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 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY  SELECTED 
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Welles, Orson USA 1989 V
2 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Kubrick, Stanley UK / USA 1991 V
3 Vertigo 1958 Hitchcock, Alfred USA 1989 V
5 The Godfather 1972 Coppola, Francis Ford USA 1990 V
7 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Kelly, Gene / Donen, Stanley USA 1989 V
8 Psycho 1960 Hitchcock, Alfred USA 1992 V
9 Casablanca 1942 Curtiz, Michael USA 1989 V
11 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Penn, Arthur USA 1992 V
14 The Searchers 1956 Ford, John USA 1989 V
15 Chinatown 1974 Polanski, Roman USA 1991 V
16 Raging Bull 1980 Scorsese, Martin USA 1990 V
20 Annie Hall 1977 Allen, Woody USA 1992 V
22 Star Wars: Episode IV -
A New Hope 		1977 Lucas, George USA 1989 V
24 The Godfather Part II 1974 Coppola, Francis Ford USA 1993 V
25 Schindler's List 1993 Spielberg, Steven USA 2004 V
26 All About Eve 1950 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA 1990 V
27 On the Waterfront 1954 Kazan, Elia USA 1989 V
28 Taxi Driver 1976 Scorsese, Martin USA 1994 V
32 Dr. Strangelove
or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 		1964 Kubrick, Stanley UK 1989 V
33 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Spielberg, Steven USA 1994 V
34 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Fleming, Victor / Vidor, King / Cukor, George / LeRoy, Mervyn USA 1989 V
36 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 Lean, David UK 1991 V
40 Some Like It Hot 1959 Wilder, Billy USA 1989 V
41 Gone with the Wind 1939 Fleming, Victor USA 1989 V
43 GoodFellas 1990 Scorsese, Martin USA 2000 V
46 Double Indemnity 1944 Wilder, Billy USA 1992 V
48 Sunset Boulevard 1950 Wilder, Billy USA 1989 V
50 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Capra, Frank USA 1990 V
56 Nashville 1975 Altman, Robert USA 1992 V
57 Do the Right Thing 1989 Lee, Spike USA 1999 V
58 King Kong 1933 Cooper, Merian C. / Schoedsack, Ernest B. USA 1991 V
59 The Graduate 1967 Nichols, Mike USA 1996 V
62 The Maltese Falcon 1941 Huston, John USA 1989 V
63 Apocalypse Now 1979 Coppola, Francis Ford USA 2000 V
66 The Wild Bunch 1969 Peckinpah, Sam USA 1999 V
70 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Hawks, Howard USA 1990 V
73 High Noon 1952 Zinnemann, Fred USA 1989 V
75 North by Northwest 1959 Hitchcock, Alfred USA 1995 V
76 Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Spielberg, Steven USA 1999 V
77 Sunrise 1927 Murnau, F.W. USA 1989 V
78 Unforgiven 1992 Eastwood, Clint USA 2004 V
81 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 Wyler, William USA 1989 V
87 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 Lean, David UK / USA 1997 V
89 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Forman, Milos USA 1993 V
90 Touch of Evil 1958 Welles, Orson USA 1993 V
92 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 Frankenheimer, John USA 1994 V
93 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Lubitsch, Ernst USA 1991 V
96 City Lights 1931 Chaplin, Charles USA 1991 V
97 Blade Runner 1982 Scott, Ridley USA 1993 V
101 Rear Window 1954 Hitchcock, Alfred USA 1997 V
103 Top Hat 1935 Sandrich, Mark USA 1990 V
104 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 Hand, David USA 1989 V
105 Duck Soup 1933 McCarey, Leo USA 1990 V
108 West Side Story 1961 Robbins, Jerome / Wise, Robert USA 1997 V
112 It Happened One Night 1934 Capra, Frank USA 1993 V
114 Jaws 1975 Spielberg, Steven USA 2001 V
115 Fargo 1996 Coen, Joel / Coen, Ethan USA / UK 2006 V
116 The General 1927 Keaton, Buster / Bruckman, Clyde USA 1989 V
117 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 Huston, John USA 1990 V
122 The Bride of Frankenstein 1935 Whale, James USA 1998 V
