I am trying out a new method for calculating the best movies of all time.  See my post HERE for an explanation.  Here are the top 200 movies using this new method.  To see the same list in chronological order, go HERE.

1. Au Hasard Balthazar (France, 1966) Dir: Robert Bresson
2. The Leopard (Italy, 1963) Dir: Luchino Visconti
3. The Conformist (Italy, 1970) Dir: Bernardo Bertolucci
4. The Godfather (US, 1972) Dir: Francis Ford Coppola
5. Anatomy of a Murder (US, 1959) Dir: Otto Preminger
6. The Searchers (US, 1956) Dir: John Ford
7. The Rules of the Game (France, 1939) Dir: Jean Renoir
8. Seven Samurai (Japan, 1954) Dir: Akira Kurosawa
9. Battleship Potemkin (USSR, 1925) Dir: Sergei Eisenstein
10. Boyhood (US, 2014) Dir: Richard Linklater
11. L’Avventura (Italy, 1960) Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni
12. L’Atalante (France, 1934) Dir: Jean Vigo
13. Sweet Smell of Success (US, 1957) Dir: Alexander Mackendrick
14. Open City (Italy, 1946) Dir: Roberto Rossellini
15. Pickpocket (France, 1959) Dir: Robert Bresson
16. The Philadelphia Story (US, 1940) Dir: George Cukor
17. Playtime (France, 1967) Dir: Jacques Tati
18. Shoah (France, 1985) Dir: Claude Lanzmann
19. Singin’ in the Rain (US, 1951) Dir: Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly
20. La Strada (Italy, 1954) Dir: Federico Fellini
21. Contempt (France, 1963) Dir: Jean-Luc Godard
22. A Streetcar Named Desire (US, 1951) Dir: Elia Kazan
23. The Bride of Frankenstein (US, 1935) Dir: James Whale
24. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (US/NZ, 2003) Dir: Peter Jackson
25. The Night of the Hunter (US, 1955) Dir: Charles Laughton
26. Citizen Kane (US, 1941) Dir: Orson Welles
27. Fanny and Alexander (Sweden, 1984) Dir: Ingmar Bergman
28. The Mirror (USSR, 1974) Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky
29. Gertrud (Denmark, 1964) Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer
30. Journey to Italy (Viaggo in Italia) (Italy, 1954) Dir: Roberto Rossellini
31. King Kong (US, 1933) Dir: Merian C. Cooper/Ernest Schoedsack
32. Close-Up (Iran, 1989) Dir: Abbas Kiarostami
33. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Italy, 1964) Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini
34. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Italy, 1966) Dir: Sergio Leone
35. Tokyo Story (Japan, 1953) Dir: Yasujiro Ozu
36. Vertigo (US, 1958) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
37. The Godfather: Part II (US, 1974) Dir: Francis Ford Coppola
38. Man with a Movie Camera (USSR, 1929) Dir: Dziga Vertov
39. 8 1/2 (Italy, 1963) Dir: Federico Fellini
40. A Hard Day’s Night (UK, 1964) Dir: Richard Lester
41. Repulsion (UK, 1965) Dir: Roman Polanski
42. Apocalypse Now (US, 1979) Dir: Francis Ford Coppola
43. Rashomon (Japan, 1950) Dir: Akira Kurosawa
44. Modern Times (US, 1936) Dir: Charles Chaplin
45. Blow-Up (Italy/UK, 1966) Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni
46. Andrei Rublev (USSR, 1966) Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky
47. Sunrise (US, 1927) Dir: F.W. Murnau
48. Bicycle Thieves (Italy, 1948) Dir: Vittorio De Sica
49. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Romania, 2007) Dir: Cristian Mungiu
50. The Wizard of Oz (US, 1939) Dir: Victor Fleming
51. Taxi Driver (US, 1976) Dir: Martin Scorcese
52. The Adventures of Robin Hood (US, 1938) Dir: Michael Curtiz
53. Lawrence of Arabia (UK, 1962) Dir: David Lean
54. Pulp Fiction (US, 1994) Dir: Quentin Tarantino
55. La Dolce Vita (Italy, 1960) Dir: Federico Fellini
56. Pather Panchali (India, 1955) Dir: Satyajit Ray
57. City Lights (US, 1931) Dir: Charles Chaplin
58. Vivre Sa Vie (My Life to Live) (France, 1962) Dir: Jean-Luc Godard
59. The 400 Blows (France, 1959) Dir: François Truffaut
60. Sunset Blvd. (US, 1950) Dir: Billy Wilder
61. The Manchurian Candidate (US, 1962) Dir: John Frankenheimer
62. Breathless (France, 1960) Dir: Jean-Luc Godard
63. 2001: A Space Odyssey (US/UK, 1968) Dir: Stanley Kubrick
64. A Man Escaped (France, 1956) Dir: Robert Bresson
