Top 250 films - any takers?

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Joshua,

I am working on my list for you and hope to have it completed shortly. I also intend to print off Damien's, Big Magilla's and Anonymous' lists and highlight all the films I haven't seen and include on my current list of "films to be seen" which must stand at about 1,500.

Looking over their lists brings back so many memories.......




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Here's my list, Joshua. Of course, the specific placement of films is for the most part highly arbitrary, and any number of these movies could change places with any number of others. And there are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of films which could very well be on the list if only I had seen them.

1. Breakfast At Tiffany's (Blake Edwards)
2. Make Way For Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
3. The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
4. Rules Of The Game (Jean Renoir)
5. Imitation Of Life (Douglas Sirk)
6. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (John Ford)
7. The Bells of St. Mary's (Leo McCarey)
8. Lola Montes (Max Ophuls)
9. The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson/Val Lewton)
10. Portrait of Jennie (William Dieterle)

11. There's Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk)
12. The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli)
13. Ruggles Of Red Gap (Leo McCarey)
14. The Crime Of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir)
15. Skin Deep (Blake Edwards)
16. The Shop Around The Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
17. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
18. Day Of The Outlaw (Andre de Toth)
19. Playtime (Jacques Tati)
20. Voyage In Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
21. She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (John Ford)
22. An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu)
23. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
24. Last Of The Comanches (Andre De Toth)
25. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)

26. No Room For The Groom (Douglas Sirk)
27. Night Of The Hunter (Charles Laughton)
28. Two Rode Together (John Ford)
29. The Disorderly Orderly (Frank Tashlin)
30. Rebel Without A Cause (Nicholas Ray)
31. Victor/Victoria (Blake Edwards)
32. To Be Or Not To Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
33. Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges)
34. Man With A Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
35. Funny Face (Stanley Donen)
36. Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini)
37. Meet Me In St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)
38. How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
39. Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
40. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
41. A Taste Of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
42. Love Letters (William Dieterle)
43. It's A Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
44. Two For The Road (Stanley Donen)
45. My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
46. L'Invitation (Claude Goretta)
47. Arise, My Love (Mitchell Leisen)
48. Jonah Who Will Be 25 In The Year 2000 (Alain Tanner)
49. East Of Eden (Elia Kazan)
50. Notorious (Alfred Hitchdick)

51. Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch)
52. Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard)
53. The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk)
54. A Star Is Born (George Cukor)
55. Ali-Fear Eats The Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
56. Gods And Monsters (Bill Condon)
57. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
58. Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)
59. Adam's Rib (George Cukor)
60. When Tomorrow Comes (John M. Stahl)
61. La Ronde (Max Ophuls)
62. The Thin Red Line (Terence Malick)
63. Way Down East (D.W. Griffith)
64. Lipstick (Lamont Johnson)
65. Cleo From 5 To 7 (Agnes Varda)
66. Ohayo (Yasujiro Ozu)
67. Auntie Mame (Morton Da Costa)
68. Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
69. Nora Prentiss (Vincent Sherman)
70. S.O.B. (Blake Edwards)
71. Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli)
72. ABC Africa (Abbas Kiarostami)
73. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
74. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
75. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)

76. A Time To Love And A Time To Die (Douglas Sirk)
77. Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz)
78. Psycho (Alfred Hitchjohnson)
79. A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
80. Bad Girl (Frank Borzage)
81. The Horse Soldiers (John Ford)
82. The Glass-Bottom Boat (Frank Tashlin)
83. Wild Rovers (Blake Edwards)
84. They Were Expendable (John Ford)
85. What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich)
86. Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
87. L'Humanité (Bruno Dumont)
88. M. Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati)
89. The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
90. The Wizard Of Oz (Victor Fleming)
91. Equinox Flower (Yasujiro Ozu)
92. Crimes And Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
93. Block-heads (John G. Blystone/Laurel & Hardy)
94. Cuba (Richard Lester)
95. Laura (Otto Preminger)
96. The Dead (John Huston)
97. Touch Of Evil (Orson Welles)
98. Waterloo Bridge (Mervyn LeRoy)
99. The Last Hurrah (John Ford)
100. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)

101. Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
102. M (Fritz Lang)
103. Lydia (Julien Duvivier)
104. The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage)
105. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
106. Home From The Hill (Vincente Minnelli)
107. The Letter (William Wyler)
108. Julia (Fred Zinnemann)
109. To Kill A Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan)
110. Winchester '73 (Anthony Mann)
111. Late August, Early September (Olivier Assayas)
112. The Pirate (Vincente Minnelli)
113. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
114. Christmas In July (Preston Sturges)
115. The Merchant Of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
116. The Gauntlet (Clint Eastwood)
117. Manhunter (Michael Mann)
118. Boyfriends and Girlfriends (Eric Rohmer)
119. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)
120. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
121. Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
122. Swamp Water (Jean Renoir)
123. It's A Gift (Norman Z. McLeod/W.C. Fields)
124. Le Salamandre (Alain Tanner)
125. Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)

