Australia's Top 100 Movies

On Sunday 4 December, the ABC aired a show called "My Favourite Film". Hosted by Australian TV critic Margaret Pomeranz, it counted down Australians' Top 10 Movies. The Top 100 were later revealed on the ABC website.

Australians' Top 100 films are...

1-10
1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
2. Amelie
3. Blade Runner
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. Donnie Darko
6. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
7. Pulp Fiction
8. The Princess Bride
9. Gone With The Wind
10. Fight Club

11-20
11. The Sound of Music
12. To Kill A Mockingbird
13. 2001: A Space Odyssey
14. Casablanca
15. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
16. American Beauty
17. Doctor Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
18. Monty Python's Life of Brian
19. Lawrence Of Arabia
20. Apocalypse Now

21-30
21. Cinema Paradiso
22. Doctor Zhivago
23. The Matrix
24. The Castle
25. Singin' in the Rain
26. A Clockwork Orange
27. The Blues Brothers
28. Withnail and I
29. Life is Beautiful
30. The Godfather

31-40
31. Moulin Rouge
32. Some Like it Hot
33. Lost in Translation
34. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
35. Local Hero
36. The Third Man
37. Brazil
38. Serenity
39. Breakfast at Tiffany's
40. A Room with a View

41-50
41. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
42. Dead Poets Society
43. Harold and Maude
44. The Big Lebowski
45. The Wizard of Oz
46. Out Of Africa
47. Picnic at Hanging Rock
48. The Usual Suspects
49. Cabaret
50. Forrest Gump

51-60
51. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
52. The Piano
53. Pirates of the Carribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl
54. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
55. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
56. The City of Lost Children
57. The African Queen
58. Love Actually
59. Strictly Ballroom
60. Wings of Desire

61-70
61. Raiders of the Lost Ark
62. Babette's Feast
63. The Fifth Element
64. Spirited Away
65. Aliens
66. It's a Wonderful Life
67. Napoleon Dynamite
68. Rear Window
69. Romeo And Juliet
70. Dirty Dancing

71-80
71. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
72. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
73. Trainspotting
74. Muriel's Wedding
75. When Harry Met Sally
76. The Great Escape
77. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
78. Gallipoli
79. Lantana
80. Garden State

81-90
81. Sin City
82. Chariots of Fire
83. The English Patient
84. This is Spinal Tap
85. Chocolat
86. Fargo
87. Look Both Ways
88. Goodfellas
89. Alien
90. Grease

91-100
91. All About Eve
92. Citizen Kane
93. Stand By Me
94. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
95. Mulholland Drive
96. Back to the Future
97. High Fidelity
98. The Thin Red Line
99. Being John Malkovich
100. Dead Man

Discuss.

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Iro's Top 100 Movies v3.0

This list just dashed my notion that the avg. Australian speaks in nonsense syllables, listens to noisy tapeloop semi-music and watches Picnic at Hanging Rock every weekend at the drive-in. Thanks a lot.

At first, I read that list as saying that Australia's #1 movie of all time was 10. I thought, wow, they must really have a thing for braids.

Where's The Year My Voice Broke? I would have hoped that masterpiece would at least get the love it deserves in its homeland.

I was hoping for the top 100 Australian movies silly me

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Yes! Three cheers for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind! I'm always amazed at how high that film is placed on these kinds of lists.

(Although, I don't agree with many of these choices. Films like Life is Beautiful and Trainspotting are too low on the list, and Serenity shouldn't even be on there.)

That's the pity about this list - the highest-ranked Aus movie is #24, out of about 2 or 3 Aus movies. Shows how much we don't like how our own crap smells.

Wow, Australians sure have different taste in film. I thought when I was reading this, the order was wrong. They put "Citizen Kane" in 92nd place? Goodfellas was way down in 88th?

Maybe they should watch films in reverse, and they'll have a different list.

Well we are at the bottom of the world, so what do you expect

They like British films down there don't they.

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They made this many?

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