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  • The Searchers
  • Seven Samurai
  • Casablanca
  • Heat
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • Seven Samurai
  • The Searchers
  • Casablanca
  • Heat
  • North by Northwest

My all time top 250 movies (2021 version)

250 films

2021 version of the list

  • The Searchers
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  • Stagecoach
  • Fort Apache
  • My Darling Clementine

Directors ranked: John Ford

20 films

Note: still to see a number of John Ford films (including The Long Voyage Home Young Mr. Lincolon, The Long…

  • Seven Samurai
  • Ran
  • High and Low
  • Yojimbo
  • Ikiru
  • 12 Angry Men
  • Paths of Glory
  • Witness for the Prosecution
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • Anatomy of a Murder

Top 10: Courtroom / Political dramas

10 films

Top 10 Courtroom / Political dramas

  • Big Trouble in Little China
  • Yojimbo
  • Seven Samurai
  • Rio Bravo
  • Gladiator
  • The Searchers
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • The Wild Bunch
  • Rio Bravo
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Top 10: Western

10 films

Top 10 Westerns

  • Seven Samurai
  • The Searchers
  • Casablanca
  • North by Northwest
  • Harakiri

My all time top 250 movies

250 films

Ranking of what I consider to be the 250 greatest movies ever made (2020 version of this list).

  • Rio Bravo
  • The Big Sleep
  • Only Angels Have Wings
  • Red River
  • His Girl Friday

Directors ranked: Howard Hawks

14 films

Note: haven't seen all his films yet.

  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • Once Upon a Time in the West
  • For a Few Dollars More
  • Once Upon a Time in America
  • A Fistful of Dollars
  • Barry Lyndon
  • The Shining
  • Paths of Glory
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

Directors ranked: Stanley Kubrick

12 films

Note: Haven't seen Fear and Desire (1953)

  • Princess Mononoke
  • Spirited Away
  • The Wind Rises
  • Porco Rosso
  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind