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Excellent list Steve. Nice to see Wallace and Gromit in there. Twelve others I loved: The Prestige, A Prophet, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, There will be Blood, Caché, In Bruges. Yi Yi, The Aviator, Downfall, Master and Commander, Hot Fuzz, Donnie Darko.

the first time i see an arabic movie in a list like this i mean cairo station 1958 directed by youssef chahine from egypt

the winners: martin scorsese and andrei tarkovesky and the goodfather part 1 and part 2 not on the list.

I’m glad that you describe them as “your favourites” rather than “the best”, as so many would.

Great list. I didn't know two of the non-English speaking films but most of the others would make my 70s top 50. My only criticism is that all your choices are very... um... 'worthy'. A lot of the fun of "favourite" or "best" lists is down to the guilty pleasure factor. In other words, films that most critics ignore or trash. My 70s top 20 would have to include 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory', 'Fiddler on the Roof', 'That'll Be the Day' 'The Warriors' & 'Shampoo'! Also, while 'Performance' is brilliant, I think that 'Walkabout' and especially 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' are even better Roeg films.

Il conformista.... L'importante è amare.. Due gioielli con attori straordinari ... Nel primo Trintignant Dominique Sanda ecc ... Nel secondo Romy e Kinsky stratosferici ...

"french connection" "l'exorciste" "le mystère Andromède" "l'argent de la vieille" "le survivant" "soleil vert" "mort à Venise" "l'affaire Mattei" "la malédiction" "ludwig" "parfum de femme" "le désert des tartares" "le professeur" "le boucher" "les diables" "sacré graal" "trop tard pour les héros" "la vie privée de sherlock holmes" "le limier" "waterloo"

Two Lane Blacktop, Deerhunter, Dog Day Afternoon, The Out of Towners

Every film viewer's taste differs. No, I have never seen 'Scandal in Sorrento', but how I wish I did. Just look at Sophia Loren and how gorgeous she looked!!! The new version of 'The Three Musketeers' with Raquel Welch was not a patch on the 1948 version with the beauteous Lana Turner, Gene Kelly and June Allyson. I heard a lot about 'Logan's Run', but didn't get to see it. I thoroughly enjoyed "The Fearless Vampire killers" with the lovely, Sharon Tate. I love most vampire movies and enjoyed this one too, immensely. "Diamonds are forever" with gorgeous Jill St. John. Wasn't this a James Bond movie that I must have seen. My mind is hazy about it.

This is a list of films from around the world and quite a few I have never heard of. If they were critical successes and not commercial, chances are they would not have been screened in my part of the world. Yes, D'Jango was a hit here, but I was never high on Westerns. Lilith with Jean Seberg and Warren Beatty was a highly emotional movie dealing with the mentally unstable people and depression. It may have been critically acclaimed, but it wasn't a commercial success. Breathless too was a critical success but seen by few people. Bonnie & Clyde was both a critical and box-office success. It was a bonanza of a movie, loved by all. Point Blank with Angie Dickinson was widely watched and appreciated. The good, the bad and the ugly. Very popular, but here again you have to love the Western genre to enjoy this movie. I didn't!

Damn, now I have to go back and rewatch the grifters. Always thought it was underrated.

Vincent Gallo is legent now. Love him❤

Reminds me of the time I was out having a quiet drink with Cary Grant and he told me this little tale: He got a telegram that said 'How old Cary Grant?' so he sent this in reply: 'Old Cary Grant fine, how you?' But then Sophia Loren barged her way in and spoilt the moment....

The Conversation... 😢

That most important thing : love by Zulawski is such an underrated movie no one talks about. This movie with Romy Schneider and Klaus Kinski is one the most beautiful and cinematic i've ever seen.

Making a choice is always excluding. I miss "The Spirit of the Beehive", "Le Fantôme de la Liberté"(but being Spanish, I am perhaps biased), "Dersu Uzala", "Lacombe Lucien"and "The Stratagem of the Spider"(which I find much better than "Last Tango in Paris"). But I appreciate a lot your interest on showing that out of Hollywood, there are many interesting films to discover.

Some inspired choices Stevie as always. Tricky to pin actors to a specific decade as we know.

"Closely watched trains" was a cult movie for mi generation,. Also "Loves of a blonde" and "The daysies". Unhappily, watching them nowadays (at least in Spain) is very difficult. "High and Low" ( in Spain "El infierno del odio"~Hell of Hate) has not the popularity that it deserves...because there are not samuraïs on it. I have been trying to watch "Charulata"for decades Someone can give a hint of where can I buy the DVD or at least watch the movie?

