Independent Film History Institute

I Started this list in 2016, when i was about 16-17 years old, throughout the years, many films were included and many films were taken out the list, unlike AFI and the now Woke shit list ‘Sight and Sound’ my list preserves Uniqueness, influence, aesthetics, cultural value and impact. In my list you won’t see films included by how many academy shit awards it won, who directed it and any favoritism, i am not AFI that will include 5 Spielberg films in the list just because he is a major member of AFI, i hate bullshit, i will only limit my list to 3 films per director maximum , 5 is way too ridiculous and stupid (favoritism). Also AFI wont include some films in their list because they are against their religious values (Yes, the majority of AFI members in the institute and Hollywood studios in general are of a certain religion) wich means, the ultra super influential film ‘The Exorcist’ is included in my list (because i can) and it’s not included in the AFI list because it’s a Catholic film, Simple as that. Also i excluded films that were part of a lawsuit and/or plagiarized another source without consultation (Rocky, Raging Bull, The Lion King), one thing is to verify your source and accept that you used it (Tarantino) and another is to steal another source, getting profit from it and not even acknowledge the source in any way (Disney’s Coco, Disney’s Frozen). I don’t exclude films under a racist scope or that partially show domestic violence (Birth of a nation, A streetcar named desire) but i will 100% exclude plagiarized content, plagiarism is worst than anything (in cinematic terms).

I am realistic, the film I’ve watched the most and the most i adore is The Mummy (1999) but even though i love the film as part of my childhood, it’s not superior than any other film I watched, no other person have the balls to do that, in the future i will create a “Guilty pleasure list” of films that are not masterpieces but that i love. the first draft of this list contained films only spoken in their original language, meaning germans only speak german or italians only italian but excluding Amadeus or/and Schindler’s list would be a mental crime.

i have never watched a film from a certain country of origin (not intended to be in english) in another lenguage, many historians do that, i am not like them, i even keep the original title as authentic as it is from the country of origin (not accurate).

1. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray,1955)
2. La passion de jeanne d’arc (C.T. Dreyer, 1928)
3. Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein, 1938)
4. Körkarlen (Victor Sjöström, 1921)
5. Sanshō Dayū (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
6. Blade runner (Ridley scott, 1982)
7. Persona (Ingmar bergman, 1966)
8. The thin red line (Terrence malick, 1998)
9. Tōkyō Monogatari (Yasujirō Ozu, 1953)
10. Falstaff (Campanadas a medianoche) (Orson welles, 1966)
11. Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
12. Amadeus (Miloš Forman, 1984)
13.  Banshun (Yasujirō Ozu, 1949)
14. Sunrise ( F. W. Murnau, 1929)
15. La battaglia di Algeri (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
16. Bronenosets Potyomkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
17. Chelovek s kinoapparatom (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
18. On the waterfront (Elia kazan, 1954)
19. The Longest Day (Ken Annakin/Andrew Marton/Bernhard Wicki, 1962)
20. Apur sansar (Satyajit Ray, 1959)
21. Judgment at nuremberg (Stanley Kramer, 1961)
22. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper/Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933)
23. Ben-Hur (William Wyler, 1959)
24. 2001: A space odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
25. Lawrence of arabia (David Lean, 1962)
26. Shichinin no Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
27. The godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
28. Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
29. The cameraman (Buster Keaton, 1928)
30. Ivan Grozniy (Sergei Eisenstein, 1944)
31. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
32. The general (Buster Keaton, 1926)
33. Ladri di biciclette (Vittorio de sica, 1948)
34. The man who shot liberty valance (John Ford, 1962)
35. To kill a mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962)
36. Lust for life (Vincente minnelli, 1956)
37. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1976)
38. A streetcar Named Desire (1951, Elia Kazan)
39. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
40. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992)
41. Hitori musuko (Yasujirō Ozu, 1936)
42. The great dictator (Charles Chaplin, 1940)
43. Othello (Orson Welles, 1951)
44. El Espiritu de la colmena (Victor Erice, 1973)
45. Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo, 1964)
46. Genbaku no ko (Kaneto Shindo, 1954)
47. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
48. I confess (Alfred Hitchcock, 1953)
49. The killing of a chinese bookie (John Cassavetes, 1976)
50. Red river (Howard Hawks, 1948)
51. All Quiet on the western front (Lewis Milestone, 1930)
52. 12 angry men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
53. Citizen kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
54. The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, 1925)
55. In the heat of the night (Norman Jewison, 1967)
56. Taxi driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
57. Hadaka no Shima (Kaneto Shindo, 1960)
58. Andrey Rublyóv (Andrei Tarkovski, 1966)
59. Faces (John Cassavetes, 1968)
60. The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973)
61. Såsom i en spegel (Ingmar Bergman, 1961)
62. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941)
63. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
64. Zero de conduit (Jean Vigo, 1933)
65. The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)
66. East of Eden (Elia Kazan, 1955)
67. The passion of the christ (Mel Gibson, 2004)
68. Singing in the rain (Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly, 1952)
69. Nausicaa of the valley of the wind (Hayao Miyazaki, 1984)
70. In cold blood (Richard Brooks, 1967)
71. Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick, 1960)
72. Viskningar och rop (Ingmar Bergman, 1972)
73. Bhārat Mātā (Mehboob Khan, 1957)
74. Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Werner Herzog, 1972)
75. Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
76. Gone with the wind (1939, Victor Fleming)
77. Gojira (Ishirō Honda, 1954)
78. La Strada (Federico Fellini, 1954)
79. La jetee (Chris Marker, 1962)
80. Wò hǔ Càng Lóng (Ang Lee, 2000)
81. Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
82. Le sang d’un poete (Jean Cocteau, 1932)
83. Butch cassidy and the sundance kid (George Roy Hill, 1969)
84. Days of heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
85. La Règle du jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939)
86. White Heat (Raoul Walsh, 1949)
87. Excalibur (John Boorman, 1981)
88. Apocalypto (Mel Gibson, 2006)
89. The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson, 2002)
90. West side story (Robert Wise, 1961)
91. La flor de mi secreto (Pedro Almodovar, 1995)
92. Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (Julian Schnabel, 2007)
93. Hotaru no Haka (Isao Takahata, (1988)
94. Duck soup (Leo mcCarey, 1933)
95. Planet of the apes (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968)
96. Glory (Edward Zwick, 1989)
97. The Public Enemy (William A. Wellman, 1931)
98. Platoon (Oliver Stone, 1986)
99. Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
100. Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931)