Churbuck's Top 100

By: David Churbuc​k

David Churbuck’s life list of his favorite flicks. Suum cuique. To be rank ordered in the future.

• 01
  The Word
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 02
  Sátántangó
  Béla Tarr
• 03
  Andrei Rublev
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 04
  Werckmeister Harmonies
  Béla Tarr
• 05
  Climates
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• 06
  Fists in the Pocket
  Marco Bellocchio
• 07
  Rocco and His Brothers
  Luchino Visconti
• 08
  M. Hulot's Holiday
  Jacques Tati
• 09
  Knife in the Water
  Roman Polanski
• 10
  Apocalypse Now
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 11
  The 400 Blows
  François Truffaut
• 12
  The Rules of the Game
  Jean Renoir
• 13
  Grand Illusion
  Jean Renoir
• 14
  Forbidden Games
  René Clément
• 15
  Le cercle rouge
  Jean-Pierre Melville
• 16
  Le jour se lève
  Marcel Carné
• 17
  Il posto
  Ermanno Olmi
• 18
  Doctor Zhivago
  David Lean
• 19
  Lawrence of Arabia
  David Lean
• 20
  The Longest Day
  Ken Annakin
• 21
  Pulp Fiction
  Quentin Tarantino
• 22
  Loves of a Blonde
  Miloš Forman
• 23
  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  Stanley Kubrick
• 24
  Barry Lyndon
  Stanley Kubrick
• 25
  The Wages of Fear
  Henri-Georges Clouzot
• 26
  Pépé le Moko
  Julien Duvivier
• 27
  Breaker Morant
  Bruce Beresford
• 28
  Floating Weeds
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 29
  Ugetsu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 30
  Silent Light
  Carlos Reygadas
• 31
  In the City of Sylvia
  José Luis Guerín
• 32
  Beau travail
  Claire Denis
• 33
  There Will Be Blood
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 34
  Boogie Nights
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 35
  Blade Runner
  Ridley Scott
• 36
  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  John Huston
• 37
  To Have and Have Not
  Howard Hawks
• 38
  Oldboy
  Park Chan-wook
• 39
  Nosferatu
  F.W. Murnau
• 40
  Richard III
  Laurence Olivier
• 41
  Citizen Kane
  Orson Welles
• 42
  Saving Private Ryan
  Steven Spielberg
• 43
  Star Wars
  George Lucas
• 44
  M
  Fritz Lang
• 45
  1900
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 46
  The Godfather
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 47
  The Godfather: Part II
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 48
  La strada
  Federico Fellini
• 49
  Kind Hearts and Coronets
  Robert Hamer
• 50
  Taxi Driver
  Martin Scorsese
• 51
  Bad Lieutenant
  Abel Ferrara
• 52
  Gimme Shelter
  David Maysles
• 53
  High Noon
  Fred Zinnemann
• 54
  Chinatown
  Roman Polanski
• 55
  Five Easy Pieces
  Bob Rafelson
• 56
  Das Boot
  Wolfgang Petersen
• 57
  Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
  George Miller
• 58
  Amarcord
  Federico Fellini
• 59
  Satyricon
  Federico Fellini
• 60
  2001: A Space Odyssey
  Stanley Kubrick
• 61
  Titicut Follies
  Frederick Wiseman
• 62
  Ballad of a Soldier
  Grigori Chukhrai
• 63
  Spirited Away
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 64
  Requiem for a Dream
  Darren Aronofsky
• 65
  Fires on the Plain
  Kon Ichikawa
• 66
  On the Waterfront
  Elia Kazan
• 67
  A Streetcar Named Desire
  Elia Kazan
• 68
  Cool Hand Luke
  Stuart Rosenberg
• 69
  McCabe & Mrs. Miller
  Robert Altman
• 70
  The Parallax View
  Alan J. Pakula
• 71
  The Manchurian Candidate
  John Frankenheimer
• 72
  Unforgiven
  Clint Eastwood
• 73
  Grey Gardens
  Albert Maysles
• 74
  The Apartment
  Billy Wilder
• 75
  Touch of Evil
  Orson Welles
• 76
  The Birds
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 77
  Rear Window
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 78
  Blue Velvet
  David Lynch
• 79
  Seven Samurai
  Akira Kurosawa
• 80
  Le samouraï
  Jean-Pierre Melville
• 81
  No Country for Old Men
  Ethan Coen
• 82
  Cross of Iron
  Sam Peckinpah
• 83
  The Wild Bunch
  Sam Peckinpah
• 84
  The Last of the Mohicans
  Michael Mann
• 85
  The Shawshank Redemption
  Frank Darabont
• 86
  Double Indemnity
  Billy Wilder
• 87
  Days of Heaven
  Terrence Malick
• 88
  Midnight Express
  Alan Parker
• 89
  Raise the Red Lantern
  Zhang Yimou
• 90
  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  Andrew Dominik
• 91
  Chopper
  Andrew Dominik
• 92
  City of God
  Fernando Meirelles
• 93
  Brief Encounter
  David Lean
• 94
  The Philadelphia Story
  George Cukor
• 95
  Tokyo Story
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 96
  Rosetta
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 97
  The Life of Jésus
  Bruno Dumont
• 98
  Purple Noon
  René Clément
• 99
  The Sun
  Aleksandr Sokurov
• 100
  Three Monkeys
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• 101
  Phantoms of Nabua
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 102
  The White Ribbon
  Michael Haneke