The Social Network (2010)

Dir. David Fincher

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.

The Pendragon Society’s Greatest Films of All-Time 2020 – 1001-2000

For the second year running when compiling our annual greatest films of all-time list we decided to publish not just the normal 1000 top films but also those that placed from 1001 down to 2000 as shown below. Greatest Films 2020 Intro.

1001 The Band Wagon (1953) Vincente Minnelli
1002 Before Sunset (2004) Richard Linklater
1003 The Killer (1989)
1004 The Mummy (1969)
1005 Europa (1991)
1006 The Damned (1969) Luchino Visconti
1007 Ludwig (1973)
1008 Malcolm X (1992)
1009 The Dead (1987) John Huston
1010 The Unfaithful Wife (1969)
1011 Pale Flower (1964)
1012 Hard Boiled (1992)
1013 Avatar (2009) James Cameron
1014 Ju Dou (1990) Fengliang Yang, Yimou Zhang
1015 Dawn of the Dead (1978)
1016 The Last Detail (1973)
1017 Raising Arizona (1987)
1018 Giant (1956) George Stevens
1019 Zodiac (2007) David Fincher
1020 Lolita (1962)
1021 A Star Is Born (1954) George Cukor
1022 The Hurt Locker (2008) Kathryn Bigelow
1023 Delicatessen (1991) Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
1024 The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) Woody Allen
1025 The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
1026 The Quiet Man (1952)
1027 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Steven Spielberg
1028 Ulysses’ Gaze (1995)
1029 Waltz with Bashir (2008) Ari Folman
1030 Talk to Her (2002) Pedro Almodovar
1031 Exotica (1994)
1032 Blind Chance (1987)
1033 The Birth of a Nation (1915) D. W. Griffith
1034 El (1953) Luis Bunuel
1035 Sonatine (1993)
1036 Tropical Malady (2004)
1037 The Round-Up (1966) Miklos Jancso
1038 Ballad of a Soldier (1959) Grigoriy Chukhray
1039 Shine (1996) Scott Hicks
1040 The Phantom of Liberty (1974) Luis Bunuel
1041 Brightness (1987)
1042 Eastern Promises (2007) David Cronenberg
1043 Hamlet (1964)
1044 Claire’s Knee (1970) Eric Rohmer
1045 Jackie Brown (1997) Quentin Tarantino
1046 A Hard Day’s Night (1964) Richard Lester
1047 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) Julian Schnabel
1048 Lost Highway (1997)
1049 The Fly (1986) David Cronenberg
1050 Central Station (1998) Walter Salles
1051 Touki Bouki (1973)
1052 The Remains of the Day (1993) James Ivory
1053 Senso (1954) Luchino Visconti
1054 Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
1055 Titanic (1997) James Cameron
1056 Dreams (1990) Akira Kurosawa
1057 Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
1058 Before Midnight (2013) Richard Linklater
1059 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
1060 Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
1061 A Canterbury Tale (1944)
1062 Homework (1989)
1063 Salvatore Giuliano (1962) Francesco Rosi
1064 The Asphalt Jungle (1950) John Huston
1065 Husbands (1970)
1066 Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Nicholas Ray
1067 Dirty Harry (1971)
1068 Orlando (1992)
1069 Oliver! (1968) Carol Reed
1070 The Devil, Probably (1977)
1071 Thief (1981)
1072 East of Eden (1955) Elia Kazan
1073 1900 (1976)
1074 After Hours (1985) Martin Scorsese
1075 The Jungle Book (1967)
1076 Babette’s Feast (1987) Gabriel Axel
1077 Forbidden Planet (1956)
1078 Synecdoche, New York (2008)
1079 The Milky Way (1969)
1080 Nazarin (1959) Luis Bunuel
1081 A History of Violence (2005) David Cronenberg
1082 Le Bonheur (1965)
1083 Mr. Klein (1976)
1084 L’enfant (2005)
1085 Topsy-Turvy (1999)
1086 Scorpio Rising (1963)
1087 Land Without Bread (1933)
1088 Young Frankenstein (1974) Mel Brooks
1089 13 Assassins (2010) Takashi Miike
1090 Le Million (1931)
1091 The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936) Jean Renoir
1092 Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019)
1093 True Romance (1993)
1094 The English Patient (1996) Anthony Minghella
1095 Ashes of Time (1994)
1096 Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
1097 My Left Foot (1989) Jim Sheridan
1098 An American in Paris (1951)
1099 Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931) F.W. Murnau
1100 The Awful Truth (1937) Leo McCarey
1101 Outer Space (1999)
1102 Force of Evil (1948)
1103 Abraham’s Valley (1993)
1104 Earth (1930)
1105 Subarnarekha (1965)
1106 Hero (2002) Yimou Zhang
