Top 100 Movies

 

People ask me many times, what are my favorite movies. I sampled up a list of my top 100 movies. Movies also tell a lot about their viewers. In my case I cannot argue against this predicament. There are many classics in the history of film but I may have not included them in my list for personal reasons. Some classics are just too slow or too prehistoric. It is an obligation to learn to watch movies from different genres, decades and cultures. We also have to try and value movies using different criteria. In my opinion in every movie there is something well made. As a consumers we just have to find it. The following movies I enjoy greatly:

Not in order of preference:

 

1. In the Mood for Love - Wong Kar-wai

2. Antichrist - Lars von Trier

3. The Whale Rider - Niki Caro

4. Mad Max 2 - George Miller

5. Happy Together - Wong Kar-wai    

6. Dancer in the Dark - Lars von Trier
7. 2046 - Wong Kar-wai
8. Jaws - Steven Speilberg
9. Aliens - James Cameron
10. Three Colours: Blue - Krzysztof Kieslowski
11. Three Colours: Red - Krzysztof Kieslowski
12. Three Colours: White - Krzysztof Kieslowski
13. Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese
14. The Shining - Stanley Kubrick
15. The Exorcist - William Friedkin
16. Snatch - Guy Ritchie
17. Matrix - Wachowski Bros.
18. Seven - David Fincher
19. Goodfellas - Martin Scorsese
20. The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola
21. The Godfather: Part 2 - Francis Ford Coppola
22. Schindler´s List - Steven Spielberg
23. A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick
24. Full Metal Jacket - Stanley Kubrick
25. Apocalypse Now! - Francis Ford Coppola
26. Silence of the Lambs - Jonathan Demme
27. Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock
28. The Rear Window -  Alfred Hitchcock
29. Scarface - Brian de Palma
30. Blade Runner - Ridley Scott
31. Black Swan - Darren Arofnovsky
32. Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
33. Trainspotting - Danny Boyle
34. The Usual Suspects - Bryan Singer
35. Once upon a Time in the West - Sergio Leone
36. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly  - Sergio Leone
37. La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini
38. American Beauty - Sam Mendes
39. Leon: The Professional - Luc Besson
40. Rosemary´s Baby - Roman Polanski
41. Repulsion - Roman Polanski
42. Casablanca - Michael Curtiz
43. Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino
44. Edward Scissorhands - Tim Burton
45. Beetlejuice - Tim Burton
46. Pieta - Kim Ki-duk
47. 3-iron - Kim Ki-duk
48. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring - Kim Ki-duk
49. Dogville - Lars von Trier
50. Amelie - Jean-Pierre Jeunet
51. No Contry for Old Men - Coen Bros.
52. Letters from Iwo-Jima - Clint Eastwood
53. All about my Mother - Almodovar
54. Talk to Her - Almodovar
55. Bad Education - Almodovar
56. American History X - Tony Kaye
57. Amores Perros -  Alejandro González Iñárritu
58. 21 Grams - Alejandro González Iñárritu

59. Y tú mama tambien - Alfonso Cuaron
60. 007: The Man with the Golden Gun - Guy Hamilton
61. 007: Goldfinger - Guy Hamilton
62. Bad Taste - Peter Jackson
63. Annie Hall - Woody Allen
64. The Shawshank Redemption - Frank Darabont
65. Rain Man - Barry Levinson
66. Basic Instinct - Paul Verhoeven
67. Rambo - Sylvester Stallone
68. Rocky - John G. Avildsen
69. Terminator 2 - James Cameron
70. The Gladiator - Ridley Scott
71. Pan´s Labyrinth - Guillermo Del Toro
72. Magnolia - Paul Thomas Anderson
73. The Wicker Man - Robin Hardy
74. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days - Criastian Mungiu
75. The Big Blue - Luc Besson
76. The Sixth Sense - M. Night Shamalayan
77. Fargo - Coen Bros.
78. Leaving Las Vegas - Mike Figgis
79. Fight Club - David Fincher
80. Philadelphia - Jonathan Demme
81. Being John Malkovich - Spike Jonze
82. Spirited Away - Hayao Miyazaki
83. Seven Samurai - Akira Kurosawa
84. The Man without a Past - Aki Kaurismäki
85. Cube - Vincenzo Natali
86. Citizen Kane - Orson Welles
87. Groundhog Day - Harold Ramis
88. The Forgotten - Luis Buñuel
89. Star Wars - Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back - Irvin Kershner
90. A Prophet - Jacques Audiard
91. Bowling for Columbine - Michael Moore
92. The Piano - Jane Campion
93. The Tree of Life - Terrence Malick
94. There Will be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson
95. Hot Shots - Jim Abrahams
96. The Naked Gun - David Zucker
97. Downfall - Oliver Hirschbiegel  
98. Natural Born Killers - Oliver Stone
99. One flew over the Cuckoos´s nest - Milos Forman
100. The Great Dictator - Charles Chaplin

Naturally I have missed one or two :)