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2 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 1 Kubrick, Stanley UK / USA DUPS
147 Shame 1968 2 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden Y
191 The Producers 1968 3 Brooks, Mel USA DS
259 Night of the Living Dead 1968 4 Romero, George A. USA DUP
274 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 5 Leone, Sergio Italy / USA YUS
337 Faces 1968 6 Cassavetes, John USA Y
365 Rosemary's Baby 1968 7 Polanski, Roman USA YU
411 Stolen Kisses 1968 8 Truffaut, François France D
432 If... 1968 9 Anderson, Lindsay UK D
465 Planet of the Apes 1968 10 Schaffner, Franklin J. USA DBS
11 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 1 Penn, Arthur USA DBUPS
35 Belle de jour 1967 2 Buñuel, Luis France / Italy D
59 The Graduate 1967 3 Nichols, Mike USA DS
69 Playtime 1967 4 Tati, Jacques France / Italy D
86 Weekend 1967 5 Godard, Jean-Luc Italy / France D
273 In the Heat of the Night 1967 6 Jewison, Norman USA DS
278 The Red and the White 1967 7 Jancsó, Miklós Hungary / Soviet Union Y
364 Cool Hand Luke 1967 8 Rosenberg, Stuart USA DBUPS
471 In Cold Blood 1967 9 Brooks, Richard USA YU
486 Le Samouraï 1967 10 Melville, Jean-Pierre France / Italy D
42 Persona 1966 1 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden D
107 Blow-Up 1966 2 Antonioni, Michelangelo UK / Italy DU
218 Masculin, féminin 1966 3 Godard, Jean-Luc France / Sweden D
224 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 1966 4 Leone, Sergio Italy / Spain DUPS
323 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 5 Nichols, Mike USA DUPS
340 A Man for All Seasons 1966 6 Zinnemann, Fred UK D
384 Closely Watched Trains 1966 7 Menzel, Jirí Czechoslovakia D
449 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 8 Bresson, Robert France / Sweden D
838 Morgan! 1966 9 Reisz, Karel UK Y
844 Georgy Girl 1966 10 Narizzano, Silvio UK Y
124 Repulsion 1965 1 Polanski, Roman UK Y
164 Pierrot le fou 1965 2 Godard, Jean-Luc France / Italy D
238 The Sound of Music 1965 3 Wise, Robert USA DS
256 Doctor Zhivago 1965 4 Lean, David USA DUPS
300 The Battle of Algiers 1965 5 Pontecorvo, Gillo Algeria / Italy YS
539 Juliet of the Spirits 1965 6 Fellini, Federico Italy / France / West Germany YS
562 Loves of a Blonde 1965 7 Forman, Milos Czechoslovakia Y
588 Ship of Fools 1965 8 Kramer, Stanley USA D
590 The Shop on Main Street 1965 9 Kadár, Ján / Klos, Elmar Czechoslovakia Y
648 Darling 1965 10 Schlesinger, John UK Y
32 Dr. Strangelove
or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964 1 Kubrick, Stanley UK DUP
80 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 2 Pasolini, Pier Paolo France / Italy DU
135 A Hard Day's Night 1964 3 Lester, Richard UK DS
156 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 4 Demy, Jacques France / West Germany DUS
162 My Fair Lady 1964 5 Cukor, George USA DS
201 Goldfinger 1964 6 Hamilton, Guy UK DS
205 Red Desert 1964 7 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France Y
208 Gertrud 1964 8 Dreyer, Carl Theodor Denmark Y
248 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1964 9 Parajanov, Sergei Soviet Union D
390 Woman in the Dunes 1964 10 Teshigahara, Hiroshi Japan D
19 8 1/2 1963 1 Fellini, Federico Italy / France DUS
65 Contempt 1963 2 Godard, Jean-Luc France / Italy DS
284 Tom Jones 1963 3 Richardson, Tony UK D
325 The Leopard 1963 4 Visconti, Luchino Italy / France YUS
366 The Birds 1963 5 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DU
413 The Great Escape 1963 6 Sturges, John USA DUS
415 Hud 1963 7 Ritt, Martin USA YUP
577 Shock Corridor 1963 8 Fuller, Samuel USA Y
578 From Russia with Love 1963 9 Young, Terence UK / USA DS
608 This Sporting Life 1963 10 Anderson, Lindsay UK D
36 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 1 Lean, David UK DUS
47 Jules and Jim 1962 2 Truffaut, François France DS
92 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 3 Frankenheimer, John USA D
193 L'Eclisse 1962 4 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France Y
231 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 5 Mulligan, Robert USA DUS
357 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 6 Ford, John USA D
438 Knife in the Water 1962 7 Polanski, Roman Poland D
448 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 8 Aldrich, Robert USA D
478 The Exterminating Angel 1962 9 Buñuel, Luis Mexico Y