1107 The King’s Speech (2010) Tom Hooper
1108 Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963)
1109 Hyenas (1992)
1110 Joker (2019)
1111 The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
1112 The Favourite (2018)
1113 Doctor Zhivago (1965) David Lean
1114 Million Dollar Baby (2004) Clint Eastwood
1115 Moolaadé (2004)
1116 La Chienne (1931) Jean Renoir
1117 Alphaville (1965) Jean-Luc Godard
1118 A Hidden Life (2019)
1119 Lancelot of the Lake (1974)
1120 Khrustalyov, My Car! (1998)
1121 The Man Without a Past (2002)
1122 The Artist (2011) Michel Hazanavicius
1123 Persons Unknown (1958)
1124 The Social Network (2010) David Fincher
1125 The Vanishing (1988) George Sluizer
1126 Roman Holiday (1953) William Wyler
1127 Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
1128 Almost Famous (2000)
1129 La La Land (2016) Damien Chazelle
1130 Pépé le Moko (1937) Julian Duvivier
1131 Ben-Hur (1959)
1132 Knife in the Water (1962)
1133 The Ladykillers (1955) Alexander Mackendrick
1134 Spartacus (1960) Stanley Kubrick
1135 Manchester by the Sea (2016) Kenneth Lonergan
1136 Ten (2002)
1137 Funny Games (1997)
1138 Minority Report (2002)
1139 Kikujiro (1999)
1140 Sideways (2004) Alexander Payne
1141 The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Robert Wise
1142 Pauline at the Beach (1983)
1143 The Iron Giant (1999) Brad Bird
1144 The Long Good Friday (1980) John MacKenzie
1145 Elizabeth (1998) Shekhar Kapur
1146 Road to Perdition (2002) Sam Mendes
1147 The Sound of Music (1965)
1148 Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
1149 The Wind Rises (2013)
1150 Far from Heaven (2002) Todd Haynes
1151 The City of Lost Children (1995)
1152 Le Notti Bianche (1957) Luchino Visconti
1153 Mystic River (2003) Clint Eastwood
1154 Lola Montès (1955)
1155 The Wild Child (1970) Francois Truffaut
1156 Detour (1945) Edgar G. Ulmer
1157 Van Gogh (1991)
1158 Foolish Wives (1922) Erich von Stroheim
1159 Enter the Dragon (1973)
1160 Casque d’Or (1952) Jacques Becker
1161 Yearning (1964)
1162 Collateral (2004) Michael Mann
1163 Planet of the Apes (1968)
1164 Tristana (1970) Luis Bunuel
1165 Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) Joel & Ethan Coen
1166 Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
1167 The River (1997)
1168 India Song (1975)
1169 Good Will Hunting (1997) Gus Van Sant
1170 Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977)
1171 Dial M for Murder (1954)
1172 The Little Foxes (1941)
1173 The Sweet Hereafter (1997) Atom Egoyan
1174 Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)
1175 An Actor’s Revenge (1963) Kon Ichikawa
1176 Mustang (2015)
1177 The Evil Dead (1981) Sam Raimi
1178 Ghost World (2001)
1179 The Magician (1958)
1180 Il Postino: The Postman (1994)
1181 Francisca (1981)
1182 Il Grido (1957)
1183 The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
1184 Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
1185 The Master (2012) Paul Thomas Anderson
1186 Mother (2009)
1187 A Gentle Woman (1969)
1188 Shanghai Express (1932) Josef von Sternberg
1189 Black Swan (2010) Darren Aronofsky
1190 Shakespeare in Love (1998) John Madden
1191 The Little Mermaid (1989) Ron Clements, John Musker
1192 Arrival (2016)
1193 WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
1194 Evil Dead II (1987) Sam Raimi
1195 Charade (1963)
1196 Gilda (1946) Charles Vidor
1197 The Hateful Eight (2015) Quentin Tarantino
1198 The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
1199 The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
1200 The Reckless Moment (1949)
1201 Slumdog Millionaire (2008) Danny Boyle
1202 The Aviator (2004) Martin Scorsese
1203 Great Expectations (1946) David Lean
1204 An Angel at My Table (1990) Jane Campion
1205 Inside Out (2015) Pete Docter
1206 The Fountain (2006)
1207 The Descendants (2011)
1208 Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004)
1209 Quiz Show (1994)
1210 Dodsworth (1936)
1211 Une Femme est une Femme (1961)
1212 Encounters at the End of the World (2007) Werner Herzog
1213 Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
1214 The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
1215 Dazed and Confused (1993)
1216 Silence (2016) Martin Scorsese
1217 À Nous la Liberté (1931)
1218 Women in Love (1969)
