Top 25 – 1900-1929
1)
Sunrise (1927) – directed by F.W. Murnau
2)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) – directed by
Carl Theodor Dreyer
3)
Man with the Movie Camera (1929) – directed by
Dziga Vertov
4)
Battleship Potemkin (1925) – directed by S.M.
Eisenstein
5)
The General (1926) – directed by Buster Keaton
6)
Metropolis (1927) – directed by Fritz Lang
7)
Sherlock Jr. (1924) – directed by Buster Keaton
8)
Greed (1925) – directed by Erich von Stroheim
9)
Un chien andalou (1928) – directed by Luis
Bunuel
10)
Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages
(1916) – directed by D.W. Griffith
11)
Nosferatu (1922) – directed by F.W. Murnau
12)
The Last Laugh (1924) – directed by F.W. Murnau
13)
Napoleon (1927) – directed by Abel Gance
14)
The Gold Rush (1925) – directed by Charles
Chaplin
15)
A Trip to the Moon (1902) – directed by Georges
Melies
16)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) – directed by
Robert Wiene
17)
Pandora’s Box (1929) – directed by G.W. Pabst
18)
The Crowd (1928) – directed by King Vidor
19)
The Wind (1928) – directed by Victor Sjostrom
20)
The Big Parade (1925) – directed by King Vidor
21)
Safety Last (1923) – directed by Fred Newmeyer
& Sam Taylor
22)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925) – directed by
Rupert Julian
23)
Broken Blossoms (1919) – directed by D.W.
Griffith
24)
The Kid (1921) – directed by Charles Chaplin
25)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) – directed by Charles
F. Reisner and Buster Keaton
Top 25 – 1930s
1)
The Rules of the Game (1939) – directed by Jean
Renoir
2)
Modern Times (1936) – directed by Charles
Chaplin
3)
City Lights (1931) – directed by Charles Chaplin
4)
L’Atalante (1934) – directed by Jean Vigo
5)
La Grande Illusion (1937) – directed by Jean
Renoir
6)
M (1931) – directed by Fritz Lang
7)
Bringing Up Baby (1938) – directed by Howard
Hawks
8)
Gone with the Wind (1939) – directed by Victor
Fleming
9)
The Lady Vanishes (1938) – directed by Alfred
Hitchcock
10)
Stagecoach (1939) – directed by John Forrd
11)
The 39 Steps (1935) – directed by Alfred
Hitchcock
12)
Partie de campagne (1936) – directed by Jean
Renoir
13)
L’Age d’Or (1930) – directed by Luis Bunuel
14)
Trouble in Paradise (1932) – directed by Ernst
Lubitsch
15)
The Wizard of Oz (1939) – directed by Victor
Fleming
16)
Vampyr (1932) – directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
17)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939) – directed by
Howard Hawks
18)
Tabu (1931) – directed by F.W. Murnau
19)
Earth (1930) – directed by Aleksandr Dovzhenko
20)
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (1939) –
directed by Mizoguchi Kenji
21)
I Was Born, But… (1932) – directed by Yasujiro
Ozu
22)
Duck Soup (1933) – directed by Leo McCarey
23)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) – directed by
Fritz Lang
24)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) – directed by Frank
Lloyd
25)
It Happened One Night (1934) – directed by Frank
Capra
Top 25 – 1940s
1)
Citizen Kane (1941) – directed by Orson Welles
2)
Bicycle Thieves (1948) – directed by Vittorio De
Sica
3)
The Red Shoes (1948) – directed by Michael
Powell & Emeric Pressburger
4)
Casablanca (1942) – directed by Michael Curtiz
5)
The Third Man (1949) – directed by Carol Reed
6)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946) – directed by
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
7)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) –
directed by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
8)
Children of Paradise (1945) – directed by Marcel
Carne
9)
A Canterbury Tale (1944) – directed by Michael
Powell & Emeric Pressburger
10)
The Great Dictator (1940) – directed by Charles
Chaplin
11)
Brief Encounter (1945) – directed by David Lean
12)
Black Narcissus (1947) – directed by Michael
Powell & Emeric Pressburger
13)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) – directed
by Max Ophuls
14)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) – directed by
Robert Hamer
15)
Notorious (1946) – directed by Alfred Hitchcock
16)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) – directed by
William Wyler
17)
Rebecca (1940) – directed by Alfred Hitchcock
18)
Mrs. Miniver (1942) – directed by William Wyler
19)
Late Spring (1949) – directed by Yasujiro Ozu
20)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) – directed by
Orson Welles
21)
The Lady Eve (1941) – directed by Preston
Sturges
22)
His Girl Friday (1940) – directed by Howard
Hawks
23)
Great Expectations (1946) – directed by David
Lean
24)
Double Indemnity (1944) – directed by Billy
Wilder
