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The 500 greatest movies of all time 200-101 
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Before Sunrise (1995)
Director: Richard Linklater
The soppy/sophisticated two-hander plays as affecting tribute to young love, lent real emotional heft in retrospect by the nine-years-later sequel. Read Review
199
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Director: Tobe Hooper
A DIY shocker that prefigured 몋orture porn� by 30 years...Less blood and butchery than you actually think, but it뭩 how the tone and texture make you feel: violated, terrified, exhilarated.Read Review
198
Fargo (1996)
Director: Joel & Ethan Coen
The homespun murder story that finally wrought the Brothers� Kook Oscar recognition, and though their "it뭩 true" claims proved mischievous, Frances McDormand's warm, up-the-duff rozzer makes it feel real. Read Review
197
Point Break (1991)
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Before Neo there was Johnny Utah: young, dumb and full of come-on, can뭪-you-spot-the-subtext? beauty. Surfin� and stealin�, buddy beefcakes Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze forge the ultimate bromance. Read Review
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Am�ie (1999)
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Jeunet's perfectly pitched little charmer is one for wistful romantics everywhere. It also offers an object lesson in how to be a better person. To wit... Read Review

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It뭩 A Wonderful Life (1946)
Director: Frank Capra
The ultimate Christmas movie, and Capra뭩 most enduring � even if it was a flop on release. Read Review

194
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Director: Vittorio De Sica
An impoverished father뭩 job depends on his bicycle, which some street-bastard steals. On an increasingly desperate Sunday, trailed by his young son, he tries to get the bike back. De Sica뭩 neo-realist breakthrough is as much weepie as social drama. The climax still makes strong men cry buckets...Read Review


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Eraserhead (1977)
Director: David Lynch
A rare �70s film completely divorced from its times � the solemnly lost Henry (Jack Nance) would be as out of place anywhere as he is in the industrial pocket-universe of the film. Read Review

193
Ed Wood (1994)
Director: Tim Burton
Burton and Johnny Depp collaborate to tell the story of the world뭩 worst filmmaker, but elevate him to heroic status by exploring his world of misfits and cut-price magic.Read Review


191
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Director: Ang Lee
Gay love story, end-of-the-trail Western, auteur work from Lee, faithful literary adaptation and showcase for two hot male stars of 2005. Not bad. Read Review

190
Big (1988)
Director: Penny Marshall
These days, when a Tom Hanks film comes with a) an Academy Award win, b) a 멏irected By Steven Spielberg� credit, and c) Meg Ryan, it뭩 easy to forget what a great comedic actor the man is. And perhaps the standout of his comedy canon is Big, the best �80s body-swap movie, directed by Marshall and written by another Spielberg (sister Anne). Hanks beautifully plays Josh as a kid playing an adult, never losing sight of the childish delights and insecurities of being young. These days, he may specialise in everymen under enormous duress (Cast Away, The Terminal) but here he is deft, light-fingered and ultimately extraordinarily moving. Read Review

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Ghostbusters (1984)
Director: Ivan Reitman
Imagine National Lampoon doing H. P. Lovecraft, with a hit theme song. This sees Bill Murray at his driest, Sigourney Weaver in a slit, red evening dress, and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man invading New York. Read Review


187
The Big Country (1958)
Director: William Wyler
A cowboy epic, memorable for Gregory Peck뭩 lengthy fist-fight with Charlton Heston (in a rare, interesting bad- guy role) and expansive visions of wide, open spaces accompanied by a memorable hit theme tune. Read Review

188
School Of Rock (2003)
Director: Richard Linklater
Linklater뭩 most commercial outing to date is, appropriately, his most popular � mainly thanks to his surprisingly unannoying school-kid cast and the fact that he allows Jack Black loose in the actor/comedian/ musician뭩 comfort zone.Read Review


186
United 93 (2006)
Director: Paul Greengrass
The simplest and most affecting 9/11 film. Paul Greengrass recreates the events, focusing on the 멹ourth plane� which didn뭪 strike its target, in an austere manner as a thrum of tension builds.Read Review

185
Paths Of Glory (1957)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
With recent events in Iraq, the relevance of Paths Of Glory grows year on year. Kirk Douglas excels as Colonel Dax, defending three soldiers up for court martial, to cover up a military mistake on World War I뭩 Western Front. The film was banned in France until 1975, yet is far more anti-establishment than it is anti-war or anti-France. If unsung Kubrick, it뭩 the first movie to reveal the director뭩 true colours, blessed with a cool, intellectual thrill, spare economical characterisation and precise tracking shots. Cementing Kubrick뭩 relationship with Douglas, it led to him taking over Spartacus, but more importantly, in the small role of 멒erman Singer�, Kubrick found Christiane Harlan, who became his wife up until his death. Sometimes, war is swell. Read Review