1219 Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Wes Anderson
1220 Zelig (1983) Woody Allen
1221 Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) Werner Herzog
1222 Gangs of New York (2002) Martin Scorsese
1223 Stalag 17 (1953)
1224 Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
1225 Porco Rosso (1992) Hayao Miyazaki
1226 Ghostbusters (1984) Ivan Reitman
1227 Husbands and Wives (1992) Woody Allen
1228 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970) Vittorio De Sica
1229 My Fair Lady (1964)
1230 The Mortal Storm (1940)
1231 La Ronde (1950)
1232 Mother and Son (1997)
1233 October 1917 (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1927)
1234 The Age of the Earth (1980)
1235 L’Humanité (1999)
1236 Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927)
1237 Boy (1969)
1238 Goldfinger (1964) Guy Hamilton
1239 Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) Werner Herzog
1240 Only Yesterday (1991)
1241 By the Bluest of Seas (1936)
1242 O Lucky Man! (1973)
1243 Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) Werner Herzog
1244 My Brilliant Career (1979)
1245 Yellow Earth (1984)
1246 Belleville Rendez-vous (2003) Sylvain Chomet
1247 Marnie (1964) Alfred Hitchcock
1248 The Triumph of the Will (1935)
1249 Django (1966)
1250 Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
1251 Shutter Island (2010) Martin Scorsese
1252 King Kong (2005)
1253 The Color of Paradise (1999)
1254 Irreversible (2002)
1255 Dodes’ka-den (1970) Akira Kurosawa
1256 The Darjeeling Limited (2007) Wes Anderson
1257 The Beguiled (1971)
1258 The Woman Next Door (1981)
1259 The Host (2006)
1260 Star Trek (2009) J.J. Abrams
1261 JFK (1991) Oliver Stone
1262 My Own Private Idaho (1991) Gus Van Sant
1263 The Lost Weekend (1945)
1264 L’Enfance Nue (1968)
1265 Top Hat (1935) Mark Sandrich
1266 Mary Poppins (1964) Robert Stevenson
1267 The Golden Coach (1952)
1268 To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
1269 Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
1270 El Topo (1970)
1271 28 Days Later… (2002) Danny Boyle
1272 35 Shots of Rum (2008)
1273 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) Martin McDonagh
1274 The Public Enemy (1931)
1275 Love and Death (1975) Woody Allen
1276 The Fallen Idol (1948)
1277 Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
1278 The Wall (1983)
1279 Hugo (2011) Martin Scorsese
1280 The Princess Bride (1987) Rob Reiner
1281 Carrie (1976)
1282 Strike (1925)
1283 Ossessione (1943)
1284 Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
1285 Gandhi (1982) Richard Attenborough
1286 Skyfall (2012) Sam Mendes
1287 Destiny (1921)
1288 Heaven Can Wait (1943) Ernst Lubitsch
1289 Children of Heaven (1997)
1290 House (1977)
1291 Dark City (1998)
1292 Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) Stanley Kramer
1293 Manon des Sources (1986) Claude Berri
1294 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) Peter Weir
1295 Lone Star (1996)
1296 Wavelength (1967)
1297 Gravity (2013) Alfonso Cuaron
1298 Aladdin (1992)
1299 Shoeshine (1946)
1300 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) David Yates
1301 Adaptation. (2002)
1302 A Man for All Seasons (1966)
1303 Le Plaisir (1952)
1304 City of Life and Death (2009) Lu Chuan
1305 Oedipus Rex (1967)
1306 Mephisto (1981)
1307 Moon (2009) Duncan Jones
1308 Written on the Wind (1956)
1309 Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) Michael Curtiz
1310 Argo (2012)
1311 You, the Living (2007)
1312 Safe (1995)
1313 Ex Machina (2014)
1314 Rebels of the Neon God (1992)
1315 Casino Royale (2006) Martin Campbell
1316 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
1317 Room at the Top (1959)
1318 Coco (2017)
1319 Mother (1952)
1320 Head-On (2004)
1321 Some Came Running (1958)
1322 Selma (2014)
1323 Padre Padrone (1977)
1324 The Lobster (2015)
1325 Lonesome Dove (1989) Simon Wincer
1326 The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
1327 Seven Up! (1964)
1328 Into the Wild (2007) Sean Penn
1329 Rain Man (1988)
1330 The Match Factory Girl (1990)
1331 The Battle of Chile: Part II (1976)
1332 Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
1333 Nebraska (2013)
1334 Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
1335 Phantom Thread (2017)
