|
Year
|
Film Director
|
Main Star(s)
|
The Film Title
|
IMDb
|
1
|
1974
|
Roman Polanski
|
Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway
|
Chinatown
|
8.2
|
2
|
1942
|
Michael Curtiz
|
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman
|
Casablanca
|
8.6
|
3
|
1974
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
Al Pacino, Robert De Niro
|
The Godfather Part II
|
9.2
|
4
|
1972
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
Marlon Brando, Al Pacino
|
The Godfather
|
9.0
|
5
|
1941
|
Orson Welles
|
Orson Welles
|
Citizen Kane
|
8.4
|
6
|
1968
|
Stanley Kubrick
|
Keir Dullea, Douglas Rain
|
2001: A Space Odyssey
|
8.3
|
7
|
1931
|
Charlie Chaplin
|
Charlie Chaplin
|
City Lights
|
8.6
|
8
|
1970
|
Bernardo Bertolucci
|
Jean-Louis Trintignant
|
The Conformist
|
8.1
|
9
|
2002
|
Zhang Yimou
|
Jet Li
|
Hero
|
7.9
|
10
|
1998
|
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
|
Michiko Hada, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
|
Flowers of Shanghai
|
7.5
|
11
|
1977
|
Woody Allen
|
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
|
Annie Hall
|
8.1
|
12
|
2006
|
Tarsem Singh
|
Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru
|
The Fall
|
8.2
|
13
|
2014
|
Richard Linklater
|
Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette
|
Boyhood
|
7.9
|
14
|
2002
|
Fernando Meirelles
|
Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firminio
|
City of God
|
8.7
|
15
|
1938
|
Michael Curtiz & William Keighley
|
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
|
The Adventures of Robin Hood
|
8.0
|
16
|
1984
|
Wim Wenders
|
Harry Dean Stanton, Natassja Kinski
|
Paris, Texas
|
8.1
|
17
|
1975
|
Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam
|
Graham Chapman, John Cleese
|
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
|
8.3
|
18
|
2001
|
Hayao Miyazaki
|
Rumi Hiiragi
|
Spirited Away
|
8.6
|
19
|
2004
|
Michel Gondry
|
Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet
|
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
|
8.3
|
20
|
1994
|
Lau Kar-Leung & Jackie Chan
|
Jackie Chan
|
The Legend of the Drunken Master
|
7.6
|
21
|
2002
|
Spike Jonze
|
Nicholas Cage, Meryl Streep
|
Adaptation
|
7.7
|
22
|
2000
|
Ang Lee
|
Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh
|
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
|
7.9
|
23
|
1999
|
Sam Mendes
|
Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening
|
American Beauty
|
8.4
|
24
|
2013
|
Richard Linklater
|
Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
|
Before Midnight
|
7.9
|
25
|
2008
|
Charlie Kaufman
|
Philip Seymour Hoffman
|
Synecdoche, New York
|
7.5
|
26
|
2000
|
Wong Kar-Wai
|
Maggie Cheung, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung
|
In the Mood for Love
|
8.1
|
27
|
2010
|
Mike Mills
|
Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer
|
Beginners
|
7.2
|
28
|
1993
|
Steven Spielberg
|
Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes
|
Schindler's List
|
8.9
|
29
|
1966
|
Ingmar Bergman
|
Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann
|
Persona
|
8.1
|
30
|
1960
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins
|
Psycho
|
8.5
|
31
|
1956
|
Jules Dassin
|
Jean Servais
|
Rififi
|
8.2
|
32
|
1995
|
Michael Mann
|
Al Pacino, Robert De Niro
|
Heat
|
8.2
|
33
|
2007
|
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
|
Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem
|
No Country for Old Men
|
8.1
|
34
|
1988
|
Katsuhiro Otomo
|
Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki
|
Akira
|
8.1
|
35
|
2010
|
David Fincher
|
Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield
|
The Social Network
|
7.7
|
36
|
1939
|
John Ford
|
John Wayne, Claire Trevor
|
Stagecoach
|
7.9
|
37
|
1994
|
Quentin Tarantino
|
John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson
|
Pulp Fiction
|
8.9
|
38
|
1991
|
Jonathan Demme
|
Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins
|
The Silence of the Lambs
|
8.6
|
39
|
1999
|
David Fincher
|
Edward Norton, Brad Pitt
|
Fight Club
|
8.8
|
40
|
1979
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando
|
Apocalypse Now
|
8.5
|
41
|
1989
|
Spike Lee
|
Spike Lee, Danny Aiello
|
Do the Right Thing
|
7.9
|
42
|
1954
|
Akira Kurosawa
|
Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura
|
Seven Samurai
|
8.7
|
43
|
1931
|
Fritz Lang
|
Peter Lorre
|
M
|
8.4
|
44
|
1985
|
Paul Schrader
|
Ken Ogota
|
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
|
7.9
|
45
|
2012
|
Paul Thomas Anderson
|
Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman
|
The Master
|
7.1
|
46
|
1982
|
Ridley Scott
|
Harrison Ford
|
Blade Runner
|
8,2
|
47
|
1949
|
Carol Reed
|
Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli
|
The Third Man
|
8.3
|
48
|
2011
|
Ron Fricke
|
n/a
|
Samsara
|
8.5
|
49
|
1975
|
Andrei Tarkovsky
|
Margarita Terekhova
|
The Mirror
|
8.2
|
50
|
2011
|
Terrence Malick
|
Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain
|
The Tree of Life
|
6.7
|
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