- There is a 10-year moratorium on all new films so you will not yet find films from 2009-now on this list
| 1. The Searchers- Ford |
| 2. Apocalypse Now- F. Coppola |
| 3. 2001: A Space Odyssey- Kubrick |
| 4. Raging Bull- Scorsese |
| 5. Citizen Kane- Welles |
| 6. Blade Runner – R. Scott |
| 7. Vertigo- Hitchcock |
| 8. The Passion of Joan of Arc- Dreyer |
| 9. Stalker – Tarkovsky |
| 10. Tokyo Story- Ozu |
| 11. 8 1/2 – Fellini |
| 12. The Godfather – F. Coppola |
| 13. In the Mood for Love – Kar-Wai Wong |
| 14. Bicycle Thieves- De Sica |
| 15. La Dolce Vita- Fellini |
| 16. Lawrence of Arabia- Lean |
| 17. Seven Samurai- Kurosawa |
| 18. Sunrise- Murnau |
| 19. Jules and Jim- Truffaut |
| 20. Breathless- Godard |
| 21. Breaking the Waves – von Trier |
| 22. Goodfellas – Scorsese |
| 23. Rashoman- Kurosawa |
| 24. The Godfather Part II – F. Coppola |
| 25. Intolerance- Griffith |
| 26. Nostalgia – Tarkovsky |
| 27. The Rules of the Game- Renoir |
| 28. Battleship Potemkin- Eisenstein |
| 29. Touch of Evil- Welles |
| 30. Pulp Fiction – Tarantino |
| 31. The Magnificent Ambersons- Welles |
| 32. Taxi Driver- Scorsese |
| 33. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover – Greenaway |
| 34. Persona- Bergman |
| 35. Psycho- Hitchcock |
| 36. I Am Cuba- Kalatozov |
| 37. Children of Men – Cuaron |
| 38. Gertrud- Dreyer |
| 39. A Clockwork Orange- Kubrick |
| 40. Red Desert- Antonioni |
| 41. Aguirre, the Wrath of God – Herzog |
| 42. The Third Man- Reed |
| 43. The Thin Red Line- Malick |
| 44. There Will Be Blood – P. T. Anderson |
| 45. The Earrings of Madame De… – Ophuls |
| 46. Manhattan- Allen |
| 47. Days of Heaven – Malick |
| 48. Blue Velvet – Lynch |
| 49. Do the Right Thing – S. Lee |
| 50. Magnolia – P.T. Anderson |
| 51. City Lights- Chaplin |
| 52. M- Lang |
| 53. The 400 Blows- Truffaut |
| 54. Metropolis- Lang |
| 55. Nosferatu- Murnau |
| 56. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari- Wiene |
| 57. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly- Leone |
| 58. The End of Summer- Ozu |
| 59. The Seventh Seal- Bergman |
| 60. The Shining – Kubrick |
| 61. Nashville – Altman |
| 62. Cries and Whispers – Bergman |
| 63. Casablanca- Curtiz |
| 64. The Pornographers – Imamura |
| 65. The Wild Bunch- Peckinpah |
| 66. Once Upton a Time in the West – Leone |
| 67. Werckmeister Harmonies – Tarr |
| 68. Brazil – Gilliam |
| 69. Mulholland Drive – Lynch |
| 70. Pierrot le Fou – Godard |
| 71. The Trial- Welles |
| 72. Gone With the Wind- Fleming |
| 73. Shoot the Piano Player – Truffaut |
| 74. Stagecoach- Ford |
| 75. L’Avventura – Antonioni |
| 76. The Blue Angel- von Sternberg |
| 77. Heat- M. Mann |
| 78. Punch-Drunk Love – P.T. Anderson |
| 79. Rear Window- Hitchcock |
| 80. Early Summer- Ozu |
| 81. The Graduate- M. Nichols |
| 82. Juliet of the Spirits- Fellini |
| 83. A Man Escaped- Bresson |
| 84. It’s a Wonderful Life- Capra |
| 85. Lola Montes- Ophuls |
| 86. Annie Hall- Allen |
| 87. Dekalog – Kieslowski |
| 88. The Conformist – Bertolucci |
| 89. Paths of Glory- Kubrick |
| 90. Lost in Translation – S. Coppola |
| 91. JFK – Stone |
| 92. The Wizard of Oz- Fleming |
| 93. Viridiana- Bunuel |
