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Desk V · Combined elements

Audiovisual Arts

Film and television, digital and video games: moving image, sound and structure edited into one timeline, or played. Every work the desk has reviewed here, ranked by standing.

275 works · mean standing 8.2 · Film 275

1

2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick · Film

9.1 · Tier V

2

Citizen Kane

Orson Welles · Film

9.0 · Tier V

3

The Godfather

Francis Ford Coppola · Film

9.0 · Tier V

4

Vertigo

Alfred Hitchcock · Film

9.0 · Tier V

5

The Passion of Joan of Arc

Carl Theodor Dreyer · Film

8.9 · Tier IV

6

Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa · Film

8.9 · Tier IV

7

Tokyo Story

Yasujirō Ozu · Film

8.9 · Tier IV

8

The Godfather Part II

Francis Ford Coppola · Film

8.9 · Tier IV

9

Breathless

Jean-Luc Godard · Film

8.8 · Tier IV

10

8½

Federico Fellini · Film

8.8 · Tier IV

11

Rashomon

Akira Kurosawa · Film

8.8 · Tier IV

12

Mulholland Drive

David Lynch · Film

8.8 · Tier IV

13

The Rules of the Game

Jean Renoir · Film

8.8 · Tier IV

14

Apocalypse Now

Francis Ford Coppola · Film

8.8 · Tier IV

15

Ugetsu

Kenji Mizoguchi · Film

8.8 · Tier IV

16

Stalker

Andrei Tarkovsky · Film

8.8 · Tier IV

17

Raging Bull

Martin Scorsese · Film

8.8 · Tier IV

18

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Chantal Akerman · Film

8.8 · Tier IV

19

Battleship Potemkin

Sergei Eisenstein · Film

8.8 · Tier IV

20

Schindler's List

Steven Spielberg · Film

8.8 · Tier IV

21

The Tree of Life

Terrence Malick · Film

8.8 · Tier IV

22

Fanny and Alexander

Ingmar Bergman · Film

8.8 · Tier IV

23

Three Colours

Krzysztof Kieślowski · Film

8.8 · Tier IV

24

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Stanley Kubrick · Film

8.7 · Tier IV

25

The Seventh Seal

Ingmar Bergman · Film

8.7 · Tier IV

26

In the Mood for Love

Wong Kar-wai · Film

8.7 · Tier IV

27

Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette)

