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389 Z 1969 5 Costa-Gavras Algeria / France Y
390 Woman in the Dunes 1964 10 Teshigahara, Hiroshi Japan D
391 Mildred Pierce 1945 5 Curtiz, Michael USA YS
392 Queen Christina 1933 5 Mamoulian, Rouben USA D
393 The Last Emperor 1987 3 Bertolucci, Bernardo France / Italy / UK DB
394 Gun Crazy 1949 5 Lewis, Joseph H. USA Y
395 Sideways 2004 1 Payne, Alexander USA DUS
396 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 7 Darabont, Frank USA DBUP
397 Shadows 1959 9 Cassavetes, John USA Y
398 Stranger Than Paradise 1984 4 Jarmusch, Jim USA / West Germany D
399 The Shining 1980 7 Kubrick, Stanley UK DBU
401 Fury 1936 7 Lang, Fritz USA Y
402 Jezebel 1938 3 Wyler, William USA DS
403 Little Caesar 1931 9 LeRoy, Mervyn USA D
404 The Shop around the Corner 1940 8 Lubitsch, Ernst USA Y
405 Die Hard 1988 3 McTiernan, John USA DBU
406 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 3 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK D
407 Woodstock 1970 8 Wadleigh, Michael USA YS
408 Shine 1996 4 Hicks, Scott Australia YUS
409 The Barbarian Invasions 2003 2 Arcand, Denys Canada / France D
410 Groundhog Day 1993 4 Ramis, Harold USA DUP
411 Stolen Kisses 1968 8 Truffaut, François France D
412 The Great Dictator 1940 9 Chaplin, Charles USA YS
413 The Big Red One 1980 8 Fuller, Samuel USA YU
413 The Great Escape 1963 6 Sturges, John USA DUS
414 Young Frankenstein 1974 5 Brooks, Mel USA DB
415 Hud 1963 7 Ritt, Martin USA YUP
416 The Dead 1987 4 Huston, John UK Y
416 In a Lonely Place 1950 6 Ray, Nicholas USA Y
417 Funny Face 1957 10 Donen, Stanley USA DUS
417 L'Argent 1983 2 Bresson, Robert France / Switzerland Y
418 Andrei Roublev 1969 6 Tarkovsky, Andrei Soviet Union Y
419 Odd Man Out 1947 2 Reed, Carol UK Y
420 Breaking Away 1979 7 Yates, Peter USA Y
421 Pickpocket 1959 10 Bresson, Robert France D
422 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 5 LeRoy, Mervyn USA Y
423 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 9 Ford, John USA D
424 Lost in Translation 2003 3 Coppola, Sofia USA / Japan Y
425 Moonstruck 1987 5 Jewison, Norman USA D
426 Force of Evil 1948 6 Polonsky, Abraham USA Y
427 The Thin Red Line 1998 4 Malick, Terrence Canada / USA YUS
428 Pixote 1981 4 Babenco, Hector Brazil Y
429 Ace in the Hole 1951 7 Wilder, Billy USA DUP
430 The Heiress 1949 6 Wyler, William USA D
431 Gunga Din 1939 10 Stevens, George USA Y
432 Diner 1982 8 Levinson, Barry USA YU
432 If... 1968 9 Anderson, Lindsay UK D
433 She Done Him Wrong 1933 6 Sherman, Lowell USA D
434 The Informer 1935 6 Ford, John USA DUS
438 Knife in the Water 1962 7 Polanski, Roman Poland D
439 David Copperfield 1935 7 Cukor, George USA D
440 Breaking the Waves 1996 5 von Trier, Lars Denmark / Sweden / France / Netherlands / Norway Y
441 The Sweet Hereafter 1997 5 Egoyan, Atom Canada D
442 Terms of Endearment 1983 3 Brooks, James L. USA DUP
443 Million Dollar Baby 2004 2 Eastwood, Clint USA DBUPS
444 Adam's Rib 1949 7 Cukor, George USA YUP
445 Triumph of the Will 1935 8 Riefenstahl, Leni Germany YUP
446 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 8 Wise, Robert USA DBUS
447 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 9 Edwards, Blake USA DUS
448 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 8 Aldrich, Robert USA D
