역대 위대한 영화500 (400-301) - 엠파이어선정

The 500 greatest movies of all time 400-301 

400 The Incredibles (2004) Director: Brad Bird One of the best superhero movies of recent years - a kind of Watchmen with gags - this fizzes by on pure invention, great jokes and a real affection for the retro '60s stylings it's aping. Read Review

399 Greed (1924) Director: Erich von Stroheim Von Stroheim's silent masterpiece - an honest dentist becomes obsessed with money after winning the lottery - is as obsessive as Kubrick, as epic as Lean and as powerful as Scorsese. Read Review		398 Killer Of Sheep (1977) Director: Charles Burnett A landmark in both black and indie cinema, this is a plotless portrait of an African-American LA family, built around mundane activities but told with wit, pathos and stunning black-and-white imagery. Read Review		397 Night Of The Living Dead(1968) Director: George A. Romero The greatest zombie movie ever made. Stripped of the cackle and glee of modern horror, this plays its emotions and viscera straight, the lo-fi feel adding to the unease.Read Review		396 The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (2007) Director: Andrew Dominik The kind of satisfying, elegiac Western you thought died out with the '70s. Great performances by Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck, but this is truly its director's work. Read Review		395 Casino (1995) Director: Martin Scorsese Originally dismissed as a GoodFellas retread, Scorsese's gangsters-in-Vegas chronicle has improved with age, a complex, terrifying, virtuoso look at Mob minutiae. And Sharon Stone upstages De Niro. Fact. Read Review
394 Cloverfield (2008) Director: 394 If this were the 500 Greatest Viral Marketing Campaigns, this would be number one. As it is, this most modern of monster movies is brilliantly handled handheld fun. Read Review		393 Garden State (2004) Director: Zach Braff Among the most likable of indie-slacker-ennui movies, Braff's blank-faced charm and Natalie Portman's kooky energy make this hard to resist. Also gets points for its too-cool-for-school soundtrack.Read Review		392 Paris, Texas (1984) Director: Wim Wenders It's Kramer Vs. Kramer on wheels as Harry Dean Stanton's Travis goes on the road with his son to find his ex. Emotionally restrained, beautifully shot and memorably scored by Ry Cooder. Read Review		391 Mulholland Drive (2001) Director: David Lynch Lynch's best work for 15 years, a dark look at the underbelly of Hollywood with enough impenetrability to support 1,000 theories. Hot girls get it on, too! Read Review		390 2 Days In Paris (2007) Director: Julie Delpy Owing as much to Woody Allen as Richard Linklater, Delpy's French gal-Yank guy relationship piece is less earnest and funnier than the pleasures of Before Sunset/Sunrise. For romantic cynics everywhere. Read Review

389 Election (1999) Director: Alexander Payne Is it strange to see this as Payne's highest entry on this list? Surely one would have expected the broader, more audience-friendly Sideways to have snagged that spot. In retrospect, perhaps not. A film that manages the gargantuan task of goosing both the Darwinian proving ground of high-school USA and the Byzantine machinations of the American political system, Election is satire masquerading as quirky comedy. A canny adaptation of a Tom Perrotta novel, it was initially inspired by the Bush-Clinton election of 1993 and the infamous case of a pregnant prom queen denied her title after staff rigged the vote. Regarding the latter, it's possible to view Election - in which teacher Matthew Broderick attempts to sabotage monstrously ambitious student Reese Witherspoon's bid for student body president - as not merely bang on target but also, in the light of the Florida 2000 fiasco, remarkably prescient. Read Review

