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MASTER FILM LIST (176 lists + 15 revised lists / July 5, 2008)

Rank Film Points L #1
#1 Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) 328.5 45 13
#2 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) 310.5 43 8
#3 Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) 247 40 8
#4 Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942) 194.5 27 9
#5 (Federico Fellini, 1963) 192 33 3
#6 The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) 174.5 30 3
#7 Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954) 148 23 4
#8 La Règle de Jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939) 142.5 22 5
#9 Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953) 140.5 23 6
#10 Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966) 134 21 2
#11 La Passion de Jeanne d'arc (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928) 133.5 23 2
#12 Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) 125.5 17 3
#13 Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976) 115.5 16 3
#14 Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966) 98.5 15 1
#15 The Godfather - Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) 91 15 1
#16 A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971) 85 11 5
#17 Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974) 76 12 1
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966) 76 13 1
#19 Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927) 74 11 -
#20 Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950) 73.5 10 -
#21 The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949) 72 12 2
#22 Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962) 71 16 1
#23 Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964) 62.5 11 2
#24 Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994) 62 12 1
#25 Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968) 58.5 9 -
#26 Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963) 58 6 1
#27 Ordet (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1955) 57.5 9 -
#28 The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939) 57 10 2
#29 Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) 56 11 -
#30 The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica, 1948) 54 9 -
#31 Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975) 53 8 3
#32 Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972) 49 9 1
#33 Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1968) 47.5 10 1
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980) 47.5 10 1
#34 L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960) 46 8 1
The Searchers (John Ford, 1956) 46 6 -
#36 Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990) 43.5 7 -
#37 The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957) 43 9 -
#38 Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985) 42 8 -
#39 Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977) 42.5 9 1
#40 Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) 42 9 -
#41 Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986) 41.5 6 1
Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles, 1965) 41.5 7 1
#43 The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1969) 41 5 -
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979) 41 8 -
#45 Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) 40.5 5 1
#46 The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975) 40 5 3
#47 The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994) 38.5 6 -
La Strada (Federico Fellini, 1954) 38.5 7 2
#49 Sansho the Baliff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954) 38 6 -
#50 Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998) 37 4 3
#47 The General (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1927) 34.5 5 -
#48 Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977) 34 7 -
#50 Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, 1972) 33 7 1
#53 The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969) 31.5 4 1
#54 Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982) 31 6 -
Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937) 31 4 1
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai, 2000) 31 6 1
Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1984) 31 4 -
#58 North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959) 30.5 6 -
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958) 30.5 6 -
Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957) 30.5 6 -
#61 The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, 1959) 30 6 -
A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956) 30 5 -
Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924) 30 5 -
#65 Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952) 29.5 7 -
#66 Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985) 29 4 -
Week-End (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) 29 6 -
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933) 28.5 5 -
#70 Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) 26 5 -
Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1947) 26 4 -
Close Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990) 26 5 -
Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949) 26 4 -
Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978) 26 3 1
Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, 1935) 26 4 -
#76 The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1941) 25 4 1
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1970) 25 4 2