25)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) –
directed by John Huston
Top 25 – 1950s
1)
Vertigo (1958) – directed by Alfred Hitchcock
2)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952) – directed by Stanley
Donen
3)
Tokyo Story (1953) – directed by Yasujiro Ozu
4)
Seven Samurai (1954) – directed by Akira
Kurosawa
5)
The 400 Blows (1959) – directed by Francois
Truffaut
6)
The Searchers (1956) – directed by John Ford
7)
Rear Window (1954) – directed by Alfred
Hitchcock
8)
Rashomon (1950) – directed by Akira Kurosawa
9)
The Night of the Hunter (1955) – directed by
Charles Laughton
10)
Some Like It Hot (1959) – directed by Billy
Wilder
11)
Sunset Blvd. (1950) – directed by Billy Wilder
12)
North by Northwest (1959) – directed by Alfred
Hitchcock
13)
Touch of Evil (1958) – directed by Orson Welles
14)
The Seventh Seal (1957) – directed by Ingmar
Bergman
15) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) – directed by David Lean
16)
17)
18)
19)
20)
21)
22)
23)
24)
25)
Top 25 – 1960s
1)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) – directed by David
Lean
2)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – directed by
Stanley Kubrick
3)
8 ½ (1963) – directed by Federico Fellini
4)
Persona (1966) – directed by Ingmar Bergman
5)
The Battle of Algiers (1966) – directed by Gillo
Pontecorvo
6)
Psycho (1960) – directed by Alfred Hitchcock
7)
Breathless (1960) – directed by Jean-Luc Godard
8)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) – directed
by Sergio Leone
9)
The Leopard (1963) – directed by Luchino
Visconti
10)
The Apartment (1960) – directed by Billy Wilder
11)
The Wild Bunch (1969) – directed by Sam
Peckinpah
12)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) – directed by Stanley Kubrick
13)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) –
directed by John Ford
14)
Kes (1969) – directed by Ken Loach
15)
Goldfinger (1964) – directed by Guy Hamilton
16)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) – directed by
Robert Mulligan
17)
Army of Shadows (1969) – directed by Jean-Pierre
Melville
18)
The Graduate (1967) – directed by Mike Nichols
19)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) – directed by Robert
Bresson
20)
L’Avventura (1960) – directed by Michelangelo
Antonioni
21)
Andrei Rublec (1966) – directed by Andrei
Tarkovsky
22)
La Dolce Vita (1960) – directed by Federico
Fellini
23)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) – directed
by Sergio Leone
24)
Yojimbo (1961) – directed by Akira Kurosawa
25)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) – directed by Arthur
Penn
Top 25 – 1970s
1)
Apocalypse Now (1979) – directed by Francis Ford
Coppola
2)
The Godfather (1972) – directed by Francis Ford
Coppola
3)
Taxi Driver (1976) – directed by Martin Scorsese
4)
The Godfather: Part II (1974) – directed by
Francis Ford Coppola
5)
Chinatown (1974) – directed by Roman Polanski
6)
Barry Lyndon (1975) – directed by Stanley
Kubrick
7)
Nashville (1975) – directed by Robert Altman
8)
Days of Heaven (1978) – directed by Terrence
Malick
9)
Annie Hall (1977) – directed by Woody Allen
10)
Don’t Look Now (1973) – directed by Nicolas Roeg
11)
Star Wars (1977) – directed by George Lucas
12)
The Conformist (1970) – directed by Bernardo
Bertolucci
13)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974) – directed by
John Cassavetes
14)
Badlands (1973) – directed by Terrence Malick
15)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) –
directed by Milos Forman
16)
A Clockwork Orange (1971) – directed by Stanley
Kubrick
17)
Mirror (1974) – directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
18)
The Conversation (1974) – directed by Francis
Ford Coppola
19)
The Deer Hunter (1978) – directed by Michael
Cimino
20)
Jaws (1975) – directed by Steve Spielberg
21)
Stalker (1979) – directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
22)
Network (1976) – directed by Sidney Lumet
23)
Day for Night (1973) – directed by Francois
Truffaut
24)
Being There (1979) – directed by Hal Ashby
25)
Alien (1972) – directed by Ridley Scott
Top 25 – 1980s
1)
Raging Bull (1980) – directed by Martin Scorsese
2)
Blade Runner (1982) – directed by Ridley Scott
3)
The Shining (1980) – directed by Stanley Kubrick
4)
Once Upon a Time In America (1984) – directed by
Sergio Leone
5)
Amadeus (1984) – directed by Milos Forman
6)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) – directed by
Steve Spielberg
7)
Ghostbusters (1984) – directed by Ivan Reitman
8)
Shoah (1985) – directed by Claude Lanzmann
9)
Close-Up (1989) – directed by Abbas Kiarostami
10)
Blue Velvet (1986) – directed by David Lynch
11)
Fanny and Alexander (1984) – directed by Ingmar
