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Not the best in my opinion, but a combination of favourite, important, critically admired, popular and successful ones to check out at some point.

1895 Arrival of a Train (Lumiere bros)


1902 A Trip to the Moon (Melies)


1903 The Great Train Robbery (Porter)


1913 Ingeborg Holm (Sjostrom)
Cabiria (Pastrone)
Twilight of a Woman's Soul (Bauer)
Fantomas (Feuillade)


1915 Vampires (Feuillade)
Birth of a Nation (Griffith)


1916 Intolerance (Griffith)


1917 The Outlaw and his Wife (Sjostrom)


1918 Tih Minh (Feuillade)


1919 The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (Wiene)
Broken Blossoms (Griffith)


1920 The Golem (Wegener)
Erotikon (Stiller)


1921 The Kid (Chaplin)
The Phantom Carriage (Sjostrom)


1922 Nosferatu (Murnau)
Nanook of the North (Flaherty)
Foolish Wives (Stroheim)
La Roue (Gance)
Witchcraft Through the Ages (Christensen)


1923 Safety Last (Newmayer, Taylor)
Die Nibelungen (Lang)
The Smiling Madame Beudet (Dulac)
Our Hospitality (Blystone, Keaton)


1924 Greed (Stroheim)
Sherlock Jnr (Keaton)
Strike (Eisenstein)
The Last Laugh (Murnau)
Entr'acte (Clair)
The Navigator (Keaton)
The Thief of Bagdad (Walsh)
The Marriage Circle (Lubitsch)


1925 Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
The Gold Rush (Chaplin)
The Big Parade (Vidor)
The Adventures of Prince Ahmed (Reiniger)
Variety (Dupont)
The Phantom of the Opera (Julian)


1926 The General (Bruckman, Keaton)
A Page of Madness (Kinugasa)
Mother (Pudovkin)
Faust (Murnau)
Ben Hur (Niblo)


1927 Sunrise (Murnau)
Metropolis (Lang)
Napoleon (Gance)
An Italian Straw Hat (Clair)
The Chess Player (Bernard)
The Unknown (Browning)
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Ruttmann)
Seventh Heaven (Borzage)
Girl with the Hatbox (Barnet)
October (Eisenstein)
The Kid Brother (Wilde)


1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
Pandora's Box (Pabst)
The Wind (Sjostrom)
Un Chien Andalou (Bunuel)
The Crowd (Vidor)
Steamboat Bill Jnr (Keaton)
Queen Kelly (Stroheim)
The House on Trubnaya Square (Barnet)
The Docks of New York (Von Sternberg)


1929 Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov)
L'Argent (L'Herbier)
People on Sunday (Ulmer, Siodmak)
Lonesome (Fejos)
Arsenal (Dovzhenko)
The New Babylon (Kozintsev, Trauberg)
Storm over Asia (Pudovkin)
Applause (Mamoulian)


1930 L'Age d' Or (Bunuel)
Earth (Dovzhenko)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone)
The Blue Angel (Von Sternberg)
Limite (Peixoto)
Under the Roofs of Paris (Clair)
Salt for Svanetia (Kalatozov)
A Propos de Nice (Vigo)
Little Caesar (Leroy)


1931 City Lights (Chaplin)
M (Lang)
Frankenstein (Whale)
Public Enemy (Wellman)
Madchen in Uniform (Sagan)
Marius (Korda)
Tabu (Murnau)
Le Million (Clair)
Tale of the Fox (Starewicz)
A Nous la Liberté (Clair)
Dracula (Browning)
La Chienne (Renoir)


1932 Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch)
I Was Born, but (Ozu)
Freaks (Browning)
Scarface (Hawks)
Boudu Saved from Drowning (Renoir)
Love me Tonight (Mamoulian)
Vampyr (Dreyer)
Shanghai Express (Von Sternberg)
I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Leroy)
Fanny (Allegret)
The Music Box (Parrott)
Liebelei (Ophuls)
Grand Hotel (Goulding)
The Old Dark House (Whale)


1933 King Kong (Cooper, Schoedsack)
Duck Soup (McCarey)
42nd Street (Bacon)
Zero De Conduite (Vigo)
Outskirts (Barnet)
Little Toys (Sun Yu)
The Testament of Dr Mabuse (Lang)
Spring Silkworms (Cheng Bugao)
Sons of the Desert (Seiter)
Footlight Parade (Bacon)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (LeRoy)
Queen Christina (Mamoulian)
Dinner at Eight (Cukor)


1934 L' Atalante (Vigo)
It Happened One Night (Capra)
The Scarlet Empress (Von Sternberg)
Happiness (Medvedkin)
The Mascot (Starewicz)
Twentieth Century (Hawks)
Man of Aran (Flaherty)
It's a Gift (McLeod)
The Thin Man (Van Dyke)
The Black Cat (Ulmer)


1935 Top Hat (Sandrich)
The 39 Steps (Hitchcock)
The Bride of Frankenstein (Whale)
Triumph of the Will (Riefenstahl)
A Night at the Opera (Wood)
Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (Renoir)
David Copperfield (Cukor)
The Devil is a Woman (Von Sternberg)
Wife, be Like a Rose (Naruse)
Mutiny on the Bounty (Lloyd)


1936 Partie de Campagne (Renoir)
Modern Times (Chaplin)
Swing Time (Stevens)
Story of a Cheat (Guitry)
Cesar (Pagnol)
Fury (Lang)
Sisters of the Gion (Mizoguchi)
The Only Son (Ozu)
My Man Godfrey (La Cava)
Mr Deeds Goes to Town (Capra)
Dodsworth (Wyler)


1937 La Grande Illusion (Renoir)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney- Hand)
Street Angel (Yuan Mushi)
Pépé le Moko (Duvivier)
Way out West (Horne)
The Awful Truth (McCarey)
Humanity and Paper Balloons (Yamanaka)
Make Way for Tomorrow (McCarey)
You Only Live Once (Lang)
Nothing Sacred (Wellman)
Stage Door (La Cava)


1938 Bringing up Baby (Hawks)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Curtiz)
Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein)
Olympia (Riefenstahl)
La Bete Humaine (Renoir)
Quai des Brumes (Carné)
The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock)
The Childhood of Maxim Gorki (Donskoi)
Jezebel (Wyler)
Angels with Dirty Faces (Curtiz)
The Baker's Wife (Pagnol)


1939 La Regle du Jeu (Renoir)
Gone with the Wind (Fleming)
The Wizard of Oz (Fleming)
Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi)
Stagecoach (Ford)
Le Jour se Leve (Carné)
Mr Smith Goes to Washington (Capra)
Midnight (Leisen)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Dieterle)
Wuthering Heights (Wyler)
Only Angels Have Wings (Hawks)
Destry Rides Again (Marshall)
The Roaring Twenties (Walsh)
Ninotchka (Lubitsch)


1940 The Grapes of Wrath (Ford)
His Girl Friday (Hawks)
The Philadelphia Story (Cukor)
Rebecca (Hitchcock)
Fantasia (Disney)
The Thief of Bagdad (Berger, Powell, Whelan)
Pinocchio (Disney- Sharpsteen, Luske)
The Shop around the Corner (Lubitsch)
The Great Dictator (Chaplin)
Dance, Girl, Dance (Arzner)
The Bank Dick (Cline)


1941 Citizen Kane (Welles)
The Maltese Falcon (Huston)
The Lady Eve (P.Sturges)
Sullivan's Travels (P.Sturges)
Dumbo (Disney- Sharpsteen)
The Loyal 47 Ronin (Mizoguchi)
Listen to Britain (Jennings)
How Green was my Valley (Ford)


1942 Casablanca (Curtiz)
The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles)
To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch)
Bambi (Disney- Hand)
Cat People (Tourneur)
Palm Beach Story (P.Sturges)
Aniki Bobo (Oliveira)
Ossessione (Visconti)
The Raven (Clouzot)
Now, Voyager (Rapper)


1943 Day of Wrath (Dreyer)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell, Pressburger)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren)
I Walked with a Zombie (Tourneur)
Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock)
The Ox-Bow Incident (Wellman)
The Seventh Victim (Robson)
Douce (Autant-Lara)


1944 Double Indemnity (Wilder)
Ivan the Terrible (Eisenstein)
Henry V (Olivier)
Laura (Preminger)
Meet me in St Louis (Minnelli)
To Have and Have Not (Hawks)
Le Ciel est a Vous (Grémillon)
Murder, my Sweet (Dmytryk)
Arsenic and Old Lace (Capra)


1945 Les Enfants du Paradis (Carné)
Rome Open City (Rossellini)
Brief Encounter (Lean)
Mildred Pierce (Curtiz)
Scarlet Street (Lang)
Detour (Ulmer)
The Lost Weekend (Wilder)
Leave Her to Heaven (Stahl)
I Know Where I'm Going (Powell, Pressburger)


1946 It's a Wonderful Life (Capra)
The Big Sleep (Hawks)
A Matter of Life and Death (Powell, Pressburger)
The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler)
Great Expectations (Lean)
La Belle et la Bete (Cocteau)
My Darling Clementine (Ford)
Notorious (Hitchcock)
Gilda (C.Vidor)
Paisa (Rossellini)
Shoeshine (De Sica)
The Killers (Siodmak)
Ivan the Terrible 2 (Eisenstein)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Garnett)


1947 Out of the Past (Tourneur)
Black Narcissus (Powell, Pressburger)
Odd Man Out (Reed)
Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin)
Body and Soul (Rossen)
The Ghost and Mrs Muir (Mankiewicz)
Brighton Rock (Boulting)


1948 Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Ophuls)
The Red Shoes (Powell, Pressburger)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston)
Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu)
Red River (Hawks)
La Terra Trema (Visconti)
Force of Evil (Polonsky)
They Live by Night (N.Ray)
The Lady from Shanghai (Welles)
Hamlet (Olivier)
Jour de Fete (Tati)
Portrait of Jennie (Dieterle)
Fort Apache (Ford)


