** There is a ten year moratorium on all new films – so this list does not include released from 2014 to current day
| film | director | year |
| 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey | Kubrick | 1968 |
| 2. The Searchers | Ford | 1956 |
| 3. The Passion of Joan of Arc | Dreyer | 1928 |
| 4. Apocalypse Now | F. Coppola | 1979 |
| 5. In the Mood for Love | Wong Kar-wai | 2000 |
| 6. Citizen Kane | Welles | 1941 |
| 7. Sunrise | Murnau | 1927 |
| 8. Nostalghia | Tarkovsky | 1983 |
| 9. Raging Bull | Scorsese | 1980 |
| 10. Vertigo | Hitchcock | 1958 |
| 11. Tokyo Story | Ozu | 1953 |
| 12. Stalker | Tarkovsky | 1979 |
| 13. 8 1/2 | Fellini | 1963 |
| 14. Barry Lyndon | Kubrick | 1975 |
| 15. The Godfather | F. Coppola | 1972 |
| 16. Battleship Potemkin | Eisenstein | 1925 |
| 17. The Conformist | Bertolucci | 1970 |
| 18. Intolerance | Griffith | 1916 |
| 19. Blade Runner | R. Scott | 1982 |
| 20. Bicycle Thieves | De Sica | 1948 |
| 21. Seven Samurai | Kurosawa | 1954 |
| 22. Rashomon | Kurosawa | 1950 |
| 23. Lawrence of Arabia | Lean | 1962 |
| 24. Breaking the Waves | von Trier | 1996 |
| 25. Goodfellas | Scorsese | 1990 |
| 26. La Dolce Vita | Fellini | 1960 |
| 27. Chungking Express | Wong Kar-wai | 1994 |
| 28. The Godfather Part II | F. Coppola | 1974 |
| 29. The Rules of the Game | Renoir | 1939 |
| 30. Taxi Driver | Scorsese | 1976 |
| 31. A Short Film About Killing | Kieslowski | 1988 |
| 32. Pulp Fiction | Tarantino | 1994 |
| 33. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | Wiene | 1920 |
| 34. Touch of Evil | Welles | 1958 |
| 35. The End of Summer | Ozu | 1961 |
| 36. Last Year at Marienbad | Resnais | 1961 |
| 37. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover | Greenaway | 1989 |
| 38. Jules and Jim | Truffaut | 1962 |
| 39. Breathless | Godard | 1960 |
| 40. The Tree of Life | Malick | 2011 |
| 41. The Turin Horse | Tarr | 2011 |
| 42. Days of Heaven | Malick | 1978 |
| 43. The Last Laugh | Murnau | 1924 |
| 44. The Magnificent Ambersons | Welles | 1942 |
| 45. Persona | Bergman | 1966 |
| 46. I Am Cuba | Kalatozov | 1964 |
| 47. Children of Men | Cuarón | 2006 |
| 48. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | Fassbinder | 1974 |
| 49. The Seventh Seal | Bergman | 1957 |
| 50. Do the Right Thing | S. Lee | 1989 |
| 51. Cries & Whispers | Bergman | 1972 |
| 52. Songs from the Second Floor | Andersson | 2000 |
| 53. Red Desert | Antonioni | 1964 |
| 54. Gertrud | Dreyer | 1964 |
| 55. Melancholia | von Trier | 2011 |
| 56. Distant Voices, Still Lives | Davies | 1988 |
| 57. High and Low | Kurosawa | 1963 |
| 58. Playtime | Tati | 1967 |
| 59. The Leopard | Visconti | 1963 |
| 60. Punch-Drunk Love | P.T. Anderson | 2002 |
| 61. Sherlock Jr. | Keaton | 1924 |
| 62. A Clockwork Orange | Kubrick | 1971 |
| 63. M | Lang | 1931 |
| 64. Werckmeister Harmonies | Tarr | 2000 |
| 65. Dekalog | Kieslowski | 1989 |
| 66. The Earrings of Madame De… | Ophüls | 1953 |
| 67. The Shining | Kubrick | 1980 |
| 68. There Will Be Blood | P.T. Anderson | 2007 |
| 69. The Third Man | Reed | 1949 |
| 70. Naked | Leigh | 1993 |
| 71. Three Colours: Blue | Kieslowski | 1993 |
| 72. The Sacrifice | Tarkovsky | 1986 |
| 73. L’Argent | Bresson | 1983 |
| 74. The Pornographers | Imamura | 1966 |
| 75. Germany Year Zero | Rossellini | 1948 |
| 76. Once Upon a Time in the West | Leone | 1968 |
| 77. Black Narcissus | Powell, Pressburger | 1947 |
| 78. 2046 | Wong Kar-wai | 2004 |
| 79. Three Colours: Red | Kieslowski | 1994 |
| 80. The Master | P.T. Anderson | 2012 |
| 81. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom | Pasolini | 1975 |
| 82. Metropolis | Lang | 1927 |
| 83. The Wild Bunch | Peckinpah | 1969 |
| 84. The Double Life of Veronique | Kieslowski | 1991 |
| 85. Raise the Red Lantern | Yimou Zhang | 1991 |
| 86. Ikiru | Kurosawa | 1952 |
| 87. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | Leone | 1966 |
| 88. Pierrot le Fou | Godard | 1965 |
| 89. The 400 Blows | Truffaut | 1959 |
| 90. Heat | M. Mann | 1995 |
| 91. Flowers of Shanghai | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | 1998 |
| 92. The Blue Angel | von Sternberg | 1930 |
| 93. Brazil | Gilliam | 1985 |
| 94. The Trial | Welles | 1962 |
| 95. The White Ribbon | Haneke | 2009 |
| 96. Blow Out | De Palma | 1981 |
| 97. The Graduate | M. Nichols | 1967 |
| 98. Juliet of the Spirits | Fellini | 1965 |
| 99. Hero | Yimou Zhang | 2002 |
| 100. Lola Montes | Ophüls | 1955 |
| 101. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Almodóvar | 1988 |
| 102. The Bad Sleep Well | Kurosawa | 1960 |
| 103. Magnolia | P.T. Anderson | 1999 |
| 104. Army of Shadows | Melville | 1969 |
| 105. Suspiria | Argento | 1977 |
| 106. Psycho | Hitchcock | 1960 |
| 107. Syndromes and a Century | Weerasethakul | 2006 |
| 108. Fanny and Alexander | Bergman | 1982 |
| 109. Early Summer | Ozu | 1951 |
| 110. Gone with the Wind | Fleming | 1939 |
| 111. Die Nibelungen | Lang | 1924 |
| 112. Paths of Glory | Kubrick | 1957 |
| 113. Shoot the Piano Player | Truffaut | 1960 |
| 114. The Cranes Are Flying | Kalatozov | 1957 |
| 115. Rome, Open City | Rossellini | 1945 |
| 116. The Age of Innocence | Scorsese | 1993 |
| 117. L’Avventura | Antonioni | 1960 |
| 118. Blue Velvet | Lynch | 1986 |
| 119. Stagecoach | Ford | 1939 |
| 120. The Passenger | Antonioni | 1975 |
| 121. Manhattan | Allen | 1979 |
| 122. Nashville | Altman | 1975 |
| 123. The Best Years of Our Lives | Wyler | 1946 |
| 124. Mulholland Drive | Lynch | 2001 |
| 125. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | Buñuel | 1972 |
| 126. Eyes Wide Shut | Kubrick | 1999 |
| 127. Mysteries of Lisbon | Ruiz | 2010 |
| 128. Boogie Nights | P.T. Anderson | 1997 |
| 129. Contempt | Godard | 1963 |
| 130. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums | Mizoguchi | 1939 |
| 131. A Zed & Two Noughts | Greenaway | 1985 |
| 132. Notorious | Hitchcock | 1946 |
| 133. Strike | Eisenstein | 1925 |
| 134. The Royal Tenenbaums | W. Anderson | 2001 |
| 135. Aguirre, the Wrath of God | Herzog | 1972 |
| 136. The Long Day Closes | Davies | 1992 |
| 137. La grande illusion | Renoir | 1937 |
| 138. The Thin Red Line | Malick | 1998 |
| 139. Nosferatu | Murnau | 1922 |
| 140. Dead Man | Jarmusch | 1995 |
| 141. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Dominik | 2007 |
| 142. All that Heaven Allows | Sirk | 1955 |
| 143. Ida | Pawlikowski | 2013 |
| 144. Chinatown | Polanski | 1974 |
| 145. It’s a Wonderful Life | Capra | 1946 |
| 146. The Phantom Carriage | Sjöström | 1921 |
| 147. Satantango | Tarr | 1994 |
| 148. Annie Hall | Allen | 1977 |
| 149. The Wizard of Oz | Fleming | 1939 |
| 150. Casablanca | Curtiz | 1942 |
| 151. The Belly of an Architect | Greenaway | 1987 |
| 152. Rosemary’s Baby | Polanski | 1968 |
| 153. Yi Yi | Yang | 2000 |
| 154. Chimes at Midnight | Welles | 1965 |
| 155. Umberto D. | De Sica | 1952 |
| 156. L’Eclisse | Antonioni | 1962 |
| 157. Rocco and His Brothers | Visconti | 1960 |
| 158. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | Demy | 1964 |
| 159. War and Peace | Bondarchuk | 1965 |
| 160. Once Upon a Time in America | Leone | 1984 |
| 161. Andrei Rublev | Tarkovsky | 1966 |
| 162. The Music Room | S. Ray | 1958 |
| 163. Le Samouraï | Melville | 1967 |
| 164. Mean Streets | Scorsese | 1973 |
| 165. JFK | Stone | 1991 |
| 166. The Birth of a Nation | Griffith | 1915 |
| 167. You, the Living | Andersson | 2007 |
| 168. The Virgin Spring | Bergman | 1960 |
| 169. McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Altman | 1971 |
| 170. Jaws | Spielberg | 1975 |
| 171. The Tenant | Polanski | 1976 |
| 172. Possession | Zulawski | 1981 |
| 173. Rumble Fish | F. Coppola | 1983 |
| 174. Late Spring | Ozu | 1949 |
| 175. The General | Keaton, Bruckman | 1926 |
| 176. A Time to Live and a Time to Die | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | 1985 |
| 177. Stranger Than Paradise | Jarmusch | 1984 |
| 178. The Silence | Bergman | 1963 |
| 179. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance | Park Chan-wook | 2002 |
| 180. La Terra Trema | Visconti | 1948 |
| 181. Intentions of Murder | Imamura | 1964 |
| 182. Inception | Nolan | 2010 |
| 183. Fight Club | Fincher | 1999 |
| 184. The Little Foxes | Wyler | 1941 |
| 185. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | Mungiu | 2007 |
| 186. The Social Network | Fincher | 2010 |
| 187. The Parallax View | Pakula | 1974 |
| 188. Black Swan | Aronofsky | 2010 |
| 189. Kill Bill | Tarantino | 2003 |
| 190. Lost in Translation | S. Coppola | 2003 |
| 191. The Lord of the Rings | Jackson | 2001 |
| 192. The Human Condition | Kobayashi | 1959 |
| 193. The New World | Malick | 2005 |
| 194. Viridiana | Buñuel | 1961 |
| 195. Y Tu Mamá También | Cuarón | 2001 |
| 196. Silent Light | Reygadas | 2007 |
| 197. Ran | Kurosawa | 1985 |
