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The Pendragon Society’s 1000 Greatest Films (2020) 800-781

Introduction

800. Death in Venice (1971) Dir. Luchino Visconti, 130 mins.

Based on a novel by Thomas Mann, Death in Venice stars Dirk Bogarde as a German composer who is terrified that he has lost all vestiges of humanity. While visiting Venice, he falls in love with a beautiful young boy (Bjorn Andresen). Most notable for the remarkable imagery, lyrically stunning final scene and the music of Gustav Mahler.

799. Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Dir. Denis Villeneuve, 163 mins.

Set thirty years after the first film, K (Ryan Gosling), a blade runner, uncovers a secret that threatens to instigate a war between humans and replicants. While it lacks the strong dialogue and iconic supporting characters of the original, the film works thanks to an excellent lead performance from Gosling and stunning visual work from British cinematographer Roger Deakins who finally won an Oscar after thirteen previous nominations.

798. Requiem For a Dream (2000) Dir. Darren Aronofsky, 102 mins.

The film depicts different forms of addiction, leading to the characters’ imprisonment in a dream world of delusion and reckless desperation that is subsequently overtaken and devastated by reality.

797. Django Unchained (2012) Dir. Quentin Tarantino, 165 mins.

Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Django Unchained stars Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. Honing vital hunting skills, Django remains focused on one goal, finding and rescuing Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), the wife he lost to the slave trade long ago.

796. Toy Story 3 (2010) Dir. Lee Unkrich, 102 mins.

The plot focuses on the toys Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and their friends dealing with an uncertain future as their owner, Andy, prepares to leave for college.

795. Patton (1970) Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner, 172 mins.

Patton is an epic biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II. George C. Scott wins the plaudits for his turn as the General.

794. Life of Brian (1979) Dir. Terry Jones, 94 mins.

The film tells the story of Brian Cohen (Graham Chapman), a young Jewish man who is born on the same day as, and next door to, Jesus Christ, and is subsequently mistaken for the Messiah.

793. Laura (1944) Dir. Otto Preminger, 88 mins.

Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney), has been murdered and tough New York detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) investigates the killing, methodically questioning the chief suspects. These are waspish columnist Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb), wastrel socialite Shelby Carpenter (Vincent Price) and Carpenter’s wealthy “patroness” Ann Treadwell (Judith Anderson). The deeper McPherson gets into the case, the more fascinated he becomes by the enigmatic Laura, literally falling in love with the girl’s painted portrait.

792. The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 120 mins.

The first of Fassbinder’s so-called ‘Federal Republic of Germany trilogy’, provides a despondent picture of West German misery considering the subjugation of emotions to mercenary material greed in the reconstruction years. The film shows the inevitable conflicts that arose from a collective denial of the past and ends with annihilation.

791. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) Dir. Luis Bunuel, 102 mins.

Set in Spain and France against the backdrop of a terrorist insurgency, the film conveys the story told through a series of flashbacks by an ageing Frenchman, Mathieu, played by Fernando Rey, who recounts falling in love with a beautiful young Spanish woman, Conchita, played interchangeably by two actresses, Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina, that repeatedly frustrates his romantic and sexual desires.

790. Whiplash (2014) Dir. Damien Chazelle, 106 mins.

It depicts the relationship between an ambitious jazz student (Miles Teller) and an abusive instructor (J. K. Simmons).

789. Up (2009) Dir. Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, 96 mins.

An elderly widower named Carl Fredricksen flies to South America in a house suspended by balloons. Its outstanding, moving opening and the marvellous animation, make up for it’s more bland and frenetic parts.

788. Being There (1979) Dir. Hal Ashby, 130 mins.

Hailed as a genius for his simplistic approach to life, an ageing gardener with a childlike naivete rises, by accident, into the game of politics. The man is soon presented as a possible Presidential candidate although no one knows his true background.

787. Shame (2011) Dir. Steve McQueen, 99 mins.

An intelligent examination of sex addiction with an outstanding lead performance from Michael Fassbender.

786. Stagecoach (1939) Dir. John Ford, 96 mins.

Notable at the very least for John Wayne’s debut, the film follows a group of strangers riding on a stagecoach through dangerous Apache territory.

785. The New World (2005) Dir. Terrence Malick, 150 mins.

The film depicts the founding of the Jamestown, Virginia, settlement and tells the stories of historical figures Captain John Smith, Pocahontas and John Rolfe. More beautiful imagery from Malick.

784. 12 Years a Slave (2013) Dir. Steve McQueen, 133 mins.

An adaptation of the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave, the film follows the book’s author Solomon Northup, a New York State-born free African-American man, who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery where he is put to work on plantations in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before being released.

783. Last Tango in Paris (1972) Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci, 127 mins.

Last Tango in Paris is a controversial Franco-Italian erotic drama directed by Bernardo Bertolucci which portrays a recently widowed American (Marlon Brando) who begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.

782. The Wrestler (2008) Dir. Darren Aronofsky, 111 mins.

Mickey Rourke plays an ageing professional wrestler who, despite his failing health and waning fame, continues to wrestle in an attempt to cling to the success of his 1980s heyday. Rourke delivers a career defining performance.

781. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) Dir. David Hand, 83 mins.

One of independent cinema’s great prestige pictures of the 1930s, Walt Disney began work on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first feature length animation, in 1934 and employed hundreds of background artists and animators. Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, the film tells the story of Snow White, a princess living with her stepmother, a vain and wicked witch known only as the Queen. While in production the Hollywood movie industry referred to the film derisively as “Disney’s Folly”, but the production was a huge critical and commercial success. It was praised by notable filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein and Orson Welles and is considered by many as among American cinema’s few genuine artistic achievements.

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The Pendragon Society’s 1000 Greatest Films (2019) 340-321

Introduction

340. Django Unchained (2012) Dir. Quentin Tarantino, 165 mins.

Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Django Unchained stars Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. Honing vital hunting skills, Django remains focused on one goal, finding and rescuing Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), the wife he lost to the slave trade long ago.

339. The World of Apu (1959) Dir. Satyajit Ray, 105 mins.

It is the third part of The Apu Trilogy, about the childhood and early adulthood of a young Bengali named Apu in the early twentieth century Indian subcontinent.

338. Forrest Gump (1994) Dir. Robert Zemeckis, 142 mins.

The story depicts several decades in the life of its titular character (Tom Hanks), a slow-witted but kind-hearted, good-natured and athletically prodigious man from Alabama.

337. The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Dir. John Frankenheimer, 126 mins.

The Manchurian Candidate concerns the brainwashing of Raymond Shaw, the son of a prominent political family, who becomes an unwitting assassin in an international communist conspiracy. Government officials from China and the Soviet Union follow Shaw around the world to brainwash him based on their theory that an assassin who has been brainwashed cannot feel fear or guilt.

336. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) Dir. Max Ophuls, 86 mins.

Perhaps the finest American film from the famed European director Max Ophüls, Letter from an Unknown Woman stars Joan Fontaine as a young woman who falls in love with a concert pianist.

335. Toy Story 3 (2010) Dir. Lee Unkrich, 102 mins.

The plot focuses on the toys Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and their friends dealing with an uncertain future as their owner, Andy, prepares to leave for college.

334. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Dir. George Roy Hill, 110 mins.

The film tells the story of bank robbers Butch Cassidy (played by Paul Newman) and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the “Sundance Kid” (played by Robert Redford), which is based loosely on historical fact.

333. Patton (1970) Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner, 172 mins.

Patton is an epic biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II. George C. Scott wins the plaudits for his turn as the General.

332. Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 108 mins.

