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Welcome to my 1000 Favorite Films list. This is a work in progress and won’t be finished for several years.

I don’t make any claim that these are the best movies of all time. (I don’t know how one could ever measure it.) They are the films which have dug their claws into me the deepest. I’ve found favorites in every corner in which I’ve looked so you’ll films on this list which are drawn from a wide assortment of decades, countries, and genres.

For the moment, I’ve minimized the number of short films in this list. Once this list nears its conclusion, I’ll reconsider them and add the appropriate number.

In general, I seem to agree with a lot of the critics regarding many of the great films. Consequently, you’ll see the usual celebrated films all over my list. There are also some oddball personal favorites, and those you’ll just have to accept as my own idiosyncratic choices.

This list is far short of 1000 films because there is a large chunk of film history that I am still learning about. I anticipate adding many more from the 1960s through today.

Take my list with a grain of salt and I hope you find some of your own favorites here.

  1. 1.
    Cabiria
    by Giovanni Pastrone

  2. 2.
    Seven Years Bad Luck (1921)
    by Max Linder

  3. 3.
    The 'High Sign' (short, 1921)
    by Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline

  4. 4.
    The Play House (1921)
    by Buster Keaton

  5. 5.
    ?
    The Blacksmith (1922)
    by Buster Keaton & Malcolm St. Clair

  6. 6.
    ?
    La roue
    by Abel Gance

  7. 7.
    Our Hospitality
    by John G. Blystone & Buster Keaton

  8. 10.
    The Pilgrim (1923)
    by Charlie Chaplin

  9. 11.
    The Last Laugh
    by F.W. Murnau

  10. 12.
    Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)
    by Fritz Lang

  11. 13.
    Girl Shy (1924)
    by Sam Taylor & Fred C. Newmeyer

  12. 14.
    The Thief of Bagdad (Deluxe Edition)
    by Raoul Walsh

  13. 15.
    Battleship Potemkin
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

  14. 16.
    Grass: A Nation's Battle For Life
    by Ernest B. Schoedsack

  15. 17.
    Strike
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

  16. 19.
    Variety (1925)
    by Ewald André Dupont

  17. 20.
    Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed
    by Carl Koch

  18. 21.
    Visages d' Enfants (1925)
    by Jacques Feyder

  19. 23.
    Hands Up! (1926)
    by Clarence G. Badger

  20. 24.
    ?
    Ménilmontant (1926 short)
    by Dimitri Kirsanoff

  21. 25.
    ?
    Now You Tell One (1926)
    by Charles R. Bowers & Harold L. Muller

  22. 26.
    The General
    by Clyde Bruckman

  23. 27.
    Seventh Heaven (1927)
    by Frank Borzage

  24. 28.
    My Best Girl
    by Sam Taylor

  25. 29.
    Napoléon (France - 1927)
    by Abel Gance

  26. 31.
    The Passion of Joan of Arc (The Criterion Collection)
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

  27. 32.
    Storm over Asia
    by Vsevolod Pudovkin

  28. 33.
    The Cameraman (1928)
    by Buster Keaton & Edward Sedgwick

  29. 34.
    The Circus (Two Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Chaplin

  30. 35.
    The Docks of New York
    by Josef von Sternberg

  31. 36.
    The Last Command
    by Josef von Sternberg

  32. 37.
    Pandora's Box (The Criterion Collection)
    by Georg Wilhelm Pabst

  33. 38.
    Liberty (1929)
    by Leo McCarey

  34. 39.
    City Girl
    by F.W. Murnau

  35. 40.
    The Blue Angel
    by Josef von Sternberg

  36. 41.
    Luis Bunuel's L'Age d'Or
    by Luis Buñuel

  37. 42.
    ?
    The Story of the Fox (Le Roman de Renard)
    by Irene Starewicz & Wladyslaw Starewicz

  38. 43.
    A Nous La Liberte (The Criterion Collection)
    by René Clair

  39. 44.
    Blonde Crazy (1931)
    by Roy Del Ruth

  40. 45.
    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
    by Rouben Mamoulian

  41. 46.
    La Chienne
    by Jean Renoir

  42. 47.
    Le Million (The Criterion Collection)
    by René Clair

  43. 48.
    M (The Criterion Collection)
    by Fritz Lang

  44. 49.
    ?
    Fanny (1932)
    by Marc Allégret

  45. 50.
    Love Me Tonight
    by Rouben Mamoulian

  46. 51.
    Minnie the Moocher (1932)
    by Dave & Max Fleischer

  47. 52.
    I Was Born, But...
    by Yasujiro Ozu

  48. 53.
    Shanghai Express - (Russian Import - PAL DVD)
    by Josef von Sternberg

