My Top 250 Films List - updated and revised - plus 50 runners-up

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01. Play Time (1967) - Jacques Tati
02. Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) - Leo McCarey
03. Pickup On South Street (1953) - Samuel Fuller
04. Throne of Blood (1957) - Akira Kurosawa
05. Citizen Kane (1941) - Orson Welles
06. Persona (1966) – Ingmar Bergman
07. The 400 Blows (1958) - Francois Truffaut
08. A Clockwork Orange (1971) - Stanley Kubrick
09. La Dolce Vita (1960) – Federico Fellini
10. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) - Carl Theodore Dreyer
11. Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972) – Werner Herzog
12. Band of Outsiders (1962) - Jean-Luc Godard
13. Sunset Blvd. (1950) - Billy Wilder
14. Open City (1946) – Roberto Rossellini
15. 8 ½ (1963) - Federico Fellini
16. The Rules of the Game (1939) – Jean Renoir
17. Singin’ in the Rain (1952) – Stanley Donen & Gene Wilder
18. Viridiana (1962) – Luis Bunuel
19. The Decalogue (1988) – Krzysztof Kieslowski
20. Dumbo (1941) – Ben Sharpsteen
21. All That Heaven Allows (1955) – Douglas Sirk
22. Rashomon (1950) – Akira Kurosawa
23. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) – Steven Spielberg
24. Notorious (1946) – Alfred Hitchcock
25. Ugetsu (1953) – Kenji Mizoguchi
26. City Lights (1931) – Charles Chaplin
27. Touch of Evil (1959) – Orson Welles
28. Sunrise (1928) – F.W. Murnau
29. In a Lonely Place (1950) – Nicholas Ray
30. Pulp Fiction (1994) – Quentin Tarantino
31. Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang (1974) – Lino Brocka
32. Un Chien Andalou (1927) – Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali
33. Casablanca (1942) – Michael Curtiz
34. Seven Samurai (1954) – Akira Kurosawa
35. Sherlock Jr. (1924) – Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman
36. The Wizard of Oz (1937) – Victor Fleming
37. Children of Paradise (1945) – Marcel Carne
38. Stalker (1979) – Andrei Tarkovsky
39. The Cloud-Capped Star (1960) – Ritwik Ghatak
40. Beauty and the Beast (1991) – Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise
41. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – Stanley Kubrick
42. Shoeshine (1946) – Vittorio DeSica
43. The Band Wagon (1953) – Vincente Minnelli
44. Vivre sa Vie (1962) – Jean-Luc Godard
45. M (1931) – Fritz Lang
46. The Exterminating Angel (1962) – Luis Bunuel
47. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) – Sergio Leone
48. Duck Soup (1933) – Leo McCarey
49. The Seventh Seal (1957) – Ingmar Bergman
50. Closely Watched Trains (1966) - Jiri Menzel
51. Ran (1985) – Akira Kurosawa
52. Taxi Driver (1976) – Martin Scorsese
53. The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948) – John Huston
54. Psycho (1960) – Alfred Hitchcock
55. The Great Dictator (1940) – Charles Chaplin
56. Apocalypse Now (1979) – Francis Ford Coppola
57. Tokyo Story (1953) – Yasujiro Ozu
58. Greed (1924) – Erich von Stroheim
59. The Godfather Parts 1 & 2 (1972, 1974) – Francis Ford Coppola
60. Rififi (1955) – Jules Dassin
61. The Red Shoes (1948) – Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
62. Sansho the Bailiff (1954) – Kenji Mizoguchi
63. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982) – Steven Spielberg
64. Breathless (1960) – Jean-Luc Godard
65. The Man With The Movie Camera (1928) – Dziga Vertov
66. Stolen Kisses (1968) – Francois Truffaut
67. Cabaret (1972) – Bob Fosse
68. Los Olvidados (1950) – Luis Bunuel
69. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) – Woody Allen
70. Bicycle Thieves (1948) – Vittorio DeSica
71. Dr. Strangelove or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) – Stanley Kubrick
72. La Samourai (1967) – Jean Pierre Melville
73. The Third Man (1949) – Carol Reed
74. A Brighter Summer Day (1991) – Edward Yang
