My 500 top films

[Kenji]

favourites asterisked.

1913 Fantomas (Feuillade)

1914 Twilight of a Woman's Soul (Bauer)

1915 Les Vampires (Feuillade)*

1916 Intolerance (Griffith)

1919 Broken Blossoms (Griffith)

1920 The Goat (Keaton)

1922 Nosferatu (Murnau)**

1924 Sherlock jnr (Keaton)*

1925 Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)**
The Gold Rush (Chaplin)**
Strike (Eisenstein)
The Big Parade (Vidor)
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Reiniger)

1926 The General (Keaton, Bruckman)**

1927 Sunrise (Murnau)**
Metropolis (Lang)**
The Chess Player (Bernard)*
Girl with a Hatbox (Barnet)
Napoleon (Gance)
October (Eisenstein)

1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)*
Pandora's Box (Pabst)*
Queen Kelly (Von Stroheim)
The Wind (Sjostrom)
The Cameraman (Sedgwick)

1929 Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov)**
Spies (Lang)*
Arsenal (Dovzhenko)
People on Sunday (Siodmak, Ulmer)

1930 Salt for Svanetia (Kalatozov)*
Morocco (Von Sternberg)
Earth (Dovzhenko)
L'Age d'Or (Bunuel)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone)

1931 City Lights (Chaplin)*
Madchen in Uniform (Sagan)*
Marius (Korda)
M (Lang)

1932 Boudu Saved from Drowning (Renoir)*
Trouble in Paradise (Lubistch)
Love me Tonight (Mamoulian)
Liebelei (Ophuls)
Fanny (Allegret)
Shanghai Express (Von Sternberg)
Vampyr (Dreyer)

1933 Duck Soup (McCarey)*
King Kong (Cooper, Schoedsack)*
The Testament of Dr Mabuse (Lang)*
Sons of the Desert (Seiter)

1934 L'Atalante (Vigo)**
It Happened One Night (Capra)**
The Scarlet Empress (Von Sternberg)*
Goddess (Wu Yonggang)
The Mascot (Starewicz)
Happiness (Medvedkin)
Song of Ceylon (Wright)

1935 Top Hat (Sandrich)**
The 39 Steps (Hitchcock)*
The Devil is a Woman (Von Sternberg)*
Composition in Blue (Fischinger)*
David Copperfield (Cukor)*
The Bride of Frankenstein (Whale)
A Night at the Opera (Wood)
Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (Renoir)

1936 Partie de Campagne (Renoir)**
The Only Son (Ozu)*
Swing Time (Stevens)*
Osaka Elegy (Mizoguchi)
César (Pagnol)
Sisters of the Gion (Mizoguchi)

1937 La Grande Illusion (Renoir)**
Humanity and Paper Balloons (Yamanaka)*
The Awful Truth (McCarey)
Pépé le Moko (Duvivier)

1938 Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein)**
Bringing up Baby (Hawks)*
The Childhood of Maxim Gorki (Donskoi)

1939 La Regle du Jeu (Renoir)**
Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi)**
Gone with the Wind (Fleming)
Destry Rides Again (Marshall)

1940 The Thief of Bagdad (Berger, Powell, Whelan)**
Fantasia (Disney- Sharpsteen)
Rebecca (Hitchcock)

1941 Citizen Kane (Welles)**
The Maltese Falcon (Huston)**
Dumbo (Disney- Sharpsteen)*
The Lady Eve (P.Sturges)*

1942 Casablanca (Curtiz)**
To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch)**
The Loyal 47 Ronin (Mizoguchi)*
The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles)
Palm Beach Story (P.Sturges)

1943 Day of Wrath (Dreyer)*
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell,
Pressburger)

1944 Ivan the Terrible (Eisenstein)*
Double Indemnity (Wilder)*
Murder, my Sweet (Dmytryk)
Laura (Preminger)

1945 Les Enfants du Paradis (Carné)**
The Battle of San Pietro (Huston)
Rome Open City (Rossellini)

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

1947 Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin)*
Black Narcissus (Powell, Pressburger)
The Ball at the House of Anjo (Yoshimura)

1948 Letter from an Unknown Woman (Ophuls)**
Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu)**
The Red Shoes (Powell, Pressburger)**
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston)
The Lady from Shanghai (Welles)
Portrait of Jennie (Dieterle)

1949 Late Spring (Ozu)**
Kind Hearts and Coronets (Hamer)**
The Third Man (Reed)*
Stray Dog (Kurosawa)
White Heat (Walsh)

1950 Orphée (Cocteau)**
Sunset Boulevard (Wilder)*
The Flowers of st Francis (Rossellini)
Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson)
Rashomon (Kurosawa)

