Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2 |
2 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | 3 |
3 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | 12 |
4 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | 19 |
5 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 1966 | Sergio Leone | 44 |
6 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 1968 | Sergio Leone | 58 |
7 | The Graduate | 1967 | Mike Nichols | 59 |
8 | The Apartment | 1960 | Billy Wilder | 62 |
9 | The Wild Bunch | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah | 63 |
10 | Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard | 65 |
11 | 8 1/2 | 1963 | Federico Fellini | 74 |
12 | Rosemary's Baby | 1968 | Roman Polanski | 78 |
13 | La Dolce Vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini | 86 |
14 | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Arthur Penn | 97 |
15 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Robert Mulligan | 100 |
16 | Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman | 105 |
17 | Night of the Living Dead | 1968 | George A. Romero | 113 |
18 | West Side Story | 1961 | Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise | 118 |
19 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill | 136 |
20 | The Sound of Music | 1965 | Robert Wise | 144 |
21 | The Battle of Algiers | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo | 145 |
22 | Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 160 |
23 | Planet of the Apes | 1968 | Franklin J. Schaffner | 166 |
24 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 1962 | John Ford | 178 |
25 | Easy Rider | 1969 | Dennis Hopper | 181 |
26 | Midnight Cowboy | 1969 | John Schlesinger | 194 |
27 | L'Avventura | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 195 |
28 | Jules and Jim | 1962 | François Truffaut | 201 |
29 | The Manchurian Candidate | 1962 | John Frankenheimer | 214 |
30 | Peeping Tom | 1960 | Michael Powell | 232 |
31 | The Great Escape | 1963 | John Sturges | 234 |
32 | Goldfinger | 1964 | Guy Hamilton | 244 |
33 | Blow-Up | 1966 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 246 |
34 | The Birds | 1963 | Alfred Hitchcock | 251 |
35 | Spartacus | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick | 254 |
36 | Mary Poppins | 1964 | Robert Stevenson | 267 |
37 | A Hard Day's Night | 1964 | Richard Lester | 270 |
38 | The Magnificent Seven | 1960 | John Sturges | 273 |
39 | Cool Hand Luke | 1967 | Stuart Rosenberg | 285 |
40 | The Leopard | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | 293 |
41 | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | 1964 | Jacques Demy | 298 |
42 | Playtime | 1967 | Jacques Tati | 300 |
43 | The Hustler | 1961 | Robert Rossen | 301 |
44 | The Producers | 1967 | Mel Brooks | 309 |
45 | Belle de Jour | 1967 | Luis Buñuel | 317 |
46 | My Fair Lady | 1964 | George Cukor | 322 |
47 | Yojimbo | 1961 | Akira Kurosawa | 328 |
48 | Viridiana | 1961 | Luis Buñuel | 332 |
49 | Au hasard Balthazar | 1966 | Robert Bresson | 348 |
50 | La Jetée | 1962 | Chris Marker | 350 |
51 | Repulsion | 1965 | Roman Polanski | 358 |
52 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | 1961 | Blake Edwards | 359 |
53 | Contempt | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard | 371 |
54 | Le Samouraï | 1967 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 375 |
55 | A Fistful of Dollars | 1964 | Sergio Leone | 383 |
56 | Army in the Shadows | 1969 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 388 |
57 | Last Year at Marienbad | 1961 | Alain Resnais | 392 |
58 | Eyes without a Face | 1960 | Georges Franju | 406 |
59 | Pierrot le Fou | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 422 |
60 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean | 425 |
61 | The Innocents | 1961 | Jack Clayton | 442 |
62 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 1966 | Mike Nichols | 448 |
63 | Cleo from 5 to 7 | 1962 | Agnès Varda | 461 |
64 | In the Heat of the Night | 1967 | Norman Jewison | 464 |
65 | For a Few Dollars More | 1965 | Sergio Leone | 468 |
66 | The Jungle Book | 1967 | Wolfgang Reitherman | 474 |
