Robert the List's Top 100 films

[Robert the List]

My updated top 100:

The Great White Silence (doc) 1924 UK Herbery Ponting
Seven Chances 1925 USA Buster Keaton
The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926 Germany Lotte Reiniger
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog 1927 UK Alfred Hitchcock
Man With a Movie Camera (doc) 1929 Soviet Union Dziga Vertov
Salt for Svanetia 1930 Soviet Union Mikhael Kalatazov
Limite 1931 Brazil Mário Peixoto
Vampyr 1932 Germany Carl Theodor Dreyer
The Wizard of Oz 1939 USA Victor Fleming
Story of the Last Chrysanthemums 1939 Japan *Kenji Mizoguchi
Mr Smith Goes to Washington 1939 USA Frank Capra
Day of Wrath 1943 Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer
Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 USA Maya Deren
La Belle et La Bete 1946 France Jean Cocteau
Panique 1946 France Julien Duvivier
My Darling Clementine 1946 USA John Ford
Notorious 1946 USA Alfred Hitchcock
Out of the Past 1947 USA Jacques Tourneur
Bicycle Thieves 1948 Italy Vittorio De Sica
Stray Dog 1949 Japan Akira Kurosawa
Late Spring 1949 Japan Yasujirō Ozu
The Third Man 1949 UK Carol Reed
Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 UK Robert Hamer
Little Fugitive 1953 USA Morris Engel
Journey to Italy 1954 Italy Roberto Rossellini
Rear Window 1954 USA Alfred Hitchcock
La Pointe Courte 1955 France Agnès Varda
Pather Panchali 1955 India Satyijat Ray
Bridge On The River Kwai 1957 UK David Lean
Elevator to the Gallows 1958 France Louis Malle
The Music Room 1958 India Satyajit Ray
Rio Bravo 1959 USA Howard Hawks
Anatomy of a Murder 1959 USA Otto Preminger
North by Northwest 1959 USA Alfred Hitchcock
The Naked Island 1960 Japan Kaneto Shindô
Psycho 1960 USA Alfred Hitchcock
La Notte 1961 Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
Last Year at Marienbad 1961 France Alain Resnais
La Jetee 1962 France Chris Marker
L'Eclisse 1962 Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
Lawrence of Arabia 1962 UK David Lean
High and Low 1963 Japan Akira Kurosawa
Le Mepris/Contempt 1963 France Jean-Luc Godard
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 France Jacques Demy
Onibaba 1964 Japan Kaneto Shindô
Le Bonheur 1965 France Agnès Varda
Alphaville 1965 France Jean-Luc Godard
Pierrot Le Fou 1965 France Jean-Luc Godard
The Sound of Music 1965 USA Robert Wise
Blow-up 1966 UK Michelangelo Antonioni
Closely Watched Trains 1966 Czech Jirí Menzel
Bonnie and Clyde 1967 USA Arthur Penn
The Graduate 1967 USA Mike Nichols
Stolen Kisses 1968 France François Truffaut
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 UK Stanley Kubrick
Kes 1969 UK Ken Loach
The Color of Pomegranates 1969 USSR/Armenia Sergey Paradzhanov
McCabe and Mrs Miller 1971 USA Robert Altman
Cabaret 1972 USA Bob Fosse
Le Cousin Jules (doc) 1973 France Dominique Benicheti
Don't Look Now 1973 UK Nicholas Roeg
Badlands 1973 USA Trevor Malick
The Passenger 1975 Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
Barry Lyndon 1975 UK Stanley Kubrick
Apocalypse Now 1979 USA Francis Ford Copolla
Alien 1979 USA Ridley Scott
The King of Comedy 1982 USA Martin Scorsese
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial 1982 USA Steven Spielberg
Blade Runner (Director's Cut) 1982 USA Ridley Scott
At First Sight 1983 France Diane Kurys
Paris, Texas 1984 USA Wim Wenders
Stranger Than Paradise 1984 USA Jim Jarmusch
Taipei Story 1985 Taiwan Edward Yang
Blue Velvet 1986 USA David Lynch
Au Revoir Les Enfants 1987 France Louis Malle
Landscape in the Mist 1988 Greece Theodoros Angelopoulos
A Short Film About Killing 1988 Poland krzysztof kieślowski
When Harry Met Sally 1989 USA Rob Reiner
Days of Being Wild 1990 Hong Kong Kong Wong Kar-Wai
The Commitments 1991 Ireland Alan Parker
The Heart of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991 USA George Hickenlooper
Rebels of the Neon God 1992 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang
The Player 1992 USA Robert Altman
The Remains of the Day 1993 UK James Ivory
Vive L'Amour 1994 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang
L.A. Confidential 1997 USA Curtis Hanson
Saving Private Ryan 1998 USA Steven Spielberg
In the Mood for Love 2000 Hong Kong Kong Kar-Wai Wong
Mulholland Drive 2001 USA David Lynch
Donnie Darko 2001 USA Richard Kelly
Uzak 2002 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
No Country for Old Men 2007 USA Joel and Ethan Cohen
Wall-E 2008 USA Andrew Stanton
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
The Master 2012 USA Paul Thomas Anderson
Virunga (doc) 2014 UK Orlando von Einsiedel
La La Land 2016 USA Damien Chazelle
The Lighthouse 2019 USA Robert Eggers
Apollo 11 (doc) 2019 USA Todd Douglas Miller
Fire of Love (doc) 2022 France Sara Dosa

[John-Connor]

Around 55-65% similar titles with my own list. Good list Robert the list.. :D
There's no standard reveal method so you can post as many as you want.

[Sedai]

Fun list, even if it doesn't contain many surprises. Would be curious to hear a defense of E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, which I feel falls in the bottom tier of Spielberg films.

[Robert the List]

Fun list, even if it doesn't contain many surprises. Would be curious to hear a defense of E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, which I feel falls in the bottom tier of Spielberg films.
Target audience = kids.
For kids it's pure magic.

[Sedai]

Target audience = kids.
For kids it's pure magic.

I guess I would ask why it would end up in your favorite films of all time with that reasoning, but fair enough. I loved it when I was a kid - I walked to the theater 4 times in one week to see it, scrounging whatever money I could find for a ticket - but after a recent viewing, I felt it didn't hold up. That said, my daughter loved it.

[Robert the List]

100 For a Few Dollars More 1965 Italy Sergio Leone
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99 Shanghai Express 1932 USA Josef von Sternberg
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98 Voices Through Time 1996 Italy Franco Piavoli
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97 Le Mepris 1963 France Jean-Luc Godard
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96 Laura 1944 USA Otto Preminger
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95 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 USA Elia Kazan
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94 Panique 1946 France Julien Duvivier
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93 Pierrot Le Fou 1965 France Jean Paul Goddard
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[Robert the List]

92 On the Waterfront 1954 USA Elia Kazan
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91 Out of the Past 1947 USA Jacques Tourneur
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90 Fatal Attraction 1987 USA Adrian Lyne
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89 Mean Streets 1973 USA Martin Scorsese
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88 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 USA Steven Spielberg
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87 Bay of Angels 1963 France Jacques Demy
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86 The Talented Mr Ripley 1999 USA Anthony Minghella
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85 Withnail & I 1987 UK Bruce Robinson
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84 Homecoming 1984 Hong Kong Yim Ho
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83 The Commitments 1991 Ireland Alan Parker
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[Wyldesyde19]

71/100

E.T. Is probably my favorite Spielberg film. I watch it quite often. Good pick.

Many of these other titles I haven’t seen yet are all on my watch list and will be watched in due time.

[KeyserCorleone]

Out of the 20 in the countdown list (much more exciting to me), Laura and Out of the Past have been in my top 100 before. They both made it when I first saw them, but they've been slowly kicked off by other movies. Still, highly respectable choices that should be talked about by more than just the film buff community.

[rauldc14]

Laura, On the Waterfront and Sideways are my favorite 3 of those 20 that I've seen.

[Citizen Rules]

Once again you have beautiful screen shots. You really have a good eye for choosing images. I'll commit on only the movies that you posted with an image.

100 Oliver 1968...Damn good musical. If more people watched it, it would make the upcoming MoFo Top 100 Musical Countdown.

99 The Leopard 1963...Visually stunning, especially those interior shots of Italian villas. But the film didn't do much for me story wise.

98 For a Few Dollars More 1965...I'm not a fan of spaghetti westerns but this is a good one.

97 Shanghai Express 1932...Stunning set designs, glad to see this get some recognition.

94 Laura 1944...Currently in my top 10...One of the best screenplays I've seen, great cast too.

93 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951...Brando was on fire in the 50s and this is one of his strongest performances.

91 Pierrot Le Fou 1965...Worth seeing as a fine example of French New Wave and for Anna Karina🙂

90 On the Waterfront...Love this one.

89 Out of the Past 1947...One of my favorite noirs, Mitchum is good here and Jane Greer beautifully evil:eek:

86 Sideways...Liked it when it came out, but haven't seen it since.

83 The Roaring Twenties 1939...Love this one it's such a well written movie with multiple character stories.

81 The Commitments 1991...Didn't do much for me.

[Robert the List]

82 Port of Shadows 1938 France Marcel Carné
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81 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 USA Michael Curtiz
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80 The King of Comedy 1982 USA Martin Scorsese
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79 Badlands 1973 USA Trevor Malick
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78 Taxi Driver 1976 USA Martin Scorsese
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77 Gladiator 2000 USA Ridley Scott
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76 Seven 1995 USA David Fincher
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75 Ghostbusters 1984 USA Ivan Reitman
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74 Donnie Darko (Director's cut) 2004 USA
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73 Cabaret 1972 USA Bob Fosse
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[rauldc14]

Gladiator, Se7en and Taxi Driver are my favorite 3 there.

[KeyserCorleone]

Se7en is the first of these films currently in my top 100.

[Robert the List]

Once again you have beautiful screen shots. You really have a good eye for choosing images. I'll commit on only the movies that you posted with an image.

100 Oliver 1968...Damn good musical. If more people watched it, it would make the upcoming MoFo Top 100 Musical Countdown.

99 The Leopard 1963...Visually stunning, especially those interior shots of Italian villas. But the film didn't do much for me story wise.

98 For a Few Dollars More 1965...I'm not a fan of spaghetti westerns but this is a good one.

97 Shanghai Express 1932...Stunning set designs, glad to see this get some recognition.

94 Laura 1944...Currently in my top 10...One of the best screenplays I've seen, great cast too.

93 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951...Brando was on fire in the 50s and this is one of his strongest performances.

91 Pierrot Le Fou 1965...Worth seeing as a fine example of French New Wave and for Anna Karina🙂

90 On the Waterfront...Love this one.

89 Out of the Past 1947...One of my favorite noirs, Mitchum is good here and Jane Greer beautifully evil:eek:

86 Sideways...Liked it when it came out, but haven't seen it since.

83 The Roaring Twenties 1939...Love this one it's such a well written movie with multiple character stories.

81 The Commitments 1991...Didn't do much for me.
Thanks very much for the comments :)

So pleased that you also like so many of these. :)

Yes, Jane Greer and Anna Karina were both very beautiful.

I can't work out really what happened with Greer's career. It seems that someone put the poison down for her and may have stopped her from working.

Anna Karina has a very interesting story. I'll share some of what I have on her from my 200 greatest actors document below.

Thanks everyone else for the comments, reactions and interest in my list too.


She made numerous attempts to run away from home and an abusive step-father, trying to find boats that would take her to Sweden or America. (from Denmark)
She left school at 14 and began her professional career singing in cabarets in Denmark. She was spotted in the street and cast as the lead in a forty-minute short film The Girl and The Shoes (released 1959), which won a prize at Cannes.
In the summer of 1958, aged 17, Karina hitchhiked to Paris. With almost no money and unable to speak French, she struggled to find a place to stay and had to ask neighbourhood priests for somewhere to sleep. While wandering through Paris a woman approached her and asked her if she would be willing to do some photographs for the French newspaper Jours de France. She began to work as a model and eventually became successful, posing for several magazines, including Elle, and meeting Pierre Cardin and Coco Chanel.
Karina has said that when she met Chanel on the set of the Elle photoshoot, Chanel told her: “I believe you want to be an actress… You need to learn French. What’s your name little girl?” “Hanne Karin Bayer.”, Karina replied. And Chanel said: “No: Anna Karina – call yourself that.”
She also appeared in commercials. She sat in movie theaters and watched French movies to teach herself the language.
Jean-Luc Godard first saw Karina in a Palmolive advert in which she posed in bathtubs. He offered her a role in The Little Soldier/Le Petit Soldat.
While working together on Le Petit Soldat, Godard wrote a note to Karina, saying: “I love you, come and meet me at midnight in a café called Café de la Prez.” She had already fallen in love with Godard so she ended her existing relationship. They married in 1961.
One Godard film from this period which does not feature Karina, Contempt (1963) starring Brigitte Bardot wearing a black wig which resembles Karina's dark hair, is said to be based on their difficult relationship . The couple divorced in 1965. Karina was an icon of 1960s cinema.

[Robert the List]

72 The Remains of the Day 1993 UK James Ivory
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71 My Darling Clementine 1946 USA John Ford
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70 Saving Private Ryan 1998 USA Steven Spielberg
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69 The Blue Angel 1930 Germany Josef von Sternberg
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68 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 USA Sidney Lumet
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67 Let the Right One in 2008 Sweden Tomas Alfredson
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66 Touch of Evil 1958 USA Orson Welles
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65 The Birds 1963 USA Alfred Hitchcock
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64 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 France Alain Resnais
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63 Scarface 1932 USA Howard Hawks
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[matt72582]

My favorites from your list


On the Waterfront
12 Angry Men
Onibaba
McCabe and Mrs Miller
The Godfather
There Will be Blood

[beelzebubble]

I can't work out really what happened with (Jane) Greer's career. It seems that someone put the poison down for her and may have stopped her from working.




It seemed to go down the tubes after she left RKO. Maybe Howard Hughes had something to do with it.

[SpelingError]

Nice list so far. Plenty of my personal favorites showing up.

