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 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
3 Vertigo 1958 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DUPS
8 Psycho 1960 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DUPS
13 Rashômon 1950 Kurosawa, Akira Japan DU
15 Chinatown 1974 Polanski, Roman USA DUS
23 M 1931 Lang, Fritz Germany DU
28 Taxi Driver 1976 Scorsese, Martin USA DUS
44 Ugetsu 1953 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan D
46 Double Indemnity 1944 Wilder, Billy USA DS
58 King Kong 1933 Cooper, Merian C. / Schoedsack, Ernest B. USA DS
73 High Noon 1952 Zinnemann, Fred USA DUS
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
92 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 Frankenheimer, John USA D
94 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Demme, Jonathan USA DS
101 Rear Window 1954 Hitchcock, Alfred USA D
107 Blow-Up 1966 Antonioni, Michelangelo UK / Italy DU
114 Jaws 1975 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
115 Fargo 1996 Coen, Joel / Coen, Ethan USA / UK D
118 Blue Velvet 1986 Lynch, David USA DS
120 Throne of Blood 1957 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
124 Repulsion 1965 Polanski, Roman UK Y
126 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Laughton, Charles USA DUP
127 Notorious 1946 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
131 The Conversation 1974 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DU
132 Le Boucher 1970 Chabrol, Claude France / Italy D
146 Le Jour se lève 1939 Carné, Marcel France V
153 The American Friend 1977 Wenders, Wim West Germany / France Y
173 Dr. Mabuse - The Gambler 1922 Lang, Fritz Germany D
176 The French Connection 1971 Friedkin, William USA D
195 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Siegel, Don USA D
199 Strangers on a Train 1951 Hitchcock, Alfred USA YUS
201 Goldfinger 1964 Hamilton, Guy UK DS
206 Out of the Past 1947 Tourneur, Jacques USA Y
217 All the President's Men 1976 Pakula, Alan J. USA DU
219 Cría cuervos 1976 Saura, Carlos Spain D
239 Badlands 1973 Malick, Terrence USA YU
259 Night of the Living Dead 1968 Romero, George A. USA DUP
261 Yojimbo 1961 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
264 The Exorcist 1973 Friedkin, William USA DUPS
266 White Heat 1949 Walsh, Raoul USA DS
269 Deliverance 1972 Boorman, John USA DBUP
272 Rebecca 1940 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
277 The 39 Steps 1935 Hitchcock, Alfred UK DUP
292 Alien 1979 Scott, Ridley UK DS
294 Beauty and the Beast 1991 Trousdale, Gary / Wise, Kirk USA DS
295 The Thin Man 1934 Van Dyke, W.S. USA D
298 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Lumet, Sidney USA DBU
302 Laura 1944 Preminger, Otto / Mamoulian, Rouben USA DU
307 The Crying Game 1992 Jordan, Neil UK / Japan Y
310 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
313 Eyes Without a Face 1960 Franju, Georges France / Italy Y
318 Mulholland Dr. 2001 Lynch, David France / USA DUS
323 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Nichols, Mike USA DUPS
324 The Wages of Fear 1953 Clouzot, Henri-Georges France / Italy D
327 Halloween 1978 Carpenter, John USA D
346 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Aldrich, Robert USA Y
347 Thelma & Louise 1991 Scott, Ridley USA DS
350 The Player 1992 Altman, Robert USA YU
352 Don't Look Now 1973 Roeg, Nicolas Italy / UK Y
356 City of God 2002 Meirelles, Fernando / Lund, Kátia Brazil / France / USA Y
365 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Polanski, Roman USA YU
366 The Birds 1963 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DU
367 The Usual Suspects 1995 Singer, Bryan USA / Germany DBUP
378 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 Huston, John USA YUS
382 The Insider 1999 Mann, Michael USA Y
388 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 Sturges, John USA YUS
389 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras Algeria / France Y
394 Gun Crazy 1949 Lewis, Joseph H. USA Y
399 The Shining 1980 Kubrick, Stanley UK DBU
405 Die Hard 1988 McTiernan, John USA DBU
