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 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Welles, Orson USA DS
3 Vertigo 1958 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DUPS
13 Rashômon 1950 Kurosawa, Akira Japan DU
15 Chinatown 1974 Polanski, Roman USA DUS
46 Double Indemnity 1944 Wilder, Billy USA DS
52 L'Avventura 1960 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France D
60 Fanny & Alexander 1982 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden / France / West Germany D
62 The Maltese Falcon 1941 Huston, John USA DUP
75 North by Northwest 1959 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
79 Diabolique 1955 Clouzot, Henri-Georges France D
82 The Third Man 1949 Reed, Carol UK D
90 Touch of Evil 1958 Welles, Orson USA DUS
91 L.A. Confidential 1997 Hanson, Curtis USA DBS
101 Rear Window 1954 Hitchcock, Alfred USA D
107 Blow-Up 1966 Antonioni, Michelangelo UK / Italy DU
111 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Resnais, Alain France / Italy Y
118 Blue Velvet 1986 Lynch, David USA DS
127 Notorious 1946 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
131 The Conversation 1974 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DU
153 The American Friend 1977 Wenders, Wim West Germany / France Y
173 Dr. Mabuse - The Gambler 1922 Lang, Fritz Germany D
203 The Big Sleep 1946 Hawks, Howard USA DS
206 Out of the Past 1947 Tourneur, Jacques USA Y
219 Cría cuervos 1976 Saura, Carlos Spain D
254 The Kingdom 1994 von Trier, Lars / Arnfred, Morten Denmark / France / Germany / Sweden D
272 Rebecca 1940 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
273 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Jewison, Norman USA DS
277 The Spider's Stratagem 1970 Bertolucci, Bernardo Italy Y
277 The 39 Steps 1935 Hitchcock, Alfred UK DUP
295 The Thin Man 1934 Van Dyke, W.S. USA D
302 Laura 1944 Preminger, Otto / Mamoulian, Rouben USA DU
315 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Preminger, Otto USA DU
318 Mulholland Dr. 2001 Lynch, David France / USA DUS
352 Don't Look Now 1973 Roeg, Nicolas Italy / UK Y
367 The Usual Suspects 1995 Singer, Bryan USA / Germany DBUP
388 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 Sturges, John USA YUS
389 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras Algeria / France Y
391 Mildred Pierce 1945 Curtiz, Michael USA YS
416 In a Lonely Place 1950 Ray, Nicholas USA Y
452 Cat People 1942 Tourneur, Jacques USA D
478 The Exterminating Angel 1962 Buñuel, Luis Mexico Y
484 Memento 2000 Nolan, Christopher USA DBU
513 Mystic River 2003 Eastwood, Clint USA DS
527 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Tarantino, Quentin USA DBUP
546 Diva 1981 Beineix, Jean-Jacques France DS
547 Missing 1982 Costa-Gavras USA D
555 Klute 1971 Pakula, Alan J. USA DU
574 Lost Horizon 1937 Capra, Frank USA YS
577 Shock Corridor 1963 Fuller, Samuel USA Y
585 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Hitchcock, Alfred UK D
586 The Sixth Sense 1999 Shyamalan, M. Night USA YBS
606 Crossfire 1947 Dmytryk, Edward USA YU
610 Gilda 1946 Vidor, Charles USA Y
681 Dead of Night 1945 Cavalcanti, Alberto / Crichton, Charles / Dearden, Basil / Hamer, Robert UK Y
682 The Long Goodbye 1973 Altman, Robert USA Y
691 Murder, My Sweet 1944 Dmytryk, Edward USA D
709 JFK 1991 Stone, Oliver USA / France DBS
