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From Filmsite.org: “Video Detective, a pocket-sized guide published in 1997 and written by Jim Riffel, suggested both its top 1000 films and 100 films of all-time for its readers, to provide advice on renting videos.” The original list was presented in unranked, alphabetical order. The top 100 films are listed here, ranked by their overall status in Dave’s Movie Database.
1. Gone with the Wind (1939)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
4. Casablanca (1942)
5. Citizen Kane (1941)
6. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
8. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
9. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
10. Psycho (1960)
11. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
12. The Godfather Part II (1974)
13. Vertigo (1958)
14. Raging Bull (1980)
15. Apocalypse Now (1979)
16. Taxi Driver (1976)
17. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
18. Some Like It Hot (1959)
19. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
20. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
21. The Sound of Music (1965)
22. Chinatown (1974)
23. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
24. Rear Window (1954)
25. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
26. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
27. North by Northwest (1959)
28. On the Waterfront (1954)
29. Annie Hall (1977)
30. All About Eve (1950)
31. The Exorcist (1973)
32. Double Indemnity (1944)
33. The Graduate (1967)
34. Ben-Hur (1959)
35. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
36. The Searchers (1956)
37. The Third Man (1949)
38. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
39. 12 Angry Men (1957)
40. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
41. West Side Story (1961)
42. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
43. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
44. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
45. City Lights (1931)
46. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
47. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
48. It Happened One Night (1934)
49. The Sting (1973)
50. Modern Times (1936)
51. The Deer Hunter (1978)
52. Amadeus (1984)
53. My Fair Lady (1964)
54. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
55. Touch of Evil (1958)
56. High Noon (1952)
57. Manhattan (1979)
58. The Gold Rush (1925)
59. Patton (1970)
60. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
61. Paths of Glory (1957)
62. The French Connection (1971)
63. An American in Paris (1951)
64. The Wild Bunch (1969)
65. The General (1927)
66. Top Hat (1935)
67. The Manchurian Candidate (1961)
68. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
69. Duck Soup (1933)
70. The African Queen (1951)
71. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
72. Stagecoach (1939)
73. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
74. Frankenstein (1931)
75. M*A*S*H (1970)
76. The Lady Eve (1941)
77. Terms of Endearment (1983)
78. Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
79. Laura (1944)
80. The Big Sleep (1946)
81. Gandhi (1982)
82. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
83. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
84. Shane (1953)
85. Harold and Maude (1971)
86. Ordinary People (1980)
87. The King and I (1956)
88. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
89. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
90. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
91. A Room with a View (1985)
92. Wuthering Heights (1939)
93. Five Easy Pieces (1970)
94. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
95. Deliverance (1972)
96. The Caine Mutiny (1954)
97. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
98. East of Eden (1955)
99. Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
100. Papillon (1973)
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Originally posted 8/1/2019; last updated 5/28/2023. | 
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