Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Tokyo Story | 1953 | Yasujirô Ozu | 70 |
2 | The Rules of the Game | 1939 | Jean Renoir | 99 |
3 | M | 1931 | Fritz Lang | 69 |
4 | Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard | 65 |
5 | The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut | 60 |
6 | Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman | 105 |
7 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1928 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 123 |
8 | La Dolce Vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini | 86 |
9 | The Bicycle Thief | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica | 57 |
10 | 8 1/2 | 1963 | Federico Fellini | 74 |
11 | Rashômon | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa | 72 |
12 | Aguirre: The Wrath of God | 1972 | Werner Herzog | 151 |
13 | Pather Panchali | 1955 | Satyajit Ray | 148 |
14 | The Grand Illusion | 1937 | Jean Renoir | 122 |
15 | Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 160 |
16 | L'Avventura | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 195 |
17 | The Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 90 |
18 | Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa | 22 |
19 | Sunrise | 1927 | F.W. Murnau | 81 |
20 | In the Mood for Love | 2000 | Kar-Wai Wong | 135 |
21 | The Battle of Algiers | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo | 145 |
22 | Ugetsu | 1953 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 241 |
23 | L'Atalante | 1934 | Jean Vigo | 219 |
24 | Children of Paradise | 1945 | Marcel Carné | 179 |
25 | The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | 93 |
26 | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang | 39 |
27 | Wild Strawberries | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | 170 |
28 | The Man with the Movie Camera | 1929 | Dziga Vertov | 180 |
29 | Fanny and Alexander | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman | 215 |
30 | Ikiru | 1952 | Akira Kurosawa | 256 |
31 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton | 54 |
32 | Au hasard Balthazar | 1966 | Robert Bresson | 348 |
33 | Playtime | 1967 | Jacques Tati | 300 |
34 | Jules and Jim | 1962 | François Truffaut | 201 |
35 | The Conformist | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 229 |
36 | Nosferatu | 1922 | F.W. Murnau | 84 |
37 | Hiroshima mon amour | 1959 | Alain Resnais | 326 |
38 | Ordet | 1955 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 366 |
39 | City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin | 46 |
40 | The General | 1926 | Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton | 49 |
41 | Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 222 |
42 | Viridiana | 1961 | Luis Buñuel | 332 |
43 | The Leopard | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | 293 |
44 | Rome, Open City | 1945 | Roberto Rossellini | 239 |
45 | Sansho the Bailiff | 1954 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 376 |
46 | Contempt | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard | 371 |
47 | Ran | 1985 | Akira Kurosawa | 197 |
48 | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | 1972 | Luis Buñuel | 316 |
49 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1920 | Robert Wiene | 141 |
50 | Wings of Desire | 1987 | Wim Wenders | 211 |
51 | La Jetée | 1962 | Chris Marker | 350 |
52 | Shoah | 1985 | Claude Lanzmann | 243 |
53 | Pierrot le Fou | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 422 |
54 | La Strada | 1954 | Federico Fellini | 276 |
55 | The Spirit of the Beehive | 1973 | Víctor Erice | 352 |
56 | Pickpocket | 1959 | Robert Bresson | 427 |
57 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford | 37 |
58 | Last Year at Marienbad | 1961 | Alain Resnais | 392 |
59 | Mulholland Dr. | 2001 | David Lynch | 124 |
60 | Barry Lyndon | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick | 231 |
61 | Jeanne Dielman | 1975 | Chantal Akerman | 408 |
62 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | 13 |
63 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles | 55 |
64 | Belle de Jour | 1967 | Luis Buñuel | 317 |
65 | Come and See | 1985 | Elem Klimov | 277 |