  49. 54.
    Duck Soup

  50. 55.
    Ecstasy (Extase)
    by Gustav Machatý

  51. 56.
    Gold Diggers of 1933

  52. 57.
    King Kong (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Ernest B. Schoedsack

  53. 58.
    Man's Castle (1933)
    by Frank Borzage

  54. 59.
    ?
    Okraina (1933, Boris Barnet)

  55. 60.
    The Invisible Man

  56. 61.
    Topaze (1933)
    by Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast

  57. 62.
    L' Atalante
    by Jean Vigo

  58. 63.
    La Signora di Tutti (1934)
    by Max Ophüls

  59. 64.
    ?
    Happiness/Schastye
    by Aleksandr Medvedkin

  60. 65.
    The Merry Widow (1934)
    by Ernst Lubitsch

  61. 67.
    A Story of Floating Weeds (Ukigusa monogatari) - 1934
    by Yasujiro Ozu

  62. 68.
    ?
    Cesar (1936)

  63. 69.
    Dodsworth

  64. 71.
    I Love To Singa (short) (1936)
    by Tex Avery

  65. 72.
    The Crime of Monsieur Lange
    by Jean Renoir

  66. 73.
    Modern Times (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Chaplin

  67. 74.
    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
    by Ben Sharpsteen

  68. 75.
    Stella Dallas
    by King Vidor

  69. 76.
    The Awful Truth

  70. 77.
    The Old Mill (1937)
    by Wilfred Jackson (Disney)

  71. 78.
    Alexander Nevsky
    by Dmitri Vasilyev

  72. 79.
    Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Howard Hawks

  73. 81.
    Port of Shadows (The Criterion Collection)
    by Marcel Carné

  74. 82.
    Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker
    by Leni Riefenstahl

  75. 84.
    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

  76. 85.
    Stagecoach
    by John Ford

  77. 86.
    The Roaring Twenties
    by Lloyd French

  78. 87.
    The Wizard of Oz
    by King Vidor

  79. 88.
    The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

  80. 89.
    Dance, Girl, Dance
    by Dorothy Arzner

  81. 90.
    His Girl Friday

  82. 91.
    My Favorite Wife
    by Garson Kanin

  83. 92.
    Pinocchio (Disney Gold Classic Collection)
    by Hamilton Luske

  84. 93.
    The Philadelphia Story
    by George Cukor

  85. 94.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles

  86. 95.
    Dumbo (Big Top Edition)

  87. 96.
    Hellzapoppin

  88. 97.
    How Green Was My Valley

  89. 98.

  90. 99.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston

  91. 100.
    Casablanca (Snap Case)
    by Michael Curtiz

  92. 102.
    The Major and the Minor (Universal Cinema Classics)
    by Billy Wilder

  93. 103.
    To Be or Not to Be
    by Ernst Lubitsch

  94. 104.
    Cabin in the Sky
    by Busby Berkeley

  95. 105.
    Why We Fight (WWII Capra Series)
    by Anatole Litvak

  96. 106.
    Hangmen Also Die
    by Fritz Lang

  97. 107.
    Meshes of the Afternoon
    by Maya Deren

  98. 108.
    Ossessione
    by Luchino Visconti

  99. 109.
    Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)
    by Tex Avery

  100. 111.
    Carl Theodor Dreyer - Day of Wrath
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

  101. 112.
    A Canterbury Tale (The Criterion Collection)
    by David Thompson

  102. 113.
    Double Indemnity
    by Billy Wilder

  103. 114.
    Ivan the Terrible - Pt. 1
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

  104. 115.
    The Uninvited
    by Lewis Allen

  105. 116.
    I Know Where I'm Going! (The Criterion Collection)
    by Emeric Pressburger

  106. 117.
    ?
    A Diary for Timothy
    by Humphrey Jennings

  107. 119.
    Detour
    by Edgar G. Ulmer

  108. 120.
    ?
    Donald's Crime (1945, Jack King)

  109. 121.
    Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du paradis)
    by Marcel Carné

  110. 123.
    ?

