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 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Welles, Orson USA DS
6 Seven Samurai 1954 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
11 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Penn, Arthur USA DBUPS
13 Rashômon 1950 Kurosawa, Akira Japan DU
15 Chinatown 1974 Polanski, Roman USA DUS
21 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Zhang, Yimou China / Hong Kong / Taiwan DS
44 Ugetsu 1953 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan D
45 Children of Paradise 1945 Carné, Marcel France D
47 Jules and Jim 1962 Truffaut, François France DS
53 Ran 1985 Kurosawa, Akira Japan / France D
60 Fanny & Alexander 1982 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden / France / West Germany D
64 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan D
101 L.A. Confidential 1997 Hanson, Curtis USA DS
106 The Earrings of Madame de... 1953 Ophüls, Max France / Italy D
120 Throne of Blood 1957 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
149 The Seventh Seal 1957 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden D
163 Lola Montès 1955 Ophüls, Max France / West Germany Y
181 American Graffiti 1973 Lucas, George USA Y
193 1900 1976 Bertolucci, Bernardo France / Italy / West Germany DS
203 Two English Girls 1971 Truffaut, François France YS
214 The Piano 1993 Campion, Jane Australia / New Zealand / France DS
225 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Welles, Orson USA YS
232 Titanic 1997 Cameron, James USA DS
244 Senso 1954 Visconti, Luchino Italy YU
246 Amadeus 1984 Forman, Milos USA DUS
248 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1964 Parajanov, Sergei Soviet Union D
255 Days of Heaven 1978 Malick, Terrence USA DS
256 Doctor Zhivago 1965 Lean, David USA DUPS
284 Tom Jones 1963 Richardson, Tony UK D
292 Barry Lyndon 1975 Kubrick, Stanley UK DU
297 Farewell My Concubine 1993 Chen, Kaige China / Hong Kong DS
303 Great Expectations 1946 Lean, David UK D
308 Chariots of Fire 1981 Hudson, Hugh UK YU
326 Wuthering Heights 1939 Wyler, William USA YS
333 The English Patient 1996 Minghella, Anthony USA Y
340 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Zinnemann, Fred UK D
345 Dangerous Liaisons 1988 Frears, Stephen USA / UK YUP
349 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Ophüls, Max USA Y
356 City of God 2002 Meirelles, Fernando / Lund, Kátia Brazil / France / USA Y
360 Sense and Sensibility 1995 Lee, Ang USA / UK Y
361 The Elephant Man 1980 Lynch, David UK / USA Y
363 A Room with a View 1985 Ivory, James UK DB
368 Shakespeare in Love 1998 Madden, John USA / UK Y
369 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Lee, Ang Taiwan / Hong Kong / USA / China YU
374 Boogie Nights 1997 Anderson, Paul Thomas USA Y
381 In the Mood for Love 2000 Wong, Kar Wai Hong Kong / France / Thailand DS
387 Gladiator 2000 Scott, Ridley UK / USA DS
388 Camille 1936 Cukor, George USA D
392 Queen Christina 1933 Mamoulian, Rouben USA D
402 Jezebel 1938 Wyler, William USA DS
406 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK D
417 The Dead 1987 Huston, John UK Y
419 Andrei Roublev 1969 Tarkovsky, Andrei Soviet Union Y
439 David Copperfield 1935 Cukor, George USA D
470 Jean de Florette 1986 Berri, Claude France / Switzerland / Italy DS
476 The Untouchables 1987 De Palma, Brian USA YBUS
478 Black Narcissus 1947 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK Y
