TOZIAN’S TOP 700+ — DESERT ISLAND FILMS

(Note: These are not necessarily the best films ever made, merely the ones I like the best. Where there may be confusion, as in two films extant with the same name, I list the director’s name. If I have missed some that may be like-named assume I mean the “original” film, not a remake of the past 25 years or so. Boldface indicates my 100+ most beloved films.)

A

Absence of Malice

Ace in the Hole (a.ka. The Big Carnival)

L’Age d’Or

Aguirre the Wrath of God

Airplane Glue, I Love You (short)

Algiers

All About Eve

All the Vermeers in New York

Alphaville

The American Friend

Amores Perros

Andrei Rublev

Angel Face

Angi Vera

Annie Hall

The Apartment

Apocalypse Now

Archangel

Arsenic and Old Lace

The Asphalt Jungle

L’Atalante

Attention Shoppers

Atlantic City

L’Avventura

The Awful Truth

B

Baby Doll

Bad Company

Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession

Band of Outsiders

The Bank Dick

Barfly

Barry Lyndon

Battle of Angiers (Documentary)

Battleship Potempkin

Beat the Devil

Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau)

Becky Sharpe

Begotten

Being There

Berlin Alexanderplatz (TV, 15hrs. 20mins.)

Best of Show

The Bicycle Thief

The Big Heat

The Big Sleep

Billy Liar

The Birds

Blackboard Jungle

Black Narcissus

Blade Runner

Blood of the Poet

Blood of the Beast (documentary)

Blood Wedding

Blow-Up

A Boy and His Dog

Branded to Kill

Brazil

Breaking the Waves

Breathless (Godard)

Breathelss (McBride)

Brideshead Revisited (British TV series)

Bride of Frankenstein

The Bride With the White Hair

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Broken Blossoms

Brute Force

Buffalo 66

Bullitt

C

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Camera Buff

Candy

Candy Mountain

Carmen (Saura)

Carnal Knowledge

Carnival of Souls

A Canterbury Tale

Cat People

Celine and Julie Go Boating

Le Cercle Rouge

Charley Varrick

Un Chien Andalou (short)

Chappaqua

Children of Paradise

Chinatown

Circle of Deceit

Citizen Kane

Citizen Ruth
City of Lost Children

Cleo from 5 to 7

A Clockwork Orange

Closely Watched Trains

The Collector

Come and See

Come Back Little Sheba

Comfort and Joy (Forsythe)

Confidence (Szabo)

The Conformist

Contraband

The Conversation

The Cranes Are Flying

Crash (Cronenberg)

Croupier

Crumb (documentary)

Cutter’s Way

D

Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne

Dark Star

The Darling

Das Boot

David Copperfield

Dawn of the Dead

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Dazed and Confused

The Decalogue

Dead Man

Dead Ringers

Death in Venice

Deep End (Skolimowski)
Delicatessen

Deliverance

Le Dernier Combat

Desperate Living

Detour

Le Deuziem Souffle

The Devils

Diabolique

Diary of a Country Priest

Dinner at Eight

Dirty Harry

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Diva

Dodsworth

D.O.A.

Dog Star Man (avant garde)

La Dolce Vita

Don’t Look Back (documentary)

Don’t Look Now

Double Indemnity

Le Doulos

The Double Life of Veronique

The Draftsman’s Contract

The Drowning Pool

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)

Dr. Strangelove

E

Earrings of Madame de …

Earth

8 ½

Election

Electraglide in Blue

The Enchanted Forest

Enter the Dragon

The Entertainer

Eraserhead

Every Man For Himself

Everything Happens at Night

Exotica

The Exterminating Angel

Eyes Without a Face

F

Factotum

Fahrenheit 451

The Falcon and the Snowman

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

F for Fake

Farewell My Lovely (Smight)

Female Trouble

La Femme Nikita

Fingers

Fireworks (short)