Vittorio De Sica · Film

8.7 · Tier IV

28

On the Waterfront

Elia Kazan · Film

8.7 · Tier IV

29

Persona

Ingmar Bergman · Film

8.7 · Tier IV

30

Blue Velvet

David Lynch · Film

8.7 · Tier IV

31

Au hasard Balthazar

Robert Bresson · Film

8.7 · Tier IV

32

Andrei Rublev

Andrei Tarkovsky · Film

8.7 · Tier IV

33

Mirror

Andrei Tarkovsky · Film

8.7 · Tier IV

34

Sátántangó

Béla Tarr · Film

8.7 · Tier IV

35

Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock · Film

8.7 · Tier IV

36

Shoah

Claude Lanzmann · Film

8.7 · Tier IV

37

The Searchers

John Ford · Film

8.7 · Tier IV

38

L'Avventura

Michelangelo Antonioni · Film

8.7 · Tier IV

39

Goodfellas

Martin Scorsese · Film

8.7 · Tier IV

40

Barry Lyndon

Stanley Kubrick · Film

8.7 · Tier IV

41

The Thin Red Line

Terrence Malick · Film

8.7 · Tier IV

42

La Dolce Vita

Federico Fellini · Film

8.6 · Tier IV

43

Do the Right Thing

Spike Lee · Film

8.6 · Tier IV

44

M

Fritz Lang · Film

8.6 · Tier IV

45

A Clockwork Orange

Stanley Kubrick · Film

8.6 · Tier IV

46

The Shining

Stanley Kubrick · Film

8.6 · Tier IV

47

Man with a Movie Camera

Dziga Vertov · Film

8.6 · Tier IV

48

Grand Illusion

Jean Renoir · Film

8.6 · Tier IV

49

The Battle of Algiers

Gillo Pontecorvo · Film

8.6 · Tier IV

50

Parasite

Bong Joon-ho · Film

8.6 · Tier IV

51

Taxi Driver

Martin Scorsese · Film

8.6 · Tier IV

52

Blade Runner

Ridley Scott · Film

8.6 · Tier IV

53

Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight

Richard Linklater · Film

8.6 · Tier IV

54

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

F. W. Murnau · Film

8.6 · Tier IV

55

Chinatown

Roman Polanski · Film

8.6 · Tier IV

56

Late Spring

Yasujirō Ozu · Film

8.6 · Tier IV

57

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Luis Buñuel · Film

8.6 · Tier IV

58

Playtime

Jacques Tati · Film

8.6 · Tier IV

59

Zodiac

David Fincher · Film

8.6 · Tier IV

60

Pickpocket

Robert Bresson · Film

8.6 · Tier IV

61

Dekalog

Krzysztof Kieślowski · Film

8.6 · Tier IV

62

Lawrence of Arabia

David Lean · Film

8.6 · Tier IV

63

There Will Be Blood

Paul Thomas Anderson · Film

8.6 · Tier IV

64

No Country for Old Men

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen · Film

8.6 · Tier IV

65

Twin Peaks

David Lynch and Mark Frost · Film

8.6 · Tier IV

66

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Werner Herzog · Film

8.5 · Tier IV

67

Brazil

Terry Gilliam · Film

8.5 · Tier IV

68

Sunset Boulevard

Billy Wilder · Film

8.5 · Tier IV

69

Badlands

Terrence Malick · Film

8.5 · Tier IV

70

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Robert Altman · Film

8.5 · Tier IV

71

Ikiru

Akira Kurosawa · Film

8.5 · Tier IV

72

The Red Shoes

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger · Film

8.5 · Tier IV

73

L'Eclisse

Michelangelo Antonioni · Film

8.5 · Tier IV

74

Princess Mononoke

Hayao Miyazaki · Film

8.5 · Tier IV

75

The Night of the Hunter

Charles Laughton · Film

8.5 · Tier IV

76

Eyes Wide Shut

Stanley Kubrick · Film

8.5 · Tier IV

77

Last Year at Marienbad

Alain Resnais · Film

8.5 · Tier IV

78

Nashville

Robert Altman · Film

8.5 · Tier IV

79

Viridiana

Luis Buñuel · Film

8.5 · Tier IV

80

The Third Man

Carol Reed · Film

8.5 · Tier IV

81

Days of Heaven

Terrence Malick · Film

8.5 · Tier IV

82

City Lights

Charlie Chaplin · Film

8.5 · Tier IV

83

Double Indemnity

Billy Wilder · Film

8.5 · Tier IV

84

The Conformist

Bernardo Bertolucci · Film

8.5 · Tier IV

85

The Leopard

Luchino Visconti · Film

8.5 · Tier IV

86

Fight Club

David Fincher · Film

8.5 · Tier IV

87

Once Upon a Time in America

Sergio Leone · Film

8.5 · Tier IV

88

The Master

Paul Thomas Anderson · Film

8.5 · Tier IV

89

Yi Yi

Edward Yang · Film

8.5 · Tier IV

90

The General

Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman · Film

8.5 · Tier IV

91

Ran

Akira Kurosawa · Film

8.5 · Tier IV

92

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Robert Wiene · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