482 The Color Purple 1985 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
490 Gangs of New York 2002 Scorsese, Martin USA / Germany / Italy / UK / Netherlands DBS
495 Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005 Clooney, George USA DB
497 The Aviator 2004 Scorsese, Martin USA / Japan / Germany DS
508 The Go-Between 1970 Losey, Joseph UK YS
509 The Sting 1973 Hill, George Roy USA DU
511 Howards End 1992 Ivory, James UK / Japan Y
520 The Tin Drum 1979 Schlöndorff, Volker West Germany / France / Poland / Yugoslavia YS
527 Goodbye, Mr. Chips 1939 Wood, Sam UK Y
528 The Scarlet Empress 1934 von Sternberg, Josef USA Y
529 The Hours 2002 Daldry, Stephen USA YU
539 Romeo and Juliet 1968 Zeffirelli, Franco UK / Italy YUPS
558 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 del Toro, Guillermo Mexico / Spain / USA DB
569 Cyrano de Bergerac 1990 Rappeneau, Jean-Paul France Y
571 Pride and Prejudice 1940 Leonard, Robert Z. USA D
601 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 1969 Pollack, Sydney USA D
603 Red Sorghum 1987 Zhang, Yimou China Y
616 Pelle the Conqueror 1987 August, Bille Denmark / Sweden D
620 Far from Heaven 2002 Haynes, Todd France / USA YS
621 Death in Venice 1971 Visconti, Luchino Italy / France YU
631 A Sunday in the Country 1984 Tavernier, Bertrand France Y
651 Lust for Life 1956 Minnelli, Vincente / Cukor, George USA DUPS
652 Les Misérables 1935 Boleslawski, Richard USA D
655 Oliver Twist 1948 Lean, David UK Y
657 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1975 Herzog, Werner West Germany Y
658 Out of Africa 1985 Pollack, Sydney USA YS
679 Fellini Satyricon 1969 Fellini, Federico Italy / France YS
686 Forrest Gump 1994 Zemeckis, Robert USA YS
688 Hamlet 1948 Olivier, Laurence UK D
703 Day of Wrath 1943 Dreyer, Carl Theodor Denmark D
704 The Lives of Others 2006 von Donnersmarck, Florian Henckel Germany DBU
712 Cavalcade 1933 Lloyd, Frank USA YS
714 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 Kazan, Elia USA Y
726 The Lion in Winter 1968 Harvey, Anthony UK DS
728 Ju Dou 1990 Zhang, Yimou / Yang, Fengliang Japan / China D
729 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner Italy / West Germany D
737 Moulin Rouge 1952 Huston, John UK Y
745 Topsy-Turvy 1999 Leigh, Mike UK YS
748 The Fast Runner 2001 Kunuk, Zacharias Canada Y
755 The Age of Innocence 1993 Scorsese, Martin USA YUPS
765 Dogville 2003 von Trier, Lars Denmark / Sweden / France / Norway / Netherlands / Finland / Germany / USA / UK DUP
783 Women in Love 1969 Russell, Ken UK Y
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786 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Leone, Sergio Italy / USA YUPS
790 A Passage to India 1984 Lean, David UK / USA DBS
820 My Brilliant Career 1979 Armstrong, Gillian Australia Y
826 Babette's Feast 1987 Axel, Gabriel Denmark YUP
827 The Count of Monte Cristo 1934 Lee, Rowland V. / Lucas, Wilfred USA D
828 The Color of Pomegranates 1968 Parajanov, Sergei Soviet Union D
834 Gate of Hell 1953 Kinugasa, Teinosuke Japan Y
837 Capote 2005 Miller, Bennett USA DU
839 Kwaidan 1964 Kobayashi, Masaki Japan Y
848 Finding Neverland 2004 Forster, Marc UK / USA DB
850 Driving Miss Daisy 1989 Beresford, Bruce USA YS
862 The Remains of the Day 1993 Ivory, James UK / USA YU
882 Gaslight 1944 Cukor, George USA Y
894 The Wild Child 1970 Truffaut, François France Y
899 Romeo and Juliet 1936 Cukor, George USA D
