The World's 500 Essential Films?

[sanshodayu]

1902 A Trip to the Moon (Melies)

1915 Vampires (Feuillade)
Birth of a Nation (Griffith)

1916 Intolerance (Griffith)

1919 The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (Wiene)
Broken Blossoms (Griffith)

1921The Kid (Chaplin)

1922 Nosferatu (Murnau)
Nanook of the North (Flaherty)

1923 Safety Last (Newmayer, Taylor)
Die Nibelungen (Lang)

1924 Greed (Von Stroheim)
Sherlock Jnr (Keaton)
Strike (Eisenstein)
The Last Laugh (Murnau)
The Navigator (Keaton)

1925 Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
The Gold Rush (Chaplin)

1926 The General (Bruckman, Keaton)
A Page of Madness (Kinugasa)
Mother (Pudovkin)

1927 Sunrise (Murnau)
Metropolis (Lang)
Napoleon (Gance)
An Italian Straw Hat (Clair)
The Chess Player (Bernard)

1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
Pandora's Box (Pabst)
The Wind (Sjostrom)
Un Chien Andalou (Bunuel)
The Crowd (Vidor)

1929 Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov)
L'Argent (L'Herbier)
People on Sunday (Ulmer, Siodmak)

1930 L'Age d' Or (Bunuel)
Earth (Dovzhenko)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone)
The Blue Angel (Von Sternberg)

1931 M (Lang)
City Lights (Chaplin)
Frankenstein (Whale)
Public Enemy (Wellman)
Madchen in Uniform (Sagan)

1932 Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch)
Freaks (Browning)
Scarface (Hawks)
Boudu Saved from Drowning (Renoir)
I was Born, but (Ozu)
Love me Tonight (Mamoulian)
Vampyr (Dreyer)

1933 King Kong (Cooper, Schoedsack)
Duck Soup (McCarey)
42nd Street (Bacon)
Zero De Conduite (Vigo)

1934 L' Atalante (Vigo)
It Happened One Night (Capra)
The Scarlet Empress (Von Sternberg)

1935 Top Hat (Sandrich)
The 39 Steps (Hitchcock)
The Bride of Frankenstein (Whale)
Triumph of the Will (Riefenstahl)
A Night at the Opera (Wood)
Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (Renoir)
David Copperfield (Cukor)

1936 Partie de Campagne (Renoir)
Modern Times (Chaplin)
Swing Time (Stevens)
Story of a Cheat (Guitry)

1937 La Grande Illusion (Renoir)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney- Hand)
Street Angel (Yuan Mushi)
Pépé le Moko (Duvivier)
Way out West (Horne)
The Awful Truth (McCarey)

1938 Bringing up Baby (Hawks)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Curtiz)
Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein)
Olympia (Riefenstahl)

1939 La Regle du Jeu (Renoir)
Gone with the Wind (Fleming)
The Wizard of Oz (Fleming)
Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi)
Stagecoach (Ford)
Le Jour se Leve (Carné)
Mr Smith Goes to Washington (Capra)
Midnight (Leisen)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Dieterle)

1940 The Grapes of Wrath (Ford)
His Girl Friday (Hawks)
The Philadelphia Story (Cukor)
Rebecca (Hitchcock)
Fantasia (Disney)
The Thief of Bagdad (Berger, Powell, Whelan)
Pinocchio (Disney- Sharpsteen, Luske)

1941 Citizen Kane (Welles)
The Maltese Falcon (Huston)
The Lady Eve (P.Sturges)
Sullivan's Travels (P.Sturges)
Dumbo (Disney- Sharpsteen)

1942 Casablanca (Curtiz)
The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles)
To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch)
Bambi (Disney- Hand)
Cat People (Tourneur)
Palm Beach Story (P.Sturges)

1943 Day of Wrath (Dreyer)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell, Pressburger)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren)

1944 Double Indemnity (Wilder)
Ivan the Terrible (Eisenstein)
Henry V (Olivier)
Laura (Preminger)
Meet me in St Louis (Minnelli)

1945 Les Enfants du Paradis (Carné)
Rome Open City (Rossellini)
Brief Encounter (Lean)
Mildred Pierce (Curtiz)

1946 It's a Wonderful Life (Capra)
The Big Sleep (Hawks)
A Matter of Life and Death (Powell, Pressburger)
The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler)
Great Expectations (Lean)
La Belle et la Bete (Cocteau)
My Darling Clementine (Ford)
Notorious (Hitchcock)
Ivan the Terrible 2 (Eisenstein)
Gilda (C.Vidor)
Paisa (Rossellini)