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Dirty Harry (1971)
Director: Don Siegel
The great Clint cop picture, introducing soulless San Francisco dick Harry Callahan, only bearable because the guy he is after is even worse. Features the best badge-tossing since High Noon. Read Review

183
Le Samourai (1967)
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
La Samourai is the figurehead of Melville's career, the story a lone assassin (Alain Delon) whose rigid code is undone by the unforeseen arrival of love. It's a stalwart theme now, but no film has done it so sparely and tragically.

182
Performance (1970)
Director: Donald Cammell, Nic Roeg
Roeg and Cammell fused sensibilities as much as gangster James Fox and rocker Mick Jagger do in this acid-tinged freak-out. Read Review

181
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls (1970)
Director: Russ Meyer
Nudie-filmmaker Meyer runs riot with a studio budget, assaulting Jacqueline Susann's trash novel with demented brio and kookily square psychedelia. Read Review

180
To Kill A Mockingbird(1962)
Director: Robert Mulligan
A quiet, careful, affecting adaption of Harper Lee's nostalgic novel. Robert Duvall made an unforgettable debut as neighbourhood bogeyman Boo Radley. Read Review

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Toy Story 2 (1999)
Director: John Lasseter
One of the best sequels ever, it has more action, spotlights fresh new characters while taking the established ones into new territory, and discovers something tragic in a child growing out of toys.Read Review

178
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
Director: H.C. Potter
One of the darnedest films ever made, and a template for the who-cares-if-it- makes-sense-so-long-as- it's-funny? mode of comedy. Read Review

177
City Of God (2002)
Director: Fernando Meirelles, K찼tia Lund
A confident, complicated epic following decades of criminal life in a Rio de Janeiro favela, this is considerably more than 'the GoodFellas of Brazil'. Read Review

176
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Powell and Pressburger's least-understood, most magical film. Its story may be incoherent and 'unpleasant', but its characters and moods are unforgettable and endlessly mysterious. Read Review

175
Rushmore (1998)
Director: Wes Anderson
Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) is the sort of kid every school has, but who was hitherto unseen in teen movies - a smart, semi-geeky boy who polarises the school by being at once disturbingly weird and a fashion leader. Read Review
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Superman The Movie (1978)
Director: Richard Donner
Believing a man can fly is only half of it � Donner took a comic-book character seriously and came up with four different styles (sci-fi, nostalgia, rom-com, special-effects action) to reach the broadest demographic. Read Review


173
Memento (2000)
Director: Christopher Nolan
That rare thing, a truly original thriller. Told backwards, a device which Nolan - already working with dark detectives and conjuring tricks - handles with flair. Read Review

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The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
Director: Victor Fleming
Forget the no-place-like-home cop-out at the end and enjoy Judy's heartbreaking Over The Rainbow, the many classic characters and the "horse of a different colour".Read Review


170
La Haine (1995)
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Kassovitz's debut, and his moment of glory: a fantastically shot tale of friendship and violence on the streets of suburban Paris. You'd never have guessed he'd go on to make silly Vin Diesel films...Read Review

171
Brief Encounter (1945)
Director: David Lean
One of the movies' greatest romances is understated and unconsummated. Writer Noel Coward camps slightly, but David Lean and the stars mean every perfectly enunciated syllable. Read Review


169
Viridiana (1961)
Director: Luis Bunuel
A striking exercise in blasphemy, down to the sacrilegious recreation of Leonardo's Last Supper. Read Review

168
Tootsie (1982)
Director: Sydney Pollack
Dustin Hoffman makes a great statement for feminism by dressing up as a woman and realising that they don't have a great time in the entertainment industry. Read Review


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Goldfinger (1964)
Director: Guy Hamilton
Goldfinger gets Sean Connery's 007 away from the Cold War to play with gonad-targeted lasers, gilded girls, mad millionaires, killer bowler hats and Honor Blackman's Pussy. Read Review

167
Don't Look Now (1973)
Director: Nic Roeg
Arty, scary, sexy. An air of dread, unrelieved by the famous sex scene, paid off with one of the scariest serial killers in cinema. Read Review


165
Partie De Campagne (1936)
Director: Jean Renoir
A brief feature, abandoned by Jean Renoir during the 1930s but revisited and edited together after the War � a trifle, perfectly played and with a lovely, riverside feel. Renoir claimed he made it solely to take close-ups of lead actress Sylvia Bataille.

