A - C
Aguirre: the Wrath of God (1972)

The Apu Trilogy (1955, 1956, 1959)

The Awful Truth (1937)

Baby Face (1933)

Bande à part (1964)

Barry Lyndon (1975)

Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)

Blade Runner (1982)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Brazil (1985)

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Camille (1936)

Casablanca (1942)

Charade (1963)

Children of Paradise (1945)

Chinatown (1974)

Chungking Express (1994)

Citizen Kane (1941)

City Lights (1931)

City of God (2002)

Closely Watched Trains (1966)

The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)

The Crowd (1928)

D - F
Day for Night (1973)

The Decalogue (1989)

Detour (1945)

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

Dodsworth (1936)

Double Indemnity (1944)

Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Drunken Master II (1994)

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

8 1/2 (1963)

The 400 Blows (1959)

Farewell My Concubine (1993)

Finding Nemo (2003)

The Fly (1986)


G - J
The Godfather, Parts I and II (1972, 1974)

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)

Goodfellas (1990)

A Hard Day's Night (1964)

His Girl Friday (1940)

Ikiru (1952)

In A Lonely Place (1950)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

It's A Gift (1934)

It's A Wonderful Life (1946)

K - M
Kandahar (2001)

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

King Kong (1933)

The Lady Eve (1941)

The Last Command (1928)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Léolo (1992)

The Lord of the Rings (2001-03)

The Man With a Camera (1929)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

Metropolis (1927)

Miller's Crossing (1990)

Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980)

Mouchette (1967)

N - P
Nayakan (1987)

Ninotchka (1939)

Notorious (1946)

Olympia, Parts 1 and 2 (1938)

On the Waterfront (1954)

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

Out of the Past (1947)

Persona (1966)

Pinocchio (1940)

Psycho (1960)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

Pyaasa (1957)


Q - S
Raging Bull (1980)

Schindler's List (1993)

The Searchers (1956)

Sherlock, Jr. (1924)

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

The Singing Detective (1986)

Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Star Wars (1977)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Sunrise (1927)

Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Swing Time (1936)

T - Z
Talk to Her (2002)

Taxi Driver (1976)

Tokyo Story (1953)

A Touch of Zen (1971)

Ugetsu (1953)

Ulysses' Gaze (1995)

Umberto D (1952)

Unforgiven (1992)

White Heat (1949)

Wings of Desire (1987)

Yojimbo (1961)

Apparently comedies are not allowed on the list...I don't see a single one...(and No, Finding Nemo doesn't count! )

Here are some comedies (I'm sure I missed some):

Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Finding Nemo (2003)

A Hard Day's Night (1964)

His Girl Friday (1940)

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

I count Miller's Crossing (1990) as a comedy.
"Tom...look in your heart..."

Also few from the past 10 years. What about 'Seven'?
Or going back a few years - 'Deliverance'?

I've seen 21 of these movies - but I don't like how they combine The Lord of The Rings and the Godfather as one movie. that's cheating!!!

The World According to Garp is one of my all-time favorites. Best 100? I don't know about that but still a great movie.

I know that many are up in arms that Gone With the Wind isn't on the list.

Yes, I wondered about Gone With the Wind as well.

Apparently, this list is not compiled with Academy Awards as a primary criteria. Several big winners are not on the list: "All About Eve" and "Titanic" come to mind!

Wow! Those are some great movies alright. Barry Lyndon was awesome; and the soundtrack was amazing.

* Anyone know how the list was compiled? My guess is from the input of very artsy, Cannes type folks, based on the emphasis on movies that were not popular and the afore-mentioned dearth of comedies.
* List appears to be chronologically skewed- 46 are from the 40s, 50s and 60s, and only 31 from the 70s, 80s and 90s.
* I don't watch too many movies, but I haven't even heard of half of those on the list that were made in the 80s and 90s!
* Isn't Citizen Kane the top movie of all time on some lists, and it didn't even make the top 100 on this list

I think History of the World, Part 1, should be on there, too. And, how about the Pink Panther movies? They were great, too!

By my count, I've seen 49 of the 100. I've got some work to do.

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Isn't Citizen Kane the top movie of all time on some lists, and it didn't even make the top 100 on this list.

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Yes it did.

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Anyone know how the list was compiled?

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Two Time magazine critics chose them. They have an MP3 on the website that explains, but I have not listened.

I was surprised not to see Forest Gump or Little Big Man on their list. -- p.w.

Roger Ebert once said "A great movie is one that you could not live without ever seeing again".

That totally changed my outlook on movies.

possibly it should be called the greatest 100 movies made in america? And what list could be complete without Breaking Away? Forrest Gump? Platoon? Stagecoach (stagecoach was the first movie ever that went between two different scenes at the same time. prior to that, films were strictly in chronological order...) Puh-leeze.

Well, anyone can see that this list is baloney. It does not include "The Great Escape." These film critics. I say we put 'em in a plane and drop 'em over Berlin!

What??? No "It Happened One Night?"