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]
- Godfather, The (1972) - Coppola, Francis
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Kubrick, Stanley
- Chinatown (1974) - Polanski, Roman
- Star Wars (1978) - Lucas, George
- Citizen Kane (1941) - Welles, Orson
- Vertigo (1958) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- Seven Samurai, The (1954) - Kurosawa, Akira
- Psycho (1960) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- Godfather: Part II, The (1974) - Coppola, Francis
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - Capra, Frank
- M (1931) - Lang, Fritz
- Taxi Driver (1976) - Scorsese, Martin
- Blade Runner (1982) - Scott, Ridley
- Sunset Boulevard (1950) - Wilder, Billy
- Third Man, The (1948) - Reed, Carol
- Bicycle Thief, The (1949) - De Sica, Vittorio
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) -Kubrick, Stanley
- Wizard of Oz, The (1939) - Fleming, Victor
- North by Northwest (1959) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- Pulp Fiction (1995) - Tarantino, Quentin
- City Lights (1931) - Chaplin, Charles
- Rashomon (1950) - Kurosawa, Akira
- Metropolis (1927) - Lang, Fritz
- Raging Bull (2000) - Scorsese, Martin
- Apocalypse Now (1979) - Coppola, Francis
- Singin' in the Rain (1952) - Donen, Stanley/Gene Kelly
- Schindler's List (1993) - Spielberg, Steven
- General, The (1927) - Keaton, Buster/Clyde Bruckman
- Seventh Seal, The (1956) - Bergman, Ingmar
- Touch of Evil (1958) - Welles, Orson
- Goodfellas (1990) - Scorsese, Martin
- Pather Panchali / Apu Trilogy I (1955) - Ray, Satyajit
- All About Eve (1950) - Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - Spielberg, Steven
- Night of The Hunter, The (1955) - Laughton, Charles
- Modern Times (1936) - Chaplin, Charles
- 8½ (1963) - Fellini, Federico
- Sunrise (1928) - Murnau, F.W.
- Gold Rush, The (1925) - Chaplin, Charles
- King Kong (1933) - Cooper, Merian C./Ernest B. Schoedsack
- Duck Soup (1933) - McCarey, Leo
- Notorious (1946) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) - Frankenheimer, John
- Rules of the Game, The (1939) - Renoir, Jean
- L.A. Confidential (1997) - Hanson, Curtis
- Searchers, The (1956) - Ford, John
- Casablanca (1942) - Curtiz, Michael
- Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) - Murnau, F.W.
- L'Atalante (1934) - Vigo, Jean
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Lean, David
- Passion of Joan of Arc, The (1928) - Dreyer, Carl Theodor
- Rear Window (1954) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- Umberto D (1952) - De Sica, Vittorio
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) - Forman, Milos
- Some Like it Hot (1959) - Wilder, Billy
- Double Indemnity (1944) - Wilder, Billy
- Tokyo Story (1953) - Ozu, Yasujiro
- Ugetsu (1953) - Mizoguchi, Kenji
- Jules et Jim (1961) - Truffaut, François
- 400 Blows, The (1959) - Truffaut, François
- Fargo (1996) - Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen
- Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948) - Huston, John
- Amadeus (1984) - Forman, Milos
- Intolerance (1916) - Griffith, D.W.
- Apartment, The (1960) - Wilder, Billy
- Jaws (1975) - Spielberg, Steven
- On the Waterfront (1954) - Kazan, Elia
- Birth of a Nation, The (1915) - Griffith, D.W.
- Clockwork Orange, A (1971) - Kubrick, Stanley
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) - Leone, Sergio
- Maltese Falcon, The (1941) - Huston, John
- Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) - Herzog, Werner
- Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, The (1966) - Leone, Sergio
- Contempt (1963) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942) - Welles, Orson
- Conformist, The (1970) - Bertolucci, Bernardo
- Annie Hall (1977) - Allen, Woody
- Man With a Movie Camera, The (1928) - Vertov, Dziga
- Greed (1924) - von Stroheim, Erich
- Gone with the Wind (1939) - Fleming, Victor
- Piano, The (1993) - Campion, Jane
- Toy Story (1995) - Lasseter, John
- Paths of Glory (1957) - Kubrick, Stanley
- Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) - Jackson, Peter
- Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957) - Lean, David
- Ran (1985) - Kurosawa, Akira
- Wild Bunch, The (1969) - Peckinpah, Sam
- Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (1972) - Buñuel, Luis
- Sherlock Jr. (1924) - Keaton, Buster
- Silence of the Lambs, The (1991) - Demme, Jonathan
- Unforgiven (1992) - Eastwood, Clint
- Lady Eve, The (1941) - Sturges, Preston
- Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) - Bresson, Robert
- It Happened One Night (1934) - Capra, Frank
- Grapes of Wrath, The (1940) - Ford, John
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) - Mulligan, Robert
- Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) - Jackson, Peter
- Alien (1979) - Scott, Ridley
- Dolce vita, La (1960) - Fellini, Federico
- Battleship Potemkin (1925) - Eisenstein, Sergei
- Barry Lyndon (1975) - Kubrick, Stanley
- Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946) - Wyler, William
- Gospel According to St. Matthew, The (1964) - Pasolini, Pier Paolo
- Shadow of a Doubt (1943) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - Penn, Arthur
- High Noon (1952) - Zinnemann, Fred
- Graduate, The (1967) - Nichols, Mike
- Wild Strawberries (1957) - Bergman, Ingmar
- Shining, The (1980) - Kubrick, Stanley
- Deer Hunter, The (1978) - Cimino, Michael
- Ordet (1955) - Dreyer, Carl
- Do The Right Thing (1989) - Lee, Spike
- La Strada (1954) - Fellini, Federico
- Ashes and Diamonds (1958) - Wajda, Andrzej
- Casino (1995) - Scorsese, Martin
- Saving Private Ryan (1998) - Spielberg, Steven
- Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) - Hamer, Robert
- Bringing Up Baby (1938) - Hawks, Howard
- Shoah (1985) - Lanzmann, Claude
- Conversation, The (1974) - Coppola, Francis
- Strangers on a Train (1951) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- Rebecca (1940) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- Big Sleep, The (1946) - Hawks, Howard
- 12 Angry Men (1957) - Lumet, Sidney
- Pickpocket (1959) - Bresson, Robert
- Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) - Lucas, George
- Brief Encounter (1945) - Lean, David
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - Capra, Frank
- Pierrot le fou (1965) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- His Girl Friday (1940) - Hawks, Howard
- Manhattan (1979) - Allen, Woody
- Battle of Algiers, The (1966) - Pontecorvo, Gillo
- Sweet Smell of Success (1957) - Mackendrick, Alexander
- Wages of Fear, The (1952) - Clouzot, Henri-Georges
- Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962) - Ford, John
- Nights of Cabiria (1957) - Fellini, Federico
- Ben-Hur (1959) - Wyler, William
- Great Dictator, The (1940) - Chaplin, Charles
- American Beauty (1999) - Mendes, Sam
- Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - Whale, James
- Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) - Rivette, Jacques
- Mean Streets (1973) - Scorsese, Martin
- Exorcist, The (1973) - Friedkin, William
- Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002) - Jackson, Peter
- Palm Beach Story, The (1942) - Sturges, Preston
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) - Akerman, Chantal
- Broken Blossoms (1919) - Griffith, D.W.
