Directors Your 100 favourite films? (1 Viewer)

[john davies]

1.Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi, 1954)

2.Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1969)

3.2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)

4.Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)

5.Sunrise (Murnau, 1927)

6.North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)

7.Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1974)

8.Alice in the Cities (Wenders, 1974)

9.Maborosi (Kore-eda, 1995)

10.The Green Ray (Rohmer, 1986)

11.Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)

12.Some Like it Hot (Wilder, 1959)

13.Abraham Valley (Oliveira, 1993)

14.La Regle du Jeu (Renoir, 1939)

15.Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi, 1939)

16.Tales of the Taira Clan (Mizoguchi, 1955)

17.Letter from an Unknown Woman (Ophuls, 1948)

18.Casablanca (Curtiz, 1943)

19.Citizen Kane Welles, 1941)

20.Late Spring (Ozu, 1949)

21.Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

22.The Band Wagon (Minnelli, 1953)

23.Singin in the Rain (Donen, Kelly, 1952)

24.Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)

25.Apu trilogy (Ray, 1955-9)

26.Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)

27.The Colour of Pomegranates (Paradjanov, 1969)

28.Celine and Julie go Boating (Rivette, 1974)

29.The Searchers (Ford, 1956)

30.Metropolis (Lang, 1927)

31.Pakeezah (Amrohi, 1971)

32.L'Atalante (Vigo, 1934)

33.The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)

34.Top Hat (Sandrich, 1935)

35.Pierrot le Fou (Godard, 1965)

36.Eternity and a Day (Angelopoulos, 1998)

37.Aguirre Wrath of God (Herzog, 1973)

38.A Day in the Country (Renoir, 1936)

39.Spirit of the Beehive (Erice, 1973)

40.Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)

41.Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi, 1953)

42.Mulholland Drive (Lynch, 2001)

43.Kings of the Road (Wenders, 1976)

44.8 1/2 (Fellini, 1963)

45.Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)

46.The Age of Innocence (Scorsese, 1993)

47.To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch, 1942)

48.Orphée (Cocteau, 1949)

49.Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein, 1938)

50.The Big Sleep (Hawks, 1946)

51.Claire's Knee (Rohmer, 1970)

52.Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)

53.Manhattan (Allen, 1979)

54.Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929)

55.El Cid (A.Mann, 1961)

56.Persona (Bergman, 1966)

57.The Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi, 1952)

58.Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)

59.The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)

60.Kiss me Deadly (Aldrich, 1955)

61.Les Enfants du Paradis (Carné, 1945)

62.Dr Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964)

63.Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)

64.Once Upon a Time in America (Leone, 1984)

65.The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)

66.It's a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)

67.Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925)

68.Duck Soup (McCarey, 1933)

69.Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)

70.Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)

71.Hidden Fortress (Kurosawa, 1958)

72.The Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925)

73.Rosetta (Dardenne bros, 1999)

74.Senso (Visconti, 1954)

75.Ulysses' Gaze (Angelopoulos, 1995)

76.Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)

77.The Thief of Baghdad (Berger, Powell, Whelan, 1940)

78.The General (Keaton, Bruckman, 1926)

79.La Grande Illusion (Renoir, 1937)

80.Schindler's List (Spielberg, 1993)

81.Miller's Crossing (Coen, 1990)

82.Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)

83.Hiroshima mon Amour (Resnais, 1959)

84.The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski, 1991)

85.Street of Crocodiles (Quay bros, 1984)

86.My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (Rohmer, 1987)

87.Kind Hearts and Coronets (Hamer, 1949)

88.The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)

89.Swing Time (Stevens, 1936)

90.Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)

91.Marnie (Hitchcock, 1964)

92.A Matter of Life and Death (Powell, Pressburger, 1946)

93.Groundhog Day (Ramis, 1993)

94.L'Avventura (Antonioni, 1960)

95.The Maltese Falcon (Huston, 1941)

96.King Kong (Cooper, Schoedsack, 1933)

97.Blade Runner (Scott, 1982)

98.Madame de (Ophuls, 1953)

99.The Leopard (Visconti, 1963)

100.Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou, 1991)

some near misses; The Loyal 47 Ronin, Red Sorghum, The Sheltering Sky, Goodfellas, Rear Window, And Life Goes On, Silence of the Lambs, Deliverance, Miss Oyu, The Godfather 1&2, Pulp Fiction, The 39 Steps, The Scarlet Empress, Kwaidan, Ai no Corrida, Casque d'or...

