This is part five, the Top 100 of my Top 1000 films of all time.  Other entries: 101-200, 201-500, 501-750, 751-1000, honorable mentions.  Disclaimer: list-making like this is completely ridiculous for many reasons.  It’s arbitrary, dependent on personal whims and whatever mood I might be in at the time of ranking, the imperfections of my memory (growing more imperfect by the year), the limitations of what movies I have and haven’t seen, the vagueness of the criteria I use to rank them (there really aren’t any), and simply because the very idea of saying one film is 10 (or 50 or 200) better than another is completely absurd.  But lists are fun and can occasionally be useful.

1 Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)

 

2 Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)

 

3 Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)

 

4 Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)

 

5 Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952)

 

6 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (FW Murnau, 1927)

 

7 Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)

 

8 Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)

 

9 The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)

 

10 The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)

 

11 Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)

 

12 Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)

 

13 Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

 

14 The Red Shoes (Powell & Pressburger, 1948)

 

15 Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)

 

16 Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)

 

17 Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)

 

18 All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)

 

19 The Big Lebowski (The Coen Brothers, 1998)

 

20 Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)

 

21 The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg, 1928)

 

22 Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles, 1965)

 

23 The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)

 

24 Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné, 1945)

 

25 La Commune (Paris, 1871) (Peter Watkins, 2000)

 

26 A Canterbury Tale (Powell & Pressburger, 1944)

 

27 Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)

 

28 North By Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)

 

29 Miller’s Crossing (The Coen Brothers, 1990)

 

30 Sherlock, Jr (Buster Keaton, 1924)

 

31 I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964)

 

32 City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931)

 

33 It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)

 

34 Dazed and Confused (Rochard Linklater, 1993)

 

35 Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982)

 

36 Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2001)

 

37 Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)

 

38 Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)

 

39 Black Narcissus (Powell & Pressburger, 1947)

 

40 The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)

 

41 Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947)

 

42 Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)

 

43 Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)

 

44 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)

 

 

45 Funny Face (Stanley Donen, 1957)

 

46 A Matter of Life and Death (Powell & Pressburger, 1946) 

 

47 Late Spring (Yasujirô Ozu,1949) 

 

48 The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940)

 

49 All That Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979)

 

50 M. Hulot’s Holiday (Jacques Tati, 1953)

 

51 A Woman is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961)

 

52 F For Fake (Orson Welles, 1973)

 

53 The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)

 

54 Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)

 

55 Hard-Boiled (John Woo, 1992)

 

56 Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)

 

57 The General (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1926)

 

58 Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)

 

59 Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939)

 

60 The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)

 

61 The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Lau Kar-leung, 1978)

 

62 Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984)

 

63 Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971)

 

64 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra, 1939)

 

65 An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli, 1951)

 

66 Slacker (Richard Linklater, 1991)

 

67 The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)

 

68 Voyage in Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)

 

69 The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946)

 

70 Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)

 

71 The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)

 

72 Swing Time (George Stevens, 1936)

 

73 Psycho (Alfred HItchcock, 1960)

 

74 The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz, 1938)

 

75 Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)

 

76 Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)

 

77 Histoire(s) du cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard, 1998)

 

78 L’Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)

 

79 Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)

 

80 Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)

 

81 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)

 

82 Zulu (Cy Endfield, 1964)

 

83 The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)

 

84 The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer, 1986)

 

85 Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)

 

86 The Lion in Winter (Anthony Harvey, 1968)

 

87 2046 (Wong Kar-wai, 2004)

 

88 The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952)

 

89 The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)

 

90 Airplane! (Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker, 1980)

 

91 The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953)

 

92 Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)

 

93 Morocco (Josef von Sternberg, 1930)

 

94 Miami Vice (Michael Mann, 2006)

 

95 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)

 

96 Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Anderson, 2003)

 

97 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)

 

98 Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954)

 

99 Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (FW Murnau, 1931)

100 Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)

This is part four.  Previous entires can be found here: 201-500, 501-750, 751-1000 and honorable mentions, along with the usual equivocations.

101 Young Mr. Lincoln
102 Andrei Rublev
103 The Wind That Shakes the Barley
104 Dragon Inn
105 The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
106 Intolerance
107 Rushmore
108 Three Colors: Blue
109 In the Mood for Love
110 Hiroshima, mon amour





111 Modern Times
112 Tokyo Story
113 Fantasia
114 Last Life in the Universe
115 Hannah and Her Sisters
116 Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
117 The Life of Brian
118 Charade
119 Irma Vep
120 Fallen Angels





121 Big Night
122 L’Atalante
123 Sans soleil
124 The Awful Truth
125 Shanghai Express
126 LA Story
127 The Strawberry Blonde
128 Lola (1961)
129 Ghost Dog
130 Anatomy of a Murder





