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 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Welles, Orson USA DS
2 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Kubrick, Stanley UK / USA DPS
3 Vertigo 1958 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DUS
4 The Rules of the Game 1939 Renoir, Jean France D
5 The Godfather 1972 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DS
6 Seven Samurai 1954 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
7 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Kelly, Gene / Donen, Stanley USA DUS
8 Psycho 1960 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DUS
9 Casablanca 1942 Curtiz, Michael USA DS
10 The 400 Blows 1959 Truffaut, François France D
11 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Penn, Arthur USA DBUPS
12 Bicycle Thieves 1948 De Sica, Vittorio Italy D
13 Rashômon 1950 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
14 The Searchers 1956 Ford, John USA DBS
15 Chinatown 1974 Polanski, Roman USA DUS
16 Breathless 1960 Godard, Jean-Luc France D
17 Raging Bull 1980 Scorsese, Martin USA D
18 8 1/2 1963 Fellini, Federico Italy / France DUS
19 Pulp Fiction 1994 Tarantino, Quentin USA D
20 Annie Hall 1977 Allen, Woody USA D
21 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Zhang, Yimou China / Hong Kong / Taiwan DS
22 Star Wars: Episode IV -
A New Hope
1977 Lucas, George USA DS
23 M 1931 Lang, Fritz Germany D
24 Schindler's List 1993 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
25 All About Eve 1950 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA DS
26 On the Waterfront 1954 Kazan, Elia USA DU
27 Taxi Driver 1976 Scorsese, Martin USA DUS
28 The Conformist 1970 Bertolucci, Bernardo Italy / France / West Germany DS
29 La Dolce Vita 1960 Fellini, Federico Italy / France DS
30 Belle de jour 1967 Buñuel, Luis France / Italy D
31 The World of Apu 1959 Ray, Satyajit India D
32 Dr. Strangelove
or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964 Kubrick, Stanley UK DUP
33 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
34 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Fleming, Victor / Vidor, King / Cukor, George / LeRoy, Mervyn USA DS
35 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 Lean, David UK DUS
36 Tokyo Story 1953 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan D
37 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Buñuel, Luis France / Italy / Spain D
38 Metropolis 1927 Lang, Fritz Germany DUPS
39 Some Like It Hot 1959 Wilder, Billy USA DS
40 The Godfather Part II 1974 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DS
41 Gone with the Wind 1939 Fleming, Victor USA DS
42 Persona 1966 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden D
43 GoodFellas 1990 Scorsese, Martin USA DBUP
44 Ugetsu 1953 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan D
45 Children of Paradise 1945 Carné, Marcel France D
46 Double Indemnity 1944 Wilder, Billy USA DS
47 Jules and Jim 1962 Truffaut, François France DS
48 Sunset Boulevard 1950 Wilder, Billy USA DS
49 Nosferatu 1922 Murnau, F.W. Germany DU
50 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Capra, Frank USA DS
51 L'Atalante 1934 Vigo, Jean France DS
52 L'Avventura 1960 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France D
53 Ran 1985 Kurosawa, Akira Japan / France D
54 Ikiru 1952 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
55 Aguirre, The Wrath of God 1972 Herzog, Werner West Germany / Peru / Mexico D
56 Nashville 1975 Altman, Robert USA DS
57 Do the Right Thing 1989 Lee, Spike USA DU
58 King Kong 1933 Cooper, Merian C. / Schoedsack, Ernest B. USA DS
59 The Graduate 1967 Nichols, Mike USA DS
60 Fanny & Alexander 1982 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden / France / West Germany D
61 Wings of Desire 1987 Wenders, Wim West Germany / France DS
62 The Maltese Falcon 1941 Huston, John USA D
63 Apocalypse Now 1979 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DS
64 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan D
65 Contempt 1963 Godard, Jean-Luc France / Italy DS
66 The Wild Bunch 1969 Peckinpah, Sam USA DB
67 Zéro de conduite 1933 Vigo, Jean France V
68 The Decalogue 1989 Kieslowski, Krzysztof Poland D
69 Playtime 1967 Tati, Jacques France / Italy D
70 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Hawks, Howard USA DU
71 Forbidden Games 1952 Clément, René France D
72 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Dreyer, Carl Theodor France D
