← Lists

1. Modern Romance (1981, Albert Brooks)
2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)
3. His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
4. They Live by Night (1948, Nicholas Ray)
5. Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
6. Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
7. Stop Making Sense (1984, Jonathan Demme)
8. Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)
9. Only Angels Have Wings (1939, Howard Hawks)
10. Unforgiven (1992, Clint Eastwood)
11. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
12. In a Lonely Place (1950, Nicholas Ray)
13. Trouble in Paradise (1932, Ernst Lubitsch)
14. Reservoir Dogs (1992, Quentin Tarantino)
15. Badlands (1973, Terrence Malick)
16. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)
17. Greed (1924, Erich von Stroheim)
18. The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder)
19. Spirited Away (2001, Hayao Miyazaki)
20. Sherlock Jr. (1924, Buster Keaton)
21. Dogville (2003, Lars von Trier)
22. Cool Hand Luke (1967, Stuart Rosenberg)
23. Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder)
24. High and Low (1963, Akira Kurosawa)
25. Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen)
26. A Woman Is a Woman (1961, Jean-Luc Godard)
27. A Moment of Innocence (1996, Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
28. North by Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
29. Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
30. Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
31. A Separation (2011, Asghar Farhadi)
32. The Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton)
33. Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino)
34. Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)
35. Some Like It Hot (1959, Billy Wilder)
36. Andrei Rublev (1966, Andrei Tarkovsky)
37. The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
38. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946, William Wyler)
39. Goodfellas (1990, Martin Scorsese)
40. Alien (1979, Ridley Scott)
41. Memento (2000, Christopher Nolan)
42. Fargo (1996, Joel Coen)
43. Johnny Guitar (1954, Nicholas Ray)
44. The Big City (1963, Satyajit Ray)
45. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, Frank Capra)
46. Toy Story (1995, John Lasseter)
47. The Social Network (2010, David Fincher)
48. The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
49. The Graduate (1967, Mike Nichols)
50. It Happened One Night (1934, Frank Capra)
51. The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont)
52. Sweet Smell of Success (1957, Alexander Mackendrick)
53. Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)
54. The Godfather: Part II (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
55. Light of My Life (2019, Casey Affleck)
56. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, Robert Wiene)
57. Pierrot le Fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
58. White Heat (1949, Raoul Walsh)
59. Sunset Blvd. (1950, Billy Wilder)
60. Se7en (1995, David Fincher)
61. Man with a Movie Camera (1929, Dziga Vertov)
62. Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean)
63. A Fish Called Wanda (1988, Charles Crichton)
64. M (1931, Fritz Lang)
65. There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson)
66. Back to the Future (1985, Robert Zemeckis)
67. The Loneliest Planet (2011, Julia Loktev)
68. Chinatown (1974, Roman Polanski)
69. Ghost World (2001, Terry Zwigoff)
70. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, Jacques Demy)
71. Life of Brian (1979, Terry Jones)
72. Dog Day Afternoon (1975, Sidney Lumet)
73. The King of Comedy (1982, Martin Scorsese)
74. Before Sunrise (1995, Richard Linklater)
75. The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
76. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner)
77. Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)
78. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014, Wes Anderson)
79. Irreversible (2002, Gaspar Noé)
80. My Darling Clementine (1946, John Ford)
81. Diabolique (1955, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
82. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971, Robert Altman)
83. Dr. Strangelove (1964, Stanley Kubrick)
84. L.A. Confidential (1997, Curtis Hanson)
85. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, John Huston)
86. Phantom Thread (2017, Paul Thomas Anderson)
87. Swing Time (1936, George Stevens)
88. Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)
89. Children of Paradise (1945, Marcel Carné)
90. Anatomy of a Murder (1959, Otto Preminger)
91. Manchester by the Sea (2016, Kenneth Lonergan)
92. Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick)
93. The Shop Around the Corner (1940, Ernst Lubitsch)
94. The Long Goodbye (1973, Robert Altman)
95. Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa)
96. Make Way for Tomorrow (1937, Leo McCarey)
97. Frances Ha (2012, Noah Baumbach)
98. Miller's Crossing (1990, Joel Coen)
99. Enemy (2013, Denis Villeneuve)
100. Girl Shy (1924, Fred Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)