World's Best War Films

A scene from David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia, who used

guerrilla tactics with a small army to sever communications

and supply lines against the Ottoman Empire in WW1

Updated: 6.01.11 (* = new additions)

I’ve expanded this list to include civilian stories during wartime (A Canterbury Tale, Mrs. Miniver), to the “Indian Wars” (the U.S. vs Native Americans, ie Dances With Wolves, Into the West), Asian wars (Samurai I, The Emperor and the Assassin, Hero, Mongol), even small wars (Gangs of New York, The Wind That Shakes the Barley), and terrorism (The Kingdom, Rendition, United 93)

Check out our recent post "100 Great War Films for Memorial Day", sorted by wars

The Best 100
[AA] - Academy Award for Best picture

• 300 (2006) *
• A Very Long Engagement (2004) France *
• Aliens (1986)
• All Quiet On the Western Front (1930) bw [AA] *
• Apocalypse Now! (1979)
• Army of Shadows (France)
• Atonement (2007)
• Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) France, bw *
• Ballad of a Soldier (1959) Russia, bw
• Band of Brothers (2001) tv
• Battle of Algiers (1965) France, bw
• The Battleship Potemkin (1925) USSR, bw
• The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) bw [AA]
• Black Hawk Down (2001) *
• Bloody Sunday (2002)
• Breaker Morant (1979) Australia
• Brideshead Revisited (1981) tv
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) [AA]
• Casablanca (1942) bw [AA]
• Che (2008) *
• The Children of Huang Shi (2007) Australia *
• The Civil War (1990) tv
• Come and See (1985) Russia
• The Conformist (1970) Italy
• Control Room (2004, doc.) *
• The Cuckoo (2002) Russia
• Dances With Wolves (1990) [AA]
• Das Boot (The Boat) (1981) Germany
• Days of Glory (2006) Algeria *
• The Deer Hunter (1978) [AA]
• Devils On the Doorstep (2000), China, bw *
• Doctor Zhivago (1965)
• Downfall (2004) Germany *
• Dr. Strangelove (1964) bw
• El Alamein (2002) Italy *
• Enemy at the Gates (2001) *
• Farewell My Concubine (1993) China
• Fateless (2005) Hungary-France-UK, bw *
• Full Metal Jacket (1987)*
• Gallipoli (1981) Australia
• Gladiator (2000) [AA]
• Goodnight Mister Tom (1998) tv
• Grand Illusion (1937) France, bw
• Green Zone (2010) *
• Hero (2002) China
• Hope and Glory (1987)
• The Hurt Locker (2009) *
• I Am Cuba (1964) Cuba-Russia, bw *
• Into the West (2005) *
• Ivan's Childhood (1962) Russia, bw
• John Adams (2008)
• Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) bw
• The Kingdom of Heaven (2005) 
• The Last Emperor (1987) [AA]
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962) [AA]
• Lebanon (2009) Israel *
• Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2003) New Zealand [AA]
• Lord of War (2005)
• MASH (1970) *
• The Matrix Trilogy (1999-2004) *
• Mephisto (1981) Hungary
• Mister Roberts (1955)
• Mongol (2007) Russia *
• Mrs. Miniver (1942) bw [AA]
• Munich (2005)
• No Man’s Land (2001) Bosnia *
• The Pacific (2010) *
• Paths of Glory (1957) bw
• Patton (1970) [AA]
• Platoon (1986) [AA]
• Prisoner of the Mountains (1996) *
• The Red Badge of Courage (1951) bw *
• Red Cliff (2008) China *
• Reds (1981)
• Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983) tv *
• The Road Warrior (1981) Australia
• Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto (1954) Japan *
• Saving Private Ryan (1998)
• Schindler's List (1993) bw [AA]
• Seven Days in May (1964) bw
• The Seven Samurai (1957) Japan, bw
• The Shop on Main St. (1965) Czechoslavakia, bw *
• Spartacus (1960) *
• Stalag 17 (1953)
• Star Wars Trilogy (1983)
• Sunshine (1999) *
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
• The Thin Red Line (1998) *
• To Live (1994) China *
• The Train (1964) bw
• Triumph of the Will (1935) Germany, bw *
• Turtles Can Fly (2004) Iran-Iraq *
• United 93 (2006) *
• V for Vendetta (2005) *
• Valkyrie (2008) *
• War and Peace (1968) Russia
• War Photographer (2001) Switzerland *
• Warriors (Guerreros, 2007) Spain *
• When Trumpets Fade (1998)
• The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) *
• Zelary (2003) Czech Republic

The Rest

• A Canterbury Tale (1944) bw *
• Ashes of Time Redux (1994) China
• Australia (2008) *
• Avatar (2009) *
• Ben-Hur (1959) [AA]
• The Big Red One (1980)
• The Book of Eli (2010) *
• Brothers (2004) Denmark *
• Carrie's War (2004) *
• Closely Watched Trains (1966) Czechoslovakia, bw
• The Counterfeiters (2007) Austria
• The Cranes Are Flying (1957) Russia *
• Defiance (2008) *
• Era Notte a Roma (1960) Italy, bw *
• Gangs of New York (2002) *
• The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970) Italy *
• Gettysburg (1993)
• Gloomy Sunday (1999) Germany *
• Glory (1989)
• Gone With the Wind (1939) [AA]
• Grave of the Fireflies (1988) Japan *
• The Great Escape (1963)
• Hara-Kiri (1962) Japan, bw *
• The Harmonists (1997) Germany *
• House of Flying Daggers (2004) China
• How the West Was Won (1962)
• The Hunt For Red October (1990)
• I Served the King of England (2006) Czech Rep. *
• In the Valley of Elah (2007) *
• The Informer (1935) bw *
• Inglourious Basterds (2009) *
• Iron Man (2008) *
• Kapó (1959) Italy, bw *
• The Kingdom (2007) *
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
• The Longest Day (1963)
• The Power of Nightmares (2007, doc.)
• Rendition (2007) *
• Sahara (1943) bw
• Stalingrad (Russia)
• She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
• Star Trek (2008)
• Throne of Blood (2008) Japan, bw
• Troy (2004)
• The Tunnel (2001) Germany

Band of Brothers is probably the best war on film, so it had to be included; Hanks and Spielberg reportedly spent over $100 million to film the 12-hr series. The Pacific is their followup, the counterpoint that follows the stories of several marines in the war against Japan.

I include Best Years of Our Lives here because it's about the effect of war on its participants and their families for the rest of their lives. Many films on this list won Best Picture oscars: Best Years, Bridge on Kwai, Deer Hunter, Lawrence, Patton, Platoon, Schindler's, All Quiet on the Western Front. Many others were nominated.

Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace still has the soapy parts of the novel but also has 250,000 extras from the Red Army, in costume and at the time was the most expensive movie ever made (est. 100m in 1968)

Even though Seven Samurai is a small skirmish, not a war, it still looks like a war film, and as such is one of the best ever.

Apocalypse Now! I like the longer, director's cut version, called "Redux" - it seems to flow more leisurely like a relaxed boat ride up the Mekong (!) Not at good artistically, just more interesting and at nearly an hour longer, if you like something you don't want it to end, right? "One day this war film's gonna end." (Robert Duvall)

I added Breaker Morant (thanks for the commentarian), though not technically a war film, it's a court martial, so really a "legal film", similar to Paths of Glory, but based on a true event of the Boer War. An early Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy) masterpiece.

I also added La Grande Illusion, Jean Renoir's anti-war masterpiece, which also has no war scenes but is about Allied prisoners in a WW1 German prison castle. It's a beautifully shot b&w film, the first foreign film nominated for the best picture Oscar®

Seven Beauties garnered Lina Wertmuller the first Oscar® nomination for directing for a woman. Kathryn Bigelow became the first female Oscar® winner for director for The Hurt Locker.

Update - just added these: Lebanon (Israel), Days of Glory (Algeria), El Alamein (Italy), Green Zone, Red Cliff (China), War Photographer (Switzerland), I Am Cuba (USSR-Cuba), Prisoner of the Mountains (Russia), Samurai 1 (Japan), United 93, Black Hawk Down

Tribeca Film Festival Going Online

Check this out - this was in a eMail I just got from the Tribeca film festival; they're going to show a lot of free films online this year. The festival can be found at http://www.blogger.com/www.tribecafilm.com

New York, NY [March 21, 2011] – The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) today unveiled the Tribeca (Online) Film Festival supported by founding partner American Express. The pioneering digital initiative will allow domestic audiences to view feature and short films for free and worldwide audiences to engage with filmmakers and industry experts as TFF’s 10th edition runs concurrently in lower Manhattan from April 20 to May 1. The debut of the 2011 Tribeca (Online) Film Festival offers film enthusiasts nationwide new avenues to experience a film festival. Tribeca (Online) is employing the latest digital video and web technology to deliver an immersive, interactive experience unlike any other, re-contextualizing Festival content and presentation. The multi-dimensional experience features five areas: Festival Streaming Room, Live From..., Tribeca Q&A, Filmmaker Feed, and the Future of Film blog. About the Tribeca Film Festival: The Tribeca Film Festival helps filmmakers reach the broadest possible audience, enable the international film community and general public to experience the power of cinema, and promote New York City as a major filmmaking center. It is well known for being a diverse international film festival that supports emerging and established directors.

Founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff in 2001 following the attacks on the World Trade Center, to spur the economic and cultural revitalization of the lower Manhattan district through an annual celebration of film, music and culture, the Festival brings the industry and community together around storytelling. The Tribeca Film Festival has screened more than 1,100 films from more than 80 countries since its first edition in 2002. Since inception, it has attracted an international audience of more than 3 million attendees and has generated an estimated $600 million in economic activity for New York City.

Top Ranked 1000 Films on the Net

The Top Ranked Films on the Internet
© William L. Sinclair
[This list was originally created in 2008]

We just updated this with the 2011 edition here, which has 172 new titles, including over 50 from 2009 and 2010..

We compiled this from numerous surveys and polls on the internet, some all critics, some all fans, so it's a combination. This represents over 1000 individual polls. We simply put them all into a worksheet, assigned the values per listing in typical countdown fashion, then added them all up when done. This actually represents hundreds of thousands of individual voters, none of whom was me. You could say this is "the Godfather of all internet film lists"..

[Lately there are some new polls I can add, such as The Auteurs at Criterion, with over 100,000 members; 2001 is #1 there, followed by another Kubrick film, A Clockwork Orange. Look for this list to be updated in the future with some newer polls added in; it's possible that 2001 will be #1 in the future, but unlikely, as The Godfather tops more individual polls. Citizen Kane and Gone With the Wind are falling over time, while City of God, Memento, and 12 Angry Men are rising]

1. Godfather, The (1972) - Coppola, Francis
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Kubrick, Stanley
3. Chinatown (1974) - Polanski, Roman
4. Star Wars (1978) - Lucas, George
5. Citizen Kane (1941) - Welles, Orson
6. Vertigo (1958) - Hitchcock, Alfred
7. Seven Samurai, The (1954) - Kurosawa, Akira
8. Psycho (1960) - Hitchcock, Alfred
9. Godfather: Part II, The (1974) - Coppola, Francis
10. It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - Capra, Frank
11. M (1931) - Lang, Fritz
12. Taxi Driver (1976) - Scorsese, Martin
13. Blade Runner (1982) - Scott, Ridley
14. Sunset Boulevard (1950) - Wilder, Billy
15. Third Man, The (1948) - Reed, Carol
16. Bicycle Thief, The (1949) - De Sica, Vittorio
17. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) -Kubrick, Stanley
18. Wizard of Oz, The (1939) - Fleming, Victor
19. North by Northwest (1959) - Hitchcock, Alfred
20. Pulp Fiction (1995) - Tarantino, Quentin
21. City Lights (1931) - Chaplin, Charles
22. Rashomon (1950) - Kurosawa, Akira
23. Metropolis (1927) - Lang, Fritz
24. Raging Bull (2000) - Scorsese, Martin
25. Apocalypse Now (1979) - Coppola, Francis
26. Singin' in the Rain (1952) - Donen, Stanley/Gene Kelly
27. Schindler's List (1993) - Spielberg, Steven
28. General, The (1927) - Keaton, Buster/Clyde Bruckman
29. Seventh Seal, The (1956) - Bergman, Ingmar
30. Touch of Evil (1958) - Welles, Orson
31. Goodfellas (1990) - Scorsese, Martin
32. Pather Panchali / Apu Trilogy I (1955) - Ray, Satyajit
33. All About Eve (1950) - Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
34. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - Spielberg, Steven
35. Night of The Hunter, The (1955) - Laughton, Charles
36. Modern Times (1936) - Chaplin, Charles
37. 8½ (1963) - Fellini, Federico
38. Sunrise (1928) - Murnau, F.W.
39. Gold Rush, The (1925) - Chaplin, Charles
40. King Kong (1933) - Cooper, Merian C./Ernest B. Schoedsack
41. Duck Soup (1933) - McCarey, Leo
42. Notorious (1946) - Hitchcock, Alfred
43. Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) - Frankenheimer, John
44. Rules of the Game, The (1939) - Renoir, Jean
45. L.A. Confidential (1997) - Hanson, Curtis
46. Searchers, The (1956) - Ford, John
47. Casablanca (1942) - Curtiz, Michael
48. Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) - Murnau, F.W.
49. L'Atalante (1934) - Vigo, Jean
50. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Lean, David
51. Passion of Joan of Arc, The (1928) - Dreyer, Carl Theodor
52. Rear Window (1954) - Hitchcock, Alfred
53. Umberto D (1952) - De Sica, Vittorio
54. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) - Forman, Milos
55. Some Like it Hot (1959) - Wilder, Billy
56. Double Indemnity (1944) - Wilder, Billy
57. Tokyo Story (1953) - Ozu, Yasujiro
58. Ugetsu (1953) - Mizoguchi, Kenji
59. Jules et Jim (1961) - Truffaut, François
60. 400 Blows, The (1959) - Truffaut, François

