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RATING
'02
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TITLE
YEAR
DIRECTOR
COUNTRY
MEDIA
31
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
1978
Debord, Guy
France
31
In Praise of Love
2001
Godard, Jean-Luc
France
/
Switzerland
Y
31
In the Company of Men
1997
LaBute, Neil
Canada
/
USA
Y
31
Inferno
1980
Argento, Dario
Italy
BD
31
Ingeborg Holm
1913
Sjöström, Victor
Sweden
D
31
The Insect Woman
1963
Imamura, Shohei
Japan
31
Ivan the Terrible, Part Two
1958
Eisenstein, Sergei M.
/
Filimonova, M.
Soviet Union
D
31
J'Accuse!
1938
Gance, Abel
France
Y
31
Jacob's Ladder
1990
Lyne, Adrian
USA
BDS
31
Jane Eyre
1944
Stevenson, Robert
USA
DS
31
Je, tu, il, elle
1974
Akerman, Chantal
France
/
Belgium
D
31
Jerry Maguire
1996
Crowe, Cameron
USA
BY
31
Jimmy Hollywood
1994
Levinson, Barry
USA
Y
31
JLG/JLG
1995
Godard, Jean-Luc
France
Y
31
Jour de fête
1949
Tati, Jacques
France
BD
31
Journey to the Lost City
1959
Lang, Fritz
Italy
/
France
/
West Germany
31
Journeys from Berlin/1971
1980
Rainer, Yvonne
USA
/
UK
/
West Germany
31
Ju Dou
1990
Zhang, Yimou
/
Yang, Fengliang
Japan
/
China
D
31
Juliet of the Spirits
1965
Fellini, Federico
Italy
/
France
/
West Germany
BYS
31
Jungle Fever
1991
Lee, Spike
USA
BD
29
Kaagaz Ke Phool
1959
Dutt, Guru
India
31
Kadosh
1999
Gitai, Amos
Israel
/
France
D
31
Khal Nayak
1993
Ghai, Subhash
India
31
King Lear
1971
Brook, Peter
UK
/
Denmark
D
31
King Size Canary
1947
Avery, Tex
USA
Y
31
King Solomon's Mines
1950
Bennett, Compton
/
Marton, Andrew
USA
Y
31
The Knack... and How to Get It
1965
Lester, Richard
UK
BDS
31
Kochiyama soshun
1936
Yamanaka, Sadao
Japan
31
Komal Gandhar
1961
Ghatak, Ritwik
India
31
La Belle Noiseuse
1991
Rivette, Jacques
France
/
Switzerland
BY
30
La Haine
1995
Kassovitz, Mathieu
France
BD
31
La Nuit du carrefour
1932
Renoir, Jean
France
31
La Ronde
1950
Ophüls, Max
France
D
31
La Ronde
1964
Vadim, Roger
France
/
Italy
D
31
La Roue
1923
Gance, Abel
France
D
30
Lacombe Lucien
1974
Malle, Louis
France
/
West Germany
/
Italy
D
30
The Lady Vanishes
1938
Hitchcock, Alfred
UK
BD
31
Lamerica
1994
Amelio, Gianni
Italy
/
France
DS
30
Lancelot of the Lake
1974
Bresson, Robert
France
/
Italy
Y
31
The Land Beyond the Sunset
1912
Shore, Dorothy G.
USA
Y
31
Land of Silence and Darkness
1971
Herzog, Werner
West Germany
31
L'Argent
1928
L'Herbier, Marcel
France
B
31
Laura
1944
Preminger, Otto
/
Mamoulian, Rouben
USA
BD
31
Le Deuxième souffle
1966
Melville, Jean-Pierre
France
D
31
Le Jour se lève
1939
Carné, Marcel
France
D
31
Le Mélomane
1903
Méliès, Georges
France
Y
31
Le Vent d'est
1970
Vertov, Groupe Dziga
/
Godard, Jean-Luc
/
Gorin, Jean-Pierre
/
Martin, Gérard
France
/
Italy
/
West Germany
30
L'Enfance nue
1968
Pialat, Maurice
France
D
30
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
1945
Bresson, Robert
France
Y
31
Let's Scare Jessica to Death
1971
Hancock, John D.
USA
BD
31
Liebelei
1933
Ophüls, Max
Germany
Y
30
Life and Nothing More...