The film is about the relationship between an Uncle, Charlie (Joseph Cotton) and his niece (Teresa Wright). He seems to be a good man on the surface, however, secrets about him soon become revealed to his niece and she will need to make choices that could end up destroying the whole family.

331. The 39 Steps (1935) Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 86 mins.

Very loosely based on the 1915 adventure novel The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan, the film is about an everyman civilian in London, Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), who becomes caught up in preventing an organisation of spies called the 39 Steps from stealing British military secrets. After being mistakenly accused of the murder of a counter-espionage agent, Hannay goes on the run to Scotland with an attractive woman in the hopes of stopping the spy ring and clearing his name. Much more than just entertaining escapism, The 39 Steps is a complex and effective spy thriller that’s arguably the best of Hitchcock’s films made in England and called a masterpiece by Orson Welles. More…



330. Sans Soleil (1983) Dir. Chris Marker, 100 mins.

Recognised as one of the major films of the 1980s, Chris Marker’s documentary, with a narrative concerning time travel, is a meditation on the nature of human memory, showing the inability to recall the context and nuances of memory, and how, as a result, the perception of personal and global histories is affected. With haunting images from Tokyo and Guinea Bissau, Sans Soleil is an eloquent melancholic take on the perishable ideological certainties of the 1960s.

329. Sweet Smell of Success (1957) Dir. Alexander Mackendrick, 96 mins.

The film tells the story of powerful newspaper columnist J.J. Hunsecker (portrayed by Burt Lancaster and based on Walter Winchell) who uses his connections to ruin his sister’s relationship with a man he deems unworthy of her.

328. The Social Network (2010) Dir. David Fincher, 120 mins.

Adapted from Ben Mezrich’s 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal, the film portrays the founding of social networking website Facebook and the resulting lawsuits.

327. Band of Outsiders (1964) Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 95 mins.

The film is about three people who commit a robbery.

326. Steamboat Bill, Jr (1928) Dir. Charles Reisner, 71 mins.

Willie Canfield (Buster Keaton) is the namby-pamby son of rough-and-tumble steamboat captain “Steamboat Bill” Canfield (Ernest Torrence). When he’s not trying to make a man out of his boy, the captain is carrying on a feud with Tom Carter (Tom McGuire), the wealthy owner of a fancy new ferryboat. Carter has a pretty daughter, Mary King (Marion Byron), with whom Willie falls in love. The two younger folks try to patch up the feud, but this seems impossible once the captain is jailed for punching out Carter.

325. The Piano (1993) Dir. Jane Campion, 121 mins.

The film follows a mute piano player (Holly Hunter) and her daughter and is set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier backwater town on the west coast of New Zealand. It revolves around the musician’s passion for playing the piano and her efforts to regain her piano after it is sold.

324. Life of Brian (1979) Dir. Terry Jones, 94 mins.

The film tells the story of Brian Cohen (Graham Chapman), a young Jewish man who is born on the same day as, and next door to, Jesus Christ, and is subsequently mistaken for the Messiah.

323. 12 Angry Men (1957) Dir. Sidney Lumet, 96 mins.

Directed by Sidney Lumet, this trial film tells the story of a jury made up of 12 men, as they deliberate the guilt or acquittal of a defendant on the basis of reasonable doubt, forcing the jurors to question their morals and values.

322. Rebecca (1940) Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 130 mins.

Hitchcock’s first American film is a haunting gothic tale starring Laurence Olivier as the brooding, aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter and Joan Fontaine as the shy and naive young woman who becomes his second wife. When Maxim returns with his new bride to his vast English estate, Manderly, the servants are hostile towards her, having adored his first wife Rebecca, whose death is shrouded in mystery.

321. Ivan’s Childhood (1962) Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 95 mins.

Ivan’s Childhood tells the story of orphan boy Ivan and his experiences during World War II.



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The greatest American movies

In response to the American Film Institute announcing its list of 400 films to be voted upon for their selection of the 100 years…100 American movies, the Los Angeles Daily News conducted its own poll in late 1997 asking their readers to choose their own top feature films of the century from the same list of 400 candidates. The results were published in the December 3, 1997 issue of the paper.

1. Casablanca (1942)
2. Citizen Kane (1941)
3. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
4. Gone With The Wind (1939)
5. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
6. The Godfather (1972)
7. The African Queen (1951)
8. The Sound of Music (1965)
9. Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
10. Star Wars (1977)
11. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
12. Schindler’s List (1993)
13. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
14. It Happened One Night (1934)
15. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
16. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
17. Patton (1970)
18. Dances with Wolves (1990)
19. King Kong (1933)
20. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
21. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
22. All About Eve (1950)
23. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
24. All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
25. Stagecoach (1939)
26. Fantasia (1940)
27. High Noon (1952)
28. Ben-Hur (1959)
29. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
30. Psycho (1960)
31. (tie) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
31. (tie) Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
31. (tie) Oklahoma! (1955)
31. (tie) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
35. (tie) Forrest Gump (1994)
35. (tie) Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
35. (tie) My Fair Lady (1964)
38. (tie) E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
38. (tie) Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
38. (tie) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
38. (tie) Some Like It Hot (1959)
38. (tie) To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
38. (tie) West Side Story (1961)
44. (tie) An American In Paris (1951)
44. (tie) Doctor Zhivago (1965)
44. (tie) From Here to Eternity (1953)
44. (tie) Laura (1944)
44. (tie) Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
44. (tie) On The Waterfront (1954)
44. (tie) The Quiet Man (1952)
51. (tie) Frankenstein (1931)
51. (tie) The Graduate (1967)
51. (tie) North By Northwest (1959)
51. (tie) Rocky (1976)
51. (tie) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
51. (tie) The Ten Commandments (1956)




57. (tie) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
57. (tie) Braveheart (1995)
57. (tie) Double Indemnity (1944)
57. (tie) Lost Horizon (1937)
57. (tie) Mary Poppins (1964)
57. (tie) M*A*S*H (1970)
57. (tie) One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
64. (tie) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
64. (tie) Giant (1956)
64. (tie) The Jazz Singer (1927)
64. (tie) Midnight Cowboy (1969)
64. (tie) Mrs. Miniver (1942)
64. (tie) Raging Bull (1980)
64. (tie) Rebecca (1940)
64. (tie) Wings (1927)
72. (tie) American Graffiti (1973)
72. (tie) Annie Hall (1977)
72. (tie) The Color Purple (1985)
72. (tie) The French Connection (1971)
72. (tie) The Gold Rush (1925)
72. (tie) The Longest Day (1962)
72. (tie) Rain Man (1988)
72. (tie) The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
72. (tie) The Sting (1973)
72. (tie) Tootsie (1982)
72. (tie) 12 Angry Men (1957)
72. (tie) Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
84. (tie) Apocalypse Now (1979)
84. (tie) Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
84. (tie) Chinatown (1974)
84. (tie) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
84. (tie) Funny Girl (1968)
84. (tie) Gunga Din (1939)
84. (tie) Shane (1953)
84. (tie) The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
84. (tie) The Third Man (1949)
93. (tie) Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
93. (tie) Blade Runner (1982)
93. (tie) Bonnie And Clyde (1967)
93. (tie) The Caine Mutiny (1954)
93. (tie) Chariots of Fire (1981)
93. (tie) The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
93. (tie) East of Eden (1955)
93. (tie) Field of Dreams (1989)
93. (tie) 42nd Street (1933)
93. (tie) The Godfather, Part II (1974)
93. (tie) Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
93. (tie) The Lion King (1994)
93. (tie) The Lost Weekend (1945)
93. (tie) Marty (1955)
93. (tie) Mister Roberts (1955)
93. (tie) On Golden Pond (1981)
93. (tie) The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
93. (tie) The Philadelphia Story (1940)
93. (tie) Rear Window (1954)
93. (tie) Stalag 17 (1953)
93. (tie) Taxi Driver (1976)
93. (tie) Vertigo (1958)
93. (tie) The Way We Were (1973)



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100 Great Movie Moments by Roger Ebert

For the centennial of cinema, Roger Ebert published a list of his 100 great moments from the movies on April 23rd, 1995. The list is in no particular order but if I had to choose Orson Welle’s memorable appearance in The Third Man wouldn’t be far from the top and it’s great to see Fassbinder’s brilliant Fear Eats The Soul get a mention. The descriptions come from Ebert’s website.