61. Fargo (1996) - Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen
62. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948) - Huston, John
63. Amadeus (1984) - Forman, Milos
64. Intolerance (1916) - Griffith, D.W.
65. Apartment, The (1960) - Wilder, Billy
66. Jaws (1975) - Spielberg, Steven
67. On the Waterfront (1954) - Kazan, Elia
68. Birth of a Nation, The (1915) - Griffith, D.W.
69. Clockwork Orange, A (1971) - Kubrick, Stanley
70. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) - Leone, Sergio

71. Maltese Falcon, The (1941) - Huston, John
72. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) - Herzog, Werner
73. Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, The (1966) - Leone, Sergio
74. Contempt (1963) - Godard, Jean-Luc
75. Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942) - Welles, Orson
76. Conformist, The (1970) - Bertolucci, Bernardo
77. Annie Hall (1977) - Allen, Woody
78. Man With a Movie Camera, The (1928) - Vertov, Dziga
79. Greed (1924) - von Stroheim, Erich
80. Gone with the Wind (1939) - Fleming, Victor
81. Piano, The (1993) - Campion, Jane
82. Toy Story (1995) - Lasseter, John
83. Paths of Glory (1957) - Kubrick, Stanley
84. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) - Jackson, Peter
85. Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957) - Lean, David
86. Ran (1985) - Kurosawa, Akira
87. Wild Bunch, The (1969) - Peckinpah, Sam

88. Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (1972) - Buñuel, Luis
89. Sherlock Jr. (1924) - Keaton, Buster
90. Silence of the Lambs, The (1991) - Demme, Jonathan
91. Unforgiven (1992) - Eastwood, Clint
92. Lady Eve, The (1941) - Sturges, Preston
93. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) - Bresson, Robert
94. It Happened One Night (1934) - Capra, Frank
95. Grapes of Wrath, The (1940) - Ford, John
96. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) - Mulligan, Robert
97. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) - Jackson, Peter
98. Alien (1979) - Scott, Ridley
99. Dolce vita, La (1960) - Fellini, Federico
100. Battleship Potemkin (1925) - Eisenstein, Sergei
101. Barry Lyndon (1975) - Kubrick, Stanley
102. Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946) - Wyler, William
103. Gospel According to St. Matthew, The (1964) - Pasolini, Pier Paolo
104. Shadow of a Doubt (1943) - Hitchcock, Alfred
105. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - Penn, Arthur
106. High Noon (1952) - Zinnemann, Fred
107. Graduate, The (1967) - Nichols, Mike
108. Wild Strawberries (1957) - Bergman, Ingmar
109. Shining, The (1980) - Kubrick, Stanley

110. Deer Hunter, The (1978) - Cimino, Michael
111. Ordet (1955) - Dreyer, Carl
112. Do The Right Thing (1989) - Lee, Spike
113. La Strada (1954) - Fellini, Federico
114. Ashes and Diamonds (1958) - Wajda, Andrzej
115. Casino (1995) - Scorsese, Martin
116. Saving Private Ryan (1998) - Spielberg, Steven
117. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) - Hamer, Robert
118. Bringing Up Baby (1938) - Hawks, Howard
119. Shoah (1985) - Lanzmann, Claude
120. Conversation, The (1974) - Coppola, Francis
121. Strangers on a Train (1951) - Hitchcock, Alfred
122. Rebecca (1940) - Hitchcock, Alfred
123. Big Sleep, The (1946) - Hawks, Howard
124. 12 Angry Men (1957) - Lumet, Sidney
125. Pickpocket (1959) - Bresson, Robert
126. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) - Lucas, George
127. Brief Encounter (1945) - Lean, David
128. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - Capra, Frank
129. Pierrot le fou (1965) - Godard, Jean-Luc
130. His Girl Friday (1940) - Hawks, Howard
131. Manhattan (1979) - Allen, Woody
132. Battle of Algiers, The (1966) - Pontecorvo, Gillo
133. Sweet Smell of Success (1957) - Mackendrick, Alexander
134. Wages of Fear, The (1952) - Clouzot, Henri-Georges
135. Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962) - Ford, John
136. Nights of Cabiria (1957) - Fellini, Federico
137. Ben-Hur (1959) - Wyler, William
138. Great Dictator, The (1940) - Chaplin, Charles
139. American Beauty (1999) - Mendes, Sam
140. Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - Whale, James
141. Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) - Rivette, Jacques
142. Mean Streets (1973) - Scorsese, Martin
143. Exorcist, The (1973) - Friedkin, William
144. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002) - Jackson, Peter
145. Palm Beach Story, The (1942) - Sturges, Preston
146. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) - Akerman, Chantal
147. Broken Blossoms (1919) - Griffith, D.W.
148. Philadelphia Story, The (1940) - Cukor, George
149. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) - Hill, George Roy
150. Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951) - Kazan, Elia
151. Man Escaped, A (1956) - Bresson, Robert
152. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) - Lee, Ang
153. Hustler, The (1961) - Rossen, Robert
154. Pan's Labyrinth (2006) - del Toro, Guillermo
155. Shawshank Redemption, The (1994) - Darabont, Frank
156. Red Shoes, The (1948) - Powell, Michael/Emeric Pressburger
157. Network (1976) - Lumet, Sidney
158. Cinema Paradiso (1988) - Tornatore, Giuseppe
159. Aliens (1986) - Cameron, James
160. African Queen, The (1951) - Huston, John

161. Once Upon a Time in America (1984) - Leone, Sergio
162. Lives of Others, The (2006) - von Donnersmarck, Florian Henckel
163. Diaboliques, Les (1955) - Clouzot, Henri-Georges
164. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) - Milestone, Lewis
165. No Country for Old Men (2007) - Coen Ethan and Joel
166. Paisan (1946) - Rossellini, Roberto
167. Frankenstein (1931) - Whale, James
168. Laura (1944) - Preminger, Otto
169. Usual Suspects, The (1995) - Singer, Bryan
170. Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938) - Curtiz, Michael/William Keighley
171. Yojimbo (1961) - Kurosawa, Akira
172. Rosemary's Baby (1968) - Polanski, Roman
173. Killer of Sheep (1977) - Burnett, Charles
174. Dog Day Afternoon (1975) - Lumet, Sidney
175. Back to the Future (1985) - Zemeckis, Robert
176. Woman Under the Influence, A (1974) - Cassavetes, John
177. Spartacus (1960) - Kubrick, Stanley
178. Breathless (1959) - Godard, Jean-Luc
179. Great Expectations (1946) - Lean, David
180. There Will Be Blood (2007) - Anderson, Paul Thomas
181. WALL-E (2008) - Stanton, Andrew
182. Groundhog Day (1993) - Ramis, Harold
183. Enfants du paradis, Les (1945) - Carné, Marcel
184. La Jetee (1961) - Marker, Chris
185. Persona (1966) - Bergman, Ingmar
186. Terminator, The (1984) - Cameron, James
187. L'Avventura (1960) - Antonioni, Michelangelo
188. Brazil (1985) - Gilliam, Terry
189. Close-Up (1990) - Kiarostami, Abbas
190. Easy Rider (1969) - Hopper, Dennis

191. City of God(2002) - Meirelles, Fernando
192. Nashville (1975) - Altman, Robert
193. Elephant Man, The (1980) - Lynch, David
194. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) - Cameron, James
195. Fanny and Alexander (1982) - Bergman, Ingmar
196. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) - Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
197. Ikiru (1952) - Kurosawa, Akira
198. Grande Illusion, La (1937) - Renoir, Jean
199. Pianist, The (2002) - Polanski, Roman
200. Reservoir Dogs (1991) - Tarantino, Quentin
201. Performance (1970) - Roeg, Nicolas/Donald Cammell
202. Patton (1970) - Shaffner, Frank
203. Sansho the Bailiff (1954) - Mizoguchi, Kenji
204. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - Spielberg, Steven
205. Forrest Gump (1994) - Zemeckis, Robert
206. Full Metal Jacket (1987) - Kubrick, Stanley
207. Thelma & Louise (1991) - Scott, Ridley
208. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) - Keaton, Buster/Charles F. Reisner
209. Playtime (1967) - Tati, Jacques
210. Scarface (1982) - De Palma, Brian
211. Viridiana (1961) - Buñuel, Luis
212. Tootsie (1982) - Pollack, Sydney
213. Belle de jour (1967) - Buñuel, Luis
214. Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1966) - Godard, Jean-Luc
215. Last Year at Marienbad (1961) - Resnais, Alain
216. L'Âge d'or (1930) - Buñuel, Luis
217. World of Apu, The (1959) - Ray, Satyajit
218. Stagecoach (1939) - Ford, John
219. Golden Coach, The (1952) - Renoir, Jean
220. Masculine-Feminine (1966) - Godard, Jean-Luc
221. October (1927) - Eisenstein, Sergei
222. Yi yi (2000) - Yang, Edward
223. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) - Gilliam, Terry/Terry Jones
224. Rocky (1976) - Avildsen, John G.
225. Matrix, The (1999) - Wachowski, Andy & Larry Wachowski
226. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - Gondry, Michael
227. Donnie Darko (2001) - Kelly, Richard
228. Heat (1995) - Mann, Michael
229. Kid, The (1921) - Chaplin, Charles
230. Blue Velvet (1986) - Lynch, David
231. Napoléon (1927) - Gance, Abel
232. My Darling Clementine (1946) - Ford, John
233. Slumdog Millionaire (2008) - Boyle, Danny
234. All That Heaven Allows (1955) - Sirk, Douglas
235. Trouble in Paradise (1932) - Lubitsch, Ernst
236. Dekalog (1988) - Kieslowski, Krszystof
237. Out of the Past (1947) - Tourneur, Jacques