1947 Out of the Past (Tourneur)
Black Narcissus (Powell, Pressburger)
Odd Man Out (Reed)

1948 Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Ophuls)
The Red Shoes (Powell, Pressburger)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston)
Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu)
Red River (Hawks)

1949 The Third Man (Reed)
Orphée (Cocteau)
Late Spring (Ozu)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (Hamer)
White Heat (Walsh)

1950 Sunset Boulevard (Wilder)
All About Eve (Mankiewicz)
Los Olvidados (Bunuel)

1951 Rashomon (Kurosawa)
The African Queen (Huston)
Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson)
Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Wise)
A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan)
The Lavender Hill Mob (Crichton)

1952 Singin in the Rain (Donen, Kelly)
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (Tati)
High Noon (Zinnemann)
The Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi)
Casque d' Or (Becker)
Ikiru (Kurosawa)
Umberto D (De Sica)
Forbidden Games (Clement)
The Quiet Man (Ford)

1953 Tokyo Story (Ozu)
Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi)
The Band Wagon (Minnelli)
Madame de (Ophuls)
Voyage to Italy (Rossellini)
The Wages of Fear (Clouzot)
Shane (Stevens)
From Here to Eternity (Zinnemann)

1954 Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)
Rear Window (Hitchcock)
La Strada (Fellini)
On the Waterfront (Kazan)
Johnny Guitar (N.Ray)
Senso (Visconti)

1955 Pather Panchali (S. Ray)
Night of the Hunter (Laughton)
Ordet (Dreyer)
Kiss me Deadly (Aldrich)
Rebel without a Cause (N.Ray)
East of Eden (Kazan)
Floating Clouds (Naruse)
Tales of the Taira Clan (Mizoguchi)
Lola Montes (Ophuls)
Diaboliques (Clouzot)

1956 The Searchers (Ford)
A Man Escaped (Bresson)
Aparajito (Ray)
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (Siegel)
Night and Fog (Resnais)
Mother India (Mehbob)

1957 The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
Twelve Angry Men (Lumet)
Paths of Glory (Kubrick)
Bridge on the River Kwai (Lean)
Pyaasa (Dutt)
Cabiria Nights (Fellini)
Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick)

1958 Vertigo (Hitchcock)
Touch of Evil (Welles)
The World of Apu (Ray)
Ashes and Diamonds (Wajda)
The Music Room (S.Ray)
Hidden Fortress (Kurosawa)

1959 Some Like it Hot (Wilder)
North by Northwest (Hitchcock)
Les 400 Coups (Truffaut)
Hiroshima mon Amour (Resnais)
Ben Hur (Wyler)
Rio Bravo (Hawks)
Imitation of Life (Sirk)

1960 Psycho (Hitchcock)
Breathless (Godard)
La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
L'Avventura (Antonioni)
The Apartment (Wilder)
Cloud-Capped Star (Ghatak)
Shoot the Pianist (Truffaut)
Spartacus (Kubrick)
The Magnificent Seven (J.Sturges)

1961 Jules et Jim (Truffaut)
West Side Story (Wise)
Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais)
Viridiana (Bunuel)
El Cid (A.Mann)
The Human Condition (Kobayashi)
Yojimbo (Kurosawa)

1962 Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)
Vivre sa Vie (Godard)
The Man who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford)
The Manchurian Candidate (Frankenheimer)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (Varda)
Exterminating Angel (Bunuel)

1963 8 1/2 (Fellini)
Dr Strangelove (Kubrick)
The Leopard (Visconti)
Contempt (Godard)
The Great Escape (J.Sturges)
Barren Lives (Dos Santos)
The Servant (Losey)

1964 The Gospel according to St Matthew (Pasolini)
Goldfinger (Hamilton)
Charulata (S.Ray)
Black God White Devil (Rocha)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Demy)
Woman of the Dunes (Teshigahara)
Gertrud (Dreyer)

1965 Pierrot le Fou (Godard)
The Sound of Music (Wise)
The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)
Doctor Zhivago (Lean)
Round Up (Jancso)

1966 Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
Persona (Bergman)
Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson)
The Good the Bad and the Ugly (Leone)
Closely Observed Trains (Menzel)

1967 Bonnie and Clyde (Penn)
The Graduate (Nichols)
Le Samourai (Melville)
Belle de Jour (Bunuel)
Playtime (Tati)
Point Blank (Boorman)
Mouchette (Bresson)

