Rank
|
Film
|
Director
|
1
|
Harakiri
|
Masaki Kobayashi
|
2
|
Come and See
|
Elem Klimov
|
3
|
12 Angry Men
|
Sidney Lumet
|
4
|
Seven Samurai
|
Akira Kurosawa
|
5
|
The Godfather: Part II
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
6
|
High and Low
|
Akira Kurosawa
|
7
|
Parasite
|
Bong Joon-ho
|
8
|
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
|
Masaki Kobayashi
|
9
|
The Godfather
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
10
|
The Shawshank Redemption
|
Frank Darabont
|
11
|
Yi Yi
|
Edward Yang
|
12
|
City of God
|
Fernando Meirelles
|
13
|
Schindler's List
|
Steven Spielberg
|
14
|
Ikiru
|
Akira Kurosawa
|
15
|
La Haine
|
Mathieu Kassovitz
|
16
|
Dune: Part Two
|
Denis Villeneuve
|
17
|
Ran
|
Akira Kurosawa
|
18
|
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
|
Peter Jackson
|
19
|
A Brighter Summer Day
|
Edward Yang
|
20
|
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
|
Sergio Leone
|
21
|
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
|
Masaki Kobayashi
|
22
|
Goodfellas
|
Martin Scorsese
|
23
|
The Dark Knight
|
Christopher Nolan
|
24
|
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
|
Hideaki Anno
|
25
|
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
|
Joaquim Dos Santos / Justin K. Thompson / Kemp Powers
|
26
|
Spirited Away
|
Hayao Miyazaki
|
27
|
There Will Be Blood
|
Paul Thomas Anderson
|
28
|
Grave of the Fireflies
|
Isao Takahata
|
29
|
Paths of Glory
|
Stanley Kubrick
|
30
|
Autumn Sonata
|
Ingmar Bergman
|
31
|
Cinema Paradiso
|
Giuseppe Tornatore
|
32
|
Woman in the Dunes
|
Hiroshi Teshigahara
|
33
|
Le Trou
|
Jacques Becker
|
34
|
Apocalypse Now
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
35
|
Sunset Boulevard
|
Billy Wilder
|
36
|
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
|
Céline Sciamma
|
37
|
Tokyo Story
|
Yasujirō Ozu
|
38
|
The Apartment
|
Billy Wilder
|
39
|
Whiplash
|
Damien Chazelle
|
40
|
The Passion of Joan of Arc
|
Carl Theodor Dreyer
|
41
|
Stalker
|
Andrei Tarkovsky
|
42
|
Andrei Rublev
|
Andrei Tarkovsky
|
43
|
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
|
Rodney Rothman / Peter Ramsey / Bob Persichetti
|
44
|
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
|
Paul Schrader
|
45
|
Close-Up
|
Abbas Kiarostami
|
46
|
Persona
|
Ingmar Bergman
|
47
|
The Handmaiden
|
Park Chan-wook
|
48
|
Memories of Murder
|
Bong Joon-ho
|
49
|
Fanny and Alexander
|
Ingmar Bergman
|
50
|
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
|
Masaki Kobayashi
|
51
|
The Empire Strikes Back
|
Irvin Kershner
|
52
|
In the Mood for Love
|
Wong Kar-wai
|
53
|
Incendies
|
Denis Villeneuve
|
54
|
The Cranes Are Flying
|
Mikhail Kalatozov
|
55
|
Do the Right Thing
|
Spike Lee
|
56
|
Perfect Blue
|
Satoshi Kon
|
57
|
Paris, Texas
|
Wim Wenders
|
58
|
Barry Lyndon
|
Stanley Kubrick
|
59
|
Oldboy
|
Park Chan-wook
|
60
|
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
|
Peter Jackson
|
61
|
It's a Wonderful Life
|
Frank Capra
|
62
|
A Woman Under the Influence
|
John Cassavetes
|
63
|
The Battle of Algiers
|
Gillo Pontecorvo
|
64
|
Once Upon a Time in the West
|
Sergio Leone
|
65
|
The Red Shoes
|
Emeric Pressburger / Michael Powell
|
66
|
Sansho the Bailiff
|
Kenji Mizoguchi
|
67
|
It's Such a Beautiful Day
|
Don Hertzfeldt
|
68
|
The Ascent
|
Larisa Shepitko
|
69
|
Rear Window
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
70
|
Princess Mononoke
|
Hayao Miyazaki
|
71
|
Sherlock, Jr.
