Rank Movie Title Director Year Nick Davis
1 Piano, The Campion 1993 20
2 Citizen Kane Welles 1941 20
3 Modern Times Chaplin 1936 20
4 Pinocchio Sharpsteen & Luske 1940 20
5 Persona Bergman 1966 20
6 Passion of Joan of Arc, The Dreyer 1928 20
7 Singin' in the Rain Donen/Kelly 1952 20
8 Earrings of Madame De' Ophuls 1953 20
9 Diary of a Country Priest Bresson 1950 20
10 Laura Preminger 1944 20
11 Vertigo Hitchcock 1954 19
12 Nashville Altman 1975 19
13 Chinatown Polanski 1974 19
14 "Meshes of the Afternoon"  Deren 1943 19
15 Man With a Movie Camera, The Vertov 1928 19
16 His Girl Friday Hawks 1940 19
17 Casablanca Curtiz 1942 19
18 Harlan County, U.S.A. Kopple 1976 19
19 Nosferatu Murnau 1922 19
20 Scarlet Empress, The Von Sternberg?? 1934 19
21 Grand Illusion Renoir 1937 18
22 Taxi Driver Scorsese 1976 18
23 Taste of Cherry, The Kiarostami 1997 18
24 Notorious Hitchcock 1946 18
25 Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Wiene 1920 18
26 Green Ray, The Rohmer 1986 18
27 Imiration of Life Sirk 1959 18
28 Hannah and Her Sisters Allen 1986 18
29 Nanook of the North Flaherty 1922 18
30 Lady Eve, The Sturges 1941 18
31 Aguirre, the Wrath of God Herzog 1972 17
32 Atalante, L' Vigo 1934 17
33 Andrei Rublev Tarkovsky 1969 17
34 Metropolis Lang 1926 17
35 Jeanne Dielman Akerman 1975 17
36 All About Eve Mankiewicz 1950 17
37 When Harry Met Sally … Reiner 1989 17
38 Apocalypse Now Coppola 1979 17
39 Woman in the Dunes Teshigahara 1964 17
40 Pickup on South Street Fuller 1953 17
41 Raging Bull Scorsese 1980 16
42 Aliens Cameron 1986 16
43 Written on the Wind Sirk 1956 16
44 McCabe & Mrs. Miller Altman 1971 16
45 Woman Under the Influence, A Cassavetes 1974 16
46 Conversation, The Coppola 1974 16
47 E.T.  Spielberg 1982 16
48 It Happened One Night Capra 1934 16
49 Cries and Whispers Bergman 1973 16
50 Last of England, The Jarman 1987 16
51 Adam’s Rib Cukor 1949 15
52 Touch of Evil Welles 1958 15
53 Annie Hall Allen 1977 15
54 New York, New York Scorsese 1977 15
55 2001: A Space Odyssey Kubrick 1968 15
56 Marat/Sade Brook 1967 15
57 Thin Red Line, The Malick 1998 15
58 Gospel According to Matthew Pasolini 1964 15
59 42nd Street Bacon 1933 15
60 Dead Ringers Cronenberg 1988 15
61 Thin Man, The Van Dyke 1934 14
62 Jaws Spielberg 1975 14
63 Eyes Wide Shut Kubrick 1999 14
64 Morvern Callar Ramsay 2002 14
65 Safe Haynes 1995 14
66 Xala Sembene 1975 14
67 Sunset Blvd. Wilder 1950 14
68 Dancer in the Dark von Trier 2000 14
69 Russian Ark Sokurov 2002 14
70 Streetcar Named Desire, A Kazan 1951 14
71 Flesh Morrissey 1968 13
72 Sunrise Murnau 1927 13
73 Star Wars Lucas 1977 13
74 Days of Heaven Malick 1978 13
75 Letter, The Wyler 1940 13
76 Riddles of the Sphinx Mulvey/Wollen 1975 13
77 Mulholland Dr. Lynch 2001 13
78 Shoah Lanzmann 1986 13
79 Cell, The Singh 2000 13
80 Long Day's Journey Into Night Lumet 1962 13
81 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Meyer 1966 12
82 Joyless Street, The Pabst 1925 12
83 China Syndrome, The Bridges 1979 12
84 Daughters of the Dust Dash 1991 12
85 400 Blows, The Truffaut 1959 12
86 Happy Together Wong 1997 12
87 Naked Lunch Cronenberg 1991 12
88 Boyz N the Hood Singleton 1991 12
89 Nostalghia Tarkovsky 1983 12
90 This is Spinal Tap Reiner 1984 12
91 Fox and His Friends Fassbinder 1975 11
92 L.A. Confidential Hanson 1997 11
93 Dog Day Afternoon Lumet 1975 11
94 3 Women Altman 1977 11
95 Velvet Goldmine Haynes 1998 11
96 Swept Away ... Wertmuller 1975 11
97 Close Up Kiarostami 1990 11
98 The Fly Cronenberg 1986 11
99 Sherman's March McElwee 1986 11
100 Heavenly Creatures Jackson 1994 11