449 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 8 Bresson, Robert France / Sweden D
450 The Thief of Bagdad 1924 3 Walsh, Raoul USA DU
451 Giant 1956 5 Stevens, George USA YUPS
452 Cat People 1942 8 Tourneur, Jacques USA D
453 To Have and Have Not 1944 6 Hawks, Howard USA DS
454 On the Town 1949 8 Kelly, Gene / Donen, Stanley USA DS
455 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 1970 9 De Sica, Vittorio Italy / West Germany Y
456 Mon Oncle d'Amérique 1980 9 Resnais, Alain France Y
457 The Phantom of the Opera 1925 4 Julian, Rupert / Laemmle, Ernst / Sedgwick, Edward USA YUP
458 The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 9 Crichton, Charles UK Y
459 The Big Chill 1983 4 Kasdan, Lawrence USA Y
460 Aliens 1986 4 Cameron, James USA / UK DUPS
461 Dirty Harry 1971 7 Siegel, Don USA DBUPS
462 The Killers 1946 9 Siodmak, Robert USA YS
463 Cinema Paradiso 1989 4 Tornatore, Giuseppe Italy / France DS
464 Brokeback Mountain 2005 1 Lee, Ang USA D
465 Planet of the Apes 1968 10 Schaffner, Franklin J. USA DBS
466 The Right Stuff 1983 5 Kaufman, Philip USA YUP
467 The Jazz Singer 1927 5 Crosland, Alan USA DS
468 Peeping Tom 1960 10 Powell, Michael UK Y
470 Jean de Florette 1986 5 Berri, Claude France / Switzerland / Italy DS
471 In Cold Blood 1967 9 Brooks, Richard USA YU
473 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 9 Donen, Stanley USA DS
474 Woman of the Year 1942 9 Stevens, George USA Y
475 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 4 Almodóvar, Pedro Spain D
476 Adaptation. 2002 5 Jonze, Spike USA DU
477 The Untouchables 1987 6 De Palma, Brian USA YBUS
478 The Exterminating Angel 1962 9 Buñuel, Luis Mexico Y
479 Black Narcissus 1947 3 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK Y
479 Walkabout 1971 8 Roeg, Nicolas UK YS
480 Amélie 2001 4 Jeunet, Jean-Pierre France / Germany DS
482 Paisan 1946 10 Rossellini, Roberto Italy Y
483 The Color Purple 1985 4 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
484 Memento 2000 5 Nolan, Christopher USA DBU
485 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 5 Allen, Woody USA Y
486 Le Samouraï 1967 10 Melville, Jean-Pierre France / Italy D
487 Prizzi's Honor 1985 6 Huston, John USA Y
488 Kagemusha 1980 10 Kurosawa, Akira Japan Y
489 Detour 1945 6 Ulmer, Edgar G. USA YU
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490 Glory 1989 5 Zwick, Edward USA DUS
491 Gangs of New York 2002 6 Scorsese, Martin USA / Germany / Italy / UK / Netherlands DBS
492 A Star Is Born 1937 5 Wellman, William A. / Conway, Jack USA YS
493 Spirited Away 2001 5 Miyazaki, Hayao Japan DS
494 Happiness 1998 5 Solondz, Todd USA Y
495 Nanook of the North 1922 3 Flaherty, Robert J. USA DU
497 The Aviator 2004 3 Scorsese, Martin USA / Japan / Germany DS
498 A Woman Under the Influence 1974 6 Cassavetes, John USA D
499 Boyz N the Hood 1991 6 Singleton, John USA Y
500 The Wind 1928 4 Sjöström, Victor USA Y
501 The Thin Blue Line 1988 5 Morris, Errol USA YU
502 Back to the Future 1985 7 Zemeckis, Robert USA YS
503 Leaving Las Vegas 1995 4 Figgis, Mike France / USA / UK Y
504 Babe 1995 5 Noonan, Chris Australia / USA YU
506 Love Me Tonight 1932 6 Mamoulian, Rouben USA D
507 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 6 Allen, Woody USA Y
