The Best Films of Sergio Leone

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1. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
2. Once Upon a Time in the West
3. A Fistful of Dollars
4. Once Upon a Time in America
5. For A Few Dollars More
6. Duck, You Sucker

The Best Films of Christopher Nolan

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1. Inception
2. The Dark Knight
3. Memento
4. The Dark Knight Rises
5. The Prestige
6. Interstellar
7. Batman Begins
8. Insomnia

9. Following

100 Greatest Movies by Entertainment Weekly

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1. The Godfather (1972)

2. Citizen Kane (1941)

3. Casablanca (1942)

4. Chinatown (1974)
5. Raging Bull (1980)
6. La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life) (1960) (It.)

7. The Godfather, Part II (1974)

8. Gone With The Wind (1939)

9. Some Like It Hot (1959)

10. Singin’ In The Rain (1952)

11. Psycho (1960)

12. Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai) (1954) (Jp.)

13. The Searchers (1956)

14. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying… (1964)

15. The Gold Rush (1925)

16. Star Wars (1977)

17. On The Waterfront (1954)

18. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

19. Vertigo (1958)

20. E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

21. All About Eve (1950)

22. The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di Biciclette) (1948) (It.)

23. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)

24. Bringing Up Baby (1938)

25. Intolerance (1916)

26. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

27. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

28. Sunset Boulevard (1950)

29. Pulp Fiction (1994)

30. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

31. The Maltese Falcon (1941)

32. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

33. Jules and Jim (Jules et Jim) (1962) (Fr.)

34. Sherlock, Jr. (1924)

35. The Philadelphia Story (1940)

36. 8 1/2 (Otto e Mezzo) (1963) (It.)

37. Blue Velvet (1986)

38. Nashville (1975)

39. Swing Time (1936)

40. Schindler’s List (1993)

41. Taxi Driver (1976)

42. Aliens (1986)

43. Duck Soup (1933)

44. North By Northwest (1959)

45. The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet) (1957) (Swd.)

46. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)

47. King Kong (1933)

48. Bonnie And Clyde (1967)

49. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

50. Double Indemnity (1944)

52. Jaws (1975)

53. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

54. Touch Of Evil (1958)

55. The Graduate (1967)

56. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)

57. The Wild Bunch (1969)

58. The Rules of the Game (La Regle du Jeu) (1939) (Fr.)

59. The Lady Eve (1941)

60. Annie Hall (1977)

61. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

62. Henry V (1944) (Br.)

63. Breathless (A Bout de Souffle) (1960) (Fr.)

64. Mean Streets (1973)

65. The Third Man (1949)

66. Notorious (1946)

67. Airplane! (1980)

68. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

69. The Conformist (1970) (It./Fr./WGer.)

70. Beauty and the Beast (1991)

71. To Be or Not to Be (1942)

72. M (1931) (Ger.)

73. Great Expectations (1946) (Br.)

74. Funny Face (1957)

75. Tootsie (1982)

76. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

77. Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin) (1925) (USSR)

78. White Heat (1949)

79. It’s a Gift (1934)

80. Nosferatu (1922) (Ger.)

81. Do the Right Thing (1989)

82. Diabolique (Les Diaboliques) (1955) (Fr.)

83. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

84. Blow-Up (1966) (Br.)

85. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

86. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

87. L’Age d’Or (1930) (Fr.)

88. The Producers (1968)

89. Wings of Desire (Der Himmel uber Berlin) (1988) (WGer./Fr.)

90. Pickup on South Street (1953)

91. Mildred Pierce (1945)

92. Sunrise (1927)

93. The Road Warrior (Mad Max 2) (1981) (Austr.)

94. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

95. Tokyo Story (Tokyo Monogatari) (1953) (Jp.)

96. The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

97. The Piano (1993) (Austr.)

98. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

99. Swept Away… (1975) (It.)

100. Celine & Julie Go Boating (1974) (Fr.)

“JUST TOO BELOVED TO IGNORE”

The African Queen (1951)
American Graffiti (1973)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
Bull Durham (1988)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964) (Br.)
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Once Upon a Time in the West (C’era una Volta il West) (1968, It.)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
A Star is Born (1954)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
The Verdict (1982)
West Side Story (1961)
Woman of the Year (1942)
Written on the Wind (1956)

The Best Films of Howard Hawks

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“I’m a storyteller – that’s the chief function of a director. And they’re moving pictures, let’s make ’em move!”

