Cultural Keys

TSPDT 1,000 Greatest Films

From https://theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_all1000films_table.php

They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? — top 200 of the 1,000 Greatest Films.

16 / 200 done · 8%

1

Citizen Kane

Orson Welles

1941 · USA
2

Vertigo

Alfred Hitchcock

1958 · USA
3

2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick

1968 · UK
4

Tokyo Story

Yasujiro Ozu

1953 · Japan
5

The Rules of the Game

Jean Renoir

1939 · France
6

The Godfather

Francis Ford Coppola

1972 · USA
7

8½

Federico Fellini

1963 · Italy
8

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

F.W. Murnau

1927 · USA
9

The Searchers

John Ford

1956 · USA
10

Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa

1954 · Japan
11

Singin' in the Rain

Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly

1952 · USA
12

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Chantal Akerman

1975 · Belgium
13

Apocalypse Now

Francis Ford Coppola

1979 · USA
14

Taxi Driver

Martin Scorsese

1976 · USA
15

Bicycle Thieves

Vittorio De Sica

1948 · Italy
16

Persona

Ingmar Bergman

1966 · Sweden
17

In the Mood for Love

Wong Kar-wai

2000 · Hong Kong
18

Breathless

Jean-Luc Godard

1960 · France
19

The Passion of Joan of Arc

Carl Theodor Dreyer

1928 · France
20

Battleship Potemkin

Sergei Eisenstein

1925 · USSR
21

Atalante, L'

Jean Vigo

1934 · France
22

Man with a Movie Camera

Dziga Vertov

1929 · USSR
23

Mirror

Andrei Tarkovsky

1975 · USSR
24

Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock

1960 · USA
25

Rashomon

Akira Kurosawa

1950 · Japan
26

City Lights

Charles Chaplin

1931 · USA
27

The 400 Blows

François Truffaut

1959 · France
28

Andrei Rublev

Andrei Tarkovsky

1966 · USSR
29

Mulholland Dr.

David Lynch

2001 · USA
30

The Godfather Part II

Francis Ford Coppola

1974 · USA
31

Some Like it Hot

Billy Wilder

1959 · USA
32

Au hasard Balthazar

Robert Bresson

1966 · France
33

La Dolce vita

Federico Fellini

1960 · Italy
34

Ordet

Carl Theodor Dreyer

1955 · Denmark
35

Raging Bull

Martin Scorsese

1980 · USA
36

The Night of the Hunter

Charles Laughton

1955 · USA
37

Casablanca

Michael Curtiz

1942 · USA
38

Avventura, L'

Michelangelo Antonioni

1960 · Italy
39

Blade Runner

Ridley Scott

1982 · USA
40

Rear Window

Alfred Hitchcock

1954 · USA
41

Sunset Blvd.