[Robert the List]

62 Soy Cuba 1964 USSR Mikhail Kalatozov
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61 12 Angry Men 1957 USA Sydney Lumet
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60 Pulp Fiction 1994 USA Quentin Tarantino
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59 Blackmail 1929 UK Alfred Hitchcock
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58 Rome, Open City 1945 Italy Roberto Rossellini
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57 Chinatown 1974 USA Roman Polanski
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56 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Czech Jirí Menzel
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55 Entre Nous 1983 France Diane Kurys
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54 Days of Being Wild 1990 Hong Kong Wong Kar-Wai
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53 Alien 1979 USA Ridley Scott
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[John-Connor]

84 The Talented Mr Ripley 1999 USA Anthony Minghella
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The Talented Mr Ripley was on my old list but I recently replaced it with Purple Noon. Have you seen it already? Reason I ask is because it's more in line 'stylistically' with the rest of your list.

[Robert the List]

The Talented Mr Ripley was on my old list but I recently replaced it with Purple Noon. Have you seen it already? Reason I ask is because it's more in line 'stylistically' with the rest of your list.
I don't think I watched all of it, but I've checked it out before.
I'll stick it on my (pretty short actually) to-watch-list though and give it another try.
I think Minghella does a really good job of it though, and love the cast.

[Robert the List]

52 The Roaring Twenties 1939 USA Raoul Walsh
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51 In the Mood for Love 2000 Hong Kong Kar-Wai Wong
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50 Key Largo 1948 USA John Huston
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49 Bob the Gambler 1956 France Jean-Pierre Melville
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48 La Notte 1951 Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
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47 E.T. The Extra Terrestrial 1982 USA Steven Spielberg
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46 When Harry Met Sally 1989 USA Rob Reiner
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45 The Lighthouse 2019 USA Robert Eggers
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44 Wall-E 2008 Japan/US Andrew Stanton
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43 Il Postino 1996 Italy Michael Radford
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[Robert the List]

42 Argo 2012 USA Ben Affleck
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41 Journey to Italy 1954 Italy Roberto Rossellini
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40 There Will be Blood 2008 USA Joel and Ethan Cohen
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39 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
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38 The Colour of Pomegranates 1969 USSR/Armenia Sergey Paradzhanov
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37 Blue Velvet 1986 USA David Lynch
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36 The Godfather 1972 USA Francis Ford Copolla
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35 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 France Jacques Demy
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34 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 USA Maya Deren
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33 McCabe and Mrs Miller 1971 USA Robert Altman
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[Mr Minio]

Weird top that mixes masterpieces of world cinema with normie fodder.

[Robert the List]

Weird top that mixes masterpieces of world cinema with normie fodder.
Let's hear more about the normie fodder!!

[Robert the List]

32 The Player 1992 USA Robert Altman
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31 Apocalypse Now 1979 USA Francis Ford Copolla
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30 The Passenger 1975 Italy/Spain Michelangelo Antonioni
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29 The Music Room/Jalsaghar 1958 India Satyajit Ray
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28 High and Low 1963 Japan Akira Kurosawa
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27 L.A. Confidential 1997 USA Curtis Hanson
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26 Lola 1961 France Jacques Demy
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25 Point Blank 1967 USA John Boorman
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24 No Country for Old Men 2007 USA Joel and Ethan Cohen
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23 Jaws 1975 USA Steven Spielberg
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[Mr Minio]

Let's hear more about the normie fodder!! Just some weaker mainstream stuff between masterpieces.

[Robert the List]

22. North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock
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[KeyserCorleone]

Along with Se7en, we share Pulp Fiction, Alien, The Lighthouse, The Godfather, The Player, L.A. Confidential and No Country for Old Men. An honorable mention is Blue Velvet.

[Robert the List]

21 Rear Window 1954 USA Alfred Hitchcock
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20 Don't Look Now 1973 UK Nicholas Roeg
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19 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France Carl Theodor Dreyer
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18 Onibaba 1964 Japan Kaneto Shindô
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17 The Third Man 1949 UK Carol Reed
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[Robert the List]

16 Barry Lyndon 1975 UK Stanley Kubrick
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15 The Wizard of Oz 1939 USA Victor Fleming
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14 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 UK David Lean
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13 Distant/Uzak 2002 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
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12 The Sound of Music 1965 USA Robert Wise
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[KeyserCorleone]

Rear Window, Joan of Arc, Wizard of Oz and The Sound of Music are in my top 100 as well, and Barry Lyndon is my number 2 Kubrick.

[SpelingError]

I love the variety of countries/decades you have here so far. Are you on Letterboxd?

[Robert the List]

I love the variety of countries/decades you have here so far. Are you on Letterboxd?
Thanks very much. Glad you've appreciated the list :)
I gave it a lot of though, and spent a lot of time on the order, particularly the top 40 or so!
No, I only found out about it a couple of days ago on here. Actually, I lie, yes I did open an account, but then I couldn't really work out the point of it so didn't do anything with it.

[KeyserCorleone]

Thanks very much. Glad you've appreciated the list :)
I gave it a lot of though, and spent a lot of time on the order, particularly the top 40 or so!
No, I only found out about it a couple of days ago on here. Actually, I lie, yes I did open an account, but then I couldn't really work out the point of it so didn't do anything with it.


Letterboxd is excellent for keeping lists.

[SpelingError]

I prefer Letterboxd over IMDb as the various sorting options for your lists are more intricate and there's the social aspect of following your friends. I'm not a Pro or Patron subscriber though, so I'm definitely missing out on some other features.

[Robert the List]

11 Mulholland Drive 2001 USA David Lynch
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10 Psycho 1960 USA Alfred Hitchcock
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9 The Bridge On The River Kwai 1957 UK David Lean
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[Robert the List]

8 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 UK Stanley Kubrick
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7 The Graduate 1967 USA Mike Nichols
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6 Blade Runner (Director’s Cut) 1982 USA Ridley Scott
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[stillmellow]

No reason why anyone should be the least bit interested, but I pretty much have my 100 ready. Just need to sort out some brief commentary and/or photos or whatever (something to make it look a bit interesting).

Looking at a couple of others, the standard method seems to be to do it 10 films at a time?

I've broadly used the following criteria:
-technical and innovation
-visual beauty
-emotional involvement/how engrossing the film is
-how otherwise absorbing/enjoyable it is

Unless I make any last minute changes to the tailenders, these are my 100:

The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France Carl Theodor Dreyer
Blackmail 1929 UK Alfred Hitchcock
The Blue Angel 1930 Germany Josef von Sternberg
Scarface 1932 USA Howard Hawks
Shanghai Express 1932 USA Josef von Sternberg
Port of Shadows 1938 France Marcel Carné
The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 USA Michael Curtiz
The Roaring Twenties 1939 USA Raoul Walsh
The Wizard of Oz 1939 USA Victor Fleming
Day of Wrath 1943 Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer
Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 USA Maya Deren
Laura 1944 USA Otto Preminger
Rome, Open City 1945 Italy Roberto Rossellini
My Darling Clementine 1946 USA John Ford
Panique 1946 France Julien Duvivier
Out of the Past 1947 USA Jacques Tourneur
Key Largo 1948 USA John Huston
The Third Man 1949 UK Carol Reed
A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 USA Elia Kazan
Journey to Italy 1954 Italy Roberto Rossellini
On the Waterfront 1954 USA Elia Kazan
Rear Window 1954 USA Alfred Hitchcock
Bob the Gambler 1956 France Jean-Pierre Melville
12 Angry Men 1957 USA Sydney Lumet
Bridge On The River Kwai 1957 UK David Lean
The Music Room/Jalsaghar 1958 India Satyajit Ray
Touch of Evil 1958 USA Orson Welles
Psycho 1960 USA Alfred Hitchcock
La Notte 1961 Italy Michaelangelo Antonioni
Last Year at Marienbad 1961 France Alain Resnais
Lola 1961 France Jacques Demy
Lawrence of Arabia 1962 UK David Lean
Bay of Angels 1963 France Jacques Demy
High and Low 1963 Japan Akira Kurosawa
le mepris 1963 France Jean Luc Godard
The Birds 1963 USA Alfred Hitchcock
The Leopard 1963 Italy Luciano Visconti
Onibaba 1964 Japan Kaneto Shindô
Soy Cuba 1964 USSR Mikhail Kalatozov
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 France Jacques Demy
For a Few Dollars More 1965 Italy Sergio Leone
Pierrot Le Fou 1965 France Jean Luc Godard
The Sound of Music 1965 USA Robert Wise
Blow-up 1966 UK/Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
Closely Watched Trains 1966 Czech Jirí Menzel
Point Blank 1967 USA John Boorman
The Graduate 1967 USA Mike Nichols
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 UK Stanley Kubrick
Oliver 1968 UK Carol Reed
The Colour of Pomegranates 1969 USSR/Armenia Sergey Paradzhanov
McCabe and Mrs Miller 1971 USA Robert Altman
Cabaret 1972 USA Bob Fosse
The Godfather 1972 USA Francis Ford Copolla
Badlands 1973 USA Trevor Malick
Don't Look Now 1973 UK Nicholas Roeg
Mean Streets 1973 USA Martin Scorsese
Chinatown 1974 USA Roman Polanski
Barry Lyndon 1975 UK Stanley Kubrick
Dog Day Afternoon 1975 USA Sidney Lumet
Jaws 1975 USA Steven Spielberg
The Passenger 1975 Italy/Spain Michelangelo Antonioni
Taxi Driver 1976 USA Martin Scorsese
Alien 1979 USA Ridley Scott
Apocalypse Now 1979 USA Francis Ford Copolla
Blade Runner (Director’s Cut) 1982 USA Ridley Scott
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial 1982 USA Steven Spielberg
The King of Comedy 1982 USA Martin Scorsese
Entre Nous 1983 France Diane Kurys
Ghostbusters 1984 USA Ivan Reitman
Homecoming 1984 Hong Kong Yim Ho
Blue Velvet 1986 USA David Lynch
Fatal Attraction 1987 USA Adrian Lyne
When Harry Met Sally 1989 USA Rob Reiner
Days of Being Wild 1990 Hong Kong Wong Kar-Wai
The Commitments 1991 Ireland Alan Parker
The Player 1992 USA Robert Altman
The Remains of the Day 1993 UK James Ivory
Pulp Fiction 1994 USA Quentin Tarantino
Vive L'Amour 1994 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang
Seven 1995 USA David Fincher
Il Postino 1996 Italy Michael Radford
Voices Through Time 1996 Italy Franco Piavoli
L.A. Confidential 1997 USA Curtis Hanson
Saving Private Ryan 1998 USA Steven Spielberg
The Talented Mr Ripley 1999 USA Anthony Minghella
Gladiator 2000 USA Ridley Scott
In the Mood for Love 2000 Hong Kong Kar-Wai Wong
Mulholland Drive 2001 USA David Lynch
Distant/Uzak 2002 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Donnie Darko (Director's cut) 2004 USA
Sideways 2004 USA Alexander Payne
No Country for Old Men 2007 USA Joel and Ethan Cohen
Let the Right One in 2008 Sweden Tomas Alfredson
There Will be Blood 2008 USA Joel and Ethan Cohen
Wall-E 2008 Japan/US Andrew Stanton
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Argo 2012 USA Ben Affleck
La La Land 2016 USA Damien Chazelle
The Lighthouse 2019 USA Robert Eggers



I award your list 13,000 points! New record!


You get 1,000 points for each of the following:


Meshes of the Afternoon, Let the Right One In, Laura, Wall-E, King of Comedy, Talented Mr Ripley, Point Blank, and specifying the 'director's cut' of Blade Runner


And you have unlocked a secret 5,000 point bonus: including the Birds, and not Vertigo

[Robert the List]

I found a new top 5 film last night, so am going to have to do some renumbering. Also to add in North by Northwest.

[Mr Minio]

I found a new top 5 film last night What was it?

[Robert the List]

What was it?
I posted it on the slow cinema thread last night.

[Robert the List]

I also moved Shindo to nr 3 in my directors list.

[Robert the List]

5 Vive L'Amour 1994 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang100001
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[Robert the List]

Apologies, my reaction on posting the images from my intended number 4 made me realise it should move up a slot.
So, trying again here with number 4

4 Blow-up 1966 UK/Italy Michelangelo Antonioni


It's funny, there are films which immediately after the first time I've watched, I had down as literally my number 1, and which don't even make my top 100 now. I can think of Network and Limelight off the top of my head.
Blow-up's the opposite. The first time I watched it I didn't like it. The hero is incredibly sexist, to the extent that it is irksome. Also, not very much happens during the first half and I wonder where it's going. But I love the pace of it. And other than the daft ending, I actually get into the story now. And it is such a beautiful film to look at. It's also by far I think the best film for seeing swinging 60s London, which is really interesting and cool.
There are other Antonioni's I love, such as The Passenger, which could easily have come a lot higher in my list, and which actually I probably have more love for. But, this one is such a visual treat, so here it is.