  111. 124.
    The Clock
    by Fred Zinnemann

  112. 126.
    The Murderers Are Among Us
    by Wolfgang Staudte

  113. 127.
    Duel in the Sun

  114. 128.
    It's a Wonderful Life
    by Frank Capra

  115. 129.
    Beauty and The Beast (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Cocteau

  116. 130.
    Notorious (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  117. 131.
    Paisa/Paisan
    by Roberto Rossellini

  118. 132.
    Shoeshine (1946) (Sciuscia)
    by Vittorio De Sica

  119. 133.
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    by William Wyler

  120. 134.
    The Big Sleep
    by Howard Hawks

  121. 135.
    The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
    by Robert Clampett

  122. 136.
    No Regret for Our Youth
    by Akira Kurosawa

  123. 137.
    Black Narcissus (The Criterion Collection)
    by Emeric Pressburger

  124. 138.
    ?
    The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)
    by Yasujiro Ozu

  125. 139.
    Out of the Past

  126. 140.
    The Cat Concerto (1946)
    by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera

  127. 141.
    The Lady from Shanghai
    by Orson Welles

  128. 142.
    Bicycle Thieves (The Criterion Collection)
    by Vittorio De Sica

  129. 144.
    ?
    Lucky Ducky (1948, Tex Avery)

  130. 145.
    The Fallen Idol (The Criterion Collection)
    by Andy Kelleher

  131. 146.
    ?
    The Search
    by Fred Zinnemann

  132. 147.

  133. 148.
    Late Spring (The Criterion Collection)
    by Wim Wenders

  134. 149.
    Begone Dull Care (1949)
    by Norman McLaren

  135. 150.
    Champion

  136. 151.
    High Diving Hare (1949)
    by Friz Freleng

  137. 152.
    Blood of the Beasts (Le Sang des Betes)
    by Georges Franju

  138. 153.
    The Set-Up
    by Robert Wise

  139. 154.
    The Third Man - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition)
    by Carol Reed

  140. 155.
    All About Eve
    by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  141. 156.
    Gun Crazy
    by Joseph H. Lewis

  142. 157.
    The Flowers of St. Francis (The Criterion Collection)
    by Roberto Rossellini

  143. 158.
    ?
    Guernica (1950)
    by Alain Resnais, Robert Hessens

  144. 159.
    Kon Tiki
    by Thor Heyerdahl

  145. 160.

  146. 161.

  147. 162.
    Stromboli
    by Roberto Rossellini

  148. 163.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

  149. 164.
    ?
    The Asphalt Jungle

  150. 165.
    Ace in the Hole (The Criterion Collection)
    by Billy Wilder

  151. 166.

  152. 167.
    Early Summer (The Criterion Collection)
    by Yasujiro Ozu

  153. 168.
    ?

  154. 169.
    The Browning Version (The Criterion Collection)
    by Anthony Asquith

  155. 170.
    The River (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Renoir

  156. 171.
    The Thing from Another World
    by Christian Nyby

  157. 172.
    Baiju Bawra
    by Vijay Bhatt

  158. 173.
    Casque d'Or (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jacques Becker

  159. 174.
    Europa '51
    by Roberto Rossellini

  160. 175.
    Ikiru (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  161. 176.
    The Golden Coach - Criterion Collection
    by Jean Renoir

  162. 178.
    The Life of Oharu
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

  163. 179.
    The Narrow Margin
    by Richard Fleischer

  164. 180.
    Singin' in the Rain
    by Gene Kelly

  165. 181.
    ?

  166. 182.
    Bully for Bugs (1953)
    by Chuck Jones

  167. 183.
    El
    by Luis Bunuel

  168. 184.
    Gion bayashi (A Geisha)
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

  169. 185.

  170. 187.
    Tokyo Story (The Criterion Collection)
    by Yasujirô Ozu

  171. 188.
    The Band Wagon (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Vincente Minnelli

  172. 189.
    The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)
    by Ted Parmelee

  173. 190.
    Ugetsu (The Criterion Collection)
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

  174. 191.
    A Star Is Born

  175. 192.
    Chikamatsu monogatari (The Crucified Lovers) (1954)
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

  176. 193.
    Breaking the Sound Barrier
    by David Lean

  177. 194.
    Johnny Guitar [Region 2]
    by Nicholas Ray

  178. 195.
    On the Waterfront (Special Edition)
    by Elia Kazan

  179. 196.
    Rear Window (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  180. 198.
    SENSO - (Import - NTSC DVD)
    by Luchino Visconti

  181. 199.
    Seven Samurai (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  182. 200.
    Them! (Snapcase Packaging)
    by Gordon Douglas

