Top Fifty Films

By: John Smith

Here are my top fifty films in no particular order, and in no particular genre

• 01
  2001: A Space Odyssey
  Stanley Kubrick
• 02
  The Godfather
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 03
  Chinatown
  Roman Polanski
• 04
  Touch of Evil
  Orson Welles
• 05
  Taxi Driver
  Martin Scorsese
• 06
  High and Low
  Akira Kurosawa
• 07
  The 400 Blows
  François Truffaut
• 08
  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  Sergio Leone
• 09
  The Seventh Seal
  Ingmar Bergman
• 10
  Yojimbo
  Akira Kurosawa
• 11
  Apocalypse Now
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 12
  Once Upon a Time in the West
  Sergio Leone
• 13
  Goodfellas
  Martin Scorsese
• 14
  Citizen Kane
  Orson Welles
• 15
  Do the Right Thing
  Spike Lee
• 16
  Brazil
  Terry Gilliam
• 17
  Pulp Fiction
  Quentin Tarantino
• 18
  The Searchers
  John Ford
• 19
  Lolita
  Stanley Kubrick
• 20
  North by Northwest
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 21
  Vertigo
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 22
  Rear Window
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 23
  No Country for Old Men
  Ethan Coen
• 24
  Notorious
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 25
  The 39 Steps
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 26
  A Hard Day's Night
  Richard Lester
• 27
  Harold and Maude
  Hal Ashby
• 28
  Turtles Can Fly
  Bahman Ghobadi
• 29
  The Sacrifice
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 30
  Fires on the Plain
  Kon Ichikawa
• 31
  Fargo
  Joel Coen
• 32
  Miller's Crossing
  Joel Coen
• 33
  Charade
  Stanley Donen
• 34
  The Third Man
  Carol Reed
• 35
  Alien
  Ridley Scott
• 36
  Aliens
  James Cameron
• 37
  The Shining
  Stanley Kubrick
• 38
  Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  Terry Gilliam
• 39
  Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
  George Miller
• 40
  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  John Huston
• 41
  12 Monkeys
  Terry Gilliam
• 42
  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  Stanley Kubrick
• 43
  The Dark Knight
  Christopher Nolan
• 44
  Barton Fink
  Joel Coen
• 45
  Platoon
  Oliver Stone
• 46
  Children of Men
  Alfonso Cuarón
• 47
  The Usual Suspects
  Bryan Singer
• 48
  Michael Clayton
  Tony Gilroy
• 49
  Almost Famous
  Cameron Crowe
• 50
  Up
  Pete Docter