*F*I*V*E* STARS

By: Kim Packard

A list of films rated 5 in my book…

My rating system:

5 stars: Extraordinary. Sublime. If it has any flaws, they are forgiven.
4 stars: Excellent. Beautiful. A touch of je ne sais quoi. (Examples of films in this category are: The Trial, Young Aphrodites, Copy Shop, Run Lola Run, Wings of Desire, Rat-Trap, The Apple, Hyenas, The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul )
3 stars: Satisfactory. Well made. Thoughtful. Adequately balanced. (Examples: Wanderers of the Desert, My Fair Lady, The Great Gatsby, etc.)

Spark Notes: Spirited Away
Ani to Boku no Fufugenka No subtitles

• 01
  Pather Panchali
  Satyajit Ray
• 02
  Day of Wrath
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 03
  Z
  Costa-Gavras
• 04
  Grave of the Fireflies
  Isao Takahata
• 05
  Diary of a Country Priest
  Robert Bresson
• 06
  Laila's Birthday
  Rashid Masharawi
• 07
  Into the Wild
  Sean Penn
• 08
  L'Atalante
  Jean Vigo
• 09
  The Birds
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 10
  Late Spring
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 11
  The Band's Visit
  Eran Kolirin
• 12
  Il grido
  Michelangelo Antonioni
• 13
  The Gleaners & I
  Agnès Varda
• 14
  Letter from an Unknown Woman
  Max Ophüls
• 15
  Tale of Tales
  Yuriy Norshteyn
• 16
  Man on Wire
  James Marsh
• 17
  Climates
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• 18
  The Rules of the Game
  Jean Renoir
• 19
  The River
  Jean Renoir
• 20
  Forbidden Games
  René Clément
• 21
  The Color of Pomegranates
  Sergei Parajanov
• 22
  The Tin Drum
  Volker Schlöndorff
• 23
  Maborosi
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 24
  Sansho the Bailiff
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 25
  Rashômon
  Akira Kurosawa
• 26
  Lawrence of Arabia
  David Lean
• 27
  The Shop on Main Street
  Ján Kadár
• 28
  The Last Emperor
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 29
  It's Winter
  Rafi Pitts
• 30
  The Night of the Hunter
  Charles Laughton
• 31
  Gabriel Orozco
  Juan Carlos Martín
• 32
  Little Terrorist
  Ashvin Kumar
• 33
  Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity
  Mina Shum
• 34
  After Life
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 35
  Sound of the Mountain
  Mikio Naruse
• 36
  After the Rain
  Takashi Koizumi
• 37
  Vivre sa vie
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 38
  Where Is the Friend's Home?
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 39
  The Night of Counting the Years
  Shadi Abdel Salam
• 40
  The Puppetmaster
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 41
  La antena
  Esteban Sapir
• 42
  Man with a Movie Camera
  Dziga Vertov
• 43
  Alice
  Jan Švankmajer
• 44
  Raise the Red Lantern
  Zhang Yimou
• 45
  Aguirre, the Wrath of God
  Werner Herzog
• 46
  Humanity and Paper Balloons
  Sadao Yamanaka
• 47
  Moon
  Duncan Jones
• 48
  Babette's Feast
  Gabriel Axel
• 49
  Hukkle
  György Pálfi
• 50
  House of Flames
  Kihachiro Kawamoto
• 51
  Dojoji Temple
  Kihachiro Kawamoto
• 52
  Early Summer
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 53
  Sopyonje
  Im Kwon-taek
• 54
  The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 55
  Sugar Cane Alley
  Euzhan Palcy
• 56
  Manuel on the Island of Wonders
  Raúl Ruiz
• 57
  Vital
  Shinya Tsukamoto
• 58
  Glasses
  Naoko Ogigami
• 59
  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  Julian Schnabel
• 60
  Little by Little
  Jean Rouch
• 61
  Hester Street
  Joan Micklin Silver
• 62
  Bicycle Thieves
  Vittorio De Sica
• 63
  Spirited Away
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 64
  Sans soleil
  Chris Marker
• 65
  Fantasia
  James Algar
• 66
  The Little Prince
  Stanley Donen
• 67
  Like Love
  Sarah Cunningham
• 68
  My Father's Glory
  Yves Robert
• 69
  Arrival of a Train
  Auguste Lumière
• 70
  The Unicorn in the Garden
  William T. Hurtz
• 71
  Jane Eyre
  Cary Fukunaga
• 72
  The Spirit of the Beehive
  Víctor Erice
• 73
  Budrus
  Julia Bacha
• 74
  The Circus
  Charlie Chaplin
• 75
  Hugo
  Martin Scorsese
• 76
  The Case of the Grinning Cat
  Chris Marker
• 77
  Melancholia
  Lars von Trier
• 78
  Fanny
  Marc Allégret
• 79
  Beshkempir: The Adopted Son
  Aktan Abdykalykov
• 80
  Intimate Grammar
  Nir Bergman