Someone asked me the other day my top
100
I couldn't resist...
1. Don’t Look Now [Roeg]
2. Rosemary’s Baby [Polanski]
3. The Godfather I & II [Coppola]
4. Fargo [Coen]
5. Psycho [Hitchcock]
6. The Wicker Man [Hardy]
7. The Innocents [Clayton]
8. Once Upon a Time in the West [Leone]
9. Dogville [Von Trier]
10. Ghost World [Zwigoff]
11. Blue Velvet [Lynch]
12. A Clockwork Orange [Kubrick]
13. Goodfellas [Scorsese]
14. Rear Window [Hitchcock]
15. The Third Man [Reed]
16. Barton Fink [Coen]
17. The Tenant [Polanski]
18. The Shining [Kubrick]
19. Martin [Romero]
20. Blade Runner [Scott]
21. Mulholland Drive [Lynch]
22. The Fly [Cronenberg]
23. Dog Day Afternoon [Lumet]
24. Magnolia [Anderson]
25. A Simple Plan [Raimi]
26. The Thing [Carpenter]
27. Night of the Living Dead [Romero]
28. Texas Chainsaw Massacre [Hooper]
29. Do the Right Thing [Lee]
30. Beetlejuice [Burton]
31. Harold and Maude [Ashby]
32. Mystery Train [Jarmusch]
33. Taxi Driver [Scorsese]
34. Twelve Monkeys [Gilliam]
35. Onibaba [Shindo]
36. Night of the Hunter [Laughton]
37. I Walked With A Zombie [Tourneur]
38. Together [Moodysson]
39. Keane [Kerrigan]
40. Elephant [Van Sant]
41. Alien [Scott]
42. The Vanishing [Sluzier]
43. Village of the Damned [Rilla]
44. The Conversation [Coppola]
45. Forbidden Zone [Elfman]
46. Jackie Brown [Tarantino]
47. The French Connection [Friedkin]
48. Noi the Albino [Kari]
49. Trees Lounge [Buscemi]
50. The Draughtsman’s Contract [Greenaway]
51. Spider [Cronenberg]
52. Harry, He’s Here to Help [Moll]
53. Ravenous [Bird]
54. Night of the Demon [Tourneur]
55. The Evil Dead [Raimi]
56. The Exorcist [Friedkin]
57. Blue in the Face [Wang]
58. Carnival of Souls [Harvey]
59. A Cock and Bull Story [Winterbottom]
60. Dead Man’s Shoes [Meadows]
61. The Ipcress File [Furie]
62. The Shout [Skolimowski]
63. Peeping Tom [Powell]
64. Wise Blood [Huston]
65. The Manchurian Candidate [Frankenheimer]
66. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie [Cassavetes]
67. Les Diaboliques [Clouzot]
68. The Lady from Shanghai [Welles]
69. My Winnipeg [Maddin]
70. The Devil’s Backbone [Del Toro]
71. A Room for Romeo Brass [Meadows]
72. American Movie [Smith]
73. Delicatessen [Jeunet & Caro]
74. Crumb [Zwigoff]
75. Old Joy [Reichardt]
76. [Rec] [Balaguero & Plaza]
77. Cache [Haneke]
78. The Truman Show [Weir]
79. Dead Man [Jarmusch]
80. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas [Gilliam]
81. Chuck and Buck [Arteta]
82. Goodbye Lenin! [Becker]
83. The Blair Witch Project [Myrick & Sanchez]
84. Glengary Glen Ross [Foley]
85. Salesman [Maysles]
86. The Cremator [Herz]
87. Marathon Man [Schlesinger]
88. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada [Jones]
89. Seconds [Frankenheimer]
90. Slither [Gunn]
91. Night of the Eagle [Hayers]
92. Targets [Bogdanovich]
93. Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion [Ito]
94. Deliverance [Boorman]
95. The Exorcist III [Blatty]
96. Les Triplettes de Belleville [Chomet]
97. Sweet Sixteen [Loach]
98. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance [Chan Wook]
99. Q the Winged Serpent [Cohen]
100. Celia [Turner]