Films in gold won Best Picture Oscars® (* = recent addition)
The Top 20 (alpha order):
2001, All About Eve, Babe, The Best Years of Our Lives, City of God (Brazil), Cinema Paradiso (Italy), The Conformist (Italy), Dr. Strangelove, The Godfather II, Hannah and Her Sisters, Hero (China), Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring (France), Lawrence of Arabia, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, My Fair Lady, Once Upon a Time in America, Parenthood, Requiem for a Dream, The Seven Samurai (Japan), The Shawshank Redemption, Wall-E
Top 100 in alphabetical order
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- The 400 Blows * (France, bw)
- A Clockwork Orange
- A Room With a View
- A Wednesday (India) *
- After the Wedding (Denmark) *
- Aliens
- All About Eve (bw)
- Amadeus
- Annie Hall
- Apocalypse Now!
- As Good as It Gets
- Babel (Mexico)
- Babe
- Baraka * (Documentary)
- Battle of Algiers (France-Algiers, bw)
- The Best Years of Our Lives (bw)
- Big Fish
- Brazil
- The Bridge On the River Kwai
- Carmen (Spain, flamenco version)
- Casablanca (bw)
- Central Station * (Brazil)
- Chicago
- Chungking Express * (China/Hong Kong)
- Cinema Paradiso (Italy)
- City of God (Brazil)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Conformist, The (Italy)
- Conversation, The
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (China)
- Dances With Wolves
- Dangerous Liaisons
- Devils on the Doorstep * (China)
- Diva (France)
- Doctor Strangelove (bw)
- Double Indemnity (bw)
- The Empire Strikes Back
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Field of Dreams
- Finding Neverland
- Finding Nemo
- Fitzcarraldo (Germany)
- Gandhi
- The Godfather
- The Godfather, Part II
- Good Bye, Lenin! * (Germany)
- Goodfellas
- Goodnight Mister Tom
- Graduate, The
- The Gray Fox
- Groundhog Day
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- Hero (China)
- Hoop Dreams (Documentary)
- Hope and Glory
- House of Games
- Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring (France)
- Kolya (Czech Republic)
- L'america (Italy)
- The Last Emperor
- L'avventura (Italy, bw)
- Lawrence of Arabia
- La Femme Nikita (France)
- The Last Emperor
- The Last Picture Show (bw)
- The Lives of Others (Germany)
- Lord of the Rings Trilogy
- Manhattan (bw)
- The Maltese Falcon (bw)
- Memento
- Million Dollar Baby
- Minority Report
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington *
- My Brilliant Career
- My Fair Lady
- The Namesake *
- Network
- Night of the Hunter (bw)
- Norma Rae
- Nowhere in Africa (Germany)
- October Sky
- On the Waterfront (bw)
- Once Upon a Time in America
- Open Range
- Out of the Past (bw)
- Parenthood
- The Philadelphia Story (bw)
- Platoon
- The Player
- Rabbit-Proof Fence *
- Raging Bull (bw)
- Raising Arizona
- Requiem for a Dream *
- The Road Warrior (aka Mad Max 2)
- Run Lola Run (Germany)
- Salaam Bombay! * (India)
- Schindler's List (bw)
- The Seven Samurai (Japan, bw)
- Shakespeare in Love
- Shane
- The Shawshank Redemption
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Singin' in the Rain
- Sunset Boulevard (bw)
- The Sweet Smell of Success (bw)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (bw)
- To Live (China)
- Together (China) *
- Traffic
- Turtles Can Fly (Iraq-Iran-France) *
- The Twilight Samurai (Japan)
- Umberto D * (Italy)
- V for Vendetta
- Walkabout
- Wall-E
- Whale Rider
- Winged Migration (Documentary)
- When Harry Met Sally
- Zelary (Czech Republic)
Ok, so I can't count - that's why I had them auto-numbered.. call this a "baker's 100", you get ten dozens. 'So many movies, so little time..' (to paraphrase Raising Arizona)
Thirty are foreign language films.. always watch the subtitled and not the 'dubbed into English' versions.. once you know the dialogue (usually once), you can watch them without subtitles and see just the film itself.. A few more titles are films in English from foreign directors, such as Once Upon a Time in America (Leone, Italy), The Last Emperor (Bertolucci, Italy), and The Namesake (Nair, India).
This list is always changing.
Newer: A Wednesday, After the Wedding, Whale Rider, Central Station, Umberto D, L'avventura, Wall-E, Good Bye Lenin, Baraka, Devils on the Doorstep, The Namesake, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Together, Turtles Can Fly
Just Removed: It's a Wonderful Life, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Citizen Kane, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ugetsu (Japan), Slumdog Millionaire, Duck Soup, Auntie Mame, Patton, Mephisto, A Christmas Story, Sybil, Gangs of New York, Back to the Future
Low on the List (next to go): The Last Picture Show, As Good As It Gets, Devils on the Doorstep, Norma Rae, Manhattan, Goodfellas
TV Miniseries (that would be in the top 100): 1. Band of Brothers (10 hrs) 2. Planet Earth (12 hrs) 3. Into the West (12 hrs) 4. Brideshead Revisited (10 hrs) 5. Lonesome Dove (6 hrs) 6. The Prisoner (13 hrs, 17 episodes)