| 198. How Green Was My Valley | Ford | 1941 |
| 199. Moonrise Kingdom | W. Anderson | 2012 |
| 200. Zodiac | Fincher | 2007 |
| 201. Heaven’s Gate | Cimino | 1980 |
| 202. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid | Peckinpah | 1973 |
| 203. The Life of Oharu | Mizoguchi | 1952 |
| 204. The Big Trail | Walsh | 1930 |
| 205. The Scarlet Empress | von Sternberg | 1934 |
| 206. Malcolm X | S. Lee | 1992 |
| 207. Unforgiven | Eastwood | 1992 |
| 208. Weekend | Godard | 1967 |
| 209. Dancer in the Dark | von Trier | 2000 |
| 210. A Woman Is a Woman | Godard | 1961 |
| 211. Winter Light | Bergman | 1963 |
| 212. Replusion | Polanski | 1965 |
| 213. Requiem for a Dream | Aronofsky | 2000 |
| 214. The Grapes of Wrath | Ford | 1940 |
| 215. Pather Panchali | S. Ray | 1955 |
| 216. Se7en | Fincher | 1995 |
| 217. Point Blank | Boorman | 1967 |
| 218. Amarcord | Fellini | 1973 |
| 219. La Pointe Courte | Varda | 1955 |
| 220. Le Plaisir | Ophüls | 1952 |
| 221. Performance | Roeg, Cammell | 1970 |
| 222. Autumn Sonata | Bergman | 1978 |
| 223. Morocco | von Sternberg | 1930 |
| 224. Harold and Maude | Ashby | 1971 |
| 225. The Andromeda Strain | Wise | 1971 |
| 226. A Special Day | Scola | 1977 |
| 227. Don’t Look Now | Roeg | 1973 |
| 228. The Ipcress File | Furie | 1965 |
| 229. Schindler’s List | Spielberg | 1993 |
| 230. City Lights | Chaplin | 1931 |
| 231. A Woman Under the Influence | Cassavetes | 1974 |
| 232. Dead Ringers | Cronenberg | 1988 |
| 233. Bringing Up Baby | Hawks | 1938 |
| 234. Harakiri | Kobayashi | 1962 |
| 235. Scarface | Hawks | 1932 |
| 236. Knife in the Water | Polanski | 1962 |
| 237. Atonement | J. Wright | 2007 |
| 238. Mon Oncle | Tati | 1958 |
| 239. Moulin Rouge! | Luhrmann | 2001 |
| 240. Johnny Guitar | N. Ray | 1954 |
| 241. Traffic | Soderbergh | 2000 |
| 242. Written on the Wind | Sirk | 1956 |
| 243. La Strada | Fellini | 1954 |
| 244. Cache | Haneke | 2005 |
| 245. The Conversation | F. Coppola | 1974 |
| 246. Rear Window | Hitchcock | 1954 |
| 247. The Matrix | Wachowski | 1999 |
| 248. A Man Escaped | Bresson | 1956 |
| 249. The Servant | Losey | 1963 |
| 250. A Matter of Life and Death | Powell, Pressburger | 1946 |
| 251. Fargo | Coen | 1996 |
| 252. A Brighter Summer’s Day | Yang | 1991 |
| 253. Come and See | Klimov | 1985 |
| 254. Inside Llewyn Davis | Coen | 2013 |
| 255. North by Northwest | Hitchcock | 1959 |
| 256. Park Row | Fuller | 1952 |
| 257. Charulata | S. Ray | 1964 |
| 258. Under the Skin | Glazer | 2013 |
| 259. Shame | McQueen | 2011 |
| 260. Days of Being Wild | Wong Kar-wai | 1990 |
| 261. Ossessione | Visconti | 1943 |
| 262. Love Me Tonight | Mamoulian | 1932 |
| 263. Modern Times | Chaplin | 1936 |
| 264. Los Olvidados | Buñuel | 1950 |
| 265. Sansho the Bailiff | Mizoguchi | 1954 |
| 266. Alien | R. Scott | 1979 |
| 267. The Silence of the Lambs | Demme | 1991 |
| 268. Sunset Boulevard | Wilder | 1950 |
| 269. My Darling Clementine | Ford | 1946 |
| 270. Double Indemnity | Wilder | 1944 |
| 271. Crash | Cronenberg | 1996 |
| 272. Midnight Cowboy | Schlesinger | 1969 |
| 273. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Roy Hill | 1969 |
| 274. The Gold Rush | Chaplin | 1925 |
| 275. Greed | von Stroheim | 1924 |
| 276. A History of Violence | Cronenberg | 2005 |
| 277. White Heat | Walsh | 1949 |
| 278. The Crowd | K. Vidor | 1928 |
| 279. Raiders of the Lost Ark | Spielberg | 1981 |
| 280. Cool Hand Luke | Rosenberg | 1967 |
| 281. The Empire Strikes Back | Kershner | 1980 |
| 282. Hiroshima Mon Amour | Resnais | 1959 |
| 283. Pickpocket | Bresson | 1959 |
| 284. The Exorcist | Friedkin | 1973 |
| 285. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | Schrader | 1985 |
| 286. The Deer Hunter | Cimino | 1978 |
| 287. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Gondry | 2004 |
| 288. Hannah and Her Sisters | Allen | 1986 |
| 289. Bonnie and Clyde | A. Penn | 1967 |
| 290. The Dark Knight | Nolan | 2008 |
| 291. The French Connection | Friedkin | 1971 |
| 292. Tess | Polanski | 1979 |
| 293. High Noon | Zinnemann | 1952 |
| 294. Star Wars | Lucas | 1977 |
| 295. L’Atalante | Vigo | 1934 |
| 296. M*A*S*H | Altman | 1970 |
| 297. Million Dollar Baby | Eastwood | 2004 |
| 298. Red River | Hawks | 1948 |
| 299. Out of the Past | Tourneur | 1947 |
| 300. The Big Lebowski | Coen | 1998 |
| 301. Rushmore | W. Anderson | 1998 |
| 302. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Kubrick | 1964 |
| 303. No Country for Old Men | Coen | 2007 |
| 304. Great Expectations | Lean | 1946 |
| 305. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | Ford | 1962 |
| 306. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Powell, Pressburger | 1943 |
| 307. Destiny | Lang | 1921 |
| 308. The Wind | Sjöström | 1928 |
| 309. Lost Highway | Lynch | 1997 |
| 310. The 47 Ronin | Mizoguchi | 1941 |
| 311. The Night of the Hunter | Laughton | 1955 |
| 312. Cleo from 5 to 7 | Varda | 1962 |
| 313. Mon oncle d’Amérique | Resnais | 1980 |
| 314. Casino | Scorsese | 1995 |
| 315. Kings of the Road | Wenders | 1976 |
| 316. Café Lumière | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | 2003 |
| 317. Tokyo Drifter | Suzuki | 1966 |
| 318. Blow-Up | Antonioni | 1966 |
| 319. Deep Red | Argento | 1975 |
| 320. Faust | Murnau | 1926 |
| 321. Foolish Wives | von Stroheim | 1922 |
| 322. Strangers on a Train | Hitchcock | 1951 |
| 323. Veronika Voss | Fassbinder | 1982 |
| 324. Reservoir Dogs | Tarantino | 1992 |
| 325. The Fountain | Aronofsky | 2006 |
| 326. The Last of the Mohicans | M. Mann | 1992 |
| 327. The Innocents | Clayton | 1961 |
| 328. Peeping Tom | Powell | 1960 |
| 329. Pyaasa | Dutt | 1957 |
| 330. The Devils | K. Russell | 1971 |
| 331. Dark City | Proyas | 1998 |
| 332. Marie Antoinette | S. Coppola | 2006 |
| 333. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler | Lang | 1922 |
| 334. Trainspotting | Boyle | 1996 |
| 335. Gravity | Cuarón | 2013 |
| 336. Teorema | Pasolini | 1968 |
| 337. The King’s Speech | Tom Hooper | 2010 |
| 338. The Departed | Scorsese | 2006 |
| 339. Yojimbo | Kurosawa | 1961 |
| 340. Pan’s Labyrinth | del Toro | 2006 |
| 341. West Side Story | Wise, J. Robbins | 1961 |
| 342. Safe | Haynes | 1995 |
| 343. The Lady from Shanghai | Welles | 1947 |
| 344. 25th Hour | S. Lee | 2002 |
| 345. Amadeus | Forman | 1984 |
| 346. The City of Lost Children | Jeunet, Caro | 1995 |
| 347. Before Sunset | Linklater | 2004 |
| 348. Hunger | McQueen | 2008 |
| 349. La Notte | Antonioni | 1961 |
| 350. Klute | Pakula | 1971 |
| 351. Fitzcarraldo | Herzog | 1982 |
| 352. The Killers | Siodmak | 1946 |
| 353. Oldboy | Park Chan-wook | 2003 |
| 354. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Spielberg | 1982 |
| 355. Badlands | Malick | 1973 |
| 356. Floating Weeds | Ozu | 1959 |
| 357. The Ballad of Narayama | Kinoshita | 1958 |
| 358. A Hen in the Wind | Ozu | 1948 |
| 359. Accattone | Pasolini | 1961 |
| 360. The Red and the White | Jancsó | 1967 |
| 361. A Serious Man | Coen | 2009 |
| 362. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Huston | 1948 |
| 363. Crimes and Misdemeanors | Allen | 1989 |
| 364. Pinocchio | Luske, Sharpsteen | 1940 |
| 365. Carnal Knowledge | M. Nichols | 1971 |
| 366. Singin’ in the Rain | Donen, Kelly | 1952 |
| 367. It Happened One Night | Capra | 1934 |
| 368. Bride of Frankenstein | Whale | 1935 |
| 369. Saving Private Ryan | Spielberg | 1998 |
| 370. Kwaidan | Kobayashi | 1964 |
| 371. Doctor Zhivago | Lean | 1965 |
| 372. Network | Lumet | 1976 |
| 373. Mystic River | Eastwood | 2003 |
| 374. Diabolique | Clouzot | 1955 |
| 375. Dog Day Afternoon | Lumet | 1975 |
| 376. Letter from an Unknown Woman | Ophüls | 1948 |
| 377. The Ballad of Narayama | Imamura | 1983 |
| 378. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives | Weerasethakul | 2010 |
| 379. Wild Strawberries | Bergman | 1957 |
| 380. Ivan the Terrilble | Eisenstein | 1944 |
| 381. Paisan | Rossellini | 1946 |
| 382. A Very Long Engagement | Jeunet | 2004 |
| 383. Memories of Murder | Bong Joon-ho | 2003 |
| 384. Damnation | Tarr | 1988 |
| 385. Three Colours: White | Kieslowski | 1994 |
| 386. Ashes and Diamonds | Wajda | 1958 |
| 387. Solaris | Tarkovsky | 1972 |
| 388. Le Bonheur | Varda | 1965 |
| 389. The Deep Blue Sea | Davies | 2011 |
| 390. The Red Shoes | Powell, Pressburger | 1948 |
| 391. Valhalla Rising | Refn | 2009 |
| 392. Alphaville | Godard | 1965 |
| 393. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Gilliam | 1988 |
| 394. Lola | Fassbinder | 1981 |
| 395. Three Crowns of the Sailor | Ruiz | 1983 |
| 396. Osaka Elegy | Mizoguchi | 1936 |
| 397. Inglourious Basterds | Tarantino | 2009 |
| 398. Alexander Nevsky | Eisenstein, Vasilyev | 1938 |
| 399. We Need to Talk About Kevin | Ramsay | 2011 |
| 400. Ivan’s Childhood | Tarkovsky | 1962 |
| 401. The Long Goodbye | Altman | 1973 |
