** There is a ten year moratorium on all new films – so this list does not include released from 2014 to current day
| film | director | year |
| 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey | Kubrick | 1968 |
| 2. The Searchers | Ford | 1956 |
| 3. The Passion of Joan of Arc | Dreyer | 1928 |
| 4. Apocalypse Now | F. Coppola | 1979 |
| 5. In the Mood for Love | Wong Kar-wai | 2000 |
| 6. Citizen Kane | Welles | 1941 |
| 7. Sunrise | Murnau | 1927 |
| 8. Nostalghia | Tarkovsky | 1983 |
| 9. Raging Bull | Scorsese | 1980 |
| 10. Vertigo | Hitchcock | 1958 |
| 11. Tokyo Story | Ozu | 1953 |
| 12. Stalker | Tarkovsky | 1979 |
| 13. 8 1/2 | Fellini | 1963 |
| 14. Barry Lyndon | Kubrick | 1975 |
| 15. The Godfather | F. Coppola | 1972 |
| 16. Battleship Potemkin | Eisenstein | 1925 |
| 17. The Conformist | Bertolucci | 1970 |
| 18. Intolerance | Griffith | 1916 |
| 19. Blade Runner | R. Scott | 1982 |
| 20. Bicycle Thieves | De Sica | 1948 |
| 21. Seven Samurai | Kurosawa | 1954 |
| 22. Rashomon | Kurosawa | 1950 |
| 23. Lawrence of Arabia | Lean | 1962 |
| 24. Breaking the Waves | von Trier | 1996 |
| 25. Goodfellas | Scorsese | 1990 |
| 26. La Dolce Vita | Fellini | 1960 |
| 27. Chungking Express | Wong Kar-wai | 1994 |
| 28. The Godfather Part II | F. Coppola | 1974 |
| 29. The Rules of the Game | Renoir | 1939 |
| 30. Taxi Driver | Scorsese | 1976 |
| 31. A Short Film About Killing | Kieslowski | 1988 |
| 32. Pulp Fiction | Tarantino | 1994 |
| 33. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | Wiene | 1920 |
| 34. Touch of Evil | Welles | 1958 |
| 35. The End of Summer | Ozu | 1961 |
| 36. Last Year at Marienbad | Resnais | 1961 |
| 37. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover | Greenaway | 1989 |
| 38. Jules and Jim | Truffaut | 1962 |
| 39. Breathless | Godard | 1960 |
| 40. The Tree of Life | Malick | 2011 |
| 41. The Turin Horse | Tarr | 2011 |
| 42. Days of Heaven | Malick | 1978 |
| 43. The Last Laugh | Murnau | 1924 |
| 44. The Magnificent Ambersons | Welles | 1942 |
| 45. Persona | Bergman | 1966 |
| 46. I Am Cuba | Kalatozov | 1964 |
| 47. Children of Men | Cuarón | 2006 |
| 48. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | Fassbinder | 1974 |
| 49. The Seventh Seal | Bergman | 1957 |
| 50. Do the Right Thing | S. Lee | 1989 |
| 51. Cries & Whispers | Bergman | 1972 |
| 52. Songs from the Second Floor | Andersson | 2000 |
| 53. Red Desert | Antonioni | 1964 |
| 54. Gertrud | Dreyer | 1964 |
| 55. Melancholia | von Trier | 2011 |
| 56. Distant Voices, Still Lives | Davies | 1988 |
| 57. High and Low | Kurosawa | 1963 |
| 58. Playtime | Tati | 1967 |
| 59. The Leopard | Visconti | 1963 |
| 60. Punch-Drunk Love | P.T. Anderson | 2002 |
| 61. Sherlock Jr. | Keaton | 1924 |
| 62. A Clockwork Orange | Kubrick | 1971 |
| 63. M | Lang | 1931 |
| 64. Werckmeister Harmonies | Tarr | 2000 |
| 65. Dekalog | Kieslowski | 1989 |
| 66. The Earrings of Madame De… | Ophüls | 1953 |
| 67. The Shining | Kubrick | 1980 |
| 68. There Will Be Blood | P.T. Anderson | 2007 |
| 69. The Third Man | Reed | 1949 |
| 70. Naked | Leigh | 1993 |
| 71. Three Colours: Blue | Kieslowski | 1993 |
| 72. The Sacrifice | Tarkovsky | 1986 |
| 73. L’Argent | Bresson | 1983 |
| 74. The Pornographers | Imamura | 1966 |
| 75. Germany Year Zero | Rossellini | 1948 |
| 76. Once Upon a Time in the West | Leone | 1968 |
| 77. Black Narcissus | Powell, Pressburger | 1947 |
| 78. 2046 | Wong Kar-wai | 2004 |
| 79. Three Colours: Red | Kieslowski | 1994 |
| 80. The Master | P.T. Anderson | 2012 |
| 81. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom | Pasolini | 1975 |
| 82. Metropolis | Lang | 1927 |
| 83. The Wild Bunch | Peckinpah | 1969 |
| 84. The Double Life of Veronique | Kieslowski | 1991 |
| 85. Raise the Red Lantern | Yimou Zhang | 1991 |
| 86. Ikiru | Kurosawa | 1952 |
| 87. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | Leone | 1966 |
| 88. Pierrot le Fou | Godard | 1965 |
| 89. The 400 Blows | Truffaut | 1959 |
| 90. Heat | M. Mann | 1995 |
| 91. Flowers of Shanghai | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | 1998 |
| 92. The Blue Angel | von Sternberg | 1930 |
| 93. Brazil | Gilliam | 1985 |
| 94. The Trial | Welles | 1962 |
| 95. The White Ribbon | Haneke | 2009 |
| 96. Blow Out | De Palma | 1981 |
| 97. The Graduate | M. Nichols | 1967 |
| 98. Juliet of the Spirits | Fellini | 1965 |
| 99. Hero | Yimou Zhang | 2002 |
| 100. Lola Montes | Ophüls | 1955 |
| 101. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Almodóvar | 1988 |
| 102. The Bad Sleep Well | Kurosawa | 1960 |
| 103. Magnolia | P.T. Anderson | 1999 |
| 104. Army of Shadows | Melville | 1969 |
| 105. Suspiria | Argento | 1977 |
| 106. Psycho | Hitchcock | 1960 |
| 107. Syndromes and a Century | Weerasethakul | 2006 |
| 108. Fanny and Alexander | Bergman | 1982 |
| 109. Early Summer | Ozu | 1951 |
| 110. Gone with the Wind | Fleming | 1939 |
| 111. Die Nibelungen | Lang | 1924 |
| 112. Paths of Glory | Kubrick | 1957 |
| 113. Shoot the Piano Player | Truffaut | 1960 |
| 114. The Cranes Are Flying | Kalatozov | 1957 |
| 115. Rome, Open City | Rossellini | 1945 |
| 116. The Age of Innocence | Scorsese | 1993 |
| 117. L’Avventura | Antonioni | 1960 |
| 118. Blue Velvet | Lynch | 1986 |
| 119. Stagecoach | Ford | 1939 |
| 120. The Passenger | Antonioni | 1975 |
| 121. Manhattan | Allen | 1979 |
| 122. Nashville | Altman | 1975 |
| 123. The Best Years of Our Lives | Wyler | 1946 |
| 124. Mulholland Drive | Lynch | 2001 |
| 125. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | Buñuel | 1972 |
| 126. Eyes Wide Shut | Kubrick | 1999 |
| 127. Mysteries of Lisbon | Ruiz | 2010 |
| 128. Boogie Nights | P.T. Anderson | 1997 |
| 129. Contempt | Godard | 1963 |
| 130. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums | Mizoguchi | 1939 |
| 131. A Zed & Two Noughts | Greenaway | 1985 |
| 132. Notorious | Hitchcock | 1946 |
| 133. Strike | Eisenstein | 1925 |
| 134. The Royal Tenenbaums | W. Anderson | 2001 |
| 135. Aguirre, the Wrath of God | Herzog | 1972 |
| 136. The Long Day Closes | Davies | 1992 |
| 137. La grande illusion | Renoir | 1937 |
| 138. The Thin Red Line | Malick | 1998 |
| 139. Nosferatu | Murnau | 1922 |
| 140. Dead Man | Jarmusch | 1995 |
| 141. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Dominik | 2007 |
| 142. All that Heaven Allows | Sirk | 1955 |
| 143. Ida | Pawlikowski | 2013 |
| 144. Chinatown | Polanski | 1974 |
| 145. It’s a Wonderful Life | Capra | 1946 |
| 146. The Phantom Carriage | Sjöström | 1921 |
| 147. Satantango | Tarr | 1994 |
| 148. Annie Hall | Allen | 1977 |
| 149. The Wizard of Oz | Fleming | 1939 |
| 150. Casablanca | Curtiz | 1942 |
| 151. The Belly of an Architect | Greenaway | 1987 |
| 152. Rosemary’s Baby | Polanski | 1968 |
| 153. Yi Yi | Yang | 2000 |
| 154. Chimes at Midnight | Welles | 1965 |
| 155. Umberto D. | De Sica | 1952 |
| 156. L’Eclisse | Antonioni | 1962 |
| 157. Rocco and His Brothers | Visconti | 1960 |
| 158. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | Demy | 1964 |
| 159. War and Peace | Bondarchuk | 1965 |
| 160. Once Upon a Time in America | Leone | 1984 |
| 161. Andrei Rublev | Tarkovsky | 1966 |
| 162. The Music Room | S. Ray | 1958 |
| 163. Le Samouraï | Melville | 1967 |
| 164. Mean Streets | Scorsese | 1973 |
| 165. JFK | Stone | 1991 |
| 166. The Birth of a Nation | Griffith | 1915 |
| 167. You, the Living | Andersson | 2007 |
| 168. The Virgin Spring | Bergman | 1960 |
| 169. McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Altman | 1971 |
| 170. Jaws | Spielberg | 1975 |
| 171. The Tenant | Polanski | 1976 |
| 172. Possession | Zulawski | 1981 |
| 173. Rumble Fish | F. Coppola | 1983 |
| 174. Late Spring | Ozu | 1949 |
| 175. The General | Keaton, Bruckman | 1926 |
| 176. A Time to Live and a Time to Die | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | 1985 |
| 177. Stranger Than Paradise | Jarmusch | 1984 |
| 178. The Silence | Bergman | 1963 |
| 179. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance | Park Chan-wook | 2002 |
| 180. La Terra Trema | Visconti | 1948 |
| 181. Intentions of Murder | Imamura | 1964 |
| 182. Inception | Nolan | 2010 |
| 183. Fight Club | Fincher | 1999 |
| 184. The Little Foxes | Wyler | 1941 |
| 185. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | Mungiu | 2007 |
| 186. The Social Network | Fincher | 2010 |
| 187. The Parallax View | Pakula | 1974 |
| 188. Black Swan | Aronofsky | 2010 |
| 189. Kill Bill | Tarantino | 2003 |
| 190. Lost in Translation | S. Coppola | 2003 |
| 191. The Lord of the Rings | Jackson | 2001 |
| 192. The Human Condition | Kobayashi | 1959 |
| 193. The New World | Malick | 2005 |
| 194. Viridiana | Buñuel | 1961 |
| 195. Y Tu Mamá También | Cuarón | 2001 |
| 196. Silent Light | Reygadas | 2007 |
| 197. Ran | Kurosawa | 1985 |
| 198. How Green Was My Valley | Ford | 1941 |
| 199. Moonrise Kingdom | W. Anderson | 2012 |
| 200. Zodiac | Fincher | 2007 |
| 201. Heaven’s Gate | Cimino | 1980 |
| 202. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid | Peckinpah | 1973 |
| 203. The Life of Oharu | Mizoguchi | 1952 |
| 204. The Big Trail | Walsh | 1930 |
| 205. The Scarlet Empress | von Sternberg | 1934 |
| 206. Malcolm X | S. Lee | 1992 |
| 207. Unforgiven | Eastwood | 1992 |
| 208. Weekend | Godard | 1967 |
| 209. Dancer in the Dark | von Trier | 2000 |
| 210. A Woman Is a Woman | Godard | 1961 |
| 211. Winter Light | Bergman | 1963 |
| 212. Replusion | Polanski | 1965 |
| 213. Requiem for a Dream | Aronofsky | 2000 |
| 214. The Grapes of Wrath | Ford | 1940 |
| 215. Pather Panchali | S. Ray | 1955 |
| 216. Se7en | Fincher | 1995 |
| 217. Point Blank | Boorman | 1967 |
| 218. Amarcord | Fellini | 1973 |
| 219. La Pointe Courte | Varda | 1955 |
| 220. Le Plaisir | Ophüls | 1952 |
| 221. Performance | Roeg, Cammell | 1970 |
| 222. Autumn Sonata | Bergman | 1978 |
| 223. Morocco | von Sternberg | 1930 |
| 224. Harold and Maude | Ashby | 1971 |
| 225. The Andromeda Strain | Wise | 1971 |
| 226. A Special Day | Scola | 1977 |
| 227. Don’t Look Now | Roeg | 1973 |
| 228. The Ipcress File | Furie | 1965 |
| 229. Schindler’s List | Spielberg | 1993 |
| 230. City Lights | Chaplin | 1931 |
| 231. A Woman Under the Influence | Cassavetes | 1974 |
| 232. Dead Ringers | Cronenberg | 1988 |
| 233. Bringing Up Baby | Hawks | 1938 |
| 234. Harakiri | Kobayashi | 1962 |
| 235. Scarface | Hawks | 1932 |
| 236. Knife in the Water | Polanski | 1962 |
| 237. Atonement | J. Wright | 2007 |
| 238. Mon Oncle | Tati | 1958 |
| 239. Moulin Rouge! | Luhrmann | 2001 |
| 240. Johnny Guitar | N. Ray | 1954 |
| 241. Traffic | Soderbergh | 2000 |
| 242. Written on the Wind | Sirk | 1956 |
| 243. La Strada | Fellini | 1954 |
| 244. Cache | Haneke | 2005 |
| 245. The Conversation | F. Coppola | 1974 |
| 246. Rear Window | Hitchcock | 1954 |
| 247. The Matrix | Wachowski | 1999 |
| 248. A Man Escaped | Bresson | 1956 |
| 249. The Servant | Losey | 1963 |
| 250. A Matter of Life and Death | Powell, Pressburger | 1946 |
| 251. Fargo | Coen | 1996 |
| 252. A Brighter Summer’s Day | Yang | 1991 |
| 253. Come and See | Klimov | 1985 |
| 254. Inside Llewyn Davis | Coen | 2013 |
| 255. North by Northwest | Hitchcock | 1959 |
| 256. Park Row | Fuller | 1952 |
| 257. Charulata | S. Ray | 1964 |
| 258. Under the Skin | Glazer | 2013 |
| 259. Shame | McQueen | 2011 |
| 260. Days of Being Wild | Wong Kar-wai | 1990 |
| 261. Ossessione | Visconti | 1943 |
| 262. Love Me Tonight | Mamoulian | 1932 |
| 263. Modern Times | Chaplin | 1936 |
| 264. Los Olvidados | Buñuel | 1950 |
| 265. Sansho the Bailiff | Mizoguchi | 1954 |
| 266. Alien | R. Scott | 1979 |
| 267. The Silence of the Lambs | Demme | 1991 |
| 268. Sunset Boulevard | Wilder | 1950 |
| 269. My Darling Clementine | Ford | 1946 |
| 270. Double Indemnity | Wilder | 1944 |
| 271. Crash | Cronenberg | 1996 |
| 272. Midnight Cowboy | Schlesinger | 1969 |
| 273. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Roy Hill | 1969 |
| 274. The Gold Rush | Chaplin | 1925 |
| 275. Greed | von Stroheim | 1924 |
| 276. A History of Violence | Cronenberg | 2005 |
| 277. White Heat | Walsh | 1949 |
| 278. The Crowd | K. Vidor | 1928 |
| 279. Raiders of the Lost Ark | Spielberg | 1981 |
| 280. Cool Hand Luke | Rosenberg | 1967 |
| 281. The Empire Strikes Back | Kershner | 1980 |
| 282. Hiroshima Mon Amour | Resnais | 1959 |
| 283. Pickpocket | Bresson | 1959 |
| 284. The Exorcist | Friedkin | 1973 |
| 285. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | Schrader | 1985 |
| 286. The Deer Hunter | Cimino | 1978 |
| 287. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Gondry | 2004 |
| 288. Hannah and Her Sisters | Allen | 1986 |
| 289. Bonnie and Clyde | A. Penn | 1967 |
| 290. The Dark Knight | Nolan | 2008 |
| 291. The French Connection | Friedkin | 1971 |
| 292. Tess | Polanski | 1979 |
| 293. High Noon | Zinnemann | 1952 |
| 294. Star Wars | Lucas | 1977 |
| 295. L’Atalante | Vigo | 1934 |
| 296. M*A*S*H | Altman | 1970 |
| 297. Million Dollar Baby | Eastwood | 2004 |
| 298. Red River | Hawks | 1948 |
| 299. Out of the Past | Tourneur | 1947 |
| 300. The Big Lebowski | Coen | 1998 |
| 301. Rushmore | W. Anderson | 1998 |
| 302. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Kubrick | 1964 |
| 303. No Country for Old Men | Coen | 2007 |
| 304. Great Expectations | Lean | 1946 |
| 305. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | Ford | 1962 |
| 306. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Powell, Pressburger | 1943 |
| 307. Destiny | Lang | 1921 |
| 308. The Wind | Sjöström | 1928 |
| 309. Lost Highway | Lynch | 1997 |
| 310. The 47 Ronin | Mizoguchi | 1941 |
| 311. The Night of the Hunter | Laughton | 1955 |
| 312. Cleo from 5 to 7 | Varda | 1962 |
| 313. Mon oncle d’Amérique | Resnais | 1980 |
| 314. Casino | Scorsese | 1995 |
| 315. Kings of the Road | Wenders | 1976 |
| 316. Café Lumière | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | 2003 |
| 317. Tokyo Drifter | Suzuki | 1966 |
| 318. Blow-Up | Antonioni | 1966 |
| 319. Deep Red | Argento | 1975 |
| 320. Faust | Murnau | 1926 |
| 321. Foolish Wives | von Stroheim | 1922 |
| 322. Strangers on a Train | Hitchcock | 1951 |
| 323. Veronika Voss | Fassbinder | 1982 |
| 324. Reservoir Dogs | Tarantino | 1992 |
| 325. The Fountain | Aronofsky | 2006 |
| 326. The Last of the Mohicans | M. Mann | 1992 |
| 327. The Innocents | Clayton | 1961 |
| 328. Peeping Tom | Powell | 1960 |
| 329. Pyaasa | Dutt | 1957 |
| 330. The Devils | K. Russell | 1971 |
| 331. Dark City | Proyas | 1998 |
| 332. Marie Antoinette | S. Coppola | 2006 |
| 333. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler | Lang | 1922 |
| 334. Trainspotting | Boyle | 1996 |
| 335. Gravity | Cuarón | 2013 |
| 336. Teorema | Pasolini | 1968 |
| 337. The King’s Speech | Tom Hooper | 2010 |
| 338. The Departed | Scorsese | 2006 |
| 339. Yojimbo | Kurosawa | 1961 |
| 340. Pan’s Labyrinth | del Toro | 2006 |
| 341. West Side Story | Wise, J. Robbins | 1961 |
| 342. Safe | Haynes | 1995 |
| 343. The Lady from Shanghai | Welles | 1947 |
| 344. 25th Hour | S. Lee | 2002 |
| 345. Amadeus | Forman | 1984 |
| 346. The City of Lost Children | Jeunet, Caro | 1995 |
| 347. Before Sunset | Linklater | 2004 |
| 348. Hunger | McQueen | 2008 |
| 349. La Notte | Antonioni | 1961 |
| 350. Klute | Pakula | 1971 |
| 351. Fitzcarraldo | Herzog | 1982 |
| 352. The Killers | Siodmak | 1946 |
| 353. Oldboy | Park Chan-wook | 2003 |
| 354. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Spielberg | 1982 |
| 355. Badlands | Malick | 1973 |
| 356. Floating Weeds | Ozu | 1959 |
| 357. The Ballad of Narayama | Kinoshita | 1958 |
| 358. A Hen in the Wind | Ozu | 1948 |
| 359. Accattone | Pasolini | 1961 |
| 360. The Red and the White | Jancsó | 1967 |
| 361. A Serious Man | Coen | 2009 |
| 362. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Huston | 1948 |
| 363. Crimes and Misdemeanors | Allen | 1989 |
| 364. Pinocchio | Luske, Sharpsteen | 1940 |
| 365. Carnal Knowledge | M. Nichols | 1971 |
| 366. Singin’ in the Rain | Donen, Kelly | 1952 |
| 367. It Happened One Night | Capra | 1934 |
| 368. Bride of Frankenstein | Whale | 1935 |
| 369. Saving Private Ryan | Spielberg | 1998 |
| 370. Kwaidan | Kobayashi | 1964 |
| 371. Doctor Zhivago | Lean | 1965 |
| 372. Network | Lumet | 1976 |
| 373. Mystic River | Eastwood | 2003 |
| 374. Diabolique | Clouzot | 1955 |
| 375. Dog Day Afternoon | Lumet | 1975 |
| 376. Letter from an Unknown Woman | Ophüls | 1948 |
| 377. The Ballad of Narayama | Imamura | 1983 |
| 378. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives | Weerasethakul | 2010 |
| 379. Wild Strawberries | Bergman | 1957 |
| 380. Ivan the Terrilble | Eisenstein | 1944 |
| 381. Paisan | Rossellini | 1946 |
| 382. A Very Long Engagement | Jeunet | 2004 |
| 383. Memories of Murder | Bong Joon-ho | 2003 |
| 384. Damnation | Tarr | 1988 |
| 385. Three Colours: White | Kieslowski | 1994 |
| 386. Ashes and Diamonds | Wajda | 1958 |
| 387. Solaris | Tarkovsky | 1972 |
| 388. Le Bonheur | Varda | 1965 |
| 389. The Deep Blue Sea | Davies | 2011 |
| 390. The Red Shoes | Powell, Pressburger | 1948 |
| 391. Valhalla Rising | Refn | 2009 |
| 392. Alphaville | Godard | 1965 |
| 393. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Gilliam | 1988 |
| 394. Lola | Fassbinder | 1981 |
| 395. Three Crowns of the Sailor | Ruiz | 1983 |
| 396. Osaka Elegy | Mizoguchi | 1936 |
| 397. Inglourious Basterds | Tarantino | 2009 |
| 398. Alexander Nevsky | Eisenstein, Vasilyev | 1938 |
| 399. We Need to Talk About Kevin | Ramsay | 2011 |
| 400. Ivan’s Childhood | Tarkovsky | 1962 |
| 401. The Long Goodbye | Altman | 1973 |
| 402. The Marriage of Maria Braun | Fassbinder | 1979 |
| 403. Letter Never Sent | Kalatozov | 1960 |
| 404. Rope | Hitchcock | 1948 |
