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| 100 Films You Must See, And Why |
| Here are the best films ever made and why. Write to me if you disagree,
or if I've missed some. Really, these are films I could honestly watch again and again. I include the director as a guide to their other
films, but beware of the 'director as auteur' syndrome. Yes, I'll get better pictures. Many thanks to Mason, who has helped me get a load of these from the US of Stateside. Good old Rip-off Britain, it's cheaper to import DVDs from the US than buy here. I got about 40 DVDs for an average cost of £5 each. |
| Film | Director | On DVD? | |||
| 1 | M |
Peter Lorre |
Fritz Lang | The best thriller ever, the hunt for justice by criminals. Read more on why it's my favourite. | Got |
| 2 | A Canterbury Tale |
Michael Powell |
Deeply emotive and very weird story, with cold, sad Eric Portman
exposed by Dennis Price, Sheila Sim, and amateur actor Sgt John Sweet of the US Army. The film is simply inexplicable, and Sheila Sim's visit
to her lover's caravan, rotting in storage, always makes me cry. The mix of history, old and modern (the parade of craters with little signs
saying where the shops have relocated), the crude mystery (it's meant to be obvious), the clear symbolism (they all find their dreams), is
all very, very good, but what really lifts this film is the study of English countryside and the natural way of life, to be wiped out by the
modernism spurred by war industry (the hawk becomes a Spitfire, the ancient hedgerows are smashed by the armored troop carriers). Portman's
character yearns to secure a life being swamped by the influx of soldiers, but is fighting a losing battle. Powell had a theory that a people were shaped by their landscape, it was the mountains that made mountain people, the cities that made city people. I wonder what he would have made of today's mass migration. The Archer's films have inspired many modern film-makers, not least Scorcese and Brian de Palma. Michael Powell was rediscovered by Scorcese late in life and brought back to work in Zoetrope. Watching a docu on Richard Attenborough, I learn that Sheila Sim is Lady Attenborough. They met at RADA and married soon after. | Got | |
| 3 | 37°2 le matin (aka Betty Blue) | Jean-Jacques Beineux | Very moving, extremes of joy and despair, the saddest love story. Heartbreaking. Avoid the later director's cut, the version shown on UK TV was better. I managed to get the French as well as the UK DVD. The dubbed version is dreadful, you must watch this film in French with the subtitles on. The French one has nice extras including Béatrice Dalle's screen test. | Got | |
| 4 | Robocop | ![]() |
Paul Verhoeven | The fight to regain humanity. Witty and dark,
it has depth and great action. Read my Terminator/Robocop Inversion Theory. | Got |
| 5 | Went The Day Well? | Cavalcanti | Easily the most shocking film you will ever see. Guaranteed. In WW2 Germans try to capture an English village in preparation for the invasion. | Got | |
| 6 | Cafe Flesh | Rinse Dream | Yes it is a porn film, but with a story, great choreographed and costumed sex scenes and it dares to mock the audience. See it if possible. (Jerry Stahl (Permanent Midnight) wrote this stylish cult classic under the pseudonym Herbert W. Day.) | ||
| 7 | The Naked Spur | Anthony Mann | James Stewart started his career as a sweet-hearted man, perfectly suiting Capra's optomism. But unlike many British stars who escaped the war by fleeing to the US, Stewart signed up and served his country. What he saw in war changed him forever and he returned to movies fully prepared to act out complex and dark characters for Hitchcock and Anthony Mann (although Capra's Wonderful Life was made in 1947). Stewart and Mann collaberated several times, and The Naked Spur followed the ground-breaking Winchester '73, which saw Stewart take 50% of the film's profits instead of a fee, a contract that changed Hollywood forever. In the Naked Spur, Stewart acts his heart out in fantastic, golden Colorado scenery, but the film is intense, with Stewart as a bounty-hunter driven by greed and nihilism. The other characters are superb too, especially Ralph Meeker, but Stewart rides the film, nursing in his heart his fiancee's betrayal. I don't like Westerns, and this is the only Western that impressed me. | ||