| 402. The Marriage of Maria Braun | Fassbinder | 1979 |
| 403. Letter Never Sent | Kalatozov | 1960 |
| 404. Rope | Hitchcock | 1948 |
| 405. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | Ford | 1949 |
| 406. Ordet | Dreyer | 1955 |
| 407. Despair | Fassbinder | 1978 |
| 408. Vivre Sa Vie | Godard | 1962 |
| 409. Orlando | Potter | 1992 |
| 410. The Virgin Suicides | S. Coppola | 1999 |
| 411. Pickup on South Street | Fuller | 1953 |
| 412. Othello | Welles | 1951 |
| 413. Senso | Visconti | 1954 |
| 414. Vampyr | Dreyer | 1932 |
| 415. Before Midnight | Linklater | 2013 |
| 416. The Great Beauty | Sorrentino | 2013 |
| 417. The Aviator | Scorsese | 2004 |
| 418. Bad Education | Almodóvar | 2004 |
| 419. All the President’s Men | Pakula | 1976 |
| 420. La Chienne | Renoir | 1931 |
| 421. Sanjuro | Kurosawa | 1962 |
| 422. House of Flying Daggers | Yimou Zhang | 2004 |
| 423. Mirror | Tarkovsky | 1975 |
| 424. The Son | Dardenne | 2002 |
| 425. Elevator to the Gallows | Malle | 1958 |
| 426. Talk to Her | Almodóvar | 2002 |
| 427. The Piano | Campion | 1993 |
| 428. Barton Fink | Coen | 1991 |
| 429. L’enfant | Dardenne | 2005 |
| 430. La Ronde | Ophüls | 1950 |
| 431. Amélie | Jeunet | 2001 |
| 432. Shame | Bergman | 1968 |
| 433. American Beauty | Mendes | 1999 |
| 434. 12 Monkeys | Gilliam | 1995 |
| 435. Lady Snowblood | Fujita | 1973 |
| 436. Taste of Cherry | Kiarostami | 1997 |
| 437. Samurai Rebellion | Kobayashi | 1967 |
| 438. The Insider | M. Mann | 1999 |
| 439. Interiors | Allen | 1978 |
| 440. The Navigator | Keaton, Crisp | 1924 |
| 441. An Autumn Afternoon | Ozu | 1962 |
| 442. The Damned | Visconti | 1969 |
| 443. Kes | Loach | 1969 |
| 444. Kaagaz Ke Phool | Dutt | 1959 |
| 445. Thief | M. Mann | 1981 |
| 446. The Holy Mountain | Jodorowsky | 1973 |
| 447. Le Million | Clair | 1931 |
| 448. The Exterminating Angel | Buñuel | 1962 |
| 449. 1900 | Bertolucci | 1976 |
| 450. Carrie | De Palma | 1976 |
| 451. Bright Star | Campion | 2009 |
| 452. Antichrist | von Trier | 2009 |
| 453. Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles | Akerman | 1975 |
| 454. Ugetsu | Mizoguchi | 1953 |
| 455. The Last Tango in Paris | Bertolucci | 1972 |
| 456. Les rendez-vous d’Anna | Akerman | 1978 |
| 457. Vengeance is Mine | Imamura | 1979 |
| 458. Rio Bravo | Hawks | 1959 |
| 459. They Live by Night | N. Ray | 1948 |
| 460. Les vampires | Feuillade | 1915 |
| 461. Day of Wrath | Dreyer | 1943 |
| 462. Out of Sight | Soderbergh | 1998 |
| 463. A Fistful of Dollars | Leone | 1964 |
| 464. Pigs and Battleships | Imamura | 1961 |
| 465. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Gilliam | 1998 |
| 466. For a Few Dollars More | Leone | 1965 |
| 467. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | Lynch | 1992 |
| 468. Dogtooth | Lanthimos | 2009 |
| 469. La tête d’un homme | Duvivier | 1933 |
| 470. 7th Heaven | Borzage | 1927 |
| 471. Beauty and the Beast | Cocteau, Clément | 1946 |
| 472. The Sweet Hereafter | Egoyan | 1997 |
| 473. Track of the Cat | Wellman | 1954 |
| 474. Le notti bianche | Visconti | 1957 |
| 475. Nights of Cabiria | Fellini | 1957 |
| 476. Journey to Italy | Rossellini | 1954 |
| 477. Manhunter | M. Mann | 1986 |
| 478. Dressed to Kill | De Palma | 1980 |
| 479. The Lovers on the Bridge | Carax | 1991 |
| 480. Wild at Heart | Lynch | 1990 |
| 481. Miller’s Crossing | Coen | 1990 |
| 482. The Battle of Algiers | Pontecorvo | 1966 |
| 483. Gun Crazy | Lewis | 1950 |
| 484. Blood Simple | Coen | 1984 |
| 485. One from the Heart | F. Coppola | 1981 |
| 486. Elephant | Van Sant | 2003 |
| 487. The King of Comedy | Scorsese | 1982 |
| 488. Shadow of a Doubt | Hitchcock | 1943 |
| 489. I Vitelloni | Fellini | 1953 |
| 490. Odd Man Out | Reed | 1947 |
| 491. 12 Angry Men | Lumet | 1957 |
| 492. The Thing | Carpenter | 1982 |
| 493. Two Women | De Sica | 1960 |
| 494. The Hill | Lumet | 1965 |
| 495. Sweet Smell of Success | Mackendrick | 1957 |
| 496. Back to the Future | Zemeckis | 1985 |
| 497. His Girl Friday | Hawks | 1940 |
| 498. The Bridge on the River Kwai | Lean | 1957 |
| 499. The Manchurian Candidate | Frankenheimer | 1962 |
| 500. Cabaret | Fosse | 1972 |
| 501. The Birds | Hitchcock | 1963 |
| 502. The Man Who Fell to Earth | Roeg | 1976 |
| 503. Devi | S. Ray | 1960 |
| 504. Exotica | Egoyan | 1994 |
| 505. The Darjeeling Limited | W. Anderson | 2007 |
| 506. Aparajito | S. Ray | 1956 |
| 507. Shoeshine | De Sica | 1946 |
| 508. Fantastic Mr. Fox | W. Anderson | 2009 |
| 509. The World of Apu | S. Ray | 1959 |
| 510. Laurence Anyways | Dolan | 2012 |
| 511. The English Patient | Minghella | 1996 |
| 512. Paris, Texas | Wenders | 1984 |
| 513. The Crime of Monsieur Lange | Renoir | 1936 |
| 514. The Big Parade | K. Vidor | 1925 |
| 515. A Star is Born | Cukor | 1954 |
| 516. The Limits of Control | Jarmusch | 2009 |
| 517. The Talented Mr. Ripley | Minghella | 1999 |
| 518. Being John Malkovich | Jonze | 1999 |
| 519. Cabiria | Pastrone | 1914 |
| 520. Django Unchained | Tarantino | 2012 |
| 521. The Apartment | Wilder | 1960 |
| 522. The Man with the Golden Arm | Preminger | 1955 |
| 523. You Only Live Once | Lang | 1937 |
| 524. Memento | Nolan | 2000 |
| 525. 12 Years a Slave | McQueen | 2013 |
| 526. Made in U.S.A | Godard | 1966 |
| 527. All That Jazz | Fosse | 1979 |
| 528. The Maltese Falcon | Huston | 1941 |
| 529. Gosford Park | Altman | 2001 |
| 530. Only God Forgives | Refn | 2013 |
| 531. On the Waterfront | Kazan | 1954 |
| 532. Halloween | Carpenter | 1978 |
| 533. The Lady Eve | P. Sturges | 1941 |
| 534. Down by Law | Jarmusch | 1986 |
| 535. Scarlet Street | Lang | 1945 |
| 536. Rebecca | Hitchcock | 1940 |
| 537. The Big Sleep | Hawks | 1946 |
| 538. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Forman | 1975 |
| 539. Road to Perdition | Mendes | 2002 |
| 540. Far From Heaven | Haynes | 2002 |
| 541. Peppermint Candy | Lee Chang-dong | 1999 |
| 542. The Circus | Chaplin | 1928 |
| 543. Aliens | Cameron | 1986 |
| 544. A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Spielberg | 2001 |
| 545. The Piano Teacher | Haneke | 2001 |
| 546. The Haunting | Wise | 1963 |
| 547. Mystery Train | Jarmusch | 1989 |
| 548. Lola | Demy | 1961 |
| 549. The Big Heat | Lang | 1953 |
| 550. David Golder | Duvivier | 1931 |
| 551. Wings | Wellman | 1927 |
| 552. Stromboli | Rossellini | 1950 |
| 553. Enemy | Villeneuve | 2013 |
| 554. The Dark Knight Rises | Nolan | 2012 |
| 555. The Fisher King | Gilliam | 1991 |
| 556. Naked Lunch | Cronenberg | 1991 |
| 557. City of God | Meirelles, Lund | 2002 |
| 558. Él | Buñuel | 1953 |
| 559. Bob le Flambeur | Melville | 1956 |
| 560. Run Lola Run | Tykwer | 1998 |
| 561. Lincoln | Spielberg | 2012 |
| 562. The Children’s Hour | Wyler | 1961 |
| 563. Sid and Nancy | Cox | 1986 |
| 564. Broken Flowers | Jarmusch | 2005 |
| 565. Full Metal Jacket | Kubrick | 1987 |
| 566. Groundhog Day | Ramis | 1993 |
| 567. Dirty Harry | Siegel | 1971 |
| 568. Star Trek: The Motion Picture | Wise | 1979 |
| 569. Laura | Preminger | 1944 |
| 570. A Story of Floating Weeds | Ozu | 1934 |
| 571. I Killed My Mother | Dolan | 2009 |
| 572. Pennies from Heaven | H. Ross | 1981 |
| 573. American Psycho | Harron | 2000 |
| 574. The Fly | Cronenberg | 1986 |
| 575. Amores Perros | Iñárritu | 2000 |
| 576. Fallen Angel | Preminger | 1945 |
| 577. Code Unknown | Haneke | 2000 |
| 578. The Shawshank Redemption | Darabont | 1994 |
| 579. Rebel Without a Cause | N. Ray | 1955 |
| 580. Spirited Away | Miyazaki | 2001 |
| 581. O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Coen | 2000 |
| 582. Happy Together | Wong Kar-wai | 1997 |
| 583. In a Lonely Place | N. Ray | 1950 |
| 584. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | A. Lee | 2000 |
| 585. Gigi | Minnelli | 1958 |
| 586. Pale Flower | Shinoda | 1964 |
| 587. Belle de Jour | Buñuel | 1967 |
| 588. Oktyabr | Eisenstein, Aleksandrov | 1927 |
| 589. Reds | Beatty | 1981 |
| 590. La haine | Kassovitz | 1995 |
| 591. The Gospel According to St. Matthew | Pasolini | 1964 |
| 592. Marnie | Hitchcock | 1964 |
| 593. Children of Paradise | Carne | 1945 |
| 594. La Bête Humaine | Renoir | 1938 |
| 595. Body Heat | Kasdan | 1981 |
| 596. The Celebration | Vinterberg | 1998 |
| 597. Toni | Renoir | 1935 |
| 598. The Threepenny Opera | Pabst | 1931 |
| 599. Videodrome | Cronenberg | 1983 |
| 600. Dick Tracy | Beatty | 1990 |
| 601. Detective Story | Wyler | 1951 |
| 602. The Wages of Fear | Clouzot | 1953 |
| 603. To Catch a Thief | Hitchcock | 1955 |
| 604. The Big Country | Wyler | 1958 |
| 605. Ashes of Time | Wong Kar-wai | 1994 |
| 606. The Ghost Writer | Polanski | 2010 |
| 607. Pride & Prejudice | J. Wright | 2005 |
| 608. Brokeback Mountain | A. Lee | 2005 |
| 609. Purple Noon | Clément | 1960 |
| 610. Terminator 2: Judgment Day | Cameron | 1991 |
| 611. Tom Jones | Richardson | 1963 |