| 94. The Passenger – Antonioni |
| 95. Barry Lyndon- Kubrick |
| 96. Chinatown- Polanski |
| 97. Fitzcarraldo – Herzog |
| 98. Boogie Nights – P.T. Anderson |
| 99. The Grand Illusion- Renoir |
| 100. The Big Sleep- Hawks |
| 101. The Birth of a Nation- Griffith |
| 102. Singin’ in the Rain- Donen, Kelly |
| 103. North By Northwest- Hitchcock |
| 104. The Royal Tenenbaums – W. Anderson |
| 105. Notorious- Hitchcock |
| 106. Rome, Open City- Rossellini |
| 107. Dead Man – Jarmusch |
| 108. Chungking Express – Kar-Wai Wong |
| 109. Bringing Up Baby- Hawks |
| 110. Suspiria- Argento |
| 111. Rio Bravo- Hawks |
| 112. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford – Dominik |
| 113. Jaws- Spielberg |
| 114. Rosemary’s Baby- Polanski |
| 115. La Strada – Fellini |
| 116. Fargo – Coen |
| 117. Late Spring- Ozu |
| 118. The General- Keaton |
| 119. Umberto D- De Sica |
| 120. L’Eclisse- Antonioni |
| 121. A Woman Under the Influence – Cassavetes |
| 122. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid – Peckinpah |
| 123. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie- Bunuel |
| 124. Fanny and Alexander – Bergman |
| 125. Dead Ringers – Cronenberg |
| 126. The Conversation- F. Coppola |
| 127. Raiders of the Lost Ark – Spielberg |
| 128. Syndromes and a Century – Weerasethakul |
| 129. Amarcord – Fellini |
| 130. Mean Streets- Scorsese |
| 131. Cool Hand Luke- Rosenberg |
| 132. Pickpocket- Bresson |
| 133. Rocco and His Brothers- Visconti |
| 134. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg- Demy |
| 135. White Heat- Walsh |
| 136. Wild Strawberries- Bergman |
| 137. Modern Times- Chaplin |
| 138. Sunset Boulevard – Wilder |
| 139. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp- Powell & Pressburger |
| 140. Written on the Wind- Sirk |
| 141. Black Narcissus- Powell & Pressburger |
| 142. Eyes Wide Shut – Kubrick |
| 143. Contempt- Godard |
| 144. Le Plaisir- Ophuls |
| 145. The Cranes Are Flying- Kalatozov |
| 146. Intentions of Murder – Imamura |
| 147. The Scarlett Express- von Sternberg |
| 148. The Music Room- S. Ray |
| 149. Hannah and Her Sisters- Allen |
| 150. Once Upon a Time in America – Leone |
| 151. Rumble Fish – F. Coppola |
| 152. Fight Club – Fincher |
| 153. The Big Lebowski – Coen |
| 154. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid- Roy Hill |
| 155. Back to the Future – Zemeckis |
| 156. A Zed & Two Noughts – Greenaway |
| 157. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest- Forman |
| 158. Double Indemnity- Wilder |
| 159. Star Wars- Lucas |
| 160. Schindler’s List – Spielberg |
| 161. Before Sunset – Linklater |
| 162. Performance – Roeg |
| 163. Don’t Look Now – Roeg |
| 164. Kings of the Road – Wenders |
| 165. Blue – Kieslowski |
| 166. Andrei Rublev- Tarkovsky |
| 167. Amadeus – Forman |
| 168. The Sacrifice – Tarkovsky |
| 169. Repulsion- Polanski |
| 170. The Empire Strikes Back – Kershner |
| 171. Red River- Hawks |
| 172. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre- Huston |
| 173. Cache – Haneke |
| 174. The Bridge on the River Kwai- Lean |
| 175. Strangers on a Train- Hitchcock |
| 176. Kill Bill – Tarantino |
| 177. Johnny Guitar- N. Ray |
| 178. Malcolm X – S. Lee |
