Saturday night...11pm and we're done with the week. Switch on the telly, crack a bottle and here's my top 100 late-night favourite films. For maximum appreciation, these astonishing movies should be watched after 11pm, commercial-free. Many of them should not be approached sober...
1. The Mummy (1932)
2. Throne of Blood (1957)
3. I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
4. Badlands (1974)
5. The Defiant Ones (1958)
6. Le jour se leve (1939)
7. Fat City (1972)
8. Lianna (1983)
9. Persona (1966)
10. Alien (1979)
11. Ed Wood (1994)
12. Underground (1995)
13. Wings of Desire (1987)
14. Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989)
15. Leon...The Professional (1994)
16. Excalibur (1981)
17. If.... (1968)
18. The Big Sleep (1946)
19. Pandora's Box (1928)
20. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
21. Cat People (1942)
22. Farewell, My Lovely (aka Murder, My Sweet)(1944)
23. Le Trou (The Hole) (1960)
24. Southern Comfort (1981)
25. The General (1927)
26. Andrei Rublev (1966)
27. Dark Star (1974)
28. Repo Man (1983)
29. Forbidden Planet (1956)
30. The Vikings (1958)
31. Blue Hawaii (1962)
32. I solti ignoti (Persons Unknown...aka Big Deal on Madonna Street)(1960)
33. Contempt (Le Mepris) (1963)
34. Where Eagles Dare (1968)
35. Day for Night (1973)
36. The Wages of Fear (1952)
37. Tampopo (1986)
38. Il Conformista (1970)
39. Tokyo Story (1953)
40. Ossessione (1942)
41. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
42. Die Hard (1988)
43. Lost Horizon (1937)
44. Manhattan (1979)
45. Run, Lola, Run (1999)
46. Dune (1984)
47. Alexander Nevsky (1938)
48. The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1937)
49. Last Tango in Paris (1972)
50. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
51. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
52. Man of Flowers (1983)
(1931)
54. Les Visiteurs du Soir (1942)
55. Them! (1954)
56. Phantom of the Opera (1925)
57. The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974)
58. On the Town (1949)
59. The Seventh Seal (1957)
60. The Third Man (1949)
61. Hidden Fortress (1958)
62. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
63. Simple Men (1992)
64. Dracula (1992)
65. Dracula (1931)
66. Rififi (1954)
67. Now Voyager (1942)
68. Hail Mary (1985)
69. Touch of Evil (1958)
70. Gilda (1946)
71. Blade Runner (1982)
72. La belle et la bete (1946)
73. Predator (1987)
74. Bedazzled (1967)
75. Betty Blue (1986)
76. Night of the Hunter (1955)
77. The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1963)
78. Plan 9 From Outer Space (1956)
79. Odd Man Out (1947)
80. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
81. Planet of the Apes (1968)
82. Blood Simple (1984)
83. Orphee (1949)
84. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
85. The Doors (1991)
86. Petrified Forest (1936)
87. Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
88. Shall We Dance (1937)
89. Whistle Down the Wind (1961)
90. THX 1138 (1971)
91. Bicycle Thief (1948)
92. Ivan the Terrible (1943)
(1963)
94. Mahler (1974)
95. Princess Tam Tam (1935)
96. Aliens (1986)
97. Freaks (1932)
98. Bande a part (Band of Outsiders) (1964)
99. Sanjuro (1962)
100. The Thing (1951)
