Dr. J At The Movies: Favourite Films Of All-Time

Dr. J's Favourite Films Of All Time

This revised list was prepared in 2022 and includes films released in 2021 and before.

2022	Title	Director	Year	Country	2012
1	Casablanca	Curtiz	1942	U.S.	1
2	Spirited Away	Miyazaki	2002	Japan	3
3	His Girl Friday	Hawks	1940	U.S.	11
4	Some Like It Hot	Wilder	1959	U.S.	4
5	Late Spring	Ozu	1949	Japan	9
6	Sunset Boulevard	Wilder	1950	U.S.	7
7	Singin' In The Rain	Donen / Kelly	1952	U.S.	5
8	Petite Maman	Sciamma	2021	France	---
9	The Big Sleep	Hawks	1946	U.S.	6
10	Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)	Demy	1964	France	55
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11	Tootsie	Pollack	1982	U.S.	2
12	Dr. Strangelove	Kubrick	1964	Great Britain	8
13	A Night At The Opera	Wood	1935	U.S.	10
14	Mulholland Drive	Lynch	2001	U.S.	34
15	Before Sunset	Linklater	2004	U.S.	36
16	Aliens	Cameron	1986	U.S.	16
17	Pan's Labyrinth	Del Toro	2006	Mexico	25
18	All About Eve	Mankiewicz	1950	U.S.	12
19	Manhatten	Allen	1979	U.S.	15
20	Lost In Translation	S. Coppola	2003	U.S. / Japan	18
21	Moulin Rouge	Luhrmann	2001	Australia	14
22	Far From Heaven	Haynes	2002	U.S.	24
23	Le Mépris (Contempt)	Godard	1964	France	22
24	Tokyo Story	Ozu	1953	Japan	31
25	Pandora's Box	Pabst	1928	Germany	30
26	Sherlock, Jr.	Keaton	1924	U.S.	---
27	Wizard of Oz	Fleming	1939	U.S.	13
28	Beauty and The Beast	Trousdale / Wise	1991	U.S.	27
29	The Godfather II	F. Coppola	1974	U.S.	28
30	Rear Window	Hitchcock	1954	U.S.	52
31	The Maltese Falcon	Huston	1941	U.S.	17
32	The Grand Illusion	Renoir	1937	France	19
33	Edward Scissorhands	Burton	1990	U.S.	26
34	Andrei Rublev	Tarkovsky	1966	Russia	40
35	Sabrina	Wilder	1954	U.S.	21
36	The Rules Of The Game	Renoir	1939	France	23
37	L'Aventurra	Antonioni	1960	Italy	33
38	Up!	Docter	2009	U.S.	53
39	My Man Godfrey	La Cava	1936	U.S.	39
40	To Sir With Love	Clavell	1967	Great Britain	20
41	The Godfather	F. Coppola	1972	U.S.	42
42	Raiders Of The Lost Ark	Spielberg	1981	U.S.	29
43	The Graduate	Nichols	1967	U.S.	32
44	Blue Velvet	Lynch	1986	U.S.	44
45	In The Mood For Love	Wong	2000	Hong Kong	38
46	The Battle of Algiers	Pontecorvo	1966	Italy / Algeria	---
47	The Apartment	Wilder	1960	U.S.	49
48	Parasite	Bong Joon-ho	2019	South Korea	---
49	Exotica	Egoyan	1994	Canada	72
50	Les Enfants du Paradis (Children Of Paradise)	Carné	1945	France	50
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51	The General	Keaton	1926	U.S.	---
52	Heathers	Lehmann	1989	U.S.	35
53	Reservoir Dogs	Tarantino	1992	U.S.	37
54	Planet Of The Apes	Schaffner	1968	U.S.	47
55	To Live	Zhang	1994	China	48
56	Star Trek II: Wrath Of Khan	Meyers	1982	U.S.	54
57	Laura	Preminger	1944	U.S.	---
58	The Player	Altman	1992	U.S.	41
59	Life of Brian	Jones	1979	Great Britain	---
60	City Lights	Chaplin	1931	U.S.	60
61	American Beauty	Mendes	1999	U.S.	51
62	The Empire Strikes Back	Kershner	1981	U.S.	43
63	Double Indemnity	Wilder	1944	U.S.	91
64	Sansho The Bailiff	Mizoguchi	1954	Japan	---
65	Fanny and Alexander	Bergman	1973	Sweden	64
