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English Films (Original Language)   (6,139 Most Notable)

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 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Welles, Orson USA DS
2 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Kubrick, Stanley UK / USA DUPS
3 Vertigo 1958 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DUPS
5 The Godfather 1972 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DBUPS
7 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Kelly, Gene / Donen, Stanley USA DUPS
8 Psycho 1960 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DUPS
9 Casablanca 1942 Curtiz, Michael USA DBUPS
11 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Penn, Arthur USA DBUPS
14 The Searchers 1956 Ford, John USA DBS
15 Chinatown 1974 Polanski, Roman USA DUS
16 Raging Bull 1980 Scorsese, Martin USA D
18 Pulp Fiction 1994 Tarantino, Quentin USA D
20 Annie Hall 1977 Allen, Woody USA D
22 Star Wars: Episode IV -
A New Hope		 1977 Lucas, George USA DS
24 The Godfather Part II 1974 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DBUPS
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
28 Taxi Driver 1976 Scorsese, Martin USA DUS
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
34 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Fleming, Victor / Vidor, King / Cukor, George / LeRoy, Mervyn USA DS
36 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 Lean, David UK DUS
40 Some Like It Hot 1959 Wilder, Billy USA DS
41 Gone with the Wind 1939 Fleming, Victor USA DS
43 GoodFellas 1990 Scorsese, Martin USA DBUP
46 Double Indemnity 1944 Wilder, Billy USA DS
48 Sunset Boulevard 1950 Wilder, Billy USA DS
50 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Capra, Frank USA DUPS
56 Nashville 1975 Altman, Robert USA DS
57 Do the Right Thing 1989 Lee, Spike USA DU
58 King Kong 1933 Cooper, Merian C. / Schoedsack, Ernest B. USA DS
59 The Graduate 1967 Nichols, Mike USA DS
62 The Maltese Falcon 1941 Huston, John USA DUP
63 Apocalypse Now 1979 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DS
66 The Wild Bunch 1969 Peckinpah, Sam USA DB
70 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Hawks, Howard USA DU
73 High Noon 1952 Zinnemann, Fred USA DUS
75 North by Northwest 1959 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
76 Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
77 Sunrise 1927 Murnau, F.W. USA D
78 Unforgiven 1992 Eastwood, Clint USA DBUP
81 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 Wyler, William USA D
82 The Third Man 1949 Reed, Carol UK D
87 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 Lean, David UK / USA DUS
89 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Forman, Milos USA DBU
90 Touch of Evil 1958 Welles, Orson USA DUS
91 L.A. Confidential 1997 Hanson, Curtis USA DBS
92 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 Frankenheimer, John USA D
93 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Lubitsch, Ernst USA D
94 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Demme, Jonathan USA DS
96 City Lights 1931 Chaplin, Charles USA DS
97 Blade Runner 1982 Scott, Ridley USA DBUPS
101 Rear Window 1954 Hitchcock, Alfred USA D
103 Top Hat 1935 Sandrich, Mark USA DS
104 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 Hand, David USA DS
105 Duck Soup 1933 McCarey, Leo USA DUS
107 Blow-Up 1966 Antonioni, Michelangelo UK / Italy DU
108 West Side Story 1961 Robbins, Jerome / Wise, Robert USA DUPS
110 Shoah 1985 Lanzmann, Claude France Y
112 It Happened One Night 1934 Capra, Frank USA DU
114 Jaws 1975 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
115 Fargo 1996 Coen, Joel / Coen, Ethan USA / UK D
116 The General 1927 Keaton, Buster / Bruckman, Clyde USA DU
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
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
125 Rebel Without a Cause 1955 Ray, Nicholas USA DU
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
130 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Curtiz, Michael / Keighley, William USA DBS
131 The Conversation 1974 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DU
133 The Last Picture Show 1971 Bogdanovich, Peter USA D
134 Cabaret 1972 Fosse, Bob USA DUS
135 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Lester, Richard UK DS
136 M*A*S*H 1970 Altman, Robert USA D
137 Manhattan 1979 Allen, Woody USA DUP
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
144 Paths of Glory 1957 Kubrick, Stanley USA DUP
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
151 Pinocchio 1940 Luske, Hamilton / Sharpsteen, Ben USA YS
