ISRanking’s Top 100 Movies of All-Time

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This is the list of the 100 best films I have ever seen.

Before I get onto the list I just wanted to explain my movie “philosophy” for anyone new to the site:

  1. There are not “old” and “new” movies, only ones I’ve seen and ones I haven’t.
  2. There are not good and bad genres, there are only good and bad movies.
  3. There are not “mainstream” and “arthouse” movies, just movies.
  4. A $200m Hollywood blockbuster can be better than a Cannes winning Hungarian arthouse epic, and vice versa.
  5. “Foreign” is not a genre.

That seems a bit pretentious reading it back but the point is I’ll watch anything and judge it without any preconceived ideas.

Ok, enjoy the list and comment if you think it’s interesting.

  1. In the Mood for Love – Wong Kar Wai (Hong Kong, 2000)
  2. Late Spring – Yasujiro Ozu (Japan, 1949)
  3. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover – Peter Greenaway (United Kingdom, 1989)
  4. Bin-jip aka 3-Iron – Kim Ki-duk (South Korea, 2004)
  5. Oldboy – Park Chan-wook (South Korea, 2003)
  6. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner – Stanley Kramer (United States, 1967)
  7. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick (United Kingdom/United States, 1968)
  8. Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino (United States, 1994)
  9. A Separation – Asghar Farhadi (Iran, 2011)
  10. Taxi Driver – Martin Scorsese (United States, 1976)
  11. Once Were Warriors – Lee Tamahori (New Zealand, 1994)
  12. Persona – Ingmar Bergman (Sweden, 1966)
  13. Once – John Carney (Ireland, 2007)
  14. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring – Kim Ki-duk (South Korea, 2003)
  15. Rear Window – Alfred Hitchcock (United States, 1954)
  16. Grave of the Fireflies – Isao Takahata (Japan, 1988)
  17. A Woman Under the Influence – John Cassavetes (United States, 1974)
  18. Nights of Cabiria – Federico Fellini (Italy, 1957)
  19. Wuthering Heights – William Wyler (United States, 1939)
  20. The Graduate – Mike Nichols (United States, 1967)
  21. Still Walking – Hirokazu Koreeda (Japan, 2008)
  22. Dolls – Takeshi Kitano (Japan, 2002)
  23. Be With Me – Eric Khoo (Singapore, 2005)
  24. Boyhood – Richard Linklater (United States, 2014)
  25. The Weeping Meadow – Theodoros Angelopoulos (Greece, 2004)
  26. You Can’t Take it With You – Frank Capra (United States, 1938)
  27. Dancer in the Dark – Lars von Trier (Denmark, 2000)
  28. High and Low – Akira Kurosawa (Japan, 1963)
  29. Fanny and Alexander – Ingmar Bergman (Sweden, 1982)
  30. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Milos Forman (United States, 1975)
  31. Spirit of the Beehive – Victor Erice (Spain, 1973)
  32. Confessions – Tetsuya Nakashima (Japan, 2010)
  33. Before Midnight – Richard Linklater (United States, 2013)
  34. Apur Sansar aka The World of Apu – Satyajit Ray (India, 1959)
  35. Higanbana aka Equinox Flower – Yasujiro Ozu (Japan, 1958)
  36. A Torinói ló aka The Turin Horse – Bela Tarr, Agnes Hranitzky (Hungary, 2011)
  37. Jagten aka The Hunt – Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark, 2012)
  38. Roma – Alfonso Cuaron (Mexico, 2018)
  39. Wit – Mike Nichols (United States, 2001)
  40. The Circus – Charles Chaplin (United States, 1928)
  41. M – Fritz Lang (Germany, 1931)
  42. Whisper of the Heart – Yoshifumi Kondo (Japan, 1995)
  43. The Red Shoes – Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger (United Kingdom, 1948)
  44. Together – Lukas Moodysson (Sweden, 2000)
  45. Nema-ye Nazdik aka Close-Up – Abbas Kiarostami (Iran, 1990)
  46. The Silence of the Lambs – Jonathan Demme (United States, 1991)
  47. Judgement at Nuremberg – Stanley Kramer (United States, 1961)