66	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Lee	2000	Hong Kong	65
67	Shakespeare In Love	Madden	1998	Great Britain	46
68	Vertigo	Hitchcock	1958	U.S.	56
69	Kill Bill Vol. 1	Tarantino	2003	U.S.	66
70	Ace In The Hole	Wilder	1951	U.S.	68
71	Lawrence Of Arabia	Lean	1962	Great Britain	69
72	A Nos Amours	Pialat	1983	France	62
73	Sunrise	Murnau	1927	U.S.	58
74	My Night At Maud's	Rohmer	1969	France	59
75	Duck Soup	McCarey	1933	U.S.	70
76	Lolita	Kubrick	1962	Great Britain	57
77	Spider-Man	Raimi	2002	U.S.	61
78	Crash	Haggis	2005	U.S.	63
79	Manchurian Candidate	Frankenheimer	1962	Great Britain	74
80	The Sweet Smell of Success	Mackendrick	1957	U.S.	---
81	Red Shoes	Powell/Pressburger	1948	Great Britain	75
82	Brief Encounter	Lean	1945	Great Britain	80
83	The Descendents	Payne	2011	U.S.	81
84	Gilda	C. Vidor	1946	U.S.	---
85	Monty Python and the Holy Grail	Jones / Gilliam	1975	Great Britain	---
86	Citizen Kane	Welles	1941	U.S.	76
87	In The Company Of Men	LaBute	1997	U.S.	45
88	Shawshank Redemption	Darabont	1994	U.S.	67
89	Ben-Hur	Wyler	1959	U.S.	86
90	Ex Machina	Garland	2015	Great Britain	---
91	Schindler's List	Spielberg	1993	U.S.	88
92	Ninotchka	Lubitsch	1939	U.S.	79
93	Get Shorty	Sonnenfeld	1995	U.S.	78
94	The Searchers	Ford	1956	U.S.	90
95	The Birds	Hitchcock	1963	U.S.	---
96	Scenes From A Marriage	Bergman	1973	Sweden	95
97	War Of The Roses	DeVito	1989	U.S.	93
98	La Dolce Vita	Fellini	1960	Italy	---
99	Raise The Red Lantern	Zhang	1991	China	94
100	Ikiru	Kurosawa	1953	Japan	96
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101	The Ten Commandments	De Mille	1956	U.S.	92
102	The 400 Blows	Truffaut	1959	France	97
103	Airplane!	Abrahams / Zucker	1980	U.S.	---
104	Back To The Future	Zemeckis	1985	U.S.	99
105	Wings of Desire	Wenders	1987	Germany	83
106	Pulp Fiction	Tarantino	1994	U.S.	100
107	Trainspotting	Boyle	1996	Great Britain	---
108	Die Hard	McTiernan	1988	U.S.	---
109	The English Patient	Minghella	1996	Great Britain	89
110	In A Lonely Place	Ray	1950	U.S.	---
111	ROMA	Cuarón	2018	Mexico	---
112	Cinderella	Jackson / Luske	1950	U.S.	---
113	Run Lola Run	Tykwer	1999	Germany	73
114	To Have And Have Not	Hawks	1944	U.S.	87
115	North By Northwest	Hitchcock	1959	U.S.	---
116	La La Land	Chazelle	2016	U.S.	---
117	Kick-Ass	Vaughn	2010	U.S.	---
118	The Sweet Hereafter	Egoyan	1997	Canada	84
119	Full Metal Jacket	Kubrick	1987	Great Britain	82
120	The Social Network	Fincher	2010	U.S.	---
121	Castle In The Sky	Miyazaki	1986	Japan	---
122	Do The Right Thing	Lee	1989	U.S.	---
123	Silence of the Lambs	Demme	1991	U.S.	---
124	All That Jazz	Fosse	1979	U.S.	85
125	Roman Holiday	Wyler	1953	U.S.	---
126	Blue Is The Warmest Colour	Kechiche	2013	France	---
127	Swept Away	Wertmuller	1974	Italy	77
128	Nomadland	Chao	2020	U.S.	---
129	Yi-Yi	Yang	2000	Taiwan	---
130	Early Summer	Ozu	1951	Japan	---
131	Before Midnight	Linklater	2013	U.S.	---
132	Florida Project	Baker	2017	U.S.	---
133	Cabaret	Fosse	1972	U.S.	98
134	Mon Oncle Antoine	Jutra	1971	Canada	---
