My 100 best movies of all time
As a start, this is a top 100 I made back in 2018.
To make things tasty, the first rule I followed was “no more than one movie per director”. The second one was “don’t get mad trying to order that top 100, just write it down”.
I told myself a lot of lies about the fact that this top could change any day but I’m too lazy to make a new one every day. So here I am, stuck with this one :)
BEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME ACCORDING TO ME
(with no particular order)
- Kiss Me Deadly (1955, Robert Aldrich)
- The Professionals (1966, Richard Brooks)
- Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (1970, Elio Petri)
- Queimada (1969, Gillo Pontecorvo)
- C'eravamo tanto amati (1974, Ettore Scola)
- Reservoir dogs (1992, Quentin Tarantino)
- The Killing (1956, Stanley Kubrick)
- Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)
- The Asphalt Jungle (1950, John Huston)
- Les enfants du paradis (1946, Marcel Carné)
- Kiss Me Stupid (1964, Billy Wilder)
- Sullivan’s Travels (1941, Preston Sturges)
- The Shop Around The Corner (1940, Ernst Lubitsch)
- Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks)
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962, John Ford)
- The Conversation (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
- Le trou (1960, Jacques Becker)
- Dead Poets Society (1989, Peter Weir)
- Le salaire de la peur (1953, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
- Judex (1963, Georges Franju)
- The Departed (2006, Martin Scorsese)
- The Prestige (2006, Christopher Nolan)
- Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan)
- Le cercle rouge (1970, Jean-Pierre Melville)
- Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966, Sergio Leone)
- Curse of the Demon (1957, Jacques Tourneur)
- Singin’ In The Rain (1952, Stanley Donnen - Gene Kelly)
- Hero (1992, Stephen Frears)
- It’s a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)
- All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
- Das indische Grabmal (1959, Fritz Lang)
- Le voleur (1967, Louis Malle)
- Born Yesterday (1950, George Cukor)
- Ben-Hur (1959, William Wyler)
- Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
- Ginger e Fred (1986, Federico Fellini)
- Small Time Crooks (2000, Woody Allen)
- Barton Fink (1991, Joel and Ethan Coen)
- Batman returns (1992, Tim Burton)
- I due superpiedi quasi piatti (1977, Enzo Barboni)
- The Goonies (1985, Richard Donner)
- Carlito’s Way (1993, Brian De Palma)
- French Connection (1971, William Friedkin)
- The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957, Jack Arnold)
- Gremlins 2 (1990, Joe Dante)
- The Bad and the Beautiful (1952, Vincente Minnelli)
- Warlock (1959, Edward Dmytryk)
- The Unknown (1927, Tod Browning)
- Johnny Got His Gun (1971, Dalton Trumbo)
- El ángel exterminador (1962, Luis Buñuel)
- Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire (1972, Yves Robert)
- Down by Law (1986, Jim Jarmusch)
- Jurassic Park (1993, Steven Spielberg)
- Ladri di biciclette (1948, Vittorio De Sica)
- Man without a Star (1955, King Vidor)
- Peter Ibbetson (1935, Henry Hathaway)
- City Lights (1931, Charlie Chaplin)
- Il mio nome è Nessuno (1973, Tonino Valerii)
- Excalibur (1981, John Boorman)
- Dance of the Vampires (1967, Roman Polanski)
- Au hasard Balthazar (1966, Robert Bresson)
- Be Kind Rewind (2008, Michel Gondry)
- The Fly (1986, David Cronenberg)
- Mononoke hime (1997, Hayao Miyazaki)
- Les Douze Travaux d'Asterix (1976, René Goscinny - Albert Uderzo)
- Touch Of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)
- Star Wars (1977, George Lucas)
- The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner)
- Groundhog Day (1993, Harold Ramis)
- The Front (1976, Martin Ritt)
- Big (1988, Penny Marshall)
- El secreto de sus ojos (2009, Juan José Campanella)
- Amores perros (2000, Alejandro González Iñárritu)
- El espinazo del diablo (2001, Guillermo del Toro)
- The Man in the White Suit (1951, Alexander Mackendrick)
- Village of the Damned (1960, Wolf Rilla)
- The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
- Ms. 45 (1981, Abel Ferrara)
- The Gunfighter (1951, Henry King)
- Copland (1997, James Mangold)
- Terminator 2 (1991, James Cameron)
- Starship Troopers (1997, Paul Verhoeven)
- Le Schpountz (1938, Marcel Pagnol)
- 12 Monkeys (1995, Terry Gilliam)
- Man on the Moon (1999, Milos Forman)
- Imitation of Life (1959, Douglas Sirk)
- The Most Dangerous Game (1932, Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel)
- A Perfect World (1993, Clint Eastwood)
- Dances with Wolves (1990, Kevin Costner)
- Gentleman Jim (1942, Raoul Walsh)
- Good Will Hunting (1997, Gus Van Sant)
- Elephant Man (1980, David Lynch)
- Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)
- The Man with the Golden Arm (1955, Otto Preminger)
- The Killers (1946, Robert Siodmak)
- Punch-Drunk Love (2002, Paul Thomas Anderson)
- L'Atalante (1934, Jean Vigo)
- La classe américaine (1993, Michel Hazanavicius and Dominique Mézerette)
- Back to the Future (1985, Robert Zemeckis)
- Un singe en hiver (1962, Henri Verneuil)