1949 The Third Man (Reed)
Orphée (Cocteau)
Late Spring (Ozu)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (Hamer)
White Heat (Walsh)
Crows and Sparrows (Zheng Junli)
On the Town (Donen, Kelly)
Gun Crazy (Lewis)
Begone Dull Care (McLaren)
The Heiress (Wyler)
Adam's Rib (Cukor)


1950 Sunset Boulevard (Wilder)
All About Eve (Mankiewicz)
Los Olvidados (Bunuel)
The Asphalt Jungle (Huston)
In a Lonely Place (N.Ray)
La Ronde (Ophuls)
Winchester '73 (A.Mann)


1951 Rashomon (Kurosawa)
The African Queen (Huston)
Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson)
Early Summer (Ozu)
Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock)
The Lavender Hill Mob (Crichton)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Wise)
A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan)
Ace in the Hole (Wilder)
A Place in the Sun (Stevens)
Miss Oyu (Mizoguchi)
The River (Renoir)
Awara (Kapoor)
Miracle in Milan (De Sica)


1952 Singin in the Rain (Donen, Kelly)
High Noon (Zinnemann)
The Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi)
Casque d' Or (Becker)
Ikiru (Kurosawa)
Umberto D (De Sica)
Forbidden Games (Clement)
The Quiet Man (Ford)
Othello (Welles)
The Golden Coach (Renoir)
El (Bunuel)
The Bad and the Beautiful (Minnelli)


1953 Tokyo Story (Ozu)
Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi)
The Band Wagon (Minnelli)
Madame de (Ophuls)
Voyage to Italy (Rossellini)
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (Tati)
The Wages of Fear (Clouzot)
Shane (Stevens)
From Here to Eternity (Zinnemann)
Roman Holiday (Wyler)
The Big Heat (Lang)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Hawks)
Duck Amuck (Jones)


1954 Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)
Rear Window (Hitchcock)
La Strada (Fellini)
On the Waterfront (Kazan)
Johnny Guitar (N.Ray)
Senso (Visconti)
A Star is Born (Cukor)
Chikamatsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi)
Twenty Four Eyes (Kino****a)


1955 Pather Panchali (S. Ray)
Night of the Hunter (Laughton)
Ordet (Dreyer)
Kiss me Deadly (Aldrich)
Rebel without a Cause (N.Ray)
East of Eden (Kazan)
Floating Clouds (Naruse)
Tales of the Taira Clan (Mizoguchi)
Lola Montes (Ophuls)
Diaboliques (Clouzot)
Night and Fog (Resnais)
Bob le Flambeur (Melville)
The Ladykillers (Mackendrick)
Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman)
All that Heaven Allows (Sirk)


1956 The Searchers (Ford)
A Man Escaped (Bresson)
Aparajito (S.Ray)
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (Siegel)
Mother India (Mehbob Khan)
The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa)
The Killing (Kubrick)
Early Spring (Ozu)
Giant (Stevens)
The Court Jester (Panama, Frank)
Street of Shame (Mizoguchi)
Bad Day at Black Rock (J.Sturges)
Forbidden Planet (Wilcox)
Written on the Wind (Sirk)


1957 The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
Twelve Angry Men (Lumet)
Paths of Glory (Kubrick)
Bridge on the River Kwai (Lean)
Throne of Blood (Kurosawa)
Pyaasa (Dutt)
Cabiria Nights (Fellini)
The Cranes are Flying (Kalatozov)
Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (Arnold)
Kanal (Wajda)


1958 Vertigo (Hitchcock)
Touch of Evil (Welles)
Ashes and Diamonds (Wajda)
The Music Room (S.Ray)
Hidden Fortress (Kurosawa)
Dracula (Fisher)
Gigi (Minnelli)
Man of the West (A.Mann)
The Defiant Ones (Kramer)


1959 Some Like it Hot (Wilder)
North by Northwest (Hitchcock)
Les 400 Coups (Truffaut)
Hiroshima mon Amour (Resnais)
The World of Apu (S.Ray)
Ben Hur (Wyler)
Rio Bravo (Hawks)
Imitation of Life (Sirk)
Eyes without a Face (Franju)
Pickpocket (Bresson)
Anatomy of a Murder (Preminger)
Fires on the Plain (Ichikawa)
Paper Flowers (Dutt)
Shadows (Cassavetes)


1960 Psycho (Hitchcock)
Breathless (Godard)
La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
L'Avventura (Antonioni)
The Apartment (Wilder)
Cloud-Capped Star (Ghatak)
Shoot the Pianist (Truffaut)
Spartacus (Kubrick)
The Magnificent Seven (J.Sturges)
Peeping Tom (Powell)
The Housemaid (Kim Ki-Young)
Le Trou (Becker)
Black Sunday (Bava)
Rocco and his Brothers (Visconti)
Wild River (Kazan)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Reisz)


1961 Jules et Jim (Truffaut)
West Side Story (Wise)
Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais)
The Hustler (Rossen)
Viridiana (Bunuel)
El Cid (A.Mann)
The Human Condition (Kobayashi)
La Notte (Antonioni)
Yojimbo (Kurosawa)
The Innocents (Clayton)
One-Eyed Jacks (Brando)
The Guns of Navarone (Thompson)
Salvatore Giuliano (Rosi)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Edwards)
Accattone (Pasolini)


1962 Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)
Vivre sa Vie (Godard)
The Man who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford)
The Manchurian Candidate (Frankenheimer)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (Varda)
Exterminating Angel (Bunuel)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan)
Knife in the Water (Polanski)
Eclipse (Antonioni)
Ride the High Country (Peckinpah)
The House is Black(Farrokhzad)
An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu)
Ivan's Childhood (Tarkovsky)
La Jetée (Marker)
Dr No (Young)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Aldrich)


1963 8 1/2 (Fellini)
The Leopard (Visconti)
Contempt (Godard)
The Great Escape (J.Sturges)
Barren Lives (Dos Santos)
The Executioner (Berlanga)
The Servant (Losey)
The Birds (Hitchcock)
High and Low (Kurosawa)
An Actor's Revenge (Ichikawa)
Shock Corridor (Fuller)
Charade (Donen)
From Russia with Love (Young)
The Nutty Professor (Lewis)
The Pink Panther (Edwards)
Dog Star Man (Brakhage)
The Haunting (Wise)
The Silence (Bergman)
Jason and the Argonauts (Chaffey)


1964 Dr Strangelove (Kubrick)
The Gospel according to St Matthew (Pasolini)
Goldfinger (Hamilton)
Charulata (S.Ray)
Black God White Devil (Rocha)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Demy)
Woman of the Dunes (Teshigahara)
Gertrud (Dreyer)
I am Cuba (Kalatozov)
Marnie (Hitchcock)
Kwaidan (Kobayashi)
Two Stage Sisters (Xie Jin)
Zulu (Endfield)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Paradjanov)
My Fair Lady (Cukor)
The Masque of the Red Death (Corman)
Bande a Part (Godard)


1965 Pierrot le Fou (Godard)
The Sound of Music (Wise)
The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)
Doctor Zhivago (Lean)
Round Up (Jancso)
Repulsion (Polanski)
A Blonde in Love (Forman)
Faster, Pussycat, Kill! Kill! (Meyer)
Chimes at Midnight (Welles)
The Saragossa Manuscript (Has)
Alphaville (Godard)
Onibaba (Shindo)
The Hand (Trnka)
The Hunt (Saura)
The Shop on the High Street (Kadar)


1966 Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
Persona (Bergman)
Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson)
The Good the Bad and the Ugly (Leone)
Closely Observed Trains (Menzel)
Blow Up (Antonioni)
Daisies (Chytilova)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Nichols)
The Rise to Power of Louis XIV (Rossellini)
Tokyo Drifter (Suzuki)


1967 Bonnie and Clyde (Penn)
The Graduate (Nichols)
Le Samourai (Melville)
Belle de Jour (Bunuel)
Playtime (Tati)
Point Blank (Boorman)
Mouchette (Bresson)
Branded to Kill (Suzuki)
Switchboard Operator (Makaveyev)
War and Peace (Bondarchuk)
The Red and the White (Jancso)
The Dirty Dozen (Aldrich)
Weekend (Godard)
The Jungle Book (Reitherman)
Cool Hand Luke (Rosenberg)
The Hour of the Wolf (Bergman)
In the Heat of the Night (Jewison)
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Godard)
Marketa Lazarova (Vlacil)
The Commissar (Askoldov)


1968 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone)
Memories of Underdevelopment (Alea)
Rosemary's Baby (Polanski)
Night of the Living Dead (Romero)
If (L.Anderson)
The Hour of the Furnaces (Solanas)
Planet of the Apes (Schaffner)
Goto Isle of Love (Borowczyk)
La Femme Infidele (Chabrol)
The Cow (Mehrjui)
Shame (Bergman)
Theorem (Pasolini)
Death by Hanging (Oshima)
The Lion in Winter (Harvey)


1969 The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)
The Colour of Pomegranates (Paradjanov)
My Night with Maud (Rohmer)
Kes (Loach)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Hill)
Le Boucher (Chabrol)
Midnight Cowboy (Schlesinger)
A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
The Land (Chahine)
Easy Rider (Hopper)
Z (Costa-Gavros)
Lucia (Solas)
Days and Nights in the Forest(S.Ray)


1970 The Conformist (Bertolucci)
Claire's Knee (Rohmer)
The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophuls)
Five Easy Pieces (Rafelson)
MASH (Altman)
Performance (Cammell, Roeg)
The Spider's Stratagem (Bertolucci)
There was a Singing Blackbird (Iosseliani)
Patton (Schaffner)
El Topo (Jodorowsky)
Little Big Man (Penn)


