Top 100 Films

Drama

1) Citizen Kane
2) Gone with the Wind
3) The Godfather Trilogy 1901-1980
4) Rebel Without A Cause
5) Casablanca
6) Nashville
7) Mean Streets
8) The Manchurian Candidate
9) Sunset Boulevard
10) Do The Right Thing
11) One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
12) Sweet Smell of Success
13) Blue Velvet
14) Chinatown
15) The Philadelphia Story
16) The Magnificent Ambersons
17) The Last Picture Show
18) The Birth of a Nation
19) The Third Man – Orson Wells
20) Five Easy Pieces – Bob Rafelson
21) Double Indemnity- Billy Wilder
22) Raging Bull – Martin Scorsese
23) Touch of Evil – Orson Welles
24) A Streetcar Named Desire – Elia Kazan
25) The Night of the Hunter – Charles Laughton
26) Lawrence of Arabia – David Lean
27) It’s A Wonderful Life – Frank Capra
28) Glory –
29) American Graffiti – George Lucas
30) Dodsworth – Walter Huston
31) Dangerous Liasons –
32) The Grapes of Wrath – Darryl Zanuck
33) Field of Dreams –
34) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Frank Capra
35) Taxi Driver – Martin Scorsese
36) The Wind –
37) From Here To Eternity –
38) Henry V – Laurence Olivier
39) On The Waterfront – Elia Kazan
40) Goodfellas – Martin Scorsese
41) All About Eve – Joseph L. Mankiewicz
42) Hannah and her Sisters – Woody Allen
43) Mildred Pierce –
44) Sunrise – F. W. Murnau
45) The Treasure of The Sierra Madre – John Huston
46) The Player – Robert Altman
47) Written On The Wind – Douglas Sirk
48) They Live By Night – Nicholas Ray
49) Rebecca – Alfred Hitchcock
50) The Asphalt Jungle – John Huston
51) The Bridge On The River Kwai – David Lean
52) Deliverance – John Boorman
53) Greed – Erich von Stroheim
54) In A Lonely Place – Nicholas Ray
55) The Verdict – Sidney Lumet
56) To Kill A Mockingbird –
57) Last Tango In Paris – Bernardo Bertolucci
58) El Norte – Gregory Nava
59) Black Narcissus – Michael Powell
60) Atlantic City – Louis Malle
61) I Know Where I’m Going – Michael Powell
62) Twelve Angry Men – Sidney Lumet
63) Straw Dogs – Sam Peckinpah
64) Rain Man – Barry Levinson
65) Badlands – Terrence Malick
66) Howards End – Merchant Ivory
67) The Crowd – King Vidor
68) Dog Day Afternoon – Sidney Lumet
69) Paths of Glory – Stanley Kubrick
70) Reversal Of Fortune – Barbet Schroeder
71) Salvador – Oliver Stone
72) The Sugarland Express – Steven Spielberg
73) Stage Door – Gregory La Cava
74) Choose Me – Alan Rudolph
75) The Letter – William Wyler
76) Sex, Lies, and Videotape – Steven Soderbergh
77) 49th Parallel – Michael Powell
78) Ordinary People – Robert Redford
79) The Stunt Man – Peter O’Toole
80) The Clock – Vincente Minnelli
81) Fury – Fritz Lang
82) Thelma & Louise – Ridley Scott
83) The Right Stuff – Philip Kaufman
84) David Copperfield
85) Blow Out – Brian De Palma
86) High Tide – Gillian Armstrong
87) Pretty Poison –
88) River’s Edge – Tim Hunter
89) Caught – Max Ophuls
90) Say Anything – Cameron Crowe
91) Detour – Edgar Ulmer
92) North Dallas Forty –
93) Manhunter – Michael Mann
94) Two For The Road – Stanley Donen
95) No Way Out –
96) The Bad And The Beautiful – Vincente Minnelli
97) The Year Of Living Dangerously – Peter Weir
98) The Piano – Jane Campion
99) Gun Crazy – John Dall
100) Pump Up The Volume – Allan Moyle