73 High Noon 1952 Zinnemann, Fred USA DU
74 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Wajda, Andrzej Poland D
75 North by Northwest 1959 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
76 Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
77 Sunrise 1927 Murnau, F.W. USA D
78 Unforgiven 1992 Eastwood, Clint USA DBUP
79 Diabolique 1955 Clouzot, Henri-Georges France D
80 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 Pasolini, Pier Paolo France / Italy D
81 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 Wyler, William USA D
82 The Third Man 1949 Reed, Carol UK D
83 Viridiana 1961 Buñuel, Luis Mexico / Spain D
84 Diary of a Country Priest 1951 Bresson, Robert France D
85 Beauty and the Beast 1946 Cocteau, Jean / Clément, René France / Luxembourg D
86 Weekend 1967 Godard, Jean-Luc Italy / France D
87 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 Lean, David UK / USA DUS
88 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Visconti, Luchino France / Italy DS
89 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Forman, Milos USA DBU
90 Touch of Evil 1958 Welles, Orson USA DUS
91 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 Frankenheimer, John USA D
92 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Lubitsch, Ernst USA D
93 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Demme, Jonathan USA DS
94 Smiles of a Summer Night 1955 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden D
95 City Lights 1931 Chaplin, Charles USA DS
96 Blade Runner 1982 Scott, Ridley USA DBUPS
97 Solaris 1972 Tarkovsky, Andrei Soviet Union D
98 L'Âge d'Or 1930 Buñuel, Luis France Y
99 The Blue Angel 1930 von Sternberg, Josef Germany DS
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 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
100 Rear Window 1954 Hitchcock, Alfred USA D
101 L.A. Confidential 1997 Hanson, Curtis USA DS
102 Tristana 1970 Buñuel, Luis France / Italy / Spain V
103 Top Hat 1935 Sandrich, Mark USA DS
104 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 Hand, David USA DS
105 Duck Soup 1933 McCarey, Leo USA DUS
106 The Earrings of Madame de... 1953 Ophüls, Max France / Italy D
107 Blow-Up 1966 Antonioni, Michelangelo UK / Italy DU
108 West Side Story 1961 Robbins, Jerome / Wise, Robert USA DUPS
109 À nous la liberté 1931 Clair, René France D
110 Shoah 1985 Lanzmann, Claude France Y
111 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Resnais, Alain France / Italy Y
112 It Happened One Night 1934 Capra, Frank USA DU
113 Pather Panchali 1955 Ray, Satyajit India D
114 Jaws 1975 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
115 Fargo 1996 Coen, Joel / Coen, Ethan USA / UK D
116 The General 1927 Keaton, Buster / Bruckman, Clyde USA DU
117 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 Huston, John USA DS
118 Blue Velvet 1986 Lynch, David USA DS
119 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
120 Throne of Blood 1957 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
121 Pandora's Box 1929 Pabst, Georg Wilhelm Germany D
122 The Bride of Frankenstein 1935 Whale, James USA DUS
123 The Lady Eve 1941 Sturges, Preston USA DU
124 Repulsion 1965 Polanski, Roman UK Y
125 Rebel Without a Cause 1955 Ray, Nicholas USA DU
126 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Laughton, Charles USA D
127 Notorious 1946 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
128 The Apartment 1960 Wilder, Billy USA D
129 Murmur of the Heart 1971 Malle, Louis France / Italy / West Germany D
130 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Curtiz, Michael / Keighley, William USA DS
131 The Conversation 1974 Coppola, Francis Ford USA D
132 Le Boucher 1970 Chabrol, Claude France / Italy D
133 The Last Picture Show 1971 Bogdanovich, Peter USA D
134 Cabaret 1972 Fosse, Bob USA DUS
135 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Lester, Richard UK DS
136 M*A*S*H 1970 Altman, Robert USA D
137 Manhattan 1979 Allen, Woody USA D
138 Earth 1930 Dovzhenko, Aleksandr Soviet Union DU
139 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Kazan, Elia USA DUPS
140 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 Ford, John USA D
141 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Capra, Frank USA D
142 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Sturges, Preston USA DU
143 Grand Illusion 1937 Renoir, Jean France D
144 Celine and Julie Go Boating 1974 Rivette, Jacques France Y
145 Paths of Glory 1957 Kubrick, Stanley USA DUP