| 405. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | Ford | 1949 |
| 406. Ordet | Dreyer | 1955 |
| 407. Despair | Fassbinder | 1978 |
| 408. Vivre Sa Vie | Godard | 1962 |
| 409. Orlando | Potter | 1992 |
| 410. The Virgin Suicides | S. Coppola | 1999 |
| 411. Pickup on South Street | Fuller | 1953 |
| 412. Othello | Welles | 1951 |
| 413. Senso | Visconti | 1954 |
| 414. Vampyr | Dreyer | 1932 |
| 415. Before Midnight | Linklater | 2013 |
| 416. The Great Beauty | Sorrentino | 2013 |
| 417. The Aviator | Scorsese | 2004 |
| 418. Bad Education | Almodóvar | 2004 |
| 419. All the President’s Men | Pakula | 1976 |
| 420. La Chienne | Renoir | 1931 |
| 421. Sanjuro | Kurosawa | 1962 |
| 422. House of Flying Daggers | Yimou Zhang | 2004 |
| 423. Mirror | Tarkovsky | 1975 |
| 424. The Son | Dardenne | 2002 |
| 425. Elevator to the Gallows | Malle | 1958 |
| 426. Talk to Her | Almodóvar | 2002 |
| 427. The Piano | Campion | 1993 |
| 428. Barton Fink | Coen | 1991 |
| 429. L’enfant | Dardenne | 2005 |
| 430. La Ronde | Ophüls | 1950 |
| 431. Amélie | Jeunet | 2001 |
| 432. Shame | Bergman | 1968 |
| 433. American Beauty | Mendes | 1999 |
| 434. 12 Monkeys | Gilliam | 1995 |
| 435. Lady Snowblood | Fujita | 1973 |
| 436. Taste of Cherry | Kiarostami | 1997 |
| 437. Samurai Rebellion | Kobayashi | 1967 |
| 438. The Insider | M. Mann | 1999 |
| 439. Interiors | Allen | 1978 |
| 440. The Navigator | Keaton, Crisp | 1924 |
| 441. An Autumn Afternoon | Ozu | 1962 |
| 442. The Damned | Visconti | 1969 |
| 443. Kes | Loach | 1969 |
| 444. Kaagaz Ke Phool | Dutt | 1959 |
| 445. Thief | M. Mann | 1981 |
| 446. The Holy Mountain | Jodorowsky | 1973 |
| 447. Le Million | Clair | 1931 |
| 448. The Exterminating Angel | Buñuel | 1962 |
| 449. 1900 | Bertolucci | 1976 |
| 450. Carrie | De Palma | 1976 |
| 451. Bright Star | Campion | 2009 |
| 452. Antichrist | von Trier | 2009 |
| 453. Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles | Akerman | 1975 |
| 454. Ugetsu | Mizoguchi | 1953 |
| 455. The Last Tango in Paris | Bertolucci | 1972 |
| 456. Les rendez-vous d’Anna | Akerman | 1978 |
| 457. Vengeance is Mine | Imamura | 1979 |
| 458. Rio Bravo | Hawks | 1959 |
| 459. They Live by Night | N. Ray | 1948 |
| 460. Les vampires | Feuillade | 1915 |
| 461. Day of Wrath | Dreyer | 1943 |
| 462. Out of Sight | Soderbergh | 1998 |
| 463. A Fistful of Dollars | Leone | 1964 |
| 464. Pigs and Battleships | Imamura | 1961 |
| 465. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Gilliam | 1998 |
| 466. For a Few Dollars More | Leone | 1965 |
| 467. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | Lynch | 1992 |
| 468. Dogtooth | Lanthimos | 2009 |
| 469. La tête d’un homme | Duvivier | 1933 |
| 470. 7th Heaven | Borzage | 1927 |
| 471. Beauty and the Beast | Cocteau, Clément | 1946 |
| 472. The Sweet Hereafter | Egoyan | 1997 |
| 473. Track of the Cat | Wellman | 1954 |
| 474. Le notti bianche | Visconti | 1957 |
| 475. Nights of Cabiria | Fellini | 1957 |
| 476. Journey to Italy | Rossellini | 1954 |
| 477. Manhunter | M. Mann | 1986 |
| 478. Dressed to Kill | De Palma | 1980 |
| 479. The Lovers on the Bridge | Carax | 1991 |
| 480. Wild at Heart | Lynch | 1990 |
| 481. Miller’s Crossing | Coen | 1990 |
| 482. The Battle of Algiers | Pontecorvo | 1966 |
| 483. Gun Crazy | Lewis | 1950 |
| 484. Blood Simple | Coen | 1984 |
| 485. One from the Heart | F. Coppola | 1981 |
| 486. Elephant | Van Sant | 2003 |
| 487. The King of Comedy | Scorsese | 1982 |
| 488. Shadow of a Doubt | Hitchcock | 1943 |
| 489. I Vitelloni | Fellini | 1953 |
| 490. Odd Man Out | Reed | 1947 |
| 491. 12 Angry Men | Lumet | 1957 |
| 492. The Thing | Carpenter | 1982 |
| 493. Two Women | De Sica | 1960 |
| 494. The Hill | Lumet | 1965 |
| 495. Sweet Smell of Success | Mackendrick | 1957 |
| 496. Back to the Future | Zemeckis | 1985 |
| 497. His Girl Friday | Hawks | 1940 |
| 498. The Bridge on the River Kwai | Lean | 1957 |
| 499. The Manchurian Candidate | Frankenheimer | 1962 |
| 500. Cabaret | Fosse | 1972 |
| 501. The Birds | Hitchcock | 1963 |
| 502. The Man Who Fell to Earth | Roeg | 1976 |
| 503. Devi | S. Ray | 1960 |
| 504. Exotica | Egoyan | 1994 |
| 505. The Darjeeling Limited | W. Anderson | 2007 |
| 506. Aparajito | S. Ray | 1956 |
| 507. Shoeshine | De Sica | 1946 |
| 508. Fantastic Mr. Fox | W. Anderson | 2009 |
| 509. The World of Apu | S. Ray | 1959 |
| 510. Laurence Anyways | Dolan | 2012 |
| 511. The English Patient | Minghella | 1996 |
| 512. Paris, Texas | Wenders | 1984 |
| 513. The Crime of Monsieur Lange | Renoir | 1936 |
| 514. The Big Parade | K. Vidor | 1925 |
| 515. A Star is Born | Cukor | 1954 |
| 516. The Limits of Control | Jarmusch | 2009 |
| 517. The Talented Mr. Ripley | Minghella | 1999 |
| 518. Being John Malkovich | Jonze | 1999 |
| 519. Cabiria | Pastrone | 1914 |
| 520. Django Unchained | Tarantino | 2012 |
| 521. The Apartment | Wilder | 1960 |
| 522. The Man with the Golden Arm | Preminger | 1955 |
| 523. You Only Live Once | Lang | 1937 |
| 524. Memento | Nolan | 2000 |
| 525. 12 Years a Slave | McQueen | 2013 |
| 526. Made in U.S.A | Godard | 1966 |
| 527. All That Jazz | Fosse | 1979 |
| 528. The Maltese Falcon | Huston | 1941 |
| 529. Gosford Park | Altman | 2001 |
| 530. Only God Forgives | Refn | 2013 |
| 531. On the Waterfront | Kazan | 1954 |
| 532. Halloween | Carpenter | 1978 |
| 533. The Lady Eve | P. Sturges | 1941 |
| 534. Down by Law | Jarmusch | 1986 |
| 535. Scarlet Street | Lang | 1945 |
| 536. Rebecca | Hitchcock | 1940 |
| 537. The Big Sleep | Hawks | 1946 |
| 538. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Forman | 1975 |
| 539. Road to Perdition | Mendes | 2002 |
| 540. Far From Heaven | Haynes | 2002 |
| 541. Peppermint Candy | Lee Chang-dong | 1999 |
| 542. The Circus | Chaplin | 1928 |
| 543. Aliens | Cameron | 1986 |
| 544. A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Spielberg | 2001 |
| 545. The Piano Teacher | Haneke | 2001 |
| 546. The Haunting | Wise | 1963 |
| 547. Mystery Train | Jarmusch | 1989 |
| 548. Lola | Demy | 1961 |
| 549. The Big Heat | Lang | 1953 |
| 550. David Golder | Duvivier | 1931 |
| 551. Wings | Wellman | 1927 |
| 552. Stromboli | Rossellini | 1950 |
| 553. Enemy | Villeneuve | 2013 |
| 554. The Dark Knight Rises | Nolan | 2012 |
| 555. The Fisher King | Gilliam | 1991 |
| 556. Naked Lunch | Cronenberg | 1991 |
| 557. City of God | Meirelles, Lund | 2002 |
| 558. Él | Buñuel | 1953 |
| 559. Bob le Flambeur | Melville | 1956 |
| 560. Run Lola Run | Tykwer | 1998 |
| 561. Lincoln | Spielberg | 2012 |
| 562. The Children’s Hour | Wyler | 1961 |
| 563. Sid and Nancy | Cox | 1986 |
| 564. Broken Flowers | Jarmusch | 2005 |
| 565. Full Metal Jacket | Kubrick | 1987 |
| 566. Groundhog Day | Ramis | 1993 |
| 567. Dirty Harry | Siegel | 1971 |
| 568. Star Trek: The Motion Picture | Wise | 1979 |
| 569. Laura | Preminger | 1944 |
| 570. A Story of Floating Weeds | Ozu | 1934 |
| 571. I Killed My Mother | Dolan | 2009 |
| 572. Pennies from Heaven | H. Ross | 1981 |
| 573. American Psycho | Harron | 2000 |
| 574. The Fly | Cronenberg | 1986 |
| 575. Amores Perros | Iñárritu | 2000 |
| 576. Fallen Angel | Preminger | 1945 |
| 577. Code Unknown | Haneke | 2000 |
| 578. The Shawshank Redemption | Darabont | 1994 |
| 579. Rebel Without a Cause | N. Ray | 1955 |
| 580. Spirited Away | Miyazaki | 2001 |
| 581. O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Coen | 2000 |
| 582. Happy Together | Wong Kar-wai | 1997 |
| 583. In a Lonely Place | N. Ray | 1950 |
| 584. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | A. Lee | 2000 |
| 585. Gigi | Minnelli | 1958 |
| 586. Pale Flower | Shinoda | 1964 |
| 587. Belle de Jour | Buñuel | 1967 |
| 588. Oktyabr | Eisenstein, Aleksandrov | 1927 |
| 589. Reds | Beatty | 1981 |
| 590. La haine | Kassovitz | 1995 |
| 591. The Gospel According to St. Matthew | Pasolini | 1964 |
| 592. Marnie | Hitchcock | 1964 |
| 593. Children of Paradise | Carne | 1945 |
| 594. La Bête Humaine | Renoir | 1938 |
| 595. Body Heat | Kasdan | 1981 |
| 596. The Celebration | Vinterberg | 1998 |
| 597. Toni | Renoir | 1935 |
| 598. The Threepenny Opera | Pabst | 1931 |
| 599. Videodrome | Cronenberg | 1983 |
| 600. Dick Tracy | Beatty | 1990 |
| 601. Detective Story | Wyler | 1951 |
| 602. The Wages of Fear | Clouzot | 1953 |
| 603. To Catch a Thief | Hitchcock | 1955 |
| 604. The Big Country | Wyler | 1958 |
| 605. Ashes of Time | Wong Kar-wai | 1994 |
| 606. The Ghost Writer | Polanski | 2010 |
| 607. Pride & Prejudice | J. Wright | 2005 |
| 608. Brokeback Mountain | A. Lee | 2005 |
| 609. Purple Noon | Clément | 1960 |
| 610. Terminator 2: Judgment Day | Cameron | 1991 |
| 611. Tom Jones | Richardson | 1963 |
| 612. Sullivan’s Travels | P. Sturges | 1941 |
| 613. Avatar | Cameron | 2009 |
| 614. Scarface | De Palma | 1983 |
| 615. Scenes from a Marriage | Bergman | 1973 |
| 616. The 39 Steps | Hitchcock | 1935 |
| 617. The Palm Beach Story | P. Sturges | 1942 |
| 618. A Man There Was | Sjöström | 1917 |
| 619. Picnic at Hanging Rock | Weir | 1975 |
| 620. Frankenstein | Whale | 1931 |
| 621. Meet Me in St. Louis | Minnelli | 1944 |
| 622. Brief Encounter | Lean | 1945 |
| 623. Die Hard | McTiernan | 1988 |
| 624. Blue Valentine | Cianfrance | 2010 |
| 625. Drive | Refn | 2011 |
| 626. Detour | Ulmer | 1945 |
| 627. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek | P. Sturges | 1943 |
| 628. Slacker | Linklater | 1990 |
| 629. The Purple Rose of Cairo | Allen | 1985 |
| 630. The Quiet Man | Ford | 1952 |
| 631. There Was a Father | Ozu | 1942 |
| 632. My Night at Maud’s | Rohmer | 1969 |
| 633. The Last Picture Show | Bogdanovich | 1971 |
| 634. The Elephant Man | Lynch | 1980 |
| 635. Henry V | Olivier | 1944 |
| 636. The Only Son | Ozu | 1936 |
| 637. Shane | Stevens | 1953 |
| 638. Ben-Hur | Wyler | 1959 |
| 639. Broadway Danny Rose | Allen | 1984 |
| 640. Day for Night | Truffaut | 1973 |
| 641. Island of Lost Souls | Kenton | 1932 |
| 642. Le Jour Se Leve | Carné | 1939 |
| 643. Easy Rider | Hopper | 1969 |
| 644. À nous la liberté | Clair | 1931 |
| 645. The Bourne Ultimatum | Greengrass | 2007 |
| 646. Speed Racer | Wachowski | 2008 |
| 647. Five Easy Pieces | Rafelson | 1970 |
| 648. Berlin Alexanderplatz | Fassbinder | 1980 |
| 649. Stardust Memories | Allen | 1980 |
| 650. The Terminator | Cameron | 1984 |
| 651. King Kong | Cooper, Schoedsack | 1933 |
| 652. The Usual Suspects | Singer | 1995 |
| 653. The Wild Child | Truffaut | 1970 |
| 654. My Fair Lady | Cukor | 1964 |
| 655. Imitation of Life | Sirk | 1959 |
| 656. All About Eve | Mankiewicz | 1950 |
| 657. Snowpiercer | Bong Joon-ho | 2013 |
| 658. The Philadelphia Story | Cukor | 1940 |
| 659. Out of Africa | Pollack | 1985 |
| 660. A Streetcar Named Desire | Kazan | 1951 |
| 661. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | M. Nichols | 1966 |
| 662. Dawn of the Dead | Romero | 1978 |
| 663. Zéro de conduite | Vigo | 1933 |
| 664. The Reckless Moment | Ophüls | 1949 |
| 665. To Have and Have Not | Hawks | 1944 |
| 666. Lenny | Fosse | 1974 |
| 667. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Capra | 1939 |
| 668. The Hustler | Rossen | 1961 |
| 669. L.A. Confidential | Hanson | 1997 |
| 670. Two English Girls | Truffaut | 1971 |
| 671. Winchester ’73 | A. Mann | 1950 |
| 672. Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Zemeckis | 1988 |
| 673. Trouble in Paradise | Lubitsch | 1932 |
| 674. Quai des Orfèvres | Clouzot | 1947 |
| 675. The Roaring Twenties | Walsh | 1939 |
| 676. The Road Warrior | G. Miller | 1981 |
| 677. Gunga Din | Stevens | 1939 |
| 678. Platoon | Stone | 1986 |
| 679. The Shop Around the Corner | Lubitsch | 1940 |
| 680. Duel in the Sun | K. Vidor | 1946 |
| 681. Patton | Schaffner | 1970 |
| 682. Placido | Berlanga | 1961 |
| 683. Bullitt | P. Yates | 1968 |
| 684. Little Miss Sunshine | Dayton, Faris | 2006 |
| 685. All Quiet on the Western Front | Milestone | 1930 |
| 686. All the King’s Men | Rossen | 1949 |
| 687. The Outlaw Josey Wales | Eastwood | 1976 |
| 688. Little Big Man | A. Penn | 1970 |
| 689. Orpheus | Cocteau | 1950 |
| 690. Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday | Tati | 1953 |
| 691. Anatomy of a Murder | Preminger | 1959 |
| 692. Seven Chances | Keaton | 1925 |
| 693. Throne of Blood | Kurosawa | 1957 |
| 694. The Portrait of a Lady | Campion | 1996 |
| 695. 3 Women | Altman | 1977 |
| 696. Stray Dog | Kurosawa | 1949 |
| 697. Branded to Kill | Suzuki | 1967 |
| 698. Le Havre | Kaurismäki | 2011 |
| 699. Spies | Lang | 1928 |
| 700. Wings of Desire | Wenders | 1987 |
| 701. Two Lovers | Gray | 2008 |
| 702. Delicatessen | Jeunet, Caro | 1991 |
| 703. Wendy and Lucy | Reichardt | 2008 |
| 704. Flight of the Red Balloon | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | 2007 |
| 705. Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Spielberg | 1977 |
| 706. Our Hospitality | Keaton, Blystone | 1923 |
| 707. Pandora’s Box | Pabst | 1929 |
| 708. Pi | Aronofsky | 1998 |
| 709. Hour of the Wolf | Bergman | 1968 |
| 710. The Last Emperor | Bertolucci | 1987 |
| 711. Spring Breakers | Korine | 2012 |
| 712. The Woman in the Fifth | Pawlikowski | 2011 |
| 713. A Dangerous Method | Cronenberg | 2011 |
| 714. Sisters of the Gion | Mizoguchi | 1936 |
| 715. The Player | Altman | 1992 |
| 716. Die Austernprinzessin | Lubitsch | 1919 |
| 717. Platform | Jia Zhangke | 2000 |
| 718. Champagne | Hitchcock | 1928 |
| 719. What Time is it There? | Ming-liang Tsai | 2001 |
| 720. Irreversible | Noé | 2002 |
| 721. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring | Kim Ki-duk | 2003 |
| 722. Sleepy Hollow | Burton | 1999 |
| 723. Carlito’s Way | De Palma | 1993 |
| 724. The Tin Star | A. Mann | 1957 |
| 725. Cape Fear | Scorsese | 1991 |
| 726. A Separation | Farhadi | 2011 |
| 727. Broken Embraces | Almodóvar | 2009 |
| 728. Rosetta | Dardenne | 1999 |
| 729. The Untouchables | De Palma | 1987 |
| 730. The Naked Spur | A. Mann | 1953 |
| 731. Some Came Running | Minnelli | 1958 |
| 732. The Matrix Reloaded | Wachowski | 2003 |
| 733. Natural Born Killers | Stone | 1994 |
| 734. Archipelago | Hogg | 2010 |
| 735. Through a Glass Darkly | Bergman | 1961 |
| 736. Faces | Cassavetes | 1968 |
| 737. Dazed and Confused | Linklater | 1993 |
| 738. Enter the Void | Noé | 2009 |
| 739. Jackie Brown | Tarantino | 1997 |
| 740. Beyond the Hills | Mungiu | 2012 |
| 741. Before Sunrise | Linklater | 1995 |
| 742. Nosferatu the Vampyre | Herzog | 1979 |
| 743. Waxworks | Leni, Birinsky | 1924 |
| 744. D.O.A. | Maté | 1949 |
| 745. The Cotton Club | F. Coppola | 1984 |
| 746. Millennium Actress | Kon | 2001 |
| 747. The American Friend | Wenders | 1977 |
| 748. THX 1138 | Lucas | 1971 |
| 749. Duelle | Rivette | 1976 |
| 750. King of New York | Ferrara | 1990 |
| 751. My Own Private Idaho | Van Sant | 1991 |
| 752. Death in Venice | Visconti | 1971 |
| 753. True Grit | Coen | 2010 |
| 754. Grave of the Fireflies | Takahata | 1988 |
| 755. Ludwig | Visconti | 1973 |
| 756. American Graffiti | Lucas | 1973 |
| 757. The Tree of Wooden Clogs | Olmi | 1978 |
| 758. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Fincher | 2008 |
| 759. Fallen Angels | Wong Kar-wai | 1995 |
| 760. Heavenly Creatures | Jackson | 1994 |
| 761. All About My Mother | Almodóvar | 1999 |
| 762. Steamboat Bill, Jr. | Keaton, Reisner | 1928 |
| 763. The Masque of the Red Death | Corman | 1964 |
| 764. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors | Parajanov | 1965 |
| 765. Il Grido | Antonioni | 1957 |
| 766. Le cercle rouge | Melville | 1970 |
| 767. Hell’s Angels | Hughes | 1930 |
| 768. Images | Altman | 1972 |
| 769. Zabriskie Point | Antonioni | 1970 |
| 770. Blind Husbands | von Stroheim | 1919 |
| 771. Aar-Paar | Dutt | 1954 |
| 772. Mauvais sang | Carax | 1986 |
| 773. Mr. Klein | Losey | 1976 |
| 774. Black Sunday | Bava | 1960 |
| 775. Rififi | Dassin | 1955 |
| 776. The Man Without a Past | Kaurismäki | 2002 |
| 777. The Lodger | Hitchcock | 1927 |
| 778. La promesse | Dardenne | 1996 |
| 779. Short Cuts | Altman | 1993 |
| 780. Eraserhead | Lynch | 1977 |
| 781. Synecdoche, New York | C. Kaufman | 2008 |
| 782. Perfect Blue | Kon | 1997 |
| 783. Dames | Berkeley, Enright | 1934 |
| 784. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | Hand | 1937 |
| 785. The Fall | Singh | 2006 |
| 786. Blue is the Warmest Colour | Kechiche | 2013 |
| 787. Diner | Levinson | 1982 |
| 788. Something Wild | Demme | 1986 |
| 789. Sin City | F. Miller, Rodriguez | 2005 |
| 790. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse | Lang | 1933 |
| 791. Kiss Me Deadly | Aldrich | 1955 |
| 792. Russian Ark | Sokurov | 2002 |
| 793. Band of Outsiders | Godard | 1964 |
| 794. Spider | Cronenberg | 2002 |
| 795. Sawdust and Tinsel | Bergman | 1953 |
| 796. A Little Princess | Cuarón | 1995 |
| 797. Lady in the Lake | Montgomery | 1946 |
| 798. Matewan | Sayles | 1987 |
| 799. The Immigrant | Gray | 2013 |
| 800. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie | Cassavetes | 1976 |
| 801. Her | Jonze | 2013 |
| 802. Escape from New York | Carpenter | 1981 |
| 803. American Gigolo | Schrader | 1980 |
| 804. Some Like it Hot | Wilder | 1959 |
| 805. Bound | Wachowski | 1996 |
| 806. All These Women | Bergman | 1964 |
| 807. Fort Apache | Ford | 1948 |
| 808. Gate of Flesh | Suzuki | 1964 |
| 809. A Farewell to Arms | Borzage | 1932 |
| 810. Jezebel | Wyler | 1938 |
| 811. Election | Payne | 1999 |
| 812. The Nightmare Before Christmas | Selick | 1993 |
| 813. 21 Grams | Iñárritu | 2003 |
| 814. Lady Vengeance | Park Chan-wook | 2005 |
| 815. Diary of a Country Priest | Bresson | 1951 |
| 816. The Asphalt Jungle | Huston | 1950 |
| 817. Summer with Monika | Bergman | 1953 |
| 818. Forty Guns | Fuller | 1957 |
| 819. Bad Day at Black Rock | J. Sturges | 1955 |
| 820. Deliverance | Boorman | 1972 |