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[Robert the List]

100 that missed out

Birth of a Nation 1915 USA DW Griffith
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1916 USA Stuart Paton
Easy Street 1917 USA Charlie Chaplin
J'Accuse 1919 France Able Gancer
Way Down East 1919 USA DW Griffith
Broken Blossoms 1919 USA DW Griffith

Last of the Mohicans 1920 USA Maurice Tournier
The Kid 1921 USA Charlie Chaplin
The Thief of Bagdad 1924 USA Raoul Walsh
The General 1926 USA Buster Keaton
The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926 Germany Lotte Reiniger
Napoleon 1927 France Able Gancer
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927 USA Murnau
Pandora's Box 1929 Germany G.W. Pabst

M 1931 Germany Fritz Lang
Vampyr 1932 Germany Carl Theodor Dreyer
A Night At the Opera 1935 USA Sam Wood
Modern Times 1936 USA Charlie Chaplin
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 USA various

Rebecca 1940 UK Alfred Hitchcock
The Maltese Falcon 1941 USA John Huston
Casablanca 1942 USA Michael Curtiz
The Lady From Shanghai 1947 USA Orson Welles
Bicycle Thieves 1948 Italy Vittorio De Sica

Sunset Boulevard 1950 USA Billy Wilder
Limelight 1952 USA Charles Chaplin
La Strada 1954 Italy Federico Fellini
Rebel Without a Cause 1955 USA Nicholas Ray
The King and I 1956 USA Walter Lang
A Man Escaped 1956 France Robert Bresson
The Cranes are Flying 1957 USSR Mikhail Kalatozov
Paths of Glory 1957 USA Stanley Kubrick
The Defiant Ones 1958 USA Stanley Kramer
Black Orpheus 1959 Brazil Marcel Camus

One Eyed Jacks 1961 USA Marlon Brando
The Leopard 1963 Italy Visconti
Kwiadan 1964 Japan Masaki Kobayashi
A Fistful of Dollars 1964 Italy Sergio Leone
Repulsion 1965 UK Roman Polanski
A Man and a Woman 1966 France Claude Lelouch
Persona 1966 Sweden Ingemar Bergman
In The Heat of the Night 1967 USA Norman Jewison
Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 USA Sergio Leone
Oliver 1968 UK Carol Reed
Kuruneko/Black Cat 1968 Japan Kaneto Shindô
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 USA George Roy Hill
KES 1969 UK Ken Loach

Walkabout 1971 UK/Australia Nicholas Roeg
The Andromeda Strain 1971 USA Robert Wise
The Day of the Jackal 1973 France/UK Fred Zinnemann
The Exorcist 1973 USA William Friedkin
Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Germany Rainer Fassbender
The Godfather Part 2 1974 USA Francis Ford Copolla
Dursu Uzala 1975 Russia Karosawa
Network 1976 USA Sidney Lumet
Star Wars 1977 USA George Lucas

Body Heat 1981 USA Lawrence Kasdan
Paris, Texas 1984 USA Wim Wenders
The Terminator 1984 USA James Cameron
Beverley Hills Cop 1984 USA Martin Brest
Rain Man 1986 USA Barry Levinson
Manhunter 1986 USA Michael Mann
Dirty Dancing 1987 USA Emile Ardolino
Spoorloos The Vanishing 1988 France George Sluizer
Cinema Paradiso 1988 Italy Giuseppe Tornatore
Mississippi Burning 1988 USA Alan Parker
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 USA Steven Spielberg

State of Grace 1990 USA Phil Joanou
Goodfellas 1991 USA Martin Scorsese
Muriel's Wedding 1994 Australia P.J. Hogan
True Romance 1994 USA Tony Scott
Apollo 13 1995 USA Ron Howardd
Trees Lounge 1996 USA Steve Buscemi
Jackie Brown 1997 USA Quentin Tarantino
Taste of Cherry 1997 Iran Abbas Kiarostami

Sexy Beast 2000 UK Jonathan Glazer
The Others 2001 Spain Alejandro Amenábar
City of God 2002 Brazil Fernando Meirelles
Sideways 2004 USA Alexander Payne
The Lives of Others 2006 Germany Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
American Gangster 2007 USA Ridley Scott
Crazy Heart 2009 USA Scott Cooper
Fish Tank 2009 UK Andrea Arnold
Inglourious B*sterds 2009 USA Quentin Tarantino

Django Unchained 2012 USA Quentin Tarantino
Drive 2012 USA Nicolas Winding Refn
The Master 2012 USA Paul Thomas Anderson
Nightcrawler 2014 USA Dan Gilroy
Leviathan 2014 Russia Andrey Zvyagintsev
Whiplash 2014 USA Damien Chazelle
Embrace of the Serpent 2015 Colombia Ciro Guerra
Arrival 2016 USA Denis Villeneuve
Passenger 2016 USA Morten Tyldum
Dunkirk 2017 UK Dunkirk
Burning 2018 Korea Lee Chang Dong
Long Day's Journey into Night 2018 China Bi Gan
Roma 2019 Mexico Alfonso Cuarón
Birds of Passage 2019 Colombia Ciro Guerra

Palm Springs 2020 USA Max Barbakow
Aftersun 2022 UK Charlotte Wells

Also:
The Flying Train 1902 Germany N/A would have been in the 100, but I don't count it as a movie.

[Robert the List]

3 La La Land 2016 USA Damien Chazelle

It got me even doing the screenshots lol.

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[Robert the List]

2 Day of Wrath 1943 Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer
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[Robert the List]

1 The Naked Island 1960 Japan Kaneto Shindô

Now some might say it's a risk putting a film in you saw for the first time only a couple of days ago, and that most people have never heard of.
But what the hell. I love it.
For me it's a perfect little movie. So as to be clear, it starts off slow. If you skip the first 30 minutes, then you could argue you haven't missed any of the story. :laugh:
But I like that. It sets the tone. I think it was also very likely an inspiration for purveyors of the slow cinema genre which I love.
It is an absolutely stunning film to look at. I have so many screenshots in my collection from this film. And unlike some beautiful looking movies, it doesn't seem contrived. The beautiful shots fit nicely into the movie.
The set location is incredible. Up there with the London sewers in The Third Man, but they have a whole island! And it's the basis of the whole film!
It's a nice story. Simple, but it works. And it has a meaning. It has a meaning as deep about life as any film.
Also, the director has his own style and own way of structuring a film which I think's really cool.
There is a version of this on youtube. You don't need subtitles because there's no dialogue (although as with the greats of slow cinema, you don't really notice). But the youtube version is a bit blurry, and to get the most of it, you want to find a nice clear/sharp copy.
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Now some might say it's a risk putting a film in you saw for the first time only a couple of days ago, and that most people have never heard of.
But what the hell. I love it.
For me it's a perfect little movie. So as to be clear, it starts off slow. If you skip the first 30 minutes, then you could argue you haven't missed any of the story. :laugh:
But I like that. It sets the tone. I think it was also very likely an inspiration for purveyors of the slow cinema genre which I love.
It is an absolutely stunning film to look at. I have so many screenshots in my collection from this film. And unlike some beautiful looking movies, it doesn't seem contrived. The beautiful shots fit nicely into the movie.
The set location is incredible. Up there with the London sewers in The Third Man, but they have a whole island! And it's the basis of the whole film!
It's a nice story. Simple, but it works. And it has a meaning. It has a meaning as deep about life as any film.
Also, the director has his own style and own way of structuring a film which I think's really cool.
There is a version of this on youtube. You don't need subtitles because there's no dialogue (although as with the greats of slow cinema, you don't really notice). But the youtube version is a bit blurry, and to get the most of it, you want to find a nice clear/sharp copy.
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Which movie is that from?

[KeyserCorleone]

He listed it on the OP. The Naked Island.

[Robert the List]

Which movie is that from?
After all that, and I forgot to put the title of my number 1 in, lol. :laugh:

[Mr Minio]

Nothing to nitpick when it comes to your (new) #1. At least you picked an actual masterpiece, and this is already more than I'd expect from a MoFo.

[KeyserCorleone]

Nothing to nitpick when it comes to your (new) #1. At least you picked an actual masterpiece, and this is already more than I'd expect from a MoFo.


Well thanks a lot.

[Robert the List]

Well thanks a lot.
:laugh:

I'm sure he didn't mean it.

Obviously most people on here are very knowledgeable about and have a great love for movies. I'm pleased if I don't look too out of place/amateur by comparison.

[Mr Minio]

i did

[Robert the List]

Well then I am pleased for my beginner's luck.
Thank you for the compliment Mr Minio.

I hope that my list provided some interest to a few who generously engaged.
Maybe somebody will find something new from it that they like.
Thanks to all who took the time to take a look.

[Robert the List]

Since doing this list, I've added the following which I have since watched for the first time:

9 Salt for Svanetia 1930 Georgia Mikhael Kalatazov
11 Alphaville 1965 France Jean-Luc Godard
27 Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 France Agnès Varda
29 Man With a Movie Camera 1929 Soviet Union Dziga Vertov
30 Pather Panchali 1955 India Satyijat Ray
37 Killer of Sheep 1977 USA Charles Burnett

Positions provisional in case of recency bias.

Le Cousin Jim, is not included as I consider it a documentary.

[exiler96]

La La Land has such little staying power. I enjoyed it while I was watching it but literally the next morning couldn't give a damn about it lol.

[Robert the List]

Adding the following films from Criterion Collection pre 1970 to my list (of currently around 230).
Top (i.e. listed last) 3 would definitely be in my top 100. Sromboli probably. Killing and Hairpin maybe.

3:10 To Yuma 1957 USA Delmer Daves
Dragon Inn 1967 Taiwan King Hu
The Killing 1955 USA Stanley Kubrick

Ornamental Hairpin 1941 Japan Hiroshi Shimizu
Stromboli 1950 Italy Roberto Rossellini

Stolen Kisses 1968 France François Truffaut
Anatomy of a Murder 1959 USA Otto Preminger
Sanshiro Sugata 1943 Japan Akira Kurosawa

[Wyldesyde19]

Ornamental Hairpin is pretty great.
I just watched Humanity and Paper Balloons (shout out to Minio for getting both of these on my radar years ago) and it was also a great film worth watching, if you haven’t yet.

[Robert the List]

Ornamental Hairpin is pretty great.
I just watched Humanity and Paper Balloons (shout out to Minio for getting both of these on my radar years ago) and it was also a great film worth watching, if you haven’t yet.
I've had an argument with him on another thread about Hairpin.
Goes down this page and half way down the next page (ends with him accusing me of trolling)
https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=10846&page=4161

[Wyldesyde19]

I've had an argument with him on another thread about Hairpin.
Goes down this page and half way down the next page (ends with him accusing me of trolling)
https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=10846&page=4161
I didn’t find Hairpin either daft, or disjointed either. It was, to me, pretty coherent when you consider she ran to the injured man because she saw him as a possible means to a new life when you understand what she was running from.
That final scene where she sits at the stream with sadness as she knows she can never return to her old life after she helplessly watches a chance at a possible new life, and a possible happier one, hits me with the feels.
One of the few times I’m with Minio here.

[Robert the List]

I didn’t find Hairpin either daft, or disjointed either. It was, to me, pretty coherent when you consider she ran to the injured man because she saw him as a possible means to a new life when you understand what she was running from.
That final scene where she sits at the stream with sadness as she knows she can never return to her old life after she helplessly watches a chance at a possible new life, and a possible happier one, hits me with the feels.
One of the few times I’m with Minio here.
My main issue is with the limping (and cheering).

[Robert the List]

The following from this exercise (ongoing) are currently provisionally in my top 100:

The Runner (1984)
Stolen Kisses (1968)
Stromboli (1950)
Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Taipei Story (1985)

others added to my top 250:
Ornamental Hairpin
The Killing
A Touch of Zen
Dragon Inn (original)
The Friends of Eddie Doyle
3:10 To Yuma (original)

[beelzebubble]

Love Anatomy of a Murder.

[Robert the List]

I'll update my top 100 tomorrow, but these were the ones I found from my sweep through the Criterion Collection (provisional rankings of these films):


15. 3:10 To Yuma (1957) 8.5
14. Dragon Inn (1967) 8.5
13. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) 8.5
12. The Double Life of Veronique (1991) 8.5
11. The Killing (1956) 8.75
10. Ornamental Hairpin (1941) 8.75
9. A Touch of Zen (1971) 8.75
8. Frances Ha (2013) 9
7. Stromboli (1950) 9.25
6. Stolen Kisses (1968) 9.25
5. The Runner (1984) 9.25
4. The Match Factory Girl (1990) 9.25
3. Sanshiro Sugata (1943) 9.5
2. Anatomy of a Murder (1959) 9.5
1. Taipei Story (1985) 9.75

I'd reckon the top 8 will make my overall top 100.

[Robert the List]

Updated list. Not finished the order yet (not going to repost them all :laugh:)

