Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1 |
2 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 5 |
3 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles | 4 |
4 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2 |
5 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | 3 |
6 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | 8 |
7 | Singin' in the Rain | 1952 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 7 |
8 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | 6 |
9 | Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | 9 |
10 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese | 14 |
11 | Goodfellas | 1990 | Martin Scorsese | 17 |
12 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 18 |
13 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | 13 |
14 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder | 10 |
15 | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski | 21 |
16 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | 19 |
17 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | 12 |
18 | Schindler's List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 28 |
19 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 32 |
20 | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder | 25 |
21 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 15 |
22 | It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra | 33 |
23 | Raging Bull | 1980 | Martin Scorsese | 29 |
24 | One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 | Milos Forman | 38 |
25 | Rear Window | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | 34 |
26 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 1981 | Steven Spielberg | 26 |
27 | Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg | 23 |
28 | Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa | 22 |
29 | Blade Runner | 1982 | Ridley Scott | 11 |
30 | Annie Hall | 1977 | Woody Allen | 20 |
31 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed | 30 |
32 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | 40 |
33 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | Steven Spielberg | 27 |
34 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan | 64 |
35 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme | 31 |
36 | All about Eve | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 56 |
37 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | Frank Darabont | 52 |
38 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott | 16 |
39 | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner | 36 |
40 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | 42 |
41 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford | 37 |
42 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | 24 |
43 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | Peter Jackson | 43 |
44 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 1966 | Sergio Leone | 44 |
45 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | Peter Jackson | 48 |
46 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Sidney Lumet | 73 |
47 | King Kong | 1933 | Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack | 51 |
48 | The Graduate | 1967 | Mike Nichols | 59 |
49 | City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin | 46 |
50 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston | 68 |
51 | Modern Times | 1936 | Charles Chaplin | 53 |
52 | The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick | 41 |
53 | The Bicycle Thief | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica | 57 |
54 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Robert Mulligan | 100 |
55 | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang | 39 |
56 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 47 |
57 | Back to the Future | 1985 | Robert Zemeckis | 45 |
58 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles | 55 |
59 | Fargo | 1996 | Joel Coen | 75 |
60 | Toy Story | 1995 | John Lasseter | 50 |
61 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | David Lean | 94 |
62 | The Matrix | 1999 | Lana and Lilly Wachowski | 35 |
63 | Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | Steven Spielberg | 77 |
64 | The General | 1926 | Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton | 49 |
65 | Rashômon | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa | 72 |
66 | The Apartment | 1960 | Billy Wilder | 62 |
67 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | Peter Jackson | 67 |
68 | 8 1/2 | 1963 | Federico Fellini | 74 |
69 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 1968 | Sergio Leone | 58 |
70 | The Wild Bunch | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah | 63 |
71 | The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | 93 |
72 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | John Huston | 134 |
73 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton | 54 |
74 | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Arthur Penn | 97 |
75 | The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut | 60 |
76 | Fight Club | 1999 | David Fincher | 71 |
77 | Sunrise | 1927 | F.W. Murnau | 81 |
78 | It Happened One Night | 1934 | Frank Capra | 92 |
79 | Forrest Gump | 1994 | Robert Zemeckis | 107 |
80 | Die Hard | 1988 | John McTiernan | 83 |
81 | Tokyo Story | 1953 | Yasujirô Ozu | 70 |
82 | The Deer Hunter | 1978 | Michael Cimino | 110 |
83 | La Dolce Vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini | 86 |
84 | Unforgiven | 1992 | Clint Eastwood | 95 |
85 | Do the Right Thing | 1989 | Spike Lee | 89 |
86 | Paths of Glory | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick | 114 |
87 | Duck Soup | 1933 | Leo McCarey | 85 |
88 | M | 1931 | Fritz Lang | 69 |
89 | The Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 90 |
90 | Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard | 65 |
91 | Amadeus | 1984 | Milos Forman | 163 |
92 | The Usual Suspects | 1995 | Bryan Singer | 112 |
93 | Rocky | 1976 | John G. Avildsen | 125 |
94 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill | 136 |
95 | L.A. Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson | 127 |
96 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler | 159 |
97 | American Beauty | 1999 | Sam Mendes | 142 |
98 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | Michel Gondry | 76 |
99 | The Gold Rush | 1925 | Charles Chaplin | 116 |