- Philadelphia Story, The (1940) - Cukor, George
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) - Hill, George Roy
- Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951) - Kazan, Elia
- Man Escaped, A (1956) - Bresson, Robert
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) - Lee, Ang
- Hustler, The (1961) - Rossen, Robert
- Pan's Labyrinth (2006) - del Toro, Guillermo
- Shawshank Redemption, The (1994) - Darabont, Frank
- Red Shoes, The (1948) - Powell, Michael/Emeric Pressburger
- Network (1976) - Lumet, Sidney
- Cinema Paradiso (1988) - Tornatore, Giuseppe
- Aliens (1986) - Cameron, James
- African Queen, The (1951) - Huston, John
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984) - Leone, Sergio
- Lives of Others, The (2006) - von Donnersmarck, Florian Henckel
- Diaboliques, Les (1955) - Clouzot, Henri-Georges
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) - Milestone, Lewis
- No Country for Old Men (2007) - Coen Ethan and Joel
- Paisan (1946) - Rossellini, Roberto
- Frankenstein (1931) - Whale, James
- Laura (1944) - Preminger, Otto
- Usual Suspects, The (1995) - Singer, Bryan
- Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938) - Curtiz, Michael/William Keighley
- Yojimbo (1961) - Kurosawa, Akira
- Rosemary's Baby (1968) - Polanski, Roman
- Killer of Sheep (1977) - Burnett, Charles
- Dog Day Afternoon (1975) - Lumet, Sidney
- Back to the Future (1985) - Zemeckis, Robert
- Woman Under the Influence, A (1974) - Cassavetes, John
- Spartacus (1960) - Kubrick, Stanley
- Breathless (1959) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- Great Expectations (1946) - Lean, David
- There Will Be Blood (2007) - Anderson, Paul Thomas
- WALL-E (2008) - Stanton, Andrew
- Groundhog Day (1993) - Ramis, Harold
- Enfants du paradis, Les (1945) - Carné, Marcel
- La Jetee (1961) - Marker, Chris
- Persona (1966) - Bergman, Ingmar
- Terminator, The (1984) - Cameron, James
- L'Avventura (1960) - Antonioni, Michelangelo
- Brazil (1985) - Gilliam, Terry
- Close-Up (1990) - Kiarostami, Abbas
- Easy Rider (1969) - Hopper, Dennis
- City of God(2002) - Meirelles, Fernando
- Nashville (1975) - Altman, Robert
- Elephant Man, The (1980) - Lynch, David
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) - Cameron, James
- Fanny and Alexander (1982) - Bergman, Ingmar
- Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) - Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
- Ikiru (1952) - Kurosawa, Akira
- Grande Illusion, La (1937) - Renoir, Jean
- Pianist, The (2002) - Polanski, Roman
- Reservoir Dogs (1991) - Tarantino, Quentin
- Performance (1970) - Roeg, Nicolas/Donald Cammell
- Patton (1970) - Shaffner, Frank
- Sansho the Bailiff (1954) - Mizoguchi, Kenji
- E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - Spielberg, Steven
- Forrest Gump (1994) - Zemeckis, Robert
- Full Metal Jacket (1987) - Kubrick, Stanley
- Thelma & Louise (1991) - Scott, Ridley
- Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) - Keaton, Buster/Charles F. Reisner
- Playtime (1967) - Tati, Jacques
- Scarface (1982) - De Palma, Brian
- Viridiana (1961) - Buñuel, Luis
- Tootsie (1982) - Pollack, Sydney
- Belle de jour (1967) - Buñuel, Luis
- Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1966) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- Last Year at Marienbad (1961) - Resnais, Alain
- L'Âge d'or (1930) - Buñuel, Luis
- World of Apu, The (1959) - Ray, Satyajit
- Stagecoach (1939) - Ford, John
- Golden Coach, The (1952) - Renoir, Jean
- Masculine-Feminine (1966) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- October (1927) - Eisenstein, Sergei
- Yi yi (2000) - Yang, Edward
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) - Gilliam, Terry/Terry Jones
- Rocky (1976) - Avildsen, John G.
- Matrix, The (1999) - Wachowski, Andy & Larry Wachowski
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - Gondry, Michael
- Donnie Darko (2001) - Kelly, Richard
- Heat (1995) - Mann, Michael
- Kid, The (1921) - Chaplin, Charles
- Blue Velvet (1986) - Lynch, David
- Napoléon (1927) - Gance, Abel
- My Darling Clementine (1946) - Ford, John
- Slumdog Millionaire (2008) - Boyle, Danny
- All That Heaven Allows (1955) - Sirk, Douglas
- Trouble in Paradise (1932) - Lubitsch, Ernst
- Dekalog (1988) - Kieslowski, Krszystof
- Out of the Past (1947) - Tourneur, Jacques
- Rocco and His Brothers (1964) - Visconti, Luchino
- Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) - Pasolini, Pier Paolo
- Ratatouille (2007) - Bird, Brad & Pinkava, Jan
- Belle et la bête, La (Beauty/Beast, 1946) - Cocteau, Jean
- Die Hard (1988) - McTiernan, John
- Blow-Up (1966) - Antonioni, Michelangelo
- Das Boot (1981) - Peterson, Wolfgang
- Sullivan's Travels (1941) - Sturges, Preston
- Wings of Desire (1987) - Wenders, Wim
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (1974) - Hooper, Tobe
- Earth (1930) - Dovzhenko, Alexander
- Diary of a Country Priest (1950) - Bresson, Robert
- Pandora's Box (1928) - Pabst, G.W.
