100 Movies List

With the recent release of the Sight and Sound decade poll, my friend Josh and I decided to make our own top 100s, with any restrictions or broadening of terms that we saw fit. I chose to allow myself only one work per filmmaker, and settled on selecting only feature films. After making a list of close to 200 films and having to make some absolutely brutal cuts, I've settled on a rather mixed list that defines my love of cinema. The ordering of the films is totally randomized, because it would be impossible to try and determine which film is number 65 and which is number 66 otherwise.

1. Brick
2. Harakiri 
3. Rosetta
4. Ordet
5. Some Like It Hot
6. Le Samourai
7. Blazing Saddles
8. A History of Violence
9. Defending Your Life
10. Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
11. Taipei Story
12. The Wages of Fear
13. 28 Days Later
14. Millennium Actress
15. Sullivan's Travels
16. Sherlock Jr.
17. Sans Soleil
18. Youth of the Beast
19. Tokyo-Ga
20. Promare
21. The Parallax View
22. Sunrise
23. Shoplifters
24. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb
25. The Raid: Redemption
26. My Winnipeg
27. An American In Paris
28. Blow-Up
29. Kung Fu Hustle
30. Holy Motors
31. Mission Impossible
32. In Bruges
33. Ikiru
34. Groundhog Day
35. Hot Fuzz
36. Rebels of the Neon God
37. Stalker
38. Battle of Algiers
39. To Be Or Not To Be
40. Memories of Murder
41. In A Lonely Place
42. Touch of Evil
43. Children of Men
44. The Conversation
45. Mission Impossible: Fallout
46. The Shop on Main Street
47. First Reformed
48. Drive My Car
49. Pickpocket
50. Band of Outsiders
51. All About Eve
52. Killer of Sheep
53. Casablanca
54. Kind Hearts and Coronets
55. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
56. Spirited Away
57. Rififi
58. Melancholia
59. Moneyball
60. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
61. His Girl Friday
62. Singin' in the Rain
63. Raiders of the Lost Ark
64. Persona
65. Alien
66. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
67. A Better Tomorrow
68. A Matter of Life and Death
69. Where is the Friend's House?
70. Three Days of the Condor
71. Do the Right Thing
72. Son of Rambow
73. Once Upon a Time in the West
74. The Third Man
75. Star Wars
76. Moonlight
77. High Noon
78. Police, Adjective
79. Late Spring
80. Chungking Express
81. The Night of the Hunter
82. Sweet Smell of Success
83. In the Loop
84. Letter from an Unknown Woman
85. The Conformist
86. La Belle et la Bete
87. Notorious
88. Under the Skin
89. The Philadelphia Story
90. Mad Max Fury Road
91. Mulholland Drive
92. Annihilation
93. The Social Network
94. M. Hulot's Holiday
95. The Gold Rush
96. My Man Godfrey
97. The Prestige
98. Pickup on South Street
99. Voyage to Italy
100. Seconds