238. Rocco and His Brothers (1964) - Visconti, Luchino
239. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) - Pasolini, Pier Paolo
240. Ratatouille (2007) - Bird, Brad & Pinkava, Jan
241. Belle et la bête, La (Beauty/Beast, 1946) - Cocteau, Jean
242. Die Hard (1988) - McTiernan, John
243. Blow-Up (1966) - Antonioni, Michelangelo
244. Das Boot (1981) - Peterson, Wolfgang
245. Sullivan's Travels (1941) - Sturges, Preston
246. Wings of Desire (1987) - Wenders, Wim
247. Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (1974) - Hooper, Tobe
248. Earth (1930) - Dovzhenko, Alexander
249. Diary of a Country Priest (1950) - Bresson, Robert
250. Pandora's Box (1928) - Pabst, G.W.
251. Red River (1948) - Hawks, Howard
252. West Side Story (1961) - Wise, Robert/Jerome Robbins
253. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) - Allen, Woody
254. To Be or Not to Be (1942) - Lubitsch, Ernst
255. Throne of Blood (1957) - Kurosawa, Akira
256. Spirited Away (2001) - Miyazaki, Hayao
257. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) - Hand, David
258. Spirit of the Beehive, The (1973) - Erice, Victor
259. Zero for Conduct (1933) - Vigo, Jean
260. Wavelength (1967) - Snow, Michael
261. Days of Heaven (1978) - Malick, Terrence
262. Million Dollar Baby (2004) - Eastwood, Clint
263. Les Vampires (1915-16) - Feuillade, Louis
264. Solaris (1972) - Tarkovsky, Andrei
265. Earrings of Madame de..., The (1953) - Ophuls, Max
266. Leopard, The (1963) - Visconti, Luchino
267. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - Spielberg, Steven
268. Badlands (1973) - Malick, Terrence
269. In the Mood for Love (2001) - Wong Kar-Wai
270. Blue Angel, The (1930) - von Sternberg, Josef
271. Amarcord (1973) - Fellini, Federico
272. Fight Club (1999) - Fincher, David
273. Gertrud (1964) - Dreyer, Carl
274. Week-End (1967) - Godard, Jean-Luc
275. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) - Altman, Robert
276. Matter of Life and Death, A (1946) - Powell, Michael/Emeric Pressburger
277. Cabaret (1972) - Fosse, Bob
278. Andrei Rublev (1966) - Tarkovsky, Andrei
279. Last Picture Show, The (1971) - Bogdanovich, Peter
280. Hiroshima mon amour (1959) - Resnais, Alain
281. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) - Ray, Nicholas
282. Gandhi (1982) - Attenborough, Richard
283. Shane (1953) - Stevens, George
284. All About My Mother (1999) - Almodóvar, Pedro
285. Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The (1964) - Demy, Jacques
286. Top Hat (1935) - Sandrich, Mark
287. Day for Night (1973) - Truffaut, François
288. Departed, The (2007) - Scorsese, Martin
289. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) - Minnelli, Vincente
290. Midnight Cowboy (1969) - Schlesinger, John
291. Lady Vanishes, The (1938) - Hitchcock, Alfred
292. Army of Shadows (1969) - Melville, Jean-Pierre
293. Anatomy of a Murder (1959) - Preminger, Otto
294. Finding Nemo (2003) - Stanton, Andrew & Unkrich, Lee
295. Great Escape, The (1963) - Sturges, John
296. Incredibles, The (2004) - Bird, Brad
297. Quiet Man, The (1952) - Ford, John
298. Roman Holiday (1953) - Wyler, William
299. Raise the Red Lantern (1991) - Zhang Yimou
300. Rio Bravo (1959) - Hawks, Howard
301. L'Eclisse (1962) - Antonioni, Michelangelo
302. Don't Look Now (1973) - Roeg, Nicolas
303. Forbidden Games (1951) - Clément, René
304. Cries and Whispers (1972) - Bergman, Ingmar
305. Lola Montès (1955) - Ophüls, Max
306. Five Easy Pieces (1970) - Rafelson, Bob
307. Five Easy Pieces (1970) - Rafelson, Bob
308. Repulsion (1965) - Polanski, Roman
309. Band Wagon, The (1953) - Minnelli, Vincente
310. Aparajito (1956) - Ray, Satyajit
311. Deliverance (1972) - Boorman, John
312. Tristana (1970) - Buñuel, Luis
313. Vampyr (1932) - Dreyer, Carl
314. Written on the Wind (1956) - Sirk, Douglas
315. Le Million (1931) - Clair, René
316. Sweet Hereafter, The (1997) - Egoyan, Atom
317. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) - Meyer, Russ
318. Landscape in the Mist (1988) - Angelopoulos, Theo
319. Halloween (1978) - Carpenter, John
320. Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951) - Wise, Robert
321. Hotaru no Hakaa (Grave/Fireflies, 1988) - Takahata, Isao
322. In the Heat of the Night (1967) - Jewison, Norman
323. Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (1919) - Wiene, Robert
324. White Heat (1949) - Walsh, Raoul
325. Strike (1924) - Eisenstein, Sergei
326. Killing, The (1956) - Kubrick, Stanley
327. Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953) - Tati, Jacques
328. Night of the Living Dead (1968) - Romero, George A.
329. Hard Day's Night, A (1964) - Lester, Richard
330. Star is Born, A (1954) - Cukor, George
331. Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943) - Powell, Michael/Emeric Pressburger
332. Voyage dans la lune, Le (Trip to the Moon, 1902) - Méliès, Georges
333. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) - Ophüls, Max
334. Last Tango in Paris (1973) - Bertolucci, Bernardo
335. Player, The (1992) - Altman, Robert
336. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) - Eastwood, Clint
337. Johnny Guitar (1954) - Ray, Nicholas
338. Kiss Me Deadly (1955) - Aldrich, Robert
339. Night at the Opera, A (1935) - Wood, Sam
340. Pinocchio (1940) - Sharpsteen, Ben & Hamilton Luske
341. Ninotchka (1939) - Lubitsch, Ernst
342. 39 Steps, The (1935) - Hitchcock, Alfred
343. Diner (1982) - Levinson, Barry
344. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) - Siegel, Don
345. Boogie Nights (1997) - Anderson, Paul Thomas
346. Asphalt Jungle, The (1950) - Huston, John
347. Suspiria (1977) - Argento, Dario
348. Harold and Maude (1971) - Ashby, Hal
349. Senso (1954) - Visconti, Luchino
350. Birds, The (1963) - Hitchcock, Alfred
351. Dead Ringers (1988) - Cronenberg, David
352. American Graffiti (1973) - Lucas, George
353. Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1944) - Eisenstein, Sergei
354. Sideways (2004) - Payne, Alexander
355. Trainspotting (1995) - Boyle, Danny
356. Memento (2000) - Nolan, Christopher
357. Crowd, The (1928) - Vidor, King
358. Notte, La (1961) - Antonioni, Michelangelo
359. Orpheus (1950) - Cocteau, Jean
360. Fantasia (1940) - Sharpsteen, Ben
361. In a Lonely Place (1950) - Ray, Nicholas
362. Peeping Tom (1960) - Powell, Michael
363. Sound of Music, The (1965) - Wise, Robert
364. Bourne Ultimatum, The (2007) - Greengrass, Paul
365. Los Olvidados (1950) - Buñuel, Luis
366. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) - Allen, Woody
367. Alexander Nevsky (1938) - Eisenstein, Sergei
368. Sting, The (1973) - Hill, George Roy
369. King of Comedy, The (1982) - Scorsese, Martin
370. 42nd Street (1933) - Bacon, Lloyd
371. Awful Truth, The (1937) - McCarey, Leo
372. Oldboy (2003) - Park Chan-Wook
373. Princess Bride, The (1987) - Reiner, Rob
374. Mirror, The (1976) - Tarkovsky, Andrei
375. À nous la liberté (1931) - Clair, René
376. How Green Was My Valley (1941) - Ford, John
377. Madame de… (1953) - Ophüls, Max
378. Secrets & Lies (1996) - Leigh, Mike
379. Big Lebowski, The (1998) - Coen, Ethan and Joel
380. Voyage in Italy (1953) - Rossellini, Roberto
381. Red Desert (1964) - Antonioni, Michelangelo
382. M*A*S*H (1970) - Altman, Robert
383. Âge d'or, L' (1930) - Buñuel, Luis
384. Paris, Texas (1984) - Wenders, Wim
385. Imitation of Life (1959) - Sirk, Douglas
386. Rome, Open City (1945) - Rossellini, Roberto
387. Shoot the Piano Player (1960) - Truffaut, François
388. Lola (1961) - Demy, Jacques
389. Gladiator (2000) - Scott, Ridley
390. Olvidados, Los (1950) - Buñuel, Luis
391. Lost in Translation (2003) - Coppola, Sofia
392. Platoon (1986) - Stone, Oliver
393. Dark Knight, The (2008) - Nolan, Christopher
394. Cool Hand Luke (1967) - Rosenberg, Stuart
395. Eyes Without a Face (1959) - Franju, Georges
396. Doctor Zhivago (1965) - Lean, David
397. Beau Travail (1998) - Denis, Claire
398. Vivre sa vie (1963) - Godard, Jean-Luc
399. Exterminating Angel, The (1962) - Buñuel, Luis
400. Tree of Wooden Clogs, The (1978) - Olmi, Ermanno
401. Chimes at Midnight (1966) - Welles, Orson
402. Producers, The (1968) - Brooks, Mel
403. Stalker (1979) - Tarkovsky, Andrei
404. Being John Malkovich (1999) - Jonze, Spike
405. Henry V (1944) - Olivier, Laurence
406. To Have and Have Not (1944) - Hawks, Howard
407. Shadows (1959) - Cassavetes, John
408. Black Narcissus (1946) - Powell, Michael/Emeric Pressburger
409. Mon oncle (1958) - Tati, Jacques
410. Crying Game, The (1992) - Jordan, Neil
411. Lost Weekend, The (1945) - Wilder, Billy
412. Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (1946) - Eisenstein, Sergei
413. Partie de campagne (1936) - Renoir, Jean
414. Double Life of Veronique, The (1991) - Kieslowski, Krszystof
415. Travelling Players, The (1975) - Angelopoulos, Theo
416. Se7en (1995) - Fincher, David
417. Chien andalou, Un (1928) - Buñuel, Luis
418. Léon (1994) - Besson, Luc
419. Faces (1968) - Cassavetes, John
420. Monsieur Verdoux (1947) - Chaplin, Charles
421. Mother and the Whore, The (1973) - Eustache, Jean
422. Last Laugh (1924) - Murnau, F.W.
423. Marriage of Maria Braun, The (1979) - Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
424. Closely Watched Trains (1966) - Menzel, Jirí
425. American History X (1998) - Kaye, Tony
426. Reds (1981) - Beatty, Warren
427. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) - Mungiu, Cristian
428. Place in the Sun, A (1951) - Stevens, George
429. All the President's Men (1972) - Pakula, Alan J.
430. Death in Venice (1971) - Visconti, Luchino
431. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1971) - Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
432. Thief of Bagdad, The (1940) - Powell, Michael/Ludwig Berger/Tim Whelan
433. Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) - Jeunet, Jean-Pierre
434. Late Spring (1949) - Ozu, Yasujiro
435. An American in Paris (1951) - Minnelli, Vincente
436. Music Room, The (1958) - Ray, Satyajit
437. My Fair Lady (1964) - Cukor, George
438. Scarface (1932) - Hawks, Howard
439. Argent, L' (1983) - Bresson, Robert
440. French Connection, The (1971) - Friedkin, William
441. Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2008) - Schnabel, Julian
442. Freaks (1932) - Browning, Tod
443. Mildred Pierce (1945) - Curtiz, Michael
444. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) - Nichols, Mike
445. Nanook of the North (1922) - Flaherty, Robert
446. Swing Time (1936) - Stevens, George
447. Breaking the Waves (1996) - von Trier, Lars
448. Tabu (1931) - Murnau, F.W.
449. Only Angels Have Wings (1939) - Hawks, Howard
450. Now, Voyager (1942) - Rapper, Irving
451. River, The (1951) - Renoir, Jean
452. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) - -anime Miyazaki, Hayao
453. Brokeback Mountain (2005) - Lee, Ang
454. Farewell, My Concubine (1993) - Chen Kaige
455. Triumph of the Will (1935) - Riefenstahl, Leni
456. Night and Fog (1955) - Resnais, Alain
457. Children of Men (2006) - Merielles, Ferdinand
458. Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) - Bergman, Ingmar
459. Dead, The (1987) - Huston, John
460. Story of the Late Chrysanthemums, The (1939) - Mizoguchi, Kenji
461. Requiem for a Dream (2000) - Aronofsky, Darren
462. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) - Almodóvar, Pedro
463. Ox-Bow Incident, The (1943) - Wellman, William A.
464. Sans soleil (1983) - Marker, Chris
465. Big Heat, The (1953) - Lang, Fritz
466. Germany, Year Zero (1947) - Rossellini, Roberto
467. Shop Around the Corner, The (1940) - Lubitsch, Ernst
468. Crime of Monsieur Lange, The (1936) - Renoir, Jean
469. Y Tu Mamá También (2001) - Cuarón, Alfonso
470. Samouraï, Le (1967) - Melville, Jean-Pierre
471. This is Spinal Tap (1984) - Reiner, Rob
472. Passenger, The (1975) - Antonioni, Michelangelo
473. Point Blank (1967) - Boorman, John
474. Gran Torino (2008) - Eastwood, Clint
475. Miracle in Milan (1951) - De Sica, Vittorio
476. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) - Deren, Maya
477. Mulholland Dr. (2001) - Lynch, David
478. Odd Man Out (1947( Reed, Carol
479. In the Realm of the Senses (1976) - Oshima, Nagisa
480. Life of Oharu, The (1952) - Mizoguchi, Kenji
481. Queen, The (2006) - Frears, Stephen
482. All That Jazz (1979) - Fosse, Bob
483. Floating Clouds (1955) - Naruse, Mikio
484. Downfall (2004) - Hirschbiegel, Oliver
485. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) - Reisz, Karel
486. Prestige, The (2006) - Nolan, Christopher
487. Day of Wrath (1943) - Dreyer, Carl
488. Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler (1922) - Lang, Fritz
489. 1900 (1976) - Bertolucci, Bernardo
490. Amores perros (2000) - Inarritu
491. Atlantic City (1980) - Malle, Louis
492. Kings of the Road (1976) - Wenders, Wim
493. Mouchette (1966) - Bresson, Robert
494. Detour (1945) - Ulmer, Edgar G.
495. Life is Beautiful (1997) - Begnini, Roberto
496. Salvatore Giuliano (1961) - Rosi, Francesco
497. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) - Buñuel, Luis
498. Verdugo, El (1963) - Berlanga, Luis García
499. My Night at Maud's (1969) - Rohmer, Eric
500. Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) - McCarey, Leo
501. Talk to Her (2002) - Almodóvar, Pedro
502. Time to Live and the Time to Die, The (1985) - Hou Hsiao-Hsien
503. English Patient, The (1996) - Minghella, Anthony
504. Sin City (2005) - Rodgriguez, Robert
505. Scarlet Empress, The (1934) - von Sternberg, Josef
506. Rope (1948) - Hitchcock, Alfred
507. My Life to Live (Vivre sa vie) - (1962) - Godard, Jean-Luc
508. Taste of Cherry, A (1997) - Kiarostami, Abbas
509. Wrestler, The (2008) - Aronofsky, Darren
510. Braveheart (1995) - Gibson, Mel
511. City of Sadness, A (1989) - Hou Hsiao-Hsien
512. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) - Parajanov, Sergei
513. Wind Will Carry Us, The (1999) - Kiarostami, Abbas
514. Wind, The (1928) - Sjöström, Victor
515. Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932) - Renoir, Jean
516. Hotel Rwanda (2004) - George, Terry
517. Cat People (1942) - Tourneur, Jacques
518. High and Low (1963) - Kurosawa, Akira
519. Batman Begins (2005) - Nolan, Christopher
520. Man of Aran (1934) - Flaherty, Robert
521. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) - Spielberg, Steven
522. El (1952) - Buñuel, Luis
523. Carrie (1976) - De Palma, Brian
524. Navigator, The (1924) - Keaton, Buster/Donald Crisp
525. Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The (1972) - Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
526. F for Fake (1973) - Welles, Orson
527. It's a Gift (1934) - McLeod, Norman Z.
528. Kes (1969) - Loach, Ken
529. Wedding March, The (1928) - von Stroheim, Erich
530. Black God, White Devil (1964) - Rocha, Glauber
531. Green Mile, The (1999) - Darabont, Frank
532. Charulata (1964) - Ray, Satyajit
533. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) - Marquand, Richard
534. Olympia (1938) - Riefenstahl, Leni
535. Chungking Express (1994) - Wong Kar-Wai
536. If… (1968) - Anderson, Lindsay
537. Local Hero (1983) - Forsyth, Bill
538. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) - Capra, Frank
539. Canterbury Tale, A (1944) - Powell, Michael/Emeric Pressburger
540. In a Year with 13 Moons (1978) - Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
541. Rushmore (1998) - Anderson, Wes
542. For a Few Dollars More (1965) - Leone, Sergio
543. Marnie (1964) - Hitchcock, Alfred
544. Cameraman, The (1928) - Keaton, Buster/Edward Sedgwick
545. Casque d'or (1952) - Becker, Jacques
546. Long Goodbye, The (1973) - Altman, Robert
547. Don't Look Back (1967) - Pennebaker, D.A.
548. Dirty Harry (1971) - Siegel, Don
549. Sátántangó (1994) - Tarr, Béla
550. Providence (1977) - Resnais, Alain
551. East of Eden (1955) - Kazan, Elia
552. Right Stuff, The (1983) - Kaufman, Philip
553. Accattone (1961) - Pasolini, Pier Paolo
554. My Man Godfrey (1936) - La Cava, Gregory
555. Loves of a Blonde (1965) - Forman, Milos
556. Dawn of the Dead (1978) - Romero, George A.
557. Mononoke-hime (1997) - - anime Miyazaki, Hayao
558. Superman II (1980) - Lester, Richard
559. Hold Me While I'm Naked (1966) - Kuchar, George
560. Come and See (1985) - Klimov, Elem
561. Witness for the Prosecution (1957) - Wilder, Billy
562. Servant, The (1963) - Losey, Joseph
563. Pyaasa (1957) - Dutt, Guru
564. Rise of Louis XIV, The (1966) - Rossellini, Roberto
565. Listen to Britain (1941) - Jennings, Humphrey
566. Shakespeare in Love (1998) - Madden, John
567. Chelsea Girls (1967) - Warhol, Andy
568. Fitzcarraldo (1982) - Herzog, Werner
569. Scorpio Rising (1964) - Anger, Kenneth
570. Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The (1976) - Cassavetes, John
571. Our Hospitality (1923) - Keaton, Buster/John Blystone
572. Limelight (1952) - Chaplin, Charles
573. Fellini Satyricon (1969) - Fellini, Federico
574. Plaisir, Le (1951) - Ophüls, Max
575. Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, The (1974) - Herzog, Werner
576. Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) - Alea, Tomás Gutiérrez
577. Shine (1996) - Hicks, Scott
578. Bambi (1942) - Hand, David
579. Magnolia (1999) - Anderson, Paul Thomas
580. Sixth Sense, The (1999) - Shyamalan, M. Knight
581. Colour of Pomegranate, The (Sayat Nova, 1968) - Parajanov, Sergei
582. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) - Tarantino, Quentin
583. Alice in the Cities (1974) - Wenders, Wim
584. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) - Peckinpah, Sam
585. Gun Crazy (Deadly is the Female, 1950) - Lewis, Joseph H.
586. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) - Kramer, Stanley
587. Tom Jones (1963) - Richardson, Tony
588. Faust (1926) - Murnau, F.W.
589. Sacrifice, The (1986) - Tarkovsky, Andrei
590. Reversal of Fortune (1990) - Schroeder, Barbet
591. Into the Wild (2007) - Penn, Sean
592. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) - Ford, John
593. Mad Max 2 (1981) - Miller, George
594. My Neighbour Totoro (1988) - Miyazaki, Hayao
595. Autumn Afternoon, An (1962) - Ozu, Yasujiro
596. Vitelloni, I (1953) - Fellini, Federico
597. Cloud-Capped Star, The (1960) - Ghatak, Ritwik
598. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) - Edwards, Blake
599. They Were Expendable (1945) - Ford, John
600. Class, The (2008) - Cantet, Laurent
601. Life of Brian (1979) - Gilliam, Terry/Terry Jones
602. Love Me Tonight (1932) - Mamoulian, Rouben
603. An Actor's Revenge (1963) - Ichikawa, Kon
604. Eraserhead (1977) - Lynch, David
605. Affair to Remember, An (1957) - McCarey, Leo
606. Our Daily Bread (1934) - Vidor, King
607. Ace in the Hole (1951) - Wilder, Billy
608. Terra trema, La (1948) - Visconti, Luchino
609. Snatch (2000) - Ritchie, Guy
610. Moment of Innocence, A (1996) - Makhmalbaf, Mohsen
611. I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) - Powell, Michael/Emeric Pressburger
612. Some Came Running (1958) - Minnelli, Vincente
613. Crumb (1994) - Zwigoff, Terry
614. Le Boucher (1970) - Chabrol, Claude
615. Mystic River (2003) - Eastwood, Clint
616. Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) - Tarr, Bela & Hranitzky, Agnes
617. Young Girls of Rochefort, The (1967) - Demy, Jacques
618. Lady from Shanghai, The (1947) - Welles, Orson
619. Moolaadé (2004) - Sembene, Ousmane
620. Love Streams (1984) - Cassavetes, John
621. Terra em Transe (1967) - Rocha, Glauber
622. Fast Runner, The (2001) - Kunuk, Zacharias
623. My Life as a Dog (1985) - Hallström, Lasse
624. Stand by Me (1986) - Reiner, Rob
625. Muriel ou Le Temps d'un Retour (1963) - Resnais, Alain
626. Nostalghia (1983) - Tarkovsky, Andrei
627. French Cancan (1954) - Renoir, Jean
628. Triplets of Belleville, The (2003) - Chomet, Sylvain
629. I Was Born, But… (1932) - Ozu, Yasujiro
630. Stranger Than Paradise (1984) - Jarmusch, Jim
631. Seven Chances (1925) - Keaton, Buster
632. Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) - Hellman, Monte
633. Lancelot du Lac (1974) - Bresson, Robert
634. Lion King, The (1994) - Allers, Roger & Minkoff, Robert
635. Age of Innocence, The (1993) - Scorsese, Martin
636. Foolish Wives (1922) - von Stroheim, Erich
637. Waltz with Bashir (2008) - Folman, Ari
638. Europa '51 (1952) - Rossellini, Roberto
639. Fellini's Casanova (1976) - Fellini, Federico
640. Dead Man (1995) - Jarmusch, Jim
641. I Am Cuba (1964) - Kalatozishvili, Mikheil
642. Thing, The (1982) - Carpenter, John
643. Evil Dead II (1987) - Raimi, Sam
644. After Hours (1985) - Scorsese, Martin
645. India Song (1975) - Duras, Marguerite
646. V for Vendetta (2005) - McTeigue, James
647. Claire's Knee (1970) - Rohmer, Eric
648. Dersu Uzala (1975) - Kurosawa, Akira
649. Blow Out (1981) - De Palma, Brian
650. Sleuth (1972) - Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
651. Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) - Davies, Terence
652. Harvey (1950) - Coster, Henry
653. Silence, The (1963) - Bergman, Ingmar
654. Lolita (1962) - Kubrick, Stanley
655. My Voyage to Italy (1999) - Scorsese, Martin
656. When Harry Met Sally (1989) - Reiner, Rob
657. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) - Ford, John
658. Three Colours: Blue (1993) - Kieslowski, Krszystof
659. Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The (1944) - Sturges, Preston
660. Three Colours: Red (1994) - Kieslowski, Krszystof
661. Bloody Sunday (2002) - Greengrass, Paul
662. Teorema (1968) - Pasolini, Pier Paolo
663. Devil is a Woman, The (1935) - von Sternberg, Josef
664. Touch of Zen, A (1969) - Hu, King
665. Topsy-Turvy (1999) - Leigh, Mike
666. On the Town (1949) - Donen, Stanley/Gene Kelly
667. Que viva Mexico! (1932) - Eisenstein, Sergei
668. sex, lies, and videotape (1989) - Soderberg, Steve
669. Circus, The (1928) - Chaplin, Charles
670. Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The (2008) - Fincher, David
671. Before Sunset (2004) - Linklater, Richard
672. Antonio das Mortes (1969) - Rocha, Glauber
673. Twelve Monkeys (1995) - Gilliam, Terry
674. Wild Child, The (1970) - Truffaut, François
675. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) - Ritchie, Guy
676. Walkabout (1971) - Roeg, Nicolas
677. Winter Light (1962) - Bergman, Ingmar
678. Spring in a Small Town (1948) - Fei Mu
679. Almost Famous (2000) - Crowe, Cameron
680. Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) - Jones, Terry
681. Man Who Fell to Earth, The (1976) - Roeg, Nicolas
682. Let the Right One In (2008) - Alfredson, Tomas
683. American Splendor (2003) - Berman, Shari, and Pulcini, Robert
684. Chant d'amour, Un (1950) - Genet, Jean
685. Stalag 17 (1953) - Wilder, Billy
686. Gosford Park (2001) - Altman, Robert
687. Devils, The (aka ..of Loudun, 1971) - Russell, Ken
688. I Walked with a Zombie (1943) - Tourneur, Jacques
689. United 93 (2006) - Greengrass, Paul
690. There's Always Tomorrow (1956) - Sirk, Douglas
691. Truman Show, The (1998) - Weir, Peter
692. JFK (1991) - Stone, Oliver
693. Capturing the Friedmans (2003) - Jarecki, Andrew
694. Blood of a Poet, The (1930) - Cocteau, Jean
695. Dumbo (1941) - Sharpsteen, Ben
696. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) - Peckinpah, Sam
697. Persepolis (2007) - Paronnaud, Vincent & Satrapi, Marjane
698. Ossessione (1943) - Visconti, Luchino
699. Heiress, The (1949) - Wyler, William
700. Bad and the Beautiful, The (1952) - Minnelli, Vincente
701. Bigger Than Life (1956) - Ray, Nicholas
702. And Life Goes On (1991) - Kiarostami, Abbas
703. Best of Youth, The (2003) - Giordana, Marco Tullio
704. Dial M for Murder (1954) - Hitchcock, Alfred
705. Where is the Friend's Home? (1987) - Kiarostami, Abbas
706. Dames du Bois de Boulogne, Les (1945) - Bresson, Robert
707. Passion (1982) - Godard, Jean-Luc
708. Videodrome (1983) - Cronenberg, David
709. 4 Little Girls (1997) - Lee, Spike
710. Fox and His Friends (1975) - Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
711. In Bruges (2008) - McDonagh, Martin
712. Killer, The (1989) - Woo, John
713. House of Flying Daggers (2004) - Yimou Zhang
714. Hart of London, The (1970) - Chambers, Jack
715. Man on Wire (2008) - Marsh, James
716. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) - Cohen, Sasha Baron
717. Man for All Seasons, A (1966) - Zinnemann, Fred
718. Sawdust and Tinsel (1953) - Bergman, Ingmar
719. Goodbye Solo (2008) - Bahrani, Ramin
720. Sauve qui peut (la vie) - (1980) - Godard, Jean-Luc
721. Trip to the Moon, A (1902) - Melies, Georges
722. Pépé le Moko (1937) - Duvivier, Julien
723. Angel (1937) - Lubitsch, Ernst
724. Hour of the Furnaces, The (1968) - Getino, Octavio & Fernando E. Solanas
725. Brighter Summer Day, A (1991) - Yang, Edward
726. Ed Wood (1994) - Burton, Tim
727. Hurt Locker, The (2008) - Bigelow, Kathryn
728. Party, The (1968) - Edwards, Blake
729. Région centrale, La (1971) - Snow, Michael
730. Alphaville (1965) - Godard, Jean-Luc
731. Damned, The (1969) - Visconti, Luchino
732. From Here to Eternity Zinnemann, Fred
733. Spider's Stratagem, The (1970) - Bertolucci, Bernardo
734. No End in Sight (2007) - Ferguson, Charles
735. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) - Weir, Peter
736. Rise to Power of Louis XIV, The (1966) - Rossellini, Roberto
737. Funny Face (1957) - Donen, Stanley
738. Stop Making Sense (1984) - Demme, Jonathan
739. Barton Fink (1991) - Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen
740. Splendor in the Grass (1961) - Kazan, Elia
741. Misfits, The (1961) - Huston, John
742. Angel at My Table, An (1990) - Campion, Jane
743. Changeling (2008) - Eastwood, Clint
744. Through the Olive Trees (1994) - Kiarostami, Abbas
745. Stromboli (1950) - Rossellini, Roberto
746. Tiger of Eschnapur, The (1959) - Lang, Fritz
747. Innocents, The (1961) - Clayton, Jack
748. Ivan's Childhood (1962) - Tarkovsky, Andrei
749. Once (2006) - Carney, John
750. Straight Story, The (1999) - Lynch, David
751. Duel in the Sun (1946) - Vidor, King
