This is a list of my top 100 fiction films – in no particular order:
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
On the Waterfront
Last Year in Marienbad
Dr Strangelove
Amour
Shivers
Bladerunner
Passion of Joan of Arc
Seventh Seal
La Strada
White Ribbon
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
The Night of The Hunter
Chinatown
The Hidden Fortress
Amelie
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Once Upon a Time in The West
The Mirror
Wild Strawberries
A Clockwork Orange
Duck Soup
Blue Velvet
Nosferatu[unedited by the Bfi]
Brazil
La Jetee
Un Chien Andalou
Alien
La Belle at La Bete
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Jules et Jim
Eraserhead
Dekalog
Alphaville
The Lives of Others
A Taste of Cherry
Heimat
Pan’s Labyrinth
Zabriskie Point
Dancer in the Dark
Dogtooth
8 ½
Vertigo
Casablanca
Some Like it Hot
Taxi Driver
The Third Man
Psycho
Breathless
400 Blows
Holy Motors
Metropolis
Barry Lyndon
The Devils
Playtime
L’Age D’Or
Before the Rain
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Solaris
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Pulp Fiction
Don’t Look Now
Cria Cuervos (Raise Ravens)
The Conversation
Badlands
The Maltese Falcon
The Gospel according to St Mathew
Amateur
12 Years a Slave
Salo
Suspiria
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Dead Man
Raise the Red Lantern
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
The Vanishing
Tokyo Story
Fish Tank
Dream Life of Angels
The Draughtsman’s Contract
The Thin Red Line
Prospero’s Books
La Femme Nikita
City of Lost Children
Night of the Living Dead
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Naked
Paris Texas
Rules of the Game
Les Enfants du Paradis
Pan’s Labyrinth
Manhunter
Three Colours/Blue/ White/Red
Dead Ringers
Heaven’s Gate
L’Aventura
Stalker
Simple Men
Lost Highway
Rashomon
Touch of Evil
2001: A Space Odyssey
Alice in Wonderland
Werner Herzog
Elia Kazan
Alain Resnais
Stanley Kubrick
Michael Haneke
David Cronenburg
Ridley Scott
Carl Dreyer
Ingmar Bergman
Fredrico Fellini
Michael Haneke
Terry Jones
Charles Laughton
Roman Polanski
Akira Kurosawa
Jean Pierre Jeunet
Julian Schnabel
Sergio Leone
Andrei Tarkovksy
Ingmar Bergman
Stanley Kubrick
Leo McCarey
David Lynch
F.W.Murnau
Terry Gilliam
Chris Marker
Luis Bunuel
Ridley Scott
Jean Cocteau
Rainer Fassbinder
Francois Truffaut
David Lynch
Kryszystov Kieslowski
Jean Luc Goddard
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Abbas Kiarostami
Edgar Reitz
del Toro, Guillermo
Michaelangelo Antonioni
Lars von Trier
Giorgos Lanthimos
Fredrico Fellini
Alfred Hitchcock
Michael Curtiz
Billy Wilder
Martin Scorcese
Carol Reed
Alfred Hitchcock
Jean Luc Goddard
Francois Truffaut
Leos Carax
Fritz Lang
Stanley Kubrick
Ken Russell
Jacques Tati
Luis Bunuel
Milco Mancevski
Robert Weine
Andrei Tarkovsky
Alain Resnais
Quentin Tarantino
Nicholas Roeg
Carlos Saura
Francis Ford Coppola
Terrence Mallick
John Huston
Pier Paulo Pasolini
Hal Hartley
Steve McQueen
Piero Paulo Pasolini
Dario Argento
Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones
Jim Jarmusch
Zhang Yimou
Werner Herzog
George Sluizer
Yasujiro Ozu
Andrea Arnold
Eric Zonka
Peter Greenaway
Terrence Mallick
Peter Greenaway
Luc Besson
Jean Marie Jeunet
George Romero
George Hill
Mike Leigh
Wim Wenders
Jean Renoir
Marcel Carne
Guillermo del Toro
Michael Mann
Krzysztof Kieslowski
David Cronenburg
Michael Cimino
Michelangelo Antonioni
Andrei Tarkovsky
Hal Hartley
David Lynch
Akira Kurosawa
Orson Welles
Stanley Kubrick
Jonathan Miller
1972 (GER)
1954 (US)
1961 (FR/IT)
1964 (UK)
2012 (FR/AU)
1975 (CAN)
1982 (US)
1928 (FR)
1957 (SW)
1954 (IT)
2009 (EU)
1979 (UK)
1955 (US)
1974 (US)
1958 (JP)
2001 (FR)
2007 (FR)
1968 (IT/US)
1976 (USSR)
1957 (SW)
1971 (UK)
1933 (US)
1986 (US)
1922 (GER)
1985 (UK)
1962 (FR)
1928 (FR)
1979 (US)
1946 (FR)
1980 (GER)
1961 (FR)
1976 (US)
1988 (POL)
1965 (FR)
2006 (GER)
1997 (IR)
1984 (GER)
2006 (SPN)
1970 (US)
2000 (UK/US)
2009 (GR)
1963 (IT)
1958 (US)
1942 (US)
1959 (US)
1976 (US)
1949 (UK)
1960 (US)
1959 (FR)
1959 (FR)
2012 (FR)
1920 (GER)
1975 (UK)
1971 (UK)
1967 (FR)
1930 (FR)
1994 (MAC)
1922 (GER)
1972 (USSR)
1959 (FR)
1994 (US)
1973 (UK)
1976 (SP)
1974 (US)
1973 (US)
1941 (US)
1964 (IT)
1994 (US)
2013 (UK)
1975 (IT)
1977 (IT)
1975 (UK)
1995 (US)
1991 (HK)
1974 (GER)
1988 (NED)
1953 (JP)
2009 (UK)
1998 (FR)
1982 (UK)
1998 (US)
1991 (UK)
1990 (FR)
1995 (FR)
1968 (US)
1969 (US)
1993 (UK)
1984 (US)
1939 (FR)
1945 (FR)
2006 (SP)
1986 (US)
1993 (POL/FR)
1988 (CAN)
1980 (US)
1960 (IT/FR)
1979 (USSR)
1992 (US)
1997 (US)
1950 (JP)
1958 (US)
1968 (US/UK)
1966 (UK)