  • Clark Gable in “Gone With the Wind”: “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
  • Buster Keaton standing perfectly still while the wall of a house falls over upon him; he is saved by standing exactly in the location of an open window, in “Steamboat Bill, Jr.”
  • Charlie Chaplin being recognised by the blind girl in “City Lights.”
  • The computer Hal 9000 reading lips, in “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
  • The singing of “La Marseillaise” in “Casablanca.”
  • Snow White kissing Bashful & Dopey on the head in “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”
  • John Wayne putting the reins in his mouth in “True Grit” and galloping across the mountain meadow, weapons in both hands.
  • Jimmy Stewart in “Vertigo,” approaching Kim Novak across the room, realizing she embodies all of his obsessions – better than he knows.
  • The early film experiment [by Eadweard Muybridge] proving that horses do sometimes have all four hoofs off the ground.
  • Gene Kelly singin’ in the rain in “Singin’ in the Rain.”
  • Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta discuss what they call Quarter Pounders in France, in “Pulp Fiction.”
  • The Man in the Moon getting a cannon shell in his eye, in the Georges Melies film “A Voyage to the Moon.”
  • Pauline (Pearl White) in peril, tied to the railroad tracks, from the 1914 serial, “The Perils of Pauline.”
  • A boy running joyously to greet his returning father, in “Sounder.”
  • Harold Lloyd hanging from a clock face in “Safety Last.”
  • Orson Welles smiling enigmatically in the doorway in “The Third Man.”
  • An angel looking down sadly over Berlin, in Wim Wenders’ “Wings of Desire.”
  • The Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination: Over and over again, a moment frozen in time.
  • A homesick North African (Moroccan) man named Ali, sadly telling a barmaid Barbara (posing in a doorway) that what he really wants is not sex but couscous, in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “Ali: Fear Eats the Soul.”
  • The Road Runner, suspended in air.
  • Zero Mostel throwing a cup of cold coffee at the hysterical Gene Wilder in Mel Brooks’ “The Producers,” and Wilder screaming: “I’m still hysterical! Plus, now I’m wet!”
  • An old man all alone in his home, faced with the death of his wife and the indifference of his children, in Yasujiro Ozu’s “Tokyo Story.”
  • “Smoking.” Robert Mitchum’s response, holding up his cigarette, when Kirk Douglas offers him a smoke in “Out of the Past.”
  • Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg wading in the fountain in “La Dolce Vita.”
  • The moment in Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low” (aka Heaven and Hell, or Tengoku to jigoku) when millionaire Mr. Gondo discovers that it is not his son Jun who has been kidnapped, but his chauffeur Mr. Aiko’s son Shinichi – and then the eyes of the two fathers meet.
  • The distant sight of people appearing over the horizon at the end of “Schindler’s List.”
  • R2D2 and C3PO in “Star Wars.”
  • E.T. and friend riding their bicycle across the face of the moon, in “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.”
  • Marlon Brando’s screaming “Stella!” in “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
  • Hannibal Lecter smiling at Clarice in “The Silence of the Lambs.”
  • “Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!” The first words heard in the first talkie, “The Jazz Singer,” said by Al Jolson.
  • Jack Nicholson trying to order a chicken salad sandwich in “Five Easy Pieces.”
  • “Nobody’s perfect”: Joe E. Brown’s last line in “Some Like It Hot,” explaining why he plans to marry Jack Lemmon even though he is a man.
  • “Rosebud” in “Citizen Kane.”
  • The shooting party in Renoir’s “Rules of the Game.”
  • The haunted eyes of Antoine Doinel, Truffaut’s autobiographical hero, in the freeze frame that ends “The 400 Blows.”
  • Jean-Paul Belmondo flipping a cigarette into his mouth in Godard’s “Breathless.”
  • The casting (and installation) of the great bell in Andrei Tarkovsky’s “Andrei Rublev.”
  • “What have you done to its eyes?” Dialogue by Mia Farrow in “Rosemary’s Baby.”
  • Moses parting the Red Sea in “The Ten Commandments.”
  • An old man found dead in a child’s swing, his mission completed, at the end of Kurosawa’s “Ikiru.”
  • The haunted eyes of the actress Maria Falconetti in Dreyer’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc.”
  • The children watching the train pass by in Ray’s “Pather Panchali.”
  • The baby carriage bouncing down the steps in Eisenstein’s “Battleship Potemkin.”
  • “Are you lookin’ at me?” Robert De Niro in “Taxi Driver.”
  • “My father made them an offer they couldn’t refuse”: Al Pacino in “The Godfather.”
  • The mysterious body in the photographs in Antonioni’s “Blow-Up.”
  • “One word, Benjamin: plastics.” From “The Graduate.”
  • A man dying in the desert in von Stroheim’s “Greed.”
  • Eva Marie Saint clinging to Cary Grant’s hand on Mount Rushmore in “North by Northwest.”



