The 100 Greatest Classic Movies (Pre-1967)

Using 1967 as a natural dividing line, this list charts the greatest, most influential, foundational, culturally impactful and beloved movies from the birth of cinema to the decline of the studio system and the rise of New Hollywood.

  1.  Citizen Kane (1941)  Directed by Orson Welles.  Screenplay by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles.  Starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Everett Sloane, Ray Collins, George Coulouris, Agnes Moorehead, Paul Stewart, Ruth Warrick, Erskine Sanford, and William Alland.
  2.  Vertigo (1958)  Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.  Screenplay by Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor, based on the novel D’entre les morts by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.  Starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore and Henry Jones.
  3.  Psycho  (1960)  Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.  Screenplay by Joseph Stefano, based on the novel of the same name by Robert Bloch.  Starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, and Janet Leigh.
  4.  Lawrence of Arabia (1962)  Directed by David Lean. Screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson, based on the book Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence.  Starring Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, José Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, and Arthur Kennedy.
  5.  Casablanca (1942)  Directed by Michael Curtiz.  Screenplay by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch, based on the play Everybody Comes to Rick’s by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison.  Starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre.
  6. The Searchers (1956)  Directed by John Ford.  Screenplay by Frank Nugent, based on the novel of the same name by Alan LeMay.  Starring John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond and Natalie Wood.
  7.  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)  Directed by John Huston.  Screenplay by John Huston, based on the novel of the same name by B. Traven.  Starring Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt and Bruce Bennett.
  8. Seven Samurai (1954)  Directed by Akira Kurosawa.  Screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni.  Starring Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Isao Kimura, Daisuke Katō, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yoshio Inaba, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Kokuten Kōdō, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Eijirō Tōno, Jun Tatara, Atsushi Watanabe, Yoshio Kosugi, Bokuzen Hidari and Yukiko Shimazaki.
  9.  Tokyo Story (1953) Directed by Yasujirō Ozu.  Written by Kōgo Noda and  Yasujirō Ozu.  Starring Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama and Setsuko Hara.
  10.  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)  Directed by Sergio Leone.  Screenplay by Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, and Sergio Leone.  Story by Luciano Vincenzoni and Sergio Leone.  Starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach, Aldo Giuffrè, and Mario Brega.
  11. The Wizard of Oz (1939)  Directed by Victor Fleming.  Screenplay by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf, based on the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.  Starring Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton and Charley Grapewin.
  12.  The Rules of the Game (1939)  Directed by Jean Renoir.  Written by Jean Renoir and Carl Koch.  Starring Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Marcel Dalio, Roland Toutain and Jean Renoir.
  13.  Battleship Potemkin (1925)  Directed by Sergei Eisenstein.  Written by Nina Agadzhanova and Sergei Eisenstein.  Starring Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barksy and Grigori Aleksandrov.
  14.  Sunset Boulevard (1950)  Directed by Billy Wilder.  Written by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and D. M. Marshman Jr.  Starring William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark and Lloyd Gough.
  15.  City Lights (1931)  Written and directed by Charlie Chaplin.  Starring Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers and Al Ernest Garcia.
  16.  12 Angry Men (1957)  Directed by Sidney Lumet.  Screenplay by Reginald Rose.  Starring Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, E. G. Marshall and Jack Warden.
  17.  On the Waterfront (1954) Directed by Elia Kazan.  Written by Budd Schulberg.  Starring Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning and Eva Marie Saint.
  18. M (1931)  Directed by Fritz Lang.  Written by Fritz Lange and Thea von Harbou.  Starring Peter Lorrem Otto Wernicke and Gustaf Gründgens.
  19.  The Third Man (1948)  Directed by Carol Reed.  Screenplay by Graham Greene. Starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles and Trevor Howard.
  20.  The Sound of Music (1965)  Directed by Robert Wise.  Screenplay by Ernest Lehman, based on the musical of the same name by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.  Starring Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Hadyn and Peggy Wood.
  21.  8 1/2 (1963)  Directed by Federico Fellini.  Screenplay by Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli and Brunello Rondi.  Story by Federico Fellini and Ennio Flaiano.  Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk and Barbara Steele.
