They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? - The Top 250

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This is the top 250 movies from the TSPDT top 1000. On the website these films are given a special place among the top 1000.

Updated January 2010

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  1. 1.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles
  2. 2.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  3. 3.
    The Rules of the Game
    by Jean Renoir
  4. 4.
    2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
    by Stanley Kubrick
  5. 5.
    8 1/2 (The Criterion Collection)
    by Federico Fellini
  6. 6.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola
  7. 7.
    John Wayne: The Searchers
    by John Ford
  9. 9.
    Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Gene Kelly
  10. 10.
    Battleship Potemkin (The Special Edition)
    by Sergei Eisenstein
  11. 11.
    Tokyo Story (The Criterion Collection)
    by Yasujirô Ozu
  13. 13.
    Lawrence of Arabia
    by David Lean
  14. 14.
    Bicycle Thieves (The Criterion Collection)
    by Vittorio De Sica
  15. 15.
    The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola
  16. 16.
    L'Atalante (1934)
    by Jean Vigo
  17. 17.
    Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Michael Curtiz
  18. 18.
  19. 19.
    Raging Bull (Special Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese
  20. 20.
    The Passion of Joan of Arc (The Criterion Collection)
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer
  21. 21.
  22. 22.
    Some Like it Hot - 1959
    by Billy Wilder
  24. 24.
    Grand Illusion
    by Jean Renoir
  25. 25.
    City Lights (1931)
    by Charles Chaplin
  26. 26.
    Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese
  27. 27.
    The General (1927)
    by Clyde Bruckman
  28. 28.
    Psycho (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  30. 30.
    The Third Man (The Criterion Collection)
    by Carol Reed
  31. 31.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder
  34. 34.
    À bout de souffle (Breathless)
    by Jean-Luc Godard
  36. 36.
    Chinatown
    by Roman Polanski
  37. 37.
    The Night of the Hunter
    by Charles Laughton
  38. 38.
    Ordet - Criterion Collection
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer
  39. 39.
    L'Avventura (The Criterion Collection)
    by Michelangelo Antonioni
  40. 40.
    Blade Runner (Four-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Ridley Scott
  41. 41.
    The 400 Blows (The Criterion Collection)
    by François Truffaut
  42. 42.
    Persona
    by Ingmar Bergman
  43. 43.
    Andrei Rublev (The Criterion Collection)
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy
  44. 44.
    Rear Window (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  45. 45.
    It's a Wonderful Life

  46. 46.
    The Magnificent Ambersons
    by Orson Welles
  47. 47.
    Ugetsu (The Criterion Collection)
    by Kenji Mizoguchi
  48. 48.
    M
    by Fritz Lang
  50. 50.
    La Strada (The Criterion Collection)
    by Federico Fellini

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Created by sklus20 on Jul 28, 2008.
 

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sklus20

Untitled — 2 years ago

Updated for Jan 2010

Jan 17, 09:32PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

sklus20

Untitled — 3 years ago

Should have fixed most of the issues with the list. All but 1 of the ? movies have been cleaned up and the incorrect movies have been changed. Let me know if you see any other issues.

Aug 22, 01:40AM | 1 comment | Reply to this

mizoguchi

Untitled — 3 years ago

Useful to have this list of 250, as it’s more manageable than the full TSPDT 1000. Black Narcissus was from 1947 not 1962, as the entry here has it

Aug 16, 10:34AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

busy91

Untitled — 3 years ago

A couple of things.

You have “Ivan the terrible part two” on this list twice.

For “Imitation of Life” you have listed the 1934 version, is that the right one, or do you need the 1959 version? Just curious.

And I don’t quite understand why you have the ‘?’ versions of many of these movies when the site has the actual versions already listed? This would cause people to have to go through the list and mark off movies that they have already marked off on other lists. For instance, there were about 10 movies that I’ve seen on this list, that are already marked off, and I had to re mark off. Not a big deal, just thought it would make things easier for all.

Aug 04, 02:10PM | 0 comments | Reply to this



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