The director of Gone Girl, House of Cards, The Social Network and many other iconic films, David Fincher, has compiled his own list of the 26 greatest films in history.
The films in this list, as the filmmaker noted, are arranged in random order.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) George Roy Hill
Chinatown (1974) Roman Polanski
Dr. Strangelove (1963) Stanley Kubrick
The Godfather Part II (1974) Francis Ford Coppola
Taxi Driver (1976) Martin Scorsese
“Being There” (1979) Hal Ashby
All That Jazz (1979) Bob Fosse
Alien (1979) Ridley Scott
Rear Window (1954) Alfred Hitchcock
“Zelig” (1983) Woody Allen
Cabaret (1972) Bob Fosse
“Paper Moon” (1973) Peter Bogdanovich
Jaws (1975) Steven Spielberg
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) David Lean
All the President’s Men (1976) Alan J. Pakula
“8 and a Half” (1963) Federico Fellini
Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Welles
Days of the Harvest (1978) Terrence Malick
“The Menagerie” (1978) John Landis
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) George Miller
“The Year of Life Danger” (1982) Peter Weir
American Graffiti (1973) George Lucas
“Terminator” (1984) James Cameron
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones
The Exorcist (1973) William Friedkin
“The Graduate” (1967) Mike Nichols
Previously, we published the top 12 films with the best cinematography.