Diehl40's Top 100

67. Life is Beautiful 1997
dir. Roberto Benigni, Niccoletta Braschi, giogio Canterini
A wonderful tale about a father's attempt to hide the cruelties of war and the holocaust from his young son.

66. The Awful Truth 1937
dir.Leo Mccarrey
Featured Cast: Carey Grant, Irene Dunn, Ralph Belamy
A Young couple file for divorce only to discover they are very much in love.

65. Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989
dir. Woody Allen
Featured Cast: Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Claire Bloom, Angelica Huston, Jerry Orbach

Woody returns to one of his great inspirations, "Crime and Punishment" for this one.

64. The Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samaurai 1999
dir John Jarmusch
Starring: Forrest Whitaker, Henry Silva, and John Tormey
A young man swears loyalty to a low ranking mobster

63. Ordinary People 1980
dir Robert Redford
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, and Timothy Hutton.

A family falls apart after the death of one of their sons

62. All That Jazz 1979

dir. Bob Fosse
Starring: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, and Anne Reinking
The Story of Bob Fosse's life.

61. Pink Floyd's the Wall 1982
dir Alan Parker,

Starring: Bob Geldof, Bob Haskins, James Laurenson
A Rock star is loosing it as he isolates himself from the world.

60. Angel Heart 1987
dir Alan Parker
Featured Cast: Robert De Niro, Mickey Roarke, and Lisa Bonet.
A Louisiana P. I. is hired to find a Missing person. When the bodies begin to pile up and he becomes the chief suspect he wonders what he has got himself into. The book is even darker than the movie. The book has the whole story set in NYC, and not in Louisiana. The book is called Fallen Angel by a guy named Hjortsborg.

59. Monty Python's Life of Brian 1979
dir Terry Jones
Featured Cast: Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Michael Palin

An average man is mistaken for the Messiah with many laughs

58. The General 1998
dir. John Boorman
Featured Cast: Brandan Gleeson, Adrian Dunbar, and Sean McGinley
The story of Martin Cahill. An Irish folk hero and gangster, who made himself an enemy to the police, the IRA and the U.V.F.

57. Memento 2000
dir. Christopher Nolan
Featured Cast: Guy Pierce, Carrie Ann Moss, and Joe Pontaliano
A man with no short term memory seeks to find his wife murderer.

56. The Lady Eve 1941
dir Preston Sturges
Featured Cast: Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck

55. Blue Velvet 1986
dir. David Lynch
Featured Cast: Klyle Mclachlan, Laura Dern, Isabella Rosselini, and Dennis Hopper.

A young college student comes home from school to help his father after a stoke. After finding a severed human ear he is drawn into a dark mystery.

54. M 1931
dir Fritz Lange
Featured Cast: Peter lorre, Ellen Widmenn, and Inge Landgut
When the police are unable to apprehend a man who has been killing children, the other criminals join in the hunt. I thought Lorre turned in one of the "greatest performances" in this film.

53. 12 Angry Men
dir. Sidney Lumet
Featured Cast: Henry Fonda, John Lee Cobb, Martin Balsam, and Jack Klugman

A lone holdout on the jury first slows down a guilty verdict, and eventually convinces everyone else on the jury to acquit.

52. Persona
dir Ingmar Bergman
Featured Cast: BiBi Anderson and Liv Ullman.
A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.

51. Badlands 1973
dir Terrence Malick
Featured Cast: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, and Warren Oates

50. The World According to Garp 1982
dir. George Roy Hill
Featured Cast: Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glen Close and John Lithgow

49. Cinema Paradiso 1988
dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
Featured Cast: Phillip Noiret, Enzo Canneveli, Antonella Attili
The power of film to change a life.

48. It's a Wonderful Life
dir Frank Capra
Featured Cast: James Stewart Lionel Barrymore