726 Green for Danger 1946 Gilliat, Sidney UK D
731 House of Games 1987 Mamet, David USA DU
736 Chungking Express 1994 Wong, Kar Wai Hong Kong DBS
741 Night Moves 1975 Penn, Arthur USA YU
743 Spellbound 1945 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
759 The Lady from Shanghai 1948 Welles, Orson USA Y
770 Les Vampires 1915 Feuillade, Louis France YU
773 The Spiral Staircase 1946 Siodmak, Robert USA Y
797 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 Wilder, Billy USA Y
805 Dogville 2003 von Trier, Lars Denmark / Sweden / France / Norway / Netherlands / Finland / Germany / USA / UK DUP
808 Sleuth 1972 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. UK Y
854 The Blair Witch Project 1999 Myrick, Daniel / Sánchez, Eduardo USA DUS
856 Face to Face 1976 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden
858 Suspicion 1941 Hitchcock, Alfred USA YUPS
873 The Fugitive 1993 Davis, Andrew USA DBUPS
878 Lone Star 1996 Sayles, John USA Y
885 Gaslight 1944 Cukor, George USA Y
905 The Wicker Man 1973 Hardy, Robin UK D
924 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 Weir, Peter Australia Y
926 They Won't Forget 1937 LeRoy, Mervyn USA
937 A Beautiful Mind 2001 Howard, Ron USA DS
942 Gosford Park 2001 Altman, Robert UK / USA / Germany / Italy YU
950 Oldboy 2003 Park, Chan-wook South Korea DB
984 And Then There Were None 1945 Clair, René USA DU
1017 Charade 1963 Donen, Stanley USA DUS
1025 The Naked City 1948 Dassin, Jules USA D
1036 Lantana 2001 Lawrence, Ray Australia / Germany DUPS
1038 A Shot in the Dark 1964 Edwards, Blake UK / USA DUPS
1039 Bad Education 2004 Almodóvar, Pedro Spain D
1055 Seconds 1966 Frankenheimer, John USA D
1073 The Bride Wore Black 1968 Truffaut, François France / Italy YS
1104 D.O.A. 1950 Maté, Rudolph USA YU
1126 The Detective 1954 Hamer, Robert UK Y
1133 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 1933 Lang, Fritz Germany D
1146 Minority Report 2002 Spielberg, Steven USA YS
1168 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 1970 Wilder, Billy UK YUPS
1177 Alphaville 1965 Godard, Jean-Luc France / Italy Y
1259 Se7en 1995 Fincher, David USA DS
1260 The Trouble with Harry 1955 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
1288 The Vanishing 1988 Sluizer, George Netherlands / France Y
1292 Curse of the Demon 1957 Tourneur, Jacques UK D
1323 This Gun for Hire 1942 Tuttle, Frank USA DS
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1337 Marnie 1964 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DUS
1361 Donnie Darko 2001 Kelly, Richard USA DS
1367 The Last Wave 1977 Weir, Peter Australia D
1372 The Rapture 1991 Tolkin, Michael USA Y
1411 The Glass Key 1942 Heisler, Stuart USA
1411 Phantom Lady 1944 Siodmak, Robert USA
1411 The Uninvited 1944 Allen, Lewis USA S
1421 A Soldier's Story 1984 Jewison, Norman USA Y
1436 The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970 Argento, Dario Italy / West Germany DS
1451 Family Plot 1976 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DUS
1454 Courage Under Fire 1996 Zwick, Edward USA DBU
1459 Farewell, My Lovely 1975 Richards, Dick USA Y
1474 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow 2004 Conran, Kerry USA / UK / Italy DBUS
1497 The Late Show 1977 Benton, Robert USA Y
1524 Dark City 1998 Proyas, Alex USA DBUS
