Top 40

By: Mike Volpe

• 01
  There Will Be Blood
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 02
  The Thin Red Line
  Terrence Malick
• 03
  La haine
  Mathieu Kassovitz
• 04
  A Single Man
  Tom Ford
• 05
  Brick
  Rian Johnson
• 06
  Crash
  David Cronenberg
• 07
  Punch-Drunk Love
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 08
  Eyes Wide Shut
  Stanley Kubrick
• 09
  City of God
  Fernando Meirelles
• 10
  Pulp Fiction
  Quentin Tarantino
• 11
  Blue Velvet
  David Lynch
• 12
  A Prophet
  Jacques Audiard
• 13
  Inglourious Basterds
  Quentin Tarantino
• 14
  Apocalypse Now
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 15
  Adaptation.
  Spike Jonze
• 16
  American Beauty
  Sam Mendes
• 17
  Oldboy
  Park Chan-wook
• 18
  A Clockwork Orange
  Stanley Kubrick
• 19
  Elephant
  Gus Van Sant
• 20
  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  Andrew Dominik
• 21
  In the Mood for Love
  Wong Kar-wai
• 22
  Midnight Cowboy
  John Schlesinger
• 23
  Mulholland Drive
  David Lynch
• 24
  Into the Wild
  Sean Penn
• 25
  Magnolia
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 26
  I Killed My Mother
  Xavier Dolan
• 27
  No Country for Old Men
  Ethan Coen
• 28
  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  Julian Schnabel
• 29
  Spirited Away
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 30
  Black Dynamite
  Scott Sanders
• 31
  The Departed
  Martin Scorsese
• 32
  Dogtooth
  Giorgos Lanthimos
• 33
  The Dark Knight
  Christopher Nolan
• 34
  Eastern Promises
  David Cronenberg
• 35
  Lawrence of Arabia
  David Lean
• 36
  Requiem for a Dream
  Darren Aronofsky
• 37
  Synecdoche, New York
  Charlie Kaufman
• 38
  Waking Life
  Richard Linklater
• 39
  The Shining
  Stanley Kubrick
• 40
  Fight Club
  David Fincher
• 41
  City of Life and Death
  Lu Chuan
• 42
  Paths of Glory
  Stanley Kubrick
• 43
  The Beat That My Heart Skipped
  Jacques Audiard
• 44
  4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
  Cristian Mungiu
• 45
  Tokyo Sonata
  Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• 46
  The Social Network
  David Fincher
• 47
  The King's Speech
  Tom Hooper
• 48
  In the Loop
  Armando Iannucci
• 49
  The Royal Tenenbaums
  Wes Anderson
• 50
  The Darjeeling Limited
  Wes Anderson
• 51
  Rushmore
  Wes Anderson
• 52
  Fantastic Mr. Fox
  Wes Anderson
• 53
  Wings of Desire
  Wim Wenders
• 54
  The Squid and the Whale
  Noah Baumbach
• 55
  Days of Heaven
  Terrence Malick
• 56
  The Deer Hunter
  Michael Cimino
• 57
  Annie Hall
  Woody Allen
• 58
  Happiness
  Todd Solondz
• 59
  La moustache
  Emmanuel Carrère
• 60
  Zodiac
  David Fincher
• 61
  Inception
  Christopher Nolan
• 62
  35 Shots of Rum
  Claire Denis
• 63
  Toy Story
  John Lasseter
• 64
  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  Stanley Kubrick
• 65
  Chinatown
  Roman Polanski
• 66
  Being John Malkovich
  Spike Jonze
• 67
  Carlos
  Olivier Assayas
• 68
  Rosemary's Baby
  Roman Polanski
• 69
  Atonement
  Joe Wright
• 70
  Michael Clayton
  Tony Gilroy
• 71
  My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
  Werner Herzog
• 72
  Jarhead
  Sam Mendes
• 73
  World's Greatest Dad
  Bobcat Goldthwait
• 74
  Gomorrah
  Matteo Garrone
• 75
  Afterschool
  Antonio Campos
• 76
  Once
  John Carney
• 77
  Y tu mamá también
  Alfonso Cuarón
• 78
  The Pianist
  Roman Polanski
• 79
  Step into Liquid
  Dana Brown
• 80
  In Bruges
  Martin McDonagh
• 81
  The Last Temptation of Christ
  Martin Scorsese
• 82
  Do the Right Thing
  Spike Lee
• 83
  Platoon
  Oliver Stone
• 84
  Clerks
  Kevin Smith
• 85
  The Lives of Others
  Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
• 86
  Princess Mononoke
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 87
  Burn After Reading
  Ethan Coen
• 88
  Brokeback Mountain
  Ang Lee
• 89
  Hunger
  Steve McQueen
• 90
  Spaceballs
  Mel Brooks
• 91
  The Reader
  Stephen Daldry
• 92
  Last Year at Marienbad
  Alain Resnais
• 93
  Black Swan
  Darren Aronofsky
• 94
  Heartbeats
  Xavier Dolan
• 95
  Bicycle Thieves
  Vittorio De Sica
• 96
  The White Ribbon
  Michael Haneke
• 97
  Blue Valentine
  Derek Cianfrance
• 98
  The Science of Sleep
  Michel Gondry
• 99
  I'm Not There.
  Todd Haynes
• 100
  Bronson
  Nicolas Winding Refn