| 612. Sullivan’s Travels | P. Sturges | 1941 |
| 613. Avatar | Cameron | 2009 |
| 614. Scarface | De Palma | 1983 |
| 615. Scenes from a Marriage | Bergman | 1973 |
| 616. The 39 Steps | Hitchcock | 1935 |
| 617. The Palm Beach Story | P. Sturges | 1942 |
| 618. A Man There Was | Sjöström | 1917 |
| 619. Picnic at Hanging Rock | Weir | 1975 |
| 620. Frankenstein | Whale | 1931 |
| 621. Meet Me in St. Louis | Minnelli | 1944 |
| 622. Brief Encounter | Lean | 1945 |
| 623. Die Hard | McTiernan | 1988 |
| 624. Blue Valentine | Cianfrance | 2010 |
| 625. Drive | Refn | 2011 |
| 626. Detour | Ulmer | 1945 |
| 627. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek | P. Sturges | 1943 |
| 628. Slacker | Linklater | 1990 |
| 629. The Purple Rose of Cairo | Allen | 1985 |
| 630. The Quiet Man | Ford | 1952 |
| 631. There Was a Father | Ozu | 1942 |
| 632. My Night at Maud’s | Rohmer | 1969 |
| 633. The Last Picture Show | Bogdanovich | 1971 |
| 634. The Elephant Man | Lynch | 1980 |
| 635. Henry V | Olivier | 1944 |
| 636. The Only Son | Ozu | 1936 |
| 637. Shane | Stevens | 1953 |
| 638. Ben-Hur | Wyler | 1959 |
| 639. Broadway Danny Rose | Allen | 1984 |
| 640. Day for Night | Truffaut | 1973 |
| 641. Island of Lost Souls | Kenton | 1932 |
| 642. Le Jour Se Leve | Carné | 1939 |
| 643. Easy Rider | Hopper | 1969 |
| 644. À nous la liberté | Clair | 1931 |
| 645. The Bourne Ultimatum | Greengrass | 2007 |
| 646. Speed Racer | Wachowski | 2008 |
| 647. Five Easy Pieces | Rafelson | 1970 |
| 648. Berlin Alexanderplatz | Fassbinder | 1980 |
| 649. Stardust Memories | Allen | 1980 |
| 650. The Terminator | Cameron | 1984 |
| 651. King Kong | Cooper, Schoedsack | 1933 |
| 652. The Usual Suspects | Singer | 1995 |
| 653. The Wild Child | Truffaut | 1970 |
| 654. My Fair Lady | Cukor | 1964 |
| 655. Imitation of Life | Sirk | 1959 |
| 656. All About Eve | Mankiewicz | 1950 |
| 657. Snowpiercer | Bong Joon-ho | 2013 |
| 658. The Philadelphia Story | Cukor | 1940 |
| 659. Out of Africa | Pollack | 1985 |
| 660. A Streetcar Named Desire | Kazan | 1951 |
| 661. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | M. Nichols | 1966 |
| 662. Dawn of the Dead | Romero | 1978 |
| 663. Zéro de conduite | Vigo | 1933 |
| 664. The Reckless Moment | Ophüls | 1949 |
| 665. To Have and Have Not | Hawks | 1944 |
| 666. Lenny | Fosse | 1974 |
| 667. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Capra | 1939 |
| 668. The Hustler | Rossen | 1961 |
| 669. L.A. Confidential | Hanson | 1997 |
| 670. Two English Girls | Truffaut | 1971 |
| 671. Winchester ’73 | A. Mann | 1950 |
| 672. Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Zemeckis | 1988 |
| 673. Trouble in Paradise | Lubitsch | 1932 |
| 674. Quai des Orfèvres | Clouzot | 1947 |
| 675. The Roaring Twenties | Walsh | 1939 |
| 676. The Road Warrior | G. Miller | 1981 |
| 677. Gunga Din | Stevens | 1939 |
| 678. Platoon | Stone | 1986 |
| 679. The Shop Around the Corner | Lubitsch | 1940 |
| 680. Duel in the Sun | K. Vidor | 1946 |
| 681. Patton | Schaffner | 1970 |
| 682. Placido | Berlanga | 1961 |
| 683. Bullitt | P. Yates | 1968 |
| 684. Little Miss Sunshine | Dayton, Faris | 2006 |
| 685. All Quiet on the Western Front | Milestone | 1930 |
| 686. All the King’s Men | Rossen | 1949 |
| 687. The Outlaw Josey Wales | Eastwood | 1976 |
| 688. Little Big Man | A. Penn | 1970 |
| 689. Orpheus | Cocteau | 1950 |
| 690. Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday | Tati | 1953 |
| 691. Anatomy of a Murder | Preminger | 1959 |
| 692. Seven Chances | Keaton | 1925 |
| 693. Throne of Blood | Kurosawa | 1957 |
| 694. The Portrait of a Lady | Campion | 1996 |
| 695. 3 Women | Altman | 1977 |
| 696. Stray Dog | Kurosawa | 1949 |
| 697. Branded to Kill | Suzuki | 1967 |
| 698. Le Havre | Kaurismäki | 2011 |
| 699. Spies | Lang | 1928 |
| 700. Wings of Desire | Wenders | 1987 |
| 701. Two Lovers | Gray | 2008 |
| 702. Delicatessen | Jeunet, Caro | 1991 |
| 703. Wendy and Lucy | Reichardt | 2008 |
| 704. Flight of the Red Balloon | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | 2007 |
| 705. Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Spielberg | 1977 |
| 706. Our Hospitality | Keaton, Blystone | 1923 |
| 707. Pandora’s Box | Pabst | 1929 |
| 708. Pi | Aronofsky | 1998 |
| 709. Hour of the Wolf | Bergman | 1968 |
| 710. The Last Emperor | Bertolucci | 1987 |
| 711. Spring Breakers | Korine | 2012 |
| 712. The Woman in the Fifth | Pawlikowski | 2011 |
| 713. A Dangerous Method | Cronenberg | 2011 |
| 714. Sisters of the Gion | Mizoguchi | 1936 |
| 715. The Player | Altman | 1992 |
| 716. Die Austernprinzessin | Lubitsch | 1919 |
| 717. Platform | Jia Zhangke | 2000 |
| 718. Champagne | Hitchcock | 1928 |
| 719. What Time is it There? | Ming-liang Tsai | 2001 |
| 720. Irreversible | Noé | 2002 |
| 721. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring | Kim Ki-duk | 2003 |
| 722. Sleepy Hollow | Burton | 1999 |
| 723. Carlito’s Way | De Palma | 1993 |
| 724. The Tin Star | A. Mann | 1957 |
| 725. Cape Fear | Scorsese | 1991 |
| 726. A Separation | Farhadi | 2011 |
| 727. Broken Embraces | Almodóvar | 2009 |
| 728. Rosetta | Dardenne | 1999 |
| 729. The Untouchables | De Palma | 1987 |
| 730. The Naked Spur | A. Mann | 1953 |
| 731. Some Came Running | Minnelli | 1958 |
| 732. The Matrix Reloaded | Wachowski | 2003 |
| 733. Natural Born Killers | Stone | 1994 |
| 734. Archipelago | Hogg | 2010 |
| 735. Through a Glass Darkly | Bergman | 1961 |
| 736. Faces | Cassavetes | 1968 |
| 737. Dazed and Confused | Linklater | 1993 |
| 738. Enter the Void | Noé | 2009 |
| 739. Jackie Brown | Tarantino | 1997 |
| 740. Beyond the Hills | Mungiu | 2012 |
| 741. Before Sunrise | Linklater | 1995 |
| 742. Nosferatu the Vampyre | Herzog | 1979 |
| 743. Waxworks | Leni, Birinsky | 1924 |
| 744. D.O.A. | Maté | 1949 |
| 745. The Cotton Club | F. Coppola | 1984 |
| 746. Millennium Actress | Kon | 2001 |
| 747. The American Friend | Wenders | 1977 |
| 748. THX 1138 | Lucas | 1971 |
| 749. Duelle | Rivette | 1976 |
| 750. King of New York | Ferrara | 1990 |
| 751. My Own Private Idaho | Van Sant | 1991 |
| 752. Death in Venice | Visconti | 1971 |
| 753. True Grit | Coen | 2010 |
| 754. Grave of the Fireflies | Takahata | 1988 |
| 755. Ludwig | Visconti | 1973 |
| 756. American Graffiti | Lucas | 1973 |
| 757. The Tree of Wooden Clogs | Olmi | 1978 |
| 758. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Fincher | 2008 |
| 759. Fallen Angels | Wong Kar-wai | 1995 |
| 760. Heavenly Creatures | Jackson | 1994 |
| 761. All About My Mother | Almodóvar | 1999 |
| 762. Steamboat Bill, Jr. | Keaton, Reisner | 1928 |
| 763. The Masque of the Red Death | Corman | 1964 |
| 764. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors | Parajanov | 1965 |
| 765. Il Grido | Antonioni | 1957 |
| 766. Le cercle rouge | Melville | 1970 |
| 767. Hell’s Angels | Hughes | 1930 |
| 768. Images | Altman | 1972 |
| 769. Zabriskie Point | Antonioni | 1970 |
| 770. Blind Husbands | von Stroheim | 1919 |
| 771. Aar-Paar | Dutt | 1954 |
| 772. Mauvais sang | Carax | 1986 |
| 773. Mr. Klein | Losey | 1976 |
| 774. Black Sunday | Bava | 1960 |
| 775. Rififi | Dassin | 1955 |
| 776. The Man Without a Past | Kaurismäki | 2002 |
| 777. The Lodger | Hitchcock | 1927 |
| 778. La promesse | Dardenne | 1996 |
| 779. Short Cuts | Altman | 1993 |
| 780. Eraserhead | Lynch | 1977 |
| 781. Synecdoche, New York | C. Kaufman | 2008 |
| 782. Perfect Blue | Kon | 1997 |
| 783. Dames | Berkeley, Enright | 1934 |
| 784. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | Hand | 1937 |
| 785. The Fall | Singh | 2006 |
| 786. Blue is the Warmest Colour | Kechiche | 2013 |
| 787. Diner | Levinson | 1982 |
| 788. Something Wild | Demme | 1986 |
| 789. Sin City | F. Miller, Rodriguez | 2005 |
| 790. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse | Lang | 1933 |
| 791. Kiss Me Deadly | Aldrich | 1955 |
| 792. Russian Ark | Sokurov | 2002 |
| 793. Band of Outsiders | Godard | 1964 |
| 794. Spider | Cronenberg | 2002 |
| 795. Sawdust and Tinsel | Bergman | 1953 |
| 796. A Little Princess | Cuarón | 1995 |
| 797. Lady in the Lake | Montgomery | 1946 |
| 798. Matewan | Sayles | 1987 |
| 799. The Immigrant | Gray | 2013 |
| 800. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie | Cassavetes | 1976 |
| 801. Her | Jonze | 2013 |
| 802. Escape from New York | Carpenter | 1981 |
| 803. American Gigolo | Schrader | 1980 |
| 804. Some Like it Hot | Wilder | 1959 |
| 805. Bound | Wachowski | 1996 |
| 806. All These Women | Bergman | 1964 |
| 807. Fort Apache | Ford | 1948 |
| 808. Gate of Flesh | Suzuki | 1964 |
| 809. A Farewell to Arms | Borzage | 1932 |
| 810. Jezebel | Wyler | 1938 |
| 811. Election | Payne | 1999 |
| 812. The Nightmare Before Christmas | Selick | 1993 |
| 813. 21 Grams | Iñárritu | 2003 |
| 814. Lady Vengeance | Park Chan-wook | 2005 |