131 Raiders of the Lost Ark
132 Make Way for Tomorrow
133 Rashomon
134 The Manchurian Candidate
135 Pulp Fiction
136 A Touch of Zen
137 Don’t Look Back
138 My Night at Maud’s
139 Les amants du Pont-Neuf
140 Jaws





141 House of Flying Daggers
142 Do the Right Thing
143 Steamboat Bill Jr.
144 Chinatown
145 Sleeping Beauty
146 Cat People
147 Double Indemnity
148 8 1/2
149 Tropical Malady
150 Eyes Wide Shut





151 L’Avventura
152 Letter from an Unknown Woman
153 Monty Python and the Holy Grail
154 Apocalypse Now
155 The Empire Strikes Back
156 Brief Encounter
157 Lawrence of Arabia
158 Red River
159 Cops
160 Japanese Girls at the Harbor





161 Goodbye, Dragon Inn
162 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
163 Meet Me in St. Louis
164 Crippled Avengers
165 The Battle of Algiers
166 WALL-E
167 Kiss Me Kate
168 The Outlaw Josey Wales
169 People On Sunday
170 The Pirate





171 Ruggles of Red Gap
172 Kill Bill Vol. 1
173 Sita Sings the Blues
174 Trouble in Paradise
175 The Double Life of Veronique
176 Louisiana Story
177 Notorious
178 Amadeus
179 The Wizard of Oz
180 Satantango





181 Harvey
182 Rome, Open City
183 Cleo from 5 To 7
184 Ikiru
185 Gunga Din
186 In a Lonely Place
187 Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
188 Inglourious Basterds
189 True Heart Susie
190 Breakfast at Tiffany’s





191 McCabe & Mrs. Miller
192 7 Women
193 My Winnipeg
194 All That Heaven Allows
195 Day of Wrath
196 Star Wars
197 The Music Room
198 Oki’s Movie
199 I’m Not There
200 PTU

This is part three.  Previous entires can be found here: 501-750, 751-1000 and honorable mentions.  

201 Spirited Away

202 The Purple Rose of Cairo

203 La Danse

204 Some Came Running

205 Oxhide II

206 Blow-Up

207 The Shining

208 Three Times

209 Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)

