My top 255 Movies and top directors

Submitted by citizendarko on Wed, 12/15/2004 - 04:32
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  • 1. The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
  • 2. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)
  • 3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
  • 4. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
  • 5. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
  • 6. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
  • 7. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
  • 8. Grave of the Fireflies “Hotaru no haka” (Isao Takahata, 1988)
  • 9. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
  • 10. Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
  • 11. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
  • 12. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
  • 13. The Seven Samurai “Shichinin no samurai” (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
  • 14. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly “Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo” (Sergio Leone, 1966)
  • 15. Nights of Cabiria “Le Notti di Cabiria” (Federico Fellini, 1957)
  • 16. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
  • 17. Zorba the Greek “Alexis Zorbas” (Michael Cacoyannis, 1964)
  • 18. Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974)
  • 19. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
  • 20. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
  • 21. Living “Ikiru” (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
  • 22. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
  • 23. The Lion in Winter (Anthony Harvey, 1968)
  • 24. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
  • 25. Hard Boiled “Lashou shentan” (John Woo, 1992)
  • 26. The Godfather: Part 2 (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
  • 27. Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999)
  • 28. The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
  • 29. Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh, 1996)
  • 30. Kill Bill (Quentin Tarantino, 2003 & 2004)
  • 31. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971)
  • 32. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969)
  • 33. My Neighbor Totoro “Tonari no Totoro” (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)
  • 34. JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991)
  • 35. Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955)
  • 36. The Bailiff “Sanshô dayû” (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
  • 37. Das Boot (Wolfgang Peterson, 1981)
  • 38. A Shot in the Dark (Blake Edwards, 1964)
  • 39. Once upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1984)
  • 40. The Remains of the Day (James Ivory, 1993)
  • 41. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, 1978)
  • 42. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer, 1982)
  • 43. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam, 1975)
  • 44. Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
  • 45. Aliens (James Cameron, 1986)
  • 46. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
  • 47. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hammer, 1949)
  • 48. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980)
  • 49. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
  • 50. Aguirre: The Wrath of God “Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes” (Werner Herzog, 1972)
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  • 51-250 in alphabetical order
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  • 8 ½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
  • 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
  • 25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002)
  • The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz & William Keighley, 1938)
  • The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993)
  • Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
  • All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)
  • Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984)
  • American Psycho (Mary Harron, 2000)
  • And Your Mother too “Y tu mamá también” (Alfonso Cuaron, 2001)
  • Andrei Rublyov (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1969)
  • Animal House (John Landis, 1978)
  • Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
  • Arsenic and Old Lace (Frank Capra, 1944)
  • Auntie Mame (Morton DaCosta, 1958)
  • The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
  • Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
  • Belle De Jour (Luis Buñuel, 1967)
  • The Big Lebowski (Joel Koen, 1998)
  • Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott, 2001)
  • Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
  • Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)
  • Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
  • Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997)
  • Braindead (Peter Jackson, 1992)
  • Branded to Kill “Koroshi no rakuin” (Seijun Suzuki, 1967)
  • Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)
  • Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Blake Edwards, 1961)
  • Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935)
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, 1957)
  • Bringing up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)
  • Bulworth (Warren Beatty, 1998)
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari “Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari” (Robert Wiene, 1920)
  • Caddyshack (Harold Ramis, 1980)
  • Cane Toads: An Unnatural History (Mark Lewis, 1988)
  • Careful (Guy Maddin, 1992)
  • Castle in the Sky “Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta” (Hayao Miyazaki, 1986)
  • Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)
  • Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
  • Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
  • City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931)
  • City of God “Cidade de Deus” (Kátia Lund & Fernando Meirelles, 2002)