1971 A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
Pakeezah (Amrohi)
Dirty Harry (Siegel)
The French Connection (Friedkin)
McCabe and Mrs Miller (Altman)
The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich)
Death in Venice (Visconti)
Klute (Pakula)
Get Carter (Hodges)
Two Lane Blacktop (Hellman)
Mon Oncle Antoine (Jutra)
Le Souffle au Coeur (Malle)
Walkabout (Roeg)
King Lear (Kozintsev)
Long Farewells (Muratova)


1972 The Godfather (Coppola)
Aguirre Wrath of God (Herzog)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bunuel)
Cries and Whispers (Bergman)
Cabaret (Fosse)
Deliverance (Boorman)
Last Tango in Paris (Bertolucci)
Sleuth (Mankiewicz)
Solaris (Tarkovsky)
The Bitter Tears of Petra van Kant (Fassbinder)


1973 Spirit of the Beehive (Erice)
Badlands (Malick)
Don't Look Now (Roeg)
The Exorcist (Friedkin)
Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder)
The Mother and the Whore (Eustache)
Mean Streets (Scorsese)
The Wicker Man (Hardy)
Day for Night (Truffaut)
Touki Bouki (Diop Mambety)
American Graffiti (Lucas)
The Long Goodbye (Altman)
Sleeper (Allen)


1974 The Godfather 2 (Coppola)
Mirror (Tarkovsky)
Chinatown (Polanski)
Celine and Julie go Boating (Rivette)
Amarcord (Fellini)
Alice in the Cities (Wenders)
The Conversation (Coppola)
Xala (Sembene)
A Woman under the Influence (Cassavetes)
Young Frankenstein (M.Brooks)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Hooper)


1975 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Forman)
Jaws (Spielberg)
Nashville (Altman)
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)
Jeanne Dielman (Akerman)
The Travelling Players (Angelopoulos)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Herzog)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir)
Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet)
Manila: in the Claws of Neon (Brocka)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Jones, Gilliam)
The Passenger (Antonioni)
Sholay (Sippy)
Cria Cuervos (Saura)
India Song (Duras)
Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa)


1976 Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
Kings of the Road (Wenders)
Ai no Corrida (Oshima)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (Eastwood)
Network (Lumet)
Rocky (Avildsen)
Carrie (De Palma)
All the President's Men (Pakula)
The Ascent (Shepitko)
Ceddo (Sembene)


1977 Star Wars (Lucas)
Annie Hall (Allen)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg)
Suspiria (Argento)
Killer of Sheep (Burnett)
The Battle of Chile (Guzman)
Unfinished Piece for Player Piano (Mikhalkov)
Man of Marble (Wajda)
Eraserhead (Lynch)
Soldier of Orange (Verhoeven)


1978 The Deer Hunter (Cimino)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder)
Tree of the Wooden Clogs (Olmi)
Days of Heaven (Malick)
Halloween (Carpenter)
Amor de Perdicao (Oliveira)
Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (Ruiz)
The Herd (Okten)
Dawn of the Dead (Romero)


1979 Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
Manhattan (Allen)
Stalker (Tarkovsky)
Alien (Scott)
The Life of Brian (Jones)
Tale of Tales (Norstein)
The Tin Drum (Schlondorff)
Vengeance is Mine (Imamura)
My Brilliant Career (Armstrong)


1980 Raging Bull (Scorsese)
The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner)
The Shining (Kubrick)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder)
The Elephant Man (Lynch)
Airplane! (Zucker, Abrahams)
Atlantic City (Malle)
Kagemusha (Kurosawa)


1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg)
Das Boot (Petersen)
Mephisto (Szabo)
Diva (Beineix)
Road Warrior (Miller)
Mandala (Im Kwon-Taek)
An American Werewolf in London (Landis)
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (Gherman)
Body Heat (Kasdan)
Veronika Voss (Fassbinder)


1982 Blade Runner (Scott)
Fanny and Alexander (Bergman)
E.T (Spielberg)
Yol (Guney)
The Draughtsman's Contract (Greenaway)
Night of the Shooting Stars (Taviani bros)
Gandhi (Attenborough)
Fitzcarraldo (Herzog)
A Diary for my Children (Meszaros)
Tootsie (Pollack)
Dimensions of Dialogue (Svankmajer)
The Thing (Carpenter)


1983 Once Upon a Time in America (Leone)
Sans Soleil (Marker)
The Ballad of Narayama (Imamura)
Scarface (De Palma)
Local Hero (Forsyth)
The King of Comedy (Scorsese)
El Sur (Erice)
Videodrome (Cronenberg)
The Right Stuff (Kaufman)


1984 Paris Texas (Wenders)
The Terminator (Cameron)
Amadeus (Forman)
Yellow Earth (Chen Kaige)
This is Spinal Tap (Reiner)
Sunday in the Country (Tavernier)
Stranger than Paradise (Jarmusch)
Repentance (Abuladze)
The Killing Fields (Joffe)
Blood Simple (Coen)


1985 Ran (Kurosawa)
Brazil (Gilliam)
Back to the Future (Zemeckis)
Come and See (Klimov)
Witness (Weir)
My Life as a Dog (Hallstrom)
Street of Crocodiles (Quay bros)
Shoah (Lanzmann)
A Room with a View (Ivory)
Bashu the Little Stranger (Beiza'i)
Heimat (Reitz)
Out of Africa (Pollack)


1986 Blue Velvet (Lynch)
Jean de Florette (Berri)
The Green Ray (Rohmer)
Aliens (Cameron)
Hannah and her Sisters (Allen)
Platoon (Stone)
The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky)
The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Hou)
Stand by Me (Reiner)
Betty Blue (Beineix)
Sarraounia (Hondo)
The Horse Thief (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
Salvador (Stone)


1987 Wings of Desire (Wenders)
Au Revoir les Enfants (Malle)
Babette's Feast (Axel)
Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou)
The Last Emperor (Bertolucci)
The Untouchables (De Palma)
Yeelen (Cissé)
The Princess Bride (Reiner)
Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick)
Hope and Glory (Boorman)
Where is the Friend's Home? (Kiarostami)
Pelle the Conqueror (August)
The Dead (Huston)
Dead Ringers (Cronenberg)
Wedding in Galilee (Khleifi)
My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (Rohmer)


1988 Dekalog (Kieslowski)
My Neighbour Totoro (Miyazaki)
Die Hard (McTiernan)
Women on the Verge (Almodovar)
Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata)
The Vanishing (Sluizer)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Zemeckis)
A Fish Called Wanda (Crichton)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies)
A Tale of the Wind (Ivens)
Why did Bodhi-Dharma Leave for the East? (Bae Yong-Kyun)
Landscape in the Mist (Angelopoulos)
Days of Eclipse (Sokurov)
The Thin Blue Line (Morris)
Rain Man (Levinson)
Dangerous Liaisons (Frears)


1989 Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore)
Do the Right Thing (S.Lee)
A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
The Killer (Woo)
Sex Lies and Videotape (Soderbergh)
Crimes and Misdemeanours (Allen)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Spielberg)
Field of Dreams (Robinson)
Asthenic Syndrome (Muratova)
Time of the Gypsies (Kusturica)
Kiki's Delivery Service (Miyazaki)
Life and Nothing But (Tavernier)
Drugstore Cowboy (Van Sant)
Henry V (Branagh)


1990 Goodfellas (Scorsese)
Close Up (Kiarostami)
Miller's Crossing (Coen)
Edward Scizzorhands (Burton)
Cyrano de Bergerac (Rappeneau)
Dances with Wolves (Costner)
Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-Wai)
An Angel at my Table (Campion)
Nikita (Besson)


1991 The Silence of the Lambs (Demme)
Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)
The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski)
Thelma and Louise (R.Scott)
The Terminator 2 (Cameron)
J.F.K (Stone)
Delicatessen (Jeunet, Caro)
La Belle Noiseuse (Rivette)
Europa, Europa (Holland)
Beauty and the Beast (Trousdale, Wise)
Europa (Von Trier)
Edward II (Jarman)


1992 Unforgiven (Eastwood)
Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino)
Abraham Valley (Oliveira)
The Player (Altman)
A Brighter Summer Day(Yang)
Like Water for Chocolate (Arau)
The Actress (Kwan)
Les Amants du Pont Neuf (Carax)
Life and Nothing More (Kiarostami)
Howard's End (Ivory)
The Crying Game (Jordan)
Orlando (Potter)


1993 Schindler's List (Spielberg)
The Piano (Campion)
Three Colours Blue (Kieslowski)
Short Cuts (Altman)
The Wrong Trousers (Park)
Farewell my Concubine (Chen Kaige)
The Age of Innocence (Scorsese)
Groundhog Day (Ramis)
Sonatine (Kitano)
Jurassic Park (Spielberg)
Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Naked (Leigh)
The Nightmare Before Xmas (Selick)
Remains of the Day (Ivory)
The Last Seduction (Dahl)
Carlito's Way (De Palma)


1994 Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
Three Colours Red (Kieslowski)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont)
Leon (Besson)
The Lion King (Disney- Allers, Minkoff)
Burnt by the Sun (Mikhalkov)
Satantango (Tarr)
To Live (Zhang Yimou)
Ed Wood (Burton)
The Silences of the Palace (Tlatli)
Through the Olive Trees (Kiarostami)
Ashes of Time (Wong Kar-Wai)
Heavenly Creatures (Jackson)
Forrest Gump (Zemeckis)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (Newell)
Amateur (Hartley)


1995 Toy Story (Lasseter)
The Usual Suspects (Singer)
Maborosi (Kore-eda)
Se7en (Fincher)
Heat (M.Mann)
Underground (Kusturica)
Ulysses' Gaze (Angelopoulos)
Babe (Noonan)
Il Postino (Radford)
The White Balloon (Panahi)
Dead Man (Jarmusch)
La Haine (Kassovitz)
Safe (Haynes)
Before Sunrise (Linklater)
Braveheart (Gibson)


