100 Greatest Films

• Workers Leaving The Lumiere Factory (Louis Lumiere, 1895)
• A Trip To The Moon (Georges Melies, 1902)
  
• The Great Train Robbery (Edwin S Porter, 1903)
• Cabiria (Giovanni Pastrone, 1914)
  
• The Birth Of A Nation (DW Griffith, 1915)
  
• Intolerance (DW Griffith, 1916)
  
• The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1919)
  
• Nosferatu: A Symphony Of Horror (FW Murnau, 1921)
  
• Nanook Of The North (Robert Flaherty, 1922)
  
• The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin, 1925)
  
• Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
  
• Napoleon (Abel Gance, 1927)
  
• Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
  
• Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans (FW Murnau, 1927)
• Un Chien Andalou (Luis Bunuel, 1928)
  
• Man With A Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
  
• The Public Enemy (William Wellmann, 1931)
  
• 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon, 1933)
  
• It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934)
  
• Bride Of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935)
  
• Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1935)
  
• Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs (David Hand, 1937)
  
• Port Of Shadows (Marcel Carne, 1938)
  
• Gone With The Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
  
• The Rules Of The Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
  
• Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939)
  
• The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941)
  
• Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
  
• His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1941)
  
• Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
  
• Meet Me In St Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)
  
• Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
  
• Rome: Open City (Roberto Rossellini, 1945)
  
• Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
• The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947)
  
• Out Of The Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947)
  
• Kind Hearts & Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1948)
  
• Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio de Sica, 1948)
  
• The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
  
• Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)
  
• Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
  
• Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
  
• Singin' In The Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952)
  
• Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
  
• Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
  
• On The Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)
  
• Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
  
• The Night Of The Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
  
• The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold, 1956)
  
• The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
  
• The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
  
• Touch Of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
  
• Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
  
• The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, 1959)
  
• Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
  
• Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
  
• La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)
  
• Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
  
• Black Sunday (Mario Bava, 1960)
  
• Lawrence Of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
  
• A Fistful Of Dollars (Sergio Leone, 1964)
  
• Dr Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
  
• The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
  
• The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
  
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
  
• Bonnie & Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1968)
  
• Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969)
  
• A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
  
• The Godfather (Francis Coppola, 1972)
  
• Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
  
• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)
  
• Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
  
• Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
  
• In The Realm Of The Senses (Oshima Nagisa, 1976)
  
• Star Wars IV: A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977)
  
• Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
  
• Apocalypse Now (Francis Coppola, 1979)
  
• Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
  
• Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
  
• Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
  
• Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982)
  
• Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1987)
  
• Crimes & Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, 1989)
  
• Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton, 1990)
  
• GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
  
• Raise The Red Lantern (Yimou Zhang, 1991)
  
• Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, 1992)
  
• Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
  
• Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995)
  
• The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer, 1995)
  
• Fargo (Joel Coen, 1996)
  
• Scream (Wes Craven, 1996)
  
• Funny Games (Michael Haneke, 1996)
  
• Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2001)
  
• Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
  
• Hero (Yimou Zhang, 2002)
  
• City Of God (Fernando Meirelles & Katia Lund, 2002)
  
• Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
  
• Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
  
• Avatar (James Cameron, 2009)

The 100 Greatest Films are listed in chronological order. After much deliberation and revision, the list hopefully reflects the full spectrum of international cinema history.

Hollywood inevitably dominates the list, though 36% are foreign-language films from Europe and Asia. There is a slight bias towards older titles: 56% are black-and-white and 55% are pre-1960, including sixteen silent films. The list also includes four animations, four shorts, three documentaries, and one 3D film.