Top 100 Films: The Best I've Seen
Ranked Listing; Revised, December 2008
This page will reflect the 2010 updates to this list
after I have finished counting down the individual titles
1 Persona
2 The Earrings of Madame de...
3 The Piano
4 Diary of a Country Priest
5 Citizen Kane
6 The Ballad of Narayama
7 Modern Times
8 Harlan County, U.S.A.
9 Sanshô the Bailiff
10 Andrei Rublev
11 Nashville
12 Singin' in the Rain
13 Vertigo
14 The Passion of Joan of Arc
15 Pinocchio
16 Grand Illusion
17 Meshes of the Afternoon
18 His Girl Friday
19 The Battle of Algiers
20 The Green Ray
21 The Thin Red Line
22 Aguirre, the Wrath of God
23 Taste of Cherry
24 Laura
25 Chinatown
26 Bicycle Thieves
27 A Woman under the Influence
28 Apocalypse Now
29 Taxi Driver
30 Safe
31 The Lady Eve
32 Man with a Movie Camera
33 Holiday
34 Casablanca
35 Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
36 The Fall of the House of Usher
37 Nanook of the North
38 McCabe & Mrs. Miller
39 Hannah and Her Sisters
40 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
41 Imitation of Life
42 Woman in the Dunes
43 The Conversation
44 Cries and Whispers
45 Shoah
46 The Travelling Players
47 Days of Heaven
48 Morvern Callar
49 Pickup on South Street
50 The Battleship Potemkin
51 Metropolis
52 The Scarlet Empress
53 The Gospel According to St. Matthew
54 Aliens
55 Pather Panchali
56 Tokyo Story
57 The Seventh Seal
58 Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
59 Dead Ringers
60 Raging Bull
61 42nd Street
62 Psycho
63 All About Eve
64 Russian Ark
65 The 400 Blows
66 Xala
67 The Joyless Street
68 The Docks of New York
69 The Last of England
70 Letter from an Unknown Woman
71 The Wages of Fear
72 The Letter
73 New York, New York
74 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
75 Fanny and Alexander
76 L'Atalante
77 Dancer in the Dark
78 Smiles of a Summer Night
79 Black Rain
80 Viridiana
81 Shame
82 The Godfather
83 Under the Sun of Satan
84 Notorious
85 Mulholland Drive
86 The Third Man
87 Long Day's Journey into Night
88 Sunset Boulevard
89 Annie Hall
90 2001: A Space Odyssey
91 Velvet Goldmine
92 Riddles of the Sphinx
93 Close-Up
94 When Harry Met Sally...
95 Flesh
96 Nostalghia
97 Marat/Sade
98 Talk to Her
99 Daughters of the Dust
100 Mary Poppins
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