1996 Fargo (Coen)
The English Patient (Minghella)
Trainspotting (Boyle)
Breaking the Waves (Von Trier)
Secrets and Lies (Leigh)
The Sweet Hereafter (Egoyan)
Drifting Clouds (Kaurismaki)
Cyclo (Tran Anh-Hung)
Irma Vep (Assayas)
Gabbeh (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (Luhrmann)
Lone Star (Sayles)
Tierra (Medem)


1997 Titanic (Cameron)
Hana-Bi (Kitano)
L.A.Confidential (Hanson)
The Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami)
Ring (Nakata)
Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki)
Sweet Hereafter (Egoyan)
Destiny (Chahine)
Mother and Son (Sokurov)
L'Appartement (Mimouni)
The Eel (Imamura)
My Name is Joe (Loach)
The Ice Storm (Ang Lee)
Boogie Nights (P.T.Anderson)


1998 Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg)
Life is Beautiful (Benigni)
Central Station (Salles)
The Thin Red Line (Malick)
The Truman Show (Weir)
Eternity and a Day (Angelopoulos)
Festen (Vinterberg)
Show me Love (Moodysson)
Run Lola Run (Tykwer)
Shakespeare in Love (Madden)
Out of Sight (Soderbergh)
Happiness (Solondz)
The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf)
The Dream Life of Angels (Zonca)
After Life (Kore-eda)
The Colour of Paradise (Majidi)


1999 All About my Mother (Almodovar)
American Beauty (Mendes)
The Matrix (Wachowski)
Fight Club (Fincher)
Magnolia (P.T.Anderson)
Toy Story 2 (Lasseter)
Rosetta (Dardenne bros)
Being John Malkovich (Jonze)
Beau Travail (Denis)
Audition (Miike)
The Wind will Carry Us (Kiarostami)
Topsy Turvy (Leigh)
Ratcatcher (Ramsay)
The Sixth Sense (Shyamalan)
The Straight Story (Lynch)
The Insider (M.Mann)


2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
Gladiator (Scott)
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
Amores Perros (Inarritu)
Yi Yi (Yang)
Memento (Nolan)
Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky)
Battle Royale (Fukasaku)
Traffic (Soderbergh)
Platform (Jia Zhangke)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr)
Eureka (Aoyama)
At the Height of Summer (Tran Anh-Hung)
Code Unknown (Haneke)
Chunhyang (Im Kwon-Taek)


2001 The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson)
Spirited Away (Miyazaki)
Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
Amelie (Jeunet)
Y Tu Mama Tambien (Cuaron)
Moulin Rouge (Luhrmann)
What Time is it There? (Tsai Ming-Liang)
The Royal Tenenbaums (W.Anderson)
Shrek (Adamson, Jensen)
Monsoon Wedding (Nair)
The Piano Teacher (Haneke)
Donnie Darko (Kelly)
Sex and Lucia (Medem)
No Man's Land (Tanovic)
The Others (Amenabar)


2002 The Two Towers (Jackson)
Talk to Her (Almodovar)
City of God (Meirelles)
Far from Heaven (Haynes)
The Pianist (Polanski)
Hero (Zhang Yimou)
The Man without a Past (Kaurismaki)
Irreversible (Noe)
Russian Ark (Sokurov)
Twilight Samurai (Yamada)
Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-Ho)
In This World (Winterbottom)


2003 The Return of the King (Jackson)
Zatoichi (Kitano)
The Return (Zvyagintsev)
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring (Kim Ki-Duk)
Finding Nemo (Stanton)
Kill Bill (Tarantino)
Uzak (Ceylan)
Lost in Translation (S.Coppola)
Dogville (Von Trier)
Mystic River (Eastwood)
Goodbye Lenin (Becker)
Pirates of the Caribbean (Verbinski)
Belleville Rendezvous (Chomet)
American Splendour (Berman, Pulcini)


2004 The Incredibles (Bird)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry)
House of the Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou)
Sideways (Payne)
Kill Bill 2 (Tarantino)
Oldboy (Park Chang-Wook)
The Sea Inside (Amenabar)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (Moore)
Motorcycle Diaries (Salles)
Finding Neverland (Forster)
Tropical Malady (Weerasethukal)
Look at Me (Jaoui)
The Holy Girl (Martel)
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I wipe my ass with your feelings
Some one didn't have a lot time

Someone had a ****LOAD of time.

It brings back some memories for sure though



A system of cells interlinked
Took time to read!!

I have some of those on DVD
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i read the whole list it took forever. and i havent seen sooo many of them
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I doubt if miyazawa has seen all of em!
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Yeah, it's my list, based on too many years of obsessive listmania and film-watching. MIL is right; i've not seen about 60. Must be some glaring omissions?



I am having a nervous breakdance
I think the list is allright... Nice to see that Moodysson and Vinterberg's best movies are on the list. Miyazawa, what country are you from?
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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but
now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.



So many good movies, so little time.
Great List

I would have put in some of my favorites

1. Reds (1981)
2. The Man Who Would be King (1975)
3. Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
4. Four Feathers (1939)
5. The Sting (1973)
6. Kiss of Death (1947)
7. The Stranger (1946)
8. Dead End (1937)
9. Hoosiers (1986)
10. The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
11. The Gunfighter (1950)
12. Seven Beauties (1976)
13. True Romance (1993)
14. Beau Geste (1939)
15. Last of the Mohicans (1992)
16. The Mark of Zorro (1940)
17. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
18. The Producers (1968)
19. Rio Grande (1950)
20. Gunga Din (1939)

Its tough to take movies out of your list and most of these below i like but I would probably remove :

1. Titanic
2. El Cid
3. An American Werewolf in London
4. Out of Africa
5. Sex Lies and Videotapes
6. The Player
7. The Crying Game
8. Carlito's Way
9. Four Weddings and a Funeral
10. Heat
11. Sweet Hereafter
12. The Truman Show
13. Run Lola Run
14. Toy Story 2
15. Topsy Turvy
16. Y Tu Mama Tambien
17. The Straight Story
18. The Insider
19. The Others
20. Hero
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This reminds me of a few books i saw. Like... or...

There's some good movies you missed. Gangs of New York (d. Martin Scorsese, 2002)



Great list, Miyazawa. Some really interesting overlaps with my top ten by year lists, for example:

1979:
Vengeance is Mine
The Muppet Movie
Tale of Tales
Alien
Woyzeck
The Tin Drum
Stalker
The Jerk
Nosferatu
Rock 'n' Roll High School

A few noteable omissions were Woman in the Dunes (1964, Teshigahara) and My Dinner With Andre/Vanya on 42nd Street.



I'm pleased there's been interest and thanks for the kind comments. I wanted a properly international selection so lots of decent films in English just missed out.

Uconjack: excellent suggestions all round- some came very close, a few i overlooked by mistake, and though i really like Broadway Danny Rose i wasn't quite sure whether it should be included. Gunga Din may be a bit dated now, The Stranger is lesser Welles i think, and Hoosiers and Heartbreak Kid didn't occur to me at all. I've tried to be (mainly) objective so couldn't really leave out Titanic and most others you're not keen on. And i've had a soft spot for El Cid since first seeing it aged 13. It made a big impression on me then, and i still prefer it to both Spartacus and Ben Hur.

Piddzilla: i'm from Wales but my heart is in Japan. I love the films of Kenji Mizoguchi, and the tales of Kenji Miyazawa (and the prints of Hiroshige, and The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon)

Linespalsy; both by Malle you mention came very close. Ditto Herzog's Nosferatu (especially as Isabelle Adjani- very sexy and talented- is in it!). Woman of the Dunes is in there!



Well most of the world's films are not in English, so it's a pity lots of great films aren't seen. Of course they're not all arthouse intellectual stuff- something for everyone. My favourite film Sansho the Bailiff is pretty accessible; involving, beautiful and moving (i think anyway).



Welcome to the human race...
Here's a more accurate list - 1001, to be precise.

NOTE: All of the movies are in chronological order. Foreign movies have their original-language titles, followed by English titles.