1535 The Kennel Murder Case 1933 Curtiz, Michael USA D
1542 The Man from Laramie 1955 Mann, Anthony USA D
1542 Ring 1998 Nakata, Hideo Japan D
1543 Eastern Promises 2007 Cronenberg, David UK / Canada / USA DBU
1544 Pandora and the Flying Dutchman 1951 Lewin, Albert UK D
1544 A Very Long Engagement 2004 Jeunet, Jean-Pierre France / USA YU
1545 Dressed to Kill 1980 De Palma, Brian USA YU
1560 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Kubrick, Stanley USA / UK DBU
1583 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1939 Werker, Alfred L. USA D
1586 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2004 Cuarón, Alfonso UK / USA DBS
1605 Marat/Sade 1967 Brook, Peter UK D
1608 To Catch a Thief 1955 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DU
1630 Rome Express 1932 Forde, Walter UK
1640 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2005 Newell, Mike UK / USA DB
1641 Bulldog Drummond 1929 Jones, F. Richard / Howard, Sidney USA Y
1646 Spider 2002 Cronenberg, David Canada / UK Y
1648 Portrait of Jennie 1948 Dieterle, William USA Y
1657 Confessions of a Nazi Spy 1939 Litvak, Anatole USA
1666 Dial M for Murder 1954 Hitchcock, Alfred USA YUS
1678 Stalker 1979 Tarkovsky, Andrei West Germany / Soviet Union Y
1680 Stage Fright 1950 Hitchcock, Alfred UK DU
1688 The Last of Sheila 1973 Ross, Herbert USA DU
1695 Hollywoodland 2006 Coulter, Allen USA DU
1707 Bad Timing 1980 Roeg, Nicolas UK D
1713 The Bourne Ultimatum 2007 Greengrass, Paul USA DU
1717 Obsession 1976 De Palma, Brian USA Y
1720 The Talented Mr. Ripley 1999 Minghella, Anthony USA YUP
1732 Murder 1930 Hitchcock, Alfred UK D
1740 The Mask of Dimitrios 1944 Negulesco, Jean USA
1780 The Blue Lamp 1950 Dearden, Basil UK
1783 Hammett 1982 Wenders, Wim USA DS
1788 Dead Again 1991 Branagh, Kenneth USA YUP
1799 The Bourne Identity 2002 Liman, Doug USA / Germany / Czech Republic DUS
1810 The Manchurian Candidate 2004 Demme, Jonathan USA DBU
1812 The Tenant 1976 Polanski, Roman France / USA Y
1820 Harper 1966 Smight, Jack USA D
1820 Help! 1965 Lester, Richard UK D
1820 Le Corbeau 1943 Clouzot, Henri-Georges France D
1820 Murder on the Orient Express 1974 Lumet, Sidney UK Y
1831 Jacob's Ladder 1990 Lyne, Adrian USA YUS
1848 The Game 1997 Fincher, David USA DUS
1849 Rider on the Rain 1969 Clément, René Italy / France D
1854 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939 Lanfield, Sidney USA D
1854 Ministry of Fear 1944 Lang, Fritz USA
1854 My Favorite Brunette 1947 Nugent, Elliott USA D
1854 Theatre of Blood 1973 Hickox, Douglas UK DU
1856 Nine Queens 2000 Bielinsky, Fabián Argentina D
1860 The Dark Knight 2008 Nolan, Christopher USA DBUS
1893 The Singing Detective 1986 Amiel, Jon Australia / UK Y
1906 Blow Out 1981 De Palma, Brian USA D
1906 The Draughtsman's Contract 1982 Greenaway, Peter UK DS
1935 Star Wars: Episode II -
Attack of the Clones
2002 Lucas, George USA DS
1937 Birth 2004 Glazer, Jonathan USA YS
1952 After Dark, My Sweet 1990 Foley, James USA YUPS
1952 Santa Sangre 1989 Jodorowsky, Alejandro Mexico / Italy Y
1962 Femme Fatale 2002 De Palma, Brian France Y
1964 The Quiet Earth 1985 Murphy, Geoff New Zealand
1964 Scream 1996 Craven, Wes USA DS
1964 Secret Beyond the Door 1948 Lang, Fritz USA
1976 Inland Empire 2006 Lynch, David USA / Poland / France D
1991 Mission: Impossible 1996 De Palma, Brian USA DBUPS
