Dr. J's Favourite Films Of All Time


This list was prepared in 2012 and includes films released in 2011 and before.  Enjoy!

2012	Title	Director	Year	Country	2006
1	Casablanca	Curtiz	1942	U.S.	1
2	Tootsie	Pollack	1982	U.S.	2
3	Spirited Away	Miyazaki	2002	Japan	8
4	Some Like It Hot	Wilder	1959	U.S.	3
5	Singin' In The Rain	Donen, Kelly	1952	U.S.	7
6	The Big Sleep	Hawks	1946	U.S.	4
7	Sunset Boulevard	Wilder	1950	U.S.	5
8	Dr. Strangelove	Kubrick	1964	Great Britain	6
9	Late Spring	Ozu	1949	Japan	30
10	A Night At The Opera	Wood	1935	U.S.	9
11	His Girl Friday	Hawks	1940	U.S.	16
12	All About Eve	Mankiewicz	1950	U.S.	10
13	Wizard of Oz	Fleming	1939	U.S.	12
14	Moulin Rouge	Luhrmann	2001	Australia	20
15	Manhatten	Allen	1979	U.S.	13
16	Aliens	Cameron	1986	U.S.	19
17	The Maltese Falcon	Huston	1941	U.S.	15
18	Lost In Translation	S. Coppola	2003	U.S. / Japan	22
19	The Grand Illusion	Renoir	1937	France	18
20	To Sir With Love	Clavell	1967	Great Britain	11
21	Sabrina	Wilder	1954	U.S.	17
22	Contempt	Godard	1964	France	21
23	The Rules Of The Game	Renoir	1939	France	39
24	Far From Heaven	Haynes	2002	U.S.	27
25	Pan's Labyrinth	del Toro	2006	Mexico	--
26	Edward Scissorhands	Burton	1990	U.S.	64
27	Beauty and The Beast	Trousdale, Wise	1991	U.S.	24
28	The Godfather II	F. Coppola	1974	U.S.	43
29	Raiders Of The Lost Ark	Spielberg	1981	U.S.	26
30	Pandora's Box	Pabst	1928	Germany	28
31	Tokyo Story	Ozu	1953	Japan	37
32	The Graduate	Nichols	1967	U.S.	25
33	L'Aventurra	Antonioni	1960	Italy	31
34	Mulholland Drive	Lynch	2001	U.S.	41
35	Heathers	Lehmann	1989	U.S.	80
36	Before Sunset	Linklater	2004	U.S.	34
37	Reservoir Dogs	Tarantino	1992	U.S.	23
38	In The Mood For Love	Wong	2000	China	79
39	My Man Godfrey	La Cava	1936	U.S.	14
40	Andrei Rublev	Tarkovsky	1966	Russia	52
41	The Player	Altman	1992	U.S.	33
42	The Godfather	F. Coppola	1972	U.S.	32
43	The Empire Strikes Back	Kershner	1981	U.S.	42
44	Blue Velvet	Lynch	1986	U.S.	44
45	In The Company Of Men	LaBute	1997	U.S.	29
46	Shakespeare In Love	Madden	1998	Great Britain	36
47	Planet Of The Apes	Schaffner	1968	U.S.	38
48	To Live	Zhang	1994	China	35
49	The Apartment	Wilder	1960	U.S.	40
50	Children Of Paradise	Carné	1945	France	46
51	American Beauty	Mendes	1999	U.S.	50
52	Rear Window	Hitchcock	1954	U.S.	51
53	Up!	Docter	2009	U.S.	--
54	Star Trek II: Wrath Of Khan	Meyers	1982	U.S.	53
55	The Umbrellas of Cherbourg	Demy	1964	France	--
56	Vertigo	Hitchcock	1958	U.S.	54
57	Lolita	Kubrick	1962	Great Britain	49
58	Sunrise	Murnau	1927	U.S.	55
59	My Night At Maud's	Rohmer	1969	France	47
60	City Lights	Chaplin	1931	U.S.	48
61	Spider-Man	Raimi	2002	U.S.	58
62	A Nos Amours	Pialat	1983	France	59
63	Crash	Haggis	2005	U.S.	60
64	Fanny and Alexander	Bergman	1973	Sweden	--
65	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Lee	2000	China	61
66	Kill Bill Vol. 1	Tarantino	2003	U.S.	62
67	Shawshank Redemption	Darabont	1994	U.S.	69
68	Ace In The Hole	Wilder	1951	U.S.	--
69	Lawrence Of Arabia	Lean	1962	Great Britain	70
70	Duck Soup	McCarey	1933	U.S.	67
71	Gone With The Wind	Fleming	1939	U.S.	71
72	Exotica	Egoyan	1994	Canada	75
73	Run Lola Run	Tykwer	1999	Germany	63
74	Manchurian Candidate	Frankenheimer	1962	Great Britain	66
75	Red Shoes	Powell, Pressburger	1948	Great Britain	--
76	Citizen Kane	Welles	1941	U.S.	72
77	Swept Away	Wertmuller	1974	Italy	68
78	Get Shorty	Sonnenfeld	1995	U.S.	45
79	Ninotchka	Lubitsch	1939	U.S.	56
80	Brief Encounter	Lean	1945	Great Britain	76
81	The Descendents	Payne	2011	U.S.	--
82	Full Metal Jacket	Kubrick	1987	Great Britain	73
83	Wings of Desire	Wenders	1987	Germany	--
84	The Sweet Hereafter	Egoyan	1997	Canada	65
85	All That Jazz	Fosse	1979	U.S.	57
86	Ben-Hur	Wyler	1959	U.S.	78
87	To Have And Have Not	Hawks	1944	U.S.	74
88	Schindler's List	Spielberg	1993	U.S.	81
89	The English Patient	Minghella	1996	Great Britain	82
90	The Searchers	Ford	1956	U.S.	85
91	Double Indemnity	Wilder	1944	U.S.	93
92	The Ten Commandments	De Mille	1956	U.S.	84
93	War Of The Roses	DeVito	1989	U.S.	92
94	Raise The Red Lantern	Zhang	1991	China	96
95	Scenes From A Marriage	Bergman	1973	Sweden	--
96	Ikiru	Kurosawa	1953	Japan	86
97	The 400 Blows	Truffaut	1959	France	--
98	Cabaret	Fosse	1972	U.S.	88
99	Back To The Future	Zemeckis	1985	U.S.	--
100	Pulp Fiction	Tarantino	1994	U.S.	89

Director Appearances In The Top 100

Director	Appearances
Wilder	6
Hawks	3
Kubrick	3
Tarantino	3
Bergman	2
F. Coppola	2
Egoyan	2
Fleming	2
Fosse	2
Hitchcock	2
Lean	2
Lynch	2
Ozu	2
Renoir	2
Spielberg	2
Zhang	2