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 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
3 Vertigo 1958 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DUPS
4 The Rules of the Game 1939 Renoir, Jean France D
7 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Kelly, Gene / Donen, Stanley USA DUPS
9 Casablanca 1942 Curtiz, Michael USA DBUPS
11 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Penn, Arthur USA DBUPS
17 Breathless 1960 Godard, Jean-Luc France D
20 Annie Hall 1977 Allen, Woody USA D
27 On the Waterfront 1954 Kazan, Elia USA DU
40 Some Like It Hot 1959 Wilder, Billy USA DS
41 Gone with the Wind 1939 Fleming, Victor USA DS
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
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
59 The Graduate 1967 Nichols, Mike USA DS
61 Wings of Desire 1987 Wenders, Wim West Germany / France DS
70 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Hawks, Howard USA DU
75 North by Northwest 1959 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
77 Sunrise 1927 Murnau, F.W. USA D
81 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 Wyler, William USA D
85 Beauty and the Beast 1946 Cocteau, Jean / Clément, René France / Luxembourg 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
101 Rear Window 1954 Hitchcock, Alfred USA D
103 Top Hat 1935 Sandrich, Mark USA DS
106 The Earrings of Madame de... 1953 Ophüls, Max France / Italy D
108 West Side Story 1961 Robbins, Jerome / Wise, Robert USA DUPS
111 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Resnais, Alain France / Italy Y
112 It Happened One Night 1934 Capra, Frank USA DU
116 The General 1927 Keaton, Buster / Bruckman, Clyde USA DU
123 The Lady Eve 1941 Sturges, Preston USA DU
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
137 Manhattan 1979 Allen, Woody USA DUP
142 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Sturges, Preston USA DU
146 Le Jour se lève 1939 Carné, Marcel France V
148 Stagecoach 1939 Ford, John USA D
149 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Keaton, Buster USA Y
155 His Girl Friday 1940 Hawks, Howard USA DU
156 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Demy, Jacques France / West Germany DUS
162 My Fair Lady 1964 Cukor, George USA DS
164 Pierrot le fou 1965 Godard, Jean-Luc France / Italy D
165 The African Queen 1951 Huston, John UK / USA Y
169 Atlantic City 1980 Malle, Louis USA / Canada / France DUS
179 The Golden Coach 1953 Renoir, Jean France / Italy Y
192 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Minnelli, Vincente USA DS
194 La Strada 1954 Fellini, Federico Italy DS
200 Swing Time 1936 Stevens, George USA DS
202 Two English Girls 1971 Truffaut, François France YS
203 The Big Sleep 1946 Hawks, Howard USA DS
206 Out of the Past 1947 Tourneur, Jacques USA Y
210 The Double Life of Véronique 1991 Kieslowski, Krzysztof France / Poland / Norway DS
214 The Piano 1993 Campion, Jane Australia / New Zealand / France DS
215 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Allen, Woody USA Y
223 Red 1994 Kieslowski, Krzysztof Poland / France / Switzerland YS
227 An American in Paris 1951 Minnelli, Vincente USA DUPS
232 Titanic 1997 Cameron, James USA DS
234 Marty 1955 Mann, Delbert USA 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
240 Written on the Wind 1956 Sirk, Douglas 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
247 The Philadelphia Story 1940 Cukor, George USA YUPS
248 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1964 Parajanov, Sergei Soviet Union D
251 Dodsworth 1936 Wyler, William USA Y
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
258 Lola 1961 Demy, Jacques Italy / France Y
260 Ben-Hur 1959 Wyler, William USA DUS
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
282 How Green Was My Valley 1941 Ford, John USA DS