508 The Go-Between 1970 10 Losey, Joseph UK YS
509 The Sting 1973 9 Hill, George Roy USA DU
510 The Road Warrior 1981 5 Miller, George Australia DBU
511 Howards End 1992 4 Ivory, James UK / Japan Y
512 Lacombe Lucien 1974 7 Malle, Louis France / West Germany / Italy D
513 Mystic River 2003 4 Eastwood, Clint USA DS
514 Going My Way 1944 7 McCarey, Leo USA DUS
515 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 7 Stone, Oliver USA DUS
517 All That Jazz 1979 8 Fosse, Bob USA DS
518 Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005 2 Clooney, George USA DB
519 Traffic 2000 6 Soderbergh, Steven Germany / USA Y
521 The Tin Drum 1979 9 Schlöndorff, Volker West Germany / France / Poland / Yugoslavia YS
522 Braveheart 1995 6 Gibson, Mel USA DUS
523 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 8 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner West Germany Y
524 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 6 Zemeckis, Robert USA YS
525 The Big Parade 1925 5 Vidor, King USA V
526 Olympia Part One:
Festival of the Nations
1938 4 Riefenstahl, Leni Germany D
527 Freaks 1932 7 Browning, Tod USA D
527 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 4 Chaplin, Charles USA DS
527 Reservoir Dogs 1992 5 Tarantino, Quentin USA DBUP
529 The Scarlet Empress 1934 5 von Sternberg, Josef USA Y
530 The Hours 2002 7 Daldry, Stephen USA YU
531 Pygmalion 1938 5 Asquith, Anthony / Howard, Leslie UK Y
532 Amores perros 2000 7 Iñárritu, Alejandro González Mexico YU
533 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 7 Buñuel, Luis France / Spain Y
534 Taste of Cherry 1997 6 Kiarostami, Abbas France / Iran Y
535 The Matrix 1999 5 Wachowski, Andy / Wachowski, Larry USA DBU
537 Alexander Nevsky 1938 6 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Vasilyev, Dmitri Soviet Union Y
538 Chicago 2002 8 Marshall, Rob USA / Canada DBS
539 Juliet of the Spirits 1965 6 Fellini, Federico Italy / France / West Germany YS
541 My Left Foot 1989 8 Sheridan, Jim Ireland / UK DS
542 National Lampoon's Animal House 1978 4 Landis, John USA DUS
542 Witness 1985 8 Weir, Peter USA DUPS
544 A Taste of Honey 1961 10 Richardson, Tony UK Y
545 Rushmore 1998 6 Anderson, Wes USA DS
546 Diva 1981 6 Beineix, Jean-Jacques France DS
547 Missing 1982 9 Costa-Gavras USA D
547 Shrek 2001 6 Adamson, Andrew / Jenson, Vicky USA Y
548 Orpheus 1949 9 Cocteau, Jean France Y
549 El Norte 1983 6 Nava, Gregory USA / UK
550 Europa Europa 1990 3 Holland, Agnieszka Germany / France / Poland Y
554 Blue 1993 5 Kieslowski, Krzysztof France / Poland / Switzerland / UK Y
555 Klute 1971 9 Pakula, Alan J. USA DU
556 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 1 Wiene, Robert Germany DU
557 Das Boot 1981 7 Petersen, Wolfgang West Germany Y
558 Kes 1969 7 Loach, Ken UK
559 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 1 del Toro, Guillermo Mexico / Spain / USA DB
560 Broken Blossoms 1919 1 Griffith, D.W. USA YU
561 The Dresser 1983 7 Yates, Peter UK YU
562 Loves of a Blonde 1965 7 Forman, Milos Czechoslovakia Y
563 My Life to Live 1962 10 Godard, Jean-Luc France Y
565 Winchester '73 1950 7 Mann, Anthony USA D
566 A Night to Remember 1958 7 Baker, Roy Ward UK Y
567 Little Women 1933 7 Cukor, George USA YU
