Top Films: Noteworthy Films
A list of essensial classic films, highly recommended for lovers of movies. Each film is linked to the Internet Movie Database, and more information on some of the directors can be found on the filmmakers site.
External resources: Greatest films
- AFI: 100 Greatest American movies of all time
- BFI: Favorite British Films of the 100th Century
- The Greatest Films : Greatest Films
- Channel Four: The 100 Greatest Films
- Roger Ebert: The Great Movies
- IMDB Top 250 movies | IMDB Charts
- Rotten Tomatoes' Top Movies
| Title | Year | Length | Tagline | Director | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Der Amerikanische Freund | 1977 | 127 min | Wenders, Wim | Germany | |
| Apocalypse Now Redux [Trailer] | 2001 | 203 min | A fascinating study of the nature of evil in man | Ford Coppola, Francis | USA |
| Badlands [Trailer] | 1973 | 95 min | In 1959 a lot of people were killing time. Kit and Holly were killing people. | Malick, Terrence | USA |
| Being There [Trailer] | 1979 | 130 min | Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it | Ashby, Hal | USA |
| Big Red One [Trailer] | 1980 | 113 min | The real glory of war is surviving. | Fuller, Samuel | USA |
| Blow Out | 1981 | 108 min | Murder has a sound all of its own! | De Palma, Brian | USA |
| The China Syndrome | 1979 | 123 min | Today, only a handful of people know what it means... Soon you will know. | Bridges, James | USA |
| Chinatown [Trailer] | 1974 | 131 min | Polanski, Roman | USA | |
| The Conversation [Trailer] | 1974 | 113 min | Ford Coppola, Francis | USA | |
| Das Boot [Trailer] | 1981 | 200 min | Eine Reise ans Ende des Verstandes | Petersen, Wolfgang | Germany |
| Days of Heaven | 1978 | 95 min | Your eyes... Your ears... Your senses... will be overwhelmed. | Malick, Terrence | USA |
| Deliverance | 1972 | 109 min | This is the weekend they didn't play golf. | Boorman, John | USA |
| Dirty Harry [Trailer] | 1971 | 102 min | You don't assign him to murder cases, You just turn him loose. | Siegel, Don | USA |
| Dog Day Afternoon | 1975 | 124 min | The Most Bizarre Bank Siege Ever | Lumet, Sidney | USA |
| Escape from Alcatraz [Trailer] | 1979 | 112 min | No one has ever escaped from Alcatraz... And no one ever will! | Siegel, Don | USA |
| Fargo [Trailer] | 1996 | 98 min | A homespun murder story. | Coen, Joel | UK |
| The Flight of the Phoenix [Trailer] | 1965 | 142 min | The only way out is up | Aldrich, Robert | USA |
| The Fury | 1978 | 118 min | An experience in terror and suspense. | De Palma, Brian | USA |
| Gandhi [Trailer] | 1982 | 188 min | His Triumph Changed The World Forever. | Attenborough, Richard | UK |
| Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai [Trailer] | 1999 | 116 min | Live by the code. Die by the code. | Jarmusch, Jim | France/USA |
| The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [Trailer] | 1966 | 161 min | For Three Men The Civil War Wasn't Hell. It Was Practice! | Leone, Sergio | Italy |
| Hana-Bi/Fireworks | 1997 | 103 min | Kitano, Takeshi | Japan | |
| Heat [Trailer] | 1995 | 171 min | An epic tale of crime and obsession and two men on opposite sides of the law. | Mann, Michael | USA |
| In the Heat of the Night [Trailer] | 1967 | 109 min | They got a murder on their hands . . . they don't know what to do with it. | Jewison, Norman | USA |
| In the Line of Fire [Trailer] | 1993 | 128 min | An assassin on the loose. A president in danger. Only one man stands between them... | Petersen, Wolfgang | USA |