| 8 | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | ![]() |
Howard Hawks | A bit camp but hugely entertaining musical. And I hate musicals. This is an honest film, in which men want sex, women want security. Apart from Jane Russell, who holds out for love, sweet love. | Got |
| 9 | Carry On Up The Khyber | Gerald Thomas | The best Carry On, the funniest gags (Fakhir! Off!). Unsurpassed British lavatory humour. | Got | |
| 10 | 9 1/2 Weeks | Adrian Lyne | Derided as a yuppy story, it is actually about impotence and love. See how long before they actually get to it. | Got | |
| 11 | Seven Samurai | ![]() |
Akira Kurosawa | Long and rewarding adventure through old Japan, remade as The Magnificent Seven, but the original is more powerful and desperate. Kurosawa was using a caricature of Noh and Kabuki acting styles in this and similar works (Rashomon), and the patient study of the restraint of the lead samurai would not be found in an American film. But the fight scenes and the end of the film are terrifying. The pouring rain, the mud, the horses, but what you are watching are men fighting men with swords and spears. Fighting over food, for what else matters if you cannot eat. | Got |
| 12 | Baron Munchausen | Josef Von Baky | Made during WW2 by the Nazis, it is a lavish costume comedy epic full of wit and charm. Badly remade by Gilliam as 'Munchausen'. | Got | |
| 13 | The Thing From Another World | Howard Hawks
(Christian Nyby) |
Thrilling actioner, dynamic cross dialogue. Note how the humans attack the alien first. | Got | |
| 14 | Sinnui yauman (A Chinese Ghost Story) |
Ching Siu-Tung | HK comedy horror, hugely entertaining, memorable. Tsui Hark produced. | Got | |
| 15 | Badlands | ![]() |
Terence Malik | College lecturer Malik only made 3 films, to show how easy it was. Fascinating story. Shamelessly ripped off by Tarantino. (Malik has now made more films). | Got |
| 16 | Raising Arizona | Joel Coen | Very witty comedy, with style and superb dialogue, and a good dose of surreality. | Got | |
| 17 | Midnight Run | Martin Brest | A rare item this; a mainstream comedy adventure that is well written, paced and funny. | Got | |
| 18 | Repo Man | Alex Cox | The first version is best, strange, rambling but original and inventive low budget comedy. | Got | |
| 19 | Pee-Wee's Big Adventure | Tim Burton | Hilarious, very clever, a great character, and some top gags. | Got | |
| 20 | Black Narcissus | Michael Powell | Powell & Pressburger made the best British films ever, and these 4 stand out. Here, nuns get sex in the Himalayas | Got a US copy. | |
| 21 | A Matter Of Life And Death | ![]() |
Michael Powell | Some of the Archer's films are difficult to understand or, rather, categorise. This is much easier, it is simply an attempt to come to terms with the collossal death toll of the war. The camera looks down to the room of records, miles of filing cabinets ("heaven to some"), the camera draws back over thousands of the war dead attending the trial, soldiers in battle dress, nurses in uniform, questioning their own deaths. Filmed partly in black & white, with beautiful use of scarce colour film stock ("we're starved for Technicolor"), Powell & Pressburger throw in some tricks too, the camera obscura, the shot through the enormous eyelid, freeze frame, and a haunting music score. But the film remains true to its title. | Got |
| 22 | 49th Parallel | Michael Powell | Can you believe this? Asked to make a propoganda film, what do the Archers do? They make a film about Nazis sailors trying to escape across frozen Canada! Of course, you don't root for the Nazis, do you? Well, sort of. An amazing film. | Available | |
| 23 | The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp | Michael Powell | Long, strange story, again dares to portray a nice German during WW2. | Got | |
| 24 | I Know Where I'm Going | Michael Powell | Nice romance, not as good as the above. Powell expresses a theory about how landscape influences people, also done in A Canterbury Tale. | Got | |