126 The Naked Kiss (Sam Fuller)
127. The Uninvited (Lewis Allen)
128. The Color Of Paradise (Majid Majidi)
129. The End Of The Affair (Neil Jordan)
130. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
131. Lilya 4-Ever (Lukas Moodysson)
132. They Drive By Night (Raoul Walsh)
133. The Picture Of Dorian Gray (Albert Lewin)
134. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
135. The Party (Blake Edwards)
136. Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
137. Gaslight (George Cukor)
138. The World Of Henry Orient (George Roy Hill)
139. Little Women (Gillian Armstrong)
140. Back Street (John M. Stahl)
141. Because They're Young (Paul Wendkos)
142. Desire (Frank Borzage)
143. In Praise Of Love (Jean-Luc Godard)
144. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (Frank Capra)
145. My Man Godfrey (Gregory LaCava)
146. The Women (George Cukor)
147. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
148. To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
149. The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles)
150. Riding Shotgun (Andre de Toth)

151. French Can Can (Jean Renoir)
152. Sweetie (Jane Campion)
153. Gentleman Jim (Raoul Walsh)
154. The Lodger (John Brahm)
155. The River (Jean Renoir)
156. Talk To Her (Pedro Almodovar)
157. The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis)
158. A Letter To Three Wives (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
159. Charade (Stanley Donen)
160. On The Town (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly)
161. The Stationmaster'Wife (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
162. The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
163. A Shot In The Dark (Blake Edwards)
164. Bound For Glory (Hal Ashby)
165. The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder)
166. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
167. Johnny Belinda (Jean Negulesco)
168. They Don't Wear Black Tie (Leon Hirzman)
169. Passione D'Amore (Ettore Scola)
170. Djomeh (Hassan Yektapanah
171. Days Of Wine And Roses (Blake Edwards)
172. The Cobweb (Vincente Minnelli)
173. The Big Red One (Sam Fuller)
174. Bells Are Ringing (Vincente Minnelli)
175. 10 (Blake Edwards)

176. The House Of Mirth (Terence Davies)
177. Harry And Tonto (Paul Mazursky)
178. Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
179. Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
180. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
181. Stonewall (Nigel Finch)
182. Body And Soul (Robert Rossen)
183. Tea And Sympathy (Vincente Minnelli)
184. Murder By Contract (Irving Lerner)
185. Experiment In Terror (Blake Edwards)
186. Oliver! (Carol Reed)
187. Leda (Claude Chabrol)
188. Coming Home (Hal Ashby)
189. Bachelor Flat (Frank Tashlin)
190. The Unseen (Lewis Allen)
191. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan)
192. Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte (Robert Aldrich)
193. Darling Lili (Blake Edwards)
194. Yolanda And The Thief (Vincente Minnelli)
195. Eight On The Lam (George Marshall)
196. Six Degrees Of Separation (Fred Schepisi)
197. The Romantic Englishwoman (Joseph Losey)
198. Manhattan (Woody Allen)
199. The Last Detail (Hal Ashby)
200. The Other (Robert Mulligan)

201. Cousin, Cousine (Jean Charles Tacchella)
202. Sweet Charity (Bob Fosse)
203. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
204. Bloodbrothers (Robert Mulligan)
205. The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse (Vincente Minnelli)
206. Your Turn, My Turn (Va voir maman, papa travaille) (François Leterrier)
207. The Shootist (Don Siegel)
208. Operation Petticoat (Blake Edwards)
209. The Middle Of The World (Alain Tanner)
210. All About Lily Chou Chou (Shunji Iwai)
211. The Clock (Vincente Minnelli)
212. The Scarlet Empress (Joseph von Sternberg)
213. Little Women (George Cukor)
214. Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
215. Despair (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
216. The Piano (Jane Campion)
217. Mr. And Mrs. Bridge (James Ivory)
218. Strangers On A Train (Alfred Hitchschlong)
219. Barbarosa (Fred Schepisi)
220. Two Weeks In Another Town (Vincente Minnelli)
221. The Neon Bible (Terence Davies)
222. Lan Yu (Stanley Kwan)
223. Lili Marlene (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
224. Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
225. The Tenant (Roman Polanski)