| 179. Zodiac – Fincher |
| 180. Alien- R. Scott |
| 181. The Lord of the Rings – Jackson |
| 182. Y Tu Mama Tambien – Cuaron |
| 183. Ran – Kurosawa |
| 184. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters – Schrader |
| 185. It Happened One Night- Capra |
| 186. Dancer in the Dark – von Trier |
| 187. Dr. Strangelove- Kubrick |
| 188. Crimes and Misdemeanors – Allen |
| 189. Blow Out – De Palma |
| 190. Midnight Cowboy- Schlesinger |
| 191. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance- Ford |
| 192. Broken Flowers – Jarmusch |
| 193. The New World – Malick |
| 194. The Exorcist- Friedkin |
| 195. My Darling Clementine- Ford |
| 196. The Piano – Campion |
| 197. Out of the Past- Tourneur |
| 198. Red – Kieslowski |
| 199. Germany Year Zero- Rossellini |
| 200. No Country For Old Men – Coen |
| 201. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – Spielberg |
| 202. Network- Lumet |
| 203. Bonnie and Clyde- Penn |
| 204. The Gold Rush- Chaplin |
| 205. Sherlock Jr. Keaton |
| 206. High Noon- Zinnemann |
| 207. The French Connection- Friedkin |
| 208. The Silence of the Lambs – Demme |
| 209. Raise the Red Lantern – Yimou Zhang |
| 210. Dog Day Afternoon – Lumet |
| 211. McCabe & Mrs. Miller- Altman |
| 212. Aliens – Cameron |
| 213. Veronika Voss – Fassbinder |
| 214. Love Me Tonight- Mamoulian |
| 215. Morocco- von Sternberg |
| 216. Rushmore – W. Anderson |
| 217. Unforgiven – Eastwood |
| 218. Seven – Fincher |
| 219. Los Olvidados- Bunuel |
| 220. The Manchurian Candidate- Frankenheimer |
| 221. Diabolique- Clouzot |
| 222. The Apartment- Wilder |
| 223. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Gondry |
| 224. Down by Law – Jarmusch |
| 225. The Grapes of Wrath- Ford |
| 226. The Bride of Frankenstein- Whale |
| 227. The Deer Hunter – Cimino |
| 228. Harold and Maude- Ashby |
| 229. Requiem for a Dream – Aronofsky |
| 230. L.A. Confidential – Hanson |
| 231. Crash – Cronenberg |
| 232. The Crime of Monsieur Lange- Renoir |
| 233. Solaris- Tarkovsky |
| 234. The Dark Knight – Nolan |
| 235. Saving Private Ryan – Spielberg |
| 236. Lost Highway – Lynch |
| 237. The Mirror- Tarkovsky |
| 238. The Maltese Falcon- Huston |
| 239. On the Waterfront- Kazan |
| 240. La Bête Humaine- Renoir |
| 241. Talk to Her – Almodovar |
| 242. 25th Hour – S. Lee |
| 243. My Fair Lady- Cukor |
| 244. Pinocchio- Sharpsteen |
| 245. Greed- von Stroheim |
| 246. The Hill- Lumet |
| 247. MASH- Altman |
| 248. Moulin Rouge! – Luhrmann |
| 249. The Quiet Man- Ford |
| 250. Letter from an Unknown Woman- Ophuls |
| 251. Doctor Zhivago- Lean |
| 252. Weekend- Godard |
| 253. Blow-Up – Antonioni |
| 254. Winter Light- Bergman |
| 255. Strike- Eisenstein |
| 256. Great Expectations- Lean |
| 257. La Chienne- Renoir |
| 258. Casino – Scorsese |
| 259. The Parallax View – Pakula |
| 260. The Sweet Smell of Success – Mackendrick |
| 261. Groundhog Day – Ramis |
| 262. Wild at Heart – Lynch |
| 263. Million Dollar Baby – Eastwood |
| 264. Badlands- Malick |
| 265. Some Like It Hot- Wilder |
| 266. The Last Laugh- Murnau |
| 267. La Notte- Antonioni |
| 268. Foolish Wives- von Stroheim |
| 269. Le Million- Clair |
| 270. His Girl Friday- Hawks |
