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.