1968 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone)
My Night with Maud (Rohmer)
Memories of Underdevelopment (Alea)
Night of the Living Dead (Romero)
If (L.Anderson)

1969 The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)
The Colour of Pomegranates (Paradjanov)
Kes (Loach)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Hill)
Le Boucher (Chabrol)
Midnight Cowboy (Schlesinger)
A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
The Land (Chahine)
Easy Rider (Hopper)

1970 The Conformist (Bertolucci)
Claire's Knee (Rohmer)
Five Easy Pieces (Rafelson)
The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophuls)

1971 A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
Pakeezah (Amrohi)
Dirty Harry (Siegel)
The French Connection (Friedkin)
McCabe and Mrs Miller (Altman)
The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich)

1972 The Godfather (Coppola)
Aguirre Wrath of God (Herzog)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bunuel)
Cries and Whispers (Bergman)
Cabaret (Fosse)
Deliverance (Boorman)

1973 Spirit of the Beehive (Erice)
Badlands (Malick)
Don't Look Now (Roeg)
The Exorcist (Friedkin)
Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder)
The Mother and the Whore (Eustache)
Mean Streets (Scorsese)
The Wicker Man (Hardy)
Day for Night (Truffaut)

1974 The Godfather 2 (Coppola)
Chinatown (Polanski)
Mirror (Tarkovsky)
Celine and Julie go Boating (Rivette)
Amarcord (Fellini)
Alice in the Cities (Wenders)
The Conversation (Coppola)
Xala (Sembene)
A Woman under the Influence (Cassavetes)

1975 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Forman)
Jaws (Spielberg)
Nashville (Altman)
Jeanne Dielman (Akerman)
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)
The Travelling Players (Angelopoulos)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Herzog)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Jones, Gilliam)

1976 Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
Kings of the Road (Wenders)
Ai no Corrida (Oshima)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (Eastwood)

1977 Star Wars (Lucas)
Annie Hall (Allen)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg)
Suspiria (Argento)

1978 The Deer Hunter (Cimino)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder)
Tree of the Wooden Clogs (Olmi)

1979 Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
Manhattan (Allen)
Stalker (Tarkovsky)
Alien (Scott)
The Life of Brian (Jones)
Tale of Tales (Norstein)
The Tin Drum (Schlondorff)

1980 Raging Bull (Scorsese)
The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner)
The Shining (Kubrick)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder)

1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg)
Das Boot (Petersen)
Mephisto (Szabo)
Diva (Beineix)
Road Warrior (Miller)

1982 Blade Runner (Scott)
Fanny and Alexander (Bergman)
E.T (Spielberg)
Yol (Guney)
The Draughtsman's Contract (Greenaway)
Night of the Shooting Stars (Taviani bros)
Gandhi (Attenborough)

1983 Sans Soleil (Marker)
The Ballad of Narayama (Imamura)
Scarface (De Palma)

1984 Paris Texas (Wenders)
Once Upon a Time in America (Leone)
The Terminator (Cameron)
Amadeus (Forman)
Yellow Earth (Chen Kaige)
This is Spinal Tap (Reiner)

1985 Ran (Kurosawa)
Brazil (Gilliam)
Back to the Future (Zemeckis)
Come and See (Klimov)
Witness (Weir)
Street of Crocodiles (Quay bros)

1986 Blue Velvet (Lynch)
Jean de Florette (Berri)
The Green Ray (Rohmer)
Aliens (Cameron)
Hannah and her Sisters (Allen)
Platoon (Stone)
The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky)
A Room with a View (Ivory)
The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Hou)

1987 Wings of Desire (Wenders)
Au Revoir les Enfants (Malle)
Babette's Feast (Axel)
Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou)
The Last Emperor (Bertolucci)
The Untouchables (De Palma)
The Princess Bride (Reiner)

1988 Dekalog (Kieslowski)
My Neighbour Totoro (Miyazaki)
Die Hard (McTiernan)
Women on the Verge (Almodovar)
Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata)
Pelle the Conqueror (August)

1989 Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore)
Do the Right Thing (S.Lee)
A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
The Killer (Woo)
Sex Lies and Videotape (Soderbergh)
Field of Dreams (Robinson)

1990 Goodfellas (Scorsese)
Close Up (Kiarostami)
Miller's Crossing (Coen)
Edward Scizzorhands (Burton)
Cyrano de Bergerac (Rappeneau)