  • Astaire and Rogers dancing. [“Swing Time”, or “Top Hat”]
  • “There ain’t no sanity clause!” Chico to Groucho in “A Night at the Opera.”
  • “They call me Mr. Tibbs.” Sidney Poitier in Norman Jewison’s “In the Heat of the Night.”
  • The sadness of the separated newly-wed lovers (including the vision of the distraught husband Jean imagining his wife Juliette in her bridal gown reflected in the water), in Jean Vigo’s “L’Atalante.
  • The vast expanse of desert, and then tiny figures appearing, in “Lawrence of Arabia.”
  • Jack Nicholson on the back of the motorcycle, wearing a football helmet, in “Easy Rider.”
  • The geometrical choreography of the Busby Berkeley girls. [“Golddiggers of 1933”, “Footlight Parade”]
  • The peacock spreading its tail feathers in the snow, in Fellini’s “Amarcord.”
  • Robert Mitchum in “The Night of the Hunter,” with “LOVE” tattooed on the knuckles of one hand, and “HATE” on the other.
  • Joan Baez singing “Joe Hill” in “Woodstock.”
  • Robert De Niro’s transformation from sleek boxer to paunchy nightclub owner in “Raging Bull.”
  • Bette Davis: “Fasten your seat belts; it’s gonna be a bumpy night!” in “All About Eve.”
  • “There’s a spider in your bathroom the size of a Buick!” Woody Allen in “Annie Hall.”
  • The chariot race in “Ben-Hur.”
  • Barbara Harris singing “It Don’t Worry Me” to calm a panicked crowd in Robert Altman’s “Nashville.”
  • The game of Russian roulette in “The Deer Hunter.”
  • Chase scenes:”The French Connection”
    “Bullitt”
    “Raiders of the Lost Ark”
    “Diva”
  • The shadow of the bottle hidden in the light fixture, in “The Lost Weekend.”
  • “I coulda been a contender.” Brando in “On the Waterfront.”
  • George C. Scott’s speech about the enemy in “Patton”: “We’re gonna go through him like crap through a goose.”
  • Rocky Balboa running up the steps and throwing his hands into the air, with all of Philadelphia at his feet, in “Rocky.”
  • Debra Winger saying goodbye to her children in “Terms of Endearment.”
  • The montage of the kissing scenes in “Cinema Paradiso.”
  • The dinner guests who find they somehow cannot leave, in Bunuel’s “The Exterminating Angel.”
  • A knight plays chess with Death, in Bergman’s “The Seventh Seal.”
  • The savage zeal of the Klansmen in Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation.”
  • The problem of Hulot forgetting to close the seaside hotel’s front door, allowing a tornadic wind to create havoc with a series of small but amusing annoyances, in Jacques Tati’s “Mr. Hulot’s Holiday.”
  • “I am big! It’s the pictures that got small!” Gloria Swanson in “Sunset Boulevard.”
  • “Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore!” Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz.”
  • An overhead shot beginning with an entrance hall, and ending with a closeup of a key in Ingrid Bergman’s hand, in Hitchcock’s “Notorious.”
  • “Nicely packed that kid…There’s not much meat on ‘er, but what’s there is cherce.” Spencer Tracy about Katharine Hepburn in “Pat and Mike.”
  • The day’s outing of the mental patients in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
  • “I always look well when I’m near death.” Greta Garbo to Parisian friend in “Camille.”
  • “It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.” Marlene Dietrich in “Shanghai Express.”
  • “I’m walkin’ here!” Dustin Hoffman in “Midnight Cowboy.”
  • W. C. Fields flinching as a prop man hurls handfuls of fake snow into his face (after he utters the running gag line: “It ain’t a fit night out for man or beast!”) and opens the door, in “The Fatal Glass of Beer.”
  • “Any time you got nothin’ to do and lots of time to do it, come up.” Mae West in “My Little Chickadee.”
  • “Made it, Ma! Top of the world!” James Cagney in “White Heat.”
  • Richard Burton reacting when Elizabeth Taylor reveals their “secret” in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
  • Henry Fonda getting his hair cut in “My Darling Clementine.”
  • “Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges!” Alfonso Bedoya to Humphrey Bogart in “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.”
  • “There’s your dog. Your dog’s dead. But where’s the thing that made it move? It had to be something, didn’t it?” Line from Errol Morris’ “Gates of Heaven.”
  • “Don’t touch the suit!” Burt Lancaster in “Atlantic City.”
  • Gena Rowlands arrives at John Cassavetes’ house with a taxicab full of adopted animals, in “Love Streams.”
  • “I want to live again. I want to live again. I want to live again. Please God, let me live again.” Jimmy Stewart to the angel in “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
  • Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr embrace on the beach in “From Here to Eternity.”
  • Mookie throws the trash can through the window of Sal’s Pizzeria, in “Do the Right Thing.”
  • “I love the smell of napalm in the morning,” dialogue by Robert Duvall, in “Apocalypse Now.”
  • “Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.” Katharine Hepburn to Humphrey Bogart in “The African Queen.”
  • “Mother of mercy. Is this the end of Rico?” Edward G. Robinson in “Little Caesar.”

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TOP 100 FILMS OF ALL TIME by the Video Detective

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

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




The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Manchurian Candidate (1961)
Manhattan (1979)
M*A*S*H (1970)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Modern Times (1936)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
My Fair Lady (1964)
North By Northwest (1959)
On The Waterfront (1954)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Ordinary People (1980)
Papillon (1973)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Patton (1970)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Psycho (1960)
Raging Bull (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Rear Window (1954)
Room with a View (1986)
The Searchers (1956)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Shane (1953)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Stagecoach (1939)
Star Wars (1977)
The Sting (1973)
Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
The Third Man (1949)
Top Hat (1935)
Touch Of Evil (1958)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
12 Angry Men (1957)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Vertigo (1958)
West Side Story (1961)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
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1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

A list taken from the 2013 edition of the book ‘1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die’ in alphabetical order. The reference book is a part of a series designed and produced by Quintessence Editions, a London-based company, and published in English-language versions by Cassell Illustrated (UK), ABC Books (the publishing division of Australian Broadcasting Corporation), and Barron’s (US) and features original essays on each film contributed by over 70 film critics. Buy 2013 edition – 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

12 Angry Men 1957
2001 1968
39 Steps, The 1935
42nd Street 1933
8 1/2 1963
A One and a Two Yi yi 2000
A Separation Jodaeiye Nader az Simin 2011
A Throw of Dice 1929
Actor’s Revenge, An Yukinojo Henge 1963
Actress, The Yuen Ling-Yuk 1992
Adam’s Rib 1949
Adventure, The Avventura, L’ 1960
Adventures of Priscillia, Queen of the Desert, The 1994
Adventures of Robin Hood, The 1938
Affair to Remember, An 1957
African Queen, The 1951
Age of Gold, The Age d’or, L’ 1930
Aguirre: The Wrath of God Aguirre, Der Zorn Gottes 1972
Aileen Wournos: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer 2003
Airplane! 1980
Akira 1988
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Angst Essen Seele Auf 1974
Alien 1979
Aliens 1986
All About Eve 1950
All About My Mother Todo Sobre Mi Madre 1999
All Quiet on the Western Front 1930
All That Heaven Allows 1956
All That Jazz 1979
All the President’s Men 1976
Alphaville Alphaville, une Étrange Aventure de Lemmy Caution 1965
Amadeus 1984
Amarcord 1973
American Beauty 1999
American Friend, The Amerikanische Freund, Der 1977
American Graffiti 1973
American In Paris, An 1951
American Werewolf in London 1981
Amores Perros Amores Perros 2000
Amour 2012
Anatomy of a Murder 1959
Andalusian Dog, An Un chien andalou 1928
Andrei Rublev Andrei Rublyov 1969
Angels with Dirty Faces 1938
Annie Hall 1977
Apartment, The 1960
Apocalypse Now 1979
Archangel 1990
Argo 2012
Ariel 1988
Artists and Models 1955
Ascent, The Voskhozhdenie 1976
Ashes and Diamonds Popiól I Diament 1958
Asphalt Jungle, The 1950
Asthenic Syndrome, The Astenicheskij Sindrom 1989
Atalante, L’ 1934
Atlantic City 1980
Audition 1999
Autumn Afternoon, An Sanma No Aji 1962
Avatar 2009
Awful Truth, The 1937
Babe 1995
Babette’s Feast Babette’s Gaestebud 1987
Back to the Future 1985
Bad and the Beautiful, The 1952
Bad Day at Black Rock 1955
Badlands 1973
Baker’s Wife, The Femme du Boulanger, La 1938
Ballad of Narayama, The Narayama Bushi-Ko 1983
Balthazar Au Hasard Balthazar 1966
Band Wagon, The 1953
Bank Dick, The 1940
Barefoot Contessa, The 1954
Barren Lives Vidas Secas 1963
Barry Lyndon 1975
Batman 1989
Battle of Algiers, The Battaglia di Algeri, La 1965
Battle of San Pietro, The 1945
Battleship Potemkin Bronenosets Potyomkin 1925
Beau Travail 1999
Beautiful Troublemaker, The Belle noiseuse, La 1991
Beauty and the Beast La Belle et la Bête 1946
Before the Revolution Prima Della Rivoluzione 1964
Being John Malkovich 1999
Being There 1979
Belle de Jour 1967
Ben-Hur 1959
Best Years of Our Lives, The 1946
Beverly Hills Cop 1984
Bicycle Thief, The Ladri di biciclette 1948
Big 1988
Big Carnival, The 1951
Big Chill, The 1983
Big Heat, The 1953
Big Parade, The 1925
Big Red One, The 1980
Big Sleep, The 1946
Bigamist, The 1953
Bigger Than Life 1956
Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Uccello dalle Piume di Cristallo, L’ 1970



