Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford | 37 |
2 | Singin' in the Rain | 1952 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 7 |
3 | Annie Hall | 1977 | Woody Allen | 20 |
4 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles | 4 |
5 | Nashville | 1975 | Robert Altman | 121 |
6 | King Kong | 1933 | Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack | 51 |
7 | The Lady Eve | 1941 | Preston Sturges | 193 |
8 | Bringing Up Baby | 1938 | Howard Hawks | 91 |
9 | Duck Soup | 1933 | Leo McCarey | 85 |
10 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | 3 |
11 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1956 | Don Siegel | 186 |
12 | The Birth of a Nation | 1915 | D.W. Griffith | 312 |
13 | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Arthur Penn | 97 |
14 | Sunrise | 1927 | F.W. Murnau | 81 |
15 | The Rules of the Game | 1939 | Jean Renoir | 99 |
16 | Intolerance | 1916 | D.W. Griffith | 314 |
17 | His Girl Friday | 1940 | Howard Hawks | 87 |
18 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | 1951 | Robert Wise | 245 |
19 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston | 68 |
20 | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang | 39 |
21 | The Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 90 |
22 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder | 10 |
23 | Forbidden Planet | 1956 | Fred M. Wilcox | 351 |
24 | It Happened One Night | 1934 | Frank Capra | 92 |
25 | The General | 1926 | Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton | 49 |
26 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg | 120 |
27 | Do the Right Thing | 1989 | Spike Lee | 89 |
28 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | Steven Spielberg | 27 |
29 | Stagecoach | 1939 | John Ford | 140 |
30 | Greed | 1924 | Erich von Stroheim | 321 |
31 | The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | George Cukor | 131 |
32 | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski | 21 |
33 | Meet Me in St. Louis | 1944 | Vincente Minnelli | 283 |
34 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles | 55 |
35 | Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard | 65 |
36 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan | 64 |
37 | All about Eve | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 56 |
38 | Sherlock, Jr. | 1924 | Buster Keaton | 198 |
39 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | 42 |
40 | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick | 173 |
41 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | 13 |
42 | Alphaville | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 517 |
43 | Top Hat | 1935 | Mark Sandrich | 330 |
44 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 15 |
45 | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder | 25 |
46 | Tokyo Story | 1953 | Yasujirô Ozu | 70 |
47 | West Side Story | 1961 | Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise | 118 |
48 | Sleeper | 1973 | Woody Allen | 499 |
49 | The War of the Worlds | 1953 | Byron Haskin | 871 |
50 | L'Atalante | 1934 | Jean Vigo | 219 |
51 | Swing Time | 1936 | George Stevens | 772 |
52 | Sullivan's Travels | 1941 | Preston Sturges | 252 |
53 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | 126 |
54 | Pather Panchali | 1955 | Satyajit Ray | 148 |
55 | La Jetée | 1962 | Chris Marker | 350 |
56 | Westworld | 1973 | Michael Crichton | 909 |
57 | Things to Come | 1936 | William Cameron Menzies | 1022 |
58 | 8 1/2 | 1963 | Federico Fellini | 74 |
59 | Voyage to the Moon | 1902 | Georges Méliès | 337 |
60 | L'Avventura | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 195 |
61 | The Jazz Singer | 1927 | Alan Crosland | 679 |
62 | La Dolce Vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini | 86 |
63 | Trouble in Paradise | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch | 381 |
64 | Godzilla | 1954 | Ishirô Honda | 580 |
65 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | William Wyler | 184 |
66 | Tootsie | 1982 | Sydney Pollack | 320 |
67 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 32 |
68 | The Thing from Another World | 1951 | Christian Nyby | 762 |
69 | Dark Star | 1974 | John Carpenter | 897 |
70 | Cabaret | 1972 | Bob Fosse | 224 |
71 | Silent Running | 1972 | Douglas Trumbull | 1056 |
72 | 20,000 Leagues under the Sea | 1954 | Richard Fleischer | 1159 |
73 | The Man Who Fell to Earth | 1976 | Nicolas Roeg | 765 |
74 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | 12 |
75 | The Leopard | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | 293 |
76 | Frankenstein | 1931 | James Whale | 152 |
77 | Adam's Rib | 1949 | George Cukor | 574 |
78 | Quatermass and the Pit | 1967 | Roy Ward Baker | 1650 |
79 | The Magnificent Ambersons | 1942 | Orson Welles | 405 |
80 | The Producers | 1967 | Mel Brooks | 309 |
81 | An American in Paris | 1951 | Vincente Minnelli | 391 |
82 | Pickpocket | 1959 | Robert Bresson | 427 |
83 | Playtime | 1967 | Jacques Tati | 300 |
84 | The Wind | 1928 | Victor Sjöström | 605 |
85 | Rome, Open City | 1945 | Roberto Rossellini | 239 |
86 | When Worlds Collide | 1951 | Rudolph Maté | 2254 |
87 | The Invisible Man | 1933 | James Whale | 743 |
88 | The Gold Rush | 1925 | Charles Chaplin | 116 |
89 | Ugetsu | 1953 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 241 |
90 | Red River | 1948 | Howard Hawks | 271 |
91 | THX-1138 | 1971 | George Lucas | 944 |
92 | Yankee Doodle Dandy | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 687 |