- Red River (1948) - Hawks, Howard
- West Side Story (1961) - Wise, Robert/Jerome Robbins
- Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) - Allen, Woody
- To Be or Not to Be (1942) - Lubitsch, Ernst
- Throne of Blood (1957) - Kurosawa, Akira
- Spirited Away (2001) - Miyazaki, Hayao
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) - Hand, David
- Spirit of the Beehive, The (1973) - Erice, Victor
- Zero for Conduct (1933) - Vigo, Jean
- Wavelength (1967) - Snow, Michael
- Days of Heaven (1978) - Malick, Terrence
- Million Dollar Baby (2004) - Eastwood, Clint
- Les Vampires (1915-16) - Feuillade, Louis
- Solaris (1972) - Tarkovsky, Andrei
- Earrings of Madame de..., The (1953) - Ophuls, Max
- Leopard, The (1963) - Visconti, Luchino
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - Spielberg, Steven
- Badlands (1973) - Malick, Terrence
- In the Mood for Love (2001) - Wong Kar-Wai
- Blue Angel, The (1930) - von Sternberg, Josef
- Amarcord (1973) - Fellini, Federico
- Fight Club (1999) - Fincher, David
- Gertrud (1964) - Dreyer, Carl
- Week-End (1967) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) - Altman, Robert
- Matter of Life and Death, A (1946) - Powell, Michael/Emeric Pressburger
- Cabaret (1972) - Fosse, Bob
- Andrei Rublev (1966) - Tarkovsky, Andrei
- Last Picture Show, The (1971) - Bogdanovich, Peter
- Hiroshima mon amour (1959) - Resnais, Alain
- Rebel Without a Cause (1955) - Ray, Nicholas
- Gandhi (1982) - Attenborough, Richard
- Shane (1953) - Stevens, George
- All About My Mother (1999) - Almodóvar, Pedro
- Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The (1964) - Demy, Jacques
- Top Hat (1935) - Sandrich, Mark
- Day for Night (1973) - Truffaut, François
- Departed, The (2007) - Scorsese, Martin
- Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) - Minnelli, Vincente
- Midnight Cowboy (1969) - Schlesinger, John
- Lady Vanishes, The (1938) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- Army of Shadows (1969) - Melville, Jean-Pierre
- Anatomy of a Murder (1959) - Preminger, Otto
- Finding Nemo (2003) - Stanton, Andrew & Unkrich, Lee
- Great Escape, The (1963) - Sturges, John
- Incredibles, The (2004) - Bird, Brad
- Quiet Man, The (1952) - Ford, John
- Roman Holiday (1953) - Wyler, William
- Raise the Red Lantern (1991) - Zhang Yimou
- Rio Bravo (1959) - Hawks, Howard
- L'Eclisse (1962) - Antonioni, Michelangelo
- Don't Look Now (1973) - Roeg, Nicolas
- Forbidden Games (1951) - Clément, René
- Cries and Whispers (1972) - Bergman, Ingmar
- Lola Montès (1955) - Ophüls, Max
- Five Easy Pieces (1970) - Rafelson, Bob
- Five Easy Pieces (1970) - Rafelson, Bob
- Repulsion (1965) - Polanski, Roman
- Band Wagon, The (1953) - Minnelli, Vincente
- Aparajito (1956) - Ray, Satyajit
- Deliverance (1972) - Boorman, John
- Tristana (1970) - Buñuel, Luis
- Vampyr (1932) - Dreyer, Carl
- Written on the Wind (1956) - Sirk, Douglas
- Le Million (1931) - Clair, René
- Sweet Hereafter, The (1997) - Egoyan, Atom
- Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) - Meyer, Russ
- Landscape in the Mist (1988) - Angelopoulos, Theo
- Halloween (1978) - Carpenter, John
- Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951) - Wise, Robert
- Hotaru no Hakaa (Grave/Fireflies, 1988) - Takahata, Isao
- In the Heat of the Night (1967) - Jewison, Norman
- Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (1919) - Wiene, Robert
- White Heat (1949) - Walsh, Raoul
- Strike (1924) - Eisenstein, Sergei
- Killing, The (1956) - Kubrick, Stanley
- Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953) - Tati, Jacques
- Night of the Living Dead (1968) - Romero, George A.
- Hard Day's Night, A (1964) - Lester, Richard
- Star is Born, A (1954) - Cukor, George
- Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943) - Powell, Michael/Emeric Pressburger
- Voyage dans la lune, Le (Trip to the Moon, 1902) - Méliès, Georges
- Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) - Ophüls, Max
- Last Tango in Paris (1973) - Bertolucci, Bernardo
- Player, The (1992) - Altman, Robert
- Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) - Eastwood, Clint
- Johnny Guitar (1954) - Ray, Nicholas
- Kiss Me Deadly (1955) - Aldrich, Robert
- Night at the Opera, A (1935) - Wood, Sam
- Pinocchio (1940) - Sharpsteen, Ben & Hamilton Luske
- Ninotchka (1939) - Lubitsch, Ernst
- 39 Steps, The (1935) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- Diner (1982) - Levinson, Barry
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) - Siegel, Don
- Boogie Nights (1997) - Anderson, Paul Thomas
- Asphalt Jungle, The (1950) - Huston, John
- Suspiria (1977) - Argento, Dario
- Harold and Maude (1971) - Ashby, Hal
- Senso (1954) - Visconti, Luchino
- Birds, The (1963) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- Dead Ringers (1988) - Cronenberg, David
- American Graffiti (1973) - Lucas, George
- Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1944) - Eisenstein, Sergei
- Sideways (2004) - Payne, Alexander
- Trainspotting (1995) - Boyle, Danny
- Memento (2000) - Nolan, Christopher
- Crowd, The (1928) - Vidor, King
- Notte, La (1961) - Antonioni, Michelangelo
- Orpheus (1950) - Cocteau, Jean
- Fantasia (1940) - Sharpsteen, Ben
- In a Lonely Place (1950) - Ray, Nicholas
- Peeping Tom (1960) - Powell, Michael
- Sound of Music, The (1965) - Wise, Robert
- Bourne Ultimatum, The (2007) - Greengrass, Paul
- Los Olvidados (1950) - Buñuel, Luis
- Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) - Allen, Woody
- Alexander Nevsky (1938) - Eisenstein, Sergei
- Sting, The (1973) - Hill, George Roy
- King of Comedy, The (1982) - Scorsese, Martin
- 42nd Street (1933) - Bacon, Lloyd
- Awful Truth, The (1937) - McCarey, Leo
- Oldboy (2003) - Park Chan-Wook
- Princess Bride, The (1987) - Reiner, Rob
- Mirror, The (1976) - Tarkovsky, Andrei
- À nous la liberté (1931) - Clair, René
- How Green Was My Valley (1941) - Ford, John
- Madame de… (1953) - Ophüls, Max
- Secrets & Lies (1996) - Leigh, Mike
- Big Lebowski, The (1998) - Coen, Ethan and Joel
- Voyage in Italy (1953) - Rossellini, Roberto
- Red Desert (1964) - Antonioni, Michelangelo
- M*A*S*H (1970) - Altman, Robert
- Âge d'or, L' (1930) - Buñuel, Luis
- Paris, Texas (1984) - Wenders, Wim
- Imitation of Life (1959) - Sirk, Douglas
- Rome, Open City (1945) - Rossellini, Roberto
- Shoot the Piano Player (1960) - Truffaut, François
- Lola (1961) - Demy, Jacques
- Gladiator (2000) - Scott, Ridley
- Olvidados, Los (1950) - Buñuel, Luis
- Lost in Translation (2003) - Coppola, Sofia
- Platoon (1986) - Stone, Oliver
- Dark Knight, The (2008) - Nolan, Christopher
- Cool Hand Luke (1967) - Rosenberg, Stuart
- Eyes Without a Face (1959) - Franju, Georges
- Doctor Zhivago (1965) - Lean, David
- Beau Travail (1998) - Denis, Claire
- Vivre sa vie (1963) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- Exterminating Angel, The (1962) - Buñuel, Luis
- Tree of Wooden Clogs, The (1978) - Olmi, Ermanno
- Chimes at Midnight (1966) - Welles, Orson
- Producers, The (1968) - Brooks, Mel
- Stalker (1979) - Tarkovsky, Andrei
- Being John Malkovich (1999) - Jonze, Spike
- Henry V (1944) - Olivier, Laurence
- To Have and Have Not (1944) - Hawks, Howard
- Shadows (1959) - Cassavetes, John
- Black Narcissus (1946) - Powell, Michael/Emeric Pressburger
- Mon oncle (1958) - Tati, Jacques
- Crying Game, The (1992) - Jordan, Neil
- Lost Weekend, The (1945) - Wilder, Billy
- Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (1946) - Eisenstein, Sergei
- Partie de campagne (1936) - Renoir, Jean
- Double Life of Veronique, The (1991) - Kieslowski, Krszystof
- Travelling Players, The (1975) - Angelopoulos, Theo
- Se7en (1995) - Fincher, David
- Chien andalou, Un (1928) - Buñuel, Luis
- Léon (1994) - Besson, Luc
- Faces (1968) - Cassavetes, John
- Monsieur Verdoux (1947) - Chaplin, Charles
- Mother and the Whore, The (1973) - Eustache, Jean
- Last Laugh (1924) - Murnau, F.W.