  22.  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the War And Love The Bomb (1964)  Directed by Stanley Kubrick.  Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, and Peter George, based on the novel Red Alert by Peter George.  Starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, and Tracy Reed.
  23.  The Seventh Seal (1957)  Directed by Ingmar Bergman.  Screenplay by Ingmar Bergma, based on his play Trämålning.  Starring Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe, Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Inga Landgré and Åke Fridell.
  24.  Rear Window (1954)  Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.  Screenplay by John Michael Hayes, based on the short story “It Had to Be Murder” by Cornell Woolrich.  Starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter and Raymond Burr.
  25.  Gone with the Wind (1939)  Directed by Victor Fleming.  Screenplay by Sidney Howard, based on the novel of the same name by Margaret Mitchell.  Starring Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland.
  26.  Breathless (1960)  Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Screenplay by Jean-Luc Godard.  Story by François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol.  Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg.
  27. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)  Directed by David Lean.  Screenplay by Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, based on the novel of the same name by Pierre Boulle.  Starring William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness and Sessue Hayakawa.
  28.  The Maltese Falcon (1941)  Directed by John Huston.  Screenplay by John Huston, based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett.  Starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane, Lee Patrick and Sydney Greenstreet.
  29. Some Like It Hot (1959)  Directed by Billy Wilder.  Screenplay by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, story by Robert Thoeren  and Michael Logan.  Starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Joe E. Brown and Pat O’Brien.
  30.  The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Directed by John Ford.  Screenplay by Nunnally Johnson, based on the novel of the same name by John Steinbeck.  Starring Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Shirley Mills, John Qualen and Eddie Quillan.
  31.  Singin’ in the Rain (1952)  Directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen.  Written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green.  Starring Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor and Debbie Reynolds.
  32.  It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)  Directed by Frank Capra.  Screenplay by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, and Frank Capra, based on the short story “The Greatest Gift: A Christmas Tale” by Philip Van Doren Stern.  Starring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers, Beulah Bondi, Ward Bond, Frank Faylen and Gloria Grahame.
  33.  Touch of Evil (1958)  Directed by Orson Welles.  Screenplay by Orson Welles, based on the novel Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson.  Starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Marlene Dietrich and Zsa Zsa Gabor.
  34.  Paths of Glory (1957) Directed by Stanley Kubrick.  Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson, based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb.   Starring Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready, Wayne Morris and Richard Anderson.
  35. Bicycle Thieves (1948)  Directed by Vittorio De Sica.  Screenplay by Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Zavattini, Suso Cecchi d’Amico, Gherardo Gherardi, Oreste Biancoli and Adolfo Franci, based on the novel of the same name by Luigi Bartolini.  Starring Enzo Staiola and Lamberto Maggiorani.
  36.  Stagecoach (1939)  Directed by John Ford.  Screenplay by Dudley Nichols, based on the short story “The Stage to Lordsburg” by Ernest Haycox.  Starring Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, John Carradine, Andy Devine and George Bancroft.
  37.  Duck Soup (1933) Directed by Leo McCarey.  Written by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Arthur Sheekman and Nat Perrin.  Starring Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Louis Calhern, Raquel Torres and Edgar Kennedy.
  38.  Rashomon (1950)  Directed by Akira Kurosawa.  Screenplay by Akira Kurosawa and Shinobu Hashimoto, based on the short story “In a Grove” by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.  Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura and Minoru Chiaki.
  39.  Double Indemnity (1944)  Directed by Billy Wilder.  Screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler, based on the novel of the same name by James M. Cain.  Starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Byron Barr, Richard Gaines and John Philliber.
  40. L’Avventura (1960)  Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.  Screenplay by Michelangelo Antonioni, Elio Bartolini and Tonino Guerra.  Starring Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti and Lea Massari.
  41. All About Eve (1950)  Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.  Screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the short story “The Wisdom of Eve” by Mary Orr.  Starring Bette Davis,  Anne Baxter, George Sanders and Celeste Holm.
