Favourite Films Of All Time As Of 2006
This list was prepared in late 2006 and includes only films released in 2005 and before. Enjoy!
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Title |
Director |
Year |
Country |
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| 1 |
Casablanca |
Curtiz |
1942 |
U.S. |
| 2 | Tootsie |
Pollack |
1982 |
U.S. |
| 3 | Some Like It Hot |
Wilder |
1959 |
U.S. |
| 4 | The Big Sleep |
Hawks |
1946 |
U.S. |
| 5 | Sunset Boulevard |
Wilder |
1950 |
U.S. |
| 6 | Dr. Strangelove |
Kubrick |
1964 |
Great Britain |
| 7 | Singin' In The Rain |
Donen, Kelly |
1952 |
U.S. |
| 8 | Spirited Away |
Miyazaki |
2002 |
Japan |
| 9 | A Night At The Operaxxx |
Wood |
1935 |
U.S. |
| 10 | All About Eve |
Mankiewicz |
1950 |
U.S. |
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| 11 | To Sir With Love |
Clavell |
1967 |
Great Britain |
| 12 | Wizard of Oz |
Fleming |
1939 |
U.S. |
| 13 | Manhatten |
Allen |
1979 |
U.S. |
| 14 | My Man Godfrey |
La Cava |
1936 |
U.S. |
| 15 | The Maltese Falcon |
Huston |
1941 |
U.S. |
| 16 | His Girl Friday |
Hawks |
1940 |
U.S. |
| 17 | Sabrina |
Wilder |
1954 |
U.S. |
| 18 | The Grand Illusion |
Renoir |
1937 |
France |
| 19 | Aliens |
Cameron |
1986 |
U.S. |
| 20 | Moulin Rouge |
Luhrmann |
2001 |
Australia |
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| 21 | Contempt |
Godard |
1964 |
France |
| 22 | Lost In Translation |
S. Coppola |
2003 |
U.S. / Japan |
| 23 | Reservoir Dogs |
Tarantino |
1992 |
U.S. |
| 24 | Beauty and The Beast |
Trousdale, Wise |
1991 |
U.S. |
| 25 | The Graduate |
Nichols |
1967 |
U.S. |
| 26 | Raiders Of The Lost Ark |
Spielberg |
1981 |
U.S. |
| 27 | Far From Heaven |
Haynes |
2002 |
U.S. |
| 28 | Pandora's Box |
Pabst |
1928 |
Germany |
| 29 | In The Company Of Men |
LaBute |
1997 |
U.S. |
| 30 | Late Spring |
Ozu |
1949 |
Japan |
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| 31 | The Godfather |
F. Coppola |
1972 |
U.S. |
| 32 | L'Aventurra |
Antonioni |
1960 |
Italy |
| 33 | The Player |
Altman |
1992 |
U.S. |
| 34 | Before Sunset |
Linklater |
2004 |
U.S. |
| 35 | To Live |
Zhang |
1994 |
China |
| 36 | Shakespeare In Love |
Madden |
1998 |
Great Britain |
| 37 | Tokyo Story |
Ozu |
1953 |
Japan |
| 38 | Planet Of The Apes |
Schaffner |
1968 |
U.S. |
| 39 | The Rules Of The Game |
Renoir |
1939 |
France |
| 40 | The Apartment |
Wilder |
1960 |
U.S. |
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| 41 | Mulholland Drive |
Lynch |
2001 |
U.S. |
| 42 | The Empire Strikes Back |
Lucas |
1981 |
U.S. |
| 43 | The Godfather II |
F. Coppola |
1974 |
U.S. |
| 44 | Blue Velvet |
Lynch |
1986 |
U.S. |
| 45 | Get Shorty |
Sonnenfeld |
1995 |
U.S. |
| 46 | Children Of Paradise |
Carne |
1945 |
France |
| 47 | My Night At Maud's |
Rohmer |
1969 |
France |
| 48 | City Lights |
Chaplin |
1931 |
U.S. |
| 49 | Lolita |
Kubrick |
1962 |
Great Britain |
| 50 | American Beauty |
Mendes |
1999 |
U.S. |
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| 51 | Rear Window |
Hitchcock |
1954 |
U.S. |
| 52 | Andrei Rublev |
Tarkovsky |
