counting coconuts: pianoshootis' top 450 movies ever
Submitted by jay_b on Sat, 03/11/2006 - 10:06
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- Persona (1965, Ingmar Bergman)
- Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
- Napoleon (1927, Abel Gance)
- Weekend (1967, Jean-Luc Godard)
- World of Apu (1959, Satyajit Ray)
- Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974, Jacques Rivette)
- Greed (1924, Erich von Stroheim)
- M (1931, Fritz Lang)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
- Ikiru (1952, Akira Kurosawa)
- Broken Blossoms (1919, DW Griffith)
- Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)
- Children of Paradise (1945, Marcel Carne)
- Bride of Frankenstein (1935, James Whale)
- Sunrise (1927, FW Murnau)
- Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
- Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)
- Kiss Me Deadly (1955, Robert Aldrich)
- Les Carabiniers (1963, Jean-Luc Godard)
- Playtime (1967, Jacques Tati)
- Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein)
- Wild Bunch (1969, Sam Peckinpah)
- Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948, Max Ophuls)
- Un Chien Andalou (1929, Luis Bunuel/Salvador Dali)
- Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
- Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)
- Jules and Jim (1961, Francois Truffaut)
- Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
- Conversation (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
- Ordet (1955, Carl Dreyer)
- Meet Me in St. Louis (1944, Vincente Minnelli)
- Barry Lyndon (1975, Stanley Kubrick)
- Rebel Without a Cause (1955, Nicholas Ray)
- Aguirre: the Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog)
- La Strada (1954, Federico Fellini)
- Aparajito (1957, Satyajit Ray)
- Crowd (1928, King Vidor)
- Monsieur Verdoux (1947, Charlie Chaplin)
- Scenes from a Marriage (1972, Ingmar Bergman)
- Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Carl Dreyer)
- Modern Times (1936, Charlie Chaplin)
- Clockwork Orange (1971, Stanley Kubrick)
- Mona Lisa (1986, Neil Jordan)
- Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
- Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922, Fritz Lang)
- Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa)
- Earth (1930, Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
- 8 1/2 (1963, Federico Fellini)
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984, Sergio Leone)
- Nosferatu (1922, FW Murnau)
- Rio Grande (1950, John Ford)
- Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder)
- Wrong Man (1956, Alfred Hitchcock)
- L'Atalante (1934, Jean Vigo)
- Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933, Fritz Lang)
- Green Ray (1986, Eric Rohmer)
- Hidden Fortress (1959, Akira Kurosawa)
- Duck Soup (1933, Leo McCarey)
- Metropolis (1926, Fritz Lang)
- An American in Paris (1951, Vincente Minnelli)
- Night at the Opera (1935, Sam Wood)
- Gang of Four (1988, Jacques Rivette)
- Dreams (1990, Akira Kurosawa)
- Maltese Falcon (1941, John Huston)
- Short Film About Killing (1988, Krzysztof Kieslowski)
- Diary of a Country Priest (1951, Robert Bresson)
- Fantasia (1940, multiple)
- Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Orson Welles)
- Umberto D (1955, Vittorio de Sica)
- Rashomon (1950, Akira Kurosawa)
- Paisan (1946, Roberto Rossellini)
- Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton)
- Shadow of a Doubt (1943, Alfred Hitchcock)
- Great Dictator (1940, Charlie Chaplin)
- Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
- Sherlock, Jr. (1924, Buster Keaton)
- Seventh Seal (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
- La Chienne (1931, Jean Renoir)
- Contempt (1963, Jean-Luc Godard)
- Viridiana (1961, Luis Bunuel)
- Nanook of the North (1922, Robert Flaherty)
- Blood of a Poet (1930, Jean Cocteau)
- Singin' in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen)
- Grey Gardens (1975, Maysles Brothers)
- Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)