The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France Carl Theodor Dreyer
Blackmail 1929 UK Alfred Hitchcock
Salt for Svanetia 1930 Georgia Mikhael Kalatazov
The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 USA Michael Curtiz
The Wizard of Oz 1939 USA Victor Fleming
Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 USA Maya Deren
Sanshiro Sugata 1943 Japan Akira Kurosawa
Day of Wrath 1943 Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer
Laura 1944 USA Otto Preminger
Panique 1946 France Julien Duvivier
My Darling Clementine 1946 USA John Ford
Out of the Past 1947 USA Jacques Tourneur
The Third Man 1949 UK Carol Reed
Stromboli 1950 Italy Roberto Rossellini
Journey to Italy 1954 Italy Roberto Rossellini
Rear Window 1954 USA Alfred Hitchcock
The Killing 1955 USA Stanley Kubrick
La Point Courte 1955 France Agnès Varda
Pather Panchali 1955 India Satyijat Ray
reinstated: Bob the Gambler 1956 France Jean-Pierre Melville
12 Angry Men 1957 USA Sydney Lumet
Bridge On The River Kwai 1957 UK David Lean
The Music Room/Jalsaghar 1958 India Satyajit Ray
North by Northwest 1959 USA Alfred Hitchcock
Anatomy of a Murder 1959 USA Otto Preminger
Psycho 1960 USA Alfred Hitchcock
The Naked Island 1960 Japan Kaneto Shindô
Last Year at Marienbad 1961 France Alain Resnais
La Notte 1961 Italy Michaelangelo Antonioni
Lola 1961 France Jacques Demy
Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 France Agnès Varda
Lawrence of Arabia 1962 UK David Lean
High and Low 1963 Japan Akira Kurosawa
Soy Cuba 1964 USSR Mikhail Kalatozov
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 France Jacques Demy
Onibaba 1964 Japan Kaneto Shindô
Le Bonheur 1965 France Agnès Varda
Alphaville 1965 France Jean-Luc Godard
The Sound of Music 1965 USA Robert Wise
Closely Watched Trains 1966 Czech Jirí Menzel
Blow-up 1966 UK/Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
Dragon Inn 1967 Taiwan King Hu
Point Blank 1967 USA John Boorman
The Graduate 1967 USA Mike Nichols
Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 USA Sergio Leone
Stolen Kisses 1968 France François Truffaut
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 UK Stanley Kubrick
reinstated: The Colour of Pomegranates 1969 USSR/Armenia Sergey Paradzhanov
KES 1969 UK Ken Loach
The Andromeda Strain 1971 USA Robert Wise
McCabe and Mrs Miller 1971 USA Robert Altman
A Touch of Zen 1971 Taiwan King Hu
The Godfather 1972 USA Francis Ford Copolla
*Badlands 1973 USA Trevor Malick
The Day of the Jackal 1973 France/UK Fred Zinnemann
Mean Streets 1973 USA Martin Scorsese
Don't Look Now 1973 UK Nicholas Roeg
Chinatown 1974 USA Roman Polanski
Jaws 1975 USA Steven Spielberg
The Passenger 1975 Italy/Spain Michelangelo Antonioni
Barry Lyndon 1975 UK Stanley Kubrick
Taxi Driver 1976 USA Martin Scorsese
Star Wars: a New Hope 1977 USA George Lucas
Apocalypse Now 1979 USA Francis Ford Copolla
Alien 1979 USA Ridley Scott
Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 USA Steven Spielberg
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial 1982 USA Steven Spielberg
Blade Runner (Director’s Cut) 1982 USA Ridley Scott
Entre Nous 1983 France Diane Kurys
The Terminator 1984 USA James Cameron
Homecoming 1984 Hong Kong Yim Ho
Ghostbusters 1984 USA Ivan Reitman
Paris, Texas 1984 USA Wim Wenders
The Runner 1984 Iran Amir Naderi
Taipei Story 1985 Taiwan Edward Yang
Blue Velvet 1986 USA David Lynch
Days of Being Wild 1990 Hong Kong Wong Kar-Wai
The Commitments 1991 Ireland Alan Parker
The Player 1992 USA Robert Altman
The Remains of the Day 1993 UK James Ivory
Pulp Fiction 1994 USA Quentin Tarantino
Vive L'Amour 1994 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang
Seven 1995 USA David Fincher
Voices Through Time 1996 Italy Franco Piavoli
L.A. Confidential 1997 USA Curtis Hanson
Saving Private Ryan 1998 USA Steven Spielberg
Sexy Beast 2000 UK Jonathan Glazer
In the Mood for Love 2000 Hong Kong Kar-Wai Wong
Gladiator 2000 USA Ridley Scott
Mulholland Drive 2001 USA David Lynch
City of God 2002 Brazil Fernando Meirelles
Distant/Uzak 2002 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Donnie Darko (Director's cut) 2004 USA Richard Kelly
No Country for Old Men 2007 USA Joel and Ethan Cohen
There Will be Blood 2008 USA Paul Thomas Anderson
Wall-E 2008 USA Andrew Stanton
Frances Ha 2012 USA Noah Baumbach
Argo 2012 USA Ben Affleck
La La Land 2016 USA Damien Chazelle
The Lighthouse 2019 USA Robert Eggers

[Robert the List]

So the following dropped out:
100 For a Few Dollars More 1965 Italy Sergio Leone
99 Shanghai Express 1932 USA Josef von Sternberg
97 Le Mepris 1963 France Jean Luc Godard
95 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 USA Elia Kazan
93 Pierrot Le Fou 1965 France Jean Luc Godard
92 On the Waterfront 1954 USA Elia Kazan
90 Fatal Attraction 1987 USA Adrian Lyne
87 Bay of Angels 1963 France Jacques Demy
86 The Talented Mr Ripley 1999 USA Anthony Minghella
85 Withnail & I 1987 UK Bruce Robinson
80 The King of Comedy 1982 USA Martin Scorsese
73 Cabaret 1972 USA Bob Fosse
69 The Blue Angel 1930 Germany Josef von Sternberg
67 Let the Right One in 2008 Sweden Tomas Alfredson
66 Touch of Evil 1958 USA Orson Welles
65 The Birds 1963 USA Alfred Hitchcock
63 Scarface 1932 USA Howard Hawks
58 Rome, Open City 1945 Italy Roberto Rossellini
50 Key Largo 1948 USA John Huston
46 When Harry Met Sally 1989 USA Rob Reiner
43 Il Postino 1996 Italy Michael Radford
39 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan

sorry, not very consistent :(

[Robert the List]

The following have joined:
Salt for Svanetia 1930 Georgia Mikhael Kalatazov NEW
Sanshiro Sugata 1943 Japan Akira Kurosawa NEW
Stromboli 1950 Italy Roberto Rossellini NEW
The Killing 1955 USA Stanley Kubrick NEW
La Point Courte 1955 France Agnès Varda NEW
Pather Panchali 1955 India Satyijat Ray NEW
Anatomy of a Murder 1959 USA Otto Preminger NEW
Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 France Agnès Varda NEW
Le Bonheur 1965 France Agnès Varda NEW
Alphaville 1965 France Jean-Luc Godard PROMOTED
Dragon Inn 1967 Taiwan King Hu NEW
Stolen Kisses 1968 France François Truffaut NEW
KES 1969 UK Ken Loach PROMOTED
The Andromeda Strain 1971 USA Robert Wise PROMOTED
A Touch of Zen 1971 Taiwan King Hu NEW
The Day of the Jackal 1973 France/UK Fred Zinnemann PROMOTED
Star Wars: a New Hope 1977 USA George Lucas PROMOTED
The Terminator 1984 USA James Cameron PROMOTED
The Runner 1984 Iran Amir Naderi NEW
Taipei Story 1985 Taiwan Edward Yang NEW
Sexy Beast 2000 UK Jonathan Glazer PROMOTED
City of God 2002 Brazil Fernando Meirelles PROMOTED
Frances Ha 2012 USA Noah Baumbach NEW

[John-Connor]

100 For a Few Dollars More 1965 Italy Sergio Leone
92 On the Waterfront 1954 USA Elia Kazan
63 Scarface 1932 USA Howard Hawks
49 Bob the Gambler 1956 France Jean-Pierre Melville
43 Il Postino 1996 Italy Michael Radford
Totally agree and understand all the drops except for these five ^ quoted.

[Robert the List]

Totally agree and understand all the drops except for these five ^ quoted.

I've actually just stuck Bob the Gambler and Color of Pomegrantes back in for Inglourious Basterds and Embrace of the Serpent.
Yeah, Scarface is tough I agree.

[Robert the List]

I'll add 150-101, but here is my revised top 100:

1 Blade Runner (Director's Cut) 1992 USA Ridley Scott
2 The Naked Island 1960 Japan Kaneto Shindô
3 Apocalypse Now 1979 USA Francis Ford Copolla
4 Roma 2018 Mexico Alfonso Cuarón
5 Rear Window 1954 USA Alfred Hitchcock
6 Salt for Svanetia 1930 Georgia Mikhael Kalatazov
7 Day of Wrath 1943 Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer
8 La La Land 2016 USA Damien Chazelle
9 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 UK Stanley Kubrick
10 Uzak 2002 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
11 Alien 1979 USA Ridley Scott
12 Psycho 1960 USA Alfred Hitchcock
13 Vive L'Amour 1994 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang
14 Saving Private Ryan 1998 USA Steven Spielberg
15 Alphaville 1965 France Jean-Luc Godard
16 High and Low 1963 Japan Akira Kurosawa
17 Donnie Darko 2001 USA Richard Kelly
18 Journey to Italy 1954 Italy Roberto Rossellini
19 McCabe and Mrs Miller 1971 USA Robert Altman
20 Barry Lyndon 1975 UK Stanley Kubrick
21 The Godfather Part 2 1974 USA Francis Ford Copolla
22 For a Few Dollars More 1965 Italy Sergio Leone
23 The Third Man 1949 UK Carol Reed
24 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 UK David Lean
25 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 USA Otto Preminger
26 Pather Panchali 1955 India Satyijat Ray
27 L.A. Confidential 1997 USA Curtis Hanson
28 Embrace of the Serpent 2016 Colombia Ciro Guerra
29 The Commitments 1991 Ireland Alan Parker
30 The Passenger 1975 Italy/Spain Michelangelo Antonioni
31 Don't Look Now 1973 UK Nicholas Roeg
32 Blackmail 1929 UK Alfred Hitchcock
33 North by Northwest 1959 USA Alfred Hitchcock
34 The Day of the Jackal 1973 France/UK Fred Zinnemann
35 Blow-up 1966 UK/Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
36 Out of the Past 1947 USA Jacques Tourneur
37 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1936 USA various
38 The Andromeda Strain 1971 USA Robert Wise
39 La Notte 1961 Italy Michaelangelo Antonioni
40 E.T. The Extra Terrestrial 1982 USA Steven Spielberg
41 No Country for Old Men 2007 USA Joel and Ethan Cohen
42 The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926 Germany Lotte Reiniger
43 Bob the Gambler 1956 France Jean-Pierre Melville
44 The Terminator 1984 USA James Cameron
45 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Czech Jirí Menzel
46 In the Mood for Love 2000 Hong Kong Kar-Wai Wong
47 The Music Room 1958 India Satyajit Ray
48 The Runner 1984 Iran Amir Naderi
49 Le Bonheur 1965 France Agnès Varda
50 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France Carl Theodor Dreyer
51 Panique 1946 France Julien Duvivier
52 Onibaba 1964 Japan Kaneto Shindô
53 The Player 1992 USA Robert Altman
54 At First Sight 1983 France Diane Kurys
55 The Master 2012 USA Paul Thomas Anderson
56 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 USA Steven Spielberg
57 Lola 1961 France Jacques Demy
58 Days of Being Wild 1990 Hong Kong Wong Kar-Wai
59 The King of Comedy 1982 USA Martin Scorsese
60 KES 1969 UK Ken Loach
61 Casablanca 1942 USA Michael Curtiz
62 My Darling Clementine 1946 USA John Ford
63 The Godfather 1972 USA Francis Ford Copolla
64 La Point Courte 1955 France Agnès Varda
65 On the Waterfront 1954 USA Elia Kazan
66 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 France Alain Resnais
67 Pulp Fiction 1994 USA Quentin Tarantino
68 Jaws 1975 USA Steven Spielberg
69 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 USA John M Stahl
70 The Lighthouse 2019 USA Robert Eggers
71 Rebel Without a Cause 1955 USA Nicholas Ray
72 Taipei Story 1985 Taiwan Edward Yang
73 Bridge On The River Kwai 1957 UK David Lean
74 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
75 The Wizard of Oz 1939 USA Victor Fleming
76 The Colour of Pomegranates 1969 USSR/Armenia Sergey Paradzhanov
77 Django Unchained 2012 USA Quentin Tarantino
78 Mulholland Drive 2001 USA David Lynch
79 Blue Velvet 1986 USA David Lynch
80 Le Mepris 1963 France Jean Luc Godard
81 A Touch of Zen 1971 Taiwan King Hu
82 Seven 1995 USA David Fincher
83 Wall-E 2008 USA Andrew Stanton
84 Manhunter 1986 USA Michael Mann
85 The Graduate 1967 USA Mike Nichols
86 The Remains of the Day 1993 UK James Ivory
87 The Others 2001 Spain Alejandro Amenábar
88 Bay of Angels 1963 France Jacques Demy
89 Argo 2012 USA Ben Affleck
90 Key Largo 1948 USA John Huston
91 Frances Ha 2012 USA Noah Baumbach
92 Rebels of the Neon God 1992 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang
93 Vampyr 1932 Germany Carl Theodor Dreyer
94 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 USA Michael Curtiz
95 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 USA Sergio Leone
96 There Will be Blood 2008 USA Paul Thomas Anderson
97 Cabaret 1972 USA Bob Fosse
98 The Sound of Music 1965 USA Robert Wise
99 Bicycle Thieves 1948 Italy Vittorio De Sica
100 Scarface 1932 USA Howard Hawks

[Robert the List]