| 271. Diner – Levinson |
| 272. A Matter of Life and Death- Powell & Pressburger |
| 273. Yojimbo- Kurosawa |
| 274. L’Atalante – Vigo |
| 275. Throne of Blood- Kurosawa |
| 276. Mon Oncle- Tati |
| 277. Floating Weeds- Ozu |
| 278. West Side Story- Wise |
| 279. The Leopard- Visconti |
| 280. The Virgin Spring- Bergman |
| 281. Pan’s Labyrinth – del Toro |
| 282. Barton Fink – Coen |
| 283. Le Samourai- Melville |
| 284. Playtime- Tati |
| 285. Reservoir Dogs – Tarantino |
| 286. An Autumn Afternoon- Ozu |
| 287. The Last of the Mohicans – M. Mann |
| 288. The Exterminating Angel- Bunuel |
| 289. The Night of the Hunter – Laughton |
| 290. A Hen in the Wind- Ozu |
| 291. Cleo from 5 to 7 – Varda |
| 292. Five Easy Pieces – Rafelson |
| 293. The Shawshank Redemption – Darabont |
| 294. American Beauty – Mendes |
| 295. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days – Mungiu |
| 296. Rope- Hitchcock |
| 297. Cabaret – Fosse |
| 298. Carnal Knowledge – M. Nichols |
| 299. Journey to Italy- Rossellini |
| 300. A History of Violence – Cronenberg |
| 301. The Fountain – Aronofsky |
| 302. Mabuse: The Gambler – Lang |
| 303. Sansho the Bailiff – Mizoguchi |
| 304. Anatomy of a Murder- Preminger |
| 305. Shadow of a Doubt- Hitchcock |
| 306. The 47 Ronin- Mizoguchi |
| 307. 1900 – Bertolucci |
| 308. Atonement – J. Wright |
| 309. All About Eve- Mankiewicz |
| 310. Mystic River – Eastwood |
| 311. Traffic – Soderbergh |
| 312. The Lady From Shanghai- Welles |
| 313. Memento – Nolan |
| 314. Out of Sight – Soderbergh |
| 315. Miller’s Crossing – Coen |
| 316. The Man Who Fell to Earth- Roeg |
| 317. La Ronde- Ophuls |
| 318. Elevator to the Gallows – Malle |
| 319. Kes- Loach |
| 320. Letter Never Sent- Kalatozov |
| 321. The Last Tango in Paris- Bertolucci |
| 322. There Was a Father- Ozu |
| 323. The Man with the Golden Arm- Preminger |
| 324. Pather Panchali- S. Ray |
| 325. Aparajito- S. Ray |
| 326. Halloween- Carpenter |
| 327. All the President’s Men- Pakula |
| 328. Blood Simple – Coen |
| 329. The Nights of the Cabiria- Fellini |
| 330. All that Heaven Allows- Sirk |
| 331. La Pointe Courte – Varda |
| 332. The Departed – Scorsese |
| 333. American Psycho – Harron |
| 334. Paisan- Rossellini |
| 335. Charulata- S. Ray |
| 336. A Fistful of Dollars- Leone |
| 337. The Son – Dardenne |
| 338. 2046 – Kar-Wai Wong |
| 339. L’enfant – Dardenne |
| 340. Full Metal Jacket – Kubrick |
| 341. Army of Shadows – Melville |
| 342. The Birds- Hitchcock |
| 343. Ordet- Dreyer |
| 344. The 39 Steps- Hitchcock |
| 345. A Story of Floating Weeds- Ozu |
| 346. Beauty and the Beast- Cocteau |
| 347. Ivan the Terrible Part II- Eisenstein |
| 348. Twelve Monkeys – Gilliam |
| 349. Carrie – De Palma |
| 350. To Have and Have Not- Hawks |
| 351. Ivan the Terrible Part I- Eisenstein |
| 352. For a Few Dollars More- Leone |
| 353. Le Bonheur – Varda |
| 354. October- Eisenstein |
| 355. Jurassic Park – Spielberg |
| 356. Terminator 2: Judgement Day – Cameron |
| 357. The Crowd- Vidor |
| 358. The Road Warrior – G. Miller |
| 359. I Vitelloni- Fellini |
| 360. Pickup on South Street- Fuller |
| 361. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie- Cassavetes |