419 Odd Man Out 1947 Reed, Carol UK Y
435 Pickup on South Street 1953 Fuller, Samuel USA Y
446 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Wise, Robert USA DBUS
448 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Aldrich, Robert USA D
452 Cat People 1942 Tourneur, Jacques USA D
453 To Have and Have Not 1944 Hawks, Howard USA DS
460 Aliens 1986 Cameron, James USA / UK DUPS
461 Dirty Harry 1971 Siegel, Don USA DBUPS
468 Peeping Tom 1960 Powell, Michael UK Y
477 The Untouchables 1987 De Palma, Brian USA YBUS
481 The Big Heat 1953 Lang, Fritz USA Y
484 Memento 2000 Nolan, Christopher USA DBU
486 Le Samouraï 1967 Melville, Jean-Pierre France / Italy D
513 Mystic River 2003 Eastwood, Clint USA DS
519 Traffic 2000 Soderbergh, Steven Germany / USA Y
527 Freaks 1932 Browning, Tod USA D
527 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Tarantino, Quentin USA DBUP
532 Amores perros 2000 Iñárritu, Alejandro González Mexico YU
535 The Matrix 1999 Wachowski, Andy / Wachowski, Larry USA DBU
542 Witness 1985 Weir, Peter USA DUPS
543 Point Blank 1967 Boorman, John USA YU
546 Diva 1981 Beineix, Jean-Jacques France DS
547 Missing 1982 Costa-Gavras USA D
553 Bullitt 1968 Yates, Peter USA DBUPS
555 Klute 1971 Pakula, Alan J. USA DU
559 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 del Toro, Guillermo Mexico / Spain / USA DB
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578 From Russia with Love 1963 Young, Terence UK / USA DS
580 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 Garnett, Tay USA YUP
585 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Hitchcock, Alfred UK D
586 The Sixth Sense 1999 Shyamalan, M. Night USA YBS
589 The Departed 2006 Scorsese, Martin USA DU
592 Enter the Dragon 1973 Clouse, Robert Hong Kong / USA DBUS
610 Gilda 1946 Vidor, Charles USA Y
611 Straw Dogs 1971 Peckinpah, Sam UK / USA Y
626 The Day of the Jackal 1973 Zinnemann, Fred UK / France Y
627 Frenzy 1972 Hitchcock, Alfred UK DU
634 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 Truffaut, François France DS
637 Heavenly Creatures 1994 Jackson, Peter UK / Germany / New Zealand Y
659 Rififi 1955 Dassin, Jules France D
663 The Unfaithful Wife 1969 Chabrol, Claude Italy / France D
665 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 Cameron, James France / USA DBU
671 Foreign Correspondent 1940 Hitchcock, Alfred USA Y
672 Get Carter 1971 Hodges, Mike UK YU
673 No Country for Old Men 2007 Coen, Ethan / Coen, Joel USA DB
681 Dead of Night 1945 Cavalcanti, Alberto / Crichton, Charles / Dearden, Basil / Hamer, Robert UK Y
682 The Long Goodbye 1973 Altman, Robert USA Y
688 Hamlet 1948 Olivier, Laurence UK D
691 Murder, My Sweet 1944 Dmytryk, Edward USA D
702 Crash 2005 Haggis, Paul USA / Germany DBUPS
704 The Lives of Others 2006 von Donnersmarck, Florian Henckel Germany DBU
709 JFK 1991 Stone, Oliver USA / France DBS
716 Babel 2006 Iñárritu, Alejandro González USA DBU
721 Batman 1989 Burton, Tim USA / UK DUPS
731 House of Games 1987 Mamet, David USA DU
734 Run Lola Run 1998 Tykwer, Tom Germany DB
741 Night Moves 1975 Penn, Arthur USA YU
743 Spellbound 1945 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
744 Ossessione 1943 Visconti, Luchino Italy Y
745 This Man Must Die 1969 Chabrol, Claude France / Italy Y
757 The Terminator 1984 Cameron, James USA DBUP
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
776 The China Syndrome 1979 Bridges, James USA Y
783 Fight Club 1999 Fincher, David Germany / USA DUS
787 Fatal Attraction 1987 Lyne, Adrian USA DUPS
788 Beverly Hills Cop 1984 Brest, Martin USA YUP
789 The Fallen Idol 1948 Reed, Carol UK D
797 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 Wilder, Billy USA Y
803 Poltergeist 1982 Hooper, Tobe / Spielberg, Steven USA DBS
805 Dogville 2003 von Trier, Lars Denmark / Sweden / France / Norway / Netherlands / Finland / Germany / USA / UK DUP
808 Sleuth 1972 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. UK Y
811 Panic in the Streets 1950 Kazan, Elia USA Y
822 The Innocents 1961 Clayton, Jack UK D