568 Cyrano de Bergerac 1990 4 Rappeneau, Jean-Paul France Y
569 Hail the Conquering Hero 1944 8 Sturges, Preston USA D
570 Pride and Prejudice 1940 10 Leonard, Robert Z. USA D
572 Gallipoli 1981 8 Weir, Peter Australia DU
573 Paris, Texas 1984 5 Wenders, Wim UK / France / West Germany / USA Y
574 Lost Horizon 1937 6 Capra, Frank USA YS
576 Blazing Saddles 1974 9 Brooks, Mel USA DBUP
577 Shock Corridor 1963 8 Fuller, Samuel USA Y
578 From Russia with Love 1963 9 Young, Terence UK / USA DS
579 Local Hero 1983 8 Forsyth, Bill UK Y
582 The Gunfighter 1950 8 King, Henry USA D
583 My Night at Maud's 1969 8 Rohmer, Eric France D
584 Apollo 13 1995 7 Howard, Ron USA DUPS
585 The Lady Vanishes 1938 7 Hitchcock, Alfred UK D
586 The Sixth Sense 1999 6 Shyamalan, M. Night USA YBS
587 Three Kings 1999 7 Russell, David O. USA YU
588 Ship of Fools 1965 8 Kramer, Stanley USA D
589 The Departed 2006 2 Scorsese, Martin USA DU
590 The Shop on Main Street 1965 9 Kadár, Ján / Klos, Elmar Czechoslovakia Y
591 Hope and Glory 1987 7 Boorman, John UK Y
592 Enter the Dragon 1973 10 Clouse, Robert Hong Kong / USA DBUS
593 Brazil 1985 9 Gilliam, Terry UK D
596 Make Way for Tomorrow 1937 7 McCarey, Leo USA
597 Billy Elliot 2000 8 Daldry, Stephen UK / France Y
598 Broadcast News 1987 8 Brooks, James L. USA Y
598 The Story of Qiu Ju 1992 6 Zhang, Yimou China / Hong Kong D
599 Sergeant York 1941 7 Hawks, Howard USA DS
600 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 8 Newell, Mike UK Y
601 Captains Courageous 1937 8 Fleming, Victor USA DS
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601 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 1969 9 Pollack, Sydney USA D
602 Olympia Part Two:
Festival of Beauty
1938 8 Riefenstahl, Leni Germany D
603 Red Sorghum 1987 9 Zhang, Yimou China Y
604 Life Is Beautiful 1997 7 Benigni, Roberto Italy Y
605 Twelve O'Clock High 1949 10 King, Henry USA DS
606 Crossfire 1947 5 Dmytryk, Edward USA YU
607 The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978 5 Olmi, Ermanno Italy / France Y
608 sex, lies, and videotape 1989 9 Soderbergh, Steven USA Y
608 This Sporting Life 1963 10 Anderson, Lindsay UK D
609 A Christmas Story 1983 9 Clark, Bob USA / Canada DBUP
611 Straw Dogs 1971 10 Peckinpah, Sam UK / USA Y
612 Death of a Salesman 1951 10 Benedek, László USA
613 Born Yesterday 1950 9 Cukor, George USA D
614 Eraserhead 1977 8 Lynch, David USA DS
615 The Good Earth 1937 9 Fleming, Victor / Franklin, Sidney / Machatý, Gustav USA D
616 Pelle the Conqueror 1987 10 August, Bille Denmark / Sweden D
617 Stage Door 1937 10 La Cava, Gregory USA Y
618 Trainspotting 1996 6 Boyle, Danny UK Y
619 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 6 Seaton, George USA D
620 Far from Heaven 2002 9 Haynes, Todd France / USA YS
622 Carmen Jones 1954 10 Preminger, Otto USA YS
623 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 10 Ophüls, Marcel France / Switzerland / West Germany Y
623 Wild Reeds 1994 9 Téchiné, André France DU
624 Moulin Rouge! 2001 7 Luhrmann, Baz Australia / USA DUS
625 The King and I 1956 6 Lang, Walter USA DS
625 The Straight Story 1999 8 Lynch, David France / UK / USA Y
627 Frenzy 1972 10 Hitchcock, Alfred UK DU
628 The Verdict 1982 10 Lumet, Sidney USA DU
630 Finding Nemo 2003 5 Stanton, Andrew / Unkrich, Lee USA D
