stevo3001's Top 100 Movies

This looks like fun, I'd like to give it a try:

100: When The Wind Blows (Jimmy T Murakami, UK 86)



Quaint little cartoon story of a sweet old couple pottering around their cottage before and after nuclear war. Hard to watch, harder to forget, especially in its outstanding ending.



99: Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, Japan 61)



Mifune’s charisma enables him to believably and thrillingly manipulate everyone into a great sword showdown in a bravura Kurosawa display.



98: His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, USA 40)



Repartee so fast and sharp that the inevitability of some of the plot is easily overlooked.



97: House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou, China 04)


So very beautiful.



96: Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, USA 59)



Great work from everyone involved producing some of the funniest movie magic.



95: The Straight Story (David Lynch, USA 99)



Richard Farnsworth personifies real goodness in a pure, deeply affecting film that gets better and better as it starts to age.



94: Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee, USA 89)



Mesmerising as it simmers, shocking as it boils over.


93: Jesus of Montreal (Denys Arcand, Canada 89)


The lead actor in a radical passion play finds his life starting to follow a pattern in an eerie film that is both spiritual and sceptical.



92: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen, USA 00)



A feel-great experience, with lovable performance and hilarious dialogue complemented by an inspired soundtrack.



91: Alien (Ridley Scott, USA 79)



Introducing one of the greatest action heroes and some of the most terrifying monsters in the bleakest and scariest of the series.

Pretty good start , I'll probably check out some of the films you've mentioned already

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90: The President’s Last Bang (Sang-soo Im, South Korea 05)



Political thrillers don’t come any more lean, muscular and exciting than this true story.



89: Dawn of the Dead (George Romero, USA 79)



Superbly constructed film that catches you in a world, in a mall, that seems like a drowsy version of reality rather than a fantasy.



88: The Haunting (Robert Wise, USA 63)



Things go bump in the night. They do nothing but go bump, and the film is far scarier for it.



[87: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, USA 80)



The series hits by far its greatest peak in a darkly majestic piece.



86: Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahate, Japan 88)



Heartbreaking.



85: Ratatouille (Brad Bird, USA 07)



Master craftsmanship (as usual) from Pixar which, as well as being a fine film, adds to the experience of criticism and eating.



84: Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, USSR 30)



Poetic, forceful propaganda about the value of the land, the people and their power to gain from the land.



83: Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow, China 04)



Crazy and extremely fun.



82: All About Eve (Joseph L Mankiewicz, USA 50)



Bette Davis is legendary in this crackling, nasty comedy.



81: Ran (Akira Kurosawa, Japan 85)



Gorgeous and immense.

I like.

Anyone who starts with When The Wind Blows immediately has my attention.

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Interesting list so far. When the Wind Blows is based on the Raymond Briggs book, no? I never knew there was a film adaptation, I'll have to see if I can find it.

Yep, it is. Well worth watching too.

Interesting list.... can't wait to see what else you have on it...

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80: Shane (George Stevens, USA 53)



What ‘heroes’ ‘should’ do and how we need them.



79: Threads (Mick Jackson, UK 84)



Traumatising.



78: Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano, Japan 93)



Elegant, sad and haunting.



77: Spoorloos (George Sluizer, Holland 88)



Simple, extremely effective and challenging horror. The final decision Rex makes says a lot about the difference between a) cinema logic and real logic; b) overstressed logic and clear logic.



76: L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, France 34)



Evocative, wonderfully acted love story.



75: Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, Japan 50)



Fascinating and groundbreaking.



74: The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (Robert Wiene, Germany 20)



So very far from our world.



73: The Blues Brothers (John Landis, USA 80)



Cool.



72: Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, USA 42)



Quite a lot has already been written about this movie, and most of it is true.



71: Woyzeck (Werner Herzog, West Germany 79)



Some moments, including the opening sequence, are up there with the finest of Herzog and Kinski, and the film lasts long in the memory.

70: Atanarjuat (Zacharias Kunuk, Canada 01)



Timeless and truly amazing preservation of an Inuit legend.



69: Sholay (Ramesh Sippy, India 75)



All-out Bollywood asskicker, consistently exciting and aided by a terrific score.



68: The Searchers (John Ford, USA 56)



The searching seems almost more important than the finding in this epic, until we see what is found and what is then left behind.



67: Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan 53)



Artful and spooky.



66: Fargo (Joel Coen, USA 96)



Can’t decide which scene or character I love most in this masterfully cratfed gem.



65: The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, Algeria/Italy 66)



Powerful, instructive film with a documentary realism and urgency.



64: Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, USA 59)



That all you got?’ ‘That’s what I got.’ Among a lot of other things, maybe the greatest buddy movie.



63: Trois Coleurs: Blanc (Krzysztof Kieslowski, France 94)



‘Home at last!’ Most immediate and enjoyable and also, for me, the most memorable of the renowned trilogy.



62: La Regle du Jeu (Jean Renoir, France 39)



Perceptive, savage and important.



61: F***ing Amal (Lukas Moodysson, Sweden 98)



Moodysson uses his gift for creating endearing characters to fabulous effect in this real, heartwarming story.

Interesting you pick White out of the trilogy. I prefered Red myself.

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Top list Stevo. There are some wonderfully interesting and diverse films there (and a few which are all out wonderful).

