I’ve never been a big fan of “Top 100” film lists.  It makes more sense to me to rate all the films I’ve seen and make a list of the top-rated films.  Here are the 266 films that I rated 5 out of 5 stars, in chronological order.

1. Intolerance (US, 1916) Dir: D.W. Griffith
2. The Pawnshop (US, 1916) Dir. Charles Chaplin
3. One A.M. (US, 1916) Dir: Charles Chaplin
4. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Germany, 1920) Dir: Robert Weine
5. Greed (US, 1924) Dir: Erich von Stroheim
6. Sherlock Jr. (US, 1924) Dir: Buster Keaton
7. The Gold Rush (US, 1925) Dir: Charles Chaplin
8. Battleship Potemkin (USSR, 1925) Dir: Sergei Eisenstein
9. The General (US, 1926) Dir: Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman
10. Napoleon (France, 1927) Dir: Abel Gance
11. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (US, 1927) Dir: F.W. Murnau
12. The Passion of Joan of Arc (France, 1928) Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer
13. Man with a Movie Camera (USSR 1929) Dir: Dziga Vertov
14. Un Chien Andalou (France, 1929) Dir: Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dali
15. L’Âge d’Or (France, 1930) Dir: Luis Buñuel
16. City Lights (US, 1931) Dir: Charles Chaplin
17. Trouble in Paradise (US, 1932) Dir: Ernst Lubitsch
18. King Kong (US, 1933) Dir: Ernest Schoedsack & Merian Cooper
19. Zéro de Conduite (France, 1933) Dir: Jean Vigo
20. L’Atalante (France, 1934) Dir: Jean Vigo
21. Bride of Frankenstein (US, 1935) Dir: James Whale
22. Swing Time (US, 1936) Dir: George Stevens
23. Modern Times (US, 1936) Dir: Charles Chaplin
24. Grand Illusion (France, 1937) Dir: Jean Renoir
25. Bringing Up Baby (US, 1938) Dir: Howard Hawks
26. Stagecoach (US, 1939) Dir: John Ford
27. The Rules of the Game (France, 1939) Dir: Jean Renoir
28. The Wizard of Oz (US, 1939) Dir: Victor Fleming
29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (US, 1939) Dir: Frank Capra
30. Gone With the Wind (US, 1939) Dir: Victor Fleming
31. His Girl Friday (US, 1940) Dir: Howard Hawks
32. The Philadelphia Story (US, 1940) Dir: George Cukor
33. The Lady Eve (US, 1941) Dir: Preston Sturges
34. Citizen Kane (US, 1941) Dir: Orson Welles
35. The Maltese Falcon (US, 1941) Dir: John Huston
36. The Magnificent Ambersons (US, 1942) Dir: Orson Welles
37. Casablanca (US, 1942) Dir: Michael Curtiz
38. Shadow of a Doubt (US, 1943) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
39. Double Indemnity (US, 1944) Dir: Billy Wilder
40. Meet Me in St. Louis (US, 1944) Dir: Vincente Minnelli
41. Ivan the Terrible, Part I (USSR, 1944) Dir: Sergei Eisenstein
42. Children of Paradise (France, 1945) Dir: Marcel Carne
43. Mildred Pierce (US, 1945) Dir: Michael Curtiz
44. Rome, Open City (Italy, 1945) Dir: Roberto Rossellini
45. Brief Encounter  (UK, 1945) Dir: David Lean
46. Shoe Shine (Italy, 1946) Dir: Vittorio De Sica
47. Notorious (US, 1946) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
48. The Big Sleep  (US, 1946) Dir: Howard Hawks
49. Beauty and the Beast (France, 1946) Dir: Jean Cocteau
50. The Best Years of Our Lives (US, 1946) Dir: William Wyler
51. My Darling Clementine (US, 1946) Dir: John Ford
