Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1 |
2 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles | 4 |
3 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 5 |
4 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | 8 |
5 | Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | 9 |
6 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese | 14 |
7 | Goodfellas | 1990 | Martin Scorsese | 17 |
8 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 18 |
9 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | 19 |
10 | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski | 21 |
11 | Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa | 22 |
12 | Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg | 23 |
13 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | 24 |
14 | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder | 25 |
15 | Schindler's List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 28 |
16 | Raging Bull | 1980 | Martin Scorsese | 29 |
17 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme | 31 |
18 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 32 |
19 | It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra | 33 |
20 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford | 37 |
21 | One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 | Milos Forman | 38 |
22 | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang | 39 |
23 | The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick | 41 |
24 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | 42 |
25 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | Peter Jackson | 43 |
26 | City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin | 46 |
27 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 47 |
28 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | Peter Jackson | 48 |
29 | The General | 1926 | Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton | 49 |
30 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | Frank Darabont | 52 |
31 | Modern Times | 1936 | Charles Chaplin | 53 |
32 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton | 54 |
33 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles | 55 |
34 | All about Eve | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 56 |
35 | The Bicycle Thief | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica | 57 |
36 | The Graduate | 1967 | Mike Nichols | 59 |
37 | The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut | 60 |
38 | The Apartment | 1960 | Billy Wilder | 62 |
39 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan | 64 |
40 | Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard | 65 |
41 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | Peter Jackson | 67 |
42 | Tokyo Story | 1953 | Yasujirô Ozu | 70 |
43 | Fight Club | 1999 | David Fincher | 71 |
44 | Rashômon | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa | 72 |
45 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Sidney Lumet | 73 |
46 | 8 1/2 | 1963 | Federico Fellini | 74 |
47 | Fargo | 1996 | Joel Coen | 75 |
48 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | Michel Gondry | 76 |
49 | Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | Steven Spielberg | 77 |
50 | Rosemary's Baby | 1968 | Roman Polanski | 78 |
51 | Reservoir Dogs | 1992 | Quentin Tarantino | 80 |
52 | Sunrise | 1927 | F.W. Murnau | 81 |
53 | La Dolce Vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini | 86 |
54 | His Girl Friday | 1940 | Howard Hawks | 87 |
55 | Do the Right Thing | 1989 | Spike Lee | 89 |
56 | The Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 90 |
57 | The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | 93 |
58 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | David Lean | 94 |
59 | Unforgiven | 1992 | Clint Eastwood | 95 |
60 | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Arthur Penn | 97 |
61 | The Rules of the Game | 1939 | Jean Renoir | 99 |
62 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Robert Mulligan | 100 |
63 | Seven | 1995 | David Fincher | 102 |
64 | Blue Velvet | 1986 | David Lynch | 103 |
65 | Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman | 105 |
66 | Forrest Gump | 1994 | Robert Zemeckis | 107 |
67 | The Deer Hunter | 1978 | Michael Cimino | 110 |
68 | Paths of Glory | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick | 114 |
69 | Brazil | 1985 | Terry Gilliam | 115 |
70 | The Gold Rush | 1925 | Charles Chaplin | 116 |
71 | Manhattan | 1979 | Woody Allen | 117 |
72 | West Side Story | 1961 | Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise | 118 |
73 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg | 120 |
74 | Nashville | 1975 | Robert Altman | 121 |
75 | The Grand Illusion | 1937 | Jean Renoir | 122 |
76 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1928 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 123 |
77 | Mulholland Dr. | 2001 | David Lynch | 124 |
78 | Rocky | 1976 | John G. Avildsen | 125 |
79 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | 126 |
80 | L.A. Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson | 127 |
81 | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles | 128 |
82 | Titanic | 1997 | James Cameron | 129 |
83 | High Noon | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann | 130 |
84 | Once Upon a Time in America | 1984 | Sergio Leone | 133 |
85 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | John Huston | 134 |
86 | In the Mood for Love | 2000 | Kar-Wai Wong | 135 |
87 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill | 136 |
88 | Gladiator | 2000 | Ridley Scott | 137 |
89 | The Lion King | 1994 | Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff | 138 |
90 | Stagecoach | 1939 | John Ford | 140 |
91 | American Beauty | 1999 | Sam Mendes | 142 |
92 | The Red Shoes | 1948 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 143 |
93 | The Sound of Music | 1965 | Robert Wise | 144 |
94 | The Battle of Algiers | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo | 145 |
95 | Pan's Labyrinth | 2006 | Guillermo del Toro | 146 |
96 | There Will Be Blood | 2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 147 |
97 | Pather Panchali | 1955 | Satyajit Ray | 148 |
98 | When Harry Met Sally… | 1989 | Rob Reiner | 149 |