155 His Girl Friday 1940 Hawks, Howard USA DU
158 The Deer Hunter 1978 Cimino, Michael USA D
161 Intolerance 1916 Griffith, D.W. USA DUS
162 My Fair Lady 1964 Cukor, George USA DS
165 The African Queen 1951 Huston, John UK / USA Y
167 The Gold Rush 1925 Chaplin, Charles USA DS
169 Atlantic City 1980 Malle, Louis USA / Canada / France DUS
170 The Hustler 1961 Rossen, Robert USA D
171 Network 1976 Lumet, Sidney USA DU
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175 Modern Times 1936 Chaplin, Charles USA YS
176 The French Connection 1971 Friedkin, William USA D
177 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Spielberg, Steven USA DBUS
179 The Golden Coach 1953 Renoir, Jean France / Italy Y
181 American Graffiti 1973 Lucas, George USA Y
183 The Birth of a Nation 1915 Griffith, D.W. USA YUS
184 Patton 1970 Schaffner, Franklin J. USA DBS
186 Greed 1924 von Stroheim, Erich USA Y
187 Frankenstein 1931 Whale, James USA DS
188 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Rafelson, Bob USA Y
190 Midnight Cowboy 1969 Schlesinger, John USA DS
191 The Producers 1968 Brooks, Mel USA DS
192 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Minnelli, Vincente USA DS
195 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Siegel, Don USA D
197 Red River 1948 Hawks, Howard / Rosson, Arthur USA DUPS
198 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 Hill, George Roy USA DBS
199 Strangers on a Train 1951 Hitchcock, Alfred USA YUS
200 Swing Time 1936 Stevens, George USA DS
201 Goldfinger 1964 Hamilton, Guy UK DS
203 The Big Sleep 1946 Hawks, Howard USA DS
206 Out of the Past 1947 Tourneur, Jacques USA Y
209 Shane 1953 Stevens, George USA YU
211 Easy Rider 1969 Hopper, Dennis USA YU
213 American Beauty 1999 Mendes, Sam USA YU
214 The Piano 1993 Campion, Jane Australia / New Zealand / France DS
215 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Allen, Woody USA Y
216 The Bank Dick 1940 Cline, Edward F. USA D
217 All the President's Men 1976 Pakula, Alan J. USA DU
220 My Darling Clementine 1946 Ford, John USA D
221 12 Angry Men 1957 Lumet, Sidney USA D
222 The Lord of the Rings:
Return of the King		 2003 Jackson, Peter USA / New Zealand DS
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
227 An American in Paris 1951 Minnelli, Vincente USA DUPS
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
236 Gigi 1958 Minnelli, Vincente USA DS
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 DU
244 Senso 1954 Visconti, Luchino Italy YU
245 Reds 1981 Beatty, Warren USA DB
246 Amadeus 1984 Forman, Milos USA DUS
247 The Philadelphia Story 1940 Cukor, George USA YUPS
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
253 Tootsie 1982 Pollack, Sydney USA DU
255 Days of Heaven 1978 Malick, Terrence USA DUPS
256 Doctor Zhivago 1965 Lean, David USA DUPS
257 Rocky 1976 Avildsen, John G. USA DBUPS
259 Night of the Living Dead 1968 Romero, George A. USA DUP
260 Ben-Hur 1959 Wyler, William USA DUS
262 A Star Is Born 1954 Cukor, George USA YUS
264 The Exorcist 1973 Friedkin, William USA DUPS
265 Toy Story 1995 Lasseter, John USA DS
266 White Heat 1949 Walsh, Raoul USA DS
267 42nd Street 1933 Bacon, Lloyd USA DUS
268 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Benton, Robert USA D
269 Deliverance 1972 Boorman, John USA DBUP
270 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Sturges, Preston USA DU
272 Rebecca 1940 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
273 The Band Wagon 1953 Minnelli, Vincente 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
276 The Pianist 2002 Polanski, Roman Poland / France / UK / Germany / Netherlands Y
277 The 39 Steps 1935 Hitchcock, Alfred UK DUP
279 The Public Enemy 1931 Wellman, William A. USA D
280 Star Wars: Episode V -
The Empire Strikes Back		 1980 Kershner, Irvin USA DS
282 How Green Was My Valley 1941 Ford, John USA DS
283 Ninotchka 1939 Lubitsch, Ernst USA D
284 Fantasia 1940 Algar, James / Armstrong, Samuel / Beebe, Ford / Ferguson, Norman / Handley, Jim / Hee, T. / Jackson, Wilfred / Luske, Hamilton / Roberts, Bill / Satterfield, Paul / Sharpsteen, Ben USA DS
284 Tom Jones 1963 Richardson, Tony UK D
285 Airplane! 1980 Abrahams, Jim / Zucker, David / Zucker, Jerry USA DUPS
286 The Lord of the Rings:
Fellowship of the Ring		 2001 Jackson, Peter New Zealand / USA DUS
287 My Man Godfrey 1936 La Cava, Gregory USA YU
289 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 Wellman, William A. USA Y
290 The Red Shoes 1948 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK YS
291 Barry Lyndon 1975 Kubrick, Stanley UK DU
292 Alien 1979 Scott, Ridley UK DS
293 Spartacus 1960 Kubrick, Stanley USA YS
