MOTY
by Grethiwha | created - 09 Apr 2014 | updated - 1 month ago | PublicMy favourite movie of the year in every year I've seen a feature-length movie.
Now featuring THE GRETHIWHA FILM AWARDS!!! for any year in which I've seen more than 50 movies (which is to say, 2001-2018, and, uh, '97 and '73).
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1. The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart (2023)
R | 83 min | Animation
Doc's latest invention will either bankrupt the Ventures or launch them to new heights.
Director: Christopher McCulloch | Stars: Patrick Warburton, J.K. Simmons, Clancy Brown, Jane Lynch
Votes: 2,151
2. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)
R | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Moviestar Nick Cage is channeling his iconic characters as he's caught between a superfan and a CIA agent.
Director: Tom Gormican | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Pedro Pascal, Tiffany Haddish, Sharon Horgan
Votes: 151,631
3. Don't Look Up (2021)
R | 138 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn humankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.
Director: Adam McKay | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett
Votes: 602,007
4. I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
R | 134 min | Drama, Thriller
Full of misgivings, a young woman travels with her new boyfriend to his parents' secluded farm. Upon arriving, she comes to question everything she thought she knew about him, and herself.
Director: Charlie Kaufman | Stars: Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette, David Thewlis
Votes: 100,093
5. The Lighthouse (I) (2019)
R | 109 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Director: Robert Eggers | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman, Logan Hawkes
Votes: 255,138 | Gross: $0.43M
6. Mandy (I) (2018)
Not Rated | 121 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
The enchanted lives of a couple in a secluded forest are brutally shattered by a nightmarish hippie cult and their demon-biker henchmen, propelling a man into a spiraling, surreal rampage of vengeance.
Director: Panos Cosmatos | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache, Ned Dennehy
Votes: 89,542 | Gross: $1.21M
BEST PICTURE
The House That Jack Built
Mandy
Swing Kids
Violence Voyager
BEST DIRECTOR
Lars von Trier (The House That Jack Built)
Panos Cosmatos (Mandy)
Shin'ya Tsukamoto (Killing)
Ujicha (Violence Voyager)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Andhadhun (Arijit Biswa, Yogesh Chandekar, Sriram Raghavan, Hemanth M. Rao and Pooja Ladha Surti)
The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier and Jenle Hallund)
Killing (Shin'ya Tsukamoto)
Swing Kids (Kang Hyeong-cheol and Woo-Sung Jang)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Clint Eastwood (The Mule)
John C. Reilly (The Sisters Brothers)
Nicolas Cage (Between Worlds)
Nicolas Cage (Mandy)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Andrea Riseborough (Mandy)
Bruno Ganz (The House That Jack Built)
Linus Roache (Mandy)
Shin'ya Tsukamoto (Killing)
7. Twin Peaks (2017)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Picks up 25 years after the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town are stunned when their homecoming queen is murdered.
Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Sheryl Lee, Michael Horse, Chrysta Bell
Votes: 75,937
BEST PICTURE
A Taxi Driver
Okja
Tokyo Vampire Hotel
Twin Peaks (MOTD)
BEST DIRECTOR
David Lynch (Twin Peaks)
Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water)
Joon-ho Bong (Okja)
Love Lee (Real)
BEST SCREENPLAY
1987: When the Day Comes (Kyung-chan Kim)
A Taxi Driver (Yu-na Eom)
Okja (Joon-ho Bong and Jon Ronson)
Twin Peaks (Mark Frost and David Lynch)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Harry Dean Stanton (Lucky)
James Franco (The Disaster Artist)
Kang-ho Song (A Taxi Driver)
Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Jake Gyllenhaal (Okja)
Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water)
Shinnosuke Mitsushima (Tokyo Vampire Hotel)
Tilda Swinton (Okja)
8. Army of One (2016)
R | 92 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
After a personal visit by God himself, the eccentric construction worker Gary Faulkner takes the decision to embark on an adventure in the badlands of Pakistan to bring Al-Qaeda's leader Osama Bin Laden to justice.
Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Russell Brand, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Amar Chadha-Patel
Votes: 8,929
BEST PICTURE
Antiporno
Army of One
Salt and Fire
Terra Formars
BEST DIRECTOR
Alejandro Jodorowsky (Endless Poetry)
Johnnie To (Three)
Sion Sono (Antiporno)
Werner Herzog (Salt and Fire)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Antiporno (Sion Sono)
Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo)
Crisis in Six Scenes (Woody Allen)
Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned (Tae-hwa Eom)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Ami Tomite (Antiporno)
Andrew Garfield (Silence)
Nicolas Cage (Army of One)
Willem Dafoe (Dog Eat Dog)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Mariko Tsutsui (Antiporno)
Pamela Flores (Endless Poetry)
Ren Osugi (Shin Gojira)
Shin'ya Tsukamoto (Silence)
9. Tag (2015)
85 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
A girl's life cascades into chaos as everyone around her suffers a gruesome fate while she becomes less certain of who she is and her once-once normal.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Reina Triendl, Mariko Shinoda, Erina Mano, Yuki Sakurai
Votes: 8,100
BEST PICTURE
Anomalisa
Love & Peace
The Lure
Tag
BEST DIRECTOR
Agnieszka Smoczynska (The Lure)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu (The Revenant)
Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman (Anomalisa)
Sion Sono (The Whispering Star)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman)
Love & Peace (Sion Sono)
Seoul Searching (Benson Lee)
Tag (Sion Sono)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Hiroki Hasegawa (Love & Peace)
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant)
Megumi Kagurazaka (The Whispering Star)
Min-sik Choi (The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Esteban Ahn (Seoul Searching)
Kurt Russell (The Hateful Eight)
Motoki Fukami (Shinjuku Swan)
Toshiyuki Nishida (Love & Peace)
10. The World of Kanako (2014)
Not Rated | 118 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
As former detective Akikazu searches for his missing daughter, Kanako, he soon learns she has a mysterious secret life.
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Nana Komatsu, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Hiroya Shimizu
Votes: 5,895 | Gross: $0.02M
BEST PICTURE
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret
Force Majeure
Tokyo Tribe
The World of Kanako
BEST DIRECTOR
Hans Petter Moland (In Order of Disappearance)
Shin'ya Tsukamoto (Fires on the Plain)
Sion Sono (Tokyo Tribe)
Tetsuya Nakashima (The World of Kanako)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund)
In Order of Disappearance (Kim Fupz Aakeson)
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (David Zellner and Nathan Zellner)
Ode to My Father (Su-jin Park)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Johannes Kuhnke (Force Majeure)
Kôji Yakusho (The World of Kanako)
Shin'ya Tsukamoto (Fires on the Plain)
Taika Waititi (What We Do in the Shadows)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Denden (Tokyo Tribe)
Kristofer Hivju (Force Majeure)
Nana Seino (Tokyo Tribe)
Pål Sverre Hagen (In Order of Disappearance)
11. Snowpiercer (2013)
R | 126 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In a future where a failed climate change experiment has killed all life except for the survivors who boarded the Snowpiercer (a train that travels around the globe), a new class system emerges.
Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton, Ed Harris
Votes: 389,128 | Gross: $4.56M
BEST PICTURE
The Dance of Reality
Snowpiercer
Why Don't You Play in Hell?
The Wind Rises
BEST DIRECTOR
Ari Folman (The Congress)
Alejandro Jodorowski (The Dance of Reality)
Joon-ho Bong (Snowpiercer)
Sion Sono (Why Don't You Play in Hell?)
BEST SCREENPLAY
The Congress (Ari Folman)
The Dance of Reality (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Why Don't You Play in Hell? (Sion Sono)
The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Brontis Jodorowsky (The Dance of Reality)
Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
Hiroki Hasegawa (Why Don't You Play in Hell?)
Mira Grosin (We Are the Best!)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Fumi Nikaidô (Why Don't You Play in Hell?)