1. Le Voyage Dans La Lune / A Trip To The Moon (1902)
2. The Great Train Robbery (1903)
3. Birth of a Nation (1915)
4. Les Vampires (1915)
5. Intolerance (1916)
6. Das Kabinett Des Doktor Caligari / The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)
7. Broken Blossoms (1919)
8. Way Down East (1920)
9. Within Our Gates (1920)
10. Korkarlen / The Phantom Carriage (1921)
11. Orphans Of The Storm (1921)
12. La Souriante Madame Beudet / The Smiling Madame Beudet (1922)
13. Dr. Mabuse, Der Spieler / Dr. Mabuse, Parts 1 and 2 (1922)
14. Nanook Of The North (1922)
15. Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie Des Grauens / Nosferature, A Symphony Of Terror (1922)
16. Haxan (1923)
17. Foolish Wives (1922)
18. Our Hospitality (1923)
19. La Roue / The Wheel (1923)
20. The Thief Of Bagdad (1924)
21. Stachka / Strike (1924)
22. Greed (1924)
23. Sherlock Jr. (1924)
24. Der Letzte Mann / The Last Laugh (1924)
25. Seven Chances (1925)
26. The Phantom Of The Opera (1925)
27. Bronenosets Potyomkin / The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
28. The Gold Rush (1925)
29. The Big Parade (1925)
30. Metropolis (1927)
31. Sunrise (1927)
32. The General (1927)
33. The Unknown (1927)
34. Oktyabr / October (1927)
35. The Jazz Singer (1927)
36. Napoleon (1927)
37. The Kid Brother (1927)
38. The Crowd (1928)
39. The Docks Of New York (1928)
40. Un Chien Andalou / An Andalusian Dog (1928)
41. La Passion De Jeanne d'Arc / The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (1928)
42. Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928)
43. Potomok Chingis-Khana / Storm Over Asia (1928)
44. Blackmail (1929)
45. Chelovek S Kinoapparatom / The Man With The Movie Camera (1929)
46. Die Buchse Der Pandora / Pandora's Box (1929)
47. Der Blaue Engel / The Blue Angel (1930)
48. L'Age D'Or / The Age Of Gold (1930)
49. Zemlya / Earth (1930)
50. Little Caesar (1930)
51. All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
52. A Nous La Liberte / Freedom For Us (1931)
53. Le Million / The Million (1931)
54. Tabu (1931)
55. Dracula (1931)
56. Frankenstein (1931)
57. City Lights (1931)
58. The Public Enemy (1931)
59. M (1931)
60. La Chienne / The b*tch (1931)
61. Vampyr / The Vampire (1932)
62. Love Me Tonight (1932)
63. Boudu Sauve Des Eaux / Boudu Saved From Drowning (1932)
64. I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932)
65. Trouble In Paradise (1932)
66. Scarface: The Shame Of A Nation (1932)
67. Shanghai Express (1932)
68. Freaks (1932)
69. Me And My Gal (1932)
70. Zero De Conduite / Zero For Conduct (1933)
71. 42nd Street (1933)
72. Footlight Parade (1933)
73. Gold Diggers Of 1933 (1933)
74. She Done Him Wrong (1933)
75. Duck Soup (1933)
76. Queen Christina (1933)
77. Las Hurdes / Land Without Bread (1933)
78. King Kong (1933)
79. The Bitter Tea Of General Yen (1933)
80. Sons Of The Desert (1933)
81. It's A Gift (1934)
82. Triumph Des Willens / Triumph Of The Will (1934)
83. L'Atalante (1934)
84. The Black Cat (1934)
85. Judge Priest (1934)
86. It Happened One Night (1934)
87. The Thin Man (1934)
88. Captain Blood (1935)
89. Mutiny On The Bounty (1935)
90. A Night At The Opera (1935)
91. The 39 Steps (1935)
92. Bride Of Frankenstein (1935)
93. Top Hat (1935)
94. Une Partie De Campagne / A Day In The Country (1936)
95. Modern Times (1936)
96. Swing Time (1936)
97. My Man Godfrey (1936)
98. Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936)
99. Camille (1936)
100. Sabotage (1936)
101. Dodsworth (1936)
102. Things To Come (1936)
103. Le Roman D'Un Tricheur / The Story Of A Cheat (1936)
104. Captains Courageous (1937)
105. Ye Ban Ge Sheng / Midnight Song (1937)
106. La Grande Illusion / Grand Illusion (1937)
107. Stella Dallas (1937)
108. The Life Of Emile Zola (1937)
109. Make Way For Tomorrow (1937)
110. Snow White And The Seven Dwarves (1937)
111. The Awful Truth (1937)
112. Pepe Le Moko (1937)
113. Jezebel (1938)
114. The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1938)
115. Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
116. Olympia (1938)
117. La Femme Du Boulanger / The Baker's Wife (1938)
118. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
119. Stagecoach (1939)
120. Zangiku Monogatari / The Story Of The Late Chrysanthemums (1939)
121. Babes In Arms (1939)
122. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
123. The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
124. Destry Rides Again (1939)
125. only Angels Have Wings (1939)
126. Gone With The Wind (1939)
127. Le Jour Se Leve / Daybreak (1939)
128. Gunga Din (1939)
129. Ninotchka (1939)
130. La Regle Du Jeu / The Rules Of The Game (1939)
131. Wuthering Heights (1939)
132. His Girl Friday (1940)
133. Rebecca (1940)
134. Fantasia (1940)
135. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
136. The Grapes Of Wrath (1940)
137. Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
138. Pinocchio (1940)
139. The Mortal Storm (1940)
140. The Bank d*ck (1940)
141. Citizen Kane (1941)
142. The Lady Eve (1941)
143. The Wolf Man (1941)
144. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
145. Sergeant York (1941)
146. Dumbo (1941)
147. High Sierra (1941)
148. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
149. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
150. The Palm Beach Story (1942)
151. Now, Voyager (1942)
152. Casablanca (1942)
153. To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
154. Cat People (1942)
155. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
156. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
157. Meshes Of The Afternoon (1943)
158. Fires Were Started (1943)
159. The Man In Grey (1943)
160. The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp (1943)
161. I Walked With A Zombie (1943)
162. The Seventh Victim (1943)
163. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
164. Shadow Of A Doubt (1943)
165. Ossessione (1943)
166. Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
167. To Have And Have Not (1944)
168. Laura (1944)
169. Gaslight (1944)
170. Henry V (1944)
171. Ivan The Terrible (1944)
172. Double Indemnity (1944)
173. Murder, My Sweet / Farewell My Lovely (1944)
174. The Battle Of San Pietro (1945)
175. Spellbound (1945)
176. Mildred Pierce (1945)
177. Les Enfants Du Paradis / The Children Of Paradise (1945)
178. Roma, Citta Aperta / Open City (1945)
179. The Lost Weekend (1945)
180. Detour (1945)
181. I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
182. The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946)
183. Brief Encounter (1946)
184. Paisa / Paisan (1946)
185. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
186. My Darling Clementine (1946)
187. The Stranger (1946)
188. La Bella Et La Bete / Beauty And The Beast (1946)
189. The Big Sleep (1946)
190. The Killers (1946)
191. A Matter Of Life And Death (1946)
192. Great Expectations (1946)
193. Notorious (1946)
194. Black Narcissus (1946)
195. It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
196. Gilda (1946)
197. Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
198. Out Of The Past (1947)
199. The Ghost And Mrs. Muir (1947)
200. Odd Man Out (1947)
201. Ladri Di Biciclette / The Bicycle Thief (1948)
202. Letter From An Unknown Woman (1948)
203. Secret Beyond The Door (1948)
204. Force Of Evil (1948)
205. Xiao Cheng Zhi Chun / Spring In A Small Town (1948)
206. Red River (1948)
207. Rope (1948)
208. The Snake Pit (1948)
209. The Lady From Shanghai (1948)
210. The Paleface (1948)
211. The Red Shoes (1948)
212. The Trasure Of The Sierra Madre (1948)
213. Louisiana Story (1948)
214. The Heiress (1949)
215. Kind Hearts And Coronets (1949)
216. Gun Crazy (1949)
217. Adam's Rib (1949)
218. Whisky Galore! (1949)
219. White Heat (1949)
220. The Reckless Moment (1949)
221. The Third Man (1949)
222. On The Town (1949)
223. Orphee / Orpheus (1949)
224. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
225. Rashomon (1950)
226. Winchester '73 (1950)
227. Rio Grande (1950)
228. All About Eve (1950)
229. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
230. Los Olvidados / The Young And The Damned (1950)
231. In A Lonely Place (1950)
232. The Big Carnival (1951)
233. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
234. Strangers On A Train (1951)
235. The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
236. Pandora And The Flying Dutchman (1951)
237. The African Queen (1951)
238. Journal D'Un Cure De Campagne / Diary Of A Country Priest (1951)
239. An American In Paris (1951)
240. A Place In The Sun (1951)
241. The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
242. The Quiet Man (1952)
243. Jeux Interdits / Forbidden Games (1952)
244. Angel Face (1952)
245. Singin' In The Rain (1952)
246. Ikiru / To Live (1952)
247. Europa '51 (1952)
248. The Bad And The Beautiful (1952)
248. The Big Sky (1952)
249. High Noon (1952)
250. Umberto D (1952)
251. Le Carrosse D'Or / The Golden Coach (1952)
252. The Bigamist (1953)
253. The Band Wagon (1953)
254. Madame De... (1953)
255. From Here To Eternity (1953)
256. Tokyo Story (1953)
257. Roman Holiday (1953)
258. Le Salaire De La Peur / Wages Of Fear (1953)
259. The Naked Spur (1953)
260. Pickup On South Street (1953)
261. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
262. The Big Heat (1953)
263. Les Vacances De M. Hulot / M. Hulot's Holiday (1953)
264. Viaggio In Italia / Voyage In Italy (1953)
265. Ugetsu Monogatari / Tales Of Ugetsu (1953)
266. Shane (1953)
267. Beat The Devil (1953)
268. Johnny Guitar (1954)
269. On The Waterfront (1954)
270. Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954)
271. Les Diaboliques (1954)
272. Animal Farm (1954)
273. Rear Window (1954)
274. A Star Is Born (1954)
275. The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
