In this list I count down some of my personal favorites, many of witch were underplayed in the 555 Greatest Movies of All Time List. In this I ignore obvious flaws in some of my favorites and elevate them to a position that may or may not be deserved in the film ranking hierarchy. Comment to let me know what you think.
Rank | Film | Director | Year |
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1 | Apocalyspse Now | Francis Ford Coppola | 1979 |
2 | National Lampoons: Animal House | John Landis | 1978 |
3 | Dirty Harry | Don Seigel | 1971 |
4 | On Her Majesty's Secret Service | Peter R. Hunt | 1969 |
5 | Bull Durham | Ron Shelton | 1988 |
6 | The Great Escape | John Sturges | 1963 |
7 | Dazed and Confused | Richard Linklater | 1993 |
8 | The Dirty Dozen | Robert Aldrich | 1967 |
9 | Good Morning Vietnam | Barry Levinson | 1987 |
10 | Chinatown | Roman Polanski | 1974 |
11 | The Hustler | Robert Rossen | 1961 |
12 | Slap Shot | George Roy Hill | 1977 |
13 | Suspiria | Dario Argento | 1977 |
14 | Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarentino | 1994 |
15 | The Searchers | John Ford | 1956 |
16 | Lawrence of Arabia | David Lean | 1962 |
17 | Once Upon a Time in the West | Sergio Leone | 1968 |
18 | Lost in Translation | Sofia Coppola | 2003 |
19 | Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan | Larry Charles | 2006 |
20 | The Green Mile | Frank Darabont | 1999 |
21 | Get Carter | Mike Hodges | 1971 |
22 | Eastern Promises | David Cronenberg | 2007 |
23 | Blue Velvet | David Lynch | 1987 |
24 | No Country for Old Men | Coen Brothers | 2007 |
25 | Goodfellas | Martin Scorsese | 1990 |
26 | The Lives of Others | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | 2006 |
27 | Silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme | 1991 |
28 | The Shawshank Redemption | Frank Darabont | 1994 |
29 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Miloš Forman | 1975 |
30 | Airplane! | David Zucker | 1980 |
31 | Magnolia | Paul Thomas Anderson | 1999 |
32 | LA Confidential | Curtis Hanson | 1997 |
33 | From Russia with Love | Terence Young | 1963 |
34 | Jackie Brown | Quentin Tarantino | 1997 |
35 | Memento | Christopher Nolan | 2000 |
36 | Salem's Lot | Tobe Hooper | 1979 |
37 | Death Wish | Michael Winner | 1974 |
38 | The Fugitive | Andrew Davis | 1993 |
39 | Eyes Wide Shut | Stanley Kubrick | 1999 |
40 | Live and Let Die | Guy Hamilton | 1973 |
41 | Office Space | Mike Judge | 1999 |
42 | Deep Red | Dario Argento | 1975 |
43 | Sleuth | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1972 |
44 | In The Line Of Fire | Wolfgang Petersen | 1993 |
45 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones | 1975 |
46 | Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | Sam Peckinpah | 1974 |
47 | Big Trouble in Little China | John Carpenter | 1986 |
48 | Lord of the Rings Return of the King | Peter Jackson | 2003 |
49 | Dressed to Kill | Brian De Palma | 1980 |
50 | The Graduate | Mike Nichols | 1967 |
51 | Bullitt | Peter Yates | 1968 |
52 | The Shining | Stanley Kubrick | 1980 |
53 | High Plains Drifter | Clint Eastwood | 1973 |
54 | Mulholland Drive | David Lynch | 2011 |
55 | Monty Python Life of Brian | Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones | 1979 |
56 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Steven Spielberg | 1989 |
57 | Bridge on the River Kwai | David Lean | 1957 |
58 | For a Few Dollars More | Sergio Leone | 1965 |
59 | Reality Bites | Ben Stiller | 1994 |
60 | What's Eating Gilbert Grape | Lasse Hallström | 1993 |
61 | Phantom of the Paradise | Brian De Palma | 1974 |
62 | North by Northwest | Alfred Hitchcock | 1959 |
63 | When Harry Met Sally | Rob Reiner | 1989 |
64 | Texas Chainsaw Massacre | Tobe Hooper | 1974 |
65 | From Dusk Till Dawn | Robert Rodriguez | 1996 |
66 | Hoosiers | David Anspaugh | 1986 |
67 | The Brides of Dracula | Terence Fisher | 1960 |
68 | The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | David Zucker | 1988 |
69 | A Rebel Without a Cause | Nicholas Ray | 1955 |
70 | 48 Hrs. | Walter Hill | 1982 |
71 | The Spy Who Loved Me | Lewis Gilbert | 1977 |
72 | Boogie Nights | Paul Thomas Anderson | 1997 |
73 | The Magnificent Seven | Antoine Fuqua | 1960 |
74 | What We Do in the Shadows | Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement | 2014 |
75 | Night of the Hunter | Charles Laughton | 1955 |
76 | Witness | Peter Weir | 1985 |
77 | Re-Animator | Stuart Gordon | 1985 |
78 | After Hours | Martin Scorsese | 1985 |
79 | Night Moves | Arthur Penn | 1975 |
80 | Richard III | Richard Loncraine | 1995 |
81 | Fletch | Michael Ritchie | 1985 |
82 | Broken Flowers | Jim Jarmusch | 2005 |
83 | Paranoiac | Freddie Francis | 1963 |
84 | They Live | John Carpenter | 1988 |
85 | Mallrats | Kevin Smith | 1995 |
86 | Hang 'Em High | Ted Post | 1968 |
87 | The Thomas Crown Affair | Norman Jewison | 1968 |
88 | Coming to America | John Landis | 1988 |
89 | The Ipcress File | Sidney J. Furie | 1965 |
90 | Brigning Out the Dead | Martin Scorsese | 1999 |
91 | In the Heat of the Night | Norman Jewison | 1967 |
92 | Escape from Alcatraz | Don Siegel | 1979 |
93 | Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1979 |
94 | Scent of a Woman | Martin Brest | 1992 |
95 | Risky Business | Paul Brickman | 1983 |
96 | Hard Times | Walter Hill | 1975 |
97 | High Fidelity | Stephen Frears | 2000 |
98 | Repo Man | Alex Cox | 1984 |
99 | As Good as it Gets | James L. Brooks | 1997 |
100 | The Gataway | Sam Peckinpah | 1972 |
101 | This Is Spinal Tap | Rob Reiner | 1984 |
102 | Gran Torino | Clint Eastwood | 2008 |
103 | The Prestige | Christopher Nolan | 2006 |
104 | History of the World: Part 1 | Mel Brooks | 1981 |
105 | Dawn of the Dead | George A. Romero | 1978 |
106 | Caddyshack | Harold Ramis | 1980 |
107 | Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story | Jake Kasdan | 2007 |
108 | Spaceballs | Mel Brooks | 1987 |
109 | Team America: World Police | Trey Parker | 2004 |
110 | Groundhog Day | Harold Ramis | 1993 |
111 | The Terminal | Steven Spielberg | 2004 |
BONUS! | MacGruber | Jorma Taccone | 2010 |