78. Children Of Paradise

 France 1945

 DIR Marcel Carne

 77. The Right Stuff

 USA 1983

 DIR Philip Kaufman

 76. No Country For Old Men

 USA 2007

 DIR Ethan Coen/Joel Coen

 75. The Mirror

 Soviet Union 1975

 DIR Andrei Tarkovsky

 74. A Matter Of Life And Death

 UK 1946

 DIR Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger

 73. The Seventh Seal

 Sweden 1957

 DIR Ingmar Bergman

 72. The Dark Knight

 USA/UK 2008

 DIR Christopher Nolan

 71. Paths Of Glory

 USA 1957

 DIR Stanley Kubrick

 70. The Gold Rush

 USA 1925

 DIR Charles Chaplin

 69. The Shawshank Redemption

 USA 1994

 DIR Frank Darabont

 68. It's A Wonderful Life

 USA 1946

 DIR Frank Capra

 67. The Passion Of Joan Of Arc

 France 1928

 DIR Carl Theodor Dreyer

 66. Rear Window

 USA 1959

 DIR Alfred Hitchcock

 65. Persona

 Sweden 1966

 DIR Ingmar Bergman

 64. Sunset Blvd.

 USA 1950

 DIR Billy Wilder

 63. Days Of Heaven

 USA 1978

 DIR Terrence Malick

 62. Some Like It Hot

 USA 1959

 DIR Billy Wilder

 61. Blue Velvet

 USA 1986

 DIR David Lynch

 

Adapted from the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name, No Country for Old Men tells the story of an ordinary man to whom chance delivers a fortune that is not his.

'No Country for Old Men is as good a film as the Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, have ever made, and they made Fargo.' Roger Ebert

 

Squadron Leader Peter Carter (David Niven) is a British Second World War Royal Air Force pilot trying to nurse a badly damaged and burning Lancaster bomber home after a mission in May 1945.

'What today's audiences will find amazing is the sheer energy of its invention.' Roger Ebert

The journey of a medieval knight (Max von Sydow) across a plague-ridden landscape, and his game of chess with the personification of Death.

'Full of haunting, iconic images and a touch of hopeful humanity, The Seventh Seal is cinema at its most artful, a philosophical meditation on the meaning(lessness) of this mortal coil.' Jamie Russell

Batman (Christian Bale) has to combat a new criminal threat, The Joker (Heath Ledger).

'Iron Man and even more so The Dark Knight move the genre into deeper waters. They realize, as some comic-book readers instinctively do, that these stories touch on deep fears, traumas, fantasies and hopes.' Roger Ebert

 

The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) travels to Alaska to take part in the Alaska Gold Rush. Bad weather strands him in a remote cabin with a prospector who has found a large gold deposit.

'Here is a comedy with streaks of poetry, pathos, tenderness, linked with brusqueness and boisterousness.' Mordaunt Hall

 

 

 

An American suspense film written by John Michael Hayes and based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder". Originally released by Paramount Pictures, the film stars Jimmy Stewart.

'Hitchcock combines technical and artistic skills in a manner that makes this an unusually good piece of murder mystery entertainment.' William Brogdon

 

The film stars William Holden as an unsuccessful screenwriter and Gloria Swanson as a faded movie star who draws him into her fantasy world, in which she dreams of making a return to the screen.

'Remains the best drama ever made about the movies because it sees through the illusions, even if Norma doesn't.' Roger Ebert

 

 

Blue Velvet centres around a college student, Jeffrey Beaumont, who, upon returning from visiting his ill father in hospital, comes across a human ear in a grass field in his idealized hometown of Lumberton.

'It's the only one of Lynch's works to marry his nightmarish concerns to a story that (very nearly) makes sense.' Jamie Russell

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 79. City Lights

 USA 1931

 DIR Charles Chaplin

 80. Raise The Red Lantern

 China/Hong Kong/Taiwan 1991

 DIR Yimou Zhang