In date order:
The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926 Germany Lotte Reiniger
The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France Carl Theodor Dreyer
Blackmail 1929 UK Alfred Hitchcock
Salt for Svanetia 1930 Georgia Mikhael Kalatazov
Vampyr 1932 Germany Carl Theodor Dreyer
Scarface 1932 USA Howard Hawks
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1936 USA various
The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 USA Michael Curtiz
The Wizard of Oz 1939 USA Victor Fleming
Casablanca 1942 USA Michael Curtiz
Day of Wrath 1943 Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer
Leave Her to Heaven 1945 USA John M Stahl
Panique 1946 France Julien Duvivier
My Darling Clementine 1946 USA John Ford
Out of the Past 1947 USA Jacques Tourneur
Key Largo 1948 USA John Huston
Bicycle Thieves 1948 Italy Vittorio De Sica
The Third Man 1949 UK Carol Reed
Rear Window 1954 USA Alfred Hitchcock
Journey to Italy 1954 Italy Roberto Rossellini
On the Waterfront 1954 USA Elia Kazan
Pather Panchali 1955 India Satyijat Ray
La Point Courte 1955 France Agnès Varda
Rebel Without a Cause 1955 USA Nicholas Ray
Bob the Gambler 1956 France Jean-Pierre Melville
Bridge On The River Kwai 1957 UK David Lean
The Music Room 1958 India Satyajit Ray
Anatomy of a Murder 1959 USA Otto Preminger
North by Northwest 1959 USA Alfred Hitchcock
The Naked Island 1960 Japan Kaneto Shindô
Psycho 1960 USA Alfred Hitchcock
La Notte 1961 Italy Michaelangelo Antonioni
Lola 1961 France Jacques Demy
Last Year at Marienbad 1961 France Alain Resnais
Lawrence of Arabia 1962 UK David Lean
High and Low 1963 Japan Akira Kurosawa
Le Mepris 1963 France Jean Luc Godard
Bay of Angels 1963 France Jacques Demy
Onibaba 1964 Japan Kaneto Shindô
Alphaville 1965 France Jean-Luc Godard
For a Few Dollars More 1965 Italy Sergio Leone
Le Bonheur 1965 France Agnès Varda
The Sound of Music 1965 USA Robert Wise
Blow-up 1966 UK/Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
Closely Watched Trains 1966 Czech Jirí Menzel
The Graduate 1967 USA Mike Nichols
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 UK Stanley Kubrick
Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 USA Sergio Leone
KES 1969 UK Ken Loach
The Colour of Pomegranates 1969 USSR/Armenia Sergey Paradzhanov
McCabe and Mrs Miller 1971 USA Robert Altman
The Andromeda Strain 1971 USA Robert Wise
A Touch of Zen 1971 Taiwan King Hu
The Godfather 1972 USA Francis Ford Copolla
Cabaret 1972 USA Bob Fosse
Don't Look Now 1973 UK Nicholas Roeg
The Day of the Jackal 1973 France/UK Fred Zinnemann
The Godfather Part 2 1974 USA Francis Ford Copolla
Barry Lyndon 1975 UK Stanley Kubrick
The Passenger 1975 Italy/Spain Michelangelo Antonioni
Jaws 1975 USA Steven Spielberg
Apocalypse Now 1979 USA Francis Ford Copolla
Alien 1979 USA Ridley Scott
Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 USA Steven Spielberg
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial 1982 USA Steven Spielberg
The King of Comedy 1982 USA Martin Scorsese
At First Sight 1983 France Diane Kurys
The Terminator 1984 USA James Cameron
The Runner 1984 Iran Amir Naderi
Taipei Story 1985 Taiwan Edward Yang
Blue Velvet 1986 USA David Lynch
Manhunter 1986 USA Michael Mann
Days of Being Wild 1990 Hong Kong Wong Kar-Wai
The Commitments 1991 Ireland Alan Parker
Blade Runner (Director's Cut) 1992 USA Ridley Scott
The Player 1992 USA Robert Altman
Rebels of the Neon God 1992 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang
The Remains of the Day 1993 UK James Ivory
Vive L'Amour 1994 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang
Pulp Fiction 1994 USA Quentin Tarantino
Seven 1995 USA David Fincher
L.A. Confidential 1997 USA Curtis Hanson
Saving Private Ryan 1998 USA Steven Spielberg
In the Mood for Love 2000 Hong Kong Kar-Wai Wong
Donnie Darko 2001 USA Richard Kelly
Mulholland Drive 2001 USA David Lynch
The Others 2001 Spain Alejandro Amenábar
Uzak 2002 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
No Country for Old Men 2007 USA Joel and Ethan Cohen
Wall-E 2008 USA Andrew Stanton
There Will be Blood 2008 USA Paul Thomas Anderson
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
The Master 2012 USA Paul Thomas Anderson
Django Unchained 2012 USA Quentin Tarantino
Argo 2012 USA Ben Affleck
Frances Ha 2012 USA Noah Baumbach
La La Land 2016 USA Damien Chazelle
Embrace of the Serpent 2016 Colombia Ciro Guerra
Roma 2018 Mexico Alfonso Cuarón
The Lighthouse 2019 USA Robert Eggers

[Robert the List]

The following have joined:
The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926
Vampyr 1932
Scarface 1932
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1936
Casablanca 1942
Leave Her to Heaven 1945
Key Largo 1948
Bicycle Thieves 1948
On the Waterfront 1954
Rebel Without a Cause 1955
Le Mepris 1963
Bay of Angels 1963
For a Few Dollars More 1965
Cabaret 1972
The Godfather Part 2 1974
The King of Comedy 1982
Manhunter 1986
Rebels of the Neon God 1992
The Others 2001
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011
The Master 2012
Django Unchained
Embrace of the Serpent 2016
Roma 2018


Replacing these drop outs:
Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 USA Maya Deren
Sanshiro Sugata 1943 Japan Akira Kurosawa
Laura 1944 USA Otto Preminger
Stromboli 1950 Italy Roberto Rossellini
The Killing 1955 USA Stanley Kubrick
12 Angry Men 1957 USA Sydney Lumet
Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 France Agnès Varda
Soy Cuba 1964 USSR Mikhail Kalatozov
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 France Jacques Demy
Dragon Inn 1967 Taiwan King Hu
Point Blank 1967 USA John Boorman
Stolen Kisses 1968 France François Truffaut
Badlands 1973 USA Trevor Malick
Mean Streets 1973 USA Martin Scorsese
Chinatown 1974 USA Roman Polanski
Taxi Driver 1976 USA Martin Scorsese (unlucky)
Star Wars: a New Hope 1977 USA George Lucas
Homecoming 1984 Hong Kong Yim Ho (unlucky)
Ghostbusters 1984 USA Ivan Reitman
Paris, Texas 1984 USA Wim Wenders
Voices Through Time 1996 Italy Franco Piavoli
Sexy Beast 2000 UK Jonathan Glazer
Gladiator 2000 USA Ridley Scott
City of God 2002 Brazil Fernando Meirelles

[Robert the List]

I have my 150-101 ready, but will hold off posting out of respect for the MOFO musicals countdown.
Don't want to steal its glory. ;)
(joking)
(although I do have it ready)
(but noone cares)

[John W Constantine]

Your list making is impressive. Reminds me of a younger less bored me.

[KeyserCorleone]

Shame about the Varda movies, but yes, I'm loving its progression and shifts.

[Robert the List]

Shame about the Varda movies, but yes, I'm loving its progression and shifts.
Oh wow, that's awesome to hear, thank you. :)

[Robert the List]

Just to get this off my desk:

101 Brief Encounter 1945 UK David Lean
102 Taste of Cherry 1997 Iran Abbas Kiarostami
103 Taxi Driver 1976 USA Martin Scorsese
104 Homecoming 1984 Hong Kong Yim Ho
105 M 1931 Germany Fritz Lang
106 Touch of Evil 1958 USA Orson Welles
107 Pierrot Le Fou 1965 France Jean Luc Godard
108 Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Germany Rainer Fassbender
109 Port of Shadows 1938 France Marcel Carné
110 Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 France Agnès Varda
111 Body Heat 1981 USA Lawrence Kasdan
112 Withnail & I 1987 UK Bruce Robinson
113 Stolen Kisses 1968 France François Truffaut
114 Mean Streets 1973 USA Martin Scorsese
115 Chinatown 1974 USA Roman Polanski
116 Network 1976 USA Sidney Lumet
117 L'Argent 1983 France Robert Bresson
118 Paris, Texas 1984 USA Wim Wenders
119 When Harry Met Sally 1989 USA Rob Reiner
120 Arrival 2016 USA Denis Villeneuve
121 Kuruneko/Black Cat 1968 Japan Kaneto Shindô
122 Soy Cuba 1964 USSR Mikhail Kalatozov
123= The Blue Angel 1930 Germany Josef von Sternberg
123= The Roaring Twenties 1939 USA Raoul Walsh
123= Gone With the Wind 1939 USA Victor Fleming
123= Laura 1944 USA Otto Preminger
123= Rome, Open City 1945 Italy Roberto Rossellini
123= Stromboli (italian version) 1950 Italy Roberto Rossellini
123= The Killing 1955 USA Stanley Kubrick
123= The King and I 1956 USA Walter Lang
123= 12 Angry Men 1957 USA Sydney Lumet
123= Devi 1960 India Satyajit Ray
123= The Birds 1963 USA Alfred Hitchcock
123= The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 France Jacques Demy
123= Repulsion 1965 UK Roman Polanski
123= Point Blank 1967 USA John Boorman
123= Walkabout 1971 UK/Australia Nicholas Roeg
123= Straw Dogs 1971 USA Sam Peckinpah
123= Badlands 1973 USA Trevor Malick
123= Dog Day Afternoon 1975 USA Sidney Lumet
123= Star Wars: a New Hope 1977 USA George Lucas
123= Fatal Attraction 1987 USA Adrian Lyne
123= True Romance 1993 USA Tony Scott
123= Il Postino 1996 Italy Michael Radford
123= Trees Lounge 1996 USA Steve Buscemi
123= Inglourious Basterds 2009 USA Quentin Tarantino
123= Drive 2012 USA Nicolas Winding Refn
123= Nightcrawler 2014 USA Dan Gilroy
123- The Shape of Water 2017 Spain Guillermo Del Torro
123= 1917 2018 UK
123= Ghostbusters 1984 USA Ivan Reitman
123= The Matrix 1999 USA The Wachowskis

Others that were in the mix:
Sherlock Jr 1924
The General 1926
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927
Pandora's Box 1929
Rebecca 1940
The Maltese Falcon 1941
A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
The First Echelon 1955
The Cranes are Flying 1957
Au Hasard Balthazar 1966
Dragon Inn 1967
In The Heat of the Night 1967
Oliver 1968
The Exorcist 1973
Killer of Sheep 1977
The Warriors 1979
Beverly Hills Cop 1984
Spoorloos The Vanishing 1988
Cinema Paradiso 1988
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989
Goodfellas 1991
Sexy Beast 2000
City of God 2002
Café Lumiere 2003
Let the Right One in 2008

[illprada]

Thanks for your summary. There are many movies I have not seen.

[KeyserCorleone]

Network is my favorite Lumet. I love how batshit insane it is in its depection of media idols and eccentrics.

[Wyldesyde19]

Network is my favorite Lumet. I love how batshit insane it is in its depection of media idols and eccentrics.
It’s also amazing how prophetic it is, given today.

[Robert the List]

Thanks for your summary. There are many movies I have not seen.
Sorry you are banned. :(

I hope though that enjoying some of these films compensates.

[Robert the List]

Leave Her To Heaven (1945) in at 69.
Brief Encounter dropped out.

I've also added The Shape of Water (2017) to the 101-152 group.

[liscarkat]

La La Land? Wal-E?
Oy.

[Robert the List]

I will be updating this week.

Sensationally, provisionally I have the following new entries:
-2 in my top 6
-3 in my top 20
-10 in my top 100
-16 in my top 200

[Robert the List]

Provisionally it looks like the following will drop out of my 100, for the newcomers:
Django Unchained 2012 USA
Manhunter 1986 USA
The Others 2001 Spain
Bay of Angels 1963 France
Frances Ha 2012 USA
Rebels of the Neon God 1992 Taiwan
Vampyr 1932 Germany
The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 USA
Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 USA
Brief Encounter 1945 UK
Bicycle Thieves 1948 Italy

[Robert the List]

Need to decide between these for the final place in my top 10:
Stray Dog 1949
High and Low 1963
Kes 1969
Uzak 2002
The Lighthouse 2019

[Robert the List]

100 Jaws 1975 USA Steven Spielberg
99 Rebels of the Neon God 1992 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang
98 No Country for Old Men 2007 USA Joel and Ethan Cohen
97 The Andromeda Strain 1971 USA Robert Wise
96 The Remains of the Day 1993 UK James Ivory
95 Seven 1995 USA David Fincher
94 Mulholland Drive 2001 USA David Lynch
93 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 USA
92 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1936 USA various
91 Rebel Without a Cause 1955 USA Nicholas Ray
90 The Commitments 1991 Ireland Alan Parker
89 Le Mepris 1963 France Jean Luc Godard
88 There Will be Blood 2008 USA Paul Thomas Anderson
87 Two Lane Blacktop 1971 USA
86 Roma 2018 Mexico Alfonso Cuarón
85 For a Few Dollars More 1965 Italy Sergio Leone
84 Frances Ha 2012 USA Noah Baumbach
83 Casablanca 1942 USA Michael Curtiz
82 The Runner 1984 Iran Amir Naderi
81 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 France Alain Resnais

[Robert the List]

80 The Day of the Jackal 1973 France Fred Zinnemann
79 Don't Look Now 1973 UK Nicholas Roeg
78 Embrace of the Serpent 2016 Colombia Ciro Guerra
77 Key Largo 1948 USA John Huston
76 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Czech Jirí Menzel
75 Panique 1946 France Julien Duvivier
74 The Player 1992 USA Robert Altman
73 The Mirror 1975 Soviet Union Andrei Tarkovsky
72 Cabaret 1972 USA Bob Fosse
71 On the Waterfront 1954 USA Elia Kazan
70 The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926 Germany Lotte Reiniger
69 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
68 Taipei Story 1985 Taiwan Edward Yang
67 La Pointe Courte 1955 France Agnès Varda
66 La Notte 1961 Italy Michaelangelo Antonioni
65 Blow-up 1966 UK Michelangelo Antonioni
64 The Wizard of Oz 1939 USA Victor Fleming
63 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 France Jacques Demy
62 Elevator to the Gallows 1958 France Louis Malle
61 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 USA

[Robert the List]

60 Wall-E 2008 USA Andrew Stanton
59 L.A. Confidential 1997 USA Curtis Hanson
58 Pather Panchali 1955 India Satyijat Ray
57 The Sound of Music 1965 USA Robert Wise
56 Bridge On The River Kwai 1957 UK David Lean
55 The Godfather Part 2 1974 USA Francis Ford Copolla
54 At First Sight 1983 France Diane Kurys
53 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 UK David Lean
52 A Moment of Innocence 1996 Iran
51 Out of the Past 1947 USA Jacques Tourneur
50 Apocalypse Now 1979 USA Francis Ford Copolla
49 Rome, Open City 1945 Italy Roberto Rossellini
48 McCabe and Mrs Miller 1971 USA Robert Altman
47 Blackmail 1929 UK Alfred Hitchcock
46 E.T. The Extra Terrestrial 1982 USA Steven Spielberg
45 Killer of Sheep 1977 USA Charles Burnett
44 The Color of Pomegranates 1969 USSR/Armenia Sergey Paradzhanov
43 A Touch of Zen 1971 Taiwan King Hu
42 North by Northwest 1959 USA Alfred Hitchcock
41 Rear Window 1954 USA Alfred Hitchcock

[Robert the List]

40 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France Carl Theodor Dreyer
39 The Third Man 1949 UK Carol Reed
38 Barry Lyndon 1975 UK Stanley Kubrick
37 Onibaba 1964 Japan Kaneto Shindô
36 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 USA Otto Preminger
35 Salt for Svanetia 1930 Georgia Mikhael Kalatazov
34 Lola 1961 France Jacques Demy
33 The Master 2012 USA Paul Thomas Anderson
32 Saving Private Ryan 1998 USA Steven Spielberg
31 Bob the Gambler 1956 France Jean-Pierre Melville

[Robert the List]