| 821. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | E. Wright | 2010 |
| 822. East of Eden | Kazan | 1955 |
| 823. The Lion King | Allers, Minkoff | 1994 |
| 824. Night of the Living Dead | Romero | 1968 |
| 825. Cat People | Tourneur | 1942 |
| 826. My Dinner with Andre | Malle | 1981 |
| 827. Titanic | Cameron | 1997 |
| 828. Only Angels Have Wings | Hawks | 1939 |
| 829. Submarine | Ayoade | 2010 |
| 830. Red Sorghum | Yimou Zhang | 1988 |
| 831. I Know Where I’m Going! | Powell, Pressburger | 1945 |
| 832. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Weir | 2003 |
| 833. At Close Range | Foley | 1986 |
| 834. Withnail & I | Robinson | 1987 |
| 835. Ride Lonesome | Boetticher | 1959 |
| 836. American Hustle | O. Russell | 2013 |
| 837. Drunken Angel | Kurosawa | 1948 |
| 838. New York, New York | Scorsese | 1977 |
| 839. Duck Soup | McCarey. | 1933 |
| 840. The Sting | Roy Hill | 1973 |
| 841. Howards End | Ivory | 1992 |
| 842. Mamma Roma | Pasolini | 1962 |
| 843. The Letter | Wyler | 1940 |
| 844. Jurassic Park | Spielberg | 1993 |
| 845. Donnie Darko | R. Kelly | 2001 |
| 846. Attack | Aldrich | 1956 |
| 847. 24 Hour Party People | Winterbottom | 2002 |
| 848. The Man Who Would Be King | Huston | 1975 |
| 849. A Day in the Country | Renoir | 1936 |
| 850. Kind Hearts and Coronets | Hamer | 1949 |
| 851. Broken Blossoms | Griffith | 1919 |
| 852. Somewhere | S. Coppola | 2010 |
| 853. A Place in the Sun | Stevens | 1951 |
| 854. Frances Ha | Baumbach | 2012 |
| 855. Dead End | Wyler | 1937 |
| 856. Morvern Callar | Ramsay | 2002 |
| 857. Lost Horizon | Capra | 1937 |
| 858. Porcile | Pasolini | 1969 |
| 859. The Razor’s Edge | Goulding | 1946 |
| 860. Stella Dallas | K. Vidor | 1937 |
| 861. Ratcatcher | Ramsay | 1999 |
| 862. My Neighbor Totoro | Miyazaki | 1988 |
| 863. World on a Wire | Fassbinder | 1973 |
| 864. The Killer | Woo | 1989 |
| 865. Where Is the Friend’s House? | Kiarostami | 1987 |
| 866. A Man and a Woman | Lelouch | 1966 |
| 867. The Duellists | R. Scott | 1977 |
| 868. Häxan | Christensen | 1922 |
| 869. Blood and Black Lace | Bava | 1964 |
| 870. The Match Factory Girl | Kaurismäki | 1990 |
| 871. Goodbye, Dragon Inn | Ming-liang Tsai | 2003 |
| 872. Au hasard Balthazar | Bresson | 1966 |
| 873. Vera Drake | Leigh | 2004 |
| 874. Hard Boiled | Woo | 1992 |
| 875. Equinox Flower | Ozu | 1958 |
| 876. Liebelei | Ophüls | 1933 |
| 877. The Devil’s Backbone | del Toro | 2001 |
| 878. Eyes Without a Face | Franju | 1960 |
| 879. The Pawnbroker | Lumet | 1964 |
| 880. He Got Game | S. Lee | 1998 |
| 881. Ryan’s Daughter | Lean | 1970 |
| 882. Tristana | Buñuel | 1970 |
| 883. Great Expectations | Cuarón | 1998 |
| 884. Skyfall | Mendes | 2012 |
| 885. Three Kings | O. Russell | 1999 |
| 886. Dangerous Liaisons | Frears | 1988 |
| 887. Take Shelter | J. Nichols | 2011 |
| 888. Scarecrow | Schatzberg | 1973 |
| 889. Jarhead | Mendes | 2005 |
| 890. Good Will Hunting | Van Sant | 1997 |
| 891. Forbidden Games | Clément | 1952 |
| 892. The Hurt Locker | Bigelow | 2008 |
| 893. The Grandmaster | Wong Kar-wai | 2013 |
| 894. Forrest Gump | Zemeckis | 1994 |
| 895. Night of the Demon | Tourneur | 1957 |
| 896. Under the Roofs of Paris | Clair | 1930 |
| 897. Goldfinger | Hamilton | 1964 |
| 898. Torn Curtain | Hitchcock | 1966 |
| 899. Red Beard | Kurosawa | 1965 |
| 900. Funny Face | Donen | 1957 |
| 901. Bad Lieutenant | Ferrara | 1992 |
| 902. Light Sleeper | Schrader | 1992 |
| 903. Brute Force | Dassin | 1947 |
| 904. Moonrise | Borzage | 1948 |
| 905. Insect Woman | Imamura | 1963 |
| 906. Walkabout | Roeg | 1971 |
| 907. Waking Life | Linklater | 2001 |
| 908. Murder! | Hitchcock | 1930 |
| 909. An Angel at My Table | Campion | 1990 |
| 910. Fellini Satyricon | Fellini | 1969 |
| 911. Smiles of a Summer Night | Bergman | 1955 |
| 912. Lilith | Rossen | 1964 |
| 913. Pépé le Moko | Duvivier | 1937 |
| 914. We Own the Night | Gray | 2007 |
| 915. Mother | Bong Joon-ho | 2009 |
| 916. A Room with a View | Ivory | 1985 |
| 917. Batman | Burton | 1989 |
| 918. Django | Corbucci | 1966 |
| 919. The Squid and the Whale | Baumbach | 2005 |
| 920. Sweetie | Campion | 1989 |
| 921. The Nun | Rivette | 1966 |
| 922. Horror of Dracula | Fisher | 1958 |
| 923. Panique | Duvivier | 1946 |
| 924. Three Days of the Condor | Pollack | 1975 |
| 925. Seconds | Frankenheimer | 1966 |
| 926. Sólo con Tu Pareja | Cuarón | 1991 |
| 927. Drugstore Cowboy | Van Sant | 1989 |
| 928. Eastern Promises | Cronenberg | 2007 |
| 929. Shadows | Cassavetes | 1958 |
| 930. Way Down East | Griffith | 1920 |
| 931. The Man From London | Tarr | 2007 |
| 932. Jean de Florette | Berri | 1986 |
| 933. Fat City | Huston | 1972 |
| 934. The Music Lovers | K. Russell | 1971 |
| 935. Touchez Pas au Grisbi | Becker | 1954 |
| 936. Ace in the Hole | Wilder | 1951 |
| 937. Crimson Gold | Panahi | 2003 |
| 938. The Band Wagon | Minnelli | 1953 |
| 939. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang | LeRoy | 1932 |
| 940. Julius Caesar | Mankiewicz | 1953 |
| 941. The Kid With a Bike | Dardenne | 2011 |
| 942. After Hours | Scorsese | 1985 |
| 943. Blackmail | Hitchcock | 1929 |
| 944. Closely Watched Trains | Menzel | 1966 |
| 945. Far from the Madding Crowd | Schlesinger | 1967 |
| 946. Calendar | Egoyan | 1993 |
| 947. The Color of Pomegranates | Parajanov | 1969 |
| 948. Dead of Night | Calvalcanti, Crichton, Dearden, Hamer | 1945 |
| 949. Kameradschaft | Pabst | 1931 |
| 950. Charade | Donen | 1963 |
| 951. Walker | Cox | 1987 |
| 952. Crooklyn | S. Lee | 1994 |
| 953. The Great Silence | Corbucci | 1968 |
| 954. Midnight Express | Parker | 1978 |
| 955. Mahanagar | S. Ray | 1963 |
| 956. That Obscure Object of Desire | Buñuel | 1977 |
| 957. Career Girls | Leigh | 1997 |
| 958. Excalibur | Boorman | 1981 |
| 959. La roue | Gance | 1923 |
| 960. Force of Evil | Polonsky | 1948 |
| 961. Conversation Piece | Visconti | 1974 |
| 962. Birth | Glazer | 2004 |
| 963. Bound for Glory | Ashby | 1976 |
| 964. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg | Lubitsch | 1927 |
| 965. Nixon | Stone | 1995 |
| 966. Freaks | Browning | 1932 |
| 967. Port of Shadows | Carné | 1938 |
| 968. California Split | Altman | 1974 |
| 969. Prince of the City | Lumet | 1981 |
| 970. Mildred Pierce | Curtiz | 1945 |
| 971. Fellini’s Casanova | Fellini | 1976 |
| 972. No Blood Relation | Naruse | 1932 |
| 973. Sexy Beast | Glazer | 2000 |
| 974. Woman in the Dunes | Teshigahara | 1964 |
| 975. Shutter Island | Scorsese | 2010 |
| 976. Women in Love | K. Russell | 1969 |
| 977. The Entertainer | Richardson | 1960 |
| 978. Bad Timing | Roeg | 1980 |
| 979. Fox and His Friends | Fassbinder | 1975 |
| 980. Body Double | De Palma | 1984 |
| 981. Street Angel | Borzage | 1928 |
| 982. The Long Good Friday | Mackenzie | 1980 |
| 983. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | D. Yates | 2009 |
| 984. The Outlaw and His Wife | Sjöström | 1918 |
| 985. Magnificent Obsession | Sirk | 1954 |
| 986. Kagemusha | Kurosawa | 1980 |
| 987. Memories of Underdevelopment | Gutiérrez Alea | 1968 |
| 988. Mother | Pudovkin | 1926 |
| 989. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! | Almodóvar | 1989 |
| 990. Chariots of Fire | Hudson | 1981 |
| 991. Underworld | von Sternberg | 1927 |
| 992. Dodsworth | Wyler | 1936 |
| 993. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone | Ming-liang Tsai | 2006 |
| 994. The Skin I Live In | Almodóvar | 2011 |
| 995. Beau travail | Denis | 1999 |
| 996. Invasion of Body Snatchers | Siegel | 1956 |
| 997. The Draughtman’s Contract | Greenaway | 1982 |
| 998. The Man Who Knew Too Much | Hitchcock | 1956 |
| 999. The Last Detail | Ashby | 1973 |
| 1000. Das Boot | Peterson | 1981 |
I’m returning back to the comments of this site to say – Wow! Amazing job! I’m so happy to see this list. Some changes I didn’t expect, including right at the top.
@Graham- Good to hear from you and thank you – there are bound to be some accidental errors here on the page somewhere. This was a bigger undertaking than I had anticipated
just curious what was your 1001st greatest film…what didnt “just” make the cut haha
@Jerry Wingo- had a cluster or pool so there wasn’t one film- but here are a few- there are more from the same pool
Grand Hotel
Les cousins
The Great Escape
Babel
The Day of the Locust
Adaptation
In the Realm of the Senses
Husbands and Wives
Straight Shooting
Have you seen any Kerel Zeman stuff or Marketa Lazarova (1967)?
Amazing list! I’m so happy that 2001 is no.1! Kubrick is the GOAT!. Great work Drake!
@Christopher- Thank you- appreciate you the encouragement
Very interested in the high ranking of The Little Foxes and Jeanne Dielman, wonder what the revelation was there. Pretty shocked to see Titanic and Au Hasard Balthazar and some others so extremely low but maybe that’s nitpicking.
When you have time it would be helpful to get a year/director for each film considering I think there are repeat titles and some obscure ones.
Or maybe not repeat titles but titles that can be confused with others
@Ce- Thank you for the comment- probably not on all mobile phones, but if you turn it on the side for some the year/director for each film are there. Of course it should show up on a larger device. Sorry about that- tough to squeeze it all in with the size it. But yes, must be hard with the multiple Lola’s, Shame’s and other films
Is the top 250 directors page the next list that will be updated?
Based on this list, there’s gonna be a lot of changes, here’s what I’ve seen so far:
Likely to join:
Ken russell-the devils is now in must see/masterpiece tier
Seijun Suzuki-same with tokyo drifter
Akerman-two films in the 400’s tier
Directors who are going up:
Wong Kar Wai-from 2 masterpieces to 4 and nearly all of his films getting upgraded to at least HR or more-he’s already really highly ranked at 22, the sky is the limit for his ranking now
Edward Yang- from no masterpieces to 2
Park Chan Wook-entire vengeance trilogy in top 1000
Visconti-4 masterpieces now, 3 in the 400’s and 2 in the 700’s
Samuel Fuller-from 1 in top 500 to two
Nolan-Inception, The dark knight and the dark knight rises joining in will skyrocket him up
Fassbinder-Ali fear eats the soul at 48-enough said
Tarr-The turin horse is the highest new entrant from 2009-2013,
@MovierJoker- Yes, that’s the next big project. I may have a top 1000 stats page and/or decade page as the next immediate project – but that won’t take that long. The director’s updates will take a long time.
Also rising:
Bresson-L’argent going from his 7th best film so about hr maybe r, to 73rd best film of all time… wow
Michael Mann-manhunter and thief enter the top 500
Masaki Kobayashi-The human condition now in at 192, and 4 overall in top 500
More directors going up
Godard-vivre sa vie, a woman is a woman, and Alphaville now all top 500
Paul Thomas Anderson-The master at #80
Tom Hooper-The kings speech… from HR to 337th of all time. Goodbye position 247!
Bong Joon Ho-a similar story-memories of murder goes from HR to 383rd of all time
Villeneuve-Enemy now in at 553
Jeunet-a very long engagement and city of lost children join top 500
Renais-from nothing in the top 500, to 3, and marienbad no at 36th all time, hes about to skyrocket
Davies-distant voices still lives now at 56th, and 3 overall top 500, also going to skyrocket
Pasolini-salo at 81.
And two other entrants:
Losey- the servant now at 249
Raul Ruiz- mysteries of lisbon at 127, and 3 crowns of the sailor at 395
@MovierJoker- Loving the breakdown- thanks for sharing these
Incredible work @Drake. So much to think about here.
– We share 4 of the top 5.
– I love seeing Nostalgia in the top 10 and Tarkovsky’s best film. I agree with you.
– A Short Film About Killing at #31. YES.
– 3 Greenaway films in the top 151. Awesome.
– L’Argent as Bresson’s best film. I agree.
Meanwhile on tspdt, he only has 1 film in the top 1000, (the cook the thief his wife and her lover) and its at 786. Based on this, I think its fair to say he is the most underrated/overlooked director, maybe ever.
What other directors do you find to be underrated/overlooked by the consensus?
@Ian – Thank you for the kind works – appreciate that
@Drake
have you seen TSPDT’s Beypnd The Sight And Sound Canon vote? Its a sight and sound style poll, except you can vote for up to a 100 films, and the films must NOT have any votes in the actual sight and sound poll
@MovierJoker- that’s a very cool idea
Love seeing all the new directors’ best works like The Best Years of Our Lives for Wyler, Black Narcissus for Powell, Playtime for Tati etc. with which I absolutely agree.
Also, so glad to see that you finally got the time to watch War and Peace as it is easily among the biggest masterpieces of the 1960s. Hope seeing Bondarchuk on the directors list.
@RujK- Thank you- and yes on War and Peace – what a ambitious film
@Harry- good catch, probably more out there. Thank you for the help. Should be fixed now
Didn’t expect to see the Speed racer here. Wow
@Lionel- haha yes – certainly has its flaws
Very impressed with this list Drake, it’s interesting to see the shift away from less cinematic works in action (Chaplin, Hawks and Wilder all taking hits here). There are some films I couldn’t fathom being away from the top 100 falling like Aguirre, Psycho, Magnolia and The Thin Red Line, but many of the new additions make me very happy. Rear Window and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest also take big falls.
Happy to see some of the directors getting a big boost on here. Polanski now has twice as many masterpieces as when you first put together his directors page, Wong Kar-Wai now deservedly has most of his filmography on here.
The top three of 2011 is one of trios ever, I also have those three in my top own top 100 list so happy to see them bunched up.
The Conformist at #17 is awesome, 1900 falling down to #449 though is tragic to see.
You have it here as a tight call but I think End of Summer over Last Year at Marienbad is correct.
@Harry- thank you – means a lot. Happy we’re on the same page with the trio in 2011 – sort of crazy that trio came out in the same year
That is quite the list! I look forward to going through it to find the films I’ve missed. A quick comparison to my top 100 (the ones eligible for the list at least) finds that other than Contact (which I consider neck and neck with Who Framed Roger Rabbit for Zemeckis’s best film; that mirror scene when her father dies while she is shown almost running in place is one of the best I’ve ever seen) the only films I consider great that are missing are animation (WALL-E, Coraline and Sleeping Beauty) or horror (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Hellraiser, with Hellraiser being borderline for me). I also want to draw some attention to foreign horror especially, with Martyrs and the films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa (especially Cure and Pulse) being worth a watch if you have not seen them.
@Austin- Thanks you Austin- good share here!
@Drake – Congratulations! Great list man. Your opinions have changed so much from the last list that one could think the two list were made by completely different people.
Is it ok to assume all the films in the top 300 are masterpieces?
@Alt Mash- Thanks – appreciate the kind words. It has quite a bit in common with the older list but certainly the changes stand out. The old top 500 list was almost 5 years old as well – which means I’ve been able to catch some nearly 3000 movies since the old list – so yes, hopefully a fair share of updates and improvements to the list.
Thanks for doing this, Drake—I’ve been eagerly anticipating the list, and it’s thrilling to finally see it!
On first impression, I found these especially exciting to notice:
-Nostalghia now in the top ten as Tarkovsky’s best film
-Huge gain for Barry Lyndon—now at #14 as Kubrick’s second-best
-Punch-Drunk Love now at #60 as PTA’s best film
-Melancholia way up the list at #55 (between that and Turin Horse, Tree of Life now has serious competition even just for best film of the year)
@Logan 5- Thank you so much! Keep the impressions coming
Can’t understate the achievement here Drake. Brilliant work with many surprises.
– Kieslowski now with five films in the top 100, the most of any director – surely this will earn him a place in the top 10 directors.
– Some big drops for Hitchcock that could very well clear the way for a new top director. My money is on Kubrick, Bergman, or Kurosawa.
– New top film for PTA with Punch-Drunk Love. He has slipped a bit overall it seems, but he does have The Master in the top 100 now. Looks like he will still be hanging on the fringes of the top 10.
– A potential top 5 entry for Tarkovsky with Nostalgia shooting up and The Sacrifice in the top 100.
– Breathless might have fallen more than I expected, but I still anticipate a top 10 entry for Godard
– Jeanne Dielmann cracking the top 500 is a huge change, makes me even more excited to check it out
– Unfortunately still no Napoleon. Keen to see that added when you are able to catch it.
– Chaplin has taken a hard hit, but I’m not complaining. I always struggled to see why City Lights was so high.
– Playtime and Mon Oncle are masterpieces, and I especially love seeing Playtime so high
– Hurts a little seeing The Human Condition, The French Connect, and The Deer Hunter so low – but they are still masterpieces so can’t complain too much.
– 2011 proving itself to be an incredibly strong year, especially with The Turin Horse right on The Tree of Life’s tail – an excellent pick for Bela Tarr’s best.
I would love to expand my own list to 1000 one day, but for now 250 will have to do haha: https://scenebygreen.com/2023/09/28/the-best-250-films-of-all-time/
@DeclanG- I was looking at your list here the other day- congrats. And good observations here. I’d love to get to Napoleon.