1992 Fog Over Frisco 1934 Dieterle, William USA
1995 The Butterfly Murders 1979 Tsui, Hark Hong Kong
2001 The Most Dangerous Game 1932 Pichel, Irving / Schoedsack, Ernest B. USA DUS
2002 The Prize 1963 Robson, Mark USA V
2003 Alias Nick Beal 1949 Farrow, John USA
2006 Changeling 2008 Eastwood, Clint USA S
2016 The State of Things 1982 Wenders, Wim West Germany / Portugal / USA
2017 After the Thin Man 1936 Van Dyke, W.S. USA DU
2017 Agnes of God 1985 Jewison, Norman USA DUS
2017 Cat and Mouse 1975 Lelouch, Claude France
2017 Cop au Vin 1985 Chabrol, Claude France D
2017 The Devil's Backbone 2001 del Toro, Guillermo Spain / Mexico D
2017 In the Valley of Elah 2007 Haggis, Paul USA DBUP
2017 Man on the Roof 1976 Widerberg, Bo Sweden
2017 Murder Ahoy! 1964 Pollock, George UK D
2017 Murder at the Gallop 1963 Pollock, George UK D
2017 A Night to Remember 1943 Wallace, Richard USA
2017 Penthouse 1933 Van Dyke, W.S. USA
2017 Ride the Pink Horse 1947 Montgomery, Robert USA
2017 The Scarlet Claw 1944 Neill, Roy William USA D
2017 Spirits of the Dead: Metzengerstein 1968 Vadim, Roger France / Italy D
2017 Spirits of the Dead: William Wilson 1968 Malle, Louis France / Italy D
2017 Suddenly! 1954 Allen, Lewis USA DU
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2017 Warning Shot 1967 Kulik, Buzz USA D
2020 Maborosi 1995 Koreeda, Hirokazu Japan Y
2025 I've Loved You So Long 2008 Claudel, Philippe France S
2027 Gone Baby Gone 2007 Affleck, Ben USA DB
2030 The Negotiator 1998 Gray, F. Gary Germany / USA VS
2034 New Rose Hotel 1998 Ferrara, Abel USA Y
2035 The Complete Mr. Arkadin 1955 Welles, Orson France / Spain / Switzerland D
2035 Dark Passage 1947 Daves, Delmer USA DS
2035 Les Bonnes Femmes 1960 Chabrol, Claude France / Italy Y
2047 Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back 1934 Del Ruth, Roy USA
2047 Cornered 1945 Dmytryk, Edward USA
2047 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982 Reiner, Carl USA DU
2047 Devil in a Blue Dress 1995 Franklin, Carl USA DUS
2047 Doctor X 1932 Curtiz, Michael USA D
2047 8 Women 2002 Ozon, François France / Italy Y
2047 Following 1998 Nolan, Christopher UK D
2047 Frantic 1988 Polanski, Roman USA / France D
2047 He Walked by Night 1948 Werker, Alfred L. / Mann, Anthony USA D
2047 Lady in White 1988 LaLoggia, Frank USA D
2047 The Man on the Eiffel Tower 1950 Meredith, Burgess / Allen, Irving / Laughton, Charles USA / France D
2047 The Most Terrible Time in My Life 1994 Hayashi, Kaizo Japan / China / Taiwan D
2047 Music Box 1989 Costa-Gavras USA DUS
2047 Remember Last Night? 1935 Whale, James USA
2047 Stranger on the Third Floor 1940 Ingster, Boris USA
2047 Winter Kills 1979 Richert, William USA D
2055 The Orphanage 2007 Bayona, Juan Antonio Mexico / Spain DBUP
2068 The Mattei Affair 1972 Rosi, Francesco Italy
2076 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 2001 Columbus, Chris UK / USA DBUPS
2098 Equus 1977 Lumet, Sidney USA / UK Y
2098 Secret Agent 1936 Hitchcock, Alfred UK Y
2098 The Seven-Per-Cent Solution 1976 Ross, Herbert UK / USA Y
2098 The Tall Blonde Man with One Black Shoe 1972 Robert, Yves France Y
2102 Lady Vengeance 2005 Park, Chan-wook South Korea D
2123 Caprice 1967 Tashlin, Frank USA D
2123 Friday the 13th 1980 Cunningham, Sean S. USA D
2123 Keeper of the Flame 1942 Cukor, George USA V
2123 The Legend of Lyla Clare 1968 Aldrich, Robert USA