  42.  Modern Times (1936)  Written and directed by Charlie Chaplin.  Starring Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford and Chester Conklin.
  43.  Metropolis (1927)  Directed by Fritz Lang.  Screenplay by Thea von Harbou, based on his novel of the same name. Starring Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich and Rudolf Klein-Rogge.
  44. King Kong (1933)  Directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack.  Screenplay by James Creelman and Ruth Rose. Story by Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper.  Starring Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong and Bruce Cabot.
  45. The Great Dictator (1940)  Written and directed by Charlie Chaplin.  Starring Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Henry Daniell, Reginald Gardiner, Billy Gilbert and Maurice Moscovich.
  46.  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)  Directed by Frank Capra.  Screenplay by Sidney Buchman and Myles Connolly, based on the unpublished story “The Gentleman from Montana” by Lewis R. Foster.   Starring Jean Arthur and James Stewart
  47.  North by Northwest (1959)  Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Written by Ernest Lehman.  Starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason and Jessie Royce Landis.
  48.  La Dolce Vita (1960)  Directed by Federico Fellini.  Screenplay by Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli and Brunello Rondi.  Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux, Alain Cuny, Annibale Ninchi, Magali Noël, Lex Barker, Jacques Sernas and Nadia Gray.
  49.  Fantasia (1940)  Directed by Samuel Armstrong, James Algar, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Ben Sharpsteen, David D. Hand, Hamilton Lusk, Jim Handley, Ford Beebe, T. Hee, Norman Ferguson and Wilfred Jackson. Produced by Walt Disney and Ben Sharpsteen.  Story by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer.
  50.  The Apartment (1960)  Directed by Billy Wilder.  Written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond.  Starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray and Jack Kruschen.
  51.  Persona (1966)  Written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.  Starring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann.
  52.  Spartacus (1960)  Directed by Stanley Kubrick.  Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo, based on the novel of the same name by Howard Fast.  Starring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin and Tony Curtis.
  53. The Birth of a Nation (1915)  Directed by D. W. Griffith.  Screenplay by D. W. Griffith and Frank E. Woods, based on the novel The Clansman by Thomas Dixon Jr.   Starring Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Ralph Lewis, George Siegmann and Walter Long.
  54.  The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)  Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer.  Written by Joseph Delteil and Carl Theodor Dreyer.  Starring Renée Jeanne Falconetti, Eugène Silvain, André Berley and Maurice Schutz.
  55.  The 400 Blows (1959) Directed by François Truffaut.  Written by François Truffaut and Marcel Moussy.  Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy and Claire Maurier.
  56.  Nosferatu (1922)  Directed by F. W. Murnau.  Screenplay by Henrik Galeen, based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.  Starring Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder, Alexander Granach, Ruth Landshoff and Wolfgang Heinz.
  57.  Rebel Without a Cause (1955)  Directed by Nicholas Ray.  Screenplay by Stewart Stern and Irving Shulman.   Starring James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran, Corey Allen and William Hopper.
  58.  The Hustler (1961)  Directed by Robert Rossen.  Screenplay by Sidney Carroll and Robert Rossen, based on the novel of the same name by Walter Tevis.  Starring Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie and George C. Scott.
  59. L’Atalante (1934)  Written and directed by Jean Vigo.  Starring Michel Simon, Dita Parlo and Jean Dasté.
  60. The African Queen (1951)  Directed by John Huston.  Screenplay by John Huston, James Agee, Peter Viertel and John Collier, based on the novel of the same name by C. S. Forester. Starring Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn and Robert Morley.
  61. High Noon (1952)  Directed by Fred Zinnemann.  Screenplay by Carl Foreman, based on the short story “The Tin Star” by John W. Cunningham. Starring Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Grace Kelly, Otto Kruger, Lon Chaney Jr. and Henry Morgan.
  62. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)  Directed by Elia Kazan.  Screenplay by Tennessee Williams, based on her play of the same name.  Starring Vivien Leighm Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden.
  63. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)  Directed by William Wyler.  Screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood, based on the novella Glory for Me by MacKinlay Kantor.  Starring Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo and Harold Russell.