| 362. The Big Parade- Vidor |
| 363. Marie Antoinette – S. Coppola |
| 364. Naked Lunch – Cronenberg |
| 365. The Wind- Sjöström |
| 366. The World of Apu- S. Ray |
| 367. Bob le Flambeur- Melville |
| 368. Duck Soup- McCarey |
| 369. Trouble in Paradise- Lubitsch |
| 370. Hunger – McQueen |
| 371. Gosford Park – Altman |
| 372. The Circus- Chaplin |
| 373. The English Patient – Minghella |
| 374. Vampyr- Dreyer |
| 375. Ossessione – Visconti |
| 376. Shane- Stevens |
| 377. Chimes at Midnight- Welles |
| 378. The Fly – Cronenberg |
| 379. One from the Heart – F. Coppola |
| 380. The Celebration – Vinterberg |
| 381. Day of Wrath- Dreyer |
| 382. El- Bunuel |
| 383. Stranger Than Paradise – Jarmusch |
| 384. The Long Goodbye- Altman |
| 385. Lady Snowblood – Fujita |
| 386. King Kong- Cooper |
| 387. The Lion King – Allers & Minkoff |
| 388. Peeping Tom- Powell |
| 389. Satan’s Tango – Tarr |
| 390. Ugetsu- Mizoguchi |
| 391. The Silence- Bergman |
| 392. Amores Perros – Iñárritu |
| 393. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – A. Lee |
| 394. Mr. Hulot’s Holiday- Tati |
| 395. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Minghella |
| 396. Fort Apache- Ford |
| 397. The Red Shoes- Powell & Pressburger |
| 398. The Lady Eve- P. Sturges |
| 399. Trainspotting – Boyle |
| 400. Two Women – De Sica |
| 401. Meet Me in St. Louis- Minnelli |
| 402. Easy Rider- Hopper |
| 403. The Age of Innocence – Scorsese |
| 404. Ivan’s Childhood- Tarkovsky |
| 405. A Star is Born- Cukor |
| 406. The Life of Oharu- Mizoguchi |
| 407. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors – Parajanov |
| 408. Naked- Leigh |
| 409. Husbands and Wives – Allen |
| 410. A.I. Artificial Intelligence – Spielberg |
| 411. Broadway Danny Rose – Allen |
| 412. Spirited Away – Miyazaki |
| 413. Scenes From a Marriage – Bergman |
| 414. How Green Was My Valley- Ford |
| 415. Day for Night- Truffaut |
| 416. Shoeshine- De Sica |
| 417. Lola- Demy |
| 418. The Piano Teacher – Haneke |
| 419. Sullivan’s Travels- P. Sturges |
| 420. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum – Mizoguchi |
| 421. The 3 Penny Opera- Pabst |
| 422. Dazed and Confused – Linklater |
| 423. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me – Lynch |
| 424. All that Jazz- Fosse |
| 425. The Insider – M. Mann |
| 426. The Elephant Man – Lynch |
| 427. The Marriage of Maria Braun – Fassbinder |
| 428. My Night at Maud’s – Rohmer |
| 429. Code Unknown – Haneke |
| 430. The Philadelphia Story- Cukor |
| 431. The Wild Child- – Truffaut |
| 432. The Last Picture Show – Bogdanovich |
| 433. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul – Fassbinder |
| 434. The Thing – Carpenter |
| 435. A Streetcar Named Desire- Kazan |
| 436. Detective Story- Wyler |
| 437. Ben-Hur- Wyler |
| 438. Othello- Welles |
| 439. The Darjeeling Limited – W. Anderson |
| 440. The Shop Around the Corner- Lubitsch |
| 441. Detour- Ulmer |
| 442. The Best Years of our Lives- Wyler |
| 443. Imitation of Life- Sirk |
| 444. Videodrome – Cronenberg |
| 445. Belle De Jour- Bunuel |
| 446. Safe – Haynes |
| 447. Distant Voices, Still Lives – Davies |
| 448. Die Hard – McTiernan |