- Marriage of Maria Braun, The (1979) - Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
- Closely Watched Trains (1966) - Menzel, Jirí
- American History X (1998) - Kaye, Tony
- Reds (1981) - Beatty, Warren
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) - Mungiu, Cristian
- Place in the Sun, A (1951) - Stevens, George
- All the President's Men (1972) - Pakula, Alan J.
- Death in Venice (1971) - Visconti, Luchino
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1971) - Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
- Thief of Bagdad, The (1940) - Powell, Michael/Ludwig Berger/Tim Whelan
- Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) - Jeunet, Jean-Pierre
- Late Spring (1949) - Ozu, Yasujiro
- An American in Paris (1951) - Minnelli, Vincente
- Music Room, The (1958) - Ray, Satyajit
- My Fair Lady (1964) - Cukor, George
- Scarface (1932) - Hawks, Howard
- Argent, L' (1983) - Bresson, Robert
- French Connection, The (1971) - Friedkin, William
- Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2008) - Schnabel, Julian
- Freaks (1932) - Browning, Tod
- Mildred Pierce (1945) - Curtiz, Michael
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) - Nichols, Mike
- Nanook of the North (1922) - Flaherty, Robert
- Swing Time (1936) - Stevens, George
- Breaking the Waves (1996) - von Trier, Lars
- Tabu (1931) - Murnau, F.W.
- Only Angels Have Wings (1939) - Hawks, Howard
- Now, Voyager (1942) - Rapper, Irving
- River, The (1951) - Renoir, Jean
- Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) - -anime Miyazaki, Hayao
- Brokeback Mountain (2005) - Lee, Ang
- Farewell, My Concubine (1993) - Chen Kaige
- Triumph of the Will (1935) - Riefenstahl, Leni
- Night and Fog (1955) - Resnais, Alain
- Children of Men (2006) - Merielles, Ferdinand
- Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) - Bergman, Ingmar
- Dead, The (1987) - Huston, John
- Story of the Late Chrysanthemums, The (1939) - Mizoguchi, Kenji
- Requiem for a Dream (2000) - Aronofsky, Darren
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) - Almodóvar, Pedro
- Ox-Bow Incident, The (1943) - Wellman, William A.
- Sans soleil (1983) - Marker, Chris
- Big Heat, The (1953) - Lang, Fritz
- Germany, Year Zero (1947) - Rossellini, Roberto
- Shop Around the Corner, The (1940) - Lubitsch, Ernst
- Crime of Monsieur Lange, The (1936) - Renoir, Jean
- Y Tu Mamá También (2001) - Cuarón, Alfonso
- Samouraï, Le (1967) - Melville, Jean-Pierre
- This is Spinal Tap (1984) - Reiner, Rob
- Passenger, The (1975) - Antonioni, Michelangelo
- Point Blank (1967) - Boorman, John
- Gran Torino (2008) - Eastwood, Clint
- Miracle in Milan (1951) - De Sica, Vittorio
- Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) - Deren, Maya
- Mulholland Dr. (2001) - Lynch, David
- Odd Man Out (1947( Reed, Carol
- In the Realm of the Senses (1976) - Oshima, Nagisa
- Life of Oharu, The (1952) - Mizoguchi, Kenji
- Queen, The (2006) - Frears, Stephen
- All That Jazz (1979) - Fosse, Bob
- Floating Clouds (1955) - Naruse, Mikio
- Downfall (2004) - Hirschbiegel, Oliver
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) - Reisz, Karel
- Prestige, The (2006) - Nolan, Christopher
- Day of Wrath (1943) - Dreyer, Carl
- Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler (1922) - Lang, Fritz
- 1900 (1976) - Bertolucci, Bernardo
- Amores perros (2000) - Inarritu
- Atlantic City (1980) - Malle, Louis
- Kings of the Road (1976) - Wenders, Wim
- Mouchette (1966) - Bresson, Robert
- Detour (1945) - Ulmer, Edgar G.
- Life is Beautiful (1997) - Begnini, Roberto
- Salvatore Giuliano (1961) - Rosi, Francesco
- That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) - Buñuel, Luis
- Verdugo, El (1963) - Berlanga, Luis García
- My Night at Maud's (1969) - Rohmer, Eric
- Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) - McCarey, Leo
- Talk to Her (2002) - Almodóvar, Pedro
- Time to Live and the Time to Die, The (1985) - Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- English Patient, The (1996) - Minghella, Anthony
- Sin City (2005) - Rodgriguez, Robert
- Scarlet Empress, The (1934) - von Sternberg, Josef
- Rope (1948) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- My Life to Live (Vivre sa vie) - (1962) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- Taste of Cherry, A (1997) - Kiarostami, Abbas
- Wrestler, The (2008) - Aronofsky, Darren
- Braveheart (1995) - Gibson, Mel
- City of Sadness, A (1989) - Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) - Parajanov, Sergei
- Wind Will Carry Us, The (1999) - Kiarostami, Abbas
- Wind, The (1928) - Sjöström, Victor
- Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932) - Renoir, Jean
- Hotel Rwanda (2004) - George, Terry
- Cat People (1942) - Tourneur, Jacques
- High and Low (1963) - Kurosawa, Akira
- Batman Begins (2005) - Nolan, Christopher
- Man of Aran (1934) - Flaherty, Robert
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) - Spielberg, Steven
- El (1952) - Buñuel, Luis
- Carrie (1976) - De Palma, Brian
- Navigator, The (1924) - Keaton, Buster/Donald Crisp
- Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The (1972) - Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
- F for Fake (1973) - Welles, Orson
- It's a Gift (1934) - McLeod, Norman Z.
