. Part fact and part legend the hallucinogenic western blends social banditry with the mysticism of messianic religion.

924. Mad Max (1979) Dir. George Miller, 93 mins.

Financed privately rather than by the failing Australian Film Commission this violent dystopian action movie was a big international hit and changed the way Australian films were funded in favour of a more commercial ethos rather than a cultural one. The film also launched the career of future Hollywood star and director Mel Gibson, who plays a vengeful policeman embroiled in a feud with a vicious motorcycle gang. Now lauded for its visceral power and strong direction the film initially polarised critics.

923. Atonement (2007) Dir. Joe Wright, 130 mins.

Based on Ian McEwan’s 2001 novel of the same name, the film focuses on a crime and its consequences over the course of six decades, beginning in the 1930s. Saoirse Ronan makes a big impression as the 13 year old Briony Tallis who tells a lie which ruins the lives of lovers, Cecilia Tallis (Keira Knightley), her older sister, and Robbie Turner (James McAvoy), the son of the Tallis family’s housekeeper. There are great performances and brilliant cinematography, particularly the remarkable five minute single take tracking shot across the beach at Dunkirk.

922. Lord of the Flies (1963) Dir. Peter Brook, 92 mins.

Lord of the Flies is an adaptation of William Golding’s novel of the same name about 30 schoolboys who are marooned on an island where they become savages. The film has a troubling, raw intensity which captures the essence of Golding’s dark adventure story.

921. Cold Mountain (2003) Dir. Anthony Minghella, 154 mins.

Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Charles Frazier, the film is set towards the end of the American Civil War, and tells the story of a wounded deserter from the Confederate army trying to get home to North Carolina and the love of his life. While some find the episodic structure flawed, the film is beautifully shot, well acted and captures the pointless cruelty of war.



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