1951 Early Summer (Ozu)*
Miss Oyu (Mizoguchi)*
The Lavender Hill Mob (Crichton)
The River (Renoir)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Wise)
Lady of Musashino (Mizoguchi)
Repast (Naruse)
A Place in the Sun (Stevens)

1952 Singin in the Rain (Donen, Kelly)**
The Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi)**
Casque d'Or (Becker)**
The Quiet Man (Ford)*
Baiju Bawra (Bhatt)*
Le Plaisir (Ophuls)
El (Bunuel)
Othello (Welles)

1953 Tokyo Story (Ozu)**
The Band Wagon (Minnelli)**
Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi)**
Madame de (Ophuls)*
Voyage to Italy (Rossellini)
White Mane (Lamorisse)
Roman Holiday (Wyler)
The Big Heat (Lang)

1954 Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)***
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)**
Senso (Visconti)*
Johnny Guitar (N.Ray)*
Rear Window (Hitchcock)
Sound of the Mountain (Naruse)
Twenty Four Eyes (Kinoshita)

1955 Pather Panchali (S.Ray)**
Tales of the Taira Clan (Mizoguchi)**
Night of the Hunter (Laughton)**
Kiss me Deadly (Aldrich)**
Ordet (Dreyer)*
Lola Montes (Ophuls)*
East of Eden (Kazan)*
Yang Kwei Fei (Mizoguchi)
Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman)

1956 The Searchers (Ford)**
A Man Escaped (Bresson)*
Aparajito (S.Ray)*
Early Spring (Ozu)*
The Court Jester (Panama, Frank)
Street of Shame (Mizoguchi)
The Killing (Kubrick)
Giant (Stevens)

1957 Tokyo Twilight (Ozu)*
Twelve Angry Men (Lumet)*
Paths of Glory (Kubrick)*
Throne of Blood (Kurosawa)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (Arnold)

1958 Vertigo (Hitchcock)**
Hidden Fortress (Kurosawa)*
Touch of Evil (Welles)
The Music Room (S.Ray)

1959 North by Northwest (Hitchcock)**
Some Like it Hot (Wilder)**
Hiroshima mon Amour (Resnais)**
The World of Apu (S.Ray)*
Ballad of a Soldier (Chukhrai)*
Paper Flowers (Dutt)*
Les 400 Coups (Truffaut)
Imitation of Life (Sirk)

1960 L'Avventura (Antonioni)**
The Apartment (Wilder)**
Cloud-Capped Star (Ghatak)**
Mughal-e-Azam (Asif)*
La Dolce Vita (Fellini)*
Le Trou (Becker)
Wild River (Kazan)

1961 The Human Condition trilogy (Kobayashi)**
El Cid (A.Mann)*
La Notte (Antonioni)*
The End of Summer (Ozu)*
The Innocents (Clayton)*
Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais)
One-Eyed Jacks (Brando)

1962 Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)**
Ivan's Childhood (Tarkovsky)
Hara-Kiri (Kobayashi)
The Man who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford)
The House is Black (Farrokhzad)
Eclipse (Antonioni)
Vivre sa Vie (Godard)
A Valparaiso (Ivens)
Carnival of Souls (Harvey)

1963 8 1/2 (Fellini)**
The Leopard (Visconti)*
Contempt (Godard)*
The Great Escape (J.Sturges)*
High and Low (Kurosawa)
Charade (Donen)
The Servant (Losey)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Kramer)

1964 Dr Strangelove (Kubrick)**
Marnie (Hitchcock)**
Gertrud (Dreyer)**
Kwaidan (Kobayashi)*
The Gospel according to St Matthew (Pasolini)*
Charulata (S.Ray)*
Goldfinger (Hamilton)
I am Cuba (Kalatozov)
Black God White Devil (Rocha)
The Naked Kiss (Fuller)
Woman of the Dunes (Teshigahara)

1965 Pierrot le Fou (Godard)**
The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)*
Two Stage Sisters (Xie Jin)*
The Saragossa Manuscript (Has)*
Red Beard (Kurosawa)
Onibaba (Shindo)
The Hand (Trnka)

1966 Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)**
Persona (Bergman)**
The Party and the Guests (Nemec)
Round Up (Jancso)
Closely Observed Trains (Menzel)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone)

1967 Belle de Jour (Bunuel)*
Mouchette (Bresson)*
Bonnie and Clyde (Penn)*
The Graduate (Nichols)*
The Red and the White (Jancso)
Hour of the Wolf (Bergman)
Playtime (Tati)
Switchboard Operator (Makaveyev)

1968 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)**
The Colour of Pomegranates (Paradjanov)**
My Night with Maud (Rohmer)**
Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone)**
Goto, Isle of Love (Borowczyk)*
Fall of Leaves (Iosseliani)*
Shame (Bergman)