2123 Malice 1993 Becker, Harold Canada / USA DS
2123 2010 1984 Hyams, Peter USA DU
2136 Clockers 1995 Lee, Spike USA YU
2136 Place Vendôme 1998 Garcia, Nicole France D
2139 Macario 1960 Gavaldón, Roberto Mexico Y
2156 Leopard Man 1943 Tourneur, Jacques USA Y
2159 Under the Sun 1998 Nutley, Colin Sweden Y
2161 The Pledge 2001 Penn, Sean USA YS
2161 Swimming Pool 2003 Ozon, François France / UK D
2166 The Big Lebowski 1998 Coen, Joel / Coen, Ethan USA / UK DUS
2172 The Red Violin 1998 Girard, François Canada / Italy / UK DUS
2183 La Nuit du carrefour 1932 Renoir, Jean France
2190 The Argyle Secrets 1948 Endfield, Cy USA
2190 The Day the Sun Turned Cold 1994 Yim, Ho Hong Kong Y
2190 Le Horla 1966 Pollet, Jean-Daniel France
2190 Made in U.S.A. 1966 Godard, Jean-Luc France
2190 The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse 1960 Lang, Fritz France / Italy / West Germany Y
2190 Paris nous appartient 1960 Rivette, Jacques France
2190 Sleepwalk 1986 Driver, Sara USA / West Germany
2190 Up Down Fragile 1995 Rivette, Jacques France / Switzerland Y
2190 When Strangers Marry 1944 Castle, William USA
2190 Who Killed Who? 1943 Avery, Tex USA Y
2190 A Wife Confesses 1961 Masumura, Yasuzo Japan
2191 Kontroll 2005 Antal, Nimród Hungary D
2193 Bubble 2005 Soderbergh, Steven USA DB
2198 Strange Days 1995 Bigelow, Kathryn USA DS
2201 Contact 1997 Zemeckis, Robert USA DUS
2202 Kit Kittredge: An American Girl 2008 Rozema, Patricia USA DBUPS
2203 Signs 2002 Shyamalan, M. Night USA DBS
2210 I'm Not Scared 2004 Salvatores, Gabriele Italy / Spain / UK D
2214 Copycat 1995 Amiel, Jon USA DS
2214 The Deep End 2001 Siegel, David / McGehee, Scott USA DU
2214 Gattaca 1997 Niccol, Andrew USA DBUPS
2214 Insomnia 1997 Skjoldbjærg, Erik Norway D
2214 Lady in the Lake 1947 Montgomery, Robert USA D
2214 Silver City 2004 Sayles, John USA D
2222 A Canterbury Tale 1944 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK D
2233 The Black Dahlia 2006 De Palma, Brian Germany / USA DU
2233 Double Tour 1959 Chabrol, Claude France / Italy D
2233 Inju, la bête dans l'ombre 2008 Schroeder, Barbet France
2233 Nightwatching 2007 Greenaway, Peter Canada / France / Germany / Poland / Netherlands / UK
2233 A Ostra e o Vento 1997 Lima, Walter Jr. Brazil
2233 Sleuth 2007 Branagh, Kenneth USA DBU
2234 Faraway, So Close! 1993 Wenders, Wim Germany D
2235 The Abominable Dr. Phibes 1971 Fuest, Robert UK / USA DS
2235 Alias Jimmy Valentine 1928 Conway, Jack USA
2235 The Andromeda Strain 1971 Wise, Robert USA D
2235 The Blue Dahlia 1946 Marshall, George USA Y
2235 The Boston Strangler 1968 Fleischer, Richard USA DUP
2235 Breakheart Pass 1975 Gries, Tom USA DUPS
2235 The Cat and the Canary 1927 Leni, Paul USA DU
2235 The Cheap Detective 1978 Moore, Robert USA D
2235 The Client 1994 Schumacher, Joel USA DUPS
2235 Coma 1978 Crichton, Michael USA DS
2235 Dead Reckoning 1947 Cromwell, John USA D
2235 The Detective 1968 Douglas, Gordon USA D
2235 Eyes of Laura Mars 1978 Kershner, Irvin USA DS
2235 House of Wax 1953 De Toth, André USA DU
2235 Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964 Aldrich, Robert USA DU
2235 Joan the Woman 1917 DeMille, Cecil B. USA DU
2235 The Legend of Hell House 1973 Hough, John UK DUP
2235 Letty Lynton 1932 Brown, Clarence USA
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