Top 50

Top 50

Introductory Comments 

• #1 Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
• #2 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)
• #3 The Man Who Wasn’t There (Coen bros. , 2001)
• #4 Donnie Darko (Kelly, 2001)
• #5 Jules et Jim (Truffaut, 1962)
• #6 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Leone, 1966)
• #7 The Third Man (Reed, 1949)
• #8 The Passenger (Antonioni, 1975)
• #9 The Big Lebowski (Coen bros., 1998)
• #10 The Princess Bride (Reiner, 1987)
• #11 – 15
• #11 The Science of Sleep (Gondry, 2006)
• #12 The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson, 2001)
• #13 Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
• #14 The Maltese Falcon (Huston, 1941)
• #15 A History of Violence (Cronenberg, 2005)
• # 16-20
• #16 Fight Club (Fincher, 1999)
• #17 Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)
• #18 Bonnie and Clyde (Penn, 1967)
• #19 Sunset Boulevard (Wilder, 1950)
• #20 Ed Wood (Burton, 1994)
• # 21-25
• #21 My Own Private Idaho (van Sant, 1991)
• #22 The Long Goodbye (Altman, 1973)
• #23 Blow-up (Antonioni, 1966)
• #24 Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)
• #25 Mulholland Drive (Lynch, 2001)
• # 26-30
• #26 Wonder Boys (Hanson, 2000)
• #27 Sous le Sable (Ozon, 2000)
• #28 Marnie (Hitchcock, 1964)
• #29 Belle de Jour (Buñue, 1967)
• #30 All About Eve (Mankievicz, 1950)
• # 31-35
• #31 Bride of Frankenstein (Whale, 1935)
• #32 Annie Hall (Allen, 1977)
• #33 Out of Sight (Soderbergh, 1998)
• #34 Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981)
• #35 The Sting (Hill, 1973)
• # 36-40
• #36 The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler, 1946)
• #37 Sherlock, Jr. (Keaton, 1924)
• #38 It Happened One Night (Capra, 1934)
• #39 Singin’ in the Rain (Donen & Kelly, 1952)
• #40 Fargo (Coen bros., 1996)
• # 41-45
• #41 Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
• #42 Moulin Rouge (Luhrman, 2001)
• #43 Volver (Almodóvar, 2006)
• #44 Edward Scissorhands (Burton, 1990)
• #45 Before Sunrise/Sunset (Linklater, 1995/2004)
• # 46-50
• #46 Dogma (Smith, 1999)
• #47 Lost in Translation (Coppola, 2003)
• #48 Jackie Brown (Tarantino, 1997)
• #49 Dirty Pretty Things (Frears, 2002)
• #50 La Jetee (Marker, 1962)