1336 My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) Stephen Frears
1337 Flowing (1956)
1338 Reds (1981)
1339 The Illusionist (2010)
1340 L’argent (1928)
1341 Miracle in Milan (1951)
1342 Pina (2011)
1343 Roma (1972)
1344 Under the Bridges (1946)
1345 The Wrong Trousers (1993)
1346 Street of Shame (1956)
1347 The Green Mile (1999)
1348 My Winnipeg (2007)
1349 The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)
1350 Sense and Sensibility (1995)
1351 Now, Voyager (1942)
1352 Camera Buff (1979)
1353 Come and Go (2003)
1354 Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955)
1355 Blood of the Beasts (1949)
1356 Man Bites Dog (1992)
1357 I Know Where I’m Going!’ (1945)
1358 Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
1359 Hud (1963) Martin Ritt
1360 Blissfully Yours (2002)
1361 The Fireman’s Ball (1967)
1362 Spider-Man 2 (2004) Sam Raimi
1363 Boyz n the Hood (1991)
1364 Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild’s Revenge (1924)
1365 The Roaring Twenties (1939)
1366 A Man There Was (1917)
1367 Isle of Dogs (2018)
1368 The Ceremony (1971)
1369 Cold War (2018)
1370 They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
1371 The Legend of 1900 (1998) Giuseppe Tornatore
1372 A Fistful of Dynamite (1971)
1373 French Cancan (1955)
1374 The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
1375 Swept Away (1974)
1376 Code Unknown (2000)
1377 The Age of Innocence (1993)
1378 Cairo Station (1958)
1379 Anne and Muriel (1971)
1380 The Holy Innocents (1984)
1381 American Gangster (2007)
1382 Le Corbeau (1943)
1383 Catch Me If You Can (2002)
1384 The Wheel (1923)
1385 Gates of Heaven (1978)
1386 The Naked Kiss (1964)
1387 Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
1388 California Split (1974)
1389 Ana-ta-han (1953)
1390 The Last Bolshevik (1993)
1391 Volver (2006)
1392 The Battle of Chile: Part I (1975)
1393 Portrait of Jason (1967)
1394 Inland Empire (2006)
1395 Medea (1988)
1396 Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
1397 Passion (1982)
1398 Enter the Void (2009)
1399 Jean de Florette (1986) Claude Berri
1400 Devils on the Doorstep (2000)
1401 From Here to Eternity (1953)
1402 Billy Elliot (2000)
1403 The Official Story (1985)
1404 Serpico (1973)
1405 Toni (1935)
1406 The Incredibles (2004) Brad Bird
1407 Zorba the Greek (1964)
1408 Beautiful (1951)
1409 Cross of Iron (1977)
1410 Munich (2005)
1411 Toni Erdmann (2016)
1412 Un Coeur en Hiver (1992)
1413 United 93 (2006)
1414 Reversal of Fortune (1990)
1415 Man of Aran (1934)
1416 Il Generale Della Rovere (1959)
1417 Secret Sunshine (2007)
1418 Miss Oyu (1951)
1419 Millennium Actress (2001)
1420 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
1421 The Docks of New York (1928)
1422 Elephant (1989)
1423 Bandit Queen (1994)
1424 Elephant (2003)
1425 The Last Wave (1977)
1426 V for Vendetta (2005)
1427 The Red and the White (1967)
1428 Shock Corridor (1963)
1429 After Life (1998)
1430 I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
1431 No Man’s Land (2001)
1432 Fail Safe (1964)
1433 Listen to Britain (1942)
1434 Wild at Heart (1990)
1435 42nd Street (1933)
1436 Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
1437 Dukhovnye golosa. Iz dnevnikov voyny. Povestvovanie v pyati chastyakh (1995)
1438 Dogtooth (2009)
1439 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
1440 The Swimmer (1968)
1441 Crimson Gold (2003)
1442 Whisper of the Heart (1995)
1443 The Handmaiden (2016)
1444 Antoine and Colette (1962)
1445 Dracula (1931)
1446 Prince of the City (1981)
1447 Three Colours: White (1994)
1448 Love in the Afternoon (1972)
1449 The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982)
1450 Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
1451 Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954)
1452 The Pawnbroker (1964)
1453 Xala (1975)
1454 Dillinger Is Dead (1969)
1455 Good Time (2017)
1456 Live Flesh (1997)
1457 The Lion in Winter (1968)
1458 Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938)
1459 A Serious Man (2009)
1460 The Soft Skin (1964)
1461 21 Up (1977)
1462 Dolls (2002)
1463 The Cotton Club (1984)
1464 Face to Face (1976)
1465 Sleeper (1973) Woody Allen
1466 Bitter Victory (1957)
1467 The Big Red One (1980)
1468 Eight Deadly Shots (1972)
1469 Center Stage (1991)
1470 India: Matri Bhumi (1959)
