A Top 100 Films of All-Time

Ryan Swen Lists

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  1. A One and a Two… (2000, Edward Yang)
  2. Mulholland Dr. (2001, David Lynch)
  3. Sunless (1983, Chris Marker)
  4. A Touch of Zen (1971, King Hu)
  5. In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai)
  6. A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Edward Yang)
  7. Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974, Jacques Rivette)
  8. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, Tsai Ming-liang)
  9. Yourself and Yours (2016, Hong Sang-soo)
  10. Out 1: Noli me tangere (1971, Jacques Rivette)
  11. Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
  12. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967, Jacques Demy)
  13. Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963, Alain Resnais)
  14. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944, Vincente Minnelli)
  15. Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-wai)
  16. Late Spring (1949, Ozu Yasujiro)
  17. (nostalgia) (1971, Hollis Frampton)
  18. Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)
  19. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Ang Lee)
  20. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Orson Welles)
  21. Perceval le Gallois (1978, Éric Rohmer)
  22. Oxhide II (2009, Liu Jiayin)
  23. La Jetée (1962, Chris Marker)
  24. The Mother and the Whore (1973, Jean Eustache)
  25. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933, Fritz Lang)
  26. Dragon Inn (1966, King Hu)
  27. Mountains May Depart (2015, Jia Zhangke)
  28. Last Year at Marienbad (1961, Alain Resnais)
  29. Duck Amuck (1953, Chuck Jones)
  30. Seven Samurai (1954, Kurosawa Akira)
  31. Stray Dogs (2013, Tsai Ming-liang)
  32. Only Angels Have Wings (1939, Howard Hawks)
  33. Les Vampires (1915, Louis Feuillade)
  34. Wavelength (1967, Michael Snow)
  35. Ruggles of Red Gap (1935, Leo McCarey)
  36. All My Life (1966, Bruce Baillie)
  37. Twin Peaks: The Return (2017, David Lynch)
  38. Gertrud (1964, Carl Th. Dreyer)
  39. L’Argent (1983, Robert Bresson)
  40. The Love Eterne (1963, Li Han-hsiang)
  41. Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996, Peter Chan)
  42. Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks)
  43. Trust (1990, Hal Hartley)
  44. Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Mizoguchi Kenji)
  45. The Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton)
  46. Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948, Max Ophuls)
  47. India Song (1975, Marguerite Duras)
  48. Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon (1895, Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  49. Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003, Thom Andersen)
  50. A City of Sadness (1989, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  51. Pierrot le Fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
  52. The Killer (1989, John Woo)
  53. Femmes Femmes (1974, Paul Vecchiali)
  54. La Flor (2018, Mariano Llinás)
  55. Beijing Watermelon (1989, Obayashi Nobuhiko)
  56. The Day He Arrives (2011, Hong Sang-soo)
  57. Rose Hobart (1936, Joseph Cornell)
  58. The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
  59. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953, Howard Hawks)
  60. Shanghai Express (1932, Josef von Sternberg)
  61. Dirty Ho (1979, Lau Kar-leung)
  62. Peking Opera Blues (1986, Tsui Hark)
  63. Eraserhead (1977, David Lynch)
  64. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001, Steven Spielberg)
  65. Spione (1928, Fritz Lang)
  66. Millennium Mambo (2001, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  67. An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Ozu Yasujiro)
  68. Like Someone in Love (2012, Abbas Kiarostami)
  69. Spirited Away (2001, Miyazaki Hayao)
  70. Heat (1995, Michael Mann)
  71. Napoléon (1927, Abel Gance)
  72. Two English Girls (1971, François Truffaut)
  73. Days of Being Wild (1990, Wong Kar-wai)
  74. Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)
  75. Johnny Guitar (1954, Nicholas Ray)
  76. La Cérémonie (1995, Claude Chabrol)
  77. Mahjong (1996, Edward Yang)
  78. Sparrow (2008, Johnnie To)
  79. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992, David Lynch)
  80. Yearning (1964, Naruse Mikio)
  81. Miami Vice (2006, Michael Mann)
  82. La Région centrale (1971, Michael Snow)
  83. Mysteries of Lisbon (2010, Raúl Ruiz)
  84. Moses and Aaron (1975, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  85. Asako I & II (2018, Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  86. High and Low (1963, Kurosawa Akira)
  87. Close-Up (1990, Abbas Kiarostami)
  88. The Assassin (2015, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  89. Neon Genesis Evangelion: Take care of yourself. (1996, Anno Hideaki)
  90. My Neighbor Totoro (1988, Miyazaki Hayao)
  91. Night and Day (2008, Hong Sang-soo)
  92. Inland Empire (2006, David Lynch)
  93. Shanghai Blues (1984, Tsui Hark)
  94. Drive My Car (2021, Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  95. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)
  96. Spring in a Small Town (1948, Fei Mu)
  97. Cure (1997, Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  98. Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  99. The General (1926, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman)
  100. Pedicab Driver (1989, Sammo Hung)