Top 100 Movies of all time...really

Submitted by mscott8 on Wed, 05/18/2005 - 08:28
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  1. Last year at Marienbad (1961 - Alain Resnais)
  2. Le Mepris (1963 - Jean-Luc Godard)
  3. Eyes Wide Shut (1999 - Stanley Kubrick)
  4. The Red and the White (1967 - Miklos Jancso)
  5. Shadow of the Eagle (1950 - Sidney Salkow)
  6. Pakeezah (1971 - Kamal Amrohi)
  7. Sword of Doom (1966 - Kihachi Okamoto)
  8. 8 1/2 (1963 - Federico Fellini)
  9. Soylent Green (1973 - Richard Fleischer)
  10. The Element of Crime (1984 - Lars von Trier)
  11. Le Casque d'Or (1952 - Jacques Becker)
  12. The Shining (1980 - Stanley Kubrick)
  13. The Music of Chance (1993 - Philip Haas)
  14. Viridiana (1961 - Luis Bunuel)
  15. The Seventh Continent (1989 - Michael Haneke)
  16. The Seventh Seal (1957 - Ingmar Bergman)
  17. Dementia (1955 - John Parker)
  18. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943 - Maya Deren)
  19. Blanche (1971 - Walerian Borowczyk)
  20. L'Eternel Retour (1943 - Jean Delannoy)
  21. Persona (1966 - Ingmar Bergman)
  22. Kiss me Deadly (1955 - Robert Aldrich)
  23. Le Trou (1960 - Jacques Becker)
  24. The Believer (2001 - Henry Bean)
  25. Woyzeck (1979 - Werner Herzog)
  26. Secretary (2002 - Stephen Shainberg)
  27. The Thing (1982 - John Carpenter)
  28. Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972 - Werner Herzog)
  29. Oberst Redl (1985 - István Szabó)
  30. Salò (1976 - Pier Paolo Pasolini) (R)
  31. Beyond the Clouds (1995 - Michaelangelo Antonioni)
  32. The Silence (1963 - Ingmar Bergman)
  33. Le Sang d'un Poete (1930 - Jean Cocteau)
  34. Three Colours Blue (1993 - Krzysztov Kieslowski)
  35. The Spiral Staircase (1946 - Robert Siodmak)
  36. La Ronde (1950 - Max Ophuls)
  37. Andrei Rublev (1969 - Andrei Tarkovsky)
  38. 400 blows (1959 - Francois Truffaut)
  39. 2000 Maniacs (1964 - Herschell Gordon Lewis)
  40. Fando and Lis (1967 - Alejandro Jodorowsky)
  41. Barry Lyndon (1975 - Stanley Kubrick)
  42. The Devils (1971 - Ken Russell)
  43. Touch of Evil (1958 - Orson Welles)
  44. Battleship Potemkin (1925 - Sergei Eisenstein)
  45. Funny Games (1997 - Michael Haneke)
  46. A Canterbury Tale (1944 - Michael Powell)
  47. Sweet Smell of Success (1957 - Alexander MacKendrick)
  48. The Good the Bad and the Ugly (1966 - Sergio Leone)
  49. Blackbeard the Pirate (1952 - Raoul Walsh)
  50. Orphée (1949 - Jean Cocteau)
  51. Maîtresse (1973 - Barbet Schroeder)
  52. Music Room (1958 - Satyajit Ray)
  53. Vivre sa Vie (1962 - Jean-Luc Godard)
  54. Eraserhead (1977 - David Lynch)
  55. Les Cousins (1959 - Claude Chabrol)
  56. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975 - Peter Weir)
  57. Drowning by Numbers (1988 - Peter Greenaway)
  58. Solaris (1972 - Andrei Tarkovsky)
  59. Shadow of a Doubt (1943 - Alfred Hitchcock)
  60. Gosford Park (2001 - Robert Altman)
  61. The Wages of Fear (1953 - Henri-Georges Clouzot)
  62. For a Few Dollars More (1965 - Sergio Leone)
  63. Heart of Glass (1976 - Werner Herzog)
  64. Stalker (1979 - Andrei Tarkovsky)
  65. Ulzana's raid (1972 - Robert Aldrich)
  66. The Hustler (1961 - Robert Rossen)
  67. Fight Club (1999 - David Fincher)
  68. Hud (1963 - Martin Ritt)
  69. Mad Max (1979 - George Miller)
  70. Careful (1992 - Guy Maddin)
  71. One-Eyed Jacks (1961 - Marlon Brando)
  72. Europa (1991 - Lars von Trier)
  73. Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972 - George McCowan)
  74. El Topo (1970 - Alejandro Jodorowsky)
  75. The Big Country (1958 - William Wyler)
  76. Draughtman's contract (1982 - Peter Greenaway)
  77. King of New York (1990 - Abel Ferrara)
  78. Cries and Whispers (1972 - Ingmar Bergman)
  79. Beau travail (1999 - Claire Denis)
  80. Nosferatu (1922 - F.W. Murnau)
  81. The Red Shoes (1948 - Michael Powell)
  82. Watership Down (1978 - Martin Rosen)
  83. Zabriskie Point (1970 - Michaelangelo Antonioni)
  84. La Reine Margot (1994 - Patrice Chereau)
  85. The Dawn of the Dead (1978 - George A. Romero)
  86. Big Sleep (1946 - Howard Hawks)
  87. Sonatine (1993 - Takeshi Kitano)
  88. Blue Velvet (1986 - David Lynch)
  89. L'Avventura (1960 - Michaelangelo Antonioni)
  90. L'Eclisse (1962 - Michaelangelo Antonioni)
  91. Patton (1970 - Franklin J. Schaffner)
  92. Bulworth (1998 - Warren Beatty)
  93. The Poseidon Adventure (1972 - Ronald Neame)
  94. Spider (2002 - David Cronenberg)
  95. One of our Aircraft is Missing (1942 - Michael Powell)
  96. Lancelot du Lac (1974 - Robert Bresson)
  97. Scanners (1981 - David Cronenberg)
  98. Bad Lieutenant (1992 - Abel Ferrara)
  99. Ran (1985 - Akira Kurosawa)
  100. Themroc (1973 - Claude Faraldo)
Author Comments: 

Why add to the canon of top 100 lists you may ask? Aren't there already far too many? Well there are but I find they often have faults. A great majority of them have Godfather, Starwars, or the egregious Shawshank Redemption at the top and continue in the same banal vein. Personally, of the trilogy, I prefer Godfather III (bet that set the cat amongst the pigeons!) but it wont make this top 100. Similarly this list will not be a hidebound list of socially worthy arthouse movies, so no Bertolucci, late Godard (ie his emetic Eloge de l'amour), no Nicholas Ray etc. There are a few brooding, ponderous movies (L'elisse, L'avventura, Nashville), but I have tried to avoid putting these in. Almost the sole criteria is to astonish, the top 20 of the list are all what I would describe as jaw-droppingly good movies. Further down the list this type of movie is interspersed with some concession to other criteria, there are a few comfort films, noirs, westerns and adventures endlessly repeated.

lukeprog05/18/2005

Wow, great list. I'm going to have to keep coming back to this one. The few I've seen I've really loved, and many of the others I've never even heard of!