TOP 100

1998 Original List

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  1. #1Citizen Kane
    1941 • Orson Welles
  2. #2Casablanca
    1942 • Michael Curtiz
  3. #3The Godfather
    1972 • Francis Ford Coppola
  4. #4Gone with the Wind
    1939 • Victor Fleming
  5. #5Lawrence of Arabia
    1962 • David Lean
  6. #6The Wizard of Oz
    1939 • Victor Fleming
  7. #7The Graduate
    1967 • Mike Nichols
  8. #8On the Waterfront
    1954 • Elia Kazan
  9. #9Schindler's List
    1993 • Steven Spielberg
  10. #10Singin' in the Rain
    1952 • Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
  11. #11It's a Wonderful Life
    1946 • Frank Capra
  12. #12Sunset Blvd.
    1950 • Billy Wilder
  13. #13The Bridge on the River Kwai
    1957 • David Lean
  14. #14Some Like It Hot
    1959 • Billy Wilder
  15. #15Star Wars
    1977 • George Lucas
  16. #16All About Eve
    1950 • Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  17. #17The African Queen
    1951 • John Huston
  18. #18Psycho
    1960 • Alfred Hitchcock
  19. #19Chinatown
    1974 • Roman Polanski
  20. #20One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    1975 • Miloš Forman
  21. #21The Grapes of Wrath
    1940 • John Ford
  22. #222001: A Space Odyssey
    1968 • Stanley Kubrick
  23. #23The Maltese Falcon
    1941 • John Huston
  24. #24Raging Bull
    1980 • Martin Scorsese
  25. #25E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
    1982 • Steven Spielberg
  26. #26Dr. Strangelove
    1964 • Stanley Kubrick
  27. #27Bonnie and Clyde
    1967 • Arthur Penn
  28. #28Apocalypse Now
    1979 • Francis Ford Coppola
  29. #29Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
    1939 • Frank Capra
  30. #30The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
    1948 • John Huston
  31. #31Annie Hall
    1977 • Woody Allen
  32. #32The Godfather Part II
    1974 • Francis Ford Coppola
  33. #33High Noon
    1952 • Fred Zinnemann
  34. #34To Kill a Mockingbird
    1962 • Robert Mulligan
  35. #35It Happened One Night
    1934 • Frank Capra
  36. #36Midnight Cowboy
    1969 • John Schlesinger
  37. #37The Best Years of Our Lives
    1946 • William Wyler
  38. #38Double Indemnity
    1944 • Billy Wilder
  39. #39Doctor Zhivago
    1965 • David Lean
  40. #40North by Northwest
    1959 • Alfred Hitchcock
  41. #41West Side Story
    1961 • Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
  42. #42Rear Window
    1954 • Alfred Hitchcock
  43. #43King Kong
    1933 • Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
  44. #44The Birth of a Nation
    1915 • D. W. Griffith
  45. #45A Streetcar Named Desire
    1951 • Elia Kazan
  46. #46A Clockwork Orange
    1971 • Stanley Kubrick
  47. #47Taxi Driver
    1976 • Martin Scorsese
  48. #48Jaws
    1975 • Steven Spielberg
  49. #49Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
    1937 • David Hand
  50. #50Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
    1969 • George Roy Hill
  51. #51The Philadelphia Story
    1940 • George Cukor
  52. #52From Here to Eternity
    1953 • Fred Zinnemann
  53. #53Amadeus
    1984 • Miloš Forman
  54. #54All Quiet on the Western Front
    1930 • Lewis Milestone
  55. #55The Sound of Music
    1965 • Robert Wise
  56. #56M*A*S*H
    1970 • Robert Altman
  57. #57The Third Man
    1949 • Carol Reed
  58. #58Fantasia
    1940 • Various
  59. #59Rebel Without a Cause
    1955 • Nicholas Ray
  60. #60Raiders of the Lost Ark
    1981 • Steven Spielberg
  61. #61Vertigo
    1958 • Alfred Hitchcock
  62. #62Tootsie
    1982 • Sydney Pollack
  63. #63Stagecoach
    1939 • John Ford
  64. #64Close Encounters of the Third Kind
    1977 • Steven Spielberg
  65. #65The Silence of the Lambs
    1991 • Jonathan Demme
  66. #66Network
    1976 • Sidney Lumet
  67. #67The Manchurian Candidate
    1962 • John Frankenheimer
  68. #68An American in Paris
    1951 • Vincente Minnelli
  69. #69Shane
    1953 • George Stevens
  70. #70The French Connection
    1971 • William Friedkin
  71. #71Forrest Gump
    1994 • Robert Zemeckis
  72. #72Ben-Hur
    1959 • William Wyler
  73. #73Wuthering Heights
    1939 • William Wyler
  74. #74The Gold Rush
    1925 • Charlie Chaplin
  75. #75Dances with Wolves
    1990 • Kevin Costner
  76. #76City Lights
    1931 • Charlie Chaplin
  77. #77American Graffiti
    1973 • George Lucas
  78. #78Rocky
    1976 • John G. Avildsen
  79. #79The Deer Hunter
    1978 • Michael Cimino
  80. #80The Wild Bunch
    1969 • Sam Peckinpah
  81. #81Modern Times
    1936 • Charlie Chaplin
  82. #82Giant
    1956 • George Stevens
  83. #83Platoon
    1986 • Oliver Stone
  84. #84Fargo
    1996 • Joel Coen
  85. #85Duck Soup
    1933 • Leo McCarey
  86. #86Mutiny on the Bounty
    1935 • Frank Lloyd
  87. #87Frankenstein
    1931 • James Whale
  88. #88Easy Rider
    1969 • Dennis Hopper
  89. #89Patton
    1970 • Franklin J. Schaffner
  90. #90The Jazz Singer
    1927 • Alan Crosland
  91. #91My Fair Lady
    1964 • George Cukor
  92. #92A Place in the Sun
    1951 • George Stevens
  93. #93The Apartment
    1960 • Billy Wilder
  94. #94Goodfellas
    1990 • Martin Scorsese
  95. #95Pulp Fiction
    1994 • Quentin Tarantino
  96. #96The Searchers
    1956 • John Ford
  97. #97Bringing Up Baby
    1938 • Howard Hawks
  98. #98Unforgiven
    1992 • Clint Eastwood
  99. #99Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
    1967 • Stanley Kramer
  100. #100Yankee Doodle Dandy
    1942 • Michael Curtiz