388 The English Patient (1996) Director: Anthony Minghella If the late Minghella's best film is ladled with a Dullsville, awards-bait reputation, it shouldn't be, as it is a complex, ferociously intelligent, hugely emotional work - a true testament to a lost talent.Read Review 387 Rain Man (1988) Director: Barry Levinson The best film about a slickster and his autistic brother ever made, the unsung hero here is Levinson, who tells the tale in crisp, confident beats. Tom Cruise also knocks it out of the park.Read Review 386 The Great Silence (1968) Director: Sergio Corbucci A critics' favourite, this classic Spaghetti Western sees Jean-Louis Trintignant's mute gunfighter take on Klaus Kinski's bounty hunters. Also boasts one of the bleakest endings ever mounted. 385 Ace In The Hole (1951) Director: Billy Wilder Billy Wilder gives free reign to his legendary cynicism in this, his first film as writer-producer-director, a caustic tale of media exploitation with Kirk Douglas on top, sleazy form as ruthless journo Chuck Tatum. It's a film that gets more relevant with every passing year. Read Review 384 The Shop Around The Corner (1940) Director: Ernst Lubitsch The inspiration for You've Got Mail. Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart fall for each other via letters in a wry, winning rom-com that stays just the right side of sentimental. One of the best from the grandmaster Lubitsch. Read Review

383 Serenity (2005) Director: Joss Whedon Out of the ashes of Firefly came Serenity, a great space-cowboy romp. Its appearance on the list speaks volumes about the loyalty of those Browncoats.Read Review		382 Cach� (2005) Director: Michael Haneke Haneke's clinging paranoid thriller is that rare beast - an arthouse crowdpleaser. Austere but virtuoso, the real achievement is exploring issues of guilt and complacency without stinting on the suspense. Read Review		381 Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975) Directors: Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam The knights who say "Ni" + the killer bunny rabbit + the extraordinarily rude Frenchman + The Bridge Of Death over The Gorge Of Eternal Peril + the three-headed knight = genius. Read Review		380 Children Of Men (2006) Director: Alfonso Cuar�  Grown-up sci-fi in a morass of kiddie blockbusters, Cuar�'s chilling vision of a dystopian London is gripping and original. If nothing else, see it for the barnstorming single-take action sequence. Read Review		379 Ratatouille (2007) Director: Brad Bird Pixar's rat-in-the-kitchen masterwork combines perfectly orchestrated slapstick with a self-portrait about the challenges of being an artist in a sea of mediocrity. In an age of fast-food animation, this is a three-Michelin-star experience.Read Review
378 The Goonies (1985) Director: Richard Donner Every generation has a film that will always be carried in its heart. This madcap, Spielberg- produced adventure about a gaggle of treasure-hunting brats stuck in booby-trapped mazes is that film for anyone born around 1980.Read Review		377 Mean Streets (1973) Director: Martin Scorsese Try to watch this remembering that, at the time, nobody had heard of Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro or Harvey Keitel. You're watching the start of a new cinematic era. Read Review		376 Zodiac (2007) Director: David Fincher How do you turn the serial-killer thriller on its head? Never catch the killer. Fincher's true-life tale is not about grabbing the bad guy; it's about the nature of obsession. Read Review		375 Four Weddings And A Funeral (1994) Director: Mike Newell The film that established Richard Curtis as a brand is often unfairly mocked. The truth is that all rom-com writers are aiming for this mix of sly wit, genuine feeling and farce. Read Review		374 Hot Fuzz (2007) Director: Edgar Wright Wright's skill is in taking the gloss and whizz-bang illogic of Hollywood and applying it to quintessentially English situations. But we'll never understand his affection for Bad Boys II. Read Review

73 Wall-E (2008) Director: Andrew Stanton Pixar's bravest picture is virtually a silent movie, a showcase of perfect sound design and peerless animation. It pushed the boundaries of not just style but storytelling technique as well. Read Review