146 Napoléon 1927 Gance, Abel Sweden / Italy / France / Czechoslovakia / Germany V
147 Le Jour se lève 1939 Carné, Marcel France V
148 The Seventh Seal 1957 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden D
148 Stagecoach 1939 Ford, John USA D
149 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Keaton, Buster USA Y
150 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Mackendrick, Alexander USA Y
151 Pinocchio 1940 Luske, Hamilton / Sharpsteen, Ben USA YS
152 Le Million 1931 Clair, René France D
153 His Girl Friday 1940 Hawks, Howard USA DU
154 Shame 1968 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden Y
155 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Demy, Jacques France / West Germany DUS
156 The Deer Hunter 1978 Cimino, Michael USA D
157 Lamerica 1994 Amelio, Gianni Italy / France DS
158 The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 Erice, Víctor Spain D
159 The American Friend 1977 Wenders, Wim West Germany / France Y
160 Intolerance 1916 Griffith, D.W. USA DUS
161 My Fair Lady 1964 Cukor, George USA DS
162 Lola Montès 1955 Ophüls, Max France / West Germany Y
163 Pierrot le fou 1965 Godard, Jean-Luc France / Italy D
164 The African Queen 1951 Huston, John UK / USA Y
165 Night of the Shooting Stars 1982 Taviani, Paolo / Taviani, Vittorio Italy D
166 The Gold Rush 1925 Chaplin, Charles USA DS
167 Strike 1925 Eisenstein, Sergei M. Soviet Union DU
168 Atlantic City 1980 Malle, Louis USA / Canada / France DS
169 The Hustler 1961 Rossen, Robert USA D
170 Network 1976 Lumet, Sidney USA DU
171 La Chienne 1931 Renoir, Jean France Y
172 Dr. Mabuse - The Gambler 1922 Lang, Fritz Germany D
173 Un Chien Andalou 1928 Buñuel, Luis France D
174 Modern Times 1936 Chaplin, Charles USA YS
175 The French Connection 1971 Friedkin, William USA D
176 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Spielberg, Steven USA DBUS
177 The Burmese Harp 1956 Ichikawa, Kon Japan D
178 The Golden Coach 1953 Renoir, Jean France / Italy Y
179 Day for Night 1973 Truffaut, François France / Italy DS
180 American Graffiti 1973 Lucas, George USA Y
181 Landscape in the Mist 1988 Angelopoulos, Theo France / Greece / Italy D
182 The Birth of a Nation 1915 Griffith, D.W. USA YUS
183 Patton 1970 Schaffner, Franklin J. USA DBS
184 Aparajito 1957 Ray, Satyajit India D
185 Greed 1924 von Stroheim, Erich USA Y
186 Frankenstein 1931 Whale, James USA DS
187 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Rafelson, Bob USA Y
188 Floating Weeds 1959 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan D
189 Midnight Cowboy 1969 Schlesinger, John USA DS
190 The Producers 1968 Brooks, Mel USA DS
191 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Minnelli, Vincente USA DS
192 1900 1976 Bertolucci, Bernardo France / Italy / West Germany DS
193 L'Eclisse 1962 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France Y
194 La Strada 1954 Fellini, Federico Italy DS
195 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Siegel, Don USA D
196 Through a Glass Darkly 1961 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden Y
197 Red River 1948 Hawks, Howard / Rosson, Arthur USA DUPS
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198 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 Hill, George Roy USA DBS
199 The Double Life of Véronique 1991 Kieslowski, Krzysztof France / Poland / Norway DS
200 Strangers on a Train 1951 Hitchcock, Alfred USA YUS
201 Swing Time 1936 Stevens, George USA DS
202 Goldfinger 1964 Hamilton, Guy UK DS
203 Two English Girls 1971 Truffaut, François France YS
204 The Big Sleep 1946 Hawks, Howard USA DS
205 Boudu Saved from Drowning 1932 Renoir, Jean France D
206 Red Desert 1964 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France Y
207 Out of the Past 1947 Tourneur, Jacques USA Y
208 Open City 1945 Rossellini, Roberto Italy YU
209 Gertrud 1964 Dreyer, Carl Theodor Denmark Y
210 Shane 1953 Stevens, George USA YU
211 Easy Rider 1969 Hopper, Dennis USA YU
212 Battleship Potemkin 1925 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Aleksandrov, Grigori Soviet Union DU
213 American Beauty 1999 Mendes, Sam USA Y
214 The Piano 1993 Campion, Jane Australia / New Zealand / France DS
215 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Allen, Woody USA Y
216 The Bank Dick 1940 Cline, Edward F. USA D
217 All the President's Men 1976 Pakula, Alan J. USA DU
218 Masculin, féminin 1966 Godard, Jean-Luc France / Sweden D
219 Cría cuervos 1976 Saura, Carlos Spain D