| 25 | Blood Simple | Joel Coen | A real thriller, especially as it is so extremely slow. The risk pays off and the story shocks. | Got | |
| 26 | Peeping Tom | ![]() |
Michael Powell | Powell's last mainstream film is frightening and disgusted critics at the time with it's study of sadism and horror ("wholly evil", "Sick minds will be highly stimulated"). What sort of person are you, paying to watch murders, aren't you a Peeping Tom? It wrecked Powell's career, but provides some moving and shocking thoughts. Powell did have a quirky sense of humour and hid some in-jokes in the pic, such as the movie director in the film being played by a blind actor, Esmond Knight. Powell appeared as the sinister father in the home movies, and his own son Columba was the crying child. Interestingly, Peeping Tom was released in 1960, 4 months before Psycho, which is now treated as a classic. | Got |
| 27 | Wayne's World | Penelope Spheeris | Laughed till I cried. Inspired comedy for rockers. You'd have to be a rocker to truly appreciate this. Party On. Excellent. The sequel's quite good too. | Got | |
| 28 | The Captain's Paradise | Anthony Kimmins | A small comedy but very well made, with ferry Captain Alec Guinness having it both ways until... | Available | |
| 29 | Un Condamne A Mort S'Est Echappe (A Man Escaped) | Robert Bresson | A long, slow, dark film of torture, pain and intense relief at the final escape. True story of a French POW meticulously making his and other's escape, Bresson made this film in 1956 using real people, not actors. A terrifying film of real violence. | ||
| 30 | Cat People | Jacques Tourneur | B movie but thrilling, incredible use of low budget sets, especially lighting tricks. | ||
| 31 | La Bete (The Beast) | Walerian Borowczyk | Amazing film original meant as a segment in Immoral Tales. A mix of costume, horror, rape fantasy and fetish delight. Astonishing and wholly original. And wholly banned in Britain for 25 years. But it has now got an 18 certificate and is out on DVD, under the title The Beast. | Got | |
| 32 | Contes Immoraux (Immoral Tales) | Walerian Borowczyk | A series of erotic stories from history. Elegant and delicious. Paloma Picasso is Bathory, bathing in virgin's blood. | Got | |
| 33 | Crimewave | Sam Raimi | Surreal comedy that is soooo surreal it bursts your brain. Written by the Coen brothers too. | Available | |
| 34 | Innocent Blood | John Landis | Strange long mix of vampire, gangster, cop and comedy, with some pole-dancing by Terri Weigel. Anna Parillaud (Nikita) accidentally turns Mafia boss Robert Loggia into an undead Mafia boss! Good film, a little spoilt by poor pacing and the effort to introduce a romance. But the film has a sustained logic and lots of hard edged stunts you won't see anyone doing today. | Got | |
| 35 | The Hit | Stephen Frears | Excellent rare road movie in central Spain. Runaway criminal Terence Stamp is brought back to be murdered by John Hurt. Top stuff. And Laura Del Sol stands out. | ||
| 36 | Belle De Jour | Luis Bunuel | Upper class Catherine Denueve leads a double life to work in a brothel! Mixture of surreal fantasy and sexual intrigue. | Got | |
| 37 | Passport To Pimlico | Henry Cornelius | Classic Ealing comedy, slightly weak, but inspiring. The scene where the children start throwing food over the wire always makes me blub. Typical British support for underdogs. | Got | |
| 38 | Build My Gallows High (Out Of The Past) | Jacques Tourneur | Goody Robert Mitchum is brought back by baddy Kirk Douglas face his criminal past and his betrayal by femme fatale Jane Greer. | Got | |
| 39 | Dead Of Night | ![]() |
various | Calvalcanti, Chrichton, Dearden & Hamer direct amazing horror stories for Ealing. The film is circular and ends at the beginning. It includes some famous scenes, especially the vent's talking dummy, which alone was remade as 'Magic'. | Got a US copy |
| 40 | Les Diaboliques | Henri-Georges Clouzot | A classic French shocker (remade with Sharon Stone). The school headmaster arranges with his mistress to murder his wife during the holidays.
