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The Silent Era List (compiled in 2004)
1. Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
2. Sunrise (Murnau)
3. Un Chien Andalou (Bunuel and Dali)
4. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
5. Man With A Movie Camera (Vertov)
6. The Last Laugh (Murnau)
7. Greed (von Stroheim)
8. The Gold Rush (Chaplin)
9. The General (Keaton)
10. Metropolis (Lang)
11. Intolerance (Griffith)
12. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Weine)
13. Shelock, Jr. (Keaton)
14. Nosferatu (Murnau)
15. (Tie) Nanook of the North (Flaherty)
Pandora's Box (Pabst)
17. The Crowd (Vidor)
18. October (Eisenstein)
19. The Wind (Sjostrom)
20. Broken Blossoms (Griffith)
21. A Trip to the Moon (Melies)
22. Diary of a Lost Girl (Pabst)
23. Entr'acte (Clair)
24. Strike (Eisenstein)
25. Die Niebelungen (Lang)
26. Napoleon (Gance)
27. The Kid (Chaplin)
28. Birth of a Nation (Griffith)
29. The Lodger (Hitchcock)
30. Destiny (Lang)
31. The Crazy Ray (Clair)
32. Blackmail (Hitchcock)
33. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (Lang)
34. Our Hospitality (Keaton)
35. Les Vampires (Feuillade)
36. He Who Gets Slapped (Sjostrom)
37. The Fall of the House of Usher (Watson and Webber)
38. The Iron Horse (John Ford)
39. The Circus (Chaplin)
40. (Tie) Foolish Wives (von Stroheim)
Mother (Pudovkin)
42. Joyless Street (Pabst)
43. (Tie) The Great Train Robbery (Porter)
A Page of Madness (Kinugasa)
45. Regeneration (Walsh)
46. (Tie) The Man Who Laughs (Leni)
The Parson's Widow (Dreyer)
Safety Last! (Newmeyer and Taylor)
49. Queen Kelly (von Stroheim)
50. Steamboat Willie (Disney and Iwerks)
51. Cabiria (Pastrone)
52. The Waterer Watered (Lumiere)
53. The Old and the New (Eisenstein)
54. The Phantom Chariot (Sjostrom)
55. Faust (Murnau)
56. (Tie) Haxan (Christensen)
Spies (Lang)
58. Cops (Keaton)
59. A Corner in Wheat (Griffith)
60. The Big Parade (Vidor)
61. Arsenal (Dovzhenko)
62. The Docks of New York (von Sternberg)
63. (Tie) The End of St. Petersburg (Pudovkin)
The Love of Jeanne Ney (Pabst)
65. Seven Chances (Keaton)
66. (Tie) Berlin: Symphony of a City (Ruttmann)
Easy Steet (Chaplin)
The Navigator (Keaton)
69. The Workers Leaving the Factory (Lumiere)
70. The Cheat (deMille)
71. (Tie) Ballet mecanique (Leger)
A Dog's Life (Chaplin)
The Smiling Madame Beudet (Dulac)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Keaton)
75. Der Golem (Wegener)
76. One Week (Keaton)
77. (Tie) Chess Fever (Pudovkin)
A Woman of Paris (Chaplin)
79. (Tie) Bed and Sofa (Room)
Toll of the Sea (Franklin)
81. (Tie) Arrival of the Mail Train (Lumiere)
The Marriage Circle (Lubitsch)
83. (Tie) Underworld (von Sternberg)
Way Down East (Griffith)
The Wedding March (von Stroheim)
86. The Unknown (Browning)
87. (Tie) Flesh and the Devil (Brown)
It! (Badger)
89. The Black Pirate (Parker)
90. Eternal Love (Lubitsch)
91. (Tie) The Beggars of Life (Wellman)
L'Etoile de Mer (Man Ray)
93. (Tie) Mikael (Dreyer)
The Thief of Baghdad (Walsh)
95. Phantom of the Opera (Julian)
96. The Immigrant (Chaplin)
97. Neighbors (Keaton)
98. Ingeborg Holm (Sjostrom)
99. A Girl in Every Port (Hawks)
100. Jazz Singer (Crosland)
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The 1930s List (compiled in 2004)
1. Rules of the Game (Renoir)
2. L'Atalante (Vigo)
3. M (Lang)
4. Grand Illusion (Renoir)
5. Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch)
6. City Lights (Chaplin)
7. Modern Times (Chaplin)
8. Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein)
9. Bringing Up Baby (Hawks)
10. (Tie) Wizard of Oz (Fleming)
Zero for Conduct (Vigo)
12. Stagecoach (Ford)
13. L'Age D'Or (Bunuel)
14. Duck Soup (McCarey)
15. The 39 Steps (Hitchcock)
16. Vampyr (Dreyer)
17. Only Angels Have Wings (Hawks)
18. Scarlett Empress (von Sternberg)
19. Las Hurdes (Bunuel)
20. Blue Angel (von Sternberg)
21. Bride of Frankenstein (Whale)
22. Earth (Dovzhenko)
23. Rose Hobart (Cornell)
24. Freaks (Browning)
25. Day in the Country (Renoir)
26. (Tie) Blood of a Poet (Cocteau)
Love Me Tonight (Mamoulian)
My Man Godfrey (La Cava)
29. Make Way for Tomorrow (McCarey)
30. Shanghai Express (von Sternberg)
31. The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock)
32. Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Lang)
33. The Story of the Late Crysanthemums (Mizoguchi)
34. (Tie) I Was Born But... (Ozu)
Sisters of Gion (Mizoguchi)
36. Story of the Floating Weeds (Ozu)
37. All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone)
38. Boudu Saved From Drowning (Renoir)
39. Olympia (Riefenstahl)
40. Young Mr. Lincoln (Ford)
41. (Tie) A Night at the Opera (Wood)
Top Hat (Sandrich)
43. King Kong (Schoedsack and Cooper)
44. Design for Living (Lubitsch)
45. Tabu (Murnau)
46. Thin Man (Van Dyke)