372 Army Of Darkness (1992) Director: Sam Raimi The third, and silliest, in Raimi's Evil Dead trilogy is notable for completely letting Bruce Campbell off the chin, sorry, chain. And that is a glorious sight to behold. Read Review 371 Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl (2003) Director: Gore Verbinski Remember when the Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise wasn't misguidedly obsessed with character depth and darkness, and was just plain old fun? Read Review 370 Cover Movie View Cover Rocky (1976) Director: John G. Avildsen One of the finest ever sporting movies, a celebration of the can-do spirit - all the more important when it becomes clear that he can't.Read Review 369 Cover Movie View Cover The Breakfast Club (1985) Director: John Hughes To anyone who was a teen in the '80s, this will forever be the "Oh my God, someone understands me!" movie. Kudos to Hughes for giving a generation a voice that felt true. Read Review 368 Airplane! (1980) Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker The greatest spoof ever made, taking every disaster-movie clich� and twisting it until all the comedy is extracted. All the more ingenious in comparison to the lame mess of sketches that is 'spoof' today. Read Review

367 Cabaret (1972) Director: Bob Fosse Fosse's Oscar-winner is about as far from the MGM tradition as you can get. The wartime Berlin setting and flawed characters makes the swaggering desperation of the tunes all the more powerful.Read Review

364 Natural Born Killers (1994) Director: Oliver Stone What do you get when you cross combustible provocateur Oliver Stone and (the then) enfant terrible of Hollywood Quentin Tarantino? Answer: Natural Born Killers, a volatile re-working of the Badlands/Bonnie And Clyde couple-on-a-killing-spree formula that (predictably) shocked the system, and (predictably) had Tarantino throwing a creative huff over Stone's liberal changes. The film is all the more fascinating for being a product of its time, strobing through the mid-'90s zeitgeist (from daytime soaps to news docs), and populated with such (as of then) wild children as Robert Downey Jr., Tom Sizemore, Juliette Lewis and Woody Harrelson. The mystical mumbo-jumbo harks back to Stone's predilection for '60s motifs, making it half-crazed, but iconic all the same. Read Review

363 Good Morning, Vietnam(1987) Director: Barry Levinson Robin Williams off the Richter scale, as his jabber-mouthed DJ stirs up the Vietnam troops until the authorities pull the plug. The political framework at least gives more purpose to the freeforming comedian's verbal torrents. Read Review 362 The Elephant Man (1980) Director: David Lynch Easily Lynch's most sympathetic and outwardly 'gettable' movie tells the tragic 19th-century tale of John Merrick, hideously disfigured by a congenital disease, and taken in by a kindly doctor who sees the human beneath the freakshow. Read Review

361 Clerks (1994) Director: Kevin Smith The no-budget, �er-indie convenience-store comedy that struck gold and made Smith the man he is today - the heartfelt if profane chronicler of America's slacker belt. Read Review 359 The Lady Eve (1941) Director: Preston Sturges The irrepressible Sturges takes another bow in the 500, with this familiar mix of rich characters and madcap plotting, as spurned con-woman Barbara Stanwyck disguises herself as an English lady to romantically torment dotty professor Henry Fonda.Read Review

360 The Return (2003) Director: Andrei Zvyagintsev Family drama in the Russian wilds as an estranged father returns to his two teenage sons: this simple premise emerges as a stunning, near-mythic tale of emergent manhood in the hands of a director fast becoming Russia's premier filmmaker. Read Review 358 Russian Ark (2002) Director: Aleksandr Sokurov The film that famously involves one single shot, floating through the halls of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg during 19th century Russia. It's a virtuoso piece of directing, but can't quite escape the nagging sensation of stunt over content. Read Review

357 The Long Goodbye (1973) Director: Robert Altman Robert Altman's languid, freeform version of Raymond Chandler's last great novel relocates the 1953 story to 1973, critiquing the out-of-time values of Elliott Gould's Philip Marlowe - a slobby, unshaven, chain-smoking all-time loser introduced in a brilliant sequence which has him try to pass off inferior pet food on his supercilious cat. John Williams' superb score plays endless variations on a title tune and many sequences are astonishing: a violent gangster making a point by smashing a Coke bottle in his mistress' face ("That's someone I love; you I don't even like") and an invigoratingly cynical punchline ("... and I lost my cat") that turns Marlowe into a sort of winner, after all. Altman puts vital action into the corners of the frame, almost unnoticed, and highlights tiny moments of weirdness in a sun-struck tapestry of Los Angeles sleaze. Arnold Schwarzenegger, no less, has an unbilled cameo as a minor thug. Read Review