30 The Graduate 1967 USA Mike Nichols
29 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 UK Stanley Kubrick
28 Le Bonheur 1965 France Agnès Varda
27 The Passenger 1975 Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
26 The Godfather 1972 USA Francis Ford Copolla
25 La Belle et La Bete 1946 France Jean Cocteau
24 Alphaville 1965 France Jean-Luc Godard
23 The King of Comedy 1982 USA Martin Scorsese
22 Alien 1979 USA Ridley Scott

[Robert the List]

< Blue Velvet 1986 USA David Lynch
< The Music Room 1958 India Satyajit Ray
< In the Mood for Love 2000 Hong Kong Kong Kar-Wai Wong
< The Lodger 1927 UK Alfred Hitchcock
< L'Eclisse 1962 Italy Michelangelo Antonioni

[Robert the List]

21 Story of the Last Chrysanthenum 1939 Japan *Kenji Mizoguchi
20 Psycho 1960 USA Alfred Hitchcock
19 Alphaville 1965 France Jean-Luc Godard
18 The King of Comedy 1982 USA Martin Scorsese
17 Alien 1979 USA Ridley Scott
16 Onibaba 1964 Japan Kaneto Shindô
15 The Music Room 1958 India Satyajit Ray
14 Stranger Than Paradise 1984 USA Jim Jarmusch
13 The Lighthouse 2019 USA Robert Eggers
12 Kes 1969 UK Ken Loach
11 Uzak 2002 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
10 Blade Runner (Director's Cut) 1992 USA Ridley Scott
9 Donnie Darko 2001 USA Richard Kelly
8 Journey to Italy 1954 Italy Roberto Rossellini
7 Day of Wrath 1943 Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer
6 High and Low 1963 Japan Akira Kurosawa
5 La Jetee 1962 France Chris Marker
4 Vive L'Amour 1994 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang
3 La La Land 2016 USA Damien Chazelle
2 Late Spring 1949 Japan Yasujirō Ozu
1 The Naked Island 1960 Japan Kaneto Shindô

[Robert the List]

I come up with this for a top 50:

The Great White Silence (documentary) 1924
Seven Chances 1925
Strike 1925
The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926
Man With a Movie Camera (documentary) 1929
Blackmail 1929
Salt for Svanetia 1930
Limite 1931
Story of the Last Chrysanthemum 1939
Mr Smith Goes to Washington 1939
The Wizard of Oz 1939
Day of Wrath 1943
Notorious 1946
La Belle et La Bete 1946
Out of the Past 1947
Late Spring 1949
Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949
Journey to Italy 1954
Rear Window 1954
Bridge On The River Kwai 1957
The Music Room 1958
Anatomy of a Murder 1959
The Naked Island 1960
Psycho 1960
La Jetee 1962
Lawrence of Arabia 1962
High and Low 1963
Onibaba 196
Alphaville 1965
McCabe and Mrs Miller 1971
Le Cousin Jules (documentary) 1973
The Passenger 1975
Barry Lyndon 1975
Apocalypse Now 1979
Alien 1979
Blade Runner 1982 (I prefer the director's cut)
The King of Comedy 1982
At First Sight/Coup de Foudre/Entre Nous 1983
Blue Velvet 1986
Landscape in the Mist 1988
When Harry Met Sally 1989
Vive L'Amour 1994
In the Mood for Love 2000
Donnie Darko 2001
Mulholland Drive 2001
Uzak 2002
Virunga (documentary) 2015
La La Land 2016
The Lighthouse 2019
Fire of Love (documentary) 2022

[markdc]

Interesting list, Robert! You’re more versed in movies than I am. Many of the movies on your list are ones I haven’t even heard of, let alone seen. I loved the ones on your list that I have seen.

Mark

[Robert the List]

Interesting list, Robert! You’re more versed in movies than I am. Many of the movies on your list are ones I haven’t even heard of, let alone seen. I loved the ones on your list that I have seen.

Mark
Agh that's really kind to say Mark.
I doubt that tbh, it's probably more that I target particular movies.
There are loads of people on here, probably including yourself, who have seen many more movies than me, in some cases many times more movies than me. I cheat because I am only interested in the best or what might be the best.
Great to hear you have enjoyed the ones you have seen, and I hope I might have provided some further useful inspiration.

[markdc]

“I doubt that tbh, it's probably more that I target particular movies.”

Well, then you have more refined cinematic tastes than I do.:) Last weekend I saw Geostorm for the second time. It’s a silly film that one could never take seriously, but I find it be quite entertaining. Definitely a guilty pleasure.

Mark

[Robert the List]

“I doubt that tbh, it's probably more that I target particular movies.”

Well, then you have more refined cinematic tastes than I do.:) Last weekend I saw Geostorm for the second time. It’s a silly film that one could never take seriously, but I find it be quite entertaining. Definitely a guilty pleasure.

Mark
I'm nearly 50 mate. Explains quite a lot probably.

[Jackie Daytona]

I’m mid-40s and I love silly movies still.

[markdc]

“I’m mid-40s and I love silly movies still.”

I’m all for intelligent, enlightened films, but sometimes I just love to sit back and enjoy a brainlessly fun movie like Tremors or The Relic.

Mark

[LeBoyWondeur]

I think I've finally figured out what my 100 favourites are...actually it was a list of 140 titles so that made it a very frustrating process (and it's only the 20th century films)
https://letterboxd.com/cruising4stuff/list/100-favourite-films-20th-century/
(no idea if the link works)

[Robert the List]

I think I've finally figured out what my 100 favourites are...actually it was a list of 140 titles so that made it a very frustrating process (and it's only the 20th century films)
https://letterboxd.com/cruising4stuff/list/100-favourite-films-20th-century/
(no idea if the link works)
Sorry, just noticed this.

Yes it does work. Great selection. Some interesting looking ones in there I don't know too. Thanks for sharing.

I'm here:
https://letterboxd.com/moviescansaveus/list/favourite-100-films

[LeBoyWondeur]

You've got a lot of international films in your list!

I made another one for the 21st century, only 30 titles (so far) but it's two decades vs. eight decades from the previous century.
https://letterboxd.com/cruising4stuff/list/favourite-films-21st-century/
Mostly the usual suspects, the films that everybody loves.

[Robert the List]

You've got a lot of international films in your list!

I made another one for the 21st century, only 30 titles (so far) but it's two decades vs. eight decades from the previous century.
https://letterboxd.com/cruising4stuff/list/favourite-films-21st-century/
Mostly the usual suspects, the films that everybody loves.
That poster for Secretary's a cheeky one isn't it.
lol
God, you wouldn't get away with that these days hahahahahahaha.

Again, some interesting choices and some ones which I'd like to at least check the trailer and reviews out and go from there.

Incidentally, the following 'omissions' are also worth considering (especially the ones in bold imo):
Sexy Beast 2000
In the Mood for Love 2000
Donnie Darko 2001
City of God 2002
Uzak 2002
Café Lumiere 2003
Sideways 2004
No Country for Old Men 2007
Wall-E 2008
Let the Right One in 2008
Drive 2011
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011
Argo 2012
Frances Ha 2012
The Master 2012
Django Unchained 2012
Leviathan 2014
Nightcrawler 2014
Embrace of the Serpent 2016
La La Land 2016
Arrival 2016
The Killing of a Sacred Deer 2017
Roma 2018

[LeBoyWondeur]

Incidentally, the following 'omissions' are also worth considering (especially the ones in bold imo):
Sexy Beast 2000
In the Mood for Love 2000
Donnie Darko 2001
City of God 2002
Uzak 2002
Café Lumiere 2003
Sideways 2004
No Country for Old Men 2007
Wall-E 2008
Let the Right One in 2008
Drive 2011
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011
Argo 2012
Frances Ha 2012
The Master 2012
Django Unchained 2012
Leviathan 2014
Nightcrawler 2014
Embrace of the Serpent 2016
La La Land 2016
Arrival 2016
The Killing of a Sacred Deer 2017
Roma 2018

I've highlighted the titles in red as "watched". All good movies that I've enjoyed watching (to some degree anyway).
The only one I had considered was Django Unchained, my favourite Tarantino movie.
My minor issue with Django is that it consists of various "chapters", and as with anthology movies some parts are better than others. This impacts the way I view the film as a whole.
I think I've mentioned before that this is one of those films that could have been released in two parts, like Three Musketeers vs. Four Musketeers.

I love it, but it's not a super-favourite.
But I might add Nocturnal Animals to the list.

[Robert the List]

My current top 200, including documentaries ("doc"). "**" are the lowest ranked.

J'Accuse 1919 Abel Gance France
The Great White Silence (doc) 1924 Herbery Ponting UK
The Phantom of the Opera 1925 Rupert Julian USA
Strike 1925 Sergei Eisenstein Soviet Union
Seven Chances 1925 Buster Keaton USA
A Page of Madness 1926 Teinnosuke Kinugasa Japan
The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926 Lotte Reiniger Germany
The General 1926 Buster Keaton USA
**Napoleon** 1927 Abel Gance France
The Lodger 1927 Alfred Hitchcock UK
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927 F.W. Murnau USA
The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer France
Man With a Movie Camera (doc) 1929 Dziga Vertov Soviet Union
Blackmail 1929 Alfred Hitchcock UK
The Blue Angel 1930 Josef von Sternberg Germany
Salt for Svanetia 1930 Mikhael Kalatazov Soviet Union
Limite 1931 Mário Peixoto Brazil
M 1931 Fritz Lang Germany
Vampyr 1932 Carl Theodor Dreyer Germany
Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks USA
The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz USA
Port of Shadows 1938 Marcel Carné France
Story of the Last Chrysanthemum 1939 *Kenji Mizoguchi Japan
Mr Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra USA
The Roaring Twenties 1939 Raoul Walsh USA
The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming USA
Ornamental Hairpin 1941 Hiroshi Shimizu Japan
Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz USA
Day of Wrath 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer Denmark
Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Maya Deren USA
**Sanshiro Sugata** 1943 Akira Kurosawa Japan
Laura 1944 Otto Preminger USA
Rome, Open City 1945 Roberto Rossellini Italy
Leave Her to Heaven 1945 John M. Stahl USA
La Belle et La Bete 1946 Jean Cocteau France
Panique 1946 Julien Duvivier France
Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock USA
My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford USA
Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur USA
Bicycle Thieves 1948 Vittorio De Sica Italy
Key Largo 1948 John Huston USA
Stray Dog 1949 Akira Kurosawa Japan
Late Spring 1949 Yasujirō Ozu Japan
The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed UK
Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer UK
**Stromboli** 1950 Roberto Rossellini Italy
**A Streetcar Named Desire** 1951 Elia Kazan USA
Little Fugitive 1953 Morris Engel USA
Journey to Italy 1954 Roberto Rossellini Italy
Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock USA
On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan USA
**Rebel Without a Cause** 1955 Nicholas Ray USA
**The First Echelon** 1955 Mikhael Kalatazov USSR
La Pointe Courte 1955 Agnès Varda France
Pather Panchali 1955 Satyijat Ray India
Bob the Gambler 1956 Jean-Pierre Melville France
**The Killing ** 1956 Stanley Kubrick USA
The Silent World (doc) 1956 Louis Malle and Jacques Cousteau France
Il Grido 1957 Michelangelo Antonioni Italy
Bridge On The River Kwai 1957 David Lean UK
12 Angry Men 1957 Sydney Lumet USA
The Cranes are Flying 1957 Mikhail Kalatozov USSR
Elevator to the Gallows 1958 Louis Malle France
The Music Room 1958 Satyajit Ray India
The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut France
North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock USA
Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks USA
**Floating Weeds** 1959 Yasujiro Ozu Japan
Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger USA
The Naked Island 1960 Kaneto Shindô Japan
Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock USA
Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais France
Lola 1961 Jacques Demy France
La Notte 1961 Michaelangelo Antonioni Italy
Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 Agnès Varda France
La Jetee 1962 Chris Marker France
L'Eclisse 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni Italy
Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean UK
Bay of Angels 1963 Jacques Demy France
Le Mepris 1963 Jean Luc Godard France
High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa Japan
The Leopard 1963 Luciano Visconti Italy NEW (forgot)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy France
Onibaba 1964 Kaneto Shindô Japan
Soy Cuba 1964 Mikhail Kalatozov USSR
Le Bonheur 1965 Agnès Varda France
Pierrot Le Fou 1965 Jean Luc Godard France
Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard France
For a Few Dollars More 1965 Sergio Leone Italy
Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski UK
The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise USA
Closely Watched Trains 1966 Jirí Menzel Czech
Blow-up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni UK
**Persona** 1966 Ingmar Bergman Sweden
Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn USA
Point Blank 1967 John Boorman USA
The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols USA
Stolen Kisses 1968 François Truffaut France
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick UK
Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone USA
Kes 1969 Ken Loach UK
The Color of Pomegranates 1969 Sergey Paradzhanov USSR/Armenia
A Touch of Zen 1971 King Hu Taiwan
Walkabout 1971 Nicholas Roeg UK
Two Lane Blacktop 1971 Monte Hellman USA
McCabe and Mrs Miller 1971 Robert Altman USA
The Andromeda Strain 1971 Robert Wise USA
Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse USA
The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Copolla USA
Le Cousin Jules (doc) 1973 Dominique Benicheti France
The Day of the Jackal 1973 Fred Zinnemann France
Don't Look Now 1973 Nicholas Roeg UK
Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese USA
Badlands 1973 Trevor Malick USA
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Rainer Fassbender Germany
The Godfather Part 2 1974 Francis Ford Copolla USA
Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski USA
The Travelling Players 1975 Theodoros Angelopoulos Greece
The Passenger 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni Italy
Mirror 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union
Barry Lyndon 1975 UK Stanley Kubrick NEW
Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet USA
Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg USA
Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese USA
Killer of Sheep 1977 Charles Burnett USA
Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Copolla USA
Alien 1979 Ridley Scott USA
Body Heat 1981 Lawrence Kasdan USA
Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg USA
The King of Comedy 1982 Martin Scorsese USA
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg USA
Blade Runner (Director's Cut) 1982 Ridley Scott USA
At First Sight 1983 Diane Kurys France
L'Argent 1983 Robert Bresson France
Homecoming 1984 Kong Yim Ho Hong Kong
The Runner 1984 Amir Naderi Iran
Ghostbusters 1984 Ivan Reitman USA
The Terminator 1984 James Cameron USA
Stranger Than Paradise 1984 Jim Jarmusch USA
Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders USA
Taipei Story 1985 Edward Yang Taiwan
Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch USA
Manhunter 1986 Michael Mann USA
Au Revoir Les Enfants 1987 Louis Malle France
Withnail & I 1987 Bruce Robinson UK
Fatal Attraction 1987 Adrian Lyne USA
Landscape in the Mist 1988 Theodoros Angelopoulos Greece
A Short Film About Killing 1988 Poland krzysztof kieślowski NEW
Spoorloos The Vanishing 1988 George Sluizer France
When Harry Met Sally 1989 Rob Reiner USA
Days of Being Wild 1990 Kong Wong Kar-Wai Hong Kong
State of Grace 1990 USA
The Match Factory Girl 1990 Aki Kaurismäki Finland
The Double Life of Verinique 1991 krzysztof kieślowski France
The Commitments 1991 Alan Parker Ireland
The Suspended Step of the Stork 1991 Theodoros Angelopoulos Greece
The Heart of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991 USA George Hickenlooper NEW
Goodfellas 1991 Martin Scorsese USA
Rebels of the Neon God 1992 Tsai Ming-liang Taiwan
The Player 1992 Robert Altman USA
The Remains of the Day 1993 James Ivory UK
The Age of Innocence 1993 Martin Scorsese USA
Il Postino 1994 Michael Radford Italy
Vive L'Amour 1994 Tsai Ming-liang Taiwan
Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino USA
Seven 1995 David Fincher USA
A Moment of Innocence 1996 Mohsen Makhmalbaf Iran
Voices Through Time (doc) 1996 Franco Piavoli Italy
Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle UK
L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson USA
Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg USA
The Talented Mr Ripley 1999 Anthony Minghella USA
The Straight Story 1999 David Lynch USA
In the Mood for Love 2000 Kong Kar-Wai Wong Hong Kong
Mulholland Drive 2001 David Lynch USA
Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly USA
City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles Brazil
Uzak 2002 Nuri Bilge Ceylan Turkiye
No Country for Old Men 2007 Joel and Ethan Cohen USA
Wall-E 2008 Andrew Stanton USA
There Will be Blood 2008 Paul Thomas Anderson USA
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011 Nuri Bilge Ceylan Turkiye
Drive 2011 Nicolas Winding Refn USA
Argo 2012 Ben Affleck USA
Frances Ha 2012 Noah Baumbach USA
The Master 2012 Paul Thomas Anderson USA
Django Unchained 2012 Quentin Tarantino USA
The Look of Silence (doc) 2014 Joshua Oppenheimer* Indonesia
Nightcrawler 2014 Dan Gilroy USA
Virunga (doc) 2015 Orlando von Einsiedel UK
Embrace of the Serpent 2016 Ciro Guerra Colombia
La La Land 2016 Damien Chazelle USA
Arrival 2016 Denis Villeneuve USA
The Killing of a Sacred Deer 2017 Yorgos Lanthimos USA
Roma 2018 Alfonso Cuarón Mexico
Diego Maradona (doc) 2019 Asif Kapadia UK
The Lighthouse 2019 Robert Eggers USA
Apollo 11 (doc) 2019 Todd Douglas Miller USA
Fire of Love (doc) 2022 Sara Dosa France
Whitney Houston: A Concert for a New South Africa (doc) 2024 Pat Houston USA