  64. La Strada (1954)  Directed by Federico Fellini.  Screenplay by Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano. Story by Federico Fellini and Tullio Pinelli.  Starring Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn and Richard Basehart.
  65.  Yojimbo (1961)  Directed by Akira Kurosawa.  Screenplay by Ryūzō Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa and Hideo Oguni.  Story by Akira Kurosawa. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara and Atsushi Watanabe.
  66. Ben-Hur (1959)  Directed by William Wyler.  Screenplay by Karl Tunberg, based on the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by General Lew Wallace.  Starring Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott, Cathy O’Donnell and Sam Jaffe.
  67. The Battle of Algiers (1966)  Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo.  Written by Gillo Pontecorvo and Franco Solinas.  Starring Jean Martin, Saadi Yacef, Brahim Haggiag and Tommaso Neri.
  68. Roman Holiday (1953)  Directed by William Wyler.  Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo, Ian McLellan and Hunter John Dighton.  Story by Dalton Trumbo.  Starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn.
  69.  The Manchurian Candidate (1962)  Directed by John Frankenheimer.  Screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novel of the same name by Richard Condon.  Starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva and James Gregory.
  70.  Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)  Directed by Mike Nichols.  Screenplay by Ernest Lehman, based on the play of the same name by Edward Albee.  Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal and Sandy Dennis.
  71.  Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)  Directed by Blake Edwards.  Screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novel of the same name by Truman Capote.  Starring Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam and Mickey Rooney.
  72. Sunrise (1927)  Directed by F. W. Murnau.  Screenplay by Carl Mayer, based on the short story “The Excursion to Tilsit” by Hermann Sudermann.  Starring George O’Brien, Janet Gaynor and Margaret Livingston.
  73. The General (1926)  Directed by Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton.  Screenplay by Al Boasberg, Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton, Charles Henry Smith and Paul Gerard Smith. Based on memoir The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittenger.  Starring Buster Keaton and Marion Mack.
  74. Wild Strawberries (1957) Written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.  Starring Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin and Gunnar Björnstrand.
  75. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)  Directed by Lewis Milestone.  Written by Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, Del Andrews and C. Gardner Sullivan, based on the novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.
  76.  To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)  Directed by Robert Mulligan.  Screenplay by Horton Foote, based on the novel of the same name by Harper Lee.  Starring Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, John Megna, Ruth White, Paul Fix, Brock Peters and Frank Overton.
  77.  Goldfinger (1964)  Directed by Guy Hamilton.  Screenplay by Richard Maibaum and Paul Dehn.  Based on novel of the same name by Ian Fleming.  Starring Sean Connery, Honor Blackman and Gert Fröbe.
  78. Late Spring (1949)  Directed by Yasujirō Ozu.  Written by Kogo Noda and Yasujirō Ozu, based on the novel Father and Daughter by Kazuo Hirotsu.  Starring Chishū Ryū, Setsuko Hara and Haruko Sugimura.
  79. It Happened One Night (1934)  Directed by Frank Capra. Screenplay by Robert Riskin. Story by Samuel Hopkins Adams, based on his short story “Night Bus.”  Starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.
  80. The Great Escape (1963)  Directed by John Sturges.  Screenplay by James Clavell and W. R. Burnett, based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Paul Brickhill.  Starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasance and James Coburn.
  81. Au Hassard Balthazar (1966)  Written and directed by Robert Bresson.  Starring Anne Wiazemsky.
  82. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)  Directed by David Hand, William Cottrell Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce and Ben Sharpsteen. Produced by Walt Disney. Written by Ted Sears, Richard Creedon, Otto Englander, Dick Rickard, Earl Hurd, Merrill De Maris, Dorothy Ann and Blank Webb Smith. Based on the fairy tale Snow White by The Brothers Grimm.  Starring Adriana Caselotti, Lucille La Verne, Harry Stockwell, Roy Atwell, Pinto Colvig, Otis Harlan, Scotty Mattraw, Billy Gilbert, Eddie Collins, Moroni Olsen and Stuart Buchanan.
