Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles | 4 |
2 | Tokyo Story | 1953 | Yasujirô Ozu | 70 |
3 | Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa | 22 |
4 | The Bicycle Thief | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica | 57 |
5 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | 13 |
6 | M | 1931 | Fritz Lang | 69 |
7 | The Rules of the Game | 1939 | Jean Renoir | 99 |
8 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | 3 |
9 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1 |
10 | The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut | 60 |
11 | Rashômon | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa | 72 |
12 | 8 1/2 | 1963 | Federico Fellini | 74 |
13 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | 8 |
14 | Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard | 65 |
15 | La Dolce Vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini | 86 |
16 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2 |
17 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese | 14 |
18 | Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman | 105 |
19 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1928 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 123 |
20 | Sunrise | 1927 | F.W. Murnau | 81 |
21 | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang | 39 |
22 | The Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 90 |
23 | Singin' in the Rain | 1952 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 7 |
24 | The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | 93 |
25 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 5 |
26 | The Grand Illusion | 1937 | Jean Renoir | 122 |
27 | City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin | 46 |
28 | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder | 25 |
29 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford | 37 |
30 | Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 160 |
31 | Pather Panchali | 1955 | Satyajit Ray | 148 |
32 | Modern Times | 1936 | Charles Chaplin | 53 |
33 | Raging Bull | 1980 | Martin Scorsese | 29 |
34 | Aguirre: The Wrath of God | 1972 | Werner Herzog | 151 |
35 | L'Avventura | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 195 |
36 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder | 10 |
37 | Rear Window | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | 34 |
38 | The General | 1926 | Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton | 49 |
39 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | 19 |
40 | Ugetsu | 1953 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 241 |
41 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed | 30 |
42 | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski | 21 |
43 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 18 |
44 | Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | 9 |
45 | Blade Runner | 1982 | Ridley Scott | 11 |
46 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton | 54 |
47 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles | 55 |
48 | The Battle of Algiers | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo | 145 |
49 | In the Mood for Love | 2000 | Kar-Wai Wong | 135 |
50 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | 12 |
51 | Wild Strawberries | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | 170 |
52 | Fanny and Alexander | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman | 215 |
53 | Children of Paradise | 1945 | Marcel Carné | 179 |
54 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | 42 |
55 | L'Atalante | 1934 | Jean Vigo | 219 |
56 | Annie Hall | 1977 | Woody Allen | 20 |
57 | It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra | 33 |
58 | Goodfellas | 1990 | Martin Scorsese | 17 |
59 | Nosferatu | 1922 | F.W. Murnau | 84 |
60 | Ikiru | 1952 | Akira Kurosawa | 256 |
61 | The Gold Rush | 1925 | Charles Chaplin | 116 |
62 | The Man with the Movie Camera | 1929 | Dziga Vertov | 180 |
63 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 1968 | Sergio Leone | 58 |
64 | All about Eve | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 56 |
65 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | 40 |
66 | The Apartment | 1960 | Billy Wilder | 62 |
67 | Wings of Desire | 1987 | Wim Wenders | 211 |
68 | The Leopard | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | 293 |
69 | La Strada | 1954 | Federico Fellini | 276 |
70 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | 24 |
71 | Rome, Open City | 1945 | Roberto Rossellini | 239 |
72 | The Conformist | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 229 |
73 | Ordet | 1955 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 366 |
74 | Au hasard Balthazar | 1966 | Robert Bresson | 348 |
75 | Viridiana | 1961 | Luis Buñuel | 332 |
76 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 1966 | Sergio Leone | 44 |
77 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | 6 |
78 | Sansho the Bailiff | 1954 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 376 |
79 | Jules and Jim | 1962 | François Truffaut | 201 |
80 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1920 | Robert Wiene | 141 |
81 | Playtime | 1967 | Jacques Tati | 300 |
82 | Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 222 |
83 | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | 1972 | Luis Buñuel | 316 |
84 | Nashville | 1975 | Robert Altman | 121 |
85 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston | 68 |
86 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan | 64 |
87 | The Wild Bunch | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah | 63 |
88 | Ran | 1985 | Akira Kurosawa | 197 |
89 | Hiroshima mon amour | 1959 | Alain Resnais | 326 |
90 | The Red Shoes | 1948 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 143 |
91 | One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 | Milos Forman | 38 |
92 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 32 |
93 | The Wages of Fear | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 210 |
94 | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki | 79 |
95 | Barry Lyndon | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick | 231 |
96 | Do the Right Thing | 1989 | Spike Lee | 89 |
97 | Schindler's List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 28 |
98 | Sherlock, Jr. | 1924 | Buster Keaton | 198 |
99 | Greed | 1924 | Erich von Stroheim | 321 |
100 | Mulholland Dr. | 2001 | David Lynch | 124 |
