Luis Buñuel 1950
Film dynamite! Earth-shaking.
Sensual, visual magic but un-
sentimental from a Buñuel in
rage over the human situation
Buñuel = Genius
Billy Wilder 1950
Billy Wilder = Genius
Gloria Swanson, awesome
Von Stroheim, fantastic
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Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
1927 Silent
Great visual beauty in a gripping
love story from the german
master. Groundbreaking cine-
matic fireworks
Read more on the Cult & Classics page 1
4.
The Magnificent Ambersons
Orson Welles 1942
RKO asses cut 43 min and made
a new upbeat ending. Still, a genius
tells us about the Vanitas of
life and the comeuppance of a
once rich and proud family
Read more on the Cult & Classics Page 2
5. Andrei
Rubljov (Den yttersta domen)
Andrei Tarkovskij 1968
Tarkovskij = Genius
The scene in the forest with
the heathens ...
unforgettable, magic
Read more on my Russian film page
6. The Third Man
Carol Reed 1949
The greatest crime-drama ever.
From a post WW2 Vienna on a
script by Graham Greene and with
that zither theme by Anton Karas
Read more on the Cult & Classics Page 2
7. Ugetsu
Monogatari (Sagor om
en blek mystisk måne sfter regnet)
Kenji Mizoguchi 1953
Masterful phantasmic drama and
ghost story about the hellish
effects of war on the civilians
Read more on Japan page 2
8. Barry
Lyndon
Stanley Kubrick 1975
The Rake's progress set during
the 1800's european wars. Visual
beauty beyond belief and my
favourite Kubrick film
9. Die
Buchse der Pandora
Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1929 silent
The most beautiful actress in film
history, Louise Brooks,, is the
amoral Lulu in Pabst's brave and
visually haunting masterpiece
Read more on Cult & Classics Page 1
10. Throne
of Blood
Akira Kurosawa 1957
Maybe the best Shakespeare
film adaption ever. But Welles,
Polanski and Bhardwaj had a go
at it too with their MacBeth films
Read more on Japan Film Page 2
11.
The Night of the Hunter
(Trasdockan) Charles
Laughton 1955
A Dark and visually masterful
fairytale about Good vs. Evil.
Gish vs. Mitchum and photo
from the great Stanley Cortez
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12. Ladri
di biciclette (Cykeltjuven)
Vittorio De Sica 1948
A father, a son, a bicycle and
a theft. Timeless and gripping
drama that makes you cry
13.
Solaris
Andrei Tarkovskij 1972
Pensive, visually poetic and
existentially philosophic after
Stanislaw Lem's sci-fi novel.
Tarkovskij = Genius
14. Possession
Andrzej Zulawski 1981
Apocalyptic family drama horror
Bizarre and hallucinatory and
not resembling any other film.
A strange masterpiece
Read more on Horror Page 1
15.
Persona
Ingmar Bergman 1966
Experimental and absolutely
mesmerizing about 2 women
and 2 minds and the fusion
thereof. Dissection with great
photo and a ditto soundtrack
16. Simón
del desierto (Simon
Pelarhegonet) Luis Buñuel 1965
Sex, religion, black humour
and Sylvia Pinal in a quirky
mix from the Master
Buñuel = Genius
Read more on the Cult & Classics page 2
17.
Bronenosets Potyomkin
Sergei Eisenstein 1925 silent
Visual dynamite about the
Odessa uprising in 1905 and
the film montage that changed
history. Very intense
Read more on the Cult & Classics page 2
18.
Smultronstället
Ingmar Bergman 1957
Heartfelt, deeply gripping and
visually warm about the
memories of an old man.
Victor Sjöström the old master
makes this film his own
19.
