STANLEY KUBRICK MOVIES
Reviews of all your favorite films!

WATCH TOP KUBRICK MOVIE SCENES

10. LOLITA - Col. Dax (Kirk Douglas) and 8000 French soldiers fight the Germans in the battlefield of The Ant Hill, during World War I.

9. LOLITA - Humbert meets Lolita. Sequence extracted from Lolita

8. SPARTACUS - Watch "I am Spartacus".

7. EYES WIDE SHUT - Masked Ball scene starring Tom Cruise. Directed by Stanley Kubrick

6. BARRY LYNDON - It is the duel between Redmond Barry and Captain Quinn of the English Army over the love of a woman

5. FULL METAL JACKET - Watch thrilling 10 minute opening scene

4. THE SHINING - "Here's Johny!!". Watch wacky Jack Nicholson scene, directed by Stanley Kubrick

3. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE - Watch one of the stunning scenes of a clock work orange

2. DR STRANGELOVE - Board room scene between US and Russian presidents

1. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - Greatest movie opening ever!

ALSO -

STANLEY KUBRICK INTERVIEW - Watch marathon interview of Kubrick

STANLEY KUBRICK TRIBUTE - Watch tribute of all of Kubrick's films

EYES WIDE SHUT SEX SCENE - Watch one of the top sex moments in the history of film!

WATCH STANLEY KUBRICK DIRECTED MOVIE TRAILERS

EYES WIDE SHUT

FULL METAL JACKET

THE SHINING

BARRY LYNDON

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

LOLITA

SPARTACUS

The amazing thing is, in Kubrick's hands that tack didn't alienate anyone, it draws us further in. We want to observe what's happening to these people so much we don't even notice we're not self-identifying with them.

A photographer for Look magazine before he came to film, Kubrick knew how to shoot a good looking picture, shooting everything low with wide angles for a particularly unsettling feel (and maybe unsettling is the best way to describe his films). Which is why he didn't bother with his visuals as much as with his performances and scripts.

Every director on this list was a noted perfectionist of course, you have to be reach these creative heights, but none took that to such ridiculous extremes as Kubrick. A noted obsessive-compulsive, it was not unusual for Kubrick to shoot someone walking across a hallway 100 times. His final film, "Eyes Wide Shut" shot for almost as long as it took to film the entire "Lord of the Rings" saga. Except for Peter Sellers, no actor ever worked with Stanley Kubrick twice, and many actively detested him for the torment he put them through. But there's no denying the results.

And he could do it for anything. Black comedy about nuclear war? Check. Period drama? Check. War film? Double check. Gangster film? Yep, that too. But through all of those genres, from comedy to science fiction to horror, everything he made was obviously, unquestionably a Stanley Kubrick film from top to bottom.

And that's the real definer of the greatest. His films are undeniably singular, his peculiar ability so good, so unique, no one else was able to imitate it or driven to do so. Director's regularly try their hand at their Hitchcok film, their Ford-like western, and everything is inspired by Welles. But no one, even in the sci-fi films that actively try, can imitate Kubrick. He was unique.

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