52. It’s a Wonderful Life (US, 1946) Dir: Frank Capra
53. Great Expectations (UK, 1946) Dir: David Lean
54. Out of the Past (US, 1947) Dir: Jacques Tourneur
55. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (US, 1948) Dir: John Huston
56. Bicycle Thieves (Italy, 1948) Dir: Vittorio de Sica
57. Kind Hearts and Coronets (UK, 1949) Dir: Robert Hamer
58. The Third Man (UK, 1949) Dir: Carol Reed
59. White Heat (US, 1949) Dir: Raoul Walsh
60. Sunset Blvd. (US, 1950) Dir: Billy Wilder
61. Rashomon (Japan, 1950) Dir: Akira Kurosawa
62. All About Eve (US, 1950) Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
63. Diary of a Country Priest (France, 1951) Dir: Robert Bresson
64. A Streetcar Named Desire (US, 1951) Dir: Elia Kazan
65. The African Queen (US, 1951) Dir: John Huston
66. Singin’ in the Rain (US, 1952) Dir: Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
67. Ikiru (Japan, 1952) Dir: Akira Kurosawa
68. Forbidden Games (France, 1952) Dir: René Clément
69. The Life of Oharu (Japan, 1952) Dir: Kenji Mizoguchi
70. The Naked Spur (US, 1953) Dir: Anthony Mann
71. Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (France, 1953) Dir: Jacques Tati
72. Ugetsu (Japan, 1953) Dir: Kenzo Mizoguchi
73. The Band Wagon (US, 1953) Dir: Vincente Minnelli
74. The Earrings of Madame de… (France, 1953) Dir: Max Ophüls
75. Tokyo Story (Japan, 1953) Dir: Yasujiro Ozu
76. Seven Samurai (Japan, 1954) Dir: Akira Kurosawa
77. On the Waterfront (US, 1954) Dir: Elia Kazan
78. La Strada (Italy, 1954) Dir: Federico Fellini
79. A Star Is Born  (US, 1954) Dir: George Cukor
80. Night and Fog (France, 1955) Dir: Alain Resnais
81. Kiss Me Deadly (US, 1955) Dir: Robert Aldrich
82. The Night of the Hunter (US, 1955) Dir: Charles Laughton
83. Pather Panchali  (India, 1955) Dir: Satyajit Ray
84. Ordet (Denmark, 1955) Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer
85. One Froggy Evening (US, 1955) Dir: Chuck Jones
86. Aparajito (The Unvanquished) (India, 1956) Dir: Satyajit Ray
87. The Searchers (US, 1956) Dir: John Ford
88. A Man Escaped (France, 1956) Dir: Robert Bresson
89. The Seventh Seal (Sweden, 1957) Dir: Ingmar Bergman
90. Nights of Cabiria (Italy, 1957) Dir: Federico Fellini
91. Sweet Smell of Success (US, 1957) Dir: Alexander Mackendrick
92. The Bridge on the River Kwai (UK, 1957) Dir: David Lean
93. Wild Strawberries (Sweden, 1957) Dir: Ingmar Bergman
94. What’s Opera, Doc? (US, 1957) Dir: Chuck Jones
95. Touch of Evil (US, 1958) Dir: Orson Welles
96. Vertigo (US, 1958) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
97. Ivan the Terrible, Part II (USSR, 1958) Dir: Sergei Eisenstein
98. Some Like It Hot (US, 1959) Dir: Billy Wilder
99. The World of Apu (India, 1959) Dir: Satyajit Ray
100. The 400 Blows (France, 1959) Dir: Francois Truffaut
101. Hiroshima Mon Amour (France, 1959) Dir: Alain Resnais
102. Anatomy of a Murder (US, 1959) Dir: Otto Preminger
103. La Dolce Vita (Italy, 1960) Dir: Federico Fellini
104. Breathless (France, 1960) Dir: Jean-Luc Godard
105. Peeping Tom (UK, 1960) Dir: Michael Powell
106. The Virgin Spring (Sweden, 1960) Dir: Ingmar Bergman
107. L’Avventura (Italy, 1960) Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni
108. The Apartment (US, 1960) Dir: Billy Wilder
109. Viridiana (Spain/Mexico, 1961) Dir: Luis Buñuel
110. Jules and Jim (France, 1962) Dir: Francois Truffaut
111. La Jetée (France, 1962) Dir: Chris Marker
112. Cosmic Ray (US, 1962) Dir: Bruce Conner
113. Knife in the Water (Poland, 1962) Dir: Roman Polanski
114. The Exterminating Angel (Mexico, 1962) Dir: Luis Buñuel
115. Vivre Sa Vie (My Life to Live) (France, 1962) Dir: Jean-Luc Godard
116. The Manchurian Candidate  (US, 1962) Dir: John Frankenheimer
117. Lawrence of Arabia (UK, 1962) Dir: David Lean
118. The Trial (France, 1962) Dir: Orson Welles
119. Cléo From 5 to 7 (France, 1962) Dir: Agnès Varda
120. 8 ½ (Italy, 1963) Dir: Federico Fellini
121. The Servant (UK, 1963) Dir: Joseph Losey
122. The Leopard (Italy, 1963) Dir: Luchino Visconti
123. Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb (UK, 1964) Dir: Stanley Kubrick
124. Band of Outsiders (France, 1964) Dir: Jean-Luc Godard
125. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Italy, 1964) Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini
126. Repulsion (UK, 1965) Dir: Roman Polanski
127. Darling (UK, 1965) Dir: John Schlesinger
128. Chimes at Midnight (Spain, 1965) Dir: Orson Welles
129. Ruka (The Hand) (Czechoslovakia, 1965) Dir: Jiří Trnka
130. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (US, 1966) Dir: Mike Nichols
131. Blow-Up (Italy/UK, 1966) Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni
132. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Italy, 1966) Dir: Sergio Leone
133. Belle de Jour (France, 1967) Dir: Luis Buñuel
134. Bonnie and Clyde (US, 1967) Dir: Arthur Penn
135. Play Time (France, 1967) Dir: Jacques Tati
136. The Graduate (US, 1967) Dir: Mike Nichols
137. Weekend (France, 1967) Dir: Jean-Luc Godard
138. De Düva: The Dove (US, 1968) Dir: George Coe & Anthony Lover
139. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (US, 1968) Dir: William Greaves
140. 2001: A Space Odyssey (UK/US, 1968) Dir: Stanley Kubrick
141. Faces  (US, 1968) Dir: John Cassavetes
142. Night of the Living Dead (1968) Dir: George Romero
143. Midnight Cowboy (US, 1969) Dir: John Schlesinger
144. Women in Love (UK, 1969) Dir: Ken Russell
145. Kes (UK, 1969) Dir: Ken Loach
146. My Night at Maud’s (France, 1969) Dir: Eric Rohmer
147. M*A*S*H  (US, 1970) Dir: Robert Altman
148. Five Easy Pieces (US, 1970) Dir: Bob Rafelson
149. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Italy, 1970) Dir: Vittorio de Sica
150. The Last Picture Show (US, 1971) Dir: Peter Bogdanovich
151. A Clockwork Orange (UK, 1971) Dir: Stanley Kubrick
152. Harold and Maude (US, 1971) Dir: Hal Ashby
153. The Godfather (US, 1972) Dir: Francis Ford Coppola
154. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (France, 1972) Dir: Luis Buñuel
155. Last Tango in Paris (France/Italy, 1972) Dir: Bernardo Bertolucci
156. Cries and Whispers (Sweden, 1972) Dir: Ingmar Bergman
157. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (West Germany, 1972) Dir: Werner Herzog
158. Badlands (US, 1973) Dir: Terence Malick
159. The Conversation (US, 1974) Dir: Francis Ford Coppola