Comedy

1) Airplane! – Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker
2) Some Like It Hot – Billy Wilder
3) This Is Spinal Tap – Rob Reiner
4) Annie Hall – Woody Allen
5) Bringing Up Baby – Howard Hawks
6) The Producers – Mel Brooks
7) Duck Soup
8) Tootsie – Sydney Pollack
9) The General – Buster Keaton
10) Unfaithfully Yours – Preston Sturges
11) Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb – Stanley Kubrick
12) The Ladykillers –
13) The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek – Preston Sturges
14) A Fish Called Wanda –
15) Caddyshack – Harold Ramis
16) His Girl Friday – Howard Hawks
17) Splash – Ron Howard
18) It Happened One Night – Frank Capra
19) The Graduate –
20) To Be Or Not To Be – Ernst Lubitsch
21) Bananas – Woody Allen
22) Sullivan’s Travels – Preston Sturges
23) Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein –
24) Victor/Victoria – Blake Edwards
25) The Gold Rush – Charlie Chaplin
26) The Longest Yard –
27) Blazing Saddles – Mel Brooks
28) Local Hero – Bill Forsyth
29) It’s A Gift –
30) Raising Arizona – Joel & Ethan Coen
31) A Night At The Opera –
32) Repo Man – Alex Cox
33) Animal House –
34) M*A*S*H – Robert Altman
35) A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum –
36) Roxanne –
37) Young Frankenstein – Mel Brooks
38) A Hard Day’s Night – Richard Lester
39) Kind Hearts And Coronets –
40) Groundhog Day –
41) Diner – Barry Levinson
42) Hail The Conquering Hero – Preston Sturges
43) The man With Two Brains –
44) Adam’s Rib –
45) Dinner At Eight – George Cukor
46) The Nutty Professor – Jerry Lewis
47) Ghostbusters –
48) The Great Dictator – Charlie Chaplin
49) Take The Money And Run – Woody Allen
50) She’s Gotta Have it – Spike Lee
51) House Party – Reginald Hudlin
52) Lover Come Back –
53) The Shop Around The Corner – Ernst Lubitsch
54) Big –
55) Mr. Hulot’s Holiday – Jacques Tati
56) Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure – Tim Burton
57) Born Yesterday –
58) Stripes – Harold Ramis
59) Beetlejuice – Tim Burton
60) Riff Raff – Ken Loach
61) The Court Jester –
62) Up In Smoke – Cheech and Chong
63) The Heartbreak Kid – Elaine May
64) The Lavender Hill Mob –
65) Way Out West – Laurel and Hardy
66) Bull Durham – Ron Shelton
67) Lost In America – Albert Brooks
68) The Bellboy – Jerry Lewis
69) Hollywood Shuffle – Robert Townsend
70) A Christmas Story –
71) What’s Up, Doc? – Peter Bogdanovich
72) Heathers –
73) Arthur –
74) My Favorite Brunette –
75) The Naked Gun: From The Files of Police Squad! –
76) Where’s Poppa? – Carl Reiner
77) Libeled Lady –
78) All Of Me –
79) The Big Picture – Christopher Guest
80) The In-Laws – Andrew Bergman
81) Smile – Michael Ritchie
82) Beverly Hills Cop –
83) Bedazzled –
84) Slacker –
85) Silver Streak –
86) Desperately Seeking Susan –
87) She Done Him Wrong –
88) The War of the Roses –
89) Kentucky Fried Movie – John Landis
90) Moonstruck –
91) Stranger Than Paradise – Jim Jarmusch
92) City Slickers –
93) Top Secret! –
94) Home Alone – John Hughes
95) Monty Python And The Holy Grail –
96) Beyond The Valley of the Dolls – Russ Meyer
97) Roger & Me – Michael Moore
98) Arsenic and old Lace – Frank Capra
99) Putney Swope –
100) Down And Out In Beverly Hills – Jean Renoir
101) Mrs. Doubtfire – Chris Columbus



