In approximate descending order. Updated December 2007
Related in-site links:
My "Top 50" list of favorite directors
Sidenote: The "Greatest" vs. My Personal Faves
My List of the 101 Greatest Movies (June 2005)
My Top Movies, By Decade
My "Movie Buff" page, with links to my IMDb ratings and movies-viewed logs
#1 - 10:
Rated 10/10:
Barry Lyndon (1975)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
The Godfather saga (1972-1990)
Casino (1995)
The Trial (1962)
Rated 9/10:
Harold and Maude (1971)
Miller's Crossing (1990)
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
#11 - 25:
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
The Duellists (1977)
Bad Company (1972)
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
F For Fake (1974)
Schizopolis (1996)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Paper Moon (1973)
Vargtimmen [Hour of the Wolf] (1968)
Suna no onna [Woman in the Dunes] (1964)
Persona (1966)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Vredens dag [Day of Wrath] (1943)
Nostalghia (1983)
Offret [The Sacrifice] (1986)
#26 - 50:
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Team America: World Police (2004)
Giulietta degli spiriti [Juliet of the Spirits] (1965)
Gangs of New York (2002)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom [Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter . . . and Spring] (2003) (awaiting second viewing)
Fearless (1993)
Immortal Beloved (1994)
Neco z Alenky [Alice] (1988)
Spiklenci slasti [Conspirators of Pleasure] (1996)
Faust (1994)
The Shining (1980)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes [Aguirre: The Wrath of God] (1972)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Election (1999)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979) (awaiting second viewing)
Vertigo (1958)
Don't Look Now (1973)
Walkabout (1971)
Honorable mention:
Il Grande silenzio (1969) (awaiting second viewing)
Gertrud (1964)
Xich lo (1995) (awaiting second viewing)
Skammen [Shame] (1968)
8 � (1963)
Far From Heaven (2002)
Henry Fool (1997)
Catch-22 (1970)
A Zed and Two Noughts (1985) (awaiting second viewing)
La double vie de V�ronique (1991) (awaiting second viewing)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Ying xiong [Hero] (2002)
Rated 8/10:
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) (awaiting second viewing)
Chinatown (1974)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Forrest Gump (1994)
The Player (1992)
Fight Club (1999)
Dead Man (1995)
Amadeus (1984)
The Conversation (1974)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
American Beauty (1999)
Goodfellas (1990)
George Washington (2000) (awaiting second viewing)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Medea (1987) (awaiting second viewing)
El esp�ritu de la colmena (1973) (awaiting second viewing)
Lost Highway (1997)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Gladiator (2000)
Viskningar och rop (1972)
Images (1972) (awaiting second viewing)
Heat (1995)
En Passion (1969)
The Last Wave (1977)
River's Edge (1986)
Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993) (awaiting second viewing)
La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Straight Story (1999)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Spider (2002)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Casablanca (1942)
Smultronst�llet (1957)
The Terminator (1984)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
The Odd Couple (1968)
Little Big Man (1970)
The Element of Crime (1984) (awaiting second viewing)
Orph�e (1949)
Angel Heart (1987)
Death to Smoochy (2002) (awaiting second viewing)
Martin & Orloff (2003) (awaiting second viewing)
The Salton Sea (2002) (awaiting second viewing)
Run Ronnie Run (2002) (awaiting second viewing)
A Life Less Ordinary (1997) (awaiting second viewing)
The Mighty (1998) (awaiting second viewing)
Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989)
Too hard to adequately rank anywhere:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Fountainhead (1949)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Solaris (1972)
Zerkalo [Mirror] (1975)
Star Wars trilogy (1977-1983)
Stalker (1979)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Indiana Jones trilogy (1981-1989)
E.T. (1982)
A Christmas Story (1983)
Back to the Future (1985)
Idi i smotri [Come and See] (1985) (awaiting second viewing)
The Princess Bride (1987)
Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
Schindler's List (1993)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Braveheart (1995)
Private Parts (1997)
The Pianist (2002)
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