The 300 Greatest Films Ever Made...# 151-200
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The Great Films of All Time
This is the Third of six hubs listing the 300 Greatest films ever made. This Hub covers films 151-300.
200) SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959) Billy Wilder USA
199) DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990) Kevin Costner USA
198) PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997) Hayao Miyazaki JAPAN Animated
197) JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961) Stanley Kramer USA
196) SANSHO THE BAILIFF (1954) Kenji Mizoguchi JAPAN
195) FITZCARRALDO (1982) Werner Herzog USA
194) TOOTSIE (1982) Stanley Pollack USA
193) GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) Ivan Reitman USA
192) THE PLANET OF THE APES (1968) Frank Schaffner USA
191) THE PRODUCERS (1968) Mel Brooks USA
190) SERGEANT YORK (1941) Howard Hawks USA
189) FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956) Fred McCloud USA
188) THE MARK OF ZORRO (1940) Reuben Mamoulian USA
187) GOODFELLOWS (1990) Martin Scorsese USA
186) The CREATURE FROM the BLACK LAGOON (1954) Jack Arnold USA
185) FINDING NEMO (2003) Andrew Stanton USA Animated
184) THE BIRDS (1963) Alfred Hitchcock USA
183) IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967) Norman Jewison USA
182) INHERIT THE WIND (1960) Stanley Kramer USA
181) THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957) Alex Makendrick USA
180) PAN’S LABYRINTH (2006) Guillermo Del Toro SPAIN/MEXICO
179) THEM (1954) Gordon Douglas USA
178) HANNAH & HER SISTERS (1986) Woody Allen USA
177) HARRY POTTER & the PRISONER of AZKABAN (2004) Alfonso Cuaron USA/BRITISH
176) WINGS OF DESIRE (1988) Wim Wenders GERMANY/ FRANCE
175) THE STING (1973) George Roy Hill USA
174) YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942) Michael Curtiz USA
173) WILD STRAWBERRIES (1969) Ingmar Bergman SWEDEN
172) TOP HAT (1935) Mark Sandrich USA
171) THE WILD BUNCH (1969) Sam Peckinpah USA
170) WAY OUT WEST (1937) James Horne USA
169) TOPPER (1937) Norman McCleod USA
168) GIANT (1958) George Stevens USA
167) THE GOLEM (1920) Paul Waggoner GERMAN Silent
166) LITTLE CAESAR (1930) Mervyn LeRoy USA
165) THE MUMMY (1932) Karl Freund USA
164) THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (1975) John Houston USA
163) GIGI (1958) Vincent Minnelli USA
162) GOLDFINGER (1964) Guy Hamilton USA
161) THE CAINE MUTINY (1954) Edward Dmyrky USA
160) THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951) Christian Nyby USA
159) THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1919) Robert Wiene GERMANY Silent
158) CABARET (1972) Bob Fosse USA
157) HARVEY(1950) Henry Kostner USA
156) MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (1936) Frank Capra USA
155) HAMLET (1948) Laurence Olivier BRITISH
154) THE BIG SLEEP (1946) Howard Hawks USA
153) THE LEOPARD (1963) Lucianno Visconti FRANCE/ ITALY
152) BECKETT (1964) Peter Glenville USA
151) THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (1942) Orsen Wells USA
To be continued on my next Hub, which will cover films 101-150.
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Thank you, HH. I appreciate the feedback.
Another interesting list Rob - Dances with Wolves was such a loooong film. I don't think I could watch it again. lol.
I don't think I would either, Lady E. These films I've listed aren't necessarily my favorites. I just think these are the best examples of brilliant film making. These are great art. They are worth seeing at least once if you're a film lover, just to appreciate the skill that went into making such a great movie.
Thanks for commenting, Lady E.
I can't believe you included Them! That is my favorite giant insect movie, it was perfect. Cabaret was brillant. The way the musical numbers matched what was happening to the charactors.
Hi ruffridyer; I loved "Them". It's one of the great 1950's giant monster/atomic mutation films.
The music in "Cabaret" was great and Joel Grey was a scene-stealer.
Thanks for stopping by to comment;
Rob
So far, this segment of your list has the highest number of films I've seen: 30 of them.
The most recent film I've seen is Finding Nemo. The oldest film I've seen is Little Caesar. I'm a Hitchcock fan, although I admire The Birds more than I enjoy it. It does freak me out, but it is too gory for my preferences in relation to Hitch's career.
Talking about greatest vs. favourite, I believe Judgement at Nuremberg is one of the best films ever made and should be closer to the top than 197. However, it is nearly impossible to watch.I can barely watch any of Richard Widmark's scenes, and I'm a big fan of his.
