1. His Girl Friday (1940) Hawks
2. Manhattan (1979) Allen
3. Goodfellas (1990) Scorsese
4. The Last Picture Show (1971) Bogdanovich
5. The Godfather (1972) Coppola/The Godfather: Part II (1974) Coppola
6. Winter Light (1963) Bergman
7. Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987) Malle
8. Chinatown (1974) Polanski
9. The Searchers (1956) Ford
10. Duck Soup (1933) McCarey
11. Match Point (2005) Allen
12. Stalker (1979) Tarkovsky
13. The Seventh Seal (1957) Bergman
14. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
15. Taxi Driver (1976) Scorsese
16. La Dolce Vita (1960) Fellini
17. No Country For Old Men (2007) Coens
18. A Clockwork Orange (1971) Kubrick
19. Fanny And Alexander (1982) Bergman
20. Sunset Blvd. (1950) Wilder
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21. Heaven’s Gate (1980) Cimino
22. Cabaret (1972) Fosse
23. Casablanca (1942) Curtiz
24. Nights of Cabiria (1957) Fellini
25. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Ford
26. Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Huston
27. Europa (1991) von Trier
28. Sullivan’s Travels (1941) Sturges
29. Tess (1979) Polanski
30. Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Hitchcock
31. Rome: Open City (1945) Rossellini
32. 8 1/2, (1963) Fellini
33. The Emigrants (1971)/The New Land (1972) Troell
34. Amarcord (1973) Fellini
35. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) Tarantino
36. The Ice Storm (1997) Lee
37. In the Mood For Love (2000) Wong
38. Sunrise (1927) Murnau
39. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) Capra
40. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) Coens
41. Umberto D (1952) DeSica
42. Apocalypse Now (1979) Coppola
43. Inglourious Basterds (2009) Tarantino
44. The Third Man (1949) Reed
45. Annie Hall (1977) Allen
46. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) Herzog
47. Midnight in Paris (2011) Allen
48. Through A Glass Darkly (1961) Bergman
49. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Kubrick
50. Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Lumet
51. Dead Man (1995) Jarmusch
52. Radio Days (1987) Allen
53. Holiday (1938) Cukor
54. If…. (1968) Anderson
55. Raging Bull (1980) Scorsese
56. City Lights (1931) Chaplin
57. The Big Lebowski (1998) Coens
58. Rushmore (1998) Anderson
59. The Big Sleep (1946) Hawks
60. Foreign Correspondent (1940) Hitchcock
61. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Milestone
62. Ariel (1998) Kaurismaki
63. L’Eclisse (1962) Antonioni
64. A Woman Under the Influence (1974) Cassavetes
65. The Flowers of St. Francis (1950) Rossellini
66. Psycho (1960) Hitchcock
67. My Own Private Idaho (1991) Van Sant
68. Shame (1968) Bergman
69. Barry Lyndon (1975) Kubrick
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70. My Man Godfrey (1936) La Cava
71. The Burmese Harp (1956) Ichikawa
72. On the Waterfront (1954) Kazan
73. Red River (1948) Hawks
74. Stagecoach (1939) Ford
75. La Haine (1995) Kassovitz
76. The 39 Steps (1935) Hitchcock
77. The Gold Rush (1925) Chaplin
78. Citizen Kane (1941) Welles
79. Requiem for a Dream (2000) Aronofsky
80. Local Hero (1983) Forsyth
81. Double Indemnity (1944) Wilder
82. Pulp Fiction (1994) Tarantino
83. Persona (1966) Bergman
84. Mean Girls (2004) Waters
85. Come and See (1985) Klimov
86. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) Weir
87. The Great Escape (1963) J. Sturges
88. Drive My Car (2021) Hamaguchi
89. The Age of Innocence (1993) Scorsese
90. The Lady Eve (1941) Sturges
91. Beau Travail (1999) Denis
92. Notorious (1946) Hitchcock
93. The Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali (1955)/Aparjito (1956)/The World of Apu (1959) Ray
94. The Last Detail (1971) Ashby
95. The Battle of Algiers (1966) Pontecrorvo
96. Y Tu Mama También (2001) Cuaron
97. Le Havre (2011) Kaurismäki
98. Das Boot (1981) Peterson
99. Bicycle Thieves (1949) De Sica
100. Fallen Leaves (2023) Kaurismäki
Here are other beloved films that didn't quite qualify for my top 100. They are grouped by director.