#78 Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999) 24 4 1
Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939) 24 4 1
#80 Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001) 23.5 3 -
Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950) 23.5 8 -
#82 Fargo (Joel Coen, 1996) 23 3 1
It's A Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) 23 6 -
Magnolia (P.T. Anderson, 1999) 23 4 -
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955) 23 5 1
#86 Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999) 22 4 -
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966) 22 4 -
The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1949) 22 5 -
Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964) 22 4 -
#90 Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955) 21.5 4 -
#91 L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934) 21 3 1
Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982) 21 4 -
#93 F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1974) 20.5 4 -
Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975) 20.5 3 -
#95 The Devil is a Woman (Josef von Sternberg, 1935) 20 2 2
The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963) 20 3 -
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946) 20 3 -
#98 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964) 19.5 4 -
#99 City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931) 19 6 -
Dekalog (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1989) 19 4 -
The English Patient (Anthony Minghella, 1996) 19 2 1
Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1925) 19 3 -
Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952) 19 3 -
The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952) 19 4 1
The Matrix (Wachowski Brothers, 1999) 19 3 -
Picnic At Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975) 19 4 -
#107 American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999) 18.5 3 -
The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960) 18.5 4 -
Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995) 18.5 5 -
L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962) 18.5 4 -
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981) 18.5 3 1
#112 Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973) 18 2 1
The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg, 1941) 18 2 -
#114 Bringing up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938) 17.5 4 -
Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975) 17.5 3 -
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) 17.5 4 -
#117 The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, 1998) 17 4 1
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994) 17 3 -
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati, 1953) 17 2 -
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman, 1988) 17 3 -
Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967) 17 2 1
#122 L'Argent (Robert Bresson, 1983) 16.5 3 -
The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kirshner, 1980) 16.5 4 1
Faust (F.W. Murnau, 1926) 16.5 3 -
#125 La Belle et la bête (Jean Cocteau, 1946) 16 3 -
Dr. Zhivago (David Lean, 1965) 16 3 -
Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, 1988) 16 4 -
Red River (Howard Hawks, 1948) 16 3 -
A Woman Under the Influence (John Casevettes, 1974) 16 5 -
#130 Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1943) 15.5 3 -
Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1987) 15.5 2 1
#124 The Breakfast Club (John Hughes, 1985) 15 2 -
Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968) 15 2 1
Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg, 1993) 15 3 1
Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, 1994) 15 3 -
#129 Un chien andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1929) 14.5 2 -
Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen, 1986) 14.5 3 -
The Man with the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929) 14.5 2 -
Orphée (Jean Cocteau, 1949) 14.5 2 -
#135 The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946) 14 3 -
Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975) 14 2 -
The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973) 14 3 -
Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, 1973) 14 3 -
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957) 14 2 -
Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953) 14 3 -
Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987) 14 4 -
#143 The Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau, 1924) 13.5 2 -
M (Fritz Lang, 1931) 13.5 3 -
#145 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson, 2002) 13 2 -
The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962) 13 3 -
Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957) 13 2 1
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1939) 13 2 -
Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957) 13 3 -
To Be Or Not To Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942) 13 3 -
Viaggio in Italia (Roberto Rosselini, 1953) 13 3 -
#152 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977) 12.5 2 -
The French Connection (William Friedkin, 1971) 12.5 2 -
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927) 12.5 3 -
Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock, 1943) 12.5 2 -
#156 Gertrud (Carl Dreyer, 1964) 12 2 -
Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955) 12 3 -
Trois Couleurs: Rouge (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994) 12 2 -