- Kes (1969) - Loach, Ken
- Wedding March, The (1928) - von Stroheim, Erich
- Black God, White Devil (1964) - Rocha, Glauber
- Green Mile, The (1999) - Darabont, Frank
- Charulata (1964) - Ray, Satyajit
- Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) - Marquand, Richard
- Olympia (1938) - Riefenstahl, Leni
- Chungking Express (1994) - Wong Kar-Wai
- If… (1968) - Anderson, Lindsay
- Local Hero (1983) - Forsyth, Bill
- Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) - Capra, Frank
- Canterbury Tale, A (1944) - Powell, Michael/Emeric Pressburger
- In a Year with 13 Moons (1978) - Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
- Rushmore (1998) - Anderson, Wes
- For a Few Dollars More (1965) - Leone, Sergio
- Marnie (1964) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- Cameraman, The (1928) - Keaton, Buster/Edward Sedgwick
- Casque d'or (1952) - Becker, Jacques
- Long Goodbye, The (1973) - Altman, Robert
- Don't Look Back (1967) - Pennebaker, D.A.
- Dirty Harry (1971) - Siegel, Don
- Sátántangó (1994) - Tarr, Béla
- Providence (1977) - Resnais, Alain
- East of Eden (1955) - Kazan, Elia
- Right Stuff, The (1983) - Kaufman, Philip
- Accattone (1961) - Pasolini, Pier Paolo
- My Man Godfrey (1936) - La Cava, Gregory
- Loves of a Blonde (1965) - Forman, Milos
- Dawn of the Dead (1978) - Romero, George A.
- Mononoke-hime (1997) - - anime Miyazaki, Hayao
- Superman II (1980) - Lester, Richard
- Hold Me While I'm Naked (1966) - Kuchar, George
- Come and See (1985) - Klimov, Elem
- Witness for the Prosecution (1957) - Wilder, Billy
- Servant, The (1963) - Losey, Joseph
- Pyaasa (1957) - Dutt, Guru
- Rise of Louis XIV, The (1966) - Rossellini, Roberto
- Listen to Britain (1941) - Jennings, Humphrey
- Shakespeare in Love (1998) - Madden, John
- Chelsea Girls (1967) - Warhol, Andy
- Fitzcarraldo (1982) - Herzog, Werner
- Scorpio Rising (1964) - Anger, Kenneth
- Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The (1976) - Cassavetes, John
- Our Hospitality (1923) - Keaton, Buster/John Blystone
- Limelight (1952) - Chaplin, Charles
- Fellini Satyricon (1969) - Fellini, Federico
- Plaisir, Le (1951) - Ophüls, Max
- Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, The (1974) - Herzog, Werner
- Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) - Alea, Tomás Gutiérrez
- Shine (1996) - Hicks, Scott
- Bambi (1942) - Hand, David
- Magnolia (1999) - Anderson, Paul Thomas
- Sixth Sense, The (1999) - Shyamalan, M. Knight
- Colour of Pomegranate, The (Sayat Nova, 1968) - Parajanov, Sergei
- Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) - Tarantino, Quentin
- Alice in the Cities (1974) - Wenders, Wim
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) - Peckinpah, Sam
- Gun Crazy (Deadly is the Female, 1950) - Lewis, Joseph H.
- Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) - Kramer, Stanley
- Tom Jones (1963) - Richardson, Tony
- Faust (1926) - Murnau, F.W.
- Sacrifice, The (1986) - Tarkovsky, Andrei
- Reversal of Fortune (1990) - Schroeder, Barbet
- Into the Wild (2007) - Penn, Sean
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) - Ford, John
- Mad Max 2 (1981) - Miller, George
- My Neighbour Totoro (1988) - Miyazaki, Hayao
- Autumn Afternoon, An (1962) - Ozu, Yasujiro
- Vitelloni, I (1953) - Fellini, Federico
- Cloud-Capped Star, The (1960) - Ghatak, Ritwik
- Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) - Edwards, Blake
- They Were Expendable (1945) - Ford, John
- Class, The (2008) - Cantet, Laurent
- Life of Brian (1979) - Gilliam, Terry/Terry Jones
- Love Me Tonight (1932) - Mamoulian, Rouben
- An Actor's Revenge (1963) - Ichikawa, Kon
- Eraserhead (1977) - Lynch, David
- Affair to Remember, An (1957) - McCarey, Leo
- Our Daily Bread (1934) - Vidor, King
- Ace in the Hole (1951) - Wilder, Billy
- Terra trema, La (1948) - Visconti, Luchino
- Snatch (2000) - Ritchie, Guy
- Moment of Innocence, A (1996) - Makhmalbaf, Mohsen
- I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) - Powell, Michael/Emeric Pressburger
- Some Came Running (1958) - Minnelli, Vincente
- Crumb (1994) - Zwigoff, Terry
- Le Boucher (1970) - Chabrol, Claude
- Mystic River (2003) - Eastwood, Clint
- Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) - Tarr, Bela & Hranitzky, Agnes
- Young Girls of Rochefort, The (1967) - Demy, Jacques
- Lady from Shanghai, The (1947) - Welles, Orson
- Moolaadé (2004) - Sembene, Ousmane
- Love Streams (1984) - Cassavetes, John
- Terra em Transe (1967) - Rocha, Glauber
- Fast Runner, The (2001) - Kunuk, Zacharias
- My Life as a Dog (1985) - Hallström, Lasse
- Stand by Me (1986) - Reiner, Rob
- Muriel ou Le Temps d'un Retour (1963) - Resnais, Alain
- Nostalghia (1983) - Tarkovsky, Andrei
- French Cancan (1954) - Renoir, Jean
- Triplets of Belleville, The (2003) - Chomet, Sylvain
- I Was Born, But… (1932) - Ozu, Yasujiro
- Stranger Than Paradise (1984) - Jarmusch, Jim
- Seven Chances (1925) - Keaton, Buster
- Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) - Hellman, Monte
- Lancelot du Lac (1974) - Bresson, Robert
- Lion King, The (1994) - Allers, Roger & Minkoff, Robert
- Age of Innocence, The (1993) - Scorsese, Martin
- Foolish Wives (1922) - von Stroheim, Erich
- Waltz with Bashir (2008) - Folman, Ari
- Europa '51 (1952) - Rossellini, Roberto
- Fellini's Casanova (1976) - Fellini, Federico
- Dead Man (1995) - Jarmusch, Jim
- I Am Cuba (1964) - Kalatozishvili, Mikheil
- Thing, The (1982) - Carpenter, John
- Evil Dead II (1987) - Raimi, Sam
- After Hours (1985) - Scorsese, Martin
- India Song (1975) - Duras, Marguerite
- V for Vendetta (2005) - McTeigue, James
- Claire's Knee (1970) - Rohmer, Eric
- Dersu Uzala (1975) - Kurosawa, Akira
- Blow Out (1981) - De Palma, Brian
- Sleuth (1972) - Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
- Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) - Davies, Terence
- Harvey (1950) - Coster, Henry
- Silence, The (1963) - Bergman, Ingmar
- Lolita (1962) - Kubrick, Stanley
- My Voyage to Italy (1999) - Scorsese, Martin
- When Harry Met Sally (1989) - Reiner, Rob
- Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) - Ford, John