A Fistful of Dollars

Five Easy Pieces

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T

Un Flic

Floating Weeds

For a Few Dollars More

Forbidden Games

400 Blows

The Fourth Man

Frankenstein

Freaks

The French Connection

The French Lieutenant’s Woman

From Russia With Love

From the Life of the Marionettes

From the Terrace

Full Metal Jacket

G

The Gambler

Gaslight

Gates of Heaven (documentary)

The Getaway

Get Carter (Hodges)

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Gilda

The Glass Key

Gloria

Go

The Godfather I

The Godfather II

Goldfinger

The Gold Rush

The Good, Bad, and the Ugly

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (Wood)

The Gospel According to St. Mathew

The Graduate

The Grand Illusion

La Grande Bouffe

Grand Hotel

The Grapes of Wrath

The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery

Greed

Gumshoe

Gun Crazy

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Gunga Din

H

Happiness

A Hard Day’s Night

The Harder They Come

Harper

Hard Eight

Harry and Tonto

Au Hasard Balthazar (Balthazar)

Heart of Glass

The Heartbreak Kid

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

The Hidden Room

High Noon

The Hill

Hiroshima Mon Amour

His Girl Friday

History is Made at Night

The Hit

Hombre

Hour of the Wolf

How Green Was My Valley

How to Get a Head In Advertising

How to Make It In Business Without Really Trying

Husbands

I

I Confess

I Am Cuba

If …

If I Had a Million

In a Lonely Place

Institute Benjamenta

The Ipcress File

It Happened One Night

Ivan’s Childhood

J

Jacob’s Ladder

Jazz on a Summer’s Day (documentary)

Je t’aime, Je t’aime

La Jete

Jewel Robber

K

Kansas City Confidential

A Kid for Two Farthings

The Killers (Woo)

Killer’s Kiss

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

King Kong

The King of Comedy

The King of Marvin Gardens

Kings of the Road

Kiss Me Deadly

Kiss of Death

Klute

Koyaanisqatsi

Kwaidan

L

The Lady From Shanghai

The Lady Killers

The Last Big Thing

The Last Detail

Last Holiday

The Last Laugh

Last Tango in Paris

Late Spring

The Laughing Policeman

Legend of the Suram Fortress

Letter From An Unknown Woman

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Life of Oharu

The Limey

Lipstick on Your Collar (Potter, TV series)

Liquid Sky

Little Caesar

Little Murders

Little Women

Local Hero

Lolita (Kubrick)

The Long Goodbye

The Long Good Friday

Los Olvidados

Lost in America

Lord Love a Duck

M

M

The Magnificent Ambersons

Mala Noche

The Maltese Falcon

Man Bites Dog

The Manchurian Candidate

Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Man of Flowers

Man of the Century

The Man With a Movie Camera

The Man Who Fell to Earth

The Man Who Would Be King

The Man Who Came to Dinner

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Marriage of Maria Braun

Marathon Man

Marnie

A Matter of Life and Death

Mauvais Sang

Mean Streets

Melvin and Howard

Memento

Metropolis

Le Million

Mickey One

Midnight Cowboy

A Minute to Pray a Second to Die

The Mirror

Missing

Monterey Pop (documentary)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Monty Python’s Meaning of Life

Mon Oncle D’Amerique

Moonlighting (Skolimowski)

Monsieur Hire

Morgan

The Most Dangerous Game

Mulholland Drive

Murder, My Sweet

Murder, She Said

Murders in the Zoo

My Best Fiend

My Darling Clementine

My Dinner With Andre

My Man Godfrey

My Own Private Idaho

My Little Chickadee

My Night at Maud’s

N

The Naked Kiss

Narrow Margin

Nashville

Natural Born Killers

Neighbors (McLaren, short)

North By Northwest

A New Leaf

Night and the City

Night Moves

Night of the Hunter

Night of the Living Dead

The Night Porter

Ninotchka

The Ninth Configuration

North By Northwest

Nosferatu

Nostalghia

O

Old Boy

O’Lucky Man

Oliver Twist

One From the Heart

Only the Valiant

On the Waterfront

Open City

Ordet

Orpheus

Our Man Flint

Our Mother’s House

Out of the Past

The Outsiders

Overlord

P

Palm Beach Story

Pandora’s Box

Paradise Lost (documentary)

