Rank Movie Title Director Year Jeff Vorndam
1 Raising Arizona Coen 1987 20
2 Big Sleep, The Hawks 1946 20
3 McCabe & Mrs. Miller Altman 1971 20
4 Out of the Past Tourneur 1947 20
5 Blue Velvet Lynch 1986 20
6 Rushmore Anderson 1998 20
7 Persona Bergman 1966 20
8 His Girl Friday Hawks 1940 20
9 Do the Right Thing Lee, S. 1989 20
10 Exterminating Angel, The Bunuel 1962 20
11 Scarlet Empress, The Von Sternberg 1934 19
12 Ballad of Narayama, The Kinoshita 1958 19
13 Nights of Cabiria Fellini 1957 19
14 Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Powell/Pressburger 1943 19
15 Au revoir les enfants Malle 1987 19
16 Rosemary's Baby Polanski 1968 19
17 Empire Strikes Back, The Kershner 1980 19
18 In a Lonely Place Ray 1950 19
19 Badlands Malick 1973 19
20 Aguirre, the Wrath of God Herzog 1972 19
21 Lady Eve, The Sturges 1941 18
22 Picnic at Hanging Rock Weir 1975 18
23 Ran Kurosawa 1985 18
24 Man Escaped, A Bresson 1956 18
25 World of Apu, The Ray 1959 18
26 Mulholland Dr. Lynch 2001 18
27 Viridiana Bunuel 1961 18
28 Night of the Hunter Laughton 1955 18
29 Umberto D De Sica 1952 18
30 Olvidados, Los Buñuel 1950 18
31 Sullivan's Travels Sturges 1941 17
32 You Only Live Once Lang 1932 17
33 Point Blank Boorman 1967 17
34 Dead Man Jarmusch 1995 17
35 Chungking Express Wong 1994 17
36 Singing Detective, The [TV Miniseries] Amiel 1986 17
37 Thin Blue Line, The Morris 1988 17
38 Yojimbo Kurosawa 1961 17
39 Wages of Fear Clouzot 1953 17
40 Once Upon a Time in the West Leone 1968 17
41 Les Enfants terribles Melville 1950 16
42 In the Mood For Love Wong 2000 16
43 Young Frankenstein Brooks 1974 16
44 Battle of Algiers, The Pontecorvo 1965 16
45 White Heat Walsh 1946 16
47 Hana-Bi Kitano 1997 16
48 Mean Streets Scorsese 1973 16
49 Don't Look Now Roeg 1973 16
49 Odd Man Out Reed 1947 16
50 Long Goodbye, The Altman 1973 16
51 Right Stuff, The Kaufman 1983 15
52 Straight Story, The Lynch 1999 15
53 Shock Corridor Fuller 1963 15
54 Repulsion Polanski 1965 15
55 High and Low Kurosawa 1963 15
56 Last Picture Show, The Bogdanovich 1971 15
57 Invasion of the Body Snatchers Siegel 1956 15
58 Flirting With Disaster Russell 1996 15
59 Fearless Weir 1993 15
60 Hiroshima, mon amour Resnais 1959 15
61 Big Heat, The Lang 1953 14
62 Gambler, The Reisz 1974 14
63 Kwaidan Kobayashi 1964 14
64 "Night and Fog" Resnais 1955 14
65 Star is Born, A Cukor 1954 14
66 Sweet Smell of Success Mackendrick 1957 14
67 Matter of Life and Death, A Powell/Pressburger 1946 14
68 My Man Godfrey La Cava 1936 14
69 39 Steps, The Hitchcock 1935 14
70 Laura Preminger 1944 14
71 Great Expectations Lean 1946 13
72 Sanjuro Kurosawa 1962 13
73 Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Demy 1964 13
74 Ride the High Country Peckinpah 1962 13
75 Alien Scott 1979 13
76 Dead Man Walking Robbins, T. 1995 13
77 After Life Kore-Eda 1998 13
78 Naked Spur, The Mann 1953 13
79 Ashes and Diamonds Wajda 1958 13
80 Dog Day Afternoon Lumet 1975 13
81 Celine and Julie Go Boating Rivette 1974 12
82 JFK Stone 1991 12
83 Strangers on a Train Hitchcock 1951 12
84 Blue Collar Schrader 1978 12
85 Fight Club Fincher 1999 12
86 Woman in the Window Lang 1945 12
87 Red Shoes, The Powell/Pressburger 1948 12
88 Ball of Fire Hawks 1941 12
89 Rome, Open City Rossellini 1945 12
90 Thin Man, The Van Dyke 1934 12
91 Bad and the Beautiful, The Minnelli 1957 11
92 Pee-wee's Big Adventure Burton 1985 11
93 Cruel Story of Youth Oshima 1960 11
94 Blind Chance Kieslowski 1987 11
95 Dodsworth Wyler 1936 11
96 "Un Chien Andalou" Bunuel 1929 11
97 Roaring Twenties, The Walsh 1939 11
98 Jour se leve, Le Carné 1939 11
99 Wind, The Sjöström 1928 11
100 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Jackson 2001 11