294 Bambi 1942 Hand, David / Algar, James / Armstrong, Samuel / Heid, Graham / Pearce, Perce / Roberts, Bill / Satterfield, Paul / Wright, Norman USA DS
294 Beauty and the Beast 1991 Trousdale, Gary / Wise, Kirk USA DS
295 The Thin Man 1934 Van Dyke, W.S. USA D
298 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Lumet, Sidney USA DBU
299 Henry V 1944 Olivier, Laurence UK D
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
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304 Brief Encounter 1945 Lean, David UK Y
305 The Life of Emile Zola 1937 Dieterle, William USA D
306 The Lord of the Rings:
The Two Towers		 2002 Jackson, Peter USA / New Zealand / Germany DS
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
310 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
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
318 Mulholland Dr. 2001 Lynch, David France / USA DUS
322 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 Capra, Frank USA D
323 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Nichols, Mike USA DUPS
325 Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bertolucci, Bernardo Italy / France YUP
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
327 Halloween 1978 Carpenter, John USA D
328 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Lubitsch, Ernst USA Y
329 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Reiner, Rob USA DS
330 The Quiet Man 1952 Ford, John USA D
331 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 Reisz, Karel UK Y
332 A Matter of Life and Death 1946 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK YUP
333 The English Patient 1996 Minghella, Anthony USA Y
335 A Night at the Opera 1935 Wood, Sam USA YS
336 Dumbo 1941 Sharpsteen, Ben / Armstrong, Samuel / Ferguson, Norman / Jackson, Wilfred / Kinney, Jack / Roberts, Bill USA DS
337 Faces 1968 Cassavetes, John USA Y
339 Crumb 1994 Zwigoff, Terry USA 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
343 The Full Monty 1997 Cattaneo, Peter UK YU
344 Platoon 1986 Stone, Oliver USA DUPS
345 Dangerous Liaisons 1988 Frears, Stephen USA / UK YUP
346 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Aldrich, Robert USA Y
347 Thelma & Louise 1991 Scott, Ridley USA DS
348 It's a Gift 1934 McLeod, Norman Z. USA D
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
352 Don't Look Now 1973 Roeg, Nicolas Italy / UK Y
353 All the King's Men 1949 Rossen, Robert USA D
354 The Defiant Ones 1958 Kramer, Stanley USA Y
357 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 Ford, John USA D
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 D
362 Johnny Guitar 1954 Ray, Nicholas 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
367 The Usual Suspects 1995 Singer, Bryan USA / Germany DBUP
368 Shakespeare in Love 1998 Madden, John USA / UK Y
370 The Killing Fields 1984 Joffé, Roland UK YUP
371 Being There 1979 Ashby, Hal USA / UK / West Germany / Japan YU
372 When Harry Met Sally 1989 Reiner, Rob USA D
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
377 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944 Sturges, Preston USA D
378 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 Huston, John USA YUS
379 Hoop Dreams 1994 James, Steve USA Y
380 Ordinary People 1980 Redford, Robert USA YUP
382 The Insider 1999 Mann, Michael USA Y
383 Roman Holiday 1953 Wyler, William USA DU
385 Dances with Wolves 1990 Costner, Kevin USA DUS
386 Dracula 1931 Browning, Tod USA D
387 Gladiator 2000 Scott, Ridley UK / USA DS
388 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 Sturges, John USA YUS
388 Camille 1936 Cukor, George USA D
391 Mildred Pierce 1945 Curtiz, Michael USA YS
392 East of Eden 1955 Kazan, Elia USA YU
392 Queen Christina 1933 Mamoulian, Rouben USA D
393 The Last Emperor 1987 Bertolucci, Bernardo France / Italy / UK DB
394 Gun Crazy 1949 Lewis, Joseph H. USA Y
395 Sideways 2004 Payne, Alexander USA DUS
396 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Darabont, Frank USA DBUP
397 Shadows 1959 Cassavetes, John USA Y
398 Stranger Than Paradise 1984 Jarmusch, Jim USA / West Germany D
399 The Shining 1980 Kubrick, Stanley UK DBU
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
405 Die Hard 1988 McTiernan, John USA DBU
406 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK D
407 Woodstock 1970 Wadleigh, Michael USA YS
408 Shine 1996 Hicks, Scott Australia YUS
410 Groundhog Day 1993 Ramis, Harold USA DUP
412 The Great Dictator 1940 Chaplin, Charles USA YS
413 The Big Red One 1980 Fuller, Samuel USA YU
413 The Great Escape 1963 Sturges, John USA DUS
414 Young Frankenstein 1974 Brooks, Mel USA DB
415 Hud 1963 Ritt, Martin USA YUP
416 The Dead 1987 Huston, John UK