#160 Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973) 11.5 2 -
Ivan the Terrible, Parts I & II (Sergei Eisenstein, 1944-46) 11.5 3 -
Madame de... (Max Ophüls, 1953) 11.5 2 -
A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935) 11.5 3 -
#164 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972) 11 2 -
King Kong (Merian C. Cooper/Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933) 11 2 -
Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock, 1964) 11 2 -
Los Olvidados (Luis Bunuel, 1950) 11 2 -
La Région centrale (Michael Snow, 1971) 11 2 -
Scarface (Brian De Palma, 1983) 11 2 -
Stolen Kisses (François Truffaut, 1968) 11 2 -
That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel, 1977) 11 2 -
The Trial (Orson Welles, 1962) 11 2 -
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962) 11 2 -
#175 The Apu Trilogy (Satyajit Ray, 1955-59) 10.5 3 -
Bande à part (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964) 10.5 2 -
Hoop Dreams (Steve James, 1994) 10.5 2 -
#178 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (W.D. Richter, 1984) 10 1 1
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000) 10 1 1
Auntie Mame (Morton DaCosta, 1958) 10 1 1
Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935) 10 2 -
Les Deux anglaises et le continent (François Truffaut, 1971) 10 1 1
Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu, 1951) 10 2 -
Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim, 1922) 10 1 1
Frank Miller's Sin City (Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller, 2005) 10 1 1
Gandhi (Richard Attenborough, 1982) 10 2 -
Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959) 10 1 1
Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen, 1992) 10 2 -
In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1951) 10 2 -
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell/Pressburger, 1943) 10 2 -
Lonesome Dove (Simon Wincer, 1989) 10 1 1
The Loyal 47 Ronin (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1942) 10 1 1
Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945) 10 2 -
Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati, 1958) 10 3 -
Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann, 2001) 10 3 -
The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges, 1942) 10 1 1
Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960) 10 1 1
The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993) 10 1 1
Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959) 10 3 -
The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986) 10 1 1
Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995) 10 1 1
The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998) 10 1 1
Those who Love Me Can Take the Train (Patrice Chéreau, 1998) 10 1 1
#204 Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen, 1981) 9.5 2 -
The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, 1978) 9.5 1 -
La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960) 9.5 3 -
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton, 1985) 9.5 2 -
Raising Arizona (Joel Coen, 1987) 9.5 2 -
Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983) 9.5 2 -
#211 The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1965) 9 1 -
Being There (Hal Ashby, 1979) 9 2 -
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Weine, 1920) 9 1 -
Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964) 9 2 -
Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988) 9 1 -
Città violenta (Sergio Sollima, 1970) 9 1 -
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel, 1972) 9 2 -
Don't Look Now (Nicholas Roeg, 1973) 9 1 -
Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994) 9 2 -
Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris, 1980) 9 2 -
India (Roberto Rosselini, 1958) 9 1 -
The Jungle Book (Wolfgang Reitherman, 1967) 9 1 -
The Long Day Closes (Terrence Malick, 1993) 9 1 -
La Maman et la putain (Jean Eustache, 1973) 9 1 -
My Friend Ivan Lapshan (Aleksei German, 1954) 9 1 -
Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983) 9 1 -
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954) 9 2 -
The Parent Trap (David Swift, 1961) 9 1 -
The Passion of the Christ (Mel Gibson, 2004) 9 1 -
Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma, 1974) 9 1 -
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987) 9 1 -
Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959) 9 4 -
Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, 1998) 9 3 -
Sayat Nova: The Colour of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov, 1969) 9 1 -
Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984) 9 1 -
Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941) 9 1 -
Superman (Richard Donner, 1978) 9 1 -
True Romance (Tony Scott, 1993) 9 1 -
Unsere Afrikareise (Peter Kubelka, 1966) 9 1 -
Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg, 1971) 9 1 -
A Woman is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961) 9 2 -
Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961) 9 1 -
#244 2046 (Wong Kar-wai, 2004) 8 1 -
Arabic Series (Stan Brakhage, 1981) 8 1 -
Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier, 1996) 8 1 -
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah, 1974) 8 2 -
Bull Durham (Ron Shelton, 1988) 8 1 -
Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972) 8 1 -
Casino (Martin Scorsese, 1995) 8 2 -
Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki, 1986) 8 1 -
Day of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1985) 8 1 -