|
Buster Keaton
|
72
|
The Pianist
|
Roman Polanski
|
73
|
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
|
Peter Jackson
|
74
|
Satantango
|
Béla Tarr
|
75
|
Nights of Cabiria
|
Federico Fellini
|
76
|
A Separation
|
Asghar Farhadi
|
77
|
Love Exposure
|
Sion Sono
|
78
|
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
|
Miloš Forman
|
79
|
Scenes from a Marriage
|
Ingmar Bergman
|
80
|
Lawrence of Arabia
|
David Lean
|
81
|
The Thing
|
John Carpenter
|
82
|
I Am Cuba
|
Mikhail Kalatozov
|
83
|
Eternity and a Day
|
Theo Angelopoulos
|
84
|
Before Sunset
|
Richard Linklater
|
85
|
The Seventh Seal
|
Ingmar Bergman
|
86
|
Where Is the Friend's House?
|
Abbas Kiarostami
|
87
|
A Man Escaped
|
Robert Bresson
|
88
|
Nobody Knows
|
Hirokazu Kore-eda
|
89
|
Three Colours: Red
|
Krzysztof Kieślowski
|
90
|
City Lights
|
Charlie Chaplin
|
91
|
Inglourious Basterds
|
Quentin Tarantino
|
92
|
Mirror
|
Andrei Tarkovsky
|
93
|
Interstellar
|
Christopher Nolan
|
94
|
Witness for the Prosecution
|
Billy Wilder
|
95
|
All About Eve
|
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
|
96
|
Life Is Beautiful
|
Roberto Benigni
|
97
|
Before Sunrise
|
Richard Linklater
|
98
|
Wild Strawberries
|
Ingmar Bergman
|
99
|
The Silence of the Lambs
|
Jonathan Demme
|
100
|
Army of Shadows
|
Jean-Pierre Melville
|
101
|
No Country for Old Men
|
Joel Coen / Ethan Coen
|
102
|
Ordet
|
Carl Theodor Dreyer
|
103
|
An Elephant Sitting Still
|
Hu Bo
|
104
|
Se7en
|
David Fincher
|
105
|
Paper Moon
|
Peter Bogdanovich
|
106
|
Late Spring
|
Yasujirō Ozu
|
107
|
Landscape in the Mist
|
Theo Angelopoulos
|
108
|
Red Beard
|
Akira Kurosawa
|
109
|
Psycho
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
110
|
Singin' in the Rain
|
Stanley Donen / Gene Kelly
|
111
|
Apur Sansar
|
Satyajit Ray
|
112
|
Howl's Moving Castle
|
Hayao Miyazaki
|
113
|
M
|
Fritz Lang
|
114
|
The Wages of Fear
|
Henri-Georges Clouzot
|
115
|
The 400 Blows
|
François Truffaut
|
116
|
Amadeus
|
Miloš Forman
|
117
|
Still Walking
|
Hirokazu Kore-eda
|
118
|
Mommy
|
Xavier Dolan
|
119
|
Taste of Cherry
|
Abbas Kiarostami
|
120
|
Everything Everywhere All at Once
|
Daniel Scheinert / Daniel Kwan
|
121
|
The Great Dictator
|
Charlie Chaplin
|
122
|
All That Jazz
|
Bob Fosse
|
123
|
Dog Day Afternoon
|
Sidney Lumet
|
124
|
Bicycle Thieves
|
Vittorio De Sica
|
125
|
Brief Encounter
|
David Lean
|
126
|
Yojimbo
|
Akira Kurosawa
|
127
|
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
|
Stanley Kubrick
|
128
|
Werckmeister Harmonies
|
Béla Tarr
|
129
|
The Departed
|
Martin Scorsese
|
130
|
Wings of Desire
|
Wim Wenders
|
131
|
8½
|
Federico Fellini
|
132
|
The Sacrifice
|