| 449. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington- Capra |
| 450. The Battle of Algiers- Pontecorvo |
| 451. Wall-E – Stanton |
| 452. The Usual Suspects – Singer |
| 453. Ikiru- Kurosawa |
| 454. The Big Heat- Lang |
| 455. Gun Crazy- Lewis |
| 456. Lola – Fassbinder |
| 457. Mystery Train – Jarmusch |
| 458. The Palm Beach Story- P. Sturges |
| 459. My Dinner with Andre – Malle |
| 460. The Terminator – Cameron |
| 461. In a Lonely Place- N. Ray |
| 462. Vengeance is Mine – Imamura |
| 463. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Fassbinder |
| 464. Rebel Without a Cause- N. Ray |
| 465. Two English Girls – Truffaut |
| 466. Titanic – Cameron |
| 467. Pigs and Battleships – Imamura |
| 468. Gunga Din- Stevens |
| 469. Dawn of the Dead – Romero |
| 470. The Hustler- Rossen |
| 471. Accatone – Pasolini |
| 472. Purple Noon- Clement |
| 473. The Reckless Moment- Ophuls |
| 474. The Miracle of Morgan Creek- P. Sturges |
| 475. Being John Malkovich – Jonze |
| 476. O Brother, Where Art Thou? – Coen |
| 477. Henry V- Olivier |
| 478. Laura- Preminger |
| 479. Amelie – Jeunet |
| 480. Fallen Angel- Preminger |
| 481. The Roaring Twenties- Walsh |
| 482. Brief Encounter- Lean |
| 483. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – M. Nichols |
| 484. Children of Paradise- Carne |
| 485. Scarlet Street- Lang |
| 486. Destiny- Lang |
| 487. Tom Jones- Richardson |
| 488. Stardust Memories – Allen |
| 489. Scarface – De Palma |
| 490. The Outlaw Josey Wales – Eastwood |
| 491. Dick Tracy – Beatty |
| 492. La Haine – Kassovitz |
| 493. Taste of Cherry – Kiarostami |
| 494. Days of Being Wild – Kar-Wai Wong |
| 495. Eraserhead – Lynch |
| 496. Election- Payne |
| 497. The Player – Altman |
| 498. The Hurt Locker – Bigelow |
| 499. The Bourne Ultimatum – Greengrass |
| 500. Nosferatu the Vampyre – Herzog |
- DIRECTORS WITH MULTIPLE FILMS
10- Hitchcock
9- Bergman, Ozu
8- Kubrick, Ford
7- Fellini, Scorsese, Tarkovsky, Welles, Spielberg, Allen, Coen, Lynch
6- F. Coppola, Antonioni, Hawks, Kurosawa, Ophuls, Truffaut, Bunuel, Lang, Altman, Cronenberg
5- Renoir, Leone, Dreyer, Lean, Eisenstein, Powell, Jarmusch, S. Ray, Mizoguchi, Fassbinder
4- P.T. Anderson, Godard, Malick, Chaplin, Wilder, Rossellini, De Sica, Kar-Wai Wong, Imamura, Eastwood, Preminger, P. Sturges
3- Murnau, Polanski, Herzog, von Sternberg, Fincher, Kieslowski, S. Lee, Tarantino, Kalatozov, Roeg, Lumet, Bertolucci, Capra, W. Anderson, Visconti, M. Mann, M. Nichols, Sirk, Tati, Varda, Melville, Haneke, De Palma, N. Ray, , Cukor, Wyler
2- Griffith, R. Scott, Peckinpah, Greenaway, von Trier, Bresson, Cuaron, Keaton, Forman, Friedkin, Huston, Gilliam, S. Coppola, Tarr, Cassavetes, von Stroheim, Aronofsky, Nolan, Demy, Linklater, Pakula, Fleming, Walsh, Soderbergh, Kazan, Dardenne, Vidor, Fosse, Carpenter, Minghella, Malle, Lubitsch, Stevens
This is a fantastic collection, and I haven’t even watched some of them. Great Job for getting this done though. Now for the complaining bit: No love for Kramer vs Kramer, it’s my favorite film and a magnificent one at it. Frenzy, Rainman, Bram Stoker Dracula, Rainman , An affair to remember and Oldboy should be there as well. So could Prestige and the Machinist.
