Seeking out the
5000 greatest films
in a century of cinema
Films From Year
Films
1.
Tom McCarthy
2.
Marielle Heller
3.
Naji Abu Nowar
4.
Pete Docter
5.
Sean Baker
6.
George Miller
7.
Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
8.
Steven Spielberg
9.
Gavin Hood
Films
10.
David Robert Mitchell
11.
Ryan Coogler
12.
Tobias Lindholm
13.
Ramin Bahrani
14.
Denis Villeneuve
15.
Todd Haynes
16.
Quentin Tarantino
17.
J.J. Abrams
18.
Deniz Gamze Ergüven
19.
Adam McKay
20.
Land of Mine
Under sandet Martin Zandvliet
Under sandet Martin Zandvliet
21.
Liz Garbus
22.
23.
S. Craig Zahler
24.
Danny Boyle
25.
James Kent
26.
Matt Sobel
27.
Dennis Hauck
28.
Giorgos Lanthimos
29.
Stig Björkman
30.
Ciro Guerra
31.
Matthew Heineman
32.
I'll See You in My Dreams
Brett Haley
33.
John Crowley
34.
Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Vinterberg
35.
Alex Garland
36.
Bill Pohlad
37.
Lenny Abrahamson
38.
Asif Kapadia
39.
Noah Baumbach
40.
Christopher McQuarrie
41.
Sebastian Schipper
Films
42.
Queen of Earth
Alex Ross Perry
43.
Mr. Holmes
Bill Condon
44.
László Nemes
45.
Cary Fukunaga
46.
Joel Edgerton
47.
Maya Forbes
48.
The Hunting Ground
Kirby Dick
49.
Patrick Wang
50.
Straight Outta Compton
F. Gary Gray
51.
Patricio Guzmán
52.
Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
53.
Robert Zemeckis
54.
Douglas Tirola
55.
The Invitation
Karyn Kusama
56.
Alejandro González Iñárritu
57.
Z for Zachariah
Craig Zobel
58.
Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie
59.
Grandma
Paul Weitz
60.
Andrew Haigh
61.
The Fits
Anna Rose Holmer
62.
Hannes Holm
63.
Listen to Me Marlon
Stevan Riley
64.
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Kyle Patrick Alvarez
65.
The Armor of Light
Abigail Disney
66.
Bleak Street
La calle de la amargura Arturo Ripstein
La calle de la amargura Arturo Ripstein
67.
Call Me Lucky
Bobcat Goldthwait
68.
Güeros
Alonso Ruizpalacios
69.
Neither Heaven Nor Earth
Ni le ciel ni la terre
The Wakhan Front Clément Cogitore
Ni le ciel ni la terre
The Wakhan Front Clément Cogitore
70.
Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon
71.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Guy Ritchie
72.
Scott Cooper
73.
Demon
Marcin Wrona
74.
Advantageous
Jennifer Phang
75.
Judd Apatow
76.
The Overnight
Patrick Brice
77.
Tale of Tales
Il racconto dei racconti Matteo Garrone
Il racconto dei racconti Matteo Garrone
78.
The Blackcoat's Daughter
Oz Perkins
79.
Slow West
John Maclean
80.
Dope
Rick Famuyiwa
81.
James Ponsoldt
82.
Suffragette
Sarah Gavron
83.
The Clan
El Clan Pablo Trapero
El Clan Pablo Trapero
84.
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Kent Jones
85.
Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief
Alex Gibney
86.
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
Lisa Immordino Vreeland
87.
Noah Baumbach
Films
88.
Nancy Meyers
89.
Ricki and the Flash
Jonathan Demme
90.
Dan Fogelman
91.
Steve Martino
92.
Simon Curtis
93.
Tom Hooper
94.
Sam Mendes
95.
Henry Hobson
96.
Crystal Moselle
97.
Susanne Bier
98.
Brian Helgeland
99.
Kenneth Branagh
100.
Edward Zwick
Films
101.
By the Sea
Angelina Jolie
102.
Joy
David O. Russell
103.
Chi-Raq
Spike Lee
104.
The Forbidden Room
Guy Maddin
105.
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Matt Brown
106.
Freeheld
Peter Sollett
107.
Marguerite
Xavier Giannoli
108.
Sisters
Jason Moore
109.
Focus
Glenn Ficarra and John Requa
110.
Chloé Zhao
111.
Remember
Atom Egoyan
112.
James Vanderbilt
113.
The Lady in the Van
Nicholas Hytner
Films
114.