854 The Blair Witch Project 1999 Myrick, Daniel / Sánchez, Eduardo USA DUS
858 Suspicion 1941 Hitchcock, Alfred USA YUPS
868 The Train 1964 Frankenheimer, John / Penn, Arthur USA / France / Italy DUP
870 The Grifters 1990 Frears, Stephen USA YS
873 The Fugitive 1993 Davis, Andrew USA DBUPS
876 Spider-Man 2 2004 Raimi, Sam USA DBUS
880 Safe 1995 Haynes, Todd UK / USA Y
885 Gaslight 1944 Cukor, George USA Y
888 Body Heat 1981 Kasdan, Lawrence USA DBUPS
894 Targets 1968 Bogdanovich, Peter USA YUP
898 Donnie Brasco 1997 Newell, Mike USA DBU
902 The Killer 1989 Woo, John Hong Kong D
905 The Wicker Man 1973 Hardy, Robin UK D
907 The Ipcress File 1965 Furie, Sidney J. UK YS
914 Blackmail 1929 Hitchcock, Alfred UK Y
917 Beat the Devil 1953 Huston, John UK / USA / Italy YB
926 The Talk of the Town 1942 Stevens, George USA D
929 Scarface 1983 De Palma, Brian USA DU
935 Videodrome 1983 Cronenberg, David Canada / USA YUS
940 Soldier of Orange 1977 Verhoeven, Paul Belgium / Netherlands Y
941 49th Parallel 1941 Powell, Michael UK D
943 The Killing 1956 Kubrick, Stanley USA Y
945 Topkapi 1964 Dassin, Jules USA Y
948 Carrie 1976 De Palma, Brian USA DB
950 Oldboy 2003 Park, Chan-wook South Korea DB
951 The Haunting 1963 Wise, Robert USA Y
952 Key Largo 1948 Huston, John USA DS
952 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 Hooper, Tobe USA DB
956 High Sierra 1941 Walsh, Raoul USA D
961 One False Move 1992 Franklin, Carl USA Y
962 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974 Peckinpah, Sam Mexico / USA Y
979 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song 1971 Van Peebles, Melvin USA Y
983 The Invisible Man 1933 Whale, James USA D
993 Munich 2005 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
994 Miller's Crossing 1990 Coen, Joel / Coen, Ethan USA D
995 The Last Seduction 1994 Dahl, John USA Y
997 A History of Violence 2005 Cronenberg, David USA D
1000 Midnight Express 1978 Parker, Alan UK / USA DUP
1009 Man Hunt 1941 Lang, Fritz USA
1010 Dr. No 1962 Young, Terence UK / USA DS
1011 Dead Ringers 1988 Cronenberg, David Canada / USA YUS
1017 Charade 1963 Donen, Stanley USA DUS
1018 The Parallax View 1974 Pakula, Alan J. USA DU
1023 Speed 1994 de Bont, Jan USA DBUS
1024 Heat 1995 Mann, Michael USA DS
1025 Five Graves to Cairo 1943 Wilder, Billy USA
1033 Kill Bill: Volume 1 2003 Tarantino, Quentin USA DBS
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
1040 Charley Varrick 1973 Siegel, Don USA Y
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1055 Seconds 1966 Frankenheimer, John USA D
1067 The House on 92nd St. 1945 Hathaway, Henry USA D
1073 The Bride Wore Black 1968 Truffaut, François France / Italy YS
1075 Woman in the Window 1944 Lang, Fritz USA D
1078 Gaslight 1940 Dickinson, Thorold UK V
1088 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1986 McNaughton, John USA D
1099 Dance with a Stranger 1985 Newell, Mike UK Y
1103 Fail-Safe 1964 Lumet, Sidney USA D
1104 D.O.A. 1950 Maté, Rudolph USA YU
1106 Assault on Precinct 13 1976 Carpenter, John USA DBU
1110 The Fourth Man 1983 Verhoeven, Paul Netherlands Y
1117 Barton Fink 1991 Coen, Joel / Coen, Ethan USA / UK DUP
1127 Airport 1970 Seaton, George / Hathaway, Henry USA YS
1133 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 1933 Lang, Fritz Germany D
1139 Total Recall 1990 Verhoeven, Paul USA DBUS
1140 Michael Clayton 2007 Gilroy, Tony USA DBUPS
1146 Minority Report 2002 Spielberg, Steven USA YS
1157 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 1965 Ritt, Martin UK DUP
1164 The Stunt Man 1980 Rush, Richard USA Y
1166 Monsieur Hire 1989 Leconte, Patrice France D
1168 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 1970 Wilder, Billy UK YUPS
1171 Shaft 1971 Parks, Gordon USA YU
1173 Seven Days to Noon 1950 Boulting, John / Boulting, Roy UK
1174 Compulsion 1959 Fleischer, Richard USA DU
1177 Alphaville 1965 Godard, Jean-Luc France / Italy Y
1190 The Stranger 1946 Welles, Orson USA DUP
1191 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 Capra, Frank USA Y
1214 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1934 Hitchcock, Alfred UK YUP