226. The King Of Marvin Gardens (Bob Rafelson)
227. Sammy And Rosie Get Laid (Stephen Frears)
228. A Matter Of Time (Vincente Minnelli)
229. Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
230. Muddy River (Kôhei Oguri)
231. The Big Sky (Howard Hawks)
232. Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins)
233. Human Resources (Laurent Cantet)
234. Rob Roy (Michael Caton-Jones)
235. Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara)
236. El (Luis Bunuel)
237. The Claim (Michael Winterbottom)
238. Willie And Phil (Paul Mazursky)
239. Brigadoon (Vincente Minnelli)
240. Brief Crossing (Catherine Breillat)
241. Big House USA (Howard W. Koch)
242. Next Stop, Greenwich Village (Paul Mazursky)
243. Household Saints (Nancy Savoca)
244. The Quiet Room (Rolf de Heer)
245. The Stranger's Return (King Vidor)
246. Once Upon A Honeymoon (Leo McCarey)
247. A Midnight Clear (Keith Gordon)
248. American Hot Wax (Floyd Mutrux)
249. On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray)
250. The Three Lives Of Thomasina (Don Chaffey)

And 10 Guilty Pleasures (in alphabetical order):

The Bad Seed (Mervyn LeRoy)
Blonde Dynamite (William Beaudine) [representing all the wonderful Bowery Boys movies]
Butterfly (Matt Cimber)
The Concorde: Airport '79 (David Lowell Rich)
Food Of The Gods (Bert I. Gordon)
The Love Machine (Jack Haley, Jr.)
Mandingo (Richard Fleischer)
Miracle Of the Bells (Irving Pichel)
Mystery Date (Jonathan Wacks)
The Oscar (Russell Rouse)




