The 200 Greatest Films

The Film Sufi's
200 Greatest Movies

  1. Sundays and Cybele (Bourguignon, 1962)
  2. La Strada (Federico Fellini, 1954)
  3. The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939)
  4. L’Avventura (Antonioni, 1960)
  5. The Blue Angel (von Sternberg, 1929)
  6. Day of Wrath (Dreyer, 1943)
  7. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948)
  8. Gone with the Wind (Fleming, 1939)
  9. Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)
  10. Pather Panchali (Ray, 1955)
  11. The 39 Steps (Hitchcock, 1935) 
  12. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
  13. Los Olvidados (Bunuel, 1950)
  14. The American Friend (Wenders, 1977)
  15. La Rupture (Chabrol, 1970)
  16. Blow-Up (Antonioni, 1966)
  17. The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1957) 
  18. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
  19. L’Atalante (Vigo, 1934)
  20. Once Upon a Time in America (Leone, 1984)
  21. Badlands (Malick, 1973)
  22. Casablanca (Curtiz, 1939)
  23. The Crowd (Vidor, 1928)
  24. The Go-Between (Losey, 1970)   
  25. Devi (Ray, 1960)
  26. Le Jour Se Leve (Carne, 1939)
  27. The Passenger (Antonioni, 1975)
  28. The World of Apu (Ray, 1959)
  29. Baran (Majidi, 2001)
  30. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
  31. Europa (von Trier, 1991)
  32. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman, 1971)
  33. Not One Less (Zhang, 1999)
  34. The Crying Game (Jordan, 1992)
  35. Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946)
  36. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa 1954)
  37. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
  38. To Live (Zhang, 1994)
  39. The Year of Living Dangerously (Weir, 1982)
  40. The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959)
  41. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
  42. North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)
  43. Morocco (Von Sternberg, 1930)
  44. The Constant Gardener (Meirelles, 2005)
  45. Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi, 1954)
  46. The Shanghai Express (von Sternberg (1934)
  47. Blonde Venus (von Sternberg, 1932)
  48. Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson, 1951)
  49. Zorba the Greek (Cacoyannis, 1964)
  50. Spirit of the Beehive (Erice, 1973)
  51. Nosferatu the Vampyre (Herzog, 1979)
  52. Black Orpheus (Camus, 1959)
  53. Red Desert (Antonioni, 1964)
  54. Fellini Satyricon (Fellini, 1969)
  55. La Guerre est Finie (Resnais, 1966)
  56. I Walked with a Zombie (Tourneur, 1943)
  57. Chicago (Marshall, 2002)
  58. The Dekalog (Kieslowski, 1988-89)
  59. Fallen Angels (Wong Kar Wai, 1995)
  60. The Birds (Hitchcock, 1963)
  61. A Man Escaped (Bresson, 1950)
  62. Point Blank (Boorman, 1967)
  63. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi, 1939)
  64. Z (Costa-Gavras, 1969)
  65. Il Posto (Olmi, 1961)
  66. Kanal (Wajda, 1955)
  67. Winter Sleepers (Tykwer, 1997)
  68. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
  69. Two English Girls (Truffaut, 1971)
  70. My Fair Lady (Cuckor, 1964)
  71. Phantom India (Malle, 1969)
  72. The Red Shoes (Powell and Pressburger, 1948)
  73. Children of Heaven (Majidi, 1997)
  74. Midnight Cowboy (Schlesinger, 1969)
  75. Alien (Scott, 1979)
  76. Medium Cool (Wexler, 1969)
  77. La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 1960)
  78. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
  79. Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
  80. Love in the Afternoon (Wilder, 1957)
  81. The Lives of Others (von Donnersmarck, 2006) 
  82. Citizenfour (Poitras, 2014) 
  83. Shoot the Piano Player (Truffaut, 1960)
  84. Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)
  85. Walkabout (Roeg, 1971)
  86. Bonnie and Clyde (Penn, 1967)
  87. The Year My Voice Broke (Duigan, 1987)
  88. Ju Dou (Zhang, 1990)
  89. Through a Glass Darkly (Bergman, 1961)
  90. Stroszek (Herzog, 1977)
  91. The Trial (Welles, 1962)
  92. The Killers (Siodmark, 1946)
  93. Obsession (De Palma, 1976)
  94. About Elly (Farhadi, 2009)    
  95. Midnight Express (Parker, 1978)        
  96. A Room with a View (Ivory, 1985)
  97. The Circle (Panahi, 2000)
  98. Le Cercle Rouge (Melville, 1970)
  99. The Fiances (Olmi, 1963)    
  100. Breathless (Godard, 1960)
  101. Le Samourai (Melville, 1967)
  102. East of Eden (Kazan, 1955)
  103. The Grapes of Wrath (Ford, 1939)
  104. Isabel (Almond, 1968)
  105. Freaks (Browning, 1932)
  106. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
  107. Son of Frankenstein (Lee, 1939)
  108. Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir, 1975)    
  109. Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi, 1952)
  110. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
  111. Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)
  112. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 1939)
  113. Nanook of the North (Flaherty, 1922)    
  114. West Side Story (Wise and Robbins, 1961)
  115. Look Back in Anger (Richardson, 1958)
  116. The English Patient (Minghella, 1996)
  117. Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Edwards, 1961)
  118. Nashville (Altman, 1975)
  119. Accident (Losey, 1967)
  120. The Circumstance (Olmi, 1974)
  121. Once  Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968) 
  122. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene, 1920)
  123. Masculine-Feminine (Godard, 1966)
  124. The Red and the White (Jancso, 1967)
  125. The Conversation (Coppola, 1974)
  126. Alice in the Cities (Wenders, 1974)
  127. Eat Drink Man Woman (Lee, 1994)
  128. Distant Thunder (Ray, 1973)    
  129. The Bear (Annaud, 1988)
  130. The Mask of Dimitrios (Negulesco, 1944)
  131. On the Waterfront (Kazan 1954)
  132. Les Enfants Terribles (Melville, 1950)
  133. The Godfather: Part II (Coppola, 1974)
  134. Run Lola Run (Tykwer, 1998)
  135. Quadraphenia (Roddam, 1979)
  136. The Creeping Unknown (Guest, 1955)
  137. Carlito’s Way (De Palma, 1993)
  138. How to Murder Your Wife (Quine, 1965)
  139. Days and Nights in the Forest (Ray, 1970)
  140. Tess (Polanski, 1979)    
  141. Nights of Cabiria (Fellini, 1957)
  142. Seven Chances (Keaton, 1925)
  143. The Big Parade (Vidor, 1925)
  144. Little Big Man (Penn, 1970)
  145. Hiroshima Mon Amour (Resnais, 1959)    
  146. It Happened One Night (Capra, 1934)
  147. A Time for Drunken Horses (Ghobadi, 2000)
  148. Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
  149. The Long Good Friday (Mackenzie, 1980)
  150. For a Few Dollars More (Leone, 1965) 
  151. The Grand Illusion (Renoir, 1937)    
  152. Shakespeare Wallah (Ivory, 1965)
  153. The Sleeping Car Murders (Costa-Gavras, 1965)
  154. Jules and Jim (Truffaut, 1962)  
  155. Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, 1953) 
  156. The Color of Pomegranates (Parajanov, 1969)
  157. Spring in a Small Town (Fei, 1948)
  158. Felix si Otilia (Mihu, 1972)
  159. Tales of Manhattan (Duvivier, 1942)
  160. Thieves Like Us (Altman, 1974)
  161. No One Knows About Persian Cats (Ghobadi, 2009) 
  162. All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone, 1930)
  163. Dark City (Proyas, 1998)
  164. Sisters of the Gion (Mizoguchi, 1936)
  165. My Night at Maud’s (Rohmer, 1969)
  166. The Color of Paradise (Majidi, 1999)
  167. Forbidden Games (Clement, 1952)  
  168. The Sweet Hereafter (Egoyan, 1997)
  169. Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)  
  170. Roma - Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
  171. French Connection II (Frankenheimer, 1975)
  172. Mutiny on the Bounty (Lloyd, 1935)
  173. Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (Renoir, 1936)
  174. Eyes Without a Face (Franju, 1960)
  175. The Brick and the Mirror (Golestan, 1965) 
  176. The Road Home (Zhang, 1999)
  177. The Lizard (Marmoulak) - Kamal Tabrizi (2004)
  178. Platoon (Stone, 1986)
  179. The Last Voyage (Stone, 1960)
  180. Heaven (Tykwer, 2002)
  181. Lacho Drom (Gatlif, 1996)
  182. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
  183. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kaufman, 1978)
  184. The Tree of the Wooden Clogs (Olmi, 1978)
  185. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang, 1991)
  186. The Householder (Ivory, 1963)
  187. The Adversary (Ray, 1970)
  188. Missing (Costa-Gavras, 1982)
  189. L’Eclisse (Antonioni, 1962) 
  190. Crime and Punishment (von Sternberg, 1935)
  191. Sin Nombre (Fukunaga, 2009) 
  192. Father (Majidi, 1996)
  193. The Usual Suspects (Singer, 1995)
  194. Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock, 1951) 
  195. Shock Corridor (Fuller, 1963)
  196. Frankenstein (Whale, 1931)
  197. The Maltese Falcon (Huston, 1941)
  198. The New World (Malick, 2005)
  199. Curse of the Golden Flower (Zhang, 2006)
  200. The Long Goodbye (Altman, 1973)