123 The Lady Eve 1941 Sturges, Preston USA 1994 V
125 Rebel Without a Cause 1955 Ray, Nicholas USA 1990 V
126 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Laughton, Charles USA 1992 V
127 Notorious 1946 Hitchcock, Alfred USA 2006 V
128 The Apartment 1960 Wilder, Billy USA 1994 V
130 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Curtiz, Michael / Keighley, William USA 1995 V
131 The Conversation 1974 Coppola, Francis Ford USA 1995 V
133 The Last Picture Show 1971 Bogdanovich, Peter USA 1998 V
134 Cabaret 1972 Fosse, Bob USA 1995 V
136 M*A*S*H 1970 Altman, Robert USA 1996 V
137 Manhattan 1979 Allen, Woody USA 2001 V
139 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Kazan, Elia USA 1999 V
140 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 Ford, John USA 1989 V
141 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Capra, Frank USA 1989 V
142 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Sturges, Preston USA 1990 V
144 Paths of Glory 1957 Kubrick, Stanley USA 1992 V
148 Stagecoach 1939 Ford, John USA 1995 V
149 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Keaton, Buster USA 1991 V
150 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Mackendrick, Alexander USA 1993 V
151 Pinocchio 1940 Luske, Hamilton / Sharpsteen, Ben USA 1994 V
155 His Girl Friday 1940 Hawks, Howard USA 1993 V
158 The Deer Hunter 1978 Cimino, Michael USA 1996 V
161 Intolerance 1916 Griffith, D.W. USA 1989 V
165 The African Queen 1951 Huston, John UK / USA 1994 V
167 The Gold Rush 1925 Chaplin, Charles USA 1992 V
169 Atlantic City 1980 Malle, Louis USA / Canada / France 2003 V
170 The Hustler 1961 Rossen, Robert USA 1997 V
171 Network 1976 Lumet, Sidney USA 2000 V
175 Modern Times 1936 Chaplin, Charles USA 1989 V
176 The French Connection 1971 Friedkin, William USA 2005 V
177 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Spielberg, Steven USA 2007 V
181 American Graffiti 1973 Lucas, George USA 1995 V
183 The Birth of a Nation 1915 Griffith, D.W. USA 1992 V
184 Patton 1970 Schaffner, Franklin J. USA 2003 V
186 Greed 1924 von Stroheim, Erich USA 1991 V
187 Frankenstein 1931 Whale, James USA 1991 V
188 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Rafelson, Bob USA 2000 V
190 Midnight Cowboy 1969 Schlesinger, John USA 1994 V
191 The Producers 1968 Brooks, Mel USA 1996 V
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192 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Minnelli, Vincente USA 1994 V
195 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Siegel, Don USA 1994 V
197 Red River 1948 Hawks, Howard / Rosson, Arthur USA 1990 V
198 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 Hill, George Roy USA 2003 V
200 Swing Time 1936 Stevens, George USA 2004 V
203 The Big Sleep 1946 Hawks, Howard USA 1997 V
206 Out of the Past 1947 Tourneur, Jacques USA 1991 V
209 Shane 1953 Stevens, George USA 1993 V
211 Easy Rider 1969 Hopper, Dennis USA 1998 V
216 The Bank Dick 1940 Cline, Edward F. USA 1992 V
220 My Darling Clementine 1946 Ford, John USA 1991 V
221 12 Angry Men 1957 Lumet, Sidney USA 2007 V
225 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Welles, Orson USA 1991 V
226 Mean Streets 1973 Scorsese, Martin USA 1997 V
227 An American in Paris 1951 Minnelli, Vincente USA 1993 V
231 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Mulligan, Robert USA 1995 V
233 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Milestone, Lewis USA 1990 V
234 Marty 1955 Mann, Delbert USA 1994 V
236 Gigi 1958 Minnelli, Vincente USA 1991 V
238 The Sound of Music 1965 Wise, Robert USA 2001 V
239 Badlands 1973 Malick, Terrence USA 1993 V
243 From Here to Eternity 1953 Zinnemann, Fred USA 2002 V
247 The Philadelphia Story 1940 Cukor, George USA 1995 V
249 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Curtiz, Michael USA 1993 V
