** 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 |
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
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/
@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
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
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 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.
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?
@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
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.
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
@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
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
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 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
did you manage to catch Lust, Caution by Ang Lee yet?
@oliver- Not yet, unfortunately – but hopefully soon
@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
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
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.
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.
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
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 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
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 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
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