276. La Strada / The Road (1954)
277. Shichinin No Samurai / The Seven Samurai (1954)
278. Senso / The Wanton Countess (1954)
279. Silver Lode (1954)
280. Carmen Jones (1954)
281. Sansho Dayu / Sansho The Baliff (1954)
282. Salt Of The Earth (1954)
283. Artists And Models (1955)
284. Guys And Dolls (1955)
285. Pather Panchali (1955)
286. Bad Day At Black Rock (1955)
287. Les Maitres Fous / The Mad Masters (1955)
288. Hill 24 Doesn't Answer (1955)
289. The Ladykillers (1955)
290. Marty (1955)
291. Ordet (1955)
292. Bob Le Flambeur / Bob The Gambler (1955)
293. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
294. The Man From Laramie (1955)
295. Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
296. The Phenix City Story (1955)
297. Sommarnattens Leende / Smiles Of A Summer Night (1955)
298. Nuit Et Brouillard / Night And Fog (1955)
299. The Night Of The Hunter (1955)
300. Lola Montes / The Sins Of Lola Montes (1955)
301. Forbidden Planet (1956)
302. Biruma No Tategoto / The Burmese Harp (1956)
303. The Searchers (1956)
304. Un Condamne A Mort S'Est Echappe Ou Le Vent Souffle Ou Il Veut / A Man Escaped (1956)
305. Written On The Wind (1956)
306. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
307. Giant (1956)
308. All That Heaven Allows (1956)
309. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956)
310. The Wrong Man (1956)
311. Bigger Than Life (1956)
312. High Society (1956)
313. The Ten Commandments (1956)
314. 12 Angry Men (1957)
315. Det Sjunde Inseglet / The Seventh Seal (1957)
316. An Affair To Remember (1957)
317. Smultronstallet / Wild Strawberries (1957)
318. Le Notti Di Cabiria / The Nights Of Cabiria (1957)
319. Kumonosu Jo / Throne Of Blood (1957)
320. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
321. Aparajito / The Unvanquished (1957)
322. Gunfight At The OK Corral (1957)
323. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
324. Bharat Mata / Mother India (1957)
325. Letjat Zhuravli / The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
326. Paths Of Glory (1957)
327. Sweet Smell Of Success (1957)
328. Man Of The West (1958)
329. Touch Of Evil (1958)
330. Bab El Hadid / Cairo Station (1958)
331. Gigi (1958)
332. The Defiant Ones (1958)
333. Vertigo (1958)
334. Popiol I Diament / Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
335. Dracula (1958)
336. Mon Oncle / My Uncle (1958)
337. Jalsaghar / The Music Room (1958)
338. Les Quatre Cents Coups / The 400 Blows (1959)
339. North By Northwest (1959)
340. Some Like It Hot (1959)
341. Anatomy Of A Murder (1959)
342. Les Yeux Sans Visage / Eyes Without A Face (1959)
343. Ride Lonesome (1959)
344. Orfeu Negro / Black Orpheus (1959)
345. Shadows (1959)
346. Apur Sansar / The World Of Apu (1959)
347. A Bout De Souffle / Breathless (1959)
348. Ben-Hur (1959)
349. Pickpocket (1959)
350. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
351. Rio Bravo (1959)
352. Le Trou / The Hole (1959)
353. Ukigusa / Flaoting Weeds (1959)
354. Rocco E I Suoi Fratelli / Rocco And His Brothers (1960)
355. La Dolce Vita (1960)
356. Saturday Night And Sunday Morning (1960)
357. Tirez Sur Le Pianiste / Shoot The Piano Player (1960)
358. L'Avventura / The Adventure (1960)
359. La Joven / The Young One (1960)
360. Meghe Dhaka Tara / The Cloud-Capped Star (1960)
361. Hayno / The Housemaid (1960)
362. Psycho (1960)
363. La Maschera Del Demonio / Revenge Of The Vampire/Black Sunday (1960)
364. Peeping Tom (1960)
365. The Apartment (1960)
366. Spartacus (1960)
367. Splendor In The Grass (1961)
368. L'Annee Derniere A Marienbad / Last Year At Marienbad (1961)
369. La Jetee / The Pier (1961)
370. One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
371. Lola (1961)
372. Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961)
373. La Notte / The Night (1961)
374. Jules Et Jim / Jules And Jim (1962)
375. Viridiana (1961)
376. The Ladies Man (1961)
377. Sasom I En Spegel / Through A Glass Darkly (1961)
378. Chronique D'Un Ete / Chronicle Of A Summer (1961)
379. The Hustler (1961)
380. West Side Story (1961)
381. Mondo Cane / A Dog's Life (1962)
382. Cleo De 5 A 7 / Cleo From 5 To 7 (1962)
383. Dog Star Man (1962)
384. Sanma No Aji / An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
385. L'Eclisse / The Eclipse (1962)
386. Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
387. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
388. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
389. Lolita (1962)
390. O Pagador De Promessas / Keeper Of Promises (1962)
391. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
392. What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962)
393. Vivre Sa Vie: Film En Douze Tableaux / My Life To Live (1962)
394. Heaven And Earth Magic (1962)
395. The Birds (1963)
396. The Nutty Professor (1963)
397. Blonde Cobra (1963)
398. The Cool World (1963)
399. 81/2 (1963)
400. Pasazerka / Passenger (1963)
401. Le Mepris / Contempt (1963)
402. Hud (1963)
403. Nattvardsgasterna / Winter Light (1963)
404. Flaming Creatures (1963)
405. The Great Escape (1963)
406. Shock Corridor (1963)
407. Il Gattopardo / The Leopard (1963)
408. Vidas Secas / Barren Lives (1963)
409. Mediterranee (1963)
410. Khaneh Siah Ast / The House Is Black (1963)
411. The Haunting (1963)
412. Yukinojo Henge / An Actor's Revenge (1963)
413. The Servant (1963)
414. Goldfinger (1964)
415. Scorpio Rising (1964)
416. Les Parapluies De Cherbourg / The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg (1964)
417. Marnie (1964)
418. My Fair Lady (1964)
419. Suna No Onna / Woman In The Dunes (1964)
420. Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964)
421. A Hard Day's Night (1964)
422. Il Deserto Rosso / The Red Desert (1964)
423. Tini Zabutykh Predkiv / Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors (1964)
424. The Masque Of The Red Death (1964)
425. Prima Della Rivoluzione / Before The Revolution (1964)
426. Gertrud (1964)
427. Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo / The Gospel According To St. Matthew (1964)
428. Deus E O Diabo Na Terra Do Sol / Black God, White Devil (1964)
429. Onibara / The Demon (1964)
430. Vinyl (1965)
431. Obchod Na Korze / The Shop On Main Street (1965)
432. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
433. The War Game (1965)
434. Tokyo Orimpikku / Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
435. La Battaglia Di Algeri / The Battle Of Algiers (1965)
436. The Sound Of Music (1965)
437. Rekopis Znaleziony W Saragossie / The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)
438. Aplhaville, Une Etrange Aventure De Lemmy Caution / Alphaville (1965)
439. Chimes At Midnight / Campanadas A Medianoche (1965)
440. Repulsion (1965)
441. Juliet Of The Spirits / Giulietta Degli Spiriti (1965)
442. Pierrot Le Fou / Pierrot Goes Wild (1965)
443. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
444. Subarnarekha / Golden River (1965)
445. De Man Die Zijn Haar Kort Liet Knippen / The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (1965)
446. Hold Me While I'm Naked (1966)
447. Blowup (1966)
448. Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo / The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966)
449. Sedmikrasky / Daisies (1966)
450. Da Zui Xia / Come Drink With Me (1966)
451. Seocnds (1966)
452. In The Heat Of The Night (1967)
453. Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
454. Persona (1966)
455. Masculin, Feminin / Masculine-Feminine (1966)
456. Au Hasard Balthazar / Balthazar (1966)
457. 2 Ou 3 Choses Que Je Sais D'Elle / Two Or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)
458. The Graduate (1967)
459. Playtime (1967)
460. Report (1967)
461. Hombre (1967)
462. Belle De Jour (1967)
463. Les Demoiselles De Rochefort / The Young Girls Of Rochefort (1967)
464. Week End (1967)
465. Le Samourai / The Godson (1967)
466. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
467. Point Blank (1967)
468. Wavelength (1967)
469. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
470. Csillagosok, Katonak / The Red And The White (1967)
471. Marketa Lazarova (1967)
472. The Jungle Book (1967)
473. Hori, Ma Panenko / The Fireman's Ball (1967)
474. Terra Em Transe / Earth Entranced (1967)
475. Ostre Sledovane Vlaky / Closely Watched Trains (1967)
476. Vij (1967)
477. Gaav / The Cow (1968)
478. C'Era Una Volta Il West / Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)
479. Planet Of The Apes (1968)
480. Faces (1968)
481. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
482. If... (1968)
483. Memorias Del Subdesarrollo / Memories Of Underdevelopment (1968)
484. The Producers (1968)
485. David Holzman's Diary (1968)
486. Skammen / Shame (1968)
487. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
488. Vargtimmen / Hour Of The Wolf (1968)
489. Targets (1968)
490. Night Of The Living Dead (1968)
491. Ma Nuit Chez Maud / My Night With Maud (1969)
492. Lucia (1969)
493. Hsia Nu / A Touch Of Zen (1969)
494. Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969)
495. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
496. Sayticon (1969)
497. Z (1969)
498. Il Conformista / The Conformist (1969)
499. Easy Rider (1969)
500. High School (1969)
501. In The Year Of The Pig (1969)
502. The Wild Bunch (1969)
503. Andrei Rublyov / Andrei Rublev (1969)
504. Le Boucher / The Butcher (1969)
505. Sayat Nova / The Color Of Pomegranates (1969)
506. Kes (1969)
507. Tristana (1970)
508. Five Easy Pieces (1970)
509. El Topo (1970)
510. Woodstock (1970)
511. Deep End (1970)
512. La Strategia Del Ragno / The Spider's Stratagem (1970)
513. Little Big Man (1970)
514. Ucho / The Ear (1970)
515. Patton (1970)
516. M*A*S*H (1970)
517. Performance (1970)
518. Gimme Shelter (1970)
