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 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Welles, Orson USA DS
4 The Rules of the Game 1939 Renoir, Jean France D
6 Seven Samurai 1954 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
8 Psycho 1960 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DUPS
9 Casablanca 1942 Curtiz, Michael USA DBUPS
10 The 400 Blows 1959 Truffaut, François France D
12 Bicycle Thieves 1948 De Sica, Vittorio Italy D
13 Rashômon 1950 Kurosawa, Akira Japan DU
17 Breathless 1960 Godard, Jean-Luc France D
19 8 1/2 1963 Fellini, Federico Italy / France DUS
23 M 1931 Lang, Fritz Germany DU
25 Schindler's List 1993 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
26 All About Eve 1950 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA DS
27 On the Waterfront 1954 Kazan, Elia USA DU
30 La Dolce Vita 1960 Fellini, Federico Italy / France DS
31 The World of Apu 1959 Ray, Satyajit India D
32 Dr. Strangelove
or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964 Kubrick, Stanley UK DUP
37 Tokyo Story 1953 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan D
39 Metropolis 1927 Lang, Fritz Germany DUPS
40 Some Like It Hot 1959 Wilder, Billy USA DS
42 Persona 1966 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden D
44 Ugetsu 1953 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan D
45 Children of Paradise 1945 Carné, Marcel France D
46 Double Indemnity 1944 Wilder, Billy USA DS
47 Jules and Jim 1962 Truffaut, François France DS
48 Sunset Boulevard 1950 Wilder, Billy USA DS
49 Nosferatu 1922 Murnau, F.W. Germany DU
50 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Capra, Frank USA DUPS
51 L'Atalante 1934 Vigo, Jean France DS
52 L'Avventura 1960 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France D
54 Ikiru 1952 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
58 King Kong 1933 Cooper, Merian C. / Schoedsack, Ernest B. USA DS
62 The Maltese Falcon 1941 Huston, John USA DUP
64 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan D
67 Zéro de conduite 1933 Vigo, Jean France V
70 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Hawks, Howard USA DU
71 Forbidden Games 1952 Clément, René France D
72 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Dreyer, Carl Theodor France D
73 High Noon 1952 Zinnemann, Fred USA DUS
74 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Wajda, Andrzej Poland D
77 Sunrise 1927 Murnau, F.W. USA D
79 Diabolique 1955 Clouzot, Henri-Georges France D
80 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 Pasolini, Pier Paolo France / Italy DU
81 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 Wyler, William USA D
82 The Third Man 1949 Reed, Carol UK D
83 Viridiana 1961 Buñuel, Luis Mexico / Spain D
84 Diary of a Country Priest 1951 Bresson, Robert France D
85 Beauty and the Beast 1946 Cocteau, Jean / Clément, René France / Luxembourg D
88 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Visconti, Luchino France / Italy DS
90 Touch of Evil 1958 Welles, Orson USA DUS
92 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 Frankenheimer, John USA D
93 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Lubitsch, Ernst USA D
95 Smiles of a Summer Night 1955 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden D
96 City Lights 1931 Chaplin, Charles USA DS
99 L'Âge d'Or 1930 Buñuel, Luis France Y
100 The Blue Angel 1930 von Sternberg, Josef Germany DS
103 Top Hat 1935 Sandrich, Mark USA DS
105 Duck Soup 1933 McCarey, Leo USA DUS
106 The Earrings of Madame de... 1953 Ophüls, Max France / Italy D
109 À nous la liberté 1931 Clair, René France D
111 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Resnais, Alain France / Italy Y
112 It Happened One Night 1934 Capra, Frank USA DU
113 Pather Panchali 1955 Ray, Satyajit India D
116 The General 1927 Keaton, Buster / Bruckman, Clyde USA DU
117 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 Huston, John USA DUPS
120 Throne of Blood 1957 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
121 Pandora's Box 1929 Pabst, Georg Wilhelm Germany D
122 The Bride of Frankenstein 1935 Whale, James USA DUS
123 The Lady Eve 1941 Sturges, Preston USA DU
124 Repulsion 1965 Polanski, Roman UK Y
126 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Laughton, Charles USA DUP
127 Notorious 1946 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