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The Searchers (1956)
Director: John Ford
John Wayne뭩 magnificent and terrifying obsession is to track down his kidnapped niece. Ford's is to turn the Western into American poetry. Read Review

163
The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
Director: David Lean
An intelligent tale of misguided pride among a group of British POWs who have been co-opted into building a railway bridge for the Japanese army, this is Lean mixing epic visuals with true complexity. Read Review


162
A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
Director: Wes Craven
A new breed of cinematic killer who literally climbed inside your dreams, Freddy Krueger was a truly scary creation, with Craven riffing on almost Jungian fear of what sleep might bring. Read Review

161
The Year Of Living Dangerously (1982)
Director: Peter Weir
It뭩 testament to the power of Weir뭩 superior political thriller-romance that it was banned in Indonesia, where its events take place, until 1999. Starring a never-more-dashing Mel Gibson as foreign correspondent Guy Hamilton and Sigourney Weaver as British Embassy official Jill Bryant, it뭩 set during an attempted 1965 coup against the brutal Sukarno regime. Often compared to Costa-Gavras� Missing, released the same year, it brilliantly captures the knife-edge tension of its setting. It is also notable for one of the most extraordinary performances of the �80s � actress Linda Hunt뭩 portrayal of a male Chinese-Australian dwarf named Billy Kwan. It was a role that, quite rightly, won her an Oscar. Read Review

160
Being There (1979)
Director: Hal Ashby
Heartfelt comedy and biting social satire with Peter Sellers (in his last role) as Chance, a guileless child-man whose simple pronouncements on tending a garden are taken as profound insights into the nature of the world.


159
The Royal Tenenbaums(2001)
Director: Wes Anderson
And you thought your family was crazy� Anderson뭩 eccentric, hilarious and moving dramedy about the world뭩 most dysfunctional clan is almost too quirky for its own good. Almost. Read Review

158
Unforgiven (1992)
Director: Clint Eastwood
Clint had been messing with the Western myth since he first chewed a cigar for Sergio Leone, but here he exploded it, his moody, complex masterpiece dealing unblinkingly with the frontier뭩 ugliest, most violent side. Read Review
157
True Romance (1993)
Director: Tony Scott
Working from Quentin Tarantino뭩 script and surrounding himself with the cream of Hollywood뭩 hip elite, Scott뭩 eye for visual tomfoolery has never had a better fit than with this delirious crime/love story. Read Review
156
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Director: Steven Spielberg
From the shockingly visceral Normandy Landings opening to the final devastating battle in a destroyed French village, Spielberg뭩 epic redefined how cinema should interpret the battlefields of history. Read Review
155
Badlands (1973)
Director: Terrence Malick
Loosely based on the real-life murder spree of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, Malick뭩 debut is a tribute to the untamed wilderness and a hazy ode to crazy love. Read Review
154
Betty Blue (1986)
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
The original title for this steamy Gallic thriller � translated as 37캜, Two In The Morning � sums it all up. Hot, sweaty and passionate, it couldn뭪 be more French if it tried. Read Review
153
The Innocents (1961)
Director: Jack Clayton
Based on Henry James� The Turn Of The Screw, Clayton뭩 psychological Gothic horror is a masterpiece of subtle implication over blatant gore. This has a strong shout as Blighty's best chiller.
152
Boogie Nights (1997)
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
The rise-and-fall of a skin-flick entourage is explored in intimate detail in Anderson뭩 star-studded homage to the success and excesses of the �70s porn industry. More a film about family than rutting on celluloid. Read Review
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Gladiator (2000)
Director: Ridley Scott
"Are you not entertained?" With Russell Crowe in full-on wronged-warrior mode, Scott evoking the lost majesty of ancient Rome and more bloody violence than you can shake a trident at. Yes, we are. Read Review

150
The French Connection (1971)
Director: William Friedkin
Based on the infamous drug trafficking case of the same name, Friedkin뭩 electric, documentary-style thriller is a gritty triumph of style and intelligent plotting bolstered by a career-defining turn from Gene Hackman as committed narc Popeye Doyle. Read Review

149
The Red Shoes (1948)
Directors: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen, P&P's tale about a woman born to dance and the various tragedies that befall her is as beautiful as it is heartbreaking. A true British masterpiece.Read Review

148
Z (1969)
Director: Costa-Gavras
A thinly fictionalised account of the assassination of a democratic Greek politician in 1963, Costa-Gavras' respected film takes a swipe at Greek politics and the military dictatorship that ruled the country.