67 | Kes | 1969 | Ken Loach | 478 |
68 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | 1962 | Robert Aldrich | 488 |
69 | Point Blank | 1967 | John Boorman | 489 |
70 | The Haunting | 1963 | Robert Wise | 497 |
71 | Alphaville | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 517 |
72 | The Gospel According to St. Matthew | 1964 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 557 |
73 | If.... | 1968 | Lindsay Anderson | 559 |
74 | The Dirty Dozen | 1967 | Robert Aldrich | 566 |
75 | Z | 1969 | Costa-Gavras | 584 |
76 | L'Eclisse | 1962 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 596 |
77 | The Exterminating Angel | 1962 | Luis Buñuel | 613 |
78 | Bullitt | 1968 | Peter Yates | 627 |
79 | My Life to Live | 1962 | Jean-Luc Godard | 628 |
80 | High and Low | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa | 662 |
81 | Woman in the Dunes | 1964 | Hiroshi Teshigahara | 667 |
82 | Closely Watched Trains | 1966 | Jirí Menzel | 680 |
83 | Ride the High Country | 1962 | Sam Peckinpah | 684 |
84 | The Sorrow and the Pity | 1969 | Marcel Ophüls | 709 |
85 | Rocco and His Brothers | 1960 | Luchino Visconti | 727 |
86 | Yellow Submarine | 1968 | George Dunning | 731 |
87 | Dr. No | 1962 | Terence Young | 742 |
88 | Dont Look Back | 1967 | D.A. Pennebaker | 749 |
89 | My Night at Maud's | 1969 | Eric Rohmer | 752 |
90 | Harakiri | 1962 | Masaki Kobayashi | 754 |
91 | One Hundred and One Dalmatians | 1961 | Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman | 755 |
92 | Oliver! | 1968 | Carol Reed | 757 |
93 | The Odd Couple | 1968 | Gene Saks | 798 |
94 | Knife in the Water | 1962 | Roman Polanski | 799 |
95 | Shoot the Piano Player | 1960 | François Truffaut | 807 |
96 | Seconds | 1966 | John Frankenheimer | 817 |
97 | Ivan's Childhood | 1962 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 818 |
98 | Lolita | 1962 | Stanley Kubrick | 823 |
99 | The Servant | 1963 | Joseph Losey | 824 |
100 | Zulu | 1964 | Cy Endfield | 825 |
101 | A Man for All Seasons | 1966 | Fred Zinnemann | 838 |
102 | From Russia with Love | 1963 | Terence Young | 856 |
103 | Chimes at Midnight | 1965 | Orson Welles | 858 |
104 | Winter Light | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman | 872 |
105 | Jason and the Argonauts | 1963 | Don Chaffey | 877 |
106 | Carnival of Souls | 1962 | Herk Harvey | 887 |
107 | Salesman | 1969 | Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin | 906 |
108 | The Party | 1968 | Blake Edwards | 908 |
109 | Hud | 1963 | Martin Ritt | 911 |
110 | The Ipcress File | 1965 | Sidney J. Furie | 912 |
111 | Titicut Follies | 1967 | Frederick Wiseman | 920 |
112 | The Longest Day | 1962 | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki | 923 |
113 | The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner | 1962 | Tony Richardson | 932 |
114 | Faces | 1968 | John Cassavetes | 938 |
115 | I Am Cuba | 1964 | Mikheil Kalatozishvili | 965 |
116 | This Sporting Life | 1963 | Lindsay Anderson | 977 |
117 | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | 1960 | Karel Reisz | 982 |
118 | Band of Outsiders | 1964 | Jean-Luc Godard | 985 |
119 | Memories of Underdevelopment | 1968 | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | 1002 |
120 | The Virgin Spring | 1960 | Ingmar Bergman | 1003 |
121 | Charade | 1963 | Stanley Donen | 1007 |
122 | Gertrud | 1964 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 1015 |
123 | Where Eagles Dare | 1968 | Brian G. Hutton | 1033 |
124 | Mouchette | 1967 | Robert Bresson | 1036 |
125 | Tom Jones | 1963 | Tony Richardson | 1043 |
126 | Judgment at Nuremberg | 1961 | Stanley Kramer | 1055 |
127 | Shock Corridor | 1963 | Samuel Fuller | 1060 |
128 | The Train | 1964 | John Frankenheimer | 1064 |
129 | Barbarella | 1968 | Roger Vadim | 1078 |
130 | The Music Man | 1962 | Morton DaCosta | 1114 |
131 | The Shop on Main Street | 1965 | Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos | 1121 |
132 | Scorpio Rising | 1963 | Kenneth Anger | 1122 |
133 | The Color of Pomegranates | 1969 | Sergei Parajanov | 1125 |
134 | Funny Girl | 1968 | William Wyler | 1137 |
135 | Daisies | 1966 | Vera Chytilová | 1138 |