Kang-ho Song (Snowpiercer)
Pamela Flores (The Dance of Reality)
Tilda Swinton (Snowpiercer)
12. Guilty of Romance (2011)
144 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A grisly murder occurs in Maruyama-cho, Shibuya, Tokyo - a love hotel district - a woman was found dead in a derelict apartment. Kazuko (Miki Mizuno) is a police officer called to ... See full summary »
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Miki Mizuno, Makoto Togashi, Megumi Kagurazaka, Kazuya Kojima
Votes: 5,838
BEST PICTURE
Guilty of Romance
Himizu
Silenced
Source Code
BEST DIRECTOR
Dong-hyuk Hwang (Silenced)
Duncan Jones (Source Code)
Hyeong-Cheol Kang (Sunny)
Sion Sono (Guilty of Romance)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Guilty of Romance (Sion Sono)
Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
Silenced (Dong-hyuk Hwang)
Source Code (Ben Ripley)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Jack Black (Bernie)
Megumi Kagurazaka (Guilty of Romance)
Shôta Sometani (Himizu)
Yoo Gong (Silenced)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Fumi Nikaidô (Himizu)
Hisako Ôkata (Guilty of Romance)
Makoto Togashi (Guilty of Romance)
Marion Cotillard (Midnight in Paris)
13. Cold Fish (2010)
Not Rated | 146 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
The lives of a bored suburban couple are changed forever when a seemingly nice old man gives their daughter a job at his fish store, and soon his gruesome hobbies are brought to light.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Denden, Asuka Kurosawa, Megumi Kagurazaka
Votes: 14,529
BEST PICTURE
Cold Fish
Confessions
I Saw the Devil
Ocean Heaven
BEST DIRECTOR
Guy Moshe (Bunraku)
Kim Jee-woon (I Saw the Devil)
Sion Sono (Cold Fish)
Tetsuya Nakashima (Confessions)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Boy (Taika Waititi)
Cold Fish (Yoshiki Takahashi and Sion Sono)
Ocean Heaven (Xiaolu Xue)
Troll Hunter (André Øvredal)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Jet Li (Ocean Heaven)
Mitsuru Fukikoshi (Cold Fish)
Shinobu Terajima (Caterpillar)
Zhang Wen (Ocean Heaven)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Choi Min-sik (I Saw the Devil)
Denden (Cold Fish)
Riisa Naka (Zebraman 2)
Taika Waititi (Boy)
14. Castaway on the Moon (2009)
PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A failed suicide attempt leads a heartbroken man to live a life in the wilderness.
Director: Lee Hae-jun | Stars: Jeong Jae-yeong, Jung Ryeo-won, Yeong-seo Park, Yang Mi-kyeong
Votes: 19,717
BEST PICTURE
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Castaway on the Moon
Knowing
A Serious Man
BEST DIRECTOR
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (A Serious Man)
Joon-ho Bong (Mother)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Werner Herzog (Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Castaway on the Moon (Hae-jun Lee)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
Knowing (Ryne Douglas Pearson, Juliet Snowden and Stiles White)
Mary and Max (Adam Elliot)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Hye-ja Kim (Mother)
Larry David (Whatever Works)
Michael Stuhlberg (A Serious Man)
Nicolas Cage (Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
Fred Melamed (A Serious Man)
Ha-kyun Shin (Thirst)
Ryeowon Jung (Castaway on the Moon)
15. Love Exposure (2008)
Unrated | 237 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A bizarre love triangle forms between a young Catholic upskirt photographer, a misandric girl and a manipulative cultist.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Andô, Yutaka Shimizu
Votes: 15,915
BEST PICTURE
The Chaser
Love Exposure
Revolutionary Road
Synecdoche, New York
BEST DIRECTOR
Charlie Kaufman (Synecdoche, New York)
Hayao Miyazaki (Ponyo)
Hong-jin Na (The Chaser)
Sion Sono (Love Exposure)
BEST SCREENPLAY
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Eric Roth)
Departures (Kundô Koyama)
Love Exposure (Sion Sono)
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road)
Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Synecdoche, New York)
Yoon-seok Kim (The Chaser)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Brad Pitt (Burn After Reading)
Brendan Gleeson (In Bruges)
Hikari Mitsushima (Love Exposure)
Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road)
16. Exte: Hair Extensions (2007)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Horror
About hair extensions that attack the women that wear them.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Chiaki Kuriyama, Megumi Satô, Tsugumi, Eri Machimoto
Votes: 3,355
BEST PICTURE
Control
Encounters at the End of the World
Exte: Hair Extensions
Mad Detective
BEST DIRECTOR
Harmony Korine (Mister Lonely)
Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai (Mad Detective)
Makoto Shinkai (5 Centimeters Per Second)
Quentin Tarantino (Death Proof)
BEST SCREENPLAY
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Kelly Masterson)
Exte: Hair Extensions (Sion Sono, Masaki Adachi and Makoto Sanada)
Mad Detective (Wai Ka-Fai and Kin-Yee Au)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Ching Wan Lau (Mad Detective)
Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
Kurt Russell (Death Proof)
Sam Riley (Control)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz)
Quentin Tarantino (Sukiyaki Western Django)
Ren Osugi (Hair Extensions)
Zoë Bell (Death Proof)
17. Exiled (2006)
R | 110 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A friendship is formed between an ex-gangster, and two groups of hitmen - those who want to protect him and those who were sent to kill him.
