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Top Films According to Regular Film Fans (#1-100)

Fans'
Rank		 Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 1
2 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 15
3 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 2
4 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 14
5 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 8
6 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 26
7 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 3
8 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 19
9 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 4
10 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 13
11 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 22
12 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 12
13 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 46
14 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 7
15 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 43
16 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg 29
17 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 30
18 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 35
19 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 36
20 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 24
21 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 34
22 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 11
23 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 20
24 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 18
25 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 111
26 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 49
27 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 16
28 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 50
29 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 55
30 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 21
31 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 31
32 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 66
33 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 5
34 The Matrix 1999 Andy and Larry Wachowski 42
35 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 9
36 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 83
37 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 93
38 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 87
39 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 25
40 The Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 32
41 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 38
42 Seven 1995 David Fincher 112
43 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 39
44 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 60
45 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 116
46 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 17
47 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 65
48 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 6
49 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 27
50 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 33
51 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 40
52 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 82
53 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick 275
54 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 23
55 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 118
56 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 10
57 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 44
58 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand 178
59 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 136
60 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 91
61 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 94
62 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 133
63 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 98
64 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 62
65 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 57
66 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman 141
67 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 122
68 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 73
69 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 85
70 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 76
71 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 77
72 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 113
73 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 95
74 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 123
75 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 54
76 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet 154
77 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 41
78 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 96
79 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 202
80 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 28
81 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 37
82 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 63
83 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 103
84 The Sixth Sense 1999 M. Night Shyamalan 171
85 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 150
86 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 107
87 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 48
88 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 239
89 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 80
90 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 59
91 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 64
92 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 124
93 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 51
94 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 149
95 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 423
96 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 132
97 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 101
98 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 114
99 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 142
100 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 173
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