- Big Parade (1925, King Vidor)
- Henry V (1944, Laurence Olivier)
- Birth of a Nation (1915, DW Griffith)
- Thief of Bagdad (1924, Raoul Walsh)
- Stagecoach (1939, John Ford)
- City Lights (1931, Charlie Chaplin)
- Color of Pomegranates (1969, Sergei Parajanov)
- Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)
- Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
- 400 Blows (1959, Francois Truffaut)
- Bicycle Thief (1948, Vittorio de Sica)
- Sweet Smell of Success (1958, Alexander Mackendrick)
- Koyaanisqatsi (1983, Godfrey Reggio)
- Marnie (1964, Alfred Hitchcock)
- Fanny and Alexander (1982, Ingmar Bergman)
- Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming)
- Docks of New York (1928, Josef von Sternburg)
- Big Sleep (1946, Howard Hawks)
- Le Jour Se Leve (1939, Marcel Carne)
- Forbidden Games (1952, Rene Clement)
- Birds (1963, Alfred Hitchcock)
- Frankenstein (1931, James Whale)
- King Kong (1933, Cooper/Shoedsack)
- Out of the Past (1947, Jacques Tourneur)
- He Who Gets Slapped (1924, Victor Sjostrom)
- Pornographers (1966, Shohei Imamura)
- Head (1968, Bob Rafelson)
- Elephant (2003, Gus van Sant)
- Le Boucher (1969, Claude Chabrol)
- Merchant of Four Seasons (1971, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- Pandora's Box (1929, GW Pabst)
- Ugetsu (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi)
- Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick)
- Cat People (1942, Jacques Tourneur)
- Love Me Tonight (1932, Rouben Mamoulian)
- Twilight Samurai (2002, Yoji Yamada)
- Show Boat (1936, James Whale)
- Safety Last! (1923, Newmeyer/Taylor)
- Burden of Dreams (1982, Les Blank)
- Man With a Movie Camera (1929, Dziga Vertov)
- Johnny Guitar (1954, Nicholas Ray)
- Goodfellas (1990, Martin Scorsese)
- Gates of Heaven (1978, Errol Morris)
- In the Realm of the Senses (1976, Nagisa Oshima)
- Sympathy for the Devil (1968, Jean-Luc Godard)
- All That Heaven Allows (1955, Douglas Sirk)
- Rebecca (1940, Alfred Hitchcock)
- Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999, Errol Morris)
- Queen Christina (1933, Rouben Mamoulian)
- Barton Fink (1991, Coen Brothers)
- Mirror (1974, Andrei Tarkovsky)
- Beauty and the Beast (1946, Jean Cocteau)
- Baby Doll (1956, Elia Kazan)
- Wicker Man (1973, Robin Hardy)
- Unknown (1927, Tod Browning)
- Monkey Business (1931, Norman McLeod)
- Strangers on a Train (1951, Alfred Hitchcock)
- Butcher Boy (1997, Neil Jordan)
- Killing Fields (1984, Roland Joffe)
- Woodstock (1970, Michael Wadleigh)
- Sonatine (1993, Takeshi Kitano)
- Hard-Boiled (1992, John Woo)
- Testament (1983, Lynne Littman)
- Unforgiven (1992, Clint Eastwood)
- Wind Will Carry Us (1999, Abbas Kiarostami)
- Elephant Man (1980, David Lynch)
- King of Comedy (1983, Martin Scorsese)
- Tokyo Olympiad (1965, Kon Ichikawa)
- Gimme Shelter (1970, Maysles Brothers)
- Drunken Angel (1948, Akira Kurosawa)
- Kid Brother (1927, Ted Wilde)
- La Bete Humaine (1938, Jean Renoir)
- Queen Kelly (1929, Erich von Stroheim)
- Eel (1997, Shohei Imamura)
- Full Metal Jacket (1987, Stanley Kubrick)
- Wages of Fear (1953, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
- Palm Beach Story (1942, Preston Sturges)
- Cameraman (1928, Edward Sedgwick)
- Ivan the Terrible Part 2 (1958, Sergei Eisenstein)
- Gertrud (1964, Carl Dreyer)
- Godather Part 2 (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
- Animal Crackers (1930, Victor Heerman)
- Husbands and Wives (1992, Woody Allen)
- Long Good Friday (1980, John Mackenzie)
- Stranger Than Paradise (1984, Jim Jarmusch)
- Star is Born (1954, George Cukor)
- La Dolce Vita (1960, Federico Fellini)
- Blackmail (1929, Alfred Hitchcock)
- General (1927, Buster Keaton)
- Trust (1990, Hal Hartley)
- 12 Angry Men (1957, Sidney Lumet)
- Blow-up (1966, Michaelangelo Antonioni)
- Blue Angel (1930, Josef von Sternberg)
- Triumph of the Will (1934, Leni Riefenstahl)
- 42nd Street (1933, Lloyd Bacon)
- Pierrot le Fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