But things don't quite work out...A real shock atthe end. The direction of this film is remarkable. A lot of the shots seem very like television, not like cinema. There is a language of cinema, a range of shots and cuts that provide the viewer with information. Do you see what the characters can see, or are you shown more than they know. The way the camera moves, the way scenes cut, these affect your experience. This film looks a lot like TV, long before TV became widespread. | Got | |
| 41 | Hue And Cry | Charles Chrichton | Kids comedy but great stuff, the first Ealing comedy. Chrichton was brought out of retirement at 80 to work with John Cleese, and so to direct A Fish Called Wanda. | Got | |
| 42 | Seven Days To Noon | John Boulting | Boulting Bros. produced a slew of films. This is a 50s thriller about a nuclear bomb. Great slow burner. | ||
| 43 | The Draughtsman's Contract | Peter Greenaway | Surreal overblown costume mystery, supposedly. Difficult to follow but lavish to watch. | Got | |
| 44 | Get Carter! | Mike Hodges | Violent realistic 70s gangster movie. Caine stars in rare Northern England picture. Recently remade with Sly Stallone in the lead. | Got | |
| 45 | In A Lonely Place | Nicholas Ray | Rarely seen Bogart crime picture recently re-issued in a new print! I was born when I met you, I lived while you loved me, I died when you left me. | Got | |
| 46 | It's A Wonderful Life | ![]() |
Frank Capra | Yes you've seen it a dozen times, yes it is so corny, but it is still fabulous and genuinely moving. Especially Stewart's honest sacrifice for his brother, which happens in a mere beat. | Got |
| 47 | The Wicked Lady | Leslie Arliss | Camp but excellent melodrama of lady highway robber. Badly remade by Michael Winner. Finally got this on DVD, It's FANTASTIC! She really is wicked, cut her in half and it says Wicked all the way through. But she gets her just desserts! | Got | |
| 48 | Jabberwocky | ![]() ![]() |
Terry Gilliam | Sub-Python but witty medieval comedy. Great gags. | Got |
| 49 | Jean De Florette | Claude Berri | Sad story but beautifully shot. The French government heavily subsidise their cinema and it pays. | Got | |
| 50 | Manon De Source | Claude Berri | Second part is weaker, but Emmanuelle Beart is so beautiful, and the story is heart breaking. | Got | |
| 51 | (The Shape Of) Things To Come | ![]() |
William Cameron Menzies | Film script written by H G Wells. Brilliant futuristic film predicts air war, and shows the brutish rise of warlords, but gives hope for the future. Visionary Menzies directed a few other greats, and was art director on Gone With The Wind and other classics. | Got |
| 52 | 52 Pick-Up | ![]() |
John Frankenheimer | Elmore Leonard's superb crime stories are finally getting the treatment they deserved. Get Shorty, Out Of Sight, Jackie Brown, producer's are getting the idea. Here's the first one to be worth watching, amazingly a Cannon pic. | Available |
| 53 | Assault On Precinct 13 | John Carpenter | His second film, Carpenter also did the synth score and editing. A low-budget actioner, drawing heavily on Rio Brava and Night Of The Living Dead. Worth watching a few times. (Recently remade) | Got | |
| 54 | Nuns On The Run | Jonathan Lynne | Low budget UK comedy, but funny, with Python Eric Idle. Watch out for the girls in the showers. Lynne made Yes Minister and went onto Hollywood. | Got | |
| 55 | The Lady Wants Mink | William A Seiter | B movie camp comedy but funny. | ||
| 56 | Captain Sinbad | Byron Haskin | Brilliant West German fantasy adventure made in 1963. Very stylish and impressive. | ||
| 57 | I'm All Right Jack | ![]() |
John Boulting | It's a diabolical liberty. Great Boulting Bros. satire on British labour and management. Peter Sellars stars as the trade union leader. | Got |
| 58 | The Lavender Hill Mob | ![]() |
Charles Chrichton | Classic Ealing comedy. Weak ending but brilliant anyway. | Got |
| 59 | Way To The Stars | Anthony Asquith | Slowish ground based melodrama of wartime airfield. You only see the aircraft take-off and land, in the same way that the pilots arrive and leave the base. Superb & moving story, well worth buying. | Got | |
| 60 | Mad Max 2 | ![]() |
George Miller | Overshown but excellent adventure, great design. Interestingly, Miller was puzzled about the success of the first film in so many different countries, and then was introduced to Joseph Campbell's The Hero With A Thousand Faces, the seminal work that Lucas used to complete Star Wars. Now there's a book worth pursuing. | Got |
