_The 100 Best Films of All Time (44-40)
44. Touch of Evil
Director: Orson Welles
Cast: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
Genre: Thriller
Academy Awards: 0
Year: 1958
Imdb-Rating: 8.4
Critic's opinion (Brian Koller):
"Touch of Evil" is an excellent movie. It is also one of Universal Studio's strangest films from the 1950s. It is dark, lurid, and weird.
43. Aliens
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Carrie Henn
Genre: Sci-Fi
Academy Awards: 2
Year: 1986
Imdb-Rating: 8.3
Critic's opinion (Brian Koller): Director James Cameron does well with action films starring tough, strong-willed female leads. "Aliens", the long-delayed sequel to 1979's "Alien", was worth the wait since it was an ideal project for Cameron's strengths, and likely would have been a lesser film if directed by anyone else.
42. La Règle du Jeu
Director: Jean Renoir
Cast: Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély
Genre: Comedy
Academy Awards: 0
Year: 1939
Imdb-Rating: 8.1
41. Double Indemnity
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Genre: Film noir
Academy Awards: 0
Year: 1944
Imdb-Rating: 8.5
Critic's opinion (Brian Koller): For those who think that all old Hollywood movies have happy endings and sugary values, "Double Indemnity" will change your opinion. It is a dark crime drama that ruthlessly explores how people will not stop at murder in the search for love and money.
Director: Bryan Singer
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro
Genre: Thriller
Academy Awards: 2
Year: 1995
Imdb-Rating: 8.7
Critic's opinion (James Berardinelli): Singer does an excellent job of blending humor into his noir thriller. There's enough to avoid a sense of ponderousness, but not so much that THE USUAL SUSPECTS becomes campy. Unlike many motion pictures, this one continually builds to its conclusion. It starts out as the story of a small job, then evolves into a search for the dreaded Keyser Soze -- a legendary criminal of such viciousness that even hardened men like Keaton think twice before crossing him. As THE USUAL SUSPECTS moves towards its inevitable finale, Soze's shadowy presence becomes increasingly more ominous and important, and we get the sense that those who think they hold the cards actually have the weakest hands. In the way it folds its various elements into a single resolution (which the astute viewer will be able to guess beforehand), Singer's film can be accused of toying with the audience. However, at times like this, when the person tugging the strings is adept at his craft, being toyed with can be a worthwhile experience. THE USUAL SUSPECTS is an accomplished synthesis of noir elements and, as such, is an entertaining entry to the genre.
Aliens ...wow, very suprising. don't get me wrong i love this movie it would be in my top100 but very suprising to see its so well loved by other people.
Yeah, I mean, a higher ranking than its prequel! However you can be sure that this was now the last movie of the Alien-series in this list.
Double Indemnity was directed by Billy Wilder.
It's one of my favorites as well.
Ouch! Sorry, but that was definetly a kind of typo. I cloned this from the previous list and forgot to put Wilder in instead of Lynch.
Lynch could hardly have directed a film before he was born, eh? :)
To put sth. straight: In fact, this is not my list of favourite films, but it is a list composed of many critics and public's choices who made similar lists. BTW, I have not even seen Double Indemnity. Sorry for that, so.