1. Rio Bravo
2. The Big Sleep
3.His Girl Friday
4. Bringing up Baby
5. Ball of Fire
6. Red River
7. Sergeant York
8. To Have and Have Not
9. Scarface
10. Only Angles Have Wings
11. Twentieth Century
12. El Dorado
13. The Dawn Patrol
14. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
15. Come and Get It
16. Air Force

The Best Films of John Huston

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1. The Maltese Falcon
2. The Treasure of Sierra Madre
3. The African Queen
4. The Man Who Would be King
5. The Asphalt Jungle
6. Key Largo
7. The Misfits
8. Fat City
9. The Dead
10. Chinatown

OTHER FILM LISTS

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Top 300 Films of the 20th Century by AMC Filmsite

100 Essential Films by National Society of Film Critics

WGA 101 Greatest Screenplays

Greatest Films by TIME Magazine

Rolling Stone’s 100 Maverick Films

100 Greatest Films by Entertainment Weekly

Village Voice Top 100

Great Films by The Guardian

Empire’s 100 Best Films of World Cinema

Empire’s 500 Greatest Films of All Time

TV Guide’s 50 Greatest Films

Vanity Fair’s 50 Greatest Films

500 Classic Film Stars

AMC Great Actors and Actresses

AMC Great Directors

The Best Films of George Lucas

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1. Star Wars
2. American Graffitti
3. Revenge of the Sith
4. Attack of the Clones
5. The Phantom Menace
6. THX 1138

100 Essential Films by National Society of Film Critics

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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
42nd Street (1933)
The 400 Blows (1959)
All About Eve (1950)
Annie Hall (1977)
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
L’Atalante (1934)
The Bank Dick (1940)
The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
The Birth Of A Nation (1915)
Blow-Up (1966)
Bonnie And Clyde (1967)
Breathless (1960)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Casablanca (1942)
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Chinatown (1974)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Closely Watched Trains (1967)
Close-up (1990)
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
The Decalogue (1988)
Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
Diner (1982)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
La Dolce Vita (1959)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Duck Soup (1933)
Easy Rider (1969)
Enter the Dragon (1973)
The Entertainer (1960)
The Exorcist (1973)
Faces (1968)
Fargo (1996)
Frankenstein (1931) and The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
The General (1927)
The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974)
Gone With The Wind (1939)
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
The Graduate (1967)
Greed (1924)
Happy Together (1997)
High Noon (1952)
The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Jailhouse Rock (1957)
Ju Dou (1990), Raise the Red Lantern (1991), Red Sorghum (1987)
Killer of Sheep (1977)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Landscape in the Mist (1988)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
M (1931)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Man With a Movie Camera (1929)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978)
Metropolis (1927)
Modern Times (1936)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Nashville (1975)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Nosferatu (1922)
Los Olvidados (1950)
On The Waterfront (1954)
Open City (1945)
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
Pandora’s Box (1928)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1958), The World of Apu (1960)
The Piano (1993)
Psycho (1960)
The Public Enemy (1931)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Raging Bull (1980)
Rashomon (1950)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
Schindler’s List (1993)
The Searchers (1956)
The Seven Samurai (1954)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
Star Wars (1977)
La Strada (1955) and Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Sunrise (1927)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Top Hat (1935)
Touch Of Evil (1958)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Ugetsu Monogatori (1953)
Unforgiven (1992)
Les Vampires (1915)
Vertigo (1958)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Winchester ’73 (1950)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Written on the Wind (1956)

The Best Films of Steven Spielberg

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1. Schindler’s List
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
5. Jaws
6. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
7. Jurassic Park
8. The Last Crusade
9. Lincoln
10. Catch me if You Can
11. Minority Report
12. Munich
13. The Adventures of Tintin
14. Duel
15. The Temple of Doom
16. The Color Purple