British Film Institute -- 100 Greatest Movies Picked by Working Directors

Added on by C. Maoxian.

This is a somewhat better list that the BFI 100 Greatest Movies list. Dr. Strangelove, Kes, and La cienaga are all great movies that make my list, which is of course the definitive list.

  1. 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968, Kubrick

  2. Citizen Kane, 1941, Welles

  3. The Godfather, 1972, Coppola

  4. Tokyo Story, 1953, Ozu

  5. Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles, 1975, Akerman

  6. 8 1/2, 1963, Fellini

  7. Vertigo, 1958, Hitchcock

  8. Mirror, 1974, Tarkovsky

  9. Persona, 1966, Bergman

  10. Close-Up, 1990, Kiarostami

  11. In the Mood for Love, 2000, Wong

  12. Barry Lyndon, 1975, Kubrick

  13. Taxi Driver, 1976, Scorsese

  14. Stalker, 1979, Tarkovsky

  15. Breathless, 1960, Godard

  16. Seven Samurai, 1954, Kurosawa

  17. Beau travail, 1988, Denis

  18. A Woman Under the Influence, 1974, Cassavetes

  19. Apocalypse Now, 1979, Coppola

  20. Rashomon, 1950, Kurosawa

  21. Bicycle Thieves, 1948, De Sica

  22. Raging Bull, 1980, Scorsese

  23. The Battle of Algiers, 1966, Pontecorvo

  24. Pather Panchali, 1955, Ray

  25. Mulholland Drive, 2001, Lynch

  26. The Godfather Part II, 1974, Coppola

  27. Andrei Rublev, 1966, Tarkovsky

  28. GoodFellas, 1990, Scorsese

  29. Do the Right Thing, 1989, Lee

  30. Ordet, 1955, Dreyer

  31. The Passion of Joan of Arc, 1927, Dreyer

  32. Man with a Movie Camera, 1929, Vertov

  33. The 400 Blows, 1959, Truffaut

  34. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, 1927, Murnau

  35. La jetee, 1962, Marker

  36. La dolce vita, 1960, Fellini

  37. Au hasard Balthazar, 1966, Bresson

  38. La strada, 1943, Fellini

  39. L’avventura, 1960, Antonioni

  40. La regle du jeu, 1939, Renoir

  41. Come and See, 1985, Klimov

  42. Vagabond, 1985, Varda

  43. A Man Escaped, 1956, Bresson

  44. The Night of the Hunter, 1955, Laughton

  45. Play Time, 1967, Tati

  46. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 1963, Kubrick

  47. Don’t Look Now, 1973, Roeg

  48. One Upon a Time in the West, 1968, Leone

  49. Le mepris, 1963, Godard

  50. L’atalante, 1934, Vigo

  51. Psycho, 1960, Hitchcock

  52. Viridiana, 1961, Bunuel

  53. Eraserhead, 1976, Lynch

  54. La notte, 1961, Antonioni

  55. Fanny and Alexander, 1984, Bergman

  56. La maman et la putain, 1973, Eustache

  57. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, 1974, Fassbinder

  58. The Piano, 1992, Campion

  59. City Lights, 1931, Chaplin

  60. Cleo from 5 to 7, 1962, Varda

  61. Singin’ in the Rain, 1951, Donen

  62. La cienaga, 2011, Martel

  63. Lawrence of Arabia, 1962, Lean

  64. Jaws, 1975, Spielberg

  65. Tropical malady, 2004, Weerasethakul

  66. Satantango, 1994, Tarr

  67. Sunset Blvd., 1950, Wilder

  68. Blade Runner, 1982, Scott

  69. Some Like It Hot, 1959, Wilder

  70. Late Spring, 1949, Ozu

  71. Meshes of the Afternoon, 1943, Deren

  72. Kes, 1969, Loach

  73. A Separation, 2011, Farhadi

  74. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom, 1975, Pasolini

  75. The Conversation, 1974, Coppola

  76. L’argent, 1983, Bresson

  77. Where Is the Friend’s House, 1987, Kiarostami

  78. Ikiru, 1952, Kurosawa

  79. Chinatown, 1974, Polanski

  80. The Seventh Seal, 1957, Bergman

  81. The Ascent, 1976, Shepitko

  82. Wild Strawberries, 1957, Bergman

  83. Blue Velvet, 1986, Lynch

  84. The Spirit of the Beehive, 1973, Erice

  85. A Brighter Summer Day, 1991, Yang

  86. Modern Times, 1936, Chaplin

  87. The Red Shoes, 1948, Powell & Pressburger

  88. Touki Bouki, 1973, Mambéty

  89. Sans soleil, 1982, Marker

  90. News from Home, 1976, Akerman

  91. Shoah, 1985, Lanzmann

  92. The Searchers, 1956, Ford

  93. Throne of Blood, 1957, Kurosawa

  94. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2004, Gondry

  95. Hidden, 2004, Haneke

  96. Taste of Cherry, 1997, Kiarostami

  97. Pickpocket, 1959, Bresson

  98. The Colour of Pomegranates, 1968, Parajanov

  99. The Conformist, 1970, Bertolucci

  100. Parasite, 2019, Bong

  101. Yi Yi, 1999, Yang

  102. Moonlight, 2016, Jenkins

  103. Battleship Potemkin, 1915, Eisenstein

  104. Wanda, 1970, Loden