Cinema Treasures: My Top 150

By: Acerk21

Here’s an ever-evolving list of my all-time favorite films RANKED:

• 01
  All About Lily Chou-Chou
  Shunji Iwai
• 02
  Notorious
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 03
  Whisper of the Heart
  Yoshifumi Kondô
• 04
  Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
  Albert Lewin
• 05
  Il posto
  Ermanno Olmi
• 06
  Nobody Knows
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 07
  Summer Palace
  Lou Ye
• 08
  Ballad of a Soldier
  Grigori Chukhrai
• 09
  It Happened One Night
  Frank Capra
• 10
  Ran
  Akira Kurosawa
• 11
  Yi Yi: A One and a Two
  Edward Yang
• 12
  Late Spring
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 13
  The Roaring Twenties
  Raoul Walsh
• 14
  Barefoot Gen
  Mori Masaki
• 15
  Woman in the Dunes
  Hiroshi Teshigahara
• 16
  The Apartment
  Billy Wilder
• 17
  The Best Years of Our Lives
  William Wyler
• 18
  Gone with the Wind
  Victor Fleming
• 19
  Twelve Angry Men
  Sidney Lumet
• 20
  Hannah and Her Sisters
  Woody Allen
• 21
  High and Low
  Akira Kurosawa
• 22
  The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  Jacques Demy
• 23
  Sansho the Bailiff
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 24
  Stalag 17
  Billy Wilder
• 25
  Chinatown
  Roman Polanski
• 26
  Chungking Express
  Wong Kar-wai
• 27
  Woman on the Beach
  Hong Sang-soo
• 28
  Dodsworth
  William Wyler
• 29
  The Mortal Storm
  Frank Borzage
• 30
  Viridiana
  Luis Buñuel
• 31
  When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
  Mikio Naruse
• 32
  Le trou
  Jacques Becker
• 33
  Paths of Glory
  Stanley Kubrick
• 34
  Rebels of the Neon God
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 35
  Mother
  Mikio Naruse
• 36
  Innocence
  Lucile Hadzihalilovic
• 37
  In the Mood for Love
  Wong Kar-wai
• 38
  Only Angels Have Wings
  Howard Hawks
• 39
  Memories of Matsuko
  Tetsuya Nakashima
• 40
  The Cranes Are Flying
  Mikhail Kalatozov
• 41
  On the Waterfront
  Elia Kazan
• 42
  Shadow of a Doubt
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 43
  Rear Window
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 44
  Tony Takitani
  Jun Ichikawa
• 45
  Three Colors: Blue
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 46
  3-Iron
  Kim Ki-duk
• 47
  Fallen Angels
  Wong Kar-wai
• 48
  The Bad Sleep Well
  Akira Kurosawa
• 49
  The Shop Around the Corner
  Ernst Lubitsch
• 50
  Aguirre, the Wrath of God
  Werner Herzog
• 51
  Sunset Boulevard
  Billy Wilder
• 52
  The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• 53
  I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
  Mervyn LeRoy
• 54
  Seven Samurai
  Akira Kurosawa
• 55
  The New World
  Terrence Malick
• 56
  A Brief Vacation
  Vittorio De Sica
• 57
  Le samouraï
  Jean-Pierre Melville
• 58
  The Big Country
  William Wyler
• 59
  Birdman of Alcatraz
  John Frankenheimer
• 60
  Raise the Red Lantern
  Zhang Yimou
• 61
  The Sting
  George Roy Hill
• 62
  The Godfather
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 63
  The Asphalt Jungle
  John Huston
• 64
  Love in the Afternoon
  Éric Rohmer
• 65
  Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
  Frank Tashlin
• 66
  Last Life in the Universe
  Pen-ek Ratanaruang
• 67
  After Life
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 68
  Strawberry Shortcakes
  Hitoshi Yazaki
• 69
  Red Beard
  Akira Kurosawa
• 70
  Floating Clouds
  Mikio Naruse
• 71
  The Science of Sleep
  Michel Gondry
• 72
  The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
  Mamoru Hosoda
• 73
  The Terrorizers
  Edward Yang
• 74
  Talk to Her