Billy Wilder

1950 · USA
42

Touch of Evil

Orson Welles

1958 · USA
43

Barry Lyndon

Stanley Kubrick

1975 · UK
44

Contempt

Jean-Luc Godard

1963 · France
45

Playtime

Jacques Tati

1967 · France
46

Pather Panchali

Satyajit Ray

1955 · India
47

Close-Up

Abbas Kiarostami

1990 · Iran
48

Lawrence of Arabia

David Lean

1962 · UK
49

Stalker

Andrei Tarkovsky

1979 · USSR
50

The General

Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman

1926 · USA
51

Modern Times

Charles Chaplin

1936 · USA
52

Beau travail

Claire Denis

1999 · France
53

M

Fritz Lang

1931 · Germany
54

The Third Man

Carol Reed

1949 · UK
55

Late Spring

Yasujiro Ozu

1949 · Japan
56

The Apartment

Billy Wilder

1960 · USA
57

North by Northwest

Alfred Hitchcock

1959 · USA
58

Ugetsu monogatari

Kenji Mizoguchi

1953 · Japan
59

GoodFellas

Martin Scorsese

1990 · USA
60

The Battle of Algiers

Gillo Pontecorvo

1966 · Italy
61

La Grande illusion

Jean Renoir

1937 · France
62

Wild Strawberries

Ingmar Bergman

1957 · Sweden
63

Rio Bravo

Howard Hawks

1959 · USA
64

Fanny and Alexander

Ingmar Bergman

1982 · Sweden
65

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Stanley Kubrick

1964 · UK
66

Shoah

Claude Lanzmann

1985 · France
67

Once Upon a Time in the West

Sergio Leone

1968 · Italy
68

Chinatown

Roman Polanski

1974 · USA
69

Journey to Italy

Roberto Rossellini

1954 · Italy
70

Pierrot le fou

Jean-Luc Godard

1965 · France
71

Do the Right Thing

Spike Lee

1989 · USA
72

Metropolis

Fritz Lang

1927 · Germany
73

A Woman Under the Influence

John Cassavetes

1974 · USA
74

Les Enfants du paradis

Marcel Carné

1945 · France
75

La Strada

Federico Fellini

1954 · Italy
76

The Leopard

Luchino Visconti

1963 · Italy
77

Amarcord

Federico Fellini

1973 · Italy
78

It's a Wonderful Life

Frank Capra

1946 · USA
79

The Wild Bunch

Sam Peckinpah

1969 · USA
80

Pulp Fiction

Quentin Tarantino

1994 · USA
81

Viridiana

Luis Buñuel

1961 · Spain
82

Jaws

Steven Spielberg

1975 · USA
83

The Shining

Stanley Kubrick

1980 · USA
84

A Man Escaped

Robert Bresson

1956 · France
85

Blue Velvet

David Lynch

1986 · USA
86

Sansho the Bailiff

Kenji Mizoguchi

1954 · Japan
87

The Conformist

Bernardo Bertolucci

1970 · Italy
88

The Seventh Seal

Ingmar Bergman

1957 · Sweden
89

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

John Ford

1962 · USA
90

Nashville

Robert Altman

1975 · USA
91

The Magnificent Ambersons

Orson Welles

1942 · USA
92

Pickpocket

Robert Bresson

1959 · France
93

The Gold Rush

Charles Chaplin

1925 · USA
94

La Jetée

Chris Marker

1962 · France
95

Gertrud

Carl Theodor Dreyer

1964 · Denmark
96

Sans soleil

Chris Marker

1983 · France
97

Cléo from 5 to 7

Agnès Varda

1962 · France
98

Jules et Jim

François Truffaut

1962 · France
99

To Be or Not to Be

Ernst Lubitsch

1942 · USA
100

Meshes of the Afternoon

Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid

1943 · USA
101

The Mother and the Whore

Jean Eustache

1973 · France
102

Sátántangó

Béla Tarr

1994 · Hungary
103

Madame de...

Max Ophüls

1953 · France
104

Sherlock Jr.

Buster Keaton

1924 · USA
105

A Clockwork Orange

Stanley Kubrick

1971 · UK
106

Ikiru

Akira Kurosawa

1952 · Japan
107

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

1974 · West Germany
108

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Werner Herzog

1972 · West Germany
109

Come and See

Elem Klimov

1985 · USSR
110

Annie Hall

Woody Allen

1977 · USA
111

The Spirit of the Beehive

Víctor Erice

1973 · Spain
112

Last Year at Marienbad

Alain Resnais

1961 · France
113

Once Upon a Time in America

Sergio Leone

1984 · Italy
114

Greed

Erich von Stroheim

1924 · USA
115

The Wizard of Oz

Victor Fleming

1939 · USA
116

The Piano

Jane Campion

1993 · New Zealand
117

A Brighter Summer Day

Edward Yang

1991 · Taiwan
118

Yi Yi

Edward Yang

2000 · Taiwan
119

Don't Look Now

Nicolas Roeg

1973 · UK
120

Hiroshima mon amour

Alain Resnais

1959 · France
121

The Red Shoes

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

1948 · UK
122

Alien

Ridley Scott

1979 · USA
123

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Steven Spielberg

1982 · USA
124

Bringing Up Baby

Howard Hawks

1938 · USA
125

Blow-Up

Michelangelo Antonioni

1966 · UK
126

A Day in the Country

Jean Renoir

1946 · France
127

Notorious

Alfred Hitchcock

1946 · USA
128

Vivre sa vie

Jean-Luc Godard

1962 · France
129

Intolerance

D.W. Griffith

1916 · USA
130

Eclisse, L'

