untamed.nl - Menni's All Time Movie Top 100

latest update: 26 December 2011

There's so much to say about a list like this, that the best thing to do is just shut up and let the titles do the talking. However, introduction never hurt no one and I'm dying to mention that these are nothing but MY hundred best films, MY favorites. Heavy on eighties, steady on nineties, filling up with noughties, even statistically it makes sense. But all choices are made by heart and highly personal interests: many women, cheesy romance, lots of troubled youngsters and soothing childhood sentiment, some search for the meaning of life and other pretentious nonsense. Physically explicit films in sweet harmony with mental stimulation. Exciting, entertaining and calming. Personal.

new entries:
- Sucker Punch at #51
- Cría cuervos at #92
- Jason's Lyric at #93

removed:
- Ad Fundum
- Alucarda
- Tagebuch einer Verlorenen

rising:
- Ponette up to #10
- Todo Todo Teros up to #27
- Donnie Darko up to #28
- The Redsin Tower up to #56

Menni's All Time Movie Top 100

1. Untamed Heart (1993, Tony Bill)
2. The Exorcist (1973, William Friedkin)
3. Naked (1993, Mike Leigh)
4. You Can't Take It With You (1938, Frank Capra)
5. Zoeken naar Eileen (1987, Rudolf van den Berg)
6. Before Sunrise (1995, Richard Linklater)
7. The Good Life (2007, Stephen Berra)
8. Koyaanisqatsi (1982, Godfrey Reggio)
9. Brief Encounter (1946, David Lean)
!10. Ponette (1996, Jacques Doillon)
11. Eyes Wide Shut (1999, Stanley Kubrick)
12. Pump Up the Volume (1990, Allan Moyle)
13. Il ladro di bambini (Stolen Children, 1992, Gianni Amelio)
14. The Breakfast Club (1985, John Hughes)
15. E.T. (1982, Steven Spielberg)
16. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, F.W. Murnau)
17. Mask (1985, Peter Bogdanovich)
18. Platoon (1986, Oliver Stone)
19. Waterloo Bridge (1940, Mervyn LeRoy)
20. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
21. The Sweet Hereafter (1997, Atom Egoyan)
22. Say Anything... (1989, Cameron Crowe)
23. Wall Street (1987, Oliver Stone)
24. The River (He liu, 1997, Ming-liang Tsai)
25. Free Zone (2005, Amos Gitai)
26. Bluebird (2004, Mijke de Jong)
!27. Todo Todo Teros (2006, John Torres)
!28. Donnie Darko (2001, Richard Kelly)
29. Cannibal Holocaust (1980, Ruggero Deodato)
30. One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961, Wolfgang Reitherman)
31. Lost in Translation (2003, Sofia Coppola)
32. Contact (1997, Robert Zemeckis)
33. La fille seule (A Single Girl, 1995, Benoît Jacquot)
34. Der letzte Mann (The Last Laugh, 1924, F.W. Murnau)
35. Der siebente Kontinent (The Seventh Continent, 1989, Michael Haneke)
36. About Last Night... (1986, Edward Zwick)
37. Tromeo & Juliet (1996, Lloyd Kaufman)
38. Idi i smotri (Come and See, 1985, Elem Klimov)
39. Dancer in the Dark (2000, Lars Von Trier)
40. Angel Baby (1995, Michael Rymer)
41. Mouchette (1967, Robert Bresson)
42. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, Frank Capra)
43. The Keep (1983, Michael Mann)
44. One Fine Spring Day (Bomnaleun ganda, 2001, Jin-Ho Hur)
45. The Great Dictator (1940, Charles Chaplin)
46. The Palm Beach Story (1942, Preston Sturges)
47. This Is Spinal Tap (1984, Rob Reiner)
48. The War Zone (1999, Tim Roth)
49. Return of the Jedi (1983, Richard Marquand)
50. Back to the Future (1985, Robert Zemeckis)
+51. Sucker Punch (2011, Zack Snyder)
52. Die Hard (1988, John McTiernan)
53. Lucas (1986, David Seltzer)
54. L'atalante (1934, Jean Vigo)
55. Map of the Human Heart (1993, Vincent Ward)
!56. The Redsin Tower (2006, Fred Vogel)
57. Verboden te Zuchten (2001, Alex Stockman)
58. Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (1981, Uli Edel)
59. The Brown Bunny (2003, Vincent Gallo)
60. All the Real Girls (2003, David Gordon Green)
61. Mermaid in a Manhole (Ginî piggu: Manhôru no naka no ningyo,1988, Hideshi Hino)
62. The Neverending Story (1984, Wolfgang Petersen)
63. Hiroshima mon amour (1959, Alain Resnais)
64. Keeping the Faith (2000, Edward Norton)
65. Kissed (1996, Lynne Stopkewich)
66. Andrey Rublyov (1969, Andrei Tarkovsky)
67. Hell's Angels (1930, Howard Hughes)
68. Life of Brian (1979, Terry Jones)
69. Wendy and Lucy (2008, Kelly Reichardt)
70. Liar (Deceiver, 1997, Jonas & Josh Pate)
71. Knife in the Water (Nóz w wodzie, 1962, Roman Polanski)
72. Forbidden Fruit (Kielletty hedelmä, 2009, Dome Karukoski)
73. The Cup (Phörpa, 1999, Khyentse Norbu)
74. Sunset Blvd. (1950, Billy Wilder)
75. Creator (1985, Ivan Passer)
76. A Chronicle of Corpses (2000, Andrew Repasky McElhinney)
77. The Evil Dead (1981, Sam Raimi)
78. The Driller Killer (1979, Abel Ferrara)
79. City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)
80. Kids (1995, Larry Clark)
81. Container (2006, Lukas Moodysson)
82. The Man in the Moon (1991, Robert Mulligan)
83. Zelig (1983, Woody Allen)
84. Pelym (1998, Andrzej Klamt, Ulrich Rydzewski)
85. Le frisson des vampires (The Shiver of the Vampires, 1970, Jean Rollin)
86. Rebel Without a Cause (1955, Nicholas Ray)
87. Titanic (1997, James Cameron)
88. Office Space (1999, Mike Judge)
89. Made in Hong Kong (Xianggang zhizao, 1997, Fruit Chan)
90. The Stendhal Syndrome (La sindrome di Stendhal, 1996, Dario Argento)
91. The Plague Dogs (1982, Martin Rosen)
+92. Cría cuervos (1976, Carlos Saura)
+93. Jason's Lyric (1994, Doug McHenry)
94. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947, Irving Reis)
95. Gimme Shelter (1970, Albert & David Maysles)
96. You've Got Mail (1998, Nora Ephron)
97. Mrs. Doubtfire (1993, Chris Columbus)
98. Go, Go Second Time Virgin (Yuke yuke nidome no shojo, 1969, Koji Wakamutsu)
99. Into My Heart (1998, Sean Smith & Anthony Stark)
100. Ciske de Rat (1984, Guido Pieters)