101 Greatest Films Of All Time!

Last year, Radio Times magazine published 101 Greatest Films Of All Time!, a list selected by veteran film critic Barry Norman. Norman chose 100 films, and the 101st entry was selected by the magazine's readers.

The list was categorised by genre and published in two parts, on 21st January (thrillers, romance, family, drama, comedy, and war) and 28th January (action/adventure, musicals, horror, sci-fi, and westerns). The 101st film was announced on 29th February.

Norman previously compiled a 100 Best Films Of The Century list, published in 1992. Radio Times produced a 100 Landmark Films list in 2006, and it publishes the Radio Times Guide To Films annually.

The Landmark Films list, and Norman's own list from 1992, were both far more wide-ranging than Norman's current selection. There are only two foreign-language films in the present list, and it has no silent films at all.

The 101 Greatest Films Of All Time are as follows:

Thrillers

• GoodFellas
  
• Dirty Harry
  
• The Big Sleep
  
• The Godfather
  
• The Silence Of The Lambs
  
• LA Confidential
  
• North By Northwest
  
• Chinatown
  
• Psycho
  
• The Third Man
  

Westerns

• Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
  
• The Outlaw Josey Wales
  
• High Noon
  
• Unforgiven
  
• The Wild Bunch
  
• Shane
  
• Red River
• The Searchers
  
• No Country For Old Men
  
• The Magnificent Seven
  

Horror

• Halloween
  
• The Exorcist
  
• Frankenstein
  
• Rosemary's Baby
  
• Night Of The Living Dead
  

Romance

• Romeo & Juliet
  
• Casablanca
  
• Gone With The Wind
  
• A Matter Of Life & Death
  
• Brief Encounter
  
• It Happened One Night
• When Harry Met Sally
  
• I Know Where I'm Going!
  
• Gregory's Girl
  
• The Graduate

Family

• Mary Poppins
  
• Great Expectations
  
• Toy Story
  
• ET: The Extra-Terrestrial
  
• Bambi
  
• Shrek
  
• The Railway Children
  
• The Jungle Book
  
• The Wizard Of Oz
  
• Harry Potter I-VIII
  

Musicals

• Cabaret
  
• Moulin Rouge!
  
• Singin' In The Rain
  
• West Side Story
  
• Chicago
  
• The Red Shoes
  
• My Fair Lady
  
• High Society
  
• Saturday Night Fever
  
• Kiss Me Kate
  

Action & Adventure

• Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade
  
• The Adventures Of Robin Hood
  
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  
• Jaws
  
• Gladiator
  
• Seven Samurai
  
• Lawrence Of Arabia
  
• Deliverance
  
• The Dark Knight
  
• Master & Commander: The Far Side Of The World
  

War

• The Great Escape
  
• Apocalypse Now
  
• To Be Or Not To Be
  
• The Bridge On The River Kwai
  
• Dr Strangelove
  
• Paths Of Glory
  
• The Hurt Locker
  
• Shoah
  
• The Cruel Sea
  
• Schindler's List
  

Drama

• It's A Wonderful Life
  
• Citizen Kane
  
• The Shawshank Redemption
  
• Sunset Boulevard
  
• Raging Bull
  
• Bad Day At Black Rock
  
• 12 Angry Men
  
• All About Eve
  
• To Kill A Mockingbird
  
• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Sci-Fi

• Alien
• Blade Runner
  
• Star Wars IV: A New Hope
  
• Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
  
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
  

Comedy

• Some Like It Hot
  
• Annie Hall
  
• Groundhog Day
  
• Ninotchka
  
• Airplane!
• Duck Soup
  
• Blazing Saddles
  
• Kind Hearts & Coronets
  
• Bringing Up Baby
  
• Monty Python & The Holy Grail

101

• Pulp Fiction
  

There are more than 101 films on the list, as all eight Harry Potter films are listed as a single entry. Note that Frankenstein is the James Whale version from 1931, not the earlier Thomas Edison silent version. Also, Some Like It Hot is the Billy Wilder classic from 1959, not the obscure 1939 film of the same name; and Psycho is the original version. There have been numerous adaptations of Romeo & Juliet; the one listed here is the Baz Luhrmann version from 1996.