752. Safety Last! (1923) - Newmeyer, Fred C. & Taylor, Sam
753. Superman: The Movie (1978) - Donner, Richard
754. Ludwig (1972) - Visconti, Luchino
755. Crash (2004/I) - Haggis, Paul
756. Maîtres fous, Les (1955) - Rouch, Jean
757. Barren Lives (1963) - Dos Santos, Nelson Pereira
758. Ghost World (2001) - Zwigoff, Terry
759. Storm Over Asia (1928) - Pudovkin, Vsevolod
760. Kagemusha (1980) - Kurosawa, Akira
761. Daisies (1966) - Chytilová, Vera
762. Underground (1995) - Kusturica, Emir
763. Tulpan (2008) - Dvortsevoy, Sergei
764. Hôtel Terminus (1988) - Ophüls, Marcel
765. Capote (2005) - Miller, Bennett
766. Xala (1975) - Sembene, Ousmane
767. Overlord (1975) - Cooper, Stuart
768. Tarnished Angels, The (1958) - Sirk, Douglas
769. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) - Tarantino, Quentin
770. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) - Hughes, John
771. Band of Outsiders (1964) - Godard, Jean-Luc
772. Bob le flambeur (1956) - Melville, Jean-Pierre
773. Van Gogh (1991) - Pialat, Maurice
774. Time of the Gypsies (1988) - Kusturica, Emir
775. Time Out (2001) - Cantet, Laurent
776. Being There (1979) - Ashby, Hal
777. Big Fish (2003) - Burton, Tim
778. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) - Hawks, Howard
779. Away from Her (2006) - Polley, Sarah
780. Woman in the Window, The (1944) - Lang, Fritz
781. Jour se lève, Le (1939) - Carné, Marcel
782. Hallelujah! (1929) - Vidor, King
783. Get Carter (1971) - Hodges, Mike
784. Thin Red Line, The (1998) - Malick, Terrence
785. Ride the High Country (1962) - Peckinpah, Sam
786. Hellzapoppin' (1941) - Potter, H.C.
787. La Belle Noiseuse (1991) - Rivette, Jacques
788. Chicken Run (2000) - Park, Nick & Lord, Peter
789. Juliet of the Spirits (1965) - Fellini, Federico
790. Little Miss Sunshine (2006) - Dayton, Jonathan & Faris, Valerie
791. They Live by Night (1948) - Ray, Nicholas
792. Gilda (1946) - Vidor, Charles
793. Glory (1989) - Zwick, Edward
794. Salesman (1968) - Maysles, Albert/David Maysles/Charlotte Zwerin
795. Thing from Another World, The (1951) - Nyby, Christian/Howard Hawks
796. Toy Story 2 (1999) - Lasseter, John & Brannon, Ash
797. Bande à part (1964) - Godard, Jean-Luc
798. Good Will Hunting (1997) - Van Sant, Gus
799. Nobody Knows (2004) - Koreeda, Hirokazu
800. Design for Living (1933) - Lubitsch, Ernst
801. Land Without Bread (1933) - Buñuel, Luis
802. L'Enfant (The Child, 2005) - Dardenne, Jean-Pierre & Luc
803. Man Who Would Be King, The (1975) - Huston, John
804. Othello (aka Tragedy of Othello, 1952) - Welles, Orson
805. Little Women (1994) - Armstrong, Gillian
806. Traffic (2000) - Soderbergh, Steve
807. Man of the West (1958) - Mann, Anthony
808. Fires Were Started (1943) - Jennings, Humphrey
809. Dangerous Liaisons (1988) - Frears, Stephen
810. Night of the Shooting Stars, The (1982) - Taviani, Paolo & Vittorio Taviani
811. Outskirts (Okraina, 1933) - Barnet, Boris
812. Firemen's Ball, The (1967) - Forman, Milos
813. Gomorra (2008) - Garrone, Matteo
814. Anatahan (1953) - von Sternberg, Josef
815. Big Parade, The (1925) - Vidor, King
816. Fog of War, The (2003) - Morris, Errol
817. Barefoot Contessa, The (1954) - Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
818. Quiz Show (1994) - Redford, Robert
819. Heaven's Gate (1980) - Cimino, Michael
820. Howards End (1992) - Ivory, James
821. Raising Arizona (1987) - Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen
822. Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980) - Resnais, Alain
823. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) - Park, Nick & Box, Steve
824. Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) - Varda, Agnès
825. Puppetmaster, The (1993) - Hou Hsiao-Hsien
826. Fat City (1972) - Huston, John
827. Hana-Bi (1997) - Kitano, Takeshi
828. Maria Full of Grace (2004) - Marston, Joshua
829. Holiday (1938) - Cukor, George
830. Pickup on South Street (1953) - Fuller, Sam
831. Heimat (Homeland: A German Chronicle, 1984) - Reitz, Edgar
832. Fateless (2005) - Koltai, Lajos
833. Ronde, La (1950) - Ophüls, Max
834. Dead Poets Society (1989) - Weir, Peter
835. Midnight Run (1988) - Brest, Martin
836. L'Âge d'Or (1930) - Buñuel, Luis
837. Princess Yang Kwei Fei (Yokihi, 1955) - Mizoguchi, Kenji
838. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) - LeRoy, Mervyn
839. Morocco (1930) - von Sternberg, Josef
840. Tom, Tom the Piper's Son (1969) - Jacobs, Ken
841. Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976) - Eastwood, Clint
842. Ceddo (1977) - Sembene, Ousmane
843. Tarnation (2003) - Caouette, Jonathan
844. Phantom of Liberty, The (1974) - Buñuel, Luis
845. Wagon Master (1950) - Ford, John
846. Murderball (2005) - Rubin, Henry Alex & Shapiro, Dana Adam
847. Edward Scissorhands (1990) - Burton, Tim
848. Grizzly Man (2005) - Herzog, Werner
849. Unfaithfully Yours (1948) - Sturges, Preston
850. Short Cuts (1993) - Altman, Robert
851. Under the Roofs of Paris (1930) - Clair, René
852. Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, The (1968) - Straub, Jean-Marie
853. Short Film About Killing, A (1988) - Kieslowski, Krszystof
854. Moonfleet (1955) - Lang, Fritz
855. Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959) - Dutt, Guru
856. Marooned in Iraq (2002) - Ghobadi, Bahman
857. Verdict, The (1982) - Lumet, Sidney
858. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) - Meyer, Russ
859. Two English Girls (1971) - Truffaut, François
860. Amants du Pont-Neuf, Les (1991) - Carax, Lèos
861. Tin Drum, The (1979) - Schlöndorff, Volker
862. To Die For (1995) - Van Sant, Gus
863. Yellow Earth (1984) - Chen Kaige
864. Mother (Mat, 1926) - Pudovkin, Vsevolod
865. Hatari! (1962) - Hawks, Howard
866. Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977) - Syberberg, Hans-Jürgen
867. Woman in the Dunes (1964) - Teshigahara, Hiroshi
868. Zelig (1983) - Allen, Woody
869. 42 UP (1998) - Apted, Michael
870. Fellini's Roma (1972) - Fellini, Federico
871. Hidden Fortress, The (1958) - Kurosawa, Akira
872. Arabian Nights (1974) - Pasolini, Pier Paolo
873. Happiness (1998) - Solondz, Todd
874. Say Anything… (1989) - Crowe, Cameron
875. Flowers of St. Francis, The (1950) - Rossellini, Roberto
876. Liebelei (1933) - Ophüls, Max
877. 47 Ronin, The (1962) - Mizoguchi, Kenji
878. You Only Live Once (1937) - Lang, Fritz
879. Actor's Revenge, An (1963) - Ichikawa, Kon
880. Naked (1993) - Leigh, Mike
881. To Be and to Have (2002) - Philibert, Nicolas
882. Titanic (1997) - Cameron, James
883. Phantom Carriage, The (1921) - Sjöström, Victor
884. Cranes Are Flying, The (1957) - Kalatozishvili, Mikheil
885. Boys Don't Cry (1999) - Pierce, Kimberly
886. Magnificent Seven, The (1960) - Sturges, John
887. Indian Tomb, The (1959) - Lang, Fritz
888. Threepenny Opera, The (1931) - Pabst, G.W.
889. Bad Timing (1980) - Roeg, Nicolas
890. Lacombe, Lucien (1974) - Malle, Louis
891. America, America (1963) - Kazan, Elia
892. I'm Going Home (2001) - de Oliveira, Manoel
893. Safe (1995) - Haynes, Todd
894. Pakeezah (1972) - Amrohi, Kamal
895. Fallen Idol, The (1948) - Reed, Carol
896. In the Bedroom (2001) - Field, Todd
897. Law of Desire (1987) - Almodóvar, Pedro
898. Round-Up, The (Szegénylegények, 1966) - Jancsó, Miklós
899. Ten (2002) - Kiarostami, Abbas
900. Vagabond (San toit ni loi, 1985) - Varda, Agnès
901. Un Chien Andalou (1929) - Buñuel, Luis
902. Open City (1945) - Rossellini, Roberto
903. Sugar Cane Alley (Rue case negres, 1983) - Palcy, Euzhan
904. Seraphine (2008) - Provost, Martin
905. Seven Women (1966) - Ford, John
906. Flowers of Shanghai (1998) - Hou Hsiao-Hsien
907. Not Reconciled (1965) - Straub, Jean-Marie
908. Limite (1931) - Peixoto, Mario
909. Russian Ark (2002) - Sokurov, Aleksandr
910. Husbands (1970) - Cassavetes, John
911. Le Jour se lève (1939) - Carné, Marcel
912. Z (1969) - Costa-Gavras, Constantin
913. Deliver Us from Evil (2006) - Berg, Amy
914. Goldfinger (1964) - Hamilton, Guy
915. Straw Dogs (1971) - Peckinpah, Sam
916. Witness (1985) - Weir, Peter
917. Woman Next Door, The (1981) - Truffaut, François
918. Gregory's Girl (1981) - Forsyth, Bill
919. Orlando (1992) - Potter, Sally
920. Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) - Monicelli, Mario
921. Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988) - Scorsese, Martin
922. Shame (Skammen, 1968) - Bergman, Ingmar
923. Under the Sand (2000) - Ozon, Francois
924. Shoeshine (Sciuscia, 1947) - De Sica, Vittorio
925. Peter Ibbetson (1935) - Hathaway, Henry
926. Grifters, The (1990) - Frears, Stephen
927. Informer, The (1935) - Ford, John
928. Art of Vision, The (1965) - Brakhage, Stan
929. Night of the Demon (1957) - Tourneur, Jacques
930. Red Sorghum (1987) - Zhang Yimou
931. Red Beard (1965) - Kurosawa, Akira
932. This Is England (2006) - Meadows, Shane
933. Kameradschaft (1931) - Pabst, G.W.
934. Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The (1947) - Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
935. Sun Shines Bright, The (1953) - Ford, John
936. Son, The (Le Fils, 2002) - Dardenne, Jean-Pierre & Luc
937. Chariots of Fire (1981) - Hudson, Hugh
938. Pursued (1947) - Walsh, Raoul
939. Sweet Sixteen (2002) - Loach, Ken
940. Down by Law (1986) - Jarmusch, Jim
941. Europa (1991) - von Trier, Lars
942. Histoire(s) - du cinéma (1997) - Godard, Jean-Luc
943. Branded to Kill (1967) - Suzuki, Seijun
944. Of a Thousand Delights (1965) - Visconti, Luchino
945. Port of Shadows (1938) - Carné, Marcel
946. Fugitive, The (1993) - Davis, Andrew
947. Trou, Le (1960) - Becker, Jacques
948. Queen Kelly (1929) - von Stroheim, Erich
949. Murmur of the Heart (1971) - Malle, Louis
950. Naked Spur, The (1953) - Mann, Anthony
951. Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film (1991) - Workman, Chuck
952. Camille (1936) - Cukor, George
953. Red (1994) - Kieslowski, Krzysztof
954. Yeelen (1987) - Cissé, Souleymane
955. Flight of the Red Balloon, The (2007) - Hsiao-hsien Hou
956. Murder by Contract (1958) - Lerner, Irving
957. Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) - Carpenter, John
958. Femme est une femme, Une (1961) - Godard, Jean-Luc
959. Before Night Falls (2000) - Schnabel, Julian
960. Black Sunday (1977) - Bava, Mario
961. While the City Sleeps (1956) - Lang, Fritz
962. Public Enemy (1931) - Wellman, William A.
963. Reckless Moment, The (1949) - Ophüls, Max
964. Il Bidone (1955) - Fellini, Federico
965. You Can Count On Me (2000) - Lonergan, Kenneth
966. Red Circle, The (1970) - Melville, Jean-Pierre
967. Saturday Night Fever (1977) - Badham, John
968. Ju Dou (1990) - Zhang Yimou
969. La Chienne (1931) - Renoir, Jean
970. Three Colours: White (1994) - Kieslowski, Krszystof
971. Scenes from a Marriage (1973) - Bergman, Ingmar
972. Lusty Men, The (1952) - Ray, Nicholas
973. Children Underground (2001) - Belzberg, Edet
974. Purple Rose of Cairo, The (1985) - Allen, Woody
975. El Dorado (1966) - Hawks, Howard
976. Edge of Heaven, The (2007) - Akin, Fatih
977. New York, New York (1977) - Scorsese, Martin
978. Midnight (1939) - Leisen, Mitchell
979. Bank Dick, The (1940) - Cline, Edward F.
980. Savages, The (2007) - Jenkins, Tamara
981. Carnival in Flanders (1935) - Feyder, Jacques
982. Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, The (2000) - Butler, George
983. Fish Called Wanda, A (1988) - Crichton, Charles
984. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) - Donen, Stanley
985. Offside (2006) - Panahi, Jafar
986. O Lucky Man! (1973) - Anderson, Lindsay
987. Out 1: Spectre (1974) - Rivette, Jacques
988. Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) - Andersen, Thom
989. Early Summer (Bakushû, 1951) - Ozu, Yasujiro
990. Thin Blue Line, The (1988) - Morris, Errol
991. Flaming Creatures (1963) - Smith, Jack
992. Knocked Up (2007) - Apatow, Judd
993. Dazed and Confused (1993) - Linklater, Richard
994. Turtles Can Fly (2004) - Ghobadi, Bahman
995. Rio Grande (1950) - Ford, John
996. Collectionneuse, La (1967) - Rohmer, Eric
997. Thin Man, The (1934) - Van Dyke, W.S.
998. Crash (1996) - Cronenberg, David
999. Festival Express (2003) - Smeaton & Cvitanovich
1000. Bête humaine, La (1938) - Renoir, Jean
1001. Gigi (1958) - Minnelli, Vincente
1002. Opening Night (1977) - Cassavetes, John
1003. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003) - Ki-duk Kim
1004. Miller's Crossing (1990) - Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen
1005. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) - Benton, Robert
1006. Tenant, The (1976) - Polanski, Roman
1007. Coeur en hiver, Un (1992) - Sautet, Claude
1008. Half Nelson (2006) - Fleck, Ryan
1009. Shanghai Express (1932) - von Sternberg, Josef
1010. Mephisto (1981) - Szabó, István
1011. Through a Glass Darkly (1961) - Bergman, Ingmar
1012. Street Fight (2005) - Curry, Marshall
1013. Gimme Shelter (1970) - Maysles, Albert/David Maysles/Charlotte Zwerin
1014. About Schmidt (2002) -Payne, Alexander