251 Dodsworth 1936 Wyler, William USA 1990 V
253 Tootsie 1982 Pollack, Sydney USA 1998 V
255 Days of Heaven 1978 Malick, Terrence USA 2007 V
257 Rocky 1976 Avildsen, John G. USA 2006 V
259 Night of the Living Dead 1968 Romero, George A. USA 1999 V
260 Ben-Hur 1959 Wyler, William USA 2004 V
262 A Star Is Born 1954 Cukor, George USA 2000 V
265 Toy Story 1995 Lasseter, John USA 2005 V
266 White Heat 1949 Walsh, Raoul USA 2003 V
267 42nd Street 1933 Bacon, Lloyd USA 1998 V
273 The Band Wagon 1953 Minnelli, Vincente USA 1995 V
273 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Jewison, Norman USA 2002 V
279 The Public Enemy 1931 Wellman, William A. USA 1998 V
282 How Green Was My Valley 1941 Ford, John USA 1990 V
283 Ninotchka 1939 Lubitsch, Ernst USA 1990 V
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 1990 V
287 My Man Godfrey 1936 La Cava, Gregory USA 1999 V
289 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 Wellman, William A. USA 1998 V
292 Alien 1979 Scott, Ridley UK 2002 V
294 Beauty and the Beast 1991 Trousdale, Gary / Wise, Kirk USA 2002 V
295 The Thin Man 1934 Van Dyke, W.S. USA 1997 V
301 Now, Voyager 1942 Rapper, Irving USA 2007 V
302 Laura 1944 Preminger, Otto / Mamoulian, Rouben USA 1999 V
305 The Life of Emile Zola 1937 Dieterle, William USA 2000 V
310 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Hitchcock, Alfred USA 1991 V
314 The Awful Truth 1937 McCarey, Leo USA 1996 V
316 Scarface 1932 Hawks, Howard / Rosson, Richard USA 1994 V
326 A Place in the Sun 1951 Stevens, George USA 1991 V
326 Wuthering Heights 1939 Wyler, William USA 2007 V
327 Halloween 1978 Carpenter, John USA 2006 V
328 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Lubitsch, Ernst USA 1996 V
329 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Reiner, Rob USA 2002 V
335 A Night at the Opera 1935 Wood, Sam USA 1993 V
346 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Aldrich, Robert USA 1999 V
349 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Ophüls, Max USA 1992 V
353 All the King's Men 1949 Rossen, Robert USA 2001 V
357 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 Ford, John USA 2007 V
359 The Crowd 1928 Vidor, King USA 1989 V
364 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Rosenberg, Stuart USA 2005 V
375 Killer of Sheep 1977 Burnett, Charles USA 1990 V
376 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Minnelli, Vincente USA 2002 V
377 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944 Sturges, Preston USA 2001 V
379 Hoop Dreams 1994 James, Steve USA 2005 V
383 Roman Holiday 1953 Wyler, William USA 1999 V
385 Dances with Wolves 1990 Costner, Kevin USA 2007 V
386 Dracula 1931 Browning, Tod USA 2000 V
391 Mildred Pierce 1945 Curtiz, Michael USA 1996 V
394 Gun Crazy 1949 Lewis, Joseph H. USA 1998 V
397 Shadows 1959 Cassavetes, John USA 1993 V
398 Stranger Than Paradise 1984 Jarmusch, Jim USA / West Germany 2002 V
401 Fury 1936 Lang, Fritz USA 1995 V
403 Little Caesar 1931 LeRoy, Mervyn USA 2000 V
404 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Lubitsch, Ernst USA 1999 V
407 Woodstock 1970 Wadleigh, Michael USA 1996 V
410 Groundhog Day 1993 Ramis, Harold USA 2006 V
412 The Great Dictator 1940 Chaplin, Charles USA 1997 V
414 Young Frankenstein 1974 Brooks, Mel USA 2003 V
416 In a Lonely Place 1950 Ray, Nicholas USA 2007 V
422 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 LeRoy, Mervyn USA 1991 V
423 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 Ford, John USA 2003 V
426 Force of Evil 1948 Polonsky, Abraham USA 1994 V
430 The Heiress 1949 Wyler, William USA 1996 V
431 Gunga Din 1939 Stevens, George USA 1999 V
433 She Done Him Wrong 1933 Sherman, Lowell USA 1996 V
436 Destry Rides Again 1939 Marshall, George USA 1996 V
444 Adam's Rib 1949 Cukor, George