Action & More…

1) Raiders of the Lost Ark – Steven Spielberg
2) The Adventures of Robin Hood –
3) The Road Warrior –
4) Goldfinger –
5) Tarzan, The Ape Man / Tarzan and his Mate
6) Scarface – Brian De Palma & older version by Howard Hawks
7) Batman – Tim Burton
8) The Black Pirate –
9) Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom –
10) The Fugitive – Andrew Davis
11) The Last of the Mohicans – Micahel Mann
12) Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade – Steven Spielberg
13) 48 Hrs. –
14) The Untouchables – Brian De Palma
15) Lethal Weapon –
16) From Russia With Love –
17) Dirty Harry –
18) Die Hard – John McTiernan
19) On Her Majesty’s Secret Service –
20) The Warriors - Walter Hill
21) Assault On Precinct 13 – John Carpenter
22) Southern Comfort –
23) The Most Dangerous Game –
24) Sahara –
25) King Solomon’s Mines –
26) The Guns of Navarone –
27) Enter The Dragon –
28) La Femme Nikita – Luc Bresson
29) Under Siege –
30) The Three Musketeers – Richard Lester
31) The Spy Who Loved Me -
32) Midnight Run –
33) The Killer – John Woo
34) The Crimson Pirate –
35) The Mark of Zorro –
36) The Dirty Dozen –
37) New Jack City –
38) Gloria – John Cassavetes
39) Jackie Chan’s Police Story –
40) Cleopatra Jones –

Western

1) The Searchers – John Ford
2) Red River – Howard Hawks
3) High Noon – Stanley Kramer
4) Shane – George Stevens
5) Stagecoach – John Ford
6) Lonesome Dove –
7) Ride The High Country –
8) Unforgiven – Clint Eastwood
9) The Wild Bunch – Sam Peckinpaw
10) My Darling Clementine – John Ford
11) She Wore A Yellow Ribbon – John Ford
12) Rio Bravo – Howard Hawks
13) The Ox-bow Incident –
14) Destry Rides Again – George Marshall
15) The Magnificent Seven – John Sturges
16) Once Upon A Time In The West – Sergio Leone
17) McCabe & Mrs. Miller – Robert Altman
18) Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid – George Roy Hill
19) Jeremiah Johnson – Sydney Pollack
20) Little Big Man – Arthur Penn
21) Dances With Wolves – Kevin Costner
22) The Shootist – Don Siegel
23) The Virginian –
24) The Gunfighter –
25) The Naked Spur – Anthony Mann
26) Winchester ‘73 – Anthony Mann
27) Buck And The Preacher – Sidney Poitier
28) The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly – Sergio Leone
29) High Plains Drifter – Clint Eastwood
30) Cat Ballou –

Mystery/Suspense

1) Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock
2) The Big Sleep
3) The Maltese Falcon – John Huston
4) The 39 Steps –
5) Laura – Otto Preminger
6) The Thin Man –
7) Rear Window – Alfred Hitchcock
8) The Postman Always Rings Twice – Tay Garnett
9) The Silence of the Lambs – Johnathan Demme
10) North By Northwest – Alfred Hitchcock
11) Notorious – Alfred Hitchcock
12) Kiss Me Deadly –
13) The Big Heat
14) In The Line of Fire
15) Strangers On A Train – Alfred Hitchcock
16) Charade
17) Body Heat – Lawrence Kasdan
18) The Lady From Shanghai – Orson Welles
19) And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
20) Murder On The Orient Express
21) Marathon Man –
22) Wait Until Dark –
23) Play Misty For Me – Clint Eastwood
24) Three Days of the Condor – Sydney Pollack
25) Coma – Michael Crighton
26) Blood Simple – Joel & Ethan Coen
27) Cape Fear – Martin Scorsese
28) Fatal Attraction – Adrian Lyne
29) Misery –
30) Dead Again – Kenneth Branagh