136 | Charulata | 1964 | Satyajit Ray | 1140 |
137 | The Pink Panther | 1963 | Blake Edwards | 1143 |
138 | Kwaidan | 1964 | Masaki Kobayashi | 1161 |
139 | Fahrenheit 451 | 1966 | François Truffaut | 1178 |
140 | An Autumn Afternoon | 1962 | Yasujirô Ozu | 1187 |
141 | The Young Girls of Rochefort | 1967 | Jacques Demy | 1193 |
142 | Seven Up! | 1964 | Paul Almond | 1196 |
143 | Black God and White Devil | 1964 | Glauber Rocha | 1197 |
144 | Red Beard | 1965 | Akira Kurosawa | 1225 |
145 | Splendor in the Grass | 1961 | Elia Kazan | 1233 |
146 | Cape Fear | 1962 | J. Lee Thompson | 1237 |
147 | The Trial | 1962 | Orson Welles | 1244 |
148 | Black Sunday | 1960 | Mario Bava | 1246 |
149 | In Cold Blood | 1967 | Richard Brooks | 1250 |
150 | Village of the Damned | 1960 | Wolf Rilla | 1268 |
151 | The Nutty Professor | 1963 | Jerry Lewis | 1269 |
152 | Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! | 1965 | Russ Meyer | 1278 |
153 | The Time Machine | 1960 | George Pal | 1281 |
154 | The Misfits | 1961 | John Huston | 1286 |
155 | True Grit | 1969 | Henry Hathaway | 1293 |
156 | The Guns of Navarone | 1961 | J. Lee Thompson | 1303 |
157 | The Silence | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman | 1318 |
158 | One-Eyed Jacks | 1961 | Marlon Brando | 1319 |
159 | Le Trou | 1960 | Jacques Becker | 1352 |
160 | Week End | 1967 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1366 |
161 | The Miracle Worker | 1962 | Arthur Penn | 1368 |
162 | The War Game | 1966 | Peter Watkins | 1369 |
163 | Black Girl | 1966 | Ousmane Sembene | 1379 |
164 | Onibaba | 1964 | Kaneto Shindô | 1393 |
165 | Romeo and Juliet | 1968 | Franco Zeffirelli | 1398 |
166 | La Notte | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1400 |
167 | Marnie | 1964 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1401 |
168 | The Red Desert | 1964 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1415 |
169 | Alfie | 1966 | Lewis Gilbert | 1418 |
170 | Loves of a Blonde | 1965 | Milos Forman | 1428 |
171 | The Italian Job | 1969 | Peter Collinson | 1447 |
172 | It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World | 1963 | Stanley Kramer | 1476 |
173 | The Great Silence | 1968 | Sergio Corbucci | 1479 |
174 | The Professionals | 1966 | Richard Brooks | 1480 |
175 | Fantastic Voyage | 1966 | Richard Fleischer | 1500 |
176 | Chronicle of a Summer | 1961 | Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch | 1510 |
177 | Fail-Safe | 1964 | Sidney Lumet | 1520 |
178 | Wavelength | 1967 | Michael Snow | 1526 |
179 | How the West Was Won | 1962 | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall | 1530 |
180 | One, Two, Three | 1961 | Billy Wilder | 1540 |
181 | A Shot in the Dark | 1964 | Blake Edwards | 1544 |
182 | Hour of the Wolf | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman | 1547 |
183 | The Lion in Winter | 1968 | Anthony Harvey | 1568 |
184 | Two or Three Things I Know about Her | 1967 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1569 |
185 | Django | 1966 | Sergio Corbucci | 1583 |
186 | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | 1968 | Ken Hughes | 1622 |
187 | Accattone | 1961 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1631 |
188 | Quatermass and the Pit | 1967 | Roy Ward Baker | 1650 |
189 | Cleopatra | 1963 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1654 |
190 | The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer | 1961 | Masaki Kobayashi | 1669 |
191 | Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors | 1965 | Sergei Parajanov | 1671 |
192 | Billy Liar | 1963 | John Schlesinger | 1678 |
193 | Purple Noon | 1960 | René Clément | 1695 |
194 | Lonely Are the Brave | 1962 | David Miller | 1704 |
195 | Chelsea Girls | 1966 | Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol | 1717 |
196 | High School | 1968 | Frederick Wiseman | 1730 |
197 | The Hour of the Furnaces | 1968 | Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas, and Santiago Álvarez | 1762 |
198 | The Endless Summer | 1965 | Bruce Brown | 1765 |
199 | Branded to Kill | 1967 | Seijun Suzuki | 1769 |
200 | Through a Glass Darkly | 1961 | Ingmar Bergman | 1770 |