The 100 greatest American films
A list created by sensoria
Copied from Sleestakk’s list. - Yay! Another bullshit list by the BBC. “BBC Culture polled film critics from around the world to determine the best American movies ever made.” Worth having here since this is basically kind of like a “Best-of” American film even if there are omissions and odd choices, esp. anything post-2000. Suppose it’s interesting to see what they compiled.
Movies on The 100 greatest American films List1 | Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | 1941 |
2 | Godfather, The | Francis Ford Coppola | 1972 |
3 | Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock | 1958 |
4 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick | 1968 |
5 | Searchers, The | John Ford | 1956 |
6 | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | F.W. Murnau | 1927 |
7 | Singin' in the Rain | Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | 1952 |
8 | Psycho | Alfred Hitchcock | 1960 |
9 | Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | 1943 |
10 | Godfather Part II, The | Francis Ford Coppola | 1974 |
11 | Magnificent Ambersons, The | Orson Welles | 1942 |
12 | Chinatown | Roman Polanski | 1974 |
13 | North by Northwest | Alfred Hitchcock | 1959 |
14 | Nashville | Robert Altman | 1975 |
15 | Best Years of Our Lives, The | William Wyler | 1946 |
16 | McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Robert Altman | 1971 |
17 | Gold Rush, The | Charlie Chaplin | 1925 |
18 | City Lights | Charlie Chaplin | 1931 |
19 | Taxi Driver | Martin Scorsese | 1976 |
20 | GoodFellas | Martin Scorsese | 1990 |
21 | Mulholland Drive | David Lynch | 2001 |
22 | Greed | Erich von Stroheim | 1924 |
23 | Annie Hall | Woody Allen | 1977 |
24 | Apartment, The | Billy Wilder | 1960 |
25 | Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee | 1989 |
26 | Killer of Sheep | Charles Burnett | 1978 |
27 | Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | 1975 |
28 | Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino | 1994 |
29 | Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese | 1980 |
30 | Some Like It Hot | Billy Wilder | 1959 |
31 | Woman Under the Influence, A | John Cassavetes | 1974 |
32 | Lady Eve, The | Preston Sturges | 1941 |
33 | Conversation, The | Francis Ford Coppola | 1974 |
34 | Wizard of Oz, The | Victor Fleming | 1939 |
35 | Double Indemnity | Billy Wilder | 1944 |
36 | Star Wars | George Lucas | 1977 |
37 | Imitation of Life | Douglas Sirk | 1959 |
38 | Jaws | Steven Spielberg | 1975 |
39 | Birth of a Nation, The | D.W. Griffith | 1915 |
40 | Meshes of the Afternoon | Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid | 1943 |
41 | Rio Bravo | Howard Hawks | 1959 |
42 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Stanley Kubrick | 1964 |
43 | Letter from an Unknown Woman | Max Ophüls | 1948 |
44 | Sherlock Jr. | Buster Keaton | 1924 |
45 | Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The | John Ford | 1962 |
46 | It's a Wonderful Life | Frank Capra | 1946 |
47 | Marnie | Alfred Hitchcock | 1964 |
48 | Place in the Sun, A | George Stevens | 1951 |
49 | Days of Heaven | Terrence Malick | 1978 |
50 | His Girl Friday | Howard Hawks | 1940 |
51 | Touch of Evil | Orson Welles | 1958 |
52 | Wild Bunch, The | Sam Peckinpah | 1969 |
53 | Grey Gardens | Albert Maysles, Ellen Giffard, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer | 1976 |
54 | Sunset Boulevard | Billy Wilder | 1950 |
55 | Graduate, The | Mike Nichols | 1967 |
56 | Back to the Future | Robert Zemeckis | 1985 |
57 | Crimes and Misdemeanors | Woody Allen | 1989 |
58 | Shop Around the Corner, The | Ernst Lubitsch | 1940 |
59 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Miloš Forman | 1975 |
60 | Blue Velvet | David Lynch | 1986 |
61 | Eyes Wide Shut | Stanley Kubrick | 1999 |
62 | Shining, The | Stanley Kubrick | 1980 |
63 | Love Streams | John Cassavetes | 1984 |
64 | Johnny Guitar | Nicholas Ray | 1954 |
65 | Right Stuff, The | Philip Kaufman | 1983 |
66 | Red River | Howard Hawks | 1948 |
67 | Modern Times | Charlie Chaplin | 1936 |
68 | Notorious | Alfred Hitchcock | 1946 |
69 | Koyaanisqatsi | Godfrey Reggio | 1983 |
70 | Band Wagon, The | Vincente Minnelli | 1953 |
71 | Groundhog Day | Harold Ramis | 1993 |
72 | Shanghai Gesture, The | Josef von Sternberg | 1941 |
73 | Network | Sidney Lumet | 1976 |
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75 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Steven Spielberg | 1977 |
76 | Empire Strikes Back, The | Irvin Kershner | 1980 |
77 | Stagecoach | John Ford | 1939 |
78 | Schindler's List | Steven Spielberg | 1993 |
79 | Tree of Life, The | Terrence Malick | 2011 |
80 | Meet Me in St. Louis | Vincente Minnelli | 1944 |
81 | Thelma & Louise | Ridley Scott | 1991 |
82 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Steven Spielberg | 1981 |
83 | Bringing Up Baby | Howard Hawks | 1938 |
84 | Deliverance | John Boorman | 1972 |
85 | Night of the Living Dead | George A. Romero | 1968 |
86 | Lion King, The | Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff | 1994 |
87 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Michel Gondry | 2004 |
88 | West Side Story | Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins | 1961 |
89 | In a Lonely Place | Nicholas Ray | 1950 |
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91 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg | 1982 |
92 | Night of the Hunter, The | Charles Laughton | 1955 |
93 | Mean Streets | Martin Scorsese | 1973 |
94 | 25th Hour | Spike Lee | 2002 |
95 | Duck Soup | Leo McCarey | 1933 |
96 | Dark Knight, The | Christopher Nolan | 2008 |
97 | Gone with the Wind | Victor Fleming | 1939 |
98 | Heaven's Gate | Michael Cimino | 1980 |
99 | 12 Years a Slave | Steve McQueen | 2013 |
100 | Ace in the Hole | Billy Wilder | 1951 |