Empire's 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time (2008)

A more populist list of films. Voted for by Empire Magazine readers, Hollywood staff and film critics.

Watched films have been crossed out.

Owned films have been ticked.

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• The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981)
• Star Wars Episode V: Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980)
• Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994)
• Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
• GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
• Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
• Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, 1952)
• Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
• Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999)
• Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
• The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
• Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
• Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
• The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
• Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
• Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
• The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
• Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
• The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977)
• Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001)
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1967)
• Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
• Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
• Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
• Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988)
• Aliens (James Cameron, 1986)
• Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood)
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969)
• Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson, 2003)
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron, 1991)
• Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1969)
• A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
• Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
• The Matrix (Andy & Larry Wachowski, 1999)
• Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
• The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
• Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949)
• The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1998)
• Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
• Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
• On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)
• E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982)
• This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)
• Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, 1987)
• Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
• 8 ½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
• The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
• Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)
• The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Peter Jackson, 2002)
• La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)
• Casino Royale (Martin Campbell, 2006)
• Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
• His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
• Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985)
• The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer, 1995)
• The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
• Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)
• Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003)
• Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby, 1971)
• Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton, 1990)
• Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
• Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
• Three Colours Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994)
• Stand by Me (Rob Reiner, 1986)
• The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
• 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
• The Treasure of Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948)
• A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1946)
• Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
• Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick, 1960)
• Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)
• The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1943)
• Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan, 2005)
• The Great Escape (John Sturges, 1963)
• Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)
• L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)
• Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
• Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976)
• The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, 1983)
• Ferris Bueller’s Day off (John Hughes, 1986)
• Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
• When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner, 1989)
• Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand, 1983)
• Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1984)
• Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973)
• The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
• Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961)
• American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999)
• Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, 1992)
• North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
• Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995)
• Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)
• Raising Arizona (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1987)
• The Hustler (Robert Rossen, 1961)
• Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
• The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)
• A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann, 1966)
• An American Werewolf in London (John Landis, 1981)
• The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi, 1978)
• Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
• Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
• Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982)
• I Am Cuba (Alexander Payne, 1964)
• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Adam McKay, 2004)
• The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
• Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974)
• Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
• Miller’s Crossing (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1990)
• Withnail and I (Bruce Robinson, 1987)
• The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953)
• The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
• Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel, 1950)
• The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987)
• A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)
• The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)
• A Bout de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
• Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah, 1973)
• The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973)
• Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
• Harvey (Henry Koster, 1950)
• The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston, 1975)
• The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann, 1992)
• Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)
• Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
• Seven (David Fincher, 1995)
• Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
• Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984)
• Dances with Wolves (Kevin Costner, 1990)
• Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg, 1967)
• Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981)
• As Good as It Gets (James L. Brooks, 1997)
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand, 1937)
• Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
• Cyrano De Bergerac (Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 1991)
• There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
• Sophie’s Choice (Alan J. Pakula, 1982)
• Shampoo (Hal Ashby, 1975)
• Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
• Z (Costa-Gavras, 1969)
• The Red Shoes (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
• The French Connection (William Friedkin, 1971)
• Gladiator (Ridley Scott, 2000)
• Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997)
• The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961)
• Betty Blue (Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1986)
• Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)
• Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, 1998)
• True Romance (Tony Scott, 1993)
• Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992)
• The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
• Being There (Hal Ashby, 1979)