 

[Arman]

1-10
The 400 Blows
Lawrence of Arabia
Children of Paradise
Stolen Kisses
Belle de jour
Breathless
Wild Strawberries
Citizen Kane
Singin’ in the Rain
Psycho
11-20
Artificial Intelligence A.I.
Yi-yi
Remains of the Day
Three Colors Trilogy Blue
In The Mood for Love
Blowup
Grand Illusion
8 ½
Ordet
Rashomon
21-30
The Magnificent Ambersons
Three Colors Trilogy Red
Tokyo Story
L’Avventura
Open City
Bicycle Thief
L’Atalante
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeousie
Jules et Jim
A Hard Day’s Night
31-40
Amores Perros
Gertrud
Touch of Evil
Pierrot le fou
That Obscure Object of Desire
The Third Man
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Godfather Part II
Vertigo
To Be Or Not To Be
41-50
City Lights
Pickpocket
Contempt
Anatomy of a Murder
Persona
Great Expectations
The World of Apu
Rosemary’s Baby
Brief Encounter
Amelie
51-60
Barry Lyndon
Witness for the Prosecution
Rocco and His Brothers
Strangers in a Train
Before Sunrise
Blue Velvet
My Life to Live
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Underground
Chloe in the Afternoon
61-70
Pulp Fiction
Spirited Away
City of God
Kill Bill Volume 1
Raising Victor Vargas
Lost in Translation
Say Anything …
The Exterminating Angel
Memento
Jean de Florette
71-80
Eyes Wide Shut
The Pianist
Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers
Nights of Cabiria
Rear Window
Rules of the Game
The Night of The Hunter
Manon of The Spring
Mulholland Dr.
La Dolce Vita
81-90
Seven Samurai
Talk To Her
M
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
High Fidelity
Read My Lips
Metropolis
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Andrei Roublev
91-100
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Broken Blossoms
Rebecca
Black Hawk Down
Shoot The Piano Player
The Godfather
L’Argent
A Nous La Liberty
The 39 Steps
A Man Escaped

 

[Lew Crippen]

I'm pretty sure that there is a thread in polls already on this one.

 

[Brian Lawrence]

I'm pretty sure that there is a thread in polls already on this one.

I know that there has been a Top 100 English Language films list, as well as a Top 100 Foreign Language, but I don't recall an overall top 100.

 

[Arman]

Finally completed my 100 Greatest/Favorite Films list.

 

[JonZ]

While probally not 100% acturate, heres my list:

100 5 Deadly Venoms
99 X-Men 2
98 Leon (International Version)
97 The Usual Suspects
96 Vertigo
95 Tron
94 Black Hawk Down
93 Nightmare Before Christmas
92 Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me
91 Silence Of The Lambs
90 Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
89 Pumping Iron
88 Heat
87 Mulholland Drive
86 Interview With The Vampire
85 Last Of The Mohicans
84 Avenging Eagle
83 Raising Arizona
82 Pink Floyd The Wall
81 Fist Full OF Dollars
80 Shawshank Redemption
79 Star Trek The Search For Spock
78 Jacobs Ladder
77 Midnight Run
76 People vs Larry Flynt
75 Its A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
74 Carlitos Way
73 Fargo
72 Big Lebowski
71 Moby Dick
70 The Untouchables
69 Memento
68 Requiem For A Dream
67 A Simple Plan
66 Chinese Connection
65 Unforgiven
64 Raiders Of The Lost Ark
63 Last Emperor
62 Deliverance
61 Full Metal Jacket
60 Leaving Las Vegas
59 Dead Man Walking
58 Star Wars
57 Glory
56 Hidden Fortress
55 Conan The Barbarian
54 Forrest Gump
53 Do The Right Thing
52 Babe
51 Ed Wood
50 The Bear
49 Sid & Nancy
48 Re-Animator
47 Born On The Fourth Of July
46 The Thin Red Line
45 Star Trek The Wrath Of Khan
44 Saving Private Ryan
43 The Road Warrior
42 Aliens
41 Drugstore Cowboy
40 Hearts Of Darnkess: A Filmakers Apocalypse
39 John Carpenters The Thing
38 Barry Lyndon
37 Robocop
36 Schindlers List
35 Raging Bull
34 Yojimbo
33 Psycho
32 City Of Lost Children
31 Dances With Wolves
30 Dirty Harry
29 Malcolm X
28 Nixon
27 JFK
26 Goodfellas
25 Citizen Kane
24 Scarface
23 Platoon
22 Monty Python & The Holy Grail
21 Akira
20 Halloween
19 Roshomon
18 The Wild Bunch
17 The Empire Strikes Back
16 Dr Strangelove
15 The Good The Bad & The Ugly
14 One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
13 Superman The Movie
12 Ran
11 Jaws
10 Excalibur
9 Blade Runner Dir Cut
8 Once Upon A Time In America
7 Amadeus
6 A Clockwork Orange
5 The Godfather Part 2
4 Seven Samurai
3 The Godfather
2 Apocalypse Now
1 2001 A Space Odyssey