[hmmm... don't ask me why Google Blogger has decided to hide the leading 1's when I got to 1000+ - they are continually introducing odd bugs in to the blogs that bloggers have to debug or work around.. I'll look into this one and try to fix it. I tried shrinking the font size already with no difference. At least it's only affecting the bottom of this list. Thanks, guys - maybe with yer billions you can figure this out]

I was admittedly appalled to see Star Wars at No. 4 - that's what happens when you include popular polls I guess. I thought The Empire Strikes Back was much better science fiction. I would have thought Lord of the Rings films would be ranked ahead of the Star Wars films, just based on critics alone, but.. that's just my opinion.

I was also surprised to see Chinatown at No. 3, and that it's rising over time - good, but not that good. And is Blade Runner really 13th - does it belong in the top 20? Wizard of Oz 18th, with it's terrible acting and bad music? Pulp Fiction 20th - where are all these Tarantino fans coming from? Has no one seen Out of the Past lately? Instead of 237th it should be 37th.

Even Goldfinger made this list! That's not even the best Bond film. and the boring and mundane Kramer vs. Kramer, one of the worst best picture winners ever. Where the heck is Jerry Lewis, one wonders? Maybe I should add some French polls, lol..

With Inception now No. 9 at IMDB, look for it to show up next time I update this poll - likely sometime this summer.

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Top Ranked Directors on the Net

© 2009-11, William L. Sinclair

All Directors in the top 1011 list that we compiled from all the internet surveys we could find, ranked by total points for all films on our spreadsheet. Alfred Hitchcock led the list [photo above with fellow director, artist Andy Warhol]. John Ford and Jean-Luc Godard had the most films listed at 16 each. Charles Laughton made the list highest with only one film at #100; unfortunately for this consummate actor, it was the only film he directed, Night of the Hunter. Count, Director, Top Ranked Film, Total Points