210 Three Colors: Red

211 Throne of Blood

212 Hallelujah, I’m a Bum

213 The Big Red One

214 Exiled

215 El Dorado

216 His Girl Friday

217 The Lady from Shanghai

218 Boogie Nights

219 Gun Crazy

220 Mahanagar

221 Cabaret

222 Killer of Sheep

223 Unforgiven

224 Advise and Consent

225 Kicking and Screaming

226 Contempt

227 Heaven’s Gate

228 The Blues Brothers

229 One Week

230 Madame de. . .

231 The Lady Vanishes

232 Wild Grass

233 Charulata

234 42nd Street

235 Barton Fink

236 Limelight

237 Mean Streets

238 No Greater Glory

239 What Time is it There?

240 Petulia

241 Cranes are Flying

242 The Godfather Part II

243 Sunset Blvd.

244 The Princess Bride

245 The French Connection

246 Park Row

247 My Darling Clementine

248 Night of the Living Dead

249 Pauline at the Beach

250 Murder By Contract

251 Top Hat

252 The Musketeers of Pig Alley

253 Police Story

254 The Seventh Seal

255 Claire’s Knee

256 Pennies from Heaven

257 The Mission (1999)

258 Paths of Glory

259 There’s Always Tomorrow

260 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

261 The Dawn Patrol

262 An Autumn Afternoon

263 The Steel Helmet

264 Seventh Heaven

265 Vampyr

266 On the Waterfront

267 Mon oncle d’Amérique

268 To Have and Have Not

269 Carlos

270 Trainspotting

271 Drunken Master II

272 The Last Waltz

273 Scarlet Street

274 Fantastic Mr. Fox

275 Written on the Wind

276 Shall We Dance

277 Frankenstein

278 The Last Temptation of Christ

279 Broadcast News

280 Days of Being Wild

281 The 400 Blows

282 Laura

283 The Young Girls of Rochefort

284 Before Sunrise

285 Exit Through the Gift Shop

286 Henry V (1989)

287 Age of Consent

288 Alien

289 The Gold Rush

290 The Road Warrior

291 City Girl

292 Dangerous Liaisons

293 Archangel

294 Fort Apache

295 Taxi Driver

296 Unfaithfully Yours

297 The Last of the Mohicans

298 The Man with a Movie Camera

299 Kiss Me Deadly

300 Dodsworth

301 There Will Be Blood

302 Now, Voyager

303 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

304 Glengarry Glen Ross

305 Ed Wood

306 Fucking Åmål

307 A Christmas Tale

308 Taste of Cherry

309 Rebecca

310 Golddiggers of 1933

311 The Godfather

312 Dawn of the Dead

313 Fight Club

314 The Scarlet Empress

315 Stromboli

316 The Puppetmaster

317 The Exterminating Angel

318 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

319 Happy Together

320 Don’t Look Now

321 The Immigrant

322 Alice in Wonderland (1951)

323 Baby Face

324 The Gang’s All Here

325 Run of the Arrow

326 The Gay Divorcee

327 The Palm Beach Story

328 Leave Her to Heaven

329 Six Degrees of Separation

330 The Sword of Doom

331 Under Capricorn

332 Ivan the Terrible Part 1

333 Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

334 Early Summer

335 Metropolitan

336 Shoot the Piano Player

337 Centre Stage

338 Lola Montes

339 The River (1951)

340 The Goat

341 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

342 Mon Oncle

343 Under the Roofs of Paris

344 The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums

345 Winchester ’73

346 Empire of the Sun

347 Godzilla (1954)

348 Sleeper

349 The Atomic Café

350 The Matrix

351 Curse of the Cat People

352 Bitter Victory

353 Yojimbo

354 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

355 Spring in a Small Town

356 Alexander Nevsky

357 Bottle Rocket

358 The Big Heat 

359 Ninotchka

360 Remember the Night

361 Culloden

362 April Story

363 King Kong (1933)

364 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

365 Jour de fete

366 The Set-Up

367 The Circus

368 Diary of a Country Priest

369 Lost Highway

370 To Live and Die in LA

371 A Corner in Wheat

372 Aguirre: The Wrath of God

373 Fist of Legend

374 The Leopard

375 Seven Men From Now

376 Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

377 Once Upon a Time in China

378 Suspicion

379 Going My Way

380 Harakiri

381 Footlight Parade

382 Masculin feminin

383 Orlando

384 Morvern Callar

385 Masque of the Red Death

386 Sanjuro

387 The Wind

388 Hero

389 Portrait of Jennie

390 Midnight

391 A Trip to the Moon

392 Groundhog Day

393 High and Low

394 Sansho the Bailiff

395 Ratatouille

396 The Flowers of Shanghai

397 Breathless

398 Pickpocket

399 Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

400 The Age of the Medici

401 Street Angel (1928)

402 Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl

403 Scarface (1932)

404 Ashes of Time

405 Badlands

406 New Rose Hotel

407 Some Like it Hot

408 I Walked with a Zombie

409 The Grand Illusion

410 The Maltese Falcon

411 The Magnificent Ambersons

412 Mogambo

413 The World

414 Design for Living

415 Anchorman

416 Bull Durham

417 Bend of the River

418 The Mortal Storm

419 Nights of Cabiria

420 Still Life

421 Pinocchio

422 The Killing

423 The Shanghai Gesture

424 The Best Years of Our Lives

425 The Last Days of Disco

426 Army of Shadows

427 Three Comrades

428 The English Patient

429 Paisan

430 The Right Stuff

431 Clerks

432 Mr. Arkadin

433 Force of Evil

434 Europa ’51

435 Les bonnes femmes

436 Bad Day at Black Rock

437 Give a Girl a Break

438 Socrates

439 History is Made at Night

440 The Passenger

441 Kind Hearts and Coronets

442 The Romance of Astrea and Celadon

443 Picnic at Hanging Rock

444 The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail

445 Love Me Tonight

446 Meek’s Cutoff

447 Hell in the Pacific

448 Bullitt

449 One, Two, Three

450 My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend

451 The Long Goodbye

452 It Happened One Night

453 Ivan the Terrible Part 2

454 Pi

455 All Quiet on the Western Front

456 Magnificent Obsession

457 Sparrow

458 Band of Outsiders

459 The Passion of Joan of Arc

460 Barry Lyndon

461 Air Force

462 The African Queen

463 Man of the West

464 Stalker

465 Bonjour Tristesse

466 On Dangerous Ground

467 True Romance

468 The Killer

469 The Thin Man

470 Aliens

471 My Life to Live

472 Night and Fog

473 Judge Priest

474 Moonrise

475 Tokyo Chorus

476 The Indian Epic

477 Evil Dead II

478 Last Hurrah for Chivalry

479 Matinee

480 Simple Men

481 The Tarnished Angels

482 The Last Command

483 Searching for Bobby Fischer

484 Wings of Desire

485 Zelig

486 Private Fears in Public Places

487 Lancelot du lac

488 Cabin in the Sky

489 The Letter

490 Shadow of a Doubt

491 Alphaville

492 The Last Laugh

493 The Naked Spur

494 Bigger than Life

495 Goodfellas

496 Heaven Can Wait (1943)

497 A Star is Born (1954)

498 Sullivan’s Travels

499 The Black Book

500 The 39 Steps

 

Here’s the second part of this year’s big list.  Numbers 751-1000 are here.  Honorable mentions are here, along with the usual mumbo jumbo about how silly this all is.