47. (Tie) A Nous la Liberte (Clair)
The Black Cat (Ulmer)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (LeRoy)
50. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Renoir)
51. Invisible Man (Whale)
52. Osaka Elegy (Mizoguchi)
53. Fury (Lang)
54. La Bete Humaine (Renoir)
55. (Tie) The Awful Truth (McCarey)
It Happened One Night (Capra)
Scarface (Hawks)
58. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Curtiz)
59. The Smiling Lieutenant (Lubitsch)
60. Le jour se leve (Carne)
61. (Tie) Happiness (Medvedkin)
Le Million (Clair)
63. Gone With the Wind (Fleming)
64. The Only Son (Ozu)
65. Under the Roofs of Paris (Clair)
66. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hitchcock)
67. Twentieth Century (Hawks)
68. Man of Aran (Flaherty)
69. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Capra)
70. (Tie) Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Capra)
Swing Time (Stevens)
72. Blonde Venus (von Sternberg)
73. Porky in Wackyland (Clampett)
74. (Tie) Frankenstein (Whale)
La Chienne (Renoir)
76. Young and Innocent (Hitchcock)
77. Lost Horizon (Capra)
78. Triumph of the Will (Riefenstahl)
79. (Tie) Dodsworth (Wyler)
Ruggles of Red Gap (McCarey)
81. Queen Christina (Mamoulian)
82. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (Disney)
83. Ninotchka (Lubitsch)
84. (Tie) Rich and Strange (Hitchcock)
Stage Door (La Cava)
86. (Tie) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mamoulian)
You Only Live Once (Lang)
88. She Done Him Wrong (Sherman)
89. (Tie) Sabotage (Hitchcock)
Secret Agent (Hitchcock)
91. Mad Love (Freund)
92. The Women (Cukor)
93. Doctor X (Curtiz)
94. One Hour With You (Cukor and Lubitsch)
95. (Tie) Holiday (Cukor)
Morocco (von Sternberg)
97. (Tie) Dracula (Browning)
The Most Dangerous Game (Pichel and Schoedsack)
99. Pepe le Moko (Duvivier)
100. Wuthering Heights (Wyler)
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The 1940s List (compiled in December 2004)
1. Day of Wrath (Dreyer, 1943)
2. Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946)
3. The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles, 1942)
4. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
5. Ivan the Terrible (Eisenstein, 1945-46)
6. Late Spring (Ozu, 1949)
7. My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946)
8. His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940)
9. To Have and Have Not (Hawks, 1944)
10. The Big Sleep (Hawks, 1946)
11. The Lady from Shanghai (Welles, 1947)
12. I Know Where I'm Going! (Powell and Pressburger, 1945)
13. Black Narcissus (Powell and Pressburger, 1947)
14. The Third Man (Reed, 1949)
15. Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren/Hammid, 1943)
16. Letter from an Unknown Woman (Ophuls, 1948)
17. Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin, 1947)
18. To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch, 1942)
19 .The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch, 1940)
20. (Tie) Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock, 1943)
The Red Shoes (Powell and Pressburger, 1948)
22. Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau, 1946)
23. Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)
24. Meet Me in St. Louis (Minnelli, 1944)
25. Cat People (Tourneur, 1942)
26. Fantasia (Disney, 1940)
27. Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell and Pressburger, 1943)
28. Orpheus (Cocteau, 1949)
29. The Great Dictator (Chaplin, 1940)
30. Sullivan's Travels (Sturges, 1941)
31. Brief Encounter (Lean, 1945)
32. Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Bresson, 1945)
33. Rome, Open City (Rossellini, 1945)
34. (Tie) The Bicycle Thief (de Sica, 1948)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston, 1948)
36. Scarlet Street (Lang, 1945)
37. King-Size Canary (Avery, 1947)
38. The Reckless Moment (Ophuls, 1949)
39. The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler, 1946)
40. Red River (Hawks, 1948)
41. (Tie) Children of Paradise (Carn�, 1945)
Christmas in July (Sturges, 1940)
Germany Year Zero (Rossellini, 1948)
La Terra Trema (Visconti, 1948)
45. (Tie) Le Corbeau (Clouzot, 1943)
Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Sturges, 1944)
47. (Tie) Force of Evil (Polonsky, 1948)
Out of the Past (Tourneur, 1947)
49. Laura (Preminger, 1944)
50. Women of the Night (Mizoguchi, 1948)
51. Louisiana Story (Flaherty, 1948)
52. (Tie) Leave Her to Heaven (Stahl, 1945)
Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Ozu, 1947)
54. (Tie) How Green Was My Valley (Ford, 1941)
Pasian (Rossellini, 1946)
56. (Tie) Cluny Brown (Lubitsch, 1946)
Spellbound (Hitchcock, 1945)
58. (Tie) Jour de f�te (Tati, 1949)
Lifeboat (Hitchcock, 1944)
White Heat (Walsh, 1949)
61. The Philadelphia Story (Cukor, 1940)
