** 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 |
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.
@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
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
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
@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.
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!
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
Didn’t expect to see the Speed racer here. Wow
@Lionel- haha yes – certainly has its flaws
@Harry- good catch, probably more out there. Thank you for the help. Should be fixed now
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
@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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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)?