65. In The Mood For Love (Hong Kong/China, 2000) Dir: Wong Kar-Wai
66. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (US/UK, 1964) Dir: Stanley Kubrick
67. Grand Illusion (France, 1937) Dir: Jean Renoir
68. The Passion of Joan of Arc (France, 1928) Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer
69. American Splendor (US, 2003) Dir: Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
70. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (France, 1972) Dir: Luis Buñuel
71. Persona (Sweden, 1966) Dir: Ingmar Bergman
72. Badlands (US, 1973) Dir: Terrence Malick
73. Ugetsu Monogatari (Japan, 1953) Dir: Kenji Mizoguchi
74. Intolerance (US, 1916) Dir: D.W. Griffith
75. The Earrings of Madame de… (France, 1953) Dir: Max Ophüls
76. The Battle of Algiers (Italy/Algeria, 1966) Dir: Gillo Pontecorvo
77. 12 Years A Slave (US/UK, 2013) Dir: Steve McQueen
78. Anomalisa (US, 2015) Dir: Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
79. Beauty and the Beast (France, 1946) Dir: Jean Cocteau
80. Rear Window (US, 1954) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
81. Kes (UK, 1969) Dir: Ken Loach
82. Nashville (US, 1975) Dir: Robert Altman
83. The Maltese Falcon (US, 1941) Dir: John Huston
84. The Mother and the Whore (France, 1973) Dir: Jean Eustache
85. Un Chien Andalou (France, 1929) Dir: Luis Buñuel/Salvador Dali
86. The Magnificent Ambersons (US, 1942) Dir: Orson Welles
87. Being John Malkovich (US, 1999) Dir: Spike Jonze
88. Hell or High Water (US, 2016) Dir: David Mackenzie
89. Once (Ireland, 2006) Dir: John Carney
90. Secrets & Lies (UK, 1996) Dir: Mike Leigh
91. The Act of Killing (Denmark, 2012) Dir: Joshua Oppenheimer
92. Ordet (Denmark, 1955) Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer
93. Raging Bull (US, 1980) Dir: Martin Scorcese
94. On the Waterfront (US, 1954) Dir: Elia Kazan
95. The Last Picture Show (US, 1971) Dir: Peter Bogdanovich
96. Casablanca (US, 1942) Dir: Michael Curtiz
97. Touch of Evil (US, 1958) Dir: Orson Welles
98. Amarcord (Italy, 1974) Dir: Federico Fellini
99. Don’t Look Now (UK, 1973) Dir: Nicolas Roeg
100. Psycho (US, 1960) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
101. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (West Germany, 1972) Dir: Werner Herzog
102. La Jetée (France, 1962) Dir: Chris Marker
103. Late Spring (Japan, 1949) Dir: Yasijiro Ozu
104. Do the Right Thing (US, 1989) Dir: Spike Lee
105. Hannah and Her Sisters (US, 1986) Dir: Woody Allen
106. L’Eclisse (Italy, 1962) Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni
107. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Germany, 1920) Dir: Robert Wiene
108. Sherlock Jr. (US, 1924) Dir: Buster Keaton
109. A Woman Under the Influence (US, 1974) Dir: John Cassavetes
110. Metropolis (Germany, 1927) Dir: Fritz Lang
111. The Third Man (UK, 1949) Dir: Carol Reed
112. M (Germany, 1931) Dir: Fritz Lang
113. Children of Paradise (France, 1945) Dir: Marcel Carné
114. Cool Hand Luke (US, 1967) Dir: Stuart Rosenberg
115. Schindler’s List (US, 1993) Dir: Steven Spielberg
116. Some Like It Hot (US, 1959) Dir: Billy Wilder
117. L’Argent (France, 1983) Dir: Robert Bresson
118. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (West Germany, 1974) Dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
119. Brooklyn (UK/Canada/Ireland, 2015) Dir: John Crowley
120. The Lives of Others (Germany, 2006) Dir: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
121. A Brighter Summer Day (Taiwan, 1991) Dir: Edward Yang
122. Rosemary’s Baby (US, 1968) Dir: Roman Polanski
123. All About My Mother (Spain, 1999) Dir: Pedro Almodóvar
124. Band of Outsiders (France, 1964) Dir: Jean-Luc Godard
125. Brazil (UK/US, 1985) Dir: Terry Gilliam
126. Capturing the Friedmans (US, 2003) Dir: Andrew Jarecki
127. Laura (US, 1944) Dir: Otto Preminger
128. Sansho the Bailiff (Japan, 1954) Dir: Kenji Mizoguchi
129. The General (US, 1926) Dir: Buster Keaton/Clyde Bruckman
130. Barry Lyndon (US/UK, 1975) Dir: Stanley Kubrick
131. Gone with the Wind (US, 1939) Dir: Victor Fleming
132. The Hurt Locker (US, 2009) Dir: Kathryn Bigelow
