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Top 100 Movies (Movies Ranked 1 - 100)   (101)

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 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Welles, Orson USA DBS
2 Bicycle Thieves 1948 De Sica, Vittorio Italy D
3 Psycho 1960 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DBOPS
4 The Godfather 1972 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DBOPS
5 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Kubrick, Stanley UK / USA DBS
6 The Rules of the Game 1939 Renoir, Jean France DBO
7 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Kelly, Gene / Donen, Stanley USA DOPS
8 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Penn, Arthur USA DBOPS
9 The Searchers 1956 Ford, John USA DBOPS
10 Casablanca 1942 Curtiz, Michael USA DBOPS
11 Seven Samurai 1954 Kurosawa, Akira Japan DB
12 Annie Hall 1977 Allen, Woody USA DBOP
13 Chinatown 1974 Polanski, Roman USA DOS
14 Pulp Fiction 1994 Tarantino, Quentin USA DB
15 Raging Bull 1980 Scorsese, Martin USA DB
16 Rashômon 1950 Kurosawa, Akira Japan DO
17 Star Wars: Episode IV -
A New Hope
1977 Lucas, George USA DBS
18 The 400 Blows 1959 Truffaut, François France DBOP
19 Breathless 1960 Godard, Jean-Luc France DB
20 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
21 Vertigo 1958 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DOPS
22 Schindler's List 1993 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
23 8 1/2 1963 Fellini, Federico Italy / France DBOS
24 Metropolis 1927 Lang, Fritz Germany DBOS
25 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 Lean, David UK DOS
26 GoodFellas 1990 Scorsese, Martin USA DBOP
27 Some Like It Hot 1959 Wilder, Billy USA DBS
28 La Dolce Vita 1960 Fellini, Federico Italy / France DOS
29 M 1931 Lang, Fritz Germany DBO
30 On the Waterfront 1954 Kazan, Elia USA DO
31 All About Eve 1950 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA DBOPS
32 Gone with the Wind 1939 Fleming, Victor USA DBOS
33 Taxi Driver 1976 Scorsese, Martin USA DBOS
34 The Conformist 1970 Bertolucci, Bernardo Italy / France / West Germany DS
35 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Fleming, Victor / Vidor, King / Cukor, George / LeRoy, Mervyn USA DBOPS
36 Dr. Strangelove
or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964 Kubrick, Stanley UK DBOP
37 The Godfather Part II 1974 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DBOPS
38 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Zhang, Yimou China / Hong Kong / Taiwan DS
39 Tokyo Story 1953 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan D
40 Sunset Boulevard 1950 Wilder, Billy USA DOPS
41 The World of Apu 1959 Ray, Satyajit India D
42 Double Indemnity 1944 Wilder, Billy USA DOPS
43 Belle de jour 1967 Buñuel, Luis France / Italy DB
44 Persona 1966 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden DO
45 Jules and Jim 1962 Truffaut, François France DS
46 Apocalypse Now 1979 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DBOPS
47 The Graduate 1967 Nichols, Mike USA DBOPS
48 Nashville 1975 Altman, Robert USA DS
49 L'Avventura 1960 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France DOP
50 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Capra, Frank USA DBOPS
51 Ikiru 1952 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
52 Ran 1985 Kurosawa, Akira Japan / France DBOP
53 Wings of Desire 1987 Wenders, Wim West Germany / France DBS
54 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Forman, Milos USA DBO
55 L.A. Confidential 1997 Hanson, Curtis USA DBOPS
56 The Maltese Falcon 1941 Huston, John USA DBOP
57 Grand Illusion 1937 Renoir, Jean France D
58 Pather Panchali 1955 Ray, Satyajit India D
59 Nosferatu 1922 Murnau, F.W. Germany DO
60 Unforgiven 1992 Eastwood, Clint USA DBOP
61 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Buñuel, Luis France / Italy / Spain DO
62 King Kong 1933 Cooper, Merian C. / Schoedsack, Ernest B. USA DBOPS
63 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Demme, Jonathan USA DBOPS
64 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Spielberg, Steven USA DBS
65 Aguirre, The Wrath of God 1972 Herzog, Werner West Germany / Peru / Mexico D
66 The Seventh Seal 1957 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden DB
67 Do the Right Thing 1989 Lee, Spike USA DBO
68 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 Lean, David UK / USA DBOS
69 It Happened One Night 1934 Capra, Frank USA DO
70 Fargo 1996 Coen, Joel / Coen, Ethan USA / UK DBOP
71 North by Northwest 1959 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DBOS
72 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Hawks, Howard USA DO
73 The Wild Bunch 1969 Peckinpah, Sam USA DBOP
74 Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
75 Children of Paradise 1945 Carné, Marcel France D
76 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 Huston, John USA DBOPS
77 Battleship Potemkin 1925 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Aleksandrov, Grigori Soviet Union DBO
78 Fanny & Alexander 1982 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden / France / West Germany DB
79 The Third Man 1949 Reed, Carol UK DBO
80 West Side Story 1961 Robbins, Jerome / Wise, Robert USA DBOPS
81 Touch of Evil 1958 Welles, Orson USA DOS
82 High Noon 1952 Zinnemann, Fred USA DOPS
83 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 Hand, David USA DBS
84 Rome Open City 1945 Rossellini, Roberto Italy D
85 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Wajda, Andrzej Poland D
86 Ugetsu 1953 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan D
87 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 Wyler, William USA DO
88 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Kazan, Elia USA DOPS
89 The Conversation 1974 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DBOP
90 Beauty and the Beast 1946 Cocteau, Jean / Clément, René France / Luxembourg DB
91 Duck Soup 1933 McCarey, Leo USA DOS
92 Blade Runner 1982 Scott, Ridley USA DBOPS
93 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 Frankenheimer, John USA DB
94 M*A*S*H 1970 Altman, Robert USA DB
95 The Apartment 1960 Wilder, Billy USA DO
96 Blow-Up 1966 Antonioni, Michelangelo UK / Italy DO
97 Sunrise 1927 Murnau, F.W. USA D
98 Stagecoach 1939 Ford, John USA DB
99 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 Ford, John USA D
99 Top Hat 1935 Sandrich, Mark USA DOPS
100 Jaws 1975 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
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S   Soundtrack
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