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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. Scroll, contemplate and enjoy..... Want a printable list of the 500 greatest to check off? Click here

A Hard Day's Night (1964)

7.7/10
Director: Richard Lester
Starring: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell

Richard Lester meets John, Paul, George and Ringo in this exuberant film following an average day in the life of the Beatles as they take under their... Read more

The Killing Fields (1984)

7.9/10
Director: Roland Joffe
Starring: Sam Waterston, Haing S Ngor, Craig T Nelson, John Malkovich, Athol Fugard

Nominated for seven Academy Awards, "he Killing Fields" is a compassionate, intelligent and brutal exploration of loyalty and friendship set during th... Read more

The Red and The White (1967)

7.8/10
Director: Miklos Jancso
Starring: Tibor Molnar, Andras Kozak, Josef Madaras

Brilliantly photographed drama in which director Miklos Jancso examines Hungarians fighting in the Red Army in 1918 during the bloody civil war in Rus... Read more

Mad Max: Fury Road ( Blu-ray ) (2015)

8.1/10
Director: George Miller
Starring: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne

From director George Miller, originator of the post-apocalyptic genre and mastermind behind the legendary Mad Max franchise, comes Mad Max: Fury Ro... Read more

Nashville (1975)

7.8/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Henry Gibson, Karen Black, Keith Carradine, Lily Tomlin, Ronee Blakley, Geraldin...

One of the '70's most acclaimed films is an audacious, moving and hilarious look at 24 characters involved in a political rally in the music capital o... Read more

Performance (1970)

7/10
Director: Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg
Starring: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg

Mick Jagger is Turner, a burnt-out rock star, in this mind-boggling study of consciousness and identity where nothing is true and everything is permit... Read more

Funny Games (1997)

7.6/10
Director: Michael Haneke
Starring: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Muhe, Frank Geiring, Arno Frisch

At the start of the summer holiday, Anna, Georg and their young son Georgie travel to their idyllic lakeside house; their neighbours, Fred and Eva are... Read more

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)

8.2/10
Director: Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper
Starring: Eleanor Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Sheen

Explore the riveting, behind-the-scenes making of Francis Ford Coppola's 'Apocalypse Now'. Based largely on original footage, shot by Eleanor Coppola,... Read more

All About My Mother (1999)

7.9/10
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Starring: Cecilia Roth, Penelope Cruz, Antonia San Juan

When her teenage son is killed, Madrid nurse Cecilia Roth sets out to fulfill the boy's wish to find the father he never knew. Roth's quest to locate... Read more

L.A. Confidential ( Blu-ray ) (1997)

8.3/10
Director: Curtis Hanson
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, James Cromw...

Smashing translation of James Ellroy's celebrated pulp novel of life in the L.A. police department in the 1950s. Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce and Kevin S... Read more

Letter From An Unknown Woman (1948)

8/10
Director: Max Ophuls
Starring: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians

Joan Fontaine stars in this classic tearjerker playing a lonely woman who is seduced and abandoned by pianist Louis Jourdan. She marries another, but... Read more

High and Low (1963)

8.4/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshiro Mifune

Based on an Ed McBain novel, 'High and Low' is a gripping, film noir style thriller. A ruthless kidnapper, aiming to snatch wealthy industrialist Tosh... Read more

Amelie (Blu-ray) (2001)

7.6/10
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Jamel Debbouze, Isabelle Nanty, Domini...

Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love. Read more

56 Up (2012)

7.9/10
Director: Michael Apted

Continuing a project he began in 1964, filmmaker Michael Apted revisits his original subjects and sees how their lives are progressing now that they a... Read more

Barry Lyndon ( Blu-ray ) (1975)

8.1/10
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Hardy Kruger, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Ryan O'Neal, Diana Koerner, Leon V...

How does an Irish lad without prospects become part of 18th-century English nobility? For Barry Lyndon (Ryan O'Neal) the answer is: any way he can! Hi... Read more

The Misfits (1961)

7.4/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Clark Gable, Eli Wallach, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter

Gable and Monroe in their last screen roles! Expertly directed by John Huston from a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize winner Arthur Miller, "The Misfits"... Read more

Closely Watched Trains ( aka Closely Observed Trains ) (1966)

7.7/10
Director: Jiri Menzel
Starring: Vaclav Neckar, Jitka Bendova, Vladimir Valenta

An ironic, funny film about a young man on his first job in a small town railroad station, trying to get sexually initiated (in hilarious scenes) who,... Read more

Walkabout (1971)

7.7/10
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Starring: David Gulpilil, Jenny Agutter, Lucien John

Lost in the Australian Outback after their father takes his own life, two young Brits are found by an aboriginal teenager who shows them how to surviv... Read more

Burden of Dreams (1982)

8/10
Director: Les Blank
Starring: Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Mick Jagger

A fascinating and chilling account of the making of Werner Herzog's 'Fitzcarraldo', a project beset by a series of disasters while shooting in the jun... Read more

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

8.6/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Tom Sizemore, Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Edward Burns

This highly acclaimed portrait about one unit's search for a soldier who has been ordered home stars Tom Hanks and Matt Damon. Famous for its intense... Read more