75. Rear Window (1954) – Alfred Hitchcock
76. The Searchers (1954) – John Ford
77. Bringing Up Baby (1938) – Howard Hawks
78. Nosferatu (1922) – F.W. Murnau
79. Some Like It Hot (1959) – Billy Wilder
80. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) – Martin Scorsese
81. M*A*S*H (1970) – Robert Altman
82. The Toy Story Trilogy (1995, 1999, 2010) – John Lasseter & Lee Unkrich
83. Pickpocket (1959) – Robert Bresson
84. Stagecoach (1939) – John Ford
85. Himala (1982) – Ishmael Bernal
86. Feed the Kitty (1952) – Chuck Jones
87. All That Jazz (1979) – Bob Fosse
88. Night and Fog (1955) – Alain Resnais
89. Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1964) – Blake Edwards
90. The Maltese Falcon (1941) – John Huston
91. Juliet of the Spirits (1964) – Federico Fellini
92. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) – Victor Erice
93. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) – David Hand
94. Intolerance (1916) – D.W. Griffith
95. Metropolis (1927) – Fritz Lang
96. In the Mood for Love (2001) – Wong Kar-Wai
97. Zero for Conduct (1933) – Jean Vigo
98. The Sword of Doom (1966) – Kihachi Okamoto
99. Contempt (1963) – Jean-Luc Godard
100. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) – Max Ophuls
101. Bride of Frankenstein (1935) – James Whale
102. The Lady Eve (1941) – Preston Sturges
103. Mon Oncle (1958) – Jacques Tati
104. The Exorcist (1973) – William Friedkin
105. Ace in the Hole (1952) – Billy Wilder
106. Spirited Away (2001) – Hayao Miyazaki
107. Vertigo (1958) – Alfred Hitchcock
108. Brief Encounter (1946) – David Lean
109. The Gold Rush (1922) – Charles Chaplin
110. Yojimbo (1962) – Akira Kurosawa
111. Chinatown (1974) – Roman Polanski
112. Black Narcissus (1947) – Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
113. Frankenstein (1931) – James Whale
114. Schindler’s List (1993) – Steven Spielberg
115. Double Indemnity (1944) – Billy Wilder
116. L’eclisse (1962) – Michelangelo Antonioni
117. A Face in the Crowd (1957) – Elia Kazan
118. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) – Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
119. Rebecca (1940) – Alfred Hitchcock
120. Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos (1976) – Mario O’Hara
121. Duck Amuck (1953) – Chuck Jones
122. La Jetee (1962) – Chris Marker
123. The Cameraman (1928) – Edward Sedgwick & Buster Keaton
124. Brazil (1985) – Terry Gilliam
125. Annie Hall (1977) – Woody Allen
126. L’Atlante (1934) – Jean Vigo
127. Goodfellas (1990) – Martin Scorsese
128. El Topo (1970) – Alejandro Jodorowsky
129. The Three Colors Trilogy (1993, 1994) – Krzysztof Kieslowski
130. Raging Bull (1980) – Martin Scorsese
131. Hour of the Wolf (1968) – Ingmar Bergman
132. Fargo (1996) – Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
133. To Kill a Mockingbird (1964) – Robert Mulligan
134. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) – Steven Spielberg
135. Day For Night (1973) – Francois Truffaut
136. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) – Robert Bresson
137. Unforgiven (1992) – Clint Eastwood
138. Pandora’s Box (1929) - G.W. Pabst
139. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966) – Mike Nichols
140. Fires in the Plain (1959) – Kon Ichikawa
141. Oro, Plata, Mata (1982) – Peque Gallaga
142. The Apartment (1960) – Billy Wilder
143. Top Hat (1935) – Mark Sandrich
144. Wild Strawberries (1957) – Ingmar Bergman
145. Reservoir Dogs (1992) – Quentin Tarantino
146. Jaws (1975) – Steven Spielberg
147. My Neighbor Totoro (1988) – Hayao Miyazaki
148. Bad Education (2004) – Pedro Almodovar
149. Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1975) and Day of the Dead (1983) – George A. Romero
150. Opening Night (1977) – John Cassavetes
151. Blue Velvet (1986) – David Lynch
