Top 100 Films in Chronological Order

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84.Nosferatu (1922) F.W. Murnau
90.The Battleship Potemkin (1925) Sergei M. Eisenstein
49.The General (1926) Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton
39.Metropolis (1927) Fritz Lang
81.Sunrise (1927) F.W. Murnau
46.City Lights (1931) Charles Chaplin
69.M (1931) Fritz Lang
51.King Kong (1933) Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
85.Duck Soup (1933) Leo McCarey
92.It Happened One Night (1934) Frank Capra
53.Modern Times (1936) Charles Chaplin
91.Bringing Up Baby (1938) Howard Hawks
99.The Rules of the Game (1939) Jean Renoir
15.The Wizard of Oz (1939) Victor Fleming
32.Gone with the Wind (1939) Victor Fleming
87.His Girl Friday (1940) Howard Hawks
4.Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Welles
68.The Maltese Falcon (1941) John Huston
5.Casablanca (1942) Michael Curtiz
42.Double Indemnity (1944) Billy Wilder
33.It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Frank Capra
57.The Bicycle Thief (1948) Vittorio De Sica
30.The Third Man (1949) Carol Reed
25.Sunset Blvd. (1950) Billy Wilder
72.Rashômon (1950) Akira Kurosawa
56.All about Eve (1950) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
7.Singin' in the Rain (1952) Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
70.Tokyo Story (1953) Yasujirô Ozu
22.Seven Samurai (1954) Akira Kurosawa
64.On the Waterfront (1954) Elia Kazan
34.Rear Window (1954) Alfred Hitchcock
54.The Night of the Hunter (1955) Charles Laughton
37.The Searchers (1956) John Ford
93.The Seventh Seal (1957) Ingmar Bergman
73.12 Angry Men (1957) Sidney Lumet
94.The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) David Lean
55.Touch of Evil (1958) Orson Welles
13.Vertigo (1958) Alfred Hitchcock
10.Some Like It Hot (1959) Billy Wilder
60.The 400 Blows (1959) François Truffaut
40.North by Northwest (1959) Alfred Hitchcock
86.La Dolce Vita (1960) Federico Fellini
65.Breathless (1960) Jean-Luc Godard
62.The Apartment (1960) Billy Wilder
2.Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
19.Lawrence of Arabia (1962) David Lean
100.To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Robert Mulligan
74.8 1/2 (1963) Federico Fellini
12.Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Stanley Kubrick
44.The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) Sergio Leone
97.Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Arthur Penn
59.The Graduate (1967) Mike Nichols
3.2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Stanley Kubrick
78.Rosemary's Baby (1968) Roman Polanski
58.Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) Sergio Leone
63.The Wild Bunch (1969) Sam Peckinpah
24.A Clockwork Orange (1971) Stanley Kubrick
1.The Godfather (1972) Francis Ford Coppola
88.The Exorcist (1973) William Friedkin
21.Chinatown (1974) Roman Polanski
18.The Godfather: Part II (1974) Francis Ford Coppola
23.Jaws (1975) Steven Spielberg
38.One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Milos Forman
14.Taxi Driver (1976) Martin Scorsese
20.Annie Hall (1977) Woody Allen
6.Star Wars (1977) George Lucas
8.Apocalypse Now (1979) Francis Ford Coppola
16.Alien (1979) Ridley Scott
36.The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Irvin Kershner
41.The Shining (1980) Stanley Kubrick
29.Raging Bull (1980) Martin Scorsese
26.Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Steven Spielberg
27.E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Steven Spielberg
11.Blade Runner (1982) Ridley Scott
45.Back to the Future (1985) Robert Zemeckis
61.Aliens (1986) James Cameron
96.The Princess Bride (1987) Rob Reiner
83.Die Hard (1988) John McTiernan
89.Do the Right Thing (1989) Spike Lee
17.Goodfellas (1990) Martin Scorsese
31.The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Jonathan Demme
66.Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) James Cameron
80.Reservoir Dogs (1992) Quentin Tarantino
95.Unforgiven (1992) Clint Eastwood
98.Groundhog Day (1993) Harold Ramis
28.Schindler's List (1993) Steven Spielberg
9.Pulp Fiction (1994) Quentin Tarantino
52.The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Frank Darabont
50.Toy Story (1995) John Lasseter
75.Fargo (1996) Joel Coen
77.Saving Private Ryan (1998) Steven Spielberg
35.The Matrix (1999) Lana and Lilly Wachowski
71.Fight Club (1999) David Fincher
79.Spirited Away (2001) Hayao Miyazaki
43.The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Peter Jackson
67.The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Peter Jackson
48.The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Peter Jackson
76.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Michel Gondry
82.WALL•E (2008) Andrew Stanton
47.The Dark Knight (2008) Christopher Nolan
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