- Three Colours: Blue (1993) - Kieslowski, Krszystof
- Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The (1944) - Sturges, Preston
- Three Colours: Red (1994) - Kieslowski, Krszystof
- Bloody Sunday (2002) - Greengrass, Paul
- Teorema (1968) - Pasolini, Pier Paolo
- Devil is a Woman, The (1935) - von Sternberg, Josef
- Touch of Zen, A (1969) - Hu, King
- Topsy-Turvy (1999) - Leigh, Mike
- On the Town (1949) - Donen, Stanley/Gene Kelly
- Que viva Mexico! (1932) - Eisenstein, Sergei
- sex, lies, and videotape (1989) - Soderberg, Steve
- Circus, The (1928) - Chaplin, Charles
- Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The (2008) - Fincher, David
- Before Sunset (2004) - Linklater, Richard
- Antonio das Mortes (1969) - Rocha, Glauber
- Twelve Monkeys (1995) - Gilliam, Terry
- Wild Child, The (1970) - Truffaut, François
- Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) - Ritchie, Guy
- Walkabout (1971) - Roeg, Nicolas
- Winter Light (1962) - Bergman, Ingmar
- Spring in a Small Town (1948) - Fei Mu
- Almost Famous (2000) - Crowe, Cameron
- Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) - Jones, Terry
- Man Who Fell to Earth, The (1976) - Roeg, Nicolas
- Let the Right One In (2008) - Alfredson, Tomas
- American Splendor (2003) - Berman, Shari, and Pulcini, Robert
- Chant d'amour, Un (1950) - Genet, Jean
- Stalag 17 (1953) - Wilder, Billy
- Gosford Park (2001) - Altman, Robert
- Devils, The (aka ..of Loudun, 1971) - Russell, Ken
- I Walked with a Zombie (1943) - Tourneur, Jacques
- United 93 (2006) - Greengrass, Paul
- There's Always Tomorrow (1956) - Sirk, Douglas
- Truman Show, The (1998) - Weir, Peter
- JFK (1991) - Stone, Oliver
- Capturing the Friedmans (2003) - Jarecki, Andrew
- Blood of a Poet, The (1930) - Cocteau, Jean
- Dumbo (1941) - Sharpsteen, Ben
- Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) - Peckinpah, Sam
- Persepolis (2007) - Paronnaud, Vincent & Satrapi, Marjane
- Ossessione (1943) - Visconti, Luchino
- Heiress, The (1949) - Wyler, William
- Bad and the Beautiful, The (1952) - Minnelli, Vincente
- Bigger Than Life (1956) - Ray, Nicholas
- And Life Goes On (1991) - Kiarostami, Abbas
- Best of Youth, The (2003) - Giordana, Marco Tullio
- Dial M for Murder (1954) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- Where is the Friend's Home? (1987) - Kiarostami, Abbas
- Dames du Bois de Boulogne, Les (1945) - Bresson, Robert
- Passion (1982) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- Videodrome (1983) - Cronenberg, David
- 4 Little Girls (1997) - Lee, Spike
- Fox and His Friends (1975) - Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
- In Bruges (2008) - McDonagh, Martin
- Killer, The (1989) - Woo, John
- House of Flying Daggers (2004) - Yimou Zhang
- Hart of London, The (1970) - Chambers, Jack
- Man on Wire (2008) - Marsh, James
- Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) - Cohen, Sasha Baron
- Man for All Seasons, A (1966) - Zinnemann, Fred
- Sawdust and Tinsel (1953) - Bergman, Ingmar
- Goodbye Solo (2008) - Bahrani, Ramin
- Sauve qui peut (la vie) - (1980) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- Trip to the Moon, A (1902) - Melies, Georges
- Pépé le Moko (1937) - Duvivier, Julien
- Angel (1937) - Lubitsch, Ernst
- Hour of the Furnaces, The (1968) - Getino, Octavio & Fernando E. Solanas
- Brighter Summer Day, A (1991) - Yang, Edward
- Ed Wood (1994) - Burton, Tim
- Hurt Locker, The (2008) - Bigelow, Kathryn
- Party, The (1968) - Edwards, Blake
- Région centrale, La (1971) - Snow, Michael
- Alphaville (1965) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- Damned, The (1969) - Visconti, Luchino
- From Here to Eternity Zinnemann, Fred
- Spider's Stratagem, The (1970) - Bertolucci, Bernardo
- No End in Sight (2007) - Ferguson, Charles
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) - Weir, Peter
- Rise to Power of Louis XIV, The (1966) - Rossellini, Roberto
- Funny Face (1957) - Donen, Stanley
- Stop Making Sense (1984) - Demme, Jonathan
- Barton Fink (1991) - Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen
- Splendor in the Grass (1961) - Kazan, Elia
- Misfits, The (1961) - Huston, John
- Angel at My Table, An (1990) - Campion, Jane
- Changeling (2008) - Eastwood, Clint
- Through the Olive Trees (1994) - Kiarostami, Abbas
- Stromboli (1950) - Rossellini, Roberto
- Tiger of Eschnapur, The (1959) - Lang, Fritz
- Innocents, The (1961) - Clayton, Jack
- Ivan's Childhood (1962) - Tarkovsky, Andrei
- Once (2006) - Carney, John
- Straight Story, The (1999) - Lynch, David
- Duel in the Sun (1946) - Vidor, King
- Safety Last! (1923) - Newmeyer, Fred C. & Taylor, Sam
- Superman: The Movie (1978) - Donner, Richard
- Ludwig (1972) - Visconti, Luchino
- Crash (2004/I) - Haggis, Paul
- Maîtres fous, Les (1955) - Rouch, Jean
- Barren Lives (1963) - Dos Santos, Nelson Pereira
- Ghost World (2001) - Zwigoff, Terry
- Storm Over Asia (1928) - Pudovkin, Vsevolod
- Kagemusha (1980) - Kurosawa, Akira
- Daisies (1966) - Chytilová, Vera
- Underground (1995) - Kusturica, Emir
- Tulpan (2008) - Dvortsevoy, Sergei
- Hôtel Terminus (1988) - Ophüls, Marcel
- Capote (2005) - Miller, Bennett
- Xala (1975) - Sembene, Ousmane
- Overlord (1975) - Cooper, Stuart
- Tarnished Angels, The (1958) - Sirk, Douglas
- Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) - Tarantino, Quentin
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) - Hughes, John
- Band of Outsiders (1964) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- Bob le flambeur (1956) - Melville, Jean-Pierre
- Van Gogh (1991) - Pialat, Maurice
- Time of the Gypsies (1988) - Kusturica, Emir
- Time Out (2001) - Cantet, Laurent
- Being There (1979) - Ashby, Hal
- Big Fish (2003) - Burton, Tim
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) - Hawks, Howard
- Away from Her (2006) - Polley, Sarah
- Woman in the Window, The (1944) - Lang, Fritz
- Jour se lève, Le (1939) - Carné, Marcel
- Hallelujah! (1929) - Vidor, King
- Get Carter (1971) - Hodges, Mike
- Thin Red Line, The (1998) - Malick, Terrence
- Ride the High Country (1962) - Peckinpah, Sam
- Hellzapoppin' (1941) - Potter, H.C.
