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Top American Films (#1-100)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 1
2 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 2
3 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 3
4 2001: A Space Odyssey1 1968 Stanley Kubrick 4
5 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 5
6 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 6
7 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 7
8 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 8
9 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 10
10 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 11
11 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 13
12 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 14
13 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 15
14 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 16
15 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 17
16 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 18
17 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 19
18 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 20
19 Blade Runner2 1982 Ridley Scott 21
20 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 22
21 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 23
22 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 24
23 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 25
24 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 26
25 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 28
26 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg 29
27 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 30
28 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 31
29 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 33
30 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 34
31 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 35
32 A Clockwork Orange1 1971 Stanley Kubrick 36
33 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 37
34 Alien1 1979 Ridley Scott 38
35 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 39
36 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 40
37 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 41
38 The Matrix3 1999 Andy and Larry Wachowski 42
39 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 43
40 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 44
41 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 45
42 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 46
43 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 47
44 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 48
45 Fargo1 1996 Joel Coen 49
46 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 50
47 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 51
48 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 52
49 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 54
50 The Usual Suspects4 1995 Bryan Singer 55
51 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 56
52 The Bridge on the River Kwai1 1957 David Lean 57
53 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 58
54 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 59
55 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring5 2001 Peter Jackson 60
56 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 61
57 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 62
58 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 63
59 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 64
60 Aliens1 1986 James Cameron 65
61 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 66
62 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 68
63 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 69
64 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 72
65 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 73
66 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 76
67 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 78
68 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 79
69 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 82
70 Fight Club4 1999 David Fincher 83
71 The Deer Hunter1 1978 Michael Cimino 85
72 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 86
73 The Shining1 1980 Stanley Kubrick 87
74 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 88
75 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand 89
76 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 91
77 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 92
78 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 93
79 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 94
80 The Terminator1 1984 James Cameron 95
81 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King5 2003 Peter Jackson 96
82 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 97
83 Terminator 2: Judgment Day6 1991 James Cameron 98
84 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 99
85 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 100
86 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 101
87 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 102
88 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 103
89 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 104
90 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 106
91 Once Upon a Time in the West7 1968 Sergio Leone 107
92 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 108
93 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 109
94 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 111
95 Seven 1995 David Fincher 112
96 Gladiator1 2000 Ridley Scott 113
97 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 114
98 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 115
99 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 116
100 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 121

1 Joint production with the United Kingdom.
2 Joint production with Hong Kong.
3 Joint production with Australia.
4 Joint production with (West) Germany.
5 Joint production with New Zealand.
6 Joint production with France.
7 Joint production with Italy.
8 Joint production with Taiwan.
9 Joint production with the People's Republic of China.
10 Joint production with Japan.
11 Joint production with Spain.
12 Joint production with Mexico.
13 Joint production with Canada.
14 Joint production with Austria.
15 Joint production with Switzerland.
16 Joint production with Argentina.
17 Joint production with Finland.
18 Joint production with Denmark, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.
19 Joint production with Ireland.
20 Joint production with the Czech Republic.
21 Joint production with the Bahamas.
22 Joint production with India.
23 Joint production with South Africa.
24 Joint production with Cuba.
25 Joint production with Greece.
26 Joint production with Brazil, Chile, and Peru.
27 Joint production with Morocco.
28 Joint production with Yugoslavia.
29 Joint production with Belgium and Israel.
30 Joint production with Iran.
31 Joint production with Panama.
32 Joint production with Malta.

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