- Irma la Douce (1963, Billy Wilder)
- Endless Summer (1966, Bruce Brown)
- Last Year at Marienbad (1961, Alain Resnais)
- Kriemhild's Revenge (1924, Fritz Lang)
- Les Vampires (1915, Louis Feuillade)
- Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)
- Solaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky)
- Dracula (1931, Tod Browning)
- Peeping Tom (1960, Michael Powell)
- Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)
- Portrait of Jason (1967, Shirley Clarke)
- Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954, Jack Arnold)
- Actor's Revenge (1963, Kon Ichikawa)
- Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939, William Dieterle)
- Sunset Blvd. (1950, Billy Wilder)
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper)
- In a Lonely Place (1950, Nicholas Ray)
- Fox and His Friends (1975, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- Alexander Nevsky (1938, Sergei Eisenstein)
- Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960, Bert Stein)
- Samurai Trilogy (1954-1956, Hiroshi Inagaki)
- Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928, Buster Keaton)
- All About Eve (1950, Joseph Mankiewicz)
- Days of Heaven (1978, Terrence Malick)
- Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August (1975, Lina Wertmuller)
- Duel in the Sun (1946, King Vidor)
- American Friend (1977, Wim Wenders)
- It’s a Gift (1934, Norman McLeod)
- 47 Ronin (1941-42, Kenji Mizoguchi)
- Woman Under the Influence (1974, John Cassavetes)
- Ossessione (1942, Luchino Visconti)
- Searchers (1956, John Ford)
- Tokyo Drifter (1965, Seijun Suzuki)
- Suddenly, Last Summer (1959, Joseph Mankiewicz)
- Outlaw (1943, Howard Hughes)
- Little Foxes (1941, William Wyler)
- Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919, Robert Wiene)
- Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001, Shohei Imamura)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)
- Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, John Huston)
- Scarlet Empress (1934, Josef von Sternberg)
- Orphans of the Storm (1921, DW Griffith)
- My Man Godfrey (1936, Gregory la Cava)
- Thing (1951, Christian Nyby)
- Terminator (1984, James Cameron)
- Informer (1935, John Ford)
- Lolita (1962, Stanley Kubrick)
- Gate of Hell (1953, Teinosuke Kinugasa)
- Sullivan’s Travels (1941, Preston Sturges)
- Red Desert (1964, Michaelangelo Antonioni)
- Bullitt (1968, Peter Yates)
- Glass Key (1942, Stuart Heisler)
- Salesman (1969, Maysles Brothers)
- Red and the White (1967, Miklos Jansco)
- Sacrifice (1986, Andrei Tarkovsky)
- Autumn Afternoon (1962, Yasujiro Ozu)
- Frenzy (1972, Alfred Hitchcock)
- Powers of Ten (1978, Ray and Charles Eames)
- Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989, Woody Allen)
- Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927, Walter Ruttman)
- Mean Streets (1973, Martin Scorsese)
- End of Evangelion (1997, Hideaki Anno/Kayuza Tsurumaki)
- Cat's-Paw (1934, Sam Taylor)
- Hail Mary! (1985, Jean-Luc Godard)
- Dodsworth (1936, William Wyler)
- Scarface (1932, Howard Hawks)
- Little Fugitive (1953)
- Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959, Alain Resnais)
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1969, Sergio Leone)
- Life of an American Fireman (1906, Edwin S Porter)
- All That Jazz (1979, Bob Fosse)
- Stray Dog (1949, Akira Kurosawa)
- Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
- Meshes of the Afternoon (1943, Maya Deren)
- L'Avventura (1960, Michaelangelo Antonioni)
- La Femme Infidele (1969, Claude Chabrol)
- Haunting (1963, Robert Wise)
- Big Heat (1953, Fritz Lang)
- Shall We Dance (1937, Mark Sandrich)
- Lianna (1983, John Sayles)
- Speedy (1928, Ted Wilde)
- Picnic (1956, Joshua Logan)
- Happiness (1998, Todd Solondz)
- La Captive (2000, Chantal Akerman)
- Vampyr (1931, Carl Dreyer)
- My Life to Live (1962, Jean-Luc Godard)
- Strike (1924, Sergei Eisenstein)
- Ashes and Diamonds (1958, Andrzej Wajda)
- Wuthering Heights (1939, William Wyler)