62. (Tie) Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
The Lady Eve (Sturges, 1941)
64. (Tie) The Heiress (Wyler, 1949)
The Little Foxes (Wyler, 1941)
66. Unfaithfully Yours (Sturges, 1948)
67. (Tie) A Matter of Life and Death (a.k.a. Stairway to Heaven) (Powell and Pressburger, 1946)
Rope (Hitchcock, 1948)
The Battle of San Pietro (Huston, 1945)
70. I Was a Male War Bride (Hawks, 1949)
71. The Maltese Falcon (Huston, 1941)
72. Utamoro and His Five Women (Mizoguchi)
73. (Tie) Screwball Squirrel (Avery, 1944)
Suspicion (Hitchcock, 1941)
75. The Pirate (Minnelli, 1948)
76. Quai des Ofevres (Clouzot, 1947)
77. (Tie) Odd Man Out (Reed, 1947)
Prison (Bergman, 1949)
79. I Walked with a Zombie (Tourneur, 1943)
80. Red Hot Riding Hood (Avery, 1943)
81. (Tie) Gun Crazy (Lewis, 1949)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (Dieterle, 1941)
83. Stray Dog (Kurosawa, 1949)
84. The Southerner (Renoir, 1949)
85. Key Largo (Huston, 1948)
86. Ossessione (Visconti, 1943)
87. Rebecca (Hitchcock, 1940)
88. It's A Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)
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The 1950s List (compiled in February 2005)
1. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958), 870
2. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953), 864
3. Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954), 691
4. Ordet (Dreyer, 1955), 649
5. Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957), 600
6. The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959), 597
7. Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958), 580
8. Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950), 560
9. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954), 558
10. A Man Escaped (Bresson, 1956), 543
11. Singin' In the Rain (Stanley Donen, 1952), 535
12. North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959), 521
13. Ikiru (Kurosawa, 1952), 518
14. Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson, 1951), 509
15. Sunset Boulevard (Wilder, 1950), 496
16. Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955), 475
17. Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi, 1953), 470
18. Hiroshima Mon Amour (Resnais, 1959), 464
19. Paths of Glory (Kubrick, 1957), 458
20. Early Summer (Ozu, 1951), 448
21. The Searchers (Ford, 1956), 436
22. Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1957), 396
23. Mon Oncle (Tati, 1958), 379
24. Night and Fog (Resnais, 1955), 375
25. All About Eve (Mankiewicz, 1950), 362
26. Rio Bravo (Hawks, 1959), 351
27. Some Like It Hot (Wilder, 1959), 348
28. Throne of Blood (Kurosawa, 1957), 325
29. Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock, 1951), 322
30. Nights of Cabiria (Fellini, 1957), 317
31. Pickpocket (Bresson, 1959), 316
32. The Band Wagon (Minnelli, 1953), 294
33. Earrings of Madame de... (Ophuls, 1953), 293
34. All That Heaven Allows (Sirk, 1955), 284
35. Floating Weeds (Ozu, 1959), 282
36. La Strada (Fellini, 1954), 276
37. The Killing (Kubrick, 1956), 274
38. Kiss Me Deadly (Aldrich, 1955), 271
39. Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi, 1954), 270
40. In Lonely Place (Ray, 1950), 256
41 (Tie) M. Hulot's Holiday (Tati, 1953), 252
Umberto D (De Sica, 1952), 252
43. Les Diaboliques (Clouzot, 1955), 247
44. Johnny Guitar (Ray, 1954), 240
45. Wages of Fear (Clouzot, 1952), 239
46. Voyage in Italy (Rosselini), 236
47. 12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957), 223
48. Written On the Wind (Sirk, 1956), 208
49. Shadows (Cassavetes, 1959), 204
50. A Star Is Born (Cukor, 1954), 185
51. (Tie) Pather Panchali (Ray, 1955), 184
Pickup on South Street (Fuller, 1953), 184
53. (Tie) Imitation of Life (Sirk, 1959), 170
Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi, 1952), 170
55. The African Queen (Huston, 1951), 167
56. Cranes are Flying (Kalatozov, 1957), 159
57. On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954), 158
58. The Big Heat (Lang), 154
59. Bigger Than Life (Ray, 1956), 153
60. Steel Helmet (Fuller, 1951), 152
61. Good Morning (Ozu, 1959), 150
62. (Tie) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), 148
Rififi (Dassin, 1955), 148
64. Wrong Man (Hitchcock, 1956), 146
65. River (Renoir), 140
66. Asphalt Jungle (Huston, 1950), 135
67. Street of Shame (Mizoguchi), 133
68. Bridge on the River Kwai (Lean, 1957), 130
69. El - This Strange Passion , 125
70. Dial M for Murder (Hitchcock, 1954), 124
71. Senso (Visconti), 122
72. Bob le flambeur (Melville, 1955), 121
73. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Siegel, 1956), 120
74. Forty Guns (Fuller, 1957), 119
75. Criminal Life of Archibald de la Cruz , 117
76. Lola Montes (Ophuls, 1955), 114
77. Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman, 1955), 112