| 815. Diary of a Country Priest | Bresson | 1951 |
| 816. The Asphalt Jungle | Huston | 1950 |
| 817. Summer with Monika | Bergman | 1953 |
| 818. Forty Guns | Fuller | 1957 |
| 819. Bad Day at Black Rock | J. Sturges | 1955 |
| 820. Deliverance | Boorman | 1972 |
| 821. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | E. Wright | 2010 |
| 822. East of Eden | Kazan | 1955 |
| 823. The Lion King | Allers, Minkoff | 1994 |
| 824. Night of the Living Dead | Romero | 1968 |
| 825. Cat People | Tourneur | 1942 |
| 826. My Dinner with Andre | Malle | 1981 |
| 827. Titanic | Cameron | 1997 |
| 828. Only Angels Have Wings | Hawks | 1939 |
| 829. Submarine | Ayoade | 2010 |
| 830. Red Sorghum | Yimou Zhang | 1988 |
| 831. I Know Where I’m Going! | Powell, Pressburger | 1945 |
| 832. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Weir | 2003 |
| 833. At Close Range | Foley | 1986 |
| 834. Withnail & I | Robinson | 1987 |
| 835. Ride Lonesome | Boetticher | 1959 |
| 836. American Hustle | O. Russell | 2013 |
| 837. Drunken Angel | Kurosawa | 1948 |
| 838. New York, New York | Scorsese | 1977 |
| 839. Duck Soup | McCarey. | 1933 |
| 840. The Sting | Roy Hill | 1973 |
| 841. Howards End | Ivory | 1992 |
| 842. Mamma Roma | Pasolini | 1962 |
| 843. The Letter | Wyler | 1940 |
| 844. Jurassic Park | Spielberg | 1993 |
| 845. Donnie Darko | R. Kelly | 2001 |
| 846. Attack | Aldrich | 1956 |
| 847. 24 Hour Party People | Winterbottom | 2002 |
| 848. The Man Who Would Be King | Huston | 1975 |
| 849. A Day in the Country | Renoir | 1936 |
| 850. Kind Hearts and Coronets | Hamer | 1949 |
| 851. Broken Blossoms | Griffith | 1919 |
| 852. Somewhere | S. Coppola | 2010 |
| 853. A Place in the Sun | Stevens | 1951 |
| 854. Frances Ha | Baumbach | 2012 |
| 855. Dead End | Wyler | 1937 |
| 856. Morvern Callar | Ramsay | 2002 |
| 857. Lost Horizon | Capra | 1937 |
| 858. Porcile | Pasolini | 1969 |
| 859. The Razor’s Edge | Goulding | 1946 |
| 860. Stella Dallas | K. Vidor | 1937 |
| 861. Ratcatcher | Ramsay | 1999 |
| 862. My Neighbor Totoro | Miyazaki | 1988 |
| 863. World on a Wire | Fassbinder | 1973 |
| 864. The Killer | Woo | 1989 |
| 865. Where Is the Friend’s House? | Kiarostami | 1987 |
| 866. A Man and a Woman | Lelouch | 1966 |
| 867. The Duellists | R. Scott | 1977 |
| 868. Häxan | Christensen | 1922 |
| 869. Blood and Black Lace | Bava | 1964 |
| 870. The Match Factory Girl | Kaurismäki | 1990 |
| 871. Goodbye, Dragon Inn | Ming-liang Tsai | 2003 |
| 872. Au hasard Balthazar | Bresson | 1966 |
| 873. Vera Drake | Leigh | 2004 |
| 874. Hard Boiled | Woo | 1992 |
| 875. Equinox Flower | Ozu | 1958 |
| 876. Liebelei | Ophüls | 1933 |
| 877. The Devil’s Backbone | del Toro | 2001 |
| 878. Eyes Without a Face | Franju | 1960 |
| 879. The Pawnbroker | Lumet | 1964 |
| 880. He Got Game | S. Lee | 1998 |
| 881. Ryan’s Daughter | Lean | 1970 |
| 882. Tristana | Buñuel | 1970 |
| 883. Great Expectations | Cuarón | 1998 |
| 884. Skyfall | Mendes | 2012 |
| 885. Three Kings | O. Russell | 1999 |
| 886. Dangerous Liaisons | Frears | 1988 |
| 887. Take Shelter | J. Nichols | 2011 |
| 888. Scarecrow | Schatzberg | 1973 |
| 889. Jarhead | Mendes | 2005 |
| 890. Good Will Hunting | Van Sant | 1997 |
| 891. Forbidden Games | Clément | 1952 |
| 892. The Hurt Locker | Bigelow | 2008 |
| 893. The Grandmaster | Wong Kar-wai | 2013 |
| 894. Forrest Gump | Zemeckis | 1994 |
| 895. Night of the Demon | Tourneur | 1957 |
| 896. Under the Roofs of Paris | Clair | 1930 |
| 897. Goldfinger | Hamilton | 1964 |
| 898. Torn Curtain | Hitchcock | 1966 |
| 899. Red Beard | Kurosawa | 1965 |
| 900. Funny Face | Donen | 1957 |
| 901. Bad Lieutenant | Ferrara | 1992 |
| 902. Light Sleeper | Schrader | 1992 |
| 903. Brute Force | Dassin | 1947 |
| 904. Moonrise | Borzage | 1948 |
| 905. Insect Woman | Imamura | 1963 |
| 906. Walkabout | Roeg | 1971 |
| 907. Waking Life | Linklater | 2001 |
| 908. Murder! | Hitchcock | 1930 |
| 909. An Angel at My Table | Campion | 1990 |
| 910. Fellini Satyricon | Fellini | 1969 |
| 911. Smiles of a Summer Night | Bergman | 1955 |
| 912. Lilith | Rossen | 1964 |
| 913. Pépé le Moko | Duvivier | 1937 |
| 914. We Own the Night | Gray | 2007 |
| 915. Mother | Bong Joon-ho | 2009 |
| 916. A Room with a View | Ivory | 1985 |
| 917. Batman | Burton | 1989 |
| 918. Django | Corbucci | 1966 |
| 919. The Squid and the Whale | Baumbach | 2005 |
| 920. Sweetie | Campion | 1989 |
| 921. The Nun | Rivette | 1966 |
| 922. Horror of Dracula | Fisher | 1958 |
| 923. Panique | Duvivier | 1946 |
| 924. Three Days of the Condor | Pollack | 1975 |
| 925. Seconds | Frankenheimer | 1966 |
| 926. Sólo con Tu Pareja | Cuarón | 1991 |
| 927. Drugstore Cowboy | Van Sant | 1989 |
| 928. Eastern Promises | Cronenberg | 2007 |
| 929. Shadows | Cassavetes | 1958 |
| 930. Way Down East | Griffith | 1920 |
| 931. The Man From London | Tarr | 2007 |
| 932. Jean de Florette | Berri | 1986 |
| 933. Fat City | Huston | 1972 |
| 934. The Music Lovers | K. Russell | 1971 |
| 935. Touchez Pas au Grisbi | Becker | 1954 |
| 936. Ace in the Hole | Wilder | 1951 |
| 937. Crimson Gold | Panahi | 2003 |
| 938. The Band Wagon | Minnelli | 1953 |
| 939. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang | LeRoy | 1932 |
| 940. Julius Caesar | Mankiewicz | 1953 |
| 941. The Kid With a Bike | Dardenne | 2011 |
| 942. After Hours | Scorsese | 1985 |
| 943. Blackmail | Hitchcock | 1929 |
| 944. Closely Watched Trains | Menzel | 1966 |
| 945. Far from the Madding Crowd | Schlesinger | 1967 |
| 946. Calendar | Egoyan | 1993 |
| 947. The Color of Pomegranates | Parajanov | 1969 |
| 948. Dead of Night | Calvalcanti, Crichton, Dearden, Hamer | 1945 |
| 949. Kameradschaft | Pabst | 1931 |
| 950. Charade | Donen | 1963 |
| 951. Walker | Cox | 1987 |
| 952. Crooklyn | S. Lee | 1994 |
| 953. The Great Silence | Corbucci | 1968 |
| 954. Midnight Express | Parker | 1978 |
| 955. Mahanagar | S. Ray | 1963 |
| 956. That Obscure Object of Desire | Buñuel | 1977 |
| 957. Career Girls | Leigh | 1997 |
| 958. Excalibur | Boorman | 1981 |
| 959. La roue | Gance | 1923 |
| 960. Force of Evil | Polonsky | 1948 |
| 961. Conversation Piece | Visconti | 1974 |
| 962. Birth | Glazer | 2004 |
| 963. Bound for Glory | Ashby | 1976 |
| 964. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg | Lubitsch | 1927 |
| 965. Nixon | Stone | 1995 |
| 966. Freaks | Browning | 1932 |
| 967. Port of Shadows | Carné | 1938 |
| 968. California Split | Altman | 1974 |
| 969. Prince of the City | Lumet | 1981 |
| 970. Mildred Pierce | Curtiz | 1945 |
| 971. Fellini’s Casanova | Fellini | 1976 |
| 972. No Blood Relation | Naruse | 1932 |
| 973. Sexy Beast | Glazer | 2000 |
| 974. Woman in the Dunes | Teshigahara | 1964 |
| 975. Shutter Island | Scorsese | 2010 |
| 976. Women in Love | K. Russell | 1969 |
| 977. The Entertainer | Richardson | 1960 |
| 978. Bad Timing | Roeg | 1980 |
| 979. Fox and His Friends | Fassbinder | 1975 |
| 980. Body Double | De Palma | 1984 |
| 981. Street Angel | Borzage | 1928 |
| 982. The Long Good Friday | Mackenzie | 1980 |
| 983. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | D. Yates | 2009 |
| 984. The Outlaw and His Wife | Sjöström | 1918 |
| 985. Magnificent Obsession | Sirk | 1954 |
| 986. Kagemusha | Kurosawa | 1980 |
| 987. Memories of Underdevelopment | Gutiérrez Alea | 1968 |
| 988. Mother | Pudovkin | 1926 |
| 989. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! | Almodóvar | 1989 |
| 990. Chariots of Fire | Hudson | 1981 |
| 991. Underworld | von Sternberg | 1927 |
| 992. Dodsworth | Wyler | 1936 |
| 993. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone | Ming-liang Tsai | 2006 |
| 994. The Skin I Live In | Almodóvar | 2011 |
| 995. Beau travail | Denis | 1999 |
| 996. Invasion of Body Snatchers | Siegel | 1956 |
| 997. The Draughtman’s Contract | Greenaway | 1982 |
| 998. The Man Who Knew Too Much | Hitchcock | 1956 |
| 999. The Last Detail | Ashby | 1973 |
| 1000. Das Boot | Peterson | 1981 |
I’m surprised Hitchcock has 19 films on this list and none of them are The Lady Vanishes
@Harry – Interesting, I have it rated higher than that as well (12th), but when you’re dealing with Hitchcock, he has so many great films that I guess you’re really splitting hairs with a lot of them
I believe films like Marnie, To Catch a Thief and The 39 Steps doesn’t even make the top 10 for Hitchcock. Crazy. His top 10 is Vertigo, Psycho, Notorious, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Strangers on a Train, Rope, Shadow of a Doubt, The Birds and Rebecca. The Lady Vanishes is Hitchcock’s #14th best at best really.
@Harry – posts like this really make me think about starting my Hitchcock Study sooner rather than later, I have alwasy wanted to do one , its just so long but I think I am going to get to it after I finish up with John Woo.