1991 The Silence of the Lambs (Demme)
Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)
The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski)
Thelma and Louise (R.Scott)
The Terminator 2 (Cameron)
J.F.K (Stone)
Delicatessen (Jeunet, Caro)
La Belle Noiseuse (Rivette)
Beauty and the Beast (Disney- Trousdale, Wise)

1992 Unforgiven (Eastwood)
Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino)
Abraham Valley (Oliveira)
The Player (Altman)
And Life Goes On (Kiarostami)
A Brighter Summer Day(Yang)
Like Water for Chocolate (Arau)

1993 Schindler's List (Spielberg)
The Piano (Campion)
Three Colours Blue (Kieslowski)
Short Cuts (Altman)
The Wrong Trousers (Park)
Farewell my Concubine (Chen Kaige)
The Age of Innocence (Scorsese)
Groundhog Day (Ramis)
Sonatine (Kitano)
Jurassic Park (Spielberg)

1994 Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
Three Colours Red (Kieslowski)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont)
Leon (Besson)
The Lion King (Disney- Allers, Minkoff)
Burnt by the Sun (Mikhalkov)
Satantango (Tarr)
Speed (De Bont)

1995 Toy Story (Lasseter)
The Usual Suspects (Singer)
Maborosi (Kore-eda)
Se7en (Fincher)
Heat (M.Mann)
Underground (Kusturica)
Ulysses' Gaze (Angelopoulos)
Babe (Noonan)

1996 Fargo (Coen)
The English Patient (Minghella)
Trainspotting (Boyle)
Breaking the Waves (Von Trier)
Secrets and Lies (Leigh)
The Sweet Hereafter (Egoyan)
Cyclo (Tran Anh-Hung)

1997 Titanic (Cameron)
Hana-Bi (Kitano)
L.A.Confidential (Hanson)
The Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami)
Ring (Nakata)

1998 Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg)
Life is Beautiful (Benigni)
Central Station (Salles)
The Thin Red Line (Malick)
Eternity and a Day (Angelopoulos)
Festen (Vinterberg)
Show me Love (Moodysson)

1999 All About my Mother (Almodovar)
American Beauty (Mendes)
The Matrix (Wachowski)
Fight Club (Fincher)
Magnolia (Anderson)
Toy Story 2 (Lasseter)
Rosetta (Dardenne bros)
The Sixth Sense (M.Night Shyamalan)

2000 Gladiator (Scott)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
Amores Perros (Inarritu)
Yi Yi (Yang)
Memento (Nolan)

2001 The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson)
Amelie (Jeunet)
Spirited Away (Miyazaki)
Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
Y Tu Mama Tambien (Cuaron)
Moulin Rouge (Luhrmann)
What Time is it There? (Tsai Ming-Liang)

2002 Talk to Her (Almodovar)
The Two Towers (Jackson)
City of God (Meirelles)
Far from Heaven (Haynes)
The Pianist (Polanski)
Bowling for Columbine (Moore)
Hero (Zhang Yimou)
The Man without a Past (Kaurismaki)

2003 The Return (Zvyagintsev)
Kill Bill (Tarantino)
Uzak (Ceylan)
Finding Nemo (Stanton)

[ANavissi500]

Is this list according to someone in particular?


And on a personal note, I've only seen 66 of these so I have a lot of work to do.

[bankholdup]

I've only seen 104 of them.

[sanshodayu]

It's my own unsatisfactory effort to come up with a list that reflects historical importance, international critical taste, major polls, as well as public popularity. I was disappointed with the British Film Institute's list of 360 classics (which stopped at 1981), thought i'd try to do better. It's mainly an objective list, with a small number i've not seen, and a few personal favourite wild cards. I'd welcome opinions on most glaring omissions or undeserving inclusions- which every list will have.

[Damned Martian]

Most flagrant omissions, if you ask me (in recent years): The TRuman Show and Requiem for a Dream. I think these two deserve to be there, while some others don't (*coughwhatthehellisuzakcough*). BTW, you don't need to include every single Angelopoulos and Kiarostami film.

[sanshodayu]

Requiem for a Dream should have made it (left out by mistake) and Truman Show came very close- my enjoyment was ruined by watching it on plane in a storm. So useful comment, thanks.

Kiarostami is greatly admired by many, so deserves his representation, and i like the Angelopoulos films i've seen. Anyway, only a small minority of their films are here.