356 Napol�n (1927) Director: Abel Gance At its restored length, Gance's silent masterpiece runs to five-and-a-half hours. It was designed as a gigantic biopic in six 90-minute parts, but ended up this magnificent giant (about a shortarse) with groundbreaking visuals, literate captions and pulsating energy. Read Review		355 Sunshine (2007) Director: Danny Boyle Boyle followed his re-invention of zombie horror (in 28 Days Later) with this visually enthralling space shocker, gesturing heavily (and successfully) to 2001, Alien, even Event Horizon. The wacky ending, however, divides people. Read Review		354 Un Chien Andalou (1929) Director: Luis Bu�el No-one will ever out-weird Bu�el's team-up with 'tache-twiddling Surrealism supremo Salvador Dal�, resulting in this 17-minute phantasmagoria featuring severed hands, rotting donkeys, ants squeezing out of human skin and the infamous eye-slitting. Read Review		353 Bugsy Malone (1976) Director: Alan Parker It sounds ghastly - a gangster-themed musical populated entirely by kids - but care of Parker's natty visuals, decent songs, splurge guns, pedal-powered sedans and, most remarkably, a non-revolting gaggle of kids, it remains a favourite. Read Review		352 Unfaithfully Yours (1948) Director: Preston Sturges Sturges, it transpires, has fared well in this top 500. Justly so. He's on sparkling form again with this pacy mix of literate dialogue and bold slapstick, with Rex Harrison's troubled symphony conductor contemplating the murder of his possibly philandering wife, Linda Darnell. Read Review
351 Zulu (1964) Director: Cy Endfield In the face of much parody, it is easy to forget how stirring Zulu actually is. Glorious to gaze upon, the battle scenes have an almighty clamour, but never at the expense of the characters, which include a posh Michael Caine. Read Review		350 Planet Of The Apes (1968) Director: Franklin J. Schaffner This trippy piece of new-Hollywood sci-fi mixes in issues of race, science, even politics, with its tetchy dystopian thrills and Charlton Heston's bronzed chest. The twist ending alone lands it on this list. Read Review		349 Arthur (1981) Director: Steve Gordon This daft odd-couple routine - boozy aristo Dudley Moore romances flighty Liza Minnelli, while John Gielgud's starchy butler makes acidic comments - proves surprisingly resilient. The answer could be in the delightful chemistry that all three very diverse actors cook up. Read Review		348 Au Hasard Balthazar(1966) Director: Robert Bresson It's proof of Bresson's power as a filmmaker that this, the tale of a donkey (albeit paralleled with that of a girl), says more about humanity - our vices, our trials, our self-examination - than a dozen Hollywood pictures. Read Review		347 All About Eve (1950) Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Sparkling dialogue and brilliant turns (All About Eve holds the record for the most female Academy Award nominations - four) mark out this indelible tale of a sly ing�ue (Anne Baxter) who latches on to a successful theatre actress (Bette Davis).Read Review

346 Leave Her To Heaven(1945) Director: John M. Stahl A smart, flashback-driven noir-melodrama charting a marriage swept to hell on a dark wave of jealousy. Championed by Scorsese, who discovered it on TV after a midnight asthma attack.Read Review 344 The Last Waltz (1978) Director: Martin Scorsese If Woodstock (co-directed by Scorsese) marks the beginning of an era, The Last Waltz appropriately and sensitively captures its end, as Scorsese documents the last gig by former Dylan backing-act The Band. Read Review

345 Fatal Attraction (1987) Director: Adrian Lyne The movie that gave us the phrase "bunny-boiler", Lyne's cautionary anti-romance was a phenomenon at the time. It's not aged too well (terrible ending), but its influence is still felt. Read Review 343 Monsters, Inc. (2001) Director: Pete Docter Another Pixar charmer that zips along on a buddy-movie premise, most notable for the novel concept that the horrors slithering under your bed are nothing more than regular working schmoes. Read Review