78. Francesco Giullare di Dio (Rossellini), 109
79. Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (Ozu, 1952), 107
80. (Tie) Chikamatsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi, 1954), 103
Horror of Dracula (Fisher, 1958), 103
Los Olvidados (Bu�uel, 1950), 103
83. High Noon (Zinneman, 1952), 102
84. Early Spring (Ozu), 100
85. Europa 51 (Rossellini), 98
86. Man of the West (Mann), 96
87. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), 95
88. Golden Coach (Renoir), 94
89. White Nights (Visconti), 92
90. Movie (Conner), 89
91. (Tie) Duck Amuck (Jones), 88
Hidden Fortress, (Kurosawa, 1958), 88
93. The Lower Depths (1957), 88
94. Bonjour Tristesse (Preminger, 1958), 87
95. Forbidden Games (Clement, 1952), 86
96. (Tie) Bad Day At Black Rock (Sturges, 1955 ), 84
Les Enfants terribles (Melville, 1950), 84
98. (Tie) Ashes and Diamonds (Wajda, 1958), 83
Auntie Mame, 83
Day the Earth Stood Still (Wise, 1951), 83
Suddenly, Last Summer (Mankiewicz, 1959), 83
Tarnished Angels (Sirk, 1958), 83
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The 1960s List (compiled in August 2005)
1. 8½ (Fellini, 1963), 554
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968), 522
3. Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1966), 505
4. L'Avventura (Antonioni, 1960), 487
5. Playtime (Tati, 1967), 464
6. Persona (Bergman, 1966), 460
7. La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 1960), 438
8. Contempt (Godard, 1963), 385
9. Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick, 1964), 378
10. Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960), 376
11. Jules And Jim (Truffaut, 1961), 352
12. The Battle Of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1965), 347
13. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968), 338
14. Au hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966), 327
15. The Apartment (Wilder, 1960), 315
16. Le Samourai (Melville, 1967), 314
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Leone, 1966), 314
18. L'Eclisse (Antonioni, 1962), 313
19. Blow-Up (Antonioni, 1966), 305
20. Breathless (Godard, 1960), 300
21. Cléo from 5 to 7 (Varda, 1962), 294
22. My Life to Live (Godard, 1962), 290
23. Faces (Cassavetes, 1968), 286
24. La Jetee (Marker, 1962), 279
25. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962), 262
26. Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara, 1964), 259
Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961), 259
28. Viridiana (Buñuel, 1961), 258
29. Band of Outsiders (Godard, 1964), 246
30. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Demy, 1964), 242
31. The Leopard (Visconti, 1963), 234
32. Yojimbo (Kurosawa, 1961), 230
33. The Birds (Hitchcock, 1963), 229
34. Rocco and His Brothers (Visconti, 1960), 217
35. Peeping Tom (Powell, 1960), 216
36. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer, 1969), 212
37. Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel, 1967), 202
38. High and Low (Kurosawa, 1963), 198
39. Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Godard, 1966), 192
40. Il Posto (Olmi, 1961), 189
41. Weekend (Godard, 1967), 188
42. Night of the Living Dead (Romero, 1968), 175
43. Pierrot Le Fou (Godard, 1965), 174
44. The Trial (Welles, 1962), 170
45. Le Trou (Becker, 1960), 166
46. An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu, 1962), 158
47. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Paradzhanov, 1964), 156
48. Branded to Kill (Suzuki, 1967), 155
49. The Silence (Bergman, 1963), 154
50. Late Autumn (Ozu, 1960), 152
51. Ivan's Childhood (Tarkovsky, 1962), 149
52. Dog Star Man (Brakhage, 1964), 148
53. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford, 1962), 145
54. Shoot the Piano Player (Truffaut, 1960), 144
55. Gertrud (Dreyer, 1964), 142
56. Bonnie and Clyde (Penn, 1967), 138
57. Winter Light (Bergman, 1962), 136
58. The Graduate (Nichols, 1967), 130
59. Red Beard (Kurosawa, 1965), 127
Rosemary's Baby (Polanski, 1968), 127
61. Lolita (Kubrick, 1962), 126
62. The Manchurian Candidate (Frankenheimer, 1962), 124
63. Tokyo Drifter (Suzuki, 1966), 123
64. I Fidanzati (Olmi, 1963), 122
65. The Exterminating Angel (Buñuel, 1962), 121
66. The Young Girls of Rochefort (Demy, 1967), 119
Tokyo Olympiad (Ichikawa, 1965), 119
68. Juliet of The Spirits (Fellini, 1965), 115
69. A Hard Day's Night (Lester, 1964), 112
70. Repulsion (Polanski, 1965), 110
Simon of the Desert (Buñuel, 1965), 110
72. West Side Story(Wise/Robbins, 1961), 108
73. Z (Costa-Gavras, 1969), 107
74. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Nichols, 1966), 106
75. Alphaville (Godard, 1965), 103
Mothlight (Brakhage, 1963), 103
77. Fellini Satyricon (Fellini, 1969), 102
Point Blank (Boorman, 1967), 102
79. Red Desert (Antonioni, 1964), 100