Viridiana
Luis Buñuel 1961
Sex, religion, black humour
and Sylvia Pinal
Buñuel = Genius
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20. McCabe
& Mrs. Miller
Robert Altman 1971
A Dark "western" drama with
gorgeous photo V. Zsigmond
and melancholic music from
Leonard Cohen makes powerful
Feel Bad movie experience
21. Clockwork
Orange
Stanley Kubrick 1971
A Perfect union of visuals and
music in an inspired adaption
of Anthony Burgess novel 1962
(Sverige 1972 En Apelsin med
urverk). Iconic imagery
22. Touch
of Evil (En djävulsk fälla)
Orson Welles 1958
Visually gorgeous made Film
Noir with a hypnotic Orson
Welles stealing every scene as
corrupted cop Hank Quinlan
Read more on the Film Noir page
23. El
Ángel Exterminador
(Mordängeln) Luis
Buñuel 1962
Some pompous upper class
folks just can't leave a dinner
table no matter how they try
Satirical Buñuel about the
hardships of the poor rich
24. Dodes'kaden
Akira Kurosawa 1970
Pitch Black surreal drama of
people living among garbage
Impressive Feel Bad and some
say Akira tried to commit
suicide after making this film
25.
Odd Man Out
Carol Reed 1947
Gripping romantic crime-drama
about an injured IRA man who
flees through the Belfast night
Beautiful with a great Mason
Read more on the Cult & Classics page 1
26. Jeanne
d'Arc
(En kvinnas matyrium)
Carl T.
Dreyer 1928 Silent
Intense and disturbing about
the torture and murder of the
Maid of Orleans. Falconetti's
like a blow-torch in your head
27. Nattvardsgästerna
Ingmar Bergman 1963
Magic Björnstrand as a priest
plagued by doubt and full of
rage. Thulin great too as his
harassed woman. Stringent
from a bleak winter landscape
28. Apocalypse
Now
Francis Ford Coppola 1979
Visual fireworks and masterful
on Conrad's Heart of Darkness
about the US war in Vietnam
Keeps the racism from Conrad,
so suited to the western minds
29. Viskningar
och Rop
Ingmar Bergman 1973
A Delightfully hysteric and
high-strung drama with
amazing photo from Sven
Nyqvist in intense colors
30. Some
Like it Hot
Billy Wilder 1959
Very funny and with that
crazy last line
Billy Wilder, a Genius
31.
Five Easy Pieces
Bob Rafaelson 1970
Jack Nicholson in, maybe, his
best role as a volatile piano
player on the run from his
family, girlfriend and himself
32. All
About Lily Chou-Chou
Shunji Iwai 2001
Haunting and mystic teenager
drama experimentally told and
visualized in a total union of
images, sound and .... text
Read more on Japan Film page 2
33. Nosferatu
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
1929 Silent
Still the best vampire movie
ever made with the scariest
or ... creepiest Dracula
34. The
Conversation
(Avlyssningen)
Francis Ford Coppola 1974
Brilliant psychological neo-
noir crime drama with a ditto
Gene Hackman as a surveill-
ance operator. The Artful 70's
35. Gun
Crazy
Joseph h. Lewis 1949
My favourite Film Noir of all
time. Low budget B master-
piece about a robber love
couple on the run. Great
chemistry between the leads
Read more on the Film Noir page
36. Once Upon a Time
in the
West Sergio Leone 1969
My favourite western of all
time. Grand scale epic, visual
magic, Morricone's music and
the blue eyes of Henry Fonda
Read more on the Cult & Classics page 2
37.
Onibaba
Kaneto Shindo 1964
Dark horror tale from medie-
val Nippon about 2 women,
2 predators, in a big field of
grass. Mystic and Sensual
Read more on Japan Film page 2
38. Detour
(Farlig omväg)
Edgar G. Ulmer 1945
Minimalistics B studio Film
Noir masterpiece with more
desperation per piece of
celluloid than any other film
Read more on the Film Noir page
39. Double Indemnity
(Kvinna
utan samvete) Billy Wilder 1944
Fast and hardboiled dialogue
in a Film Noir that became
the archetype of the genre
Billy Wilder, a Genius
Read more on the Film Noir page
40.