Pather Panchali

Parallax View

The Passenger

Paths of Glory

Payday

Peeping Tom

Pennies From Heaven

Persona

Petulia

Pickpocket

The Pillow Book

Pink Flamingos

The Pink Panther

Pinnochio

Pixote

Playtime

Pocket Money

Point Blank

The Pointsman

Popeye

Port of Shadows (Le Quais des Brumes)

The Postman Always Rings Twice (Garnett)

P.O.V. (short)

Pretty Poison

Prime Cut

Privilege

The Professional (Leon)

Providence

Psycho

Pull My Daisy (short, avant garde)

Pulp

Q

Les Quais des Offres

Queen Christina

Queen of Spades

R

Radio On

Raging Bull

Ran

Rancho Deluxe

The Rapture

Rashomon

Rear Window

Rebel Without a Cause

The Red Badge of Courage

The Red Desert

The Red House

The Red Shoes

Reflecting Skin

Reflections in a Golden Eye

Repo Man

Repulsion

Reservoir Dogs

Raging Bull

Robin and Marian

Rock ‘n’ Roll High School

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Roger and Me

Rolling Thunder

Ruby in Paradise

Rules of the Game

The Ruling Class

S

The Sacrifice

Safe

Saint Jack

Salesman (documentary)

Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom

Samaritan (Zatoichi, Blind Swordsman)

Sansho Davu

Le Samourai

Sans Soliel

Save the Tiger

Sayat Nova

Scarface (De Palma)

The Scarlet Empress

Scarlet Street

Schmutz

Scorpio Rising (avant garde)

The Sea Wolf

Séance on a Wet Afternoon

Seconds

Secret Honor

The Servent

Seven Beauties

The Seven Samaurai

Shack Out On 101

Shadey

Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors

The Shanghai Express

Shampoo

Shane

Sherlock Holmes Dressed to Kill

The Shining

Shoeshine

Sure Fire

The Silence

The Silence of the Sea

Silent Running

Simon of the Desert (short)

Slap Shot

Slaughterhouse Five

A Slight Case of Murder

Slueth

Smile

Sorcerer

Solaris (Tarkovsky)

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Some Like It Hot

Spirit of the Beehive

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

Star 80

Straight Time

Stalker

La Strada

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Straw Dogs

The Steamroller and the Violin

A Streetcar Named Desire

Street of Crocodiles

Stroszek

The Stunt Man

Sudden Fear

Sunrise

Sunset Boulevard

Superstar

Suture

Sweet Smell of Success

Swimming Pool

T

Talk of the Town

Targets

Taxi Driver

That Obscure Object of Desire

Themroc

The Thin Man

The Third Man

This Gun For Hire

The Time of Your Life

Three Days of the Condor

3 Women

The Tingler

Toby Dammit (short, last part of Spirits of the Dead)

Tokyo Drifter

Too Late For Tears

Topper

Touch of Evil

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

True Confessions

Two Lane Blacktop

2001: A Space Odyssey

U

Under Fire

Under the Roofs of Paris

Unfaithfully Yours

The Usual Suspects

V

Vanishing Point

Vertigo

Videodrome

Village of the Damned

The Virgin Spring

W

The Wages of Fear

Waiting for Guffman

Walkabout

The War Game

Weekend

Westside Story

What Did I Do to Deserve This?

Whiskey Galore

White (Three Colors …)

White Heat

White Zombie

Who’ll Stop the Rain?

Who Is Harry Kellerman, And Why Is He Saying All Those Terrible Things About Me?

The Wild Bunch

The Wild One

Wild Strawberries

Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Winchester ‘73

Wings of Desire

Wise Blood

Withnail and I

Wolfen

The Woman in the Window

Woman of the Dunes

The Women

The World of Henry Orient

Written on the Wind

Y

The Year of Living Dangerously

Yellow Sky

You Can’t Take It With You

Young Aphrodites

You’re a Big Boy Now

Z

Zatoichi’s Flashing Swordcane

Zero For Conduct

Zulu

Z