RANKINGS

Every Film Ranked

All 50 Woody Allen films, ranked in my personal order. These choices are shaped by the places I love and the films that have stayed with me — entirely subjective and very much open to disagreement.

A personal selection

My top five

1

Manhattan

1979

This is the film that inspired me to move to Manhattan to live and work there in 1999. Its place at the top of my list is personal.

→ 2

Hannah and Her Sisters

1986

This is quintessential Woody Allen for me: the perfect mix of humour, relationships and reflection, with an amazing portrait of New York City. There is plenty of competition across his films, but this one brings it all together.

→ 3

Midnight in Paris

2011

I can never decide whether my favourite city is New York or Paris. Every time I watch Midnight in Paris, it’s Paris. Every time I watch Manhattan, it’s New York.

→ 4

Annie Hall

1977

Annie Hall is so iconic that I couldn’t leave it out of any top-five list. How can Midnight in Paris be ahead of it? See my Paris obsession for the answer!

→ 5

Love and Death

1975

Of the “early funny movies”, Sleeper is amazing, but Love and Death is the one for me: gag after gag, in every possible form, and they all land!

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The remaining films

Numbers 6–50, in my personal order. Select a film to explore its page.

  1. Sleeper1973
  2. Interiors1978
  3. Crimes and Misdemeanors1989
  4. Everyone Says I Love You1996
  5. Stardust Memories1980
  6. Broadway Danny Rose1984
  7. Manhattan Murder Mystery1993
  8. Bullets Over Broadway1994
  9. Take the Money and Run1969
  10. Irrational Man2015
  11. Match Point2005
  12. Another Woman1988
  13. Small Time Crooks2000
  14. Magic in the Moonlight2014
  15. To Rome with Love2012
  16. Husbands and Wives1992
  17. September1987
  18. Bananas1971
  19. Shadows and Fog1991
  20. The Purple Rose of Cairo1985
  21. Deconstructing Harry1997
  22. Whatever Works2009
  23. Blue Jasmine2013
  24. Radio Days1987
  25. Zelig1983
  26. Vicky Cristina Barcelona2008
  27. A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy1982
  28. Alice1990
  29. Café Society2016
  30. Sweet and Lowdown1999
  31. Scoop2006
  32. Mighty Aphrodite1995
  33. A Rainy Day in New York2019
  34. Anything Else2003
  35. Melinda and Melinda2004
  36. Celebrity1998
  37. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion2001
  38. Hollywood Ending2002
  39. Cassandra's Dream2007
  40. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)1972
  41. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger2010
  42. Wonder Wheel2017
  43. Coup de Chance2023
  44. Rifkin's Festival2020
  45. What's Up, Tiger Lily?1966