Rank |
Movie Title |
Director |
Year |
Dan Jardine |
1 |
2001: A Space Odyssey |
Kubrick |
1968 |
20 |
2 |
Citizen Kane |
Welles |
1941 |
20 |
3 |
It's a Wonderful Life |
Capra |
1946 |
20 |
5 |
Rear Window |
Hitchcock |
1954 |
20 |
6 |
Seven Samurai |
Kurosawa |
1954 |
20 |
7 |
Taxi Driver |
Scorsese |
1976 |
20 |
7 |
Passion of Joan of Arc, The |
Dreyer |
1928 |
20 |
8 |
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb |
Kubrick |
1964 |
20 |
9 |
Annie Hall |
Allen |
1977 |
20 |
10 |
General, The |
Keaton |
1927 |
20 |
11 |
Decalogue, The |
Kieslowski |
1987 |
19 |
12 |
Third Man, The |
Reed |
1949 |
19 |
13 |
Sherlock Jr. |
Keaton |
1924 |
19 |
14 |
Manhattan |
Allen |
1979 |
19 |
15 |
Ikuru |
Kurosawa |
1952 |
19 |
16 |
Jaws |
Spielberg |
1975 |
19 |
17 |
Clockwork Orange, A |
Kubrick |
1971 |
19 |
18 |
Conversation, The |
Coppola |
1974 |
19 |
19 |
Do the Right Thing |
Lee, S. |
1989 |
19 |
20 |
Wings of Desire |
Wenders |
1987 |
19 |
21 |
Persona |
Bergman |
1966 |
18 |
22 |
Manchurian Candidate, The |
Frankenheimer |
1962 |
18 |
23 |
Casablanca |
Curtiz |
1942 |
18 |
24 |
Trouble in Paradise |
Lubitsch |
1932 |
18 |
25 |
Vertigo |
Hitchcock |
1954 |
18 |
26 |
"La Jetée" |
Marker |
1962 |
18 |
27 |
Rashomon |
Kurosawa |
1950 |
18 |
28 |
Chungking Express |
Wong |
1994 |
18 |
29 |
Searchers, The |
Ford |
1956 |
18 |
30 |
Apocalypse Now |
Coppola |
1979 |
18 |
31 |
Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
Gilliam/Jones |
1975 |
17 |
32 |
Wild Bunch, The |
Peckinpah |
1969 |
17 |
33 |
Blue Velvet |
Lynch |
1986 |
17 |
34 |
Rushmore |
Anderson |
1998 |
17 |
35 |
Exorcist, The |
Friedkin |
1973 |
17 |
36 |
Godfather, The |
Coppola |
1972 |
17 |
37 |
Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
Spielberg |
1977 |
17 |
38 |
Monty Python's Life of Brian |
Jones |
1979 |
17 |
39 |
Touch of Evil |
Welles |
1958 |
17 |
40 |
Band of Outsiders, A |
Godard |
1964 |
17 |
41 |
M |
Lang |
1931 |
16 |
42 |
E.T. |
Spielberg |
1982 |
16 |
43 |
Schindler's List |
Spielberg |
1993 |
16 |
44 |
Producers, The |
Brooks |
1968 |
16 |
45 |
Atalante, L' |
Vigo |
XXXX |
16 |
46 |
North by Northwest |
Hitchcock |
1959 |
16 |
47 |
Bringing Up Baby |
Hawks |
1938 |
16 |
48 |
Three Colors: Red |
Kieslowski |
1994 |
16 |
49 |
Young Frankenstein |
Brooks |
1974 |
16 |
50 |
Groundhog Day |
Ramis |
1993 |
16 |
51 |
Say Anything |
Crowe |
1989 |
15 |
52 |
Alien |
Scott |
1979 |
15 |
53 |
Truly, Madly, Deeply |
Minghella |
1991 |
15 |
54 |
Sunrise |
Murnau |
1927 |
15 |
55 |
Maltese Falcon, The |
Huston |
1941 |
15 |
56 |
This is Spinal Tap |
Reiner |
1984 |
15 |
57 |
Brazil |
Gilliam |
1985 |
15 |
58 |
Night of the Hunter |
Laughton |
1955 |
15 |
59 |
Raiders of the Lost Ark |
Spielberg |
1981 |
15 |
60 |
Andrei Rublev |
Tarkovsky |
1969 |
15 |
61 |
Audition |
Miike |
2000 |
14 |
62 |
In the Mood For Love |
Wong |
XXXX |
14 |
63 |
Dawn of the Dead |
Romero |
1978 |
14 |
64 |
Treasure of the Sierre Madre, The |
Huston |
1948 |
14 |
65 |
City Lights |
Chaplin |
1931 |
14 |
66 |
Psycho |
Hitchcock |
1960 |
14 |
67 |
Eraserhead |
Lynch |
1977 |
14 |
68 |
Reservoir Dogs |
Tarantino |
1992 |
14 |
69 |
Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
Siegel |
1956 |
14 |
70 |
Chinatown |
Polanski |
1974 |
14 |
71 |
Pulp Fiction |
Tarantino |
1994 |
13 |
72 |
Hidden Fortress |
Kurosawa |
1958 |
13 |
73 |
Scarlet Empress, The |
Von Sternberg?? |
XXXX |
13 |
74 |
Bonnie and Clyde |
Penn |
1967 |
13 |
75 |
Rules of the Game |
Renoir |
1939 |
13 |
76 |
O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
Coen |
2000 |
13 |
77 |
Fiddler on the Roof |
Jewison |
1971 |
13 |
78 |
Badlands |
Malick |
1973 |
13 |
79 |
Breaking the Waves |
von Trier |
1996 |
13 |
80 |
Mulholland Dr. |
Lynch |
2001 |
13 |
81 |
Quai des Orfévres |
Clouzot |
|
12 |
82 |
Solaris |
Tarkovsky |
1972 |
12 |
83 |
Repulsion |
Polanski |
1965 |
12 |
84 |
400 Blows, The |
Truffaut |
1959 |
12 |
85 |
Vanishing, The |
Sluizer |
1988 |
12 |
86 |
Halloween |
Carpenter |
1978 |
12 |
87 |
Fly, The |
Cronenberg |
1986 |
12 |
88 |
Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, The |
Greenaway |
1989 |
12 |
89 |
Out of the Past |
Tourneur |
1947 |
12 |
90 |
Kiss Me Deadly |
Aldrich |
1955 |
12 |
91 |
Cat People (original) |
Tourneur |
1942 |
11 |
92 |
Blood Simple |
Coen |
1984 |
11 |
93 |
Deer Hunter, The |
Cimino |
1978 |
11 |
94 |
Macbeth |
Polanski |
1971 |
11 |
95 |
Ran |
Kurosawa |
1985 |
11 |
96 |
Rapture, The |
Tolkin |
1991 |
11 |
97 |
Mean Streets |
Scorsese |
1973 |
11 |
98 |
Spirited Away |
Miyazaki |
2002 |
11 |
99 |
Amarcord |
Fellini |
1974 |
11 |
100 |
Blair Witch Project, The |
Myrick/Sanchez |
1999 |
11 |
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