160. Chinatown (US, 1974) Dir: Roman Polanski
161. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (West Germany, 1974) Dir: Werner Herzog
162. A Woman Under the Influence (US, 1974) Dir: John Cassavetes
163. Swept Away… (Italy, 1974) Dir: Lina Wertmüller
164. The Godfather: Part II (US, 1974) Dir: Francis Ford Coppola
165. The Mirror (USSR, 1975) Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky
166. Nashville (US, 1975) Dir: Robert Altman
167. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (US, 1975) Dir: Milos Forman
168. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Belgium/France, 1975) Dir: Chantal Akerman
169. Taxi Driver  (US, 1976) Dir: Martin Scorsese
170. Eraserhead (US, 1977) Dir: David Lynch
171. 3 Women (US, 1977) Dir: Robert Altman
172. Annie Hall (US, 1977) Dir: Woody Allen
173. The Marriage of Maria Braun (West Germany, 1979) Dir: Rainer Maria Fassbinder
174. Apocalypse Now (US, 1979) Dir: Francis Ford Coppola
175. Being There (US, 1979) Dir: Hal Ashby
176. Return of the Secaucus Seven (US, 1980) Dir: John Sayles
177. Atlantic City (US/Canada 1980) Dir: Louis Malle
178. Stardust Memories (US, 1980) Dir: Woody Allen
179. Raging Bull (US, 1980) Dir: Martin Scorsese
180. My Dinner with Andre (US, 1981) Dir: Louis Malle
181. Fanny and Alexander (Sweden, 1982) Dir: Ingmar Bergman
182. Local Hero (UK, 1983) Dir: Bill Forsyth
183. The King of Comedy (US, 1983) Dir: Martin Scorsese
184. Baby It’s You (US, 1983) Dir: John Sayles
185. This Is Spinal Tap (US, 1984) Dir: Rob Reiner
186. Jumping (Japan, 1984) Dir: Osamu Tezuka
187. Brazil (US, 1985) Dir: Terry Gilliam
188. Hannah and Her Sisters (US, 1986) Dir: Woody Allen
189. The Sacrifice (USSR/(Sweden, 1986) Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky
190. Blue Velvet (US, 1986) Dir: David Lynch
191. The Singing Detective (UK, 1986) Dir: John Amiel (TV)
192. Raising Arizona  (US, 1987) Dir: Joel & Ethan Coen
193. Wings of Desire (West Germany, 1987) Dir: Wim Wenders
194. The Thin Blue Line (US, 1988) Dir: Errol Morris
195. The Vanishing (The Netherlands, 1988) Dir: George Sluizer
196. sex, lies, and videotape (US, 1989) Dir: Steve Soderbergh
197. Say Anything… (US, 1989) Dir: Cameron Crowe
198. Do the Right Thing (US, 1989) Dir: Spike Lee
199. Crimes and Misdemeanors (US, 1989) Dir: Woody Allen
200. The Decalogue (Poland, 1989) Dir: Krzysztof Kieślowski (TV)
201. Unforgiven (US, 1992) Dir: Clint Eastwood
202. Groundhog Day (US, 1993) Dir: Harold Ramis
203. Naked (UK, 1993) Dir: Mike Leigh
204. Short Cuts (US, 1993) Dir: Robert Altman
205. The Wrong Trousers (UK, 1993) Dir: Nick Park
206. Schindler’s List (US, 1993) Dir: Steven Spielberg
207. Pulp Fiction (US, 1994) Dir: Quentin Tarantino
208. Ed Wood (US, 1994) Dir: Tim Burton
209. Before Sunrise (US, 1995) Dir: Richard Linklater
210. Pride and Prejudice (UK, 1995) Dir: Simon Langton (TV)
211. Fargo (US, 1996) Dir: Joel & Ethan Coen
212. Secrets & Lies (UK, 1996) Dir: Mike Leigh
213. Lone Star (US, 1996) Dir: John Sayles
214. Microcosmos (France, 1996) Dir: Claude Nuridsany & Marie Pérennou
215. The Sweet Hereafter (Canada, 1997) Dir: Atom Egoyan
216. Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (US, 1997) Dir: Errol Morris
217. Boogie Nights (US, 1997) Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson
218. Happiness (US, 1998) Dir: Todd Solondz
219. The Celebration (Denmark, 1998) Dir: Thomas Vinterberg
220. Rushmore (US, 1998) Dir: Wes Anderson
221. All About My Mother (Spain, 1999) Dir: Pedro Almodóvar
222. Being John Malkovich (US, 1999) Dir: Spike Jonze
223. Magnolia (US, 1999) Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson
224. Yi Yi: A One and a Two (Taiwan, 2000) Dir: Edward Yang
225. In the Mood for Love (China, 2000) Dir: Wong Kar-Wai
226. Requiem for a Dream (US, 2000) Dir: Darren Aronofsky
227. Songs from the Second Floor (Sweden, 2000) Dir: Roy Andersson
228. Traffic (US, 2000) Dir: Steven Soderbergh
229. Waking Life (US, 2001) Dir: Richard Linklater
230. Fat Girl (France, 2001) Dir: Catherine Breillat
231. Mulholland Dr. (US, 2001) Dir: David Lynch
232. Moulin Rouge! (US, 2001) Dir: Baz Luhrmann
233. The Royal Tenenbaums (US, 2001) Dir: Wes Anderson
234. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (US/NZ 2001) Dir: Peter Jackson
235. Talk to Her (Spain, 2002) Dir: Pedro Almodóvar
236. Dogville (Denmark, 2003) Dir: Lars von Trier
237. Capturing the Friedmans (US, 2003) Dir: Andrew Jarecki
238. American Splendor (US, 2003) Dir: Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
239. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (US/NZ 2003) Dir: Peter Jackson
240. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (US, 2004) Dir: Michel Gondry
241. Fahrenheit 9/11 (US, 2004) Dir: Michael Moore
242. Downfall (Germany, 2004) Dir: Oliver Hirschbiegel
243. Tarnation (US, 2004) Dir: Jonathan Caouette
244. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids (US/India) Dir: Zana Briski & Ross Kauffman
245. Grizzly Man (US, 2005) Dir: Werner Herzog
246. The Lives of Others (Germany, 2006) Dir: Florian Henckel von Donnersmark
247. Once (Ireland, 2006) Dir: John Carney
248. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Romania, 2007) Dir: Cristian Mungiu
249. Encounters at the End of the World (US, 2007) Dir: Werner Herzog
250. Juno (US, 2007) Dir: Jason Reitman
251. No Country for Old Men (US, 2007) Dir: Joel & Ethan Coen
252. Slumdog Millionaire (UK, 2008) Dir: Danny Boyle
253. Food, Inc. (US, 2008) Dir: Robert Kenner
254. The White Ribbon (Germany/Austria 2009) Dir: Michael Haneke
255. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (US, 2010) Dir: Werner Herzog
256. The Tree of Life (US, 2011) Dir: Terence Malick
257. Moonrise Kingdom (US, 2012) Dir: Wes Anderson
258. The Act of Killing (Denmark, 2012) Dir: Joshua Oppenheimer
259. Boyhood (US, 2014) Dir: Richard Linklater
260. Anomalisa (US, 2015) Dir: Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
261. Moonlight (US, 2016) Dir: Barry Jenkins
262. The Florida Project (US, 2017) Dir: Sean Baker
263. The Favourite (Ireland/UK/US, 2018) Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos
264. The Souvenir (UK, 2019) Dir: Joanna Hogg
265. The Irishman (US, 2019) Dir: Martin Scorsese
266. I’m Thinking of Ending Things (US, 2020) Dir: Charlie Kaufman