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The American File Institute recently released a list of the top one
hundred movies of all time. Here it is. Please use the feedback page
to let me know what you
think. I current own over half of the movies listed here.
AFI's Top 100 U.S. movies
Here is the complete list of the American Film Institute's Top 100 American movies of the
last 100 years:
Number |
Title |
Year |
1 |
Citizen
Kane |
1941 |
2 |
Casablanca |
1942 |
3 |
Godfather,
The |
1972 |
4 |
Gone
With the Wind |
1939 |
5 |
Lawrence
of Arabia |
1962 |
6 |
Wizard
of Oz, The |
1939 |
7 |
Graduate,
The |
1967 |
8 |
On
the Waterfront |
1954 |
9 |
Schindler's
List |
1993 |
10 |
Singin'
in the Rain |
1952 |
11 |
It's
a Wonderful Life |
1946 |
12 |
Sunset
Boulevard |
1950 |
13 |
Bridge on the River Kwai, The |
1957 |
14 |
Some
Like it Hot |
1959 |
15 |
Star
Wars: A New Hope |
1977 |
16 |
All
About Eve |
1950 |
17 |
African
Queen, The |
1951 |
18 |
Psycho |
1960 |
19 |
Chinatown |
1974 |
20 |
One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
1975 |
21 |
Grapes
of Wrath, The |
1940 |
22 |
2001: A Space Odyssey |
1968 |
23 |
Maltese
Falcon, The |
1941 |
24 |
Raging
Bull |
1980 |
25 |
E.T.
The Extra-Terrestrial |
1982 |
26 |
Dr.
Strangelove |
1964 |
27 |
Bonnie
and Clyde |
1967 |
28 |
Apocalypse
Now |
1979 |
29 |
Mr.
Smith Goes to Washington |
1939 |
30 |
Treasure
of the Sierra Madre, The |
1948 |
31 |
Annie
Hall |
1977 |
32 |
Godfather
Part II, The |
1974 |
33 |
High
Noon |
1952 |
34 |
To
Kill a Mockingbird |
1962 |
35 |
It
Happened One Night |
1934 |
36 |
Midnight Cowboy |
1969 |
37 |
Best
Years of Our Lives. The |
1946 |
38 |
Double
Indemnity |
1944 |
39 |
Doctor
Zhivago |
1965 |
40 |
North
by Northwest |
1959 |
41 |
West
Side Story |
1961 |
42 |
Rear
Window |
1954 |
43 |
King
Kong |
1933 |
44 |
Birth
of a Nation, The |
1915 |
45 |
Streetcar
Named Desire, A |
1951 |
46 |
Clockwork
Orange, A |
1971 |
47 |
Taxi
Driver |
1976 |
48 |
Jaws |
1975 |
49 |
Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs |
1937 |
50 |
Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
1969 |
51 |
Philadelphia
Story, The |
1940 |
52 |
From
Here to Eternity |
1953 |
53 |
Amadeus |
1984 |
54 |
All
Quiet on the Western Front |
1930 |
55 |
Sound
of Music, The |
1965 |
56 |
M*A*S*H |
1970 |
57 |
Third
Man, The |
1949 |
58 |
Fantasia |
1940 |
59 |
Rebel Without a Cause |
1955 |
60 |
Raiders
of the Lost Ark |
1981 |
61 |
Vertigo |
1958 |
62 |
Tootsie |
1982 |
63 |
Stagecoach |
1939 |
64 |
Close
Encounters of the Third Kind |
1977 |
65 |
Silence of the Lambs, The |
1991 |
66 |
Network |
1976 |
67 |
Manchurian
Candidate, The |
1962 |
68 |
American
in Paris, An |
1951 |
69 |
Shane |
1953 |
70 |
French
Connection, The |
1971 |
71 |
Forrest
Gump |
1994 |
72 |
Ben-Hur |
1959 |
73 |
Wuthering
Heights |
1939 |
74 |
Gold
Rush, The |
1925 |
75 |
Dances
With Wolves |
1990 |
76 |
City
Lights |
1931 |
77 |
American
Graffiti |
1973 |
78 |
Rocky |
1976 |
79 |
Deer
Hunter, The |
1978 |
80 |
Wild
Bunch, The |
1969 |
81 |
Modern
Times |
1936 |
82 |
Giant |
1956 |
83 |
Platoon |
1986 |
84 |
Fargo |
1996 |
85 |
Duck
Soup |
1933 |
86 |
Mutiny
on the Bounty |
1935 |
87 |
Frankenstein |
1931 |
88 |
Easy Rider |
1969 |
89 |
Patton |
1970 |
90 |
Jazz
Singer, The |
1927 |
91 |
My
Fair Lady |
1964 |
92 |
Place
in the Sun, A |
1951 |
93 |
Apartment,
The |
1960 |
94 |
Goodfellas |
1990 |
95 |
Pulp Fiction |
1994 |
96 |
Searchers,
The |
1956 |
97 |
Bringing
Up Baby |
1938 |
98 |
Unforgiven |
1992 |
99 |
Guess
Who's Coming to Dinner |
1967 |
100 |
Yankee
Doodle Dandy |
1942 |
Note: The records in bold are films I have in my personal collection.
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