Alice's 500 Greatest Films
The goal in this compilation was to determine film history's definitive creme de la creme. The titles considered to be the greatest of the great from around the world and throughout the history of film.. So, after an in-depth analysis of respected critics and publications from around the globe, cross referenced and tweaked to arrive at the ranking of films representing, we believe, the greatest cinema can offer.
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Salaam Bombay! (1988)
8/10
Director: Mira Nair
Starring: Shafiq Syed, Sarfuddin Quarrassi, Raju Barnad
An international critical favourite focusing on Krishna, a 10-year-old boy on his own who falls in with prostitutes, drug dealers, crooked cops and th... Read more
Das Boot ( aka The Boat ) ( Mini-series) (1981)
7.6/10
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Starring: Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, Klaus Wennemann
A.k.a. 'The Boat. Totally restored 'Das Boot: 6-part mini series presented as one complete feature lenegth uncut version. Wolfgang Petersen's acclaim... Read more
Serpico (1973)
7.8/10
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire
An exciting filmisation of the true-life accounts of a N.Y.C. Undercover cop whose non-conformity and exposure of department corruption isolate him fr... Read more
Irreversible (2002)
7.4/10
Director: Gaspar Noe
Starring: Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Jo Prestia
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a s... Read more
More American Graffiti (Blu-ray) (1973)
7.6/10
Director: Bill L Norton
Starring: Ron Howard, Bo Hopkins, Paul Le Mat, Candy Clark, Richard Dreyfuss, Charles Mart...
"American Graffiti" (1973) - Follow the misadventures of a group of friends on one summer night in '62, as they prepare for the uncertainty of life af... Read more
Wings (1927)
7.5/10
Director: William A Wellman
Starring: Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen
Two young men from the same town but different social classes end up as fighter pilots in WW1. Jack Preston is a keen auto mechanic, building and modi... Read more
A Hidden Life (2020)
7.4/10
Director: Terrence Malick
Starring: August Diehl, Maria Simon, Bruno Ganz, Matthias Schoenaerts, Tobias Moretti
The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II. Read more
All About Eve (Blu-ray) (1950)
8.2/10
Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz
Starring: Anne Baxter, Bette Davis, George Sanders, Marilyn Monroe
Six Oscars were awarded this cynical and entertaining examination of life as it exists on the Broadway theatre scene. Bette Davis glows as the ageing... Read more
Bob the Gambler ( Bob le Flambeur ) (1955)
7.8/10
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Starring: Isabelle Corey, Roger Duchesne, Daniel Cauchy
Suffused with wry humour, Jean-Pierre Melville's 'Bob le Flambeur' melds the toughness of American gangster films with Gallic sophistication to lay th... Read more
Man of Iron (1981)
7.5/10
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Starring: Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Marian Opania
Winner of the Golden Palm (Best Picture) at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, Andrzej Wajda's film is a continuation of the story of Maciej Tomczyk (Jerz... Read more
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
7.4/10
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Michael J Fox, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd
In the concluding chapter of the time traveling trilogy, Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd find themselves in the Old West. Read more
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
7.8/10
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson
When a book brought back by Michael J Fox from the 21st century turns his 1985 homelife upside-down, it calls for a return trip to the '50s. Read more
Le Boucher ( The Butcher ) (1969)
7.6/10
Director: Claude Chabrol
Starring: Stephane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passallia
'The Butcher'. An intense psychological thriller about a schoolteacher who begins an affair with the town butcher, but the affair is interrupted when... Read more
TAR (2022)
3.8/10
Director: Todd Field
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Mark Strong
Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conduc... Read more
Wild Tales (2014)
8.1/10
Director: Damian Szifron
Starring: Ricardo Darin, Dario Grandinetti, Leonardo Sbaraglia
Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress. Read more
Anatomy Of A Murder (1959)
8.1/10
Director: Otto Preminger
Starring: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Eve Arden
A riveting courtroom drama pitting small town lawyer James Stewart against big city prosecutor George C Scott, in a trial of Ben Gazzara, accused of m... Read more
Heaven's Gate (1980)
6.8/10
Director: Michael Cimino
Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, I...
Michael Cimino's notorious spectacle about Wyoming's infamous Johnson County War - a conflict between immigrant settlers and the empire builders who w... Read more
Capharnaum / Capernaum (2018)
Director: Nadine Labaki
Starring: Zain Al Rafeea, Nadine Labaki
After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-ol... Read more
Kes (1969)
7.9/10
Director: Ken Loach
Starring: David Bradley, Lynne Perrie, Freddie Fletcher
A charming, caring chronicle of the boyhood experiences of Billy, a Northern England miner's son who finds an injured Kestrel and nurses it back to he... Read more
Detroit (2017)
7.4/10
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Starring: Anthony Mackie, John Krasinski, Will Poulter, John Boyega, Hannah Murray, Jason...
In the summer of 1967, rioting and civil unrest starts to tear apart the city of Detroit. Two days later, a report of gunshots prompts the Detroit Pol... Read more