283 Ninotchka 1939 Lubitsch, Ernst USA D
284 Tom Jones 1963 Richardson, Tony UK D
287 My Man Godfrey 1936 La Cava, Gregory USA YU
290 The Red Shoes 1948 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK YS
291 Barry Lyndon 1975 Kubrick, Stanley UK DU
293 Spartacus 1960 Kubrick, Stanley USA YS
294 Beauty and the Beast 1991 Trousdale, Gary / Wise, Kirk USA DS
295 The Thin Man 1934 Van Dyke, W.S. USA D
296 Farewell My Concubine 1993 Chen, Kaige China / Hong Kong DS
297 Y tu mamá también 2001 Cuarón, Alfonso Mexico / USA 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
304 Brief Encounter 1945 Lean, David UK Y
307 The Crying Game 1992 Jordan, Neil UK / Japan Y
314 The Awful Truth 1937 McCarey, Leo USA DU
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321 Talk to Her 2002 Almodóvar, Pedro Spain D
325 Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bertolucci, Bernardo Italy / France YUP
326 A Place in the Sun 1951 Stevens, George USA YS
326 Wuthering Heights 1939 Wyler, William USA YS
330 The Quiet Man 1952 Ford, John USA D
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
345 Dangerous Liaisons 1988 Frears, Stephen USA / UK YUP
349 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Ophüls, Max USA Y
355 Hiroshima, mon amour 1959 Resnais, Alain France / Japan Y
360 Sense and Sensibility 1995 Lee, Ang USA / UK Y
363 A Room with a View 1985 Ivory, James UK DB
368 Shakespeare in Love 1998 Madden, John USA / UK Y
369 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Lee, Ang Taiwan / Hong Kong / USA / China YU
372 When Harry Met Sally 1989 Reiner, Rob USA D
381 In the Mood for Love 2000 Wong, Kar Wai Hong Kong / France / Thailand DS
383 Roman Holiday 1953 Wyler, William USA DU
388 Camille 1936 Cukor, George USA D
391 Mildred Pierce 1945 Curtiz, Michael USA YS
392 Queen Christina 1933 Mamoulian, Rouben USA D
397 Shadows 1959 Cassavetes, John USA Y
402 Jezebel 1938 Wyler, William USA DS
404 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Lubitsch, Ernst USA Y
406 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK D
408 Shine 1996 Hicks, Scott Australia YUS
410 Groundhog Day 1993 Ramis, Harold USA DUP
411 Stolen Kisses 1968 Truffaut, François France D
416 In a Lonely Place 1950 Ray, Nicholas USA Y
417 Funny Face 1957 Donen, Stanley USA DUS
425 Moonstruck 1987 Jewison, Norman USA D
430 The Heiress 1949 Wyler, William USA D
437 Rio Bravo 1959 Hawks, Howard USA DB
440 Breaking the Waves 1996 von Trier, Lars Denmark / Sweden / France / Netherlands / Norway Y
442 Terms of Endearment 1983 Brooks, James L. USA DUP
444 Adam's Rib 1949 Cukor, George USA YUP
447 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Edwards, Blake USA DUS
452 Cat People 1942 Tourneur, Jacques USA D
453 To Have and Have Not 1944 Hawks, Howard USA DS
464 Brokeback Mountain 2005 Lee, Ang USA D
472 Imitation of Life 1959 Sirk, Douglas USA D
473 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Donen, Stanley USA DS
474 Woman of the Year 1942 Stevens, George USA Y
480 Amélie 2001 Jeunet, Jean-Pierre France / Germany DS
485 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Allen, Woody USA Y
487 Prizzi's Honor 1985 Huston, John USA Y
492 A Star Is Born 1937 Wellman, William A. / Conway, Jack USA YS
503 Leaving Las Vegas 1995 Figgis, Mike France / USA / UK Y
506 Love Me Tonight 1932 Mamoulian, Rouben USA D
508 The Go-Between 1970 Losey, Joseph UK YS
512 Lacombe Lucien 1974 Malle, Louis France / West Germany / Italy D
523 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner West Germany Y
524 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Hawks, Howard USA D
525 The Big Parade 1925 Vidor, King USA V
528 Love Affair 1939 McCarey, Leo USA YU
531 Pygmalion 1938 Asquith, Anthony / Howard, Leslie UK Y
539 Juliet of the Spirits 1965 Fellini, Federico Italy / France / West Germany YS