Andrei Tarkovsky
|
133
|
2001: A Space Odyssey
|
Stanley Kubrick
|
134
|
Children of Men
|
Alfonso Cuarón
|
135
|
The Young Girls of Rochefort
|
Jacques Demy
|
136
|
Tampopo
|
Jūzō Itami
|
137
|
Chungking Express
|
Wong Kar-wai
|
138
|
Pather Panchali
|
Satyajit Ray
|
139
|
To Be or Not to Be
|
Ernst Lubitsch
|
140
|
Shoplifters
|
Hirokazu Kore-eda
|
141
|
Monster
|
Hirokazu Kore-eda
|
142
|
Funeral Parade of Roses
|
Toshio Matsumoto
|
143
|
Good Will Hunting
|
Gus Van Sant
|
144
|
Z
|
Costa-Gavras
|
145
|
Chinatown
|
Roman Polanski
|
146
|
War and Peace
|
Sergey Bondarchuk
|
147
|
The Hunt
|
Thomas Vinterberg
|
148
|
The Father
|
Florian Zeller
|
149
|
Prisoners
|
Denis Villeneuve
|
150
|
The Fifth Seal
|
Zoltán Fábri
|
151
|
Raise the Red Lantern
|
Zhang Yimou
|
152
|
Farewell My Concubine
|
Chen Kaige
|
153
|
Das Boot
|
Wolfgang Petersen
|
154
|
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
|
James Cameron
|
155
|
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
|
John Huston
|
156
|
The Weeping Meadow
|
Theo Angelopoulos
|
157
|
The Celebration
|
Thomas Vinterberg
|
158
|
La Dolce Vita
|
Federico Fellini
|
159
|
Alien
|
Ridley Scott
|
160
|
Casablanca
|
Michael Curtiz
|
161
|
Modern Times
|
Charlie Chaplin
|
162
|
Rocco and His Brothers
|
Luchino Visconti
|
163
|
The Lives of Others
|
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
|
164
|
The Best of Youth
|
Marco Tullio Giordana
|
165
|
Fight Club
|
David Fincher
|
166
|
Akira
|
Katsuhiro Otomo
|
167
|
Heat
|
Michael Mann
|
168
|
The Night of the Hunter
|
Charles Laughton
|
169
|
Django Unchained
|
Quentin Tarantino
|
170
|
Fantastic Mr. Fox
|
Wes Anderson
|
171
|
Pulp Fiction
|
Quentin Tarantino
|
172
|
The Third Man
|
Carol Reed
|
173
|
Throne of Blood
|
Akira Kurosawa
|
174
|
A Special Day
|
Ettore Scola
|
175
|
Network
|
Sidney Lumet
|
176
|
Nostalgia
|
Andrei Tarkovsky
|
177
|
Double Indemnity
|
Billy Wilder
|
178
|
La Notte
|
Michelangelo Antonioni
|
179
|
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
|
Chantal Akerman
|
180
|
Metropolis
|
Fritz Lang
|
181
|
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
|
Hideaki Anno
|
182
|
Le Samouraï
|
Jean-Pierre Melville
|
183
|
Perfect Days
|
Wim Wenders
|
184
|
Raging Bull
|
Martin Scorsese
|
185
|
Ugetsu
|
Kenji Mizoguchi
|
186
|
Dead Poets Society
|
Peter Weir
|
187
|
Opening Night
|
John Cassavetes
|
188
|
Underground
|
Emir Kusturica
|
189
|
Children of Paradise
|
Marcel Carné
|
190
|
Ace in the Hole
|
Billy Wilder
|
191
|
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
|
Michel Gondry
|
192
|
Solaris
|
Andrei Tarkovsky
|
193
|
The Grand Budapest Hotel
|
Wes Anderson
|
194
|
Mulholland Drive
