The 50 Best Films Ever Made

1. MCCABE & MRS. MILLER Robert Altman 1971

2. SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS Preston Sturges 1941

3. MAUVAIS SANG Leos Carax 1986

4. HOUSEKEEPING Bill Forsyth 1987

5. BEAU TRAVAIL Claire Denis 1999

6. SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly 1952

7. IMITATION OF LIFE Douglas Sirk 1959

8. LOVE STREAMS John Cassavetes 1984

9. THE NIGHTS OF CABIRIA Federico Fellini 1957

10. COMMINGLED CONTAINERS Stan Brakhage 1996

11. LANCELOT OF THE LAKE Robert Bresson 1974

12. TWO-LANE BLACKTOP Monte Hellman 1971

13. MY NIGHTS ARE MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN YOUR DAYS Andrzej Zulawski 1989

14. MISTER LONELY Harmony Korine 2007

15. THE LAST DETAIL Hal Ashby 1973

16. BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS Russ Meyer 1970

17. BIGGER THAN LIFE Nicholas Ray 1956

18. COME AND SEE Elem Klimov 1985

19. THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE John Ford 1962

20. MODERN ROMANCE Albert Brooks 1981

21. PUNISHMENT PARK Peter Watkins 1971

22. THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC Carl Th. Dreyer 1928

23. WENDY AND LUCY Kelly Reichardt 2008

24. THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS Anthony Harvey 1971

25. L’ATALANTE Jean Vigo 1934

26. THE HEART OF THE WORLD Guy Maddin 2000

27. AWAY FROM HER Sarah Polley 2006

28. WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES Bela Tarr 2000

29. FIVE EASY PIECES Bob Rafelson 1970

30. POINT BLANK John Boorman 1967

31. IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS John Carpenter 1994

32. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER Charles Laughton 1955

33. THE SHINING Stanley Kubrick 1980

34. SOMETHING WILD Jonathan Demme 1986

35. CONTEMPT Jean-Luc Godard 1963

36. ARTISTS AND MODELS Frank Tashlin 1955

37. INVOCATION OF MY DEMON BROTHER Kenneth Anger 1969

38. WICHITA Jacques Tourneur 1955

39. THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE Krszyzstof Kieslowski 1991

40. SHERMAN’S MARCH Ross McElwee 1986

41. VAMPIRE’S KISS Robert Bierman 1989

42. SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS F.W. Murnau 1927

43. WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER David Wain 2001

44. BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA Sam Peckinpah 1974

45. AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD Werner Herzog 1972

46. NAKED Mike Leigh 1993

47. ALL THE REAL GIRLS David Gordon Green 2003

48. THE CONFORMIST Bernardo Bertolucci 1970

49. THE YARDS James Gray 2000

50. PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE Paul Thomas Anderson 2002