Bergman
12)
L’argent (1983) – directed by Robert Bresson
13)
Come and See (1985) – directed by Elem Klimov
14)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) – directed by
Steven Spielberg
15)
The Thin Blue Line (1988) – directed by Errol
Morris
16)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980) – directed by
Irvin Kershner
17)
Aliens (1986) – directed by James Cameron
18)
Back to the Future (1985) – directed by Robert
Zemeckis
19)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) –
directed by Steve Spielberg
20)
Das Boot (1981) – directed by Wolfgang Petersen
21)
Brazil (1985) – directed by Terry Gilliam
22)
The Killing Fields (1984) – directed by Roland
Joffe
23)
Do the Right Thing (1989) – directed by Spike
Lee
24)
The Untouchables (1987) – directed by Brian De
Palma
25)
The Princess Bride (1987) – directed by Rob
Reiner
Top 25 – 1990s
1)
Goodfellas (1990) – directed by Martin Scorsese
2)
Pulp Fiction (1994) – directed by Quentin
Tarantino
3)
Three Colours: Blue (1993) – directed by
Krzsztof Kieslowski
4)
Chungking Express (1994) – directed by Kar Wai
Wong
5)
The Thin Red Line (1998) – directed by Terrence
Malick
6)
Schindler’s List (1993) – directed by Steven
Spielberg
7)
Trainspotting (1996) – directed by Danny Boyle
8)
The Big Lebowski (1998) – directed by The Coen
Brothers
9)
Rushmore (1998) – directed by Wes Anderson
10)
Satantango (1994) – directed by Bela Tarr
11)
Beau Travail (1998) – directed by Claire Denis
12)
A Brighter Summer Day (1991) – directed by
Edward Yang
13)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) – directed by
Jonathan Demme
14)
Fargo (1996) – directed by The Coen Brothers
15)
Unforgiven (1992) – directed by Clint Eastwood
16)
JFK (1991) – directed by Oliver Stone
17)
Three Colours: Red (1994) – directed by
Krzysztof Kielowski
18)
Dances with Wolves (1990) – directed by Kevin
Costner
19)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) – directed by
Frank Darabont
20)
Se7en (1995) – directed by David Fincher
21)
Saving Private Ryan (1998) – directed by Steven
Spielberg
22)
Before Sunrise (1995) – directed by Richard
Linklater
23)
Magnolia (1999) – directed by Paul Thomas
Anderson
24)
Groundhog Day (1993) – directed by Harold Ramis
25)
Fight Club (1999) – directed by David Fincher
Top 25 – 2000s
1)
In the Mood for Love (2000) – directed by Kar
Wai Wong
2)
Mulholland Dr. (2003) – directed by David Lynch
3)
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003) – directed by Peter Jackson
4)
The Dark Knight (2008) – directed by Christopher
Nolan
5)
WALL-E (2008) – directed by Andrew Stanton
6)
There Will Be Blood (2007) – directed by Paul
Thomas Anderson
7)
Amelie (2001) – directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
8)
Spirited Away (2001) – directed by Miyazaki
Hayao
9)
No Country for Old Men (2007) – directed by The
Coen Brothers
10)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) –
directed by Michel Gondry
11)
Memento (2000) – directed by Christopher Nolan
12)
The Departed (2006) – directed by Martin
Scorsese
13)
Lost in Translation (2003) – directed by Sofia
Coppola
14)
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) – directed by Guillermo
del Toro
15)
Children of Men (2006) – directed by Alfonso
Cuaron
16)
The Pianist (2002) – directed by Roman Polanski
17)
The Incredibles (2004) – directed by Brad Bird
18)
Cache [Hidden] (2004) – directed by Michael
Haneke
19)
The Prestige (2006) – directed by Christopher
Nolan
20)
The Lives of Others (2006) – directed by Florian
Henckel von Donnersmarck
21)
Up (2009) – directed by Pete Docter
22)
City of God (2002) – directed by Fernando
Meirelles
23)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008) – directed
by Cristian Mungiu
24)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) –
directed by Julian Schnabel
25)
Far from Heaven (2002) – directed by Todd Haynes
Editor’s Personal Top
10 Favorites
1)
The Red Shoes (1948) – directed by Michael
Powell & Emeric Pressburger
2)
Ghostbusters (1984) – directed by Ivan Reitman
3)
The Dark Knight (2008) – directed by Christopher
Nolan
4)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) –
directed by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressbuger
5)
Lost in Translation (2003) – directed by Sofia
Coppola
6)
Rushmore (1998) – directed by Wes Anderson
7)
Amelie (2001) – directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
8)
Inception (2010) – directed by Christopher Nolan
9)
Rebecca (1940) – directed by Alfred Hitchcock
10)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) – directed by David
Lean
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