342 Cover Movie View Cover The Gold Rush (1925) Director: Charlie Chaplin Masterfully recreating the freezing wastes of Alaska on his Hollywood backlot, Chaplin keeps his notorious sentimentality in check and offers up one of the most durable gems of the silent era, following the Tramp's varying fortunes as a gold prospector. Read Review

341 The Passenger (1975) Director: Michelangelo Antonioni Many would argue that Jack Nicholson has yet to better his lead performance in Michelangelo Antonioni's complex, disquieting thriller as a frazzled reporter who assumes the identity of a dead gun-runner. Read Review 339 Spirited Away (2001) Director: Hayao Miyazaki For too many, this was an overdue introduction to the crazy-beautiful delights of Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli - and also a reminder of the wonderful mythologies that thrive far beyond the boundaries of Disney's magic kingdom. Read Review

340 High And Low (1963) Director: Akira Kurosawa Kurosawa's contemporary crime thriller is one of his relatively lesser-known efforts. Don't let the absence of swords and samurai armour put you off - abetted once again by Toshiro Mifune (here a businessman whose son is kidnapped), Kurosawa proved himself a master of any genre he deigned to tackle. Read Review 338 Jules Et Jim (1962) Director: Fran�is Truffaut Truffaut's deeply affecting love-triangle drama came at (or rather, helped form) the crest of the revolutionary French New Wave, and its zest remains untainted. Read Review

337 300 (2006) Director: Zack Snyder Falling just 37 places short of its ideal spot, Snyder's buff, beefy comic adaptation slammed Sparta onto the cinematic map. With help, of course, from Gerard Butler's very shouty grasp of the obvious ("This� is... SPARTAAAA!"). Read Review

336 Cover Movie View Cover Titanic (1997) Director: James Cameron Cameron뭩 ship-meets-iceberg magnum opus was talked up as a disaster in the making. Of course, he proved us all wrong, the clever bastard. Read Review 335 Cover Movie View Cover The Seventh Seal (1957) Director: Ingmar Bergman Bergman's challenging medieval masterpiece is one of cinema's most satisfying works - visually, intellectually, spiritually. It also showcases movies' greatest ever chess game... Read Review 334 The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) Director: Orson Welles Welles' family drama is of the greats somehow, despite the fact that it was infamously molested by the studio while Welles holidayed. The suits blamed Pearl Harbour for the insertion of an upbeat ending. Read Review 333 Cover Movie View Cover Grease (1978) Director: Randal Kleiser Still lovingly mocked for featuring the oldest high-schoolers ever, Grease coasts on a double-dose of nostalgia: for the '50s as reminisced during the '70s. Read Review 332 The Sixth Sense (1999) Director: M. Night Shyamalan Forget the twist: it's the slow-freeze chills and upsettingly convincing performance by Haley Joel Osment that define Shyamalan's finest film to date. Read Review

331 The Green Mile (1999) Director: Frank Darabont Darabont's other Stephen King prison movie is not entirely successful at carrying its own weight, but with the heft comes a certain raw emotional power. Contains cinema's most disturbing execution scene. Read Review

330 Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith (2005) Director: George Lucas Fourth best Star Wars, undeniably the most satisfying of the prequels. Read Review 328 The Truman Show (1998) Director: Peter Weir One of Weir's talents is that he can turn A-list stars into proper actors. Here, he turns crazy gurner Jim Carrey into a heartbreaking everyman trapped on TV. Read Review

329 The Lives Of Others (2006) Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck One of the all-too-few films that resists subtitle-prejudice, this character-driven Stasiland drama beautifully affirms that we can find colour in even the greyest of places.Read Review 327 The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) Director: Henry Selick What's this? What's this?! A spindly, stop-motion delight, ingeniously entwining the appeal of Hallowe'en with Jesus' birthday. Read Review

