Robo's "Top 100" Movies
My favorite movies in Chronological Order:
(these are all films I've seen more than once and rated a 10)
* = films I own on DVD
Seven Chances (1925, Buster Keaton) *
Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang) *
Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau) *
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer) *
Un Chien Andalou (1929, Luis Buñuel)
M (1931, Fritz Lang) *
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933, Mervyn LeRoy)
It Happened One Night (1934, Frank Capra) *
His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks) *
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943, Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid)
Scarlet Street (1945, Fritz Lang)
Beauty and the Beast (1946, Jean Cocteau) *
The Big Sleep (1946, Howard Hawks) *
Rope (1948, Alfred Hitchcock)
The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed) *
The Set-Up (1949, Robert Wise) *
The Asphalt Jungle (1950, John Huston) *
Gun Crazy (1950, Joseph H. Lewis) *
A Place in the Sun (1951, George Stevens)
Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa) *
Kiss Me Deadly (1955, Robert Aldrich) *
Rebel Without a Cause (1955, Nicholas Ray)
Written on the Wind (1956, Douglas Sirk)
Nights of Cabiria (1957, Federico Fellini) *
The Seventh Seal (1957, Ingmar Bergman) *
Il Grido (1957, Michelangelo Antonioni)
Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock) *
North by Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock) *
Shadows (1959, John Cassavetes)
The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder) *
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1961, Agnès Varda)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean) *
L' Eclisse (1962, Michelangelo Antonioni)
8 1/2 (1963, Federico Fellini) *
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, Jacques Demy) *
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, Stanley Kubrick) *
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone) *
Au hasard Balthazar (1966, Robert Bresson)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Arthur Penn) *
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick) *
Romeo and Juliet (1968, Franco Zeffirelli) *
Midnight Cowboy (1969, John Schlesinger)
Walkabout (1971, Nicolas Roeg) *
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog) *
The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
Badlands (1973, Terrence Malick)
Chinatown (1974, Roman Polanski) *
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975, Peter Weir) *
Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975, Milos Forman) *
Nashville (1975, Robert Altman)
I Claudius (1976, Herbert Wise) *
Network (1976, Sidney Lumet)
Eraserhead (1977, David Lynch) *
Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen) *
Manhattan (1979, Woody Allen)
Quadrophenia (1979, Franc Roddam) *
Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola) *
Alien (1979, Ridley Scott)
Being There (1979, Hal Ashby)
The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick) *
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg)
Das Boot (1981, Wolfgang Petersen) *
Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott) *
Blood Simple (1984, Joel Coen & Ethan Coen) *
Brazil (1985, Terry Gilliam) *
Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa) *
Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch) *
Dangerous Liaisons (1988, Stephen Frears)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988, Martin Scorsese) *
Twin Peaks (1990, David Lynch, Duwayne Dunham, Tina Rathborne, Tim Hunter, Lesli Linka Glatter, Caleb Deschanel, Mark Frost) *
Barton Fink (1991, Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993, Henry Selick) *
Groundhog Day (1993, Harold Ramis) *
Heavenly Creatures (1994, Peter Jackson) *
Red (1994, Krzysztof Kieslowski) *
Se7en (1995, David Fincher) *
Fargo (1996, Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
Lost Highway (1997, David Lynch) *
Run Lola Run (1998, Tom Tykwer) *
Velvet Goldmine (1998, Todd Haynes)
Being John Malkovich (1999, Spike Jonze) *
Magnolia (1999, Paul Thomas Anderson) *
Songs from the Second Floor (2000, Roy Andersson) *
The Heart of the World (2000, Guy Maddin) *
Memento (2000, Christopher Nolan) *
Requiem for a Dream (2000, Darren Aronofsky) *
Amelie (2001, Jean-Pierre Jeunet) *
Mulholland Dr. (2001, David Lynch) *
Donnie Darko (2001, Richard Kelly) *
Ghost World (2001, Terry Zwigoff) *
Talk to Her (2002, Pedro Almodóvar)
Hukkle (2002, György Pálfi)
Lord of the Rings (2001-2003, Peter Jackson) *
3-Iron (2004, Ki-duk Kim)
The New World (2005, Terrence Malick)
Planet Terror (2007, Robert Rodriguez) *