Birds, The 1963
Birth of a Nation, The 1915
Bitter Tea of General Yen, The 1933
Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant, Die 1972
Black Cat, The 1934
Black God, White Devil Deus E O Diabo Na Terra Do Sol 1964
Black Narcissus 1946
Black Orpheus Orfeu Negro 1959
Black Sunday Maschera del Demonio, La 1960
Black Swan 2010
Blackmail 1929
Blade Runner 1982
Blair Witch Project, The 1999
Blazing Saddles 1974
Blonde Cobra 1963
Blowup 1966
Blue Angel, The Blaue Engel, Der 1930
Blue Kite, The Lan Feng Zheng 1993
Blue Velvet 1986
Boat, The Boot, Das 1981
Bob the Gambler Bob le flambeur 1955
Body Heat 1981
Bonnie and Clyde 1967
Boogie Nights 1997
Boudu Saved from Drowning Boudu Sauvé des Eaux 1932
Bowling for Columbine 2002
Boyz N the Hood 1991
Brave-Hearted Will Take the Bride, The Dilwale Dulhaniya le Jayenge 1995
Braveheart 1995
Brazil 1985
Breakfast at Tiffany’s 1961
Breakfast Club, The 1985
Breaking Away 1979
Breaking the Waves 1996
Breathless A Bout de Souffle 1959
Bride of Frankenstein 1935
Bridesmaids 2011
Bridge on the River Kwai, The 1957
Brief Encounter 1946
Brighter Summer Day, A Guling Jie Shaonian Sha Ren Shijian 1991
Brightness Yeelen 1987
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974
Bringing Up Baby 1938
Broadcast News 1987
Brokeback Mountain 2005
Broken Blossoms 1919
Buffalo 66 1998
Bull Durham 1988
Burmese Harp, The Biruma No Tategoto 1956
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969
Butcher, The Boucher, Le 1969
Cabaret 1972
Cabin in the Woods 2011
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Kabinett des Doktor Caligari, Das 1919
Cairo Station Bab El Hadid 1958
Camille 1936
Captain Blood 1935
Captains Courageous 1937
Caravaggio 1986
Carmen Jones 1954
Carrie 1976
Casablanca 1942
Cat People 1942
Cave of Forgotten Dreams 2010
Ceddo 1977
Celebration, The Festen 1998
Celine and Julie Go Boating Céline et Julie Vont en Bateau 1974
Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, The 1978
Chariots of Fire 1981
Children of a Lesser God 1986
Children of Paradise, The Enfants du Paradis, Les 1945
Chimes at Midnight Campanadas a Medianoche 1965
Chinatown 1974
Chinese Ghost Story, A Sinnui Yauman 1987
Christ Stopped at Eboli 1979
Christmas Story, A 1983
Chronicle of a Summer Chronique d’un été 1961
Chungking Express Chong Qing Sen Lin 1994
Cinema Paradiso Nuovo Cinema Paradiso 1988
Citizen Kane 1941
City Lights 1931
City of God Cidade de Deus 2002
City of Sadness, A Beiqing Chengshi 1989
Cleo from 5 to 7 Cléo de 5 à 7 1962
Clerks 1994
Clockwork Orange, A 1971
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977
Close-up Nema-Ye Nazdik 1990
Closely Watched Trains Ostre Sledované Vlaky 1967
Cloud-Capped Star, The Meghe Dhaka Tara 1960
Clueless 1995
Color of Pomegranates, The Sayat Nova 1969
Color Purple, The 1985
Come and See Idi I Smotri 1985
Come Drink With Me Da Zui Xia 1966
Conformist, The Conformista, Il 1969
Consequences of Love 2004
Contempt Le Mépris 1963
Conversation, The 1974
Cook, the Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover, The 1989



Cool Hand Luke 1967
Cool World, The 1963
Cow, The Gaav 1968
Cranes are Flying, The Letjat Zhuravli 1957
Cria! Cría Cuervos 1975
Cries and Whispers Viskingar och Rop 1972
Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Wo Hu Cang Long 2000
Crowd, The 1928
Crumb 1994
Crying Game, The 1992
Cyclo Xich Lo 1995
Daisies Sedmikrasky 1966
Dances with Wolves 1990
Dangerous Liaisons 1988
David Holzman’s Diary 1968
Dawn of the Dead 1978
Day for Night Nuit Américaine, La 1973
Day in the Country, A Partie de Campagne, Une 1935
Day the Earth Stood Still, The 1951
Daybreak Jour se lève, Le 1939
Days of Heaven 1978
Dead Man 1995
Dead Ringers 1988
Dead, The 1987
Dear Diary Caro Diario 1994
Decalogue, The Dekalog, Jeden 1988
Decline of the American Empire Déclin de l’Empire Américain, Le 1986
Deep End 1970
Deer Hunter, The 1978
Defiant Ones, The 1958
Delicatessen 1991
Deliverance 1972
Departed, the 2006
Dersu Uzala 1974
Deseret 1995
Destry Rides Again 1939
Detour 1945
Devils, The 1971
Diaboliques, Les 1954
Diary of a Country Priest Journal d’un curé de campagne 1951
Die Hard 1988
Diner 1982
Dirty Harry 1971
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie, Le 1972
District 9 2009
Diva 1981
Django Unchained 2012
Do the Right Thing 1989
Docks of New York, The 1928
Dodsworth 1936
Dog Day Afternoon 1975
Dog Star Man 1962
Dog’s Life, A Mondo cane 1962
Dolce Vita, La 1960
Don’t Look Now 1973
Double Indemnity 1944
Double Life of Veronique, The Double Vie de Véronique, La 1991
Down By Law 1986
Downfall Untergang, Der 2004
Dr. Mabuse, Parts 1 and 2 Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler 1922
Dr. Strangelove 1964
Dr. Zhivago 1965
Dracula 1931
Dracula 1958
Drive 2011
Drugstore Cowboy 1989
Duck Soup 1933
Dumbo 1941
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982
Ear, The Ucho 1970
Earth Zemlya 1930
Earth Entranced Terra Em Transe 1967
Easy Rider 1969
Eclipse, The Eclisse, L’ 1962
Edward Scissorhands 1990
El Norte 1983
El Topo 1970
Elephant 2003
Elephant Man, The 1980
Empire Strikes Back, The 1980
English Patient, The 1996
Enter the Dragon 1973
Eraserhead 1977
Europa ’51 1952
Europa Europa Hitlerjunge Salomon 1990
Evil Dead, The 1982
Exorcist, The 1973
Exterminating Angel, The 1962
Eyes Without a Face Yeux Sans Visage, Les 1959
F for Fake 1973
Faces 1968
Fanny and Alexander 1982
Fantasia 1940
Fantastic Planet Planète Sauvage, La 1973
Farewell My Concubine Ba Wang Bie Ji 1993
Farewell My Lovely Murder, My Sweet 1944
Fargo 1996
Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982
Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 1965



