TOP 100

2007 Anniversary List

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  1. #1Citizen Kane
    1941 • Orson Welles
  2. #2The Godfather
    1972 • Francis Ford Coppola
  3. #3Casablanca
    1942 • Michael Curtiz
  4. #4Raging Bull
    1980 • Martin Scorsese
  5. #5Singin' in the Rain
    1952 • Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
  6. #6Gone with the Wind
    1939 • Victor Fleming
  7. #7Lawrence of Arabia
    1962 • David Lean
  8. #8Schindler's List
    1993 • Steven Spielberg
  9. #9Vertigo
    1958 • Alfred Hitchcock
  10. #10The Wizard of Oz
    1939 • Victor Fleming
  11. #11City Lights
    1931 • Charlie Chaplin
  12. #12The Searchers
    1956 • John Ford
  13. #13Star Wars
    1977 • George Lucas
  14. #14Psycho
    1960 • Alfred Hitchcock
  15. #152001: A Space Odyssey
    1968 • Stanley Kubrick
  16. #16Sunset Blvd.
    1950 • Billy Wilder
  17. #17The Graduate
    1967 • Mike Nichols
  18. #18The General
    1926 • Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
  19. #19On the Waterfront
    1954 • Elia Kazan
  20. #20It's a Wonderful Life
    1946 • Frank Capra
  21. #21Chinatown
    1974 • Roman Polanski
  22. #22Some Like It Hot
    1959 • Billy Wilder
  23. #23The Grapes of Wrath
    1940 • John Ford
  24. #24E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
    1982 • Steven Spielberg
  25. #25To Kill a Mockingbird
    1962 • Robert Mulligan
  26. #26Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
    1939 • Frank Capra
  27. #27High Noon
    1952 • Fred Zinnemann
  28. #28All About Eve
    1950 • Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  29. #29Double Indemnity
    1944 • Billy Wilder
  30. #30Apocalypse Now
    1979 • Francis Ford Coppola
  31. #31The Maltese Falcon
    1941 • John Huston
  32. #32The Godfather Part II
    1974 • Francis Ford Coppola
  33. #33One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    1975 • Miloš Forman
  34. #34Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
    1937 • David Hand
  35. #35Annie Hall
    1977 • Woody Allen
  36. #36The Bridge on the River Kwai
    1957 • David Lean
  37. #37The Best Years of Our Lives
    1946 • William Wyler
  38. #38The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
    1948 • John Huston
  39. #39Dr. Strangelove
    1964 • Stanley Kubrick
  40. #40The Sound of Music
    1965 • Robert Wise
  41. #41King Kong
    1933 • Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
  42. #42Bonnie and Clyde
    1967 • Arthur Penn
  43. #43Midnight Cowboy
    1969 • John Schlesinger
  44. #44The Philadelphia Story
    1940 • George Cukor
  45. #45Shane
    1953 • George Stevens
  46. #46It Happened One Night
    1934 • Frank Capra
  47. #47A Streetcar Named Desire
    1951 • Elia Kazan
  48. #48Rear Window
    1954 • Alfred Hitchcock
  49. #49Intolerance
    1916 • D. W. Griffith
  50. #50The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
    2001 • Peter Jackson
  51. #51West Side Story
    1961 • Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
  52. #52Taxi Driver
    1976 • Martin Scorsese
  53. #53The Deer Hunter
    1978 • Michael Cimino
  54. #54M*A*S*H
    1970 • Robert Altman
  55. #55North by Northwest
    1959 • Alfred Hitchcock
  56. #56Jaws
    1975 • Steven Spielberg
  57. #57Rocky
    1976 • John G. Avildsen
  58. #58The Gold Rush
    1925 • Charlie Chaplin
  59. #59Nashville
    1975 • Robert Altman
  60. #60Duck Soup
    1933 • Leo McCarey
  61. #61Sullivan's Travels
    1941 • Preston Sturges
  62. #62American Graffiti
    1973 • George Lucas
  63. #63Cabaret
    1972 • Bob Fosse
  64. #64Network
    1976 • Sidney Lumet
  65. #65The African Queen
    1951 • John Huston
  66. #66Raiders of the Lost Ark
    1981 • Steven Spielberg
  67. #67Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    1966 • Mike Nichols
  68. #68Unforgiven
    1992 • Clint Eastwood
  69. #69Tootsie
    1982 • Sydney Pollack
  70. #70A Clockwork Orange
    1971 • Stanley Kubrick
  71. #71Saving Private Ryan
    1998 • Steven Spielberg
  72. #72The Shawshank Redemption
    1994 • Frank Darabont
  73. #73Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
    1969 • George Roy Hill
  74. #74The Silence of the Lambs
    1991 • Jonathan Demme
  75. #75In the Heat of the Night
    1967 • Norman Jewison
  76. #76Forrest Gump
    1994 • Robert Zemeckis
  77. #77All the President's Men
    1976 • Alan J. Pakula
  78. #78Modern Times
    1936 • Charlie Chaplin
  79. #79The Wild Bunch
    1969 • Sam Peckinpah
  80. #80The Apartment
    1960 • Billy Wilder
  81. #81Spartacus
    1960 • Stanley Kubrick
  82. #82Sunrise
    1927 • F. W. Murnau
  83. #83Titanic
    1997 • James Cameron
  84. #84Easy Rider
    1969 • Dennis Hopper
  85. #85A Night at the Opera
    1935 • Sam Wood
  86. #86Platoon
    1986 • Oliver Stone
  87. #8712 Angry Men
    1957 • Sidney Lumet
  88. #88Bringing Up Baby
    1938 • Howard Hawks
  89. #89The Sixth Sense
    1999 • M. Night Shyamalan
  90. #90Swing Time
    1936 • George Stevens
  91. #91Sophie's Choice
    1982 • Alan J. Pakula
  92. #92Goodfellas
    1990 • Martin Scorsese
  93. #93The French Connection
    1971 • William Friedkin
  94. #94Pulp Fiction
    1994 • Quentin Tarantino
  95. #95The Last Picture Show
    1971 • Peter Bogdanovich
  96. #96Do the Right Thing
    1989 • Spike Lee
  97. #97Blade Runner
    1982 • Ridley Scott
  98. #98Yankee Doodle Dandy
    1942 • Michael Curtiz
  99. #99Toy Story
    1995 • John Lasseter
  100. #100Ben-Hur
    1959 • William Wyler