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250 Best Films of All Time

1 The Grapes of Wrath (1940) John Ford
2 How Green Was My Valley (1941) John Ford
3 Midnight Cowboy (1969) John Schlesinger
4 All About Eve (1950) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
5 The Apartment (1960) Billy Wilder
6 The Searchers (1956) John Ford
7 Black Narcissus (1947) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
8 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Lewis Milestone
9 The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) William Wyler
10 Casablanca (1942) Michael Curtiz
11 Gone With the Wind (1939) Victor Fleming
12 The Wizard of Oz (1939) Victor Fleming
13 West Side Story (1961) Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
14 Chinatown (1974) Roman Polanski
15 Sunset Boulevard (1950) Billy Wilder
16 A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Elia Kazan
17 Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Welles
18 Cabaret (1972) Bob Fosse
19 Dinner at Eight (1933) George Cukor
20 The Awful Truth (1937) Leo McCarey
21 Show Boat (1936) James Whale
22 Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) Leo McCarey
23 East of Eden (1955) Elia Kazan
24 From Here to Eternity (1953) Fred Zinnemann
25 Lawrence of Arabia (1962) David Lean
26 Tom Jones (1963) Tony Richardson
27 Nashville (1975) Robert Altman
28 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Robert Mulligan
29 It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Frank Capra
30 On the Waterfront (1954) Elia Kazan
31 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Frank Capra
32 Notorious (1946) Alfred Hitchcock
33 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) David Lean
34 Rear Window (1954) Alfred Hitchcock
35 Vertigo (1958) Alfred Hitchcock
36 The Third Man (1949) Carol Reed
37 Touch of Evil (1958) Orson Welles
38 Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
39 The Exorcist (1973) William Friedkin
40 The Manchurian Candidate (1962) John Frankenheimer
41 The Maltese Falcon (1941) John Huston
42 L.A. Confidential (1997) Curtis Hanson
43 Auntie Mame (1958) Morton DaCosta
44 The Quiet Man (1952) John Ford
45 The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
46 Bringing Up Baby (1938) Howard Hawks
47 Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) Vincente Minnelli
48 The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) James Whale
49 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) Rouben Mamoulian
50 Shane (1953) George Stevens
51 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Don Siegel
52 The 39 Steps (1935) Alfred Hitchcock
53 I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932) Mervyn LeRoy
54 The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) William A. Wellman
55 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) John Huston
56 Double Indemnity (1944) Billy Wilder
57 Top Hat (1935) Mark Sandrich
58 La Dolce Vita (1960) Federico Fellini
59 Marty (1955) Delbert Mann
60 Rebecca (1940) Alfred Hitchcock
61 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Steven Spielberg
62 Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Nicholas Ray
63 Schindler’s List (1993) Steven Spielberg
64 The Night of the Hunter (1955) Charles Laughton
65 The Philadelphia Story (1940) George Cukor
66 Summertime (1955) David Lean
67 Laura (1944) Otto Preminger
68 The Shop Around the Corner (1940) Ernst Lubitsch
69 Red River (1948) Howard Hawks
70 High Noon (1952) Fred Zinnemann
71 The Godfather (1972) Francis Ford Coppola
72 Frankenstein (1931) James Whale
73 Some Like It Hot (1959) Billy Wilder
74 The Graduate (1967) Mike Nichols
75 Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Arthur Penn
76 Sullivan's Travels (1942) Preston Sturges
77 Intruder in the Dust (1949) Clarence Brown
78 Dodsworth (1936) William Wyler
80 Singin’ in the Rain (1952) Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
80 Adam's Rib (1949) George Cukor
81 A Place in the Sun (1951) George Stevens
82 The African Queen (1951) John Huston
83 Wuthering Heights (1939) William Wyler
84 My Fair Lady (1964) George Cukor
85 The Sound of Music (1965) Robert Wise
86 Witness for the Prosecution (1957) Billy Wilder
87 Judgment at Nuremburg (1961) Stanley Kramer
88 Paths of Glory (1957) Stanley Kubrick
89 All That Heaven Allows (1956) Douglas Sirk
90 Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) Blake Edwards
91 Grand Illusion (1937) Jean Renoir
92 The Godfather Part II (1974) Francis Ford Coppola
93 The Dead (1987) John Huston
94 Victor/Victoria (1982) Blake Edwards
95 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgoisie (1972) Luis Bunuel
96 Tokyo Story (1953) Yasujiro Ozu
97 12 Angry Men (1957) Sidney Lumet
98 It Happened One Night (1934) Frank Capra
99 Yi Yi (2000) Edward Yang
100 The Thin Man (1934) W.S. Van Dyke
101 Separate Tables (1958) Delbert Mann
102 Out of the Past (1947) Jacques Tourneaur
103 Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) Sam Wood
104 Stage Door (1937) Gregory LaCava
105 The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) Leo McCarey
106 A Room With a View (1986) James Ivory
107 The Heiress (1949) William Wyler
108 Fort Apache (1948) Jophn Ford
109 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) John Ford
110 Blue Velvet (1986) David Lynch
111 A Clockwork Orange (1971) Stanley Kubrick
112 His Girl Friday (1940) Howard Hawks
113 Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) Sidney Lumet
114 Day for Night (1973) Francois Truffaut
115 Sunrise (1927) F.W. Murnau
116 The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) Carl Theodor Dreyer
117 A Man for All Seasons (1966) Fred Zinnemann
118 Annie Hall (1977) Woody Allen
119 Five Easy Pieces (1970) Bob Rafelson
119 Hud (1963) Tony Richardson
121 Ordinary People (1980) Robert Redford
122 Andrei Rublev (1966) Andrei Tarkovsky