1. 14 - Hitchcock, Alfred [Vertigo (1958) #6 ] ..55352
2. 10 - Kubrick, Stanley [2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) #2 ] ..42161
3. 12 - Scorsese, Martin [Taxi Driver (1976) #12 ] ..37474
4. 11 - Kurosawa, Akira [Seven Samurai, The (1954) #7 ] ..33022
5. 16 - Ford, John [Searchers, The (1956) #46 ] ..32142
6. 8 - Chaplin, Charles [City Lights (1931) #21 ] ..31835
7. 16 - Godard, Jean-Luc [Contempt (1963) 74 ] ..31243
8. 15 - Buñuel, Luis [Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (1972) #88 ] ..29977
9. 7 - Spielberg, Steven [Schindler's List (1993) #27 ] ..28694
10. 11 - Fellini, Federico [8½ (1963) #37 ] ..27722
11. 8 - Wilder, Billy [Sunset Boulevard (1950) #14 ] ..27448
12. 12 - Bergman, Ingmar [Seventh Seal, The (1956) 29 ] ..27032
13. 4 - Coppola, Francis [Godfather, The (1972) #1 ] ..26334
14. 11 - Hawks, Howard [Bringing Up Baby (1938) #118 ] ..25560
15. 7 - Welles, Orson [Citizen Kane (1941) #5 ] ..24090
16. 6 - Lean, David [Lawrence of Arabia (1962) #50 ] ..22668
17. 10 - Lang, Fritz [M (1931) 11 ] ..22392
18. 10 - Renoir, Jean [Rules of the Game, The (1939) #44 ] ..21204
19. 8 - Bresson, Robert [Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) 93 ] ..20832
20. 8 - Huston, John [Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948) #62 ] ..20190
21. 7 - Keaton, Buster [Sherlock Jr. (1924) #89 ] ..19724
22. 4 - Capra, Frank [It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 10 ] ..17564
23. 8 - Powell, Michael [Peeping Tom (1960) #360 ] ..17464
24. 5 - Polanski, Roman [Chinatown (1974) #3 ] ..17376
25. 7 - Truffaut, François [Jules et Jim (1961) #59 ] ..17238
26. 7 - Eisenstein, Sergei [Battleship Potemkin (1925) 100 ] ..17070
27. 4 - Scott, Ridley [Blade Runner (1982) 13 ] ..16179
28. 5 - Murnau, F.W. [Sunrise (1928) #38 ] ..16168
29. 5 - Dreyer, Carl Theodor [Passion of Joan of Arc, The (1928) 51 ] ..16068
30. 10 - Rossellini, Roberto [Paisan (1946) #166 ] ..16058
31. 8 - Eastwood, Clint [Unforgiven (1992) #91 ] ..15976
32. 4 - De Sica, Vittorio [Bicycle Thief, The (1949) 16 ] ..15656
33. 7 - Cassavetes, John [Woman Under the Influence, A (1974) #176 ] ..15564
34. 9 - Visconti, Luchino [Rocco and His Brothers (1964) #237 ] ..15186
35. 6 - Allen, Woody [Annie Hall (1977) #77 ] ..15039
36. 5 - Ray, Satyajit [Pather Panchali / Apu Trilogy I (1955) #32 ] ..14988
37. 6 - Antonioni, Michelangelo [L'Avventura (1960) #187 ] ..14434
38. 4 - Leone, Sergio [Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) #70 ] ..14418
39. 7 - Altman, Robert [Nashville (1975) #192 ] ..13854
40. 3 - Lucas, George [Star Wars (1978) #4 ] ..13743
41. 8 - Ophuls, Max [Earrings of Madame de..., The (1953) 264 ] ..13588
42. 6 - Mizoguchi, Kenji [Ugetsu (1953) 58 ] ..13300
43. 7 - Tarkovsky, Andrei [Solaris (1972) #263 ] ..13200
44. 3 - Griffith, D.W. [Intolerance (1916) 64 ] ..13198
45. 6 - Coen Ethan and Joel [No Country for Old Men (2007) #165 ] ..13163
46. 5 - Sturges, Preston [Lady Eve, The (1941) 92 ] ..13162
47. 3 - Jackson, Peter [Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) #84 ] ..12603
48. 4 - Forman, Milos [One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) #54 ] ..12314
49. 4 - Cameron, James [Aliens (1986) #159 ] ..12253
50. 4 - Tarantino, Quentin [Pulp Fiction (1995) #20 ] ..12172
51. 4 - Lumet, Sidney [12 Angry Men (1957) #124 ] ..11976
52. 5 - Kazan, Elia [On the Waterfront (1954) #67 ] ..11952
53. 6 - Lubitsch, Ernst [Trouble in Paradise (1932) #234 ] ..11804
54. 4 - Wyler, William [Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946) #102 ] ..11786
55. 6 - Resnais, Alain [Last Year at Marienbad (1961) #215 ] ..11250
56. 2 - Fleming, Victor [Wizard of Oz, The (1938) #18 ] ..11132
57. 7 - Fassbinder, Rainer Werner [Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) 196 ] ..11128
58. 4 - McCarey, Leo [Duck Soup (1933) #41 ] ..10924
59. 7 - Kiarostami, Abbas [Close-Up (1990) 189 ] ..10769
60. 5 - Pasolini, Pier Paolo [Gospel According to St. Matthew, The (1964) #103 ] ..10760
61. 3 - Curtiz, Michael [Casablanca (1942) #47 ] ..10506
62. 5 - Lynch, David [Elephant Man, The (1980) #193 ] ..10266
63. 5 - Ozu, Yasujiro [Tokyo Story (1953) #57 ] ..10218
64. 6 - Minnelli, Vincente [Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) #288 ] ..10068
65. 6 - Ray, Nicholas [Rebel Without a Cause (1955) #280 ] ..10052
66. 4 - Bertolucci, Bernardo [Conformist, The (1970) 76 ] ..9788
67. 5 - Cukor, George [Philadelphia Story, The (1940) #148 ] ..9614
68. 5 - Sirk, Douglas [All That Heaven Allows (1955) #233 ] ..9604
69. 4 - Donen, Stanley [Funny Face (1957) #735 ] ..9452
70. 3 - Reed, Carol [Third Man, The (1948) #15 ] ..9246
71. 4 - Mankiewicz, Joseph L. [All About Eve (1950) #33 ] ..9238
72. 5 - Peckinpah, Sam [Wild Bunch, The (1969) #87 ] ..8998
73. 6 - Kieslowski, Krszystof [Dekalog (1988) #235 ] ..8974
74. 5 - Roeg, Nicolas [Don't Look Now (1973) #301 ] ..8966
75. 4 - Gilliam, Terry [Brazil (1985) #188 ] ..8783
76. 4 - Carné, Marcel [Enfants du paradis, Les (1945) #183 ] ..8728
77. 4 - Herzog, Werner [Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) #72 ] ..8534
78. 4 - von Stroheim, Erich [Greed (1924) 79 ] ..8234
79. 6 - von Sternberg, Josef [Blue Angel, The (1930) #269 ] ..8170
80. 4 - Wenders, Wim [Wings of Desire (1987) #245 ] ..7908
81. 2 - Vigo, Jean [L'Atalante (1934) 49 ] ..7874
82. 2 - Donen, Stanley/Gene Kelly [Singin' in the Rain (1952) #26 ] ..7604
83. 4 - Nolan, Christopher [Memento (2000) #354 ] ..7406
84. 2 - Clouzot, Henri-Georges [Wages of Fear, The (1952) #134 ] ..7390
85. 4 - Miyazaki, Hayao [Spirited Away (2001) #255 ] ..7366
86. 3 - Tati, Jacques [Playtime (1967) #209 ] ..7362
87. 3 - Anderson, Paul Thomas [There Will Be Blood (2007) #180 ] ..7326
88. 3 - Wise, Robert [Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951) #318 ] ..7272
89. 2 - Whale, James [Bride of Frankenstein (1935) #140 ] ..7204
90. 4 - Almodóvar, Pedro [All About My Mother (1999) #283 ] ..6825
91. 5 - Vidor, King [Crowd, The (1928) #355 ] ..6759
92. 3 - Zinnemann, Fred [High Noon (1952) #106 ] ..6560
93. 4 - Tourneur, Jacques [Out of the Past (1947) #236 ] ..6446
94. 2 - Zemeckis, Robert [Back to the Future (1985) #175 ] ..6434
95. 4 - Reiner, Rob [Princess Bride, The (1987) #371 ] ..6426
96. 3 - Malick, Terrence [Days of Heaven (1978) #260 ] ..6402
97. 3 - Carpenter, John [Halloween (1978) #317 ] ..6355
98. 3 - Stevens, George [Shane (1953) #282 ] ..6214
99. 3 - Cocteau, Jean [Belle et la bête, La (Beauty/Beast, 1946) #240 ] ..6196
100. 1 - Laughton, Charles [Night of The Hunter, The (1955) 35 ] ..6100
101. 4 - Melville, Jean-Pierre [Army of Shadows (1969) #291 ] ..6086
102. 2 - Nichols, Mike [Graduate, The (1967) #107 ] ..6016
103. 4 - Demy, Jacques [Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The (1964) #284 ] ..5954
104. 2 - Preminger, Otto [Laura (1944) #168 ] ..5952
105. 3 - De Palma, Brian [Scarface (1982) #210 ] ..5943
106. 1 - Cooper, Merian C./Ernest B. Schoedsack [King Kong (1933) 40 ] ..5838
107. 5 - Hou Hsiao-Hsien [Time to Live and the Time to Die, The (1985) #500 ] ..5802
108. 2 - Stanton, Andrew [WALL-E (2008) #181 ] ..5795
109. 3 - Fincher, David [Fight Club (1999) #271 ] ..5768
110. 2 - Campion, Jane [Piano, The (1993) #81 ] ..5697
111. 3 - Sharpsteen, Ben [Fantasia (1940) #358 ] ..5690
112. 2 - Lasseter, John [Toy Story (1995) #82 ] ..5588
113. 2 - Friedkin, William [Exorcist, The (1973) #143 ] ..5562
114. 1 - Frankenheimer, John [Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) #43 ] ..5559
115. 3 - Rivette, Jacques [Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) 141 ] ..5542
116. 2 - Lee, Ang [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) #152 ] ..5452
117. 3 - Clair, René [Le Million (1931) #313 ] ..5410
118. 2 - Lee, Spike [Do The Right Thing (1989) #112 ] ..5377
119. 1 - Hanson, Curtis [L.A. Confidential (1997) #45 ] ..5348
120. 2 - Bird, Brad [Incredibles, The (2004) #295 ] ..5333
121. 2 - Darabont, Frank [Shawshank Redemption, The (1994) #155 ] ..5234
122. 2 - Demme, Jonathan [Silence of the Lambs, The (1991) #90 ] ..5234
123. 4 - Zhang Yimou [Raise the Red Lantern (1991) #298 ] ..5219
124. 2 - Cimino, Michael [Deer Hunter, The (1978) #110 ] ..5202
125. 2 - Hill, George Roy [Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) #149 ] ..5088
126. 2 - Boyle, Danny [Slumdog Millionaire (2008) #232 ] ..5051
127. 2 - Marker, Chris [La Jetee (1961) 184 ] ..4972
128. 3 - Greengrass, Paul [Bourne Ultimatum, The (2007) #362 ] ..4640
129. 1 - Vertov, Dziga [Man With a Movie Camera, The (1929) 78 ] ..4602
130. 3 - Pabst, G.W. [Pandora's Box (1928) #249 ] ..4430
131. 2 - Gilliam, Terry/Terry Jones [Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) #222 ] ..4330
132. 1 - Mulligan, Robert [To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) #96 ] ..4324
133. 2 - Fosse, Bob [Cabaret (1972) #276 ] ..4302
134. 2 - Angelopoulos, Theo [Landscape in the Mist (1988) 316 ] ..4282
135. 1 - Penn, Arthur [Bonnie and Clyde (1967) #105 ] ..4240
136. 2 - Wong Kar-Wai [In the Mood for Love (2001) #268 ] ..4205
137. 3 - Leigh, Mike [Secrets & Lies (1996) #376 ] ..4195
138. 4 - Weir, Peter [Truman Show, The (1998) #689 ] ..4172
139. 3 - Rocha, Glauber [Black God, White Devil (1964) #528 ] ..4166
140. 2 - Hand, David [Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) #256 ] ..4136
141. 2 - Boorman, John [Deliverance (1972) #309 ] ..4134
142. 1 - Wajda, Andrzej [Ashes and Diamonds (1958) 114 ] ..4132
143. 1 - Hamer, Robert [Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) #117 ] ..4122
144. 2 - Yang, Edward [Yi yi (2000) #221 ] ..4101
145. 1 - Lanzmann, Claude [Shoah (1985) #119 ] ..4078
146. 3 - Cronenberg, David [Dead Ringers (1988) #349 ] ..4076
147. 1 - Pontecorvo, Gillo [Battle of Algiers, The (1966) #132 ] ..3936
148. 1 - Mackendrick, Alexander [Sweet Smell of Success (1957) #133 ] ..3896
149. 2 - Romero, George A. [Night of the Living Dead (1968) #326 ] ..3856
150. 2 - Lester, Richard [Hard Day's Night, A (1964) #327 ] ..3849
151. 2 - Snow, Michael [Wavelength (1967) #259 ] ..3842
152. 1 - Mendes, Sam [American Beauty (1999) #139 ] ..3799
153. 2 - Siegel, Don [Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) #342 ] ..3780
154. 1 - Akerman, Chantal [Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) #146 ] ..3740
155. 1 - Rossen, Robert [Hustler, The (1961) #153 ] ..3686
156. 1 - del Toro, Guillermo [Pan's Labyrinth (2006) #154 ] ..3681
157. 1 - Tornatore, Giuseppe [Cinema Paradiso (1988) #158 ] ..3632
158. 3 - Rohmer, Eric [My Night at Maud's (1969) #497 ] ..3630
159. 1 - von Donnersmarck, Florian Henckel [Lives of Others, The (2006) #162 ] ..3537
160. 3 - Frears, Stephen [Queen, The (2006) #479 ] ..3515
161. 1 - Milestone, Lewis [All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) #164 ] ..3514
162. 2 - Straub, Jean-Marie [Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, The (1968) #850 ] ..3466
163. 3 - Jarmusch, Jim [Stranger Than Paradise (1984) #628 ] ..3426
164. 3 - Sembene, Ousmane [Moolaadé (2004) #617 ] ..3419
165. 1 - Singer, Bryan [Usual Suspects, The (1995) #169 ] ..3410
166. 2 - Sturges, John [Great Escape, The (1963) #294 ] ..3398
167. 1 - Burnett, Charles [Killer of Sheep (1977) #173 ] ..3367
168. 2 - Flaherty, Robert [Nanook of the North (1922) #443 ] ..3362
169. 2 - Aronofsky, Darren [Requiem for a Dream (2000) #459 ] ..3340
170. 2 - Meyer, Russ [Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) 315 ] ..3322
171. 2 - Ashby, Hal [Harold and Maude (1971) #346 ] ..3310
172. 2 - Riefenstahl, Leni [Triumph of the Will (1935) #453 ] ..3310
173. 3 - Malle, Louis [Atlantic City (1980) #489 ] ..3290
174. 1 - Ramis, Harold [Groundhog Day (1993) #182 ] ..3262
175. 1 - Hopper, Dennis [Easy Rider (1969) #190 ] ..3190
176. 3 - Burton, Tim [Ed Wood (1994) #724 ] ..3188
177. 1 - Meirelles, Fernando [City of God(2002) #191 ] ..3188
178. 2 - Walsh, Raoul [White Heat (1949) #322 ] ..3152
179. 1 - Shaffner, Frank [Patton (1970) #202 ] ..3105
180. 1 - Pollack, Sydney [Tootsie (1982) #212 ] ..3049
181. 2 - Parajanov, Sergei [Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) #510 ] ..3030
182. 1 - Avildsen, John G. [Rocky (1976) #223 ] ..2938
183. 1 - Wachowski, Andy & Larry Wachowski [Matrix, The (1999) #224 ] ..2932
184. 2 - Stone, Oliver [Platoon (1986) #390 ] ..2920
185. 1 - Gondry, Michael [Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) #225 ] ..2915
186. 1 - Kelly, Richard [Donnie Darko (2001) #226 ] ..2908
187. 1 - Mann, Michael [Heat (1995) #227 ] ..2904
188. 1 - Gance, Abel [Napoléon (1927) #230 ] ..2888
189. 2 - Tarr, Béla [Sátántangó (1994) #547 ] ..2886
190. 1 - McTiernan, John [Die Hard (1988) #241 ] ..2802
191. 1 - Peterson, Wolfgang [Das Boot (1981) #243 ] ..2798
192. 1 - Hooper, Tobe [Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (1974) #246 ] ..2780
193. 1 - Dovzhenko, Alexander [Earth (1930) #247 ] ..2774
194. 1 - Wise, Robert/Jerome Robbins [West Side Story (1961) #251 ] ..2742
195. 1 - Erice, Victor [Spirit of the Beehive, The (1973) #257 ] ..2688
196. 2 - Chen Kaige [Farewell, My Concubine (1993) #452 ] ..2678
197. 1 - Feuillade, Louis [Les Vampires (1915-16) #262 ] ..2666
198. 2 - Ritchie, Guy [Snatch (2000) #607 ] ..2624
199. 1 - Bogdanovich, Peter [Last Picture Show, The (1971) #278 ] ..2612
200. 1 - Attenborough, Richard [Gandhi (1982) #281 ] ..2598
201. 1 - Sandrich, Mark [Top Hat (1935) #285 ] ..2572
202. 2 - Edwards, Blake [Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) #596 ] ..2560
203. 1 - Schlesinger, John [Midnight Cowboy (1969) #289 ] ..2558
204. 2 - von Trier, Lars [Breaking the Waves (1996) #445 ] ..2548
205. 2 - Schnabel, Julian [Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2008) #439 ] ..2541
206. 2 - Jennings, Humphrey [Listen to Britain (1941) #563 ] ..2500
207. 1 - Clément, René [Forbidden Games (1951) #302 ] ..2488
208. 2 - Zwigoff, Terry [Crumb (1994) #611 ] ..2482
209. 2 - Wellman, William A. [Ox-Bow Incident, The (1943) #461 ] ..2478
210. 2 - Cantet, Laurent [Class, The (2008) #598 ] ..2475
211. 1 - Rafelson, Bob [Five Easy Pieces (1970) #305 ] ..2474
212. 2 - Sjöström, Victor [Wind, The (1928) #512 ] ..2466
213. 2 - Dutt, Guru [Pyaasa (1957) #561 ] ..2416
214. 1 - Egoyan, Atom [Sweet Hereafter, The (1997) #314 ] ..2398