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 75
  Witness for the Prosecution
  Billy Wilder
• 76
  The Twilight Samurai
  Yôji Yamada
• 77
  The Face of Another
  Hiroshi Teshigahara
• 78
  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  Michel Gondry
• 79
  The Adventures of Robin Hood
  Michael Curtiz
• 80
  The Seventh Seal
  Ingmar Bergman
• 81
  Europa Europa
  Agnieszka Holland
• 82
  Gentleman Jim
  Raoul Walsh
• 83
  The Red Shoes
  Michael Powell
• 84
  Now, Voyager
  Irving Rapper
• 85
  Seconds
  John Frankenheimer
• 86
  Holiday
  George Cukor
• 87
  The Snake Pit
  Anatole Litvak
• 88
  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  John Huston
• 89
  Caged
  John Cromwell
• 90
  Wild Strawberries
  Ingmar Bergman
• 91
  Grand Illusion
  Jean Renoir
• 92
  Spirited Away
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 93
  The Lower Depths
  Akira Kurosawa
• 94
  Only Yesterday
  Isao Takahata
• 95
  Rebecca
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 96
  Dial M for Murder
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 97
  The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
  Nunnally Johnson
• 98
  Marty
  Delbert Mann
• 99
  All About Eve
  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• 100
  The City of Lost Children
  Marc Caro
• 101
  A Man Escaped
  Robert Bresson
• 102
  Hobson's Choice
  David Lean
• 103
  Man Hunt
  Fritz Lang
• 104
  A Face in the Crowd
  Elia Kazan
• 105
  The Young Philadelphians
  Vincent Sherman
• 106
  Day for Night
  François Truffaut
• 107
  Black Rain
  Shôhei Imamura
• 108
  Grave of the Fireflies
  Isao Takahata
• 109
  The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
  Michael Curtiz
• 110
  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  Richard Brooks
• 111
  Suzhou River
  Lou Ye
• 112
  Ugetsu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 113
  Interiors
  Woody Allen
• 114
  The Power of Kangwon Province
  Hong Sang-soo
• 115
  Grand Hotel
  Edmund Goulding
• 116
  The Lion in Winter
  Anthony Harvey
• 117
  The Conformist
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 118
  Manhattan
  Woody Allen
• 119
  Kind Hearts and Coronets
  Robert Hamer
• 120
  The Heiress
  William Wyler
• 121
  Black Orpheus
  Marcel Camus
• 122
  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  Miloš Forman
• 123
  The Uninvited
  Lewis Allen
• 124
  Kings Row
  Sam Wood
• 125
  All That Heaven Allows
  Douglas Sirk
• 126
  Eyes Without a Face
  Georges Franju
• 127
  House
  Nobuhiko Obayashi
• 128
  What Time Is it There?
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 129
  Annie Hall
  Woody Allen
• 130
  The 400 Blows
  François Truffaut
• 131
  The Devil and Miss Jones
  Sam Wood
• 132
  The Wayward Cloud
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 133
  Roman Holiday
  William Wyler
• 134
  Touchez pas au grisbi
  Jacques Becker
• 135
  Giant
  George Stevens
• 136
  Bicycle Thieves
  Vittorio De Sica
• 137
  The Verdict
  Sidney Lumet
• 138
  Good Morning
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 139
  The Fiances
  Ermanno Olmi
• 140
  Baby Face
  Alfred E. Green
• 141
  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  Elia Kazan
• 142
  Mildred Pierce
  Michael Curtiz
• 143
  The Passionate Friends
  David Lean
• 144
  Castaway on the Moon
  Lee Hae-jun
• 145
  Kiki's Delivery Service
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 146
  Possessed
  Clarence Brown
• 147
  Red River
  Howard Hawks
• 148
  Five Graves to Cairo
  Billy Wilder
• 149
  Splendor in the Grass
  Elia Kazan
• 150
  Oldboy
  Park Chan-wook