133. Chinatown (US, 1974) Dir: Roman Polanski
134. Stalker (USSR, 1979) Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky
135. Viridiana (Spain/Mexico, 1961) Dir: Luis Buñuel
136. Yi Yi: A One and a Two (Taiwan, 1999) Dir: Edward Yang
137. All Quiet on the Western Front (US, 1930) Dir: Lewis Milestone
138. Grizzly Man (US, 2005) Dir: Werner Herzog
139. Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (Germany, 1922) Dir: F.W. Murnau
140. The 39 Steps (UK, 1935) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
141. The Sweet Hereafter (Canada, 1997) Dir: Atom Egoyan
142. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (US, 1948) Dir: John Huston
143. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (US, 1975) Dir: Milos Forman
144. Blue Velvet (US, 1986) Dir: David Lynch
145. All About Eve (US, 1950) Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
146. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (US/NZ, 2001) Dir: Peter Jackson
147. North by Northwest (US, 1959) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
148. Zero for Conduct (Zéro de conduite) (France, 1933) Dir: Jean Vigo
149. The Apartment (US, 1960) Dir: Billy Wilder
150. Goodfellas (US, 1990) Dir: Martin Scorcese
151. Selma (US, 2015) Dir: Ava DuVernay
152. Boogie Nights (US, 1997) Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson
153. Moonrise Kingdom (US, 2012) Dir: Wes Anderson
154. Pierrot le Fou (France, 1965) Dir: Jean-Luc Godard
155. The Seventh Seal (Sweden, 1957) Dir: Ingmar Bergman
156. La La Land (US, 2016) Dir: Damien Chazelle
157. The Artist (France. 2011) Dir: Michel Hazanavicius
158. Double Indemnity (US, 1944) Dir: Billy Wilder
159. Army of Shadows (France, 1969) Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville
160. Greed (US, 1924) Dir: Erich von Stroheim
161. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Canada/US/France/Germany/UK, 2010) Dir: Werner Herzog
162. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (US, 1939) Dir: Frank Capra
163. Mulholland Dr. (US, 2001) Dir: David Lynch
164. High Noon (US, 1952) Dir: Fred Zinnemann
165. Beau Travail (France, 1998) Dir: Claire Denis
166. Man on Wire (UK/US, 2008) Dir. James Marsh
167. Spotlight (US, 2015) Dir: Tom McCarthy
168. Annie Hall (US, 1977) Dir: Woody Allen
169. Wild Strawberries (Sweden, 1957) Dir: Ingmar Bergman
170. Toy Story 3 (US, 2010) Dir: Lee Unkrich
171. Jaws (US, 1975) Dir: Steven Spielberg
172. It’s a Wonderful Life (US, 1946) Dir: Frank Capra
173. Lone Star (US, 1996) Dir: John Sayles
174. The Bridge on the River Kwai (UK, 1957) Dir: David Lean
175. The World of Apu (India, 1959) Dir: Satyajit Ray
176. Spirited Away (Japan, 2001) Dir: Hayao Miyazaki
177. Hoop Dreams (US, 1994) Dir: Steve James
178. L.A. Confidential (US, 1997) Dir: Curtis Hanson
179. MASH (US, 1970) Dir: Robert Altman
180. Toy Story (US, 1995) Dir: John Lasseter
181. The Grapes of Wrath (US, 1940) Dir: John Ford
182. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (US/NZ, 2002) Dir: Peter Jackson
183. The Gold Rush (US, 1925) Dir: Charles Chaplin
184. Juno (US, 2007) Dir: Jason Reitman
185. Eraserhead (US, 1977) Dir: David Lynch
186. Kind Hearts and Coronets (UK, 1949) Dir: Robert Hamer
187. The Spirit of the Beehive (Spain, 1973) Dir: Victor Erice
188. Once Upon a Time in the West (Italy/US, 1968) Dir: Sergio Leone
189. The Exterminating Angel (Mexico, 1962) Dir: Luis Buñuel
190. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (US, 2004) Dir: Michel Gondry
191. A Clockwork Orange (UK/US, 1971) Dir: Stanley Kubrick
192. Cries and Whispers (Sweden, 1972) Dir: Ingmar Bergman
193. The Best Years of Our Lives (US, 1946) Dir: William Wyler
194. To Kill a Mockingbird (US, 1962) Dir: Robert Mulligan
195. Ikiru (To Live) (Japan, 1952) Dir: Akira Kurosawa
196. It Happened One Night (US, 1934) Dir: Frank Capra
197. Rebecca (US, 1940) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
198. Stop Making Sense (US, 1984) Dir: Jonathan Demme
199. No Country for Old Men (US, 2007) Dir: Joel & Ethan Coen
200. Ran (Japan, 1985) Dir: Akira Kurosawa