Darrell's Top 100 Films


This is a personal list of my favourite Cinematic artistic works, masterpieces, landmark films and just plain old childhood favourites as well. My serious interest in film history and creating my own list was inspired by a book I discovered on various film critic's own personal choices. The timing of my starting and compiling my own list and collection actually coincides with the period in our lives when we acquired our first Bullmastiff.

POSITION	TITLE	YEAR	DIRECTOR
1	Once Upon a Time in the West	1968	Sergio Leone
=1	Ben~Hur	1959	William Wyler
3	Greed	1924	Eric von Stroheim
4	Once Upon a Time in America	1983	Sergio Leone
5	Vertigo	1958	Alfred Hitchcock
6	The Godfather Epic (1901 - 1959)	1972/74	Francis Ford Coppola
7	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp	1943	Powell & Pressburger
8	Barry Lyndon	1975	Stanley Kubrick
9	Citizen Kane	1941	Orson Welles
10	Shane	1953	George Stevens
11	The English Patient	1996	Anthony Minghella
12	The Wizard of Oz	1939	Victor Fleming
13	City Lights	1931	Charles Chaplin
14	Umberto D	1952	Vittorio De Sica
15	La Strada	1954	Federico Fellini
16	The Seven Samurai	1954	Akira Kurosawa
17	The Hustler	1961	Robert Rossen
18	if....	1968	Lindsay Anderson
19	Gallipoli	1981	Peter Weir
20	The Deer Hunter	1978	Michael Cimino
21	Taxi Driver	1976	Martin Scorsese
22	The Sting	1973	George Roy Hill
23	Psycho	1960	Alfred Hitchcock
24	The Third Man	1949	Carol Reed
25	Ladri di Biciclette (The Bicycle Thieves)	1948	Vittorio De Sica
26	The Great Escape	1963	John Sturges
27	The White Buffalo	1977	J. Lee Thompson
28	A Matter of Life and Death	1946	Powell & Pressburger
29	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	1966	Sergio Leone
30	El Cid	1961	Anthony Mann
31	Modern Times	1936	Charles Chaplin
32	Meet Me in St Louis	1944	Vincent Minnelli
33	Spellbound	1945	Alfred Hitchcock
34	The Best Years of Our Lives	1946	William Wyler
35	The Searchers	1956	John Ford
36	Yojimbo	1961	Akira Kurosawa
37	Zulu	1964	Cy Enfield
38	For a Few Dollars More	1965	Sergio Leone
39	The Magnificent Ambersons	1942	Orson Welles*
40	Hiroshima Mon Amour	1959	Alain Resnais
41	Singin' in the Rain	1952	Kelly & Donen
42	2001: A Space Odyssey	1968	Stanley Kubrick
43	The Band Wagon	1953	Vincent Minnelli
44	Casablanca	1942	Michael Curtiz
45	Les Enfants du Paradis (The Children of Paradise)	1945	Marcel Carne
46	La Notti di Cabiria (The Nights of Cabiria)	1957	Federico Fellini
47	La Salaire de la Peur (The Wages of Fear)	1953	Henri-Georges Clouzot
48	Diamond Earrings/Madame de.../The Earrings of Madame de...	1953	Max Ophuls
49	L'Annee Derniere Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad)	1961	Alain Resnais
50	Rebecca	1940	Alfred Hitchcock
51	Tokyo Story	1953	Yasujiro Ozu
52	Papillon	1973	Franklin Schaffner
53	It's a Wonderful Life	1946	Frank Capra
54	Sunrise	1927	F.W Murnau
55	Dances with Wolves	1990	Kevin Costner
56	A Night to Remember	1957	Roy Baker
57	The Maltese Falcon	1941	John Huston
58	North by Northwest	1959	Alfred Hitchcock
59	Cool Hand Luke	1967	Stuart Rosenberg
60	The Untouchables	1987	Brian De Palma
61	The Sound of Music	1965	Robert Wise
62	Dr Strangelove: or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb	1963	Stanley Kubrick
63	The 39 Steps	1935	Alfred Hitchcock
64	Alexander Nevsky	1937	Sergei Eisenstein
65	King of Kings	1961	Nicholas Ray
66	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	1975	Milos Foreman
67	Jason and the Argonauts	1964	Don Chaffey
68	The Man Who Knew Too Much	1956	Alfred Hitchcock
69	The Lady Vanishes	1938	Alfred Hitchcock
70	Fistful of Dollars	1964	Sergio Leone
71	The Magnificent Seven	1960	John Sturges
72	The Red Shoes	1948	Powell & Pressburger
73	Rashomon	1950	Akira Kurosawa
74	Bringing Up Baby	1938	Howard Hawks
75	Ikiru	1952	Akira Kurosawa
76	Picnic at Hanging Rock	1975	Peter Weir
77	Born Free	1966	James Hill
78	The Seventh Seal	1957	Ingmar Bergman
79	To Be or Not to Be	1942	Ernst Lubitsch
80	The Grand Illusion	1937	Jean Renoir
81	Mean Streets	1973	Martin Scorsese
82	Sanjuro	1962	Akira Kurosawa
83	And Then There Were None	1945	Rene Clair
84	Touch of Evil	1958	Orson Welles
85	Spartacus	1960	Stanley Kubrick
86	The Big Clock	1948	John Farrow
87	Kind Hearts and Coronets	1949	Robert Hamer
88	Bridge on the River Kwai	1957	David Lean
89	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	1937	Ben Sharpsteen
90	Jaws	1975	Steven Spielberg
91	The Thief of Bagdad	1940	Berger, Whelan, Powell
92	Brief Encounter	1945	David Lean
93	My Darling Clementine	1946	John Ford
94	Lawrence of Arabia	1962	David Lean
95	Schindler's List	1993	Steven Spielberg
96	Bad Day at Black Rock	1955	John Sturges
97	All Quiet on the Western Front	1930	Lewis Milestone
98	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	1989	Steven Spielberg
99	La Regle du Jeur (The Rules of the Game)	1939	Jean Renoir
100	Frankenstein	1931	James Whale
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