TSPDT: They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1,000 Greatest Films (2012 revision)
January 2012 revision of the TSPDT list
Source: [link]http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_all1000films.htm[/link]
This list is a compilation of worldwide critical opinion, using published polls and top lists, carried out by the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? website.
Note that a few films have multiple entries on imdb:
528. Olympia
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030523/
675. Histoire(s) du cinéma
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179216/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118339/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179212/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179213/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179214/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179215/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179217/
900. Die Nibelungen
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015174/
989. Dog Star Man
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058025/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284060/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284061/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058026/
Related lists:
21st Century Top 1000
TSPDT Top 250 Directors
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Jan 2019
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List of all films that have been on the TSPDT list
Source: [link]http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_all1000films.htm[/link]
This list is a compilation of worldwide critical opinion, using published polls and top lists, carried out by the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? website.
Note that a few films have multiple entries on imdb:
528. Olympia
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030523/
675. Histoire(s) du cinéma
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179216/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118339/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179212/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179213/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179214/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179215/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179217/
900. Die Nibelungen
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015174/
989. Dog Star Man
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058025/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284060/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284061/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058026/
Related lists:
21st Century Top 1000
TSPDT Top 250 Directors
Current version:
Jan 2019
Previous versions:
Jan 2018
Feb 2017
Feb 2016
Feb 2015
Feb 2014
Feb 2013
Jan 2012
Jan 2011
Jan 2010
Dec 2008
Dec 2007
Dec 2006
Mar 2006
Aug 2005
Feb 2005
Aug 2004
Mar 2004
List of all films that have been on the TSPDT list
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- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy ComingoreFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartKim NovakBarbara Bel GeddesA former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsMarcel DalioNora GregorPaulette DubostA bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsKeir DulleaGary LockwoodWilliam SylvesterWhen a mysterious artifact is uncovered on the Moon, a spacecraft manned by two humans and one supercomputer is sent to Jupiter to find its origins.
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMarlon BrandoAl PacinoJames CaanThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnouk AiméeClaudia CardinaleA harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneTakashi ShimuraKeiko TsushimaFarmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneJeffrey HunterVera MilesAn American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.
- DirectorsStanley DonenGene KellyStarsGene KellyDonald O'ConnorDebbie ReynoldsA silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsAleksandr AntonovVladimir BarskiyGrigoriy AleksandrovIn the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsChishû RyûChieko HigashiyamaSô YamamuraAn old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsGeorge O'BrienJanet GaynorMargaret LivingstonA married farmer falls under the spell of a sophisticated woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsPeter O'TooleAlec GuinnessAnthony QuinnThe story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsLamberto MaggioraniEnzo StaiolaLianella CarellIn post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsAl PacinoRobert De NiroRobert DuvallThe early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul HenreidA cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
- DirectorJean VigoStarsDita ParloJean DastéGilles MargaritisNewly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroCathy MoriartyJoe PesciThe life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneMachiko KyôMasayuki MoriThe 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.
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsMaria FalconettiEugene SilvainAndré BerleyIn 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsCharlton HestonOrson WellesJanet LeighA Mexican official and his American wife are targeted in a Texas border town by the crime family he's trying to put behind bars for drug trafficking, as his concern grows over the tactics of the local detective whose cooperation he needs.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroJodie FosterCybill ShepherdA mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsMarilyn MonroeTony CurtisJack LemmonAfter two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnita EkbergAnouk AiméeA series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsJean GabinDita ParloPierre FresnayDuring 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.