220 My Darling Clementine 1946 Ford, John USA D
221 12 Angry Men 1957 Lumet, Sidney USA D
222 The Lord of the Rings:
Return of the King
2003 Jackson, Peter USA / New Zealand DS
223 Red 1994 Kieslowski, Krzysztof Poland / France / Switzerland YS
224 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 1966 Leone, Sergio Italy / Spain DUPS
225 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Welles, Orson USA YS
226 Mean Streets 1973 Scorsese, Martin USA D
227 An American in Paris 1951 Minnelli, Vincente USA YS
228 Vampyr 1932 Dreyer, Carl Theodor France / Germany DU
229 Los Olvidados 1950 Buñuel, Luis Mexico Y
230 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Kubrick, Stanley UK DUP
231 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Mulligan, Robert USA DUS
232 Titanic 1997 Cameron, James USA DS
233 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Milestone, Lewis USA D
234 Marty 1955 Mann, Delbert USA D
235 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Hamer, Robert UK D
236 Gigi 1958 Minnelli, Vincente USA DS
237 Saturday Night Fever 1977 Badham, John USA DS
238 The Sound of Music 1965 Wise, Robert USA DS
239 Badlands 1973 Malick, Terrence USA YU
240 Written on the Wind 1956 Sirk, Douglas USA Y
241 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Altman, Robert USA Y
242 The King of Comedy 1983 Scorsese, Martin USA Y
243 From Here to Eternity 1953 Zinnemann, Fred USA YU
244 Europa '51 1952 Rossellini, Roberto Italy
244 Senso 1954 Visconti, Luchino Italy YU
245 Reds 1981 Beatty, Warren USA DB
246 Amadeus 1984 Forman, Milos USA DUS
247 The Philadelphia Story 1940 Cukor, George USA YS
248 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1964 Parajanov, Sergei Soviet Union D
249 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Curtiz, Michael USA YS
250 Secrets & Lies 1996 Leigh, Mike France / UK Y
251 Dodsworth 1936 Wyler, William USA Y
252 The Lost Weekend 1945 Wilder, Billy USA YS
253 Tootsie 1982 Pollack, Sydney USA DU
254 The Kingdom 1994 von Trier, Lars / Arnfred, Morten Denmark / France / Germany / Sweden D
255 Days of Heaven 1978 Malick, Terrence USA DS
256 Doctor Zhivago 1965 Lean, David USA DUS
257 Rocky 1976 Avildsen, John G. USA DBUPS
258 Lola 1961 Demy, Jacques Italy / France Y
259 Night of the Living Dead 1968 Romero, George A. USA D
260 Ben-Hur 1959 Wyler, William USA DS
261 Yojimbo 1961 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
262 A Star Is Born 1954 Cukor, George USA YUS
263 The Man with the Movie Camera 1929 Vertov, Dziga Soviet Union DUS
264 The Exorcist 1973 Friedkin, William USA DUPS
265 Toy Story 1995 Lasseter, John USA D
266 White Heat 1949 Walsh, Raoul USA DS
267 42nd Street 1933 Bacon, Lloyd USA DUS
268 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Benton, Robert USA Y
269 Deliverance 1972 Boorman, John USA DB
270 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Sturges, Preston USA DU
271 Rebecca 1940 Hitchcock, Alfred USA YS
272 The Band Wagon 1953 Minnelli, Vincente USA YS
272 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Jewison, Norman USA DS
273 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Leone, Sergio Italy / USA YUS
274 Umberto D. 1952 De Sica, Vittorio Italy Y
275 The Pianist 2002 Polanski, Roman Poland / France / UK / Germany / Netherlands Y
276 The Spider's Stratagem 1970 Bertolucci, Bernardo Italy Y
276 The 39 Steps 1935 Hitchcock, Alfred UK D
277 Night and Fog 1955 Resnais, Alain France Y
277 The Red and the White 1967 Jancsó, Miklós Hungary / Soviet Union Y
278 The Public Enemy 1931 Wellman, William A. USA D
279 Star Wars: Episode V -
The Empire Strikes Back
1980 Kershner, Irvin USA DS
280 Wild Strawberries 1957 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden D
281 How Green Was My Valley 1941 Ford, John USA DS
282 Ninotchka 1939 Lubitsch, Ernst USA D
283 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 DS
283 Tom Jones 1963 Richardson, Tony UK D
284 Henry V 1944 Olivier, Laurence UK D
285 Airplane! 1980 Abrahams, Jim / Zucker, David / Zucker, Jerry USA DS
286 The Lord of the Rings:
Fellowship of the Ring
2001 Jackson, Peter New Zealand / USA DUS
287 My Man Godfrey 1936 La Cava, Gregory USA YU
288 La Notte 1961 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France Y
289 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 Wellman, William A. USA Y
290 The Red Shoes 1948 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK YS
291 Alien 1979 Scott, Ridley UK DS
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