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 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Welles, Orson USA DS
3 Vertigo 1958 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DUS
4 The Rules of the Game 1939 Renoir, Jean France D
5 The Godfather 1972 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DS
6 Seven Samurai 1954 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
9 Casablanca 1942 Curtiz, Michael USA DUPS
10 The 400 Blows 1959 Truffaut, François France D
11 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Penn, Arthur USA DBUPS
12 Bicycle Thieves 1948 De Sica, Vittorio Italy D
13 Rashômon 1950 Kurosawa, Akira Japan DU
14 The Searchers 1956 Ford, John USA DBS
15 Chinatown 1974 Polanski, Roman USA DUS
16 Breathless 1960 Godard, Jean-Luc France D
17 Raging Bull 1980 Scorsese, Martin USA D
18 8 1/2 1963 Fellini, Federico Italy / France DUS
19 Pulp Fiction 1994 Tarantino, Quentin USA D
21 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Zhang, Yimou China / Hong Kong / Taiwan DS
24 Schindler's List 1993 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
25 All About Eve 1950 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA DS
26 On the Waterfront 1954 Kazan, Elia USA DU
27 Taxi Driver 1976 Scorsese, Martin USA DUS
28 The Conformist 1970 Bertolucci, Bernardo Italy / France / West Germany DS
29 La Dolce Vita 1960 Fellini, Federico Italy / France DS
30 Belle de jour 1967 Buñuel, Luis France / Italy D
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
33 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
35 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 Lean, David UK DUS
36 Tokyo Story 1953 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan D
37 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Buñuel, Luis France / Italy / Spain D
38 Metropolis 1927 Lang, Fritz Germany DUPS
40 The Godfather Part II 1974 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DS
41 Gone with the Wind 1939 Fleming, Victor USA DS
42 Persona 1966 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden D
43 GoodFellas 1990 Scorsese, Martin USA DBUP
44 Ugetsu 1953 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan D
45 Children of Paradise 1945 Carné, Marcel France D
47 Jules and Jim 1962 Truffaut, François France DS
48 Sunset Boulevard 1950 Wilder, Billy USA DS
50 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Capra, Frank USA DS
51 L'Atalante 1934 Vigo, Jean France DS
52 L'Avventura 1960 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France D
53 Ran 1985 Kurosawa, Akira Japan / France D
54 Ikiru 1952 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
55 Aguirre, The Wrath of God 1972 Herzog, Werner West Germany / Peru / Mexico D
56 Nashville 1975 Altman, Robert USA DS
57 Do the Right Thing 1989 Lee, Spike USA DU
59 The Graduate 1967 Nichols, Mike USA DS
60 Fanny & Alexander 1982 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden / France / West Germany D
61 Wings of Desire 1987 Wenders, Wim West Germany / France DS
63 Apocalypse Now 1979 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DS
64 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan D
65 Contempt 1963 Godard, Jean-Luc France / Italy DS
66 The Wild Bunch 1969 Peckinpah, Sam USA DB
67 Zéro de conduite 1933 Vigo, Jean France V
68 The Decalogue 1989 Kieslowski, Krzysztof Poland D
69 Playtime 1967 Tati, Jacques France / Italy D
71 Forbidden Games 1952 Clément, René France D
72 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Dreyer, Carl Theodor France D
74 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Wajda, Andrzej Poland D
77 Sunrise 1927 Murnau, F.W. USA D
78 Unforgiven 1992 Eastwood, Clint USA DBUP
80 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 Pasolini, Pier Paolo France / Italy D
81 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 Wyler, William USA 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
86 Weekend 1967 Godard, Jean-Luc Italy / France D
87 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 Lean, David UK / USA DUS
88 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Visconti, Luchino France / Italy DS