1991
Kiarostami, Abbas
Iran
Y
31
A Life for a Life
1916
Bauer, Yevgeni
Russia
V
31
Light Sleeper
1992
Schrader, Paul
USA
Y
31
Local Hero
1983
Forsyth, Bill
UK
BD
31
The Lodger
1927
Hitchcock, Alfred
UK
BD
31
Lolita
1962
Kubrick, Stanley
USA
/
UK
BD
31
Lolita
1997
Lyne, Adrian
USA
/
France
YS
31
Lone Star
1996
Sayles, John
USA
D
31
The Long Day's Dying
1968
Collinson, Peter
UK
31
A Long Goodbye
1987
Muratova, Kira
Soviet Union
31
Los Traidores
1972
Gleyzer, Raymundo
Argentina
31
Love Affair
1939
McCarey, Leo
USA
D
31
Love and Death
1975
Allen, Woody
USA
Y
31
The Lovers on the Bridge
1991
Carax, Leos
France
Y
28
Loves of a Blonde
1965
Forman, Milos
Czechoslovakia
D
31
Loving Couples
1964
Zetterling, Mai
Sweden
D
31
The Lower Depths
1957
Kurosawa, Akira
Japan
Y
31
Lucía
1969
Solás, Humberto
Cuba
30
Ludwig
1972
Visconti, Luchino
France
/
Italy
/
West Germany
D
31
Mädchen in Uniform
1931
Sagan, Leontine
Germany
BD
31
The Magnificent Seven
1960
Sturges, John
USA
BDS
31
Malcolm X
1992
Lee, Spike
USA
BD
31
Man Bites Dog
1992
Belvaux, Rémy
/
Bonzel, André
/
Poelvoorde, Benoît
Belgium
Y
31
The Man by the Shore
1993
Peck, Raoul
France
/
Canada
31
The Man in the White Suit
1951
Mackendrick, Alexander
UK
BD
31
Man of the West
1958
Mann, Anthony
USA
BD
31
Marcides
1993
Nasrallah, Yousry
Egypt
/
France
31
Mary Poppins
1964
Stevenson, Robert
USA
BDS
31
The Mattei Affair
1972
Rosi, Francesco
Italy
30
Mean Streets
1973
Scorsese, Martin
USA
BD
31
Meantime
1984
Leigh, Mike
UK
BD
31
Méditerranée
1963
Pollet, Jean-Daniel
/
Schlöndorff, Volker
France
31
Midnight Cowboy
1969
Schlesinger, John
USA
BDS
31
Mildred Pierce
1945
Curtiz, Michael
USA
BDS
30
Miracle in Milan
1951
De Sica, Vittorio
Italy
Y
31
The Misfits
1961
Huston, John
USA
BD
31
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
1985
Schrader, Paul
USA
BD
31
Miss Oyu
1951
Mizoguchi, Kenji
Japan
31
Mon oncle
1958
Tati, Jacques
Italy
/
France
BD
31
Mon père avait raison
1936
Guitry, Sacha
France
31
Monsoon Wedding
2001
Nair, Mira
India
/
USA
/
France
/
Italy
/
Germany
BDS
31
Monty Python's Life of Brian
1979
Jones, Terry
UK
BD
31
Mother India
1957
Khan, Mehboob
India
Y
31
Mother Joan of the Angels
1961
Kawalerowicz, Jerzy
Poland
D
31
The Mothering Heart
1913
Griffith, D.W.
USA
Y
31
Moulin Rouge!
2001
Luhrmann, Baz
Australia
/
USA
BDS
31
Mughal-E-Azam
1960
Asif, K.
India
31
Muna Moto
1975
Dikongue-Pipa, Jean-Pierre
Cameroon
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RATING
'02
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TITLE
YEAR
DIRECTOR
COUNTRY
MEDIA
31
My Brilliant Career
1979
Armstrong, Gillian
Australia
BD
31
My Life as a Dog
1985
Hallström, Lasse
Sweden
BD
31
My Love Has Been Burning
1949
Mizoguchi, Kenji
Japan
31
My Man Godfrey
1936
La Cava, Gregory
USA
BD
31
The Naked Dawn
1955
Ulmer, Edgar G.
USA
30
The Navigator
1924
Keaton, Buster
/
Crisp, Donald
USA
BD
30
Network
1976
Lumet, Sidney
USA
BD
31
Night and the City
1950
Dassin, Jules
UK
BDS
31
Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy
1989
Moffatt, Tracey
Australia
31
Night of the Hunter
1991
Greene, David
USA
31
Night of the Shooting Stars
1982
Taviani, Paolo
/
Taviani, Vittorio
Italy
BD
31
Ninotchka
1939
Lubitsch, Ernst
USA
D
31
No End
1985
Kieslowski, Krzysztof
Poland
Y
31
Not Wanted
1949
Clifton, Elmer
/
Lupino, Ida
USA
BY
31
Now, Voyager
1942
Rapper, Irving
USA
BDS
31
The Nun's Story
1959
Zinnemann, Fred
USA
DS
31
O Lucky Man!
