User:Tibetan Prayer/Great films

Top 50
I originally thought it was too difficult to rank masterpieces as being better than each other, but it now seems reasonable at least to list the top 50 films I think are among the best I've seen. These are truly the great ones highlighted, ones that are must sees for film buffs. I think that The Lord of the Rings Trilogy considered as one film is undoubtedly the greatest technical accomplishment in film history and probably the strongest candidate for best film overall, but ones like Ugetsu and The Ascent rank higher on the list because of the extraordinary emotions you feel in watching them, they're like a force of nature, very powerful films. Obviously there's many more, but these in my opinion are among the real crème de la crème:


 * 1) Ugetsu (1953)
 * 2) The Ascent (1977)
 * 3) The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001)
 * 4) Ikiru (1952)
 * 5) Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
 * 6) A Dog's Love (1914)
 * 7) Sunset Boulevard (1950)
 * 8) The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
 * 9) Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
 * 10) Marketa Lazarová (1967)/Late Spring (1949)
 * 11) Psycho (1960)
 * 12) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
 * 13) Double Indemnity (1944)
 * 14) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
 * 15) L.A. Confidential (1997)
 * 16) Citizen Kane (1941)
 * 17) The Mirror (1975)
 * 18) Vertigo (1958)
 * 19) Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
 * 20) Andrei Rublev (1966)
 * 21) The Kid (1921)
 * 22) Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
 * 23) Umberto D. (1952)
 * 24) Back to the Future Trilogy (1985-90)
 * 25) A Clockwork Orange (1971)/Wild Tales (2014)
 * 26) Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
 * 27) Ben-Hur (1959)
 * 28) Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
 * 29) Bicycle Thieves (1948)
 * 30) Metropolis (1927)
 * 31) Peeping Tom (1960)
 * 32) Spirited Away (2001)/The Innocents (1961)
 * 33) City Lights (1931)
 * 34) The Godfather Trilogy (1972-90)
 * 35) Breathless/Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
 * 36) Rashomon (1950)
 * 37) Schindler's List (1993)/Dr. Zhivago (1965)
 * 38) Rebecca (1940)
 * 39) Rear Window (1954)
 * 40) Barton Fink (1991)/Delicatessen (1991)
 * 41) Toy Story series (1995-)
 * 42) Mondo cane (1962)/Sans Soleil (1983)
 * 43) The Killing (1956)
 * 44) I am Cuba (1964)/Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
 * 45) Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)/It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
 * 46) Mulholland Drive (2001)/The Wages of Fear (1953)
 * 47) Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
 * 48) The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
 * 49) The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
 * 50) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)/Persona (1966)