501 Les vampires
502 Point Blank
503 Battleship Potemkin
504 I Love Melvin
505 Metropolis
506 Walkabout
507 Le samourai
508 Woman in the Dunes
509 The Asphalt Jungle
510 Humanity and Paper Balloons
511 For a Few Dollars More
512 The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
513 Floating Weeds
514 Blissfully Yours
515 Donovan’s Reef
516 Cave of Forgotten Dreams
517 Fireworks
518 The Barefoot Contessa
519 Simon of the Desert
520 Platform
521 The Big Parade
522 The Bells of St. Mary’s
523 Imitation of Life
524 The Naked City
525 The Savage Innocents

526 The Long Voyage Home
527 Gertrud
528 The Tai Chi Master
529 Ecstasy
530 Happy-Go-Lucky
531 The Phenix City Story
532 A Story of Floating Weeds
533 La Collectioneuse
534 The Wind Will Carry Us
535 Rebel Without a Cause
536 JFK
537 From Russia with Love
538 A History of Violence
539 The Departed
540 Wagon Master
541 Le cercle rouge
542 Guys and Dolls
543 The Social Network
544 Love and Death
545 The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
546 The Play House
547 You, the Living
548 How Green Was My Valley
549 The Heartbreak Kid
550 Close Encounters of the Third Kind

551 Devil’s Doorway
552 M
553 À nous la liberté
554 A Man Escaped
555 Destry Rides Again
556 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
557 Flight of the Red Balloon
558 AI: Artificial Intelligence
559 Late Autumn
560 Syndromes and a Century
561 The Sting
562 They Were Expendable
563 L’Argent (1928)
564 Monsieur Verdoux
565 Die Hard
566 Broken Blossoms
567 Raising Arizona
568 Goodbye South, Goodbye
569 Grindhouse
570 I Know Where I’m Going!
571 My Fair Lady
572 After Hours
573 The Great Escape
574 Reservoir Dogs
575 Stolen Kisses

576 Princess Raccoon
577 Election (2005)
578 Regeneration
579 Sisters of the Gion
580 Caddyshack
581 Our Daily Bread
582 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
583 I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone
584 Waterloo Bridge (1940)
585 The Aviator’s Wife
586 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
587 The Devil is a Woman
588 The Pan-American Exposition by Night
589 Ghostbusters
590 Infernal Affairs
591 Elena et les hommes
592 A Married Woman
593 Mad Detective
594 Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
595 The Taking of Power by Louis XIV
596 Close-Up
597 The Girl Can’t Help It
598 The Apartment
599 The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
600 Bunny Lake is Missing

601 The Illusionist (2010)
602 Le procès de Jeanne d’Arc
603 Greed
604 Stray Dog
605 The Loyal 47 Ronin
606 The Lineup
607 It Should Happen To You
608 Man Hunt
609 New York, New York
610 An Affair to Remember
611 The Sweet Smell of Success
612 True Grit (2010)
613 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
614 Kings and Queen
615 Detour
616 The Legend of Fong Sai Yuk
617 Film Socialisme
618 Wee Willie Winkie
619 Climates
620 To Be or Not To Be
621 The Fellowship of the Ring
622 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days . . .
623 Blast of Silence
624 The Limits of Control
625 Un chien andalou

626 Earth
627 Crimes and Misdemeanors
628 Strangers on a Train
629 Red Dust
630 The Kid
631 Sabrina
632 Summer Hours
633 Howl’s Moving Castle
634 The Age of Innocence
635 Kung Fu Hustle
636 Jezebel
637 Senso
638 The Color of Pomegranates
639 This is Spinal Tap
640 Viridiana
641 The Furies
642 Week End
643 The Blue Angel
644 The Tall T
645 Enter the Dragon
646 Muriel
647 Night and the City
648 St. Martin’s Lane
649 When We Were Kings
650 The Road Home

651 Ordet
652 The Verdict
653 Orphans of the Storm
654 Election 2
655 Easy Living
656 Party Girl (1995)
657 A Hard Day’s Night
658 The Naked Kiss
659 The Conformist
660 Hahaha
661 Nanook of the North
662 Black Swan (2010)
663 A Letter to Three Wives
664 A Time to Love and a Time to Die
665 Easter Parade
666 35 Shots of Rum
667 No Country for Old Men
668 Underworld
669 Passion
670 Back to the Future
671 The Prowler
672 The Small Back Room
673 Le jour se leve
674 Amelie
675 Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea

676 Lone Star
677 The Naked Prey
678 A Bridge Too Far
679 Bonnie and Clyde
680 Dave Chappelle’s Block Party
681 Full Metal Jacket
682 Day and Night
683 Animal House
684 Down By Law
685 Shaolin Soccer
686 The Iron Horse
687 Drugstore Cowboy
688 Ishtar
689 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
690 Kill Bill Vol. 2
691 A Better Tomorrow
692 Dial M for Murder
693 The Last Seduction
694 Blonde Venus
695 Sherman’s March
696 The Black Stallion
697 Tokyo Twilight
698 Woodstock
699 Still Walking
700 Samurai Rebellion

