There's not really a big introduction to this. These are just films that stand out to me. The first 35 are ranked -- the rest, just a bunch of great films that I couldn't choose from.
THE TOP THIRTY-FIVE
1.) M (Fritz Lang) / The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
3.) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman)
4.) Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
5.) The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
6.) JFK (Oliver Stone)
7.) 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
8.) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)
9.) Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
10.) Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
11.) The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer)
12.) Fargo (Joel Coen)
13.) Laura (Otto Preminger)
14.) A Pure Formality (Giuseppe Tornatore)
15.) The King of Comedy (Martin Scorcese)
16.) The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
17.) All the President’s Men (Alan J. Pakula)
18.) The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
19.) The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
20.) The Producers (Mel Brooks)
21.) Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
22.) The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
23.) 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam)
24.) Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson)
25.) The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
26.) The China Syndrome (James Bridges)
27.) The Fugitive (Andrew Davis)
28.) Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
29.) The French Connection (William Friedkin)
30.) Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
31.) Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
32.) Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)
33.) A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi)
34.) In the Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison)
35.) Days of Wine and Roses (Blake Edwards)
REMAINING FIVE-STAR FILMS (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY)
* A Civil Action (Steven Zaillian)
* A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner)
* Amadeus (Milos Forman)
* Apollo 13 (Ron Howard)
* Awakenings (Penny Marshall)
* As Good As It Gets (James L. Brooks)
* Bang the Drum Slowly (John Hancock)
* Being There (Hal Ashby)
* Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
* Braveheart (Mel Gibson)
* Cape Fear (Martin Scorcese)
* Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
* Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore)
* Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
* Cookie’s Fortune (Robert Altman)
* Conspiracy Theory (Richard Donner)
* Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner)
* Dead Again (Kenneth Branagh)
* Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir)
* Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
* Dial M For Murder (Alfred Hitchcock)
* Driving Miss Daisy (Bruce Beresford)
* Elephant Man, The (David Lynch)
* Field of Dreams (Phil Alden Robinson)
* General, The (Buster Keaton)
* Glory (Edward Zwick)
* Green Mile, The (Frank Darabont)
* Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? (Sidney Kramer)
* Halloween (John Carpenter)
* Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh)
* Haunting, The (Robert Wise)
* Hoffa (Danny Devito)
* Hudsucker Proxy, The (Joel Coen)
* It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
* Kafka (Steven Soderbergh)
* Life Is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni)
* Madness of King George, The (Nicholas Hytner)
* Magic (Richard Attenborough)
* Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
* Misery (Rob Reiner)
* Mississippi Burning (Alan Parker)
* Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner)
* Pleasantville (Gary Ross)
* Quiz Show (Robert Redford)
* Rain Man (Barry Levinson)
* Raising Arizona (Joel Coen)
* Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
* Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
* Ronin (John Frankenheimer)
* Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
* Shadows and Fog (Woody Allen)
* Shining, The (Stanley Kubrick)
* Spanish Prisoner, The (David Mamet)
* Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick)
* Sting, The (George Roy Hill)
* Thin Red Line, The (Terrence Malick)
* To Kill A Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan)
* Truman Show, The (Peter Weir)
* Untouchables, The (Brian De Palma)
* Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich)
* Winslow Boy, The (David Mamet)
* Witness (Peter Weir)
There are currently 97 total films on this list. Now e-mail me and tell me it's great. Or it sucks. Or whatever.
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