Because why not. They surveyed 177 critics from around the world to make this list.

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/201...greatest-films

1 Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
2 In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
3 There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
4 Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
5 Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)
6 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
7 The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
8 Yi Yi: A One and a Two (Edward Yang, 2000)
9 A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
10 No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007)
11 Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2013)
12 Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
13 Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)
14 The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012)
15 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
16 Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)
17 Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro, 2006)
18 The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009)
19 Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
20 Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
21 The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)
22 Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
23 Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)
24 The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
25 ?Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000)
26 25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002)
27 The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
28 Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar, 2002)
29 WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)
30 Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003)
31 Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011)
32 The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
33 The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
34 Son of Saul (László Nemes, 2015)
35 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)
36 Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2014)
37 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
38 City of God (Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, 2002)
39 The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)
40 Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005)
41 Inside Out (Pete Docter, 2015)
42 Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012)
43 Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
44 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)
45 Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013)
46 Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
47 Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014)
48 Brooklyn (John Crowley, 2015)
49 Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard, 2014)
50 The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2015)
51 Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010)
52 Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
53 Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)
54 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
55 Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski, 2013)
56 Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, director; Ágnes Hranitzky, co-director, 2000)
57 Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)
58 Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembčne, 2004)
59 A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)
60 Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
61 Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
62 Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
63 The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, 2011)
64 The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013)
65 Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, 2009)
66 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring (Kim Ki-duk, 2003)
67 The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2008)
68 The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
69 Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015)
70 Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley, 2012)
71 Tabu (Miguel Gomes, 2012)
72 Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)
73 Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
74 Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)
75 Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014)
76 Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
77 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, 2007)
78 The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
79 Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
80 The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2003)
81 Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011)
82 A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2009)
83 A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
84 Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
85 A Prophet (Jacques Audiard, 2009)
86 Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes, 2002)
87 Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
88 Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, 2015)
89 The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008)
90 The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2002)
91 The Secret in Their Eyes (Juan José Campanella, 2009)
92 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)
93 Ratatouille (Brad Bird, 2007)
94 Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
95 Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)
96 Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, 2003)
97 White Material (Claire Denis, 2009)
98 Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002)
99 The Gleaners and I (Agnčs Varda, 2000)
100 Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016)
100 Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
100 Carlos (Olivier Assayas, 2010)

I like a majority of the movies, and love the #1 (Mulholland Drive) and #100 (Requiem for a Dream) picks. I also really like Springer Breakers but was not expecting to see that on there

Seen 70 of them and I agree with most (20 I disagree with)

I've only seen 25 of the 100 and would only pick 6 of them for such a list: IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, SPIRITED AWAY, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, CAROL, THE PIANIST and FINDING NEMO.

Can I be the guy that points out that the year 2000 isn't part of the 21st century?

Well, you beat me to it


That's all I've seen, though I've been interested in many more of them, and even have many of them on DVD/Blu, just haven't gotten around to them yet.

Mulholland Drive
Holy Motors in the top 20?!

I've seen 50 of them. Not a bad list.

I've seen 70 of them. A decent list - although there are some highly overrated films on the list IMO... plus I have no interest in the Pixar crap.

Mulholland Drive at number one is where it should be.
How can the Lord Of The Rings films be missing when shit like Inception and The Dark Knight are listed?

100 movies from a pool of only 16 years is kinda ridiculous. A list of ten, even twenty would have been better. This just looks like a random list of "pretty damn good movies".

If I'd been asked, I would have included Dogtooth.

I could come up with a bunch that would replace some of the ones there and Dogtooth would most definitely be one of them.

By year

2012 - 9
2013 - 9
2000 - 8
2007 - 7
2009 - 7
2011 - 7
2015 - 7
2001 - 6
2002 - 6
2003 - 6
2008 - 6
2014 - 6
2010 - 5
2004 - 4
2005 - 4
2006 - 4
2016 - 1