Francis Lawrence
115.
Woody Allen
116.
Victor Levin
117.
Ridley Scott
118.
Alan Taylor
119.
Poltergeist
Gil Kenan
120.
The Dressmaker
Jocelyn Moorhouse
121.
Justin Kurzel
122.
True Story
Rupert Goold
123.
Older Than Ireland
Alex Fegan
124.
Hsiao-Hsien Hou
125.
Aloha
Cameron Crowe
126.
Ron Howard
127.
The Night Before
Jonathan Levine
128.
Jay Roach
129.
Live from New York!
Bao Nguyen
130.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
131.
The D Train
Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel
132.
Jurassic World
Colin Trevorrow
133.
Child 44
Daniel Espinosa
134.
Bare
Natalia Leite
135.
Youth
Paolo Sorrentino
136.
John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein
137.
Michael Showalter
138.
The Family Fang
Jason Bateman
Films
139.
All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records
Colin Hanks
140.
Brad Bird
141.
Billy Ray
142.
Digging for Fire
Joe Swanberg
143.
Experimenter
Michael Almereyda
144.
Olmo & the Seagull
Petra Costa and Lea Glob
145.
Michael Dougherty
146.
Evolution
Évolution Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Évolution Lucile Hadzihalilovic
147.
Matthew Vaughn
148.
I Saw the Light
Marc Abraham
149.
Paul Feig
150.
Barry Levinson
Films
151.
Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski
Andrew Haigh
Victor Levin
Ramin Bahrani
Advantageous
Jennifer Phang
All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records
Colin Hanks
Aloha
Cameron Crowe
Hannes Holm
Asif Kapadia
Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
Tobias Lindholm
Bare
Natalia Leite
Cary Fukunaga
Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon
Scott Cooper
Bleak Street
La calle de la amargura Arturo Ripstein
La calle de la amargura Arturo Ripstein
S. Craig Zahler
Steven Spielberg
John Crowley
By the Sea
Angelina Jolie
Call Me Lucky
Bobcat Goldthwait
Todd Haynes
Matthew Heineman
Child 44
Daniel Espinosa
Chi-Raq
Spike Lee
Kenneth Branagh
Ryan Coogler
Dan Fogelman
Demon
Marcin Wrona
Digging for Fire
Joe Swanberg
Dope
Rick Famuyiwa
Douglas Tirola
Ciro Guerra
Evolution
Évolution Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Évolution Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Alex Garland
Experimenter
Michael Almereyda
Gavin Hood
Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Vinterberg
Focus
Glenn Ficarra and John Requa
Freeheld
Peter Sollett
Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief
Alex Gibney
Grandma
Paul Weitz
Güeros
Alonso Ruizpalacios
Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie
Michael Showalter
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Kent Jones
I'll See You in My Dreams
Brett Haley
Maya Forbes
Stig Björkman
Pete Docter
Ron Howard
Woody Allen
I Saw the Light
Marc Abraham
David Robert Mitchell
Joy
David O. Russell
Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski
Jurassic World
Colin Trevorrow
Matthew Vaughn
Michael Dougherty
Land of Mine
Under sandet Martin Zandvliet
Under sandet Martin Zandvliet
Brian Helgeland
Listen to Me Marlon
Stevan Riley
Live from New York!