- Written on the Wind (1956, Douglas Sirk)
- Gun Crazy (1949, Joseph H Lewis)
- Zazie dans le Metro (1960, Louis Malle)
- Network (1976, Sidney Lumet)
- Z (1969, Costa-Gavras)
- Portrait of Jennie (1948, William Dieterle)
- Murder, My Sweet (1944, Edward Dmytryk)
- Shame (1968, Ingmar Bergman)
- Floating Weeds (1959, Yasujiro Ozu)
- Day of the Locust (1975, John Schlesinger)
- Sanjuro (1962, Akira Kurosawa)
- Badlands (1973, Terrence Malick)
- Wedding March (1927, Erich von Stroheim)
- Freaks (1932, Tod Browning)
- King in New York (1957, Charlie Chaplin)
- Raise the Red Lantern (1991, Zhang Yimou)
- Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie (1972, Luis Bunuel)
- Dersu Uzala (1974, Akira Kurosawa)
- Spartacus (1960, Stanley Kubrick)
- Bigger Than Life (1956, Nicholas Ray)
- Hallelujah (1929, King Vidor)
- O Lucky Man! (1973, Lindsay Anderson)
- Leave Her to Heaven (1945, John Stahl)
- La Ceremonie (1995, Claude Chabrol)
- Paris, Texas (1984, Wim Wenders)
- Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928, Herbert Brenon)
- Man Escaped (1956, Robert Bresson)
- Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933, Mervyn LeRoy)
- Maedchen in Uniform (1931, Leontine Sagan)
- Anne of Green Gables (1985, Kevin Sullivan)
- Rocco and His Brothers (1960, Luchino Visconti)
- Henry Fool (1997, Hal Hartley)
- Pistol Opera (2001, Seijun Suzuki)
- Tin Drum (1979, Volker Schlondorff)
- Harakiri (1962, Masaki Kobayashi)
- Show Me Love (1999, Lukas Moodysson)
- Los Olvidados (1950, Luis Bunuel)
- Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder)
- Shootist (1976, Don Siegel)
- Le Samourai (1967, Jean-Pierre Melville)
- Oldboy (2003, Chan-wook Park)
- Show People (1928, King Vidor)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
- Les Diaboliques (1955, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
- Olympia (1938, Leni Riefenstahl)
- Grass (1925, multiple)
- Laura (1944, Otto Preminger)
- Cranes Are Flying (1957, Mikheil Kalatozishvili)
- Kingdom (1994, Lars von Trier)
- Fury (1936, Fritz Lang)
- Front Page (1931, Lewis Milestone)
- La Belle Noiseuse (1991, Jacques Rivette)
- Blood of Jesus (1941, Spencer Williams)
- Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- Detour (1945, Edgar G Ulmer)
- Green Wall (1969, Armando Robles Godoy)
- Wild Strawberries (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
- Last of the Mohicans (1920, Clarence Brown/Maurice Tourneur)
- Abraham's Valley (1993, Manoel de Olivera)
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- Pink Flamingos (1972, John Waters)
- Killer (1989, John Woo)
- Four Days in Naples (1962, Nanni Loy)
- Lola Montes (1955, Max Ophuls)
- Mon Oncle (1958, Jacques Tati)
- Man of Aran (1934, Robert Flaherty)
- Haxan (1922, Benjamin Christensen)
- Catch-22 (1970, Mike Nichols)
- Manhattan (1979, Woody Allen)
- Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch)
- Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)
- Maborosi (1995, Hirokazu Koreeda)
- Far from the Madding Crowd (1967, John Schlesinger)
- Hannah and Her Sisters (1986, Woody Allen)
- Adventures of Robin Hood (1938, Michael Curtiz)
- Hana-bi (1997, Takeshi Kitano)
- Throne of Blood (1957, Akira Kurosawa)
- Red Shoes (1948, Michael Powell)
- Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks)
- Sisters (1972, Brian DePalma)
- Dr. Akagi (1998, Shohei Imamura)
- Moulin Rouge (1952, John Huston)
- Alphaville (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
- L'Eclisse (1962, Michaelangelo Antonioni)
- Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989, Peter Greenaway)
- 3 Women (1977, Robert Altman)
- Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
- Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujiro Ozu)
- 39 Steps (1935, Alfred Hitchcock)
- My Name is Ivan (1962, Andrei Tarkovsky)
- Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)
- Targets (1968, Peter Bogdanovich)
- Day at the Races (1937, Sam Wood)