| 61 | Maitresse | Barbet Schroeder | Weird French sex story with real S&M. Depardeiu supports. | Available | |
| 62 | Sullivan's Travels | ![]() |
Preston Sturges | Screwball but moving comedy of the Depression, made surprisingly in 1941. Preston Sturges was a rich kid, but an inspired director. In this film (another film about film-making), Joel McCrae is a famous director who wants to stop making silly comedies and instead complete his sombre masterpiece 'Oh Brother Where Art Thou?'. He shrugs off his minders and with stray Veronica Lake takes to the road. But he takes a wrong turn and does hit Skid Row, where he learns what really matters. A genuinely moving film by Sturges, although stuck firmly in the studio's clutches, McCrae shines and is a rarely considered star these days. And of course, you can now see Oh Brother... | |
| 63 | The Man In The White Suit | ![]() |
Alexander Mackendrick | Not the best Ealing comedy, this is still a strong satire hitting both capitalism and the workers, who combine to destroy Alec Guinness' radical invention. The film is generally visually dark, to show off the dazzling suit, but the story and acting is quite sinister too, with Joan Greenwood being encoraged to prostitute herself for £5,000 to save her father! Guinness is a revelation, obviously a great actor but he usually hides behind costume and props. Here he appears genuine and natural as he naively struggles to realise his dream. And the strange burbling sounds were released as 'The White Suit Samba' by Coral Records. | Got |
| 64 | Whisky Galore! | Alexander Mackendrick | Mackendrick died young. Another classic Ealing comedy. Light but funny. True story. | Got | |
| 65 | Zu Warriors Of the Magic Mountain | Tsui Hark | HK fantasy adventure. Long but hugely inventive. Why can't Hollywood be as clever, with all their cash? | Got | |
| 66 | The Janitor (Eyewitness) | Peter Yates | Clever simple thriller. Sigourney Weaver & William Hurt star. | Available | |
| 67 | Mano Destra | ![]() |
Cleo Ueblemann | Swiss S&M club made their own film. A revelation and very entertaining explanation. | |
| 68 | Monsieur Hire | Patrice Leconte | A sad film as woman maniplates man during a murder enquiry. Stylish picture. | Available | |
| 69 | National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation | Jeremiah S Chechik | A familiar family formula, but several hilarious scenes and Chase plays it so well. Poor ending but that's Hollywood. | Available | |
| 70 | The Night Of The Hunter | Charles Laughton | Laughton's only directing, mocked by the critics. Styled on silent movies, iris, soft dissolves. Superb 'biblical' story as evil Robert Mitchum chases the children. | Got | |
| 71 | Le Samourai | Jean-Pierre Melville | Interesting thriller. Hired assassin betrays his own code. | Got | |
| 72 | One, Two, Three | Billy Wilder | Cold war comedy starring elderly James Cagney in brilliant form. Cagney began as a song & dance man and his athleticism still shows. | Got | |
| 73 | Death In A French Garden | Michel Deville | A rarely seen but very stylish French modern mystery. A good use of a simple cast and local settings, the plot plays second to the provocative eroticism, but it still has some surprise. A huge hit in France in 1985, you'd be lucky to find it today. | Available | |
| 74 | Herbert West, Re-animator | Stuart Gordon | Schlock horror. The ending is poor, but the early feeling of the film perfectly captures the warped ideas of HP Lovecraft. | Available | |
| 75 | From Beyond | Stuart Gordon | Another Lovecraft story, this time played for sex and horror. Producer Yuzna has now directed. | ||
| 76 | Excalibur | John Boorman | Heavy Arthurian legend, beautifully shot, great armour. | Got | |
| 77 | Wild At Heart | David Lynch | Long surreal story, Dern can't act, or overact. Interesting and Cage does well. | Got | |
| 78 | North By Northwest | Alfred Hitchcock | The lame finish to the cliffhanging end weakens this great drama. Very clever use of location and it's often hard to see which are the studio shots and which are on location. And they flew on Northwest airline, hence the name and huge product placement! Essential a remade version of The 39 Steps, the wrongly accused murderer, mixed up with spies, the chase, the train, the blond he falls for. | Got | |
| 79 | Night Of the Demon | Jacques Tourneur | Sharp horror film of summoned demons in 50s England. The US edition is cut down and renamed Curse Of The Demon. | Got | |