89 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Forman, Milos USA DBU
91 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 Frankenheimer, John USA D
95 City Lights 1931 Chaplin, Charles USA DS
96 Blade Runner 1982 Scott, Ridley USA DBUPS
97 Solaris 1972 Tarkovsky, Andrei Soviet Union D
98 L'Âge d'Or 1930 Buñuel, Luis France Y
99 The Blue Angel 1930 von Sternberg, Josef Germany DS
101 L.A. Confidential 1997 Hanson, Curtis USA DS
102 Tristana 1970 Buñuel, Luis France / Italy / Spain V
106 The Earrings of Madame de... 1953 Ophüls, Max France / Italy D
107 Blow-Up 1966 Antonioni, Michelangelo UK / Italy DU
108 West Side Story 1961 Robbins, Jerome / Wise, Robert USA DUPS
111 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Resnais, Alain France / Italy Y
113 Pather Panchali 1955 Ray, Satyajit India D
117 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 Huston, John USA DUPS
118 Blue Velvet 1986 Lynch, David USA DS
119 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
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
124 Repulsion 1965 Polanski, Roman UK Y
125 Rebel Without a Cause 1955 Ray, Nicholas USA DU
126 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Laughton, Charles USA D
128 The Apartment 1960 Wilder, Billy USA D
129 Murmur of the Heart 1971 Malle, Louis France / Italy / West Germany D
131 The Conversation 1974 Coppola, Francis Ford USA D
132 Le Boucher 1970 Chabrol, Claude France / Italy D
133 The Last Picture Show 1971 Bogdanovich, Peter USA D
134 Cabaret 1972 Fosse, Bob USA DUS
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 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
136 M*A*S*H 1970 Altman, Robert USA D
137 Manhattan 1979 Allen, Woody USA D
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
143 Grand Illusion 1937 Renoir, Jean France D
144 Celine and Julie Go Boating 1974 Rivette, Jacques France Y
145 Paths of Glory 1957 Kubrick, Stanley USA DUP
146 Napoléon 1927 Gance, Abel Sweden / Italy / France / Czechoslovakia / Germany V
147 Le Jour se lève 1939 Carné, Marcel France V
148 Shame 1968 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden Y
149 The Seventh Seal 1957 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden D
149 Stagecoach 1939 Ford, John USA D
151 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Mackendrick, Alexander USA Y
153 The American Friend 1977 Wenders, Wim West Germany / France Y
156 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Demy, Jacques France / West Germany DUS
157 Through a Glass Darkly 1961 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden Y
158 The Deer Hunter 1978 Cimino, Michael USA D
159 Lamerica 1994 Amelio, Gianni Italy / France DS
160 The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 Erice, Víctor Spain D
161 Intolerance 1916 Griffith, D.W. USA DUS
162 My Fair Lady 1964 Cukor, George USA DS
163 Lola Montès 1955 Ophüls, Max France / West Germany Y
164 Pierrot le fou 1965 Godard, Jean-Luc France / Italy D
166 Night of the Shooting Stars 1982 Taviani, Paolo / Taviani, Vittorio Italy D
168 Strike 1925 Eisenstein, Sergei M. Soviet Union DU
169 Atlantic City 1980 Malle, Louis USA / Canada / France DS
170 The Hustler 1961 Rossen, Robert USA D
171 Network 1976 Lumet, Sidney USA DU
172 La Chienne 1931 Renoir, Jean France Y
176 The French Connection 1971 Friedkin, William USA D
177 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Spielberg, Steven USA DBUS
178 The Burmese Harp 1956 Ichikawa, Kon Japan D
179 The Golden Coach 1953 Renoir, Jean France / Italy Y
180 Day for Night 1973 Truffaut, François France / Italy DS
181 American Graffiti 1973 Lucas, George USA Y
182 Landscape in the Mist 1988 Angelopoulos, Theo France / Greece / Italy D
183 The Birth of a Nation 1915 Griffith, D.W. USA YUS
184 Patton 1970 Schaffner, Franklin J. USA DBS
185 Aparajito 1957 Ray, Satyajit India D
186 Greed 1924 von Stroheim, Erich USA Y
187 Frankenstein 1931 Whale, James USA DS
188 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Rafelson, Bob USA Y
189 Floating Weeds 1959 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan D