Drake, you only put “Vera Drake” in the top 1000 because it has “Drake” in the name
@Matthew – haha, you caught me
Jokes aside this is a phenomenal achievement Drake, you should be proud! This list is what? 20+ years in the making?
Also I would like to sit down and give it a really thorough look before I give too many thoughts, but I am curious what made 2001 leap The Searchers. I know your methodology has always been geared towards the “artistic highs” of a film, and that’s why The Searchers was your #1 despite it being less even than say 2001. With that said, upon more viewings is there now a sequence in 2001 that you think surpasses (or is atleast on equal ground with) the bookends of The Searchers? That feels like it should be the case unless you have shifted your methodology a slight bit here in recent memory
@Matthew- Thank you – yes, starting doing this in spiral notebooks in the late 1990s – haha. Tough question on 2001 and The Searchers – there isn’t one thing – and there is not much separating them at all. Sort of counter to reasoning The Searchers was previously #1- 2001 may just be more consistently awe-inspiring throughout. But the short answer is they are so close (and I believe both worthy of the #1 slot) that there isn’t a good answer. Sorry I wouldn’t be more articulate.
Any off chance you still have those notebooks haha? That old list would be pretty cool Cinema Archives lore
@Matthew – haha man – I could look- but I doubt it. It would be fun to see some of the old grades.
Some big changes, though there seems to be some clear patterns. And to be clear these are observations not criticisms. Mise en scene, visual beauty, and film form seems to rule. Melancholia, Last Year at Marienbad, Barry Lyndon, Punch Drunk Love, The Leopard, Tess, Flowers of Shanghai, 2046, Raise the Red Lantern, The Age of Innocence, and other films big increases
Narrative and acting have taken a hit – PT Anderson’s Magnolia and Boogie Nights both took a hit although both are still ranked very high. Rear Window and North by Northwest, Fargo, Casablanca, Schindler’s List, The Good the Bad and the Ugly. On the Waterfront which features the # 3 all-time male performance and does not crack the top 500 The Godfather and Seven Samurai are both still really high but have fallen a few spots
My favorite changes
1. Chungking Express at # 27
2. De Palma with 7 entries including a top 100!!! Also, De Palma can die a happy man knowing he has the same number of top 100 films as his idol
3. Kurosawa now appears to have a legit GOAT argument with 4 and almost 5 top 100 films
4. The Master at # 80
5. Park Chan Wook and Seijun Suzuki with multiple entries
My least favorite changes
1. Psycho out of the top 100
2. Herzog took a beating
3. Kill Bill at # 189 – for me it’s skyrocketed over the last several years
Punch Drunk Love as the highest rated PT Anderson film over There Will Be Blood is quite interesting but consistent with the pattern of the major changes although that one might not be a major change as Punch Drunk Love was already a top 100 film previously.
Hitchcock only has a single top 100 film now, granted it’s a top 10 film but still…He does have the most top 1000 films however his case for # 1 on this site seems to have taken a hit
@James – Look how they massacred my boy (Herzog)…..
@Harry – haha yeah I have Aguirre as a top 10 film so that one is rough but not that shocking as it seems consistent with other changes. Herzog is not meticulous with mise en scene as some of the other top auteurs. For me films like Aguirre have such powerful images from the opening shot of the characters descending the mountain through the fog to Kinski on the raft surronded by monkey’s and a consistent mood that is maintained.
@James – Yes there are countless rises I am overjoyed seeing here and also countless falls I’m not excited to see, this list still feels like a huge step in the right direction given Drake’s ideals. I can’t wait to dive into a bunch I wasn’t really checking for before, this also calls me for to revisit some I don’t have on my own top 100 yet.
@James Trapp- Thanks for sharing – glad there are more favorite than least favorite changes – haha.
@Drake – ha for sure, of course no two people will agree 100% with a list of the 1000 best films of all time, I would call BS on anyone claiming to 100% agree with every change. I do like many of the changes and even some of the ones I don’t like, seem consistent with an overall pattern.
I am curious about L’Argent. You have Bresson overall lower than many others, and while I have not seen all of his films I for the most part agree with you. I do like L’Argent myself, looking in my notes I have it as MS but will definitely get to in the next week or so. Did you do a Bresson study recently or was it just a one off? From Bresson’s 7th best to better than films like Magnolia, Boogie Nights, The Thin Red Line, Mulholland Drive, Heat, Assassination of Jesse James, etc. blows my mind. Not saying its wrong, interesting for sure. Look forward to revisiting many others as well
@James Trapp- I hear you on Herzog and Aguirre, the Wrath of God – that is still a masterpiece grade of course and a solid one at that. What you’re touching on with him (and it is well said) is he is a very instinctual filmmaker. I did a Herzog study recently though – so it is not like these have just faded from memory.
For Bresson and L’Argent- I did a small study again- caught 4 films this summer/fall including L’Argent for the second time since the start of 2022. I’ll share more on the Bresson page but L’Argent is sort of the groundwork for Kieslowski’s emergence in the 1980s.
I’m fairly certain that I understand what you’re meaning when you use the “instinctual filmmaker” classification, but I don’t think I could articulate it into words if I had to explain it to someone. Do you have a definition for it?
And what are some other “instinctual filmmakers” to you? The first directors that come to my mind are Herzog, Lucas, and Carpenter (oh hey, look-all of these director’s best films fell some hundred+ spots). With those 3 guys it feels like a lot of the achievements of their films maybe come from less classic-film-textbook definitions (ie mis-en-scene) and more from the incredible feats or ideas that they are capturing with a camera. Herzog’s megalomaniacal ambition of pulling a huge boat over a mountain for Fitzcarraldo, the technical innovation and creativity behind the practical effects for The Thing, or the show-stopping technical innovation of the Battle of Hoth in Empire Strikes Back (or how about just the entirety of the imagination behind the world building in Star Wars?).
Like James said, Herzog (and by my extension Lucas and Carpenter) may not be as “meticulous with mise en scene as some of the other top auteurs” but the traits that make their own films as incredible as they are, are also not shared by those same meticulous mis-en-scene driven auteurs. Only Herzog could make Aguirre and only Lucas could make Star Wars, and I personally don’t value that style of filmmaking achievement any less I don’t think, even though I do understand that from a truly objective standpoint (prioritizing the less “instinctual” films and maybe the more meticulously mis en scene driven films) may be technically correct. Who knows, in 3 years I may be significantly more knowledgeable on film and come around to agree with you completely on this.
With all of this said, I do appreciate the consistency of this list, I think Herzog, Lucas and Carpenter are all kind of in the same boat, and they all ride that same boat downstream a bit with the updates. I also see this with Chinatown, Casablanca and It’s a Wonderful Life, they are all in the same boat I think (and all fell 50-100 spots). So I see the vision and appreciate the consistency. And I am also happy that I’ve used the site long enough to understand your ideals enough to be able to look at this list and see a pretty focused vision for it. When a random comes across this list they may just see a bunch of films thrown together in an arbitrarily curated mess (like how this message probably feels right now), haha. Which is unfortunate but the Cinema Archives viewers understand
@Matthew- love this – thanks for putting this together. And the instinctual filmmaker comment isn’t a criticism or critique- more of observation, or description. Herzog is self taught – and I know that. But others I’d consider instinctual are certainly Godard and Malick. I think they could make their films a million different ways- where as I think someone like Kubrick or Hitchcock are on the opposite end of that and they are only making that thing one way. Apichatpong Weerasethakul is another instinctual filmmaker I believe- I’d add John Cassavetes to that list. Steven Soderbergh fires away. I’m sure I’m missing more.
Missed opportunity to say “and they all ride that same boat downstream (or down mountain)”
I’ll respond to this message since I don’t see an option to respond to the actual Reply
“Herzog is self taught – and I know that. But others I’d consider instinctual are certainly Godard and Malick. I think they could make their films a million different ways- where as I think someone like Kubrick or Hitchcock are on the opposite end of that and they are only making that thing one way.”
I wan actually way off on the wrong path then, I was interpreting the term differently than this. My remark about the mountain pulling or Lucas’ worldbuilding feel really out of place now I think. Overall would you classify Carpenter or Lucas as instinctual directors then? I don’t know if I hold that opinion anymore, I’m still grappling with the term
@Matthew- Thanks again- loving this discussion. I don’t think we’re that far off on our different paths here. I’d have to think more about Lucas. But I think your description works for Herzog for sure and I think Carpenter as well. It’s not to say these director’s couldn’t create beautiful images – just feels more like they captured something than were really intentional.
@Matthew -really impressive work here and I agree that this list is quite consistent as I noted above, there was certain patterns to the films that were downgraded significantly and same for ones upgrated significantly. For me Aguirre is one of the few “walk out of theatre masterpieces”, as I have said recently this is rare for me. I was mezmerized for several reasons with one of those reasons being that it puts you on that expedition. You (the viewer) have the same amout of information as the character points of view. There is no warning via audio cues when the crew members are killed by an arrow, in fact many of the killings occur off screen and when the dead bodies are shown there is no attempt to dramize the death, the film just continues like nothing happened. It has a stream of consciousness aspect to it that is key to maintaining the distinct atmosphere along with its haunting score.
The visuals may not be as “beautiful” from shot to shot as say Tokyo Story to give an example but Aguirre has such powerful and indelible imagery.
@Drake – would Fellini qualify as instinctual? Certainly 8 1/2 feels that way aside from its glorious opening scene
@James Trapp – good question on Fellini -I think I’m with you. I don’t think its a yes or no he/she is instinctual or not. It feels like its a spectrum. Fellini seems somewhere between Kubrick/Hitchcock/Tati who are so exacting –and then Herzog/Godard others on the other end.
@Drake – I feel like Fellini makes spontaneous films in an exacting way.
One distinction between those groups is also how those shoot their films – when I think of Hitchcock, Kubrick or Nolan I think of very controlled sets where the director knows every detail and placement of prop, whereas Herzog would just venture out and shoot what he finds.
Malick also makes spontaneous films in an exacting way, there are documented examples of him just pointing the camera at something exciting and feeling it in the moment.
Re: Werner Herzog, I think one issue here is that, because this excludes documentaries, it doesn’t take a huge part of Herzog’s cinematic legacy into account.
I am surprised by the ranking of A Special Day at #226. Surely Sophia Loren has to get in the best female Actress list now. She definitely has more depth than say her compatriot Claudia Cardinale.
Directors with the most films in the top 300:
1.Ingmar Bergman-7
2.Roman Polanski-6
2.Akira Kurosawa-6
2.Stanley Kubrick-6
5.John Ford-5
5.Francis Ford Coppola-5
5.Martin Scorsese-5
5.Andrei Tarkovsky-5
5.Orson Welles-5
5.Alfred Hitchcock-5
5.Federico Fellini-5
5.Krysztof Kieslowski-5
5.Paul Thomas Anderson-5
Sorry. Godard has 5 too.
@Malith- thank you for compiling and sharing all of these
Decade by Decade Breakdown
1910s and 1920s
(3) The Passion of Joan of Arc: Dreyer, 1928
(7) Sunrise: Murnau, 1927
(16) Battleship Potemkin: Eisenstein, 1925
(18) Intolerance: Griffith, 1916
(33) The Cabinet of Dr, Caligari: Wiene, 1920
(43) The Last Laugh: Murnau, 1924
(61) Sherlock JR: Keaton, 1924
(82) Metropolis: Lang, 1927
(111) Die Nibelungen: Lang, 1924
(133) Strike: Eisenstein, 1925
(139) Nosferatu: Murnau, 1922
1930s
(29) The Rules of the Game: Renoir, 1939
(63) M: Lang, 1931
(92) The Blue Angel: Von Sternberg, 1930
(110) Gone with the Wind: Fleming, 1939
(119) Stagecoach: Ford, 1939
(130) The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums: Mizoguchi, 1939
(137) La grande Illusion: Renoir, 1937
(149) The Wizard of Oz: Fleming, 1939
(205) The Scarlet Empress: Von Sternberg. 1934
(223) Morocco: Von Sternberg, 1930
(230) City Lights: Chaplin, 1931
1940s
(6) Citizen Kane: Welles, 1941
(20) Bicycle Thieves: De Sica, 1948
(44) The Magnificent Ambersons: Welles, 1942
(69) The Third Man: Reed, 1949
(75) Germany Year Zero: Rossellini, 1948
(77) Black Narcissus: Powell & Pressburger, 1947
(115) Rome, Open City: Rossellini, 1945
(123) The Best years of our Lives: Wyler, 1946
(132) Notorious: Hitchcock, 1946
(145) It’s a Wonderful Life: Capra, 1946
(150) Casablanca: Curtiz, 1942
1950s
(2) The Searchers: Ford, 1956
(10) Vertigo: Hitchcock, 1958
(11) Tokyo Story: Ozu, 1953
(21) Seven Samurai: Kurosawa, 1954
(22): Rashomon: Kurosawa, 1950
(34) Touch of Evil: Welles, 1958
(49) The Seventh Seal: Bergman, 1957
(66) The Earrings of Madame De: Ophuls, 1953
(86) Ikiru: Kurosawa, 1952
(89) The 400 Blows: Truffaut, 1959
(100) Lola Montes: Ophuls, 1955
1960s
(1) 2001: A Space Odyssey- Kubrick, 1968
(13) 8 1/2: Fellini, 1963
(23) Lawrence of Arabia: Lean, 1962
(26) La Dolce Vita: Fellini, 1960
(35) The End of Summer: Ozu, 1961
(36) Last Year at Marienbad: Resnais, 1961
(38) Jules and Jim: Truffaut, 1962
(39) Breathless: Godard, 1960
(45) Persona: Bergman, 1966
(46) I am Cuba: Kalatozov, 1964
(53) Red Desert: Antonioni, 1964
(54) Gertrud: Dreyer, 1964
(57) High and Low: Kurosawa, 1963
(58) Playtime: Tati, 1967
(59) The Leopard: Visconti, 1963
(74) The Pornographers: Imamura, 1966
(76) Once Upon a Time in the West: Leone, 1968
(83) The Wild Bunch: Peckinpah, 1969
(87) The Good, The bad and The Ugly: Leone,1966
(88) Pierrot Le Fou: Godard, 1965
(97) The Graduate: Nichols, 1967
(98) Juliet of the Spirits: Fellini, 1965
1970s
(4) Apocalypse Now: Coppola, 1979
(12) Stalker: Tarkovsky, 1979
(14) Barry Lyndon: Kubrick, 1975
(15) The Godfather: Coppola, 1972
(17) The Conformist: Bertolucci, 1970
(28) The Godfather: Part 2- Coppola, 1974
(30) Taxi Driver: Scorsese, 1976
(42) Days of Heaven: Malick, 1978
(48) Ali: Fear Eats the Soul- Fassbinder, 1974
(51) Cries and Whispers: Bergman, 1972
(62) A Clockwork Orange: Kubrick, 1971
(81) Salo: Pasolini, 1975
1980s
(8) Nostalghia: Tarkovsky, 1983
(9) Raging Bull: Scorsese, 1980
(19) Blade Runner: Scott, 1982
(31) A Short film about Killing: Kieslowski, 1988
(37) The Cook, the thief, his wife and Her Lover: Greenaway, 1989
(50) Do the Right thing: Lee, 1989
(56) Distant Voices, Still Lives: Davies, 1988
(65) Dekalog: Kieslowski. 1989
(67) The Shining: Kubrick, 1980
(72) The Sacrifice: Tarkovsky, 1986
(73) L’argent: Bresson, 1985
(93) Brazil: Gilliam, 1985
(96) Blow Out: De Palma, 1981
1990s
(24) Breaking the Waves: Von Trier, 1996
(25) Goodfellas: Scorsese, 1990
(27) Chungking Express: Wong Kar Wai, 1994
(32) Pulp Fiction: Tarantino, 1994
(70) Naked: Leigh, 1993
(71) Three Colours: Blue- Kieslowski, 1993
(79) Three Colours: Red- Kieslowski, 1994
(84) The Double Life of Veronique- Kieslowski, 1991
(85) Raise the Red Lantern: Zhang, 1991
(90) Heat: Mann, 1995
(91) Flowers of Shanghai: Hsiao Hsien Hou, 1998
2000s
(5) In the Mood for Love: Wong Kar Wai, 2000
(47) Children of Men: Cuaron, 2006
(52) Songs from the Second Floor: Roy Andersson, 2000
(60) Punch Drunk Love: Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002
(64) Werckmeister Harmonies: Tarr. 2000
(68) There Will be Blood: Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007
(78) 2046: Wong Kar Wai, 2004
(95) The White Ribbon: Haneke, 2009
(99) Hero: Zhang, 2002
(107) Syndromes and a Century: Weerasethakul, 2006
(124) Mulholland Drive: Lynch, 2001
(94) The Trial: Welles, 1962.
Gives us 23 films in the top 100 from the 1960s alone.
@AP- Thank you- you’re making it easy for me when I go to put these together- thank you!
Remarkable list. Congratulations. As always, a privilege to go through this.
Will never not amaze me the amount of work you have put into this website.
@AP- So very kind of you to say this- thank you
Seconding this.
This must have been a huge amount of work.
Are you familiar with the blogger Erik Beck? He continues to update a quite similar project.
Hitchock’s fall from the top is the biggest story here.
He has as many films in the top 100 as… Brian De Palma
I don’t see a fall. Hitchcock has 19 films included here. None of his films were downgraded. And one film The Lodger got a big upgrade.
@Malith – Rear Window and Psycho fall off the top 100. North by Northwest also falls from being fringe top 100 to 250.
Their grade are the same. If anything Rebecca got upgraded a grade and ditto for The Lodger.
Their grade are the same. If anything Rebecca got upgraded a grade, ditto for The Lodger and Torn Curtain
@Drake- what is the lowest rated masterpiece and must-see?
@RujK- I did some late editing that may change this when the director’s and yearly pages are updated- but roughly 300 for masterpiece and 700 for must-see if we omit “MS/MP” and “HR/MS” respectively
Pyscho & Rear Window were both in the top 100 on the last update. Psycho i believe was in the top 40. He had 5 films in the top 125.
Hitchcock is still highly rated of course. Just that in comparison to a Bergman or Kurosawa and a few others, his stock seems to have fallen. Do not see him retaining the top spot on the directors update.
Hitchcock has 19 films included here. He still has a decent case for the top spot. And his best film is rated at #10 here.
Directors with two or more archivable films in the top 1000:
19-Alfred Hitchcock
16-Ingmar Bergman
13-Martin Scorsese, Akira Kurosawa
11-Yazujiro Ozu
10-Luchino Visconti, William Wyler, Fritz Lang, Robert Altman, Coen Brothers
9-Federico Fellini, Steven Spielberg, David Cronenberg, John Ford, Jean-Luc Godard
8-Stanley Kubrick, Wong Kar-wai, Andrei Tarkovsky, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michelangelo Antonioni, Luis Bunuel, Woody Allen, Howard Hawks
7-Roman Polanski, Francis Ford Coppola, Orson Welles, Brian de Palma, Pedro Almodovar, David Lynch
6-David Lean, Jean Renoir, Krysztof Kieslowski, Quentin Tarantino, Francois Truffaut, Buster Keaton, Shohei Imamura, Michael Powell, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Max Ophuls, Jim Jarmusch, Richard Linklater, Sidney Lumet, Satyajit Ray, Kenji Mizoguchi, Alfonso Cuaron
5-Carl Theoder Drayer, Sergei Einstein, Terrence Malick, Bela Tarr, Spike Lee, Paul Thomas Anderson, Robert Bresson, Roberto Rossellini, Sergio Leone, Michael Mann, Terry Gilliam, Billy Wilder, John Huston, Dardenne Brothers, Jane Campion, James Cameron, Nicolas Roeg
4-F.W Murnau, Bernardo Bertolucci, D.W Griffith, Lars von Trier, Alain Resnais, Peter Greenaway, Yimou Zhang, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Josef von Sternberg, Jean-Pierre Melville, Michael Haneke, Douglas Sirk, Frank Capra, Victor Sjostrom, Oliver Stone, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, Darren Aronofsky, Sofia Coppola, Masaki Kobayashi, Clint Eastwood, Charlie Chaplin, John Cassavetes, Robert Wise, Nicholas Ray, The Wachowskis, King Vidor, Wim Wenders, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Sam Mendes, Julian Duvivier, Frank Borzage, Gus van Sant, Otto Preminger, Preston Sturges, Vincente Minelli, Ernst Lubitsch
3-Ridley Scott, Vittorio De Sica, Mikhail Kalatozov, Terrence Davies, Jaques Tati, Mike Nichols, Mike Leigh, Wes Anderson, Werner Herzog, Park Chan-wook, Alan Pakula, Raoul Walsh, John Boorman, Agnes Varda, Hal Ashby, Samuel Fuller, Eric von Stroheim, Paul Schrader, George Lucas, Jacques Torneur, Jonathan Glazer, Steve McQueen, Seijun Suzuki, Guru Dutt, Ken Russell, Bong Joon-ho, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Nicolas Winding Refn, Lynne Ramsay, Atom Egoyan, John Carpenter, Robert Zemeckis, Bob Fosse, Elia Kazan, Marcel Carné, George Stevens, Aki Kaurismaki, James Gray, Ming-liang Tsai, George Cukor, Anthony Mann, Stanley Donen, René Clair, Robert Rossen, G. W. Pabst
2-Roy Andersson, Carol Reed, Sam Peckinpah, Dario Argento, Arpichtpong Weerasethakul, Victor Fleming, Raul Ruiz, Pawel Pawlikowski, Michael Curtis, Edward Yang, Jaques Demy, Michael Cimino, Peter Jackson, Cristian Mungiu, Joe Wright, Steven Soderbergh, Joseph Losey, Jonathan Demme, John Schlesinger, George Roy Hill, William Friedkin, Arthur Penn, Guillermo del Toro, Todd Haynes, Milos Forman, Louis Malle, Abbas Kiarostami, Chantel Akerman, Jean Cocteau, William A. Wellman, John Frankenheimer, Leos Carax, Xavier Dolan, Anthony Minghella, Spike Jonze, Don Siegel, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Hayao Miyazaki, Ang Lee, Warren Beatty, Rene Clement, Ralph Richardson, Peter Weir, Sydney Pollack, George A. Romero, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Alex Cox, Abel Ferrara, Jacques Rivette, Mario Bava, Robert Aldrich, David O. Russell, James Ivory, John Woo, Sergio Corbucci, Gaspar Noe, Tim Burton, Satoshi Kon, Noah Baumbach, Sergei Parajanov, Robert Hamer, Jean Vigo
@Malith- This is some heavy lifting – thank you for putting in all this work
Sergei Parajanov has two films as well
Bergman actually has 17 films. James Whale has 2.
