What is the best Miloš Forman film of all time?

By YPB Team

Half of this list was made under Czech censors, the other half inside Hollywood, by the same man.

  1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest — ranked #11
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    The 1975 asylum drama with Jack Nicholson that swept all five major Oscars.
    1000pts
  2. Loves of a Blonde — ranked #22
    Loves of a Blonde
    A 1965 Czech New Wave comedy about a shoe-factory girl and a visiting pianist.
    466pts
  3. Hair — ranked #33
    Hair
    The 1979 screen version of the counterculture musical, staged around Central Park.
    411pts
  4. Black Peter — ranked #44
    Black Peter
    Forman's 1964 feature debut about a teenager working as a grocery-store watchman.
    411pts
  5. The Firemen's Ball — ranked #55
    The Firemen's Ball
    Forman's 1967 satire of a provincial fire brigade's disastrous annual ball.
    348pts
  6. Amadeus — ranked #66
    Amadeus
    The 1984 Mozart drama told by a jealous Salieri, winner of eight Academy Awards.
    348pts
  7. Taking Off — ranked #77
    Taking Off
    Forman's 1971 American debut, a comedy about parents searching for their runaway daughter.
    348pts
  8. Goya's Ghosts — ranked #88
    Goya's Ghosts
    A 2006 drama of the painter caught between the Inquisition and Napoleon's army.
    348pts
  9. Valmont — ranked #99
    Valmont
    Forman's 1989 take on Les Liaisons dangereuses, with Colin Firth and Annette Bening.
    274pts
  10. Man on the Moon — ranked #1010
    Man on the Moon
    The 1999 Andy Kaufman biopic with Jim Carrey in the title role.
    187pts
  11. The People vs. Larry Flynt — ranked #1111
    The People vs. Larry Flynt
    The 1996 biopic of the Hustler publisher's free-speech fight, with Woody Harrelson.
    187pts
  12. Ragtime — ranked #1212
    Ragtime
    The 1981 adaptation of E. L. Doctorow's novel of race and grievance in 1900s New York.
    82pts

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