100 | The Rules of the Game | 1939 | Jean Renoir | 99 |
101 | Blue Velvet | 1986 | David Lynch | 103 |
102 | Reservoir Dogs | 1992 | Quentin Tarantino | 80 |
103 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | 126 |
104 | The Exorcist | 1973 | William Friedkin | 88 |
105 | Seven | 1995 | David Fincher | 102 |
106 | Network | 1976 | Sidney Lumet | 182 |
107 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 1937 | David Hand | 104 |
108 | High Noon | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann | 130 |
109 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | William Wyler | 184 |
110 | The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | John Ford | 209 |
111 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | James Cameron | 66 |
112 | Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman | 105 |
113 | Nashville | 1975 | Robert Altman | 121 |
114 | The Sound of Music | 1965 | Robert Wise | 144 |
115 | Aliens | 1986 | James Cameron | 61 |
116 | Manhattan | 1979 | Woody Allen | 117 |
117 | West Side Story | 1961 | Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise | 118 |
118 | The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | George Cukor | 131 |
119 | There Will Be Blood | 2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 147 |
120 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | Elia Kazan | 196 |
121 | Titanic | 1997 | James Cameron | 129 |
122 | Gladiator | 2000 | Ridley Scott | 137 |
123 | Bringing Up Baby | 1938 | Howard Hawks | 91 |
124 | His Girl Friday | 1940 | Howard Hawks | 87 |
125 | Once Upon a Time in America | 1984 | Sergio Leone | 133 |
126 | The French Connection | 1971 | William Friedkin | 172 |
127 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 | Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones | 111 |
128 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg | 120 |
129 | Rosemary's Baby | 1968 | Roman Polanski | 78 |
130 | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick | 173 |
131 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1939 | Frank Capra | 303 |
132 | Memento | 2000 | Christopher Nolan | 139 |
133 | Stagecoach | 1939 | John Ford | 140 |
134 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | 1938 | Michael Curtiz and William Keighley | 212 |
135 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1928 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 123 |
136 | Nosferatu | 1922 | F.W. Murnau | 84 |
137 | Midnight Cowboy | 1969 | John Schlesinger | 194 |
138 | Rebel without a Cause | 1955 | Nicholas Ray | 171 |
139 | The Grand Illusion | 1937 | Jean Renoir | 122 |
140 | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles | 128 |
141 | Groundhog Day | 1993 | Harold Ramis | 98 |
142 | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki | 79 |
143 | This Is Spinal Tap | 1984 | Rob Reiner | 109 |
144 | Wild Strawberries | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | 170 |
145 | The Terminator | 1984 | James Cameron | 101 |
146 | Cool Hand Luke | 1967 | Stuart Rosenberg | 285 |
147 | Jurassic Park | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 132 |
148 | The Manchurian Candidate | 1962 | John Frankenheimer | 214 |
149 | Platoon | 1986 | Oliver Stone | 200 |
150 | Dog Day Afternoon | 1975 | Sidney Lumet | 208 |
151 | The Lion King | 1994 | Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff | 138 |
152 | Pan's Labyrinth | 2006 | Guillermo del Toro | 146 |
153 | The Red Shoes | 1948 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 143 |
154 | The Conversation | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 162 |
155 | All the President's Men | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula | 290 |
156 | Sherlock, Jr. | 1924 | Buster Keaton | 198 |
157 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | 177 |
158 | The Great Dictator | 1940 | Charles Chaplin | 183 |
159 | The Princess Bride | 1987 | Rob Reiner | 96 |
160 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen | 108 |
161 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 189 |
162 | The Battle of Algiers | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo | 145 |
163 | Night of the Living Dead | 1968 | George A. Romero | 113 |
164 | Easy Rider | 1969 | Dennis Hopper | 181 |
165 | WALL•E | 2008 | Andrew Stanton | 82 |
166 | Mulholland Dr. | 2001 | David Lynch | 124 |
167 | Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 160 |
168 | Braveheart | 1995 | Mel Gibson | 185 |
169 | Amélie | 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 119 |
170 | Brazil | 1985 | Terry Gilliam | 115 |
171 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 1962 | John Ford | 178 |
172 | The Sting | 1973 | George Roy Hill | 294 |
173 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann | 157 |
174 | All Quiet on the Western Front | 1930 | Lewis Milestone | 225 |
175 | Children of Paradise | 1945 | Marcel Carné | 179 |
176 | Lost in Translation | 2003 | Sofia Coppola | 161 |
177 | The Wages of Fear | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 210 |
178 | Roman Holiday | 1953 | William Wyler | 213 |
179 | Days of Heaven | 1978 | Terrence Malick | 221 |
180 | The Lady Eve | 1941 | Preston Sturges | 193 |
181 | Badlands | 1973 | Terrence Malick | 228 |
182 | The Great Escape | 1963 | John Sturges | 234 |
183 | Rebecca | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | 299 |
184 | Pather Panchali | 1955 | Satyajit Ray | 148 |
185 | Scarface | 1983 | Brian De Palma | 202 |
186 | Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore | 217 |
187 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1920 | Robert Wiene | 141 |
188 | Bride of Frankenstein | 1935 | James Whale | 155 |
189 | Airplane! | 1980 | Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker | 164 |
190 | Intolerance | 1916 | D.W. Griffith | 314 |
191 | Dirty Harry | 1971 | Don Siegel | 206 |
192 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock | 263 |
193 | The Last Picture Show | 1971 | Peter Bogdanovich | 287 |
194 | Inception | 2010 | Christopher Nolan | 158 |
195 | The African Queen | 1951 | John Huston | 286 |
196 | In the Mood for Love | 2000 | Kar-Wai Wong | 135 |
197 | Frankenstein | 1931 | James Whale | 152 |
198 | The Sixth Sense | 1999 | M. Night Shyamalan | 187 |
199 | Goldfinger | 1964 | Guy Hamilton | 244 |
200 | Spartacus | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick | 254 |