Nobody seems to have noticed Lynch being shut out of the top 100…
@Remy- I noticed the same thing afterwards as well – still one hell of a filmmaker – he isn’t alone being shut out of the top 100
Monumental work here. Thank you!
@Yaared- thank you- appreciate you coming to the site and
So The Andromeda Strain, Star Trek: The Motion Picture and The Speed Racer are some of the best sci-fi films of all-time? I have to say none of them have the greatest of reputation.
@Lionel- Always tough with sci-fi or any genre definitions – but yes, feel like the evidence for their mastery is up there on the screen regardless of their reputations
Was Abrams’ Star Trek film close to making this list?
@Lionel- not terribly close
Fascinating list! Was very happy to see a new one, and I think a lot of the changes are really good!
– Your 2000s favourites now look a lot more like mine, as I think my top 5 are Children of Men, In the Mood for Love, Yi Yi, Hero, and Songs From The Second Floor in some order. Always happy to see some of my favourites rising 🙂
– Crazy but well-deserved Kieslowski rise, such a unique and boundary-pushing talent. I rewatched Red and Blue in cinemas last year and that really elevated both, so I’ll probably try and sit down with his other big hitters soon to see how they fare.
– Renoir didn’t do terribly well, had a few works drop out of the top 500… sad to see.
– Playtime was a surprise but a cool one! Uses its sets so brilliantly at virtually every point.
– Both 80s Tarkovskys in the top 100 is a viewpoint I’d definitely share. I personally think that his skills as a director just basically kept increasing throughout his career, and by the 80s he was the biggest and brightest talent working.
– Acts as a good reminder that I still have to get around to watching the works of Truffaut (other than 400 Blows), Sirk, Herzog, and a few other really big directors
@ga- Appreciate you sharing your thoughts and impressions here – thank you
Re: Herzog, make sure to watch the documentaries as well.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…. Im so excited to read this ahhhh thankyou bro!!!!! Amazing amazing
So many changes but im in love!!!
@Big chungus- haha happy to hear it – thank you!
Great work, Drake! Pumped to see a lot of the changes, and shocked by others. Mostly I’m thrilled just to have more movies to add to my watchlist. Congratulations on getting it done, and looking forward to all that remains.
@Bullweather- very much appreciate it – thank you.
Congratulations for the list. I’m a fan since 3/4 years already, great to see the site grows, you deserve it.
@KidCharlemagne- Appreciate it- I always look forward to your comments
A momentous list! Probably the best one I’ve ever seen.
I have a question. Can you give me a rough idea about which are MP, MS/MP, MS, HR/MS and HR films?
According to my understanding;
1) 1 to 306 are MP level films, Colonel blimp being the last MP film
2) 307 to 376 are MS/MP level films, letters from an unknown woman being last
3) 377 to 691 are MS level films, anatomy of a murder being last MS film
and so on.
@M*A*S*H- Thank you for saying that – happy to hear you think so on the list. Yeah that’s close- I put in all in order like that first and then used this opportunity to hopefully right some wrongs and move some things around. Some of the films on the border of each will move a half grade or so to put them where they really should have been all along
Didn’t Masaki Kobayashi’s The Inheritance(1962) make this list?
@Lionel- wanted another look at it first – have a few that are in a similar spot
Some additional thoughts, so much to take in
Finally got around to Last Year at Marienbad, watched twice in last week, and agree it’s a MP although I will need addition viewings to pinpoint where it belongs in respect to other MP. This also means that it is the most highly ranked film of The French New Wave. There are 6 French New Wave films in the top 100 with Shoot the Piano Player just missing the cut at # 113. This is a good indicator of how great that era/movement truly was
Last Year at Marienbad # 36
Jules and Jim # 38
Breathless # 39
Playtime (1967) # 58
Pierrot le Fou # 88
The 400 Blows # 89
Personally, I still view The Jules and Jim and The 400 Blows as the two best films of The French New Wave. However, even if someone wants to put Last Year at Marienbad as the best of these 6 films, I still think Breathless, Jules and Jim, and the 400 Blows are all more quintessential French New Waves Films. Sort of like how Double Indemnity is THE FILM NOIR, even if someone wants to rank say Touch of Evil above it due to it being more cinematic
I have not broken it down by country but at a glance I would guess there is a lower percentage of American films in the top 1000. And I say % since the old list was 500 and this is 1000. I feel like
Chinatown fell about 50 spots, for me its # 9 all-time but I have had multiple back and forth conversations on this site about this so not surprised and not much new ground to cover here. On the other hand, Polanski went from 3 MP to 6 MP which puts him in super elite territory. There is not much of a gap between Chinatown and Rosemary’s Baby. The Knife in the Water upgrade was a surprise, a good surprise that is.
The Thin Red Line (1998) is a terrific film and clear cut MP but I like its current placement much better, I thought # 43 was too high. I’ve recently come to believe The New World is a top 3 Malick film
WKW case continues to grow, now with a top 10 film and 2 others in the top 100 so a total of 3 top 100 films plus another MP in Days of Being Wild which I love to see, it is a great film and for me WKW third best
@James Trapp – Thank you for sharing more of your thoughts here. I’m happy to talk Chinatown and have a friendly debate if you ever want to.
I’d think I’d push back on Playtime being called a French New Wave film – not that it is that big of a deal. Maybe others include him that movement but I can’t imagine the argument for putting Tati in there.
Agreed on Playtime not being French New Wave – it occupies a strange sort of bubble outside that movement which Tati had made for himself in the 1950s with Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, or even the 40s if you’re going back to Jour de Fete.
The broad shape of his style remains virtually the same over those years, but he just keeps expanding and refining it. He also isn’t exactly innovating new techniques and pushing the artform into the future like Godard and Truffaut were, so much as he is calling back to cinema’s past and combining it with more modern sensibilities.
@DeclanG- Yep, he’s from a different generation – there’s a case for La Pointe Courte and Varda in the French New Wave and I know the New Wave crew adored Melville and viewed him as a sort of Godfather to the New Wave- but Tati’s orbit is outside of the New Wave
@Drake – for sure, I want to watch it again with notes, will keep you updated.
Regarding Playtime, I have actually not seen it and I actually did think there was a possibility that it is not considered New Wave but I was not sure either way so I figured better safe than sorry. The year of its release was part of why I thought this.
The big one! Great stuff here @Drake, glanced over the list last night and haven’t had the time to really analyze until right now and I’ve got to say I agree with this list more than the last, love seeing the massive jump for Playtime especially! It’s great to see that the site is growing and keeps getting better, thank you for all the hard work you put into making it so amazing. Can’t wait for the directors list.
@Chase – So nice of you to write this Chase- thank you!
Great List! Thank you so much for all you do. Quick question , if you don’t mind. What’s the logic for putting a Short Film About Killing above Dekalog? I guess I would think Dekalog would almost by default be higher than what are effectively it’s composite parts.
@Matthew Moore – Thank you for the kind words on the list— and good question. Sort of discussed it a bit here on these pages and comments https://thecinemaarchives.com/2020/10/15/a-short-film-about-killing-1988-kieslowski/ https://thecinemaarchives.com/2020/10/17/dekalog-1989-kieslowski/
Declan May 23, 2022 at 12:12 pm – Edit – Reply
Hi Drake, when it comes to measuring up the Dekalog and A Short Film About Killing, which do you believe is better? As you mention ASFAK is the best part of the Dekalog and as such is greater on a per-minute basis, but the Dekalog contains ASFAK plus a lot of other great stuff on top of that, and thus beats it out in terms of pure quantity of highlights. Is this tricky for you to reconcile or do you find it pretty clear-cut?
Drake May 23, 2022 at 9:43 pm – Edit – Reply
@Declan- Great question. What do you think? I tried to buy myself some time on answering this question by saying I wanted some distance from the Kieslowski study but time flies and it has been a year and a half now. I’ll say I’m glad we have both versions– the Dekalog as this massive, ambitious project– and the lean, crisp and harsh perfection of ASFAK. Gun to my head I think ASFAK will be listed first on my top 500/1000 all-time list when I update it… but I’m also the guy who watches every television series or mini series and says “there’s a really good 90 minute film in here”
The Big Sleep from #100 to #537. Wow!
Cool to see The Conformist and Barry Lyndon jumping to the top 20. I’m long overdue for another viewing of them. You putting them in the top 20 just vaulted them to the top of my watch list haha
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest from #157 to #538.
Rio Bravo from #111 to #458
On the Waterfront from #239 to #531
@LeBron Smith- Great- yes both The Conformist and Barry Lyndon are so relentlessly jaw-dropping – have to separate them even from other masterpieces.
I remember I asked about it a long time ago but did you ever get around to watching Querelle? If you did I’d be shocked if it missed the 1000, as I find it to be among the top of Fassbinder’s oeuvre.
@Ce- Good question- not yet, I had grand ambitions for a big Fassbinder study here in late 2023 and other films have sort of pushed it back for not. Very excited to get to it.
I’m interested to see how far Kieślowski jumps on the directors list since you now have him with 5 top 100 films. I think I agree with that. In early 2022, I wrote in my Kieślowski notes: “Potentially 5 top 100 films with Killing, Dekalog, Veronique, Blue, Red?”
@Ian- Good notes there in 2022– yes, I’m interested to see how high Kieslowski jumps as well
@Malith- thank you for the cleanup on The Gospel According to St. Matthew– and James Whale as well. Should be fixed
William Wyler is a genius.
Didn’t Bergman’s Face to Face make this list?
@Lionel- another one that was pulled late until I get another visit- the formatting on the page makes it tough, but may still make some changes to the list if I can rewatch a few here shortly. But maybe not- these lists are always a work in progress
Chimes at Midnight upgraded from MS to MP and a near top 150 film, along with The Lady from Shanghai getting an upgrade from MS to MS/MP seems significant for Welles.
@LeBronSmith – I noticed this as well and am a fan of these changes. Plus Welles other major films all retained their previous positions almost exactly
Did you actually do a Polanski study or got to some of these randomly? He now has 6 films in the top 300. With The Tenant, Tess and Knife in the Water all getting big upgrades. Have you had another look at say Macbeth, The Pianist or managed to watch Bitter Moon, Based on a True Story and an Officer and a Spy?
@Malith- a study, but not a full study. More updates coming on the Polanski page down the road here not too long from now hopefully
Is Knife in the Water one of the best debuts in film history?
@Malith- only question would be how many to count in “one of the best”
I’m seeing these – you can check my work – might be missing one
Performance – Roeg
Strike – Eisenstein
The 400 Blows – Truffaut
Distance Voices, Still Lives – Davies
Breathless – Godard
Citizen Kane – Welles
I see Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane. Probably the ultimate one. Are there any others that are rated higher than Knife in the Water? Mann’s Thief is brilliant. But rated below here.
Pather Panchali, which would probably be my pick for the greatest film debut of all time.
@Malith – agreed that Polanski is one of the bigger winners of the new list which I love. Once Drake talked about revisiting Tess I figured MS was the worst case scenario with MP being more likely. MacBeth and An Office and a Spy are both really strong in my opinion probably MS for both and I would love to revist the ladder soon.
Films included in the top 1000 which were not in the archives, had a R (Recommend) grade previously or had no grade after the yearly updates:
1.Die Nibelungen(1924)-Lang-MP-(Not in the archives)
2.War and Peace(1965)-Bondarchuk-MP-(Not in the archives)
3.Possession(1981)-Zulawski-MP-(Not in the archives)
4.The Human Condition(1959)-Kobayashi-MP(-Not in the archives)
5.Silent Light(2007)-Reygadas-MP-(Not in the archives)
6.The Big Trail(1930)-Walsh-MP-(Not in the archives)
7.A Special Day(1977)-Scola-MP-(No grade)
8.Tess(1979)-Polanski-MP-(R-Recommend)
9.Tokyo Drifter(1966)-Suzuki-MS/MP-(Not in the archives)
10.Pyaasa(1957)-Dutt-MS/MP-(Not in the archives)
11.The Killers(1946)-Siodmak-MS/MP-(R-Recommend)
12.The Red and the White(1967)-Jancsó-MS/MP-(Not in the archives)
13.The Ballad of Narayama(1958)-Kinoshita-MS/MP-(Not in the archives)
14.Alphaville(1965)-Godard-MS-(R-Recommend)
15.Three Crowns of the Sailor(1983)-Ruiz-MS-(Not in the archives)
16.Despair(1978)-Fassbinder-MS-(Not in the archives)
17.The Damned(1969)-Visconti-MS-(No grade)
18.Kaagaz Ke Phool(1959)-Dutt-MS-(Not in the archives)
19.Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles(1975)-Akerman-MS-(Not in the archives)
20.Les Rendez-vous d’Anna(1975)-Akerman-MS-(R-Recommend)
21.La tête d’un homme(1933)-Duvivier-MS-(Not in the archives)
22.Track of the Cat(1954)-Wellman-MS-(R-Recommend)
23.Devi(1960)-S.Ray-MS(Not in the archives)
24.Les vampires(1915)-Feuillade-MS-(Not in the archives)
25.Made in U.S.A (1966)-Godard-MS-(Not in the archives)
26.David Golder(1931)-Duvivier-MS-(Not in the archives)
27.The Children’s Hour(1961)-Wyler-MS-(Not in the archives)
28.Star Trek: The Motion Picture(1979)-Wise-MS-(Not in the archives)
29.Happy Together(1997)-Kar-wai-MS-(R-Recommend)
30.Pale Flower(1964)-Shinoda-MS-(-Not in the archives)
31.The Threepenny Opera(1931)-Pabst-MS-(Not in the archives)
32.The Big Country(1958)-Wyler-MS-(R-Recommend)
33.Ashes of Time(1994)-Kar-wai-MS-(R-Recommend)
34.A Man There Was(1917)-Sjöström-MS-(Not in the archives)
35.The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek(1943)-P.Sturges-MS-(Not in the archives)
36.Speed Racer(2008)-Wachowski-MS-(R-Recommend)
37.Quai des Orfèvres-Clouzot-MS-(Not in the archives)
38.Placido(1961)-Berlanga-MS-(Not in the archives)
39.Branded to Kill(1967)-Suzuki-MS-(Not in the archives)
40.Die Austernprinzessin(1919)-Lubitsch-HR/MS-(Not in the archives)
41.Waxworks(1924)-Leni, Birinsky-HR/MS-(Not in the archives)
42.My Own Private Idaho(1991)-van Sant-HR/MS-(No grade)
43.Ludwig(1973)-Visconti-HR/MS-(R-Recommend)
44.THX 1138(1971)-Lucas-HR/MS-(R-Recommend)
45.The Masque of the Red Death(1964)-Corman-HR/MS-(Not in the archives)
46.Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors(1965)-Parajanov-HR/MS-(Not in the archives)
47.Aar-Paar(1954)-Dutt-HR/MS-(Not in the archives)
48.Mr. Klein(1976)-Losey-HR/MS-(Not in the archives)
49.The Lodger(1927)-Hitchcock-HR/MS-(R-Recommend)
50.Lady Vengeance(2005)-Chan-wook-HR/MS-(Not in the archives)
51.All These Women(1964)-Bergman-HR/MS-(Not in the archives)
52.Attack(1956)-Aldrich-HR/MS-(R-Recommend)
53.Gate of Flesh(1964)-Suzuki-HR/MS-(Not in the archives)
54.The Nightmare Before Christmas-Selick-HR/MS-(R-Recommend)
55.Porcile(1969)-Pasolini-HR/MS-(Not in the archives)
56.The Grandmaster(2013)-Kar-wai-HR/MS-(R-Recommend)
57.The Man Who Knew Too Much(1956)-Hitchcock-HR-(No grade)
58.Moonrise(1948)-Borzage-HR/MS-(Not in the archives)
59.Lilith(1964)-Rossen-HR-(R-Recommend)
60.Panique(1946)-Duvivier-HR-(Not in the archives)
61.The Music Lovers(1971)-K.Russell-HR-(Not in the archives)
62.Walker(1987)-Cox-HR-(No grade)
63.Crooklyn(1994)-S.Lee-HR-(Not in the archives)
64.Excalibur(1981)-Boorman-HR-(No grade)
65.No Blood Relation (1932)-Naruse-HR-(Not in the archives)
66.Women in Love(1969)-K.Russell-(Not in the archives)
67.Body Double(1984)-De Palma-(Not in the archives)
68.The Outlaw and His Wife(1918)-Sjöström-HR-(Not in the archives)
69.Das Boot(1981)-Petersen-HR-(No grade)
There are a couple of very noticeable hot takes here. One being Only God Forgives is rated higher than Drive. The other being Heaven’s Gate is rated higher than The Deer Hunter. Would have to be a brave person to make this suggestion when they were released. And all the critical drubbing.
@Lionel – haha spot on with the release and critical drubbing – pretty sure the evidence on the screen holds for both of these though
@Lionel – I was happy to see Heaven’s Gate above The Deer Hunter and Only God Forgives above Drive. They are visually superior.
@Drake – Seeing Germany Year Zero in the top 100 and passing Rome, Open City is a welcome surprise and a well-deserved leap from around the #200 spot it was on the 2019 list.
Jurassic Park went from #355 to #844 (Down 489)
Titanic went from #466 to #827(Down 361)
Damn.
Didn’t WALL.E make this list?
@Lionel it did not – still a fine film of course- lots of fine films left off the list to make room for the others
The Tree of Life, The Turin Horse, Melancholia as the top 3 films of the decade.
The moratorium exists for a reason but do you see it changing? Anything from 2014-2019 that can displace them?.
@AP- Tough to say- but great question. I think the closest is Roma. I haven’t decided if/when I’m going to update the decades list. But Roma would give me the post pause right now I believe unless I’m forgetting one.
@Drake – has Dunkirk dropped any for you? I recall you saying it seemed like a top 100 film come 2027
@LeBron Smith – It would be a very short list of 2010s films that seem possible for a top 100 or 150 spot. I haven’t updated the 2010s decade list but it would still be near the very top
I had Chat GPT predict the top 20 directors based on this list:
Based on the information provided, here’s a “Top 20 Directors” list ranked by the cumulative rank of their films. I’m interpreting a lower number as a better score (e.g., “1” is best), so directors with the lowest cumulative scores from their films will rank higher:
1. **Stanley Kubrick**
– 2001: A Space Odyssey (1)
– Barry Lyndon (14)
– A Clockwork Orange (62)
– The Shining (67)
– Paths of Glory (112)
– Eyes Wide Shut (126)
2. **Francis Ford Coppola**
– Apocalypse Now (4)
– The Godfather (15)
– The Godfather Part II (28)
– Rumble Fish (173)
3. **Martin Scorsese**
– Raging Bull (9)
– Goodfellas (25)
– Taxi Driver (30)
– Mean Streets (164)
– The Age of Innocence (116)
4. **Federico Fellini**
– 8 1/2 (13)
– La Dolce Vita (26)
– Juliet of the Spirits (98)
5. **Andrei Tarkovsky**
– Nostalghia (8)
– Stalker (12)
– The Sacrifice (72)
– Andrei Rublev (161)
6. **Akira Kurosawa**
– Seven Samurai (21)
– Rashomon (22)
– High and Low (57)
– Ikiru (86)
– Ran (197)
– The Bad Sleep Well (102)
7. **Alfred Hitchcock**
– Vertigo (10)
– Psycho (106)
– Notorious (132)
8. **Yasujiro Ozu**
– Tokyo Story (11)
– The End of Summer (35)
– Early Summer (109)
– Late Spring (174)
9. **Ingmar Bergman**
– Persona (45)
– The Seventh Seal (49)
– Cries & Whispers (51)
– Fanny and Alexander (108)
– The Silence (178)
– The Virgin Spring (168)
10. **Wong Kar-wai**
– In the Mood for Love (5)
– Chungking Express (27)
– 2046 (78)
11. **Paul Thomas Anderson**
– Punch-Drunk Love (60)
– There Will Be Blood (68)
– The Master (80)
– Boogie Nights (128)
– Magnolia (103)
12. **Orson Welles**
– Citizen Kane (6)
– Touch of Evil (34)
– The Magnificent Ambersons (44)
– Chimes at Midnight (154)
– The Trial (94)
13. **Jean-Luc Godard**
– Breathless (39)
– Pierrot le Fou (88)
– Contempt (129)
14. **Terrence Malick**
– The Tree of Life (40)
– Days of Heaven (42)
– The Thin Red Line (138)
– The New World (193)
15. **Carl Theodor Dreyer**
– The Passion of Joan of Arc (3)
– Gertrud (54)
16. **John Ford**
– The Searchers (2)
– Stagecoach (119)
– How Green Was My Valley (198)
17. **Lars von Trier**
– Breaking the Waves (24)
– Melancholia (55)
18. **Sergio Leone**
– Once Upon a Time in the West (76)
– The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (87)
– Once Upon a Time in America (160)
19. **Krzysztof Kieślowski**
– A Short Film About Killing (31)
– Dekalog (65)
– Three Colours: Blue (71)
– Three Colours: Red (79)
– The Double Life of Veronique (84)
20. **David Lynch**
– Blue Velvet (118)
– Mulholland Drive (124)
Note: Some directors with more films in the list might not make the top 20 if their cumulative ranking is higher (worse) than others. Also, some ties in rankings are broken by the number of films listed.
@Christopher- Very cool to see – thanks for sharing this
Anyone ese here thinks Beau Is Afraid from Aster is a MP?
@Jay – A step below, I would not call it a MP but I was pretty impressed and happy to call it a MS film. Midsommar is Aster’s masterpiece.