Fat City 1972
Fatal Attraction 1987
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 1986
Field of Dreams 1989
Fight Club 1999
Firemen’s Ball, The Horí, Má Panenko 1967
Fires Were Started 1943
Fish Called Wanda, A 1988
Fitzcarraldo 1982
Five Easy Pieces 1970
Flaming Creatures 1963
Floating Weeds Ukigusa 1959
Fly, The 1986
Foolish Wives 1922
Footlight Parade 1933
Forbidden Games Jeux interdits 1952
Forbidden Planet 1956
Force of Evil 1948
Forrest Gump 1994
Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994
Fourth Man, The Vierde Man, De 1983
Fox and His Friends Faustrecht Der Freiheit 1975
Frankenstein 1931
Freaks 1932
Freedom for Us À Nous la liberté 1931
French Connection, The 1971
Frenzy 1972
From Here to Eternity 1953
Full Metal Jacket 1987
Funny Games 1997
Gabbeh 1996
Gallipoli 1981
Gangs of New York 2002
Garden of the Finzi-Continis, The Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, Il 1970
Gaslight 1944
General, The 1927
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953
Gertrud 1964
Get Carter 1971
Ghandi 1982
Ghost Busters 1984
Giant 1956
Gigi 1958
Gilda 1946
Gimme Shelter 1970
Gladiator 2000
Gleaners and I, The Glaneurs et la Glaneuse, Les 2000
Glengarry Glen Ross 1992
Glory 1989
Godfather, Part II, The 1974
Godfather, The 1972
Godson, The Samouraï, Le 1967
Gold Diggers of 1933 1933
Gold Rush, The 1925
Golden Coach, The Carrosse d’or, Le 1953
Golden River Subarnarekha 1965
Goldfinger 1964
Gomorrah Gomorra 2008
Gone with the Wind 1939
Good Bye Lenin! 2003
Good Morning Vietnam 1987
Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo, Il 1966
Goodbye Children Au revoir les enfants 1987
Goodfellas 1990
Gospel According to St. Matthew, The Vangelo Secondo Matteo, Il 1964
Graduate, The 1967
Grand Illusion Grande Illusion, La 1937
Grapes of Wrath, The 1940
Grave of the Fireflies Hotaru No Haka 1988
Grease 1978
Great Escape, The 1963
Great Expectations 1946
Great Train Robbery, The 1903
Greed 1924
Groundhog Day 1993
Gun Crazy 1949
Gunfight at the OK Corral 1957
Gunga Din 1939
Guys and Dolls 1955
Halloween 1978
Hana-bi 1997
Hannah and Her Sisters 1986
Hanyeo Housemaid, The 1960
Happiness 1998
Hard Day’s Night, A 1964
Harder They Come, The 1973
Harold and Maude 1971
Haunting, The 1963
Head On Gegen die wand 2004
Heartbreak Kid, The 1972
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse 1991
Heat 1995
Heaven and Earth Magic 1962
Heavenly Creatures 1994
Heiress, The 1949
Henry V 1944
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1990
High Noon 1952
High Plains Drifter 1972
High School 1969



High Sierra 1941
High Society 1956
Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer 1955
Hills Have Eyes, The 1977
Hired Hand, The 1971
Hiroshima mon amour 1959
His Girl Friday 1940
Hold Me While I’m Naked 1966
Hole, The Trou, Le 1959
Hoop Dreams 1994
Horse Thief, The Dao Ma Zei 1986
Hotel Terminus:The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie Hôtel Terminus:Klaus Barbie et Son Temps 1988
Hour of the Wolf Vargtimmen 1968
House is Black, The Khaneh Siah Ast 1963
How Green Was My Valley 1941
Hud 1963
Hurt Locker 2008
Hustler, The 1961
Häxan 1923
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932
I Know Where I’m Going! 1945
Ice Storm, The 1997
If… 1968
In a Lonely Place 1950
In the Heat of the Night 1967
In the Mood for Love Dut Yeung Nin Wa 2000
In the Realm of the Senses Ai No Corrida 1976
In the Year of the Pig 1969
Inception 2010
Incredible Shrinking Man, The 1957
Independence Day 1996
India Song 1975
Inglourious Basterds 2009
Intolerance 1916
Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956
It Happened One Night 1934
It’s a Gift 1934
It’s a Wonderful Life 1946
Ivan the Terrible, I Ivan Groznyj I 1944
Jaws 1975
Jazz Singer, The 1927
Jeanne Dielman… 1975
Jerk, The 1979
Jezebel 1938
JFK 1991
Johnny Guitar 1954
Jules and Jim Jules et Jim 1962
Juliet of the Spirits Giulietta deglie Spiriti 1965
Jungle Book, The 1967
Jurassic Park 1993
Keeper of Promises O Pagador De Promessas 1962
Kes 1969
Kid Brother, The 1927
Killer of Sheep 1977
Killer, The Die Xue Shuang Xiong 1989
Killers, The 1946
Killing Fields, The 1984
Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The 1976
Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949
King Kong 1933
King of Comedy, The 1983
King of New York 1990
Kingdom, The Riget 1994
Kippur 2000
Kiss Me Deadly 1955
Kiss of the Spider Woman 1985
Klute 1971
Koyaanisqatsi 1983
Kramer vs. Kramer 1979
L.A. Confidential 1997
Ladies Man, The 1961
Lady Eve, The 1941
Lady from Shanghai, The 1948
Ladykillers, The 1955
Land Without Bread Hurdes, Las 1933
Last Chants for a Slow Dance 1977
Last Laugh, The Letzte Mann, Der 1924
Last Metro, The Dernier Metro, Le 1980
Last Picture Show, The 1971
Last Seduction, The 1994
Last Tango in Paris Ultimo Tango a Parigi 1972
Last Wave, The 1977
Last Year at Marienbad Année dernière à Marienbad, L’ 1961
Laura 1944
Lavender Hill Mob, The 1951
Lawrence of Arabia 1962
Le Havre (Finland) 2011
Leopard, The Gattopardo, Il 1963
Les Miserables 2012
Let the Right One In 2008
Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The 1943
Life of Emile Zola, The 1937
Life of Pi 2012
Limité 1931
Lincoln 2012
Lion King, The 1994
Little Big Man 1970
Little Caeser 1930
Little Miss Sunshine 2006



Lives of Others, The Das Leben der Anderen 2006
Local Hero 1983
Lola 1961
Lolita 1962
Lone Star 1996
Long Goodbye, The 1973
Lord of the Rings, The 2001
Lost Weekend, The 1945
Louisiana Story 1948
Loulou 1980
Love Me Tonight 1932
Lucía 1969
M 1931
M*A*S*H* 1970
M. Hulot’s Holiday Vacances de M. Hulot, Les 1953
Mad Masters, The Maîtres fous, Les 1955
Mad Max 1979
Madame de… 1953
Magnificent Ambersons, The 1942
Magnolia 1999
Make Way for Tomorrow 1937
Maltese Falcon, The 1941
Man Bites Dog C’est arrivé près de chez vouz 1992
Man Escaped, A Condamné à Mort s’échappé ou Le Vent Souffle où Il Veut, Un 1956
Man in Grey, The 1943
Man of Iron Czlowiek z Zelaza 1981
Man of Marble Czlowiek Z Marmuru 1977
Man of the West 1958
Man Who Fell to Earth, The 1976
Man who had his hair cut short, The De Man Die Zijin Haar Kort Liet Knippen 1965
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The 1962
Man with a Movie Camera, The Chelovek s kinoapparatom 1929
Manchurian Candidate, The 1962
Manhattan 1979
Manhunter 1986
Manila in the Claws of Brightness Maynila: Sa Mga Kuko Ng Liwanag 1975
Marketa Lazarová 1967
Marnie 1964
Marriage of Maria Braun, The Ehe Der Maria Braun, Die 1979
Marty 1955
Mary Poppins 1964
Masculine-Feminine Masculin-Féminin 1966
Masque of the Red Death, The 1964
Matrix, The 1999
Matter of Life and Death, A 1946
McCabe and Mrs. Miller 1971
Mean Streets 1973
Meet Me in St. Louis 1944
Memento 2000
Memories of Underdevelopment Memorias del Subdesarrollo 1968
Meshes of the Afternoon 1943
Metropolis 1927
Midnight Cowboy 1969
Midnight Song Ye Ban Ge Sheng 1937
Mildred Pierce 1945
Mirror, The Zerkalo 1974
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985
Modern Times 1936
Money Argent, L’ 1983
Monsieur Verdoux 1947
Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975
Monty Python’s Life of Brian 1979
Moolaad&eacu; 1995
Moonstruck 1987
Mortal Storm, The 1940
Mother and the Whore, The Maman et la Putain, La 1973
Mother India Bharat Mata 1957
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939
Mrs Minniver 1942
Muppet Movie, The 1979
Muriel’s Wedding 1994
Murmur of the Heart Souffle Au Coeur, Le 1971
Music Room, The Jalsaghar 1958
Mutiny on the Bounty 1935
My Brilliant Career 1979
My Darling Clementine 1946
My Fair Lady 1964
My Left Foot 1989
My Life to Live Vivre Sa Vie: Film en Douze Tableaux 1962
My Man Godfrey 1936
My Night with Maud Ma Nuit Chez Maud 1969
My Own Private Idaho 1991
My Uncle Mon oncle 1958
Méditerranée 1963
Naked Gun, The 1988
Naked Spur, The 1953
Nanook of the North 1922
Napoléon 1927
Nashville 1975
Natural Born Killers 1994
Natural, The 1984
Neco z Alenky Alice 1988
Network 1976
Night and Fog Nuit et Brouillard 1955
Night at the Opera, A 1935
Night of the Hunter, The 1955
Night of the Living Dead 1968
Night of the Shooting Stars, The Notte di San Lorenzo, La 1982
Night, The Notte, La 1961