190 Midnight Cowboy 1969 Schlesinger, John USA DS
193 1900 1976 Bertolucci, Bernardo France / Italy / West Germany DS
194 L'Eclisse 1962 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France Y
195 La Strada 1954 Fellini, Federico Italy DS
199 The Double Life of Véronique 1991 Kieslowski, Krzysztof France / Poland / Norway DS
200 Strangers on a Train 1951 Hitchcock, Alfred USA YUS
203 Two English Girls 1971 Truffaut, François France YS
206 Red Desert 1964 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France Y
207 Out of the Past 1947 Tourneur, Jacques USA Y
208 Open City 1945 Rossellini, Roberto Italy YU
209 Gertrud 1964 Dreyer, Carl Theodor Denmark Y
210 Shane 1953 Stevens, George USA YU
211 Easy Rider 1969 Hopper, Dennis USA YU
212 Battleship Potemkin 1925 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Aleksandrov, Grigori Soviet Union DU
213 American Beauty 1999 Mendes, Sam USA Y
214 The Piano 1993 Campion, Jane Australia / New Zealand / France DS
215 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Allen, Woody USA Y
217 All the President's Men 1976 Pakula, Alan J. USA DU
218 Masculin, féminin 1966 Godard, Jean-Luc France / Sweden D
219 Cría cuervos 1976 Saura, Carlos Spain D
221 12 Angry Men 1957 Lumet, Sidney USA D
223 Red 1994 Kieslowski, Krzysztof Poland / France / Switzerland YS
224 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 1966 Leone, Sergio Italy / Spain DUPS
225 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Welles, Orson USA YS
226 Mean Streets 1973 Scorsese, Martin USA D
229 Los Olvidados 1950 Buñuel, Luis Mexico Y
230 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Kubrick, Stanley UK DUP
231 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Mulligan, Robert USA DUS
232 Titanic 1997 Cameron, James USA DS
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
237 Saturday Night Fever 1977 Badham, John USA DUS
238 The Sound of Music 1965 Wise, Robert USA DS
239 Badlands 1973 Malick, Terrence USA YU
240 Written on the Wind 1956 Sirk, Douglas USA Y
241 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Altman, Robert USA Y
242 The King of Comedy 1983 Scorsese, Martin USA Y
243 From Here to Eternity 1953 Zinnemann, Fred USA YU
244 Europa '51 1952 Rossellini, Roberto Italy
244 Senso 1954 Visconti, Luchino Italy YU
245 Reds 1981 Beatty, Warren USA DB
246 Amadeus 1984 Forman, Milos USA DUS
248 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1964 Parajanov, Sergei Soviet Union D
249 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Curtiz, Michael USA YS
250 Secrets & Lies 1996 Leigh, Mike France / UK Y
251 Dodsworth 1936 Wyler, William USA Y
252 The Lost Weekend 1945 Wilder, Billy USA YS
254 The Kingdom 1994 von Trier, Lars / Arnfred, Morten Denmark / France / Germany / Sweden D
255 Days of Heaven 1978 Malick, Terrence USA DS
256 Doctor Zhivago 1965 Lean, David USA DUPS
257 Rocky 1976 Avildsen, John G. USA DBUPS
258 Lola 1961 Demy, Jacques Italy / France Y
260 Ben-Hur 1959 Wyler, William USA DS
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261 Yojimbo 1961 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
262 A Star Is Born 1954 Cukor, George USA YUS
264 The Exorcist 1973 Friedkin, William USA DUPS
266 White Heat 1949 Walsh, Raoul USA DS
267 42nd Street 1933 Bacon, Lloyd USA DUS
268 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Benton, Robert USA Y
269 Deliverance 1972 Boorman, John USA DBUP
271 Amarcord 1973 Fellini, Federico Italy / France DS
272 Rebecca 1940 Hitchcock, Alfred USA YS
273 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Jewison, Norman USA DS
274 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Leone, Sergio Italy / USA YUS
275 Umberto D. 1952 De Sica, Vittorio Italy Y
276 The Pianist 2002 Polanski, Roman Poland / France / UK / Germany / Netherlands Y
277 The Spider's Stratagem 1970 Bertolucci, Bernardo 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
285 Henry V 1944 Olivier, Laurence UK D
289 La Notte 1961 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France Y
290 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 Wellman, William A. USA Y
