Last year I published a list of films. It was the first 100 films from the list of the Top 250 films as voted for by the subscribers of IMDB.com. All films that had been emboldened were ones I’d watched and the rest I had yet to watch.

Here’s the new list as of today. As you can see, most of the top 50 are the same but there are some new entries in the shape of Sin City, Hotel Rwanda and Downfall while some films I watched because of this list (namely Oldboy) have slipped out of the top 100. Also worth noting is that Hitchcock’s 1940 film Rebecca now features in the top 100 and that, for the first time I’ve seen, The Empire Strikes Back is ranked above Star Wars.

  1. The Godfather (1972)
  2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
  4. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
  5. Shichinin no samurai (The Seven Samurai) (1954)
  6. Schindler’s List (1993)
  7. Casablanca (1942)
  8. Pulp Fiction (1994)
  9. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
  10. Star Wars (1977)
  11. Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966)
  12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
  13. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  14. Rear Window (1954)
  15. Cidade de Deus (City of God) (2002)
  16. The Usual Suspects (1995)
  17. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
  18. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  19. 12 Angry Men (1957)
  20. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  21. Citizen Kane (1941)
  22. C’era una volta il West (Once Upon A Time In The West(1968)
  23. Memento (2000)
  24. Psycho (1960)
  25. Goodfellas (1990)
  26. North by Northwest (1959)
  27. Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain, Le (2001)
  28. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  29. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  30. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

  31. Sunset Blvd. (1950)

  32. American Beauty (1999)
  33. Fight Club (1999)
  34. The Matrix (1999)

  35. Vertigo (1958)

  36. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
  37. Apocalypse Now (1979)
  38. Taxi Driver (1976)

  39. Paths of Glory (1957)

  40. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
  41. The Pianist (2002)

  42. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away)(2001)

  43. Se7en (1995)
  44. Léon (1994)

  45. Untergang, Der (Downfall) (2004)

  46. The Third Man (1949)
  47. Chinatown (1974)

  48. Hotel Rwanda (2004)

  49. American History X (1998)
  50. Boot, Das (1981)
  51. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

  52. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
  53. The Maltese Falcon (1941)

  54. L.A. Confidential (1997)

  55. M (1931)

  56. Rashômon (1950)
  57. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
  58. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

  59. Modern Times (1936)
  60. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

  61. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  62. Alien (1979)
  63. Sin City (2005)
  64. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

  65. All About Eve (1950)

  66. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  67. Reservoir Dogs (1992)

  68. Double Indemnity (1944)

  69. Raging Bull (1980)
  70. Some Like It Hot (1959)
  71. Metropolis (1927)

  72. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
  73. Crash (2004)

  74. The Shining (1980)
  75. Vita è bella, La (Life is Beautiful) (1997)
  76. The Incredibles (2004)

  77. City Lights (1931)

  78. Aliens (1986)
  79. Amadeus (1984)
  80. The Great Escape (1963)
  81. The Sting (1973)

  82. Touch of Evil (1958)
  83. Rebecca (1940)
  84. On the Waterfront (1954)

  85. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

  86. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

  87. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

  88. Ran (1985)
  89. The Apartment (1960)

  90. Jaws (1975)
  91. Sjunde inseglet, Det (The Seventh Seal) (1957)

  92. Strangers on a Train (1951)

  93. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  94. Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989)

  95. The Great Dictator (1940)

  96. Donnie Darko (2001)
  97. Braveheart (1995)
  98. Forrest Gump (1994)
  99. Fargo (1996)
  100. Finding Nemo (2003)

So there are 23 films that I’ve yet to watch to complete my top 100 (as compared to the 25 that I hadn’t seen last year) and that makes up my viewing list for this year. (As usual, I didn’t manage to complete the whole list and despite owning at least 5 of the films I’ve not yet seen, I still haven’t got around to watching them.) I guess that to be completist, I’m going to have to bite the bullet and watch Singing in the Rain (dropped from 42 to 60) which is a musical I’d really rather not watch but, hell, why not.

Fortunately I can get off to a start this week as Downfall, a film about Hitler’s last days in the bunker under Berlin, is showing on Channel 4 on Thursday.