905 Bound for Glory 1976 Ashby, Hal USA Y
914 There Will Be Blood 2007 Anderson, Paul Thomas USA DBUP
921 Show Boat 1936 Whale, James USA Y
924 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 Weir, Peter Australia Y
943 Gosford Park 2001 Altman, Robert UK / USA / Germany / Italy YU
946 Anastasia 1956 Litvak, Anatole USA DS
971 The Devil & Daniel Webster 1941 Dieterle, William USA YS
974 The Cider House Rules 1999 Hallström, Lasse USA Y
995 Munich 2005 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
996 Miller's Crossing 1990 Coen, Joel / Coen, Ethan USA D
1015 Quiz Show 1994 Redford, Robert USA Y
1026 The Song of Bernadette 1943 King, Henry USA YS
1028 Rembrandt 1936 Korda, Alexander UK Y
1048 The Story of Louis Pasteur 1936 Dieterle, William USA Y
1051 Othello 1952 Welles, Orson USA / Italy / France / Morocco Y
1053 Shadowlands 1993 Attenborough, Richard UK Y
1057 Entre Nous 1983 Kurys, Diane France Y
1065 Les Misérables 1995 Lelouch, Claude France YUP
1065 Tess 1979 Polanski, Roman France / UK Y
1066 The Scarlet Pimpernel 1934 Young, Harold UK DUP
1071 The Madness of King George 1994 Hytner, Nicholas UK Y
1072 Road to Perdition 2002 Mendes, Sam USA Y
1074 Anna and the King of Siam 1946 Cromwell, John USA YS
1077 Mayerling 1936 Litvak, Anatole France Y
1088 Time Regained 1999 Ruiz, Raoul France / Italy / Portugal D
1094 The Last Command 1928 von Sternberg, Josef USA Y
1095 Atonement 2007 Wright, Joe UK DUS
1129 The Two of Us 1967 Berri, Claude France D
1137 Casque d'or 1952 Becker, Jacques France Y
1153 Effi Briest 1974 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner West Germany Y
1154 The Story of Adèle H 1975 Truffaut, François France Y
1164 Macbeth 1971 Polanski, Roman UK / USA Y
1178 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 Dieterle, William USA YS
1180 The Quiet American 2002 Noyce, Phillip USA / Germany / Australia Y
1185 House of Flying Daggers 2004 Zhang, Yimou China / Hong Kong DBU
1188 Bad Company 1972 Benton, Robert USA DUP
1195 Dersu Uzala 1975 Kurosawa, Akira Soviet Union / Japan Y
1196 Il Postino 1994 Radford, Michael France / Italy / Belgium Y
1197 Rabbit-Proof Fence 2002 Noyce, Phillip Australia Y
1200 Lagaan 2001 Gowariker, Ashutosh India Y
1203 The Magdalene Sisters 2002 Mullan, Peter UK / Ireland Y
1213 Danton 1983 Wajda, Andrzej France / Poland / West Germany Y
1221 L'Innocente 1976 Visconti, Luchino Italy / France Y
1233 Cold Mountain 2003 Minghella, Anthony USA Y
1252 The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums 1939 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan Y
1260 Lancelot of the Lake 1974 Bresson, Robert France / Italy Y
1273 The Day of the Locust 1975 Schlesinger, John USA Y
1300 Seabiscuit 2003 Ross, Gary USA Y
1305 Nowhere in Africa 2001 Link, Caroline Germany Y
1308 The Ballad of Narayama 1983 Imamura, Shohei Japan D
1314 Vera Drake 2004 Leigh, Mike UK / France / New Zealand YU
1334 The Way We Were 1973 Pollack, Sydney USA YU
1347 Zodiac 2007 Fincher, David USA DU
1359 A Christmas Carol 1951 Hurst, Brian Desmond UK D
1371 Lust, Caution 2007 Lee, Ang USA / China DU
1376 Little Women 1994 Armstrong, Gillian USA YU
1388 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow 2004 Conran, Kerry USA / UK / Italy DBUS
1396 The Shooting Party 1985 Bridges, Alan UK D
1400 Cyrano de Bergerac 1950 Gordon, Michael USA YUS
1405 The Emigrants 1971 Troell, Jan Sweden Y
1409 Dreamgirls 2006 Condon, Bill USA DBUS