1233 The Roaring Twenties 1939 Walsh, Raoul USA D
1247 High and Low 1963 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
1248 The Quiet American 2002 Noyce, Phillip USA / Germany / Australia Y
1252 Three Days of the Condor 1975 Pollack, Sydney USA YS
1254 Maria Full of Grace 2004 Marston, Joshua USA / Colombia D
1258 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DU
1259 Se7en 1995 Fincher, David USA DS
1260 The Trouble with Harry 1955 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
1268 The Narrow Margin 1952 Fleischer, Richard USA Y
1281 Out of Sight 1998 Soderbergh, Steven USA DU
1288 The Vanishing 1988 Sluizer, George Netherlands / France Y
1302 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 Craven, Wes USA D
1303 Felicia's Journey 1999 Egoyan, Atom Canada / UK DUS
1307 Silkwood 1983 Nichols, Mike USA YS
1310 The Long Good Friday 1980 Mackenzie, John UK D
1323 This Gun for Hire 1942 Tuttle, Frank USA DS
1325 The Constant Gardener 2005 Meirelles, Fernando USA / UK D
1335 Stray Dog 1949 Kurosawa, Akira Japan Y
1337 Marnie 1964 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DUS
1339 Niagara 1953 Hathaway, Henry USA D
1343 The General 1998 Boorman, John UK / Ireland YU
1345 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 Neame, Ronald USA DUS
1348 Journey Into Fear 1942 Foster, Norman / Welles, Orson USA
1353 The Body Snatcher 1945 Wise, Robert USA D
1357 Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion 1970 Petri, Elio / Kresel, Lee Italy S
1361 Donnie Darko 2001 Kelly, Richard USA DS
1361 Le Cercle rouge 1970 Melville, Jean-Pierre France / Italy D
1362 Saboteur 1942 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DU
1367 The Last Wave 1977 Weir, Peter Australia D
1367 Seven Days in May 1964 Frankenheimer, John USA DU
1368 Children of Men 2006 Cuarón, Alfonso UK / USA DBU
1370 Le Trou 1960 Becker, Jacques France / Italy D
1372 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974 Sargent, Joseph USA YU
1377 Marathon Man 1976 Schlesinger, John USA DUP
1382 Sabotage 1936 Hitchcock, Alfred UK D
1391 The Naked Gun 1988 Zucker, David USA YU
1411 Brute Force 1947 Dassin, Jules USA D
1411 The Desperate Hours 1955 Wyler, William USA DUP
1411 The Glass Key 1942 Heisler, Stuart USA
1411 Phantom Lady 1944 Siodmak, Robert USA
1419 Vengeance Is Mine 1979 Imamura, Shohei Japan D
1420 Funny Games 1997 Haneke, Michael Austria D
1426 A Simple Plan 1998 Raimi, Sam France / UK / Germany / USA / Japan YS
1435 Knife in the Head 1978 Hauff, Reinhard West Germany Y
1436 The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970 Argento, Dario Italy / West Germany DS
1437 48 HRS. 1982 Hill, Walter USA DUP
1446 Mona Lisa 1986 Jordan, Neil UK D
1451 Family Plot 1976 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DUS
1453 Collateral 2004 Mann, Michael USA YS
1455 Audition 1999 Miike, Takashi South Korea / Japan D
1456 Lust, Caution 2007 Lee, Ang USA / China DU
1458 Syriana 2005 Gaghan, Stephen USA DBUS
1459 Farewell, My Lovely 1975 Richards, Dick USA Y
1463 Fresh 1994 Yakin, Boaz France / USA Y
1466 The Driver 1978 Hill, Walter USA D
1467 Natural Born Killers 1994 Stone, Oliver USA DBU
1467 Touchez pas au grisbi 1954 Becker, Jacques France / Italy YU
1470 An American Werewolf in London 1981 Landis, John USA / UK D
1472 Fourteen Hours 1951 Hathaway, Henry USA D
1474 101 Dalmatians 1961 Geronimi, Clyde / Luske, Hamilton / Reitherman, Wolfgang USA D
1474 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow 2004 Conran, Kerry USA / UK / Italy DBUS
1475 Lethal Weapon 1987 Donner, Richard USA DBUP
1485 Nada 1974 Chabrol, Claude France / Italy D
1486 Blood Simple 1984 Coen, Joel / Coen, Ethan USA D
1488 War of the Worlds 1953 Haskin, Byron USA D
1497 The Late Show 1977 Benton, Robert USA Y
1504 Faust 1926 Murnau, F.W. Germany Y
1509 King Kong 2005 Jackson, Peter / Singer, Bryan New Zealand / USA DUS
1514 While the City Sleeps 1956 Lang, Fritz USA
1516 The Night of the Iguana 1964 Huston, John USA DU
1517 Night Train to Munich 1940 Reed, Carol UK V
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