101 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Sidney Lumet | 73 |
102 | Duck Soup | 1933 | Leo McCarey | 85 |
103 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 15 |
104 | The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick | 41 |
105 | Paths of Glory | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick | 114 |
106 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott | 16 |
107 | Shoah | 1985 | Claude Lanzmann | 243 |
108 | Last Year at Marienbad | 1961 | Alain Resnais | 392 |
109 | Rio Bravo | 1959 | Howard Hawks | 175 |
110 | Contempt | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard | 371 |
111 | Blue Velvet | 1986 | David Lynch | 103 |
112 | Manhattan | 1979 | Woody Allen | 117 |
113 | Bringing Up Baby | 1938 | Howard Hawks | 91 |
114 | Fargo | 1996 | Joel Coen | 75 |
115 | Pickpocket | 1959 | Robert Bresson | 427 |
116 | Come and See | 1985 | Elem Klimov | 277 |
117 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | 126 |
118 | The Spirit of the Beehive | 1973 | Víctor Erice | 352 |
119 | Stagecoach | 1939 | John Ford | 140 |
120 | La Jetée | 1962 | Chris Marker | 350 |
121 | King Kong | 1933 | Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack | 51 |
122 | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles | 128 |
123 | The Decalogue | 1989 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 413 |
124 | Unforgiven | 1992 | Clint Eastwood | 95 |
125 | A Man Escaped | 1956 | Robert Bresson | 443 |
126 | Three Colors: Red | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 282 |
127 | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Arthur Penn | 97 |
128 | Los Olvidados | 1950 | Luis Buñuel | 387 |
129 | Once Upon a Time in America | 1984 | Sergio Leone | 133 |
130 | Jeanne Dielman | 1975 | Chantal Akerman | 408 |
131 | The World of Apu | 1959 | Satyajit Ray | 402 |
132 | Pierrot le Fou | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 422 |
133 | Un chien andalou | 1929 | Luis Buñuel | 304 |
134 | Belle de Jour | 1967 | Luis Buñuel | 317 |
135 | Three Colors: Blue | 1993 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 324 |
136 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 1981 | Steven Spielberg | 26 |
137 | Intolerance | 1916 | D.W. Griffith | 314 |
138 | Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg | 23 |
139 | Beauty and the Beast | 1946 | Jean Cocteau | 237 |
140 | Umberto D. | 1952 | Vittorio De Sica | 445 |
141 | Solaris | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 227 |
142 | To Be or Not to Be | 1942 | Ernst Lubitsch | 280 |
143 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | John Huston | 134 |
144 | It Happened One Night | 1934 | Frank Capra | 92 |
145 | The Mirror | 1975 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 498 |
146 | His Girl Friday | 1940 | Howard Hawks | 87 |
147 | A Woman under the Influence | 1974 | John Cassavetes | 356 |
148 | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner | 36 |
149 | Amarcord | 1973 | Federico Fellini | 367 |
150 | Close-Up | 1990 | Abbas Kiarostami | 469 |
151 | The Great Dictator | 1940 | Charles Chaplin | 183 |
152 | Days of Heaven | 1978 | Terrence Malick | 221 |
153 | Brief Encounter | 1945 | David Lean | 174 |
154 | Late Spring | 1949 | Yasujirô Ozu | 586 |
155 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme | 31 |
156 | Nights of Cabiria | 1957 | Federico Fellini | 496 |
157 | Ivan the Terrible | 1944 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 618 |
158 | Trouble in Paradise | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch | 381 |
159 | Out of the Past | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur | 289 |
160 | The Deer Hunter | 1978 | Michael Cimino | 110 |
161 | The Lives of Others | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | 218 |
162 | The Earrings of Madame De… | 1953 | Max Ophüls | 490 |
163 | Paris, Texas | 1984 | Wim Wenders | 339 |
164 | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick | 173 |
165 | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | 1974 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 430 |
166 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 1962 | John Ford | 178 |
167 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | 177 |
168 | All about My Mother | 1999 | Pedro Almodóvar | 257 |
169 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | William Wyler | 184 |
170 | The Conversation | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 162 |
171 | Diary of a Country Priest | 1951 | Robert Bresson | 545 |
172 | Brazil | 1985 | Terry Gilliam | 115 |
173 | Yojimbo | 1961 | Akira Kurosawa | 328 |
174 | High Noon | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann | 130 |
175 | L'Eclisse | 1962 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 596 |
176 | Rosemary's Baby | 1968 | Roman Polanski | 78 |
177 | The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | John Ford | 209 |
178 | Blow-Up | 1966 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 246 |
179 | The Magnificent Ambersons | 1942 | Orson Welles | 405 |
180 | Yi yi: A One and a Two... | 2000 | Edward Yang | 552 |
181 | Day of Wrath | 1943 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 610 |
182 | Amélie | 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 119 |
183 | Ashes and Diamonds | 1958 | Andrzej Wajda | 547 |
184 | The Gospel According to St. Matthew | 1964 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 557 |
185 | Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore | 217 |
186 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | Frank Darabont | 52 |
187 | There Will Be Blood | 2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 147 |
188 | Pan's Labyrinth | 2006 | Guillermo del Toro | 146 |
189 | Cries and Whispers | 1972 | Ingmar Bergman | 550 |
190 | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | 1964 | Jacques Demy | 298 |
191 | Sullivan's Travels | 1941 | Preston Sturges | 252 |
192 | The Graduate | 1967 | Mike Nichols | 59 |
193 | Le Samouraï | 1967 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 375 |
194 | Aparajito | 1956 | Satyajit Ray | 575 |
195 | Reservoir Dogs | 1992 | Quentin Tarantino | 80 |
196 | The Birth of a Nation | 1915 | D.W. Griffith | 312 |
197 | Chungking Express | 1994 | Kar-Wai Wong | 403 |
198 | Stairway to Heaven | 1946 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 240 |
199 | Napoléon | 1927 | Abel Gance | 500 |
200 | Throne of Blood | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa | 507 |