1428 La Nuit de Varennes 1982 Scola, Ettore France / Italy Y
1432 Evita 1996 Parker, Alan USA D
1436 Cradle Will Rock 1999 Robbins, Tim USA Y
1438 Sophie's Choice 1982 Pakula, Alan J. USA YU
1439 The Life of Oharu 1952 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan Y
1460 Eight Men Out 1988 Sayles, John USA DUP
1463 Stavisky... 1974 Resnais, Alain France / Italy Y
1466 A City of Sadness 1989 Hou, Hsiao-hsien Taiwan
1479 Fiddler on the Roof 1971 Jewison, Norman USA D
1502 Far from the Madding Crowd 1967 Schlesinger, John UK Y
1508 The Last Samurai 2003 Zwick, Edward USA / New Zealand / Japan DBUPS
1511 King Kong 2005 Jackson, Peter / Singer, Bryan New Zealand / USA DS
1515 Together 2000 Moodysson, Lukas Sweden / Denmark / Italy D
1528 The Painted Veil 2006 Curran, John USA DU
1530 Orphans of the Storm 1921 Griffith, D.W. USA YU
1535 Anne of the Thousand Days 1969 Jarrott, Charles UK Y
1539 The Return of Martin Guerre 1982 Vigne, Daniel France Y
1540 Ridicule 1996 Leconte, Patrice France Y
1541 The Best of Youth 2003 Giordana, Marco Tullio Italy D
1546 Once Upon a Time in China 1991 Tsui, Hark Hong Kong D
1548 A Very Long Engagement 2004 Jeunet, Jean-Pierre France / USA YU
1549 The Judge and the Assassin 1976 Tavernier, Bertrand France
1550 Mrs. Brown 1997 Madden, John UK / Ireland / USA DS
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1577 Much Ado About Nothing 1993 Branagh, Kenneth UK / USA YU
1578 My Twentieth Century 1989 Enyedi, Ildikó Hungary / West Germany / Cuba Y
1581 The French Lieutenant's Woman 1981 Reisz, Karel UK Y
1584 The Natural 1984 Levinson, Barry USA DU
1595 C.R.A.Z.Y. 2005 Vallée, Jean-Marc Canada D
1600 Hollywoodland 2006 Coulter, Allen USA DU
1604 Persuasion 1995 Michell, Roger UK / France / USA YU
1609 Marat/Sade 1967 Brook, Peter UK D
1614 The Mission 1986 Joffé, Roland UK YS
1646 An Actor's Revenge 1963 Ichikawa, Kon Japan Y
1647 Anthony Adverse 1936 LeRoy, Mervyn / Curtiz, Michael USA YS
1647 In Old Chicago 1938 King, Henry USA Y
1649 The Last Tycoon 1976 Kazan, Elia USA Y
1661 October Sky 1999 Johnston, Joe USA DS
1667 Chunhyang 2000 Kwon-taek, Im South Korea Y
1673 Kinsey 2004 Condon, Bill USA / Germany YU
1682 The Glenn Miller Story 1953 Mann, Anthony USA DS
1687 The Good Shepherd 2006 De Niro, Robert USA DU
1701 Tous les matins du monde 1991 Corneau, Alain France DS
1704 The Ice Storm 1997 Lee, Ang USA DUS
1704 Utamaro and His Five Women 1946 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan Y
1708 24 Hour Party People 2002 Winterbottom, Michael UK / France / Netherlands DS
1712 And Now My Love 1974 Lelouch, Claude France / Italy Y
1718 Amistad 1997 Spielberg, Steven USA YS
1724 Little Dorrit 1988 Edzard, Christine UK Y
1729 The Talented Mr. Ripley 1999 Minghella, Anthony USA Y
1731 The Man Who Laughs 1927 Leni, Paul USA D
1738 Character 1997 van Diem, Mike Netherlands / Belgium Y
1744 The Best Intentions 1992 August, Bille Sweden / Germany / UK / Italy / France / Denmark / Finland / Norway / Iceland Y
1744 Kung Fu Hustle 2004 Chow, Stephen China / Hong Kong DBU
1748 Enchanted April 1992 Newell, Mike UK Y
1758 Chikamatsu monogatari 1954 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan
1758 The 47 Ronin 1941 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan D
1759 The House of Mirth 2000 Davies, Terence UK / France / Germany / USA Y
1763 Jane Eyre 1944 Stevenson, Robert USA DS
1773 Milou in May 1990 Malle, Louis France / Italy
