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Top American Films (#1-200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 1
2 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 2
3 2001: A Space Odyssey1 1968 Stanley Kubrick 3
4 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 4
5 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 5
6 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 6
7 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 7
8 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 8
9 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 9
10 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 10
11 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 11
12 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb1 1964 Stanley Kubrick 12
13 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 13
14 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 14
15 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 15
16 Alien1 1979 Ridley Scott 16
17 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 17
18 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 18
19 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 20
20 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 21
21 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 23
22 A Clockwork Orange1 1971 Stanley Kubrick 24
23 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 25
24 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg 26
25 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 27
26 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 28
27 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 29
28 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 31
29 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 32
30 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 33
31 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 34
32 The Matrix 1999 Lana and Lilly Wachowski 35
33 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 36
34 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 37
35 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 38
36 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 40
37 The Shining1 1980 Stanley Kubrick 41
38 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 42
39 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring2 2001 Peter Jackson 43
40 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 45
41 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 46
42 The Dark Knight1 2008 Christopher Nolan 47
43 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King2 2003 Peter Jackson 48
44 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 49
45 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 50
46 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 51
47 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 52
48 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 53
49 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 54
50 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 55
51 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 56
52 Once Upon a Time in the West3 1968 Sergio Leone 58
53 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 59
54 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 61
55 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 62
56 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 63
57 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 64
58 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 66
59 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers2 2002 Peter Jackson 67
60 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 68
61 Fight Club4 1999 David Fincher 71
62 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet 73
63 Fargo1 1996 Joel Coen 75
64 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry 76
65 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 77
66 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 78
67 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 80
68 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 81
69 WALL•E 2008 Andrew Stanton 82
70 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 83
71 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 85
72 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 87
73 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 88
74 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 89
75 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 91
76 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 92
77 The Bridge on the River Kwai1 1957 David Lean 94
78 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 95
79 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 96
80 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 97
81 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 98
82 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 100
83 The Terminator1 1984 James Cameron 101
84 Seven 1995 David Fincher 102
85 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 103
86 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand 104
87 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter 106
88 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 107
89 The Big Lebowski1 1998 Joel Coen 108
90 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 109
91 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 110
92 The Usual Suspects4 1995 Bryan Singer 112
93 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 113
94 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 114
95 Brazil1 1985 Terry Gilliam 115
96 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 116
97 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 117
98 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 118
99 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 120
100 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 121
101 Mulholland Dr.5 2001 David Lynch 124
102 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 125
103 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 126
104 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 127
105 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 129
106 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 130
107 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 131
108 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 132
109 Once Upon a Time in America3 1984 Sergio Leone 133
110 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre6 1948 John Huston 134
111 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 136
112 Gladiator1 7 8 2000 Ridley Scott 137
113 The Lion King 1994 Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff 138
114 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 139
115 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 140
116 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 142
117 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 144
118 There Will Be Blood 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson 147
119 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner 149
120 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 150
121 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 152
122 Brokeback Mountain9 2005 Ang Lee 153
123 Beauty and the Beast 1991 Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise 154
124 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 155
125 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 157
126 Inception1 2010 Christopher Nolan 158
127 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 159
128 Lost in Translation10 2003 Sofia Coppola 161
129 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 162
130 Amadeus3 5 11 1984 Milos Forman 163
131 Airplane! 1980 Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker 164
132 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner 166
133 Finding Nemo12 2003 Andrew Stanton 168
134 Ghostbusters 1984 Ivan Reitman 169
135 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 171
136 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 172
137 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 173
138 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks 175
139 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 176
140 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 177
141 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 178
142 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 181
143 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 182
144 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 183
145 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 184
146 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 185
147 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel 186
148 The Sixth Sense 1999 M. Night Shyamalan 187
149 Up 2009 Pete Docter 188
150 No Country for Old Men6 2007 Ethan and Joel Coen 189
151 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon13 14 15 2000 Ang Lee 191
152 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks 192
153 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 193
154 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 194
155 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 196
156 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 198
157 Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby 199
158 Platoon1 1986 Oliver Stone 200
159 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 202
160 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton 203
161 The Incredibles 2004 Brad Bird 205
162 Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel 206
163 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 208
164 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 209
165 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz and William Keighley 212
166 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 213
167 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 214
168 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper 216
169 Eraserhead 1977 David Lynch 220
170 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 221
171 The Fly1 9 1986 David Cronenberg 223
172 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 224
173 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone 225
174 Full Metal Jacket1 1987 Stanley Kubrick 226
175 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 228
176 Barry Lyndon1 1975 Stanley Kubrick 231
177 Pinocchio 1940 Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen 233
178 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 234
179 Freaks 1932 Tod Browning 235
180 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand 236
181 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese 238
182 The Truman Show 1998 Peter Weir 242
183 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise 245
184 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 248
185 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 249
186 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock 251
187 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 252
188 The Professional5 1994 Luc Besson 253
189 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 254
190 Children of Men1 10 2006 Alfonso Cuarón 258
191 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky 259
192 Toy Story 3 2010 Lee Unkrich 261
193 Avatar 2009 James Cameron 262
194 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 263
195 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Robert Zemeckis 264
196 Fantasia 1940 James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield 266
197 Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson 267
198 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 268
199 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 271
200 Inglourious Basterds4 2009 Quentin Tarantino 272

1 Joint production with the United Kingdom.
2 Joint production with New Zealand.
3 Joint production with Italy.
4 Joint production with (West) Germany.
5 Joint production with France.
6 Joint production with Mexico.
7 Joint production with Morocco.
8 Joint production with Malta.
9 Joint production with Canada.
10 Joint production with Japan.
11 Joint production with Czechoslovakia or the Czech Republic.
12 Joint production with Australia.
13 Joint production with Hong Kong.
14 Joint production with Taiwan.
15 Joint production with the People's Republic of China.
16 Joint production with Switzerland.
17 Joint production with Austria.
18 Joint production with South Africa.
19 Joint production with Spain.
20 Joint production with Belgium.
21 Joint production with Finland.
22 Joint production with Israel.
23 Joint production with East Germany.
24 Joint production with the Bahamas.
25 Joint production with Denmark.
26 Joint production with the Netherlands.
27 Joint production with Argentina.
28 Joint production with Norway.
29 Joint production with Sweden.
30 Joint production with Iceland.
31 Joint production with Latvia.
32 Joint production with Hungary.
33 Joint production with Bulgaria.
34 Joint production with Yugoslavia.
35 Joint production with India.
36 Joint production with Indonesia.
37 Joint production with Greece.
38 Joint production with Poland.
39 Joint production with the United Arab Emirates.
40 Joint production with Cuba.
41 Joint production with Brazil.
42 Joint production with Chile and Peru.
43 Joint production with Kenya.
44 Joint production with Ireland.
45 Joint production with the Dominican Republic.
46 Joint production with Vietnam.

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