Dinner at Eight (George A. Cukor, 1933) 8 1 -
The Enigma of Kasper Hauser (Werner Herzog, 1974) 8 1 -
Field of Dreams (Phil Alden Robinson, 1989) 8 1 -
Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman, 1968) 8 1 -
In the Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison, 1967) 8 1 -
Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini, 1965) 8 1 -
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955) 8 1 -
Lilies - Les feluettes (John Greyson, 1966) 8 1 -
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Peter Jackson, 2001-03) 8 2 -
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001) 8 1 -
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson, 2003) 8 1 -
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941) 8 2 -
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943) 8 2 -
The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg, 1934) 8 1 -
Shane (George Stevens, 1953) 8 1 -
Sleuth (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1972) 8 1 -
Spring In a Small Town (Fei Mu, 1948) 8 1 -
The Stunt Man (Richard Rush, 1980) 8 1 -
Through A Glass, Darkly (Ingmar Bergman, 1961) 8 2 -
Trois couleurs Trilogy (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993-94) 8 1 -
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992) 8 2 -
Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1961) 8 1 -
Vivre sa vie (My Life to Live) (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962) 8 3 -
Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, 2000) 8 2 -
West of Zanzibar (Tod Browning, 1928) 8 1 -
#278 The Cloud-Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak, 1960) 7.5 2 -
Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979) 7.5 2 -
Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939) 7.5 2 -
#281 The Boondock Saints (Troy Duffy, 1999) 7 1 -
Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki, 1967) 7 1 -
Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné, 1945) 7 2 -
Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1961) 7 2 -
La Commune (de Paris, 1871) (Peter Watkins, 2000) 7 1 -
Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa, 1975) 7 1 -
The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971) 7 1 -
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) 7 2 -
Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen, 1941) 7 1 -
Earth (Aleksander Dovzhenko, 1930) 7 1 -
Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969) 7 1 -
The Gambler (Karel Reisz, 1974) 7 1 -
Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino, 1980) 7 1 -
If... (Lindsay Anderson, 1968) 7 1 -
It's a Gift (Norman Z. McLeod, 1934) 7 1 -
Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa, 1980) 7 1 -
The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock, 1938) 7 1 -
Lolita (Stanley Kubrick, 1962) 7 2 -
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (Kazuya Tsurumaki and Hideaki Anno, 1997) 7 1 -
The Red Circle (Jean-Pierre Mellville, 1970) 7 2 -
The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev, 2003) 7 1 -
The Shop on Main Street (Ján Kadár/Elmar Klos, 1965) 7 1 -
The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto, 1966) 7 1 -
Voyage to Cythera (Theo Angelopoulos, 1984) 7 1 -
West Side Story (Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise, 1961) 7 2 -
Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman, 1963) 7 3 -
The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock, 1956) 7 1 -
#308 Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1979) 6.5 2 -
Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa, 1965) 6.5 2 -
The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973) 6.5 2 -
#311 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957) 6 2 -
The Adjuster (Atom Egoyan, 1991) 6 1 -
Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984) 6 1 -
Birth of A Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915) 6 1 -
Bullets over Broadway (Woody Allen, 1994) 6 1 -
Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg, 1988) 6 1 -
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982) 6 1 -
The Element of Crime (Lars von Trier, 1984) 6 1 -
Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993) 6 1 -
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964) 6 2 -
Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby, 1971) 6 1 -
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940) 6 2 -
Invaders From Mars (William Cameron Menzies, 1953) 6 1 -
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956) 6 1 -
Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972) 6 2 -
A Mighty Wind (Christopher Guest, 2003) 6 1 -
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936) 6 1 -
One Hour With You (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932) 6 1 -
Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton/John G. Blystone, 1923) 6 1 -
The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel, 1974) 6 1 -
Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940) 6 1 -
Le Sang des bêtes (Georges Franju, 1949) 6 1 -
Schizopolis (Steven Soderbergh, 1996) 6 1 -
Snatch (Guy Ritchie, 2000) 6 2 -
Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959) 6 1 -
Sorry, Wrong Number (Anatole Litvak, 1948) 6 1 -
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001) 6 1 -
Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki, 1966) 6 1 -
Viva La Muerte (Fernando Arrabal, 1971) 6 1 -
#340 Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David & Jerry Zucker, 198) 5.5 1 -
