The 300 Best Films of All Time

 

An incomplete list based on my current theories, biases, ignorances and memory lapses.

ARGENTINA

• Lucretia Martel

1. La mujer sin cabeza (The Headless Woman) 2008
2. La niña santa (The Holy Girl) — 2004
3. La ciénaga (The Swamp) — 2001

BRAZIL

• Matheus Nachtergaele

1. A Festa da Menina Morta (The Dead Girl’s Feast) — 2008

CANADA

• Zacharias Kunuk

1. Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) — 2001

• Guy Maddin

1. Cowards Bend the Knee or The Blue Hands — 2003
2. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary — 2002
3. The Heart of the World — 2000
4. Twilight of the Ice Nymphs — 1997

• Deepa Mehta

1. Fire — 1996
2. Water – 2005

CHINA

• Jia Zhang-ke

1. Sanxia haoren (Still Life) — 2006
2. Shijie (The World) — 2004
3. Zhantai (Platform) — 2000

CZECH REPUBLIC

• Jan Švankmajer

1. Otesánek (Little Otik) — 2000
2. Spiklenci slasti (Conspirators of Pleasure) — 1996
3. Faust — 1994
4. Neco z Alenky (Alice) — 1988

DENMARK

• Lars von Trier

1. Manderlay — 2005
2. Dogville — 2003
3. Dancer in the Dark — 2000
4. Medea — 1988

FRANCE

• Chantal Akerman

1. Demain on déménage (Tomorrow We Move) — 2004
2. La captive (The Captive) — 2000
3. Les rendez-vous d’Anna (Anna’s Meetings) — 1978
4. News from Home — 1977
5. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles — 1975
6. Je, tu, il, elle (I, You, She, He) — 1974

• Robert Bresson

1. L’argent — 1983
2. Mouchette — 1967
3. Au hasard Balthazar — 1966
4. Procès de Jeanne d’Arc (The Trial of Joan of Arc) — 1962
5. Pickpocket — 1959
6. Un condamné à mort s’est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (A Man Escaped or The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth) — 1956
7. Journal d’un curé de campagne (Diary of a Country Priest) — 1951

• Leos Carax

1. Les amants du Pont-Neuf (Lovers on the Bridge) — 1991
2. Mauvais sang (Bad Blood) — 1986
3. Boy Meets Girl — 1984

• Claire Denis

1. Trouble Every Day — 2001
2. Beau travail — 1999

• Jean Genet

1. Un chant d’amour — 1950

• Jean-Luc Godard

1. Notre musique — 2004
2. Éloge de l’amour (In Praise of Love) — 2001
3. De l’origine du XXIe siècle — 2000
4. Histoire(s) du cinema — 1997
5. For Ever Mozart — 1996
6. Hélas pour moi — 1993
7. Nouvelle vague — 1990
8. King Lear — 1987
9. Armide — 1987
10. Soft and Hard — 1986
11. Détective — 1985
12. Je vous salue, Marie (Hail Mary) — 1985
13. Prénom Carmen (First Name: Carmen) — 1983
14. Passion — 1982
15. Ici et ailleurs — 1976
16. Tout va bien — 1972
17. Le gai savoir — 1969
18. Week End — 1967
19. La chinoise — 1967
20. 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle (Two or Three Things I Know About Her) — 1967
21. Made in U.S.A. — 1966
22. Masculin féminin — 1966
23. Pierrot le fou — 1965
24. Alphaville — 1965
25. Bande à part (Band of Outsiders) — 1964
26. Le mépris (Contempt) — 1963
27. Les carabiniers — 1963
28. Vivre sa vie (My Life to Live) ­ — 1962
29. Une femme est une femme (A Woman Is a Woman) — 1961
30. À bout de souffle (Breathless) — 1960

• Chris Marker

1. Sans Soleil — 1983
2. La Jetée — 1962
3. Les Statues meurent aussi (with Alain Resnais) — 1953

• Alain Resnais

1. L’année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad) — 1961
2. Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
3. Nuit et brouillard (Night and Fog) — 1955
4. Les Statues meurent aussi (with Alain Resnais) — 1953