| 80 | Alias Nick Beal | John Farrow | Amusing thriller with a good twist, well made by all. | ||
| 81 | Evil Dead 2 | Sam Raimi | Brilliant mix of schlock horror and comedy leads in the new style. | Got | |
| 82 | Vamp! | Richard Wenk | OK comedy-horror in the modern style (rubber sfx-models replace writing, editing etc), but with excellent stripper action sets, including Lisa Lyons. | Got | |
| 83 | The Hidden | Jack Sholder | Similar modern horror with laughs. Great scenes early on as the Hidden is relentless, piling on thrill after thrill. Kyle Maclachlan stars in an early career role. | Got | |
| 84 | Tom Jones | ![]() |
Tony Richardson | Very inventive picture using lots of cinema tricks (forgotten since Hellzapoppin'), like talking to camera, slow motion. | Got |
| 85 | Other People's Money | ![]() |
Norman Jewison | Brilliant attack on capitalism in a Mainstream Hollywood picture!. Wow! Of course, a jammed in love interest and happy ending spoil it, but a great lesson on the evil side of money grubbing. | |
| 86 | Q Planes | Tim Whelan | Rare 30s UK sci-fi adventure, very amusing. Ralph Richardson sparkles. | Available | |
| 87 | Up In Smoke! | Lou Adler | Cheech and Chong in hilarious dopehead comedy. | Got man yeah | |
| 88 | The Thirty Nine Steps | Alfred Hitchcock | Superb chase, good acting. Typical Hitchcock tricks, especially hide in plain sight. This film became the template for good chase movies, including Hitchcock's own such as North ny Northwest (above). | Got | |
| 89 | Green For Danger | Sidney Gilliat | Strange wartime murder mystery made in 1946. Alastair Sim got his first starring role here as the detective. A unique character actor, he usually played unctious but posh villians in crime comedies but is probably most recognised in drag as the head of St Trinians. Launder & Gilliat were great British film makers. | ||
| 90 | This Island Earth | Joseph M Newman | Great special effects and colourful sci-fi. | ||
| 91 | When World's Collide | Rudolph Mate | Another classic sci-fi picture. Building a space ark, the unbeatable deadline is Death, and the relentless countdown pushes people to the edge. | Got | |
| 92 | Three Amigos! | John Landis | Very funny in the start, usual corny ending. | Got | |
| 93 | Two Lane Blacktop | Monte Hellman | The only road movie that deserves the tag. Beach Boy Dennis Wilson stars. | ||
| 94 | Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls | Russ Meyer | Meyer's only mainstream film, count the cuts, cut cut cut cut cut | Available | |
| 95 | Witchfinder General | Micheal Reeves | Reeves commited suicide at 25 shortly after completing this picture. Violent, gruesome British horror pic to rival Hammer. Vincent Price (right) stars as Matthew Hopkins who tortured his way round England in the 1660s to make a fortune. | Got | |
| 96 | Deathline (aka Raw Meat) | Gary Sherman | Donald Pleasance is a funny cop stumbling onto a horrific secret. Minor British B-movie horror, a genuine cult film. | Got | |
| 97 | Driller Killer | Abel Ferrara | Abel Ferrara started making 8mm films with Nicholas St John (later his regular screenwriter). This was their first full feature and despite being much maligned in the 80s video nasty scare, it's an entertaining horror pic with Ferrara in the lead role (he also did the music as 'Jimmy Laine'). Ferrara gained a solid rep directing TV episodes, Miami Vice & Crime Story as a stylish director, and his movies are always interesting, but they do lack the final step to take him onto the A list. Still, try to see Ms 45 (Angel Of Vengeance), Cat Chaser (from the Elmore Leonard novel), King Of New York (with Christopher Walken). More disappointing are Bad Leiutenant and Bodysnatchers, his version of the horror flic, with a pasted on 'happy' ending that stinks of running out of money. But do watch Driller Killer, it is surprisingly good. | Got | |
| 98 | Time After Time | Nicholas Meyer | Good thriller as HG Wells pursues Jack The Ripper to modern Frisco. Unattractive actors, looks like a TV movie, but entertaining. Director Meyer also did Wrath Of Khan. | ||
| 99 | Boy On A Dolphin | Jean Negulesco | Watch the first few minutes to see why Sophia Loren was such a star! And the song is by Julie London. fab. | ||
| 100 | Final Analysis | Phil Joanou | Standard pyscho-thriller, worth watching for Uma & actual proper acting by Kim!!! I know, incredible but true. She can act! | Got |
Do you have any better suggestions? Write to me. |
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