Allen, Woody
Stardust Memories (1980)
Zelig (1983)
Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
Almodóvar, Pedro
Hable con Ella (2002)
Altman, Robert
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
California Split (1974)
Nashville (1975)
Gosford Park (2001)
Anderson, Wes
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Assayas, Olivier
Cold Water (1994)
Personal Shopper (2016)
Ashby, Hal
The Landlord (1970)
Harold and Maude (1971)
Shampoo (1975)
Being There (1979)
Antonioni, Michelangelo
L'Avventura (1960)
La Notte (1961)
Red Desert (1964)
Baker, Sean
Starlet (2012)
Tangerine (2015)
Anora (2024)
Beatty, Warren
Reds (1981)
Beauvois, Xavier
Of Gods and Men (2010)
Bergman, Ingmar
Summer With Monika (1953)
The Magician (1958)
The Virgin Spring (1960)
Silence (1963)
Cries and Whispers (1972)
Bertolucci, Bernardo
The Conformist (1970)
Bi Gan
Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)
Brooks, Mel
The Producers (1967)
Buñuel, Luis
Viridiana (1961)
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
Capra, Frank
Platinum Blonde (1931)
Meet John Doe (1941)
Carné, Marcel
Port of Shadows (1938)
Chaplin, Charlie
A Woman of Paris (1923)
Modern Times (1936)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Ceylan, Nuri Bilge
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
Cimino, Michael
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Coen, Joel & Ethan
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
A Serious Man (2009)
Condon, Bill
Gods and Monsters (1998)
Coppola, Francis Ford
The Conversation (1974)
Coppola, Sofia
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Cukor, George
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Deray, Jacques
La Piscine (1969)
Dieterle, William
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
Dreyer, Carl Theodor
La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928)
Eisenstein, Sergei
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Farhadi, Asghar
A Separation (2011)
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978)
Fellini, Federico
La Strada (1954)
Fincher, David
Fight Club (1999)
Zodiac (2007)
Fleck, Ryan
Half Nelson (2006)
Fleming, Victor
Red Dust (1932)
Ford, John
The Iron Horse (1924)
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
The Long Voyage Home (1940)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Fort Apache (1948)
Wagon Master (1950)
Forman, Miloš
The Fireman's Ball (1967)
Friedkin, William
The Exorcist (1973)
Gance, Abel
Napoleon (1927)
Glazer, Jonathan
The Zone of Interest (2023)
Godard, Jean-Luc
Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
Band of Outsiders (1964)
Godfrey, Peter
Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
Gondry, Michel
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Hall, Alexander
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
Haggmann, Stuart
The Strawberry Statement (1970)
Hanson, Curtis
Wonder Boys (2000)
Hawks, Howard
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Ball of Fire (1941)
Hill, George Roy
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Hirschbiegel, Oliver
Downfall (2004)
Hitchcock, Alfred
The Lodger (1927)
Blackmail (1929)
Rear Window (1954)
Huston, John
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
Inárritu, Alejandro G.
Birdman (2014)
Jarmusch, Jim
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
Down by Law (1986)
Night on Earth (1991)
Paterson (2016)
Jutra, Claude
Mon Oncle Antoine (1971)
Kalatozov, Mikhail
The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
Letter Never Sent (1960)
Kanin, Garson
The Great Man Votes (1939)
Kaurismäki, Aki
Shadows in Paradise (1986)
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
La Vie de Bohème (1992)
Drifting Clouds (1996)
The Man Without a Past (2002)
Light in the Dusk (2006)
The Other Side of Hope (2016)
Kazan, Elia
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Keaton, Buster
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
Kubrick, Stanley
Paths of Glory (1957)
Spartacus (1960)
Kurosawa, Akira
Rashomon (1950)
Ikiru (1952)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Landis, John
Animal House (1978)
Trading Places (1983)
Lang, Fritz
M (1931)
Laughton, Charles
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Lean, David
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Lee, Spike
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Leisen, Mitchell
Midnight (1939)
LeRoy, Mervyn
Five Star Final (1931)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Lester, Richard
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Loden, Barbara
Wanda (1970)
Lubitsch, Ernst
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Ninotchka (1939)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Cluny Brown (1946)
Lumet, Sidney
Twelve Angry Men (1957)
Network (1976)
The Verdict (1982)
Mackendrick, Alexander
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Malick, Terrence
Days of Heaven (1978)
McCarey, Leo
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
The Awful Truth (1937)
McLeod, Norman Z.