Here are the movies I've seen which I count among my *favourite* movies of all time, written in descending order on your list:
Some Like It Hot-my favourite of all Jack Lemmon's films
Tootsie
The Planet of the Apes (only loved the first of the series, though I saw them all)
The Producers-ooh, another musical
The Mark of Zorro (although I prefer Fairbanks, Sr. version better)
The Birds-I don't actually hate anything Hitch did
In the Heat of the Night-another suspense film, big surprise.
The Wings of Desire
The Sting
Top Hat
Little Caesar
Goldfinger
Gigi
The Caine Mutiny
Harvey
Hamlet
The Big Sleep(ooh, two Bogart films, what a surprise :))
Others I've seen but admire more than I enjoy them are:
Inherit the Wind
The Sweet Smell of Success
Wild Strawberries...once was enough
Giant (length only problem)
The Thing from Another World-I sobbed for hours after watching this film. Boy, is mankind horrible
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari-too weird for me to understand, but beautiful cinematography
Cabaret-there is too much antisemitism in this for me to enjoy the fact that it is a musical
The Magnificent Ambersons
Hi Flora; "Judgement at Nuremberg' was a great film with a great cast. I just found it too long and too intense to really enjoy, which is why I ranked it as high as I did.
I agree that the first "Planet of the Apes" film was the only genuine classic of the whole franchise, but I enjoyed them all anyway.
"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" certainly was weird.
"Giant" would have been rated higer if it didn't drag in spots. Too long.
Thanks for the terrific comments,
Rob
Ok....I have seen 33 of the 50 movies....with only 2 that I have not heard of #196 Sansho the Baliff and #167 The Golem.
Movies that would make my Top 100....The Man Who Would Be King, Good Fellas, and probably PAN’S LABYRINTH.
The one that I think should be lower....Hannah and Her Sisters....and I am a huge Michael Caine fan.....and I love his Oscar winning performance in the movie...but I watched this movie a few months ago....and it has not aged well with the times.
So keeping track that is 7 movies for my Top 100....and maybe Pan's Labyrinth.
Hi cogerson. "Sancho the Bailiff" is a very depressing film but a great one. "the Golem" is one of the early silent horror classics.
"Hannah and her sisters" suffers from the Woody Allen effect. Michael Caine's oscar winning performance was terrific.
"Pan's Labyrinth" was one of the great modern classics.
Great to hear your views. Thanks for commenting.
Rob
Just curious what made you decide on 300 movies? And what research tools did you use to rank the 300 movies? I ask because after reading your hub, Greensleeves hub and checking out Steve Lensman's profile page which lists his favorite 75 movies....I am thinking I should do one as well.
Well, there are so many great films, I never thought 100 was enough. I started with 150 and I kept adding and adding. I reached about 280, so I rounded it off to 300. I could have kept going, but i had to cut it off somewhere.
I used various criteria to decide what a "great" movie was.
1) Reputation--what is generally thought of it.
2) Critical reception and the AFI ranking.
3) How iconic it is...Did it resonate with popular culture?
4) Has it stood the test of time or was it just hype?
5) Awards it won
6) Did it change film-making and start a new trend/genre?
7) Was it original and unique
8) Was it thought-provoking? Did it say Anything?
9) How good was the script, the directing, the performances, etc.
Obviously, not every film on the list meets all these categories. But I think these are the main things to look for when determining whether something is a great film or not.
I don't count the film's success as a good yardstick, since so many clasic have been flops. (Citizen Kane, for instance) while some terrible films have made tons of money (Transformers 2). Nor do I put much stock in fan polls, like the IMDb top 250 films lists, since they are bias towards recent films, and successful films.
I also tried not to let my personal preferences into it. There are films on the list I don't even like, while some of my favorite films aren't included at all.
So that was my way of choosing my 300 greatest films. It took me over 6 months.
I'll be very interested to see your list.
Rob
Maybe some day you could publish a list of your *favourite* top ten movies, based solely on your personal preferences as another angle.
Thanks for the thinking behind the hub....while I figure how I am going to do my list, I stumbled across a Top 50 movies list I made all the way back in 1988(I was 21). I was thinking about posting that one first....and use it as a comparison......that list has some great movies....but it also has some movies...that you really wonder if I know a good movie or not.....just as an example one of the movies from that list was Porky's. I will say that to this day I have never heard laughter in theaters like I did while watching Porky's. It felt like so many people were laughing that the theater seemed to shake.
Flora; Maybe I'll do that. Thanks for the idea.
Rob
Cogerson; It's fun to look back on what we liked back in our younger days. (I have to say I never liked the "Porkys" films.)
Hello, hello, 20 months ago
Chosen well.