563 My Life to Live 1962 10 Godard, Jean-Luc France Y
83 Viridiana 1961 1 Buñuel, Luis Mexico / Spain D
108 West Side Story 1961 2 Robbins, Jerome / Wise, Robert USA DUPS
111 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 3 Resnais, Alain France / Italy Y
157 Through a Glass Darkly 1961 4 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden Y
170 The Hustler 1961 5 Rossen, Robert USA D
258 Lola 1961 6 Demy, Jacques Italy / France Y
261 Yojimbo 1961 7 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
288 La Notte 1961 8 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France Y
447 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 9 Edwards, Blake USA DUS
544 A Taste of Honey 1961 10 Richardson, Tony UK Y
8 Psycho 1960 1 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DUPS
17 Breathless 1960 2 Godard, Jean-Luc France D
30 La Dolce Vita 1960 3 Fellini, Federico Italy / France DS
52 L'Avventura 1960 4 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France D
88 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 5 Visconti, Luchino France / Italy DS
128 The Apartment 1960 6 Wilder, Billy USA D
293 Spartacus 1960 7 Kubrick, Stanley USA YS
313 Eyes Without a Face 1960 8 Franju, Georges France / Italy Y
331 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 9 Reisz, Karel UK Y
468 Peeping Tom 1960 10 Powell, Michael UK Y
10 The 400 Blows 1959 1 Truffaut, François France D
31 The World of Apu 1959 2 Ray, Satyajit India D
40 Some Like It Hot 1959 3 Wilder, Billy USA DS
75 North by Northwest 1959 4 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
189 Floating Weeds 1959 5 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan D
260 Ben-Hur 1959 6 Wyler, William USA DUS
315 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 7 Preminger, Otto USA DU
355 Hiroshima, mon amour 1959 8 Resnais, Alain France / Japan Y
397 Shadows 1959 9 Cassavetes, John USA Y
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421 Pickpocket 1959 10 Bresson, Robert France D
3 Vertigo 1958 1 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DUPS
74 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 2 Wajda, Andrzej Poland D
90 Touch of Evil 1958 3 Welles, Orson USA DUS
236 Gigi 1958 4 Minnelli, Vincente USA DS
354 The Defiant Ones 1958 5 Kramer, Stanley USA Y
373 Mon oncle 1958 6 Tati, Jacques Italy / France Y
566 A Night to Remember 1958 7 Baker, Roy Ward UK Y
706 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 8 Brooks, Richard USA DU
899 I Want to Live! 1958 9 Wise, Robert USA YU
908 The Magician 1958 10 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden Y
87 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 1 Lean, David UK / USA DUS
120 Throne of Blood 1957 2 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
144 Paths of Glory 1957 3 Kubrick, Stanley USA DUP
148 The Seventh Seal 1957 4 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden D
150 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 5 Mackendrick, Alexander USA Y
185 Aparajito 1957 6 Ray, Satyajit India D
221 12 Angry Men 1957 7 Lumet, Sidney USA D
281 Wild Strawberries 1957 8 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden D
317 Nights of Cabiria 1957 9 Fellini, Federico Italy / France DUS
417 Funny Face 1957 10 Donen, Stanley USA DUS
14 The Searchers 1956 1 Ford, John USA DBS
178 The Burmese Harp 1956 2 Ichikawa, Kon Japan D
195 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 3 Siegel, Don USA D
240 Written on the Wind 1956 4 Sirk, Douglas USA Y
451 Giant 1956 5 Stevens, George USA YUPS
625 The King and I 1956 6 Lang, Walter USA DS
650 Lust for Life 1956 7 Minnelli, Vincente / Cukor, George USA DUPS
655 The Ten Commandments 1956 8 DeMille, Cecil B. USA DUS
697 A Man Escaped 1956 9 Bresson, Robert France Y
705 Forbidden Planet 1956 10 Wilcox, Fred M. USA D
79 Diabolique 1955 1 Clouzot, Henri-Georges France D
95 Smiles of a Summer Night 1955 2 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden D
113 Pather Panchali 1955 3 Ray, Satyajit India D
125 Rebel Without a Cause 1955 4 Ray, Nicholas USA DU
126 The Night of the Hunter 1955 5 Laughton, Charles USA DUP
163 Lola Montès 1955 6 Ophüls, Max France / West Germany Y
234 Marty 1955 7 Mann, Delbert USA D
278 Night and Fog 1955 8 Resnais, Alain France Y
346 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 9 Aldrich, Robert USA Y