And I've got these as 201-250:
Way Down East 1920 DW Griffith USA
The Phantom Carriage 1921 Victor Sjöström Sweden
Sherlock Jr 1924 Charlie Chaplin USA
Pandora's Box 1929 G.W. Pabst Germany
The Gay Divorcee 1934 Mark Sandrich USA
A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood USA
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 various USA
Gone With the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming USA
Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock UK
There Was a Father 1942 Yasujiro Ozu Japan
Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean UK
The Lady From Shanghai 1947 Orson Welles USA
Drunken Angel 1948 Akira Kurosawa Japan
**Limelight** 1952 Charles Chaplin USA DROPPED
**The Day the Earth Stood Still** 1951 USA DROPPED
La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini Italy
A Man Escaped 1956 Robert Bresson France
The King and I 1956 Walter Lang USA
Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles USA
Black Orpheus 1959 Brazil
Devi 1960 Satyajit Ray India
Le Petit Soldat 1963 Jean-Luc Godard France
The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock USA
The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo Algeria
A Man and a Woman 1966 Claude Lelouch France
Au Hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson France
Dragon Inn 1967 King Hu Taiwan
In The Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison USA
Belle de Jour 1967 Luis Buñuel France
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 USA
Straw Dogs 1971 Sam Peckinpah USA
The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin USA
Kings of the Road 1975 Wim Wenders Germany
All the President's Men 1976 Alan J Pakula
**Network** 1976 Sidney Lumet USA DROPPED
Girlfriends 1978 Claudia Weill USA
The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino USA
Airplane 1980 Jim Abrahams USA
Beverly Hills Cop 1984 Martin Brest USA
Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore Italy
Toto the Hero 1991 Jaco Van Dormael Belgium
True Romance 1993 Tony Scott USA
The Scent of Green Papaya 1993 Tran Anh Hung Vietnam
Trees Lounge 1996 Steve Buscemi USA
Taste of Cherry 1997 Abbas Kiarostami Iran
The Matrix 1999 The Wachowskis USA
Sexy Beast 2000 Jonathan Glazer UK
The Others 2001 Alejandro Amenábar Spain
Café Lumiere 2003 Hou Hsiao-hsien Japan
Sideways 2004 Alexander Payne USA
Let the Right One in 2008 Tomas Alfredson Sweden
Man on Wire (doc) 2008 James Marsh UK
Inglourious Basterds 2009 Quentin Tarantino USA

[Robert the List]

Years since 1924 (to 2024) which do not have an entrant in my top 200:

1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1940
1970
1978
1980
2003
2004
2005
2006
2009
2010
2013
2020
2021
2023

And entries per decade:
1910s 1
1920s 13
1930s 12
1940s 19
1950s 24
1960s 33
1970s 25
1980s 23
1990s 23
2000s 8
2010s 17
2020s 2

[Robert the List]

finalising my revised top 100.
down to about 110 atm.


I've got 6 places left, to come from the following, although nothing in this list prior to 1973 is likely to make it:
The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926
The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928
Leave Her to Heaven 1945
Rome, Open City 1945
Out of the Past 1947
La Pointe Courte 1955
Pather Panchali 1955
L'Eclisse 1962
Le Mepris 1963
Mean Streets 1973
Badlands 1973
The Godfather Part 2 1974
Chinatown 1974
Mirror 1975
Jaws 1975
Au Revoir Les Enfants 1987
Days of Being Wild 1990
The Remains of the Day 1993
Il Postino 1994
Pulp Fiction 1994
A Moment of Innocence 1996
Voices Through Time (doc) 1996
No Country for Old Men 2007
Wall-E 2008
The Master 2012
Embrace of the Serpent 2016
Roma 2018
Apollo 11 (doc) 2019


Update, I have 4 places for the following:
The Godfather Part 2 1974
Chinatown 1974
Mirror 1975
The Remains of the Day 1993
Pulp Fiction 1994
Wall-E 2008
The Master 2012
Embrace of the Serpent 2016
Roma 2018
Apollo 11 (doc) 2019

3 from:
The Godfather Part 2 1974
Chinatown 1974
Mirror 1975
The Remains of the Day 1993
Wall-E 2008
The Master 2012


I have 103...

[Robert the List]

My updated top 100:

Strike 1925 Soviet Union Sergei Eisenstein
Seven Chances 1925 USA Buster Keaton
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog 1927 UK Alfred Hitchcock
Man With a Movie Camera (doc) 1929 Soviet Union Dziga Vertov
Blackmail 1929 UK Alfred Hitchcock
Salt for Svanetia 1930 Soviet Union Mikhael Kalatazov
Limite 1931 Brazil Mário Peixoto
Vampyr 1932 Germany Carl Theodor Dreyer
Mr Smith Goes to Washington 1939 USA Frank Capra
Story of the Last Chrysanthemums 1939 Japan *Kenji Mizoguchi
Casablanca 1942 USA Michael Curtiz
Day of Wrath 1943 Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer
Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 USA Maya Deren
My Darling Clementine 1946 USA John Ford
Panique 1946 France Julien Duvivier
Notorious 1946 USA Alfred Hitchcock
Bicycle Thieves 1948 Italy Vittorio De Sica
Stray Dog 1949 Japan Akira Kurosawa
Late Spring 1949 Japan Yasujirō Ozu
The Third Man 1949 UK Carol Reed
Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 UK Robert Hamer
Little Fugitive 1953 USA Morris Engel
Journey to Italy 1954 Italy Roberto Rossellini
Rear Window 1954 USA Alfred Hitchcock
Bob the Gambler 1956 France Jean-Pierre Melville
Elevator to the Gallows 1958 France Louis Malle
The Music Room 1958 India Satyajit Ray
Rio Bravo 1959 USA Howard Hawks
Anatomy of a Murder 1959 USA Otto Preminger
The Naked Island 1960 Japan Kaneto Shindô
Psycho 1960 USA Alfred Hitchcock
La Notte 1961 Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
La Jetee 1962 France Chris Marker
Lawrence of Arabia 1962 UK David Lean
High and Low 1963 Japan Akira Kurosawa
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 France Jacques Demy
Onibaba 1964 Japan Kaneto Shindô
Le Bonheur 1965 France Agnès Varda
Alphaville 1965 France Jean-Luc Godard
The Sound of Music 1965 USA Robert Wise
Pierrot Le Fou 1965 France Jean Luc Godard
Blow-up 1966 UK Michelangelo Antonioni
Closely Watched Trains 1966 Czech Jirí Menzel
Bonnie and Clyde 1967 USA Arthur Penn
The Graduate 1967 USA Mike Nichols
Stolen Kisses 1968 France François Truffaut
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 UK Stanley Kubrick
Kes 1969 UK Ken Loach
The Color of Pomegranates 1969 USSR/Armenia Sergey Paradzhanov
A Touch of Zen 1971 Taiwan King Hu
McCabe and Mrs Miller 1971 USA Robert Altman
Cabaret 1972 USA Bob Fosse
The Godfather 1972 USA Francis Ford Copolla
Le Cousin Jules (doc) 1973 France Dominique Benicheti
Don't Look Now 1973 UK Nicholas Roeg
The Day of the Jackal 1973 France Fred Zinnemann
The Godfather Part 2 1974 USA Francis Ford Copolla
Chinatown 1974 USA Roman Polanski
Mirror 1975 Soviet Union Andrei Tarkovsky
The Passenger 1975 Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
Apocalypse Now 1979 USA Francis Ford Copolla
Alien 1979 USA Ridley Scott
Body Heat 1981 USA Lawrence Kasdan
The King of Comedy 1982 USA Martin Scorsese
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial 1982 USA Steven Spielberg
Blade Runner (Director's Cut) 1982 USA Ridley Scott
At First Sight 1983 France Diane Kurys
Homecoming 1984 Hong Kong Kong Yim Ho
The Runner 1984 Iran Amir Naderi
Stranger Than Paradise 1984 USA Jim Jarmusch
The Terminator 1984 USA James Cameron
Taipei Story 1985 Taiwan Edward Yang
Blue Velvet 1986 USA David Lynch
Landscape in the Mist 1988 Greece Theodoros Angelopoulos
A Short Film About Killing 1988 Poland krzysztof kieślowski
When Harry Met Sally 1989 USA Rob Reiner
Days of Being Wild 1990 Hong Kong Kong Wong Kar-Wai
The Commitments 1991 Ireland Alan Parker
The Heart of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991 USA George Hickenlooper
The Player 1992 USA Robert Altman
Rebels of the Neon God 1992 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang
The Remains of the Day 1993 UK James Ivory
Vive L'Amour 1994 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang
L.A. Confidential 1997 USA Curtis Hanson
Saving Private Ryan 1998 USA Steven Spielberg
In the Mood for Love 2000 Hong Kong Kong Kar-Wai Wong
Mulholland Drive 2001 USA David Lynch
Donnie Darko 2001 USA Richard Kelly
Uzak 2002 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
No Country for Old Men 2007 USA Joel and Ethan Cohen
Wall-E 2008 USA Andrew Stanton
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Frances Ha 2012 USA Noah Baumbach
The Master 2012 USA Paul Thomas Anderson
Virunga (doc) 2014 UK Orlando von Einsiedel
La La Land 2016 USA Damien Chazelle
The Lighthouse 2019 USA Robert Eggers
Apollo 11 (doc) 2019 USA Todd Douglas Miller
Fire of Love (doc) 2022 France Sara Dosa
Whitney Houston: A Concert for a New South Africa (doc) 2024 USA Pat Houston

[Robert the List]

The following in my top 100 I have found within the last few weeks:

Strike 1925 Soviet Union Sergei Eisenstein
Seven Chances 1925 USA Buster Keaton
Mr Smith Goes to Washington 1939 USA Frank Capra
Story of the Last Chrysanthemums 1939 Japan *Kenji Mizoguchi
Notorious 1946 USA Alfred Hitchcock
Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 UK Robert Hamer
Little Fugitive 1953 USA Morris Engel
Landscape in the Mist 1988 Greece Theodoros Angelopoulos
A Short Film About Killing 1988 Poland krzysztof kieślowski
The Heart of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991 USA George Hickenlooper

The ones in bold just in the last week.