Serpico, dog day, deer hunter

That's not a bad list, not at all, but my favorite 90's film star who completely disapeared after that period always will be... Bridget Fonda. Iron Maze (1991), Single White Female (1992), City Hall (1996), Jackie Brown (1997), Break Up (1998), A Simple Plan (1998)... Bridget Fonda always contributed a great performance to each and every movie she were in.

Nice list - have you seen Killer of Sheep?

Probably a controversial opinion these days but 90s Kevin Spacey was Glengarry Glen Ross, Swimming with Sharks, The Usual Suspects, Seven, L.A. Confidential, A Bug's Life, American Beauty...

I remember silent running on tv back in the early 80's. One of my all time favourites when griwing up and remember crying(i was about 10) near the end-if my memory is correct-and probably wrong- it was when 1 of the robots 'died'. Good list 👍

Your choice seems to be international. Some actors I've not even heard of. From your list, my faves are Sophia Loren, Marlon Brando, Anthony Quinn, Brigitte Bardot, Cary Grant and Simone Signoret. Sorry, but I just couldn't stand the sight of Gloria Grahame. There was something about her personality that was so cheap and disgusting. I enjoy people with class, not gutter-snipes!

I was surprised that you didn’t include the Godfather or the Exorcist 😖😖

I don’t agree with this List.

Hullo Steve I’m the person who told you how disappointed I was to see my 70s crush age so horribly & ones who are still it and handsome I’m also the one who chastised you for brill ones you missed How about doing a”absolutely worse film remakes”, tho most are😮 Cheers Marjorie Ps: do you ever reply to comments?

Mine are. 1. Saving Private Ryan. 2. The Silence Of The Lambs. 3. The Usual Suspects. 4. LA Confidential. 5. Unforgiven. 6. Goodfellas. 7. Heat. 8. Natural Born Killers. 9. Glengarry Glen Ross. 10. Dumb And Dumber. 11. Dazed And Confused. 12. Fight Club. 13. Falling Down. 14. Jacob's Ladder. 15. The Big Lebowski. 16. Eyes Wide Shut. 17. The Sixth Sense. 18. Leon: The Professional. 19. Basic Instinct. 20. American History X.

EXCELLENT CHOICES! Apart from 2 OR 3 you must have chosen for reasons that only had to do with things like directing, screenplays, scripts or ones that I simply had no interest in. My favs were all there: Aguirre, Chinese Bookie,Chinatown, 5 Easy,Taxi Driver. Gert Carter and last but def not least, Performance! but I was amazed that you missed Badlands, The Man who fell and Dont Look Now The thing that often upsets me is watching the really bad aging of some of my early 20’s heart throbs, most notably here were Nicholson and Depardieu wheras Harvey and Dustin are looking pretty fit. Cheers! Marjorie 💚 ps: I subscribe to very little!

I would add Playtime, directed by Jacques Tati and Seconds

I have others but The Devils in the opening and Performance in the end are choices that I share so much.

Thanks for reminding me how much I hated growing up in the 1970's. Disco music, bad movies, gas rationing, and Jimmy Carter.

Cool Hand Luke is my favorite movie of the 60's. It's themes are even more relevant today. Much better than Point Blank (which I like).

#1 Taboo

Thumbs up, because you got #1 right.

Blow up is much better than Breathless... High and Low is at least in the top 10, of the movies on this list.

Bud Spencer and Terence Hill starrers...

Only gonna go for American films here. Worldwide is too big a topic Very tough whittling my favorites down to just 20. I've got a few over 20. Rio Grande, Winchester 73, , The River, Strangers on a Train, The Steel Helmet, Limelight, The Big Sky, Rancho Notorious, Bend of the River, Pickup on South Street, Johnny Guitar, The Naked Spur, Rebel Without a Cause, The Big Combo, Kiss Me Deadly, The Lineup, Night of the Hunter, Moonfleet, The Phenix City Story, The Searchers, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Vertigo, Touch of Evil, North By Northwest.

Big Heat , The Cranes are Flying and North by Northwest!

LOVE, LOVE The Great Silence. It's probably my favorite Spaghetti Western and it's in my top ten westerns of all time. The "silence," the acting, the tragedy. I look at it as the red wedding of westerns. The love theme Ennio made for this with the strings is just heartrending. #1. High Noon #2. The Big Country #3. Unforgiven #4. Great SIlence #5. Fort Apache. #6. Westward the Women #7. A Fistful of Dollars #8. The Good, the Bad and Ugly #9. Wagon Master #10. Yellow Sky I do like Tarkovsky but I have always been more inspired and emotionally touched by the images Kalatozov and Urusevsky bring to the screen. I am Cuba and Cranes Are Flying are my favorites. The Big City: I had a really tough time getting into Indian cinema. But Big City was the one that finally worked for me, and it's been a forward journey ever since. I recently saw the whole Apu trilogy. Aparajito is my favorite.

