Top 100

1. Amadeus (Forman, 1984)
2. Breaking the Waves (Trier, 1996)
3. The Vanishing (Sluizer, 1988)
4. Walkabout (Roeg, 1971)
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
6. Life of Brian (Jones, 1979)
7. A Zed and Two Noughts (Greenaway, 1985)
8. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
9. Los Olvidados (Buñuel, 1950)
10. The Sweet Hereafter (Egoyan, 1997)
11. This is Spinal Tap (Reiner, 1984)
12. Sunset Blvd. (Wilder, 1950)
13. Raising Arizona (Coen, 1987)
14. The Bicycle Thief (De Sica, 1948)
15. Dancer in the Dark (Trier, 2000)
16. The Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky, 1973)
17. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (Greenaway, 1989)
18. Metropolis (Lang, 1927)
19. All That Jazz (Fosse, 1979)
20. Songs from the Second Floor (Andersson, 2000)
21. Eraserhead (Lynch, 1977)
22. Winter Light (Bergman, 1962)
23. Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)
24. Muriel’s Wedding (Hogan, 1994)
25. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Mitchell, 2001)
26. Ikiru (Kurosawa, 1952)
27. The War Game (Watkins, 1965)
28. Dogville (Trier, 2003)
29. Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
30. Y tu mamá también (Cuarón, 2001)
31. Once (Carney, 2006)
32. Kirikou and the Sorceress (Ocelot, 1998)
33. The Virgin Spring (Bergman, 1960)
34. Boys Don’t Cry (Peirce, 1999)
35. The Elephant Man (Lynch, 1980)
36. Ran (Kurosawa, 1985)
37. Heavenly Creatures (Jackson, 1994)
38. Punishment Park (Watkins, 1971)
39. Prospero’s Books (Greenaway, 1991)
40. The Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)
41. Seven Chances (Keaton, 1925)
42. Onibaba (Shindo, 1964)
43. The Celebration (Vinterberg, 1998)
44. Inland Empire (Lynch, 2006)
45. Grey Gardens (Hovde/Maysles/Maysles/Meyer, 1975)
46. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
47. City of God (Meirelles/Lund, 2002)
48. Poltergeist (Hooper, 1982)
49. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
50. Fargo (Coen, 1996)
51. The NeverEnding Story (Petersen, 1984)
52. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Gilliam/Jones, 1975)
53. Perfect Blue (Kon, 1997)
54. Antichrist (Trier, 2009)
55. The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1957)
56. High School (Wiseman, 1968)
57. Pina (Wenders, 2011)
58. Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
59. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
60. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang, 1991)
61. The Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
62. The General (Bruckman/Keaton, 1927)
63. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964)
64. Manderlay (Trier, 2005)
65. The Firemen’s Ball (Forman, 1967)
66. Inception (Nolan, 2010)
67. The Iron Giant (Bird, 1999)
68. Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata, 1988)
69. Marat/Sade (Brook, 1967)
70. M (Lang, 1931)
71. Fat Girl (Breillat, 2001)
72. Evil Dead 2 (Raimi, 1987)
73. Yi Yi (Yang, 2000)
74. The Tree of Life (Malick, 2011)
75. Orlando (Potter, 1992)
76. The Piano (Campion, 1993)
77. Let the Right One In (Alfredson, 2008)
78. Drowning By Numbers (Greenaway, 1988)
79. Run Lola Run (Tykwer, 1998)
80. The Last Temptation of Christ (Scorsese, 1988)
81. The Heart of the World (Maddin, 2000)
82. Tabu (Murnau, 1931)
83. Satyricon (Fellini, 1969)
84. Palindromes (Solondz, 2004)
85. Enter the Void (Noé, 2009)
86. Hour of the Wolf (Bergman, 1968)
87. Bob Roberts (Robbins, 1992)
88. Quiz Show (Redford, 1994)
89. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jires, 1970)
90. Paprika (Kon, 2006)
91. The Wrong Trousers (Park, 1993)
92. Hangmen Also Die (Lang, 1943)
93. Cabaret (Fosse, 1972)
94. O Lucky Man! (Anderson, 1973)
95. Funny Games (Haneke, 1997)
96. The Lady Eve (Sturges, 1941)
97. Happy Feet (Miller/Coleman/Morris, 2006)
98. The Atomic Café (Loader/Rafferty/Rafferty, 1982)
99. Vampyr (Dreyer, 1932)
100. Death in the Seine (Greenaway, 1988)