The Arts & Faith Top 100 — 2006 List

In 2006 guests and users at the Arts & Faith message board conducted the third vote to select and rank the Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films. Although the vote totals and discussion surrounding the process were deleted when Arts & Faith migrated from being a discussion board to a stand-alone site, the results and some appreciations remain. To read a voter appreciation, click on a title below. In most cases, the appreciation has been updated since the original vote, but a handful of appreciations from 2006 remain if the film being acknowledged did not make a subsequent Arts & Faith lists.

  1. Ordet
  2. The Son
  3. The Miracle Maker
  4. The Gospel According to St. Matthew
  5. The Diary of a Country Priest
  6. The Passion of Joan of Arc
  7. The Decalogue
  8. Babette’s Feast
  9. A Man Escaped
  10. Andrei Rublev
  11. Au hasard Balthazar
  12. The Seventh Seal
  13. Ikiru
  14. Winter Light
  15. The Mission
  16. The Apostle
  17. Three Colors Trilogy (links to the appreciation of Three Colors: Blue)
  18. Jesus of Nazareth
  19. Jesus of Montreal
  20. The Flowers of St. Francis
  21. Dead Man Walking
  22. Stalker
  23. Magnolia
  24. The Promise
  25. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
  26. Tender Mercies
  27. A Man for All Seasons
  28. Wings of Desire
  29. Day of Wrath
  30. Yi Yi: A One, and A Two
  31. The Hiding Place
  32. Wild Strawberries
  33. Rosetta
  34. After Life
  35. The Sacrifice
  36. To End All Wars
  37. Chariots of Fire
  38. Shadowlands
  39. The Big Kahuna
  40. Not of this World
  41. Schindler’s List
  42. Millions
  43. The Straight Story
  44. A Taste of Cherry
  45. The Passion of the Christ
  46. Becket
  47. Wit
  48. Open City
  49. Nazarin
  50. Secrets and Lies
  51. Romero
  52. Places in the Heart
  53. It’s a Wonderful Life
  54. Ponette
  55. Les Misérables
  56. Luther
  57. Tokyo Story
  58. Hell House
  59. Breaking the Waves
  60. Crimes and Misdemeanors
  61. To Kill a Mockingbird
  62. The Mirror
  63. The Last Temptation of Christ
  64. The Gospel of John
  65. Hotel Rwanda
  66. Fearless
  67. Solaris
  68. Night of the Hunter
  69. Cries and Whispers
  70. Stromboli
  71. Stevie
  72. Dogville
  73. My Night at Maud’s
  74. Black Robe
  75. Close-Up
  76. The Apu Trilogy (links to an appreciation for Pather Panchali)
  77. Werckmeister Harmonies
  78. Waking Life
  79. Koyaanisqatsi
  80. Peter and Paul
  81. 13 Conversations about One Thing
  82. The Sweet Hereafter
  83. Dersu Uzala
  84. The Trial of Joan of Arc
  85. Summer (The Green Ray)
  86. Fiddler on the Roof
  87. Bicycle Thieves
  88. The Year of Living Dangerously
  89. L’ Argent
  90. The Elephant Man
  91. Faust
  92. Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
  93. A Moment of Innocence
  94. Jean de Florette / The Manon of Spring
  95. Sansho the Bailiff
  96. Lillies of the Field
  97. The Wind Will Carry Us
  98. The Addiction
  99. The Song of Bernadette
  100. Tales of Ugetsu