*****
1. Fight Club (David Fincher)
2. Se7en (David Fincher)
3. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
4. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
5. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
6. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
7. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)
8. Memento (Christopher Nolan)
9. Cidade De Deus (Fernando Meirelles)
10. Todo Sobre Mi Madre (Pedro Almodóvar)
11. Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)
12. Die Sehnsucht Der Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
13. The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (Peter Jackson)
14. The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King (Peter Jackson)
15. The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
16. Death And The Maiden (Roman Polanski)
17. Ying Xiong (Yimou Zhang)
18. The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
19. Meet The Feebles (Peter Jackson)
20. Funny Games (Michael Haneke)
21. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
22. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
23. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman)
24. The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen)
25. Moby Dick (John Huston)
26. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
27. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
28. Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo (Sergio Leone)
29. Smultronstället (Ingmar Bergman)
30. The Lady From Shanghai
31. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
32. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
33. Det Sjunde Inseglet (Ingmar Bergman)
34. Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (Jay Roach)
35. The Matrix (Andy & Larry Wachowski)
36. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
37. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
38. Serpico (Sidney Lumet)
39. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
40. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
41. The Third Man (Carol Reed)
42. The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
43. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
44. The Incredibles (Brad Bird)
45. Brother (Takeshi Kitano)
46. Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
47. No Country For Old Men (Ethan & Joel Coen)
48. La Mala Educación (Pedro Almodóvar)
49. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
50. Shrek (Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson)
51. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
52. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
**** 1/2:
53. La Vita è Bella (Roberto Benigni)
54. Wo Hu Cang Long (Ang Lee)
55. Z (Costa-Gavras)
56. The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles)
57. Control (Anton Corbijn)
58. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
59. Lost In Translation (Sofia Coppola)
60. Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (Guiseppe Tornatore)
61. Heat (Michael Mann)
62. Three Days Of The Condor (Sydney Pollack)
63. When Harry Met Sally… (Rob Reiner)
64. Un Long Dimanche De Fiancailles (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
65. Life Of Brian (Terry Jones)
66. Touch Of Evil (Orson Welles)
67. The Cooler (Wayne Kramer)
68. Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón)
69. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam)
70. Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
71. Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam)
72. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
73. Crash (Paul Haggis)
74. C’era Una Volta Il West (Sergio Leone)
75. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
76. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe))
77. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
78. The Dancer Upstairs (John Malkovich)
79. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
80. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
81. The Hours (Stephen Daldry)
82. Lola Rennt (Tom Tykwer)
83. Monster’s Ball (Marc Forster)
84. Aguirre, Der Zorn Gottes (Werner Herzog)
85. 21 Grams (Alejandro González Inárritu)
86. Léon (Luc Besson)
87. American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
88. I Hired A Contract Killer (Aki Kaurismäki)
89. Collateral (Michael Mann)
90. Elsker Dig For Evigt
91. Der Name Der Rose (Jean-Jacques Annaud)
92. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
93. Babel (Alejandro González Inárritu)
94. Bowling For Columbine (Michael Moore)
95. Le Fabuleux Destin D’Amélie Poulain (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
96. Il Gattopardo (Luchino Visconti)
97. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
98. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
99. Oldboy (Chan-Wook Park)
100. The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer)
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror. Oscar Wilde