- Daisies (1966, Vera Chytilova)
- Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)
- Cabaret (1972, Bob Fosse)
- Sun's Burial (1960, Nagisa Oshima)
- Clock (1945, Vincente Minnelli)
- Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960, Fritz Lang)
- Porco Rosso (1992, Hayao Miyazaki)
- Forbidden Planet (1956, Fred Wilcox)
- Othello (1951, Orson Welles)
- Tabu (1931, FW Murnau)
- Marty (1953, Delbert Mann)
- Holiday (1938, George Cukor)
- Mystery of Picasso (1956, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
- Morocco (1930, Josef von Sternburg)
- Storm Over Asia (1928, Vsevolod Pudovkin)
- Scarlet Street (1945, Fritz Lang)
- Girl Shy (1924, Fred Newmeyer/Sam Taylor)
- Splendor in the Grass (1961, Elia Kazan)
- Kill! (1968, Kihachi Okamoto)
- Song of Bernadette (1943, Henry King)
- Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance (1962, John Ford)
- Diary of a Lost Girl (1929, GW Pabst)
- Imitation of Life (1959, Douglas Sirk)
- Capturing the Friedmans (2003, Andrew Jarecki)
- Camera Buff (1979, Krzysztof Kieslowski)
- Thin Blue Line (1988, Errol Morris)
- Man of the West (1958, Anthony Mann)
- Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)
- Elephant (1989, Alan Clarke)
- Pepe le Moko (1937, Julien Duvivier)
- Three Strangers (1946, Jean Negulesco)
- Crash (1996, David Cronenberg)
- That Obscure Object of Desire (1977, Luis Bunuel)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, Steven Spielberg)
- Court Jester (1956, Melvin Frank)
- Cyclo (1995, Anh Hung Tran)
- North by Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
- Room With a View (1986, James Ivory)
- Dr. Strangelove (1964, Stanley Kubrick)
- Chan is Missing (1981, Wayne Wang)
- Movie Crazy (1932, Clyde Bruckman)
- Alice Adams (1935, George Stevens)
- Dumbo (1941, Ben Sharpsteen)
- Mummy (1932, Carl Freund)
- Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1952, Jacques Tati)
- Rapture (1991, Michael Tolkin)
- White (1994, Krzysztof Kieslowski)
- Wind (1928, Victor Sjostrom)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1931, Lewis Milestone)
- Night of the Shooting Stars (1982, Taviani Brothers)
- Merry Widow (1925, Erich von Stroheim)
- There It Is (1928, Charles Bowers)
- Cheat (1915, Cecil B. Demille)
- Louisiana Story (1948, Robert Flaherty)
- In the Land of the Headhunters (1914, Edward Curtis)
- Swing Time (1936, George Stevens)
- Deliverance (1972, John Boorman)
- They Live By Night (1949, Nicholas Ray)
- River (1997, Ming-liang Tsai)
- Eve (1962, Joseph Losey)
- Angel Heart (1987, Alan Parker)
- Stroszek (1977, Werner Herzog)
- Breaking the Waves (1996, Lars von Trier)
- Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964, Sergei Paradjanov)
- Salo (1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
- Salome (1923, Charles Bryant)
- Crumb (1994, Terry Zwigoff)
- Mystic River (2003, Clint Eastwood)
- Destry Rides Again (1939, George Marshall)
- Play It Again, Sam (1972, Herbert Ross)
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949, John Ford)
- Grave of the Fireflies (1988, Isao Takahata)
- Richard III (1955, Laurence Olivier)
- Accidental Tourist (1988, Lawrence Kasdan)
- Blood and Sand (1922, Fred Niblo)
- Star is Born (1937, William Wellman)
- 28 Up (1985, Michael Apted)
- Baraka (1992, Ron Fricke)
- Up to His Ears (1965, Philip de Broca)
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975, Peter Weir)
- Northwest Passage (1940, King Vidor)
- Our Hospitality (1923, Buster Keaton)
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974, Sam Peckinpah)
- Double Suicide (1969, Masahiro Shinoda)
- Milky Way (1936, Leo McCarey)
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It might be of interest for you to notice that there are actually "only" 399 films on the list. Between Hana-bi and Red Shoes, belongs Throne of Blood. :)
Thanks. It's mighty goodish of you to pinpoint that. Really. ;)
It's also a very fine list, which is nothing new cause it's coming from pianoshootis.