• The Year of Living Dangerously (Peter Weir, 1982)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven, 1984)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, 1957)
• The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
• Partie de campagne (Jean Renoir, 1936)
• Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton, 1964)
• Don’t Look Now (Nic Roeg, 1973)
• Tootsie (Sydney Pollack, 1982)
• Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1961)
• La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)
• Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
• The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)
• Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000)
• Superman the Movie (Richard Donner, 1978)
• Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998)
• A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1944)
• City of God (Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund, 2002)
• Hellzapoppin’ (H.C. Potter, 1941)
• Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter, 1999)
• To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962)
• Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Russ Meyer, 1970)
• Performance (Donald Cammell, Nic Roeg, 1970)
• Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)
• Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, 1971)
• Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
• United 93 (Paul Greengrass, 2006)
• The Big Country (William Wyler, 1958)
• School of Rock (Richard Linklater, 2003)
• Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman, 1984)
• Big (Penny Marshall, 1988)
• Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005)
• Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977)
• Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994)
• Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
• It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
• Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1999)
• Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991)
• Fargo (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1996)
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
• Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater, 1995)
• JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991)
• The Killer (John Woo, 1989)
• Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979)
• The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935)
• The Addiction (Abel Ferrara, 1995)
• The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973)
• The Misfits (John Huston, 1961)
• The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006)
• Local Hero (Billy Forsyth, 1983)
• Platoon (Oliver Stone, 1986)
• Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)
• M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
• Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson, 2000)
• Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969)
• Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino, 1997)
• Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Schlesinger, 1971)
• The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges, 1960)
• Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (Jacques Tati, 1953)
• The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood, 1976)
• Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes, 2002)
• McCabe & Mrs Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
• Mother and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov, 1997)
• Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995)
• Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies, 1988)
• Get Carter (Mike Hodges, 1971)
• Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann, 1996)
• Léon (Luc Besson, 1994)
• No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2007)
• Festen (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998)
• Howl’s Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki, 2004)
• Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright, 2004)
• Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984)
• The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass, 2007)
• Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, 2000)
• Black Narcissus (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1947)
• Delicatessen (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro, 1991)
• Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
• Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988)
• Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994)
• Brighton Rock (John Boulting, 1947)
• King Kong (Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933)
• Heimat (Edgar Reitz, 1984)
• Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, 1993)
• Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2004)
• The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940)
• All That Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979)
• Pandora’s Box (Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1929)
• My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946)
• Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
• Darling (John Schlesinger, 1965)
• The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1980)
• First Blood (Ted Kotcheff, 1982)
• The Verdict (Sidney Lumet, 1982)
• Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, 1939)
• Le Quai des brumes (Marcel Carné, 1938)
• The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934)
• The Blues Brothers (John Landis, 1980)
• Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)
• Field of Dreams (Phil Alden Robisnon, 1989)
• Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953)
• The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999)
• Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen, 1981)
• American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973)
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
• Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2001)
• Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, 1989)
• The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock, 1938)
• A Place in the Sun (George Stevens, 1951)
• The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005)
• Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (Tim Burton, 1985)
• The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento, 1970)
• The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941)
• Sin City (Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, 2005)
• My Neighbour Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)
• Layer Cake (Matthew Vaughn, 2004)
• On the Town (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, 1949)
• Carlito’s Way (Brian De Palma, 1993)
• National Lampoon’s Animal House (John Landis, 1978)
• Mad Max 2 (George Miller, 1982)
• Interview with the Vampire (Neil Jordan, 1994)
• The Godfather Part III (Francis Ford Coppola, 1990)
• Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
• Scarface (Brian De Palma, 1983)
• Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
• L’avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
• Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh, 1996)
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis, 1988)
• John Carpenter’s The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
• Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
• Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti, 1960)
• Le belle et la bête (Jean Cocteau, 1946)
• La maman et la putain (Jean Eustache, 1973)
• The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse, 1956)
• The Untouchables (Brian De Palma, 1987)
• All the President’s Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976)
• It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934)
• Le cercle rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970)
• The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges, 1942)
• Sawdust and Tinsel (Ingmar Bergman, 1953)
• Love and Death (Woody Allen, 1975)
• The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946)
• Together (Lukas Moodyson, 2000)
• Radio Days (Woody Allen, 1987)
• The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, 2006)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989)
• Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969)
• The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984)
• Transformers (Michael Bay, 2007)
• Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984)
• American History X (Tony Kaye, 1998)
• Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)
• Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
• Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)
• Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee, 1995)
• Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 1996)
• Midnight Run (Martin Brest, 1988)
• Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940)
• The Lion King (Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff, 1994)
• Braveheart (Mel Gibson, 1995)
• Funny Face (Stanley Donen, 1957)
• Aladdin (Ron Clements, John Musker, 1992)
• The Last Seduction (John Dahl, 1994)