701 Thomas Mao
702 Rebels of the Neon God
703 The Bitter Tea of General Yen
704 Joe vs. the Volcano
705 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter. . . and Spring
706 A Serious Man
707 Pickup on South Street
708 Nashville
709 Friday Night
710 Red Cliff
711 Henri Langlois: Phantom of the Cinematheque
712 Wallace and Grommit: The Wrong Trousers
713 The Mission (1986)
714 Dirty Harry
715 Gremlins
716 Tokyo Drifter
717 Twentieth Century
718 Almost Famous
719 Yi yi
720 Chop Shop
721 Fast, Cheap and Out of Control
722 Bambi
723 Come Drink With Me
724 Bound
725 His Kind of Woman

726 Odd Man Out
727 Eat Drink Man Woman
728 Hoosiers
729 As Tears Go By
730 Animal Crackers
731 Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
732 Existenz
733 Rosemary’s Baby
734 Rancho Notorious
735 Beauty and the Beast (1946)
736 What’s Up, Tiger Lily?
737 Fargo
738 Das Boot
739 Nightfall
740 The Thing from Another World
741 My Sister Eileen
742 Passing Fancy
743 Holiday
744 Caught
745 Ornamental Hairpin
746 A Night to Remember
747 Written By
748 Exotica
749 Hoop Dreams
750 Jackie Brown

Here’s the first fourth of this year’s big list.  See the Honorable Mentions for various disclaimers and equivocations.

751 Leaves from Satan’s Book
752 The Bad News Bears
753 Predator
754 Heat
755 Popeye
756 When Harry Met Sally. . .
757 The Masseurs and a Woman
758 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
759 Babes in Arms
760 Shock Corridor
761 Gilda
762 Hatari!
763 Patton
764 24 City
765 The Adventures of Prince Achmed
766 The Hidden Fortress
767 Blade Runner
768 The Grapes of Wrath
769 Run Lola Run
770 The Great Dictator
771 The Tales of Hoffman
772 Bright Star
773 Time Bandits
774 The Sign of the Cross
775 Full Moon in Paris

776 Halloween
777 The Killers
778 I Wish I Knew
779 Macbeth
780 Jason and the Argonauts
781 Starship Troopers
782 Solaris
783 Steamboat ‘Round the Bend
784 The Sorrow and the Pity
785 They Live By Night
786 Wild Boys of the Road
787 Seven
788 Boudu Saved from Drowning
789 The Mark of Zorro
790 Moulin Rouge!
791 The Far Country
792 Rififi
793 A Star is Born (1937)
794 The Ladykillers (1955)
795 Fury
796 Forbidden Planet
797 Grizzly Man
798 Mission: Impossible
799 The Clock
800 He Walked By Night

801 Nosferatu, the Vampyre
802 Master and Commander
803 The Sleeping Beauty
804 Out of Sight
805 Bluebeard (2009)
806 Goldfinger
807 Witness for the Prosecution
808 Three Colors: White
809 The Shopworn Angel
810 Carnival of Souls
811 Eight Men Out
812 A Brief History of Time
813 God of Gamblers
814 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
815 The War Game
816 My Own Private Idaho
817 Elevator to the Gallows
818 Café Lumiere
819 Moonfleet
820 The Devil and Daniel Webster
821 Bob le flambeur
822 Hangmen Also Die!
823 Brigadoon
824 Like You Know it All
825 Singles

826 Wings (1927)
827 A Farewell to Arms (1932)
828 3 Bad Men
829 Adaptation
830 Brazil
831 127 Hours
832 House of Bamboo
833 South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
834 Time Regained
835 Superman
836 Once Upon a Time in America
837 Raise the Red Lantern
838 White Dog
839 The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
840 Killer’s Kiss
841 The Abyss
842 Flying Leathernecks
843 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse
844 Topsy-Turvy
845 Slap Shot
846 The Karate Kid
847 The Marquise of O
848 The Lusty Men
849 Father of the Bride (1951)
850 Beetlejuice

851 Ong Bak: Muay Thai Warrior
852 My Blueberry Nights
853 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad
854 Rachel Getting Married
855 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
856 Othello
857 Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
858 Belle de jour
859 Two Rode Together
860 Waltz with Bashir
861 Nothing Sacred
862 The Red Balloon
863 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
864 Office Space
865 Our Hospitality
866 It’s a Wonderful World
867 Thieves’ Highway
868 Night on Earth
869 Reds
870 A Perfect World
871 The Most Dangerous Game
872 Who Framed Roger Rabbit
873 A Prairie Home Companion
874 8 Women
875 Magnolia