Interesting to see it as a MS at least, but maybe it could be his second MP after two viewings… Maybe I was too impressed or too biased because I really love Aster I don’t know really, from the first viewing I thought it was a MP but a step below Decision To Leave which is still this decade best film as of now.
@Jay – I gave it an HR rating, but I plan on a second viewing before the year ends to see if I missed anything.
Maybe I’m the one who overdid the thing, but seeing at the screen at the cinema I saw a film that was so ambitious, creative and imaginative and I was so impressed that I could gone too far with an MP rating. Still I owe it a second viewing but honestly a pretty ambitious film.
@Jay-Neo – I am too in the HR area after one viewing, but it’s a massive film, I might be wrong.
I have to say it’s very strange to read the names of the two Satyajit Ray films as The Goddess and The Big City instead of their real names Devi and Mahanagar
@Malith- I’m up for changing these if these are the preferred names. For some foreign language titles (I’m a native English speaker) I’ve just known their title a certain way (sort of depends on the film) for decades. Not the case here. I’m changing them
10 Indian films included here. Great.
The Music Room(1958)
Pather Panchali(1955)
Charulata(1964)
Pyaasa(1957)
Kaagaz Ke Phol(1959)
Devi(1960)
Aparajito(1956)
The World of Apu(1959)
Aaar-Par(1954)
Mahanagar(1963)
Have you seen Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam(1962)? It is starring Dutt and directed by one of his proteges.
@Malith – I have not had the opportunity to see Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam yet
From Wikipedia:
Under Saheb Bibi Aur Ghulam:
“Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam attained cult status and became a milestone in Hindi cinema. Along with Pyaasa (1957) and Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959), critics have regarded Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam among Dutt’s best work.According to Banerjee, Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam is Dutt’s last major contribution to the industry. It is also the only film Alvi directed. Film experts have regarded Kumari’s performance in Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam as one of the best of her career; according to Tejaswini Ganti, the film made her particularly known for tragic roles”
Under Abrar Alvi:
“Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam controversy”
“Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam was important for Guru Dutt. Following the box-office disaster of Kaagaz Ke Phool, he lost almost 1.7 million on the movie. Guru Dutt needed a success to put him back on the map. The film went on to become a major box office success of the year. The film also won the president’s silver medal and the ‘Film of the Year’ Award from the Bengal Film Journalist Association. The film was also screened at the Berlin Film Festival in June 1963 and was India’s official entry to the Oscars that year.
The controversy about who actually directed Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam has increased over the years. Since the film is characteristic of Guru Dutt’s feel and style, it is difficult to think that he did not direct the film. However, Guru Dutt never denied Abrar Alvi’s role in the film, nor did he make any counter-claims when Alvi won the Filmfare Award for Best Director for the film. Abrar Alvi has stated that Guru Dutt did direct the songs in the film, but not the film in its entirety.”
I saw a bunch of Chantel Akerman films make huge leaps in/into the new TSPDT update. But surprising Les-Rendezvous d’Anna isn’t one of them. It seems like even when TSPDT starts to rave about one director they completely misses out on one of their fantastic films. Devi for Satyajit Ray, Despair for Fassbinder, Hen in the Wind for Ozu, Made in USA for Godard
@Lionel- Very frustarting
Great list, a lot to work through and savour here. Would personally have included more works from Louis Malle, Eric Rohmer, Maurice Pialat, Emir Kusturica, Bruno Dumont, Shane Meadows and a few other French directors. Great list to use as a watchlist to track the masterpieces not seen.
Purely personal view:
Overrated films I would remove:
Gravity
Million Dollar Bay
The Matrix Reloaded
Lincoln
King’s Speech
Suspiria
A Dangerous Method
West Side Story
Hunger
California Split
The Haunting
Archipelago
Zabriskie Point
Scott Pilgrim
Master and Commander
Three Kings
The Hurt Locker
Speed Racer
The Fountain
Twin Peaks
Too high on list (but still top 1000):
Nostalghia
Children of Men
Cries & Whispers
Songs from the Second Floor
Ali: Fear eats the Soul
Top missing films:
Au Revoir les Enfants
American History X
Underground
Jacob’s Ladder
Mouchette
Being There
A Prophet
Funny Games
A Tale of Summer
Adaptation
Incendies
Roman Holiday
A Fish Called Wanda
Tell No One
Into the Wild
Falling Down
The Secret in their Eyes
Dead Man’s Shoes
The Young Ladies of Rochefort
Margaret
Too low on list:
Deer Hunter
One flew over a Cuckoo’s Nest
Au Hazard Balthazar
The Apartment
Irreversible
Drive
Paris, Texas
Mulholland Drive
Amorres Perros
1900
@Le-Roi – Removing Suspiria is wiiild…
For me easily the biggest film missing is Resnais’ Providence
@LeRoi- Great share here- enjoyed looking this over. Thanks
@LeRoi – Great work mentioning 1900 in the underrated section here.
I agree that Being There is a big absence.
What a gigantic achievement, Drake. Must be applauded. I think I speak for all who visit the site when I say we appreciate your love of and devotion to the art form. I don’t agree with everything here, obviously (PDL over TWBB is… a choice), but I think many changes were for the better (I like where Hawks is now and 2001 really is the greatest film ever made) and it’s nice to see you being honest with how you feel – you have always done that, I think, and it’s honorable, since it takes courage to put out a list like this. Great work!
@Pedro- Thanks Pedro- appreciate the words of encouragement. I’m not a fan of the word “choice” but I get it. I think the evidence for PDL is right there up on the screen – but I’ll also admit that there is not much separating many of these brilliant films.
Will Wyler’s The Children’s Hour(1961) make Audrey’s top 5 performances? Now it is rated above My Fair Lady as her best film.
This applies to Shirley MacLaine too. Will The Children’s Hour make her top 5 performances?
@Anderson- good question- long ways from having to update the pages here. But it could
@Drake was Spring Breakers downgraded from HR/MS to HR?
Ignore this comment. I somehow glossed over it on the list haha my bad
@LeBron Smith– all good, there are going to be some small tweaks and improvements here as I let this settle the first month
did you manage to catch Lust, Caution by Ang Lee yet?
@oliver- Not yet, unfortunately – but hopefully soon
Wow looks like Kubrick might be rising to number 1 after this update. Bergman might also have a case, but he doesn’t really have a GOAT level film according to you so it seems like Kubrick has the best case of anyone. I’m excited to see how that list turns out. I’m a little disappointed that Lynch didn’t do better. I believe Mulholland Drive is absolutely one of the greatest films ever made and I think it is borderline top 10. I guess I have a thing for dream movies because I was disappointed that Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind hasn’t risen either in your ranks. One of my all time favorites, and objectionably for me I think it is a top ten movie of the 21st century. I’m happy that Gilliam got a big boost in this update; I’ve always thought he was underrated. I’m also happy that Jeanne Quilman or whatever it is isn’t anywhere near the number 1 spot. I had to turn it off it was so boring. Really fantastic work though, and I can’t wait to check out some of these foreign films I’ve never heard of. Also, I have one question. What convinced you to put 2001 ahead of the Searchers on this new update. I believe last time it was number 3 if I remember correctly. Was it more to do with The Searchers going down in your last viewing (obviously number 2 all time is not going down much) or more 2001 impressing you more on your last viewing?
@James Robbins- Thanks for sharing this James and good question on 2001. They were already close – not much separating any film a spot or two (or sometimes ten) on a list this big. Perhaps when I get to the Kubrick page update I can try to articulate what makes 2001 #1
your the goat….no doubt…thank you!
@Jerry Wingo- very nice of you to say Jerry- thank you for visiting the site and the comment here
Wow! Long-time lurker and first-time commenter here—I just wanted to come out like many readers of the site here have to say what tremendous work this is. Congratulations on the gigantic achievement; there’s a lot to take in, and for the most part, I love the direction this new list takes at a glance. Wishing you and the site all the best and eagerly anticipating what comes next—decade/ director updates?
@Karchun- Thank you so much- appreciate you visiting the site and the comment here. Look forward to hearing more from you in the future if you are so inclined. I’m putting together the director updates behind the scenes now. But that will take a long time. I may do a top 1000 stats page (I do want the page to settle a little- but may do some small tweaks/improvements here before the stats page). Others on this page in the comments have already been kind enough to update some of the decade list
@Drake have you watched or re-watched any of these?
Providence
Man of the West
Drowning by Numbers
Le Trou
The Sword of Doom
On the Silver Globe
The Mother and the Whore
@LeBron Smith – I have not – my to-watch list seems to be getting longer and longer. I do think I found a decent version of On the Silver Globe on youtube.
Would also add Casque d’Or to Le Trou for Becker who only has one entry on the list
The Oscar winner Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion(1970). It didn’t deserve to be Italy’s submission for the Oscar for The Conformist. But still
What are some of the greatest pieces of music written for film? Maybe this has been asked a while ago (I’m not sure), but we got a really great one this year. I’m thinking about specific songs rather than entire scores. Some of them have names that I know and some don’t. Some suggestions in no particular order:
Can You Hear the Music – Oppenheimer
The Ecstasy of Gold – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Time – Inception
Force Theme – Star Wars
The Imperial March – The Empire Strikes Back
Music during the hotel scene – Vertigo
Theme when he gets the desert the first time – Lawrence of Arabia
Theme – The Godfather
@Graham- That’s a good list. I’m interested to see others chime in. I would need to think about some more names. One of my favorite pieces of music in cinema history is The Mole from Dunkirk. I’m referring to the version that plays during the film since the version on the album is different.
@Ian – Great choice, I revisit that song often.
@Harry- Someone on YouTube did a great job of recreating the version from the film
https://youtu.be/wzsK3fk-Now?si=wUAHre6V4uXygq8v
@Graham – I have many, I love film soundtracks.
I’d like to throw in those two from John Murphy, both used in Danny Boyle films
In The House in a Hearbeat – 28 Days Later
Adagio in D Minor – Sunshine
The second has gone on to be used in other films and TV shows but it was originally just composed for Sunshine.
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door by Bob Dylan was also written for Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid and that’s one of Dylan’s most popular songs.
Popul Vuh’s main theme for Aguirre.
In Motion – The Social Network
American Beauty main theme
@Graham – the bookend score for Aguirre is perfectly and fittingly haunting setting the tone.
Jonny Greenwood does great work in several PT Anderson films but There Will Be Blood is in a class of its own as far as the score, the opening crescendo as the camera captures the desert landscape setting the tone, I love how there is no dialogue for the first 15 minutes
Honestly the more time goes on the more I think Suspiria may have the best. I have no clue if that’s a hot take or not. I think everyone above covers most of the greats but I would add: Love Theme from Chinatown, Piano Trip E in Flat – Barry Lyndon, Song for Jesse – Assassination of Jesse James, Taxi Driver theme, Blade Runner Blues, The Good The Bad The Ugly main theme, and A Fistful of Dollars theme.
1. the shark cage fugue
2. other film music
Night Snack from Chungking Express:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7khaFUIiuU&ab_channel=vidalgraziani
Tara’s theme from Gone with the Wind
Prelude and The Murder from Psycho
Prelude and Rooftop from Vertigo
Main Title and First Victim from Jaws
Lawrence of Arabia Main Title
Tough nailing LOTR down to a single track since it’s main themes are so often repeated throughout in different variations and combinations, but the Ring theme, Fellowship theme, Shire theme, and Isengard theme stand out there.
Along with others previously mentioned I think these are the big ones.
@Harry – you beat me to listing Aguirre
Sound of Silence in opening of The Graduate
Where is My Mind? From the Pixies during Fight Club ending when buildings start collapsing
Girl You’ll be a Woman Soon during the Uma Thurman OD scene in Pulp Fiction
Great songs and amazing needle drops, but they weren’t written for these films.
@Pedro – got it, misread question
Congrats on finishing this! We are all obviously going to have our own little preferences but the list can stand up to any other out there. Now let me take advantage of your website and share my list with your audience haha
1. Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
2. Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
3. Satantango (Tarr)
4. Citizen Kane (Welles)
5. Tokyo Story (Ozu)
6. Stalker (Tarkovsky)
7. Au hasard Balthazar (Bresson)
8. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)
9. The Searchers (Ford)
10. Playtime (Tati)
11. Dekalog (Kieslowski)
12. The Conformist (Bertolucci)
13. Rashomon (Kurosawa)
14. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
15. Persona (Bergman)
16. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
17. Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr)
18. In the Mood for Love (Wong)
19. Tropical Malady (Weerasethakul)
20. The Mirror (Tarkovsky)
21. The Tree of Life (Malick)
22. Late Spring (Ozu)
23. Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman)
24. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pasolini)
25. Touch of Evil (Welles)
26. The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
27. Viridiana (Bunuel)
28. The Godfather (Coppola)
29. Wings of Desire (Wenders)
30. L’avventura (Antonioni)
31. Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
32. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)
33. 8 1/2 (Fellini)
34. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pasolini)
35. The Godfather II (Coppola)
36. Ran (Kurosawa)
37. Blade Runner (Scott)
38. La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
39. Breaking the Waves (von Trier)
40. Contempt (Godard)
41. Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
42. Psycho (Hitchcock)
43. Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
44. The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
45. The Third Man (Reed)
46. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)
47. Chinatown (Polanski)
48. Sunset Boulevard (Wilder)
49. Casablanca (Curtiz)
50. Red Desert (Antonioni)
51. Days of Heaven (Malick)
52. Chimes at Midnight (Welles)
53. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone)
54. Three Colors: Red (Kieslowski)
55. M (Lang)
56. There Will Be Blood (Anderson)
57. Nostalgia (Tarkovsky)
58. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais)
59. The Thin Red Line (Malick)
60. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone)
61. Blow-Up (Antonioni)
62. Raging Bull (Scorsese)
63. La Notte (Antonioni)
64. The Turin Horse (Tarr)
65. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
66. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
67. The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles)
68. Double Indemnity (Wilder)
69. Cries and Whispers (Bergman)
70. Pickpocket (Bresson)
71. The Leopard (Visconti)
72. Throne of Blood (Kurosawa)
73. Chungking Express (Wong)
74. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
75. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Demy)
76. Rear Window (Hitchcock)
77. La Strada (Fellini)
78. The Green Ray (Rohmer)
79. Crash (Cronenberg)
80. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder)
81. Dogville (von Trier)
82. The Shining (Kubrick)
83. Umberto D. (De Sica)
84. Ikiru (Kurosawa)
85. In a Lonely Place (N. Ray)
86. Melancholia (von Trier)
87. No Country for Old Men (Coen)
88. Pather Panchali (S. Ray)
89. A Short Film About Love (Kieslowski)
90. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston)
91. L’Argent (Bresson)
92. Hiroshima Mon Amour (Resnais)
93. The Mother and the Whore (Eustache)
94. The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski)
95. Once Upon a Time in America (Leone)
96. Close-Up (Kiarostami)
97. Los Olvidados (Bunuel)
98. Nights of Cabiria (Fellini)
99. The Grand Illusion (Renoir)
100. Vivre sa vie (Godard)
101. Damnation (Tarr)
102. Teorema (Pasolini)
103. Landscape in the Mist (Angelopoulos)
104. Paths of Glory (Kubrick)
105. The Maltese Falcon (Huston)
106. Time of the Gypsies (Kusturica)
107. Three Colors: Blue (Kieslowski)
108. Rosemary’s Baby (Polanski)
109. Solaris (Tarkovsky)
110. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Weerasethakul)
111. L’Eclisse (Antonioni)
112. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford)
113. City Lights (Chaplin)
114. The 400 Blows (Truffaut)
115. Rio Bravo (Hawks)
116. The Music Room (S. Ray)
117. The Lady Eve (Sturges)
118. Le Samourai (Melville)
119. My Darling Clementine (Ford)
120. The Flowers of St. Francis (Rossellini)
@Njegos- What a strong list- thank you for sharing!
Interesting list and a lot I agree with.
Curious about a few absences, specifically Powell & Pressburger, Masaki Kobayashi, Peter Weir, Edward Yang, Buster Keaton.
Did you consider any of their films?
I might have missed it but I didn’t see Bergman’s face to face here.
Also you mention that The Hill by Lumet is 1985 it’s actually 1965.
@M*A*S*H- Thank you for the fix- a fat-finger mistake on the 1985 instead of 1965- fixed now. I pulled out a handful of films (including Face to Face) to try to get to again before setting this list in stone and moving on in a few weeks. Might have some small tweaks and changes and then move on.
I have seen 731/1000 so far
@Harry- Really well done! Good work. What’s at the top of your wish list?
@Drake – I would like to prioritise seeing; : Die Nibelungen, The Little Foxes, Faust, Kwaidan, Damnation, Children of Paradise and Speed Racer.
There are of course many films that this list motivates me to revisit and see if I’m underrating.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture’s placement on this list is simply stunning.
@Malith – have you been able to catch it? I was surprised by it – but again this is the same Robert Wise as The Andromeda Strain
@Harry- Very nice- keep us posted as you get to them or revisit
Kwaidan is an incredible film, highly recommended by me.
I always knew 2001 would be at the top. After how many years has searchers been displaced from the top?
Joan of Arc is the best silent film so we are in agreement there.
I must say I am surprised at the low placement of Tarkovsky’s mirror. The Tree of Life is also low placed, I think it could easily be a pick for the best film of all time.
Something interesting I found that no one pointed out is the high placement of In the Mood for Love. Phenomenal film.
I also noticed the lack of animated films. I just saw a few. Do you think animation is somehow inferior to live films? I dont necessarily think so. Or is it just that the animated films you have seen you don’t rate as highly?
Anyways, great list overall!
@Azman- I think it has been 10 years or more for The Searchers. Thank you for sharing your thoughts here and the kind words about the list. I do not think animation is somehow inferior.
I was a little bit disappointed to see The Searchers lose the number one spot because there’s something really cool about it being at the top.. I feel like many lists rank it in the top 10 but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it being flat out number one anywhere but here. I know that’s just the hipster in me talking – but it’s just objectively not as cool having 2001 at the top as having The Searchers lol (apart from my opinion that The Searchers is actually better)
@Njegos- haha thanks for sharing. Love hearing about those in support of The Searchers
@Azman – From the 2000 page
“If one looks at 2000 as one of the best single years in cinema- one has to look at the greatest of the auteurs driving it. Like 1960 with Fellini, Godard, Bergman, Visconti, Kurosawa, Antonioni– 2000 features WKW, Roy Andersson, Bela Tarr, and Lars von Trier (Tarr and von Trier would be paired again in 2011 oddly enough). These are major artists making masterpieces (and for In the Mood for Love “masterpiece” almost sounds like an insult).”
The placement for In th Mood for Love was not that suprising ha
@Drake – Not familiar with Possession (1981) but its high placement intrigues me, can’t seem to locate it so far, have you watched any of Andrzej Żuławski’s other films?
That most important Thing: Love is in the archives on the Klaus Kinski page
@James Trapp- I think I caught the version on AMC+ – very solid quality. I have seen That Most Important Thing: Love (1975) and I’m trying to carve out some time for On the Silver Globe soon https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093593/?ref_=nm_flmg_c_7_dr
Does anyone here have a Letterboxd account? I recently created one and wanted to follow anyone from The Cinema Archives.
There are a few of us on there. Mine is here: https://boxd.it/ubMh
@DeclanG, @Harry, @MovierJoker- Awesome, gave you all a follow.
@Ian – my profile: https://letterboxd.com/GreedyFatApe/
my profile is here: https://letterboxd.com/MovierJoker/
Here you go: https://letterboxd.com/primus43/
Here you go: https://letterboxd.com/primus43/
have you heard of douban? Its china’s version of imdb.
Here is its top 250:
https://letterboxd.com/darrencb/list/douban-top-250/
It has got some absolutely odd choices
@MovierJoker- had not heard of this- thanks for sharing
I hate to say it. But is The Pianist actually overrated? Maybe not by the TSPDT consensus, but generally? So strange to see this as the director with six top 300 films’ maybe most widely seen film and the one that got him the Oscar even with all the issues.
@Malith – thank you for the help on Last Tango- fixed now
Didn’t Woody’s Husbands and Wives(1992) make the cut?
@Malith- Husbands and Wives is not in the top 1000
It is rated as Woody’s 5th best in his director’s page
@Malith- Yes, I am aware. Updates to the director’s pages in the next year
@Drake – Quite a jump for Flowers of Shanghai, # 5 of 1998 to a top 100 film. Have you revisited The Assassin (2015) recently? I realize it would not be ineligible for this list due to 10 year rule. Just wondering if you have watched since your last grading which was HR/MS
@James-It was actually at #10 for 1998
@James Trapp- I have not- I was able to do a 9 film Hsiao-Hsien Hou study in 2019— but Goodbye, South, Goodbye and Flowers of Shanghai were unavailable (at least to me) at the time. Then in 2021 criterion but those both out on their streaming platform and I was able to get to those
@Malith – I stand corrected, it was listed as # 5 on the page for HHH, not the 1998 page
@Drake – got it, yeah I found it really impressive, definitley need to check out his other work
Flowers of Shanghai is now rated as the best film of 1998 over The Thin Red Line, right? That’s crazy. Going from #10 of 1998 to #1 of 1998
@Malith- I believe so-yes- I included the years on the page as well so others can look up by year or decade
Since 4 Wachowski films got big upgrades here( The Matrix to a MP, Speed Racer to a MS, The Matrix Reloaded to a HR/MS and Bound to a HR/MS) I have to ask if you gave another look to The Matrix Revolutions(2003), Jupiter Ascending(2015) and The Matrix Resurrections(2021)? And did any of these three made the archives? Plus is Cloud Atlas any better than a R now?
@Malith- Thanks for the comment. I’ll be doing a big update on all the directors as the next big project
Is Vittorio Storaro the GOAT DP? He now has shot two films in the top 20. And still going strong with Woody’s Coup de Chance which has good reviews for the film and for Storaro’s cinematography.
