Top 100 Films
Why Top 100?
I love movies so much that it’s actually impossible for me to pick my favorite. I can’t even pick the top 20. However, I have narrowed down my 100 favorite films that I recommend everyone watch. The films are diverse in terms of filmmakers, time period and country of origin.
Top 100 Films:
Seven Samurai (1954) Director: Akira Kurosawa
Fitzcaraldo (1982) Director: Werner Herzog
The Gold Rush (1925) Director: Charlie Chaplin
Day For Night (1973) Director: François Truffaut
Cinema Paradiso (1988) Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
The Seventh Seal (1957) Director: Ingmar Bergman
8½ (1963) Director: Federico Fellini
City of God (2002) Directors: Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund
Oldboy (2003) Director: Park Chan-wook
Nosferatu (1922) Director: F.W. Murnau
The Artist (2011) Director: Michel Hazanzvicius
The General (1926) Directors: Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman
Parasite (2019) Director: Bong Joon-ho
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) Director Guillermo Del Toro
Battleship Potemkin (1925) Director: Sergei Eisenstein
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) Director: Robert Wiene
Breathless (1960) Director: Jean-Luc Godard
M (1931) Director: Fritz Lang
The Lodger (1927) Director: Alfred Hitchcock
American Graffiti (1973) Director: George Lucas
The Godfather (1972) Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Taxi Driver (1976) Director: Martin Scorsese
Jaws (1975) Director: Steven Speilberg
Network (1976) Director: Sidney Lumet
Star Wars (1977) Director: George Lucas
Apocalypse Now (1979) Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Director: Sidney Lumet
The Deer Hunter (1978) Director: Michael Cimino
Rocky (1976) Director: John G. Avildsen
Pulp Fiction (1994) Director: Quentin Tarantino
The Social Network (2010) Director: David Fincher
The Big Lebowski (1998) Directors: Joel and Ethan Coen
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019) Director: Quentin Tarantino
When Harry Met Sally (1989) Director: Rob Reiner
Clerks (1993) Director: Kevin Smith
Do The Right Thing (1989) Director: Spike Lee
Dazed and Confused (1993) Director: Richard Linklater
Fight Club (1999) Director: David Fincher
Office Space (1999) Director: Mike Judge
Citizen Kane (1941) Director: Orson Welles
Rear Window (1954) Director: Alfred Hitchcock
North by Northwest (1959) Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Singin’ in the Rain (1952) Directors: Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
The Shining (1980) Director: Stanley Kubrick
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Director: Stanley Kubrick
Casablanca (1942) Director: Michael Curtiz
The Graduate (1967) Director: Mike Nichols
Gone With The Wind (1939) Director: Victor Fleming
Chef (2014) Director: Jon Favreau
La La Land (2016) Director: Damien Chazelle
Drive (2011) Director: Nicholas Winding Refn
Catch Me If You Can (2002) Director: Steven Spielberg
Across The Universe (2007) Director: Julie Taymor
Baby Driver (2017) Director: Edgar Wright
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Director: Frank Darabont
The Searchers (1956) Director: John Ford
There Will Be Blood (2007) Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Up (2009) Director: Pete Docter
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) Directors: David Hand, Ben Sharpsteen, Wilfred Jackson, Perce Pearce, Larry Morey, William Cottrell
Fantasia (1940) Directors: Samuel Armstrong, James Algar, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Ben Sharpsteen, David D. Hand, Hamilton Luske, Jim Handley, Ford Beebe, T. Hee, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson
Ed Wood (1994) Director: Tim Burton
Lady Bird (2017) Director: Greta Gerwig
Yellow Submarine (1968) Director: George Dunning
Spirited Away (2001) Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Chinatown (1974) Director: Roman Polanski
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Director: Wes Anderson
Blue Velvet (1986) Director: David Lynch
Toy Story (1995) Director: John Lasseter
Alien (1979) Director: Ridley Scott
The Evil Dead (1981) Director: Sam Raimi
Logan (2017) Director: James Mangold
The Dark Knight (2008) Director: Christopher Nolan
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (2008 to present) Directors: Jon Favreau, Louis Leterrier, Kenneth Branagh, Joe Johnston, Joss Whedon, Shane Black, Alan Taylor, Anthony and Joe Russo, James Gunn, Peyton Reed, Scott Derrickson, Jon Watts, Taika Waititi, Ryan Coogler, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, Cate Shortland, Destin Daniel Cretton, Chloé Zhao, Sam Raimi and Nia DaCosta
Hereditary (2018) Director: Ari Aster
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Director: Jonathan Demme
Get Out (2017) Director: Jordan Peele
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) Director: Sergio Leone
Monty Python and The Holy Grail (1975) Directors: Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones
Annie Hall (1977) Director: Woody Allen
No Country For Old Men (2007) Directors: Joel and Ethan Coen
Zodiac (2007) Director: David Fincher
Sunset Boulevard (1950) Director: Billy Wilder
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) Director: Blake Edwards
The Wizard of Oz (1939) Director: Victor Fleming
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Director: Steven Spielberg
Say Anything (1989) Director: Cameron Crowe
Amadeus (1984) Director: Milos Forman
Booksmart (2019) Director: Olivia Wilde
Superbad (2007) Director: Greg Mottola
Raging Bull (1980) Director: Martin Scorsese
The Breakfast Club (1985) Director: John Hughes
Psycho (1960) Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Knives Out (2019) Director: Rian Johnson
Almost Famous (2000) Director: Cameron Crowe
Malcolm X (1992) Director: Spike Lee
Mary Poppins (1964) Director: Robert Stevenson
The Big Chill (1983) Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Goodfellas (1990) Director: Martin Scorsese
Marriage Story (2019) Director: Noah Baumbach
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) Director: John Hughes