My Personal Top 100

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
2. Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton)
3. The Wicker Man (1973, Robin Hardy)
4. Ikiru (1952, Akira Kurosawa)
5. Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
6. Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
7. The Wild Bunch (1969, Sam Peckinpah)
8. Sunset Boulevard (1950, Billy Wilder)
9. Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)


10. Before Sunrise (1995, Richard Linklater)
11. The Searchers (1956, John Ford)
12. Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
13. The Elephant Man (1980, David Lynch)
14. The Seven Samurai (1955, Akira Kurosawa)
15. Mean Streets (1973, Martin Scorsese)
16. The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
17. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg
18. Fargo (1996, Joel and Ethan Coen)
19. Ed Wood (1994, Tim Burton)


20. Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang)
21. Rushmore (1996, Wes Anderson)
22. Black Narcissus (1947, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
23. The Godfather: Part II (1974, Francis Ford Coppolla)
24. Short Cuts (1993, Robert Altman)
25. The 400 Blows (1959, Francois Truffaut)
26. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)
27. The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)
28. Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)
29. Stray Dog (1949, Akira Kurosawa)


30. Brazil (1985, Terry Gilliam)
31. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
32. Godzilla (1954, Ishiro Honda)
33. Blue Velvet (1984, David Lynch)
34. Touch of Evil (1955, Orson Welles)
35. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, George Roy Hill)
36. Nashville (Robert Altman 1975)
37. The Producers (1968, Mel Brooks)
38. A Clockwork Orange (1971, Stanley Kubrick)
39. Pinocchio (1940, Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen)


40. Onibaba (1964, Kaneto Shindo)
41. Harold and Maude (1971, Hal Ashby)
42. Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder)
43. The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner)
44. The Great Escape (1963, John Sturges)
45. King Kong (1933, Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Shoedsack)
46. Halloween (1979, John Carpenter)
47. Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
48. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, Sergio Leone)
49. M (1931, Fritz Lang)


50. Alien (1979, Ridley Scott)
51. Singin’ in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen)
52. Bride of Frankenstein (1936, James Whale)
53. Children of Paradise (1945, Marcel Carne)
54. The Iron Giant (1999, Brad Bird)
55. The Grapes of Wrath (1940, John Ford)
56. Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen)
57. Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
58. Sullivan’s Travels (1941, Preston Sturges)
59. Rosemary’s Baby (1968, Roman Polanski)


60. Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)
61. Jackie Brown (1997, Quentin Tarantino)
62. Freaks (1932, Tod Browning)
63. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1975, Tobe Hooper)
64. Boogie Nights (1997, Paul Thomas Anderson)
65. The Great Dictator (1940, Charles Chaplin)
66. El Topo (1970, Alejandro Jodorowsky)
67. The Manchurian Candidate (1962, John Frankenheimer)
68. Bedazzled (1967, Stanley Donen)
69. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog)


70. Dawn of the Dead (1978, George A. Romero)
71. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, John Huston)
72. Alfie (1966, Lewis Gilbert)
73. Tampopo (1985, Juzo Itami)
74. Carrie (1976, Brian De Palma)
75. His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
76. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Wes Anderson)
77. Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928, Bill Reisner)
78. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993, Henry Selick)
79. Roman Holiday (1953, William Wyler)


80. A Man Called Horse (1970, Elliott Silverstein)
81. Gunga Din (1939, George Stevens)
82. A Man and a Woman (1966, Claude Lelouch)
83. Crumb (1994, Terry Zwigoff)
84. Breathless (1960, Jean-Luc Godard)
85. Way Down East (1920, D.W. Griffith)
86. The Royal Tenenbaums (1973, William Friedkin)
87. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1953, Robert Wise)
88. Casablanca (1941, Michael Curtiz)
89. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, Robert Mulligan)


90. Suspiria (1977, Dario Argento)
91. Peeping Tom (1960, Michael Powell)
92. The Thin Blue Line (1988, Errol Morris)
93. Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (2001, Sinichiro Watanabe)
94. X: The Man With the X-Ray Eyes (1963, Roger Corman)
95. The Naked Kiss (1964, Samuel Fuller)
96. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978, Chia-Liang Liu)
97. 8 1/2 (1963, Frederico Fellini)
98. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965, Russ Meyer)
99. Solaris (1972, Andrei Tarkofsky)
100. The Goonies (1985, Richard Donner)