• Lone Star (John Sayles, 1996)
• Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)
• Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh, 1998)
• The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick, 1993)
• The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998)
• The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
• Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas, 2005)
• The Green Mile (Frank Darabont, 1999)
• The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan, 1999)
• Grease (Randal Kleiser, 1978)
• The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
• The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
• Titanic (James Cameron, 1997)
• 300 (Zack Snyder, 2006)
• Jules et Jim (François Truffaut, 1962)
• Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
• High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)
• The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)
• The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin, 1925)
• Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter, 2001)
• The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese, 1978)
• Fatal Attraction (Adrian Lyne, 1987)
• Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl, 1945)
• All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)
• Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
• Arthur (Steve Gordon, 1981)
• Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968)
• Zulu (Cy Endfield, 1964)
• Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges, 1948)
• Bugsy Malone (Alan Parker, 1976)
• Un chien andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1929)
• Sunshine (Danny Boyle, 2007)
• Napoléon (Abel Gance, 1927)
• The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)
• Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2002)
• The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
• The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev, 2003)
• Clerks (Kevin Smith, 1994)
• The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980)
• Good Morning, Vietnam (Barry Levinson, 1987)
• Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, 1994)
• The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman, 2002)
• Predator (John McTiernan, 1987)
• Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972)
• Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, 1980)
• The Breakfast Club (John Hughes, 1985)
• Rocky (John G. Avildsen, 1976)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski, 2003)
• Army of Darkness (Sam Raimi, 1992)
• Wall-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)
• Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, 2007)
• Four Weddings and a Funeral (Mike Newell, 1994)
• Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
• Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973)
• The Goonies (Richard Donner, 1985)
• Ratatouille (Brad Bird, 2007)
• Children of Men (Alfondo Cuarón, 2006)
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, 1975)
• Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)
• Serenity (Joss Whedon, 2005)
• The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
• Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)
• The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci, 1968)
• Rain Man (Barry Levinson, 1988)
• The English Patient (Anthony Minghella, 1996)
• Election (Alexander Payne, 1999)
• 2 Days in Paris (Julie Delpy, 2007)
• Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
• Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
• Garden State (Zach Braff, 2004)
• Cloverfield (Matt Reeves, 2008)
• Casino (Martin Scorsese, 1995)
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)
• Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968)
• Killer of Sheep (Charless Burnett, 1977)
• Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1924)
• The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004)
• Batman Returns (Tim Burton, 1992)
• Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, 2006)
• Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
• RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven, 1987)
• Dirty Dancing (Emile Ardolino, 1987)
• Iron Man (Jon Favreau, 2008)
• The Jungle Book (Wolfgang Reitherman, 1967)
• Zelig (Woody Allen, 1983)
• Men in Black (Barry Sonnenfeld, 1997)
• A Hard Day’s Night (Richard Lester, 1964)
• Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi, 2004)
• Heathers (Michael Lehmann, 1989)
• Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, 2003)
• The Double Life of Véronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1991)
• Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1978)
• Bad Taste (Peter Jackson, 1987)
• Lords of Dogtown (Catherine Hardwicke, 2005)
• V for Vendetta (James McTeigue, 2005)
• Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
• Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe, 1996)
• Lethal Weapon (Richard Donner, 1987)
• A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956)
• Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino, 2004)
• To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, 1944)
• Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson, 2000)
• Enduring Love (Roger Michell, 2004)
• Spring in a Small Town (Mu Fei, 1948)
• The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog, 1974)
• Danger: Diabolik (Mario Bava, 1968)
• Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter, 1986)
• Electra Glide in Blue (James William Guercio, 1973)
• X-Men 2 (Bryan Singer, 2003)
• Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant, 1997)
• The Cat Concerto (William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, 1947)
• American Psycho (Mary Harron, 2000)
• Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise, 1991)
• Spider-Man (Sam Raimi, 2002)
• The Lost Boys (Joel Schumacher, 1987)
• Grosse Pointe Blank (George Armitage, 1997)
• Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988)
• Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze, 1999)
• Atonement (Joe Wright, 2007)
• Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975)
• Hairspray (John Waters, 1988)
• Dumb and Dumber (Peter and Bobby Farrelly, 1994)
• High Fidelity (Stephen Frears, 2000)
• Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002)
• A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)
• Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (George Lucas, 1999)
• King Kong (Peter Jackson, 2005)
• Speed (Jan De Bont, 1994)
• Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan, 2000)
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, 2008)
• The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass, 2004)
• Top Gun (Tony Scott, 1986)
• 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, 2002)
• Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1987)
• Batman (Tim Burton, 1989)
• Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
• Crash (Paul Haggis, 2004)
• Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)
• Dead Man’s Shoes (Shane Meadows, 2004)
• Juno (Jason Reitman, 2007)
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Stanley Donen, 1954)
• 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam, 1995)
• Snatch (Guy Ritchie, 2000)
• The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, 1978)
• The Crow (Alex Proyas, 1994)
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam, 1998)
• Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley, 1992)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuarón, 2004)
• Le Doulos (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1962)
• Into the Wild (Sean Penn, 2007)
• Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse, 1973)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Gore Verbinski, 2006)
• Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1989)
• Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955)
• Flesh (Paul Morrissey, 1968)
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Norman Z. McLeod, 1947)
• The Son’s Room (Nanni Moretti, 2001)
• Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh, 1999)
• Scream (Wes Craven, 1996)
• The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller, 1980)
• The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky, 2006)
• The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Blake Edwards, 1961)
• Superbad (Greg Mottola, 2007)
• Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997)
• Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005)
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton, 2007)
• Ben-Hur (William Wyler, 1959)
• Amores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2000)
• In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute, 1997)
• Sideways (Alexander Payne, 2004)
• Jailhouse Rock (Richard Thorpe, 1957)
• Superman Returns (Bryan Singer, 2006)
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)
• Back to the Future Part II (Robert Zemeckis, 1989)
• Saw (James Wan, 2004)
• Ocean’s Eleven (Steven Soderbergh, 2001)