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  • Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg in Breathless (1960)

    1. Breathless

    19601h 30mNot Rated96Metascore
    7.7 (91K)
    A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder of a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.
    DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJean-Paul BelmondoJean SebergRichard Balducci
  • Orson Welles, Dorothy Comingore, and Ruth Warrick in Citizen Kane (1941)

    2. Citizen Kane

    19411h 59mPG100Metascore
    8.3 (482K)
    Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
    DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy Comingore
  • L'Age d'Or (1930)

    3. L'Age d'Or

    19301h 3mNot Rated
    7.2 (15K)
    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.
    DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsGaston ModotLya LysCaridad de Laberdesque
  • Jack Nance in Eraserhead (1977)

    4. Eraserhead

    19771h 29mNot Rated87Metascore
    7.3 (138K)
    Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newborn mutant child.
    DirectorDavid LynchStarsJack NanceCharlotte StewartAllen Joseph
  • Henry Fonda, Martin Balsam, Jack Klugman, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, Edward Binns, John Fiedler, E.G. Marshall, Joseph Sweeney, George Voskovec, Jack Warden, and Robert Webber in 12 Angry Men (1957)

    5. 12 Angry Men

    19571h 36mApproved97Metascore
    9.0 (929K)
    The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.
    DirectorSidney LumetStarsHenry FondaLee J. CobbMartin Balsam
  • Subir Banerjee in Pather Panchali (1955)

    6. Pather Panchali

    19552h 5mNot Rated
    8.2 (40K)
    Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.
    DirectorSatyajit RayStarsKanu BannerjeeKaruna BannerjeeSubir Banerjee
  • Knife in the Water (1962)

    7. Knife in the Water

    19621h 34mNot Rated83Metascore
    7.4 (24K)
    A couple pick up a hitchhiker on the way to their yacht. The husband invites the young man to come along for their day's sailing. As the voyage progresses, the antagonism between the two men grows. A violent confrontation is inevitable.
    DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsLeon NiemczykJolanta UmeckaZygmunt Malanowicz
  • L'Atalante (1934)

    8. L'Atalante

    19341h 29mNot Rated
    7.7 (18K)
    Newly 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.
    DirectorJean VigoStarsDita ParloJean DastéGilles Margaritis
  • Badlands (1973)

    9. Badlands

    19731h 34mPG94Metascore
    7.7 (82K)
    An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands.
    DirectorTerrence MalickStarsMartin SheenSissy SpacekWarren Oates
  • François Truffaut and Jean-Pierre Léaud in The 400 Blows (1959)

    10. The 400 Blows

    19591h 39mNot Rated
    8.0 (132K)
    A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.
    DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJean-Pierre LéaudAlbert RémyClaire Maurier
  • Blood Simple (1984)

    11. Blood Simple

    19841h 39mR84Metascore
    7.5 (110K)
    The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies, and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
    DirectorsJoel CoenEthan CoenStarsJohn GetzFrances McDormandDan Hedaya
  • This Sporting Life (1963)

    12. This Sporting Life

    19632h 14mNot Rated
    7.5 (7.4K)
    Despite success on the field, a rising rugby star senses the emerging emptiness of his life as his inner angst begins to materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo his landlady in hopes of finding reason to live.
    DirectorLindsay AndersonStarsRichard HarrisRachel RobertsAlan Badel
  • Ivan's Childhood (1962)

    13. Ivan's Childhood

    19621h 35mNot Rated
    8.0 (42K)
    During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
    DirectorsAndrei TarkovskyEduard AbalovStarsNikolay BurlyaevValentin ZubkovEvgeniy Zharikov
  • Silvia Monfort and Philippe Noiret in La Pointe Courte (1955)

    14. La Pointe Courte

    19551h 21mNot Rated
    7.0 (4.6K)
    Follow the story of a couple who goes to a small French fishing village to try to solve the problems of their deteriorating marriage.
    DirectorAgnès VardaStarsPhilippe NoiretSilvia MonfortMarcel Jouet
  • Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth, and Chris Penn in Reservoir Dogs (1992)

    15. Reservoir Dogs

    19921h 39mR81Metascore
    8.3 (1.1M)
    When a simple jewelry heist goes horribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.
    DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsHarvey KeitelTim RothMichael Madsen
  • Shadows (1958)

    16. Shadows

    19581h 27mPG86Metascore
    7.2 (13K)
    Cassavetes' jazz-scored improvisational film explores interracial friendships and relationships in Beat-Era (1950s) New York City.
    DirectorJohn CassavetesStarsBen CarruthersLelia GoldoniHugh Hurd
  • Marilyn Eastman, Duane Jones, and Judith Ridley in Night of the Living Dead (1968)

    17. Night of the Living Dead

    19681h 36mR89Metascore
    7.8 (146K)
    A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the Northeast of the United States.
    DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsDuane JonesJudith O'DeaKarl Hardman
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

    18. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    19662h 11mApproved75Metascore
    8.0 (82K)
    A middle-aged New England associate professor and his wife, with the help of alcohol, use their young guests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.
    DirectorMike NicholsStarsElizabeth TaylorRichard BurtonGeorge Segal
  • Andie MacDowell, Laura San Giacomo, James Spader, and Peter Gallagher in Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)

    19. Sex, Lies, and Videotape

    19891h 40mR86Metascore
    7.2 (62K)
    A sexually repressed woman's husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.
    DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsJames SpaderAndie MacDowellPeter Gallagher
  • Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters in The Night of the Hunter (1955)

    20. The Night of the Hunter

    19551h 32mApproved97Metascore
    8.0 (103K)
    A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
    DirectorCharles LaughtonStarsRobert MitchumShelley WintersLillian Gish
  • Kirsten Dunst in The Virgin Suicides (1999)

    21. The Virgin Suicides

    19991h 37mR77Metascore
    7.2 (179K)
    A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s.
    DirectorSofia CoppolaStarsKirsten DunstJosh HartnettJames Woods
  • Ratcatcher (1999)

    22. Ratcatcher

    19991h 34mNot Rated78Metascore
    7.5 (12K)
    A naïve young lad navigates the dirty squalid streets of 1973 Glasgow and the poor youth around him.
    DirectorLynne RamsayStarsTommy FlanaganMandy MatthewsWilliam Eadie
  • Michael Fassbender in Hunger (2008)

    23. Hunger

    20081h 36mNot Rated82Metascore
    7.5 (75K)
    Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.
    DirectorSteve McQueenStarsMichael FassbenderLiam CunninghamStuart Graham
  • Geneviève Lemon in Sweetie (1989)

    24. Sweetie

    19891h 37mR81Metascore
    6.7 (5.7K)
    An introspective young woman's life is upturned by the arrival of her maladjusted sister.
    DirectorJane CampionStarsGeneviève LemonKaren ColstonTom Lycos
  • Killer of Sheep (1978)

    25. Killer of Sheep

    19781h 20mNot Rated96Metascore
    7.2 (7.9K)
    Set in the Watts area of Los Angeles, a slaughterhouse worker must suspend his emotions to continue working at a job he finds repugnant, and then he finds he has little sensitivity for the family he works so hard to support.
    DirectorCharles BurnettStarsHenry G. SandersKaycee MooreCharles Bracy

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