All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955) 5.5 1 -
Angels with Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz, 1938) 5.5 1 -
The Bad Seed (Mervyn LeRoy, 1956) 5.5 1 -
Bananas (Woody Allen, 1971) 5.5 1 -
The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis, 1960) 5.5 1 -
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang, 1956) 5.5 1 -
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Russ Meyer, 1970) 5.5 1 -
Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray, 1956) 5.5 1 -
The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963) 5.5 1 -
Boyfriends and Girlfriends (Eric Rohmer, 1987) 5.5 1 -
Burnt by the Sun (Nikita Mikhalkov, 1994) 5.5 1 -
Caro Diario (Nanni Moretti, 1991) 5.5 1 -
Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976) 5.5 1 -
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994) 5.5 1 -
The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg, 1985) 5.5 1 -
Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997) 5.5 1 -
A Day In The Country (Jean Renoir, 1936) 5.5 1 -
Dead or Alive 2 (Takashi Miike, 2000) 5.5 1 -
The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, 1978) 5.5 1 -
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies, 1988) 5.5 1 -
Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003) 5.5 1 -
Le Doulos (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1962) 5.5 1 -
Dybbuk (Michal Waszynski, 1937) 5.5 1 -
The End of Summer (Yasujiro Ozu, 1960) 5.5 1 -
The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel, 1962) 5.5 1 -
Fantasia (Walt Disney, 1940) 5.5 1 -
The Foreigner (Amos Poe, 1978) 5.5 1 -
Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932) 5.5 1 -
Get Carter (Mike Hodges, 1971) 5.5 1 -
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (Mamoru Oshii, 2004) 5.5 1 -
Glen or Glenda (Edward D. Wood Jr., 1953) 5.5 1 -
The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer, 1986) 5.5 1 -
Hellzapoppin' (H.C. Potter, 1941) 5.5 1 -
The Hour of the Furnaces (Fernando E. Solanas/Octavio Getino, 1968) 5.5 1 -
Humanity and Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanaka, 1937) 5.5 1 -
I was Born, but... (Yasujiro Ozu, 1932) 5.5 1 -
In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978) 5.5 1 -
Inferno (Dario Argento, 1980) 5.5 1 -
Intentions of Murder (Shohei Imamura, 1964) 5.5 1 -
Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916) 5.5 1 -
Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas, 1996) 5.5 1 -
Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954) 5.5 1 -
Landscape in the Mist (Theo Angelopoulos, 1988) 5.5 1 -
Last Year At Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1960) 5.5 1 -
Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog, 1992) 5.5 1 -
Little Big Man (Arthur Penn, 1970) 5.5 1 -
Man's Castle (Frank Borzage, 1933) 5.5 1 -
Man’s Favorite Sport? (Howard Hawks, 1964) 5.5 1 -
Mothlight (Stan Brakhage, 1963) 5.5 1 -
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds (Hayao Miyazaki, 1984) 5.5 1 -
Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, 1939) 5.5 1 -
Olympia (Leni Riefenstahl, 1938) 5.5 1 -
Out 1: Spectre (Jacques Rivette, 1972) 5.5 1 -
Paper Flowers (Guru Dutt, 1959) 5.5 1 -
Performance (Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg, 1970) 5.5 1 -
The Phenix City Story (Phil Karlson, 1955) 5.5 1 -
The Pillow Book (Peter Greenaway, 1996) 5.5 1 -
Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968) 5.5 1 -
The Red and the White (Miklós Jancsó, 1967) 5.5 1 -
The Reflecting Skin (Philip Ridley, 1990) 5.5 1 -
Remains of the Day (James Ivory, 1993) 5.5 1 -
Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984) 5.5 1 -
The Road Warrior (George Miller, 1981) 5.5 1 -
Runaway Train (Andrei Konchalovsky, 1985) 5.5 1 -
Scum (Alan Clarke, 1979) 5.5 1 -
Seven Beauties (Lina Wertmüller, 1975) 5.5 1 -
Shadows (John Cassavetes, 1959) 5.5 1 -
Shall We Dance? (Masayuki Suo, 1996) 5.5 1 -
Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985) 5.5 1 -
Shoeshine (Vittorio De Sica, 1946) 5.5 1 -
Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut, 1960) 5.5 1 -
Sorcerer (William Friedkin, 1977) 5.5 1 -
South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (Trey Parker, 1999) 5.5 1 -
A Star is Born (William Wellman, 1937) 5.5 1 -
Tales of Hoffmann (Richard Oswald, 1916) 5.5 1 -
Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002) 5.5 1 -
They Live By Night (Nicholas Ray, 1948) 5.5 1 -
This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984) 5.5 1 -
Three Years Without God (Mario O'Hara, 1977) 5.5 1 -
A Time To Love And A Time To Die (Douglas Sirk, 1958) 5.5 1 -
To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, 1944) 5.5 1 -
A Touch of Zen (King Hu, 1969) 5.5 1 -
Tout va bien (Jean-Luc Godard, 1972) 5.5 1 -
Trois Couleurs: Bleu (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993) 5.5 1 -
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966) 5.5 1 -
What's Opera, Doc? (Chuck Jones, 1957) 5.5 1 -
The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi, 1995) 5.5 1 -
Zigeunerweisen (Seijun Suzuki, 1980) 5.5 1 -
#429 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1976) 5 1 -
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger, 1926) 5 3 -
All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950) 5 3 -
American History X (Tony Kaye, 1998) 5 1 -
Anne of Green Gables (Kevin Sullivan, 1985) 5 1 -
Apartment Zero (Martin Donovan, 1988) 5 1 -
Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985) 5 1 -
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000) 5 2 -
Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson, 1951) 5 1 -
Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell, 1997) 5 1 -
Dune (David Lynch, 1984) 5 1 -
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004) 5 2 -
Gun Crazy (Joseph H Lewis, 1949) 5 1 -
L'Humanité (Bruno Dumont, 1999) 5 1 -
I am Cuba/Soy Cuba (Mikhail Kalatazov, 1964) 5 1 -
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959) 5 1 -
The Killer (John Woo, 1989) 5 1 -
The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1987) 5 1 -
Last Tempatation of Christ (Martin Scorsese, 1988) 5 1 -
Lola Montès (Max Ophuls, 1955) 5 1 -
Love Steams (John Cassavetes, 1984) 5 1 -
The Man Who Came to Dinner (William Keighley, 1942) 5 1 -
My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946) 5 1 -
My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant, 1991) 5 1 -
News from Home (Chantal Akerman, 1977) 5 1 -
The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, 2001) 5 1 -
Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa, 1965) 5 1 -
Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964) 5 1 -
Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953) 5 1 -
Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee, 1995) 5 1 -
Seppuku (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962) 5 1 -
Spoorloos (The Vanishing) (George Sluizer, 1988) 5 1 -
Tabu (F.W. Murnau, 1930) 5 1 -
Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968) 5 1 -
The Twilight Samurai (Yoji Yamada, 2002) 5 1 -
Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953) 5 1 -
Waking Ned Devine (Kirk Jones, 1998) 5 1 -
Written On The Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1956) 5 1 -
#467 Les Anges Du Péché (Robert Bresson, 1943) 4 1 -
Bad Company (Robert Benton, 1972) 4 1 -
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980) 4 1 -
Cabin in the Sky (Vincente Minnelli, 1943) 4 1 -
Carnal Knowledge (Mike Nichols, 1971) 4 1 -
City of God (Fernando Meirelles, 2002) 4 1 -
Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears, 1988) 4 1 -
Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen, 1997) 4 1 -
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989) 4 2 -
Dog Star Man (Stan Brakhage, 1962-64) 4 1 -
Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1998) 4 1 -
The Four Feathers (Zoltan Korda, 1939) 4 1 -
The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin, 1940) 4 1 -
I'm Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira, 2001) 4 1 -
Illtown (Nick Gomez, 1996) 4 1 -
John Carpenter's The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982) 4 1 -
The Legend of 1900 (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1998) 4 1 -
Lone Star (John Sayles, 1996) 4 1 -
The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973) 4 1 -
Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969) 4 2 -
Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957) 4 1 -
Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922) 4 1 -
Scarface (Howard Hawks, 1932) 4 1 -
Schwechater (Peter Kubelka, 1958) 4 1 -
Short Cuts (Robert Altman, 1993) 4 1 -
Slacker (Richard Linklater, 1991) 4 1 -
Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick, 1960) 4 1 -
Still (Ernie Gehr, 1971) 4 1 -
The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973) 4 1 -
There was a Father (Yasujiro Ozu, 1942) 4 1 -
To Live (Zhang Yimou, 1994) 4 1 -
Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, 1952) 4 1 -
Les Uns et les autres (Claude Lelouch, 1981) 4 1 -
When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner, 1989) 4 1 -
The Wide Blue Road (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1957) 4 1 -
#502 All About my Mother (Pedro Almadovar, 1999) 3 1 -
Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, 2000) 3 1 -
Bed and Board (François Truffaut, 1970) 3 1 -
Ben-Hur (William Wyler, 1959) 3 1 -
Blow-up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966) 3 1 -
The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg, 1930) 3 1 -
À bout de souffle (Breathless) (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) 3 1 -
The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, 1957) 3 2 -
Crimes of Passion (Ken Russell, 1984) 3 1 -
Deliverance (John Boorman, 1972) 3 1 -
The Devil Probably (Robert Bresson, 1977) 3 1 -
Duelle (Jacques Rivette, 1976) 3 1 -
Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse, 1973) 3 1 -
The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir, 1953) 3 1 -
Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai, 1997) 3 1 -
Harlan County, USA (Barbara Kopple, 1976) 3 1 -
High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963) 3 1 -
Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike, 2001) 3 1 -
Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964) 3 1 -
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrells (Guy Ritchie, 1998) 3 1 -
Lola (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1981) 3 1 -
M*A*S*H (Robert Altman, 1970) 3 1 -
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979) 3 1 -
The Milagro Beanfield War (Robert Redford, 1988) 3 1 -
A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996) 3 1 -
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, 1975) 3 1 -
Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1967) 3 1 -
The Night of the Shooting Stars (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, 1982) 3 1 -