215. 1 - Jewison, Norman [In the Heat of the Night (1967) #320 ] ..2376
216. 1 - Takahata, Isao [Hotaru no Hakaa (Grave/Fireflies, 1988) #319 ] ..2376
217. 1 - Wiene, Robert [Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (1919) #321 ] ..2372
218. 2 - Forsyth, Bill [Local Hero (1983) #535 ] ..2362
219. 1 - Méliès, Georges [Voyage dans la lune, Le (Trip to the Moon, 1902) #330 ] ..2348
220. 2 - Loach, Ken [Kes (1969) #526 ] ..2344
221. 1 - Aldrich, Robert [Kiss Me Deadly (1955) #336 ] ..2312
222. 1 - Wood, Sam [Night at the Opera, A (1935) #337 ] ..2312
223. 2 - Becker, Jacques [Casque d'or (1952) #543 ] ..2282
224. 2 - Soderbergh, Steve [sex, lies, and videotape (1989) #666 ] ..2280
225. 2 - Ichikawa, Kon [An Actor's Revenge (1963) 601 ] ..2278
226. 1 - Levinson, Barry [Diner (1982) #341 ] ..2276
227. 2 - Anderson, Lindsay [If… (1968) #534 ] ..2244
228. 1 - Argento, Dario [Suspiria (1977) #345 ] ..2234
229. 2 - Kalatozishvili, Mikheil [I Am Cuba (1964) #639 ] ..2186
230. 2 - Kusturica, Emir [Underground (1995) #760 ] ..2184
231. 1 - Payne, Alexander [Sideways (2004) #352 ] ..2182
232. 2 - Crowe, Cameron [Almost Famous (2000) #677 ] ..2140
233. 1 - Bacon, Lloyd [42nd Street (1933) #368 ] ..2098
234. 1 - Park Chan-Wook [Oldboy (2003) #370 ] ..2094
235. 2 - Park, Nick & Box, Steve [Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) #821 ] ..2050
236. 2 - Pudovkin, Vsevolod [Storm Over Asia (1928) #757 ] ..2026
237. 2 - Anderson, Wes [Rushmore (1998) #539 ] ..1987
238. 1 - Coppola, Sofia [Lost in Translation (2003) #389 ] ..1981
239. 1 - Rosenberg, Stuart [Cool Hand Luke (1967) #392 ] ..1974
240. 1 - Franju, Georges [Eyes Without a Face (1959) #393 ] ..1972
241. 1 - Denis, Claire [Beau Travail (1998) #395 ] ..1964
242. 2 - Van Sant, Gus [Good Will Hunting (1997) #796 ] ..1956
243. 1 - Olmi, Ermanno [Tree of Wooden Clogs, The (1978) #398 ] ..1956
244. 1 - Brooks, Mel [Producers, The (1968) #400 ] ..1952
245. 1 - Jonze, Spike [Being John Malkovich (1999) #402 ] ..1950
246. 1 - Olivier, Laurence [Henry V (1944) #403 ] ..1946
247. 2 - Linklater, Richard [Before Sunset (2004) #669 ] ..1936
248. 1 - Jordan, Neil [Crying Game, The (1992) #408 ] ..1912
249. 1 - Besson, Luc [Léon (1994) #416 ] ..1864
250. 1 - Eustache, Jean [Mother and the Whore, The (1973) #419 ] ..1858
251. 1 - Menzel, Jirí [Closely Watched Trains (1966) #422 ] ..1850
252. 2 - Varda, Agnès [Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) #822 ] ..1848
253. 1 - Beatty, Warren [Reds (1981) #424 ] ..1848
254. 1 - Kaye, Tony [American History X (1998) #423 ] ..1848
255. 1 - Mungiu, Cristian [4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) #425 ] ..1846
256. 1 - Pakula, Alan J. [All the President's Men (1972) #427 ] ..1840
257. 1 - Jeunet, Jean-Pierre [Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) #431 ] ..#824
258. 2 - Dardenne, Jean-Pierre & Luc [L'Enfant (The Child, 2005) #800 ] ..1815
259. 1 - Browning, Tod [Freaks (1932) #440 ] ..1788
260. 2 - Mann, Anthony [Man of the West (1958) #805 ] ..1780
261. 1 - Rapper, Irving [Now, Voyager (1942) #448 ] ..1764
262. 1 - Merielles, Ferdinand [Children of Men (2006) #455 ] ..1755
263. 1 - Cuarón, Alfonso [Y Tu Mamá También (2001) #467 ] ..1725
264. 2 - Maysles, Albert/David Maysles/Charlotte Zwerin [Salesman (1968) #792 ] ..1708
265. 2 - Morris, Errol [Fog of War, The (2003) #814 ] ..1702
266. 1 - Deren, Maya [Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) #474 ] ..1694
267. 1 - Oshima, Nagisa [In the Realm of the Senses (1976) #477 ] ..1688
268. 1 - Naruse, Mikio [Floating Clouds (1955) #481 ] ..1684
269. 1 - Hirschbiegel, Oliver [Downfall (2004) #482 ] ..1680
270. 1 - Reisz, Karel [Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) #483 ] ..1676
271. 1 - Inarritu, Alejandro Gonzalez [Amores perros (2000) #488 ] ..1668
272. 1 - Ulmer, Edgar G. [Detour (1945) #492 ] ..1660
273. 1 - Begnini, Roberto [Life is Beautiful (1997) #493 ] ..1656
274. 1 - Rosi, Francesco [Salvatore Giuliano (1961) #494 ] ..1656
275. 1 - Berlanga, Luis García [Verdugo, El (1963) #496 ] ..1648
276. 1 - Minghella, Anthony [English Patient, The (1996) #501 ] ..1624
277. 2 - Ghobadi, Bahman [Marooned in Iraq (2002) #854 ] ..1620
278. 1 - Rodgriguez, Robert [Sin City (2005) #502 ] ..1608
279. 1 - Gibson, Mel [Braveheart (1995) #508 ] ..1592
280. 1 - George, Terry [Hotel Rwanda (2004) #514 ] ..1584
281. 1 - McLeod, Norman Z. [It's a Gift (1934) #525 ] ..1566
282. 1 - Marquand, Richard [Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) #531 ] ..1552
283. 1 - Pennebaker, D.A. [Don't Look Back (1967) #545 ] ..1518
284. 1 - Kaufman, Philip [Right Stuff, The (1983) #550 ] ..1510
285. 1 - La Cava, Gregory [My Man Godfrey (1936) #552 ] ..1504
286. 1 - Kuchar, George [Hold Me While I'm Naked (1966) 557 ] ..1490
287. 1 - Klimov, Elem [Come and See (1985) #558 ] ..1488
288. 1 - Losey, Joseph [Servant, The (1963) #560 ] ..1484
289. 1 - Madden, John [Shakespeare in Love (1998) #564 ] ..1478
290. 1 - Warhol, Andy [Chelsea Girls (1967) #565 ] ..1474
291. 1 - Anger, Kenneth [Scorpio Rising (1964) #567 ] ..1470
292. 1 - Alea, Tomás Gutiérrez [Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) #574 ] ..1450
293. 1 - Hicks, Scott [Shine (1996) #575 ] ..1447
294. 1 - Shyamalan, M. Knight [Sixth Sense, The (1999) #578 ] ..1444
295. 1 - Kramer, Stanley [Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) #584 ] ..1432
296. 1 - Lewis, Joseph H. [Gun Crazy (Deadly is the Female, 1950) #583 ] ..1432
297. 1 - Richardson, Tony [Tom Jones (1963) #585 ] ..1432
298. 1 - Schroeder, Barbet [Reversal of Fortune (1990) #588 ] ..1425
299. 1 - Penn, Sean [Into the Wild (2007) #589 ] ..1424
300. 1 - Miller, George [Mad Max 2 (1981) #591 ] ..1420
301. 1 - Ghatak, Ritwik [Cloud-Capped Star, The (1960) #595 ] ..1402
302. 1 - Mamoulian, Rouben [Love Me Tonight (1932) #600 ] ..1392
303. 1 - Makhmalbaf, Mohsen [Moment of Innocence, A (1996) #608 ] ..1378
304. 1 - Chabrol, Claude [Le Boucher (1970) #612 ] ..1372
305. 1 - Tarr, Bela & Hranitzky, Agnes [Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) #614 ] ..1370
306. 1 - Hallström, Lasse [My Life as a Dog (1985) #621 ] ..1360
307. 1 - Kunuk, Zacharias [Fast Runner, The (2001) #620 ] ..1360
308. 1 - Chomet, Sylvain [Triplets of Belleville, The (2003) #626 ] ..1350
309. 1 - Hellman, Monte [Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) #630 ] ..1332
310. 1 - Allers, Roger & Minkoff, Robert [Lion King, The (1994) #632 ] ..1324
311. 1 - Folman, Ari [Waltz with Bashir (2008) #635 ] ..1320
312. 1 - Raimi, Sam [Evil Dead II (1987) #641 ] ..1306
313. 1 - Duras, Marguerite [India Song (1975) #643 ] ..1304
314. 1 - McTeigue, James [V for Vendetta (2005) #644 ] ..1304
315. 1 - Davies, Terence [Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) #649 ] ..1290
316. 1 - Coster, Henry [Harvey (1950) #650 ] ..1288
317. 1 - Hu, King [Touch of Zen, A (1969) #662 ] ..1266
318. 1 - Fei Mu [Spring in a Small Town (1948) #676 ] ..1242
319. 1 - Jones, Terry [Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) #678 ] ..1240
320. 1 - Alfredson, Tomas [Let the Right One In (2008) #680 ] ..1236
321. 1 - Berman, Shari, and Pulcini, Robert [American Splendor (2003) #681 ] ..1235
322. 1 - Genet, Jean [Chant d'amour, Un (1950) #682 ] ..1232
323. 1 - Russell, Ken [Devils, The (aka ..of Loudun, 1971) #685 ] ..1228
324. 1 - Jarecki, Andrew [Capturing the Friedmans (2003) #691 ] ..1215
325. 1 - Paronnaud, Vincent & Satrapi, Marjane [Persepolis (2007) #695 ] ..1210
326. 1 - Giordana, Marco Tullio [Best of Youth, The (2003) #701 ] ..1200
327. 1 - McDonagh, Martin [In Bruges (2008) #709 ] ..1188
328. 1 - Woo, John [Killer, The (1989) #710 ] ..1186
329. 1 - Chambers, Jack [Hart of London, The (1970) #712 ] ..1180
330. 1 - Marsh, James [Man on Wire (2008) #713 ] ..1180
331. 1 - Charles, Larry [Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) #714 ] ..1175
332. 1 - Bahrani, Ramin [Goodbye Solo (2008) #717 ] ..1170
333. 1 - Duvivier, Julien [Pépé le Moko (1937) #720 ] ..1168
334. 1 - Getino, Octavio & Fernando E. Solanas [Hour of the Furnaces, The (1968) #722 ] ..1164
335. 1 - Bigelow, Kathryn [Hurt Locker, The (2008) #725 ] ..1160
336. 1 - Ferguson, Charles [No End in Sight (2007) #732 ] ..1150
337. 1 - Clayton, Jack [Innocents, The (1961) #745 ] ..1128
338. 1 - Carney, John [Once (2006) #747 ] ..1125
339. 1 - Donner, Richard [Superman: The Movie (1978) #751 ] ..1120
340. 1 - Newmeyer, Fred C. & Taylor, Sam [Safety Last! (1923) #750 ] ..1120
341. 1 - Haggis, Paul [Crash (2004/I) #753 ] ..1116
342. 1 - Rouch, Jean [Maîtres fous, Les (1955) #754 ] ..1116
343. 1 - Dos Santos, Nelson Pereira [Barren Lives (1963) #755 ] ..1112
344. 1 - Chytilová, Vera [Daisies (1966) #759 ] ..1106
345. 1 - Dvortsevoy, Sergei [Tulpan (2008) #761 ] ..1100
346. 1 - Ophüls, Marcel [Hôtel Terminus (1988) #762 ] ..1098
347. 1 - Miller, Bennett [Capote (2005) #763 ] ..1095
348. 1 - Cooper, Stuart [Overlord (1975) #765 ] ..1090
349. 1 - Hughes, John [Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) #768 ] ..1086
350. 1 - Pialat, Maurice [Van Gogh (1991) #771 ] ..1082
351. 1 - Polley, Sarah [Away from Her (2006) #777 ] ..1070
352. 1 - Hodges, Mike [Get Carter (1971) #781 ] ..1062
353. 1 - Potter, H.C. [Hellzapoppin' (1941) #784 ] ..1058
354. 1 - Dayton, Jonathan & Faris, Valerie [Little Miss Sunshine (2006) #788 ] ..1048
355. 1 - Vidor, Charles [Gilda (1946) #790 ] ..1046
356. 1 - Zwick, Edward [Glory (1989) #791 ] ..1044
357. 1 - Nyby, Christian/Howard Hawks [Thing from Another World, The (1951) #793 ] ..1040
358. 1 - Koreeda, Hirokazu [Nobody Knows (2004) #797 ] ..1035
359. 1 - Armstrong, Gillian [Little Women (1994) #803 ] ..1025
360. 1 - Barnet, Boris [Outskirts (Okraina, 1933) #809 ] ..1020
361. 1 - Taviani, Paolo & Vittorio Taviani [Night of the Shooting Stars, The (1982) #808 ] ..1020
362. 1 - Garrone, Matteo [Gomorra (2008) #811 ] ..1015
363. 1 - Redford, Robert [Quiz Show (1994) #816 ] ..1005
364. 1 - Ivory, James [Howards End (1992) #818 ] ..1000
365. 1 - Kitano, Takeshi [Hana-Bi (1997) #825 ] ..986
366. 1 - Marston, Joshua [Maria Full of Grace (2004) #826 ] ..985
367. 1 - Fuller, Sam [Pickup on South Street (1953) #828 ] ..984
368. 1 - Reitz, Edgar [Heimat (Homeland: A German Chronicle, 1984) #829 ] ..982
369. 1 - Koltai, Lajos [Fateless (2005) #830 ] ..980
370. 1 - Brest, Martin [Midnight Run (1988) #833 ] ..972
371. 1 - LeRoy, Mervyn [I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) #836 ] ..966
372. 1 - Jacobs, Ken [Tom, Tom the Piper's Son (1969) #838 ] ..964
373. 1 - Caouette, Jonathan [Tarnation (2003) #841 ] ..960
374. 1 - Rubin, Henry Alex & Shapiro, Dana Adam [Murderball (2005) #844 ] ..955
375. 1 - Carax, Lèos [Amants du Pont-Neuf, Les (1991) #858 ] ..926
376. 1 - Schlöndorff, Volker [Tin Drum, The (1979) #859 ] ..920
377. 2 - Van Dyke II, W.S. [Thin Man, The (1934) #995 ] ..912
378. 1 - Syberberg, Hans-Jürgen [Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977) #864 ] ..910
379. 1 - Teshigahara, Hiroshi [Woman in the Dunes (1964) #865 ] ..908
380. 1 - Apted, Michael [42 UP (1998) #867 ] ..905
381. 1 - Solondz, Todd [Happiness (1998) #871 ] ..900
382. 1 - Philibert, Nicolas [To Be and to Have (2002) #879 ] ..885
383. 1 - Pierce, Kimberly [Boys Don't Cry (1999) #883 ] ..875
384. 1 - de Oliveira, Manoel [I'm Going Home (2001) #890 ] ..865
385. 1 - Haynes, Todd [Safe (1995) #891 ] ..864
386. 1 - Amrohi, Kamal [Pakeezah (1972) #892 ] ..862
387. 1 - Field, Todd [In the Bedroom (2001) #894 ] ..860
388. 1 - Jancsó, Miklós [Round-Up, The (Szegénylegények, 1966) #896 ] ..856
389. 1 - Palcy, Euzhan [Sugar Cane Alley (Rue case negres, 1983) #901 ] ..846
390. 1 - Provost, Martin [Seraphine (2008) #902 ] ..845
391. 1 - Peixoto, Mario [Limite (1931) #906 ] ..836
392. 1 - Sokurov, Aleksandr [Russian Ark (2002) #907 ] ..835
393. 1 - Costa-Gavras, Constantin [Z (1969) #910 ] ..832
394. 1 - Berg, Amy [Deliver Us from Evil (2006) #911 ] ..830
395. 1 - Hamilton, Guy [Goldfinger (1964) #912 ] ..830
396. 1 - Potter, Sally [Orlando (1992) #917 ] ..822
397. 1 - Monicelli, Mario [Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) #918 ] ..818
398. 1 - Ozon, Francois [Under the Sand (2000) #921 ] ..815
399. 1 - Hathaway, Henry [Peter Ibbetson (1935) #923 ] ..812
400. 1 - Brakhage, Stan [Art of Vision, The (1965) #926 ] ..808
401. 1 - Meadows, Shane [This Is England (2006) #930 ] ..795
402. 1 - Hudson, Hugh [Chariots of Fire (1981) #935 ] ..784
403. 1 - Suzuki, Seijun [Branded to Kill (1967) #941 ] ..768
404. 1 - Davis, Andrew [Fugitive, The (1993) #944 ] ..760
405. 1 - Workman, Chuck [Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film (1991) #949 ] ..755
406. 1 - Cissé, Souleymane [Yeelen (1987) #952 ] ..752
407. 1 - Lerner, Irving [Murder by Contract (1958) #954 ] ..750
408. 1 - Bava, Mario [Black Sunday (1977) #958 ] ..744
409. 1 - Lonergan, Kenneth [You Can Count On Me (2000) #963 ] ..735
410. 1 - Badham, John [Saturday Night Fever (1977) #965 ] ..734
411. 1 - Belzberg, Edet [Children Underground (2001) #971 ] ..720
412. 1 - Akin, Fatih [Edge of Heaven, The (2007) #974 ] ..715
413. 1 - Leisen, Mitchell [Midnight (1939) #976 ] ..712
414. 1 - Cline, Edward F. [Bank Dick, The (1940) #977 ] ..710
415. 1 - Jenkins, Tamara [Savages, The (2007) #978 ] ..710
416. 1 - Feyder, Jacques [Carnival in Flanders (1935) #979 ] ..706
417. 1 - Butler, George [Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, The (2000) #980 ] ..705
418. 1 - Crichton, Charles [Fish Called Wanda, A (1988) #981 ] ..702
419. 1 - Panahi, Jafar [Offside (2006) #983 ] ..700
420. 1 - Andersen, Thom [Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) #986 ] ..695
421. 1 - Apatow, Judd [Knocked Up (2007) #990 ] ..690
422. 1 - Smith, Jack [Flaming Creatures (1963) #989 ] ..690
423. 1 - Smeaton & Cvitanovich [Festival Express (2003) #997 ] ..680
424. 1 - Ki-duk Kim [Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003) #1001 ] ..675
425. 1 - Benton, Robert [Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) #1003 ] ..672
426. 1 - Fleck, Ryan [Half Nelson (2006) #1006 ] ..670
427. 1 - Sautet, Claude [Coeur en hiver, Un (1992) #1005 ] ..670
428. 1 - Szabó, István [Mephisto (1981) #1008 ] ..666
429. 1 - Curry, Marshall [Street Fight (2005) #1010 ] ..665
430. 1 - Gannon, Russell [Last Letter, The (2004) #1011 ] ..655