|
David Lynch
|
195
|
The Shining
|
Stanley Kubrick
|
196
|
Rififi
|
Jules Dassin
|
197
|
Some Like It Hot
|
Billy Wilder
|
198
|
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
|
Mike Nichols
|
199
|
Judgment at Nuremberg
|
Stanley Kramer
|
200
|
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
|
John Ford
|
201
|
Vertigo
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
202
|
Aftersun
|
Charlotte Wells
|
203
|
The Iron Giant
|
Brad Bird
|
204
|
Oppenheimer
|
Christopher Nolan
|
205
|
Cure
|
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
|
206
|
Eureka
|
Shinji Aoyama
|
207
|
The Cremator
|
Juraj Herz
|
208
|
The King of Comedy
|
Martin Scorsese
|
209
|
Central Station
|
Walter Salles
|
210
|
Sorcerer
|
William Friedkin
|
211
|
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
|
Isao Takahata
|
212
|
Sweet Smell of Success
|
Alexander Mackendrick
|
213
|
Winter Light
|
Ingmar Bergman
|
214
|
Samurai Rebellion
|
Masaki Kobayashi
|
215
|
Life, and Nothing More...
|
Abbas Kiarostami
|
216
|
Saving Private Ryan
|
Steven Spielberg
|
217
|
Rashomon
|
Akira Kurosawa
|
218
|
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
|
Dean Fleischer Camp
|
219
|
Umberto D.
|
Vittorio De Sica
|
220
|
The Elephant Man
|
David Lynch
|
221
|
A Matter of Life and Death
|
Emeric Pressburger / Michael Powell
|
222
|
The Prestige
|
Christopher Nolan
|
223
|
Secrets & Lies
|
Mike Leigh
|
224
|
Napoleon
|
Abel Gance
|
225
|
Ritual
|
Hideaki Anno
|
226
|
The Bridge on the River Kwai
|
David Lean
|
227
|
Dersu Uzala
|
Akira Kurosawa
|
228
|
Mary and Max
|
Adam Elliot
|
229
|
The Holdovers
|
Alexander Payne
|
230
|
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
|
Cristian Mungiu
|
231
|
Magnolia
|
Paul Thomas Anderson
|
232
|
Millennium Actress
|
Satoshi Kon
|
233
|
Make Way for Tomorrow
|
Leo McCarey
|
234
|
Happy Together
|
Wong Kar-wai
|
235
|
Aparajito
|
Satyajit Ray
|
236
|
Amour
|
Michael Haneke
|
237
|
Fargo
|
Joel Coen
|
238
|
Boogie Nights
|
Paul Thomas Anderson
|
239
|
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
|
Yasuhiro Takemoto / Tatsuya Ishihara
|
240
|
The Lion King
|
Roger Allers / Rob Minkoff
|
241
|
The Green Mile
|
Frank Darabont
|
242
|
Anatomy of a Murder
|
Otto Preminger
|
243
|
Your Name.
|
Makoto Shinkai
|
244
|
An Autumn Afternoon
|
Yasujirō Ozu
|
245
|
Citizen Kane
|
Orson Welles
|
246
|
The Face of Another
|
Hiroshi Teshigahara
|
247
|
Once Upon a Time in America
|
Sergio Leone
|
248
|
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
|
Emeric Pressburger / Michael Powell
|
249
|
Happy Hour
|
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
|
250
|
The Truman Show
|
Peter Weir
|