  • Come and See “Idi i smotri” (Elem Klimov, 1985)
  • The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (Peter Greenaway, 1989)
  • Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenburg, 1967)
  • Crash (David Cronenberg, 1996)
  • Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, 1989)
  • Cross of Iron (Sam Peckinpah, 1977)
  • D.O.A (Rudolph Mate, 1950)
  • Dark City (Alex Proyas, 1998)
  • Day of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1985)
  • The Day of the Jackal (Fred Zinnemann, 1973)
  • Days of Being Wild “A Fei jing juen” (Kar Wai Wong, 1991)
  • The Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich, 1967)
  • Dirty Ho “Lan tou He” (Chia-Liang Liu, 1979)
  • The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie “Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie” (Luis Buñuel, 1972)
  • Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
  • Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
  • Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994)
  • Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton, 1990)
  • The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980)
  • Emperor of the North Pole (Robert Aldrich, 1973)
  • Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977)
  • Escape from Alcatraz (Don Siegel, 1979)
  • Evil Dead 2 (Sam Raimi, 1987)
  • Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
  • F for Fake “Vérités et mensonges” (Orson Welles, 1976}
  • A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan, 1957)
  • Fanny and Alexander “Fanny och Alexander” (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
  • Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer, 1965)
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam, 1998)
  • Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, 2003)
  • Fire on the Plains “Nobi” (Kon Ichikawa, 1959)
  • The Fog of War (Errol Morris, 2003)
  • Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox, 1956)
  • The General (Clyde Bruckman, 1927
  • Get Carter (Mike Hodges, 1971)
  • Gilda (Charles Vidor, 1946)
  • The Godson “Le Samouraï” (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)
  • Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton, 1964)
  • Goodbye Mr. Chips (Sam Wood, 1939)
  • Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
  • The Grand Illusion “La Grande illusion” (Jean Renoir, 1937)
  • The Great Escape (John Sturges, 1963)
  • Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)
  • Gunga Din (George Stevens, 1939)
  • A Hard Days Night (Richard Lester, 1964)
  • Harvey (Henry Koster, 1950)
  • Henry V (Kenneth Branagh, 1989)
  • Hero “Ying xiong” (Yimou Zhang, 2002)
  • High Fidelity (Stephen. Frears, 2000)
  • Hour of the Wolf “Vargtimmen” (Ingmar Bergman, 1968)
  • Hud (Martin Ritt, 1963)
  • The Hudsucker Proxy (Joel Coen, 1994)
  • The Human Condition I, II, & III “Ningen no joken III” (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959 & 1961)
  • I Was Born, But….. “Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo” (Yasujiro Ozu, 1932)
  • In the Mood for Love "Fa Yeung nin wa" (Kar Wai Wong, 2000)
  • In The Woods “Rashômon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
  • Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton, 1933)
  • Ivan the Terrible: Part 1 & Part 2 “Ivan Groznyj I” (Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1945 & 1958)
  • Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino, 1997)
  • Jules and Jim “Jules et Jim” (François Truffaut, 1962)
  • The Killer “Die xue shuang xiong” (John Woo, 1989)
  • King Lear “Korol Lir” (Grigori Kozintsev & Iosif Shapiro, 1969)
  • L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)
  • The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann, 1992)
  • The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton, 1951)
  • The Legend of Drunken Master “Jui kuen II” (Chia-Liang Liu, 1994)
  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1943)
  • The Lord of The Rings Trilogy (Peter Jackson, 2001-2003)
  • Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (George Miller, 1981)
  • Malcolm X (Spike Lee, 1992)
  • The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941)
  • A Man Escaped “Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut” (Robert Bresson, 1956)
  • The Man Who Would be King (John Huston, 1975)
  • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (John Lounsbery, 1977)
  • The Marriage of Maria Braun “Die Ehe der Maria Braun” (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979)
  • The Masque of Red Death (Roger Corman, 1964)
  • Matewan (John Sayles, 1987)
  • Microcosmos (Claude Nuridsany, 1996)
  • Miller’s Crossing (Joel Coen, 1990)
  • The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1932)
  • Mr. Hulot’s Holiday “Les Vacances de M. Hulot” (Jacques Tati, 1953)
  • Muriel’s Wedding (P.J. Hogan, 1994)
  • My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle, 1981)
  • My Neighbor Totoro “Tonari no Totoro” (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)
  • Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)
  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds “Kaze no tani no Naushika” (Hayao Miyazaki, 1984)
  • The Neverending Story (Wolfgang Peterson, 1984)
  • A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935)
  • North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
  • Nothing Sacred (William A. Wellman, 1937)
  • Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
  • Office Space (Mike Judge, 1999)
  • Oldboy (Chan Woo-Park, 2003)
  • On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (Peter R. Hunt, 1969)
  • On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)
  • Once upon a Time in the West “C'era una volta il West” (Sergio Leone, 1968)
  • One Hundred and One Dalmatians (Clyde Geronimi, 1961)
  • Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947)
  • Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
  • The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)
  • The Passion of Joan of Arc “La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc” (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
  • Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
  • Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1970)
  • Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
  • The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940)
  • The Player (Robert Altman, 1992)
  • Ponette (Jacques Doillon, 1996)
  • Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
  • The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952)
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981)
  • Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
  • The Red Circle “Le Cercle rouge” (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970)
  • Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965)
  • Rocky (John G. Avildsen, 1976)
  • Rudy (David Anspaugh, 1993)
  • Russian Ark “Russkij Kovcheg “ (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2002)
  • Se7en (David Fincher, 1995)
  • Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Stanley Donen, 1954)
  • The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994)
  • Short Cuts (Robert Altman, 1993)
  • Show Me Love “Fu*ing Åmål” (Lukas Moodysson, 1998)
  • Sideways (Alexander Payne, 2004)
  • Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952)
  • Sleuth (Joseph Mankiewicz, 1972)
  • Snatch (Guy Ritchie, 2000)
  • Solaris “Solyaris” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
  • Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
  • South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (Trey Parker, 1999)
  • Spirited Away “Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi” (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
  • Stage Door (Gregory La Cava, 1937)
  • Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
  • A Star is Born (George Cukor, 1954)
  • Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977)
  • The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973)
  • Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, 1951)
  • The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums “Zangiku monogatari” (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1939)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, 1951)
  • Sullivan’s Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941)
  • Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950)
  • Sunshine (István Szabó, 1999)
  • The Sweet Life “La Dolce Vita” (Federico Fellini, 1960)
  • The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan, 1997)
  • Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)
  • Swimming Pool (Francois Ozon, 2003)
  • The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent, 1974)
  • Tales of Ugetsu “Ugetsu monogatari” (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
  • Terminator 2: Judgement Day (James Cameron, 1991)
  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hopper, 1974)
  • Throne of Blood “Kumonosu jô” (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
  • To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)
  • Topsy-Turvey (Mike Leigh, 1999)
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948)
  • Umberto D (Vittorio De Sica, 1952)
  • Vanishing Point (Richard C. Sarafian, 1971)
  • War and Peace “Vojna i mir” (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1968)
  • White Heat (Raoul Walsh, 1949)
  • Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols, 1966)
  • The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
  • Wings of Desire “Der Himmel über Berlin” (Wim Wenders, 1987)
  • Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson, 1987)
  • The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)
  • Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, 1974)
  • Zulu (Cy Endfield, 1964)
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  • Top 10 Mini-Series
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  • 1. Brideshead Revisited (Michael Lindsay-Hogg, 1981)
  • 2. I, Claudius (Herbert Wise, 1976)
  • 3. Lonesome Dove (Simon Wincer, 1989)
  • 4. Band of Brothers (Tom Hanks & others, 2001)
  • 5. The Decalogue “Dekalog” (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1987)
  • 6. Game, Set, and Match (Ken Grieve, 1988)
  • 7. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1981)
  • 8. The Stand (Mick Garris, 1994)
  • 9. The Kingdom “Riget” (Lars Von Trier & Morten Arnfred, 1994)
  • 10. The Kingdom II “Riget II” (Lars von Trier & Morten Arnfred, 1997)
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  • Directors
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  • 1. Alfred Hitchcock
  • 2. Hayao Miyazaki
  • 3. Stanley Kubrick
  • 4. Akira Kurosawa
  • 5. David Lynch
  • 6. Quentin Tarrantino
  • 7. Joel Coen
  • 8. Kenji Mizoguchi
  • 9. John Ford
  • 10. Andrei Tarkovsky
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  • The rest Alphabeticaly
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  • Woody Allen
  • Robert Altman
  • Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Ingmar Bergman
  • Robert Bresson
  • Luis Bunuel
  • Tim Burton
  • John Carpenter
  • George Cukor
  • Clint Eastwood
  • Blake Edwards
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Federico Fellini
  • Terry Gilliam
  • Howard Hawks
  • John Huston
  • Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • Elia Kazan
  • Fritz Lang
  • David Lean
  • Spike Lee
  • Sergio Leone
  • Richard Linklater
  • Sidney Lumet
  • Guy Maddin
  • Russ Meyer
  • Takashi Miike
  • Errol Morris
  • Yasujiro Ozu
  • Sam Peckinpah
  • Roman Polanski
  • Martin Scorsese
  • Ridley Scott
  • Steven Spielberg
  • Seijun Suzuki
  • François Truffaut
  • Orson Welles
  • Wim Wenders
  • Billy Wilder
  • Kar Wai Wong
  • John Waters
  • John Woo
  • Yimou Zhang
Author Comments: 

Just a list of my top 255 alltime films. I'm pretty much of an omnivore when it comes to film. I like a bit of almost any genre out there and from any country or period.

lukeprog12/15/2004

A strange and beatiful list.

marygabucan12/17/2004

Excellent,Excellent List!!!

citizendarko12/17/2004

THanks. Your list are very good as well.