The Mirror
Andrei Tarkovskij 1974
Enigmatic, dreamlike and
poetic
Tarkovskii = Genius
Jean-Pierre Melville 1970
The French Maestro of Crime
films gives us a beautifully
stylized genre effort full of
delirium and Zen
Luis Buñuel 1969
A quite sweet satire on the
lunacies of religious fervour
during a pilgrimage to
Santiago de Compostela
43. Il
Gattopardo (Leoparden)
Luchino Visconti 1962
Burt Lancaster in the role of
his life as a pensive aristocrat
feeling obsolete in the united
new progressive Italy
Read more on the Cult & Classics page 2
44. Dil
Se (From the Heart)
Mani Ratnam 1998
Romantic combined political
masterpiece with a Big Bang
ending. L'amour fou and Feel
Bad and maybe the greatest
love story ever told
Read more on Bollywood page 2
45. The Killing of
a Chinese
Bookie
John Cassavetes 1976
Unique Cassavetes film noir
told through shattered pieces
of a mirror. Ben Gazarra a night
club owner with a fatal debt
46.
Angel Face
Otto Preminger 1929
A Gripping and unusual art
movie Noir with a haunting
Jean Simmons as a rich but
sad girl. From maestro Otto
Read more on the Film Noir page
47. Brief
Encounter
David Lean 1945
Melancholic and finely tuned
drama about unfulfilled love.
Nowadays Hollywood version
would certainly have Kate
Hudson & Adam Sandler in it
48. Citizen Kane
Orson Welles 1941
Genius film debut, cinematic
Fireworks, but .... maybe so
much so as feeling slightly
show-off. But, even greater
films was to come
Read more on the Cult & Classics page 2
49. 3
Women (Tre kvinnor)
Robert Altman 1977
Enigmatic and fascinating
drama about women in
Altman's "Persona"
50. Requiem
For a Dream
Darren Aronofsky 2000
Visually hypnotic, pitch-black
on Hubert Selby Jr's novel
and with an otherworldly
great Ellen Burstyn
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51. Metropolis
Fritz Lang 1925-26 Silent
Groundbreaking sci-fi
drama and visually
stunning, even today.
A genre milestone
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52.
Leave Her To Heaven
John M. Stahl 1945
Gene Tierney is mesmerizing
and frightening in a melodrama
Noir with Oscar winning photo
from Leon Shamroy
Read more on the Film Noir page
53. High
Noon (Sheriffen)
Fred Zinneman 1952
Gary Cooper is unforgettable
as a lonely, scared but deter-
mined sheriff. A famous and
fine soundtrack too
54. Pinocchio
Walt Disney 1940
My favourite Walt Disney
film with breath-taking
animation art at it's best.
The donkey transformation
scene is disturbing as hell
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55.
Un Chien Andalou
(Den andalusiska hunden) Luis Buñuel/Salvador
Dali 1929
Surrealistic artmovie icon
with that pig-eye scene that
shocked the world. Yuck, it
will haunt you for years
56. Love
Streams
John Cassavetes 1984
Robert and Sarah. Great but
underrated sibling drama from
a dying master. Cassavetes &
Rowlands what a brilliant and
beautiful couple
57. Les Quatre cents
coups
(De 400 slagen) Francois
Truffaut 1958
Masterful debut and great
youth drama
58. Laura
Otto Preminger 1944
Perfect stylish Film Noir crime
with the out of this world
gorgeous Gene Tierney and a
razorsharp Clifton Webb. From
Otto The Master
Read more on the Film Noir page
59. La Femme du Boulanger
Marcel Pagnol 1938
Life-affirming about how a
bakers sorrow, after being
dumped by his young wife
having an affair, affects a
whole village
60. Vertigo (En
Studie i Brott)
Alfred Hitchcock 1958
Brilliant melodrama thriller
where an obsessed James
Stewart becomes slightly
perverted as the films goes
on in a genius Hitch twist
61.