Director: Johnnie To | Stars: Nick Cheung, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Francis Ng, Simon Yam
Votes: 9,650 | Gross: $0.05M
BEST PICTURE
Balloon Club Revisited
Exiled
Letters from Iwo Jima
Rescue Dawn
BEST DIRECTOR
Clint Eastwood (Letters from Iwo Jima)
Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth)
Johnnie To (Exiled)
Sion Sono (Balloon Club Revisited)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Babel (Guillermo Arriaga)
Balloon Club Revisited (Sion Sono)
Letters from Iwo Jima (Iris Yamashita)
Pan's Laybrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Kang-ho Song (The Host)
Leonardo DiCaprio (Blood Diamond)
Nicolas Cage (The Wicker Man)
Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
John C. Reilly (Talladega Nights)
Jack Nicholson (The Departed)
Suet Lam (Exiled)
Woody Allen (Scoop)
18. Hazard (2005)
103 min | Crime, Drama
Faced by a society of criminals, these three youths avenge their rights.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Joe Odagiri, Jai West, Motoki Fukami, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi
Votes: 843
BEST PICTURE
Grizzly Man
Hazard (MOTD)
Noriko's Dinner Table
Strange Circus
BEST DIRECTOR
Jee-woon Kim (A Bittersweet Life)
Ming-Liang Tsai (The Wayward Cloud)
Sion Sono (Hazard)
Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Into a Dream (Sion Sono)
Noriko's Dinner Table (Sion Sono)
The President's Last Bang (Sang-soo Im)
Strange Circus (Sion Sono)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Byung-hun Lee (A Bittersweet Life)
Joe Odagiri (Hazard)
Kazue Fukiishi (Noriko's Dinner Table)
Takeshi Kitano (Takeshis')
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Issei Ishida (Strange Circus)
Jai West (Hazard)
Ken Mitsuishi (Noriko's Dinner Table)
Motoki Fukami (Hazard)
19. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
R | 137 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
The Bride continues her quest of vengeance against her former boss and lover Bill, the reclusive bouncer Budd, and the treacherous, one-eyed Elle.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah
Votes: 805,921 | Gross: $66.21M
BEST PICTURE
2046
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Shaun of the Dead
The White Diamond
BEST DIRECTOR
Johnnie To (Throw Down)
Kar-Wai Wong (2046)
Masaaki Yuasa and Kôji Morimoto (Mind Game)
Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill: Vol. 2)
BEST SCREENPLAY
2046 (Kar-Wai Wong)
Incident at Loch Ness (Zak Penn)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
Team America: World Police (Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Pam Brady)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Bruno Ganz (Downfall)
Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead)
Uma Thurman (Kill Bill: Vol. 2)
Will Ferrell (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
David Carradine (Kill Bill: Vol. 2)
Daryl Hannah (Kill Bill: Vol. 2)
Michael Madsen (Kill Bill: Vol. 2)
Yoshiyuki Morishita (Survive Style 5+)
20. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
R | 111 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen
Votes: 1,194,431 | Gross: $70.10M
BEST PICTURE
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Memories of Murder
Mystic River
BEST DIRECTOR
Joon-ho Bong (Memories of Murder)
Ki-duk Kim (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring)
Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill: Vol. 1)
Takashi Miike (Gozu)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Memories of Murder (Joon-ho Bong and Sung-bo Shim)
Oldboy (Chan-wook Park, Chun-hyeong Lim and Jo-yun Hwang)
Save the Green Planet! (Joon-Hwan Jang)
A Tale of Two Sisters (Jee-woon Kim)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Kang-ho Song (Memories of Murder)
Min-sik Choi (Oldboy)
Nicolas Cage (Matchstick Men)
Will Ferrell (Elf)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Benicio Del Toro (21 Grams)
Mame Yamada (9 Souls)
Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation)
Tim Robbins (Mystic River)
21. Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Socially frustrated Barry Egan calls a phone-sex line to curb his loneliness. Little does he know it will land him in deep trouble and will jeopardize his burgeoning romance with the mysterious Lena.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jason Andrews
Votes: 177,524 | Gross: $17.84M
BEST PICTURE
Adaptation.
Lilya 4-ever
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Punch-Drunk Love
BEST DIRECTOR