519. Zabriskie Point (1970)
520. L'Uccello Dalle Piume Di Cristallo / The Bird With The Crystal Plumage (1970)
521. Il Giardino Dei Finzi-Contini / The Garden Of The Finzi-Continis (1970)
522. Wanda (1971)
523. W.R.: Misterije Organisma / W.R.: Mysteries Of The Organism (1971)
524. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
525. Le Chagrin Et La Pitie / The Sorrow And The Pity (1971)
526. Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971)
527. McCabe And Mrs. Miller (1971)
528. Walkabout (1971)
529. Klute (1971)
530. Harold And Maude (1971)
531. Meg Ker A Nep / Red Psalm (1971)
532. Get Carter (1971)
533. The French Connection (1971)
534. Shaft (1971)
535. Dirty Harry (1971)
536. Le Souffle Au Coeur / Murmur Of The Heart (1971)
537. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
538. The Last Picture Show (1971)
539. Straw Dogs (1971)
540. Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
541. The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
542. Aguirre, Der Zorn Gottes / Aguirre, The Wrath Of God (1972)
543. Cabaret (1972)
544. Ultimo Tango A Parigi / Last Tango In Paris (1972)
545. High Plains Drifter (1972)
546. Sleuth (1972)
547. Deliverance (1972)
548. Solyaris / Solaris (1972)
549. The Godfather (1972)
550. Wiskingar Och Rop / Cries And Whispers (1972)
551. Fat City (1972)
552. Le Charme Discret De La Bourgeoisie / The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (1972)
553. Die Bitteren Tranen Der Petra Von Kant / The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant (1972)
554. Frenzy (1972)
555. Pink Flamingos (1972)
556. Superfly (1972)
557. The Sting (1973)
558. La Maman Et La Putai / The Mother And The Whore (1973)
559. Badlands (1973)
560. American Graffiti (1973)
561. Papillon (1973)
562. Enter The Dragon (1973)
563. Mean Streets (1973)
564. The Long Goodbye (1973)
565. The Wicker Man (1973)
566. La Nuit Americaine / Day For Night (1973)
567. Don't Look Now (1973)
568. Sleeper (1973)
569. Serpico (1973)
570. The Exorcist (1973)
571. Turks Fruit / Turkish Delight (1973)
572. El Espiritu De La Colmena / The Spirit Of The Beehive (1973)
573. La Planete Sauvage / Fantastic Planet (1973)
574. Amarcord (1973)
575. The Harder They Come (1973)
576. Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid (1973)
577. Dersu Uzala (1974)
578. The Conversation (1974)
579. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
580. Zerkalo / The Mirror (1974)
581. A Woman Under The Influence (1974)
582. Young Frankenstein (1974)
583. Chinatown (1974)
584. Celine Et Julie Vont En Bateau / Celine And Julie Go Boating (1974)
585. Blazing Saddles (1974)
586. The Godfather Part II (1974)
587. Angst Essen Seele Auf / Ali: Fear Eats The Soul (1974)
588. Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
589. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
590. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
591. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
592. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
593. Deewaar / The Wall (1975)
594. Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975)
595. Barry Lyndon (1975)
596. Faustrecht Der Freiheit / Fox And His Friends (1975)
597. India Song (1975)
598. Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975)
599. Maynila: Sa Mga Kuko Ng Liwanag / Manila In The Claws Of Brightness (1975)
600. Salo O Le Centoventi Giornate Di Sodoma / Salo, Or The 120 Days Of Sodom (1975)
601. Nashville (1975)
602. Cria Cuervos / Cria! (1975)
603. O hiasso / The Travelling Players (1975)
604. Jaws (1975)
605. The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie (1976)
606. Carrie (1976)
607. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
608. All The President's Men (1976)
609. Rocky (1976)
610. Taxi Driver (1976)
611. Network (1976)
612. Voshknozhdenie / Ascent (1976)
613. Ai No Corrida / In The Realm Of The Senses (1976)
614. Novocento / 1900 (1976)
615. The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)
616. Star Wars (1977)
617. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977)
618. The Last Wave (1977)
619. Annie Hall (1977)
620. Last Chants For A Slow Dance (1977)
621. Stroszek (1977)
622. Czlowiek Z Marmuru / Man Of Marble (1977)
623. Saturday Night Fever (1977)
624. Killer Of Sheep (1977)
625. Eraserhead (1977)
626. Ceddo (1977)
627. Der Amerikanische Freund / The American Friend (1977)
628. The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
629. Soldaat Van Oranje / Soldier Of Orange (1977)
630. Suspiria (1977)
631. The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
632. Wu Du / Five Deadly Venoms (1978)
633. L'Arbero Degli Zoccoli / The Tree Of Wooden Clogs (1978)
634. The Deer Hunter (1978)
635. Grease (1978)
636. Days Of Heaven (1978)
637. Dawn Of The Dead (1978)
638. Shao Lin San Shih Liu Fang / Shaolin Master Killer (1978)
639. Up In Smoke (1978)
640. Halloween (1978)
641. Die Ehe Der Maria Braun / The Marriage Of Maria Braun (1979)
642. Real Life (1979)
643. My Brilliant Career (1979)
644. Stalker (1979)
645. Alien (1979)
646. Breaking Away (1979)
647. Die Blechtrommel / The Tin Drum (1979)
648. All That Jazz (1979)
649. Being There (1979)
650. Kramer Vs Kramer (1979)
651. Life Of Brian (1979)
652. Apocalypse Now (1979)
653. The Jerk (1979)
654. The Muppet Movie (1979)
655. Manhattan (1979)
656. Mad Max (1979)
657. Nosferatu: Phantom Der Nacht / Nosferatu: Phantom Of The Night (1979)
658. Ordinary People (1980)
659. Atlantic City (1980)
660. Le Dernier Metro / The Last Metro (1980)
661. The Shining (1980)
662. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
663. The Elephant Man (1980)
664. The Big Red One (1980)
665. Loulou (1980)
666. Flying High! (1980)
667. Raging Bull (1980)
668. Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981)
669. Das Boot / The Boat (1981)
670. Gallipoli (1981)
671. Chariots Of Fire (1981)
672. Body Heat (1981)
673. Reds (1981)
674. An American Werewolf In London (1981)
675. Tre Fratelli / Three Brothers (1981)
676. Czlowiek Z Zelaza / Man Of Iron (1981)
677. Zu Fruh, Zu Spat / Too Early, Too Late (1981)
678. Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1981)
679. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
680. The Thing (1982)
681. Poltergeist (1982)
682. Blade Runner (1982)
683. The Evil Dead (1982)
684. Tootsie (1982)
685. Yol (1982)
686. Diner (1982)
687. Fitzcarraldo (1982)
688. Gandhi (1982)
689. La Notte Di San Lorenzo / The Night Of The Shooting Stars (1982)
690. De Stilte Rond Christine M. / A Question Of Silence (1982)
691. Fanny Och Alexander / Fanny And Alexander (1982)
692. A Christmas Story (1983)
693. El Norte (1983)
694. Videodrome (1983)
695. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return Of The Jedi (1983)
696. The Big Chill (1983)
697. Sans Soleil / Sunless (1983)
698. Le Dernier Combat / The Last Battle (1983)
699. L'Argent (1983)
700. Utu (1983)
701. Terms Of Endearment (1983)
702. De Vierde Man / The Fourth Man (1983)
703. The King Of Comedy (1983)
704. The Right Stuff (1983)
705. Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
706. Once Upon A Time In America (1983)
707. Scarface (1983)
708. Narayama Bushi-Ko / The Ballad Of Narayama (1983)
709. Amadeus (1984)
710. The Terminator (1984)
711. Paris, Texas (1984)
712. A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
713. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
714. Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
715. Ghostbusters (1984)
716. A Passage To India (1984)
717. Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
718. The Killing Fields (1984)
719. The Natural (1984)
720. The Breakfast Club (1985)
721. Ran (1985)
722. Idi I Smotri / Come And See (1985)
723. La Historia Oficial / The Official Story (1985)
724. Out Of Africa (1985)
725. The Purple Rose Of Cairo (1985)
726. Back To The Future (1985)
727. Tong Nien Wang Shi / The Time To Live And The Time To Die (1985)
728. Brazil (1985)
729. Kiss Of The Spider Woman (1985)
730. The Quiet Earth (1985)
731. Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters (1985)
732. Prizzi's Honour (1985)
733. Sans Toit Ni Loi / Vagabond (1985)
734. Shoah (1985)
735. The Colour Purple (1985)
736. Manhunter (1986)
737. Stand By Me (1986)
738. Blue Velvet (1986)
739. Hannah And Her Sisters (1986)
740. She's Gotta Have It (1986)
741. Le Declin De L'Empire Americain / The Decline Of The American Empire (1986)
742. The Fly (1986)
743. Aliens (1986)
744. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
745. Down By Law (1986)
746. A Room With A View (1986)
747. Children Of A Lesser God (1986)
748. Platoon (1986)
749. Caravaggio (1986)
750. Tampopo (1986)
751. Do Ma Daan / Peking Opera Blues (1986)
752. Salvador (1986)
753. Top Gun (1986)
754. Sherman's March (1986)
755. Dao Ma Zei / The Horse Thief (1986)
756. Yeelen / Brightness (1987)
757. Der Himmel Uber Berlin / Wings Of Desire (1987)
758. 'A' Gai Waak Juk Jaap / Project A, Part II (1987)
759. Babbetes Gaestebud / Babette's Feast (1987)
760. Raising Arizona (1987)
761. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
762. Withnail And I (1987)
763. Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
764. Au Revoir Les Enfants / Goodbye Childdren (1987)
765. Broadcast News (1987)
766. Housekeeping (1987)
767. The Princess Bride (1987)
768. Moonstruck (1987)
769. The Untouchables (1987)
770. Hong Gao Liang / Red Sorghum (1987)
771. The Dead (1987)
772. Fatal Attraction (1987)
773. Sinnui Yauman / A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)
774. Mujeres Al Borde De Un Ataque De Nervios / Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown (1988)
775. Spoorloos / The Vanishing (1988)
776. Bull Durham (1988)
777. Ariel (1988)