[Damned Martian]

I've seen between 160 and 175 movies of the list (some I'm not sure because I confuse them with others, some i don't know because i don't recognise the titles in english). There are a LOT of obscure films, IMO.

I ask you again: What the hell is "Uzak"? :confused: Is it better than Lost in Translation (which looks like one of the most important films of the year)?

[sanshodayu]

Uzak is one of the ones i've not seen, but i heard very good things of it from Cannes (about the only film that most there really liked from what i read). Anyway, it's Turkish. But i may have been premature with it- partly due to trying very hard to be fair to lots of countries!-I've already added the 2 you suggested. I should have included something by Wes Anderson, no doubt. Perhap The Royal Tenenbaums as loads of people are fans.

[BadCoverVersion]

Hey, Kes is there so you're a-okay in my book.

Great effort though, one of the best lists I've seen in some time.

I'd like to have seen these superb flicks on the list.

Brighton Rock - John Boulting (1947)
Blowup - Michelangelo Antonioni (1966)
Naked - Mike Leigh (1993)

But it's a GREAT list.

[Jon Lyrik]

A very solid list.

But where is are the first films ever, made in 1891?

[Hucksta G]

I've only seen 64 of those movies.

[bowieee]

The ones I agree with.....

1919 The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (Wiene)


Nosferatu (Murnau)
Nanook of the North (Flaherty)


Die Nibelungen (Lang)


Sherlock Jnr (Keaton)

Metropolis (Lang)


The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)

Un Chien Andalou (Bunuel)

All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone)

M (Lang)

Frankenstein (Whale)



Freaks (Browning)

Vampyr (Dreyer)

1933 King Kong (Cooper, Schoedsack)
Duck Soup (McCarey)




The Bride of Frankenstein (Whale)



1937 La Grande Illusion (Renoir)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney- Hand)


The Wizard of Oz (Fleming)


Mr Smith Goes to Washington (Capra)


The Grapes of Wrath (Ford)

Fantasia (Disney)

Pinocchio (Disney- Sharpsteen, Luske)

Citizen Kane (Welles)

Casablanca (Curtiz)

Bambi (Disney- Hand)

Day of Wrath (Dreyer)


Ivan the Terrible (Eisenstein)




La Belle et la Bete (Cocteau)



Rashomon (Kurosawa)

The Day the Earth Stood Still (Wise)
A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan)


Ikiru (Kurosawa)



1954 Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)

La Strada (Fellini)
On the Waterfront (Kazan)

Ordet (Dreyer)
Kiss me Deadly (Aldrich)
Rebel without a Cause (N.Ray)


The Searchers (Ford)

Night and Fog (Resnais)


The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
Twelve Angry Men (Lumet)
Paths of Glory (Kubrick)
Bridge on the River Kwai (Lean)
Cabiria Nights (Fellini)


Vertigo (Hitchcock)

Hidden Fortress (Kurosawa)


North by Northwest (Hitchcock)
Les 400 Coups (Truffaut)


Psycho (Hitchcock)

La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
L'Avventura (Antonioni)
The Apartment (Wilder)

The Magnificent Seven (J.Sturges)

Jules et Jim (Truffaut)
West Side Story (Wise)

Yojimbo (Kurosawa)

Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)

Exterminating Angel (Bunuel)

8 1/2 (Fellini)
Dr Strangelove (Kubrick)


Gertrud (Dreyer)


Doctor Zhivago (Lean)



The Good the Bad and the Ugly (Leone)

Bonnie and Clyde (Penn)


Belle de Jour (Bunuel)


2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone)

Night of the Living Dead (Romero)
If (L.Anderson)

The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)

Midnight Cowboy (Schlesinger)




A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)

Dirty Harry (Siegel)
The French Connection (Friedkin)
McCabe and Mrs Miller (Altman)


The Godfather (Coppola)
Aguirre Wrath of God (Herzog)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bunuel)
Cries and Whispers (Bergman)

Deliverance (Boorman)


Badlands (Malick)
Don't Look Now (Roeg)
The Exorcist (Friedkin)
Mean Streets (Scorsese)
The Wicker Man (Hardy)
Day for Night (Truffaut)

The Godfather 2 (Coppola)

Amarcord (Fellini)

The Conversation (Coppola)



One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Forman)
Jaws (Spielberg)



The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Herzog)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Jones, Gilliam)

Taxi Driver (Scorsese)

The Outlaw Josey Wales (Eastwood)

Star Wars (Lucas)


Suspiria (Argento)

The Deer Hunter (Cimino)


Apocalypse Now (Coppola)