291 The Red Shoes 1948 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK YS
292 Barry Lyndon 1975 Kubrick, Stanley UK DU
294 Spartacus 1960 Kubrick, Stanley USA YS
295 Bambi 1942 Hand, David / Algar, James / Armstrong, Samuel / Heid, Graham / Pearce, Perce / Roberts, Bill / Satterfield, Paul / Wright, Norman USA DS
297 Farewell My Concubine 1993 Chen, Kaige China / Hong Kong DS
298 Y tu mamá también 2001 Cuarón, Alfonso Mexico / USA D
299 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Lumet, Sidney USA DBU
300 The Battle of Algiers 1965 Pontecorvo, Gillo Algeria / Italy YS
301 Now, Voyager 1942 Rapper, Irving USA DS
303 Great Expectations 1946 Lean, David UK D
304 Brief Encounter 1945 Lean, David UK Y
305 The Life of Emile Zola 1937 Dieterle, William USA D
307 The Crying Game 1992 Jordan, Neil UK / Japan Y
308 Chariots of Fire 1981 Hudson, Hugh UK YU
309 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Lloyd, Frank USA YS
311 Cries and Whispers 1972 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden Y
312 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 1972 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner West Germany Y
313 La Roue 1923 Gance, Abel France D
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
318 Mulholland Dr. 2001 Lynch, David France / USA DUS
319 The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner West Germany D
320 Au Revoir, Les Enfants 1987 Malle, Louis France / West Germany D
321 Talk to Her 2002 Almodóvar, Pedro Spain D
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
325 Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bertolucci, Bernardo Italy / France Y
325 The Leopard 1963 Visconti, Luchino Italy / France YUS
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
330 The Quiet Man 1952 Ford, John USA D
331 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 Reisz, Karel UK Y
333 The English Patient 1996 Minghella, Anthony USA Y
334 All About My Mother 1999 Almodóvar, Pedro Spain / France DS
336 Dumbo 1941 Sharpsteen, Ben / Armstrong, Samuel / Ferguson, Norman / Jackson, Wilfred / Kinney, Jack / Roberts, Bill USA DS
337 Faces 1968 Cassavetes, John USA Y
338 Yi Yi 2000 Yang, Edward Taiwan / Japan D
340 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Zinnemann, Fred UK D
341 Fitzcarraldo 1982 Herzog, Werner Peru / West Germany Y
342 Gandhi 1982 Attenborough, Richard UK / India DUP
344 Platoon 1986 Stone, Oliver USA DUPS
345 Dangerous Liaisons 1988 Frears, Stephen USA / UK YUP
347 Thelma & Louise 1991 Scott, Ridley USA DS
349 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Ophüls, Max USA Y
350 The Player 1992 Altman, Robert USA YU
351 Being John Malkovich 1999 Jonze, Spike 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
356 City of God 2002 Meirelles, Fernando / Lund, Kátia Brazil / France / USA Y
359 The Crowd 1928 Vidor, King USA Y
360 Sense and Sensibility 1995 Lee, Ang USA / UK Y
361 The Elephant Man 1980 Lynch, David UK / USA Y
363 A Room with a View 1985 Ivory, James UK DB
364 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Rosenberg, Stuart USA DBUPS
365 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Polanski, Roman USA YU
366 The Birds 1963 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DU
368 Shakespeare in Love 1998 Madden, John USA / UK Y
369 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Lee, Ang Taiwan / Hong Kong / USA / China YU
370 The Killing Fields 1984 Joffé, Roland UK YUP
371 Being There 1979 Ashby, Hal USA / UK / West Germany / Japan YU
374 Boogie Nights 1997 Anderson, Paul Thomas USA Y
375 Killer of Sheep 1977 Burnett, Charles USA D
376 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Minnelli, Vincente USA YU
378 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 Huston, John USA YUS
380 Ordinary People 1980 Redford, Robert USA YUP
381 In the Mood for Love 2000 Wong, Kar Wai Hong Kong / France / Thailand DS
382 The Insider 1999 Mann, Michael USA Y
383 Roman Holiday 1953 Wyler, William USA DU
384 The Celebration 1998 Vinterberg, Thomas Denmark / Sweden D
384 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Menzel, Jirí Czechoslovakia D