388 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 10 Sturges, John USA YUS
6 Seven Samurai 1954 1 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
27 On the Waterfront 1954 2 Kazan, Elia USA DU
64 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 3 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan D
101 Rear Window 1954 4 Hitchcock, Alfred USA D
194 La Strada 1954 5 Fellini, Federico Italy DS
244 Senso 1954 6 Visconti, Luchino Italy YU
262 A Star Is Born 1954 7 Cukor, George USA YUS
362 Johnny Guitar 1954 8 Ray, Nicholas USA Y
473 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 9 Donen, Stanley USA DS
622 Carmen Jones 1954 10 Preminger, Otto USA YS
37 Tokyo Story 1953 1 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan D
44 Ugetsu 1953 2 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan D
106 The Earrings of Madame de... 1953 3 Ophüls, Max France / Italy D
179 The Golden Coach 1953 4 Renoir, Jean France / Italy Y
209 Shane 1953 5 Stevens, George USA YU
243 From Here to Eternity 1953 6 Zinnemann, Fred USA DU
273 The Band Wagon 1953 7 Minnelli, Vincente USA YS
324 The Wages of Fear 1953 8 Clouzot, Henri-Georges France / Italy D
358 Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953 9 Tati, Jacques France DS
383 Roman Holiday 1953 10 Wyler, William USA DU
7 Singin' in the Rain 1952 1 Kelly, Gene / Donen, Stanley USA DUPS
54 Ikiru 1952 2 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
71 Forbidden Games 1952 3 Clément, René France D
73 High Noon 1952 4 Zinnemann, Fred USA DUS
244 Europa '51 1952 5 Rossellini, Roberto Italy
275 Umberto D. 1952 6 De Sica, Vittorio Italy Y
330 The Quiet Man 1952 7 Ford, John USA D
376 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 8 Minnelli, Vincente USA YU
683 The Greatest Show on Earth 1952 9 DeMille, Cecil B. USA YUP
738 Moulin Rouge 1952 10 Huston, John UK Y
84 Diary of a Country Priest 1951 1 Bresson, Robert France D
139 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 2 Kazan, Elia USA DUPS
165 The African Queen 1951 3 Huston, John UK / USA Y
199 Strangers on a Train 1951 4 Hitchcock, Alfred USA YUS
227 An American in Paris 1951 5 Minnelli, Vincente USA DUPS
326 A Place in the Sun 1951 6 Stevens, George USA YS
429 Ace in the Hole 1951 7 Wilder, Billy USA DUP
446 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 8 Wise, Robert USA DBUS
458 The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 9 Crichton, Charles UK Y
612 Death of a Salesman 1951 10 Benedek, László USA
13 Rashômon 1950 1 Kurosawa, Akira Japan DU
26 All About Eve 1950 2 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA DS
48 Sunset Boulevard 1950 3 Wilder, Billy USA DS
229 Los Olvidados 1950 4 Buñuel, Luis Mexico Y
378 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 5 Huston, John USA YUS
416 In a Lonely Place 1950 6 Ray, Nicholas USA Y
565 Winchester '73 1950 7 Mann, Anthony USA D
582 The Gunfighter 1950 8 King, Henry USA D
613 Born Yesterday 1950 9 Cukor, George USA D
674 The Men 1950 10 Zinnemann, Fred USA Y
82 The Third Man 1949 1 Reed, Carol UK D
235 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 2 Hamer, Robert UK D
266 White Heat 1949 3 Walsh, Raoul USA DS
353 All the King's Men 1949 4 Rossen, Robert USA D
394 Gun Crazy 1949 5 Lewis, Joseph H. USA Y
430 The Heiress 1949 6 Wyler, William USA D
444 Adam's Rib 1949 7 Cukor, George USA YUP
454 On the Town 1949 8 Kelly, Gene / Donen, Stanley USA DS
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548 Orpheus 1949 9 Cocteau, Jean France Y
605 Twelve O'Clock High 1949 10 King, Henry USA DS
12 Bicycle Thieves 1948 1 De Sica, Vittorio Italy D
117 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 2 Huston, John USA DUPS
197 Red River 1948 3 Hawks, Howard / Rosson, Arthur USA DUPS
290 The Red Shoes 1948 4 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK YS
349 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 5 Ophüls, Max USA Y
426 Force of Evil 1948 6 Polonsky, Abraham USA Y
639 La Terra trema 1948 7 Visconti, Luchino Italy Y
654 Oliver Twist 1948 8 Lean, David UK Y
688 Hamlet 1948 9 Olivier, Laurence UK D
720 The Snake Pit 1948 10 Litvak, Anatole USA Y
206 Out of the Past 1947 1 Tourneur, Jacques USA Y
419 Odd Man Out 1947 2 Reed, Carol UK Y
479 Black Narcissus 1947 3 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK Y
527 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 4 Chaplin, Charles USA DS
