Robert the List's Top 100 films

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


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
For a Few Dollars More 1965 Italy Sergio Leone
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
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

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

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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.

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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.

100 For a Few Dollars More 1965 Italy Sergio Leone


99 Shanghai Express 1932 USA Josef von Sternberg


98 Voices Through Time 1996 Italy Franco Piavoli


97 Le Mepris 1963 France Jean-Luc Godard


96 Laura 1944 USA Otto Preminger


95 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 USA Elia Kazan


94 Panique 1946 France Julien Duvivier


93 Pierrot Le Fou 1965 France Jean Paul Goddard

92 On the Waterfront 1954 USA Elia Kazan


91 Out of the Past 1947 USA Jacques Tourneur


90 Fatal Attraction 1987 USA Adrian Lyne


89 Mean Streets 1973 USA Martin Scorsese


88 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 USA Steven Spielberg


87 Bay of Angels 1963 France Jacques Demy


86 The Talented Mr Ripley 1999 USA Anthony Minghella


85 Withnail & I 1987 UK Bruce Robinson


84 Homecoming 1984 Hong Kong Yim Ho


83 The Commitments 1991 Ireland Alan Parker

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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.

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.

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

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

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.

82 Port of Shadows 1938 France Marcel Carné


81 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 USA Michael Curtiz


80 The King of Comedy 1982 USA Martin Scorsese


79 Badlands 1973 USA Trevor Malick


78 Taxi Driver 1976 USA Martin Scorsese


77 Gladiator 2000 USA Ridley Scott


76 Seven 1995 USA David Fincher


75 Ghostbusters 1984 USA Ivan Reitman


74 Donnie Darko (Director's cut) 2004 USA


73 Cabaret 1972 USA Bob Fosse

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

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

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.

72 The Remains of the Day 1993 UK James Ivory


71 My Darling Clementine 1946 USA John Ford


70 Saving Private Ryan 1998 USA Steven Spielberg


69 The Blue Angel 1930 Germany Josef von Sternberg


68 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 USA Sidney Lumet


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


64 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 France Alain Resnais


63 Scarface 1932 USA Howard Hawks

My favorites from your list


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

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

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

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62 Soy Cuba 1964 USSR Mikhail Kalatozov


61 12 Angry Men 1957 USA Sydney Lumet


60 Pulp Fiction 1994 USA Quentin Tarantino


59 Blackmail 1929 UK Alfred Hitchcock


58 Rome, Open City 1945 Italy Roberto Rossellini


57 Chinatown 1974 USA Roman Polanski


56 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Czech Jirí Menzel


55 Entre Nous 1983 France Diane Kurys


54 Days of Being Wild 1990 Hong Kong Wong Kar-Wai


53 Alien 1979 USA Ridley Scott