• Agnes Varda

1. Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (The Gleaners & I) — 2000
2. Sans toit ni loi (Vagabond)
3. Cléo de 5 à 7 (Cleo from 5 to 7) — 1962

GERMANY

• Pina Bausch

1. Die Klage der Kaiserin (The Complaint of an Empress) — 1990

• Carl Theodor Dreyer

1. Vredens dag (Day of Wrath) — 1943
2. Vampyr — 1932
3. La passion de Jeanne d’Arc — 1928

• Rainer Werner Fassbinder

1. Berlin Alexanderplatz — 1980

• Peter Fischli and David Weiss

1. Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go) — 1987

• Werner Herzog

1. Fitzcarraldo — 1982
2. Woyzeck — 1979
3. Stroszek — 1977
4. Herz aus Glas (Heart of Glass) — 1976
5. Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle (The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser) — 1974
6. Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Aquirre: The Wrath of God) — 1972

• Fritz Lang

1. Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse — 1933
2. M — 1931
3. Metropolis — 1927

GREECE

• Theo Angelopoulos

1. To vlemma tou Odyssea (Ulysses’ Gaze) — 1995

INDIA

• Guru Dutt

1. Kagaaz Ke Phool (Paper Flowers) — 1959

• Satyajit Ray

1. Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) — 1959
2. Jalsaghar (The Music Room) — 1958
3. Parash Pathar (The Philosopher’s Stone) — 1958
4. Aparajito (The Unvanquished) — 1956
5. Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) — 1955

IRAN

• Forugh Farrokhzad

1. Khaneh siah ast (The House is Black) — 1963

• Abbas Kiarostami

1. Shirin (2008)
2. Bad ma ra khahad bord (The Wind Will Carry Us) — 1999
3. Ta’m e guilass (A Taste of Cherry) — 1997
4. Nema-ye Nazdik (Close-Up) — 1990

ITALY

• Michelangelo Antonioni

1. Il deserto rosso (The Red Desert) — 1964
2. L’eclisse (The Eclipse) — 1962
3. L’avventura (The Adventure) — 1960

• Bernardo Bertolucci

1. La luna (Luna) —1979
2. Il conformista (The Conformist) — 1970
3. Agonia — 1969

• Federico Fellini

1. E la nave va (And the Ship Sails On) — 1983
2. Amarcord — 1973
3. Roma — 1972
4. Satyricon — 1969
5. 8 ½ — 1963

• Pier Paolo Pasolini

1. Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom) — 1975
2. Il fiore delle mille e una notte (The Arabian Nights) — 1974
3. Il Decameron — 1971
4. Medea — 1969
5. Teorema — 1968
6. Edipo re (Oedipus Rex) ­— 1967
7. Uccellacci e uccellini (Hawks and Sparrows) — 1966
8. Mamma Roma — 1962

JAPAN

• Katushito Ishii

1. Naisu no mori: The First Contact (Funky Forest: The First Contact) — 2005
2. Cha no aji (The Taste of Tea) — 2004

• Akira Kurosawa

1. Dreams — 1990
2. Ran — 1985
3. Kagemusha — 1980
4. Dodesukaden — 1970
5. Akahige (Red Beard) — 1965
6. Tengoku to jigoku (High and Low) — 1963
7. Tsubaki Sanjûrô — 1962
8. Yojimbo — 1961
9. Kakushi-toride no san-akunin (The Hidden Fortress) — 1958
10. Kumonosu-jou (Throne of Blood) — 1957
11. Shichinin no samurai (The Seven Samurai) — 1954
12. Rashômon — 1950

• Hiyao Miyazaki

1. Mononoke-hime (Princess Mononoke) — 1997
2. Kaze no tani no Naushika (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind) — 1984

