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100 Most Schocking Movies Ever Made

Though they might be not so shocking now, in their time these movies were ground breaking in their genres. Kudos to their directors who dared to be daring.

Listed in alphabetical order.

1. Airplane! (1980) Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker

2. Akira (1989) Katsuhiro Otomo

3. Animal Crackers (1930) Victor Heerman

4. Badlands (1973) Terrence Malick

5. Bananas (1971) Woody Allen

6. Battleship Potemkin (1925) Sergei Eisenstein

7. Belle de Jour (1967) Luis Bunuel

8. The Birds (1963) Alfred Hitchcock

9. Blade Runner (1982) Ridley Scott

10. Blazing Saddles (1974) Mel Brooks

11. Blow-Up (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni

12. Blue Velvet (1986) David Lynch

13. Bob Le Flambeur (1955) Jean-Pierre Melville
Seedy casino robbery

14. Brazil (1985) Terry Gilliam

15. Breathless (1959) Jean-Luc Godard
Cutting cinematic style

16. Bride of Frankenstein (1935) James Whale

17. Cat People (1942) Jacques Tourneur
Mysterious provocative horror

18. Un Chien Andalou (1928) Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali [VHS]
Surreal horrifying mockfest

19. The Conformist (1971) Bernardo Bertolucci
Decadent Fascist romp

20. The Conversation (1974) Francis Ford Coppola

21. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) Woody Allen

22. The Crowd (1928) King Vidor

23. Dead Ringers (1988) David Cronenberg
Twin gynocologists bloody

24. Detour (1945) Edgar G. Ulmer
Blackmail film noir

25. The Devil in Miss Jones (1973) Gerard Damiano
"Tasteful" hardcore porn

26. Dirty Harry (1971) Don Siegel

27. Don't Look Back (1967) D.A. Pennebaker
Bob Dylan rockumentary

28. Do the Right Thing (1989) Spike Lee

29. Drugstore Cowboy (1989) Gus Van Sant

30. Dumbo (1941) Ben Sharpsteen

31. 8 1/2 (1963) Federico Fellini

32. Eyes Without a Face (1959) Georges Franju
Beauty loses face

33. Faces (1968) John Cassavetes

34. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) Russ Meyer
Catfighting go-go murders

35. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) Amy Heckerling

36. Flesh (1968) Paul Morrisey
Arty hustler movie

37. The 400 Blows (1959) Francois Truffaut

38. Freaks (1932) Tod Browning

39. The Gang's All Here (1943) Busby Berkely
Kaleidoscopic musical bizarreness

40. The Girl Can't Help It (1956) Frank Tashlin
Jayne Mansfield rocks

41. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) Sergio Leone

42. Halloween (1978) John Carpenter

43. A Hard Day's Night (1965) Richard Lester

44. The Harder They Come (1973) Perry Henzell
Raggae crime drama

45. The Hustler (1961) Robert Rossen

46. If... (1968) Lindsay Anderson

47. In the Company of Men (1997) Neil LaBute

48. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Don Siegel

49. Johnny Guitar (1954) Nicholas Ray
Joan Crawford western

50. Jules et Jim (1961) Francois Truffaut
Love three way

51. The Killer (1989) John Woo

52. The Killing (1956) Stanley Kubrick
Racetrack heist noir

53. Kiss Me Deadly (1955) Robert Aldrich

54. The Last Picture Show (1971) Peter Bogdanovich

55. Last Tango in Paris (1973) Bernardo Bertolucci

56. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) John Ford

57. Man With a Movie Camera (1929) Dziga Vertov

58. The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978) Rainer Werner Fassbinder

59. Mean Streets (1973) Martin Scorsese

60. Medium Cool (1969) Haskell Wexler

61. Metropolis (1926) Fritz Lang

62. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974) Terry Gillam & Terry Jones

63. My Brilliant Career (1979) Gillian Armstrong

64. Nashville (1975) Robert Altman

65. The Night of the Hunter (1955) Charles Laughton

66. Night of the Living Dead (1968) George A. Romero

67. Nosferatu (1922) F. W. Murnau

68. Olympia (1938) Leni Riefenstahl
Documentary Hitler's Berlin

69. Open City (1946) Roberto Rossellini

70. Pandora's Box (1928) G. W. Pabst

71. Peeping Tom (1960) Michael Powell

72. Persona (1966) Ingmar Bergman

73. The Piano (1993) Jane Campion

74. Pink Flamingos (1972) John Waters

75. Raising Arizona (1987) Joel Coen

76. Rashomon (1950) Akira Kurosawa

77. Repulsion (1965) Roman Polanski

78. Reservoir Dogs (1992) Quentin Tarantino

79. Ride the High Country (1962) Sam Peckinpah

80. The Road Warrior (1981) George Miller

81. The Rules of the Game (1939) Jean Renoir

82. Scarface (1932) Howard Hawks

83. Scarface (1983) Brian De Palma

84. Seconds (1966) John Frankenheimer

85. The Seven Samurai (1954) Akira Kurosawa

86. Shaft (1971) Gordon Parks

87. Sherlock, Jr. (1924) Buster Keaton

88. Shock Corridor (1963) Sam Fuller

89. Stranger Than Paradise (1984) Jim Jarmusch

90. Sullivan's Travels (1941) Preston Sturges

91. Sweet Smell of Success (1957) Alexander Mackendrick

92. Swept Away By An Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August (1975) Lina Wertmuller

93. The Terminator (1984) James Cameron

94. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Tobe Hooper

95. The Thin Blue Line (1988) Errol Morris

96. Touch of Evil (1958) Orson Welles

97. Trainspotting (1996) Danny Boyle

98. 28-Up (1985) Michael Apted

99. Walkabout (1971) Nicolas Roeg

100. Zero For Conduct (1933) Jean Vigo

This list was originally published by Premiere Magazine in 1998.



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