93 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | 1938 | Michael Curtiz and William Keighley | 212 |
94 | Laura | 1944 | Otto Preminger | 279 |
95 | Galaxy Quest | 1999 | Dean Parisot | 810 |
96 | Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 734 |
97 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1978 | Philip Kaufman | 483 |
98 | Rebel without a Cause | 1955 | Nicholas Ray | 171 |
99 | A Star Is Born | 1954 | George Cukor | 396 |
100 | Letter from an Unknown Woman | 1948 | Max Ophüls | 571 |
101 | Children of Paradise | 1945 | Marcel Carné | 179 |
102 | 42nd Street | 1933 | Lloyd Bacon | 664 |
103 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1928 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 123 |
104 | Seconds | 1966 | John Frankenheimer | 817 |
105 | Gun Crazy | 1950 | Joseph H. Lewis | 505 |
106 | The Graduate | 1967 | Mike Nichols | 59 |
107 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | Elia Kazan | 196 |
108 | Nanook of the North | 1922 | Robert J. Flaherty | 411 |
109 | A Place in the Sun | 1951 | George Stevens | 786 |
110 | The Man with the Movie Camera | 1929 | Dziga Vertov | 180 |
111 | M*A*S*H | 1970 | Robert Altman | 248 |
112 | Soylent Green | 1973 | Richard Fleischer | 1040 |
113 | The Band Wagon | 1953 | Vincente Minnelli | 585 |
114 | It Came from Outer Space | 1953 | Jack Arnold | 2313 |
115 | Invaders from Mars | 1953 | William Cameron Menzies | 2000 |
116 | A Night at the Opera | 1935 | Sam Wood | 340 |
117 | Out of the Past | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur | 289 |
118 | Them! | 1954 | Gordon Douglas | 1188 |
119 | Fantastic Voyage | 1966 | Richard Fleischer | 1500 |
120 | The Miracle of Morgan's Creek | 1943 | Preston Sturges | 884 |
121 | The Brother from Another Planet | 1984 | John Sayles | 1548 |
122 | The Incredible Shrinking Man | 1957 | Jack Arnold | 783 |
123 | Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 790 |
124 | Ninotchka | 1939 | Ernst Lubitsch | 401 |
125 | Tron | 1982 | Steven Lisberger | 874 |
126 | Jules and Jim | 1962 | François Truffaut | 201 |
127 | Killer of Sheep | 1978 | Charles Burnett | 370 |
128 | The Bicycle Thief | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica | 57 |
129 | Bride of Frankenstein | 1935 | James Whale | 155 |
130 | Diary of a Country Priest | 1951 | Robert Bresson | 545 |
131 | Meshes of the Afternoon | 1943 | Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid | 713 |
132 | It's a Gift | 1934 | Norman Z. McLeod | 1068 |
133 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton | 54 |
134 | A Hard Day's Night | 1964 | Richard Lester | 270 |
135 | The Andromeda Strain | 1971 | Robert Wise | 2011 |
136 | The Conformist | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 229 |
137 | The Bank Dick | 1940 | Edward F. Cline | 1028 |
138 | Johnny Guitar | 1954 | Nicholas Ray | 419 |
139 | The Earrings of Madame De… | 1953 | Max Ophüls | 490 |
140 | The Decalogue | 1989 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 413 |
141 | Logan's Run | 1976 | Michael Anderson | 1580 |
142 | High Noon | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann | 130 |
143 | The Scarlet Empress | 1934 | Josef von Sternberg | 913 |
144 | The Crowd | 1928 | King Vidor | 572 |
145 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed | 30 |
146 | Grand Hotel | 1932 | Edmund Goulding | 1274 |
147 | The Grand Illusion | 1937 | Jean Renoir | 122 |
148 | Cat People | 1942 | Jacques Tourneur | 452 |
149 | Earth | 1930 | Aleksandr Dovzhenko | 841 |
150 | The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | John Ford | 209 |
151 | The Damned | 1962 | Joseph Losey | 2430 |
152 | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | 1953 | Howard Hawks | 595 |
153 | Starship Troopers | 1997 | Paul Verhoeven | 549 |
154 | The Last Laugh | 1924 | F.W. Murnau | 597 |
155 | Fahrenheit 451 | 1966 | François Truffaut | 1178 |
156 | Funny Face | 1957 | Stanley Donen | 899 |
157 | McCabe & Mrs. Miller | 1971 | Robert Altman | 288 |
158 | The Gospel According to St. Matthew | 1964 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 557 |
159 | Village of the Damned | 1960 | Wolf Rilla | 1268 |
160 | Dodsworth | 1936 | William Wyler | 1212 |
161 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 5 |
162 | Planet of the Apes | 1968 | Franklin J. Schaffner | 166 |
163 | The Wild Bunch | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah | 63 |
164 | The Travelling Players | 1975 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 1024 |
165 | American Graffiti | 1973 | George Lucas | 362 |
166 | Pickup on South Street | 1953 | Samuel Fuller | 542 |
167 | The Great Train Robbery | 1903 | Edwin S. Porter | 688 |
168 | Attack the Block | 2011 | Joe Cornish | 1857 |
169 | L'Âge d'or | 1930 | Luis Buñuel | 665 |
170 | The Time Machine | 1960 | George Pal | 1281 |
171 | Sons of the Desert | 1933 | William A. Seiter | 1066 |
172 | The Shop around the Corner | 1940 | Ernst Lubitsch | 345 |
173 | Amarcord | 1973 | Federico Fellini | 367 |
174 | Rollerball | 1975 | Norman Jewison | 1079 |
175 | Destination Moon | 1950 | Irving Pichel | 2359 |
176 | A Day in the Country | 1946 | Jean Renoir | 1001 |
177 | Broken Blossoms | 1919 | D.W. Griffith | 900 |
178 | Pandora's Box | 1929 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | 644 |
179 | Voyage in Italy | 1954 | Roberto Rossellini | 937 |
180 | The Palm Beach Story | 1942 | Preston Sturges | 803 |
181 | Detour | 1945 | Edgar G. Ulmer | 707 |
182 | This Island Earth | 1955 | Joseph M. Newman | 2513 |