MOTY

by Grethiwha | created - 09 Apr 2014 | updated - 1 month ago | Public

My 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

84 Metascore

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

68 Metascore

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

49 Metascore

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

78 Metascore

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

83 Metascore

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

83 Metascore

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

43 Metascore

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

55 Metascore

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

84 Metascore

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

56 Metascore

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

66 Metascore

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

78 Metascore

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

73 Metascore

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

83 Metascore

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

69 Metascore

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

78 Metascore

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

60 Metascore

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

83 Metascore

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

84 Metascore

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

71 Metascore

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

70 Metascore

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

79 Metascore

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

71 Metascore

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

95 Metascore

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

59 Metascore

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

85 Metascore

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

69 Metascore

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

92 Metascore

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

77 Metascore

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

30 Metascore

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

79 Metascore

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

81 Metascore

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

97 Metascore

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

81 Metascore

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

58 Metascore

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

100 Metascore

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

75 Metascore

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

82 Metascore

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

89 Metascore

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

84 Metascore

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

58 Metascore

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 High Plains Drifter The Holy Mountain 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

66 Metascore

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

90 Metascore

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

74 Metascore

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

90 Metascore

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

85 Metascore

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

89 Metascore

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

98 Metascore

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

92 Metascore

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

72 Metascore

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

98 Metascore

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

89 Metascore

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

95 Metascore

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

96 Metascore

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

98 Metascore

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

87 Metascore

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

80 Metascore

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

90 Metascore

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

98 Metascore

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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