Since I can only account for the films I’ve seen, I update this list whenever I see something new (or old) that I think qualifies for cinematic greatness. For simplicity purposes, I’ve limited my selections to narrative features, although there are a few documentaries (Baraka and Fast, Cheap & Out of Control) and shorts (La Jetée, A Day with the Boys, and Street of Crocodiles) I’d typically include among the greats. I’ve also tried to exclude any horrors, comedies, or action films that I didn’t feel transcended its respective genre and made sure to disqualify all films with a voice-over by Morgan Freeman (apologies to The Shawshank Redemption), because I think we’ve all heard enough already. And although I have a soft spot for Fellini, Welles, and Hitchcock, I didn’t think any of their films (with the notable exception of Rear Window) held up quite as well as the rest on this list to modern scrutiny. Naturally, these rankings are highly subjective, and, although I could probably spend weeks reshuffling and amending, here’s my best approximation of what I feel are the top 100 films of all time:
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Hukkle
- Memento
- Mulholland Dr.
- Oldboy
- A Serious Man
- The Graduate
- Buffalo ’66
- Happiness
- Drive
- The Conversation
- Punch-Drunk Love
- The Passenger
- A Clockwork Orange
- Blue Velvet
- Cache
- No Country for Old Men
- Taxidermia
- Brazil
- Fargo
- Terribly Happy
- Blade Runner
- Straw Dogs (1970)
- The Godfather
- Dancer in the Dark
- Hunger
- Being There
- Insomnia (1997)
- A Somewhat Gentle Man
- Let the Right One In
- There Will Be Blood
- The Spirit of the Beehive
- The Loss of Sexual Innocence
- Dead Man
- Eraserhead
- The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
- Breaking the Waves
- Brick
- After Hours
- The City of Lost Children
- Battle Royale
- The Shining
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
- The Big Lebowski
- Children of Men
- The Usual Suspects
- The Tenant
- The Star Maker
- Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
- The Proposition
- Shame
- Don’t Look Now
- Dogtooth
- Napoleon Dynamite
- Rumble Fish
- Trainspotting
- Belle de Jour
- Toto the Hero
- Wings of Desire
- George Washington
- Spider
- Alien
- In Bruges
- Pulp Fiction
- My Own Private Idaho
- A Zed and Two Noughts
- Full Metal Jacket
- Delicatessen
- Three Colors: White
- Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Chloe in the Afternoon
- The Vanishing (1988)
- 28 Days Later
- Donnie Darko
- Glengarry Glen Ross
- Conspirators of Pleasure
- Naked
- Thirst
- Fight Club
- Carnal Knowledge
- Masculin-Feminin
- Woman in the Dunes
- In the Mood for Love
- Gozu
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
- Stalker
- Last Year at Marienbad
- Rear Window
- Duel
- Mother
- Network
- I Stand Alone
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- The Wrestler
- Safe
- Spanking the Monkey
- Taxi Driver
- Days of Heaven
- Harold and Maude
- The Rules of Attraction
This is a list for a depraved and blighted brain. No red-blooded, God-fearing American would condone such filth. You, sir, suffer from convulsions of the mind.
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