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These movies were selected by Time magazine’s Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel. As the website says, “The idea was to assemble 100 estimable films since Time began, with the March 3, 1923 issue.” The two film critics each created lists of 100+ films. They had 31 movies in common (with The Godfather and The Godfather Part II considered as one entry) and then negotiated with each other to flesh out the remainder.
The original Time list was presented unranked. However, this list has been ranked based on the movies’ overall status in Dave’s Movie Database with the shared films ranked and then the remaining films ranked.
Maddingly, this list does NOT add up to 100 titles. The Godfather and The Godfather Part II are listed as one entry, as are the two-part Olympia, the Apu Trilogy and Lord of the Rings. If these titles were broken out separately, the list would be…105 titles? Someone at Time needs to learn to count (or I’ve missed a movie somewhere, despite checking this list several times).
1. The Godfather (1972) / The Godfather Part II (1974)
2. Citizen Kane (1941)
3. Casablanca (1942)
4. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
5. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
6. Taxi Driver (1976)
7. Chinatown (1974)
8. Double Indemnity (1944)
9. City Lights (1931)
10. King Kong (1933)
11. 8 ½ (Otto e Mezzo) (1963)
12. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
13. Pinocchio (1940)
14. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
15. Persona (aka “Masks”) (1966)
16. The Manchurian Candidate (1961)
17. His Girl Friday (1940)
18. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
19. Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
20. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) (1972)
21. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
22. The Lady Eve (1941)
23. Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis) (1945)
24. Yojimbo (1961)
25. Ugetsu (aka “Ugetsu Mongatari” or “Tales of a Pale Moon After the Rain”) (1953)
26. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
27. White Heat (1949)
28. Ikiru (1952)
29. Detour (1945)
30. Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
31. Talk to Her (Hable Con Ella) (2002)
32. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
33. The Lord of the Rings:
34. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
35. Psycho (1960)
36. Raging Bull (1980)
37. Pulp Fiction (1994)
38. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
39. Some Like It Hot (1959)
40. Goodfellas (1990)
41. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
42. On the Waterfront (1954)
43. The Searchers (1956)
44. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
45. Blade Runner (1982)
46. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
47. Finding Nemo (2003)
48. Unforgiven (1992)
49. Tokyo Story (Tôkyô Monogatari) (1953)
50. Metropolis (1927)
51. Once Upon a Time in the West (C’era Una Volta Il West) (1968)
52. The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups) (1959)
53. Brazil (1985)
54. Notorious (1946)
55. A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
56. City of God (Cidade de Deus) (2002)
57. Swing Time (1936)
58. Barry Lyndon (1975)
59. Out of the Past (1947)
60. The Apu Trilogy:
- Pather Panchali (1955)
- Aparajito (1956)
- The World of Apu (Apur Sansar) (1959)
61. Miller’s Crossing (1990)
62. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
63. Ninotchka (1939)
64. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise (Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie) (1972)
65. Wings of Desire (Der Himmel uber Berlin) (1988)
66. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
67. Dodsworth (1936)
68. Man with a Movie Camera (Chelovek s Kinoapparatom) (1929)
69. The Crowd (1928)
70. The Awful Truth (1937)
71. In a Lonely Place (1950)
72. Chungking Express (1994)
73. It’s a Gift (1934)
74. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
75. Day for Night (La Nuit Américaine) (1973)
76. Umberto D. (1952)
77. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
78. Closely Watched Trains (Ostre Sledované Vlaky) (1966)
79. The Decalogue (Dekalog) (1988)
80. Camille (1937)
81. Farewell My Concubine (1993)
82. Olympia (1938)
83. My American Uncle (Mon Oncle D’Amrique) (1980)
84. Léolo (1992)
85. The Fly (1986)
86. A Touch of Zen (Xia Nü) (1969)
87. The Last Command (1928)
88. Nayakan (1987)
89. The Singing Detective (1986)
90. Pyaasa (1957)
91. Charade (1963)
92. Drunken Master II (1994)
93. Band of Outsiders (Bande à Part) (1964)
94. Mouchette (1967)
95. Baby Face (1933)
96. Ulysses’ Gaze (1995)
97. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Le Crime de Monsieur Lange) (1936)
98. Kandahar (aka The Sun Behind the Moon”) (2002)
99. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1931)
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Originally posted 7/30/2019; last updated 6/2/2023. | 
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