876 Swingers
877 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
878 Dark Journey
879 Equinox Flower
880 49th Parallel
881 Bram Stoker’s Dracula
882 Glory
883 Dreams
884 Flags of Our Fathers
885 6istynin9
886 I Was Born But. . .
887 Out of Africa
888 Barbarella
889 Jurassic Park
890 The Conversation
891 Mary Poppins
892 Heathers
893 La Strada
894 The Glass Key
895 Clash By Night
896 From Dusk Til Dawn
897 Lifeline
898 The Terminator
899 It’s Always Fair Weather
900 Kameradschaft

901 Le million
902 Lifeboat
903 Catch Me If You Can
904 The Public Enemy
905 Brick
906 Heroes of the East
907 A Good Marriage
908 Sense and Sensibility
909 Drums Along the Mohawk
910 Where the Sidewalk Ends
911 The Trouble with Harry
912 The End of Summer
913 Artists and Models
914 Army of Darkness
915 Battleground
916 Bob Roberts
917 A Scanner Darkly
918 Little Caesar
919 That’s Entertainment! Part III
920 The Front Page
921 A Room with a View
922 Happiness is a Warm Blanket
923 Forty Guns
924 The Hudsucker Proxy
925 The Ox-Bow Incident

926 It’s a Gift
927 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
928 The Story of GI Joe
929 Spirit of the Beehive
930 Mirror
931 Hamlet (1948)
932 Wet Hot American Summer
933 Platoon
934 Good Morning
935 Ashes and Diamonds
936 Every Man for Himself and God Against All
937 Midnight Run
938 Two Lovers
939 The Wages of Fear
940 Zodiac
941 Angel Face
942 The Thin Blue Line
943 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
944 Buffalo ’66
945 Supercop
946 Way Down East
947 The Secret of Kells
948 The King of Kings (1927)
949 Tout va bien
950 The Natural

951 Wild Reeds
952 Goodbye, Mr. Chips
953 Toy Story 2
954 A Walk in the Sun
955 Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
956 That’s Entertainment!
957 The Wild Bunch
958 Wonder Boys
959 I Am Love
960 The Dirty Dozen
961 Giant
962 Malcolm X
963 White Hunter, Black Heart
964 Midnight in Paris
965 Once
966 Excalibur
967 Cradle Will Rock
968 Woman on the Beach (2006)
969 The Host
970 Waiting for Guffman
971 Hamlet (1990)
972 The Hurt Locker
973 The Secret of NIMH
974 City of Lost Children
975 Burden of Dreams

976 Trust
977 Roman Holiday
978 Seven Chances
979 Tea and Sympathy
980 The Fly (1986)
981 To Catch a Thief
982 The Fountainhead
983 The Hitch-Hiker
984 Track of the Cat
985 The 7th Victim
986 American Graffiti
987 The Big Combo
988 Harlan County, USA
989 Trading Places
990 Pepe le Moko
991 The Paper Chase
992 While the City Sleeps
993 The Horse Soldiers
994 Kagemusha
995 The Warriors (1979)
996 Unbreakable
997 8 Diagram Pole Fighter
998 Yang Kwei-fei
999 The Thief of Baghdad (1940)
1000 Suspiria

It’s the time of the year once again for all-time movie list-making.  After making a Top 150 in 2008, a Top 250 in 2009 and a Top 600 last year, I decided to go ahead and make it an even 1000 this year.  That will be unveiled in the near future. Meanwhile, here are the 383 movies that didn’t quite make the cut.

As always, list-making like this is completely ridiculous for many reasons.  It’s arbitrary, dependent on personal whims and whatever mood I might be in at the time of ranking, the imperfections of my memory (growing more imperfect by the year), the limitations of what movies I have and haven’t seen, the vagueness of the criteria I use to rank them (there really aren’t any), and simply because the very idea of saying one film is 10 (or 50 or 200) better than another is completely absurd.  But lists are fun and can occasionally be useful.

1001 Faust
1002 The Story of a Cheat
1003 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1004 The Train
1005 The Lavender Hill Mob
1006 Romeo + Juliet
1007 Beau Geste
1008 The Iron Giant
1009 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
1010 Princess Mononoke
1011 The Actress
1012 Waking Life
1013 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1014 The World of Henry Orient
1015 All Men Are Brothers
1016 Ride the High Country
1017 Hell is for Heroes
1018 King of Kings (1961)
1019 Five Fingers of Death
1020 Mamma Roma
1021 Gates of Heaven
1022 Strictly Ballroom
1023 You Think You’re the Prettiest but You Are the Sluttiest
1024 Marnie
1025 The Friends of Eddie Coyle