93

Cléo from 5 to 7

Agnès Varda · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

94

Spirited Away

Hayao Miyazaki · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

95

Akira

Katsuhiro Otomo · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

96

Breaking the Waves

Lars von Trier · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

97

Solaris

Andrei Tarkovsky · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

98

A City of Sadness

Hou Hsiao-hsien · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

99

The Lord of the Rings

Peter Jackson · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

100

Beau Travail

Claire Denis · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

101

The Dark Knight

Christopher Nolan · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

102

The Conversation

Francis Ford Coppola · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

103

Unforgiven

Clint Eastwood · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

104

Wings of Desire

Wim Wenders · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

105

Vivre sa vie

Jean-Luc Godard · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

106

The Deer Hunter

Michael Cimino · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

107

Raise the Red Lantern

Zhang Yimou · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

108

Fargo

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

109

Farewell My Concubine

Chen Kaige · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

110

It's a Wonderful Life

Frank Capra · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

111

The New World

Terrence Malick · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

112

Boyhood

Richard Linklater · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

113

Rear Window

Alfred Hitchcock · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

114

Children of Men

Alfonso Cuarón · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

115

Holy Motors

Leos Carax · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

116

Arrival

Denis Villeneuve · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

117

Mad Max: Fury Road

George Miller · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

118

The Zone of Interest

Jonathan Glazer · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

119

One Battle After Another

Paul Thomas Anderson · Film

8.4 · Tier IV

120

Rome, Open City

Roberto Rossellini · Film

8.3 · Tier IV

121

28 Days Later

Danny Boyle · Film

8.3 · Tier IV

122

La Strada

Federico Fellini · Film

8.3 · Tier IV

123

La Jetée

Chris Marker · Film

8.3 · Tier IV

124

Pulp Fiction

Quentin Tarantino · Film

8.3 · Tier IV

125

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

John Huston · Film

8.3 · Tier IV

126

The 400 Blows

François Truffaut · Film

8.3 · Tier IV

127

Taste of Cherry

Abbas Kiarostami · Film

8.3 · Tier IV

128

The Exterminating Angel

Luis Buñuel · Film

8.3 · Tier IV

129

Metropolis

Fritz Lang · Film

8.3 · Tier IV

130

Throne of Blood

Akira Kurosawa · Film

8.3 · Tier IV

131

Belle de Jour

Luis Buñuel · Film

8.3 · Tier IV

132

The Last Temptation of Christ

Martin Scorsese · Film

8.3 · Tier IV

133

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Apichatpong Weerasethakul · Film

8.3 · Tier IV

134

My Neighbour Totoro

Hayao Miyazaki · Film

8.3 · Tier IV

135

Modern Times

Charlie Chaplin · Film

8.3 · Tier IV

136

Touch of Evil

Orson Welles · Film

8.3 · Tier IV

137

Blow-Up

Michelangelo Antonioni · Film

8.3 · Tier IV

138

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Sergio Leone · Film

8.3 · Tier IV

139

Heat

Michael Mann · Film

8.3 · Tier IV

140

Alien

Ridley Scott · Film

8.3 · Tier IV

141

The Royal Tenenbaums

Wes Anderson · Film

8.3 · Tier IV

142

Under the Skin

Jonathan Glazer · Film

8.3 · Tier IV

143

Paris, Texas

Wim Wenders · Film

8.3 · Tier IV

144

Caché

Michael Haneke · Film

8.3 · Tier IV

145

Videodrome

David Cronenberg · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

146

Wild Strawberries

Ingmar Bergman · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

147

Nosferatu

F. W. Murnau · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

148

The Matrix

Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

149

The Piano

Jane Campion · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

150

Ivan's Childhood

Andrei Tarkovsky · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

151

Dazed and Confused

Richard Linklater · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

152

Se7en

David Fincher · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

153

The Grapes of Wrath

John Ford · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

154

Le Samouraï

Jean-Pierre Melville · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

155

Saving Private Ryan

Steven Spielberg · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

156

The Marriage of Maria Braun

Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

157

Some Like It Hot

Billy Wilder · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

158

Eraserhead

David Lynch · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

159

Memories of Murder

Bong Joon-ho · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

160

Dead Man

Jim Jarmusch · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

161

The Silence of the Lambs

Jonathan Demme · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

162

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Michel Gondry · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