1973
Anderson, Lindsay
UK
/
USA
D
30
Odd Man Out
1947
Reed, Carol
UK
BD
30
Oedipus Rex
1967
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Italy
/
Morocco
Y
31
The Official Story
1985
Puenzo, Luis
Argentina
Y
31
The Old Actor
1912
Griffith, D.W.
USA
31
Olympia Part One:
Festival of the Nations
1938
Riefenstahl, Leni
Germany
D
31
On His Own
1939
Donskoy, Mark
Soviet Union
31
One Two Three
1961
Wilder, Billy
USA
BD
31
Opfergang
1944
Harlan, Veit
Germany
31
The Opposite of Sex
1998
Roos, Don
USA
Y
31
The Organiser
1963
Monicelli, Mario
Italy
/
France
/
Yugoslavia
30
Orlando
1992
Potter, Sally
UK
/
Russia
/
France
/
Italy
/
Netherlands
Y
31
Our Daily Bread
1934
Vidor, King
USA
Y
31
Our Hospitality
1923
Keaton, Buster
/
Blystone, John G.
USA
BD
31
The Outlaw Josey Wales
1976
Eastwood, Clint
USA
BD
31
Outskirts
1933
Barnet, Boris
Soviet Union
Y
31
Padre Padrone
1977
Taviani, Paolo
/
Taviani, Vittorio
Italy
BD
30
Pakeezah
1971
Amrohi, Kamal
India
29
The Palm Beach Story
1942
Sturges, Preston
USA
BD
31
The Parallax View
1974
Pakula, Alan J.
USA
BD
31
Passionless Moments
1983
Campion, Jane
/
Lee, Gerard
Australia
31
The Pathfinder
1952
Salkow, Sidney
USA
31
Peel: An Exercise in Discipline
1982
Campion, Jane
Australia
31
Pépé le Moko
1937
Duvivier, Julien
France
D
31
Perceval
1978
Rohmer, Eric
France
/
Italy
/
West Germany
Y
31
Peter Ibbetson
1935
Hathaway, Henry
USA
Y
31
The Philadelphia Story
1940
Cukor, George
USA
BDS
31
The Pillow Book
1996
Greenaway, Peter
France
/
UK
/
Netherlands
BD
31
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
1976
Edwards, Blake
UK
/
USA
DS
31
A Place in the Sun
1951
Stevens, George
USA
DS
31
The Player
1992
Altman, Robert
USA
BD
31
Poetic Justice
1972
Frampton, Hollis
USA
BD
31
Princess Yang Kwei Fei
1955
Mizoguchi, Kenji
Japan
/
Hong Kong
Y
31
The Producers
1967
Brooks, Mel
USA
BDS
31
Purab Aur Pachhim
1970
Kumar, Manoj
India
31
Pursued
1947
Walsh, Raoul
USA
DS
31
Quadrophenia
1979
Roddam, Franc
UK
BD
31
Que viva Mexico!
1932
Eisenstein, Sergei M.
/
Aleksandrov, Grigori
Soviet Union
/
USA
/
Mexico
Y
31
Rachel, Rachel
1968
Newman, Paul
USA
D
31
Rain Man
1988
Levinson, Barry
USA
BDS
31
Raining Stones
1993
Loach, Ken
UK
Y
31
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
1958
McCarey, Leo
USA
D
31
Random Harvest
1942
LeRoy, Mervyn
USA
YS
31
Rebecca
1940
Hitchcock, Alfred
USA
BDS
31
The Reckless Moment
1949
Ophüls, Max
USA
B
31
Red Persimmon
1995
Wang, Tong
Taiwan
31
Red Sorghum
1987
Zhang, Yimou
China
Y
31
Reds
1981
Beatty, Warren
USA
BD
30
The Remains of the Day
1993
Ivory, James
UK
/
USA
BD
31
Requiem for a Dream
2000
Aronofsky, Darren
USA
BD
31
Richard III
1955
Olivier, Laurence
UK
BD
31
Ride the High Country
1962
Peckinpah, Sam
USA
BD
30
Riff-Raff
1990
Loach, Ken
UK
Y
31
Rio Grande
1950
Ford, John
USA
BD
31
Rocky
1976
Avildsen, John G.
