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This is a personal website created by Thomas Evenson around 2015. As it says on the site, this list was created “by aggregating the ratings of over 930 movies from 40 movie lists.” Lists are weighted based on various criteria, such as lists by critics favored over lists by the general public.
1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
4. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
5. Casablanca (1942)
6. Schindler’s List (1993)
7. Annie Hall (1977)
8. Taxi Driver (1976)
9. Vertigo (1958)
10. Pulp Fiction (1994)
11. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
12. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
13. The Godfather Part II (1974)
14. Apocalypse Now (1979)
15. Goodfellas (1990)
16. Chinatown (1974)
17. The Searchers (1956)
18. Psycho (1960)
19. Some Like It Hot (1959)
20. All About Eve (1950)
21. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
22. On the Waterfront (1954)
23. The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di Biciclette) (1947)
24. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
25. The Seven Samurai (Schichinin no Samurai) (1954)
26. Gone with the Wind (1939)
27. The Third Man (1949)
28. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
29. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
30. North by Northwest (1959)
31. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
32. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
33. Raging Bull (1980)
34. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
35. Jaws (1975)
36. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
37. The Hurt Locker (2009)
38. The Graduate (1967)
39. Tokyo Story (Tôkyô Monogatari) (1953)
40. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
41. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
42. 8 ½ (Otto e Mezzo) (1963)
43. The Apartment (1960)
44. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
45. Rear Window (1954)
46. City Lights (1931)
47. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
48. The Gold Rush (1925)
49. Forrest Gump (1994)
50. The Rules of the Game (La Règle du Jeu) (1939)
51. Nashville (1975)
52. Rashômon (1950)
53. The Shining (1980)
54. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
55. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
56. Blade Runner (1982)
57. It Happened One Night (1934)
58. West Side Story (1961)
59. Star Wars – Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
60. Modern Times (1936)
61. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
62. Fargo (1996)
63. American Beauty (1999)
64. Boyhood (2014)
65. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
66. There Will Be Blood (2007)
67. All the President’s Men (1976)
68. The Wild Bunch (1969)
69. L.A. Confidential (1997)
70. Mean Streets (1973)
71. Double Indemnity (1944)
72. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
73. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
74. Touch of Evil (1958)
75. The Sound of Music (1965)
76. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
77. King Kong (1933)
78. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
79. The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups) (1959)
80. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
81. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
82. Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin) (1925)
83. Do the Right Thing (1989)
84. Mulholland Drive (2001)
85. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
86. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
87. Gandhi (1982)
88. The Deer Hunter (1978)
89. Toy Story (1995)
90. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
91. Notorious (1946)
92. Duck Soup (1933)
93. Ben-Hur (1959)
94. Gladiator (2000)
95. Persona (aka “Masks”) (1966)
96. The Social Network (2010)
97. The Dark Knight (2008)
98. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
99. The General (1927)
100. Amadeus (1984)
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Originally posted 8/21/2019; last updated 5/26/2023. | 
Hi Dave,
ReplyDeleteI'm Thomas Evenson, the creator of The Greatest Films. The site was originally launched around 2015, and every year I update it with new award winners. Typically this hasn't meant the top 100 has changed much, but the overall rankings do shift every year.
Best,
Thomas Evenson