152. A Night at the Opera (1935) – Sam Wood
153. Gate of Flesh (1964) – Seijun Suzuki
154. Red River (1948) – Howard Hawks
155. The Wild Bunch (1968) – Sam Peckinpah
156. Ninotchka (1939) – Ernst Lubitsch
157. The Big Red One (1980) – Samuel Fuller
158. Wages of Fear (1953) – Henri-Georges Clouzot
159. Anatomy of a Murder (1960) – Otto Preminger
160. The Birds (1963) – Alfred Hitchcock
161. Rushmore (1998) – Wes Anderson
162. Eyes Without a Face (1960) – Georges Franju
163. Bob Le Flambeur (1956) – Jean-Pierre Melville
164. The Conformist (1970) – Bernardo Bertolucci
165. All About Eve (1950) – Joseph L. Mankiewicz
166. WALL-E (2008) – Andrew Stanton
167. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) – Nicholas Ray
168. Raise the Red Lantern (1991) – Zhang Yimou
169. The General (1927) – Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman
170. Mary Poppins (1964) – Robert Stevenson
171. Cria Cuervos (1975) – Carlos Saura
172. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) – Sergio Leone
173. Lawrence of Arabia (1963) – David Lean
174. Batch ’81 (1981) – Mike de Leon
175. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) – Jonathan Demme
176. Airplane! (1980) – Jim Abrahams, David Zucker & Jerry Zucker
177. Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) – Joseph L. Mankiewicz
178. The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945) – Leo McCarey
179. Paths of Glory (1957) – Stanley Kubrick
180. Chungking Express (1995) – Wong Kar-Wai
181. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) – Tobe Hooper
182. Battle of Algiers (1966) – Gillo Pontecorvo
183. Requiem for a Dream (2000) – Darren Aronofsky
184. The Apu Trilogy (1955, 1956, 1959) – Satyajit Ray
185. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) – Robert Zemeckis
186. Grave of the Fireflies (1988) – Isao Takahata
187. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) – John Ford
188. The Manchurian Candidate (1962) – John Frankenheimer
189. On the Waterfront (1954) – Elia Kazan
190. Sense and Sensibility (1995) – Ang Lee
191. Blade Runner (1982) – Ridley Scott
192. Onibaba (1964) – Kaneto Shindo
193. Claire’s Knee (1970) – Eric Rohmer
194. I Know Where I’m Going (1945) – Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
195. Blow-Up (1966) – Michelangelo Antonioni
196. The Diary of a Country Priest (1951) – Robert Bresson
197. Late Spring (1949) – Yasujiro Ozu
198. Freaks (1932) – Tod Browning
199. The Discreet Charm of Bourgeoisie (1972) – Luis Bunuel
200. There Will Be Blood (2007) – Paul Thomas Anderson
201. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) – Maya Deren
202. Suspiria (1977) – Dario Argento
203. Fanny and Alexander (1982) – Ingmar Bergman
204. Shock Corridor (1963) – Samuel Fuller
205. Manila in the Claws of Brightness (1975) – Lino Brocka
206. Alice (1988) – Jan Svankmajer
207. Hard-Boiled (1992) – John Woo
208. Roman Holiday (1953) – William Wyler
209. They Drive By Night (1940) – Raoul Walsh
210. Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986) – Ridley Scott & James Cameron
211. A Shot in the Dark (1964) – Blake Edwards
212. Black Rain (1988) – Shohei Imamura
213. Cache (2005) – Michael Haneke
214. Pinocchio (1940) – Ben Sharpsteen
215. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1977) – Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones
216. Short Cuts (1993) – Robert Altman
217. The Incredibles (2004) – Brad Bird
218. L’Avventura (1960) – Michelangelo Antonioni
219. The Killers (1946) – Robert Siodmak
220. Dog Day Afternoon (1975) – Sidney Lumet
221. Giant (1956) – George Stevens
222. The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) – Robert Wise
223. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) – Peter Weir
224. The Wrong Trousers (1993) – Nick Park
