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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Rio Bravo ( Blu-ray ) (1959)
8/10
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, Ward Bon...
Howard Hawks' western classic stars John Wayne as a sheriff whose town is under siege by the army of gunmen brought in by crooked cattle baron John Ru... Read more
There Will Be Blood ( Blu-ray ) (2007)
8.1/10
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciaran Hinds, Kevin J O'Connor, Dillon Freasier
Loosley based on Upton Sinclair's novel 'Oil!,' Paul Thomas Anderson's powerful drama stars Best Actor Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis as self-made oil... Read more
The Dark Knight (2008)
9/10
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal, G...
Christian Bale is back in black, but arguably Christopher Nolan's sequel to 'Batman Begins' is stolen by the villain - Heath Ledger in his final (comp... Read more
The Sting (1973)
8.3/10
Director: George Roy Hill
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen B...
Two small-time Chicago con-men try to put 'the sting' on a high-roller from N.Y.C. after he has one of their pals killed. Classic entertainment featur... Read more
Paths of Glory ( Blu-ray ) (1957)
8.4/10
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou
Stanley Kubrick gives us a scathing indictment against the staff-officer mentality that cares about promotions more than the men who make those promot... Read more
The Red Shoes ( Blu-ray ) (1948)
8.3/10
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Esmond Knight, Al...
'The Red Shoes', the singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is cinema's quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the m... Read more
The Dark Knight ( Blu-ray ) (2008)
9/10
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal, G...
Christian Bale is back in black, but arguably Christopher Nolan's sequel to 'Batman Begins' is stolen by the villain - Heath Ledger in his final (comp... Read more
Playtime ( Blu-ray ) (1967)
8/10
Director: Jacques Tati
Starring: Barbara Dennek, Jacqueline Lecomte, Jacques Tati
Jacques Tatis gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in an age of high technology reached their apotheosis with PlayTime.... Read more
Easy Rider ( Blu-ray ) (1969)
7.4/10
Director: Dennis Hopper
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Peter Fonda, Phil Spector
Counter-culture road movie with Dennis Hopper (also directing) and Peter Fonda getting out their choppers to travel across the Southwest. On their way... Read more
The Shining (1980)
8.4/10
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Jack Nicholson, Danny Lloyd
Stanley Kubrick's great thriller, based on Stephen King's novel, with Jack Nicholson going slowly mad in a remote deserted hotel, terrorising his wife... Read more
Giant ( Blu-ray ) (1956)
7.7/10
Director: George Stevens
Starring: Carroll Baker, Chill Wills, Dennis Hopper, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Rock Hu...
A film of staggering scale and grandeur detailing the lives of cattleman Rock Hudson and his society wife Elizabeth Taylor and three generations of la... Read more
Death in Venice (1971)
7.5/10
Director: Luchino Visconti
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Marisa Berenson, Mark Burns, Silvana Mangano
Author Thomas Mann's classic is splendidly brought to the screen in this study of an artist, his loves, his homosexuality and continuous search for be... Read more
Videodrome (1982)
7.3/10
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: James Woods, Sonja Smits, Deborah Harry
A TV executive discovers an underground show where people are killed on camera, and is slowly drawn into a hallucinogenic world of living TV sets and... Read more
M*A*S*H ( Blu-ray ) (1969)
8.4/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Rene Auberjonois, Robert Duvall, Sally Kellerm...
Director Robert Altman's innovative dark comedy about the everyday escapades of an Army medical unit during the Korean War stars Elliott Gould, Donald... Read more
Rocky ( Blu-ray ) (1976)
8.1/10
Director: John G Avildsen
Starring: Burgess Meredith, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire
The first and the best! Writer and star Sylvester Stallone is the Philadelphia club fighter who gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity at fighting the... Read more
Mary Poppins ( Blu-ray ) (1964)
7.8/10
Director: Robert Stevenson
Starring: David Tomlinson, Dick Van Dyke, Elsa Lanchester, Glynis Johns, Julie Andrews, Ka...
Beloved Disney film combines brilliant, animated sequences with a delightful story about Julie Andrews as a magical nanny who transforms the lives of... Read more
The 400 Blows ( Blu-ray ) (1959)
8.1/10
Director: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Albert Remy, Claire Maurier, Jean-Pierre Leaud
Aka 'Les quatre cents coups'. Francois Truffaut's first feature is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut's cinematic counterpart,... Read more
Cinema Paradiso ( Blu-ray ) (1988)
8.5/10
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Starring: Jacques Perrin, Leopoldo Trieste, Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio
A charming, bittersweet tribute to the power of movies which won 1989's Best Foreign Film Academy Award. A filmmaker returns to his Sicilian hometown... Read more
Playtime (1967)
8/10
Director: Jacques Tati
Starring: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Jacqueline Lecomte
Called one of the funniest men in the world by the New York Times, Jacques Tati's 'Playtime' is an hilarious comedy and satire on coping with the mode... Read more
Zodiac (2007)
7.7/10
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Robert Downey Jr, Brian Cox, Joh...
In the late 1960s, Northern California was gripped by fear as a serial killer haunted the nighttime streets of San Francisco. To this day, the identi... Read more