Ketel One

An advert by Ketel One, the vodka company, features an alphabetical list of "the 50 best films of all time", as follows:

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
  
• A Clockwork Orange
  
• American Graffiti
  
• Annie Hall
  
• Apocalypse Now
  
• Battleship Potemkin
  
• Ben-Hur: A Tale Of The Christ
  
• The Bridge On The River Kwai
  
• Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
  
• Casablanca
  
• Chinatown
  
• Citizen Kane
  
• Dances With Wolves
  
• The Deer Hunter
  
• Dr Zhivago
  
• Dr Strangelove
  
• ET: The Extra-Terrestrial
  
• Easy Rider
  
• The French Connection
  
• Giant
  
• The Godfather II
  
• Gone With The Wind
  
• GoodFellas
  
• The Graduate
  
• High Noon
  
• It's A Wonderful Life
  
• Jaws
  
• Lawrence Of Arabia
  
• Midnight Cowboy
  
• My Fair Lady
  
• On The Waterfront
  
• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
  
• Platoon
  
• Psycho
  
• Pulp Fiction
  
• Raging Bull
  
• Raiders Of The Lost Ark
  
• Rocky
  
• Schindler's List
  
• The Searchers
  
• The Silence Of The Lambs
  
• Singin' In The Rain
  
• Some Like It Hot
  
• Star Wars IV: A New Hope
  
• The Sound Of Music
  
• Taxi Driver
  
• To Kill A Mockingbird
  
• Vertigo
  
• West Side Story
  
• The Wizard Of Oz

It's populist and weighted towards Hollywood classics, so a few more foreign-language films would be nice (The Seventh Seal and Seven Samurai, at least), but otherwise this is quite a decent list. Note that Ben-Hur is the William Wyler remake rather than the Fred Niblo version. Also, Some Like It Hot is the 1959 comic masterpiece, not the obscure 1939 comedy.