163

Amadeus

Miloš Forman · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

164

Jaws

Steven Spielberg · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

165

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

166

The Double Life of Véronique

Krzysztof Kieślowski · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

167

Pan's Labyrinth

Guillermo del Toro · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

168

Moonlight

Barry Jenkins · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

169

Short Cuts

Robert Altman · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

170

The Social Network

David Fincher · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

171

12 Monkeys

Terry Gilliam · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

172

Burning

Lee Chang-dong · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

173

Roma

Alfonso Cuarón · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

174

Phantom Thread

Paul Thomas Anderson · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

175

Dunkirk

Christopher Nolan · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

176

The Irishman

Martin Scorsese · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

177

Five Easy Pieces

Bob Rafelson · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

178

Annie Hall

Woody Allen · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

179

Pierrot le Fou

Jean-Luc Godard · Film

8.2 · Tier IV

180

The Wizard of Oz

Victor Fleming · Film

8.1 · Tier IV

181

The Terminator

James Cameron · Film

8.1 · Tier IV

182

The Graduate

Mike Nichols · Film

8.1 · Tier IV

183

The Apartment

Billy Wilder · Film

8.1 · Tier IV

184

Sicario

Denis Villeneuve · Film

8.1 · Tier IV

185

Being John Malkovich

Spike Jonze · Film

8.1 · Tier IV

186

Sherlock Jr.