326 Out Of Sight (1998) Director: Steven Soderbergh So smart, so sexy. Soderbergh returned from the indie wilderness with this snappy Elmore Leonard adaptation - the best yet made, with only the possible exception of Jackie Brown - precipitating tingly chemistry between then-on-the-cusp George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez. Playing charismatic bank robber Jack Foley, former TV doctor Clooney finally arrived as a bona fide movie star, and has hardly broken his stride since. Playing spunky US Marshall Karen Sisco, Lopez revealed promise as an actress that you wish she'd since lived up to, rather than going off and swishing her curves as J-Lo. As for Sodey, while Out Of Sight wasn't a smash, it got critics gushing enough for him to bag the projects that rocketed him to the A-list. Without this, we might never have seen his Erin Brockovich, Traffic or Ocean's Eleven. Read Review

325 Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003) Director: Quentin Tarantino QT's first true action movie offers bravura fight scenes undercut by a fun, sick sense of humour. Shame he couldn't quite keep either up to this standard for the next instalment. Read Review

324 Lone Star (1996) Director: John Sayles Sayles specialises in deliberately paced, ensemble, slice-of-Americana dramas, and bolstered by a flashback-driven mystery element (featuring Matthew McConaughey's best performance), this bordertown saunter is one of his finest.Read Review		323 The Last Seduction (1994) Director: John Dahl Dahl and Linda Fiorentino crafted a bitch for the ages in crafty femme Bridget Gregory - but then, why should it always be the men who get all the fun in noir? Read Review		322 Aladdin (1992) Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker Heartland Disneytainment, best-loved by boys for having a rogueish bloke rather than a princess at the centre of things, best-loved by everyone for Robin Williams' show-stealing vocal whirl as the genie. Read Review		321 Funny Face (1957) Director: Stanley Donen Audrey Hepburn has rarely looked better, and Fred Astaire's still on fine, toe-tapping form in this chic Parisian romp - so who cares about the gaping age difference between them? A fine showcase for both stars' talents.		320 Braveheart (1995) Director: Mel Gibson Historically suspect, but so what? Gibson wrenches out all the thrills and bloodspills he can in this rowdy medieval epic, featuring one of cinema's most stirring battle scenes (The Battle Of Stirling Bridge). Rousing stuff. Read Review
319 The Lion King (1994) Director: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff It's not hard to see - or indeed hear - why this is one of the Mouse House's hugest movies. Its formula (hit songs, big sequences, comedy sidekicks, tear-jerking tragedy, cute baby animals) has rarely worked better. Read Review		318 Rebecca (1940) Director: Alfred Hitchcock As his first Hollywood movie, Hitch was pressed to adapt Daphne du Maurier's fraught classic of timid new brides tormented by tyrannical housekeepers and distant husbands. It's all a bit melodramatic for the master, but he did to win the Best Picture Oscar. Read Review		317 Midnight Run (1988) Director: Martin Brest Quietly, hilariously, this odd-couple thriller was one of the films of the '80s. The teaming of a droll but square Charles Grodin (as the dodgy accountant on the lam) and a restrained and likable Robert De Niro (as the bounty hunter sent to retrieve him) proved perfect. Read Review		316 Cover Movie View Cover Trainspotting (1996) Director: Danny Boyle There's no doubting the jump-start Boyle's Scorsese-styled adaptation of Irvine Welsh's drug odyssey gave to the stuffy home-grown industry, not to mention the career of one Ewan McGregor. Read Review		315 Sense And Sensibility(1995) Director: Ang Lee Lee, with his keen eye for the foibles of human behaviour, was a perfect fit for Jane Austen's silken satire. It's hardly a radical adaptation, but with decent performances, it remains popular. Read Review

314 Sweet Smell Of Success (1957) Director: Alexander Mackendrick An extraordinary, unrivalled, utterly cynical piece of Hollywood noir, as Tony Curtis' sleazoid press agent rubs up against Burt Lancaster's formidable J. J. Hunsecker, the Broadway columnist who can make or break careers. Read Review