Bao Nguyen
Bill Pohlad
Justin Kurzel
George Miller
Henry Hobson
Marguerite
Xavier Giannoli
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Christopher McQuarrie
Noah Baumbach
Mr. Holmes
Bill Condon
Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Neither Heaven Nor Earth
Ni le ciel ni la terre
The Wakhan Front Clément Cogitore
Ni le ciel ni la terre
The Wakhan Front Clément Cogitore
Older Than Ireland
Alex Fegan
Olmo & the Seagull
Petra Costa and Lea Glob
Edward Zwick
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
Lisa Immordino Vreeland
Poltergeist
Gil Kenan
Queen of Earth
Alex Ross Perry
Remember
Atom Egoyan
Ricki and the Flash
Jonathan Demme
Barry Levinson
Lenny Abrahamson
Billy Ray
Susanne Bier
Denis Villeneuve
Sisters
Jason Moore
Slow West
John Maclean
Chloé Zhao
László Nemes
Sam Mendes
Tom McCarthy
Paul Feig
J.J. Abrams
Danny Boyle
Straight Outta Compton
F. Gary Gray
Suffragette
Sarah Gavron
Matt Sobel
Tale of Tales
Il racconto dei racconti Matteo Garrone
Il racconto dei racconti Matteo Garrone
Sean Baker
Alan Taylor
James Kent
The Armor of Light
Abigail Disney
Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Adam McKay
The Blackcoat's Daughter
Oz Perkins
The Clan
El Clan Pablo Trapero
El Clan Pablo Trapero
Tom Hooper
Marielle Heller
The Dressmaker
Jocelyn Moorhouse
The D Train
Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel
Naji Abu Nowar
James Ponsoldt
The Family Fang
Jason Bateman
The Fits
Anna Rose Holmer
The Forbidden Room
Guy Maddin
Joel Edgerton
Patrick Wang
Quentin Tarantino
Francis Lawrence
The Hunting Ground
Kirby Dick
Nancy Meyers
The Invitation
Karyn Kusama
The Lady in the Van
Nicholas Hytner
Giorgos Lanthimos
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Guy Ritchie
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Matt Brown
Ridley Scott
The Night Before
Jonathan Levine
The Overnight
Patrick Brice
Steve Martino
Patricio Guzmán
Alejandro González Iñárritu
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Kyle Patrick Alvarez
Robert Zemeckis
Crystal Moselle
Brad Bird
Dennis Hauck
Judd Apatow
True Story
Rupert Goold
Jay Roach
James Vanderbilt
John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein
Sebastian Schipper
Liz Garbus
Noah Baumbach
Simon Curtis
Youth
Paolo Sorrentino
Z for Zachariah
Craig Zobel
Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
15 October 2014
Roy Andersson
24 October 2014
James Kent
16 January 2015
Matt Sobel
26 January 2015
Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski
06 February 2015
Victor Levin
12 February 2015
Matthew Vaughn
13 February 2015
Susanne Bier
26 February 2015
Focus
Glenn Ficarra and John Requa
27 February 2015
Kenneth Branagh
13 March 2015
David Robert Mitchell
13 March 2015
Naji Abu Nowar
19 March 2015
Güeros
Alonso Ruizpalacios
20 March 2015
Dan Fogelman
10 April 2015
Simon Curtis
10 April 2015
Slow West
John Maclean
16 April 2015
True Story
Rupert Goold
17 April 2015
Noah Baumbach
17 April 2015
Child 44
Daniel Espinosa
17 April 2015
Alex Garland
24 April 2015
Henry Hobson
08 May 2015
The D Train
Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel
08 May 2015
George Miller
15 May 2015
I'll See You in My Dreams
Brett Haley
15 May 2015
Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Vinterberg
22 May 2015
Poltergeist
Gil Kenan
22 May 2015
Brad Bird
22 May 2015
Ciro Guerra
25 May 2015
Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie
29 May 2015
Aloha
Cameron Crowe
29 May 2015
Paul Feig
05 June 2015
Sebastian Schipper
11 June 2015
László Nemes
11 June 2015
Dennis Hauck
11 June 2015
Live from New York!
Bao Nguyen
12 June 2015
Jurassic World
Colin Trevorrow
12 June 2015
Deniz Gamze Ergüven
17 June 2015
The Overnight
Patrick Brice
19 June 2015
Dope
Rick Famuyiwa
19 June 2015
Pete Docter
19 June 2015
Bill Pohlad
19 June 2015
Maya Forbes
19 June 2015
Advantageous
Jennifer Phang
23 June 2015
Liz Garbus
24 June 2015
Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief
Alex Gibney
25 June 2015
Alan Taylor
01 July 2015
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
01 July 2015
Matthew Heineman
03 July 2015
Asif Kapadia
10 July 2015
Crystal Moselle
10 July 2015
Sean Baker
10 July 2015
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Kyle Patrick Alvarez
17 July 2015
Judd Apatow
17 July 2015
Mr. Holmes
Bill Condon
24 July 2015
