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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 BDS
2 Bicycle Thieves 1948 De Sica, Vittorio Italy D
3 The Godfather 1972 Coppola, Francis Ford USA BDS
4 Psycho 1960 Hitchcock, Alfred USA BDS
5 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Kubrick, Stanley UK / USA BDS
6 The Rules of the Game 1939 Renoir, Jean France BD
7 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Kelly, Gene / Donen, Stanley USA BDS
8 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Penn, Arthur USA BDS
9 Seven Samurai 1954 Kurosawa, Akira Japan BD
10 Casablanca 1942 Curtiz, Michael USA BDS
11 Annie Hall 1977 Allen, Woody USA BD
12 The Searchers 1956 Ford, John USA BDS
13 Pulp Fiction 1994 Tarantino, Quentin USA BD
14 Chinatown 1974 Polanski, Roman USA BDS
15 Raging Bull 1980 Scorsese, Martin USA BD
16 Star Wars: Episode IV -
A New Hope		 1977 Lucas, George USA BDS
17 Rashômon 1950 Kurosawa, Akira Japan BD
18 The 400 Blows 1959 Truffaut, François France BD
19 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Spielberg, Steven USA BDS
20 Schindler's List 1993 Spielberg, Steven USA BDS
21 Breathless 1960 Godard, Jean-Luc France BD
22 8 1/2 1963 Fellini, Federico Italy / France BDS
23 Vertigo 1958 Hitchcock, Alfred USA BDS
24 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 Lean, David UK BDS
25 GoodFellas 1990 Scorsese, Martin USA BD
26 Metropolis 1927 Lang, Fritz Germany BDS
27 Some Like It Hot 1959 Wilder, Billy USA BDS
28 La Dolce Vita 1960 Fellini, Federico Italy / France DS
29 On the Waterfront 1954 Kazan, Elia USA BD
30 Taxi Driver 1976 Scorsese, Martin USA BDS
31 All About Eve 1950 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA BDS
32 M 1931 Lang, Fritz Germany BD
33 Gone with the Wind 1939 Fleming, Victor USA BDS
34 The Conformist 1970 Bertolucci, Bernardo Italy / France / West Germany DS
35 Dr. Strangelove
or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb		 1964 Kubrick, Stanley UK BD
36 The Godfather Part II 1974 Coppola, Francis Ford USA BDS
37 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Fleming, Victor / Vidor, King / Cukor, George / LeRoy, Mervyn USA BDS
38 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Zhang, Yimou China / Hong Kong / Taiwan DS
39 Sunset Boulevard 1950 Wilder, Billy USA BDS
40 Tokyo Story 1953 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan D
41 The World of Apu 1959 Ray, Satyajit India D
42 Double Indemnity 1944 Wilder, Billy USA DS
43 Apocalypse Now 1979 Coppola, Francis Ford USA BDS
44 Jules and Jim 1962 Truffaut, François France DS
45 Belle de jour 1967 Buñuel, Luis France / Italy BD
46 Persona 1966 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden D
47 The Graduate 1967 Nichols, Mike USA BDS
48 Nashville 1975 Altman, Robert USA DS
49 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Capra, Frank USA BDS
50 Ran 1985 Kurosawa, Akira Japan / France BD
51 L'Avventura 1960 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France D
52 Ikiru 1952 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Forman, Milos USA BD
54 Wings of Desire 1987 Wenders, Wim West Germany / France BDS
55 L.A. Confidential 1997 Hanson, Curtis USA BDS
56 The Maltese Falcon 1941 Huston, John USA BD
57 Pather Panchali 1955 Ray, Satyajit India D
58 Grand Illusion 1937 Renoir, Jean France BD
59 Unforgiven 1992 Eastwood, Clint USA BD
60 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Demme, Jonathan USA BDS
61 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Buñuel, Luis France / Italy / Spain D
62 Nosferatu 1922 Murnau, F.W. Germany D
63 King Kong 1933 Cooper, Merian C. / Schoedsack, Ernest B. USA BDS
64 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Spielberg, Steven USA BDS
65 Aguirre, The Wrath of God 1972 Herzog, Werner West Germany / Peru / Mexico D
65 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 Lean, David UK / USA BDS
66 The Seventh Seal 1957 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden BD
67 Fargo 1996 Coen, Joel / Coen, Ethan USA / UK BD
68 Do the Right Thing 1989 Lee, Spike USA BD
69 It Happened One Night 1934 Capra, Frank USA D
70 North by Northwest 1959 Hitchcock, Alfred USA BDS
71 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Hawks, Howard USA D
72 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Spielberg, Steven USA BDS
73 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 Huston, John USA BDS
74 The Wild Bunch 1969 Peckinpah, Sam USA BD
75 Fanny & Alexander 1982 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden / France / West Germany BD
76 West Side Story 1961 Robbins, Jerome / Wise, Robert USA BDS
77 Children of Paradise 1945 Carné, Marcel France BD
78 Battleship Potemkin 1925 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Aleksandrov, Grigori Soviet Union BD
79 The Third Man 1949 Reed, Carol UK BD
80 High Noon 1952 Zinnemann, Fred USA BDS
81 Touch of Evil 1958 Welles, Orson USA DS
82 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 Hand, David USA BDS
83 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 Wyler, William USA D
84 Rome Open City 1945 Rossellini, Roberto Italy D
85 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Kazan, Elia USA BDS
86 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Wajda, Andrzej Poland D
87 Ugetsu 1953 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan D
88 The Conversation 1974 Coppola, Francis Ford USA BD
89 M*A*S*H 1970 Altman, Robert USA BD
90 The Apartment 1960 Wilder, Billy USA D
91 Beauty and the Beast 1946 Cocteau, Jean / Clément, René France / Luxembourg BD
92 Jaws 1975 Spielberg, Steven USA BDS
93 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 Frankenheimer, John USA BD
94 Top Hat 1935 Sandrich, Mark USA DS
95 Blade Runner 1982 Scott, Ridley USA BDS
96 Duck Soup 1933 McCarey, Leo USA DS
97 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 Ford, John USA BD
98 Stagecoach 1939 Ford, John USA BD
99 Blow-Up 1966 Antonioni, Michelangelo UK / Italy D
100 The French Connection 1971 Friedkin, William USA BD
 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
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D   DVD
V   VHS
Y   Yes (DVD or VHS, unspecified)
S   Soundtrack
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