606 Crossfire 1947 5 Dmytryk, Edward USA YU
619 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 6 Seaton, George USA D
918 Gentleman's Agreement 1947 7 Kazan, Elia USA D
1038 Life with Father 1947 8 Curtiz, Michael USA YU
1051 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 9 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA YS
1079 Boomerang! 1947 10 Kazan, Elia USA
50 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 1 Capra, Frank USA DUPS
81 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 2 Wyler, William USA D
85 Beauty and the Beast 1946 3 Cocteau, Jean / Clément, René France / Luxembourg D
127 Notorious 1946 4 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
203 The Big Sleep 1946 5 Hawks, Howard USA DS
220 My Darling Clementine 1946 6 Ford, John USA D
303 Great Expectations 1946 7 Lean, David UK DB
332 A Matter of Life and Death 1946 8 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK YUP
462 The Killers 1946 9 Siodmak, Robert USA YS
482 Paisan 1946 10 Rossellini, Roberto Italy Y
45 Children of Paradise 1945 1 Carné, Marcel France D
207 Open City 1945 2 Rossellini, Roberto Italy YU
252 The Lost Weekend 1945 3 Wilder, Billy USA YS
304 Brief Encounter 1945 4 Lean, David UK Y
391 Mildred Pierce 1945 5 Curtiz, Michael USA YS
489 Detour 1945 6 Ulmer, Edgar G. USA YU
642 Ivan the Terrible, Part One 1945 7 Eisenstein, Sergei M. Soviet Union YU
662 I Know Where I'm Going! 1945 8 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK Y
664 A Walk in the Sun 1945 9 Milestone, Lewis USA D
681 Dead of Night 1945 10 Cavalcanti, Alberto / Crichton, Charles / Dearden, Basil / Hamer, Robert UK Y
46 Double Indemnity 1944 1 Wilder, Billy USA DS
192 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 2 Minnelli, Vincente USA DS
299 Henry V 1944 3 Olivier, Laurence UK D
302 Laura 1944 4 Preminger, Otto / Mamoulian, Rouben USA DU
377 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944 5 Sturges, Preston USA D
453 To Have and Have Not 1944 6 Hawks, Howard USA DS
514 Going My Way 1944 7 McCarey, Leo USA DUS
569 Hail the Conquering Hero 1944 8 Sturges, Preston USA D
691 Murder, My Sweet 1944 9 Dmytryk, Edward USA D
885 Gaslight 1944 10 Cukor, George USA Y
289 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 1 Wellman, William A. USA Y
310 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 2 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
406 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 3 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK D
703 Day of Wrath 1943 4 Dreyer, Carl Theodor Denmark D
744 Ossessione 1943 5 Visconti, Luchino Italy Y
864 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 6 Tourneur, Jacques USA D
1025 Five Graves to Cairo 1943 7 Wilder, Billy USA
1027 The Song of Bernadette 1943 8 King, Henry USA YS
1028 Watch on the Rhine 1943 9 Shumlin, Herman / Mohr, Hal USA D
1041 Heaven Can Wait 1943 10 Lubitsch, Ernst USA Y
9 Casablanca 1942 1 Curtiz, Michael USA DBUPS
225 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 2 Welles, Orson USA YS
249 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 3 Curtiz, Michael USA YS
270 The Palm Beach Story 1942 4 Sturges, Preston USA DU
294 Bambi 1942 5 Hand, David / Algar, James / Armstrong, Samuel / Heid, Graham / Pearce, Perce / Roberts, Bill / Satterfield, Paul / Wright, Norman USA DS
301 Now, Voyager 1942 6 Rapper, Irving USA DS
328 To Be or Not to Be 1942 7 Lubitsch, Ernst USA Y
452 Cat People 1942 8 Tourneur, Jacques USA D
474 Woman of the Year 1942 9 Stevens, George USA Y
763 The Pride of the Yankees 1942 10 Wood, Sam USA DUP
1 Citizen Kane 1941 1 Welles, Orson USA DS
62 The Maltese Falcon 1941 2 Huston, John USA DUP
123 The Lady Eve 1941 3 Sturges, Preston USA DU
142 Sullivan's Travels 1941 4 Sturges, Preston USA DU
282 How Green Was My Valley 1941 5 Ford, John USA DS
336 Dumbo 1941 6 Sharpsteen, Ben / Armstrong, Samuel / Ferguson, Norman / Jackson, Wilfred / Kinney, Jack / Roberts, Bill USA DS
599 Sergeant York 1941 7 Hawks, Howard USA DS
643 Here Comes Mr. Jordan 1941 8 Hall, Alexander USA DU
719 The Little Foxes 1941 9 Wyler, William USA YUP
765 Major Barbara 1941 10 Pascal, Gabriel / French, Harold / Lean, David UK Y
140 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 1 Ford, John USA D
151 Pinocchio 1940 2 Luske, Hamilton / Sharpsteen, Ben USA