Top 10 Greatest Films According To 358 Directors

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1. Tokyo Story - Yasujiro Ozu (1953)
= 2. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick (1968)
= 2. Citizen Kane – Orson Welles (1941)
4. 8 ½ - Federico Fellini (1963)
5. Taxi Driver – Martin Scorsese (1976)
6. Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
= 7. The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola (1972)
= 7. Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock (1958)
9. Mirror – Andrei Tarkovsky (1974)
10. Bicycle Thieves – Vittorio De Sica (1949)



Well I gotta get watching.

No really, there’s even movies, as in plural, in that top 10 which I haven’t seen, which I’m kinda ashamed of (although I’m also just happy to have some greats to go yet).



A great list: all these are a must watch.

I have 3 of these movies in my own top 10 (Tokyo Story, 2001, Apocalypse Now) and I used to have 8 1/2 many years ago as well as (perhaps but I am not sure) bicycle thieves.

Actually, I think Vertigo is relatively the weakest out of these 10. Of course, that's not because it's "bad" but the others are SOO good.

Tokyo Story certainly deserved the 1st spot: It is the ultimate slice of life drama movie. The top 4 is super impressive: 2001, Citizen Kane, 8 1/2 and Tokyo Story. I mean, that's perhaps the strongest set of 4 movies I can think of.

Anyway, I would think Seven Samurai is the perennial favorite who is missing there, especially given its influence on modern action movies.

An interesting exercise would be to compare this top 10 with the IMDB's top 10. But one should be aware that the IMDB lists the movies with the highest average score which means are the movies that "everybody likes" while this kind of list is made of movies that were considered significant enough by some movie directors that they named them in their top 10s but not the majority of them. That is if 20% of movie directors think The Mirror is top 10 but 80 % think it was a boring crappy pretentious movie it would make this top 10 but would have an average score around 3-4 on the IMDB.



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Or maybe they haven't seen it (The Mirror is the only one on the list I haven't seen, after all). IMDb works off a "weighted average" system where a film has to have a minimum number of votes to qualify for the top 250 list but the numbers of votes for the films in said list can vary quite wildly - the least-rated film on the list right now is Raise the Red Lantern with just over 25,000 votes but the most-rated one is The Shawshank Redemption with over two million votes (and IMDb still bases its rankings off votes from "regular" users so that throws the whole idea of them being films that "everybody likes" into question).
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1952 1.Bicycle Thieves (25 mentions) 2.City Lights (19 mentions) 2.The Gold Rush (19 mentions) 4.Battleship Potemkin (16 mentions) 5.Intolerance (12 mentions) 5.Louisiana Story (12 mentions) 7.Greed (11 mentions) 7.Le Jour Se Lève (11 mentions) 7.The Passion of Joan of Arc (11 mentions) 10.Brief Encounter (10 mentions) 10.The Rules of the Game (10 mentions) 10.Le Million (10 mentions)

Closest runners-up: Citizen Kane, La Grande Illusion, and The Grapes of Wrath. (9 mentions apiece)

1962 1.Citizen Kane (22 mentions) 2.L'Avventura (20 mentions) 3.The Rules of the Game (19 mentions) 4.Greed (17 mentions) 4.Ugetsu (17 mentions) 6.Battleship Potemkin (16 mentions) 7.Bicycle Thieves (16 mentions) 7.Ivan the Terrible (16 mentions) 9.La Terra Trema (14 mentions) 10.L'Atalante (13 mentions)

Closest runners-up: Hiroshima mon amour, Pather Panchali and Zero for Conduct. (11 mentions apiece)

1972 1.Citizen Kane (32 mentions) 2.The Rules of the Game (28 mentions) 3.Battleship Potemkin (16 mentions) 4.8½ (15 mentions) 5.L'Avventura (12 mentions) 5.Persona (12 mentions) 7.The Passion of Joan of Arc (11 mentions) 8.The General (10 mentions) 8.The Magnificent Ambersons (10 mentions) 10.Ugetsu (9 mentions) 10.Wild Strawberries (9 mentions)

Closest runners-up: The Gold Rush, Hiroshima mon amour, Ikiru, Ivan the Terrible, Pierrot le Fou, and Vertigo. (8 mentions apiece)

1982 1.Citizen Kane (45 mentions) 2.The Rules of the Game (31 mentions) 3.Seven Samurai (15 mentions) 3.Singin' in the Rain (15 mentions) 5.8½ (14 mentions) 6.Battleship Potemkin (13 mentions) 7.L'Avventura (12 mentions) 7.The Magnificent Ambersons (12 mentions) 7.Vertigo (12 mentions) 10.The General (11 mentions) 10.The Searchers (11 mentions)

Closest runners-up: 2001: A Space Odyssey and Andrei Rublev. (10 mentions apiece)

1992 1.Citizen Kane (43 mentions) 2.The Rules of the Game (32 mentions) 3.Tokyo Story (22 mentions) 4.Vertigo (18 mentions) 5.The Searchers (17 mentions) 6.L'Atalante (15 mentions) 6.The Passion of Joan of Arc (15 mentions) 6.Pather Panchali (15 mentions) 6.Battleship Potemkin (15 mentions) 10.2001: A Space Odyssey (14 mentions)

Closest runners-up: Bicycle Thieves and Singin' in the Rain. (10 mentions apiece)

2002 1.Citizen Kane (46 mentions) 2.Vertigo (41 mentions) 3.The Rules of the Game (30 mentions) 4.The Godfather and The Godfather Part II (23 mentions) 5.Tokyo Story (22 mentions) 6.2001: A Space Odyssey (21 mentions) 7.Battleship Potemkin (19 mentions) 7.Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (19 mentions) 9.8½ (18 mentions) 10.Singin' in the Rain (17 mentions)



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1. Tokyo Story - Yasujiro Ozu (1953)
= 2. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick (1968)
= 2. Citizen Kane – Orson Welles (1941)
4. 8 ½ - Federico Fellini (1963)
5. Taxi Driver – Martin Scorsese (1976)
6. Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
= 7. The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola (1972)
= 7. Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock (1958)
9. Mirror – Andrei Tarkovsky (1974)
10. Bicycle Thieves – Vittorio De Sica (1949)
Have only seen 4 of these films.



All on those list, there is one which I didn't really understood the pedestal, Citizen Kane.
I'll probably re-watch it, I find it difficult to re-watch a movie I didn't like years ago.



Of the films listed I missed only two:
Tokyo Story and Mirror. I should keep them in mind for the future.
( I probably should also list the Godfather as a miss too, as I am one of the few folks who couldn't sit through that movie - or any of its descendants)

Interesting survey, as they are all strong films, and probably all served as a template and inspiration to directors.

It might be interesting to contrast a list like this with top ten picks by actors. And audiences.

At any rate, I' m glad to see 2001 up there, it was a masterly work with magnificent visuals that still looks current today. I imagine every director or aspiring film maker must see these hallmark films like Taxi Driver, Vertigo, etc. Great films by great directors. But I personally would have preferred La Strada to 81/2.