  83. Pather Panchali (1955)  Directed by Satyajit Ray.  Screenplay by Satyajit Ray, based on the novel of the same name by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay.  Starring Subir Banerjee, Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Uma Dasgupta, Chunibala Devi and Tulsi Chakraborty.
  84. La Grande Illusion (1937)  Directed by Jean Renoir.  Written by Jean Renoir and Charles Spaak.  Starring Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay and Erich von Stroheim.
  85. The Kid (1921)  Written and directed by Charlie Chaplin.  Starring Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Coogan and Edna Purviance.
  86. Contempt (1963)  Directed by Jean-Luc Godard.  Screenplay by Jean-Luc Godard, based on the novel Il disprezzo by Alberto Moravia.  Starring Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli, Giorgia Moll and Fritz Lang.
  87. Ordet (1955)  Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer.  Screenplay by Carl Theodor Dreyer, based on the play of the same name by Kaj Munk.  Starring Henrik Malberg, Emil Hass Christensen, Cay Kristiansen and Preben Lerdorff Rye.
  88. Andrei Rublev (1966)  Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.  Written by Andrei Konchalovsky and Andrei Tarkovsky.  Starring Anatoly Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko, Nikolai Sergeyev, Nikolai Burlyayev and Irma Raush.
  89. The Night of the Hunter (1955)  Directed by Charles Laughton.  Screenplay by James Agee, based on the novel of the same name by Davis Grubb.  Starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish and Billy Chapin.
  90. From Here to Eternity (1953)  Directed by Fred Zinnemann.  Screenplay by Daniel Taradash, based on the novel of the same name by James Jones.  Starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra and Donna Reed.
  91. The Ten Commandments (1956) Directed by Cecil B. DeMille.  Screenplay by Aeneas MacKenzie, Jesse L. Lasky Jr., Jack Gariss and Fredric M. Frank.  Starring Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, Debra Paget and John Derek.
  92. The Gold Rush (1925)  Written and directed by Charlie Chaplin.  Starring Charlie Chaplin, Georgia Hale, Mack Swain, Tom Murray and Malcolm Waite.
  93. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) Directed by Robert Wiene.  Written by Carl Mayer and Hans Janowitz.  Starring Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Fehér, Lil Dagover, Hans Heinz v. Twardowski and Rudolph Lettinger.
  94. An American in Paris (1951)  Directed by Vincente Minnelli.  Written by Alan Jay Lerner.  Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary and Nina Foch.
  95.  The Birds (1963)  Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.  Screenplay by Evan Hunter, based on the novelette of the same name by Daphne du Maurier.  Starring Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette and Veronica Cartwright.
  96. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)  Directed by John Ford.  Written by James Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck, based on a short story by Dorothy M. Johnson.  Starring James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin and Edmond O’Brien.
  97. Rope (1948) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.  Screenplay by Arthur Laurents. Story by Hume Cronyn, based on the play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton. Starring James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Joan Chandler, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Douglas Dick and Edith Evanson.
  98. Giant (1956)  Directed by George Stevens.  Screenplay by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat, based on the novel of the same name by Edna Ferber.  Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Chill Wills, Mercedes McCambridge, Sal Mineo and Dennis Hopper.
  99. Wuthering Heights (1939)  Directed by William Wyler.  Written by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht, based on the novel of the same name by Emily Brontë.  Starring Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven and Geraldine Fitzgerald.
  100. Shane (1953)  Directed by George Stevens.  Screenplay by A.B. Guthrie Jr. and  Jack Sher, based on the novel of the same name by Jack Schaefer.  Starring Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon deWilde and Jack Palance.

 

Bubble: Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Ikiru (1952), Strangers on a Train (1951), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), The Public Enemy (1931), The Big Sleep (1946), Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Jazz Singer (1927), Frankenstein (1931), Doctor Zhivago (1965), Mary Poppins (1964), The Killing (1956), The Magnificent Seven (1960), Les Diaboliques (1955), My Fair Lady (1964), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), A Place in the Sun (1951), Scarface (1932), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Dial M For Murder (1954), Rebecca (1940)