Il Cappotto (Överrocken)
Alberto Lattuada 1952
Renato Rascel is gripping
as a grey office-worker and
a ghost, based on Gogol's
short story The Coat
Read more on the Cult & Classics page 1
62. Amarcord
Federico Fellini 1973
A wild childhood yarn and
maybe biographical. For once
Fellini's burlesque and loud-
mouthed italians feels right.
Sex, fascism, Tobacco lady
63. The Red Shoes
Michael Powell 1948
Sometimes magically
beautiful melodrama dance
film based on the fairy tale
by H. C. Andersen
Read more on the Cult & Classics page 1
64. Tokyo Boshoku
(Tokyo
Twilight) Yasujiro Ozu 1957
Meditatively slow and
gripping about feelings of
loss after a mother.
I've only seen a few films
from this japanese master
65.
The Wizard of Oz
Victor Fleming m fl 1939
Perfect fairy tale musical
with Judy Garland and the
scariest witch ever on film
in ultra-nasty Margaret
Hamilton. Scared the hell
out of generations of kids
66. Peeping
Tom
Michael Powell 1962
Completely groundbreaking
psychological Meta horror
about voyeurism and film.
Before it's time and killed
by British film critics farts
67. Les Choses de
la Vie
(The Things of Life)
Claude Sautet 1970
Beautiful Feel Bad about a
man dying after a car accident
and revisiting his life. Michel
Piccoli and Romy Schneider
68.
The Bad Sleep Well
Akira Kurosawa 1960
Dark and stringent crime-
drama about revenge and
corporate corruption.
Aaaah, and no screaming
samurai running around
hither and thither
69. High and Low
Akira Kurosawa 1963
Dark and stringent crime
drama about a kidnapping,
social differences and
revenge. And, no samurai
screaming and running
Read more on Japan Film page 2
70. Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock 1960
Absolute genre classic and
probably the most influental
horror film ever made, with
an iconic soundtrack
71. Vargtimmen
Ingmar Bergman 1968
Hypnotic horror-drama
about an artists meeting
with demons on one of
the smaller Frisian islands
72. Eraserhead
David Lynch 1971-76
A Surreal nightmare that
doesn't resemble any other
film. Enigmatic artmovie
Read more on the Cult & Classics page 2
73. Images
(Schizo - Den kluvna
verkligheten)
Robert Altman 1972
Underrated from the genius
master, but a fascinating and
disturbing psychological
drama about schizophrenia
Read more on the Cult & Classics page 2
74. Bob le Flambeur
Jean-Pierre Melville 1955
Roger Duchesne plays a
gangster with a heart of
gold in a stylish noir that
kick-started the french
New wave of moviemaking
75. Seconds
(Död man lever)
John Frankenheimer 1966
Misunderstood, forgotten,
underrated etc. etc. Yes, a
paranoia sci-fi thriller drama
masterpiece and Feel Bad.
Read more on the Cult & Classics page 2
76. Fantasia
Walt Disney 1940
When Disney made art for
adults. An ambitious Trip
Out to classical music
77. Long Arm of the
Law
Johnny Mak 1984
Greatest HK crime action
ever made. Gritty intense
about a gang of robbers and
with genius Feel bad ending
Read more on the HK Classics page
78. Fat City
John Huston 1972
Melancholic boxing-drama
with a great Stacy Keach.
Much better than the over-
rated Scorsese one
79. Jeux Interdits
(Förbjuden lek)
René Clément 1952
Impressive anti-war drama
about therapeutical games
of 2 children dealing with
the horrors of WW2. Brigitte
Fossey plays the young girl
80. Picnic at Hanging
Rock
Peter Weir 1975
Sensual supernatural drama
about missing girls in 1900.
Based on the novel by Joan
Lindsey, where the missing
chapter was released 1986
81. Unagi
(Ålen)
Shohei Imamura 1996
Quiet but fascinating crime-
drama about an ex-convict,
a barbershop and his be-
loved buddy the Eal.
Read more on Japan Film page 2
82. Save the Green Planet
(Jigureul jikyeora!)
