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Friday, May 26, 2023

The Greatest Films: Top 100

TheGreatestFilms.com:

Top 100 Films

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.

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? "The 100 Greatest Films"

They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They?:

The 100 Greatest Films

They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? (Theyshootpictures.com) offers up a list of the 1000 greatest films, as generated by aggregating more than 15,000 lists. The introduction page offers a list of some of the most prominent sources. Lists are weighted although there isn’t a detailed explanation of exactly how.

1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. Vertigo (1958)
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
4. Tokyo Story (Tôkyô Monogatari) (1953)
5. The Rules of the Game (La Règle du Jeu) (1939)
6. The Godfather (1972)
7. 8 ½ (Otto e Mezzo) (1963)
8. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
9. The Searchers (1956)
10. The Seven Samurai (Schichinin no Samurai) (1954)

11. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
12. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
13. Apocalypse Now (1979)
14. The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di Biciclette) (1947)
15. Taxi Driver (1976)
16. Persona (aka “Masks”) (1966)
17. The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc) (1928)
18. Breathless (A Bout de Souffle) (1959)
19. In the Mood for Love (Dut Yeung Nin Wa) (2000)
20. Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin) (1925)

21. L’Atalante (aka “Le Chaland Qui Passe”) (1934)
22. Man with a Movie Camera (Chelovek s Kinoapparatom) (1929)
23. The Mirror (Zerkalo) (1974)
24. Rashômon (1950)
25. City Lights (1931)
26. Psycho (1960)
27. The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups) (1959)
28. Andrei Rublev (1996)
29. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
30. Some Like It Hot (1959)

31. The Godfather Part II (1974)
32. The Sweet Life (La Dolce Vita) (1960)
33. Mulholland Drive (2001)
34. The Word (Ordet) (1954)
35. Raging Bull (1980)
36. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
37. The Adventure (L’Avventura) (1960)
38. Rear Window (1954)
39. Playtime (1967)
40. Sunset Boulevard (1950)

41. Touch of Evil (1958)
42. Casablanca (1942)
43. The Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali (1955)
44. Contempt (Le Mépris) (1963)
45. Barry Lyndon (1975)
46. Stalker (1979)
47. Blade Runner (1982)
48. Close-Up (Nema-ye Nazdik) (1989)
49. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
50. The General (1926)

51. Beau Travail (1999)
52. Modern Times (1936)
53. M – Eine Stadt Sucht Einen Mörder (1931)
54. The Third Man (1949)
55. Late Spring (1949)
56. North by Northwest (1959)
57. Ugetsu (aka “Ugetsu Monogatari” or “Tales of a Pale Moon After the Rain”) (1953)
58. The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeria) (1966)
59. The Apartment (1960)
60. Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) (1937)

61. Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället) (1957)
62. Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander) (1982)
63. Rio Bravo (1959)
64. Goodfellas (1990)
65. Shoah (1985)
66. Pierrot Goes Wild (or "Crazy Pete") (Pierrot le Fou) (1965)
67. Journey to Italy (1954)
68. Metropolis (1927)
69. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
70. Once Upon a Time in the West (C’era Una Volta Il West) (1968)

71. Chinatown (1974)
72. La Strada (1954)
73. Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis) (1945)
74. Do the Right Thing (1989)
75. The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) (1963)
76. Amarcord (1972)
77. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
78. A Man Escaped (Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut) (1956)
79. The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet) (1957)
80. Pulp Fiction (1994)

81. The Wild Bunch (1969)
82. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
83. Sansho the Bailiff (Sansho Dayu) (1954)
84. The Conformist (Il Conformista) (1971)
85. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
86. Viridiana (1961)
87. Blue Velvet (1986)
88. Pickpocket (1959)
89. Nashville (1975)
90. The Shining (1980)

91. Gertrud (1964)
92. The Gold Rush (1925)
93. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
94. Jaws (1975)
95. The Jetty (La Jetée) (aka “The Pier”) ()
96. Jules and Jim (Jules et Jim) (1961)
97. Cleo from 5 to 7 (Cléo de 5 à 7) (1962)
98. Sunless (Sans Soleil) (1983)
99. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
100. To Be Or Not to Be (1942)

Resources:

Dave’s Movie Database: Movie Lists
They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? (4/5/2023). “Introduction”
They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? (4/5/2023). “The 1000 Greatest Films”

Originally posted 5/31/2023.