Nightmare on Elm Street, A 1984
Nights of Cabiria, The Notti of Cabiria, Le 1957
Ninotchka 1939
No Country for Old Men 2007
No Fear, No Die S’en Fout La Mort 1990
No Man’s Land 2001
North By Northwest 1959
Nosferatu, a Symphony of Terror Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens 1922
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht 1979
Notorious 1946
Now, Voyager 1942
Nutty Professor, The 1963
October Oktyabr 1927
Odd Man Out 1947
Of Gods and Men 2010
Official Story, The 1988
Oklahoma 1955
Oldboy 2003
Olympia Part 1: Festival of the Nations & Part 2: Festival of Beauty Olympia 1: Teil – Fest Der Volker & Olympia 2: Teil – Fest Der Schönheit 1938
On the Town 1949
On the Waterfront 1954
Once Upon a Time in America 1983
Once Upon a Time in China Wong Fei-Hung 1991
Once Upon a Time in the West C’era Una Volta il West 1968
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1975
Onibaba 1964
Only Angels Have Wings 1939
Open City Roma, Città Aperta 1945
Open Your Eyes Abre Los Ojos 1997
Ordet 1955
Ordinary People 1980
Orphans of the Storm 1921
Orpheus Orphée 1950
Osama 2003
Ossessione 1943
Our Hospitality 1923
Out of Africa 1985
Out of the Past 1947
Outlaw Josey Wales, The 1976
Ox-Bow Incident, The 1943
Paisan Paisà 1946
Paleface, The 1948
Palm Beach Story, The 1942
Pan’s Labyrinth Laberinto del Fauno, El 2006
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman 1951
Pandora’s Box Büchse der Pandora, Die 1929
Papillon 1973
Paranormal Activity 2007
Paris, Texas 1984
Passage to India, A 1984
Passenger Pasazerka 1963
Passion of Joan of Arc, The Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, La 1928
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973
Pather Panchali 1955
Paths of Glory 1957
Patton 1970
Peeping Tom 1960
Peking Opera Blues Do Ma Daan 1986
Performance 1970
Persona 1966
Peter Ibbertson 1935
Phantom Carriage, The Körkarlen 1921
Phantom of the Opera, The 1925
Phenix City Story, The 1955
Philadelphia 1993
Philadelphia Story, The 1940
Piano, The 1993
Pickpocket 1959
Pickup on South Street 1953
Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975
Pier, The Jetée, La 1961
Pierrot Goes Wild Pierrot le Fou 1965
Pink Flamingos 1972
Pinocchio 1940
Place in the Sun, A 1951
Planet of the Apes 1968
Platoon 1986
Player, The 1992
Playtime 1967
Point Blank 1967
Poltergeist 1982
Postman Always Rings Twice, The 1946
Pretty Woman 1990
Princess Bride, The 1987
Prizzi’s Honor 1985
Producers, The 1968
Project A, Part II ‘A’ Gai Waak Juk Jaap 1987
Psycho 1960
Public Enemy, The 1931
Pulp Fiction 1994
Puppetmaster, The Hsimeng Jensheng 1993
Purple Rose of Cairo, The 1985
Pépé le Moko 1937
Quatre Cent Coups, Les 400 Blows, The 1959
Queen Christina 1933
Question of Silence, A Stilte Rond Christine M., De 1982
Quiet Earth, The 1985
Quiet Man, The 1952
Raging Bull 1980
Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981



Rain Man 1988
Raise the Red Lantern Da Hong Deng Long Gao Gao Gua 1991
Raising Arizona 1987
Ran 1985
Rapture, The 1991
Rashomon 1950
Real Life 1979
Rear Window 1954
Rebecca 1940
Rebel Without a Cause 1955
Reckless Moment, The 1949
Red and the White, The Csillagosok, Katonák 1967
Red Desert, The Deserto Rosso, Il 1964
Red Psalm Még Kér A Nép 1971
Red River 1948
Red Shoes, The 1948
Red Sorghum Hong Gao Liang 1987
Reds 1981
Report 1967
Repulsion 1965
Requiem for a Dream 2000
Resevoir Dogs 1992
Return of the Jedi 1983
Ride Lonesome 1959
Right Stuff, The 1983
Ring 1998
Rio Bravo 1959
Rio Grande 1950
RoboCop 1988
Rocco and his Brothers Rocco e i suoi fratelli 1960
Rocky 1976
Rocky Horror Picture Show, The 1975
Roger & Me 1989
Roman Holiday 1953
Romper Stomper 1992
Room with a View, A 1986
Rope 1948
Rosemary’s Baby 1968
Rules of the Game, The Règle du Jeu, La 1939
Run Lola Run Lola Rennt 1998
Rushmore 1998
Russian Ark 1989
Safe 1995
Salo, or The 120 days of Sodom Salò o le centoventi giornate di sodoma 1975
Salt of the Earth 1954
Salvador 1986
Sanshô Dayû Sansho the Baliff 1954
Saragossa Manuscript Rekopis Znaleziony w Saragossie 1965
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960
Saturday Night Fever 1977
Satyricon 1969
Saving Private Ryan 1998
Scarface 1983
Scarface: The Shame of a Nation 1932
Schindler’s List 1993
Scorpio Rising 1964
Scream 1996
Se7en 1995
Searchers, The 1956
Seconds 1966
Secret Beyond the Door 1948
Secrets & Lies 1996
Senna 2010
Senso The Wanton Countess 1954
Sergeant York 1941
Serpico 1973
Servant, The 1963
Seven Samurai, The 1954
Seventh Seal, The Sjunde Inseglet, Det 1957
Seventh Victim, The 1943
Sex, lies, and videotape 1989
Shadow of a Doubt 1943
Shadows 1959
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors Tini Zabutykh Predkiv 1964
Shaft 1971
Shame Skammen 1968
Shame 2011
Shane 1953
Shanghai Express 1932
Shaolin Master Killer Shao Lin San Shih Liu Fang 1978
Shawshank Redemption, The 1994
She Done Him Wrong 1933
She’s Gotta Have It 1986
Sherlock Jr. 1924
Sherman’s March 1986
Shine 1996
Shining, The 1980
Shoah 1985
Shock Corridor 1963
Shoot the Piano Player Tirez sur le pianiste 1960
Shop on Main Street, The Obchod Na Korze 1965
Short Cuts 1993
Silence of the Lambs, The 1991
Silver Lode 1954
Sin of Lola Montes, The Lola Montès 1955
Singin’ in the Rain 1952
Sixth Sense, The 1999
Skyfall 2012
Slacker 1991
Sleeper 1973