128 The Apartment 1960 Wilder, Billy USA D
133 The Last Picture Show 1971 Bogdanovich, Peter USA D
135 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Lester, Richard UK DS
137 Manhattan 1979 Allen, Woody USA DUP
138 Earth 1930 Dovzhenko, Aleksandr Soviet Union DU
139 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Kazan, Elia USA DUPS
140 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 Ford, John USA D
141 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Capra, Frank USA D
142 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Sturges, Preston USA DU
143 Grand Illusion 1937 Renoir, Jean France D
144 Paths of Glory 1957 Kubrick, Stanley USA DUP
145 Napoléon 1927 Gance, Abel Sweden / Italy / France / Czechoslovakia / Germany V
146 Le Jour se lève 1939 Carné, Marcel France V
147 Shame 1968 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden Y
148 The Seventh Seal 1957 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden D
148 Stagecoach 1939 Ford, John USA D
149 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Keaton, Buster USA Y
150 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Mackendrick, Alexander USA Y
154 Le Million 1931 Clair, René France D
155 His Girl Friday 1940 Hawks, Howard USA DU
157 Through a Glass Darkly 1961 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden Y
161 Intolerance 1916 Griffith, D.W. USA DUS
167 The Gold Rush 1925 Chaplin, Charles USA DS
168 Strike 1925 Eisenstein, Sergei M. Soviet Union DU
170 The Hustler 1961 Rossen, Robert USA D
172 La Chienne 1931 Renoir, Jean France Y
173 Dr. Mabuse - The Gambler 1922 Lang, Fritz Germany D
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174 Un Chien Andalou 1928 Buñuel, Luis France D
175 Modern Times 1936 Chaplin, Charles USA YS
178 The Burmese Harp 1956 Ichikawa, Kon Japan D
183 The Birth of a Nation 1915 Griffith, D.W. USA YUS
185 Aparajito 1957 Ray, Satyajit India D
186 Greed 1924 von Stroheim, Erich USA Y
187 Frankenstein 1931 Whale, James USA DS
193 L'Eclisse 1962 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France Y
194 La Strada 1954 Fellini, Federico Italy DS
195 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Siegel, Don USA D
197 Red River 1948 Hawks, Howard / Rosson, Arthur USA DUPS
199 Strangers on a Train 1951 Hitchcock, Alfred USA YUS
200 Swing Time 1936 Stevens, George USA DS
203 The Big Sleep 1946 Hawks, Howard USA DS
204 Boudu Saved from Drowning 1932 Renoir, Jean France D
206 Out of the Past 1947 Tourneur, Jacques USA Y
207 Open City 1945 Rossellini, Roberto Italy YU
208 Gertrud 1964 Dreyer, Carl Theodor Denmark Y
212 Battleship Potemkin 1925 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Aleksandrov, Grigori Soviet Union DU
216 The Bank Dick 1940 Cline, Edward F. USA D
218 Masculin, féminin 1966 Godard, Jean-Luc France / Sweden D
220 My Darling Clementine 1946 Ford, John USA D
221 12 Angry Men 1957 Lumet, Sidney USA D
225 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Welles, Orson USA YS
228 Vampyr 1932 Dreyer, Carl Theodor France / Germany DU
229 Los Olvidados 1950 Buñuel, Luis Mexico Y
231 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Mulligan, Robert USA DUS
233 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Milestone, Lewis USA D
234 Marty 1955 Mann, Delbert USA D
235 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Hamer, Robert UK D
243 From Here to Eternity 1953 Zinnemann, Fred USA DU
244 Europa '51 1952 Rossellini, Roberto Italy
247 The Philadelphia Story 1940 Cukor, George USA YUPS
249 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Curtiz, Michael USA YS
251 Dodsworth 1936 Wyler, William USA Y
252 The Lost Weekend 1945 Wilder, Billy USA YS
258 Lola 1961 Demy, Jacques Italy / France Y
259 Night of the Living Dead 1968 Romero, George A. USA DUP
261 Yojimbo 1961 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
263 The Man with the Movie Camera 1929 Vertov, Dziga Soviet Union DUS
266 White Heat 1949 Walsh, Raoul USA DS
267 42nd Street 1933 Bacon, Lloyd USA DUS
270 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Sturges, Preston USA DU
272 Rebecca 1940 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
275 Umberto D. 1952 De Sica, Vittorio Italy Y
277 The 39 Steps 1935 Hitchcock, Alfred UK DUP
278 The Red and the White 1967 Jancsó, Miklós Hungary / Soviet Union Y
279 The Public Enemy 1931 Wellman, William A. USA D