Chan-wook Park (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance)
Lukas Moodysson (Lilya 4-ever)
Paul Thomas Anderson (Punch-Drunk Love)
Roman Polanski (The Pianist)
BEST SCREENPLAY
About Schmidt (Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor)
Adaptation. (Charlie Kaufman)
Hollywood Ending (Woody Allen)
Spider (Patrick McGrath)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Adam Sandler (Punch-Drunk Love)
Jack Nicholson (About Schmidt)
Kyoung-gu Sul (Oasis)
Oksana Akinshina (Lilya 4-ever)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)
Kathy Bates (About Schmidt)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Punch-Drunk Love)
So-ri Moon (Oasis)
22. The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A family moves to the country to run a rustic mountain inn when, to their horror, the customers begin befalling sudden and unlikely fates.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinji Takeda, Naomi Nishida
Votes: 10,028
BEST PICTURE
Ghost World
The Happiness of the Katakuris
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Mulholland Dr.
BEST DIRECTOR
David Lynch (Mulholland Dr.)
Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away)
Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko)
Takashi Miike (The Happiness of the Katakuris)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Ghost World (Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff)
No Man's Land (Danis Tanovic)
The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)
Suicide Club (Sion Sono)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Billy Bob Thornton (The Man Who Wasn't There)
Naomi Watts (Mulholland Dr.)
Tadanobu Asano (Ichi the Killer)
Thora Birch (Ghost World)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Kiyoshirô Imawano (The Happiness of the Katakuris)
Rolly (Suicide Club)
Steve Buscemi (Ghost World)
Tetsurô Tanba (The Happiness of the Katakuris)
23. Memento (2000)
R | 113 min | Mystery, Thriller
A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior
Votes: 1,323,305 | Gross: $25.54M
24. American Beauty (1999)
R | 122 min | Drama
A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley
Votes: 1,211,268 | Gross: $130.10M
25. The Big Lebowski (1998)
R | 117 min | Comedy, Crime
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire of the same name, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi
Votes: 860,599 | Gross: $17.50M
26. Happy Together (1997)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance
A couple take a trip to Argentina but both men find their lives drifting apart in opposite directions.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Chang Chen, Gregory Dayton
Votes: 34,061 | Gross: $0.19M
BEST PICTURE
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Happy Together
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Princess Mononoke
BEST DIRECTOR
Harmony Korine (Gummo)
Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure)
Kar-Wai Wong (Happy Together)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke)
Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights)
Quentin Tarantino (Jackie Brown)
Woody Allen (Deconstructing Harry)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Leslie Cheung (Happy Together)
Mike Myers (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery)
Nicolas Cage (Face/Off)
Takeshi Kitano (Fireworks)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Heather Graham (Boogie Nights)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Boogie Nights)
Robert De Niro (Jackie Brown)
Samuel L. Jackson (Jackie Brown)
27. The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
R | 130 min | Biography, Drama
The story of controversial pornography publisher Larry Flynt, and how he became a defender of free speech.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton, Brett Harrelson
Votes: 100,750 | Gross: $20.19M
28. Fallen Angels (1995)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
This Hong Kong-set crime drama follows the lives of a hitman, hoping to get out of the business, and his elusive female partner.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Charlie Yeung
Votes: 50,902
MOTD
29. Pulp Fiction (1994)
R | 154 min | Crime, Drama
The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis
Votes: 2,221,090 | Gross: $107.93M
30. True Romance (1993)
R | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
In Detroit, a pop-culture nerd steals cocaine from his new wife's pimp and tries to sell it in Hollywood, prompting the mobsters who own the drugs to pursue the couple.
Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer
Votes: 242,565 | Gross: $12.28M
31. Unforgiven (1992)
R | 130 min | Drama, Western
Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The "Schofield Kid."
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris
Votes: 436,296 | Gross: $101.16M
32. Barton Fink (1991)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner
Votes: 128,990 | Gross: $6.15M
33. Goodfellas (1990)
R | 145 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco
Votes: 1,257,796 | Gross: $46.84M
34. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Bill Bernstein, Claire Bloom
Votes: 60,803 | Gross: $18.25M
35. Vampire's Kiss (1988)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
After an encounter with a neck-biter, a publishing executive thinks that he's turning into a vampire.
Director: Robert Bierman | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Beals, Elizabeth Ashley
Votes: 20,920 | Gross: $0.73M
36. Wings of Desire (1987)
PG-13 | 128 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
An angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois
Votes: 77,054 | Gross: $3.33M
37. The Fly (1986)
R | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel
Votes: 201,995 | Gross: $40.46M
38. Ran (1985)
R | 160 min | Action, Drama, War
In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryû
Votes: 136,243 | Gross: $4.14M
MOTD
39. Paris, Texas (1984)
R | 145 min | Drama
Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Sam Berry
Votes: 119,050 | Gross: $2.18M
40. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
PG | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After rescuing Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebel Alliance attempt to destroy the second Death Star, while Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side.
Director: Richard Marquand | Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams
Votes: 1,121,734 | Gross: $309.13M
41. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
R | 188 min | Drama
Two young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Kristina Adolphson, Börje Ahlstedt
Votes: 67,511 | Gross: $4.97M
42. Possession (1981)
R | 124 min | Drama, Horror
A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen, Heinz Bennent
Votes: 42,890 | Gross: $1.11M
43. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
PG | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After the Rebel Alliance are overpowered by the Empire, Luke Skywalker begins his Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued across the galaxy by Darth Vader and bounty hunter Boba Fett.
Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams
Votes: 1,380,191 | Gross: $290.48M
44. Alien (1979)
R | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 951,256 | Gross: $78.90M
45. Empire of Passion (1978)
R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A married woman and her lover murder her husband and dump his body into a well. After a while, his ghost comes to haunt them while the local gossip grows stronger.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Tatsuya Fuji, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Takahiro Tamura, Takuzô Kawatani
Votes: 4,936
46. Stroszek (1977)
Not Rated | 115 min | Comedy, Drama
In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz, Wilhelm von Homburg
Votes: 15,325
47. Heart of Glass (1976)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
The foreman of a small village glassworks dies without revealing the secret to the famous "Ruby Glass".
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Güttler, Clemens Scheitz, Volker Prechtel
Votes: 6,611
MOTD
48. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
R | 133 min | Drama
In the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco
Votes: 1,072,668 | Gross: $112.00M
49. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History
A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Willy Semmelrogge
Votes: 18,906
50. Papillon (1973)
R | 151 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A French convict in the 1930s befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devil's Island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon
Votes: 138,409 | Gross: $53.27M
BEST PICTURE
Andy Warhol's Frankenstein
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Papillon
BEST DIRECTOR
Alejandro Jodorowsky (The Holy Mountain)
Franklin J. Schaffner (Papillon)
Hall Bartlett (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)
Paul Morrissey (Andy Warhol's Frankenstein)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Andy Warhol's Frankenstein (Paul Morrissey)
The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Papillon (Dalton Trumbo and Lorenzo Semple Jr.)