  183. 201.
    Artists and Models
    by Frank Tashlin

  184. 202.
    ?
    Rififi

  185. 204.
    Marty
    by Delbert Mann

  186. 205.
    Night and Fog (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alain Resnais

  187. 206.
    One Froggy Evening (1955)
    by Chuck Jones

  188. 207.
    Ordet - Criterion Collection
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

  189. 208.
    Pather Panchali
    by Satyajit Ray

  190. 210.
    Summertime (The Criterion Collection)
    by David Lean

  191. 211.
    The Night of the Hunter
    by Charles Laughton

  192. 212.
    Baby Doll
    by Elia Kazan

  193. 213.
    Burmese Harp - Criterion Collection
    by Kon Ichikawa

  194. 214.
    Invasion of the Body Snatchers
    by Don Siegel

  195. 215.
    The Red Balloon (The Criterion Collection)
    by Albert Lamorisse

  196. 216.
    Soshun (Early Spring) (1956)
    by Yasujiro Ozu

  197. 217.
    The Killing

  198. 218.
    The Searchers [Blu-ray]

  199. 219.
    A Man Escaped
    by Robert Bresson

  200. 220.
    Written on the Wind (The Criterion Collection)
    by Douglas Sirk

  201. 221.
    3:10 to Yuma
    by Delmer Daves

  202. 224.
    Le Notti Bianche (The Criterion Collection)
    by Luchino Visconti

  203. 226.
    The Cranes are Flying (The Criterion Collection)
    by Mikhail Kalatozov

  204. 227.

  205. 228.
    Wild Strawberries (The Criterion Collection)
    by Ingmar Bergman

  206. 229.
    Tokyo Twilight (1957)
    by Yasujiro Ozu

  207. 230.
    The Bridge on the River Kwai
    by David Lean

  208. 232.
    What's Opera, Doc? (1957)
    by Chuck Jones

  209. 233.
    Elevator to the Gallows (The Criterion Collection)
    by Louis Malle

  210. 234.
    Ivan the Terrible - Pt. 2
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

  211. 235.
    The Music Room (Jalsaghar) [Region 2]
    by Satyajit Ray

  212. 237.
    Man of the West
    by Anthony Mann

  213. 238.
    Mon Oncle (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jacques Tati

  214. 239.

  215. 240.
    Some Came Running

  216. 241.
    Touch of Evil
    by Orson Welles

  217. 242.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  218. 243.
    The World of Apu
    by Satyajit Ray

  219. 244.
    Compulsion
    by Richard Fleischer

  220. 245.
    Hiroshima Mon Amour (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alain Resnais

  221. 246.
    Odd Obsession
    by Kon Ichikawa

  222. 247.
    The 400 Blows (The Criterion Collection)
    by François Truffaut

  223. 248.
    Human Condition I - No Greater Love
    by Masaki Kobayashi

  224. 249.
    Fires on the Plain - Criterion Collection
    by Kon Ichikawa

  225. 250.
    North by Northwest
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  226. 251.

  227. 252.
    Room at the Top

  228. 253.
    The Tingler
    by William Castle

  229. 255.
    Breathless
    by Jean-Luc Godard

  230. 256.
    Late Autumn
    by Yasujirô Ozu

  231. 257.
    The Lady With a Little Dog
    by Josef Heifitz

  232. 258.
    Il bell'Antonio
    by Mauro Bolognini

  233. 259.
    La Dolce Vita [Region 2]
    by Federico Fellini

  234. 261.
    Macario

  235. 262.

  236. 263.
    Purple Noon
    by René Clément

  237. 264.
    Psycho (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  238. 265.
    Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

  239. 266.
    Spartacus (The Criterion Collection)
    by Anthony Mann

  240. 267.
    ?
    Taiyo no hakaba [The Sun's Burial] (1960)
    by Nagisa Oshima

  241. 268.
    The Apartment

  242. 271.
    La Notte
    by Michelangelo Antonioni

  243. 273.
    The Misfits
    by John Huston

  244. 274.

  245. 275.
    West Side Story (Special Edition Collector's Set)
    by Jerome Robbins

  246. 276.
    Yojimbo (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  247. 277.
    Advise and Consent
    by Otto Preminger

  248. 278.
    Cape Fear
    by J. Lee Thompson

  249. 279.
    La Jetee (1962)
    by Chris Marker

  250. 280.
    Orson Welles' The Trial
    by Orson Welles

  251. 281.
    Lolita

  252. 282.
    Long Day's Journey Into Night
    by Sidney Lumet

  253. 284.
    Ride the High Country

  254. 287.
    My Life to Live
    by Jean-Luc Godard

  255. 288.
    What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Robert Aldrich

  256. 289.
    8 1/2 (The Criterion Collection)
    by Federico Fellini

  257. 290.