By director

Apichatpong Weerasethakul - 3
Christopher Nolan - 3
Joel and Ethan Coen - 3
Michael Haneke - 3
Paul Thomas Anderson - 3
Wes Anderson - 3
Abbas Kiarostami - 2
Andrew Stanton - 2
Andrey Zvyagintsev - 2
Ang Lee - 2
Béla Tarr - 2
David Fincher - 2
Kathryn Bigelow - 2
Lars von Trier - 2
Richard Linklater - 2
Steve McQueen - 2
Terrence Malick - 2
Todd Haynes - 2
Abdellatif Kechiche - 1
Abderrahmane Sissako - 1
Agnčs Varda - 1
Alfonso Cuarón - 1
Andrea Arnold - 1
Andrew Dominik - 1
Asghar Farhadi - 1
Baz Luhrmann - 1
Brad Bird - 1
Cameron Crowe - 1
Charlie Kaufman - 1
Claire Denis - 1
Cristian Mungiu - 1
Darren Aronofsky - 1
David Cronenberg - 1
David Lynch - 1
Edward Yang - 1
Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund - 1
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck - 1
George Miller - 1
Guillermo Del Toro - 1
Harmony Korine - 1
Hayao Miyazaki - 1
Hou Hsiao-hsien - 1
Jacques Audiard - 1
Jean-Luc Godard - 1
Jean-Pierre Jeunet - 1
Jim Jarmusch - 1
John Crowley - 1
Jonathan Glazer - 1
Joshua Oppenheimer - 1
Juan José Campanella - 1
Julian Schnabel - 1
Kenneth Lonergan - 1
Kim Ki-duk - 1
László Nemes - 1
Leos Carax - 1
Lucrecia Martel - 1
Maren Ade - 1
Martin Scorsese - 1
Michel Gondry - 1
Miguel Gomes - 1
Nuri Bilge Ceylan - 1
Olivier Assayas - 1
Ousmane Sembčne - 1
Paolo Sorrentino - 1
Park Chan-wook - 1
Paweł Pawlikowski - 1
Pedro Almodóvar - 1
Pete Docter - 1
Quentin Tarantino - 1
Roman Polanski - 1
Sarah Polley - 1
Sofia Coppola - 1
Spike Jonze - 1
Spike Lee - 1
Steven Spielberg - 1
Tom McCarthy - 1
Tomas Alfredson - 1
Wong Kar-wai - 1

I certainly agree with number 1 and number 2.

I'd put The Pianist much higher.

Shame and 12 Years are on there but not Hunger? Hunger is the only one of McQueen's films I'd put on the list.

I'd take off all the Pixar except Nemo. Pixar's movies probably split the vote. If you took off all the other films that the critics are fools to like (WallE and Rat Movie) Nemo would probably be in the top 10 where it belongs.

I own Yi Yi and I fail to see the genius in it. What do people love so much?

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)

Great pick, but disappointed not to see Gangs of Wasseypur on there.

And plenty of movies there that I wanted to fall asleep to on this list (Uncle Boonme, White Material, Holy Motors). The latter is just a bit uneven.

My personal choices for favorite/best movies (Children of Men and The Lives of Others) are there, so it's good.

Sad my third, Snatch., didn't make it.

Why don't they have the last Fantastic Four movie on there?

There is already one terrible comic book movie too many on there.

Interesting. I wonder how many of these will make the final cut in 2100.

Lots of Pixar love but no The Incredibles? Sorry, fail.

Shoot, the Toy Story sequels deserve to be there as well.

I agree with #1 (and #3 in the top 5)

Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012) stands out of the worse film on the list for me.

But not A bad list.I watched about 70 from this list and enjoyed most of them.
I need to watch more movies from the list,but my top 100 or so would include.

Memories of Murder (2003)
Casino Royale (2006)
Irreversible (2002)
American Psycho (2000)since they are including 2000

Damn, nothing by Denis Villeneuve or Nicolas Winding Refn. Only one film by Claire Denis, David Cronenberg, Darren Aronofsky, Pedro Almodovar and Kim Ki-duk, each of whom could easily have 3.

Seen 76 of the 100. Not a bad list all around. There are a fair number of omissions I felt should have been included. But you only have 100 spots, so what can you do.

Was really happy to see both Zodiac and Lost In Translation made the list and are both placed so well.

A couple grips:

The New World and The Tree of Life should switch rankings.

Before Sunset and Boyhood should switch rankings.

The Dark Knight and Goodbye to Language should not have ranked.

There are very few straight ahead comedies listed. Which is unfortunate.

I've seen 40, I'm way behind on movies.

Women directors only got 9–12 spots, depending on how you count.