Jang Jun-hwan 2003
Wildly inspired and unique
crime-drama-thriller Sci-Fi in
a sensational film debut
Read more on the Korean film page
83. Un Mauvais Fils
(Rötägget) Claude Sautet 1980
The Amazing but tragic
Patrick Dewaere excels as a
sad ex-convict in a seldom
seen Feel Bad drama from
the great Claude Sautet
84. Scarlet
Street
Fritz Lang 1945
Robinson is orgasmic good
in a Feel Bad Film Noir as
a middleaged painter falling
in love with a rotten hussy
Read more on the Film Noir page
85. Aguirre,
der zorn gottes
(Aguirre - guds vrede)
Werner Herzog 1972
A Hypnotic dream from a
humid djungle hell where
some conquistadors meets
a terrible fate in their brutal
quest for gold
86. Cure
(Kyua)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa 1997
Brilliant psychological art
horror thriller from manys
new japanese favourite
director KK
Read more on Japan Film page 2
87. Don Quixote
Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1933
Famous bass-singer Feodor
Chaliapin is powerful but be-
wildered in this inspired but
rarely seen Cervantes adaption
from the genius german Pabst
88. Suspiria
Dario Argento 1977
Visual masterpiece saturated
with colors. The brave Suzy
Bannion escapes from Hell.
Nasty witch clan in a ballet
academy on the gate of hell
89. Paths of Glory
(Ärans väg)
Stanley Kubrick 1957
Strong anti-war statement
from WW1 about the sick
code of honour of war.
War gaming kids from over
the world should see this
90. Hana-bi
Takeshi Kitano 1997
Beautiful and pensive about
a burned out cop and his
last days with a dying wife.
Kitano, the Jean-Pierre
Melville of Japan
91.
Cargo 200 (Gruz 200)
Aleksej Balabanov 2007
Hypnotically bizarre crime
drama and social satire from
the wild son of russian film.
Dead to early, R.I.P. AB
Read more on the Russia film page
92. The Bird People
in
China Takashi Miike 1998
A unique, Miike-quirky
and poetic drama from a
remote mountain area of
China. My Favourite Miike
Read more on Japan Film page 1
93. Gulaal
Anurag Kashyap 2009
From the volcano of the
new Bollywood film wave,
this hypnotic nightmare
of a crime-thriller. Indie
Read more on Bollywood Film page 1
94. Macbeth
Roman Polanski 1971
Pitch-black, violent and
disturbing film version of
the bard of Avon's play.
Other great films from Kuro-
sawa, Welles and Bhardwaj
95. On the Waterfront
(Storstadshamn)
Elia Kazan 1954
Brando's great in a drama on
Budd Schuelberg's What
Makes Sammy Run? "I
could've been a contender"
96. I Will
Walk Like A
Crazy Horse
Fernando Arrabal 1973
Surrealistic and disturbing
flow of pictures in art movie
from avant garde filmmaker
and author Arrabal
97. Old Boy
Park Chan-wook 2003
The Revenge thriller that
shook the filmworld. Instant
cult classic with great pace
and even critics took notice
of the Korean film wonder
Read more on the Korean film page
98. Nine Souls
Toshiaki Toyoda 2003
Fascinating existential
drama about 9 convicts
on the run in a mini-van
Read more on Japan Film page 1
99. Santa Sangre
Alejandro Jodorowsky
1989
Magic artmovie horror
tale from the special one,
Jodorowsky, and with a
fantastic Blanca Guerra
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100.
The Fabulous
Baker Boys
Steve Kloves 1989
Personal favourite of mine
A lovely little drama about
2 brothers and a singer and
a nightclub act. Great actors
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100. A Streetcar Named
Desire (Linje Lusta)
Elia Kazan 1951
Fragile Vivian Leigh meets
everyday evil in a young
Brando. Great adaption of
a Tennessee Williams play
100. El Bruto
(The Brute)
Luis Buñuel 1952
Crime melodrama from El
Maestro's mexican period
with sex, black humour,
violence and social struggle
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