1026 The Wild Child
1027 Unknown Pleasures
1028 WarGames
1029 The Incredibles
1030 The Moon is Blue
1031 Sixteen Candles
1032 The Trial (1962)
1033 Party Girl (1958)
1034 Thunderball
1035 Reality Bites
1036 The Importance of Being Earnest
1037 The Quick and the Dead
1038 Angels with Dirty Faces
1039 The Black Swan
1040 Sleuth (1972)
1041 Edvard Munch
1042 Smoke
1043 Kill!
1044 Monkey Business (1931)
1045 Early Spring
1046 Quiz Show
1047 Drag Me to Hell
1048 The Shawshank Redemption
1049 Cartesius
1050 Sweet and Lowdown





1051 If I Should Fall from Grace
1052 Beautiful Girls
1053 Happy Gilmore
1054 T-Men
1055 Shutter Island
1056 La Dolce Vita
1057 Day for Night
1058 Drunken Master
1059 Crumb
1060 Black Hawk Down
1061 The Quiet American
1062 Cabin Boy
1063 Street of Shame
1064 My Young Auntie
1065 October
1066 Menace II Society
1067 O Brother, Where Art Thou?
1068 Play it Again, Sam
1069 The Hustler
1070 Silverado
1071 Ministry of Fear
1072 All About Lily Chou-chou
1073 Ball of Fire
1074 Clueless
1075 24 Hour Party People





1076 City of God
1077 Good Night and Good Luck
1078 I Married a Witch
1079 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
1080 The Last Picture Show
1081 The Hunt for Red October
1082 Susan Slept Here
1083 Four Weddings and a Funeral
1084 Conan the Barbarian
1085 Blood Simple
1086 Love Affair (1939)
1087 Babette’s Feast
1088 All for the Winner
1089 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
1090 The Life of Oharu
1091 Akira
1092 The 40 Year Old Virgin
1093 Paprika
1094 Around a Small Mountain
1095 The Merry Widow (1934)
1096 After Life
1097 The Jerk
1098 The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
1099 Wallace & Grommit: A Grand Day Out
1100 Safety Last





1101 A Life Less Ordinary
1102 Field of Dreams
1103 E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial
1104 The Three Ages
1105 Scandal Sheet
1106 The Longest Day
1107 Torn Curtain
1108 Before the Rain
1109 Munich
1110 Top Gun
1111 Red Rock West
1112 Topaz
1113 Armageddon
1114 Toy Story
1115 A Clockwork Orange
1116 Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom
1117 Fallen Angel
1118 Bound for Glory
1119 Closely Watched Trains
1120 A Fistful of Dollars
1121 Blue Velvet
1122 Footloose
1123 Once Were Warriors
1124 The Man Who Wasn’t There
1125 China Girl





1126 Rope
1127 The Crying Game
1128 The Roaring Twenties
1129 What Price Hollywood?
1130 The Narrow Margin
1131 The Big Sky
1132 Dersu Uzala
1133 Clue
1134 Up
1135 Marathon Man
1136 Escape from New York
1137 Dr. Zhivago
1138 Häxan
1139 A Few Good Men
1140 Meet Joe Black
1141 Dick Tracy
1142 The Stranger
1143 Executive Suite
1144 Gimme Shelter
1145 High Plains Drifter
1146 The Blair Witch Project
1147 Zoolander
1148 Night Train to Minuch
1149 Bananas
1150 La Chinoise





1151 Boarding Gate
1152 Moonstruck
1153 An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge
1154 Edward Scissorhands
1155 The ‘High Sign’
1156 Serenity
1157 Bowling for Columbine
1158 The Big Clock
1159 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1160 The Bank Dick
1161 Sanshiro Sugata
1162 The Darjeeling Limited
1163 Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1164 The Water Margin
1165 Come and See
1166 Down with Love
1167 Purple Rain
1168 Red-Headed Woman
1169 Ladyhawke
1170 Kundun
1171 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
1172 There’s Something About Mary
1173 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
1174 Rio Grande
1175 This Gun for Hire





1176 Wait Until Dark
1177 The Bad Sleep Well
1178 The Milagro Beanfield War
1179 The Name of the Rose
1180 Catch-22
1181 Some Kind of Wonderful
1182 Hard Eight
1183 Shogun Assassin
1184 Paranoid Park
1185 The Graduate
1186 Deception
1187 Howard’s End
1188 Ronin
1189 Shadowlands
1190 The Blue Dahlia
1191 Born Yesterday
1192 The Nightmare Before Christmas
1193 Beverly Hills Cop
1194 Signs
1195 The Eagle Shooting Heroes
1196 The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
1197 Pump Up the Volume
1198 Bad Lieutenant
1199 Tarzan, the Ape Man
1200 Zéro de conduite