146
Shampoo (1975)
Director: Hal Ashby
While it was set during a period of extraordinary governmental strife, this Nixon-era satire is more concerned with the arena of sexual politics, as Warren Beatty's cocky hairstylist shags his way around the wives of the rich and famous.

147
Notorious (1946)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock's saucy (for the time) thriller stars Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, who excel as a government agent and a socialite who become entangled during an espionage operation. Read Review


145
Sophie's Choice (1982)
Director: Alan J. Pakula
A difficult story told with suitable reverence, Pakula's tale of the ultimate Catch-22 scenario may be difficult to watch, but it sure is rewarding. Not least for some solid-gold Streeping.
144
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Very loosely based on Upton Sinclair뭩 novel Oil!, this tale of greed and religion is all about one man. Daniel Day-Lewis� performance is a powerhouse strong enough to clear out all them thar hills... 밒 drink your milkshake. I drink it UP!�Read Review


143
Cyrano De Bergerac (1991)
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
There뭩 a moment in this sumptuous 17th century swashbuckler that sums up why the doughy-faced G�ard Depardieu is a star and a sex symbol. Blessed with a fierce talent for both war and words, his Cyrano is also cursed with a nose that precedes him by 15 minutes � so he dares not confess his love for the beautiful Roxane (Anne Brochet). After she asks his help to protect the gorgeous boy she loves, and commends his bravery in recently defeating 100 men, as she rushes out, he mutters, 밢h, I뭭e been braver since then,� with such quiet heartbreak in his voice that it뭗 make a stone weep. The story뭩 been told many times � as Steve Martin뭩 Roxanne, The Truth About Cats & Dogs, even Ratatouille � but Rappeneau뭩 epic is the truest take on Edmond Rostand뭩 famous play. It may be melodrama, sweeping rather than creeping in its conclusions, but it뭩 a thing of brash, glorious, poignant emotion. Read Review

142
Almost Famous (2000)
Director: Cameron Crowe
A semi-autobiographical tale about sex, drugs and Rolling Stone based on Cameron Crowe뭩 teenage memories, this is to rock 뭤� roll what GoodFellas was to gangsters. Read Review


140
As Good As It Gets (1997)
Director: James L. Brooks
With a catalogue of misanthropes and psychopaths filling up his r�um�, Jack Nicholson fits the role of brash obsessive-compulsive Melvin Udall like a glove, and it뭩 his winning depiction of a man fighting his own neurosis that actually humanises it.

141
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Director: David Hand
Hollywood뭩 first full-length animated feature, Snow White still works and still whistles. Enough to make ol� Uncle Walt proud. Read Review


139
Blow Out (1981)
Director: Brian De Palma
Playing like The Conversation with added sound effects, De Palma뭩 paranoia-packed piece finds John Travolta뭩 movie-effects technician accidentally capturing audio evidence of an assassination plot. Read Review

138
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
While cinema history is chock-full of renegade types who love to buck the system, none are as cool as Luke. Paul Newman at his charismatic, blue-eyed best. Read Review
137
Dances With Wolves (1990)
Director: Kevin Costner
Initially thought to be a costly folly, Costner put his career on the line for this frontier epic and was justly rewarded. It is a Western, certainly, but also a romance between a man and an idea of lost America. Read Review
136
Amadeus (1984)
Director: Milos Forman
The genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a bumptious rube, which is agony for the lesserly gifted but oh-so-aware composer Antonio Salieri.Read Review
135
Duck Soup (1933)
Director: Leo McCarey
The Marx Brothers took their anarchic comedy to a whole new level with this delirious blend of physical foolishness and astonishing wordplay. It marked the end of their time at Paramount, but what a way to bow out. Read Review
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Seven (1995)
Director: David Fincher
Fincher went from the man-who-ruined-the-Alien-franchise to the darling of shock cinema, with this extraordinary serial killer hit. It wasn뭪 just the amoral jolt of the twist ending � this was a tableau of Gothic horror and spiritual unease.Read Review
133
Double Indemnity (1944)
Director: Billy Wilder
Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck plot murder, but Billy Wilder makes sure they suffer for it � with Stanwyck at her sexiest, crackling Raymond Chandler dialogue, and a perfect mix of scalding sunshine and the shadowed L.A. night.Read Review
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Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro fuses personal and commercial interests with a tale of the power of fairy tale, even against the grimmest of political settings: the Spanish Civil War. Read Review


