I am constantly asked to list off my top movie, or a top 5 list. It’s very tough to rank some films above others accounting for different segmentation. Here is a list of top 25 that I relatively quickly pieced together. Side note: when guessing the year of the film I guesses 10 exactly correct and on average for the 25 was off by 1.1 years.
Table is sortable.
| FILM | YEAR | DIRECTOR |
|---|---|---|
| North By Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann |
| The Lives of Others | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck |
| Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz |
| High and Low | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa |
| Burnt by the Sun | 1994 | Nikita Mikhalkov |
| Scent of a Woman | 1992 | Martin Brest |
| The Usual Suspects | 1995 | Bryan Singer |
| The Aviator | 2004 | Martin Scorsese |
| Volver | 2006 | Pedro Almodovar |
| Catch me if You Can | 2002 | Steven Spielberg |
| Last of the Mohicans | 1992 | Michael Mann |
| Belle Epoque | 1992 | Fernando Trueba |
| From Here to Eternity | 1953 | Fred Zinnemann |
| LA Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson |
| Todo Sobre Mi Madre | 1999 | Pedro Almodovar |
| Hable Con Ella | 2002 | Pedro Almodovar |
| Sabrina | 1995 | Sydney Pollack |
| Walking the Streets of Moscow | 1964 | Georgiy Daneliya |
| The English Patient | 1996 | Anthony Minghella |
| The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | George Cukor |
| East/West | 1999 | Regis Wargnier |
| Stealing Beauty | 1996 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
Hej Juri! what about some Woody Allen flare? Midnight in Paris, Macht Point, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Hi Angel! I watched all of Woody Allen starting in high school and at a certain point all his films started being annoying. Not until Match Point did he take a turn and began his European era, which I have liked. Probably Manhattan (and not Annie Hall) would be the one piece of his I could add here into the top list. Although at the time of watching I really enjoyed all three you mention.
Agree. The first ones can turn annoying. Magic in the moonlight is good one too. Almodovar I must say is a copycat of Madrid’s downtown characters. Take care.