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The Village Voice newspaper asked more than 50 film critics to choose their ten favorite movies of the 20th century. The results were published in the January 4, 2000 issue.
1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. The Rules of the Game (La Règle du Jeu) (1939)
3. Vertigo (1958)
4. The Searchers (1956)
5. Man with a Movie Camera (Chelovek s Kinoapparatom) (1929)
6. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
7. L’Atalante (aka “Le Chaland Qui Passe”) ()
8. The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc) (1928)
9. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
10. Rashômon (1950)
11. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
12. The Godfather (1972)
13. The Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali (1955)
14. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
15. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
16. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
17. The Word (Ordet) (1954)
18. Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
19. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
20. Psycho (1960)
21. Chinatown (1974)
22. M – Eine Stadt Sucht Einen Mörder (1931)
23. The Seven Samurai (Schichinin no Samurai) (1954)
24. The Earrings of Madame De… (1953)
25. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
26. A Man Escaped (Un Condamné À Mort S’est Échappé Ou Le Vent Souffle Où Il Veut) ()
27. Broken Blossoms (1919)
28. Greed (1924)
29. Ugetsu (aka “Ugetsu Mongatari” or “Tales of a Pale Moon After the Rain”) (1953)
30. The Third Man (1949)
31. The Godfather Part II (1974)
32. The General (1927)
33. The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet) (1957)
34. Taxi Driver (1976)
35. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
36. Tokyo Story (Tôkyô Monogatari) (1953)
37. The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di Biciclette) (1947)
38. City Lights (1931)
39. King Kong (1933)
40. Metropolis (1927)
41. My Life to Live (Vivre sa Vie) (1962)
42. Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
43. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) (1972)
44. Duck Soup (1933)
45. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
46. Barry Lyndon (1975)
47. The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups) (1959)
48. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
49. Contempt (Le Mépris) (1963)
50. The Gold Rush (1925)
51. North by Northwest (1959)
52. Hold Me While I’m Naked (1966)
53. The Rise of Louis XIV (1966)
54. The Apu Trilogy: The World of Apu (Apur Sansar) (1959) / The Apu Trilogy: Aparajito (1956)
55. Touch of Evil (1958)
56. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
57. The Lady Eve (1941)
58. The Conformist (Il Conformista) (1970)
59. The Palm Beach Story (1942)
60. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
61. Pickpocket (1959)
62. An Actor’s Revenge (1963)
63. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
64. Close-Up (Nema-ye Nazdik) (1989)
65. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
66. The Jetty (La Jetée) (aka “The Pier”) ()
67. Modern Times (1936)
68. October (Oktybr) (1928)
69. Young and the Damned (Los Olvidados) (1950)
70. Paisan (Paisà) (1946)
71. Performance (1970)
72. Shoah (1985)
73. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
74. Two or Three Things I Know About Her (2 Ou 3 Choses Que Je Sais D’Elle) (1966)
75. Umberto D. (1952)
76. Les Vampires (1915)
77. All About Eve (1950)
78. All That Heaven Allows (1955)
79. Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin) (1925)
80. Notorious (1946)
81. Pierrot Goes Wild (or "Crazy Pete") (Pierrot le Fou) (1965)
82. Fox and His Friends (Faustrecht Der Freiheit) (1975)
83. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
84. A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage Dans La Lune) (1902)
85. Wavelength (1967)
86. Ashes and Diamonds (Popiól I Diament) (1958)
87. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
88. The Golden Coach (Le Carrosse d’or) (1952)
89. Salo (1975)
90. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Céline et Julie Vont en Bateau: Phantom Ladies Over Paris) (1974)
91. Masculine-Feminine (Masculin Féminin) (1966)
92. Nosferatu, a Symphony of Terror (aka “Nosferatu, the Vampire”) (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens) (1922)
93. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
94. Blade Runner (1982)
95. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
96. Jules and Jim (Jules et Jim) (1961)
97. Landscape in the Mist (aka “Topio Stin Omichli” or “Paysage Dans Le Brouillard”) (1988)
98. Mean Streets (1973)
99. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
100. Suspira (1977)
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Originally posted 9/3/2019; last updated 6/3/2023. | 