1471 Near Dark (1987)
1472 Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)
1473 The Battle of Chile: Part III (1979)
1474 The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
1475 Extraordinary Stories (2008)
1476 The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010)
1477 Twilight (1990)
1478 Like Father, Like Son (2013)
1479 Lola (1981)
1480 Wagon Master (1950)
1481 Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1989)
1482 My Dinner with Andre (1981)
1483 We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
1484 The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
1485 White Material (2009)
1486 Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1972)
1487 The Train (1964)
1488 American Psycho (2000)
1489 Pakeezah (1972)
1490 Scarlet Street (1945)
1491 Paranoid Park (2007)
1492 THX 1138 (1971)
1493 Enthusiasm (1930)
1494 The Spider’s Stratagem (1970)
1495 The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
1496 Gods and Monsters (1998)
1497 The Gunfighter (1950)
1498 Sicily! (1999)
1499 Timbuktu (2014)
1500 The Goddess (1934)
1501 Minamata (1971)
1502 Stardust Memories (1980)
1503 Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
1504 Red Sorghum (1988)
1505 The Dreamlife of Angels (1998)
1506 A Very British Coup (1988)
1507 The War Game (1965)
1508 Kaos (1984)
1509 Mughal-E-Azam (1960)
1510 Holy Motors (2012)
1511 Love (1971)
1512 Wise Blood (1979)
1513 Airplane! (1980)
1514 The Headless Woman (2008)
1515 Damnation (1988)
1516 Shaun of the Dead (2004) Edgar Wright
1517 The Funeral (1996)
1518 A Swedish Love Story (1970)
1519 Fish Tank (2009)
1520 The Last Metro (1980)
1521 Donnie Brasco (1997)
1522 The Killing Fields (1984) Roland Joffe
1523 Midnight Express (1978) Alan Parker
1524 Pride & Prejudice (2005)
1525 The Night Porter (1974)
1526 Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
1527 When We Were Kings (1996)
1528 25th Hour (2002)
1529 Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
1530 Couscous (2007)
1531 Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)
1532 From the East (1993)
1533 Little Fugitive (1953)
1534 The Man Who Laughs (1928)
1535 Band of Brothers (2001)
1536 Cloud Atlas (2012)
1537 Rumble Fish (1983)
1538 Swing Time (1936) George Stevens
1539 Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964)
1540 Soldier of Orange (1977)
1541 Cast Away (2000)
1542 Scenes from Under Childhood Section #1 (1969)
1543 Certified Copy (2010)
1544 J’accuse! (1919)
1545 Black Panther (2018)
1546 The Hunters (1977)
1547 Kids Return (1996)
1548 On Body and Soul (2017)
1549 Gett (2014)
1550 A Geisha (1953)
1551 3-Iron (2004)
1552 City Girl (1930)
1553 Gran Torino (2008)
1554 Woodstock (1970)
1555 For All Mankind (1989)
1556 The Story of a Cheat (1936)
1557 Three Times (2005)
1558 Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
1559 La Grande Bouffe (1973)
1560 The 47 Ronin (1941)
1561 Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
1562 The Housemaid (1960)
1563 Two Lovers (2008)
1564 The Virgin Suicides (1999)
1565 Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959)
1566 You Were Never Really Here (2017)
1567 And the Ship Sails On (1983)
1568 Videogramme einer Revolution (1992)
1569 News from Home (1977)
1570 Foreign Correspondent (1940)
1571 American Movie (1999)
1572 Mafioso (1962)
1573 Love Affair (1939)
1574 Straw Dogs (1971)
1575 At Land (1946)
1576 The Driver (1978)
1577 Glory (1989)
1578 The Mission (1986)
1579 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
1580 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
1581 Get Carter (1971)
1582 Touching the Void (2003)
1583 Mystery Train (1989)
1584 God’s Comedy (1995)
1585 Testament of Orpheus (1960)
1586 Turkish Delight (1973)
1587 I, a Negro (1957)
1588 Together (2000)
1589 7th Heaven (1927)
1590 The Haunting (1963)
1591 5 Broken Cameras (2011)
1592 I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967)
1593 The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
1594 Female Trouble (1974)
1595 On Dangerous Ground (1951)
1596 O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
1597 In the Name of the Father (1993)
1598 True Grit (2010) George Miller
1599 From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979)
1600 The Voyage Across the Impossible (1904)