- La Belle Noiseuse (1991) - Rivette, Jacques
- Chicken Run (2000) - Park, Nick & Lord, Peter
- Juliet of the Spirits (1965) - Fellini, Federico
- Little Miss Sunshine (2006) - Dayton, Jonathan & Faris, Valerie
- They Live by Night (1948) - Ray, Nicholas
- Gilda (1946) - Vidor, Charles
- Glory (1989) - Zwick, Edward
- Salesman (1968) - Maysles, Albert/David Maysles/Charlotte Zwerin
- Thing from Another World, The (1951) - Nyby, Christian/Howard Hawks
- Toy Story 2 (1999) - Lasseter, John & Brannon, Ash
- Bande à part (1964) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- Good Will Hunting (1997) - Van Sant, Gus
- Nobody Knows (2004) - Koreeda, Hirokazu
- Design for Living (1933) - Lubitsch, Ernst
- Land Without Bread (1933) - Buñuel, Luis
- L'Enfant (The Child, 2005) - Dardenne, Jean-Pierre & Luc
- Man Who Would Be King, The (1975) - Huston, John
- Othello (aka Tragedy of Othello, 1952) - Welles, Orson
- Little Women (1994) - Armstrong, Gillian
- Traffic (2000) - Soderbergh, Steve
- Man of the West (1958) - Mann, Anthony
- Fires Were Started (1943) - Jennings, Humphrey
- Dangerous Liaisons (1988) - Frears, Stephen
- Night of the Shooting Stars, The (1982) - Taviani, Paolo & Vittorio Taviani
- Outskirts (Okraina, 1933) - Barnet, Boris
- Firemen's Ball, The (1967) - Forman, Milos
- Gomorra (2008) - Garrone, Matteo
- Anatahan (1953) - von Sternberg, Josef
- Big Parade, The (1925) - Vidor, King
- Fog of War, The (2003) - Morris, Errol
- Barefoot Contessa, The (1954) - Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
- Quiz Show (1994) - Redford, Robert
- Heaven's Gate (1980) - Cimino, Michael
- Howards End (1992) - Ivory, James
- Raising Arizona (1987) - Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen
- Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980) - Resnais, Alain
- Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) - Park, Nick & Box, Steve
- Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) - Varda, Agnès
- Puppetmaster, The (1993) - Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- Fat City (1972) - Huston, John
- Hana-Bi (1997) - Kitano, Takeshi
- Maria Full of Grace (2004) - Marston, Joshua
- Holiday (1938) - Cukor, George
- Pickup on South Street (1953) - Fuller, Sam
- Heimat (Homeland: A German Chronicle, 1984) - Reitz, Edgar
- Fateless (2005) - Koltai, Lajos
- Ronde, La (1950) - Ophüls, Max
- Dead Poets Society (1989) - Weir, Peter
- Midnight Run (1988) - Brest, Martin
- L'Âge d'Or (1930) - Buñuel, Luis
- Princess Yang Kwei Fei (Yokihi, 1955) - Mizoguchi, Kenji
- I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) - LeRoy, Mervyn
- Morocco (1930) - von Sternberg, Josef
- Tom, Tom the Piper's Son (1969) - Jacobs, Ken
- Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976) - Eastwood, Clint
- Ceddo (1977) - Sembene, Ousmane
- Tarnation (2003) - Caouette, Jonathan
- Phantom of Liberty, The (1974) - Buñuel, Luis
- Wagon Master (1950) - Ford, John
- Murderball (2005) - Rubin, Henry Alex & Shapiro, Dana Adam
- Edward Scissorhands (1990) - Burton, Tim
- Grizzly Man (2005) - Herzog, Werner
- Unfaithfully Yours (1948) - Sturges, Preston
- Short Cuts (1993) - Altman, Robert
- Under the Roofs of Paris (1930) - Clair, René
- Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, The (1968) - Straub, Jean-Marie
- Short Film About Killing, A (1988) - Kieslowski, Krszystof
- Moonfleet (1955) - Lang, Fritz
- Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959) - Dutt, Guru
- Marooned in Iraq (2002) - Ghobadi, Bahman
- Verdict, The (1982) - Lumet, Sidney
- Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) - Meyer, Russ
- Two English Girls (1971) - Truffaut, François
- Amants du Pont-Neuf, Les (1991) - Carax, Lèos
- Tin Drum, The (1979) - Schlöndorff, Volker
- To Die For (1995) - Van Sant, Gus
- Yellow Earth (1984) - Chen Kaige
- Mother (Mat, 1926) - Pudovkin, Vsevolod
- Hatari! (1962) - Hawks, Howard
- Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977) - Syberberg, Hans-Jürgen
- Woman in the Dunes (1964) - Teshigahara, Hiroshi
- Zelig (1983) - Allen, Woody
- 42 UP (1998) - Apted, Michael
- Fellini's Roma (1972) - Fellini, Federico
- Hidden Fortress, The (1958) - Kurosawa, Akira
- Arabian Nights (1974) - Pasolini, Pier Paolo
- Happiness (1998) - Solondz, Todd
- Say Anything… (1989) - Crowe, Cameron
- Flowers of St. Francis, The (1950) - Rossellini, Roberto
- Liebelei (1933) - Ophüls, Max
- 47 Ronin, The (1962) - Mizoguchi, Kenji
- You Only Live Once (1937) - Lang, Fritz
- Actor's Revenge, An (1963) - Ichikawa, Kon
- Naked (1993) - Leigh, Mike
- To Be and to Have (2002) - Philibert, Nicolas
- Titanic (1997) - Cameron, James
- Phantom Carriage, The (1921) - Sjöström, Victor
- Cranes Are Flying, The (1957) - Kalatozishvili, Mikheil
- Boys Don't Cry (1999) - Pierce, Kimberly
- Magnificent Seven, The (1960) - Sturges, John
- Indian Tomb, The (1959) - Lang, Fritz
- Threepenny Opera, The (1931) - Pabst, G.W.
