The 100 Greatest Films

The following list represents what I feel to be the 100 greatest movies. Following a film's title, in parenthesis, is each director's last name and the year of the film's release. I've cultivated the list over the years and I update it annually.

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1. The Human Condition (Kobayashi, 1959-61)
2. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
3. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
4. Viridiana (Bunuel, 1961)
5. Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick, 1964)
6. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
7. The Graduate (Nichols, 1967)
8. Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)
9. The Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1975)
10. Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957)
11. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
12. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
13. Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
14. Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)
15. There Will Be Blood (Anderson, 2007)
16. Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, 1953)
17. The Cameraman (Keaton and Sedgwick, 1928)
18. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone, 1966)
19. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
20. The Godfather: Part II (Coppola, 1974)
21. Last Tango in Paris (Bertolucci, 1972)
22. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
23. The Princess Bride (Reiner, 1987)
24. Mulholland Drive (Lynch, 2001)
25. Sawdust and Tinsel (Bergman, 1953)
26. Unforgiven (Eastwood, 1992)
27. Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)
28. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
29. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
30. Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950)
31. JFK (Stone, 1991)
32. 12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957)
33. Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (Lucas, 1977)
34. Sherlock Jr. (Keaton, 1924)
35. The Treasure of Sierra Madre (Huston, 1948)
36. On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954)
37. Jules and Jim (Truffaut, 1962)
38. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)
39. Contempt (Godard, 1963)
40. Before Sunset (Linklater, 2004)
41. Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946)
42. Singin’ in the Rain (Donen and Kelly, 1952)
43. The Children Are Watching Us (De Sica, 1944)
44. Rocky (Avildsen, 1976)
45. L’Avventura (Antonioni, 1960)
46. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
47. Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
48. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948)
49. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975)
50. Closer (Nichols, 2004)
51. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
52. Sleuth (Mankiewicz, 1972)
53. Make Way for Tomorrow (McCarey, 1937)
54. Out of the Past (Tourneur, 1947)
55. North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)
56. Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)
57. Paths of Glory (Kubrick, 1957)
58. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
59. The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1957)
60. Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
61. Patton (Schaffner, 1970)
62. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Keaton and Reisner, 1928)
63. Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)
64. The Young and the Damned (Bunuel, 1950)
65. Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)
66. The Hidden Fortress (Kurosawa, 1958)
67. First Blood (Kotcheff, 1982)
68. Interstellar (Nolan, 2014)
69. Some Like It Hot (Wilder, 1959)
70. The Big Lebowski (The Coens, 1998)
71. A Place in the Sun (Stevens, 1951)
72. The Tree of Life (Malick, 2011)
73. All About Eve (Mankiewicz, 1950)
74. La La Land (Chazelle, 2016)
75. Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino, 1992)
76. The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978)
77. The Search (Zinnemann, 1948)
78. Heat (Mann, 1995)
79. Away from Her (Polley, 2006)
80. A Fish Called Wanda (Crichton and Cleese, 1988)
81. Bringing up Baby (Hawks, 1938)
82. Amadeus (Forman, 1984)
83. Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick, 1957)
84. The Matrix (The Wachowskis, 1999)
85. Sunset Boulevard (Wilder, 1950)
86. Before Midnight (Linklater, 2013)
87. The Terminator (Cameron, 1984)
88. Network (Lumet, 1976)
89. Brokeback Mountain (Lee, 2005)
90. Rosemary’s Baby (Polanski, 1968)
91. Braveheart (Gibson, 1995)
92. Silence of the Lambs (Demme, 1991)
93. The General (Keaton and Bruckman, 1926)
94. The Third Man (Reed, 1949)
95. Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara, 1964)
96. Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1966)
97. The Killing (Kubrick, 1956)
98. Days of Wine and Roses (Edwards, 1962)
99. My Life to Live (Godard, 1962)
100. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Nichols, 1966)