• Yasujiro Ozu

1. Sanma no aji (An Autumn Afternoon) — 1962
2. Kohayagawa-ke no aki (The Last of Summer) — 1961
3. Akibiyori (Late Autumn) — 1960
4. Ukigusa (Floating Weeds) — 1959
5. Soshun — 1956
6. Tôkyô monogatari (Tokyo Story) — 1953
7. Ochazuke no aji (Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice) — 1952
8. Bakushû (Early Summer ) — 1951
9. Banshun (Late Spring) — 1949
10. Nagaya shinshiroku — 1947

• Hiroshi Teshigahara

1. Suna no onna (Woman in the Dunes) — 1964

MACEDONIA

• Teona Strugar Mitevska

1. Kako ubiv svetec (How I Killed a Saint) — 2004
2. Jas sum od Titov Veles (I am From Titov Velez) — 2007

POLAND

• Wojciech Has

1. Sanatorium pod klepsydra (The Hour-Glass Sanatorium) — 1973
2. Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie (The Saragossa Manuscript) — 1965

• Lech Majewski

1. Pokój saren (The Roe’s Room) — 1997

• Bela Tarr

1. Werckmeister harmóniák (Werckmeister Harmonies) — 2000
2. Sátántangó (Satan’s Tango) — 1994

PORTUGAL

• Pedro Costa

1. Tarrafal — 2007
2. Memories — 2007
3. Juventude Em Marcha — 2006
4. Ne change rien — 2005
5. Où gît votre sourire enfoui? — 2001
6. No Quarto da Vanda — 2000
7. Ossos — 1997
8. Casa de Lava — 1994
9. O Sangue — 1989

• Manoel de Oliveira

1. O Passado e o Presente (Past and Present) — 1972
2. A Caça — 1964
3. Acto de Primavera (Rite of Spring) — 1963

RUSSIA

• Aleksandr Dovzhenko

1. Zemlya (Earth) — 1930
2. Arsenal — 1928

• Sergei Eisenstein

1. ¡Que viva Mexico! — 1932
2. La destrucción de Oaxaca — 1931
3. Romance sentimentale — 1930
4. Bronenosets Potyomkin — 1925

• Mikhail Kalatozov

1. Soy Cuba (I Am Cuba) — 1964

• Vsevolod Pudovkin

1. Mat (Mother) —1926

• Andrei Tarkovsky

1. Offret (The Sacrifice) — 1986
2. Nostalghia — 1983
3. Stalker — 1979
4. Zerkalo (The Mirror) — 1975
5. Andrey Rublyov — 1966

• Dziga Vertov

1. Chelovek s kino-apparatom (The Man With the Movie Camera) — 1929

SERBIA

• Emir Kusturica

1. Underground — 1995

SWEDEN

• Roy Andersson

1. Du levande — 2007
2. Sånger från andra våningen (Songs From the Second Floor) — 2000
3. Giliap — 1975
4. En kärlekshistoria (A Swedish Love Story) — 1970

• Ingmar Bergan

1. Viskningar och rop (Cries and Whispers) — 1972
   
2. Vargtimmen (Hour of the Wolf) — 1968
3. Persona — 1966
   
4. Tystnaden (The Silence) — 1963
   

SPAIN

• Luis Buñuel

1. Cet obscur objet du désir (That Obscure Object of Desire) — 1977
2. Le fantôme de la liberté (The Phantom of Liberty) — 1974
3. Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie) — 1972
4. Tristana — 1970
   
5. La voie lactée (The Milky Way) — 1969
6. Belle de jour (1967)
7. Le journal d’une femme de chambre (Diary of a Chambermaid) — 1964
8. El ángel exterminador (The Exterminating Angel) — 1962
9. Nazarín — 1959
10. L’âge d’or — 1930

• Carlos Saura

1. Goya en Burdeos (Goya in Bordeaux) — 1999

TAIWAN

• Tsai Ming-Liang

1. Hei yan quan (I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone) — 2006
2. Tian bian yi duo yun (The Wayward Cloud) — 2005
   