  258. 291.
    ?
    La ricotta (1963) (from Ro.Go.Pa.G.)
    by Pier Paolo Pasolini

  259. 292.
    High and Low (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  260. 293.
    The Silence - Criterion Collection
    by Ingmar Bergman

  261. 296.

  262. 297.
    Mary Poppins (40th Anniversary Edition)
    by Dave Bossert

  263. 298.
    Seven Up!
    by Paul Almond, Michael Apted

  264. 300.
    Repulsion
    by Roman Polanski

  265. 301.
    Tokyo Olympiad (The Criterion Collection)
    by Kon Ichikawa

  266. 302.
    Au Hasard Balthazar (The Criterion Collection)
    by Robert Bresson

  267. 303.
    The Battle of Algiers (The Criterion Collection)
    by Gillo Pontecorvo

  268. 304.
    Closely Watched Trains (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jiri Menzel

  269. 305.
    Playtime (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jacques Tati

  270. 306.
    2001 - A Space Odyssey
    by Stanley Kubrick

  271. 309.
    Aguirre, the Wrath of God
    by Werner Herzog

  272. 310.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  273. 311.
    Spirit of the Beehive (The Criterion Collection)
    by Víctor Erice

  274. 312.
    The Day of the Jackal
    by Fred Zinnemann

  275. 313.
    Celine and Julie Go Boating
    by Jacques Rivette

  276. 314.
    The Conversation
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  277. 315.
    The Godfather: Part II
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  278. 316.
    Dersu Uzala
    by Akira Kurosawa

  279. 317.
    Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Special Edition)
    by Terry Gilliam

  280. 318.
    Nashville
    by Robert Altman

  281. 319.
    The Man Who Would Be King
    by Ed Apfel

  282. 320.
    Hedgehog in the Fog (1975)
    by Yuri Norstein

  283. 322.
    Halloween
    by John Carpenter

  284. 323.
    Alien (The Director's Cut)
    by Ridley Scott

  285. 324.
    Ordinary People

  286. 325.
    Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
    by Ridley Scott

  287. 326.
    Deathtrap
    by Sidney Lumet

  288. 327.
    A Christmas Story (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Bob Clark

  289. 328.
    Blood Simple
    by Joel Coen

  290. 329.

  291. 330.
    The Killing Fields

  292. 331.
    The Terminator (Special Edition)
    by James Cameron

  293. 332.
    This Is Spinal Tap (The Criterion Collection)
    by Rob Reiner

  294. 333.
    After Hours
    by Martin Scorsese

  295. 334.
    My Life as a Dog (The Criterion Collection)
    by Lasse Hallström

  296. 335.

  297. 336.

  298. 337.
    Manon of the Spring
    by Claude Berri

  299. 338.
    Wings of Desire (Special Edition)
    by Wim Wenders

  300. 339.
    Midnight Run

  301. 340.
    Crimes and Misdemeanors

  302. 341.
    Cyrano de Bergerac

  303. 342.
    Goodfellas [HD DVD]
    by Martin Scorsese

  304. 343.
    Miller's Crossing
    by Ethan Coen

  305. 344.
    Terminator 2: Judgment Day [Blu-ray]
    by James Cameron

  306. 345.
    Noises Off...
    by Peter Bogdanovich

  307. 346.
    The Wrong Trousers (1993)
    by Nick Park

  308. 348.
    Pulp Fiction
    by Quentin Tarantino

  309. 349.

  310. 350.
    Election
    by Alexander Payne

  311. 351.

  312. 352.
    X-Men (Widescreen Edition)
    by Bryan Singer

  313. 354.
    The Pianist
    by Roman Polanski

  314. 355.
    ?
    Das Rad / Rocks (2003)
    by Chris Stenner

  315. 356.

  316. 357.
    X2: X-Men United (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Bryan Singer

  317. 358.
    Finding Neverland (Widescreen Edition)
    by Marc Forster

  318. 359.
    Sin City

  319. 360.
    Children of Men (Widescreen Edition)
    by Alfonso Cuarón

  320. 361.
    The Lives of Others
    by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

  321. 362.
    Letters from Iwo Jima (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Clint Eastwood

  322. 363.
    Gone Baby Gone
    by Ben Affleck

  323. 364.
    The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
    by Andrew Dominik

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