3 that I had a lot of trouble leaving out were:
North by Northwest 1959 USA Alfred Hitchcock
Taipei Story 1985 Taiwan Edward Yang
Withnail & I 1987 UK Bruce Robinson

but the following also came close:
The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926 Germany Lotte Reiniger
The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France Carl Theodor Dreyer
Leave Her to Heaven 1945 USA John M. Stahl
Rome, Open City 1945 Italy Roberto Rossellini
Out of the Past 1947 USA Jacques Tourneur
La Pointe Courte 1955 France Agnès Varda
Pather Panchali 1955 India Satyijat Ray
L'Eclisse 1962 Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
Le Mepris 1963 France Jean Luc Godard
Mean Streets 1973 USA Martin Scorsese
Badlands 1973 USA Trevor Malick
Jaws 1975 USA Steven Spielberg
Au Revoir Les Enfants 1987 France Louis Malle
Il Postino 1994 Italy Michael Radford
Pulp Fiction 1994 USA Quentin Tarantino
Embrace of the Serpent 2016 Colombia Ciro Guerra
Roma 2018 Mexico Alfonso Cuarón

[Mr Minio]

Pretty cool! I could make a new top 100, too, but just a hundred is really limiting and hard to pick.

[Robert the List]

I hope to get down to 50, but I have a busy few days for a change.

[Robert the List]

My top 50*:

The Great White Silence 1924 UK Herbery Ponting (s)
Strike 1925 Soviet Union Sergei Eisenstein (s)
Seven Chances 1925 USA Buster Keaton (s)
The Lodger 1927 UK Alfred Hitchcock (s)
Man With a Movie Camera 1929 Soviet Union Dziga Vertov (s)
Salt for Svanetia 1930 Soviet Union Mikhael Kalatazov (s)
Limite 1931 Brazil Mário Peixoto (s)
Vampyr 1932 Germany Carl Theodor Dreyer
Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 USA Maya Deren (s)
Day of Wrath 1943 Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer (s)
Notorious 1946 USA Alfred Hitchcock
Stray Dog 1949 Japan Akira Kurosawa
Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 UK Robert Hamer
Late Spring 1949 Japan Yasujirō Ozu
Little Fugitive 1953 USA Morris Engel
Rear Window 1954 USA Alfred Hitchcock
Journey to Italy 1954 Italy Roberto Rossellini
The Music Room 1958 India Satyajit Ray
The Naked Island 1960 Japan Kaneto Shindô (s)
Psycho 1960 USA Alfred Hitchcock
La Jetee 1962 France Chris Marker (s)
Lawrence of Arabia 1962 UK David Lean
High and Low 1963 Japan Akira Kurosawa
Onibaba 1964 Japan Kaneto Shindô
Alphaville 1965 France Jean-Luc Godard
Le Bonheur 1965 France Agnès Varda
The Graduate 1967 USA Mike Nichols
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 UK Stanley Kubrick
Kes 1969 UK Ken Loach
McCabe and Mrs Miller 1971 USA Robert Altman
Cabaret 1972 USA Bob Fosse
Le Cousin Jules 1973 France Dominique Benicheti
Don't Look Now 1973 UK Nicholas Roeg
Apocalypse Now 1979 USA Francis Ford Copolla
Alien 1979 USA Ridley Scott
The King of Comedy 1982 USA Martin Scorsese
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial 1982 USA Steven Spielberg
Blade Runner (Director's Cut) 1982 USA Ridley Scott
Blue Velvet 1986 USA David Lynch
A Short Film About Killing 1988 Poland krzysztof kieślowski
Landscape in the Mist 1988 Greece Theodoros Angelopoulos
The Player 1992 USA Robert Altman
The Remains of the Day 1993 UK James Ivory
Vive L'Amour 1994 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang
Saving Private Ryan 1998 USA Steven Spielberg
In the Mood for Love 2000 Hong Kong Kong Kar-Wai Wong
Mulholland Drive 2001 USA David Lynch
Donnie Darko 2001 USA Richard Kelly
Uzak 2002 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
The Master 2012 USA Paul Thomas Anderson

*excludes narrated documentaries, interview/talking heads documentaries, and music performance documentaries/recordings.


Near misses:
Bicycle Thieves 1948
Bob the Gambler 1956
Anatomy of a Murder 1959
La Notte 1961
At First Sight 1983
La La Land 2016
The Lighthouse 2019

[Robert the List]

Latest version:

The Great White Silence (doc) 1924 UK Herbery Ponting
Strike 1925 Soviet Union Sergei Eisenstein
Seven Chances 1925 USA Buster Keaton
The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926 Germany Lotte Reiniger
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog 1927 UK Alfred Hitchcock
Man With a Movie Camera (doc) 1929 Soviet Union Dziga Vertov
Blackmail 1929 UK Alfred Hitchcock
Salt for Svanetia 1930 Soviet Union Mikhael Kalatazov
Limite 1931 Brazil Mário Peixoto
Vampyr 1932 Germany Carl Theodor Dreyer
The Wizard of Oz 1939 USA Victor Fleming
Story of the Last Chrysanthemums 1939 Japan *Kenji Mizoguchi
Day of Wrath 1943 Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer
Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 USA Maya Deren
La Belle et La Bete 1946 France Jean Cocteau
Panique 1946 France Julien Duvivier
My Darling Clementine 1946 USA John Ford
Notorious 1946 USA Alfred Hitchcock
Out of the Past 1947 USA Jacques Tourneur
Bicycle Thieves 1948 Italy Vittorio De Sica
Stray Dog 1949 Japan Akira Kurosawa
Late Spring 1949 Japan Yasujirō Ozu
The Third Man 1949 UK Carol Reed
Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 UK Robert Hamer
Little Fugitive 1953 USA Morris Engel
Journey to Italy 1954 Italy Roberto Rossellini
Rear Window 1954 USA Alfred Hitchcock
La Pointe Courte 1955 France Agnès Varda
Pather Panchali 1955 India Satyijat Ray
Bob the Gambler 1956 France Jean-Pierre Melville
Elevator to the Gallows 1958 France Louis Malle
The Music Room 1958 India Satyajit Ray
Rio Bravo 1959 USA Howard Hawks
Anatomy of a Murder 1959 USA Otto Preminger
The Naked Island 1960 Japan Kaneto Shindô
Psycho 1960 USA Alfred Hitchcock
La Notte 1961 Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
La Jetee 1962 France Chris Marker
Lawrence of Arabia 1962 UK David Lean
High and Low 1963 Japan Akira Kurosawa
Le Mepris 1963 France Jean Luc Godard
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 France Jacques Demy
Onibaba 1964 Japan Kaneto Shindô
Le Bonheur 1965 France Agnès Varda
Alphaville 1965 France Jean-Luc Godard
Pierrot Le Fou 1965 France Jean Luc Godard
The Sound of Music 1965 USA Robert Wise
Closely Watched Trains 1966 Czech Jirí Menzel
Bonnie and Clyde 1967 USA Arthur Penn
The Graduate 1967 USA Mike Nichols
Stolen Kisses 1968 France François Truffaut
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 UK Stanley Kubrick
Kes 1969 UK Ken Loach
The Color of Pomegranates 1969 USSR/Armenia Sergey Paradzhanov
A Touch of Zen 1971 Taiwan King Hu
McCabe and Mrs Miller 1971 USA Robert Altman
Cabaret 1972 USA Bob Fosse
Le Cousin Jules (doc) 1973 France Dominique Benicheti
The Day of the Jackal 1973 France Fred Zinnemann
Don't Look Now 1973 UK Nicholas Roeg
Badlands 1973 USA Trevor Malick
The Passenger 1975 Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
Mirror 1975 Soviet Union Andrei Tarkovsky
Barry Lyndon 1975 UK Stanley Kubrick
Apocalypse Now 1979 USA Francis Ford Copolla
Alien 1979 USA Ridley Scott
The King of Comedy 1982 USA Martin Scorsese
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial 1982 USA Steven Spielberg
Blade Runner (Director's Cut) 1982 USA Ridley Scott
At First Sight 1983 France Diane Kurys
The Runner 1984 Iran Amir Naderi
Stranger Than Paradise 1984 USA Jim Jarmusch
Taipei Story 1985 Taiwan Edward Yang
Blue Velvet 1986 USA David Lynch
Au Revoir Les Enfants 1987 France Louis Malle
Landscape in the Mist 1988 Greece Theodoros Angelopoulos
A Short Film About Killing 1988 Poland krzysztof kieślowski
When Harry Met Sally 1989 USA Rob Reiner
The Commitments 1991 Ireland Alan Parker
The Heart of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991 USA George Hickenlooper
Rebels of the Neon God 1992 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang
The Player 1992 USA Robert Altman
The Remains of the Day 1993 UK James Ivory
Vive L'Amour 1994 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang
L.A. Confidential 1997 USA Curtis Hanson
Saving Private Ryan 1998 USA Steven Spielberg
In the Mood for Love 2000 Hong Kong Kong Kar-Wai Wong
Mulholland Drive 2001 USA David Lynch
Donnie Darko 2001 USA Richard Kelly
Uzak 2002 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
No Country for Old Men 2007 USA Joel and Ethan Cohen
Wall-E 2008 USA Andrew Stanton
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
The Master 2012 USA Paul Thomas Anderson
Virunga (doc) 2014 UK Orlando von Einsiedel
La La Land 2016 USA Damien Chazelle
The Lighthouse 2019 USA Robert Eggers
Apollo 11 (doc) 2019 USA Todd Douglas Miller
Fire of Love (doc) 2022 France Sara Dosa
Whitney Houston: A Concert for a New South Africa (doc) 2024 USA Pat Houston

[iluv2viddyfilms]

Always cool to see Elevator to the Gallows on there. A film which shows how just absolutely dumb blind bad luck can change everything and the grave stupidity of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. That Miles Davis score is one of the all time best. Elevator to the Gallows is on my top 100 list if I ever finish it.

[Robert the List]

These 81 made my top 100 the last 2 times I did it (I'm not doing it again btw!!):

The Great White Silence (doc) 1924
Strike 1925
Seven Chances 1925
The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog 1927
Man With a Movie Camera (doc) 1929
Blackmail 1929
Salt for Svanetia 1930
Limite 1931
Story of the Last Chrysanthemums 1939
Day of Wrath 1943
La Belle et La Bete 1946
Panique 1946
My Darling Clementine 1946
Notorious 1946
Out of the Past 1947
Stray Dog 1949
Late Spring 1949
The Third Man 1949
Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949
Journey to Italy 1954
Rear Window 1954
Pather Panchali 1955
The Music Room 1958
Rio Bravo 1959
Anatomy of a Murder 1959
The Naked Island 1960
Psycho 1960
La Notte 1961
La Jetee 1962
Lawrence of Arabia 1962
High and Low 1963
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964
Onibaba 1964
Le Bonheur 1965
Alphaville 1965
The Sound of Music 1965
Closely Watched Trains 1966
Bonnie and Clyde 1967
The Graduate 1967
Stolen Kisses 1968
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
Kes 1969
The Color of Pomegranates 1969
McCabe and Mrs Miller 1971
Cabaret 1972
Le Cousin Jules (doc) 1973
The Day of the Jackal 1973
Don't Look Now 1973
The Passenger 1975
Barry Lyndon 1975
Apocalypse Now 1979
Alien 1979
The King of Comedy 1982
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial 1982
Blade Runner (Director's Cut) 1982
At First Sight 1983
The Runner 1984
Stranger Than Paradise 1984
Taipei Story 1985
Blue Velvet 1986
Au Revoir Les Enfants 1987
Landscape in the Mist 1988
When Harry Met Sally 1989
The Commitments 1991
Rebels of the Neon God 1992
The Player 1992
The Remains of the Day 1993
Vive L'Amour 1994
L.A. Confidential 1997
In the Mood for Love 2000
Mulholland Drive 2001
Donnie Darko 2001
Uzak 2002
No Country for Old Men 2007
Wall-E 2008
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011
Virunga (doc) 2014
La La Land 2016
The Lighthouse 2019
Fire of Love (doc) 2022


These ones entered the last time I did it, in some cases after a 1st viewing of the film (NEW):
Vampyr 1932
The Wizard of Oz 1939
Meshes of the Afternoon 1943
Bicycle Thieves 1948
Little Fugitive 1953 (NEW)
La Pointe Courte 1955
Bob the Gambler 1956
Elevator to the Gallows 1958
Pierrot Le Fou 1965
A Touch of Zen 1971
Badlands 1973
Mirror 1975
A Short Film About Killing 1988 (NEW)
The Heart of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991 (NEW)
Saving Private Ryan 1998
The Master 2012
Apollo 11 (doc) 2019
Whitney Houston: A Concert for a New South Africa (doc) 2024 (NEW)


These dropped out:
The Roaring Trwenties 1939
Mr Smith Goes to Washington 1939
Casablanca 1942
Leave Her to Heaven 1945
On the Waterfront 1954
The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957
North by Northwest 1959
Lola 1961
L'Eclisse 1962
For a Few Dollars More 1865
Blow-up 1966
Mean Streets 1973
The Killer of Sheep 1977
Homecoming 1984
Withnail & I 1987
Days of Being Wild 1990
A Moment of Innocence 1996
Frances Ha 2012
Embrace of the Serpent 2016


These were close to making both lists:
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927
The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928
M 1931
Rome, Open City 1945
Le Mepris 1963
The Godfather 1972
Chinatown 1974
The Godfather Part 2 1974
Jaws 1975
Il Postino 1994
Pulp Fiction 1994
Roma 2018

[Robert the List]

Right....

I've done a bit of messing about with the borders of my list!

And

there have been a handful of changes...

[Robert the List]

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


OUT go

Blackmail 1929 UK Alfred Hitchcock
Bob the Gambler 1956 France Jean-Pierre Melville
Le Mepris 1963 France Jean Luc Godard
A Touch of Zen 1971 Taiwan King Hu
The Day of the Jackal 1973 France Fred Zinnemann
Mirror 1975 Soviet Union Andrei Tarkovsky
The Runner 1984 Iran Amir Naderi
Whitney Houston: A Concert for a New South Africa (doc) 2024 USA Patty G (I'm sorry baby x)

[Robert the List]

AND

IN

come

to make the final 100

Mr Smith Goes to Washington 1939 USA Frank Capra
Bridge On The River Kwai 1957 UK David Lean
North by Northwest 1959 USA Alfred Hitchcock
Last Year at Marienbad 1961 France Alain Resnais
L'Eclisse 1962 Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
Blow-up 1966 UK Michelangelo Antonioni
Paris, Texas 1984 USA Wim Wenders
Days of Being Wild 1990 Hong Kong Kong Wong Kar-Wai