3. Ni na bian ji dian (What Time is it There?) — 2001
   
4. Bu san (Goodbye Dragon Inn?) — 2003
   
5. Dong (The Hole) — 1998
   
6. He liu (The River) — 1997

THAILAND

• Apichatpong Weerasethakul

1. Sang sattawat (Syndromes and a Century) — 2006
2. Sud pralad (Tropical Malady) — 2004
3. Sud sanaeha (Blissfully Yours) — 2002
4. Dokfa nai meuman (Mysterious Object At Noon) — 2000

TURKEY

• Semih Kaplanoglu

1. Süt (Milk) — 2008
2. Yumurta (Egg) — 2007

UNITED KINGDOM

• Lindsay Anderson

1. O Lucky Man! — 1973
2. If…. — 1968

• Peter Brook

1. The Mahabharata — 1989
2. Marat/Sade — 1967
3. The Lord of the Flies — 1963

• Peter Greenaway

1. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover — 1989
2. The Baby of Macon — 1993
3. Prospero’s Books — 1991
4. A Zed and Two Naughts — 1985
5. The Falls — 1980
6. A Walk Through H — 1978

• Derek Jarman

1. Blue — 1993
2. Wittgenstein — 1993
3. The Last of England — 1988
4. Caravaggio — 1986
5. The Angelic Conversation — 1985
6. Jubilee — 1978
7. Sebastiane — 1976

• Mike Leigh

1. Secrets & Lies — 1996
2. Naked — 1993
3. Life Is Sweet — 1991

• Monty Python

1. The Meaning of Life — 1983
2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail — 1975

• The Brothers Quay

1. The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes — 2005
2. Institute Benjamenta — 1995
3. Rehearsal for Extinct Anatomies — 1988
4. The Street of Crocodiles — 1986

UNITED STATES

• Woody Allen

1. Hannah and Her Sisters — 1986
2. Manhattan — 1979
3. Annie Hall — 1977
4. Sleeper— 1973

• Thom Andersen

1. Los Angeles Plays Itself — 2003

• Matthew Barney

1. Drawing Restraint 9 — 2005
2. Cremaster 3 — 2002
3. Cremaster 2 — 1999
4. Cremaster 5 — 1997
5. Cremaster 1 — 1996
6. Cremaster 4 — 1995

• Charles Burnett

1. Killer of Sheep — 1977
2. The Horse — 1973

• Maya Deren

1. Meshes of the Afternoon — 1943

• Richard Foreman

1. Strong Medicine — 1981

• Terry Gilliam

1. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen — 1988
2. Brazil — 1985

• Todd Haynes

1. Safe — 1995

• Harmony Korine

1. Julien Donkey-Boy — 1999

• Stanley Kubrick

1. The Shining — 1980
2. A Clockwork Orange — 1971
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey — 1968
4. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb — 1964
5. Paths of Glory — 1957

• Spike Lee

1. Crooklyn — 1994
2. Do the Right Thing — 1989

• David Lynch

1. Inland Empire — 2006
2. Lost Highway — 1997
3. Wild at Heart — 1990
4. Blue Velvet — 1986
5. Dune — 1984
6. Eraserhead — 1977
7. The Alphabet — 1968

• Kent Mackenzie
  

1. The Exiles — 1961

• The Marx Brothers

1. Duck Soup — 1933
2. Animal Crackers — 1930

• John Sayles

1. Men With Guns — 1997

• Alan Schneider

1. Film — 1965

• Deborah Stratman

1. In Order to Not Be Here — 2002

• Frederick Wiseman

1. Domestic Violence — 2001
2. Belfast, Maine — 1999
3. Public Housing — 1997
4. Zoo — 1993
5. Blind — 1987
6. Deaf — 1986
7. Multi-Handicapped — 1986
8. Racetrack — 1985
9. Seraphita’s Diary — 1980
10. Meat — 1976
11. Welfare — 1975
12. Primate — 1974
13. Juvenile Court — 1973
14. High School — 1968
15. Titicut Follies — 1967