1201 The Navigator
1202 The Thing
1203 Election (1999)
1204 Midnight Mary
1205 God of Gamblers 2
1206 Carrie
1207 Cries and Whispers
1208 West Side Story
1209 King Kong (2005)
1210 Cheyenne Autumn
1211 Russian Ark
1212 The Day the Earth Stood Still
1213 You Only Live Once
1214 Silence of the Lambs
1215 The Secret Beyond the Door
1216 Paris, Texas
1217 No Way Out
1218 The Others
1219 Brothers Five
1220 Sneakers
1221 Stand and Deliver
1222 The Man from Laramie
1223 Vengeance
1224 The Zero Effect
1225 Toy Story 3





1226 Underworld, USA
1227 The Color of Money
1228 The Last Emperor
1229 Yolanda and the Thief
1230 Chikamatsu monogatari
1231 Ace in the Hole
1232 Meshes of the Afternoon
1233 Desperado
1234 Fixed Bayonets!
1235 Grosse Point Blank
1236 Mystery Train
1237 Tight Spot
1238 Pretty in Pink
1239 Rescue Dawn
1240 The Protector
1241 The Tall Target
1242 Mars Attacks!
1243 Wild Strawberries
1244 The Cameraman
1245 La Notte
1246 Judgement at Nuremburg
1247 The Cowboys
1248 Wake Island
1249 Sin City
1250 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!





1251 He Got Game
1252 The Cheat
1253 Spartacus
1254 The Player
1255 Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
1256 Sands of Iwo Jima
1257 El Mariachi
1258 The Invisble Man
1259 Salvador
1260 Inland Empire
1261 Round Midnight
1262 The Woman in the Window
1263 The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
1264 Family Plot
1265 Who’s that Knocking at My Door?
1266 Love in the Afternoon
1267 Vera Cruz
1268 Police Story 2
1269 The 25th Hour
1270 The Last Detail
1271 DOA
1272 Cruel Intentions
1273 Scream
1274 White Heat
1275 Superman Returns





1276 Dead Poets Society
1277 That Hamilton Woman
1278 MASH
1279 Cool Hand Luke
1280 All the President’s Men
1281 Say Anything. . .
1282 Pleasantville
1283 Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone
1284 No Man of Her Own
1285 The Leopard Man
1286 Withnail & I
1287 Vanilla Sky
1288 Persona
1289 Made in USA
1290 Pandora’s Box
1291 Batman
1292 Monkey Business (1952)
1293 Bicycle Thieves
1294 Mutual Appreciation
1295 Peeping Tom
1296 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
1297 The One-Armed Swordsman
1298 Zhou Yu’s Train
1299 Alien 3
1300 A Bucket of Blood





1301 The China Syndrome
1302 Jules and Jim
1303 Minority Report
1304 PCU
1305 Legendary Weapons of China
1306 The Power of Kangwon Province
1307 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1308 The Karate Kid Part II
1309 Holiday Affair
1310 Less than Zero
1311 Raging Bull
1312 12 Monkeys
1313 Kung Fu Cult Master
1314 Mildred Pierce
1315 Three Amigos
1316 Mother Joan of the Angels
1317 The Parallax View
1318 Heavenly Creatures
1319 The Insider
1320 Fantastic Planet
1321 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
1322 Wayne’s World
1323 Presumed Innocent
1324 Me & You & Everyone We Know
1325 Total Recall





1326 The Godfather Part III
1327 Stand By Me
1328 On the Town
1329 Madame Bovary
1330 RoboCop
1331 Throw Mamma from the Train
1332 Lolita
1333 Hunger
1334 Roxanne
1335 Radio Days
1336 Talk to Her
1337 The Phantom Carriage
1338 The Five Deadly Venoms
1339 The Untouchables
1340 The Tale of Zatoichi
1341 Mudhoney
1342 The Mummy (1932)
1343 Reversal of Fortune
1344 The King and I
1345 The Talented Mr. Ripley
1346 Being There
1347 Planes, Trains and Automobiles
1348 Deliverance
1349 Land of the Pharaohs
1350 Rounders





1351 In the Name of the Father
1352 Wall Street
1353 The Breakfast Club
1354 Samson and Delilah
1355 Horror of Dracula
1356 Batman Returns
1357 Manhunter
1358 Southland Tales
1359 The Living Daylights
1360 Y tu mama tambien
1361 The River’s Edge
1362 Shampoo
1363 The Deer Hunter
1364 The Pit and the Pendulum
1365 You Only Live Twice
1366 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1367 Adam’s Rib
1368 A Better Tomorrow 2
1369 Serpico
1370 Lethal Weapon
1371 The Proposition
1372 City on Fire
1373 Sword of the Beast
1374 Dog Day Afternoon
1375 3 Godfathers
1376 Three Kings
1377 She’s Gotta Have It
1378 Roger & Me
1379 Frenzy
1380 Spite Marriage
1381 Dirty Dancing
1382 Repulsion
1383 A Fish Called Wanda