540 Romeo and Juliet 1968 Zeffirelli, Franco UK / Italy YUPS
542 Witness 1985 Weir, Peter USA DUPS
545 Rushmore 1998 Anderson, Wes USA DS
546 Diva 1981 Beineix, Jean-Jacques France DS
548 Orpheus 1949 Cocteau, Jean France Y
551 The Cranes Are Flying 1957 Kalatozishvili, Mikheil Soviet Union Y
554 Blue 1993 Kieslowski, Krzysztof France / Poland / Switzerland / UK Y
560 Broken Blossoms 1919 Griffith, D.W. USA YU
562 Loves of a Blonde 1965 Forman, Milos Czechoslovakia Y
568 Cyrano de Bergerac 1990 Rappeneau, Jean-Paul France Y
570 Pride and Prejudice 1940 Leonard, Robert Z. USA D
574 Lost Horizon 1937 Capra, Frank USA YS
583 My Night at Maud's 1969 Rohmer, Eric France D
598 Broadcast News 1987 Brooks, James L. USA Y
600 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Newell, Mike UK Y
604 Life Is Beautiful 1997 Benigni, Roberto Italy Y
610 Gilda 1946 Vidor, Charles USA Y
613 Born Yesterday 1950 Cukor, George USA D
619 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 Seaton, George USA D
620 Far from Heaven 2002 Haynes, Todd France / USA YS
622 Carmen Jones 1954 Preminger, Otto USA YS
623 Wild Reeds 1994 Téchiné, André France DU
624 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Luhrmann, Baz Australia / USA DUS
625 The King and I 1956 Lang, Walter USA DS
629 War and Peace 1968 Bondarchuk, Sergei Soviet Union D
634 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 Truffaut, François France DS
637 Heavenly Creatures 1994 Jackson, Peter UK / Germany / New Zealand Y
638 Lolita 1962 Kubrick, Stanley USA / UK D
643 Here Comes Mr. Jordan 1941 Hall, Alexander USA DU
645 The Prisoner of Zenda 1937 Cromwell, John / Cukor, George / Van Dyke, W.S. USA DS
646 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 Hawks, Howard USA DS
649 Jerry Maguire 1996 Crowe, Cameron USA Y
651 Grand Hotel 1932 Goulding, Edmund USA D
657 Out of Africa 1985 Pollack, Sydney USA YS
662 I Know Where I'm Going! 1945 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK Y
669 Bull Durham 1988 Shelton, Ron USA D
675 Summertime 1955 Lean, David UK / USA Y
676 Coming Home 1978 Ashby, Hal USA Y
678 Fellini Satyricon 1969 Fellini, Federico Italy / France YS
683 The Greatest Show on Earth 1952 DeMille, Cecil B. USA YUP
684 Claire's Knee 1970 Rohmer, Eric France D
685 As Good as It Gets 1997 Brooks, James L. USA YUS
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688 Hamlet 1948 Olivier, Laurence UK D
690 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 LeRoy, Mervyn USA DS
692 Swept Away 1974 Wertmüller, Lina Italy D
693 Say Anything 1989 Crowe, Cameron USA Y
699 Black Orpheus 1959 Camus, Marcel Brazil / France / Italy Y
700 Our Hospitality 1923 Keaton, Buster / Blystone, John G. USA Y
701 Dark Victory 1939 Goulding, Edmund USA DUS
708 La Belle Noiseuse 1991 Rivette, Jacques France / Switzerland Y
711 Sunday Bloody Sunday 1971 Schlesinger, John UK Y
715 The River 1951 Renoir, Jean France / India / USA Y
725 Around the World in 80 Days 1956 Anderson, Michael USA YU
728 The Music Man 1962 DaCosta, Morton USA D
729 Ju Dou 1990 Zhang, Yimou / Yang, Fengliang Japan / China D
733 Captain Blood 1935 Curtiz, Michael USA YUS
734 Run Lola Run 1998 Tykwer, Tom Germany DB
736 Chungking Express 1994 Wong, Kar Wai Hong Kong DBS
740 Picnic 1955 Logan, Joshua USA Y
742 Dinner at Eight 1933 Cukor, George USA D
743 Spellbound 1945 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
747 The Last Metro 1980 Truffaut, François France YS
749 The Fast Runner 2001 Kunuk, Zacharias Canada Y
750 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 1974 Scorsese, Martin USA YU
751 Days of Wine and Roses 1962 Edwards, Blake USA YUS
756 The Age of Innocence 1993 Scorsese, Martin USA YUPS
759 The Lady from Shanghai 1948 Welles, Orson USA Y
765 The Knack... and How to Get It 1965 Lester, Richard UK YS