World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Fritz Müller-Scherz)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Clint Eastwood (High Plains Drifter)
Steve McQueen (Papillon)
Udo Kier (Andy Warhol's Frankenstein)
Woody Allen (Sleeper)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Arno Jürging (Andy Warhol's Frankenstein)
Dustin Hoffman (Papillon)
Joe Dallesandro (Andy Warhol's Frankenstein)
Monique van Vooren (Andy Warhol's Frankenstein)
51. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, Helena Rojo, Del Negro
Votes: 62,311
52. Inn of Evil (1971)
121 min | Crime, Drama
The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an isolated inn (the one that the title refers ... See full summary »
Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Komaki Kurihara, Wakako Sakai, Kan'emon Nakamura
Votes: 2,061
53. Dodes'ka-den (1970)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama
Various tales in the lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Shinsuke Minami
Votes: 7,623
54. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
PG | 110 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid lead a band of outlaws. When a train robbery goes wrong, they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. After considering their options, they escape to South America.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin
Votes: 226,765 | Gross: $102.31M
55. Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)
Not Rated | 173 min | Drama
An engineer from Tokyo arrives on a drought-ridden tropical island to drill a well to power a nearby sugar mill. He meets the inbred Futori family, hated by the locals for breaking religious customs.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Hideko Okiyama, Kanjûrô Arashi
Votes: 1,948
56. Branded to Kill (1967)
Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After a botched assignment, a rice-fetishizing hitman finds himself in conflict with his organization, and one mysterious, dangerous fellow-hitman in particular.
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Jô Shishido, Mariko Ogawa, Annu Mari, Kôji Nanbara
Votes: 10,211
57. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Approved | 178 min | Adventure, Western
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè
Votes: 811,485 | Gross: $6.10M
58. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
R | 132 min | Drama, Western
Two bounty hunters with the same intentions team up to track down a gang of outlaws led by a psychotic Mexican bandit, who is plotting an audacious bank robbery.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè, Mara Krupp
Votes: 274,766 | Gross: $15.00M
59. Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Not Rated | 147 min | Drama, Thriller
An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | Stars: Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida, Kôji Mitsui, Hiroko Itô
Votes: 22,712
60. High and Low (1963)
Not Rated | 143 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Yutaka Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa
Votes: 53,232
61. Harakiri (1962)
Not Rated | 133 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Ishihama, Shima Iwashita, Tetsurô Tanba
Votes: 68,707
62. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
Not Rated | 190 min | Drama, History, War
His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Tamao Nakamura, Yûsuke Kawazu
Votes: 7,335
MOTD
63. The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Not Rated | 151 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi
Votes: 14,026
64. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (I) (1959)
Not Rated | 208 min | Drama, History, War
A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima, Ineko Arima
Votes: 9,362
65. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Not Rated | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara
Votes: 42,257
66. Throne of Blood (1957)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura
Votes: 55,975
67. The Burmese Harp (1956)
Not Rated | 116 min | Drama, Music, War
A conscience-driven Japanese soldier traumatized by the events of WWII adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Shôji Yasui, Tatsuya Mihashi, Jun Hamamura
Votes: 6,463
68. I Live in Fear (1955)
103 min | Drama
An aging Japanese industrialist becomes so fearful of nuclear war that it begins to take a toll on his life and family.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Eiko Miyoshi
Votes: 5,542
69. Seven Samurai (1954)
Not Rated | 207 min | Action, Drama
Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki
Votes: 366,937 | Gross: $0.27M
70. Ugetsu (1953)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito
Votes: 25,823 | Gross: $0.01M
71. Ikiru (1952)
Not Rated | 143 min | Drama
A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Shin'ichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka
Votes: 87,598 | Gross: $0.06M
MOTD
72. Ace in the Hole (1951)
Approved | 111 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall
Votes: 39,128 | Gross: $3.97M
73. Rashomon (1950)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Votes: 180,530 | Gross: $0.10M
74. Stray Dog (1949)
Not Rated | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective tries to track down his stolen Colt pistol.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi
Votes: 18,942