@Chase@Malith – yep, the depth is insane. I watched Foreign Correspondent the other day, it barely is ever mentioned as even a 2nd or 3rd tier Hitchcock film again speaking to the insane depth
@James – I ordered Rope and Shadow of a Doubt on 4K blu ray yesterday, I’m gearing up for a lot of Hitchcock rewatches and catching some new ones next year.
I was really impressed with Foreign Correspondent, I only watched it because I once saw three different people on a forum post put it in the number 1 spot in Hitchcock rankings – it’s not terribly close to his top 10 for me but still a strong effort.
@Harry – Both great films, Shadow of a Doubt is so much fun.
OMG. Avatar doesn’t land in the top 10 for 2009? Wow.
Very strong top 10 still
White Ribbon
A Serious Man
Valhalla Rising
Inglourious Basterds
Bright Star
Antichrist
Dogtooth
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Limits of Control
I Killed My Mother
Personally Broken Embraces belongs in this group as well. Very strong year.
@Anderson – have you seen Enter the Void – also from 2009?
@Harry-Not yet on Enter the Void. Half-Blood Prince is 2009 too. It is one of my favourite films. It just flows by. Bruno Delbonnel is a magnificent cinematographer.
Black Dynamite?
Moon?
Last Train Home?
I watched A Short Film About Killing yesterday and I have to admit you are right to put it so high even though I was sceptical when I first saw it. I suspect I watched it in lesser quality before but now that I’ve seen it in its full glory it’s honestly one of the most beautiful films there is.
@Njegos – yeah I had a similar reaction, here’s what I wrote on the movie’s page
“This is quite a film, watched for the 1st time. More disturbing than 95% of horror movies. Krzysztof Kieślowski’s color trilogy was amazing, Blue and Red more so than White. This might actually be even better. Kieślowski out Finchers David Fincher in his use of yellow and green. This has to be on the short list for best use of color in a film up there with Red Desert, Wizard of Oz, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Suspiria, amongst others. I like the Tarkovsky comparison, in terms of the visuals that is. Even this is still more narratively conventional than a Tarkovsky film. The lack of score for the majority of the film is the right call, it accentuate’s the cold world of the film.”
The best use of color in a film is an interesting idea.
For me, the titles that come to mind immediately are The Red Shoes, Vertigo, Kwaidan, The Wizard of Oz as you mentioned. Le Samourai.
Do animated films count?
@RW-Red Desert. Fassbinder’s Despair uses purple throughout. Never seen purple used like this in a film
Best films of 1980:
1.Raging Bull
2.The Shining
3.Heaven’s Gate
4.Empire Strikes Back
5.Mon oncle d’Amerique
6.Dressed to Kill
Academy Award for Best Director:
1.Raging Bull-Martin Scorsese-Nominated
Golden Raspberry Award for Best Director:
2.The Shining-Kubrick-Nominated
3.Heaven’s Gate-Cimino-Won
6.Dressed to Kill-De Palma-Nominated
Crazy. Ha?
No Elephant Man?
@RW-Elephant Man was below these 6 for 1980
I have to say that I’m not fully on board with the Heaven’s Gate critical revival of recent years. There’s a lot of good in it, doubtlessly, but it’s a deeply flawed film and, as personal and extra-cinematic as the criticism might have been in 1980, the critics had a point. This is a movie that, to appropriately use an overused cliche, really sags in the middle; its villains are simplistic moustache-twirlers; two actors as entertaining as Jeff Bridges and John Hurt are badly underused.
If we’re talking about the best films of 1980 I’d certainly put it behind, not ahead of, The Empire Strikes Back, The Elephant Man, Breaker Morant.
@RW-I don’t think Heaven’s Gate is deeply flawed. It’s epic filmmaking. It’s actually one of my favourites. When flaws are things like animal violence(it isn’t allowed today but I mean these things did happen), hard to see in battle(I mean realistic battles are like this) and the ridiculed roller skate sequence(I mean it may not be realistic but it is great). I don’t particularly care for any of this. It has I think one of the best scores I think in history to go along with the visuals. Yes, I think the small nitpick is the use of John Hurt. He looks like one of the main characters in the first half of the film but then relegated to comic relief. Bit disappointing. Also I didn’t like Walken’s moustache ha.
Abel Gance’s 1924 Napoleon must be seen. It is colossal masterpiece and not many films that have come since can match the scale and ambition. There is one glorious technique I haven’t seen in any other film that will blow any cinephile away. Unlike Satantango and 1900 the 5.5 h runtime is felt but that’s no reason to put this one off.
1. The Big Trail goes from unarchivable to MP
2. Scarface goes from MS to MP
3 The Last Laugh moves into the top 50
This is why your website is the best of its kind- commenting is not a waste of time.
How is The Big Trail? I’ve never seen it.
It is one of the 2-3 greatest mise-en-scene achievements of the 1930s, a fascinating example of proto-realism, and, in my opinion, the first masterpiece produced by Hollywood in the sound era. Just make sure to watch the 70mm version (it’s available on YouTube).
Just curious — what would be the other two great mise-en-scene achievements of the decade?
The Blue Angel and The Scarlet Empress would complete my top three, with Morocco and L’Atalante close behind,
Years with the most films in the top 1000(Breakdown):
1.1914-(1)-MS(1)
2.1915-(2)-MP(1), MS(1)
3.1916-(1)-MP(1)
4.1917-(1)-MS(1)
5.1918-(1)-HR(1)
6.1919-(3)-HR/MS(3)
7.1920-(2)-MP(1), HR(1)
8.1921-(2)-MP(1), MS/MP(1)
9.1922-(4)-MP(1), MS/MP(2), HR/MS(1)
10.1923-(2)-HR/MS(1), HR(1)
11.1924-(6)-MP(4), MS(1), HR/MS(1)
12.1925-(5)-MP(3), MS(1), HR/MS(1)
13.1926-(3)-MP(1), MS/MP(1), HR(1)
14.1927-(8)-MP(2), MS(3), HR/MS(1), HR(2)
15.1928-(8)-MP(2), MS/MP(1), MS(1), HR/MS(1), HR(1)
16.1929-(2)-HR/MS(1), HR(1)
17.1930-(7)-MP(3), MS(1), HR/MS(1), HR(2)
18.1931-(9)-MP(2), MS(6), HR(1)
19.1932-(10)-MP(2), MS(3), HR/MS(2), HR(3)
20.1933-(5)-MS(3), HR/MS(2)
21.1934-(5)-MP(2), MS/MP(1), MS(1), HR/MS(1)
22.1935-(3)-MS/MP(1), MS(2)
23.1936-(7)-MP(1), MS(3), HR/MS(2), HR(1)
24.1937-(6)-MP(1), MS(1), HR/MS(4)
25.1938-(5)-MP(1), MS(2), HR/MS(1), HR(1)
26.1939-(10)-MP(5), MS(4), HR/MS(1)
27.1940-(7)-MP(1), MS/MP(1), MS(4), HR/MS(1)
28.1941-(7)-MP(3), MS/MP(1), MS(3)
29.1942-(5)-MP(2), MS(2), HR/MS(1)
30.1943-(5)-MP(2), MS(3)
31.1944-(6)-MP(1), MS(5)
32.1945-(9)-MP(1), MS(5), HR/MS(1), HR(2)
33.1946-(13)-MP(6), MS/MP(1), MS(5)*, HR/MS(1), HR(1)
34.1947-(6)-MP(2), MS/MP(1), MS(2), HR(1)
35.1948-(14)-MP(4), MS/MP(3), MS(3), HR/MS(2), HR(2)
36.1949-(9)-MP(3), MS(3), HR/MS(3)
37.1950-(11)-MP(3), MS(7), HR/MS(1)
38.1951-(8)-MP(1), MS/MP(1), MS(3), HR/MS(2), HR(1)
39.1952-(9)-MP(6), MS/MP(1), MS(1), HR/MS(1)
40.1953-(14)-MP(2), MS(8), HR/MS(3), HR(1)
41.1954-(12)-MP(5), MS(5), HR/MS(1), HR(2)
42.1955-(15)-MP(4), MS/MP(2), MS(4), HR/MS(4),HR(1)
43.1956-(8)-MP(3), MS(2), HR/MS(1), HR(2)
44.1957-(16)-MP(3), MS/MP(1), MS(6), HR/MS(4), HR(2)
45.1958-(13)-MP(4), MS/MP(1), MS(4), HR/MS(2), HR(2)
46.1959-(14)-MP(6)*, MS/MP(1), MS(6), HR/MS(2)
47.1960-(17)-MP(8), MS/MP(1), MS(5), HR/MS(2), HR(1)
48.1961-(15)-MP(5)*, MS/MP(5), MS(5), HR/MS(1)
49.1962-(15)-MP(7), MS/MP(1), MS(6), HR/MS(1)
50.1963-(13)-MP(7), MS(3), HR(3)
51.1964-(22)-MP(7), MS/MP(1), MS(5), HR/MS(6), HR(3)
52.1965-(13)-MP(6), MS/MP(1), MS(4), HR/MS(1), HR(1)
53.1966-(16)-MP(4), MS/MP(2), MS(3), HR/MS(2), HR(5)
54.1967-(12)-MP(7), MS/MP(1), MS(2), HR/MS(1), HR(1)
55.1968-(11)-MP(3), MS/MP(1), MS(2), HR/MS(3), HR(2)
56.1969-(12)-MP(4), MS(4), HR/MS(1), HR(3)
57.1970-(11)-MP(3), MS(4), HR/MS(4)
58.1971-(15)-MP(5), MS/MP(3), MS(3), HR/MS(2), HR(2)
59.1972-(10)-MP(4), MS(3), HR/MS(2), HR(1)
60.1973-(17)-MP(5), MS/MP(1), MS(5), HR/MS(5), HR(1)
61.1974-(9)-MP(6), MS(1), HR(2)
62.1975-(14)-MP(5), MS/MP(2), MS(4), HR/MS(1), HR(2)
63.1976-(14)-MP(2), MS/MP(2), MS(5), HR/MS(3), HR(2)
64.1977-(11)-MP(4), HR/MS(6), HR(1)
65.1978-(10)-MP(3), MS(5), HR/MS(1), HR(1)
66.1979-(10)-MP(5), MS(4), HR/MS(1)
67.1980-(13)-MP(4), MS/MP(1), MS(4), HR/MS(1), HR(3)
68.1981-(16)-MP(3), MS(7), HR/MS(2), HR(4)
69.1982-(9)-MP(2), MS/MP(3), MS(2), HR/MS(1), HR(1)
70.1983-(7)-MP(3), MS(4)
71.1984-(9)-MP(2), MS/MP(1), MS(4), HR/MS(1), HR(1)
72.1985-(11)-MP(6), MS(3), HR(2)
73.1986-(13)-MP(3), MS(6), HR/MS(3), HR(1)
74.1987-(8)-MP(1), MS(1), HR/MS(6), HR(1)
75.1988-(12)-MP(4), MS(4), HR/MS(4)
76.1989-(10)-MP(3), MS/MP(1), MS(1), HR/MS(1), HR(4)
77.1990-(9)-MP(2), MS(4), HR/MS(2), HR(1)
78.1991-(14)-MP(5), MS(5), HR/MS(3), HR(1)
79.1992-(12)-MP(3), MS/MP(2), MS(2), HR/MS(3), HR(2)
80.1993-(12)-MP(4), MS(2), HR/MS(5), HR(1)
81.1994-(13)-MP(4), MS(4), HR/MS(4), HR(1)
82.1995-(13)-MP(3), MS/MP(3), MS(3), HR/MS(3), HR(1)
83.1996-(8)-MP(3), MS/MP(1), MS(1), HR/MS(3)
84.1997-(10)-MP(1), MS/MP(1), MS(4), HR/MS(4), HR(1)
85.1998-(13)-MP(4), MS/MP(2), MS(4), HR/MS(3)
86.1999-(17)-MP(4), MS(6), HR/MS(6), HR(1)
87.2000-(15)-MP(7), MS(6), HR/MS(1), HR(1)
88.2001-(15)-MP(5), MS(5), HR/MS(4), HR(1)
89.2002-(15)-MP(4)*, MS/MP(1), MS(5), HR/MS(6)
90.2003-(13)-MP(2), MS/MP(3), MS(3)*, HR/MS(5), HR(1)
91.2004-(10)-MP(4)*, MS(5), HR/MS(1), HR(1)
92.2005-(10)-MP(3), MS(4), HR/MS(3), HR(1)
93.2006-(9)-MP(2), MS/MP(4), MS(1), HR/MS(1), HR(1)
94.2007-(14)-MP(8), MS(2), HR/MS(1), HR(3)
95.2008-(7)-MP(1), MS/MP(1), MS(1), HR/MS(5)
96.2009-(15)-MP(1), MS/MP(1), MS(9), HR/MS(2), HR(2)
97.2010-(14)-MP(4), MS/MP(1), MS(3), HR/MS(5), HR(1)
98.2011-(14)-MP(4), MS(3), HR/MS(5), HR(2)
99.2012-(10)-MP(2), MS(4), HR/MS(4)
100.2013-(14)-MP(3), MS/MP(1), MS(6), HR/MS(5)
@Anderson- thank you- should be fixed on Deliverance
Did you consider any Carlos Saura or Claude Chabrol or Jafar Panahi films for this list?