123 David Copperfield (1935) George Cukor
124 Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Alfred Hitchcock
125 The Red Shoes (1948) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
126 Cries and Whispers (1972) Ingmar Bergman
127 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Frank Capra
128 The Lady Eve (1941) Preston Surges
129 Ball of Fire (1941) Howard Hawks
130 The Bicycle Thief (1948) Vittorio de Sica
131 Little Women (1933) George Cukor
132 Great Expectations (1946) Dvid Len
133 Rashomon (1950) Akira Kurosawa
134 Stagecoach (1939) John Ford
135 Giant (1956) George Stevens
136 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Mike Nichols
137 The Lion in Winter (1968) Anthony Harvey
138 Mrs. Miniver (1942) William Wyler
139 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) Elia Kazan
140 Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) Michael Curtiz
141 42nd Street (1933) Lloyd Bacon
142 The King and I (1956) Walter Lang
143 A Passage to India (1984) David Lean
144 Ninotchka (1939) Ernst Lubitsch
145 The Nun's Story (1959) Fred Zinnemann
146 Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) Frank Lloyd
147 Fury (1936) Fritz Lang
148 Ben-Hur (1959) William Wyler
149 King Kong (1933) Merican C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
150 The Lady Vanishes (1938) Alfred Hitchcock
151 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) Milos Forman
152 Random Harvest (1942) Mervyn LeRoy
153 Tea and Sympathy (1956) Vincente Minnelli
154 Holiday (1938) George Cukor
155 North by Northwest (1959) Alfred Hitchcock
156 A Star Is Born (1954) George Cukor
157 City Lights (1931) Charles Chaplin
158 Strangers on a Train (1951) Alfred Hitchcock
159 The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) Orson Welles
160 Breaking Away (1979) Peter Yates
161 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) Stanley Donen
162 Now, Voyager (1942) Irving Rapper
163 Picnic (1955) Joshua Logan
164 Waterloo Bridge (1940) Mervyn LeRoy
165 Mary Poppins (1964) Robert Stevenson
166 The Band Wagon (1953) Vincente Minnelli
167 Woman of the Year (1942) George Stevens
168 The Lost Weekend (1945) Billy Wilder
169 Brief Encounter (1945) David Lean
170 The Informer (1935) John Ford
171 The Palm Beach Story (1942) Preston Sturges
172 Gods and Monsters (1998) Bill Condon
173 The Last Picture Show (1971) Peter Bogdanovich
174 Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) Alfonso Cuaron
175 Beauty and the Beast (1946) Jean Cocteau
176 To Be or Not to Be (1942) Ernst Lubitsch
177 Tootsie (1982) Sydney Pollack
178 An American in Paris (1951) Vincente Minnelli
179 The Women (1939) George Cukor
180 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Stanley Kubrick
181 Beauty and the Beast (1991) Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
182 A Star Is Born (1937) William A. Wellman
183 The More the Merrier (1943) George Stevens
184 Snow White and the Seven Dwards (1937) David Hand
185 San Francisco (1936) W.S. Van Dyke
186 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) Richard Brooks
187 Our Town (1940) Sam Wood
188 Becket (1964) Peter Glenville
189 Gigi (1958) Vincente Minnelli
190 Sweet Smell of Success (1957) Alexander Mackendrick
191 M (1931) Fritz Lang
192 The Letter (1940) William Wyler
193 The Blue Angel (1930) Josef von Sternberg
194 My Man Godfrey (1936) Gregory LaCava
195 Fanny & Alexander (1983) Ingmar Bergman
196 A Face in the Crowd (1957) Elia Kazan
197 Fanny (1961) Joshua Logan
198 Dr. Strangelove (1964) Stanley Kubrick
199 Belle de Jour (1967) Luis Bunuel
200 La Ronde (1950) Max Ophuls
201 The River (1951) Jean Renoir
202 Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Woody Allen
203 Reds (1981) Warren Beatty
204 Easy Rider (1969) Dennis Hopper
205 All the President's Men (1976) Alan J. Pakula
206 Oliver! (1968) Carol Reed
207 My Left Foot (1989) Jim Sheridan
208 Germany Year Zero (1948) Roberto Rossellini
209 Forbidden Games (1952) Rene Clement
210 Miracle on 34th Street (1947) George Seaton
211 Romeo & Juliet (1968) Franco Zeffirelli
212 Rosemary's Baby (1968) Roman Polanski
213 Nights of Cabiria (1957) Federico Fellini
214 The Last Hurrah (1958) John Ford
215 The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) Anthony Asquith
216 A Letter to Three Wives (1949) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
217 The Cardinal (1963) Otto Preminger
218 8 1/2 (1963) Federico Fellini
219 All the King's Men (1949) Robert Rossen
220 Dead Man Walking (1995) Tim Robbins
221 Million Dollar Baby (2004) Clint Eastwood
222 Raging Bull (1980) Martin Scorsese
223 Titanic (1997) James Cameron
224 Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) John Sturges
225 Saving Private Ryan (1998) Steven Spielberg
226 The Man From Laramie (1955) Anthony Mann
227 Fargo (1996) Joel Coen
228 Sons and Lovers (1960) Jack Cardiff
229 Kiss Me Deadly (1955) Robert Aldrich
230 Diabolique (1955) Henri-Georges Clouzot
231 Scarlet Street (1945) Fritz Lang
232 Pickup on South Street (1953) Samuel Fuller
233 American Beauty (1999) Sam Mendes
234 Taxi Driver (1976) Martin Scorsese
235 The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) Anthony Minghella
236 GoodFellas (1990) Martin Scorsese
237 The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Robert Wise
238 Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) John Schlesinger
239 An Affair to Remember (1957) Leo McCarey
240 Blackboard Jungle (1955) Richard Brooks
241 The Caine Mutiny (1954) Edward Dmytryk
242 Home From the Hill (1960) Vincente Minnelli
243 Peyton Place (1957) Mark Robson
244 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) Stanley Kramer
245 Terms of Endearment (1983) James L. Brooks
246 On Golden Pond (1981) Mark Rydell
247 Hair (1979) Milos Forman
248 They Live by Night (1949) Nicholas Ray
249 The Grifters (1990) Stephen Frears
250 White Heat (1949) Raoul Walsh