Michelangelo Antonioni

1962 · Italy
131

Spirited Away

Hayao Miyazaki

2001 · Japan
132

A Matter of Life and Death

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

1946 · UK
133

Letter from an Unknown Woman

Max Ophüls

1948 · USA
134

All About Eve

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

1950 · USA
135

Los Olvidados

Luis Buñuel

1950 · Mexico
136

The Exterminating Angel

Luis Buñuel

1962 · Mexico
137

Star Wars

George Lucas

1977 · USA
138

Imitation of Life

Douglas Sirk

1959 · USA
139

His Girl Friday

Howard Hawks

1940 · USA
140

Histoire(s) du cinéma

Jean-Luc Godard

1998 · France
141

Gone with the Wind

Victor Fleming

1939 · USA
142

Nosferatu

F.W. Murnau

1922 · Germany
143

There Will Be Blood

Paul Thomas Anderson

2007 · USA
144

My Darling Clementine

John Ford

1946 · USA
145

Rome, Open City

Roberto Rossellini

1945 · Italy
146

Daisies

Věra Chytilová

1966 · Czechoslovakia
147

Wanda

Barbara Loden

1970 · USA
148

Céline and Julie Go Boating

Jacques Rivette

1974 · France
149

The Gospel According to St. Matthew

Pier Paolo Pasolini

1964 · Italy
150

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Milos Forman

1975 · USA
151

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Jacques Demy

1964 · France
152

The Conversation

Francis Ford Coppola

1974 · USA
153

Killer of Sheep

Charles Burnett

1978 · USA
154

Chien andalou, Un

Luis Buñuel

1928 · France
155

Days of Heaven

Terrence Malick

1978 · USA
156

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Sergio Leone

1966 · Italy
157

Double Indemnity

Billy Wilder

1944 · USA
158

Trouble in Paradise

Ernst Lubitsch

1932 · USA
159

The Deer Hunter

Michael Cimino

1978 · USA
160

Argent, L'

Robert Bresson

1983 · France
161

Chungking Express

Wong Kar-wai

1994 · Hong Kong
162

My Neighbour Totoro

Hayao Miyazaki

1988 · Japan
163

Cries and Whispers

Ingmar Bergman

1972 · Sweden
164

Tropical Malady

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

2004 · Thailand
165

Manhattan

Woody Allen

1979 · USA
166

Rosemary's Baby

Roman Polanski

1968 · USA
167

The Passenger

Michelangelo Antonioni

1975 · Italy
168

Badlands

Terrence Malick

1973 · USA
169

Âge d'or, L'

Luis Buñuel

1930 · France
170

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Tobe Hooper

1974 · USA
171

Dekalog

Krzysztof Kieslowski

1989 · Poland
172

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Luis Buñuel

1972 · France
173

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Céline Sciamma

2019 · France
174

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Steven Spielberg

1981 · USA
175

Only Angels Have Wings

Howard Hawks

1939 · USA
176

Stagecoach

John Ford

1939 · USA
177

Brief Encounter

David Lean

1945 · UK
178

Touki Bouki

Djibril Diop Mambéty

1973 · Senegal
179

Duck Soup

Leo McCarey

1933 · USA
180

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Steven Spielberg

1977 · USA
181

The Birds

Alfred Hitchcock

1963 · USA
182

Johnny Guitar

Nicholas Ray

1954 · USA
183

Ran

Akira Kurosawa

1985 · France
184

Mouchette

Robert Bresson

1967 · France
185

The Colour of Pomegranates

Sergei Parajanov

1969 · USSR
186

Earth

Alexander Dovzhenko

1930 · USSR
187

Vampyr

Carl Theodor Dreyer

1932 · Germany
188

Napoléon

Abel Gance

1927 · France
189

Out of the Past

Jacques Tourneur

1947 · USA
190

Paris, Texas

Wim Wenders

1984 · West Germany
191

The River

Jean Renoir

1951 · France
192

The Tree of Life

Terrence Malick

2011 · USA
193

Chimes at Midnight

Orson Welles

1965 · Switzerland
194

Black Narcissus

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

1947 · UK
195

The Gleaners & I

Agnès Varda

2000 · France
196

La Notte

Michelangelo Antonioni

1961 · Italy
197

Paisan

Roberto Rossellini

1946 · Italy
198

King Kong

Merian C. & Ernest B. Schoedsack Cooper

1933 · USA
199

Nights of Cabiria

Federico Fellini

1957 · Italy
200

Rocco and His Brothers

Luchino Visconti

1960 · Italy