USA
BDS
31
Rolling Thunder
1977
Flynn, John
USA
Y
31
Romeo + Juliet
1996
Luhrmann, Baz
USA
BD
31
Rope
1948
Hitchcock, Alfred
USA
BD
31
Rose Hobart
1936
Cornell, Joseph
USA
D
31
The Runner
1985
Naderi, Amir
Iran
31
Salt of the Earth
1954
Biberman, Herbert J.
USA
BD
31
Sant Tukaram
1936
Damle, Vishnupant Govind
/
Fattelal, Sheikh
India
31
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
1960
Reisz, Karel
UK
Y
31
Sawdust and Tinsel
1953
Bergman, Ingmar
Sweden
D
31
Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo
1935
Yamanaka, Sadao
Japan
30
The Scarlet Empress
1934
von Sternberg, Josef
USA
BD
31
Scenes from under Childhood
1970
Brakhage, Stan
USA
BD
30
Schindler's List
1993
Spielberg, Steven
USA
BDS
31
Screen Test (Series)
1965
Warhol, Andy
USA
31
Senso
1954
Visconti, Luchino
Italy
BD
31
Shadow of a Doubt
1943
Hitchcock, Alfred
USA
BDS
30
Shane
1953
Stevens, George
USA
BD
30
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
1949
Ford, John
USA
D
31
Sholay
1975
Sippy, Ramesh
India
30
The Silences of the Palace
1994
Tlatli, Moufida
France
/
Tunisia
Y
31
The Sin of Nora Moran
1933
Goldstone, Phil
USA
D
31
Snatch
2000
Ritchie, Guy
UK
/
USA
BD
31
Song of the Exile
1990
Hui, Ann
Hong Kong
/
Taiwan
Y
31
Sound of the Mountain
1954
Naruse, Mikio
Japan
29
Spartacus
1960
Kubrick, Stanley
USA
BDS
31
Spider
2002
Cronenberg, David
Canada
/
UK
Y
31
The Spider's Stratagem
1970
Bertolucci, Bernardo
Italy
Y
31
Spirits of the Dead: Toby Dammit
1968
Fellini, Federico
France
/
Italy
DS
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TITLE
YEAR
DIRECTOR
COUNTRY
MEDIA
30
Still Life
1974
Saless, Sohrab Shahid
Iran
31
The Story of a Cheat
1936
Guitry, Sacha
France
D
31
The Story of Qiu Ju
1992
Zhang, Yimou
China
/
Hong Kong
D
31
The Straight Story
1999
Lynch, David
France
/
UK
/
USA
Y
31
The Straits of Love and Hate
1937
Mizoguchi, Kenji
Japan
30
Strangers on a Train
1951
Hitchcock, Alfred
USA
BDS
31
Straw Dogs
1971
Peckinpah, Sam
UK
/
USA
BD
31
Strawberry and Chocolate
1994
Alea, Tomás Gutiérrez
/
Tabío, Juan Carlos
Cuba
/
Mexico
/
Spain
Y
30
Stray Dog
1949
Kurosawa, Akira
Japan
Y
31
Street of Crocodiles
1986
Quay, Stephen
/
Quay, Timothy
UK
Y
30
Strike
1925
Eisenstein, Sergei M.
Soviet Union
BD
31
Subete Ga Kurutteru
1960
Suzuki, Seijun
Japan
30
Sugar Cane Alley
1983
Palcy, Euzhan
France
Y
31
Summer with Monika
1953
Bergman, Ingmar
Sweden
BD
31
Superman
1978
Donner, Richard
UK
BDS
31
Surprise, Surprise
1991
Budgen, Frank
UK
31
Suzaki Paradise
1956
Kawashima, Yuzo
Japan
31
Sweet Dreams
1971
Avildsen, John G.
USA
31
The Sweet Hereafter
1997
Egoyan, Atom
Canada
D
31
Swing Time
1936
Stevens, George
USA
BDS
31
Sylvester
1924
Pick, Lupu
Germany
31
Taipei Story
1985
Yang, Edward
Taiwan
31
The Tales of Hoffmann
1951
Powell, Michael
/
Pressburger, Emeric
UK
D
31
The Taste of Others
2000
Jaoui, Agnès
France
Y
31
Ten
2002
Kiarostami, Abbas
France
/
Iran
/
USA
Y
31
The Ten Commandments
1956
DeMille, Cecil B.
