Alice's 500 Greatest Films
The goal in this compilation was to determine film history's definitive creme de la creme. The titles considered to be the greatest of the great from around the world and throughout the history of film.. So, after an in-depth analysis of respected critics and publications from around the globe, cross referenced and tweaked to arrive at the ranking of films representing, we believe, the greatest cinema can offer.
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Aliens ( Blu-ray ) (1986)
8.4/10
Director: James Cameron
Starring: Bill Paxton, Carrie Henn, Lance Henriksen, Michael Biehn, Sigourney Weaver, Paul...
Sigourney Weaver returns to the planet that spawned the title creatures with a Marine squadron that's ready to wipe them out. Super sequel that doesn'... Read more
Lore (2012)
7.1/10
Director: Cate Shortland
Starring: Ursina Lardi, Nele Trebs, Saskia Rosendahl, Kai Malina, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Mika...
Stranded with her younger siblings after their Nazi parents are imprisoned, Lore (Saskia Rosendahl) leads the remains of her family across war-torn Ge... Read more
Letter From An Unknown Woman (1948)
8/10
Director: Max Ophuls
Starring: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians
Joan Fontaine stars in this classic tearjerker playing a lonely woman who is seduced and abandoned by pianist Louis Jourdan. She marries another, but... Read more
All the President's Men (1976)
8/10
Director: Alan J Pakula
Starring: Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook, Jason...
In the Watergate Building, lights go on and four burglars are caught in the act. That night triggered revelations that drove a U.S. President from off... Read more
Eraserhead (1977)
7.4/10
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Allen Joseph, Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Laurel Near
Inspired by his time spent living in Philadelphia, David Lynch's nightmarish cult odyssey follows a high-haired young man living in a run-down apartme... Read more
Alien (The Director's cut) (1979)
8.5/10
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hu...
On its way back to Earth, a spacecraft is re-routed to a remote planet to investigate a distress call. When a member of the landing party returns to t... Read more
Children of Men ( Blu-ray ) (2006)
7.9/10
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Starring: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Pam Ferris, Peter Mullan, Claire-Hope...
In the year 2027, the human race has lost its ability to procreate and society is rapidly descending into chaos. Alfonso Cuaron's adaptation of PD Jam... Read more
Leon: The Professional ( Blu-ray ) (1994)
8.6/10
Director: Luc Besson
Starring: Danny Aiello, Gary Oldman, Jean Reno, Natalie Portman
Jean Reno is Leon, a deadly and elusive killer. He lives a routine life, alone in New York with just his pot-plant for company - until the day his twe... Read more
No Country For Old Men ( Blu-ray ) (2007)
8.1/10
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald, G...
Four Academy Awards - including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor, went to the Coen Brothers' riveting adaptation of Cormac McCart... Read more
Elite Squad (2007)
8.1/10
Director: Jose Padilha
Starring: Wagner Moura, Caio Junqueira, Andre Ramiro, Maria Ribeiro, Fernanda Machado, Fer...
For decades Rio de Janeiro has ranked as one of the most violent cities in the world. Brutal drug lords patrol the favelas, and gun battles with polic... Read more
Solaris (1972)
8.1/10
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Juri Jarvet
A mind-bending, metaphysical film about an investigation into why astronauts on a space station situated above the planet Solaris have suffered mental... Read more
Being There (1979)
8/10
Director: Hal Ashby
Starring: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Dysart, Ri...
Peter Sellers gives the performance of his career as Chance, a middle-aged gardener who's led a sheltered life and whose thoughts and behaviour are to... Read more
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
7.7/10
Director: Richard Lester
Starring: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell
Richard Lester meets John, Paul, George and Ringo in this exuberant film following an average day in the life of the Beatles as they take under their... Read more
American Graffiti (1973)
7.5/10
Director: George Lucas
Starring: Wolfman Jack, Mackenzie Phillips, Charles Martin Smith, Ron Howard, Richard Drey...
George Lucas' paean to early '60s youth stars Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Cindy Williams, Paul LeMat, Harrison Ford and other then-unknowns. Follow... Read more
Dersu Uzala (1975)
8.3/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Yuri Solomon, Maxim Munzuk
Kurosawa's remarkable, personal tale of the friendship between a wise old man and a young Soviet explorer, filmed in the beautiful expanse of Siberia,... Read more
The Tin Drum (1979)
7.6/10
Director: Volker Schlondorff
Starring: Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Mario Adorf
The fantastic and moving tale about the Nazi regime as seen through the eyes of a 'man-boy'. David Bennett, is the child who 'refuses to grow,' in ord... Read more
The Misfits (1961)
7.4/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Clark Gable, Eli Wallach, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter
Gable and Monroe in their last screen roles! Expertly directed by John Huston from a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize winner Arthur Miller, "The Misfits"... Read more
The Sixth Sense ( Blu-ray ) (1999)
8.1/10
Director: M Night Shyamalan
Starring: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Olivia Williams, Toni Collette, Donnie Wahlberg
Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) is a distinguished child psychologist haunted by the painful memory of a disturbed patient he was unable to help. So... Read more
Jesus Of Montreal (1989)
7.5/10
Director: Denys Arcand
Starring: Catherine Wilkening, Lothaire Bluteau
The marvellous, emotional and humourous story of modern day hypocrisy, as experienced by a group of actors who stage a radical interpretation of the l... Read more
Halloween ( Blu-ray ) (1978)
7.8/10
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P J Soles
One of the most successful independent films ever, it spawned a host of imitators - but this is the real thing. The then-young director John Carpenter... Read more