80. Naked Island (Shindo, 1960), 99
Lola (Demy, 1961), 99
82. Mouchette (Bresson, 1967), 97
83. Hour of the Wolf (Bergman, 1968), 96
Eyes Without a Face (Franju, 1960), 96
85. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Hill, 1969), 95
86. The Hustler (Rossen, 1961), 91
87. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969), 89
88. Kwaidan (Kobayashi, 1964), 88
89. Youth of the Beast (Suzuki, 1963), 87
90. The House Is Black (Farrokhzad, 1963), 86
91. Petulia (Lester, 1968), 84
Marnie (Hitchcock, 1964), 84
Divorce Italian Style (Germi, 1961), 84
94. The Milky Way (Buñuel, 1969), 82
Carnival of Souls (Harvey, 1962), 82
96. Black Sunday (Bava, 1960), 80
A Woman is a Woman (Godard, 1961), 80
98. The Temptation of Doctor Antonio (Fellini, 1962), 79
The End of Summer (Ozu, 1961), 79
100. For A Few Dollars More (Leone, 1965), 78
Fighting Elegy (Suzuki, 1966), 78
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The 1970s List (compiled in September 2005):
1. Annie Hall (Allen, 1977), 522
2. Nashville (Altman, 1975), 512
3. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975), 446
4. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976), 442
5. Cries and Whispers (Bergman, 1972), 432
6. Chinatown (Polanski, 1974), 429
7. Aguirre the Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972), 407
8. The Godfather II (Coppola, 1974), 395
9. The Conformist (Bertolucci, 1970), 388
10. Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1975), 387
11. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bunuel, 1972), 380
12. The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder, 1979), 364
13. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971), 361
14. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972), 353
15. Days of Heaven (Malick, 1978), 348
16. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder, 1974), 321
17. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979), 307
18. Don't Look Now (Roeg, 1973), 292
19. The Conversation (Coppola, 1974), 289
20. Amarcord (Fellini, 1973), 286
21. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman, 1971), 283
22. Eraserhead (Lynch, 1977), 279
23. Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979), 271
24. Manhattan (Allen, 1979), 261
25. Badlands (Malick, 1973), 256
26. Star Wars (Lucas, 1977), 251
27. The Exorcist (Friedkin, 1973), 248
That Obscure Object of Desire (Bunuel, 1977), 248
29. Le Cercle Rouge (Melville, 1970), 247
30. Last Tango in Paris (Bertolucci, 1972), 242
31. Alien (Scott, 1979), 217
32. A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes, 1974), 216
33. 3 Women (Altman, 1977), 204
34. Autumn Sonata (Bergman, 1978), 199
35. Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972), 197
36. Mean Streets (Scorsese, 1973), 195
37. Walkabout (Roeg, 1971), 194
38. The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978), 186
39. Grey Gardens (Maysles, 1975), 174
Spirit of the Beehive (Erice, 1973), 174
41. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Forman, 1975), 173
42. Death in Venice (Visconti, 1971), 168
43. Salo (Pasolini, 1976), 164
44. Scenes From A Marriage (Bergman, 1973), 163
45. Jaws (Spielberg, 1975), 157
46. The French Connection (Friedkin, 1971), 156
47. Gimme Shelter (Maysles, 1970), 154
The Yakuza Papers: Battles Without Honor & Humanity (Fukasaku, 1973), 154
49. Carrie (DePalma, 1976), 150
The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich, 1971), 150
51. F For Fake (Welles, 1974), 141
52. Desperate Living (Waters, 1977), 131
53. In a Year of 13 Moons (Fassbinder, 1978), 121
54. Lancelot du Lac (Bresson, 1974), 118
55. Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir, 1975), 117
56. All That Jazz, (Fosse, 1979), 116
57. Casanova (Fellini, 1976), 113
58. M*A*S*H (Altman, 1970), 111
59. The Outlaw Josey Wales (Eastwood, 1978), 110
60. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg, 1977), 105
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Herzog, 1974), 105
Paper Moon (Bogdanovich, 1973), 105
63. The Devils (Russell, 1971), 101
The Emigrants (Troell, 1971), 101
65. Straw Dogs (Peckinpah, 1971), 100
66. The Tenant (Polanski, 1976), 98
The Tin Drum (Schlondorff, 1979), 98
68. Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet, 1975), 95
Halloween (Carpenter, 1978), 95
70. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette, 1974), 93
71. All the President's Men (Pakula, 1976), 93
Arabian Nights (Pasolini, 1974), 93
A Walk Through H (Greenaway, 1978), 93
74. Dawn of the Dead (Romero, 1978), 92
75. Two English Girls (Truffaut, 1971), 90
76. The Long Goodbye (Altman, 1973), 88
77. The Mother and the Whore (Eustache, 1973), 88
78. Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman, 1971), 87
