Rank	Title	Director	Acting	Year	Comments
1	Badlands	Terrence Malick	Martin Sheen	1973
2	Cool Hand Luke	Stuart Rosenberg	Paul Newman	1965
3	Five Easy Pieces	Bob Rafelson	Jack Nicholson	1970
4	The Conversation	Francis Ford Coppola	Gene Hackman	1974
5	The Tenant	Roman Polanski		1976	DP: Sven Nykvist
6	Rear Window	Alfred Hitchcock	Jimmy Stewart	1954
7	Miller's Crossing	the Coen Brothers		1990
8	Star Wars	George Lucas	Sir Alec Guiness	1977
9	Sante Sangre	Alejandro Jodorowsky		1990	Spain
10	Solaris	Andrei Tarkovsky		1972	Russia
11	Blade Runner	Ridley Scott	Harrison Ford	1982	Director's Cut
12	Seven Samurai	Akira Kurosawa	Toshiro Mifune	1954	Japan
13	Richard III		Ian McKellan	1995
14	Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!	Russ Meyer	Tura Satana	1966
15	Killing Zoe	Roger Avary	Julie Delpy
16	Amateur	Hal Hartley	Damian Young	1994
17	Swimming with Sharks	George Huang	Frank Whaley jr.	1994
18	True Romance	Tony Scott		1993	Tarantino Script
19	Brazil	Terry Gilliam	Michael Price	1985	Director's Cut
20	Romeo and Juliet	Baz Luhrman		1997
21	Videodrome	David Cronenberg	Deborah Harry	1983
22	The Muppet Movie		Jim Henson	1979
23	And the Ship Sails On	Federico Fellini		1983
24	Putney Swope	Robert Downey Sr.		1969
25	Vernon, Florida	Errol Morris		1985	Documentary
26	Jungle Book	Wolfgang Reitherman	Louis Prima	1967
27	Matador	Pedro Almodovar	Antonio Banderas	1986	Spain
28	Bashu	Bahram Bazai		1985	Iran
29	Belly of an Architect	Peter Greenaway	Brian Dennehy	1991
30	Dracula	Tod Browning	Bela Lugosi	1931
31	Near Dark	Kathryn Bigelow	Bill Paxton	1985
32	Wings of Desire	Wim Wenders		1988	Germany
33	Memories of Underdevelopment	T.G. Alea		1968	Cuba
34	Company Limited	Satyajit Ray		1970	India
35	Down By Law	Jim Jarmusch	Tom Waits	1986
36	Red Sorghum	Zhang Yimou	Gong Li	1987	China
37	The Maltese Falcon	John Huston	Humphrey Bogart	1931
38	The Devils	Ken Russell	Oliver Reed	1971
39	Arsenic and Old Lace	Frank Capra	Jimmy Stewart	1944
40	Local Hero	Bill Forsythe	Burt Lancaster	1983	Scotland + Texas
41	White	Krystof Kieslowski	Julie Delpy	1994	Poland
42	Ravenous	Antonia Bird	Jeffrey Jones	1999	Michael Nyman's best work
43	The Year My Voice Broke	John Duigan	Noah Taylor	1987
44	Metropolis	Fritz Lang		1926	Silent
45	Big	Penny Marshall	Tom Hanks	1988
46	Sixteen Candles	John Hughes	Molly Ringwald	1984
47	Walkabout	Nicholas Roeg		1975	Australia
48	Hairspray	Jon Waters	Divine	1988
49	Adv. of Robin Hood		Errol Flynn	1940
50	Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead		Gary Oldman	1990
51	Witness	Peter Weir	Harrison Ford	1985
52	On Golden Pond		Henry Fonda	1981
53	Fire and Ice	Ralph Bakshi		1983	Frank Frazetta Art
54	Better Off Dead	Steve Holland	John Cusack	1985
55	Beetlejuice	Tim Burton		1988
56	Passion Fish	John Sayles	Alfre Woodard	1992
57	Sling Blade		Billy Bob Thornton	1997
58	Animal House	John Landis	John Belushi	1978
59	Young Frankenstein	Mel Brooks	Gene Wilder	1974
60	Mishima	Paul Schrader		1985
61	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Milos Forman	Jack Nicholson	1975
62	Lawrence of Arabia	David Lean	Peter O'Toole	1962
63	Heavy	James Mangold	Liv Tyler	1997
64	Midnight Cowboy	John Schlesinger	Jon Voight	1969	Rated X
65	Runaway Train	Andrei Konchalovsky	Eric Roberts	1985
66	Star 80	Bob Fosse	Mariel Hemingway	1983	DP: Sven Nykvist
67	My Favorite Year	Richard Benjamin	Peter O'Toole	1982
68	Caddyshack	Harold Ramis	Rodney Dangerfield	1980
69	Dark Crystal	Frank Oz	Jim Henson	1982
70	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Stuart Patton	Kirk Douglas	1954
71	Three Musketeers	George Sidney	Gene Kelly	1948	GK faster than Jackie Chan
72	Creator	Ivan Passer	Peter O'Toole	1985
73	Metropolitan	Whit Stillman	Chris Eigeman	1990
74	Cinema Paradiso	Giuseppe Tornatore		1988
75	Exotica	Atom Egoyan	Elias Koteas	1994
76	A Little Romance	George Hill	Sir Laurence Olivier	1979
77	Totoro	Hayao Miyazaki		1993	Japan + subtitled
78	Missouri Breaks	Arthur Penn	Marlon Brando	1976
79	Deliverance	John Boorman	Burt Reynolds	1972
80	Spartacus	Stanley Kubrick	Kirk Douglas	1960
81	One False Move	Carl Franklin	Bill Paxton	1991
82	Aliens	James Cameron	Sigourney Weaver	1986
83	Straight to Hell	Alex Cox		1987	The Pogues
84	Drugstore Cowboy	Gus Van Sant		1989	William S. Burroughs
85	Fresh	Boaz Yakin	Sean Nelson	1994	Lawrence Bender
86	Blue Velvet	David Lynch	Dennis Hopper	1986
87	Menace II Society	Hughes Brothers		1993
88	Once Were Warriors	Lee Tamahori		1994	New Zealand + Maori
89	The Untouchables	Brian DePalma	Sean Connery	1987
90	The 13th Warrior	John McTiernan	Antonio Banderas	1999	high score for repeat viewing
91	Mighty Joe Young	Ernest B. Schoedsack		1949	Ray Harryhausen
92	Grosse Point Blank		Minnie Driver	1996
93	Little Odessa	James Gray	Vanessa Redgrave	1994
94	The Killer	John Woo	Chow Yun Fat	1990	Hong Kong
95	City of Lost Children	Jeunet and Caro	Ron Perlman	1995	France
96	The Professional	Luc Besson	Jean Reno	1994	aka Leon
97	Underground	Emir Kusturica		1995	Yugoslavia
98	Babe	Chris Noonan	Brian Henson	1995	FAR better than Braveheart
99	Army of Darkness	Sam Raimi		1992	aka Medieval Dead
100	Return of the King	Peter Jackson		2003	WETA