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I know you wanted Big Magilla but here's my list:

1. A Clockwork Orange (1971) directed by Stanley Kubrick
2. Rashomon (1950) directed by Akira Kurosawa
3. Citizen Kane (1941) directed by Orson Welles
4. Un Chien Andalou (1929) directed by Luis Buñuel
5. Casablanca (1942) directed by Michael Curtiz
6. Singin'in the Rain (1952) directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
7. Pulp Fiction (1994) directed by Quentin Tarantino
8. Seven Samurai (1954) directed by Akira Kurosawa
9. Schindler's List (1993) directed by Steven Spielberg
10. Notorious (1946) directed by Alfred Hitch####
11. The Rules of the Game (1939) directed by Jean Renoir
12. Beauty and the Beast (1991) directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise
13. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) directed by Steven Spielberg
14. Los Olvidados (1950) directed by Luis Buñuel
15. The Shop Around the Corner (1940) directed by Ernst Lubitsch
16. Greed (1924) directed by Erich von Stroheim
17. Shock Corridor (1963) directed by Samuel Fuller
18. Day for Night (1973) directed by Francois Truffaut
19. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) directed by Martin Scorsese
20. Nosferatu (1922) directed by F.W. Murnau
21. Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) directed by Stanley Kubrick
22. Rear Window (1954) directed by Alfred Hitch####
23. Scarface (1932) directed by Howard Hawks
24. Toy Story 2 (1999) directed by John Lasseter
25. Yojimbo (1962) directed by Akira Kurosawa
26. Cat People (1942) directed by Jacques Tourneur
27. Duck Amuck (1953) directed by Chuck Jones
28. Psycho (1960) directed by Alfred Hitch####
29. Mon Oncle (1958) directed by Jacques Tati
30. Double Indemnity (1944) directed by Billy Wilder
31. Rebecca (1940) directed by Alfred Hitch####
32. 8½ (1963) directed by Federico Fellini
33. City Lights (1931) directed by Charles Chaplin
34. Toy Story (1995) directed by John Lasseter
35. Small Change (1976) directed by Francois Truffaut
36. Touch of Evil (1958) directed by Orson Welles
37. Witness for the Prosecution (1957) directed by Billy Wilder
38. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) directed by Orson Welles
39. Spirited Away (2001) directed by Hayao Miyazaki
40. Pierrot Le Fou (1968) directed by Jean-Luc Godard
41. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) directed by Steven Spielberg
42. Grand Illusion (1937) directed by Jean Renoir
43. Red River (1948) directed by Howard Hawks
44. The Grave of the Fireflies (1988) directed by Isao Takahata
45. Charade (1963) directed by Stanley Donen
46. Paths of Glory (1958) directed by Stanley Kubrick
47. The Shop on Main Street (1964) directed by Jan Kadar and Elmor Klos
48. Fargo (1996) directed by Joel Coen
49. The Lost Weekend (1945) directed by Billy Wilder
50. The Godfather Part 2 (1974) directed by Francis Ford Coppola
51. Sullivan’s Travels (1941) directed by Preston Sturges
52. The Apartment (1960) directed by Billy Wilder
53. Children of Paradise (1944) directed by Marcel Carné
54. The Searchers (1956) directed by John Ford
55. Goodfellas (1990) directed by Martin Scorsese
56. La Ronde (1950) directed by Max Ophuls
57. The Night of the Hunter (1955) directed by Charles Laughton
58. Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987) directed Louis Malle
59. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1969) directed by Stanley Kubrick
60. The Lady from Shanghai (1948) directed by Orson Welles
61. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) directed by Woody Allen
62. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) directed by Robert Aldrich
63. Gaslight (1944) directed by George Cukor
64. The Sixth Sense (1999) directed by M. Night Shyamalan
65. Strangers on a Train (1951) directed by Alfred Hitch####
66. Johnny Guitar (1953) directed by Nicholas Ray
67. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) directed by Jonathan Demme
68. Black Narcissus (1947) directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
69. Foolish Wives (1922) directed by Erich von Stroheim
70. The Big Sleep (1946) directed by Howard Hawks
71. Umberto D. (1955) directed by Vittorio de Sica
72. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) directed by John Ford
73. Lola Montes (1955) directed by Max Ophuls
74. King Kong (1933) directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
75. La Strada (1954) directed by Federico Fellini
76. Bringing Up Baby (1938) directed by Howard Hawks
77. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1978) directed by John Cassavetes
78. West Side Story (1961) directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins
79. Short Cuts (1993) directed by Robert Altman
80. Full Metal Jacket (1987) directed by Stanley Kubrick
81. The Hidden Fortress (1958) directed by Akira Kurosawa
82. Do the Right Thing (1989) directed by Spike Lee
83. Ninotchka (1939) directed by Ernst Lubitsch
84. Some Like It Hot (1959) directed by Billy Wilder
85. The Godfather (1972) directed by Francis Ford Coppola
86. Hope & Glory (1987) directed by John Boorman
87. Victor/Victoria (1988) directed by Blake Edwards