630 Manon of the Spring 1986 6 Berri, Claude Italy / France / Switzerland DS
631 A Sunday in the Country 1984 6 Tavernier, Bertrand France Y
635 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 6 Gilliam, Terry / Jones, Terry UK D
636 The Last Laugh 1924 4 Murnau, F.W. Germany D
637 Heavenly Creatures 1994 10 Jackson, Peter UK / Germany / New Zealand Y
639 La Terra trema 1948 7 Visconti, Luchino Italy Y
640 The Private Life of Henry VIII 1933 8 Korda, Alexander UK Y
641 Tampopo 1985 10 Itami, Juzo Japan Y
642 Ivan the Terrible, Part One 1945 7 Eisenstein, Sergei M. Soviet Union YU
643 Here Comes Mr. Jordan 1941 8 Hall, Alexander USA DU
644 Monty Python's Life of Brian 1979 10 Jones, Terry UK DB
648 Darling 1965 10 Schlesinger, John UK Y
649 Jerry Maguire 1996 7 Crowe, Cameron USA Y
650 Lust for Life 1956 7 Minnelli, Vincente / Cukor, George USA DUPS
651 Grand Hotel 1932 8 Goulding, Edmund USA D
651 Les Misérables 1935 9 Boleslawski, Richard USA D
652 Close-up 1990 5 Kiarostami, Abbas Iran Y
654 Oliver Twist 1948 8 Lean, David UK Y
655 The Ten Commandments 1956 8 DeMille, Cecil B. USA DUS
656 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1975 7 Herzog, Werner West Germany Y
658 No Man's Land 2001 8 Tanovic, Danis Bosnia-Herzegovina / Slovenia / Italy / France / UK / Belgium D
660 The Butcher Boy 1997 8 Jordan, Neil Ireland / USA D
661 Drugstore Cowboy 1989 10 Van Sant, Gus USA YUP
662 I Know Where I'm Going! 1945 8 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK Y
664 A Walk in the Sun 1945 9 Milestone, Lewis USA D
665 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 7 Cameron, James France / USA DBU
669 Bull Durham 1988 7 Shelton, Ron USA D
673 No Country for Old Men 2007 1 Coen, Ethan / Coen, Joel USA DB
674 The Men 1950 10 Zinnemann, Fred USA Y
676 Coming Home 1978 6 Ashby, Hal USA Y
679 The Queen 2006 3 Frears, Stephen UK DB
680 The Shootist 1976 7 Siegel, Don USA DUS
681 Dead of Night 1945 10 Cavalcanti, Alberto / Crichton, Charles / Dearden, Basil / Hamer, Robert UK Y
683 The Greatest Show on Earth 1952 9 DeMille, Cecil B. USA YUP
685 As Good as It Gets 1997 9 Brooks, James L. USA YUS
687 Sons of the Desert 1933 9 Seiter, William A. USA D
688 Hamlet 1948 9 Olivier, Laurence UK D
690 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 10 LeRoy, Mervyn USA DS
691 Murder, My Sweet 1944 9 Dmytryk, Edward USA D
692 Swept Away 1974 10 Wertmüller, Lina Italy D
696 Reversal of Fortune 1990 6 Schroeder, Barbet USA / Japan / UK Y
697 A Man Escaped 1956 9 Bresson, Robert France Y
700 Our Hospitality 1923 2 Keaton, Buster / Blystone, John G. USA Y
702 Crash 2005 3 Haggis, Paul USA / Germany DBUPS
703 Day of Wrath 1943 4 Dreyer, Carl Theodor Denmark D
704 The Lives of Others 2006 4 von Donnersmarck, Florian Henckel Germany DBU
705 Forbidden Planet 1956 10 Wilcox, Fred M. USA D
706 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 8 Brooks, Richard USA DU
708 La Belle Noiseuse 1991 8 Rivette, Jacques France / Switzerland Y
709 JFK 1991 9 Stone, Oliver USA / France DBS
710 Rosetta 1999 9 Dardenne, Jean-Pierre / Dardenne, Luc France / Belgium Y
713 Erin Brockovich 2000 9 Soderbergh, Steven USA DBU
716 Babel 2006 5 Iñárritu, Alejandro González USA DBU
719 Casino 1995 8 Scorsese, Martin USA / France DBU
719 The Little Foxes 1941