The Arts & Faith Top 100 — 2025 List

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  1. The Passion of Joan of Arc
  2. It’s a Wonderful Life
  3. Silence
  4. The Seventh Seal
  5. Ikiru
  6. First Reformed
  7. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  8. The Gospel According to St. Matthew
  9. Ordet
  10. Schindler’s List
  11. The Tree of Life
  12. The Night of the Hunter
  13. A Hidden Life
  14. Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
  15. Blade Runner
  16. Chariots of Fire
  17. Babette’s Feast
  18. A Man for All Seasons
  19. The Prince of Egypt
  20. Children of Men
  21. A Charlie Brown Christmas
  22. Dead Man Walking
  23. The Exorcist
  24. Fiddler on the Roof
  25. Minari
  26. The Mission
  27. Bicycle Thieves
  28. Au hasard Balthazar
  29. Andrei Rublev
  30. Of Gods and Men
  31. Diary of a Country Priest
  32. The Miracle Maker
  33. The Apostle
  34. Paris, Texas
  35. Selma
  36. The Secret of Kells
  37. Three Colors (trilogy)
  38. Women Talking
  39. Wings of Desire
  40. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
  41. Do the Right Thing
  42. Magnolia
  43. Calvary
  44. There Will Be Blood
  45. Tokyo Story
  46. Vertigo
  47. Ben-Hur
  48. My Neighbor Totoro
  49. Paterson
  50. Stalker
  51. The Iron Giant
  52. The Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
  53. Shoah
  54. A Serious Man
  55. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
  56. Witness
  57. Malcolm X
  58. Scrooge
  59. Unforgiven
  60. The Matrix
  61. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  62. Into Great Silence
  63. Make Way for Tomorrow
  64. On the Waterfront
  65. Spirited Away
  66. Doubt
  67. Amadeus
  68. Amazing Grace
  69. Black Narcissus
  70. Interstellar
  71. The Fisher King
  72. The Flowers of St. Francis
  73. The Last Temptation of Christ
  74. Flow
  75. The Green Knight
  76. Winter Light
  77. Wolfwalkers
  78. Yi Yi
  79. The Godfather
  80. Night and Fog
  81. A Matter of Life and Death
  82. Ida
  83. Jesus of Montreal
  84. Wildcat
  85. The Sixth Sense
  86. Signs
  87. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
  88. The Kid With a Bike
  89. Faust
  90. Pinocchio
  91. The Grapes of Wrath
  92. Jesus of Nazareth
  93. Mass
  94. The Florida Project
  95. The Muppet Christmas Carol
  96. I Am Not Your Negro
  97. Lourdes
  98. The Gleaners and I
  99. 12 Years a Slave
  100. Lady Bird

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