Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles | 4 |
2 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 5 |
3 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed | 30 |
4 | It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra | 33 |
5 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | 42 |
6 | The Bicycle Thief | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica | 57 |
7 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston | 68 |
8 | His Girl Friday | 1940 | Howard Hawks | 87 |
9 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | 126 |
10 | The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | George Cukor | 131 |
11 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | John Huston | 134 |
12 | The Red Shoes | 1948 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 143 |
13 | Brief Encounter | 1945 | David Lean | 174 |
14 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | 177 |
15 | Children of Paradise | 1945 | Marcel Carné | 179 |
16 | The Great Dictator | 1940 | Charles Chaplin | 183 |
17 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | William Wyler | 184 |
18 | The Lady Eve | 1941 | Preston Sturges | 193 |
19 | Kind Hearts and Coronets | 1949 | Robert Hamer | 207 |
20 | The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | John Ford | 209 |
21 | Pinocchio | 1940 | Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen | 233 |
22 | Beauty and the Beast | 1946 | Jean Cocteau | 237 |
23 | Rome, Open City | 1945 | Roberto Rossellini | 239 |
24 | Stairway to Heaven | 1946 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 240 |
25 | Sullivan's Travels | 1941 | Preston Sturges | 252 |
26 | Fantasia | 1940 | James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield | 266 |
27 | Red River | 1948 | Howard Hawks | 271 |
28 | Laura | 1944 | Otto Preminger | 279 |
29 | To Be or Not to Be | 1942 | Ernst Lubitsch | 280 |
30 | Meet Me in St. Louis | 1944 | Vincente Minnelli | 283 |
31 | Out of the Past | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur | 289 |
32 | Rebecca | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | 299 |
33 | Bambi | 1942 | David Hand | 311 |
34 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | 1943 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 327 |
35 | White Heat | 1949 | Raoul Walsh | 336 |
36 | The Shop around the Corner | 1940 | Ernst Lubitsch | 345 |
37 | My Darling Clementine | 1946 | John Ford | 363 |
38 | The Magnificent Ambersons | 1942 | Orson Welles | 405 |
39 | Black Narcissus | 1947 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 410 |
40 | Great Expectations | 1946 | David Lean | 415 |
41 | Shadow of a Doubt | 1943 | Alfred Hitchcock | 432 |
42 | Mildred Pierce | 1945 | Michael Curtiz | 440 |
43 | Cat People | 1942 | Jacques Tourneur | 452 |
44 | Arsenic and Old Lace | 1944 | Frank Capra | 533 |
45 | The Ox-Bow Incident | 1942 | William A. Wellman | 539 |
46 | Miracle on 34th Street | 1947 | George Seaton | 544 |
47 | Letter from an Unknown Woman | 1948 | Max Ophüls | 571 |
48 | Adam's Rib | 1949 | George Cukor | 574 |
49 | Late Spring | 1949 | Yasujirô Ozu | 586 |
50 | Day of Wrath | 1943 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 610 |
51 | Now, Voyager | 1942 | Irving Rapper | 612 |
52 | Dumbo | 1941 | Ben Sharpsteen | 616 |
53 | Ivan the Terrible | 1944 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 618 |
54 | Rope | 1948 | Alfred Hitchcock | 669 |
55 | 'I Know Where I'm Going!' | 1945 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 672 |
56 | To Have and Have Not | 1944 | Howard Hawks | 683 |
57 | The Killers | 1946 | Robert Siodmak | 686 |
58 | Yankee Doodle Dandy | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 687 |
59 | The Lost Weekend | 1945 | Billy Wilder | 691 |
60 | On the Town | 1949 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 706 |
61 | Detour | 1945 | Edgar G. Ulmer | 707 |
62 | How Green Was My Valley | 1941 | John Ford | 708 |
63 | Meshes of the Afternoon | 1943 | Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid | 713 |
64 | Gilda | 1946 | Charles Vidor | 719 |
65 | The Palm Beach Story | 1942 | Preston Sturges | 803 |
66 | Force of Evil | 1948 | Abraham Polonsky | 850 |
67 | I Walked with a Zombie | 1943 | Jacques Tourneur | 864 |
68 | The Lady from Shanghai | 1947 | Orson Welles | 865 |
69 | Dead of Night | 1945 | Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer | 882 |
70 | The Miracle of Morgan's Creek | 1943 | Preston Sturges | 884 |
71 | Fort Apache | 1948 | John Ford | 951 |
72 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1946 | Tay Garnett | 954 |
73 | Henry V | 1944 | Laurence Olivier | 960 |
74 | They Live by Night | 1948 | Nicholas Ray | 991 |
75 | A Day in the Country | 1946 | Jean Renoir | 1001 |
76 | She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | 1949 | John Ford | 1009 |
77 | The Pride of the Yankees | 1942 | Sam Wood | 1014 |
78 | Paisan | 1946 | Roberto Rossellini | 1018 |
79 | National Velvet | 1944 | Clarence Brown | 1019 |
80 | The Bank Dick | 1940 | Edward F. Cline | 1028 |
81 | The Thief of Bagdad | 1940 | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan | 1090 |