On the waterfront missing

The best of Kurosawa missing-:Rashomon. Also no David Lean - River Kwai or John Ford- The Quiet Man Questionable list.

Another excellent list of films. The ones I've seen are" The Big Heat, The Killing (Fantastic!!), The Wages of Fear (This one blew me away.), Les Diabloique and North by Northwest. I still haven't seen any Samurai movies. Not sure I'm the Samurai type!

Quite an eclectic list! The ones I've seen are: Blow-up, Lilith, Breathless, Knife in the Water (Decades ago. Can't remember a single thing about it.), Bonnie and Clyde and The Good, the Bad, and the ugly. I need to improve my game when it comes to non-American films.

This upload should have been titled "50's Best International Films" because the films depicted here are from different parts of the world. There's no doubt that many of these films would have won awards for best picture, best director, best actor, etc. These awards would have emerged from Cannes and other places where film festivals were held. From what little knowledge that I have of stars and films, I choose the following: (1) Scandal in Sorrento with the very gorgeous Sophia Loren. One look at her and you will realize why she became such a craze around the world. Mama Mia, its Sophia again in "Too bad she's bad". What a face, what a body and what acting chops!!! To that I have to add "Too good that she's so good"! "And God created woman" with Brigitte Bardot created a riot around the world. Ms. Bardot was a little girl in a lusty woman's body and she could act too! The little man could really fight - that's Glenn Ford in "The Big Heat". Glenn never gave a disappointing performance. His other 50's blockbuster was 'Blackboard Jungle' where Bill Haley's hit number "Rock around the clock" was first sung over the credits. North by Northwest was a neat little thriller from Alfred Hitchcock starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint. It was a popular film, but not as widely-liked as "Vertigo" with the ethereal Kim Novak.

I was pleasantly surprised you picked 'Delicatessen' but was disappointed you did not pick the other film by Caro and Jeunet, 'The City of Lost Children'....a fantasy film with a great premise and solid actors.

Excellent list. I must make an effort to see the few I have missed out on.

My 50s favourites: Sunset Boulevard (1950), Harvey (1950), The Man In The White Suit (1951), Ace In The Hole (1951), The Red Badge Of Courage (1951), Strangers On A Train (1951), Scrooge (1951), The Magic Box (1951), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), High Noon (1952), Singin' In The Rain (1952), The Importance Of Being Earnest (1952), The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953), The Wages Of Fear (1953), From Here To Eternity (1953), Rififi (1954), Them! (1954), 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954), The Seven Samurai (1954), Rear Window (1954), Lady And The Tramp (1955), Kiss Me Deadly (1955), The Man From Laramie (1955), The Night Of The Hunter (1955), The Ladykillers (1955), All That Heaven Allows (1955), The Court Jester (1956), Forbidden Planet (1956), The Killing (1956), Attack! (1956), The Searchers (1956), The Red Balloon (1956), Twelve Angry Men (1957), 3:10 To Yuma (1957), The Smallest Show On Earth (1957), Sweet Smell Of Success (1957), Paths Of Glory (1957), The Big Country (1958), The Vikings (1958), Touch Of Evil (1958), The Defiant Ones (1958), A Night To Remember (1958), Ice Cold In Alex (1958), Journey To The Centre Of The Earth (1959), Ben-Hur (1959), Some Like It Hot (1959), North By Northwest (1959)

I always enjoy your choices, and am usually surprised at how many of these I've seen, but I'm particularly interested in those I've yet to check out. ILYA MUROMETS certainly looked intriguing. I have to say that almost any Sophia Loren film from the 50's, Italian or American produced, is a must for me! I would have added at least one Marilyn Monroe film, probably GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES or THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH, because it's just anathema to not include her work in my favorites of that decade. Until next time, thanks for the content.

Amazing! I haven't seen a lot of these. Mine are 1.A Tale of Winter by Eric Rohmer 2. A Summer's Tale by Eric Rohmer 3. The Lion King 4. The Thin Red Line 5. JFK 6. Three Colors Blue 7. Homeward Bound 1 and 2 8. Gettysburg 9. Wedding Banquet * Pushing Hands * Eat Drink Man Woman 10. The Silence of the Lambs 11. Life is Sweet 12. The Fugitive 13. Unforgiven 14. The Virgin Suicides 15. Dogfight 16. Heat 17. Long Day Closes 18. To Live 19. Raise the Red Lantern 20. Air Force One