@RW- thank you for visiting the site and the comments. Yes to answer your question here- Jafar Panahi’s Crimson Gold is on the list
Sorry, I somehow missed that. A few other names that struck me as absent: Rob Reiner, Elaine May, Manoel de Oliveira.
Paul Verhoeven
Any film in particular?
@RW- Yep, plenty of others absent as well
@RW-Total Recall
I see.
Haven’t seen that movie in a very long time.
Would you still have Touch of Evil ahead of the Third Man if there wasn’t that opening long take ? Personally it’s not what gets my jaw to drop every time I watch it, I’m mostly amazed at just how much mise en scene and ideas come into each frame, but I’d like to know just how much these things factor into your ranking (as in Goodfellas, too).
@Vaanilla- Thank you for the comment and visiting the site. Tough to say on the value of that opening long take. I agree with you about the rest of Touch of Evil though. There is so much there cinematically. The ending is just brilliant as well.
@Vaanilla – I watched Touch of Evil (1958) again last night, it gets better everytime. Did you watch the reconstructed version? Its the 1 hour 51 minute version.
I don’t think I’ve ever watched it as anything but the reconstructed version. It’s been there a while now. What’s more interesting is that my last watch was with the new MoC 4K disc, and it definitely elevated the film in my eyes. Welles obviously put a lot of effort in the agressive lighting that comes and goes over the characters and the town, and blu-ray and prior kind of muddied that aspect. Now you see every deliberate light with huge contrast against the shadows, gorgeous.
I’ve seen someone once compare the aesthetic of the town as a big mass of dark filth that gets momentarily cut through with rejuvenating rays of light, only to take its shape back as the shadows cover the frame again. I really like that.
Sorry for the late reply.
Number of films from each country included in the top 1000:
1.U.S.A(475)
2.France(106)
3.United Kingdom(97)
4.Italy(60)
5.Japan(55)
6.Germany(36)
7.Sweden(23)
8.Russia(15)
9.Spain(13)
10.Canada(12)
11.India(10)
12.Denmark(10)
13.Hong Kong(10)
14.Mexico(8)
15.South Korea(8)
15.Belgium(7)
16.China(7)
17.Taiwan(6)
18.Hungary(6)
19.Poland(5)
20.Australia(4)
21.New Zealand(4)
22.Iran(4)
23.Finland(3)
24.Cuba(2)
25.Romania(2)
26.Thailand(2)
27.Ireland(2)
28.Armenia(1)
29.Belarussia(1)
30.Brazil(1)
31.Czech(1)
32.Greece(1)
33.Malaysia(1)
34.Portugal(1)
35.Switzerland(1)
36.Ukraine(1)
@Malith – nice work, putting this together. Desert Island Game for anyone; would you rather have all the US films or all non-USA films? Only including the films from this list
So USA – 475
World – 525
This list also proves how much of a powerhouse Japan once was in the film industry. Maybe I’m missing something. But It’s been years since a great film came from that country.
Maybe not an all-time masterpiece, but I quite liked To the Ends of the Earth.
I think the country that fell of the most was Hong Kong-they’ve gone from making 300+ movies a year to just 60 a year. Tragic really.
When it comes to Japan, can’t say I’ve watched enough films to challenge you too much, but I still think they have a decent film industry; there are still lots of directors working:
Shinya Tsukamoto
Shunji Iwai
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Miike
Kitano
Sion Sono
And they still have the only animation industry that can rival America’s in output. So I think their cinema seems relatively healthy.
@MovierJoker- I still think the Japanese film Industry is struggling(Compared to their previous standards at least). I was not too impressed with Shoplifters. Drive My Car seems quite a bit overrated too judging by its ranking here. What is the last great Japanese film? Probably something like Paprika which is 17 years ago. Meanwhile,
France had:Portrait of a Lady on Fire(2019)
Italy had:Hand of God(2021)
Germany had: Victoria(2015)
Sweden had:Triangle of Sadness(2022)
I agree that Hong Kong is the one that fell off the most, and sadly I don’t think they will ever come close as to what they once were.
Japan has fell too, but at least I enjoyed Drive my car a lot, and in 2023 we also got Godzilla Minus one and Monsters, if anything I feel like we have gotten the best films in a long time from Japan in the last few years, not counting animation.
Kore-eda has a much deeper filmography than just Shoplifters (After Life, Nobody Knows, Still Walking, Like Father Like Son, Our Little Sister, Monster etc). He is a top250 director in my books and Hamaguchi is building up an impressive body of work very quickly.
Shoplifters? Hmm. What fascinates you about this film? It isn’t visually beautiful, very unlikeable characters. Didn’t work for me at all. One of the most overrated films of the 21st Century.
@Malith. My point was more that Kore-eda has made many great films (i.e. apart from Shoplifters which have maybe received more international attention) in response to your view that there have not been recent great films coming out from Japan.
Have you seen his latest, Monster? If so, how was it?
@LeRoi-So out of these what do you think is great? I know Shoplifters isn’t. Last great Japanese film I watched was Paprika in 2006, 18 years ago.
I know Drive my car is not that highly regarded here but I still think its great, it was mesmerizing, especially when they drove all the way up to Hokkaido, theres a specific scene when they drive through a tunnel that imprinted my memory permanently .
I would take USA, but it is tough. La Dolce Vita has become my favorite film and Brazil is my second favorite, both foreign. However, when it comes to the movies that got me into film in the first place, and the ones that I rewatch over and over, US takes it.
@James Robbins- Brazil is foreign? Not worth a huge argument but Terry Gilliam is American. I’d put Brazil on the USA side.
It’s mainly British. Gilliam has been a UK citizen since 1968. Shot in Britain. Stars a British Actor(Jonathan Pryce)
@Malith- yeah, not by my count – a British film made by a guy who was born and grew up in the United States? That’s a stretch to say the least – not buying it.
It is a British-American co production. Mainly British because it was shot in UK and stars UK actors
@Malith- I have it as an American film and would have to change your tally if you counted it as a British film. No offense, but I’ve thought about this for 20+ years and had the argument/discussion many times before. You are welcome to think what you want of course- but you aren’t going to convince me. So Hitchcock had citizenship, worked in Hollywood – so all of a sudden his films are American? Not at all.
In other words, a film’s nationality = the director’s nationality, correct?
To play devil’s advocate, would you call Chinatown a Polish film? Saturday Night and Sunday Morning a Czech film?
@JamesRobbins – I would also lean toward USA but its tough, I think rewatchability is a big reason, most of the films I find to be highly rewatchable as American; particularly films from Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, The Coen Brother’s, and Tarantino, not to mention the entire film noir genre
Hard to lean towards USA in this case James. Given where it is shot and who it stars.
@James Robbins-It is strange to say a film is foreign when it’s main language is English I have to say.
@Malith- Fascinating – thank you for doing the work here
I found 7 films from Wong Kar-Wai and 2 from John Woo making it 9 HK films, do you remember which was the tenth one?
@oliver-There is 8 from WKW.
In the Mood for Love
Chungking Express
2046
Days of Being Wild
Happy Together
Ashes of Time
Fallen Angels
The Grandmaster
@Drake – Nice to see Pale Flower (1964) on this list, I know I had posted about it before. Have you seen any of Masahiro Shinoda other films? I am trying to figure out my next director study and an considering Shinoda as he has a lot of films on the Criterion Channel so maybe I’ll check out a couple.
@James Trapp- I circled Shinoda as an auteur to seek out after Pale Flower as well- but have not yet had the chance to catch anything else
@Drake – good to hear, I am looking to do Shinoda, Tarkovsky, or Fincher next
@Drake- do you still have The Tree of Life as the #1 film of the 2010s? Or did a 2014-2019 film surpass it?
@LeBron Smith- I haven’t done an updated decade list recently- would have to give it some thought. How about you? what does your top of the 2010s look like?
@Drake- I don’t have an official one yet, but I’ll try to do a top 15 for now. There are some I really need to see again such as The Turin Horse and Melancholia. I also need to watch Mysteries of Lisbon
1. The Tree of Life or Roma
2. The Tree of Life or Roma
3. The Master
4. La La Land
5. Dunkirk
6. Ida
7. The Turin Horse
8. The Revenant
9. The Grand Budapest Hotel
10. Melancholia
11. Mad Max: Fury Road
12. Birdman
13. Cold War
14. Inception
15. Midsommar
@LeBron Smith- thanks for sharing- very strong list
@LeBronSmith – I’ll take a crack at it
1. The Tree of Life
2. The Master (this may take the # 1 spot in the future)
3. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
4. Roma
5. Burning
6. Dunkirk
7. Grand Budapest
8. The Irishman
9. Parasite
10. Midsommar
11. Cold War
12. The Social Network
13. Inside Llewyn Davis
14. Melancholia
15. The Handmaiden
There are a number of well acclaimed films I have not seen yet:
LaLa Land
Ida
The Turnin Horse
Vitalina Varela
Black Swan
Inception – I have seen but only once and that was in theatres so like 13 years ago
@James and Lebron – good lists, glad to see Melancholia and Dunkirk make it up there.
My own
1. The Tree of Life
2. The Revenant (Might take the #1 spot one day)
3. Dunkirk
4. Melancholia
5. The Master
6. Roma
7. The Turin Horse
8. The Grand Budapest Hotel
9. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
10. Mad Max: Fury Road
@Harry – thanks, we have many in common. I actually forgot about The Revenant. It should be there somewhere around the 8-12 range. Melancholia (2011) seems to be very polarizing, it is a challenging film. I wrote this about it:
“Caught a 2nd viewing, my 1st was just a few days ago ha. It was so strange yet fascinating that I had to check it out again. I could not help but think of Bergman watching this; not the visuals but the story. The family drama, depressed characters, heavy religious under tones, long stretches of silence, and characters seemingly pondering heavy issues”
Great list @Harry. Here’s how i think it will go
(1) Stanley Kubrick
(2) Akira Kurosawa
(3) Ingmar Bergman
(4) Martin Scorsese
(5) Kryzystof Kieslowski
(6) Orson Welles
(7) Andrei Tarkovsky
(8) Francis Ford Coppola
(9) Yasuziro Ozu
(10) Jean Luc Godard
(11) Alfred Hitchcock
(12) Wai Kar Wong
(13) Federico Fellini
(14) Fritz Lang
(15) Paul Thomas Anderson
(16) John Ford
(17) Michelangelo Antonioni
(18) Terrence Malick
(19) FW Murnau
(20) Luchino Visconti
Hitchcock out of the top ten would be wild.