Horse Feathers (1932)
Melville, Jean-Pierre
Le Silence de la mer (1949)
Army of Shadows (1969)
Menzel, Jiří
Closely Watched Trains (1966)
Monicelli, Mario
The Organizer (1963)
Murnau, F. W.
The Last Laugh (1924)
Newmeyer, Fred C.
Safety Last! (1923)
The Freshman (1925)
Niblo, Fred
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Nolan, Christopher
Oppenheimer (2023)
Olivier, Laurence
Hamlet (1948)
Richard III (1955)
Ophüls, Max
The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
Pabst, G. W.
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Westfront 1918 (1930)
Pakula, Alan J.
The Parallax View (1974)
All the President's Men (1976)
Pálmason, Hlynur
Godland (2022)
Parker, Alan
The Commitments (1991)
Pawlikowski, Paweł
Ida (2013)
Cold War (2018)
Peckinpah, Sam
Ride the High Country (1962)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
The Getaway (1972)
Penn, Arthur
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Petri, Elio
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
Pietrangeli, Antonio
I Knew Her Well (1965)
Pollack, Sydney
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Polanski, Roman
Macbeth (1971)
Powell & Pressburger
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
Ramis, Harold
Groundhog Day (1993)
Ramsay, Lynne
Ratcatcher (1999)
Morvern Callar (2002)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
Ray, Nicholas
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Reed, Carol
Odd Man Out (1947)
Renoir, Jean
La Grande Illusion (1937)
Ritt, Martin
Hud (1963)
Roeg, Nicolas
Walkabout (1971)
Rossellini, Roberto
Stromboli (1950)
Viaggio in Italia (1954)
Sandrich, Mark
Follow the Fleet (1936)
Schlesinger, John
Marathon Man (1976)
Schrader, Paul
First Reformed (2017)
Scola, Ettore
A Special Day (1977)
Scott, Ridley
Blade Runner (1982)
Scorsese, Martin
Mean Streets (1973)
The King of Comedy (1982)
The Aviator (2004)
Shults, Trey Edward
Waves (2019)
Singleton, John
Boyz n the Hood (1991)
Shepitko, Larisa
The Ascent (1977)
Sheldon, Ron
Bull Durham (1988)
Soderbergh, Steven
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
Spielberg, Steven
Jaws (1975)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Schindler's List (1993)
Stone, Oliver
Platoon (1986)
JFK (1993)
von Sternberg, Josef
The Last Command (1928)
Morocco (1930)
Blonde Venus (1932)
Shanghai Express (1932)
von Stroheim, Erich
Greed (1924)
Sturges, Preston
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943)
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
Tarkovsky, Andrei
Ivan's Childhood (1962)
Andrei Rublev (1966)
Mirror (1975)
Tarantino, Quentin
Jackie Brown (1997)
Truffaut, François
Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
Jules and Jim (1962)
Tykwer, Tom
Run Lola Run (1998)
Van Dyke, W. S.
The Thin Man (1934)
Varda, Agnès
Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Vidor, King
The Big Parade (1925)
The Crowd (1928)
Walsh, Raoul
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Welles, Orson
Chimes at Midnight (1965)
Wellman, William A.
Wings (1927)
Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
Heroes for Sale (1933)
Westward the Women (1951)
Wenders, Wim
Wings of Desire (1987)
Wexler, Haskell
Medium Cool (1969)
Whale, James
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Wilder, Billy
Stalag 17 (1953)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Apartment (1960)
Wise, Robert
The Set-Up (1949)
Wong Kar-wai
Chungking Express (1994)
Wyler, William
The Letter (1940)
Yates, Peter
Bullitt (1968)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
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