1966 |
Russia |
| 53 | Vertigo |
Hitchcock |
1958 |
U.S. |
| 54 | Star Trek II: Wrath Of Khan |
Meyers |
1982 |
U.S. |
| 55 | Sunrise |
Murnau |
1927 |
U.S. |
| 56 | Ninotchka |
Lubitsch |
1939 |
U.S. |
| 57 | All That Jazz |
Fosse |
1979 |
U.S. |
| 58 | Spider-Man |
Raimi |
2002 |
U.S. |
| 59 | A Nos Amours |
Pialat |
1983 |
France |
| 60 | Crash |
Haggis |
2005 |
U.S. |
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| 61 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
Lee |
2000 |
China |
| 62 | Kill Bill Vol. 1 |
Tarantino |
2003 |
U.S. |
| 63 | Run Lola Run |
Tykwer |
1999 |
Germany |
| 64 | Edward Scissorhands |
Burton |
1990 |
U.S. |
| 65 | The Sweet Hereafter |
Egoyan |
1997 |
Canada |
| 66 | Manchurian Candidate |
Frankenheimer |
1962 |
Great Britain |
| 67 | Duck Soup |
McCarey |
1933 |
U.S. |
| 68 | Swept Away |
Wertmuller |
1974 |
Italy |
| 69 | Shawshank Redemption |
Darabont |
1994 |
U.S. |
| 70 | Lawrence Of Arabia |
Lean |
1962 |
Great Britain |
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| 71 | Gone With The Wind |
Fleming |
1939 |
U.S. |
| 72 | Citizen Kane |
Welles |
1941 |
U.S. |
| 73 | Full Metal Jacket |
Kubrick |
1987 |
Great Britain |
| 74 | To Have And Have Not |
Hawks |
1944 |
U.S. |
| 75 | Exotica |
Egoyan |
1994 |
Canada |
| 76 | Brief Encounter |
Lean |
1945 |
Great Britain |
| 77 | Witness For The Prosecution |
Wilder |
1957 |
U.S. |
| 78 | Ben-Hur |
Wyler |
1959 |
U.S. |
| 79 | In The Mood For Love |
Wong |
2000 |
China |
| 80 | Heathers |
Lehmann |
1989 |
U.S. |
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| 81 | Schindler's List |
Spielberg |
1993 |
U.S. |
| 82 | The English Patient |
Minghella |
1996 |
Great Britain |
| 83 | Roman Holiday |
Wyler |
1953 |
U.S. |
| 84 | The Ten Commandments |
De Mille |
1956 |
U.S. |
| 85 | The Searchers |
Ford |
1956 |
U.S. |
| 86 | Ikiru |
Kurosawa |
1953 |
Japan |
| 87 | Risky Business |
Brickman |
1983 |
U.S. |
| 88 | Cabaret |
Fosse |
1972 |
U.S. |
| 89 | Pulp Fiction |
Tarantino |
1994 |
U.S. |
| 90 | Aladdin |
Clements, Musker |
1992 |
U.S. |
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| 91 | The Silence Of The Lambs |
Demme |
1991 |
U.S. |
| 92 | War Of The Roses |
DeVito |
1989 |
U.S. |
| 93 | Double Indemnity |
Wilder |
1944 |
U.S. |
| 94 | Leaving Las Vegas |
Figgis |
1995 |
U.S. |
| 95 | Like Water For Chocolate |
Arau |
1993 |
Mexico |
| 96 | Raise The Red Lantern |
Zhang |
1991 |
China |
| 97 | The French Can Can |
Renoir |
1955 |
France |
| 98 | Everyone Says I Love You |
Allen |
1996 |
U.S. |
| 99 | Farewell My Concubine |
Kaige |
1993 |
China |
| 100 | Cinderella |
Geronimi, Jackson |
1959 |
U.S. |
Director Appearances In The Top 100
| Director |
Appearances |
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| Wilder |
6 |
| Hawks |
3 |
| Kubrick |
3 |
| Renoir |
3 |
| Tarantino |
3 |
| Allen |
2 |
| F. Coppola |
2 |
| Egoyan |
2 |
| Fleming |
2 |
| Fosse |
2 |
| Hitchcock |
2 |
| Lean |
2 |
| Lynch |
2 |
| Ozu |
2 |
| Spielberg |
2 |
| Wyler |
2 |
| Zhang |
2 |
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