1782 The Overcoat 1959 Batalov, Aleksei Soviet Union
1790 Hammett 1982 Wenders, Wim USA DS
1797 Carnival in Flanders 1935 Feyder, Jacques France / Germany Y
1797 The Devils 1971 Russell, Ken UK Y
1803 Othello 1965 Burge, Stuart / Dexter, John UK D
1809 Colonel Redl 1985 Szabó, István Hungary / Austria / West Germany Y
1809 Hamlet 1964 Kozintsev, Grigori / Shapiro, Iosif Soviet Union D
1810 Doctor Dolittle 1967 Fleischer, Richard USA YU
1812 Elvira Madigan 1967 Widerberg, Bo Sweden Y
1814 The Duellists 1977 Scott, Ridley UK D
1828 La Marseillaise 1938 Renoir, Jean France D
1828 Pit and the Pendulum 1961 Corman, Roger USA
1828 Ryan's Daughter 1970 Lean, David UK DUS
1835 Oblomov 1979 Mikhalkov, Nikita Soviet Union Y
1842 Heat and Dust 1983 Ivory, James UK Y
1843 Pretty Baby 1978 Malle, Louis USA Y
1850 Pride & Prejudice 2005 Wright, Joe France / UK D
1855 Germinal 1993 Berri, Claude Belgium / France / Italy
1856 The Home and the World 1985 Ray, Satyajit / Dutt, Dulal India Y
1861 The Wind That Shakes the Barley 2006 Loach, Ken France / Ireland / UK DUP
1864 The Cincinnati Kid 1965 Jewison, Norman USA DUS
1865 1776 1972 Hunt, Peter H. USA D
1873 The Man from Snowy River 1982 Miller, George Australia YU
1877 Witchfinder General 1968 Reeves, Michael UK D
1883 Camille Claudel 1988 Nuytten, Bruno France Y
1893 End of Innocence 1957 Nilsson, Leopoldo Torre Argentina
1894 Frida 2002 Taymor, Julie USA / Canada / Mexico D
1898 Carrington 1995 Hampton, Christopher UK / France Y
1898 Hairspray 2007 Shankman, Adam USA DBUP
1906 Sweet Land 2005 Selim, Ali USA DU
1908 Malèna 2000 Tornatore, Giuseppe Italy / USA YS
1912 Marie Antoinette 2006 Coppola, Sofia Japan / France / USA DU
1914 The Portrait of a Lady 1996 Campion, Jane UK / USA D
1918 The Tracker 2002 de Heer, Rolf Australia D
1923 The Merchant of Venice 2004 Radford, Michael USA / Italy / Luxembourg / UK D
1927 Romeo and Juliet 1954 Castellani, Renato Italy / UK Y
1929 Charulata 1964 Ray, Satyajit India Y
1941 Miss Julie 1951 Sjöberg, Alf Sweden D
1944 Richard III 1995 Loncraine, Richard UK / USA DS
1946 Monsieur Vincent 1947 Cloche, Maurice France D
1948 Quills 2000 Kaufman, Philip USA / Germany / UK YU
1961 Songcatcher 2000 Greenwald, Maggie USA D
1961 Three Sisters 1970 Olivier, Laurence / Sichel, John UK D
1963 On His Own 1939 Donskoy, Mark Soviet Union
1965 Samurai Rebellion 1967 Kobayashi, Masaki Japan D
1969 The Virgin Spring 1960 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden D
1969 The Wings of the Dove 1997 Softley, Iain USA / UK Y
1970 Comrades 1987 Douglas, Bill UK
1977 Caravaggio 1986 Jarman, Derek UK DS
1977 Taboo 1999 Oshima, Nagisa France / UK / Japan DS
1977 Zero Kelvin 1995 Moland, Hans Petter Norway / Sweden D
1978 The Great Debaters 2007 Washington, Denzel USA D
1982 The Fencing Master 1992 Olea, Pedro Spain
1989 Double Suicide 1969 Shinoda, Masahiro Japan D
1992 Nicholas Nickleby 2002 McGrath, Douglas USA / UK / Germany / Netherlands YU
1994 Les Enfants du Marais 1999 Becker, Jean France
1996 The New World 2005 Malick, Terrence USA D
2004 The Man in the Iron Mask 1998 Wallace, Randall UK YU
2012 Red Beard 1965 Kurosawa, Akira Japan Y
2013 Cinderella Man 2005 Howard, Ron USA D
2015 East-West 1999 Wargnier, Régis Bulgaria / France / Russia / Spain / Ukraine Y
2019 Violette 1978 Chabrol, Claude France / Canada D
2025 Eijanaika 1981 Imamura, Shohei Japan Y
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