The Old Dark House (James Whale, 1932) 3 1 -
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman, 1975) 3 1 -
Peter Pan (Clyde Geronimi/Wilfred Jackson/Hamilton Luske, 1953) 3 1 -
Scaramouche (George Sidney, 1952) 3 1 -
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Stanley Donan, 1954) 3 1 -
Seven Women (John Ford, 1966) 3 1 -
Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder, 1953) 3 1 -
The Stranger Returns (King Vidor, 1933) 3 1 -
Stroszek (Werner Herzog, 1977) 3 1 -
El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1970) 3 1 -
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang, 1933) 3 1 -
Vampyr (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932) 3 1 -
The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman, 1960) 3 1 -
Yi Yi (A One and a Two) (Edward Yang, 2000) 3 1 -
#544 AI: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001) 2 2 -
Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara, 1992) 2 1 -
Barton Fink (Joel Coen, 1991) 2 1 -
Beautiful Girls (Ted Demme, 1996) 2 1 -
Boogie Nights (P.T. Anderson, 1997) 2 1 -
Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood, 1995) 2 1 -
La Cicatrice Interieure (Philippe Garrel, 1972) 2 1 -
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, 1989) 2 1 -
Crooklyn (Spike Lee, 1994) 2 1 -
Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2004) 2 1 -
Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940) 2 1 -
Garden State (Zach Braff, 2004) 2 1 -
Henry Fool (Hal Hartley, 1997) 2 1 -
Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa, 1958) 2 1 -
House of Games (David Mamet, 1987) 2 1 -
Jules et Jim (Francois Truffaut, 1961) 2 1 -
The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, 1956) 2 1 -
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, 1976) 2 1 -
Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann, 1992) 2 1 -
Masculine-Feminine (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966) 2 1 -
Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen, 1990) 2 1 -
Le Million (René Clair, 1931) 2 1 -
Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993) 2 1 -
A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971) 2 1 -
Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi, 1961) 2 1 -
Punch Drunk Love (P.T. Anderson, 2002) 2 1 -
Pride and Prejudice (Robert Z. Leonard, 1940) 2 1 -
The Red Violin (François Girard, 1998) 2 1 -
Rififi (Jules Dassin, 1994) 2 1 -
The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk, 1957) 2 1 -
Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997) 2 1 -
They Live! (John Carpenter, 1988) 2 1 -
To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962) 2 1 -
Traffic (Steven Soderbergh, 2000) 2 1 -
Triumph of the Will (Leni Riefenstahl, 1935) 2 1 -
#579 Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1974) 1 1 -
Avalon (Barry Levinson, 1990) 1 1 -
Bang! (Robert Breer, 1986) 1 1 -
Belle de jour (Luis Buñuel, 1967) 1 1 -
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972) 1 1 -
Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981) 1 1 -
Bob le flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1955) 1 1 -
Che cosa sono le nuvole? (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968) 1 1 -
The Circus (Charlie Chaplin, 1928) 1 1 -
Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001) 1 1 -
Dreamchild (Gavin Millar, 1985) 1 1 -
Dumb & Dumber (Farrelly Brothers, 1994) 1 1 -
Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy, 1933) 1 1 -
The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967) 1 1 -
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Stanley Kramer, 1967) 1 1 -
In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Oshima, 1976) 1 1 -
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1977) 1 1 -
L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997) 1 1 -
The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese, 1978) 1 1 -
The Limey (Steven Soderbergh, 1999) 1 1 -
Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944) 1 1 -
Meeting People is Easy (Grant Gee, 1999) 1 1 -
Midnight Run (Martin Brest, 1988) 1 1 -
Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg, 1991) 1 1 -
One-Eyed Jacks (Marlon Brando, 1961) 1 1 -
One Froggy Evening (Chuck Jones, 1955) 1 1 -
Ordinary People (Robert Redford, 1980) 1 1 -
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984) 1 1 -
Paris qui dort (René Clair, 1925) 1 1 -
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah, 1973) 1 1 -
Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967) 1 1 -
The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952) 1 1 -
Le Samourai (John-Pierre Melville, 1967) 1 1 -
Shadows of our Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1964) 1 1 -
Sideways (Alexander Payne, 2004) 1 1 -
Spanglish (James L. Brooks, 2004) 1 1 -
Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah, 1971) 1 1 -
Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932) 1 1 -
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (Kinji Fukasaku, 1972) 1 1 -
White Heat (Raoul Walsh, 1949) 1 1 -

Films that used to be on the list but have dropped off due to revised lists (and their highest chart position):
#482 Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin, 1947) 3 1 -
#555 Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942) 1 1 -
#555 Mystic River (Clint Eastwood, 2003) 1 1 -
L=How many lists each film appears on         #1=How many number one votes each film recieves

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