@Lionel- I do not have a running list- but Taste of Cinema always does a good job – http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/the-30-greatest-cinematographers/
and then TSPDT has a great analysis page
Leading Cinematographers
(Most cinematography credits within the 1,000 Greatest Films)
14 – Raoul Coutard
13 – Sven Nykvist
10 – Tonino Delli Colli
8 – Roland Totheroh, Russell Metty, Gordon Willis, William Lubtchansky
7 – Robert Burks, Vilmos Zsigmond, Gianni Di Venanzo, Robby Müller, Michael Ballhaus, Kazuo Miyagawa, Sacha Vierny, Asakazu Nakai
6 – Takao Saito, Giuseppe Rotunno, Nestor Almendros, Joseph Walker, Vittorio Storaro, Eduard Tisse, Otello Martelli
5 – Miroslav Ondrícek, Boris Kaufman, Charles Lang, Edmond Richard, Elgin Lessley, Frederick Elmes, Gabriel Figueroa, Aldo Graziati, Gilbert Taylor, Yûharu Atsuta, Pasqualino De Santis, Roger Deakins, Russell Harlan, Subrata Mitra, Victor Milner, William Daniels, Ghislain Cloquet
@Lionel- nope- and I agree, but I think you’d find something similar (or close) with just about all of these DPs. I thought about doing something similar with thecinemaarchives top 1000 with some of the analytics– but this is just a ton of work and compiling.
Surprised by the absence of Jack Cardiff and John Alcott here.
But does TSPDT have Storaro films like One From the Heart and Dick Tracy in their top 1000?
I’m not a fan of Kubrick, Pollock or Tarantino, but despite what i like or not, its a great and a though job. On the other way, very happy to see so many works i love from Scorsese.
Excited to see how this list will change in 7 years
Would you ever do a best screenplays/screenwriters list?
@MovierJoker- fun discussion to have- but I don’t think so
Will the best directors list be expanded past 250 when you update it? With 300 or so films listed as masterpieces, that means a lot of directors who could make it in- I’ll be curious to see how long it takes for a director with no masterpiece level films to appear on the top 250 list
@MovieJoker- haven’t quite decided yet
15 films from 2013 included here. All in the top 900. Wow. And Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street isn’t one of them.
1.Ida
2.Inside Lllewyn Davis
3.Under the Skin
4.Gravity
5.Before Midnight
6.The Great Beauty
7.12 Years a Slave
8.Only God Forgives
9.Enemy
10.Snowpiercer
11.Blue is the Warmest Color
12.The Immigrant
13.Her
14.American Hustle
15.The Grandmaster
Are there any other year with more?
@Malith – 17 films from 1960 and 17 from 1999
1957 has 16
1981 has 16
The thing with 2013 is all of these 15 films are rated HR/MS or higher while the other years have some HR films
Have you seen any other Sergei Bondarchuk and Elem Klimov films other than War and Peace(1965) and Come and See(1985)?
@Lionel – not 100% sure – but I don’t believe so
Only Bergman, Kubrick and Kurosawa has a 6th best film better than Roman Polanski(Tess). Not even Scorsese did better.
Plus has any other filmmaker had this crazy rollercoaster of a life like Polanski? The holocaust and surviving the war in Poland, I think Knife in the Water was the first Polish film ever to be Oscar nominated, The Apartment Trilogy, conquering Hollywood with Rosemary’s Baby and Chinatown, The tragic Sharon Tate murder, The notorious sexual assault incident, making 2 acclaimed films Tess and The Pianist and getting nominated for both and winning the Oscar for the latter, winning 3 Best Director Cesar awards in the 2010’s 5 decades after being one of the best directors of the 1960’s. Crazy? Ha
For better or worse, he probably has had the most interesting, controversial, tragic life of any famous filmmaker.
I wouldn’t call it tragic. Still making films at 90. Happy wife for 30+ years and happy children. No long-term illnesses
@Drake – I was wondering if there was a specific reason for the big upgrade to Under the Skin with a MP and #258 position? Is it something to do with form? I have to on my watchlist and excited to get to it soon
@LeBron Smith- Thanks for the comment and question. I’ll try to show more on the Jonathan Glazer page when I update it (hopefully with some screencaps as well) but this is a film that rewards close study and multiple viewings – I was able to get to it again earlier in 2023
Where is Zinnemann’s From Here to Eternity(1953)?
@Malith- Great film, but not on the list
Directors with two or more archivable films in the top 1000(207):
19-(1)-*Alfred Hitchcock
17-(1)-*Ingmar Bergman
13-(2)-*Martin Scorsese
*Akira Kurosawa
11-(1)-*Yazujiro Ozu
10-(5)-*Luchino Visconti
*William Wyler
*Fritz Lang
*Robert Altman
*Coen Brothers
9-(5)-*Federico Fellini
*Steven Spielberg
*David Cronenberg
*John Ford
*Jean-Luc Godard
8-(8)-*Stanley Kubrick
*Wong Kar-wai
*Andrei Tarkovsky
*Rainer Werner Fassbinder
*Michelangelo Antonioni
*Luis Bunuel
*Woody Allen
*Howard Hawks
7-(8)-*Roman Polanski
*Francis Ford Coppola
*Orson Welles
*Brian de Palma
*Pedro Almodovar
*David Lynch
*Kenji Mizoguchi
*Jean Renoir
6-(14)-*David Lean
*Krysztof Kieslowski
*Quentin Tarantino
*Francois Truffaut
*Buster Keaton
*Shohei Imamura
*Michael Powell
*Pier Paolo Pasolini
*Max Ophuls
*Jim Jarmusch
*Richard Linklater
*Sidney Lumet
*Satyajit Ray
*Alfonso Cuaron
5-(17)-*Carl Theoder Drayer
*Sergei Einstein
*Terrence Malick
*Bela Tarr
*Spike Lee
*Paul Thomas Anderson
*Robert Bresson
*Roberto Rossellini
*Sergio Leone
*Michael Mann
*Terry Gilliam
*Billy Wilder
*John Huston
*Dardenne Brothers
*Jane Campion
*James Cameron
*Nicolas Roeg
4-(37)-*F.W Murnau
*Bernardo Bertolucci
*D.W Griffith
*Lars von Trier
*Alain Resnais
*Peter Greenaway
*Yimou Zhang
*Hou Hsiao-Hsien
*Josef von Sternberg
*Jean-Pierre Melville
*Michael Haneke
*Douglas Sirk
*Frank Capra
*Victor Sjostrom
*Oliver Stone
*Christopher Nolan
*David Fincher
*Darren Aronofsky
*Sofia Coppola
*Masaki Kobayashi
*Clint Eastwood
*Charlie Chaplin
*John Cassavetes
*Robert Wise
*Nicholas Ray
*The Wachowskis
*King Vidor
*Wim Wenders
*Jean-Pierre Jeunet
*Sam Mendes
*Julian Duvivier
*Frank Borzage
*Gus van Sant
*Otto Preminger
*Preston Sturges
*Vincente Minelli
*Ernst Lubitsch
3-(45)-*Ridley Scott
*Vittorio De Sica
*Mikhail Kalatozov
*Terence Davies
*Jaques Tati
*Mike Nichols
*Mike Leigh
*Wes Anderson
*Werner Herzog
*Park Chan-wook
*Alan Pakula
*Raoul Walsh
*John Boorman
*Agnes Varda
*Hal Ashby
*Samuel Fuller
*Eric von Stroheim
*Paul Schrader
*George Lucas
*Jacques Torneur
*Jonathan Glazer
*Steve McQueen
*Seijun Suzuki
*Guru Dutt
*Ken Russell
*Bong Joon-ho
*Henri-Georges Clouzot
*Nicolas Winding Refn
*Lynne Ramsay
*Atom Egoyan
*John Carpenter
*Robert Zemeckis
*Bob Fosse
*Elia Kazan
*Marcel Carné
*George Stevens
*Aki Kaurismaki
*James Gray
*Ming-liang Tsai
*George Cukor
*Anthony Mann
*Stanley Donen
*René Clair
*Robert Rossen
*G. W. Pabst
2-(63)-*Roy Andersson
*Carol Reed
*Sam Peckinpah
*Dario Argento
*Arpichtpong Weerasethakul
*Victor Fleming
*Raul Ruiz
*Pawel Pawlikowski
*Michael Curtiz
*Edward Yang
*Jaques Demy
*Michael Cimino
*Peter Jackson
*Cristian Mungiu
*Joe Wright
*Steven Soderbergh
*Joseph Losey
*Jonathan Demme
*John Schlesinger
*George Roy Hill
*William Friedkin
*Arthur Penn
*Guillermo del Toro
*Todd Haynes
*Milos Forman
*Louis Malle
*Abbas Kiarostami
*Chantel Akerman
*Jean Cocteau
*William A. Wellman
*John Frankenheimer
*Leos Carax
*Xavier Dolan
*Anthony Minghella
*Spike Jonze
*Don Siegel
*Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
*Hayao Miyazaki
*Ang Lee
*Warren Beatty
*Rene Clement
*Ralph Richardson
*Peter Weir
*Sydney Pollack
*George A. Romero
*Joseph L. Mankiewicz
*Alex Cox
*Abel Ferrara
*Jacques Rivette
*Mario Bava
*Robert Aldrich
*David O. Russell
*James Ivory
*John Woo
*Sergio Corbucci
*Gaspar Noe
*Tim Burton
*Satoshi Kon
*Noah Baumbach
*Sergei Parajanov
*Robert Hamer
*Jean Vigo
*James Whale
Max Ophuls actually has 7 films included in the top 1000
Do you think he might see a revival nowadays? He does have one big fan in Paul Thomas Anderson.
It’s American Gigolo at #803 and My Neighbor Totoro at #862
@Malith- thank you- fixed
Directors with two top 1000 films not included in the top 250 directors(15):
Victor Sjöström(4)
Julian Duvivier(4)
Seijun Suzuki(3)
Guru Dutt(3)
Ken Russell(3)
Atom Egoyan(3)
Ming-liang Tsai(3)
Raul Ruiz(2)
Joseph Losey(2)
Chantel Akerman(2)
William A. Wellman(2)
Alex Cox(2)
Jacques Rivette(2)
Sergei Parajanov(2)
Robert Hamer(2)
@Drake- I know you’ll put up the director’s page but why you moved One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s nest from MP to a MS level film?
Comparison is the best way to rank films and I think it could belong in the group of Dog Day Afternoon, Network etc. Not auteur driven but propelled by excellent narrative, consisting superlative screenplay and performances and an overall perfectly turned film out even though (just like those two Lumet films) it falls short on great visuals.
@M*A*S*H- it is a brilliant film – it is just on a different level (with less ambitious aims) than the very top echelon. More of a compliment to the other films ahead of it on the list than any sort of critique of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
New best films of the year:
1.1921-The Phantom Carriage(instead of Destiny)
2.1924-The Last Laugh(instead of Sherlock Jr.)
3.1931-M(instead of City Lights)
4.1932-Scarface(instead of Love Me Tonight)
5.1933-La tête d’un homme(instead of King Kong)
6.1946-The Best Years of Our Lives(instead of It’s a Wonderful Life)
7.1967-Playtime(instead of The Graduate)
8.1973-Mean Streets(instead of Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid)
9.1977-Suspiria(instead of Annie Hall)
10.1986-The Sacrifice(instead of Blue Velvet)
11.1992-The Long Day Closes(instead of Malcolm X)
12.1994-Chungking Express(instead of Pulp Fiction)
13.1998-Flowers of Shanghai(instead of The Thin Red Line)
14.2003-Kill Bill(instead of Lost in Translation)
@Malith- thank you for the clean up help here
Scarface on the 235# spot is the Hawks or the DePalma ?
The other is on the 614# spot.
I do think both are masterpieces.
@KidCharlemagne Hawks’ Scarface is at #235. It doesn’t fit to all handheld devices (some you can flip and see) but there is a director and year here for all films as well
I’m so stupid. Yes when I flip my phone I see it. Sorry. Keep the hard work 💪🏻
@KidCharlemagne- haha all good- at least a few others have had the same thing – it is frustrating- sorry- I’d have to imagine most people are looking at this on their phone.
Have you seen Alex Proyas'(Dark City) The Crow released in 1994?
@Lionel- I have – a few times over the years
But did you watch The Crow after this reevaluation of Proyas’ Dark City? Aren’t there any similarities?
@Lionel- Not enough similarities to draw me back right now with so much else to prioritize
Any other Proyas films in the archives other than Dark City?
@Lionel – that one is it
Wow. Wyler’s The Best Years of Our Lives was awarded the best picture for 1946 and finally 77 years later it finally got recognised as the best film of 1946 surpassing It’s a Wonderful Life. Great job by the Academy I have to say. And I don’t say that often
40 films from 1920’s in the top 1000. Impressive stuff. I thought it would be much less.
1.The Passion of Joan of Arc(1928)-Dreyer-MP
2.Sunrise(1927)-Murnau-MP
3.Battleship Potemkin(1925)-Eisenstein-MP
4.The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari(1920)-Wiene-MP
5.The Last Laugh(1924)-Murnau-MP
6.Sherlock Jr.(1924)-Keaton-MP
7.Metropolis(1927)-Lang-MP
8.Die Nibelungen(1924)-Lang-MP
9.Strike(1925)-Eisenstein-MP
10.Nosferatu(1922)-Murnau-MP
11.The Phantom Carriage(1921)-Sjostrom-MP
12.The General(1926)-Keaton-MP
13.The Gold Rush(1925)-Chaplin-MP
14.Greed(1924)-Von Stroheim-MP
15.Destiny(1921)-Lang-MS/MP
16.The Wind(1928)-Sjostrom-MS/MP
17.Faust(1926)-Murnau-MS/MP
18.Foolish Wives(1922)-Von Stroheim-MS/MP
19.Dr.Mabuse: The Gambler(1922)-Lang-MS/MP
20.The Navigator(1924)-Keaton-MS
21.7th Heaven(1927)-Borzage-MS
22.The Circus(1928)-Chaplin-MS
23.Wings(1927)-Wellman-MS
24.Oktyabr(1927)-Eisenstein-MS
25.Seven Chances(1925)-Keaton-HR/MS
26.Spies(1928)-Lang-HR/MS
27.Our Hospitality(1923)-Keaton-HR/MS
28.Pandora’s Box(1929)-Pabst-HR/MS
29.Champagne(1928)-Hitchcock-HR/MS
30.Waxworks(1924)-Leni, Birinsky-HR/MS
31.Steamboat Bill Jr.(1928)-Keaton-HR/MS
32.The Lodger(1927)-Hitchcock-HR/MS
33.Haxan(1922)-Christensen-HR/MS
34.Way Down East(1920)-Griffith-HR
35.Blackmail(1929)-Hitchcock-HR
36.La Roue(1923)-Gance-HR
37.The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg(1927)-Lubitsch-HR
38.Street Angel(1928)-Borzage-HR
39.Mother(1926)-Pudovkin-HR
40.Underworld(1927)-Von Sternberg
Actually there is 42. I missed K.Vidor’s The Crowd(1928) and The Big Parade(1925)
In the director’s pages will you rank every film by each director rather than a top 10 or a top 5? There aren’t a ton of directors with 10+ archivable films so it can probably be done.
@Anderson. I’ll probably just stick to ten
But in a case like Scorsese or Hitchcock that ranking between #11 and #20 is very interesting
My selfish request would be for Drake to kind of do what he did with the actors. Where the top tier actors got top 10s and everyone else got top 5s. It wouldn’t be totally even because someone like Tarkovsky has 7 films whilst Scorsese has 30+, but in special cases for the top tier directors with a lot of depth like Scorsese and Hitchcock it would be really cool to see those #11-15 placements atleast
30~*
I think the actors and directors are different. Actors often have small roles in films that aren’t worth ranking. While for directors every archivable film matters.
@Matthew- Understood- the top 1000 has 10+ films from directors like Hitchcock, Bergman, etc – obviously in order.
Could someone quickly explain to me how I could differ what is a MP and a MS from this list? is the top 500 MP, or top 100?
I think until #306 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a MP, until #376 Letter From an Unknown Woman is a MS/MP, until #691 Anatomy of a Murder is a MS, until #894 Forrest Gump is HR/MS. The rest are HR
Didn’t Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be (1942) make the top 1000?
@Anderson – it is not on the top 1000
1964 genuinely needs to be talked about as one of the best years in film history. 21 films included here from 1964.
1.I am Cuba-MP
2.Red Desert-MP
3.Gertrud-MP
4.Umbrellas of Cherbourgh-MP
5.Intens of Murder-MP
6.Charulata-MP
7.Dr.Strangelove-MP
8.Kwaidan-MS/MP
9.A Fistful of Dollars-MS
10.Pale Flower-MS
11.The Gospel According to St.Mathew-MS
12.Marnie-MS
13.My Fair Lady-MS
14.Band of Outsiders-HR/MS
15.Masque of the Red Death-HR/MS
16.All These Women-HR/MS
17.Blood and Black Lace-HR/MS
18.The Pawnbroker-HR/MS
19.Goldfinger-HR
20.Lilith-HR
21.Woman in the Dunes-HR
22 from 1964. Missed Suzuki’s Gate of Flesh which would land here at #16
Great reinforcements to the late 1970’s. Films like A Special Day(1977), Les Rendez-vous d’Anna(1978), Despair(1978), Star Trek: The Motion Picture(1979), Tess(1979) being nowhere to now very highly rated. Autumn Sonata(1978) got a big upgrade too I think for a masterpiece.
Do you have some sort of record of how many HRs there are, or roughly how many missed out on this list?
@DeclanG – I do, it was split nearly half down the middle- couple hundred made it on the top 1000, couple hundred did not.
So Se7en is finally a full blown MP? That’s one I’ve been wanting to get that bump up for awhile now
Nice to see the upgrade for Scarface. But other than that Howard Hawks has been massacred.
@Anderson – yep lol, not surprised though, its crazy he was ranked # 14 at one point and is now # 29. I am guessing by the next update he will be lucky to make top 60 although he does still have 3 MP films and a couple of MS. I actually don’t have a huge issue with this, I did a full on Hawks Study, I love his work but his visuals are simply not on the same level as other auteurs with similar filmographies.
Hawks actually still has 3 MPs(Bringing Up Baby, Scarface, Red River), 4 MSs(Rio Bravo, His Girl Friday, The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not) and one HR/MS(Only Angels Have Wings). And only 1)Alfred Hitchcock, 2)Ingmar Bergman, 3)Martin Scorsese, 4)Akira Kurosawa, 5)Yazujiro Ozu, 6)Luchino Visconti, 7)Fritz Lang, 8)Steven Spielberg, 9)John Ford, 10)Jean-Luc Godard, 11)Stanley Kubrick, 12)Woody Allen 100% have better filmographies than him.
What do MS and HR stand for? I assume that MP is masterpiece, correct?
I’ve made a Letterboxd list of this: https://boxd.it/pRxmG
Thank you Drake for the work! I hope the list is helpful for people who have Letterboxd.
@George- Wow- impressive work- thank you
@Anderson – I think it largely depends on what you value, Tarkovsky, PT Anderson, Terence Malick, and perhaps a few others could be added to that list. Malick for instance has 5 MP including 2 in the top 50. I personally think Malick of Tarkovsky have better filmographies even though they both have less than 10 films. But if I was on a desert island I might pick Hawks over them due to the great variety and sheer quantity of archival films.
No I wasn’t focusing on sheer number of archivable films at all. More on films that were included in this top 1000. Hawks has 8 films included here. Tarkovsky has 7. Malick only 5, PT Anderson only 5 too.
@Anderson – True, but here is where their films rank on the list
Hawks: 233,235, 298, 458, 497, 537, 665, 828
Tarkovsky: 8, 12, 72, 161, 387, 400, 423
Malick: 40, 42, 138, 193, 355
PTA: 60, 68, 80, 103, 128
@Anderson – All 5 of PTA films rank higher than Hawks single best and by a pretty good margin. For Malick 4 of his 5 entries rank higher than Hawks single best. 4 of Tarkovsky’s 7 films rank higher than Hawks single best and Tarkovky has 2 in the top 12! Full disclosure, I have only seen the # 8 film on the list which is Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia just once. Excited to revisit in the near feature so I am going by Drake’s grades here.
There is no mathematical formula to calculate these things (and thank God for that as that would be detrimental to the essence of art). But I think for example that having 2 top 30 films would carry more weight than say 4 movies ranked between 700-800. I am just throwing some numbers out but my point is these lists tend to be top heavy.
Yeah. But it’s subjective how much we are going to go down when comparing filmographies. The bottom line is that in some way or another, Hawks can compete with these other directors you mentioned with his filmography, mostly through his depth of great films. All these are great films, somewhat different from someone like Soderbergh, whose 3/4 of his filmography is filled with good but not great films.
Where does TSPDT have Lincoln for 2012?
My prediction for the top of the updated directors list
1-10:
Akira Kurosawa
Ingmar Bergman
Stanley Kubrick
Alfred Hitchcock
Martin Scorsese
Andrei Tarkovsky
Jean-Luc Godard
Wong Kar-Wai
Federico Fellini
Francis Ford Coppola
10-20
Orson Welles
Paul Thomas Anderson
John Ford
Bela Tarr
Fritz Lang
Luchino Visconti
Roman Polanski
Sergei Eisenstein
F.W. Murnau
François Truffaut
There is no way Bela Tarr is that high. Kieslowski is a big miss. I would say,
1. Ingmar Bergman
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Akira Kurosawa
4.Martin Scorsese
5. Stanley Kubrick
6. John Ford
7. Jean-Luc Godard
8. Federico Fellini
9. Francis Ford Coppola
10. Orson Welles
11. Krisztof Kieslowski
12.Roman Polanski
13. Yazujiro Ozu
14.Luchino Visconti
15. Coen Brothers
16. Kar-Wai Wong
17. Paul Thomas Anderson
18. Fritz Lang
19. Robert Altman
20. Michelangelo Antonioni
21. Steven Spielberg
22. David Cronenberg
23. Andrei Tarkovsky
24. Trevor Malick
25. David Fincher
26. William Wyler
27. Woody Allen
28. Luis Bunuel
29. Howard Hawks
30. Max Ophüls
31. Kenji Mizoguchi
32. Satyajit Ray
33. Michael Powell
34. Francois Truffaut
35. Bela Tarr
36. Robert Bresson
37. Peter Greenaway
38. Charlie Chaplin
39. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
40. David Lynch
41. Jean Renoir
42. Quentin Tarantino
43. Alfonso Cuaron
44. David Lean
45. Jim Jarmusch
46. Shohei Imamura
47. Buster Keaton
48. Brian de Palma
49. Pedro Almodovar
50. Spike Lee
Chaplin and Hawks would be lower. Most likely. But still their filmographies are great.