778. The Thin Blue Line (1988)
779. Akira (1988)
780. Nuovo Cinema Paradiso / Cinema Paradiso (1988)
781. Hotel Terminus: Klaus Barbie Et Son Temps / Hotel Terminus: The Life And Times Of Klaus barbie (1988)
782. A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
783. The Naked Gun (1988)
784. Big (1988)
785. Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
786. Hotaru No Haka / Grave Of The Fireflies (1988)
787. Topio Stin Omichli / Landscape In The Mist (1988)
788. Dekalog, Jeden / The Decalogue (1988)
789. Die Hard (1988)
790. Une Histoire De Vent / A Tale Of The Wind (1988)
791. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
792. Rain Man (1988)
793. Une Affaire De Femmes / The Story Of Women (1988)
794. The Accidental Tourist (1988)
795. Neco Z Alenky (1988)
796. Alice (1988)
797. Batman (1989)
798. When Harry Met Sally (1989)
799. Crimes And Misdemeanours (1989)
800. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
801. Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
802. My Left Foot (1989)
803. Die Xue Shuang Xiong / The Killer (1989)
804. Do The Right Thing (1989)
805. Roger & Me (1989)
806. Glory (1989)
807. Astenicheskij Sindrom / The Asthenic Syndrome (1989)
808. Sex, Lies & Videotape (1989)
809. Say Anything (1989)
810. The Unbelievable Truth (1989)
811. Beiqing Chengshi / A City Of Sadness (1989)
812. S'En Fout La Mort / No Fear, No Die (1990)
813. Reversal Of Fortune (1990)
814. GoodFellas (1990)
815. Jacob's Ladder (1990)
816. King Of New York (1990)
817. Dances With Wolves (1990)
818. Hitlerjunge Salomon / Europa Europa (1990)
819. Pretty Woman (1990)
820. Archangel (1990)
821. Trust (1990)
822. Nema-Ye Nazdik / Close-Up (1990)
823. Edward Scissorhands (1990)
824. Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer (1990)
825. Total Recall (1990)
826. Wong Fei-Hung / Once Upon A Time In China (1991)
827. Boyz 'N The Hood (1991)
828. Da Hong Deng Long Gao Gao Gua / Raise The Red Lantern (1991)
829. Delicatessan (1991)
830. Guling Jie Shaonian Sha Ren Shijian / A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
831. Naked Lunch (1991)
832. La Belle Noiseuse / The Beautiful Troublemaker (1991)
833. The Rapture (1991)
834. My Own Private Idaho (1991)
835. Thelma & Louise (1991)
836. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
837. The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)
838. JFK (1991)
839. Slacker (1991)
840. Tongues Untied (1991)
841. Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)
842. La Double Vie De Veronique / The Double Life Of Veronique (1991)
843. Strictly Ballroom (1992)
844. The Player (1992)
845. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
846. Romper Stomper (1992)
847. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
848. Unforgiven (1992)
849. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
850. Candyman (1992)
851. Conte D'Hiver / A Tale Of Winter (1992)
852. Aileen Wuornos: The Selling Of A Serial Killer (1992)
853. The Crying Game (1992)
854. C'Est Arrive Pres De Chez Vous / Man Bites Dog (1992)
855. Yuen Ling-Yuk / The Actress (1992)
856. Ba Wang Bie Ji / Farewell My Concubine (1993)
857. Thirty-two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993)
858. Groundhog Day (1993)
859. Short Cuts (1993)
860. Philadelphia (1993)
861. Jurassic Park (1993)
862. The Age Of Innocence (1993)
863. Hsimeng Jensjen / The Puppetmaster (1993)
864. Schindler's List (1993)
865. Trois Couleurs: Bleu / Three Colours: Blue (1993)
866. The Piano (1993)
867. Lan Feng Zheng / The Blue Kite (1993)
868. Hsi Yen / The Wedding Banquet (1993)
869. Trois Couleurs: Rouge / Three Colours: Red (1994)
870. Hoop Dreams (1994)
871. Forrest Gump (1994)
872. Clerks (1994)
873. Four Weddings And A Funeral (1994)
874. The Lion King (1994)
875. Satantango (1994)
876. Natural Born Killers (1994)
877. The Last Seduction (1994)
878. Pulp Fiction (1994)
879. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
880. Les Roseaux Sauvages / The Wild Reeds (1994)
881. Chong Qing Sen Lin / Chungking Express (1994)
882. Crumb (1994)
883. Heavenly Creatures (1994)
884. Zire Darakhatan Zeyton / Through The Olive Trees (1994)
885. Riget / The Kingdom (1994)
886. Caro Diario / Dear Diary (1994)
887. Casino (1995)
888. Deseret (1995)
889. Babe (1995)
890. Toy Story (1995)
891. Strange Days (1995)
892. Braveheart (1995)
893. Safe (1995)
894. Clueless (1995)
895. Heat (1995)
896. Kjarlighetens Kjotere / Zero Kelvin (1995)
897. Se7en (1995)
898. Smoke (1995)
899. Badkonake Sefid / The White Balloon (1995)
900. Xich Lo / Cyclo (1995)
901. Underground (1995)
902. Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge / The Brave Heart Will Take The Bride (1995)
903. Dead Man (1995)
904. The Usual Suspects (1995)
905. The Pillow Book (1996)
906. Trois Vies & Une Seule Mort / Three Lives & Only One Death (1996)
907. Fargo (1996)
908. Independence Day (1996)
909. Secrets And Lies (1996)
910. Breaking The Waves (1996)
911. The English Patient (1996)
912. Gabbeh (1996)
913. Lone Star (1996)
914. Trainspotting (1996)
915. Scream (1996)
916. Deconstructing Harry (1997)
917. L.A. Confidential (1997)
918. Cheun Gwong Tsa Sit / Happy Together (1997)
919. Mononoke Hime / Princess Mononoke (1997)
920. Fast, Cheap & Out Of Control (1997)
921. The Butcher Boy (1997)
922. The Ice Storm (1997)
923. Boogie Nights (1997)
924. Kundun (1997)
925. The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
926. Funny Games (1997)
927. Ta'm E Guilass / Taste Of Cherry (1997)
928. Abre Los Ojos / Open Your Eyes (1997)
929. Mat I Syn / Mother And Son (1997)
930. Titanic (1997)
931. Tetsuo (1998)
932. Festen / The Celebration (1998)
933. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
934. Buffalo 66 (1998)
935. Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
936. Lola Rennt / Run Lola Run (1998)
937. Rushmore (1998)
938. PI (1998)
939. Happiness (1998)
940. The Thin Red Line (1998)
941. Idioterne / The Idiots (1998)
942. Sombre (1998)
943. Ring (1998)
944. There's Something About Mary (1998)
945. Magnolia (1999)
946. Beau Travail (1999)
947. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
948. Gohatto / Taboo (1999)
949. Rosetta (1999)
950. Todo Sobre Mi Madre / All About My Mother (1999)
951. Three Kings (1999)
952. Bad Ma Ra Khahad Bord / The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
953. Odishon / The Audition (1999)
954. Le Temps Retrouve / Time Regained (1999)
955. Fight Club (1999)
956. Being John Malkovich (1999)
957. American Beauty (1999)
958. Juyuso Seubgyuksageun / Attack The Gas Station! (1999)
959. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
960. The Sixth Sense (1999)
961. The Matrix (1999)
962. Nueve Reinas / Nine Queens (2000)
963. La Captive / The Captive (2000)
964. Dut Yeung Nin Wa / In The Mood For Love (2000)
965. Ali Zaoua, Prince De Lau Rue / Ali Zaoua, Prince Of The Streets (2000)
966. Gladiator (2000)
967. Kippur (2000)
968. Yi Yi / A One And A Two (2000)
969. Requiem For A Dream (2000)
970. Amores Perros (2000)
971. Meet The Parents (2000)
972. Signs & Wonders (2000)
973. Wo Hu Cang Long / Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
974. Traffic (2000)
975. Les Glaneurs Et La Glaneuse / The Gleaners And I (2000)
976. Memento (2000)
977. Dancer In The Dark (2000)
978. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
979. Le Fabuleux Destin D'Amelie Poulain / Amelie (2001)
980. Ni Neibian Jidian / What Time Is It There? (2001)
981. Y Tu Mama Tambien / And Your Mother Too (2001)
982. Safar E Ghandehar / Kandahar (2001)
983. Sen To Chihiro No Kamikakushi / Spirited Away (2001)
984. La Pianiste / The Piano Teacher (2001)
985. La Stanza Del Figlio / The Son's Room (2001)
986. No Man's Land (2001)
987. Moulin Rouge! (2001)
988. Monsoon Wedding (2001)
989. A Ma Souer! / Fat Girl (2001)
990. Mulholland Drive (2001)
991. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
992. The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001)
993. A.I: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
994. Gangs Of New York (2002)
995. The Pianist (2002)
996. Hable Con Ella / Talk To Her (2002)
997. Cidade De Deus / City Of God (2002)
998. Russkij Kovcheg / Russian Ark (2002)
999. Chicago (2002)
1000. Les Invasions Babares / The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
1001. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)

THAT's a list!



Ah, that's from the excellent book 1001 Movies You Must see Before You Die- with Barbarian Invasions and Kill Bill 1 instead of Adaptation and Far from Heaven (that are in my version anyway). It's easily the best of its kind, compact, smartly presented and illustrated, with some excellent critics- i would strongly recommend it- but still some surprising omissions. They could have replaced a few lesser ones by Hitch, and- setting aside my own taste- had added more by Rohmer and Mizoguchi. Nothing at all by Kitano; a major flaw.

There's an interesting list of 1000 top films, based on various international polls, at They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? site (which marks the ones also on the 1001 list, as well as the American critic Jonathan Rosenbaum's favourite 1000, and the New York Times' selection.) Another good site for an international selection is Piero Scaruffi's 1000. The British Film Institute did a very unusual selection of 360 classics several years ago too.



Kaiser "The Devil" Soze
To the two of you who complied the very long list, I am shocked and amazed... I want to say that first.... and now I will slowly read it.
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Fantastic lists... I'm glad you had Life is Beautiful on there. That's one of my all-time favorite films.