1601 People on Sunday (1930)
1602 Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)
1603 The Hill (1965)
1604 Drifting Clouds (1996)
1605 Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (1989)
1606 Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
1607 Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)
1608 The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1943)
1609 Bad Lieutenant (1992)
1610 I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
1611 Statues also Die (1953)
1612 The Big Sick (2017)
1613 Hôtel Terminus (1988)
1614 Jerry Maguire (1996)
1615 Jesus of Nazareth (1977) Franco Zeffirelli
1616 The Last King of Scotland (2006)
1617 Man’s Castle (1933)
1618 The Insect Woman (1963)
1619 George Washington (2000)
1620 Heavenly Creatures (1994)
1621 Gentlemen of Fortune (1971)
1622 A Taste of Honey (1961)
1623 The Taste of Tea (2004)
1624 The Blue Kite (1993)
1625 Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)
1626 In Bruges (2008)
1627 Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)
1628 The Man from Laramie (1955)
1629 Destry Rides Again (1939)
1630 Stand by Me (1986)
1631 Flaming Creatures (1963)
1632 300 (2006)
1633 Room (2015) Lenny Abrahamson
1634 Anna (1975)
1635 Santa Sangre (1989)
1636 The Hole (1998)
1637 Samsara (2011)
1638 La maison des bois (1971)
1639 Night of the Demon (1957)
1640 Darwin’s Nightmare (2004)
1641 Missing (1982)
1642 Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
1643 The Browning Version (1951)
1644 Voyage to Cythera (1984)
1645 The Death of Maria Malibran (1972)
1646 Mädchen in Uniform (1931)
1647 Brideshead Revisited (1981) Charles Sturridge, Michael Lindsay-Hogg
1648 Paprika (2006)
1649 56 Up (2012)
1650 One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
1651 Nouvelle vague (1990)
1652 Monterey Pop (1968)
1653 State of Siege (1972)
1654 Faces Places (2017)
1655 Deep Red (1975)
1656 Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)
1657 Lucía (1968)
1658 Lulu the Tool (1971)
1659 Storm Over Asia (1928)
1660 The Lighthouse (2019)
1661 The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes (1971)
1662 Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision (2013)
1663 Cyclo (1995)
1664 Zulu (1964)
1665 Wild Reeds (1994)
1666 Two in the Shadow (1967)
1667 Mandala (1981)
1668 The 3 Penny Opera (1931)
1669 The Lovers (1958)
1670 Yellow Submarine (1968)
1671 The Wicker Man (1973)
1672 The White Balloon (1995)
1673 The Salt of the Earth (2014)
1674 In the Year of the Pig (1968)
1675 Black Orpheus (1959)
1676 A Tale of the Wind (1988)
1677 The Unknown (1927)
1678 A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
1679 Tabu (2012)
1680 Sopyonje (1993)
1681 Bamako (2006)
1682 Design for Living (1933)
1683 Four Seasons (1975)
1684 49 Up (2005)
1685 Medium Cool (1969)
1686 Boy Meets Girl (1984)
1687 Coeur Fidèle (1923)
1688 Queen Margot (1994)
1689 Gavagai (2016)
1690 Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)
1691 House of Cards (1990)
1692 The Art of Vision (1965)
1693 Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
1694 A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
1695 Cold Water (1994)
1696 The Lusty Men (1952)
1697 Les Misérables (2019)
1698 Germany Pale Mother (1980)
1699 Cure (1997)
1700 Frenzy (1972)
1701 City After Dark (1980)
1702 Dom na Trubnoy (1928)
1703 The Long Farewell (1971)
1704 The Man from London (2007)
1705 Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962)
1706 Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998)
1707 Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001)
1708 To Sleep with Anger (1990)
1709 Cat People (1942)
1710 La Cérémonie (1995)
1711 The Meetings of Anna (1978)
1712 Happy End (1967)
1713 Unknown Pleasures (2002)
1714 The Duellists (1977)
1715 Home From the Hill (1960)
1716 Oasis (2002)
1717 The Long Riders (1980)
1718 Blood of the Condor (1969)
1719 7 Women (1966)
1720 Street of Crocodiles (1986)
1721 Clerks (1994)
1722 Cluny Brown (1946)
1723 Petition (2009)
1724 Tih Minh (1918)
1725 The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)
1726 The Hart of London (1970)
1727 Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (1935)
1728 Le Quattro Volte (2010)
1729 He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