66 | Three Colors: Blue | 1993 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 324 |
67 | The Decalogue | 1989 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 413 |
68 | The Red Shoes | 1948 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 143 |
69 | The Wages of Fear | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 210 |
70 | Un chien andalou | 1929 | Luis Buñuel | 304 |
71 | Greed | 1924 | Erich von Stroheim | 321 |
72 | The Mirror | 1975 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 498 |
73 | Close-Up | 1990 | Abbas Kiarostami | 469 |
74 | Modern Times | 1936 | Charles Chaplin | 53 |
75 | Rio Bravo | 1959 | Howard Hawks | 175 |
76 | Beauty and the Beast | 1946 | Jean Cocteau | 237 |
77 | Los Olvidados | 1950 | Luis Buñuel | 387 |
78 | The Earrings of Madame De… | 1953 | Max Ophüls | 490 |
79 | The Gold Rush | 1925 | Charles Chaplin | 116 |
80 | Three Colors: Red | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 282 |
81 | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki | 79 |
82 | A Man Escaped | 1956 | Robert Bresson | 443 |
83 | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | 1974 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 430 |
84 | Nashville | 1975 | Robert Altman | 121 |
85 | Umberto D. | 1952 | Vittorio De Sica | 445 |
86 | Solaris | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 227 |
87 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 1968 | Sergio Leone | 58 |
88 | Late Spring | 1949 | Yasujirô Ozu | 586 |
89 | Brief Encounter | 1945 | David Lean | 174 |
90 | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | 1964 | Jacques Demy | 298 |
91 | The World of Apu | 1959 | Satyajit Ray | 402 |
92 | L'Eclisse | 1962 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 596 |
93 | Nights of Cabiria | 1957 | Federico Fellini | 496 |
94 | Le Samouraï | 1967 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 375 |
95 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed | 30 |
96 | Ivan the Terrible | 1944 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 618 |
97 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | 1943 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 327 |
98 | Sherlock, Jr. | 1924 | Buster Keaton | 198 |
99 | Manhattan | 1979 | Woody Allen | 117 |
100 | Night and Fog | 1956 | Alain Resnais | 390 |
101 | All about My Mother | 1999 | Pedro Almodóvar | 257 |
102 | Diary of a Country Priest | 1951 | Robert Bresson | 545 |
103 | Day of Wrath | 1943 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 610 |
104 | Paris, Texas | 1984 | Wim Wenders | 339 |
105 | Chungking Express | 1994 | Kar-Wai Wong | 403 |
106 | Yi yi: A One and a Two... | 2000 | Edward Yang | 552 |
107 | A Woman under the Influence | 1974 | John Cassavetes | 356 |
108 | Peeping Tom | 1960 | Michael Powell | 232 |
109 | Blow-Up | 1966 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 246 |
110 | Amarcord | 1973 | Federico Fellini | 367 |
111 | Blue Velvet | 1986 | David Lynch | 103 |
112 | Cleo from 5 to 7 | 1962 | Agnès Varda | 461 |
113 | Sans soleil | 1983 | Chris Marker | 561 |
114 | Yojimbo | 1961 | Akira Kurosawa | 328 |
115 | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles | 128 |
116 | Out of the Past | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur | 289 |
117 | Eraserhead | 1977 | David Lynch | 220 |
118 | The Gospel According to St. Matthew | 1964 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 557 |
119 | My Life to Live | 1962 | Jean-Luc Godard | 628 |
120 | The Lives of Others | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | 218 |
121 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | 126 |
122 | Oldboy | 2003 | Chan-wook Park | 190 |
123 | Cries and Whispers | 1972 | Ingmar Bergman | 550 |
124 | To Be or Not to Be | 1942 | Ernst Lubitsch | 280 |
125 | Ashes and Diamonds | 1958 | Andrzej Wajda | 547 |
126 | The Mother and the Whore | 1973 | Jean Eustache | 692 |
127 | Days of Heaven | 1978 | Terrence Malick | 221 |
128 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | 42 |
129 | Trouble in Paradise | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch | 381 |
130 | Stairway to Heaven | 1946 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 240 |