Listen to Me Marlon
Stevan Riley
29 July 2015
John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein
29 July 2015
Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon
31 July 2015
Christopher McQuarrie
31 July 2015
Joel Edgerton
07 August 2015
Call Me Lucky
Bobcat Goldthwait
07 August 2015
Woody Allen
07 August 2015
Ricki and the Flash
Jonathan Demme
07 August 2015
Z for Zachariah
Craig Zobel
13 August 2015
The Clan
El Clan Pablo Trapero 13 August 2015
El Clan Pablo Trapero 13 August 2015
Straight Outta Compton
F. Gary Gray
14 August 2015
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Guy Ritchie
14 August 2015
James Ponsoldt
14 August 2015
Digging for Fire
Joe Swanberg
21 August 2015
Queen of Earth
Alex Ross Perry
26 August 2015
Hsiao-Hsien Hou
27 August 2015
Stig Björkman
27 August 2015
Marielle Heller
28 August 2015
Andrew Haigh
28 August 2015
Noah Baumbach
04 September 2015
Chloé Zhao
09 September 2015
Tobias Lindholm
10 September 2015
Grandma
Paul Weitz
18 September 2015
Scott Cooper
18 September 2015
Douglas Tirola
25 September 2015
Nancy Meyers
25 September 2015
Edward Zwick
25 September 2015
Neither Heaven Nor Earth
Ni le ciel ni la terre
The Wakhan Front Clément Cogitore 30 September 2015
Ni le ciel ni la terre
The Wakhan Front Clément Cogitore 30 September 2015
Denis Villeneuve
02 October 2015
Ridley Scott
02 October 2015
Ramin Bahrani
09 October 2015
Robert Zemeckis
09 October 2015
Suffragette
Sarah Gavron
12 October 2015
Patricio Guzmán
15 October 2015
Experimenter
Michael Almereyda
16 October 2015
All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records
Colin Hanks
16 October 2015
Cary Fukunaga
16 October 2015
Giorgos Lanthimos
16 October 2015
Steven Spielberg
16 October 2015
Danny Boyle
23 October 2015
Barry Levinson
23 October 2015
The Dressmaker
Jocelyn Moorhouse
29 October 2015
James Vanderbilt
30 October 2015
The Armor of Light
Abigail Disney
30 October 2015
Bare
Natalia Leite
30 October 2015
Olmo & the Seagull
Petra Costa and Lea Glob
05 November 2015
Sam Mendes
06 November 2015
Steve Martino
06 November 2015
The Forbidden Room
Guy Maddin
12 November 2015
Billy Ray
20 November 2015
Brian Helgeland
20 November 2015
Tom McCarthy
20 November 2015
The Night Before
Jonathan Levine
20 November 2015
Francis Lawrence
20 November 2015
Ryan Coogler
25 November 2015
John Crowley
25 November 2015
Jay Roach
27 November 2015
Land of Mine
Under sandet Martin Zandvliet 03 December 2015
Under sandet Martin Zandvliet 03 December 2015
Michael Dougherty
04 December 2015
Youth
Paolo Sorrentino
04 December 2015
By the Sea
Angelina Jolie
09 December 2015
Justin Kurzel
11 December 2015
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
Lisa Immordino Vreeland
11 December 2015
Ron Howard
11 December 2015
Remember
Atom Egoyan
17 December 2015
J.J. Abrams
18 December 2015
Sisters
Jason Moore
18 December 2015
Adam McKay
23 December 2015
Joy
David O. Russell
25 December 2015
Quentin Tarantino
30 December 2015
The Hunting Ground
Kirby Dick
01 January 2016
Alejandro González Iñárritu
08 January 2016
Todd Haynes
15 January 2016
Bleak Street
La calle de la amargura Arturo Ripstein 20 January 2016
La calle de la amargura Arturo Ripstein 20 January 2016
Lenny Abrahamson
22 January 2016
Tom Hooper
22 January 2016
Freeheld
Peter Sollett
10 February 2016
S. Craig Zahler
19 February 2016
The Lady in the Van
Nicholas Hytner
26 February 2016
Marguerite
Xavier Giannoli
11 March 2016
Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
11 March 2016
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Kent Jones
31 March 2016
Michael Showalter
01 April 2016
Gavin Hood
01 April 2016
I Saw the Light
Marc Abraham
01 April 2016
The Invitation
Karyn Kusama
08 April 2016
Tale of Tales
Il racconto dei racconti Matteo Garrone 22 April 2016
Il racconto dei racconti Matteo Garrone 22 April 2016
Older Than Ireland
Alex Fegan
29 April 2016
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Matt Brown
29 April 2016
The Family Fang
Jason Bateman
06 May 2016
Demon
Marcin Wrona
09 September 2016
Hannes Holm
30 September 2016
Evolution
Évolution Lucile Hadzihalilovic 25 November 2016
Évolution Lucile Hadzihalilovic 25 November 2016
Chi-Raq
Spike Lee
02 December 2016
The Fits
Anna Rose Holmer
11 January 2017
The Blackcoat's Daughter
Oz Perkins
16 February 2017
Patrick Wang
17 September 2019