766 The Cameraman 1928 Keaton, Buster / Sedgwick, Edward USA Y
771 The Princess Bride 1987 Reiner, Rob USA DU
783 Women in Love 1969 Russell, Ken UK Y
793 Love Story 1970 Hiller, Arthur USA YU
796 Partie de campagne 1936 Renoir, Jean France
801 Pillow Talk 1959 Gordon, Michael USA D
802 Children of a Lesser God 1986 Haines, Randa USA DUP
804 Petulia 1968 Lester, Richard UK DS
807 Delicatessen 1991 Caro, Marc / Jeunet, Jean-Pierre France D
821 Kings Row 1942 Wood, Sam USA DS
822 Funny Girl 1968 Wyler, William USA Y
823 My Brilliant Career 1979 Armstrong, Gillian Australia Y
825 Bed and Board 1970 Truffaut, François France / Italy D
833 The Rose Tattoo 1955 Mann, Daniel USA YUS
839 Dark Eyes 1987 Mikhalkov, Nikita Italy YS
842 Sayonara 1957 Logan, Joshua USA YS
844 Georgy Girl 1966 Narizzano, Silvio UK Y
846 My Beautiful Laundrette 1985 Frears, Stephen UK Y
849 The Gay Divorcee 1934 Sandrich, Mark USA D
852 All That Heaven Allows 1955 Sirk, Douglas USA Y
858 Suspicion 1941 Hitchcock, Alfred USA YUPS
860 Footlight Parade 1933 Bacon, Lloyd USA DS
862 Splendor in the Grass 1961 Kazan, Elia USA Y
866 The Remains of the Day 1993 Ivory, James UK / USA YU
868 Midnight 1939 Leisen, Mitchell USA D
875 Morocco 1930 von Sternberg, Josef USA D
876 Seven Chances 1925 Keaton, Buster USA Y
878 Lone Star 1996 Sayles, John USA Y
882 They Live by Night 1949 Ray, Nicholas USA D
891 The Mark of Zorro 1940 Mamoulian, Rouben USA YUS
893 Pépé le Moko 1937 Duvivier, Julien France D
895 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Gondry, Michel USA Y
896 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949 Ford, John USA DU
901 Romeo and Juliet 1936 Cukor, George USA D
910 Safety Last! 1923 Newmeyer, Fred C. / Taylor, Sam USA D
917 Beat the Devil 1953 Huston, John UK / USA / Italy YB
918 Gentleman's Agreement 1947 Kazan, Elia USA D
921 Show Boat 1936 Whale, James USA Y
926 The Talk of the Town 1942 Stevens, George USA D
928 The Man Without a Past 2002 Kaurismäki, Aki Finland / Germany / France Y
931 An Affair to Remember 1957 McCarey, Leo USA DS
932 Mrs. Miniver 1942 Wyler, William USA D
947 The Docks of New York 1928 von Sternberg, Josef USA Y
953 The Major and the Minor 1942 Wilder, Billy USA D
959 The Kid Brother 1927 Wilde, Ted / Howe, J.A. / Lloyd, Harold / Milestone, Lewis USA D
963 Un Coeur en hiver 1992 Sautet, Claude France D
965 The Goodbye Girl 1977 Ross, Herbert USA YU
971 There's Something About Mary 1998 Farrelly, Bobby / Farrelly, Peter USA DU
972 The Cider House Rules 1999 Hallström, Lasse USA Y
973 The Sea Hawk 1940 Curtiz, Michael USA DS
974 San Francisco 1936 Van Dyke, W.S. USA D
975 Harold and Maude 1972 Ashby, Hal USA YU
977 Nothing Sacred 1937 Wellman, William A. USA D
978 Three Comrades 1938 Borzage, Frank USA Y
978 2046 2004 Wong, Kar Wai China / France / Germany / Hong Kong D
980 Bus Stop 1956 Logan, Joshua USA Y
982 Bulworth 1998 Beatty, Warren USA YUS
985 Ballad of a Soldier 1959 Chukraj, Grigori Soviet Union Y
1002 Oklahoma! 1955 Zinnemann, Fred USA DS
1005 Grease 1978 Kleiser, Randal USA DU
1008 Before Sunset 2004 Linklater, Richard USA DS
1017 Charade 1963 Donen, Stanley USA DUS
1021 Lili 1953 Walters, Charles USA YS
1022 A Man and a Woman 1966 Lelouch, Claude France Y
1030 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? 1957 Tashlin, Frank USA D
1034 Monsoon Wedding 2001 Nair, Mira India / USA / France / Italy / Germany D
1038 Strictly Ballroom 1992 Luhrmann, Baz Australia Y
1041 Heaven Can Wait 1943 Lubitsch, Ernst USA Y
1041 Hero 2002 Zhang, Yimou Hong Kong / China DS
1042 Tabu 1931 Murnau, F.W. / Flaherty, Robert J. USA Y
1051 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA YS
1053 Lover Come Back 1961 Mann, Delbert USA D
1054 Shadowlands 1993 Attenborough, Richard UK Y
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