Alien (Scott)
The Life of Brian (Jones)


Raging Bull (Scorsese)
The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner)
The Shining (Kubrick)


Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg)
Das Boot (Petersen)

Road Warrior (Miller)

Blade Runner (Scott)

E.T (Spielberg)


Gandhi (Attenborough)


1984 Paris Texas (Wenders)
Once Upon a Time in America (Leone)
The Terminator (Cameron)


This is Spinal Tap (Reiner)

1985 Ran (Kurosawa)
Brazil (Gilliam)
Back to the Future (Zemeckis)

Witness (Weir)
Street of Crocodiles (Quay bros)

Blue Velvet (Lynch)


Aliens (Cameron)

Platoon (Stone)

Wings of Desire (Wenders)

The Last Emperor (Bertolucci)
The Untouchables (De Palma)
The Princess Bride (Reiner)

My Neighbour Totoro (Miyazaki)


Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata)


Do the Right Thing (S.Lee)

The Killer (Woo)
Sex Lies and Videotape (Soderbergh)
Field of Dreams (Robinson)

Goodfellas (Scorsese)

Miller's Crossing (Coen)
Edward Scizzorhands (Burton)


The Silence of the Lambs (Demme)
Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)


The Terminator 2 (Cameron)
J.F.K (Stone)
Delicatessen (Jeunet, Caro)

Beauty and the Beast (Disney- Trousdale, Wise)

Unforgiven (Eastwood)
Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino)

The Player (Altman)

Schindler's List (Spielberg)
The Piano (Campion)

Short Cuts (Altman)
The Wrong Trousers (Park
Groundhog Day (Ramis)

Jurassic Park (Spielberg)

Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)

Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont)
Leon (Besson)
The Lion King (Disney- Allers, Minkoff)


Toy Story (Lasseter)
The Usual Suspects (Singer)

Se7en (Fincher)
Heat (M.Mann)
Underground (Kusturica)

Babe (Noonan)

Fargo (Coen)
The English Patient (Minghella)
Trainspotting (Boyle)
Breaking the Waves (Von Trier)

The Sweet Hereafter (Egoyan)



Ring (Nakata)

Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg)
Life is Beautiful (Benigni)

The Thin Red Line (Malick)



American Beauty (Mendes)
The Matrix (Wachowski)
Fight Club (Fincher)
Magnolia (Anderson)
Toy Story 2 (Lasseter)

Gladiator (Scott)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)

Amores Perros (Inarritu)

Memento (Nolan)

The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson)
Amelie (Jeunet)
Spirited Away (Miyazaki)
Mulholland Drive (Lynch)

Moulin Rouge (Luhrmann)



The Two Towers (Jackson)

Far from Heaven (Haynes)
The Pianist (Polanski)
Bowling for Columbine (Moore)
Hero (Zhang Yimou)


Kill Bill (Tarantino)

Finding Nemo (Stanton) [/B][/QUOTE]

[Hannibal21]

I would've liked to see Network, Malcolm X, To Live, Eat Drink Man Woman, Roman Holiday, To Have and Have Not, The Night of the Iguana, and Gentleman's Agreement up there, but it's a SUPERB list nontheless. Keep up the good work!

[sanshodayu]

Good suggestions. I did originally include Roman Holiday, but changed my mind. It's never possible to get these things just right. I did worry a bit about leaving out Network, which i know has many admirers- it's just that i'm not one of them. To Have and Have Not missed by a whisper (or a whistle). I was also trying to balance up the directors' representation. To Live (excellent) came close, might have been one too many by Zhang? Night of the Iguana hadn't occurred to me. I obviously need to see it again. Gentleman's Agreement hasn't aged too well, i think, and 3 by Kazan i thought was enough.

[blurofserenity]

I didn't see Weekend at Bernies there....was that a mistake?

[Annie Hall]

This is a GREAT list to work through. I've seen about 120 of them, which is far too few. Really pleased to see Kes, Trainspotting, Annie Hall, American Beauty, Cinema Paradiso...etc. on there. Lots of diversity...I applaud your successful attempt at making an awesome list.

[Briare Rabbit]

That's a really good list. I was a little disappointed myself at the exclusion of Network and To Kill a Mockingbird. Other than that, it's damn good.

[sanshodayu]

I'm grateful for all the positive comments. Though i'm not its greatest fan, To Kill a Mockingbird was an oversight and should have been included. It's a well-made, important film that still carries a lot of weight and remains extremely popular.