USA
BDS
31
The Terminator
1984
Cameron, James
USA
BD
31
Thelma & Louise
1991
Scott, Ridley
USA
BDS
31
There's Always Tomorrow
1956
Sirk, Douglas
USA
BD
31
They All Laughed
1981
Bogdanovich, Peter
USA
Y
31
They Were Expendable
1945
Ford, John
/
Montgomery, Robert
USA
D
30
The Thief of Bagdad
1940
Berger, Ludwig
/
Powell, Michael
/
Whelan, Tim
/
Korda, Alexander
/
Korda, Zoltan
/
Menzies, William Cameron
UK
/
USA
D
31
Thieves Like Us
1974
Altman, Robert
USA
D
30
The Thing from Another World
1951
Nyby, Christian
/
Hawks, Howard
USA
DS
31
The 39 Steps
1935
Hitchcock, Alfred
UK
BD
31
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
1993
Girard, François
Portugal
/
Canada
/
Finland
/
Netherlands
D
31
Three Crowns of the Sailor
1983
Ruiz, Raoul
France
31
Three Kings
1999
Russell, David O.
USA
BD
31
3:10 to Yuma
1957
Daves, Delmer
USA
BD
31
Tih Minh
1918
Feuillade, Louis
France
31
A Time for Drunken Horses
2000
Ghobadi, Bahman
Iran
D
30
Time of the Gypsies
1988
Kusturica, Emir
UK
/
Italy
/
Yugoslavia
Y
31
The Tin Drum
1979
Schlöndorff, Volker
West Germany
/
France
/
Poland
/
Yugoslavia
BDS
30
The Tingler
1959
Castle, William
USA
Y
31
Titicut Follies
1967
Wiseman, Frederick
USA
31
To Live
1994
Zhang, Yimou
Hong Kong
/
China
D
30
To Sleep with Anger
1990
Burnett, Charles
USA
BD
31
Tobacco Road
1941
Ford, John
USA
30
Topsy-Turvy
1999
Leigh, Mike
UK
BDS
31
Trainspotting
1996
Boyle, Danny
UK
BD
31
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
1978
Olmi, Ermanno
Italy
/
France
BD
31
The Trial
1962
Welles, Orson
France
/
Italy
/
West Germany
/
Yugoslavia
Y
31
Triumph of the Will
1935
Riefenstahl, Leni
Germany
BD
31
The Trouble with Harry
1955
Hitchcock, Alfred
USA
BDS
31
Un Coeur en hiver
1992
Sautet, Claude
France
BY
31
Uncut
1997
Greyson, John
Canada
31
The Unseen
1996
Janek, Miroslav
Czech Republic
31
Up the Junction
1965
Loach, Ken
UK
31
The Usual Suspects
1995
Singer, Bryan
USA
/
Germany
BD
31
Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa...
1965
Visconti, Luchino
Italy
31
Van Gogh
1991
Pialat, Maurice
France
D
31
Vengeance Is Mine
1979
Imamura, Shohei
Japan
BD
31
The Verdict
1982
Lumet, Sidney
USA
D
31
Waiting for Guffman
1996
Guest, Christopher
USA
BY
31
War and Peace
1956
Vidor, King
Italy
/
USA
DS
31
The War Game
1965
Watkins, Peter
UK
D
31
Wedding in Galilee
1987
Khleifi, Michel
Israel
/
France
/
Belgium
Y
31
West Side Story
1961
Robbins, Jerome
/
Wise, Robert
USA
BDS
31
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
1960
Naruse, Mikio
Japan
D
31
When Harry Met Sally
1989
Reiner, Rob
USA
BD
31
When It Rains
1995
Burnett, Charles
USA
31
While the City Sleeps
1956
Lang, Fritz
USA
BD
31
Whispering Pages
1993
Sokurov, Aleksandr
Russia
/
Germany
BD
31
Whistle Down the Wind
1961
Forbes, Bryan
UK
Y
28
White
1994
Kieslowski, Krzysztof
France
/
Poland
/
Switzerland
/
UK
BDS
30
White Heat
1949
Walsh, Raoul
USA
DS
31
White Nights
1957
Visconti, Luchino
Italy
/
France
Y
31
Who's Singing Over There?
1980
Sijan, Slobodan
Yugoslavia
31
The Witch's Curse
1962
Freda, Riccardo
Italy
Y
31
Without Anesthesia
1978
Wajda, Andrzej
Poland
/
France
Y
30
The Woman Next Door
1981
Truffaut, François
France
YS
31
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1988
Almodóvar, Pedro
Spain
BD
31
The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna
1929
Schwarz, Hanns
Germany
31
Yellow Earth
1984
Chen, Kaige
China
Y
31
You Are Weighed in the Balance But Are Found Wanting
1974
Brocka, Lino
Philippines
31
Zvenigora
1928
Dovzhenko, Aleksandr
Soviet Union
D
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Blu-ray Disc
D DVD
V VHS
Y Yes (DVD or VHS, unspecified)
S Soundtrack