79. Hearts and Minds (Davis, 1974), 86
80. Zabriskie Point (Antonioni, 1970), 84
81. Effi Briest (Fassbinder, 1974), 81
82. The Passenger (Antonioni, 1975), 79
83. Suspiria (Argento, 1977), 76
84. Young Frankenstein (Brooks, 1974), 73
85. Chloe in the Afternoon (Rohmer, 1972), 72
86. Performance (Roeg and Cammell, 1970), 71
87. Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (Ruiz, 1979), 70
Killing of a Chinese Bookie (Cassavetes, 1976), 70
89. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Fassbinder, 1972), 69
Life of Brian (Jones, 1979), 69
Love and Death (Allen, 1975), 69
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Hooper, 1974), 69
93. Blazing Saddles (Brooks, 1974), 68
Claire's Knee (Rohmer, 1970), 68
It's Alive (Cohen, 1974), 68
Nosferatu (Herzog, 1976), 68
97. Being There (Ashby, 1979), 67
98. 1900 (Bertolucci, 1976), 66
99. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Jones, 1975), 64
Small Change (Truffaut, 1976), 64
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The 1980s List (compiled in October 2005)
1. Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986) 918
2. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982) 915
3. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980) 798
4. The Decalogue (Kieslowski, 1988-89) 677
5. Brazil (Gilliam, 1985) 598
6. Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989) 541
7. The Shining (Kubrick, 1980) 520
8. Ran (Kurosawa, 1985) 515
9. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen, 1989) 491
10. Blade Runner (Scott, 1982) 483
11. Wings of Desire (Wenders, 1987) 466
12. Fitzcarraldo (Herzog, 1982) 440
13. The Elephant Man (Lynch, 1980) 423
14. The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980) 409
15. L' Argent (Bresson, 1983) 397
16. Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984) 396
17. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981) 392
18. Stranger Than Paradise (Jarmusch, 1984) 377
Videodrome (Cronenberg, 1983) 377
20. The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky, 1986) 370
21. Hanna and Her Sisters (Allen, 1986) 354
22. The Last Temptation of Christ (Scorsese, 1988) 344
23. Dead Ringers (Cronenberg, 1988) 323
24. Nostalghia (Tarkovsky, 1983) 313
25. Sans Soleil (Marker, 1983) 307
26. Veronika Voss (Fassbinder, 1982) 305
27. Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore, 1989) 300
28. Koyaanisqatsi (Reggio, 1983) 293
29. Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick, 1987) 288
This is Spinal Tap (Reiner, 1984) 288
31. Stardust Memories (Allen, 1980) 271
32. Broadway Danny Rose (Allen, 1984) 269
33. After Hours (Scorsese, 1985) 268
34. Blow Out (De Palma, 1981) 261
35. The King of Comedy (Scorsese, 1983) 259
36, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (Greenaway, 1989) 249
37, Where is the Friend's Home? (Kiarostami, 1987) 241
38, Once Upon a Time in America (Leone, 1984) 231
39. Amadeus (Forman, 1984) 228
40. Vagabond (Varda, 1985) 226
Zelig (Allen, 1983) 226
42. The Fly (Cronenberg, 1986) 225
43. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kaufman, 1988) 223
44. The Green Ray (Rohmer, 1986) 219
45. The Killer (Woo, 1989) 217
46. Gates of Heaven (Morris, 1980) 213
47. My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki, 1988) 202
48. Down by Law (Jarmusch, 1986) 194
Raising Arizona (Coen, 1987) 194
50. The Vanishing (Sluizer, 1988) 191
51. The Thin Blue Line (Morris, 1988) 188
52. Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata, 1988) 187
The Last Emperor (Bertolucci, 1987) 187
Lola (Fassbinder, 1981) 187
The Purple Rose of Cairo (Allen, 1985) 187
56. Kagemusha (Kurosawa, 1980) 186
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Almodovar, 1988) 186
58. Day of the Dead (Romero, 1985) 175
59. Come and See (Klimov, 1985) 171
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Miyazaki, 1984) 171
61. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder, 1980) 170
62. House of Games (Mamet, 1987) 165
Pee Wee's Big Adventure (Burton, 1985) 165
64. Sex, Lies, and Videotape (Soderbergh, 1989) 160
65. Blood Simple (Coen, 1984) 156
66. Aliens (Cameron, 1986) 155
67. My Dinner with Andre (Malle, 1981) 154
68. Alice (Svankmajer, 1988) 144
69. Street of Crocodiles (Quay, 1986) 142
70. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Haynes, 1987) 134
71. The Thing (Carpenter, 1982) 133
72. A Room with a View (Ivory, 1985) 132
73. Matewan (Sayles, 1987) 131
74. Ghostbusters (Reitman, 1984) 129
75. Shoah (Lanzmann, 1985) 128
76. A Christmas Story (Clark, 1983) 127
Robocop (Verhoeven, 1987) 127
78. Das Boot (Petersen, 1981) 125
Evil Dead 2 (Raimi, 1987) 125
80. Heaven's Gate (Cimino, 1980) 122
81. 28 Up (Apted, 1985) 121
82. Dimensions of Dialogue (Svankmajer, 1982) 120