 

[Patrick McCart]

I have so many "most favorite" movies, so I'm just going to list 100 favorites in no real order.

Napoleon (Abel Gance/1927)
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Citizen Kane
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The Unknown (Tod Browning/Lon Chaney film)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1956)
The Invisible Man (Whale/1933)
The Blues Brothers
A Hard Day's Night
Help! (Lester/1965)

Treasure Island (Byron Haskin/1950)
Casablanca
Singin' in the Rain
Doctor Zhivago
Lawrence of Arabia
Amadeus (both 1984 theatrical and Director's Cut)
The Thin Man
The Maltese Falcon
Arsenic and Old Lace
North By Northwest

Mystery of the Wax Museum (Curtiz/1933)
Being There
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Fantasia
8 1/2
The Royal Tenenbaums
City Lights
The Kid
The Great Dictator
Metropolis (Fritz Lang/1927)

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Les Diaboliques (Clouzot/1955)
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
The Court Jester
The Elephant Man
Top Secret!
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Goldfinger
Vertigo
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Out West (2-reel Fatty Arbuckle comedy)
Cops (2-reel Buster Keaton comedy)
The Kid (Chaplin/1921)
Speedy (Harold Lloyd/1928)
UHF
Dr. Strangelove
A Clockwork Orange
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Lord of the Rings trilogy (minus ROTK, obviously)
The Producers

Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Un chien andalou
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Wizard of Oz
Gone with the Wind

 

[Brian Lawrence]

In alphabetical order

2001: A Space Odyessy
400 Blows
8 1/2
Accidental Tourist
Aguirre Wrath of God
Aliens
Andrei Rublyov
Anne of Green Gables (‘85)
Annie Hall
Assault on Precint 13
Bambi
Battleship Potemkin
Beauty and the Beast (91)
Ben-Hur
Best Years of Our Lives
Bicycle Thief
Blade Runner
Blues Brothers
Bodysnatcher (Wise)
Boy and His Dog
Carrie (‘76)
Casablanca
Christmas Story
Citizen Kane
City Lights
Claire's Knee
Close Encounters
Cries and Whispers
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Crowd, The
Dead Zone
Dogfight
Double Indemnity
Double Life of Veronique
Dr. Strangelove...
Empire Strikes Back
Exorcist
Fantasia
Fiddler on the Roof
Fitzcarraldo
Forbidden Planet
Frankenstein
From Russia With Love
Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Gold Rush, The
Gone With the Wind
Grave of the Fireflies
Harvey
Hidden Fortress
High Noon
His Girl Friday
House of Usher (60)
Housekeeping (87)
It's A Wonerful Life
Jungle Book
Key Largo
Lady and the Tramp
Last Picture Show
Little Princess (95)
M
Mad Max 2: Road Warrior
Man in the Moon (91)
Manhattan
Mildred Pierce
My Fair Lady
My Father's Glory / My Mother's Castle
Napoleon
Network
Night of the Living Dead
Nights of Cabiria
North by Northwest
Notorious
Oliver Twist
Once Upon a Time in the West
Paths of Glory
Persona
Piano, The
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Pinocchio
Psycho
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rebecca
Red Shoes
Schindler's List
Singing in the Rain
Sisters
Smiles of a Summer Night
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Song of Bernadette
Star Wars
Sullivan's Travels
Superman
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Three Colours Red
Through a Glass Darkly
Umberto D
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Walkabout
Wild Bunch
Wizard of Oz