Let's not kid one another; all film lists are just as ridiculous as book lists.
Film is the dominion of poetry and all poetry is indescribable and subjective. Yet, every person has a list of favorite films, novels and poems, which he is eager to share with others. Further, we judge people by the books they read and movies they watch, so why not share more than just a handful of favorites?
The process of picking favorite films turned out to be a cerebral exercise of double guessing myself, which was actually a lot more fun than I expected. It was hard to pick just 100 because I enjoy watching all kinds of films.
The only genre that does not appeal to me in any shape or form is horror. I prefer fables unquantifiable by time and space, films filled with beautiful imagery that floats through conscience like a song, bizarre comedies, and deep psychological classics that make me reflect on their meaning for many years to come.
Below, in chronological order, is my list of 100 films that stay in my memory and conscience, which I would like to own or own already. Many of these are American films, but quite a few are foreign (with the majority being British or Russian):
2. City Lights (1931) dir. Charles Chaplin
3. Modern Times (1936) dir. Charles Chaplin
4. Aleksandr Nevskiy (1938) dirs. Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev
5. The Wizard of Oz (1939) dir. Victor Fleming
6. Gone With The Wind (1939) dir. Victor Fleming
7. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), dir. Frank Capr
8. Casablanca (1942) dir. Michael Curtiz
9. Hamlet (1948) dir. Laurence Olivier
10. The Bicycle Thief (1948) dir. Vittorio De Sica
11. Singin' In The Rain (1952) dir. Stanley
12. Les Diabolique (1954) (Diabolique) dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
13. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) dir. Nicholas Ray
14. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957) dir. David Lean
15. Det sjunde inseglet (1957) (The Seventh Seal) dir. Ingmar Bergman
16. Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder
17. La dolce vita (1960) Federico Fellini
18. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) dir. David Lean
19. 8½ (1963) dir. Federico Fellini
20. Ya shagayu po Moskve (1964) (Walking the Streets of Moscow
21. Goldfinger (1964) dir. Guy Hamilton
22. Mary Poppins (1964) dir. Robert Stevenson
23. A Hard Day's Night (1964) dir. Richard Lester
24. Operation "Y" & Other Shurik's Adventures (1965) dir. Leonid Gaidai
25. Doctor Zhivago (1965) dir. David Lean
26. Alfie (1966) dir. Lewis Gilbert
27. Vojna i Mir (1967) (War and Peace) dir. Sergei Bondarchuk
28. Midnight Cowboy (1969) dir. John Schlesinger
29. Briliantovaya Ruka (1968) (The Diamond Arm) dir Leonid Gaidai
30. Beloe solntse pustyni (1970) (White sun of the desert) dir. Vladimir Motyl
31. A Clockwork Orange (1971) dir. Stanley
32. The Last Picture Show (1971) dir. Peter Bogdanovich
33. A zori zdes tikhie (1972) (The Dawns Here Are Quiet) dir. Stanislav Rostotsky
34. Solyaris (1972) Andrei Tarkovski
35. Last Tango in Paris
36. The Godfather Part dir. II (1974) dir. Francis Ford Coppola
37. Jaws (1975) dir. Steven Spielberg
38. Zvesda plenitelnogo schastya (1975) (The Star of Fascinating Happiness) dir. Vladimir Motyl
39. The Irony of Fate, or "Enjoy Your Bath
40. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) dir. Milos Forman
41. Taxi Driver (1976) dir. Martin Scorsese
42. Annie Hall (1977) dir. Woody Allen
43. Saturday Night Fever (1977) dir. John Badham
44. The Deer Hunter (1978) dir. Michael Cimino
45. Obyknovennoe chudo (1978) (Ordinary Miracle) dir. Mark Zakharov
46. Tot samyy Myunkhgauzen (1979) (That very Münchhausen) dir. Mark Zakharov
47. Apocalypse Now (1979) dir. Francis Ford Coppola
49. Moskva slezam ne verity (1980) (Moscow
50. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), dir. Steven Spielberg
51. Blade Runner (1982), dir. Ridley Scott
52. Vokzal dlya dvoikh (1982) (A Railway Station for Two) dir. Eldar Ryazanov
53. Scarface (1983) Brian De Palma
54. Zhestokiy romans (1984) (Ruthless Romance) dir. Eldar Ryazanov
55. This Is Spinal Tap (1984) dir. Rob Reiner
56. Amadeus (1984) dir. Milos Forman
57. The Terminator (1984) dir. James Cameron
58. Idi i smotri (1985) (Go and look; also known as “come and see”) dir. Elem Klimov
59. A Room With A View (1986) dir. James Ivory
60. Blue Velvet (1986) dir. David Lynch
61. Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986) dir. Adrian Lyne
62. Moonstruck (1987) dir. Norman Jewison
63. Der Himmel Uber Berlin
64. The Princess Bride (1987) dir. Rob Reiner
65. Full Metal Jacket (1987) dir. Staley Kubrick
66. Zabytaya melodiya dlya fleyty (1988) (A Forgotten Tune for the Flute) dir. Eldar Ryazanov
67. Cinema Paradiso (1988) dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
68. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) Pedro Almodovar
69. Rain Man (1988) dir. Barry Levinson
70. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) dir. Philip Kaufman
71. Dangerous Liasons (1988) dir. Stephen Frears
72. When Harry Met Sally (1989) dir. Rob Reiner
73. GoodFellas (1990), dir. Martin Scorsese
74. The Silence of the Lambs (1991), dir. Jonathan Demme
75. True Romance (1993) dir Tony Scott (written by Quentin Tarantino)
76. Short Cuts (1993) dir. Robert Altman
77. The Age of Innocence (1993) dir. Martin Scorsese
78. The Remains of the Day (1993) dir. James Ivory
79. Pulp Fiction (1994), dir. Quentin Tarantino
80. Twelve Monkeys (1995) dir. Terry Gilliam
81. Stealing Beauty (1996) Bernardo Bertoluci
82. Trainspotting (1996) dir. Danny Boyle
83. The English Patient (1996) dir. Anthony Minghella
84. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) dir. Terry Gilliam
85. Run Lola Run (1998) dir. Tom Tykwer
86. Fightclub (1999) dir. David Fincher
87. The Matrix (1999) dirs. Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski
88. Being John Malkovich (1999) dir. Spike Jonze
89. Eyes Wide Shut (1999) dir. Stanley Kubrickir
90. La vita e bella (1997) ( Life is Beautiful) dir. Roberto Benigni
91. American Psycho (2000) dir. Mary Harron
92. Wo hu cang long (2000) (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) dir. Ang Lee
93. Amelie (2001) dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
94. Shrek (2001) dirs. Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson
95. The Lord of the Rings (Trillogy)(2001-2003) dir. Peter Jackson
96. Lost in translation (2003) dir. Sofia Coppola
97. Closer (2004) dir. Mike Nichols
98. Bad Education (2004) dir. Pedro Almodovar
99. El laberinto del fauno (2006) (Pan's Labyrinth) dir. Guillermo del Toro
100. Avatar (2009) James Cameron
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