@Graham – Hitchcock is not falling out of the top 10, or even top 5
He has 19 films in the top 1000, more than anyone else. Psycho and Notorious are not that far out of the top 100. Rear Window and North by Northwest did fall a lot though but still clear MPs
Vertigo # 10
Psycho # 106
Notorious # 132
Rear Window # 246
North by Northwest # 255
Still, he appears to have 13 films that are MS or higher which is amazing
And he does still have a top 10 film in Vertigo
He is obviously a “style plus” director and with the depth of the filmography he is not falling that much though I do think he will fall anywhere from # 3 to # 5
@James Trapp- John Ford was ranked 10th in the last list. I think Hitch finds himself in a similar spot this time around. A combined top 5 of Welles & Hitchcock would have 4 films from the former. Tough to bounce back from that.
@AP – maybe, tough to say since I don’t know exactly how too heavy Drakes grading is, again 13 MS or higher films is crazy and I would argue Hitchcock beats Ford in terms of style. Remember WKW was ranked # 22 back when he only has 2 MP level films and 1 in the top 100 so obviously filmography is not everything even if it’s the single most important factor but you might end up being correct.
@AP – Looking at the list again I think Ford might land higher than Hitchcock. Ford just has a higher density of films closer to the top of the list (Comparing their top 7 films) and The Searchers trumps Vertigo for Drake.
No Bresson or Truffaut in top 20 and only 1 French director in top 20?
My prediction for the top of the updated directors list
1-10:
Akira Kurosawa
Ingmar Bergman
Stanley Kubrick
Alfred Hitchcock
Martin Scorsese
Andrei Tarkovsky
Jean-Luc Godard
Wong Kar-Wai
Federico Fellini
Francis Ford Coppola
10-20
Orson Welles
Paul Thomas Anderson
John Ford
Bela Tarr
Fritz Lang
Luchino Visconti
Roman Polanski
Sergei Eisenstein
F.W. Murnau
François Truffaut
There is no way Bela Tarr is that high. Kieslowski is a big miss. I would say,
1. Ingmar Bergman
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Akira Kurosawa
4.Martin Scorsese
5. Stanley Kubrick
6. John Ford
7. Jean-Luc Godard
8. Federico Fellini
9. Francis Ford Coppola
10. Orson Welles
11. Krisztof Kieslowski
12.Roman Polanski
13. Yazujiro Ozu
14.Luchino Visconti
15. Coen Brothers
16. Kar-Wai Wong
17. Paul Thomas Anderson
18. Fritz Lang
19. Robert Altman
20. Michelangelo Antonioni
21. Steven Spielberg
22. David Cronenberg
23. Andrei Tarkovsky
24. Trevor Malick
25. David Fincher
26. William Wyler
27. Woody Allen
28. Luis Bunuel
29. Howard Hawks
30. Max Ophüls
31. Kenji Mizoguchi
32. Satyajit Ray
33. Michael Powell
34. Francois Truffaut
35. Bela Tarr
36. Robert Bresson
37. Peter Greenaway
38. Charlie Chaplin
39. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
40. David Lynch
41. Jean Renoir
42. Quentin Tarantino
43. Alfonso Cuaron
44. David Lean
45. Jim Jarmusch
46. Shohei Imamura
47. Buster Keaton
48. Brian de Palma
49. Pedro Almodovar
50. Spike Lee
Chaplin and Hawks would be lower. Most likely. But still their filmographies are great.
*24. Terrence Malick
Missed Sergio Leone. He would land at #35 for me.
Missed Murnau and von Sternberg too. Here’s the updated list.
1. Ingmar Bergman
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Akira Kurosawa
4.Martin Scorsese
5. Stanley Kubrick
6. John Ford
7. Jean-Luc Godard
8. Federico Fellini
9. Francis Ford Coppola
10. Orson Welles
11. Krisztof Kieslowski
12.Roman Polanski
13. Yazujiro Ozu
14.Luchino Visconti
15. Coen Brothers
16. Kar-Wai Wong
17. Paul Thomas Anderson
18. Fritz Lang
19. Robert Altman
20. Michelangelo Antonioni
21. Steven Spielberg
22. David Cronenberg
23. Andrei Tarkovsky
24. Terrence Malick
25. David Fincher
26. William Wyler
27. Woody Allen
28. Luis Bunuel
29. Howard Hawks
30. Max Ophüls
31. Kenji Mizoguchi
32. Satyajit Ray
33. Michael Powell
34. Francois Truffaut
35. Sergio Leone
36. Bela Tarr
37. Robert Bresson
38. F.W Murnau
39. Peter Greenaway
40. Josef von Sternberg
41. Charlie Chaplin
42. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
43. David Lynch
44. Jean Renoir
45. Quentin Tarantino
46. Alfonso Cuaron
47. David Lean
48. Jim Jarmusch
49. Shohei Imamura
50 Buster Keaton
@Malith- I’m not understanding Kubrick at #5 and Tarkovsky at #23. I feel #1 will come down to Kubrick, Kurosawa, or Bergman. I think Hitchcock slides behind those 3 due to the big drops for Psycho, Rear Window, and North by Northwest. I suppose we’ll find out soon enough though. Excited to see it.
@LeBron Smith-Man I miscounted. Kubrick has 7 masterpieces. I thought it was only 6. Wow. I would now have him at 2nd ahead of Hitchcock. I’m pretty confident Bergman has #1 in the bag quite easily. The only one who can compete with him for sheer depth is Hitchcock and Hitchcock has 3 less masterpieces. Bergman has 8. More than anyone.
Maybe Mirror is a MP. I’m not sure. But without it Tarkovsky has only 4 big films. There are like a lot of directors with more big films plus more depth of quality films. That’s why he landed at #23.
@Malirh – I missed Krisztof Kieslowsk but I meant to have him in there. I would have him in my predicted top 10.
I can’t speak for the site, but I’d say that one reason for the discrepancy is influence — did anything Tarkovsky do have the mainstream impact of 2001, which continues to inform cinematic science fiction?
I’m surprised to see Satyajit Ray and Powell & Pressburger that low. I would rank them significantly higher.
Where does TSPDT have Lincoln for 2012?
@Anderson – I think it largely depends on what you value, Tarkovsky, PT Anderson, Terence Malick, and perhaps a few others could be added to that list. Malick for instance has 5 MP including 2 in the top 50. I personally think Malick of Tarkovsky have better filmographies even though they both have less than 10 films. But if I was on a desert island I might pick Hawks over them due to the great variety and sheer quantity of archival films.
No I wasn’t focusing on sheer number of archivable films at all. More on films that were included in this top 1000. Hawks has 8 films included here. Tarkovsky has 7. Malick only 5, PT Anderson only 5 too.
@Anderson – True, but here is where their films rank on the list
Hawks: 233,235, 298, 458, 497, 537, 665, 828
Tarkovsky: 8, 12, 72, 161, 387, 400, 423
Malick: 40, 42, 138, 193, 355
PTA: 60, 68, 80, 103, 128
@Anderson – All 5 of PTA films rank higher than Hawks single best and by a pretty good margin. For Malick 4 of his 5 entries rank higher than Hawks single best. 4 of Tarkovsky’s 7 films rank higher than Hawks single best and Tarkovky has 2 in the top 12! Full disclosure, I have only seen the # 8 film on the list which is Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia just once. Excited to revisit in the near feature so I am going by Drake’s grades here.
There is no mathematical formula to calculate these things (and thank God for that as that would be detrimental to the essence of art). But I think for example that having 2 top 30 films would carry more weight than say 4 movies ranked between 700-800. I am just throwing some numbers out but my point is these lists tend to be top heavy.
Yeah. But it’s subjective how much we are going to go down when comparing filmographies. The bottom line is that in some way or another, Hawks can compete with these other directors you mentioned with his filmography, mostly through his depth of great films. All these are great films, somewhat different from someone like Soderbergh, whose 3/4 of his filmography is filled with good but not great films.
I’ve made a Letterboxd list of this: https://boxd.it/pRxmG
Thank you Drake for the work! I hope the list is helpful for people who have Letterboxd.
@George- Wow- impressive work- thank you
Nice to see the upgrade for Scarface. But other than that Howard Hawks has been massacred.
@Anderson – yep lol, not surprised though, its crazy he was ranked # 14 at one point and is now # 29. I am guessing by the next update he will be lucky to make top 60 although he does still have 3 MP films and a couple of MS. I actually don’t have a huge issue with this, I did a full on Hawks Study, I love his work but his visuals are simply not on the same level as other auteurs with similar filmographies.
Hawks actually still has 3 MPs(Bringing Up Baby, Scarface, Red River), 4 MSs(Rio Bravo, His Girl Friday, The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not) and one HR/MS(Only Angels Have Wings). And only 1)Alfred Hitchcock, 2)Ingmar Bergman, 3)Martin Scorsese, 4)Akira Kurosawa, 5)Yazujiro Ozu, 6)Luchino Visconti, 7)Fritz Lang, 8)Steven Spielberg, 9)John Ford, 10)Jean-Luc Godard, 11)Stanley Kubrick, 12)Woody Allen 100% have better filmographies than him.
What do MS and HR stand for? I assume that MP is masterpiece, correct?
So Se7en is finally a full blown MP? That’s one I’ve been wanting to get that bump up for awhile now
Do you have some sort of record of how many HRs there are, or roughly how many missed out on this list?
@DeclanG – I do, it was split nearly half down the middle- couple hundred made it on the top 1000, couple hundred did not.
Great reinforcements to the late 1970’s. Films like A Special Day(1977), Les Rendez-vous d’Anna(1978), Despair(1978), Star Trek: The Motion Picture(1979), Tess(1979) being nowhere to now very highly rated. Autumn Sonata(1978) got a big upgrade too I think for a masterpiece.
1964 genuinely needs to be talked about as one of the best years in film history. 21 films included here from 1964.
1.I am Cuba-MP
2.Red Desert-MP
3.Gertrud-MP
4.Umbrellas of Cherbourgh-MP
5.Intens of Murder-MP
6.Charulata-MP
7.Dr.Strangelove-MP
8.Kwaidan-MS/MP
9.A Fistful of Dollars-MS
10.Pale Flower-MS
11.The Gospel According to St.Mathew-MS
12.Marnie-MS
13.My Fair Lady-MS
14.Band of Outsiders-HR/MS
15.Masque of the Red Death-HR/MS
16.All These Women-HR/MS
17.Blood and Black Lace-HR/MS
18.The Pawnbroker-HR/MS
19.Goldfinger-HR
20.Lilith-HR
21.Woman in the Dunes-HR
22 from 1964. Missed Suzuki’s Gate of Flesh which would land here at #16
Didn’t Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be (1942) make the top 1000?
@Anderson – it is not on the top 1000
Could someone quickly explain to me how I could differ what is a MP and a MS from this list? is the top 500 MP, or top 100?
I think until #306 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a MP, until #376 Letter From an Unknown Woman is a MS/MP, until #691 Anatomy of a Murder is a MS, until #894 Forrest Gump is HR/MS. The rest are HR