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

I completely adore your blog ! What a tremendous effort you have endeavoured here.
On my blog, I have linked your site and shall keep checking your film reviews!
Am in the midst of screen-writing and shall be making a film soon.
My best wishes to you and keep inspiring the rest of us!
Cheers.

The Film Sufi said...

Thanks! Based on the rich sensibilities expressed in your blog, I expect your upcoming film will be something special. I look forward to seeing it.

'MP' said...

Very few entries from the 21st century. Or, we should wait some years before a film can be called 'great'?

anki panki said...

How come there is only one Kurosawa film in the list.

The Film Sufi said...

I agree that Kurosawa is great, anki panki, and I was thinking of including "Rashomon" on this list. What are your favorite Kurosawa films?

ftehranian said...

I think "Cinema Paradiso(Tornatore,1988)really deserves to be in your list as well.

Nice blog by the way.
Thank you

Manoj said...

Alas!! Lues Bunuel, Abbas Kiarostami, Agnes Varda is out of the film world ?

The Film Sufi said...

Bunuel is there.

Manoj said...

But, just Buñuel's one film!

Peter said...

It's great to see four Ermanno Olmi films on your list. He is one of my favourite directors. Two other Italian directors whose work I really like are Pasolini and Rossellini.
Nice to see some popular films such as "Carlito's Way" included.
I'm a bit surprised to find no mention of the likes of John Ford or Elaine May.