| Jacob's Ladder [Trailer] | 1990 | 115 min | The most frightening thing about Jacob Singer's nightmare is that he isn't dreaming. | Lyne, Adrian | USA |
| Juggernaut | 1974 | 109 min | A terrorist threat. A captain in panic. And only one man who can end thedanger. | Lester, Richard | UK |
| Lawrence of Arabia [Trailer] | 1962 | 216 min | Lean, David | UK | |
| The Limey [Trailer] | 1999 | 89 min | Vengeance knows no boundaries. | Soderbergh, Steven | USA |
| Le Locataire | 1976 | 125 min | No One Does It to You Like Roman Polanski. | Polanski, Roman | France |
| Marathon Man [Trailer] | 1976 | 125 min | Schlesinger, John | USA | |
| Mystery Train [Trailer] | 1989 | 113 min | Jarmusch, Jim | USA | |
| Network [Trailer] | 1976 | 121 min | Television will never be the same! | Lumet, Sidney | USA |
| Once Upon a Time in America [Trailer] | 1984 | 139 min | As boys, they said they would die for each other. As men, they did. | Leone, Sergio | Italy |
| Papillon [Trailer] | 1973 | 150 min | The greatest adventure of escape ever filmed! | J. Schaffner, Franklin | USA |
| The Parallax View | 1974 | 102 min | There is no conspiracy. Just twelve people dead. | Pakula, Alan J. | USA |
| Patton [Trailer] | 1970 | 170 min | Patton: The man, the warrior, the leader | J. Schaffner, Franklin | USA |
| Ronin [Trailer] | 1998 | 121 min | Loyalty is bought, betrayal is a way of life... | Frankenheimer, John | USA/UK |
| Rosemary's Baby [Trailer] | 1968 | 136 min | Pray for Rosemary's Baby | Polanski, Roman | USA |
| Runaway Train [Trailer] | 1985 | 111 min | Once it starts, nothing can stop it! | Konchalovsky, Andrei | USA |
| The Shootist | 1976 | 100 min | He's got to face a gunfight once more to live up to his legend once more. To win just one more time. | Siegel, Don | USA |
| Shoot to Kill | 1988 | 109 min | Spottiswoode, Roger | USA | |
| A Simple Plan [Trailer] | 1998 | 121 min | Sometimes good people do evil things. | Raimi, Sam | USA |
| A Soldier's Story [Trailer] | 1984 | 98 min | Alone, far from home, and far from justice, he has three days to learn the truth about a murder...and the truth is a story you won't forget. | Jewison, Norman | USA |
| Southern Comfort | 1981 | 99 min | It's the land of hospitality... unless you don't belong. | Hill, Walter | USA |
| Straw Dogs | 1971 | 118 min | The knock at the door meant the birth of one man and the death of seven others! | Peckinpah, Sam | UK |
| Targets | 1968 | 90 min | "I just killed my wife and my mother. I know they'll get me. But beforethat, many more will die..." | Bogdanovich, Peter | USA |
| Taxi Driver [Trailer] | 1976 | 113 min | On every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody. | Scorsese, Martin | USA |
| Vertigo [Trailer] | 1958 | 128 min | Alfred Hitchcock engulfs you in a whirlpool of terror and tension! | Hitchcock, Alfred | USA |
| Videodrome | 1982 | 88 min | First it controlled her mind, then it destroyed her body... Long live the new flesh! | Cronenberg, David | Canada/USA |
| Der Untergang [Trailer] | 2004 | 156 min | April 1945, a nation awaits its... | Hirschbiegel, Oliver | Germany |
| The Untouchables [Trailer] | 1987 | 119 min | Federal Agent Elliot Ness sets out to take out Al Capone; because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team. | De Palma, Brian | USA |
| The Warriors [Trailer] | 1979 | 93 min | They outnumber the cops five to one. | Hill, Walter | USA |
| Withnail & I [Trailer] | 1987 | 107 min | You are invited to spend an hilarious weekend in the English countryside. | Robinson, Bruce | UK |