Buster Keaton · Film

8.1 · Tier IV

187

The Big Lebowski

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen · Film

8.1 · Tier IV

188

The Great Dictator

Charlie Chaplin · Film

8.0 · Tier IV

189

Scenes from a Marriage

Ingmar Bergman · Film

8.0 · Tier IV

190

Amarcord

Federico Fellini · Film

8.0 · Tier IV

191

Network

Sidney Lumet · Film

8.0 · Tier IV

192

Lost in Translation

Sofia Coppola · Film

8.0 · Tier IV

193

North by Northwest

Alfred Hitchcock · Film

8.0 · Tier IV

194

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Steven Spielberg · Film

8.0 · Tier IV

195

WALL-E

Andrew Stanton · Film

8.0 · Tier IV

196

The Sacrifice

Andrei Tarkovsky · Film

8.0 · Tier IV

197

Dark City

Alex Proyas · Film

8.0 · Tier IV

198

City of God

Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund · Film

8.0 · Tier IV

199

Manhattan

Woody Allen · Film

8.0 · Tier IV

200

The Maltese Falcon

John Huston · Film

8.0 · Tier IV

201

That Obscure Object of Desire

Luis Buñuel · Film

8.0 · Tier IV

202

Rushmore

Wes Anderson · Film

8.0 · Tier IV

203

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Steven Spielberg · Film

8.0 · Tier IV

204

Casablanca

Michael Curtiz · Film

8.0 · Tier IV

205

Hell or High Water

David Mackenzie · Film

8.0 · Tier IV

206

A Hidden Life

Terrence Malick · Film

8.0 · Tier IV

207

Dune: Part Two

Denis Villeneuve · Film

8.0 · Tier IV

208

The Power of the Dog

Jane Campion · Film

8.0 · Tier IV

209

Oldboy

Park Chan-wook · Film

7.9 · Tier III

210

The Fly

David Cronenberg · Film

7.9 · Tier III

211

Naked

Mike Leigh · Film

7.9 · Tier III

212

Get Out

Jordan Peele · Film

7.9 · Tier III

213

Lost Highway

David Lynch · Film

7.9 · Tier III

214

Star Wars

George Lucas · Film

7.9 · Tier III

215

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Wes Anderson · Film

7.9 · Tier III

216

Singin' in the Rain

Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly · Film

7.9 · Tier III

217

Take Shelter

Jeff Nichols · Film

7.9 · Tier III

218

Dune: Part One

Denis Villeneuve · Film

7.9 · Tier III

219

Rebel Without a Cause

Nicholas Ray · Film

7.8 · Tier III

220

High and Low

Akira Kurosawa · Film

7.8 · Tier III

221

Cries and Whispers

Ingmar Bergman · Film

7.8 · Tier III

222

Memento

Christopher Nolan · Film

7.8 · Tier III

223

Chungking Express

Wong Kar-wai · Film

7.8 · Tier III

224

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen · Film

7.8 · Tier III

225

His Girl Friday

Howard Hawks · Film

7.8 · Tier III

226

Aliens

James Cameron · Film

7.8 · Tier III

227

Gravity

Alfonso Cuarón · Film

7.8 · Tier III

228

The Elephant Man

David Lynch · Film

7.8 · Tier III

229

The Shawshank Redemption

Frank Darabont · Film

7.8 · Tier III

230

All of Us Strangers

Andrew Haigh · Film

7.8 · Tier III

231

The Revenant

Alejandro González Iñárritu · Film

7.8 · Tier III

232

The Fisher King

Terry Gilliam · Film

7.8 · Tier III

233

Casino

Martin Scorsese · Film

7.8 · Tier III

234

Nights of Cabiria

Federico Fellini · Film

7.7 · Tier III

235

Secrets & Lies

Mike Leigh · Film

7.7 · Tier III

236

The Player

Robert Altman · Film

7.7 · Tier III

237

Snowpiercer

Bong Joon-ho · Film

7.7 · Tier III

238

Notorious

Alfred Hitchcock · Film

7.7 · Tier III

239

Dog Day Afternoon

Sidney Lumet · Film

7.7 · Tier III

240

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Yorgos Lanthimos · Film

7.7 · Tier III

241

Gone Girl

David Fincher · Film

7.7 · Tier III

242

The Last of the Mohicans

Michael Mann · Film

7.7 · Tier III

243

Mud

Jeff Nichols · Film

7.7 · Tier III

244

Godzilla Minus One

Takashi Yamazaki · Film

7.7 · Tier III

245

The Banshees of Inisherin

Martin McDonagh · Film

7.7 · Tier III

246

The Phantom of Liberty

Luis Buñuel · Film

7.7 · Tier III

247

Magnolia

Paul Thomas Anderson · Film

7.7 · Tier III

248

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Steven Spielberg · Film

7.7 · Tier III

249

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Alejandro González Iñárritu · Film

7.7 · Tier III

250

28 Years Later

Danny Boyle · Film

7.7 · Tier III

251

Shadow of a Doubt

Alfred Hitchcock · Film

7.6 · Tier III

252

Cool Hand Luke

Stuart Rosenberg · Film

7.6 · Tier III

253

The Crow

Alex Proyas · Film

7.6 · Tier III

254

The Northman

Robert Eggers · Film

7.6 · Tier III

255

I Vitelloni

Federico Fellini · Film

7.6 · Tier III

256

The Lobster

Yorgos Lanthimos · Film

7.6 · Tier III

257

Back to the Future

Robert Zemeckis · Film

7.5 · Tier III

258

Slumdog Millionaire

Danny Boyle · Film

7.5 · Tier III

259

Civil War

Alex Garland · Film

7.5 · Tier III

260

Midnight Special

Jeff Nichols · Film

7.5 · Tier III

261

The Killer

David Fincher · Film

7.5 · Tier III

262

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Jim Jarmusch · Film

7.5 · Tier III

263

Nosferatu

Robert Eggers · Film

7.5 · Tier III

264

Groundhog Day

Harold Ramis · Film

7.4 · Tier III

265

The Exorcist

William Friedkin · Film

7.4 · Tier III

266

Punch-Drunk Love

Paul Thomas Anderson · Film

7.3 · Tier III

267

Challengers

Luca Guadagnino · Film

7.3 · Tier III

268

Warfare

Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza · Film

7.3 · Tier III

269

The Wild Robot

Chris Sanders · Film

7.3 · Tier III

270

Outlaw King

David Mackenzie · Film

7.2 · Tier III

271

Queer

Luca Guadagnino · Film

7.1 · Tier III

272

Reservoir Dogs

Quentin Tarantino · Film

7.0 · Tier III

273

Bottle Rocket

Wes Anderson · Film

6.9 · Tier II

274

Rumble Fish

Francis Ford Coppola · Film

6.7 · Tier II

275

The Godfather Part III

Francis Ford Coppola · Film

6.4 · Tier II