- Bad Timing (1980) - Roeg, Nicolas
- Lacombe, Lucien (1974) - Malle, Louis
- America, America (1963) - Kazan, Elia
- I'm Going Home (2001) - de Oliveira, Manoel
- Safe (1995) - Haynes, Todd
- Pakeezah (1972) - Amrohi, Kamal
- Fallen Idol, The (1948) - Reed, Carol
- In the Bedroom (2001) - Field, Todd
- Law of Desire (1987) - Almodóvar, Pedro
- Round-Up, The (Szegénylegények, 1966) - Jancsó, Miklós
- Ten (2002) - Kiarostami, Abbas
- Vagabond (San toit ni loi, 1985) - Varda, Agnès
- Un Chien Andalou (1929) - Buñuel, Luis
- Open City (1945) - Rossellini, Roberto
- Sugar Cane Alley (Rue case negres, 1983) - Palcy, Euzhan
- Seraphine (2008) - Provost, Martin
- Seven Women (1966) - Ford, John
- Flowers of Shanghai (1998) - Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- Not Reconciled (1965) - Straub, Jean-Marie
- Limite (1931) - Peixoto, Mario
- Russian Ark (2002) - Sokurov, Aleksandr
- Husbands (1970) - Cassavetes, John
- Le Jour se lève (1939) - Carné, Marcel
- Z (1969) - Costa-Gavras, Constantin
- Deliver Us from Evil (2006) - Berg, Amy
- Goldfinger (1964) - Hamilton, Guy
- Straw Dogs (1971) - Peckinpah, Sam
- Witness (1985) - Weir, Peter
- Woman Next Door, The (1981) - Truffaut, François
- Gregory's Girl (1981) - Forsyth, Bill
- Orlando (1992) - Potter, Sally
- Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) - Monicelli, Mario
- Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988) - Scorsese, Martin
- Shame (Skammen, 1968) - Bergman, Ingmar
- Under the Sand (2000) - Ozon, Francois
- Shoeshine (Sciuscia, 1947) - De Sica, Vittorio
- Peter Ibbetson (1935) - Hathaway, Henry
- Grifters, The (1990) - Frears, Stephen
- Informer, The (1935) - Ford, John
- Art of Vision, The (1965) - Brakhage, Stan
- Night of the Demon (1957) - Tourneur, Jacques
- Red Sorghum (1987) - Zhang Yimou
- Red Beard (1965) - Kurosawa, Akira
- This Is England (2006) - Meadows, Shane
- Kameradschaft (1931) - Pabst, G.W.
- Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The (1947) - Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
- Sun Shines Bright, The (1953) - Ford, John
- Son, The (Le Fils, 2002) - Dardenne, Jean-Pierre & Luc
- Chariots of Fire (1981) - Hudson, Hugh
- Pursued (1947) - Walsh, Raoul
- Sweet Sixteen (2002) - Loach, Ken
- Down by Law (1986) - Jarmusch, Jim
- Europa (1991) - von Trier, Lars
- Histoire(s) - du cinéma (1997) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- Branded to Kill (1967) - Suzuki, Seijun
- Of a Thousand Delights (1965) - Visconti, Luchino
- Port of Shadows (1938) - Carné, Marcel
- Fugitive, The (1993) - Davis, Andrew
- Trou, Le (1960) - Becker, Jacques
- Queen Kelly (1929) - von Stroheim, Erich
- Murmur of the Heart (1971) - Malle, Louis
- Naked Spur, The (1953) - Mann, Anthony
- Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film (1991) - Workman, Chuck
- Camille (1936) - Cukor, George
- Red (1994) - Kieslowski, Krzysztof
- Yeelen (1987) - Cissé, Souleymane
- Flight of the Red Balloon, The (2007) - Hsiao-hsien Hou
- Murder by Contract (1958) - Lerner, Irving
- Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) - Carpenter, John
- Femme est une femme, Une (1961) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- Before Night Falls (2000) - Schnabel, Julian
- Black Sunday (1977) - Bava, Mario
- While the City Sleeps (1956) - Lang, Fritz
- Public Enemy (1931) - Wellman, William A.
- Reckless Moment, The (1949) - Ophüls, Max
- Il Bidone (1955) - Fellini, Federico
- You Can Count On Me (2000) - Lonergan, Kenneth
- Red Circle, The (1970) - Melville, Jean-Pierre
- Saturday Night Fever (1977) - Badham, John
- Ju Dou (1990) - Zhang Yimou
- La Chienne (1931) - Renoir, Jean
- Three Colours: White (1994) - Kieslowski, Krszystof
- Scenes from a Marriage (1973) - Bergman, Ingmar
- Lusty Men, The (1952) - Ray, Nicholas
- Children Underground (2001) - Belzberg, Edet
- Purple Rose of Cairo, The (1985) - Allen, Woody
- El Dorado (1966) - Hawks, Howard
- Edge of Heaven, The (2007) - Akin, Fatih
- New York, New York (1977) - Scorsese, Martin
- Midnight (1939) - Leisen, Mitchell
- Bank Dick, The (1940) - Cline, Edward F.
- Savages, The (2007) - Jenkins, Tamara
- Carnival in Flanders (1935) - Feyder, Jacques
- Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, The (2000) - Butler, George
- Fish Called Wanda, A (1988) - Crichton, Charles
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) - Donen, Stanley
- Offside (2006) - Panahi, Jafar
- O Lucky Man! (1973) - Anderson, Lindsay
- Out 1: Spectre (1974) - Rivette, Jacques
- Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) - Andersen, Thom
- Early Summer (Bakushû, 1951) - Ozu, Yasujiro
- Thin Blue Line, The (1988) - Morris, Errol
- Flaming Creatures (1963) - Smith, Jack
- Knocked Up (2007) - Apatow, Judd
- Dazed and Confused (1993) - Linklater, Richard
- Turtles Can Fly (2004) - Ghobadi, Bahman
- Rio Grande (1950) - Ford, John
- Collectionneuse, La (1967) - Rohmer, Eric
- Thin Man, The (1934) - Van Dyke, W.S.
- Crash (1996) - Cronenberg, David
- Festival Express (2003) - Smeaton & Cvitanovich
- Bête humaine, La (1938) - Renoir, Jean
- Gigi (1958) - Minnelli, Vincente
- Opening Night (1977) - Cassavetes, John
- Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003) - Ki-duk Kim
- Miller's Crossing (1990) - Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen
- Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) - Benton, Robert
- Tenant, The (1976) - Polanski, Roman
- Coeur en hiver, Un (1992) - Sautet, Claude
- Half Nelson (2006) - Fleck, Ryan
- Shanghai Express (1932) - von Sternberg, Josef
- Mephisto (1981) - Szabó, István
- Through a Glass Darkly (1961) - Bergman, Ingmar
- Street Fight (2005) - Curry, Marshall
- Gimme Shelter (1970) - Maysles, Albert/David Maysles/Charlotte Zwerin
- About Schmidt (2002) -Payne, Alexander
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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