99 | Aguirre: The Wrath of God | 1972 | Werner Herzog | 151 |
100 | Frankenstein | 1931 | James Whale | 152 |
101 | Brokeback Mountain | 2005 | Ang Lee | 153 |
102 | Bride of Frankenstein | 1935 | James Whale | 155 |
103 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann | 157 |
104 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler | 159 |
105 | Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 160 |
106 | Lost in Translation | 2003 | Sofia Coppola | 161 |
107 | The Conversation | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 162 |
108 | Amadeus | 1984 | Milos Forman | 163 |
109 | Don't Look Now | 1973 | Nicolas Roeg | 165 |
110 | Trainspotting | 1996 | Danny Boyle | 167 |
111 | Wild Strawberries | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | 170 |
112 | Rebel without a Cause | 1955 | Nicholas Ray | 171 |
113 | The French Connection | 1971 | William Friedkin | 172 |
114 | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick | 173 |
115 | Brief Encounter | 1945 | David Lean | 174 |
116 | Rio Bravo | 1959 | Howard Hawks | 175 |
117 | Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly | 176 |
118 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 1962 | John Ford | 178 |
119 | Children of Paradise | 1945 | Marcel Carné | 179 |
120 | Easy Rider | 1969 | Dennis Hopper | 181 |
121 | Network | 1976 | Sidney Lumet | 182 |
122 | The Great Dictator | 1940 | Charles Chaplin | 183 |
123 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | William Wyler | 184 |
124 | Braveheart | 1995 | Mel Gibson | 185 |
125 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1956 | Don Siegel | 186 |
126 | The Sixth Sense | 1999 | M. Night Shyamalan | 187 |
127 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 189 |
128 | Oldboy | 2003 | Chan-wook Park | 190 |
129 | Midnight Cowboy | 1969 | John Schlesinger | 194 |
130 | L'Avventura | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 195 |
131 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | Elia Kazan | 196 |
132 | Ran | 1985 | Akira Kurosawa | 197 |
133 | Harold and Maude | 1971 | Hal Ashby | 199 |
134 | Platoon | 1986 | Oliver Stone | 200 |
135 | Jules and Jim | 1962 | François Truffaut | 201 |
136 | Scarface | 1983 | Brian De Palma | 202 |
137 | Edward Scissorhands | 1990 | Tim Burton | 203 |
138 | Akira | 1988 | Katsuhiro Ôtomo | 204 |
139 | Dog Day Afternoon | 1975 | Sidney Lumet | 208 |
140 | The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | John Ford | 209 |
141 | The Wages of Fear | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 210 |
142 | Wings of Desire | 1987 | Wim Wenders | 211 |
143 | The Manchurian Candidate | 1962 | John Frankenheimer | 214 |
144 | Fanny and Alexander | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman | 215 |
145 | Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore | 217 |
146 | The Lives of Others | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | 218 |
147 | L'Atalante | 1934 | Jean Vigo | 219 |
148 | Days of Heaven | 1978 | Terrence Malick | 221 |
149 | Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 222 |
150 | The Fly | 1986 | David Cronenberg | 223 |
151 | Cabaret | 1972 | Bob Fosse | 224 |
152 | All Quiet on the Western Front | 1930 | Lewis Milestone | 225 |
153 | Full Metal Jacket | 1987 | Stanley Kubrick | 226 |
154 | Solaris | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 227 |
155 | Badlands | 1973 | Terrence Malick | 228 |
156 | The Conformist | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 229 |
157 | Barry Lyndon | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick | 231 |
158 | Peeping Tom | 1960 | Michael Powell | 232 |
159 | The Great Escape | 1963 | John Sturges | 234 |
160 | Freaks | 1932 | Tod Browning | 235 |
161 | Beauty and the Beast | 1946 | Jean Cocteau | 237 |
162 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | 238 |
163 | Rome, Open City | 1945 | Roberto Rossellini | 239 |
164 | Stairway to Heaven | 1946 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 240 |
165 | Ugetsu | 1953 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 241 |
166 | The Truman Show | 1998 | Peter Weir | 242 |
167 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | 1951 | Robert Wise | 245 |
168 | Blow-Up | 1966 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 246 |
169 | Das Boot | 1981 | Wolfgang Petersen | 247 |
170 | M*A*S*H | 1970 | Robert Altman | 248 |
171 | Mean Streets | 1973 | Martin Scorsese | 249 |
172 | Life Is Beautiful | 1997 | Roberto Benigni | 250 |
173 | The Birds | 1963 | Alfred Hitchcock | 251 |
174 | Sullivan's Travels | 1941 | Preston Sturges | 252 |
175 | The Professional | 1994 | Luc Besson | 253 |
176 | Spartacus | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick | 254 |
177 | Ikiru | 1952 | Akira Kurosawa | 256 |
178 | All about My Mother | 1999 | Pedro Almodóvar | 257 |
179 | Children of Men | 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón | 258 |
180 | Requiem for a Dream | 2000 | Darren Aronofsky | 259 |
181 | The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski | 269 |
182 | Inglourious Basterds | 2009 | Quentin Tarantino | 272 |
183 | Superman | 1978 | Richard Donner | 275 |
184 | La Strada | 1954 | Federico Fellini | 276 |
185 | Come and See | 1985 | Elem Klimov | 277 |
186 | Laura | 1944 | Otto Preminger | 279 |
187 | Three Colors: Red | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 282 |
188 | Meet Me in St. Louis | 1944 | Vincente Minnelli | 283 |
189 | Hoop Dreams | 1994 | Steve James | 284 |
190 | Cool Hand Luke | 1967 | Stuart Rosenberg | 285 |
191 | The African Queen | 1951 | John Huston | 286 |
192 | The Last Picture Show | 1971 | Peter Bogdanovich | 287 |
193 | McCabe & Mrs. Miller | 1971 | Robert Altman | 288 |
194 | Out of the Past | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur | 289 |
195 | All the President's Men | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula | 290 |
196 | Patton | 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner | 291 |
197 | Magnolia | 1999 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 292 |
198 | The Leopard | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | 293 |
199 | The Sting | 1973 | George Roy Hill | 294 |
200 | The Iron Giant | 1999 | Brad Bird | 296 |