Sleeping Dogs 1977
Sleuth 1972
Slumdog Millionaire 2008
Smiles of a Summer Night Sommarnattens Leede 1955
Smiling Madame Beudet, The Souriante Madame Beudet, La 1922
Smoke 1995
Snake Pit, The 1948
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937
Solaris Solyaris 1972
Soldier of Orange Soldaat Van Oranje 1977
Some Came Running 1958
Some Like it Hot 1959
Sons of the Desert 1933
Sorrow and the Pity, The Chagrin et la Pitié, Le 1971
Sound of Music, The 1965
Spartacus 1960
Spider’s Stratagem, The Strategia del Ragno, La 1970
Spirit of the Beehive, The Espíritu del la Colmena, El 1973
Spirited Away Sen To Chihiro No Kamikakushi 2001
Splendor in the Grass 1961
Spring in a Small Town Xiao cheng zhi chun 1948
Stagecoach 1939
Stalker 1979
Stand By Me 1986
Star is Born, A 1954
Star Wars 1977
Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928
Stella Dallas 1937
Sting, The 1973
Storm over Asia Potomok Chingis-Khana 1928
Story of a Cheat, The Roman d’un tricheur, Le 1936
Story of the Late Chrysanthemums, The Zangiku monogatari 1939
Strada, La 1954
Stranger than Paradise 1984
Strangers on a Train 1951
Straw Dogs 1971
Streetcar Named Desire, A 1951
Strictly Ballroom 1992
Strike Stachka 1924
Stroszek 1977
Sullivan’s Travels 1941
Summer with Monika 1953
Suna No Onna Woman in the Dunes, The 1964
Sunless Sans Soleil 1983
Sunrise 1927
Sunset Blvd. 1950
Superfly 1972
Suspiria 1977
Sweet Hereafter, The 1997
Sweet Smell of Success 1957
Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song 1971
Swing Time 1936
Sátántangó 1994
Tabu 1931
Tale of the Wind, A Histoire de Vent, Une 1988
Tale of Winter, A Conte d’hiver 1992
Tales of Ugetsu Ugetsu Monogatari 1953
Talk To Her Hable Con Ella 2002
Tampopo 1986
Targets 1968
Taste of Cherry Ta’m e Guilass 1997
Taxi Driver 1976
Ten Commandments, The 1956
Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991
Terminator, The 1984
Terms of Endearment 1983
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The 1974
The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926
The Artist 2011
The Dark Knight 2008
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly La Scaphandre et le Papillon 2007
The Draftsman’s Contract 1976
The Eagle 1925
The Exiles 1961
The Goddess 1934
The Great White Silencet 1924
The Kid with a Bike Le gamin au vélo 2011
The King’s Speech 2010
The Lady Vanishes 1938
The Man with the Golden Arm 1955
The Social Network 2010
The Tree of Life 2011
The White Ribbon Das Weisse Band 2009
Thelma and Louise 1991
There Will Be Blood 2007
Thief of Bagdad, The 1924
Thin Blue Line, The 1988
Thin Man, The 1934
Thin Red Line, The 1998
Thing, The 1982
Things To Come 1936
Third Man, The 1949
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould 1993
This is Spinal Tap 1984
Three Colors: Blue Trois Couleurs: Bleu 1993
Three Colors: Red Trois Couleurs: Rouge 1994
Three Kings 1999
Three Lives and Only One Death Trois Vies & Une Seule Mort 1996
Throne of Blood Kumonosu Jo 1957
Through a Glass Darkly Såsom I En Spegel 1961



Through the Olive Trees Zire Darakhatan Zeyton 1994
Time to Live and the Time to Die, The Tong Nien Wang Shi 1985
Tin Drum, The Blechtrommel, Die 1979
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy 2011
Titanic 1997
To Be or Not to Be 1942
To Have and Have Not 1944
To Kill A Mockingbird 1962
To Live Ikiru 1952
Tokyo Olympiad Tokyo Orimpikku 1965
Tokyo Story 1953
Tongues Untied 1991
Too Early, Too Late 1982
Tootsie 1982
Top Gun 1986
Top Hat 1936
Total Recall 1991
Touch of Evil 1958
Touch of Zen, A Hsia Nu 1969
Towering Inferno, The 1974
Toy Story trilogy 2010
Trainspotting 1996
Travelling Players O Thiassos 1975
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The 1948
Tree of Wooden Clogs, The Albero degli Zoccoli, L’ 1978
Trip to the Moon, A Le Voyage dans la Lune 1902
Tristana 1970
Triumph of the Will Triumph des Willens 1934
Trouble in Paradise 1932
Trust 1990
Tsotsi 2005
Turkish Delight Turks Fruit 1973
Two or Three Things I Know About Her 2 ou 3 Choses Que Je Sais D’Elle 1967
Two-Lane Blacktop 1971
Umberto D 1952
Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Parapluies de Cherbourg, Les 1964
Unbelievable Truth, The 1989
Underground 1995
Unforgiven 1992
Unknown, The 1927
Untouchables, The 1987
Unvanquished, The Aparajito 1957
Up in Smoke 1978
Usual Suspects, The 1995
Vagabond Sans Toit Ni Loi 1985
Vampire, The Vampyr 1932
Vampires, Les 1915
Vanishing, The Spoorloos 1988
Vertigo 1958
Videodrome 1983
Vij 1967
Vinyl 1965
Viridiana 1961
Voyage in Italy Viaggio in Italia 1953
W.R.:Mysteries of the Organism W.R.—Misterje Organizma 1971
Wages of Fear Salaire De La Peur, La 1953
Wake in Fright 1971
Walkabout 1971
Wall Street 1987
Wall, The Deewar 1975
Wanda 1971
War Game, The 1965
Wavelength 1967
Wedding Banquet, The Hsi Yen 1993
Week End 1967
West Side Story 1961
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962
Wheel, The Roue, La 1924
When Harry Met Sally 1989
Whiskey Galore! 1949
White Balloon, The Badkonake Sefid 1995
White Heat 1949
Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf 1966
Wicker Man, The 1973
Wild Bunch, The 1969
Wild Reeds Roseaux Sauvages, Les 1994
Wild Strawberries Smultronstället 1957
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 1971
Winchester ’73 1950
Wings of Desire Der Himmel über Berlin 1987
Within Our Gates 1920
Withnail and I 1987
Wizard of Oz, The 1939
Wolf Man, The 1941
Woman Under the Influence, A 1974
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios 1988
Woodstock 1970
World of Apu, The Apur Sansar 1959
Written on the Wind 1956
Wrong Man, The 1956
Wuthering Heights 1939
Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942
Yol 1982
Young and the Damned, The Olvidados, Los 1950
Young Frankenstein 1974
Young Girls of Rochefort, The Demoiselles de Rochefort, Les 1967
Z 1969
Zabriskie Point 1970
Zero for Conduct Zéro de conduite 1933

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