  48. Festen aka The Celebration – Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark, 1998)
  49. Ningen no joken III aka The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer – Masaki Kobayashi (Japan, 1961)
  50. Shame – Steve McQueen (United Kingdom, 2011)
  51. Like Father, Like Son – Hirokazu Koreeda (Japan, 2013)
  52. The Wind Will Carry Us – Abbas Kiarostami (Iran, 1999)
  53. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father – Kurt Kuenne (United States, 2008)
  54. The Godfather: Part II – Francis Ford Coppola (United States, 1974)
  55. Chelovek s kino-apparatom aka The Man With a Movie Camera – Dziga Vertov (Soviet Union, 1929)
  56. Kes – Ken Loach (United Kingdom, 1969)
  57. Ying xiong aka Hero – Zhang Yimou (China, 2002)
  58. All About Lily Chou-Chou – Shunji Iwai (Japan, 2001)
  59. Breathless – Yang Ik-joon (South Korea, 2009)
  60. Ieri, Oggi, Domani aka Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow – Vittorio De Sica (Italy, 1963)
  61. Naked – Mike Leigh (United Kingdom, 1993)
  62. Le Chagrin et la pitié aka The Sorrow and the Pity – Marcel Ophuls (France, 1969)
  63. Ochazuke No Aji aka Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice – Yasujiro Ozu (Japan, 1952)
  64. Shi aka Poetry – Lee Chang-dong (South Korea, 2010)
  65. Johnny Guitar – Nicholas Ray (United States, 1954)
  66. Utomlyonnye solntsem aka Burnt by the Sun – Nikita Mikhalkov (Russia, 1994)
  67. To Kill a Mockingbird – Robert Mulligan (United States, 1962)
  68. Naked Island – Kaneto Shindo (Japan, 1960)
  69. La vie d’Adèle aka Blue is the Warmest Color – Abdellatif Kechiche (France, 2013)
  70. Requiem for a Dream – Darren Aronofsky (United States, 2000)
  71. Irma Vep – Olivier Assayas (France, 1996)
  72. Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Parpnnaud (France, 2007)
  73. In the Heat of the Night – Norman Jewison (United States, 1967)
  74. Alice in den Städten aka Alice in the Cities – Wim Wenders (West Germany, 1974)
  75. Kiseki aka I Wish – Hirokazu Koreeda (Japan, 2011)
  76. La Pianiste aka The Piano Teacher – Michael Haneke (France, 2001)
  77. Oasiseo aka Oasis – Lee Chang-dong (South Korea, 2002)
  78. Ladybird Ladybird – Ken Loach (United Kingdom, 1994)
  79. Avatar – James Cameron (United States, 2009)
  80. Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari aka The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari – Robert Wiene (Germany, 1920)
  81. Pather Panchali aka Song of the Little Road – Satyajit Ray (India, 1955)
  82. Bakushu aka Early Summer – Yasujiro Ozu (Japan, 1951)
  83. 3 Women – Robert Altman (United States, 1977)
  84. Topio stin omichli aka Landscape in the Mist – Theodoros Angelopoulos (Greece, 1988)
  85. Tyrannosaur – Paddy Considine (United Kingdom, 2011)
  86. Portrait of Jennie – William Dieterle (United States, 1948)
  87. Seppuku aka Harakiri (Japan, 1962)
  88.  Idi i Smotri aka Come and See – Elem Klimov (Soviet Union, 1985)
  89. Away From Her – Sarah Polley (Canada, 2006)
  90. The Best Years of Our Lives – William Wyler (United States, 1946)
  91. Urga aka Close to Eden – Nikita Mikhalkov (France, 1991)
  92. Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant aka The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant – Rainer Werner Fassbinder (West Germany, 1972)
  93. Wildlife – Paul Dano (United States, 2018)
  94. 1917 – Sam Mendes (United Kingdom, 2019)
  95. Hitori Musuko aka The Only Son – Yasujiro Ozu (Japan, 1936)
  96. Dom za vesanje aka Time of the Gypsies – Emir Kusturica (Yugoslavia, 1988)
  97. Dogville – Lars von Trier (Denmark, 2003)
  98. La grande bellezza aka The Great Beauty – Paolo Sorrentino (Italy, 2013)
  99. Tokyo Monogatari aka Tokyo Story – Yasujiro Ozu (Japan, 1953)
  100. Brief Encounter – David Lean (United Kingdom, 1945)