135	The Power Of The Dog	Campion	2021	New Zealand	---
136	Donnie Darko	R. Kelly	2001	U.S.	---
137	The Big Chill	Kasdan	1983	U.S.	---
138	Kiss Me Deadly	Aldrich	1955	U.S.	---
139	La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc	Dreyer	1928	France	---
140	Modern Times	Chaplin	1936	U.S.	---
141	Miracle On 34th Street	Seaton	1947	U.S.	---
142	Star Wars	Lucas	1979	U.S.	---
143	High Noon	Zinnemann	1952	U.S.	---
144	Gosford Park	Altman	2001	U.S.	---
145	Witness For The Prosecution	Wilder	1957	U.S.	---
146	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	Ford	1962	U.S.	---
147	Dangerous Liasons	Frears	1988	U.S.	---
148	Diary of a Lost Girl	Pabst	1929	Germany	---
149	Slap Shot	Hill	1977	U.S.	---
150	To Kill A Mockingbird	Mulligan	1962	U.S.	---
151	Like Water For Chocolate	Arau	1993	Mexico	---
152	Great Expectations	Lean	1946	Great Britain	---
153	The Big Heat	Lang	1953	U.S.	---
154	A Man For All Seasons	Zinnemann	1966	Great Britain	---
155	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind	Miyazaki	1984	Japan	---
156	Aladdin	Musker / Clements	1992	U.S.	---
157	Lethal Weapon 2	Donner	1989	U.S.	---
158	The Grand Budapest Hotel	W. Anderson	2014	U.S.	---
159	Rome, Open City	Rossellini	1945	Italy	---
160	A Scanner Darkly	Linklater	2006	U.S.	---
161	Adam's Rib	Cukor	1949	U.S.	---
162	Léon: The Professional	Besson	1994	France	---
163	Pleasantville	Ross	1998	U.S.	---
164	Vicky Cristina Barcelona	Allen	2008	U.S./Spain	---
165	Elle	Verhoeven	2016	France	---
166	The Death of Stalin	Iannucci	2018	Great Britain	---
167	A Separation	Farhadi	2011	Iran	---
168	The Lion In Winter	Harvey	1968	Great Britain	---
169	The Farewell	Wang	2019	U.S.	---
170	Amelie	Jeunet	2001	France	---
171	The Piano	Campion	1993	New Zealand	---
172	Spotlight	McCarthy	2015	U.S.	---
173	Election	Payne	1999	U.S.	---
174	Boyhood	Linklater	2014	U.S.	---
175	Risky Business	Brickman	1983	U.S.	---
176	Gone With The Wind	Fleming	1939	U.S.	71
177	An Education	Scherfig	2009	Great Britain	---
178	Lost Horizon	Capra	1937	U.S.	---
179	Deer Hunter	Cimino	1978	U.S.	---
180	Marriage Story	Baumbach	2019	U.S.	---
181	Zero Dark Thirty	Bigelow	2012	U.S.	---
182	Magnolia	P.T. Anderson	1999	U.S.	---
183	Her	Jonze	2013	U.S.	---
184	The Hurt Locker	Bigelow	2009	U.S.	---
185	Husbands and Wives	Allen	1992	U.S.	---
186	Touch of Evil	Welles	1957	U.S.	---
187	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	Huston	1948	U.S.	---
188	When Harry Met Sally	Reiner	1989	U.S.	---
189	Judgement at Nuremburg	Kramer	1961	U.S.	---
190	12 Angry Men	Lumet	1957	U.S.	---
191	Million Dollar Baby	Eastwood	2004	U.S.	---
192	Battle Royale	Fukasaku	2000	Japan	---
193	Silver Linings Playbook	Russell	2012	U.S.	---
194	Annie Hall	Allen	1977	U.S.	---
195	Leaving Las Vegas	Figgis	1995	U.S.	---
196	Crash	Cronenberg	1996	Canada	---
197	I Was Born But ...	Ozu	1932	Japan	---
198	Last Tango In Paris	Bertolucci	1972	Italy/France	---
199	All That Heaven Allows	Sirk	1955	U.S.	---
200	A Man Escaped	Bresson	1956	France	---