75. Drunken Angel (1948)
Not Rated | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reizaburô Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure
Votes: 13,363
76. Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Passed | 124 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A suave but cynical man supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money, but the job has some occupational hazards.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan, Robert Lewis
Votes: 19,133 | Gross: $0.33M
77. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
PG | 130 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 499,255
MOTD
78. The Lost Weekend (1945)
Passed | 101 min | Drama, Film-Noir
The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva
Votes: 40,211 | Gross: $9.46M
79. Double Indemnity (1944)
Passed | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Byron Barr
Votes: 167,506 | Gross: $5.72M
80. Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
Not Rated | 79 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Sugata, a young man, struggles to learn the nuance and meaning of judo, and in doing so comes to learn something of the meaning of life.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Yukiko Todoroki, Ryûnosuke Tsukigata
Votes: 5,632
81. There Was a Father (1942)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
A schoolteacher struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, having neither money nor future prospects.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Chishû Ryû, Shûji Sano, Shin Saburi, Takeshi Sakamoto
Votes: 3,159
82. Meet John Doe (1941)
Passed | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan
Votes: 14,905
83. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Passed | 129 min | Drama
An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin
Votes: 99,982 | Gross: $0.06M
84. Wuthering Heights (1939)
Passed | 104 min | Drama, Romance
A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Flora Robson
Votes: 19,774 | Gross: $0.76M
85. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Not Rated | 96 min | Mystery, Thriller
While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, May Whitty
Votes: 57,173
86. The Grand Illusion (1937)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, War
During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim
Votes: 38,869 | Gross: $0.17M
87. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Not Rated | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander
Votes: 23,225
88. An Inn in Tokyo (1935)
80 min | Drama
Unemployed Kihachi and his two sons struggle to make ends meet. But that doesn't keep Kihachi from wooing single mother Otaka.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Takeshi Sakamoto, Yoshiko Okada, Chôko Iida, Tomio Aoki
Votes: 1,650
89. It Happened One Night (1934)
Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 112,298 | Gross: $4.36M
90. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
Not Rated | 122 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A criminal mastermind uses hypnosis to rule the rackets after death.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Thomy Bourdelle, Gustav Diessl
Votes: 13,600
91. Freaks (1932)
Not Rated | 64 min | Drama, Horror
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates
Votes: 50,623 | Gross: $0.63M
92. M (1931)
Passed | 99 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke
Votes: 168,505 | Gross: $0.03M
MOTD
93. L'Age d'Or (1930)
Not Rated | 63 min | Comedy, Drama
A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque, Max Ernst
Votes: 14,810 | Gross: $0.03M
94. Woman in the Moon (1929)
Not Rated | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A tenacious scientist blasts off for the moon in hopes of riches that may be found there.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Willy Fritsch, Gerda Maurus, Klaus Pohl, Fritz Rasp
Votes: 3,860
95. The Circus (1928)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
The Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Al Ernest Garcia, Harry Crocker
Votes: 36,062
96. Metropolis (1927)
Not Rated | 153 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Votes: 185,575 | Gross: $1.24M
MOTD
97. The General (1926)
Passed | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines.
Directors: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley
Votes: 98,167 | Gross: $1.03M
98. The Gold Rush (1925)
Passed | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A prospector goes to the Klondike during the 1890s gold rush in hopes of making his fortune, and is smitten with a girl he sees in a dance hall.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman
Votes: 118,668 | Gross: $5.45M
99. Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)
Not Rated | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, sets off on a treacherous journey to the Kingdom of Burgundy to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Princess Kriemhild.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Paul Richter, Margarete Schön, Theodor Loos, Gertrud Arnold
Votes: 6,559
100. Safety Last! (1923)
Not Rated | 74 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures.
Directors: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, Noah Young
Votes: 22,919 | Gross: $1.36M
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