82 | Monsieur Verdoux | 1947 | Charles Chaplin | 1092 |
83 | Sergeant York | 1941 | Howard Hawks | 1133 |
84 | Twelve O'Clock High | 1949 | Henry King | 1185 |
85 | The Wolf Man | 1941 | George Waggner | 1192 |
86 | Odd Man Out | 1947 | Carol Reed | 1230 |
87 | Ossessione | 1943 | Luchino Visconti | 1257 |
88 | Duel in the Sun | 1946 | King Vidor | 1285 |
89 | Brighton Rock | 1948 | John Boulting | 1301 |
90 | Key Largo | 1948 | John Huston | 1337 |
91 | La Terra Trema | 1948 | Luchino Visconti | 1376 |
92 | Gaslight | 1944 | George Cukor | 1380 |
93 | The Heiress | 1949 | William Wyler | 1391 |
94 | Murder, My Sweet | 1944 | Edward Dmytryk | 1413 |
95 | The Set-Up | 1949 | Robert Wise | 1437 |
96 | Ball of Fire | 1941 | Howard Hawks | 1446 |
97 | Leave Her to Heaven | 1945 | John M. Stahl | 1448 |
98 | Easter Parade | 1948 | Charles Walters | 1472 |
99 | Listen to Britain | 1942 | Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister | 1481 |
100 | Mrs. Miniver | 1942 | William Wyler | 1496 |
101 | Hail the Conquering Hero | 1944 | Preston Sturges | 1497 |
102 | Hamlet | 1948 | Laurence Olivier | 1501 |
103 | Scarlet Street | 1945 | Fritz Lang | 1513 |
104 | Germany, Year Zero | 1948 | Roberto Rossellini | 1517 |
105 | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | 1947 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1528 |
106 | Went the Day Well? | 1942 | Alberto Cavalcanti | 1551 |
107 | Kiss of Death | 1947 | Henry Hathaway | 1555 |
108 | A Canterbury Tale | 1944 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 1559 |
109 | Le Corbeau | 1943 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 1582 |
110 | Body and Soul | 1947 | Robert Rossen | 1593 |
111 | D.O.A. | 1949 | Rudolph Maté | 1604 |
112 | The Fallen Idol | 1948 | Carol Reed | 1639 |
113 | The Woman in the Window | 1944 | Fritz Lang | 1643 |
114 | In Which We Serve | 1942 | Noel Coward and David Lean | 1653 |
115 | Shoeshine | 1946 | Vittorio De Sica | 1715 |
116 | Tight Little Island | 1949 | Alexander Mackendrick | 1718 |
117 | The Naked City | 1948 | Jules Dassin | 1749 |
118 | Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein | 1948 | Charles Barton | 1751 |
119 | The Little Foxes | 1941 | William Wyler | 1755 |
120 | Portrait of Jennie | 1948 | William Dieterle | 1802 |
121 | Woman of the Year | 1942 | George Stevens | 1858 |
122 | Going My Way | 1944 | Leo McCarey | 1876 |
123 | High Sierra | 1941 | Raoul Walsh | 1888 |
124 | All the King's Men | 1949 | Robert Rossen | 1900 |
125 | They Were Expendable | 1945 | John Ford | 1911 |
126 | Stray Dog | 1949 | Akira Kurosawa | 1965 |
127 | Spellbound | 1945 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1987 |
128 | The Reckless Moment | 1949 | Max Ophüls | 2001 |
129 | Cabin in the Sky | 1943 | Vincente Minnelli | 2013 |
130 | Oliver Twist | 1948 | David Lean | 2037 |
131 | Unfaithfully Yours | 1948 | Preston Sturges | 2084 |
132 | Battleground | 1949 | William A. Wellman | 2137 |
133 | Nightmare Alley | 1947 | Edmund Goulding | 2139 |
134 | Gentleman's Agreement | 1947 | Elia Kazan | 2150 |
135 | Heaven Can Wait | 1943 | Ernst Lubitsch | 2168 |
136 | Fires Were Started | 1943 | Humphrey Jennings | 2185 |
137 | Stormy Weather | 1943 | Andrew L. Stone | 2204 |
138 | Road to Morocco | 1942 | David Butler | 2208 |
139 | Foreign Correspondent | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2232 |
140 | T-Men | 1947 | Anthony Mann | 2246 |
141 | The Letter | 1940 | William Wyler | 2299 |
142 | Suspicion | 1941 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2312 |
143 | Passport to Pimlico | 1949 | Henry Cornelius | 2328 |
144 | Quai des Orfèvres | 1947 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 2342 |
145 | The Seventh Victim | 1943 | Mark Robson | 2351 |
146 | Spring in a Small Town | 1948 | Mu Fei | 2354 |
147 | Sands of Iwo Jima | 1949 | Allan Dwan | 2376 |
148 | Le Sang des bêtes | 1949 | Georges Franju | 2394 |
149 | Holiday Inn | 1942 | Mark Sandrich | 2401 |
150 | The Spiral Staircase | 1946 | Robert Siodmak | 2425 |
151 | Raw Deal | 1948 | Anthony Mann | 2439 |
152 | The Great McGinty | 1940 | Preston Sturges | 2462 |
153 | They Died with Their Boots on | 1941 | Raoul Walsh | 2487 |
154 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | 1945 | Elia Kazan | 2517 |
155 | Criss Cross | 1949 | Robert Siodmak | 2518 |
156 | Dance, Girl, Dance | 1940 | Dorothy Arzner | 2547 |
157 | A Letter to Three Wives | 1949 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 2558 |
158 | Saboteur | 1942 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2562 |
159 | Knute Rockne, All American | 1940 | Lloyd Bacon | 2630 |
160 | Ministry of Fear | 1944 | Fritz Lang | 2653 |
161 | Anchors Aweigh | 1945 | George Sidney | 2670 |
162 | The Harvey Girls | 1946 | George Sidney | 2691 |
163 | The Curse of the Cat People | 1944 | Robert Wise and Gunther von Fritsch | 2693 |
164 | Drunken Angel | 1948 | Akira Kurosawa | 2723 |
165 | The Westerner | 1940 | William Wyler | 2724 |
166 | Crossfire | 1947 | Edward Dmytryk | 2736 |
167 | The Mark of Zorro | 1940 | Rouben Mamoulian | 2763 |
168 | The Sea Hawk | 1940 | Michael Curtiz | 2778 |