1969 The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)*
Days and Nights in the Forest (S.Ray)*
Army in the Shadows (Melville)
A Touch of Zen (King Hu)

1970 Claire's Knee (Rohmer)**
The Conformist (Bertolucci)*
The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophuls)*
Five Easy Pieces (Rafelson)
Little Big Man (Penn)
Valerie and her Week of Wonders (Jires)
Walkabout (Roeg)

1971 Pakeezah (Amrohi)**
Le Souffle au Coeur (Malle)*
Love (Makk)
Death in Venice (Visconti)
Anne and Muriel (Truffaut)
Klute (Pakula)
King Lear (Kozintsev)

1972 Aguirre Wrath of God (Herzog)**
Deliverance (Boorman)*
Cabaret (Fosse)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bunuel)
My Childhood (Douglas)
Sleuth (Mankiewicz)

1973 Spirit of the Beehive (Erice)**
The Mother and the Whore (Eustache)*
The Wicker Man (Hardy)*
Badlands (Malick)
The Day of the Jackal (Zinnemann)
Don't Look Now (Roeg)

1974 Celine and Julie go Boating (Rivette)**
Alice in the Cities (Wenders)**
The Godfather 2 (Coppola)*
Chinatown (Polanski)*
The Phantom of Liberty (Bunuel)

1975 Mirror (Tarkovsky)***
The Passenger (Antonioni)**
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)*
Hearts and Minds (Davis)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir)
Hedgehog in the Fog (Norstein)
Cria Cuervos (Saura)

1976 Kings of the Road (Wenders)**
The Outlaw Josey Wales (Eastwood)*
Ai no Corrida (Oshima)*
The Ascent (Shepitko)
The Innocent (Visconti)

1977 Suspiria (Argento)*
Unfinished Piece for Player Piano (Mikhalkov)
The American Friend (Wenders)

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

1979 Stalker (Tarkovsky)**
Apocalypse Now (Coppola)**
Manhattan (Allen)**
Tale of Tales (Norstein)**
The Life of Brian (Jones)

1980 The Shining (Kubrick)**
Raging Bull (Scorsese)**
The Elephant Man (Lynch)

1981 Night of the Shooting Stars (Taviani bros)**
Body Heat (Kasdan)
Diva (Beineix)
Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (Kusturica)
Umrao Jaan (Muzaffar Ali)

1982 Fanny and Alexander (Bergman)*
Blade Runner (Scott)*
Veronika Voss (Fassbinder)
The Draughtsman's Contract (Greenaway)

1983 Sans Soleil (Marker)*
Nostalghia (Tarkovsky)
Local Hero (Forsyth)
One Deadly Summer (Becker)
The Right Stuff (Kaufman)

1984 Paris, Texas (Wenders)**
Once upon a Time in America (Leone)**
Broadway Danny Rose (Allen)
Sunday in the Country (Tavernier)

1985 Brazil (Gilliam)**
The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Hou)*
Come and See (Klimov)*
When Father was away on Business (Kusturica)*
Witness (Weir)
A Room with a View (Ivory)

1986 The Green Ray (Rohmer)**
Street of Crocodiles (Quay bros)**
Blue Velvet (Lynch)**
The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky)*
Bashu the Little Stranger (Beiza'i)
Hannah and her Sisters (Allen)
Conspirators of Pleasure (Svankmajer)
Jean de Florette/ Manon des Sources (Berri)

1987 Yeelen (Cissé)**
Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou)*
My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (Rohmer)*
Au Revoir les Enfants (Malle)
Wings of Desire (Wenders)
The Untouchables (De Palma)
Hope and Glory (Boorman)
Pelle the Conqueror (August)

1988 Dekalog (Kieslowski)*
Landscape in the Mist (Angelopoulos)*
My Neighbour Totoro (Miyazaki)*
Feelings of Mountains anhd Water (Te Wei)
A Fish Called Wanda (Crichton)
Why did Bodhi-Dharma Leave for the East? (Bae
Yong-Kyun)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Almodovar)

1989 Close Up (Kiarostami)*
City of Sadness (Hou)*
The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover
(Greenaway)
Crimes and Misdemeanours (Allen)
Freeze, Die, Come to Life (Kanevsky)
Kiki's Delivery Service (Miyazaki)

1990 The Sheltering Sky (Bertolucci)*
The Civil War (Burns)*
Miller's Crossing (Coen)*
Goodfellas (Scorsese)
Edward Scizzorhands (Burton)
Night Sun (Taviani bros)

1991 The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski)**
Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)*
La Belle Noiseuse (Rivette)*
J.F.K (Stone)
The Silence of the Lambs Demme)
Thelma and Louise (Scott)