88. Chinatown (1974) directed by Roman Polanski
89. The Sacrifice (1986) directed by Andrei Tarkovksy
90. Dumbo (1941) directed by Ben Sharpsteen
91. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones
92. The Awful Truth (1937) directed by Leo McCarey
93. My Life as a Dog (1987) directed by Lasse Hallström
94. Rushmore (1998) directed by Wes Anderson
95. North by Northwest (1959) directed by Alfred Hitch####
96. Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) directed by Blake Edwards
97. A Day at the Races (1937) directed by Sam Wood
98. How Green Was My Valley (1941) directed by John Ford
99. All That Jazz (1979) directed by Bob Fosse
100. Mean Streets (1973) directed by Martin Scorsese
101. The Wizard of Oz (1939) directed by Victor Fleming
102. Ran (1985) directed by Akira Kurosawa
103. The Last Picture Show (1971) directed by Peter Bogdanovich
104. Woman in the Dunes (1964) directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara
105. The General (1927) directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman
106. Talk to Her (2002) directed by Pedro Almodovar
107. Bonnie and Clyde (1968) directed by Arthur Penn
108. The Thin Red Line (1998) directed by Terrence Malick
109. Dracula (1931) directed by Todd Browning
110. Apocalypse Now (1979) directed by Francis Ford Coppola
111. The Third Man (1949) directed by Carol Reed
112. Secrets and Lies (1996) directed by Mike Leigh
113. The Birth of a Nation (1915) directed by D.W. Griffith
114. Repulsion (1965) directed by Roman Polanski
115. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) directed by Robert Mulligan
116. King of Kings (1962) directed by Nicholas Ray
117. The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) directed by Blake Edwards
118. Black Orpheus (1959) directed by Marcel Camus
119. Juliet of the Spirits (1965) directed by Federico Fellini
120. Animal Crackers (1930) directed by Victor Heerman
121. Blue Velvet (1986) directed by David Lynch
122. Sanjuro (1964) directed by Akira Kurosawa
123. Mystery Train (1989) directed by Jim Jarmusch
124. History Is Made at Night (1938) directed by Frank Borzage
125. Rio Bravo (1958) directed by Howard Hawks
126. The Shining (1980) directed by Stanley Kubrick
127. Forbidden Games (1951) directed René Clement
128. She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949) directed by John Ford
129. The Birds (1963) directed by Alfred Hitch####
130. Belle De Jour (1967) directed by Luis Buñuel
131. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) directed by Robert Altman
132. The Deer Hunter (1978) directed by Michael Cimino
133. Vagabond (1986) directed by Agnes Varda
134. Reservoir Dogs (1992) directed by Quentin Tarantino
135. The Naked Kiss (1965) directed by Samuel Fuller
136. Hush…Hush Sweet Charlotte (1964) directed Robert Aldrich
137. The Exorcist (1973) directed by William Friedkin
138. Funny Face (1957) directed by Stanley Donen
139. The Man Who Loved Women (1977) directed by Francois Truffaut
140. Intolerance (1916) directed by D.W. Griffith
141. A City of Sadness (1989) directed by Hou Hsiao Hsien
142. Solaris (1972) directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
143. The Blue Angel (1930) directed by Josef von Sternberg
144. Barry Lyndon (1975) directed by Stanley Kubrick
145. Nashville (1975) directed by Robert Altman
146. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) directed by Mel Harris
147. The Private Life of King Henry VIII (1933) directed by Alexander Korda
148. Lifeboat (1944) directed by Alfred Hitch####
149. The Maltese Falcon (1941) directed by John Huston
150. Sweet Charity (1969) directed by Bob Fosse
151. Dead Man (1995) directed by Jim Jarmusch
152. Cria Cuervo (1976) directed by Carlos Saura
153. Boyz ‘N The Hood (1991) directed by John Singleton
154. Trois Couleurs: Bleu (1993) directed by Krzyzstof Kieslowski
155. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) directed by Peter Jackson
156. Black Rain (1988) directed by Shohei Imamura
157. The Wild Child (1969) directed by Francois Truffaut
158. Sense and Sensibility (1995) directed by Ang Lee
159. The Lion King (1994) directed by Rob Minkoff and Roger Allers
160. Taxi Driver (1976) directed by Martin Scorsese
161. The Gold Rush (1925) directed by Charles Chaplin
162. High and Low (1962) directed by Akira Kurosawa
163. Mulholland Drive (2001) directed by David Lynch
164. Raging Bull (1980) directed by Martin Scorsese
165. The Color Purple (1985) directed by Steven Spielberg
166. The Producers (1968) directed by Mel Brooks
167. Lolita (1962) directed by Stanley Kubrick
168. Jaws (1975) directed by Steven Spielberg
169. Annie Hall (1977) directed by Woody Allen
170. Airplane! (1980) directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker
171. Damn Yankees (1958) directed by Stanley Donen and George Abbott
172. Fanny and Alexander (1983) directed by Ingmar Bergman
173. Lenny (1974) directed by Bob Fosse
174. The Crying Game (1992) directed by Neil Jordan
175. Batch '81 (1979) directed by Mike de Leon
176. Mary Poppins (1964) directed by Robert Stevenson
177. Sabrina (1954) directed by Billy Wilder
178. Nights of Cabiria (1959) directed by Federico Fellini
179. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) directed by Steven Spielberg
180. Nazarin (1958) directed by Luis Buñuel
181. The Graduate (1967) directed by Mike Nichols
182. Platoon (1986) directed by Oliver Stone
183. I Vitelloni (1955) directed by Federico Fellini
184. Yi Yi (A One and a Two…) (2000) directed by Edward Yang
185. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) directed by David Hand
186. Ikiru (1952) directed by Akira Kurosawa
187. Last Tango In Paris (1972) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
188. Oliver! (1968) directed by Carol Reed
189. Miller’s Crossing (1990) directed by Joel Coen
190. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
191. Sweet Smell of Success (1957) directed by Alexander MacKendrick
192. Blade Runner (1982) directed by Ridley Scott
193. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) directed by Jacques Demy
194. El Dorado (1958) directed by Howard Hawks
195. Some Came Running (1958) directed by Vicente Minelli
196. The Silence (1963) directed by Ingmar Bergman
197. Midnight Cowboy (1969) directed by John Schlesinger
198. Pinocchio (1941) directed by Ben Sharpsteen
199. Maynila Sa Kuko Ng Liwanag (1979) directed by Lino Brocka
200. Alexander Nevsky (1938) directed by Sergei Eisenstein
201. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) directed by John Ford
202. Key Largo (1948) directed by John Huston
203. The Philadelphia Story (1940) directed by George Cukor
204. The Wild Bunch (1969) directed by Sam Peckinpah
205. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) directed by Steven Spielberg
206. In the Mood for Love (2000) directed by Wong Kar Wai
207. Kwaidan (1965) directed by Masaki Kobayashi
208. The Piano (1993) directed by Jane Campion
209. Eyes Wide Shut (1999) directed by Stanley Kubrick
210. The Player (1992) directed by Robert Altman
211. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) directed by David Lean
212. Dog Day Afternoon (1978) directed by Sidney Lumet
213. Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) directed by Steven Zaillian
214. Alice (1988) directed by Jan Svankmajer
215. The Fly (1986) directed by David Cronenberg
216. The Sound of Music (1965) directed by Robert Wise
217. Deliverance (1972) directed by John Boorman
218. The Miracle Worker (1962) directed by Arthur Hill
219. Red Desert (1964) directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
220. The Untouchables (1987) directed by Brian DePalma
221. Claire's Knee (1971) directed by Eric Rohmer
222. The Witches (1990) directed by Nicolas Roeg
223. The 47 Ronin Parts 1 and 2 (1942) directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
224. It Happened One Night (1934) directed by Frank Capra
225. The Music Man (1961) directed by Morton daCosta
226. Chinese Roulette (1976) directed by Rainier Werner Fassbinder
227. Vertigo (1958) directed by Alfred Hitch####
228. Rendez-Vous (1986) directed by Andre Techine
229. Chicago (2002) directed by Rob Marshall
230. A Shot in the Dark (1964) directed by Blake Edwards
231. The Black Stallion (1979) directed by Carroll Ballard
232. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) directed by Philip Kaufman
233. Carrie (1976) directed by Brian DePalma
234. Blazing Saddles (1974) directed by Mel Brooks
235. Unforgiven (1992) directed by Clint Eastwood
236. Prizzi's Honor (1985) directed by John Huston
237. Farewell My Concubine (1992) directed by Chen Kaige
238. Bambi (1942) directed by David Hand
239. Trois Couleurs: Rouge (1994) directed by Krzyzstof Kieslowski
240. Badlands (1973) directed by Terrence Malick
241. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) directed by Robert Zemeckis
242. The Phantom of Liberty (1974) directed by Luis Buñuel
243. Trois Couleurs: Blanc (1994) directed by Krzyzstof Kieslowski
244. Rosemary’s Baby (1968) directed by Roman Polanski
245. Rebel Without A Cause (1954) directed by Nicholas Ray
246. Drifting Weeds (1958) directed by Yasujiro Ozu
247. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1946) directed by John Huston
248. Scorpio Nights (1984) directed by Pequé Gallaga
249. Hard-Boiled (1993) directed by John Woo
250. The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) directed by Abbas Kiarostami




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I recall that on the old board Magilla at one point posted his top 250 films of all time, which I was using as a handy reference guide and checklist of movies I had not seen. Unfortunately I never printed a copy. It'd be great if an updated version could be posted at some time, also if some of the other members could post something along these lines. I'm particularly interested to see the favourites of Damien, Precious Doll and others of you with more wide-ranging or avant garde tastes and broad, far reaching knowledge of cinema history.

I'm working on my own list at the moment. Unfortunately, due to my age and relatively recent interest in older and world cinema, it skews very much towards the contemporary, but I'm hoping to have it satisfactorily post-worthy soon.

josh.




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