Tuesday 22 January 2013

The Emipre Magazine Top 100

This is the 'Top 100 Films of World Cinema' as complied by Empire Magazine in 2010. The highlighted titles are the movies I have already seen (which until now is only nineteen). I will update it as the year progresses.






  1. Seven Samurai (1954) 
  2. Amélie (2001)
  3. Battleship Potemkin (1925) 
  4. Bicycle Thieves (1948) 
  5. Pan's Labyrinth (2006) 
  6. The Battle of Algiers (1966) 
  7. City of God (2002) 
  8. The Seventh Seal (1957) 
  9. The Wages of Fear (1953) 
  10. Spirited Away (2001) 
  11. La Dolce Vita (1960) 
  12. Metropolis (1927) 
  13. The Rules of the Game (1939) 
  14. Three Colours Trilogy (1993-4)  
  15. Let the Right One In (2008) 
  16. Tokyo Story (1953) 
  17. The Apu Trilogy (1955-57) 
  18. Oldboy (2003) 
  19. Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972) 
  20. Y Tu Mamá También (2001) 
  21. Nosferatu (1922) 
  22. Rashomon (1950) 
  23. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) 
  24. Come and See (1985) 
  25. Das Boot (1981) 
  26. Beauty and the Beast (1946) 
  27. Cinema Paradiso (1988) 
  28. Raise the Red Lantern (1991) 
  29. The 400 Blows (1959) 
  30. Infernal Affairs (2002) 
  31. Godzilla (1954) 
  32. La Haine (1995) 
  33. M (1931) 
  34. Waltz with Bashir (2008) 
  35. Grand Illusion (1937) 
  36. Dekalog (1989-90) 
  37. Rome, Open City (1945) 
  38. Ashes and Diamonds (1958) 
  39. Le Samourai (1967) 
  40. L'Avventura (1960) 
  41. My Neighbour Totoro (1988) 
  42. In the Mood for Love (2000) 
  43. Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) 
  44. Ikiru (1952) 
  45. Suspiria (1977) 
  46. Jules and Jim (1962) 
  47. Ten (2002) 
  48. Downfall (2004) 
  49. Mr Hulot's Holiday (1953) 
  50. Closely Watched Trains (1966) 
  51. Akira (1988) 
  52. Touki Bouki (1973) 
  53. All About My Mother (1999) 
  54. The Celebration (1998) 
  55. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001) 
  56. Belle de Jour (1967) 
  57. Central Station (1998) 
  58. Persepolis (2007) 
  59. Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany (1984) 
  60. Jean de Florette / Manon des Sources (1986)  
  61. Knife in the Water (1962) 
  62. 8½ (1963) 
  63. A Prophet (2009) 
  64. Wings of Desire (1987) 
  65. An Andalusian Dog (1929) 
  66. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) 
  67. The Vanishing (1988) 
  68. Solaris (1972) 
  69. Ringu (1998) 
  70. Hard Boiled (1992) 
  71. Persona (1966) 
  72. Ten Canoes (2006) 
  73. Caché (2005)
  74. Devdas (2002) 
  75. Breathless (1960) 
  76. The Idiots (1998) 
  77. House of Flying Daggers (2004) 
  78. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) 
  79. Band of Outsiders (1964) 
  80. Mother India (1957) 
  81. The Host (2006) 
  82. Battle Royale (2000) 
  83. Xala (1975) 
  84. Orpheus (1950) 
  85. The Conformist (1970) 
  86. Run Lola Run (1998) 
  87. Andrei Rublev (1966) 
  88. Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989) 
  89. The Loves of a Blonde (1965) 
  90. Rififi (1955) 
  91. Good Bye Lenin! (2003) 
  92. Ghost in the Shell (1995) 
  93. The Fourth Man (1983) 
  94. Yeelen (1987) 
  95. The Way of the Dragon  (1972)
  96. Delicatessen (1991)
  97. Farewell My Concubine (1993) 
  98. Ran (1985) 
  99. Iron Monkey (1993)
  100. Night Watch (2004)

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