1992 And Life Goes On (Kiarostami)
Howards End (Ivory)
Belle Epoque (Trueba)
Passion Fish (Sayles)

1993 Abraham Valley (Oliveira)**
The Age of Innocence (Scorsese)**
Groundhog Day (Ramis)**
Three Colours Blue (Kieslowski)*
Schindler's List (Spielberg)*
The Wrong Trousers (Park)*
Short Cuts (Altman)
The Nightmare before Xmas (Selick)

1994 Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)*
Silences of the Palace (Tlatli)*
Burnt by the Sun (Mikhalkov)
To Live (Zhang Yimou)
Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
Satantango (Tarr)
Ed Wood (Burton)

1995 Maborosi (Kore-eda)**
Ulysses' Gaze (Angelopoulos)**
The White Balloon (Panahi)*
Cyclo (Tran Anh-Hung)
Good Men, Good Women (Hou)
Dead Man (Jarmusch)
Toy Story (Lasseter)

1996 Gabbeh (M.Makhmalbaf)*
Tierra (Medem)
The English Patient (Minghella)
L'Appartement (Mimouni)
Irma Vep (Assayas)
Drifting Clouds (Kaurismaki)
Chacun Cherche son Chat (Klapisch)

1997 The Eel (Imamura)
Hana-Bi (Kitano)
Mother and Son (Sokurov)

1998 Eternity and a Day (Angelopoulos)**
Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Medem)
Show me Love (Moodysson)
After the Rain (Koizumi)
Central Station (Salles)
An Autumn Tale (Rohmer)
Secret Défense (Rivette)
The Thin Red Line (Malick)

1999 Rosetta (Dardenne bros)**
Topsy Turvy (Leigh)
The Iron Giant (Bird)
All about my Mother (Almodovar)

2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)**
Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr)**
Eureka (Aoyama)*
At the Height of Summer (Tran Anh- Hung)*
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)*
Heart of the World (Maddin)
Suzhou River (Lou Ye)
Chunhyang (Im)
Isle (Kim Ki-Duk)
Platform (Jia Zhangke)

2001 Mulholland Dr (Lynch)**
What Time is it There? (Tsai)*
Monday Morning (Iosseliani)
Spirited Away (Miyazaki)

2002 Far from Heaven (Haynes)*
Finding Nemo (Stanton)*
Blissfully Yours (Weerasethakul)*
Talk to Her (Almodovar)
Femme Fatale (De Palma)
Waiting for Happiness (Sissako)
Lifeline (Erice)

2003 Dogville (Von Trier)**
The Return (Zvyagintsev)*
Oldboy (Park Chan-Wook)
Story of the Weeping Camel (Davaa, Falorni)
A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Ji-Woon)
Untold Scandal (E-J Yong)
Histoire de Marie et Julien (Rivette)

2004 Howl's Moving Castle (Miyazaki)**
Innocence (Hadzihalilovic)*
Before Sunset (Linklater)*
The Life Aquatic (W.Anderson)*
Mooladé (Sembene)
The Weeping Meadow (Angelopoulos)
2046 (Wong Kar-Wai)
The Incredibles (Bird)

2005 The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (Quay bros)**
The New World (Malick)*
The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-Liang)*
Princess Raccoon (Suzuki)
L'Enfant (Dardenne bros)
Good Night and Good Luck (Clooney)
Where the Truth Lies (Egoyan)

2006 Climates (Ceylan)*
Black Book (Verhoeven)
Offside (Panahi)
Red Road (Arnold)
Casino Royale (Campbell)

[Brando @$$ Fat]

Impressive.

[zombievictim]

Um yeah. I could never do a top 500 list.

[ToiletBug]

Lets just say we like different movies.

[teenkiller]

Damn! And I thought doing a top 100 was difficult. Kudos to you for having the patience although our tastes differ vastly. Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.

[Hominid]

Good stuff!

[Pulp_Joker]

Congrats on making a top-500 list. Not easiest thing to do. And kudos on one hell of a list. Brilliance up and down the list.

[Scarfather]

Making a top 20 is too hard for me, but kudos to you, some great flicks there.

[Le_Big_Mac]

I haven't heard of some of those movies but I can tell you have excellent tastes.

[Powerslave]

That's intense. Lots of good choices on there.

[Hannibal21]

Yeah, what they said.

[zeppelin]

You could turn that into a guide for aspiring movie buffs, even if you shockingly excluded both Taxi Driver and The Godfather. I feel very inadequate looking at your list, to be honest. I haven't even heard of about half the movies you mentioned, especially some of the more recent ones. But going by the ones I have seen, I'm very interested in seeing a lot of these titles. I've been dying to get hold of Kings of the Road for so long, and seeing that you put not just one, but two asteriks next to it makes me want to see it all the more. Also, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks so highly of Howl's Moving Castle.

[Tony_Montana]

Damn. That is one hell of a list, in all meanings of the term.