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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The Conversation (Blu-ray) (1974)
7.8/10
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Teri Garr, John Cazale, Harrison Ford, Gene Hackman, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Wil...
Gene Hackman is brilliant as Harry Caul, the surveillance man who becomes the object of surveillance himself. Coppola's great achievement is evoking a... Read more
The French Connection (1971)
7.8/10
Director: William Friedkin
Starring: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey
Gene Hackman is an unorthodox New York narcotics cop in his Oscar winning performance. He and his partner (Roy Scheider) are investigating the flow of... Read more
Heat (1995)
8.2/10
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Tom Sizemore, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Diane Venora, A...
This intense police story showcases Al Pacino as a frazzled Los Angeles detective out to stop a group of thieves headed by mastermind Robert De Niro,... Read more
Ordinary People (1980)
7.8/10
Director: Robert Redford
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Judd Hirsch, Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton
An intense examination of a family being torn apart by tragedy and tension, 'Ordinary People' won four Academy Awards including Best Picture and Direc... Read more
The Sting (Blu-ray) (1973)
8.3/10
Director: George Roy Hill
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen B...
Two small-time Chicago con-men try to put 'the sting' on a high-roller from N.Y.C. after he has one of their pals killed. Classic entertainment featur... Read more
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
8.1/10
Director: George Roy Hill
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
One of the most successful and entertaining Westerns of all time chronicles the hair-raising adventures of outlaws Butch (Paul Newman) and Sundance (R... Read more
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( Blu-ray ) (1969)
8.1/10
Director: George Roy Hill
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Jeff Corey, Henry...
One of the most successful and entertaining Westerns of all time chronicles the hair-raising adventures of outlaws Butch (Paul Newman) and Sundance (R... Read more
Manhattan (Blu-ray) (1979)
7.9/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Anne Byrne, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemi...
Vincent Canby called it 'the only truly great American film of the 1970s'. Featuring the talents of Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Mich... Read more
Manhattan (1979)
8/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Anne Byrne, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemi...
Vincent Canby called it 'the only truly great American film of the 1970s'. Featuring the talents of Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Mich... Read more
Badlands (1973)
7.9/10
Director: Terrence Malick
Starring: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Alan Vint
Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek star in this tale of two outcasts on a murder-spree in a film that is one of the most stunning directorial debuts in the... Read more
Withnail and I (1986)
Director: Bruce Robinson
Starring: Richard E Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths
London. The 1960s. Two unemployed actors - acerbic, elegantly wasted Withnail (Richard E. Grant) and the anxiety-ridden "I" (Paul McGann) - drown thei... Read more
Terminator 2: Judgment Day ( Blu-ray ) (1991)
7.1/10
Director: James Cameron
Starring: Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick
Schwarzenegger the cyborg is "baaack" in a big way, this time defending Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) and her young son from a killing machine from th... Read more
Rocky ( Blu-ray ) (1976)
8.1/10
Director: John G Avildsen
Starring: Burgess Meredith, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire
The first and the best! Writer and star Sylvester Stallone is the Philadelphia club fighter who gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity at fighting the... Read more
Rocky (1976)
8.1/10
Director: John G Avildsen
Starring: Talia Shire, Sylvester Stallone, Carl Weathers, Burt Young, Burgess Meredith
The first and the best! Writer and star Sylvester Stallone is the Philadelphia club fighter who gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity at fighting the... Read more
Enter the Dragon ( Blu-ray ) (1973)
7.7/10
Director: Robert Clouse
Starring: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly, Ahna Capri, Bob Wall, Shih Kien
This was kung fu legend Bruce Lee's last film and it finds him at his fighting best - some of his moves were so fast that the cameraman was unable to... Read more
The Long Goodbye (Blu-ray) (1973)
7.6/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden
A quirky, semi-satiric, updating of Raymond Chandler stars Elliott Gould as laid-back gumshoe Philip Marlowe, investigating the murder of his friend's... Read more
Captain Blood (1935)
7.8/10
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Lionel Atwill, Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn
Errol Flynn is the young physician, sentenced to slavery, who's rescued by Olivia de Havilland and begins a life of piracy on the high seas. Superb sw... Read more
Gandhi ( Blu-ray ) (1982)
8.1/10
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, John Mills, Martin Sheen...
Richard Attenborough's Academy Award-winning epic follows the extraordinary life of Mahatma Gandhi (played by Ben Kingsley), from his beginnings as a... Read more
Jean de Florette / Manon Des Sources (1986)
Director: Claude Berri
Starring: Yves Montand, Gerard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Beart
A double feature. 'Jean de Florette'. A marvelous tale of greed and intolerance from the novel by Marcel Pagnol about a city hunchback who inherits a... Read more
Downfall (Blu-ray) (2005)
8.2/10
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Thomas Kretschmann, Ulrich Matthers, Heino Ferch, Ulrich Noethen, Ju...
Bruno Ganz is rivetting as the mad dictator during his final days in the Berlin Bunker. But director Hirschbiegel understands that evil does not exis... Read more