225. Ikiru (1952) – Akira Kurosawa
226. WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971) – Dusan Makavejev
227. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (1962) – Robert Aldrich
228. Talk to Her (2002) – Pedro Almodovar
229. The Naked Island (1960) – Kaneto Shindo
230. Walkabout (1971) – Nicolas Roeg
231. Harakiri (1962) – Masaki Kobayashi
232. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) – Robert Altman
233. The Sixth Sense (1999) – M. Night Shyamalan
234. Soy Cuba (1964) – Mikhail Kalatozov
235. Yi Yi (A One and a Two) (2000) – Edward Yang
236. The Comb (1990) – Stephen Quay & Timothy Quay
237. Brute Force (1947) – Jules Dassin
238. Farewell, My Concubine (1993) – Chen Kaige
239. The Tin Drum (1979) – Volker Schlondorff
240. Funny Games (1997) – Michael Haneke
241. Rocco and His Brothers (1948) – Luchino Visconti
242. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001, 2002, 2003) – Peter Jackson
243. Once Upon a Time in China (1988) – Tsui Hark
244. No Country for Old Men (2007) – Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
245. Peeping Tom (1960) – Michael Powell
246. A Taste of Cherry (1997) – Abbas Kiarostami
247. Gates of Heaven (1978) – Errol Morris
248. Hero (2002) – Zhang Yimou
249. Groundhog Day (1993) – Harold Ramis
250. Pyaasa (1957) – Guru Dutt

TOP 25 RUNNERS-UP (alphabetical)
12 Angry Men (1957) – Sidney Lumet
Akira (1988) – Katsuhiro Otomo
Alice in Wonderland (1951) – Hamilton S. Luske, Wilfred Jackson & Clyde Geronimi
Au Revoir Les Enfants (1986) – Louis Malle
Barry Lyndon (1975) – Stanley Kubrick
Before Sunrise (1995) and Before Sunset (2004) – Richard Linklater
The Big Lebowski (1998) – Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Blazing Saddles (1974) – Mel Brooks
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1966) – Agnes Varda
The Dark Knight (2008) – Christopher Nolan
Death in Venice (1971) – Luchino Visconti
Dracula (1931) – Tod Browning
Ed Wood (1994) – Tim Burton
The Face of Another (1966) – Hiroshi Teshigahara
The Fallen Idol (1948) – Carol Reed
Fort Apache (1948) – John Ford
Gone With The Wind (1939) – Victor Fleming
Good Morning (1959) – Yasujiro Ozu
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1966) – Pier Paolo Pasolini
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) – Alfonso Cuaron
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) – John Cameron Mitchell
Hoop Dreams (1993) – Steve James
Hope & Glory (1987) – John Boorman
If…. (1966) – Lindsay Anderson
Jurassic Park (1993) – Steven Spielberg
Kiss Me Deadly (1955) – Robert Aldrich
Kwaidan (1965) – Masaki Kobayashi
L’Argent (1983) – Robert Bresson
Last Year at Marienbad (1964) – Alain Resnais
Le Trou (1960) – Jacques Becker
Magnificent Obsession (1955) – Douglas Sirk
Milk (2008) – Gus Van Sant
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1980) – Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam
Mulholland Drive (2001) – David Lynch
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) – Guillermo Del Toro
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) – Blake Edwards
Rope (1948) – Alfred Hitchcock
Sanjuro (1964) – Akira Kurosawa
Scorpio Nights (1984) – Peque Gallaga
Seven (1995) – David Fincher
Shadow of a Doubt (1942) – Alfred Hitchcock
The Shining (1980) – Stanley Kubrick
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) – Ernst Lubitsch
Small Change (1974) – Francois Truffaut
The Son (Le Fils) (2002) – Jean Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
Straw Dogs (1974) – Sam Peckinpah
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) – Tim Burton
This Is Spinal Tap (1986) – Rob Reiner
A Woman Is A Woman (1962) – Jean Luc Godard
The Wrestler (2008) – Darren Aronofsky
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