1730 Marriage Story (2019)
1731 Southern Comfort (1981)
1732 This Is England (2006)
1733 If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
1734 Sophie’s Choice (1982)
1735 City of Pirates (1983)
1736 Happiness (1935)
1737 Alexander the Great (1980)
1738 Laurence Anyways (2012)
1739 The Passion of Anna (1969)
1740 Entr’acte (1924)
1741 Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
1742 Lonesome (1928)
1743 Baby Doll (1956)
1744 One Week (1920)
1745 Silent Light (2007)
1746 Deep End (1970)
1747 Winchester ’73 (1950)
1748 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
1749 Weekend (2011)
1750 Palms (1994)
1751 Everything Will Be Ok (2006)
1752 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
1753 A Summer’s Tale (1996)
1754 Summer with Monika (1953)
1755 Culloden (1964)
1756 The Immigrant (2013)
1757 Milestones (1975)
1758 The Last Seduction (1994)
1759 The Cow (1969)
1760 The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
1761 Vera Drake (2004)
1762 Varda by Agnès (2019)
1763 Carlos the Jackal (2010)
1764 Dead Alive (1992)
1765 The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
1766 Perfumed Nightmare (1977)
1767 Stage Door (1937)
1768 The Immigrant (1917)
1769 Saturday Night Fever (1977)
1770 20,000 Days on Earth (2014)
1771 Andy Warhol: A Documentary (2006)
1772 Still Life (1974)
1773 The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)
1774 The World (2004)
1775 Diamonds of the Night (1964)
1776 The Guns (1964)
1777 Bad Blood (1986)
1778 Battle Royale (2000)
1779 Ménilmontant (1926)
1780 Angels in America (2003)
1781 The Ballad of Narayama (1958)
1782 Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird (1970)
1783 Blow Out (1981)
1784 Cops (1922)
1785 A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
1786 Street Angel (1937)
1787 Diary (1983)
1788 Last Men in Aleppo (2017)
1789 Every Man for Himself (1980)
1790 Rat Film (2016)
1791 All the Youthful Days (1983)
1792 The Holy Girl (2004)
1793 American Honey (2016)
1794 Mes Petites Amoureuses (1974)
1795 À Ma Soeur! (2001)
1796 Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1988)
1797 Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
1798 They Live (1988)
1799 Saraband (2003)
1800 The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988)
1801 The Falls (1980)
1802 L’ange (1982)
1803 Pour la suite du monde (1963)
1804 The Asthenic Syndrome (1989)
1805 Pathetic Fallacy (1958)
1806 White Sun (2016)
1807 Mona Lisa (1986)
1808 Another Year (2010)
1809 Crash (1996)
1810 War Photographer (2001)
1811 The Godfather: Part III (1990)
1812 La Bête Humaine (1938)
1813 L’Innocente (1976)
1814 Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
1815 Elle (2016)
1816 Sorcerer (1977)
1817 Night on Earth (1991)
1818 Othello (1951)
1819 My Childhood (1972)
1820 Pi (1998)
1821 À Propos de Nice (1930)
1822 Bad Timing (1980)
1823 Gomorrah (2008)
1824 Elena (2012)
1825 George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011)
1826 Purple Noon (1960)
1827 The Naked City (1948)
1828 Metropolitan (1990)
1829 Edge of Darkness (1985)
1830 The Constant Gardener (2005)
1831 Consuming Spirits (2012)
1832 Small Change (1976)
1833 America, America (1963)
1834 Sinbad (1971)
1835 Burnt by the Sun (1994)
1836 The Ten Commandments (1956)
1837 Du côté d’Orouët (1971)
1838 Hobson’s Choice (1954)
1839 Europa Europa (1990)
1840 Hot Fuzz (2007)
1841 The Red Snowball Tree (1974)
1842 Route One USA (1989)
1843 Fantômas: In the Shadow of the Guillotine (1913)
1844 Sunshine (2007)
1845 Goodbye, South, Goodbye (1996)
1846 Sexy Beast (2000)
1847 The Love Witch (2016)
1848 Blackfish (2013)
1849 Hello Cinema (1995)
1850 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
1851 In the Loop (2009)
1852 Blue (1993)
1853 Scum (1979)
1854 High Life (2018)
1855 Sin City (2005)
1856 Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972)
1857 Beanpole (2019)
1858 Fists in the Pocket (1965)
1859 Control (2007)
1860 Angel Heart (1987)
1861 Beware of the Car (1966)
1862 Streetwise (1984)
1863 Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)
1864 Boy (2010)
1865 Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
1866 I, Daniel Blake (2016)
1867 The German Sisters (1981)
1868 We Won’t Grow Old Together (1972)
1869 Li’l Quinquin (2014)