131
The Last Of The Mohicans (1992)
Director: Michael Mann
Lush historical adventure with Daniel Day-Lewis something between noble savage and a 17th century Rambo as trapper hero Hawkeye. Mann gets an authentic feel and real excitement out of canoe chases, woodland dashes, swooning romance, tomahawks, bloody scalping, and firework-display battles. Read Review
130
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
Director: John Huston
In Huston's steady, calloused hands, this Rudyard Kipling yarn becomes a rip-roaring adventure, its central buddy-buddy dynamic as entertaining as you could expect from the pairing of Brit stalwarts Connery and Caine. Read Review
129
Harvey (1950)
Director: Henry Koster
James Stewart's genial alcoholic talks to an invisible six-foot rabbit, but seems the only sane person in the film. Harvey the rabbit entered pop culture, and Stewart rated this his best role - if not best film. Read Review
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Lost In Translation (2003)
Director: Sofia Coppola
Coppola, Murray and Johansson gain enough goodwill to sustain their careers through rocky decisions in this perfect almost-romance about a fading star and a neglected wife bonding in a Japanese hotel. Read Review
127
The Sting (1973)
Director: George Roy Hill
A wholly delightful romp, with crisp '30s fashions and Scott Joplin's ragtime music setting off the '70s glamour of Redford and Newman as two arch-grifters pulling an elaborate con to get revenge on scowling Robert Shaw. Read Review
126
Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid (1973)
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Arguably Peckinpah's masterpiece. Sequences of violence are interspersed with tenderly beautiful, melancholy moments, scored by Bob Dylan songs.

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A Bout De Souffle (1960)
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Godard뭩 seminal Nouvelle Vague movie. Jean-Paul Belmondo cops Bogart attitude as a cool, vicious petty crook; Jean Seberg models a major haircut as his American girlfriend, and Paris just shines. At once clever and exuberant. Read Review


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The Silence Of The Lambs(1991)
Director: Jonathan Demme
The first film to scoop the Oscars and the Chainsaw awards. Scrape those sorry cash-ins away and you뭠l find a deeply scary study in terror. Read Review


123
A Woman Under The Influence (1974)
Director: John Cassavetes
A housewife cracks up and makes appalling, random verbal attacks on family and friends. The camera hovers so close that you emerge with an uncomfortable idea of what it must be like to live with this woman. Read Review

122
The Princess Bride (1987)
Director: Rob Reiner
This may be the most widely quoted obscure film in history, because it뭩 the one that even your sister can recite at length. William Goldman뭩 perfectly parodic script both nails the adventure and romance of heroic adventures while ripping the piss out of them. It뭩 funny, it뭩 smart, it뭩 perfectly cast, and has immense, unstoppable charm. Without this, no Shrek, no Enchanted. Director Rob Reiner mentioned on a recent commentary that one of New York kingpin John Gotti뭩 gangsters once walked up to him and quoted the never-bettered, 밳ou killed my father, prepare to die� � nearly giving the director a heart attack. As he says, 밯hen one of Gotti뭩 wiseguys is quoting your lines, you know you뭭e penetrated the culture.� Indeed. The only question is, how on Earth is this outside the top 100? Read Review

121
Los Olvidados (1950)
Director: Luis Bu�el
Once deemed a French surrealist, Bu�el re-established himself as a Mexican realist � though this tale of slum delinquents, which makes Eden Lake look like The Railway Children, is as much horror story as social document.


120
The Battle Of Algiers(1966)
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
A rare triumph of political cinema, depicting colonial oppression, terrorist strikes against civilians, Western occupying forces resorting to torture, and a general uprising without apparently taking sides. Still vivid and relevant.