thanks AP. Let me ask you this is- Kramer vs. Kramer your “favorite” film or the one you think is the best? Or both? I like all the films you mention here, all of them in the archives (i need to see “the machinst” again because that one isn’t) but the closest one to this list would be “oldboy”. I’m excited to revisit that one.
Kramer vs Kramer is one of my favorite films, it won’t be near the Top of my list but I will make space for it in the Top 100. And Justice for all is another film that comes to mind, so does 12 Angry men which I believe is Lumets best work. I guess, I just have a thing for courtroom dramas.
Another interesting bit is that Spielberg top film is Jaws which comes in at 113. Not that I have much to disagree, but I still find it quite remarkable.
Thanks again AP– courtroom drama– i love them, too even if my top 500 doesn’t make much room for them. I think mainly it’s because the best directors don’t typically work in that sub-genre– Preminger’s “Anatomy of a Murder” is here and i think it’s the best… Kubrick’s “Paths of Glory” has sections that are like a courtroom drama i guess
Spielberg. I’m guessing you find it interesting because there isn’t one in the top 100? or that it’s because I selected “jaws” as the best? It may take me awhile to get to him but i do have 5 of his films in the top 235 which i think is the sign of a very remarkable filmmaker. For years i was convinced “Raiders” was the best– but i’m pretty confident “Jaws” is his best now
first off i love movies and really enjoy your whole website. but i must say that i disagree with your sentiment that actors arent artists. forgive me if im wrong on your beliefs. actors are artists . i also reject director as auteur theory unless in films such as 2001 i feel actors are more central and i love directors dont get me wrong im an aspiring actor .
@m — Thanks for the comment and am happy to hear you love movies and my website here. You’re entitled to your opinion of course but you are incorrect if you don’t believe in the director as auteur theory. There are exceptions of course but those exceptions are not the rule. Acting is an element of what makes a great piece of cinema– much like film score or lighting– it can be exceptional, weak, or yes, indeed, artistic— but the director using those individual elements to create. Look no further than 2018’s “Roma” from Cuaron. He takes a non-professional actor as his lead and gives us a great work of art, a solid performance, and the best film of the year.
Where is the stranger? Orson Welles is the greatest artist involved in film, and this picture is equal to Citizen Kane. He is the best actor ever and secondarily the best director ever
@M – thanks again here for visiting the site and the comment– I love Welles (he’s a far better director than actor) but “The Stranger” is equal to “Citizen Kane”? That’s not correct.
Well sorry. I don’t know if it is equal. But definitely a masterpiece. Kane has a better story and my third favorite acted scene of all time (first is Ian Mckellen tomorrow soliloquy from Macbeth and second James Stewart praying in wonderful life). The scene is where kane is begging susan not to go and the acting, the eyes, the saddness, is,just plain brilliant acting. But noir is my favorite genre. These are both two of the greatest movies ever. Also kane has a better story and better cinematography but I like the music in stranger better and I also love the story, along with edward g Robinson’s character, and acting, as the noir detective type. Thank you for answering, i love this website