Top 100+ films

Striving for the ‘third thought’ evaulation between my art-experience of the film and the inherent merit of the the film’s own expression, but whenever uncertain always heeding on the side of my experience over some hypothetical value. The meaning of life is buried in this list, I am certain.

1. The Tree of Life (Malick)
2. Red Beard (Kurosawa)
3. Nights of Cabiria (Fellini)
4. Dr Strangelove (Kubrick)
5. The Thin Red Line (Malick)
6. Chungking Express (Kar-Wai)
7. Dont Look Back (Pennebaker)
8. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
9. 400 Blows (Truffaut)
10. The New World (Malick)
11. The Bicycle Thief (De Sica)
12. Do The Right Thing (Lee)
13. Naked (Leigh)
14. When the Levees Broke (Lee)
15. Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
16. The Searchers (Ford)
17. Gerry (Van Sant)
18. La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
19. Summertime (Lean)
20. Wages of Fear (Clouzot)
21. Little Children (Field)
22. Rachel Getting Married (Demme)
23. Greenberg (Baumbach)
24. Zodiac (Fincher)
25. Before Sunset (Linklater)
26. Before Sunrise (Linklater)
27. Love and Death (Allen)
28. Schindler’s List (Spielberg)
29. In the Bedroom (Field)
30. Singin in the Rain (Donen/Kelly)
31. Days of Heaven (Malick)
32. Revolutionary Road (Mendes)
33. Annie Hall (Allen)
34. For All Mankind (Reinert)
35. Inland Empire (Lynch)
36. Scenes from a Marriage (Bergman)
37. Passion of Jeanne D’Arc (Dreyer)
38. Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt)
39. Touching the Void (Macdonald)
40. Lost in Translation (Coppola, Sophia)
41. Wit (Mike Nichols)
42. Bloody Sunday (Greengrass)
43. Network (Lumet)
44. Rear Window (Hitchcock)
45. Fail Safe (Lumet)
46. Titanic (Cameron)
47. Mammoth (Moodysson)
48. Rio Bravo (Hawks)
49. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry)
50. A Man Escaped (Bresson)
51. Pride and Prejudice (Wright)
52. Elephant (Van Sant)
53. Last Days (Van Sant)
54. Sideways (Payne)
55. Closer (Nichols)
56. Anti-Christ (Von Trier)
57. Le Notte Bianche (Visconti)
58. Hiroshima Mon Amour (Resnais)
59. Old Boy (Chan-Wook)
60. American Movie (Smith)
61. Waking Life (Linklater)
62. Psycho (Hitchcock)
63. Blue Valentine (Cianfrance)
64. Melancholia (Von Trier)
65. Nights and Weekends (Swanberg)
66. Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa)
67. Leaving Las Vegas (Figgis)
68. Collapse (Smith)
69. Away We Go (Mendes)
70. Gosford Park (Altman)
71. the 25th Hour (Lee)
72. Hard Eight (Anderson)
73. Hunger (McQueen)
74. Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
75. The Fountain (Aronofsky)
76. Incendies (Villeneuve)
77. The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich)
78. Stroszek (Herzog)
79. Meek’s Cutoff (Reichardt)
80. Withnail & I (Robinson)
81. Meet Me in St Louis (Minnelli)
82. Sullivan’s Travels (Sturges)
83. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman)
84. Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
85. Alien (Scott)
86. The Matrix (Wachowski Bros.)
87. No Country for Old Men (Coen Bros.)
88. Diabolique (Clouzot)
89. Silent Light (Reygadas)
90. Badlands (Malick)
91. Another Year (Leigh)
92. Paris, Texas (Wenders)
93. Happy Together (Kar-Wai)
94. Grizzly Man (Herzog)
95. Bonnie & Clyde (Penn)
96. The Talented Mr. Ripley (Minghella)
97. Shutter Island (Scorsese)
98. The Sunset Limited (Jones)
99. On the Waterfront (Kazan)
100. Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick)
101. Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson)
102. Stagecoach (Ford)
103. Four Nights of a Dreamer (Bresson)
104. Double Indemnity (Wilder)
105. Synecdoche New York (Kaufmann)
106. Brief Encounter (Lean)
107. Death and the Maiden (Polanski)
108. The Grey (Carnahan)
109. Half-Nelson (Fleck and Boden)
110. Bugsy (Beatty)
111. Picnic on Hanging Rock (Weir)
112. All The President’s Men (Pakula)
113. F is For Fake  (Welles)
114. Once (Carney)
115. Hannah Takes the Stairs (Swanberg)
116. Last Waltz (Scorsese)
117. The Life of Brian (Jones)
118. Le Trou (Becker)
119. The American (Corbijn)
120. Reds (Beatty)