*24. Terrence Malick
Missed Sergio Leone. He would land at #35 for me.
Missed Murnau and von Sternberg too. Here’s the updated list.
1. Ingmar Bergman
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Akira Kurosawa
4.Martin Scorsese
5. Stanley Kubrick
6. John Ford
7. Jean-Luc Godard
8. Federico Fellini
9. Francis Ford Coppola
10. Orson Welles
11. Krisztof Kieslowski
12.Roman Polanski
13. Yazujiro Ozu
14.Luchino Visconti
15. Coen Brothers
16. Kar-Wai Wong
17. Paul Thomas Anderson
18. Fritz Lang
19. Robert Altman
20. Michelangelo Antonioni
21. Steven Spielberg
22. David Cronenberg
23. Andrei Tarkovsky
24. Terrence Malick
25. David Fincher
26. William Wyler
27. Woody Allen
28. Luis Bunuel
29. Howard Hawks
30. Max Ophüls
31. Kenji Mizoguchi
32. Satyajit Ray
33. Michael Powell
34. Francois Truffaut
35. Sergio Leone
36. Bela Tarr
37. Robert Bresson
38. F.W Murnau
39. Peter Greenaway
40. Josef von Sternberg
41. Charlie Chaplin
42. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
43. David Lynch
44. Jean Renoir
45. Quentin Tarantino
46. Alfonso Cuaron
47. David Lean
48. Jim Jarmusch
49. Shohei Imamura
50 Buster Keaton
@Malith- I’m not understanding Kubrick at #5 and Tarkovsky at #23. I feel #1 will come down to Kubrick, Kurosawa, or Bergman. I think Hitchcock slides behind those 3 due to the big drops for Psycho, Rear Window, and North by Northwest. I suppose we’ll find out soon enough though. Excited to see it.
@LeBron Smith-Man I miscounted. Kubrick has 7 masterpieces. I thought it was only 6. Wow. I would now have him at 2nd ahead of Hitchcock. I’m pretty confident Bergman has #1 in the bag quite easily. The only one who can compete with him for sheer depth is Hitchcock and Hitchcock has 3 less masterpieces. Bergman has 8. More than anyone.
Maybe Mirror is a MP. I’m not sure. But without it Tarkovsky has only 4 big films. There are like a lot of directors with more big films plus more depth of quality films. That’s why he landed at #23.
@Malirh – I missed Krisztof Kieslowsk but I meant to have him in there. I would have him in my predicted top 10.
I can’t speak for the site, but I’d say that one reason for the discrepancy is influence — did anything Tarkovsky do have the mainstream impact of 2001, which continues to inform cinematic science fiction?
I’m surprised to see Satyajit Ray and Powell & Pressburger that low. I would rank them significantly higher.
Great list @Harry. Here’s how i think it will go
(1) Stanley Kubrick
(2) Akira Kurosawa
(3) Ingmar Bergman
(4) Martin Scorsese
(5) Kryzystof Kieslowski
(6) Orson Welles
(7) Andrei Tarkovsky
(8) Francis Ford Coppola
(9) Yasuziro Ozu
(10) Jean Luc Godard
(11) Alfred Hitchcock
(12) Wai Kar Wong
(13) Federico Fellini
(14) Fritz Lang
(15) Paul Thomas Anderson
(16) John Ford
(17) Michelangelo Antonioni
(18) Terrence Malick
(19) FW Murnau
(20) Luchino Visconti
Hitchcock out of the top ten would be wild.
@Graham – Hitchcock is not falling out of the top 10, or even top 5
He has 19 films in the top 1000, more than anyone else. Psycho and Notorious are not that far out of the top 100. Rear Window and North by Northwest did fall a lot though but still clear MPs
Vertigo # 10
Psycho # 106
Notorious # 132
Rear Window # 246
North by Northwest # 255
Still, he appears to have 13 films that are MS or higher which is amazing
And he does still have a top 10 film in Vertigo
He is obviously a “style plus” director and with the depth of the filmography he is not falling that much though I do think he will fall anywhere from # 3 to # 5
@James Trapp- John Ford was ranked 10th in the last list. I think Hitch finds himself in a similar spot this time around. A combined top 5 of Welles & Hitchcock would have 4 films from the former. Tough to bounce back from that.
@AP – maybe, tough to say since I don’t know exactly how too heavy Drakes grading is, again 13 MS or higher films is crazy and I would argue Hitchcock beats Ford in terms of style. Remember WKW was ranked # 22 back when he only has 2 MP level films and 1 in the top 100 so obviously filmography is not everything even if it’s the single most important factor but you might end up being correct.
@AP – Looking at the list again I think Ford might land higher than Hitchcock. Ford just has a higher density of films closer to the top of the list (Comparing their top 7 films) and The Searchers trumps Vertigo for Drake.
@Drake- do you still have The Tree of Life as the #1 film of the 2010s? Or did a 2014-2019 film surpass it?
@LeBron Smith- I haven’t done an updated decade list recently- would have to give it some thought. How about you? what does your top of the 2010s look like?
@Drake- I don’t have an official one yet, but I’ll try to do a top 15 for now. There are some I really need to see again such as The Turin Horse and Melancholia. I also need to watch Mysteries of Lisbon
1. The Tree of Life or Roma
2. The Tree of Life or Roma
3. The Master
4. La La Land
5. Dunkirk
6. Ida
7. The Turin Horse
8. The Revenant
9. The Grand Budapest Hotel
10. Melancholia
11. Mad Max: Fury Road
12. Birdman
13. Cold War
14. Inception
15. Midsommar
@LeBron Smith- thanks for sharing- very strong list
@Drake – Nice to see Pale Flower (1964) on this list, I know I had posted about it before. Have you seen any of Masahiro Shinoda other films? I am trying to figure out my next director study and an considering Shinoda as he has a lot of films on the Criterion Channel so maybe I’ll check out a couple.
@James Trapp- I circled Shinoda as an auteur to seek out after Pale Flower as well- but have not yet had the chance to catch anything else
@Drake – good to hear, I am looking to do Shinoda, Tarkovsky, or Fincher next
Number of films from each country included in the top 1000:
1.U.S.A(475)
2.France(106)
3.United Kingdom(97)
4.Italy(60)
5.Japan(55)
6.Germany(36)
7.Sweden(23)
8.Russia(15)
9.Spain(13)
10.Canada(12)
11.India(10)
12.Denmark(10)
13.Hong Kong(10)
14.Mexico(8)
15.South Korea(8)
15.Belgium(7)
16.China(7)
17.Taiwan(6)
18.Hungary(6)
19.Poland(5)
20.Australia(4)
21.New Zealand(4)
22.Iran(4)
23.Finland(3)
24.Cuba(2)
25.Romania(2)
26.Thailand(2)
27.Ireland(2)
28.Armenia(1)
29.Belarussia(1)
30.Brazil(1)
31.Czech(1)
32.Greece(1)
33.Malaysia(1)
34.Portugal(1)
35.Switzerland(1)
36.Ukraine(1)
@Malith – nice work, putting this together. Desert Island Game for anyone; would you rather have all the US films or all non-USA films? Only including the films from this list
So USA – 475
World – 525
This list also proves how much of a powerhouse Japan once was in the film industry. Maybe I’m missing something. But It’s been years since a great film came from that country.
Maybe not an all-time masterpiece, but I quite liked To the Ends of the Earth.
I think the country that fell of the most was Hong Kong-they’ve gone from making 300+ movies a year to just 60 a year. Tragic really.
When it comes to Japan, can’t say I’ve watched enough films to challenge you too much, but I still think they have a decent film industry; there are still lots of directors working:
Shinya Tsukamoto
Shunji Iwai
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Miike
Kitano
Sion Sono
And they still have the only animation industry that can rival America’s in output. So I think their cinema seems relatively healthy.
@MovierJoker- I still think the Japanese film Industry is struggling(Compared to their previous standards at least). I was not too impressed with Shoplifters. Drive My Car seems quite a bit overrated too judging by its ranking here. What is the last great Japanese film? Probably something like Paprika which is 17 years ago. Meanwhile,
France had:Portrait of a Lady on Fire(2019)
Italy had:Hand of God(2021)
Germany had: Victoria(2015)
Sweden had:Triangle of Sadness(2022)
I would take USA, but it is tough. La Dolce Vita has become my favorite film and Brazil is my second favorite, both foreign. However, when it comes to the movies that got me into film in the first place, and the ones that I rewatch over and over, US takes it.
@James Robbins- Brazil is foreign? Not worth a huge argument but Terry Gilliam is American. I’d put Brazil on the USA side.
It’s mainly British. Gilliam has been a UK citizen since 1968. Shot in Britain. Stars a British Actor(Jonathan Pryce)
@Malith- yeah, not by my count – a British film made by a guy who was born and grew up in the United States? That’s a stretch to say the least – not buying it.
It is a British-American co production. Mainly British because it was shot in UK and stars UK actors
@Malith- I have it as an American film and would have to change your tally if you counted it as a British film. No offense, but I’ve thought about this for 20+ years and had the argument/discussion many times before. You are welcome to think what you want of course- but you aren’t going to convince me. So Hitchcock had citizenship, worked in Hollywood – so all of a sudden his films are American? Not at all.
In other words, a film’s nationality = the director’s nationality, correct?
To play devil’s advocate, would you call Chinatown a Polish film? Saturday Night and Sunday Morning a Czech film?
@JamesRobbins – I would also lean toward USA but its tough, I think rewatchability is a big reason, most of the films I find to be highly rewatchable as American; particularly films from Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, The Coen Brother’s, and Tarantino, not to mention the entire film noir genre
Hard to lean towards USA in this case James. Given where it is shot and who it stars.
@James Robbins-It is strange to say a film is foreign when it’s main language is English I have to say.
@Malith- Fascinating – thank you for doing the work here
Would you still have Touch of Evil ahead of the Third Man if there wasn’t that opening long take ? Personally it’s not what gets my jaw to drop every time I watch it, I’m mostly amazed at just how much mise en scene and ideas come into each frame, but I’d like to know just how much these things factor into your ranking (as in Goodfellas, too).
@Vaanilla- Thank you for the comment and visiting the site. Tough to say on the value of that opening long take. I agree with you about the rest of Touch of Evil though. There is so much there cinematically. The ending is just brilliant as well.
@Vaanilla – I watched Touch of Evil (1958) again last night, it gets better everytime. Did you watch the reconstructed version? Its the 1 hour 51 minute version.
Did you consider any Carlos Saura or Claude Chabrol or Jafar Panahi films for this list?
@RW- thank you for visiting the site and the comments. Yes to answer your question here- Jafar Panahi’s Crimson Gold is on the list
Sorry, I somehow missed that. A few other names that struck me as absent: Rob Reiner, Elaine May, Manoel de Oliveira.
Paul Verhoeven
Any film in particular?
@RW- Yep, plenty of others absent as well
@RW-Total Recall
I see.
Haven’t seen that movie in a very long time.
@Anderson- thank you- should be fixed on Deliverance
Years with the most films in the top 1000(Breakdown):
1.1914-(1)-MS(1)
2.1915-(2)-MP(1), MS(1)
3.1916-(1)-MP(1)
4.1917-(1)-MS(1)
5.1918-(1)-HR(1)
6.1919-(3)-HR/MS(3)
7.1920-(2)-MP(1), HR(1)
8.1921-(2)-MP(1), MS/MP(1)
9.1922-(4)-MP(1), MS/MP(2), HR/MS(1)
10.1923-(2)-HR/MS(1), HR(1)
11.1924-(6)-MP(4), MS(1), HR/MS(1)
12.1925-(5)-MP(3), MS(1), HR/MS(1)
13.1926-(3)-MP(1), MS/MP(1), HR(1)
14.1927-(8)-MP(2), MS(3), HR/MS(1), HR(2)
15.1928-(8)-MP(2), MS/MP(1), MS(1), HR/MS(1), HR(1)
16.1929-(2)-HR/MS(1), HR(1)
17.1930-(7)-MP(3), MS(1), HR/MS(1), HR(2)
18.1931-(9)-MP(2), MS(6), HR(1)
19.1932-(10)-MP(2), MS(3), HR/MS(2), HR(3)
20.1933-(5)-MS(3), HR/MS(2)
21.1934-(5)-MP(2), MS/MP(1), MS(1), HR/MS(1)
22.1935-(3)-MS/MP(1), MS(2)
23.1936-(7)-MP(1), MS(3), HR/MS(2), HR(1)
24.1937-(6)-MP(1), MS(1), HR/MS(4)
25.1938-(5)-MP(1), MS(2), HR/MS(1), HR(1)
26.1939-(10)-MP(5), MS(4), HR/MS(1)
27.1940-(7)-MP(1), MS/MP(1), MS(4), HR/MS(1)
28.1941-(7)-MP(3), MS/MP(1), MS(3)
29.1942-(5)-MP(2), MS(2), HR/MS(1)
30.1943-(5)-MP(2), MS(3)
31.1944-(6)-MP(1), MS(5)
32.1945-(9)-MP(1), MS(5), HR/MS(1), HR(2)
33.1946-(13)-MP(6), MS/MP(1), MS(5)*, HR/MS(1), HR(1)
34.1947-(6)-MP(2), MS/MP(1), MS(2), HR(1)
35.1948-(14)-MP(4), MS/MP(3), MS(3), HR/MS(2), HR(2)
36.1949-(9)-MP(3), MS(3), HR/MS(3)
37.1950-(11)-MP(3), MS(7), HR/MS(1)
38.1951-(8)-MP(1), MS/MP(1), MS(3), HR/MS(2), HR(1)
39.1952-(9)-MP(6), MS/MP(1), MS(1), HR/MS(1)
40.1953-(14)-MP(2), MS(8), HR/MS(3), HR(1)
41.1954-(12)-MP(5), MS(5), HR/MS(1), HR(2)
42.1955-(15)-MP(4), MS/MP(2), MS(4), HR/MS(4),HR(1)
43.1956-(8)-MP(3), MS(2), HR/MS(1), HR(2)
44.1957-(16)-MP(3), MS/MP(1), MS(6), HR/MS(4), HR(2)
45.1958-(13)-MP(4), MS/MP(1), MS(4), HR/MS(2), HR(2)
46.1959-(14)-MP(6)*, MS/MP(1), MS(6), HR/MS(2)
47.1960-(17)-MP(8), MS/MP(1), MS(5), HR/MS(2), HR(1)
48.1961-(15)-MP(5)*, MS/MP(5), MS(5), HR/MS(1)
49.1962-(15)-MP(7), MS/MP(1), MS(6), HR/MS(1)
50.1963-(13)-MP(7), MS(3), HR(3)
51.1964-(22)-MP(7), MS/MP(1), MS(5), HR/MS(6), HR(3)
52.1965-(13)-MP(6), MS/MP(1), MS(4), HR/MS(1), HR(1)
53.1966-(16)-MP(4), MS/MP(2), MS(3), HR/MS(2), HR(5)
54.1967-(12)-MP(7), MS/MP(1), MS(2), HR/MS(1), HR(1)
55.1968-(11)-MP(3), MS/MP(1), MS(2), HR/MS(3), HR(2)
56.1969-(12)-MP(4), MS(4), HR/MS(1), HR(3)
57.1970-(11)-MP(3), MS(4), HR/MS(4)
58.1971-(15)-MP(5), MS/MP(3), MS(3), HR/MS(2), HR(2)
59.1972-(10)-MP(4), MS(3), HR/MS(2), HR(1)
60.1973-(17)-MP(5), MS/MP(1), MS(5), HR/MS(5), HR(1)
61.1974-(9)-MP(6), MS(1), HR(2)
62.1975-(14)-MP(5), MS/MP(2), MS(4), HR/MS(1), HR(2)
63.1976-(14)-MP(2), MS/MP(2), MS(5), HR/MS(3), HR(2)
64.1977-(11)-MP(4), HR/MS(6), HR(1)
65.1978-(10)-MP(3), MS(5), HR/MS(1), HR(1)
66.1979-(10)-MP(5), MS(4), HR/MS(1)
67.1980-(13)-MP(4), MS/MP(1), MS(4), HR/MS(1), HR(3)
68.1981-(16)-MP(3), MS(7), HR/MS(2), HR(4)
69.1982-(9)-MP(2), MS/MP(3), MS(2), HR/MS(1), HR(1)
70.1983-(7)-MP(3), MS(4)
71.1984-(9)-MP(2), MS/MP(1), MS(4), HR/MS(1), HR(1)
72.1985-(11)-MP(6), MS(3), HR(2)
73.1986-(13)-MP(3), MS(6), HR/MS(3), HR(1)
74.1987-(8)-MP(1), MS(1), HR/MS(6), HR(1)
75.1988-(12)-MP(4), MS(4), HR/MS(4)
76.1989-(10)-MP(3), MS/MP(1), MS(1), HR/MS(1), HR(4)
77.1990-(9)-MP(2), MS(4), HR/MS(2), HR(1)
78.1991-(14)-MP(5), MS(5), HR/MS(3), HR(1)
79.1992-(12)-MP(3), MS/MP(2), MS(2), HR/MS(3), HR(2)
80.1993-(12)-MP(4), MS(2), HR/MS(5), HR(1)
81.1994-(13)-MP(4), MS(4), HR/MS(4), HR(1)
82.1995-(13)-MP(3), MS/MP(3), MS(3), HR/MS(3), HR(1)
83.1996-(8)-MP(3), MS/MP(1), MS(1), HR/MS(3)
84.1997-(10)-MP(1), MS/MP(1), MS(4), HR/MS(4), HR(1)
85.1998-(13)-MP(4), MS/MP(2), MS(4), HR/MS(3)
86.1999-(17)-MP(4), MS(6), HR/MS(6), HR(1)
87.2000-(15)-MP(7), MS(6), HR/MS(1), HR(1)
88.2001-(15)-MP(5), MS(5), HR/MS(4), HR(1)
89.2002-(15)-MP(4)*, MS/MP(1), MS(5), HR/MS(6)
90.2003-(13)-MP(2), MS/MP(3), MS(3)*, HR/MS(5), HR(1)
91.2004-(10)-MP(4)*, MS(5), HR/MS(1), HR(1)
92.2005-(10)-MP(3), MS(4), HR/MS(3), HR(1)
93.2006-(9)-MP(2), MS/MP(4), MS(1), HR/MS(1), HR(1)
94.2007-(14)-MP(8), MS(2), HR/MS(1), HR(3)
95.2008-(7)-MP(1), MS/MP(1), MS(1), HR/MS(5)
96.2009-(15)-MP(1), MS/MP(1), MS(9), HR/MS(2), HR(2)
97.2010-(14)-MP(4), MS/MP(1), MS(3), HR/MS(5), HR(1)
98.2011-(14)-MP(4), MS(3), HR/MS(5), HR(2)
99.2012-(10)-MP(2), MS(4), HR/MS(4)
100.2013-(14)-MP(3), MS/MP(1), MS(6), HR/MS(5)
1. The Big Trail goes from unarchivable to MP
2. Scarface goes from MS to MP
3 The Last Laugh moves into the top 50
This is why your website is the best of its kind- commenting is not a waste of time.
How is The Big Trail? I’ve never seen it.
It is one of the 2-3 greatest mise-en-scene achievements of the 1930s, a fascinating example of proto-realism, and, in my opinion, the first masterpiece produced by Hollywood in the sound era. Just make sure to watch the 70mm version (it’s available on YouTube).
Just curious — what would be the other two great mise-en-scene achievements of the decade?
The Blue Angel and The Scarlet Empress would complete my top three, with Morocco and L’Atalante close behind,
Abel Gance’s 1924 Napoleon must be seen. It is colossal masterpiece and not many films that have come since can match the scale and ambition. There is one glorious technique I haven’t seen in any other film that will blow any cinephile away. Unlike Satantango and 1900 the 5.5 h runtime is felt but that’s no reason to put this one off.
Best films of 1980:
1.Raging Bull
2.The Shining
3.Heaven’s Gate
4.Empire Strikes Back
5.Mon oncle d’Amerique
6.Dressed to Kill
Academy Award for Best Director:
1.Raging Bull-Martin Scorsese-Nominated
Golden Raspberry Award for Best Director:
2.The Shining-Kubrick-Nominated
3.Heaven’s Gate-Cimino-Won
6.Dressed to Kill-De Palma-Nominated
Crazy. Ha?
No Elephant Man?
@RW-Elephant Man was below these 6 for 1980
I have to say that I’m not fully on board with the Heaven’s Gate critical revival of recent years. There’s a lot of good in it, doubtlessly, but it’s a deeply flawed film and, as personal and extra-cinematic as the criticism might have been in 1980, the critics had a point. This is a movie that, to appropriately use an overused cliche, really sags in the middle; its villains are simplistic moustache-twirlers; two actors as entertaining as Jeff Bridges and John Hurt are badly underused.
If we’re talking about the best films of 1980 I’d certainly put it behind, not ahead of, The Empire Strikes Back, The Elephant Man, Breaker Morant.
@RW-I don’t think Heaven’s Gate is deeply flawed. It’s epic filmmaking. It’s actually one of my favourites. When flaws are things like animal violence(it isn’t allowed today but I mean these things did happen), hard to see in battle(I mean realistic battles are like this) and the ridiculed roller skate sequence(I mean it may not be realistic but it is great). I don’t particularly care for any of this. It has I think one of the best scores I think in history to go along with the visuals. Yes, I think the small nitpick is the use of John Hurt. He looks like one of the main characters in the first half of the film but then relegated to comic relief. Bit disappointing. Also I didn’t like Walken’s moustache ha.