Rank

Movie Title

Director

Year

1

Sherlock Jr.

Keaton

1924

2

Passion of Joan of Arc, The

Dreyer

1928

3

Citizen Kane

Welles

1941

4

Vertigo

Hitchcock

1958

5

Sullivan's Travels

Sturges

1941

6

Persona

Bergman

1966

7

Singin' in the Rain

Donen/Kelly

1952

8

"Duck Amuck"

Jones

1953

9

Out of the Past

Tourneur

1947

10

Videodrome

Cronenberg

1983

11

Heavenly Creatures

Jackson

1994

12

"Mothlight"

Brakhage

1963

13

City Lights

Chaplin

1931

14

Wild Bunch, The

Peckinpah

1969

15

Third Man, The

Reed

1949

16

Annie Hall

Allen

1977

17

"La Jetée"

Marker

1962

18

Gun Crazy

Lewis

1949

19

Vampyr

Dreyer

1932

20

Chungking Express

Wong

1994

21

Sunrise

Murnau

1927

22

Alien

Scott

1979

23

Three Colors: Red

Kieslowski

1994

24

Searchers, The

Ford

1956

25

Hana-Bi

Kitano

1997

26

Strangers on a Train

Hitchcock

1951

27

Dogville

von Trier

2003

28

Blade Runner

Scott

1982

29

Spirited Away

Miyazaki

2002

30

Manhattan

Allen

1979

31

Brazil

Gilliam

1985

32

"Meshes of the Afternoon"

Deren

1943

33

Drunken Master 2

Lau

1994

34

Vivre sa vie

Godard

1962

35

Breaking the Waves

von Trier

1996

36

Apocalypse Now

Coppola

1979

37

Good, the Bad & the Ugly, The

Leone

1966

38

Andrei Rublev

Tarkovsky

1969

39

Conversation, The

Coppola

1974

40

Queen Christina

Mamoulian

1933

41

Rio Bravo

Hawks

1959

42

Celine and Julie Go Boating

Rivette

1974

43

Seven Samurai

Kurosawa

1954

44

Magnificent Ambersons, The

Welles

1942

45

Godfather, Part II, The

Coppola

1974

46

Bride of Frankenstein

Whale

1935

47

Se7en

Fincher

1995

48

Dead Ringers

Cronenberg

1988

49

Audition

Miike

2000

50

Olvidados, Los

Buñuel

1950

51

Psycho

Hitchcock

1960

52

Clockwork Orange, A

Kubrick

1971

53

Solaris

Tarkovsky

1972

54

Shock Corridor

Fuller

1963

55

Touch of Evil

Welles

1958

56

Godfather, The

Coppola

1972

57

Bringing Up Baby

Hawks

1938

58

Black Narcissus

Powell/Pressburger

1947

59

King Kong

Cooper/Schoedsack

1933

60

Dawn of the Dead

Romero

1978

61

Maltese Falcon, The

Huston

1941

62

Exotica

Egoyan

1994

63

Taxi Driver

Scorsese

1976

64

Thing, The

Carpenter

1982

65

Big Sleep, The

Hawks

1946

66

Week End

Godard

1967

67

Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The

Hooper

1974

68

Last Year at Marienbad

Resnais

1961

69

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Gilliam/Jones

1975

70

Mulholland Dr.

Lynch

2001

71

Decalogue, The

Kieslowski

1987

72

Stranger Than Paradise

Jarmusch

1984

73

Rules of the Game

Renoir

1939

74

Stop Making Sense

Demme

1984

75

Blow-up

Antonioni

1966

76

Seventh Seal, The

Bergman

1957

77

400 Blows, The

Truffaut

1959

78

Peeping Tom

Powell

1960

79

Wings of Desire

Wenders

1987

80

Do the Right Thing

"Lee, S."

1989

81

General, The

Keaton

1927

82

Exorcist, The

Friedkin

1973

83

Branded to Kill

Suzuki

1967

84

Heathers

Lehmann

1989

85

They Live

Carpenter

1987

86

Halloween

Carpenter

1978

87

Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Kubrick

1964

88

Three Colors: Blue

Kieslowski

1994

89

Pulp Fiction

Tarantino

1994

90

Twin Peaks [tv series]

"Lynch, et al"

1990

91

Ms. 45

Ferrara

1981

92

Point Blank

Boorman

1967

93

"What's Opera, Doc?"

Jones

1957

94

Toy Story

Lasseter

1995

95

Killer, The

Woo

1989

96

This is Spinal Tap

Reiner

1984

97

Woman in the Dunes

Teshigahara

1964

98

Philadelphia Story, The

Cukor

1940

99

Double Life of Veronique, The

Kieslowski

1991

100

Red Shoes, The

Powell/Pressburger

1948