Director Appearances In The Top 200

Director	Appearances
Billy Wilder	7
Yasujiro Ozu	4
Richard Linklater	4
Alfred Hitchcock	4
Woody Allen	4
Hayao Miyazaki	3
Howard Hawks	3
Stanley Kubrick	3
David Lean	3
Quentin Tarantino	3
Victor Fleming	2
John Huston	2
Jean Renoir	2
G. W. Pabst	2
David Lynch	2
Francis Ford Coppola	2
Buster Keaton	2
Zhang Yimou	2
Steven Spielberg	2
Robert Altman	2
Ingmar Bergman	2
Charlie Chaplin	2
Atom Egoyan	2
Alexander Payne	2
William Wyler	2
Terry Jones	2
John Ford	2
Bob Fosse	2
Jane Campion	2
Kathryn Bigelow	2
Fred Zinneman	2

Favourite Silent Films

Rank	Title	Director	Year	Country	2022
1	Pandora's Box	Pabst	1928	Germany	25
2	Sherlock, Jr.	Keaton	1924	U.S.	26
3	The General	Keaton	1926	U.S.	51
4	City Lights	Chaplin	1931	U.S.	60
5	Sunrise	Murnau	1927	U.S.	70
6	The Passion of Jeanne d'Arc	Dreyer	1928	France	139
7	Modern Times	Chaplin	1936	U.S.	140
8	Diary of a Lost Girl	Pabst	1929	Germany	148
9	I Was Born But ...	Ozu	1932	Japan	196
10	The Artist	Hazanavicius	2011	France	200

Favourite Film Noir

Rank	Title	Director	Year	Country	2022
1	Sunset Boulevard	Wilder	1950	U.S.	7
2	The Big Sleep	Hawks	1946	U.S.	9
3	The Maltese Falcon	Huston	1941	U.S.	31
4	Laura	Preminger	1944	U.S.	57
5	Double Indemnity	Wilder	1944	U.S.	59
6	Ace In The Hole	Wilder	1951	U.S.	70
7	The Sweet Smell of Success	Mackendrick	1957	U.S.	79
8	Gilda	C. Vidor	1946	U.S.	84
9	In A Lonely Place	Ray	1950	U.S.	110
10	Kiss Me Deadly	Aldrich	1955	U.S.	138

Favourite Musicals

Rank	Title	Director	Year	Country	2022
1	Singin' In The Rain	Donen / Kelly	1952	U.S.	6
2	The Umbrellas of Cherbourg	Demy	1964	France	10
3	Moulin Rouge	Luhrmann	2001	Australia	21
4	Wizard of Oz	Fleming	1939	U.S.	27
5	Beauty and The Beast	Trousdale / Wise	1991	U.S.	28
6	Cinderella	Jackson / Luske	1950	U.S.	112
7	La La Land	Chazelle	2016	U.S.	116
8	All That Jazz	Fosse	1979	U.S.	124
9	Cabaret	Fosse	1972	U.S.	133
10	Aladdin	Musker / Clements	1992	U.S.	156

Favourite Animated Films

Rank	Title	Director	Year	Country	2022
1	Spirited Away	Miyazaki	2002	Japan	2
2	Beauty and The Beast	Trousdale / Wise	1991	U.S.	28
3	Up!	Docter	2009	U.S.	38
4	Cinderella	Jackson / Luske	1950	U.S.	112
5	Castle In The Sky	Miyazaki	1986	Japan	121
6	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind	Miyazaki	1984	Japan	155
7	Aladdin	Musker / Clements	1992	U.S.	156
8	A Scanner Darkly	Linklater	2006	U.S.	160
9	Shrek	Adamson / Jenson	2001	U.S.	---
10	The Lion King	Allers / Minkoff	1994	U.S.	---

Favourite Westerns

Rank	Title	Director	Year	Country	2022
1	The Searchers	Ford	1956	U.S.	93
2	The Power Of The Dog	Campion	2021	New Zealand	133
3	High Noon	Zinnemann	1952	U.S.	143
4	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	Ford	1962	U.S.	146
5	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	Huston	1948	U.S.	187

The Life of Oharu (1952) The Truman Show (1998) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Platoon (1986) Gone Girl (2014) Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Bambi (1942) Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Mank (2020) The Favourite (2018) No Country For Old Men (2007) Wag The Dog (1997) Crash (1996) Being There (1979) The Lion King (1994) Lady and the Tramp (1955) A Christmas Carol (1951) The Jungle Book (1967) Network (1976) One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest (1975) Bridge Over The River Kwai (1957) Blade Runner (1982) Bicycle Thieves (1948) The Untouchables (1987) My Neighbour Totoro (1988) Goodfellas (1990) Saving Private Ryan (1998) Spider-Man 2 (1984) Big (1988) Speed (1994) The Usual Suspects (1995) Iron Man (2008) Shrek (2001) The Bishop's Wife (1947) Wuthering Heights (1939) Seven Samurai (1954)

Dr. J's Favourite Films Of All Time

This revised list was prepared in 2022 and includes films released in 2021 and before.

2022

Title

Director

Year

Country

2012

1

Casablanca

Curtiz

1942

U.S.

1

2

Spirited Away

Miyazaki

2002

Japan

3

3

His Girl Friday

Hawks

1940

U.S.

11

4

Some Like It Hot

Wilder

1959

U.S.

4

5

Late Spring

Ozu

1949

Japan

9

6

Sunset Boulevard

Wilder

1950

U.S.

7

7

Singin' In The Rain

Donen / Kelly

1952

U.S.

5

8

Petite Maman

Sciamma

2021

France

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9

The Big Sleep

Hawks

1946

U.S.

6

10

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)

Demy

1964

France

55

11

Tootsie

Pollack

1982

U.S.

2

12

Dr. Strangelove

Kubrick

1964

Great Britain

8

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
(The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)