131 | Intolerance | 1916 | D.W. Griffith | 314 |
132 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 1962 | John Ford | 178 |
133 | Freaks | 1932 | Tod Browning | 235 |
134 | Kiss Me Deadly | 1955 | Robert Aldrich | 335 |
135 | Black Narcissus | 1947 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 410 |
136 | Paths of Glory | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick | 114 |
137 | The Exterminating Angel | 1962 | Luis Buñuel | 613 |
138 | The Magnificent Ambersons | 1942 | Orson Welles | 405 |
139 | Aparajito | 1956 | Satyajit Ray | 575 |
140 | Napoléon | 1927 | Abel Gance | 500 |
141 | Sátántangó | 1994 | Béla Tarr | 650 |
142 | Breaking the Waves | 1996 | Lars von Trier | 418 |
143 | The Apartment | 1960 | Billy Wilder | 62 |
144 | A Brighter Summer Day | 1991 | Edward Yang | 729 |
145 | The Last Laugh | 1924 | F.W. Murnau | 597 |
146 | Woman in the Dunes | 1964 | Hiroshi Teshigahara | 667 |
147 | The Wild Bunch | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah | 63 |
148 | Stagecoach | 1939 | John Ford | 140 |
149 | Hidden | 2005 | Michael Haneke | 409 |
150 | Celine & Julie Go Boating | 1974 | Jacques Rivette | 631 |
151 | Johnny Guitar | 1954 | Nicholas Ray | 419 |
152 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles | 4 |
153 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | 177 |
154 | Army in the Shadows | 1969 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 388 |
155 | Don't Look Now | 1973 | Nicolas Roeg | 165 |
156 | Throne of Blood | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa | 507 |
157 | My Night at Maud's | 1969 | Eric Rohmer | 752 |
158 | Rififi | 1955 | Jules Dassin | 420 |
159 | Nanook of the North | 1922 | Robert J. Flaherty | 411 |
160 | Brazil | 1985 | Terry Gilliam | 115 |
161 | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick | 173 |
162 | Eyes without a Face | 1960 | Georges Franju | 406 |
163 | Badlands | 1973 | Terrence Malick | 228 |
164 | The Conversation | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 162 |
165 | Pandora's Box | 1929 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | 644 |
166 | Bringing Up Baby | 1938 | Howard Hawks | 91 |
167 | In a Lonely Place | 1950 | Nicholas Ray | 361 |
168 | Letter from an Unknown Woman | 1948 | Max Ophüls | 571 |
169 | Bride of Frankenstein | 1935 | James Whale | 155 |
170 | Fitzcarraldo | 1982 | Werner Herzog | 465 |
171 | Rocco and His Brothers | 1960 | Luchino Visconti | 727 |
172 | Diabolique | 1955 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 305 |
173 | McCabe & Mrs. Miller | 1971 | Robert Altman | 288 |
174 | Suspiria | 1977 | Dario Argento | 302 |
175 | Rosemary's Baby | 1968 | Roman Polanski | 78 |
176 | The Thin Red Line | 1998 | Terrence Malick | 378 |
177 | Repulsion | 1965 | Roman Polanski | 358 |
178 | Once Upon a Time in America | 1984 | Sergio Leone | 133 |
179 | Raise the Red Lantern | 1991 | Yimou Zhang | 454 |
180 | Kind Hearts and Coronets | 1949 | Robert Hamer | 207 |
181 | His Girl Friday | 1940 | Howard Hawks | 87 |
182 | The Piano | 1993 | Jane Campion | 306 |
183 | My Neighbor Totoro | 1988 | Hayao Miyazaki | 230 |
184 | Sullivan's Travels | 1941 | Preston Sturges | 252 |
185 | Mr. Hulot's Holiday | 1953 | Jacques Tati | 453 |
186 | Do the Right Thing | 1989 | Spike Lee | 89 |
187 | L'Âge d'or | 1930 | Luis Buñuel | 665 |
188 | The Celebration | 1998 | Thomas Vinterberg | 525 |
189 | Beau travail | 1999 | Claire Denis | 646 |
190 | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | 1974 | Tobe Hooper | 216 |
191 | Gertrud | 1964 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 1015 |
192 | Hate | 1995 | Mathieu Kassovitz | 485 |
193 | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder | 25 |
194 | Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore | 217 |
195 | Mon Oncle | 1958 | Jacques Tati | 682 |
196 | Harakiri | 1962 | Masaki Kobayashi | 754 |
197 | Three Colors: White | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 635 |
198 | The Elephant Man | 1980 | David Lynch | 368 |
199 | Voyage to the Moon | 1902 | Georges Méliès | 337 |
200 | Videodrome | 1983 | David Cronenberg | 349 |