1870 Gattaca (1997)
1871 Biutiful (2010)
1872 ¡Que viva Mexico! (1932)
1873 Lincoln (2012)
1874 Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
1875 I Am Not A Witch (2017)
1876 Strange Voyage (1964)
1877 The Naked Spur (1953)
1878 Mommy (2014)
1879 Serial Experiments Lain (1998)
1880 The Beekeeper (1986)
1881 Audition (1999)
1882 The Hunt (1966)
1883 Midnight (1939)
1884 Here and Elsewhere (1976)
1885 1917 (2019)
1886 A Page of Madness (1926)
1887 Bullitt (1968)
1888 Quai des Orfèvres (1947)
1889 Operation ‘Y’ & Other Shurik’s Adventures (1965)
1890 A Single Man (2009)
1891 Bandits of Orgosolo (1961)
1892 Papillon (1973)
1893 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
1894 The Wedding Banquet (1993)
1895 The Cove (2009)
1896 Gueros (2014)
1897 Intentions of Murder (1964)
1898 The Engagement (1963)
1899 Bed and Sofa (1927)
1900 The Boy and the World (2013)
1901 The Organizer (1963)
1902 Beasts of No Nation (2015)
1903 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
1904 Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
1905 The Passion of the Christ (2004) Mel Gibson
1906 O Bandido da Luz Vermelha (1968)
1907 May Fools (1990)
1908 Moses and Aaron (1975)
1909 Ah Ying (1983)
1910 What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
1911 The Fifth Element (1997)
1912 Day of the Wacko (2002)
1913 Victoria (2015)
1914 A Close Shave (1995)
1915 Blue Collar (1978)
1916 Water-Mirror of Granada (1955)
1917 Tombstone (1993)
1918 São Bernardo (1972)
1919 Marley (2012)
1920 Hell or High Water (2016)
1921 Children Underground (2001)
1922 Sita Sings the Blues (2008)
1923 Buffalo ’66 (1998)
1924 Double Suicide (1969)
1925 Stars in My Crown (1950)
1926 Adventureland (2009)
1927 The Snowman (1982)
1928 The Party (1968)
1929 My Life as a Dog (1985)
1930 Fort Apache (1948)
1931 Hospital (1970)
1932 Awaara (1951)
1933 Typhoon Club (1985)
1934 Perceval (1978)
1935 Brand Upon the Brain! A Remembrance in 12 Chapters (2006)
1936 Ratcatcher (1999)
1937 Araby (2017)
1938 Cousin Jules (1972)
1939 The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1992)
1940 Portrait d’une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles (1994)
1941 The Gatekeepers (2012)
1942 The White Diamond (2004)
1943 Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) (2015)
1944 Window Water Baby Moving (1959)
1945 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
1946 Passing Strange (2009)
1947 Brighton Rock (1948)
1948 Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)
1949 Playing (2007)
1950 From What Is Before (2014)
1951 Lake of Fire (2006)
1952 Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
1953 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
1954 Daughters of the Dust (1991)
1955 Gun Crazy (1950)
1956 Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945)
1957 Babylon (1980)
1958 Pasazerka (1963)
1959 Tyrannosaur (2011)
1960 The Addiction (1995)
1961 Watchmen (2009)
1962 Wadjda (2012)
1963 Freeze Die Come to Life (1990)
1964 The New Babylon (1929)
1965 The Interrupters (2011)
1966 Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009)
1967 A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
1968 Full Moon in Paris (1984)
1969 7 Men from Now (1956)
1970 Colorado Territory (1949)
1971 Call Me Kuchu (2012)
1972 Eyvind of the Hills (1918)
1973 The Selfish Giant (2013)
1974 In the Family (2011)
1975 Transit (2018)
1976 Star Spangled to Death (2004)
1977 The Age of Shadows (2016)
1978 These Birds Walk (2013)
1979 Our Song (2000)
1980 I Origins (2014)
1981 Killing Them Softly (2012)
1982 Gummo (1997)
1983 The Mad Masters (1955)
1984 Song of the Sea (2014)
1985 Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia (1971)
1986 The Human Pyramid (1961)
1987 Eve’s Bayou (1997)
1988 Honeyland (2019)
1989 Drunken Angel (1948)
1990 Burning Bush (2013)
1991 The Neon Demon (2016)
1992 Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
1993 Céline (1992)
1994 Jojo Rabbit (2019)
1995 How to Survive a Plague (2012)
1996 Querelle (1982)
1997 Handsworth Songs (1986)
1998 Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
1999 Only God Forgives (2013)
2000 Finis terrae (1929)

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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