281 Wild Strawberries 1957 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden D
282 How Green Was My Valley 1941 Ford, John USA DS
283 Ninotchka 1939 Lubitsch, Ernst USA D
287 My Man Godfrey 1936 La Cava, Gregory USA YU
288 La Notte 1961 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France Y
289 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 Wellman, William A. USA Y
295 The Thin Man 1934 Van Dyke, W.S. USA D
300 The Battle of Algiers 1965 Pontecorvo, Gillo Algeria / Italy YS
301 Now, Voyager 1942 Rapper, Irving USA DS
302 Laura 1944 Preminger, Otto / Mamoulian, Rouben USA DU
303 Great Expectations 1946 Lean, David UK DB
304 Brief Encounter 1945 Lean, David UK Y
305 The Life of Emile Zola 1937 Dieterle, William USA D
309 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Lloyd, Frank USA YS
310 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
313 Eyes Without a Face 1960 Franju, Georges France / Italy Y
313 La Roue 1923 Gance, Abel France D
314 The Awful Truth 1937 McCarey, Leo USA DU
315 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Preminger, Otto USA DU
316 Scarface 1932 Hawks, Howard / Rosson, Richard USA DU
317 Nights of Cabiria 1957 Fellini, Federico Italy / France DUS
322 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 Capra, Frank USA D
323 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Nichols, Mike USA DUPS
324 The Wages of Fear 1953 Clouzot, Henri-Georges France / Italy D
326 A Place in the Sun 1951 Stevens, George USA YS
326 Wuthering Heights 1939 Wyler, William USA YS
328 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Lubitsch, Ernst USA Y
331 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 Reisz, Karel UK Y
335 A Night at the Opera 1935 Wood, Sam USA YS
337 Faces 1968 Cassavetes, John USA Y
346 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Aldrich, Robert USA Y
348 It's a Gift 1934 McLeod, Norman Z. USA D
349 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Ophüls, Max USA Y
353 All the King's Men 1949 Rossen, Robert USA D
354 The Defiant Ones 1958 Kramer, Stanley USA Y
355 Hiroshima, mon amour 1959 Resnais, Alain France / Japan Y
357 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 Ford, John USA D
358 Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953 Tati, Jacques France DS
359 The Crowd 1928 Vidor, King USA Y
361 The Elephant Man 1980 Lynch, David UK / USA D
375 Killer of Sheep 1977 Burnett, Charles USA D
376 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Minnelli, Vincente USA YU
377 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944 Sturges, Preston USA D
378 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 Huston, John USA YUS
383 Roman Holiday 1953 Wyler, William USA DU
386 Dracula 1931 Browning, Tod USA D
388 Camille 1936 Cukor, George USA D
390 Woman in the Dunes 1964 Teshigahara, Hiroshi Japan D
391 Mildred Pierce 1945 Curtiz, Michael USA YS
392 Queen Christina 1933 Mamoulian, Rouben USA D
394 Gun Crazy 1949 Lewis, Joseph H. USA Y
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397 Shadows 1959 Cassavetes, John USA Y
398 Stranger Than Paradise 1984 Jarmusch, Jim USA / West Germany D
400 Ordet 1955 Dreyer, Carl Theodor Denmark Y
401 Fury 1936 Lang, Fritz USA Y
402 Jezebel 1938 Wyler, William USA DS
403 Little Caesar 1931 LeRoy, Mervyn USA D
404 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Lubitsch, Ernst USA Y
412 The Great Dictator 1940 Chaplin, Charles USA YS
414 Young Frankenstein 1974 Brooks, Mel USA DB
415 Hud 1963 Ritt, Martin USA YUP
416 In a Lonely Place 1950 Ray, Nicholas USA Y
419 Odd Man Out 1947 Reed, Carol UK Y
421 Pickpocket 1959 Bresson, Robert France D
422 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 LeRoy, Mervyn USA Y
423 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 Ford, John USA D
426 Force of Evil 1948 Polonsky, Abraham USA Y
429 Ace in the Hole 1951 Wilder, Billy USA DUP
430 The Heiress 1949 Wyler, William USA D
431 Gunga Din 1939 Stevens, George USA Y
433 She Done Him Wrong 1933 Sherman, Lowell USA D
434 The Informer 1935 Ford, John USA DUS
435 Pickup on South Street 1953 Fuller, Samuel USA Y
436 Destry Rides Again 1939 Marshall, George USA D
438 Knife in the Water 1962 Polanski, Roman Poland D
439 David Copperfield 1935 Cukor, George USA D
444 Adam's Rib 1949 Cukor, George USA YUP
445 Triumph of the Will 1935 Riefenstahl, Leni Germany YUP
