Five Star Films

Submitted by 1922 on Sat, 12/31/2005 - 10:37
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  1. After Hours (Scorsese, 1985)
  2. Airplane! (Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker, 1980)
  3. Alien (Scott, 1979)
  4. All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone, 1930)
  5. American Beauty (Mendes, 1999)
  6. Annie Hall (Allen, 1977)
  7. As Good As It Gets (Brooks, 1997)
  8. Assault on Precinct 13 (Carpenter, 1976)
  9. The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1965)
  10. The Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925)
  11. The Bicycle Thief (De Sica, 1948)
  12. The Birds (Hitchcock, 1963)
  13. Bonnie & Clyde (Penn, 1967)
  14. Bowling for Columbine (Moore, 2002)
  15. Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
  16. The Celebration (Vinterberg, 1998)
  17. Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore, 1989)
  18. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
  19. City of God (Meirelles, 2002)
  20. The Company of Wolves (Jordan, 1984)
  21. C.R.A.Z.Y. (Vallée, 2005)
  22. Dead Poets Society (Weir, 1989)
  23. Deliverance (Boorman, 1972)
  24. Diabolique (Clouzot, 1955)
  25. Don't Look Now (Roeg, 1973)
  26. East of Eden (Kazan, 1955)
  27. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
  28. The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980)
  29. Faces (Cassavetes, 1968)
  30. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982)
  31. A Fish Called Wanda (Crichton, 1988)
  32. The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959)
  33. The General (Keaton, Bruckman, 1927)
  34. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
  35. The Godfather, Part II (Coppola, 1974)
  36. The Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925)
  37. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Leone, 1966)
  38. The Graduate (Nichols, 1967)
  39. Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)
  40. High Noon (Zinnemann, 1952)
  41. It's a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)
  42. King Kong (Schoedsack, Cooper, 1933)
  43. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
  44. Life Is Beautiful (Benigni, 1997)
  45. The Lord of the Rings (Jackson, 2001-2003)
  46. The Man who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford, 1962)
  47. Marathon Man (Schlesinger, 1976)
  48. Million Dollar Baby (Eastwood, 2004)
  49. My Uncle (Tati, 1958)
  50. The Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)
  51. Once Upon a Time in America (Leone, 1984)
  52. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)
  53. Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
  54. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
  55. Rashômon (Kurosawa, 1950)
  56. Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
  57. Rebel without a Cause (Ray, 1955)
  58. Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky, 2000)
  59. The Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
  60. Sherlock, Jr. (Keaton, Arbuckle, 1924)
  61. The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)
  62. Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 2001)
  63. Spoorloos (Sluizer, 1988)
  64. Stagecoach (Ford, 1939)
  65. Stand By Me (Reiner, 1986)
  66. Star Wars (Lucas, 1977)
  67. Sunset Blvd. (Wilder, 1950)
  68. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
  69. The Terminator (Cameron, 1984)
  70. Throne of Blood (Kurosawa, 1957)
  71. 12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957)
  72. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
  73. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
  74. The War Game (Watkins, 1965)
  75. A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes, 1974)
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Films that touch, fascinate, trouble me

Runners-Up (too good to be left out):

The Age of Innocence (Scorsese, 1993)
Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
Dead Man (Jarmusch, 1995)
Down by Law (Jarmusch, 1986)
Faces (Cassavetes, 1968)
The Godfather, Part III (Coppola, 1990)
Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)
Mean Streets (Scorsese, 1973)
Shadows (Cassavetes, 1959)
The Straight Story (Lynch, 1999)