Robert the List's Top 100 films

“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.

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

“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

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/cruising4stuf...-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/moviescansave...rite-100-films

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/cruising4stuf...-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

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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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