Top 100 Films: The Best I've Seen
Chronological Listing; Revised, December 2010
1920s
38 Nanook of the North
58 Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
56 The Battleship Potemkin
83 The Joyless Street
49 Metropolis
32 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
71 The Docks of New York
74 The Fall of the House of Usher
22 The Passion of Joan of Arc
30 Man with a Movie Camera

1930s
59 42nd Street
73 L'Atalante
64 The Scarlet Empress
5 Modern Times
37 Holiday

1940s
17 His Girl Friday
20 Pinocchio
3 Citizen Kane
31 The Lady Eve
35 Casablanca
14 Meshes of the Afternoon
27 Laura
77 To Have and Have Not
79 Children of Paradise
80 Rome, Open City
75 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
92 Letter from an Unknown Woman
24 Bicycle Thieves
87 The Third Man

1950s
81 All About Eve
6 Diary of a Country Priest
12 Singin' in the Rain
2 The Earrings of Madame de...
57 Pickup on South Street
46 Tokyo Story
89 The Wages of Fear
9 Sanshô the Bailiff
43 Pather Panchali
67 Smiles of a Summer Night
50 The Seventh Seal
16 Vertigo
54 The 400 Blows
90 Hiroshima, mon amour
40 Imitation of Life

1960s
52 Psycho
69 Viridiana
48 The Gospel According to St. Matthew
91 Mary Poppins
42 Woman in the Dunes
15 The Battle of Algiers
1960s, con't
1 Persona
99 2001: A Space Odyssey
96 Flesh
97 In the Year of the Pig
76 Shame
8 Andrei Rublev

1970s
39 McCabe & Mrs. Miller
21 Aguirre, the Wrath of God
47 Cries and Whispers
55 The Godfather
28 Chinatown
44 The Conversation
45 The Travelling Players
25 A Woman under the Influence
65 Xala
29 Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
10 Nashville
7 Harlan County, U.S.A.
26 Taxi Driver
95 Annie Hall
85 New York, New York
100 Riddles of the Sphinx
61 Days of Heaven
34 Apocalypse Now

1980s
62 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
11 The Ballad of Narayama
60 Fanny and Alexander
98 Nostalghia
36 Shoah
66 Aliens
19 The Green Ray
41 Hannah and Her Sisters
78 The Last of England
86 Under the Sun of Satan
82 Dead Ringers
68 Black Rain
88 When Harry Met Sally...

1990s
93 Close-Up
4 The Piano
33 Safe
23 Taste of Cherry
18 The Thin Red Line

2000s
70 Dancer in the Dark
63 Werckmeister Harmonies
72 Mulholland Drive
51 Morvern Callar
53 Russian Ark
84 Talk to Her
94 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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