83. Hail Mary (Godard, 1985) 119
84. Back to the Future (Zemeckis, 1985) 118
Scarface (De Palma, 1983) 118
86. Pauline at the Beach (Rohmer, 1983) 115
87. Repo Man (Cox, 1984) 116
Sherman's March (McElwee, 1986) 116
89. Time Bandits (Gilliam, 1981) 114
90. Bad Blood (Carax, 1986) 112
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Schrader, 1985) 112
92. Akira (Otomo, 1988) 111
93. The Draughtsman's Contact (Greenaway, 1982) 110
94. The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Hou, 1985) 105
95. Drowning by Numbers (Greenaway, 1988) 104
Stop Making Sense (Demme, 1984) 104
97. The Dante Quartet (Brakhage, 1987) 103
98. Black Rain (Imamura, 1989) 102
99. Missing (Costa-Gavras, 1982) 101
Mystery Train (Jarmusch, 1989) 101
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The 1990s List (compiled in December 2005)
1. Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998) 692
2. Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990) 632
3. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994) 587
4. The Big Lebowski (Coen, 1998) 572
5. Red (Kieslowski, 1994) 529
6. Magnolia (PT Anderson, 1999) 498
7. Chungking Express (Wong, 1994) 483
8. Fargo (Coen, 1996) 464
9. Dead Man (Jarmusch, 1995) 453
10. Blue (Kieslowski, 1993) 439
11. The Thin Red Line (Malick, 1998) 405
12. Close Up (Kiarostami, 1990) 399
13. Wild at Heart (Lynch, 1990) 375
14. Short Cuts (Altman, 1993) 366
15. Boogie Nights (PT Anderson, 1997) 365
16. Ed Wood (Burton, 1994) 352
17. Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, 1999) 351
18. Fight Club (Fincher, 1999) 350
19. Unforgiven (Eastwood, 1992) 330
20. Safe (Haynes, 1995) 323
21. 12 Monkeys (Gilliam, 1995) 322
All About My Mother (Almodovar, 1999) 322
23. Barton Fink (Coen, 1991) 316
Jackie Brown (Tarantino, 1997) 316
25. Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami, 1997) 311
26. Breaking the Waves (von Trier, 1996) 305
27. Groundhog Day (Ramis, 1993) 304
28. Beau Travail (Denis, 1999) 293
29. Lost Highway (Lynch, 1997) 283
30. American Beauty (Mendes, 1999) 282
31. The Silence of the Lambs (Demme, 1991) 277
32. Se7en (Fincher, 1995) 275
33. The Player (Altman, 1992) 272
34. Being John Malkovich (Jonze, 1999) 271
35. The Wind Will Carry Us (Kiarostami, 1999) 259
36. LA Confidential (Hanson, 1997) 256
37. The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski, 1991) 254
38. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Lynch, 1992) 239
39. Miller's Crossing (Coen, 1990) 235
40. Schlinder's List (Spielberg, 1993) 233
41. Underground (Kusturica, 1995) 232
42. Rosetta (Dardenne, 1999) 230
43. Husbands and Wives (Allen, 1992) 229
44. The Celebration (Vinterberg, 1998) 220
45. Twin Peaks: Pilot (Lynch, 1990) 213
46. Election (Payne, 1999) 211
Three Kings (Russell, 1999) 211
48. The Nightmare Before Christmas (Selick, 1993) 202
49. Happy Together (Wong, 1997) 200
50. Crash (Cronenberg, 1996) 193
51. Naked Lunch (Cronenberg, 1991) 190
52. Happiness (Solondz, 1998) 184
53. Heavenly Creatures (Jackson, 1994) 177
Lessons of Darkness (Herzog, 1992) 177
55. Life and Nothing More (Kiarostami, 1991) 176
56. JFK (Stone, 1991) 175
Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (Park, 1993) 175
58. Heat (Mann, 1995) 174
59. Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino, 1992) 170
60. Casino (Scorsese, 1995) 169
61. Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki, 1997) 166
The Straight Story (Lynch, 1999) 166
63. La Belle Noiseuse (Rivette, 1991) 165
64. Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson, 1996) 160
65. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Gilliam, 1998) 155
66. Before Sunrise (Linklater, 1995) 152
67. Glengarry Glen Ross (Foley, 1992) 151
68. Secrets & Lies (Leigh, 1996) 149
69. Fallen Angels (Wong, 1995) 145
70. Out of Sight (Soderbergh, 1998) 143
71. Irma Vep (Assayas, 1996) 142
The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont, 1994) 142
73. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jarmusch, 1999) 141
Raise the Red Lantern (Yimou, 1991) 141
75. The Truman Show (Weir, 1998) 134
76. Hoop Dreams (James, 1994) 133
The Kingdom (Arnfred/von Trier, 1994) 133
78. Satantango (Tarr, 1994) 131
79. Show Me Love (Moodysson, 1998) 130
80. My Own Private Idaho (Van Sant, 1991) 128
81. The Hudsucker Proxy (Coen, 1994) 127
82. Naked (Leigh, 1993) 126
83. Lone Star (Sayles, 1996) 125
84. Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg, 1998) 122
85. La Promesse (Dardenne, 1996) 121
The Limey (Soderbergh, 1999) 121
87. To Live (Yimou, 1994) 120
White (Kieslowski, 1994) 120
89. Edward Scissorhands (Burton, 1990) 117
90. Run Lola Run (Tykwer, 1998) 115
Welcome to the Dollhouse (Solondz, 1995) 115
Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave (Park, 1995) 115
93. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Cameron, 1991) 113
94. Ashes of Time (Wong, 1994) 111
95. Flowers of Shanghai (Hou, 1998) 109
96. The Virgin Suicides (Coppola, 1999) 107
97. Ratcatcher (Ramsay, 1999) 106
98. Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Medem, 1998) 104
The Matrix (Wachowski, 1999) 104
100. Crumb (Zwigoff, 1994) 103
Toy Story (Lasseter, 1995) 103
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The 2000s List (compiled in January 2006)
1. In The Mood For Love (Wong, 2000) 698
2. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001) 654
3. The Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr, 2000) 423
4. Punch Drunk Love (Anderson, 2002) 389
5. Talk to Her (Almodovar, 2002) 340
6. 2046 (Wong, 2004) 335
7. Yi Yi (Yang, 2000) 323
8. Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 2001) 307
9. Elephant (Van Sant, 2003) 301
10. Tropical Malady (Weerasethakul, 2004) 294
11. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai, 2003) 292
12. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004) 270
13. Cache (Haneke, 2005) 268
14. The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson, 2001) 256
15. Dancer in the Dark (vonTrier, 2000) 255
16. A History of Violence (Cronenberg, 2005) 231
17. What Time Is It There? (Tsai, 2001) 228
18. Russian Ark (Sokurov, 2002) 227
19. Before Sunset (Linklater, 2004) 217
20. Lost in Translation (Coppola, 2003) 216
21. The World (Zhang, 2004) 214
22. Notre Musique (Godard, 2004) 212
23. Eureka (Aoyama, 2000) 208
24. The Son (Dardenne, 2002) 206
25. Adaptation (Jonze, 2002) 203
Demonlover (Assayas, 2002) 203
27. Dogville (von Trier, 2003) 202
28. Y Tu Mama Tambien (Cuaron, 2001) 196
29. Amelie (Jeunet, 2001) 193
30. The Heart of the World (Maddin, 2000) 189
31. City of God (Meirelles, 2002) 188
32. Platform (Zhang, 2000) 185
33. The Saddest Music in the World (Maddin, 2003) 179
34. Ten (Kiarostami, 2002) 177
35. Almost Famous (Crowe, 2000) 175
36. Far From Heaven (Haynes, 2002) 169
37. Distant / Uzak (Ceylan, 2002) 156
38. Memento (Nolan, 2000) 155
39. Cafe Lumiere (Hou, 2003) 153
To Be and To Have (Philibert, 2002) 153
The Pianist (Polanski, 2002) 153
42. Nobody Knows (Koreeda, 2004) 152
Sideways (Payne, 2004) 152
44. The Aviator (Scorsese, 2004) 150
45. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Anderson, 2004) 145
Spider (Cronenberg, 2002) 145
47. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Lee, 2000) 134
Irreversible (Noe, 2002) 134
49. The Gleaners and I (Varda, 2000) 133
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson, 2001) 133
Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors (Hong, 2000) 133
52. Best in Show (Guest, 2000) 129
In Praise of Love (Godard, 2001) 129
Traffic (Soderbergh, 2000) 129
55. Ghost World (Zwigoff, 2001) 123
56. The Man Who Wasn't There (Coen, 2001) 122
57. Grizzly Man (Herzog, 2005) 120
58. Solaris (Soderbergh, 2002) 118
59. Amores Perros (Inarritu, 2000) 116
60. Decasia (Morrison, 2002) 115
61. Distance (Koreeda, 2001) 114
62. The Dreamers (Bertolucci, 2003) 112
63. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Tarantino, 2003) 111
64. Bad Education (Almodovar, 2004) 110
65. Code Unknown (Haneke, 2000) 108
The Hand (Wong, 2004) 108
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Jackson, 2003) 108
68. George Washington (Green, 2000) 107
69. Mysterious Skin (Araki, 2004) 104
70. Vertical Ray of the Sun (Tran, 2000) 102
71. The Squid and the Whale (Baumbach, 2005) 101
72. All About Lily Chou-Chou (Iwai, 2001) 99
I'm Going Home (Oliveira, 2001) 99
Moolaade (Sembene, 2004) 99
75. Munich (Spielberg, 2005) 98
76. I Heart Huckabees (Russell, 2004) 95
Mystic River (Eastwood, 2003) 95
78. AI: Artificial Intelligence (Spielberg, 2001) 94
79. Songs from the Second Floor (Andersson, 2000) 93
Waking Life (Linklater, 2001) 93
81. American Splendor (Berman & Pulcini, 2003) 90
Cowards Bend the Knee (Maddin, 2003) 90
83. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Jackson, 2002) 88
Rivers and Tides (Riedelsheimer, 2001) 88
85. Blissfully Yours (Weerasethakul, 2002) 85
86. Mysterious Object at Noon (Weerasethakul, 2000) 84
87. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring (Kim, 2003) 82
88. L' Intrus (Denis, 2004) 81
The New World (Malick, 2005) 81
90. Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky, 2000) 80
91. The Incredibles (Bird, 2004) 79
92. La Commune [Paris, 1891] (Watkins, 2000) 79
93. All the Real Girls (Green, 2003) 77
The Bourne Identity (Liman, 2002) 77
95. Saraband (Bergman, 2003) 76
The Station Agent (McCarthy, 2003) 76
97. Unbreakable (Shyamalan, 2000) 75
98. The Captive (Akerman, 2000) 74
99. Faithless (Ullmann, 2000) 73
100. The Fog of War (Morris, 2003) 71