313 Battleship Potemkin (1925) Director: Sergei Eisenstein Eisenstein's dramatisation of the Russian naval mutiny, cited as the kick-off point for the revolution itself, put down a breathtaking blueprint for what cinema could do. Read Review 311 American History X (1998) Director: Tony Kaye Hugely controversial in its day, Kaye's black-and-white tale of neo-Nazi redemption has, scarily, only grown in relevance. Edward Norton, who re-edited amid a directorial spat lends chilling reality to the idea of the intelligent brute. Read Review

312 Suspiria (1977) Director: Dario Argento All of the Italian horror maestro's Gothic flamboyance is on display in this operatic horror set in a ballet school run by homicidal witches, draping his bodily carnage in the gloss of art. Best death: the girl who plunges into a pit of barbed wire. Read Review 310 Cover Movie View Cover Gremlins (1984) Director: Joe Dante Dante' brilliant horror pastiche of cute puppets transforming into swarms of anarchic devils. Arguably, though, it was producer Spielberg's emphasis on keeping Gizmo front-and- centre that made the difference. Read Review

309 Transformers (2007) Director: Michael Bay This first live-action outing for the complicated Japanese toy line comes undercooked in the plot department, but ILM's quick-changing robots are unbeatable. Is it really a comedy? Read Review

308 Cover Movie View Cover The Terminator (1984) Director: James Cameron Only John Connor can overcome the monster machines who have nearly exterminated humanity in the future, so the cybernetic baddies send an unstoppable robot back in time to kill his mother before he is born. The Terminator is the great sci-fi-horror-action film, wedding ideas from old Outer Limits episodes and Philip K. Dick stories to the relentless, rollercoaster pacing of Halloween. Arnold Schwarzenegger became a screen icon in this version of his classic role (he is much better as an evil terminator), wiping out discos full of dancers or police stations full of cops in a single-minded search for Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton, with an alarming perm) and gradually losing human shape to appear as a Stan Winston robo-skeleton. Writer-director James Cameron, redeeming himself after Piranha II, launched his career - arguably, the constraints suited him better than the unlimited funds he's had on subsequent movies. Read Review

307 Midnight Cowboy (1969) Director: John Schlesinger Bittersweet, Oscar-winning drama with Jon Voight's cowboy hustler struggling to make it in the Big Apple, only to find a weird kind of solace in the company of showstealing Dustin Hoffman as shrewish bum Ratso Rizzo. John Barry's music injects memorable pathos. Read Review

306 Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade(2007) Director: Steven Spielberg Spielberg endeavoured to mix it up for this, the lightest of the Indy quartet. Adding Sean Connery as a wisecracking Jones Sr. was a triumph, although the quest for the Holy Grail feels a bit formulaic. Read Review

305 The Prestige (2006) Director: Christopher Nolan In the wake of The Dark Knight, this twisted tale of warring Victorian magicians appears more of a side attraction on Nolan's grim canon. Still, it's gorgeous to look at, even if the 'cleverness' of its ending remains open to debate. Read Review

304 Radio Days (1987) Director: Woody Allen Made towards the end of Allen's early, funny phase, this is a sweet-natured homage to the big-band days of early radio, beamed across America through tub-sized Magnavox radios. Slight, by his early standards, but evocative and lovable all the same. Read Review 302 The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946) Director: William Wyler This prescient drama tackles the re-adjustment of returning servicemen. Perhaps a little dated in its pressed emotions, Gregg Toland's Kane-like deep focus still gives it a wonderfully memorable look.Read Review

303 Together (2000) Director: Lukas Moodyson The film that made Moodysson the hip kid of new Swedish cinema is anything but Bergman reinvented. Set in a '70s Stockholm commune, it's light on its feet: an endearingly fizzy picture of the struggle for human expression in a crowd of 'individuals'.Read Review 301 Love And Death (1975) Director: Woody Allen Woody in his comedic prime exits New York for the verdant battlefields of Russian literature in this hilarious mash-up of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoevsky and Allen's plaintive Jewish one-liners.Read Review