60: Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, USA 79)



Spectacular madness with repeated stunning moments.



59: Once Were Warriors (Lee Tamahori, New Zealand 94)



Brutally powerful.




58: Le Trou (Jacques Becker, France 60)



Fascinating mechanics and logistics of a prison break.



57: Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, UK 62)



Epic journey brought to the screen with nearly flawless skill.




56: Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, USA 05)



The bears (and the nature photography overall) are magnificent and Treadwell is the least likely of Herzog mad heroes in this mindblowing, multilayered documentary



54= The Godfather & The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, USA 72 & 74)



Stately and impressive.



53: Amadeus (Milos Forman, USA 84)



Salieri’s predicament is an unusual and, especially here, a very interesting one; how do you cope with a rival who is boorish and insolent but can write music that sings with ‘the voice of God’?



52: Raising Arizona (Joel Coen, USA 87)



The first several minutes are just about as good as anything in recent cinematic history. The rest is awful damn good too.



51: The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, France 53)



Keeps your nerves on edge for almost all the film.

Right, will not voice opinion on other people's list...got it. Thank you so much.

Great list so far, I love that that you have Kung fu Hustle on there. I tell people about that one all the time. I still haven't seen Shaolin Soccer (also Stephen Chow) but have heard that's pretty good too.

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50: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, USA 68)



Many very different classic scenes.



49: The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, UK 73)



Makes olde British tradition, folk music and Britt Ekland unavoidably unsettling .



48:Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein, USSR 38)



Glorious patriotic rabble-rouser.



47: Grosse Pointe Blank (George Armitage, USA 97)



Witty, endearing, uplifting; I love watching this movie.



46: An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim, USA 06)



A message this important needed to be perfectly delivered. It is.



45: Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, USSR 25)



Monumental.





44: Pom Poko (Isao Takahata, Japan 94)



Starts out silly, ends up heartrending, always imaginative.



43: Persona (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden 66)



Intriguing thought piece.



42: Au Hasard, Balthazar (Robert Bresson, France 66)



A simple, dignified and profoundly affecting hero tells us much about the cruelties of the world.



41: Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter/ Ash Brannon/ Lee Unkrich, USA 99)



Brilliant characterisation, great animation, very funny, willing to take on serious issues; just wonderful.

Eclectic and interesting so far...

Keep em coming...

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40: Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan 49)



If there is a God, I hope they are pretty much like either Setsuko Hara or Chishu Ryu.



39: Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter, USA 76)



Stripped down, mean, awesome.



38: Detour (Edgar G Ulmer, USA 45)



Look at her face! A film that cares about nothing except having its fantastic villainess thrash the ‘hero’ through the heartless plot pitilessly and at breakneck speed. Exhilirating.



37: Freaks (Tod Browning, USA 32)



Tremendously influential morality tale.



36: M (Fritz Lang, Germany 31)



Lorre is one of the most memorable of villains in this realistic thriller.



35: Blue Velvet (David Lynch, USA 86)



Other worlds of light and dark just around the corner; brilliantly done.



34: A Night At The Opera (Sam Wood, USA 35)



‘Hey, you big bully. What's the idea of hitting that little bully?’ The Marx Brothers at their considerable best.



33: Day of Wrath (Carl Theodore Dreyer, Denmark 43)




Horrifying tale of religion at its worst, its impact on society and psyche.



32: Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, Germany 83)



Majestic insanity.



31: Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo, Japan 64)



Exquisite ghost story.

30: Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou, China 90)



Passionate and stunning.



29: Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton, USA 23)



Probably Keaton’s straight-up funniest film.



28: Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, USA 49)



Charming, smart, scalpel-sharp black humour.



26= Airplane! (Jim Abrahams/ Jerry Zucker/ David Zucker, USA 80) & 26= Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, USA 74)





It’s just possible that, over the course of my life, I have laughed more at these two films than every other film I’ve seen combined.



25: The Gospel According to St Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy 64)



Realistic, all-business, very effective telling of the Gospel story.



24: Tillsammans (Lukas Moodysson, Sweden 00)



Human, funny, generous gem with the happiest of endings.



23: Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, USA 58)



Compelling and extremely interesting.



22: The Incredibles (Brad Bird, USA 04)



Flawless action comedy withe wonderfully rich characterisation.



21: My Darling Clementine (John Ford, USA 46)



Apparently the history is all wrong, but everything about this often understated, well-played movie is right.

20: Nosferatu (FW Murnau, Germany 22)



Primally horrifying.



19: Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, Japan 62)



Ezquisitely constructed film that carefully slices up the concept up of warrior honour.



18: Hoop Dreams (Steve James, USA 94)



Immense in scope, insightful in the small moments, a great work of art.



17: Dr Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, USA 63)



MADness gleefully, creatively, comprehensively ridiculed.



16: Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, USA 03)



Sweet, sad, perceptive and perfectly, permanently resonant.



15: The Third Man (Carol Reed, UK 49)



Looks great, sounds great and is always smart and fun.



14: The Year My Voice Broke (John Duigan, Australia 87)



Magical and real, this is the best film ever made about growing up.



13: Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, USA 47)



Mitchum is great in a thrilling noir.



12: The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, USA 35)



Deliriously imaginative.



11: Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, USA 57)



Dark delight featuring some of the sharpest dialogue you’ll ever hear delivered by two actors giving the performances of their lives.