Cole Smithey's Top 100 Movies

1. 1900 (Bertolucci)

2. The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (Bunuel)

3. The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (Dreyer)

4. A Woman Under The Influence (Cassavetes)

5.The Fog Of War (Morris)

6.The Wages Of Fear (Clouzot)

7. Secrets & Lies (Leigh)

8. Come And See (Klimov)

9. Faster Pussycat, Kill! … Kill! (Meyer)

10. Ace In The Hole (Wilder)

11. That Obscure Object Of Desire (Bunuel)

12. The Exorcist (Friedkin)

13. Night Of The Hunter (Laughton)

14. The Battle Of Algiers (Pontecorvo)

15. Los Olvidados (Bunuel)

16. Viridiana (Bunuel)

17. Rosemary’s Baby (Polanski)

18. Breaking The Waves (Von Trier)

19. City Of Women (Fellini)

20. Belle De Jour (Bunuel)

21. The Great Dictator (Chaplin)

22. Once Upon A Time In America (Leone)

23. Taxi Driver (Scorsese)

24. The Conformist (Bertolucci)

25. Salo (Pasolini)

26. Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino)

27. The 400 Blows (Truffaut)

28. Starship Troopers (Verhoeven)

29. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Sharman)

30. Young Frankenstein (Brooks)

31. The Exterminating Angel (Bunuel)

32. Apu Trilogy (Ray)

33. The Bicycle Thief (De Sica)

34. Psycho (Hitchcock)

35. Rashomon (Kurosawa)

36. The Third Man (Reed)

37. La Terra Trema (Visconti)

38. Tokyo Story (Ozu)

39. The Night Of The Living Dead (Romero)

40. Grand Illusion (Renoir)

41. Greed (von Stronheim)

42. Last Year At Marienbad (Resnais)

43. Diamond Earrings (Ophuls)

44. La Dolce Vita (Fellini)

45. The Blue Angel (Von Sternberg)

46. Children Of Paradise (Carne)

47. The Rules Of The Game (Renoir)

48. Touch Of Evil (Welles)

49. Pixote (Babenco)

50. Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia (Peckinpah)

51. Matewan (Sales)

52. Blue Velvet (Lynch)

53. Boyz N The Hood (Singleton)

54. Pollock (Harris)

55. Diary Of A Chambermaid (Bunuel)

56. Ashes And Diamonds (Wajda)

57. A Man Escaped (Bresson)

58. The Tin Drum (Schlondorff)

59. Diabolique (Clouzot)

60. La Strada (Fellini)

61. Vertigo (Hitchcock)

62. The Big Heat (Lang)

63. Casablanca (Curtiz)

64. The Wizard Of Oz (Vidor)

65. Casque d’Or (Becker)

66. Senso (Visconti)

67. Nights Of Cabiria (Fellini)

68. Z (Costa-Gavras)

69. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)

70. Macbeth (Polanski)

71. Cabaret (Fosse)

72. West Side Story (Wise/Robbins)

73. The Godfather I & II (Coppola)

74. Serpico (Lumet)

75. Das Boot (Petersen)

76. Mephisto (Szabo)

77. Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick)

78. M (Lang)

79. The Seventh Seal (Bergman)

80. Ikiru (Kurosawa)

81. Wild Strawberries (Bergman)

82. Harold And Maude (Ashby)

83. The Damned (Visconti)

84. The Leopard (Visconti)

85. The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (Huston)

86. Double Indemnity (Wilder)

87. Raining Stones (Loach)

88. All About Eve (Mankiewicz)

89. Duck Soup (McCarey)

90. Don’t Look Now (Roeg)

91. 81/2 (Fellini)

92. Mean Streets (Scorsese)

93. Three Colors - White (Kieslowski)

94. The General (Keaton)

95. City Lights (Chaplin)

96. The African Queen (Huston)

97. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (Leone)

98. Lolita (Lyne)

99. The Tenant (Polanski)

100. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)