446 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Wise, Robert USA DBUS
448 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Aldrich, Robert USA D
449 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 Bresson, Robert France / Sweden D
450 The Thief of Bagdad 1924 Walsh, Raoul USA DU
452 Cat People 1942 Tourneur, Jacques USA D
453 To Have and Have Not 1944 Hawks, Howard USA DS
457 The Phantom of the Opera 1925 Julian, Rupert / Laemmle, Ernst / Sedgwick, Edward USA YUP
458 The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 Crichton, Charles UK Y
462 The Killers 1946 Siodmak, Robert USA YS
467 The Jazz Singer 1927 Crosland, Alan USA DS
469 A Face in the Crowd 1957 Kazan, Elia USA Y
471 In Cold Blood 1967 Brooks, Richard USA YU
474 Woman of the Year 1942 Stevens, George USA Y
478 The Exterminating Angel 1962 Buñuel, Luis Mexico Y
481 The Big Heat 1953 Lang, Fritz USA Y
482 Paisan 1946 Rossellini, Roberto Italy Y
489 Detour 1945 Ulmer, Edgar G. USA YU
492 A Star Is Born 1937 Wellman, William A. / Conway, Jack USA YS
495 Nanook of the North 1922 Flaherty, Robert J. USA DU
500 The Wind 1928 Sjöström, Victor USA Y
506 Love Me Tonight 1932 Mamoulian, Rouben USA D
514 Going My Way 1944 McCarey, Leo USA DUS
516 Room at the Top 1959 Clayton, Jack UK Y
518 Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005 Clooney, George USA DB
524 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Hawks, Howard USA D
525 The Big Parade 1925 Vidor, King USA V
526 Olympia Part One:
Festival of the Nations
1938 Riefenstahl, Leni Germany D
527 Freaks 1932 Browning, Tod USA D
527 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 Chaplin, Charles USA DS
528 Goodbye, Mr. Chips 1939 Wood, Sam UK Y
528 Love Affair 1939 McCarey, Leo USA YU
529 The Scarlet Empress 1934 von Sternberg, Josef USA Y
531 Pygmalion 1938 Asquith, Anthony / Howard, Leslie UK Y
537 Alexander Nevsky 1938 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Vasilyev, Dmitri Soviet Union Y
544 A Taste of Honey 1961 Richardson, Tony UK Y
548 Orpheus 1949 Cocteau, Jean France Y
551 The Cranes Are Flying 1957 Kalatozishvili, Mikheil Soviet Union Y
552 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Kramer, Stanley USA D
556 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Wiene, Robert Germany DU
560 Broken Blossoms 1919 Griffith, D.W. USA YU
562 Loves of a Blonde 1965 Forman, Milos Czechoslovakia Y
563 My Life to Live 1962 Godard, Jean-Luc France Y
564 Inherit the Wind 1960 Kramer, Stanley USA YU
565 Winchester '73 1950 Mann, Anthony USA D
566 A Night to Remember 1958 Baker, Roy Ward UK Y
567 Little Women 1933 Cukor, George USA YU
569 Hail the Conquering Hero 1944 Sturges, Preston USA D
570 Pride and Prejudice 1940 Leonard, Robert Z. USA D
571 Bob le flambeur 1955 Melville, Jean-Pierre France Y
574 Lost Horizon 1937 Capra, Frank USA YS
580 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 Garnett, Tay USA YUP
582 The Gunfighter 1950 King, Henry USA D
583 My Night at Maud's 1969 Rohmer, Eric France D
585 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Hitchcock, Alfred UK D
588 Ship of Fools 1965 Kramer, Stanley USA D
590 The Shop on Main Street 1965 Kadár, Ján / Klos, Elmar Czechoslovakia Y
594 The Longest Day 1962 Annakin, Ken / Marton, Andrew / Wicki, Bernhard / Zanuck, Darryl F. USA DBUS
596 Make Way for Tomorrow 1937 McCarey, Leo USA
599 Sergeant York 1941 Hawks, Howard USA DS
601 Captains Courageous 1937 Fleming, Victor USA DS
602 Olympia Part Two:
Festival of Beauty
1938 Riefenstahl, Leni Germany D
605 Twelve O'Clock High 1949 King, Henry USA DS
606 Crossfire 1947 Dmytryk, Edward USA YU
608 This Sporting Life 1963 Anderson, Lindsay UK D
610 Gilda 1946 Vidor, Charles USA Y
612 Death of a Salesman 1951 Benedek, László USA
613 Born Yesterday 1950 Cukor, George USA D
614 Eraserhead 1977 Lynch, David USA DS
615 The Good Earth 1937 Fleming, Victor / Franklin, Sidney / Machatý, Gustav USA D
617 Stage Door 1937 La Cava, Gregory USA Y
619 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 Seaton, George USA D
623 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 Ophüls, Marcel France / Switzerland / West Germany Y
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634 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 Truffaut, François France DS
636 The Last Laugh 1924 Murnau, F.W. Germany D
638 Lolita 1962 Kubrick, Stanley USA /