119
The Wages Of Fear (1953)
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Four losers drive trucks loaded with unstable nitro across treacherous jungle roads. It takes a full hour to introduce its characters, before turning the screws unbearingly, twisting round hairpin bends, over rocky ground, and into oil slicks. Read Review

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Withnail And I (1987)
Director: Bruce Robinson
Truly funny, truly cult: fans can mouth the words of Richard E. Grant뭩 speeches along with him, relishing every viperish turn of phrase and perfectly pronounced curse. A beloved British oddity never repeated. Read Review

117
Miller's Crossing (1990)
Director: Joel and Ethan Coen
The Coens in Dashiell Hammett gangster territory, recounting the near-tragedy of an honourable crook undone by a single gesture of mercy. Finney sees off hitmen with a Thompson while smoking a cigar and listening to Danny Boy in a bravura sequence of Coen magic. Read Review

116
Rio Bravo (1959)
Director: Howard Hawks
Hawks� Western is at once roundabout � with time-outs for songs and Angie Dickinson in tights � and a model of suspense, as John Wayne, Dean Martin and Walter Brennan hole up in a town jail besieged by the bad hats. Read Review

115
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Director: Mel Brooks
Brooks invented scattershot movie parody with this cowboy outrage (we get less grateful everytime a Meet The Spartans or Disaster Movie opens). Highlights: a classic theme song and the Ben-Hur chariot race of flatulence scenes. Read Review

114
The Conversation (1974)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
A Watergate-era analysis of paranoid high-tech eavesdroppers, it뭩 also a great thriller with a clever plot twist and a riveting, underplayed central performance from Gene Hackman. Read Review

113
Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (2004)
Director: Adam McKay
Will Ferrell뭩 breakout vehicle homages the fashion, music and sexual politics of the �70s, with a smarmily self-confident TV newsreader threatened by a female rival. Major plus � it뭩 not about a stupid sport. Read Review

112
I Am Cuba (1964)
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
Russian helmer Kalatozov unsurprisingly reveals the source of Cuba뭩 ache for revolution via a quartet of stories set in Batista뭩 Cuba. Yes, it뭩 Communist propaganda, but also a technical marvel. Read Review

111
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Director: Werner Herzog
A crazed Klaus Kinski brings opera to the jungle � by pulling a steamer over a mountain, obviously. As ambitious, visually stunning and plain old insane as cinema gets, this is Herzog뭩 masterwork. Read Review

110
Before Sunset (2004)
Director: Richard Linklater
Before Sunrise, ten years on. Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke) meet again, briefly, getting another chance to talk about love. How many sequels are made for artistic reasons and add meaning, rather than strip it away? Read Review
109
Touch Of Evil (1958)
Director: Orson Welles
A grimy border noir toplining Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh, but showcasing director Orson Welles in his greatest acting role as a gross, doomed, crooked cop who is still a titan hobbled by lesser men. Read into that what you will. Read Review
108
The Tree Of Wooden Clogs (1978)
Director: Ermanno Olmi
A masterpiece among 'suffering peasant' films. Various farmers in Lombardy have a hard time, tinged by everyday wonder, as they work the land in the early 20th century. Mike Leigh's favourite. Read Review
107
An American Werewolf In London (1981)
Director: John Landis
Landis offers a still-amazing pre-CGI metamorphosis, observations on British strangeness, Jenny Agutter in the shower, nightmare Nazis and a witty set of moon-themed songs. Read Review
106
A Man For All Seasons (1966)
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Henry VIII (Robert Shaw) slaps his thigh and barges about the Thames trying to get a divorce, while conscience-stricken Thomas More (Paul Scofield) lumbers tragically towards an appointment with the axe. Read Review
105
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Director: Milos Forman
Repression and rebellion set in a mental hospital, adapted by Czech director Milos Forman with a cool, near-documentary look. Nicholson gives a key nicholsonian role, taking on softly-spoken sadist Nurse Ratched. Read Review

104
The Rules Of The Game (1939)
Director: Jean Renoir
Banned on its original release, Renoir's cutting, supremely entertaining dissection of class and love (the title refers to romance, as much as anything) is just about perfect.
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103
Rear Window (1954)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
A simple technical exercise � making a whole film in one room � is given ballsy bravura by Hitchcock as a terrific James Stewart witnesses a murder through his, um, rear window. Read Review
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102
The Hustler (1961)
Director: Robert Rossen
A cautionary tale masquerading as a sports movie, this is what legends are made of � especially considering Paul Newman뭩 turn as 멑ast Eddie� Felson provided his breakthrough to the big-time. Read Review
101
Raising Arizona (1987)
Director: Joel and Ethan Coen
For their sophomore effort, those versatile Coen boys swung from the stark chills of Blood Simple into screwball territory with this hyperactive comedy of apocalyptic bikers, serial robbery, infant kidnap, and the value of family. Read Review