Top 100 Films in Chronological Order

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86.The General (1926) Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton
43.Metropolis (1927) Fritz Lang
40.City Lights (1931) Charles Chaplin
84.M (1931) Fritz Lang
68.King Kong (1933) Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
99.It Happened One Night (1934) Frank Capra
61.Modern Times (1936) Charles Chaplin
9.The Wizard of Oz (1939) Victor Fleming
31.Gone with the Wind (1939) Victor Fleming
98.His Girl Friday (1940) Howard Hawks
11.Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Welles
81.The Maltese Falcon (1941) John Huston
5.Casablanca (1942) Michael Curtiz
51.Double Indemnity (1944) Billy Wilder
46.It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Frank Capra
69.The Bicycle Thief (1948) Vittorio De Sica
42.The Third Man (1949) Carol Reed
41.Sunset Blvd. (1950) Billy Wilder
64.All about Eve (1950) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
65.Rashômon (1950) Akira Kurosawa
7.Singin' in the Rain (1952) Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
78.Tokyo Story (1953) Yasujirô Ozu
79.On the Waterfront (1954) Elia Kazan
37.Rear Window (1954) Alfred Hitchcock
24.Seven Samurai (1954) Akira Kurosawa
57.The Night of the Hunter (1955) Charles Laughton
53.The Searchers (1956) John Ford
66.12 Angry Men (1957) Sidney Lumet
91.The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) David Lean
87.Touch of Evil (1958) Orson Welles
15.Vertigo (1958) Alfred Hitchcock
19.Some Like It Hot (1959) Billy Wilder
70.The 400 Blows (1959) François Truffaut
49.North by Northwest (1959) Alfred Hitchcock
59.The Apartment (1960) Billy Wilder
1.Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
97.Breathless (1960) Jean-Luc Godard
25.Lawrence of Arabia (1962) David Lean
100.8 1/2 (1963) Federico Fellini
16.Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Stanley Kubrick
48.The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) Sergio Leone
73.The Graduate (1967) Mike Nichols
3.2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Stanley Kubrick
77.Rosemary's Baby (1968) Roman Polanski
76.Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) Sergio Leone
88.The Wild Bunch (1969) Sam Peckinpah
36.A Clockwork Orange (1971) Stanley Kubrick
2.The Godfather (1972) Francis Ford Coppola
62.The Exorcist (1973) William Friedkin
34.Chinatown (1974) Roman Polanski
23.The Godfather: Part II (1974) Francis Ford Coppola
13.Jaws (1975) Steven Spielberg
39.One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Milos Forman
17.Taxi Driver (1976) Martin Scorsese
33.Annie Hall (1977) Woody Allen
4.Star Wars (1977) George Lucas
6.Alien (1979) Ridley Scott
10.Apocalypse Now (1979) Francis Ford Coppola
22.The Shining (1980) Stanley Kubrick
29.The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Irvin Kershner
44.Raging Bull (1980) Martin Scorsese
28.Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Steven Spielberg
27.E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Steven Spielberg
12.Blade Runner (1982) Ridley Scott
63.The Thing (1982) John Carpenter
80.The Terminator (1984) James Cameron
30.Back to the Future (1985) Robert Zemeckis
50.Aliens (1986) James Cameron
47.The Princess Bride (1987) Rob Reiner
85.Die Hard (1988) John McTiernan
75.Do the Right Thing (1989) Spike Lee
14.Goodfellas (1990) Martin Scorsese
20.The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Jonathan Demme
54.Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) James Cameron
95.Reservoir Dogs (1992) Quentin Tarantino
93.Groundhog Day (1993) Harold Ramis
83.Jurassic Park (1993) Steven Spielberg
21.Schindler's List (1993) Steven Spielberg
92.The Lion King (1994) Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff
72.Forrest Gump (1994) Robert Zemeckis
8.Pulp Fiction (1994) Quentin Tarantino
45.The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Frank Darabont
90.Seven (1995) David Fincher
38.Toy Story (1995) John Lasseter
67.Fargo (1996) Joel Coen
96.Titanic (1997) James Cameron
60.Saving Private Ryan (1998) Steven Spielberg
26.The Matrix (1999) Lana and Lilly Wachowski
71.Fight Club (1999) David Fincher
94.In the Mood for Love (2000) Kar-Wai Wong
89.Mulholland Dr. (2001) David Lynch
35.The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Peter Jackson
32.Spirited Away (2001) Hayao Miyazaki
58.The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Peter Jackson
52.The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Peter Jackson
56.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Michel Gondry
82.Pan's Labyrinth (2006) Guillermo del Toro
55.WALL•E (2008) Andrew Stanton
18.The Dark Knight (2008) Christopher Nolan
74.Inception (2010) Christopher Nolan
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