This is the list of the 100 best movies of all time, as voted by the critics on the original Mr. Showbiz site, the top provider of entertainment news until 2001. The list is limited to films in the English language.
1. Casablanca (1942), Michael Curtiz
2. The Godfather Part II (1974), Francis Ford Coppola
3. North By Northwest (1959), Alfred Hitchcock
4. Citizen Kane (1941), Orson Welles
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962), David Lean
6. Manhattan (1979), Woody Allen
7. Gone With The Wind (1939), Victor Fleming
8. Chinatown (1974), Roman Polanski
9. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), John Ford
10. City Lights (1931), Charles Chaplin
11. Raging Bull (1980), Martin Scorsese
12. Sunset Boulevard (1950), Billy Wilder
13. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Stanley Kubrick
14. The Philadelphia Story (1940), George Cukor
15. To Have and Have Not (1944), Howard Hawks
16. The Graduate (1967), Mike Nichols
17. The Maltese Falcon (1941), John Huston
18. Star Wars (1977), George Lucas
19. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946), Frank Capra
20. The Wild Bunch (1969), Sam Peckinpah
21. Vertigo (1958), Alfred Hitchcock
22. Singin’ In The Rain (1952), Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
23. The Godfather (1972), Francis Ford Coppola
24. E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Steven Spielberg
25. The Palm Beach Story (1942), Preston Sturges
26. Blade Runner (1982), Ridley Scott
27. Double Indemnity (1944), Billy Wilder
28. The Manchurian Candidate (1962), John Frankenheimer
29. All About Eve (1950), Joseph Mankiewicz
30. The Searchers (1956), John Ford
31. Rear Window (1954), Alfred Hitchcock
32. Annie Hall (1977), Woody Allen
33. Ninotchka (1939), Ernst Lubitsch
34. Blue Velvet (1986), David Lynch
35. The Wizard of Oz (1939), Victor Fleming
36. Bringing Up Baby (1938), Howard Hawks
37. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957), David Lean
38. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964), Stanley Kubrick
39. Pulp Fiction (1994), Quentin Tarantino
40. Some Like It Hot (1959), Billy Wilder
41. On The Waterfront (1954), Elia Kazan
42. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), Milos Forman
43. Taxi Driver (1976), Martin Scorsese
44. Touch Of Evil (1958), Orson Welles
45. Nashville (1975), Robert Altman
46. Apocalypse Now (1979), Francis Ford Coppola
47. The Hustler (1961), Robert Rossen
48. The Big Sleep (1946), Howard Hawks
49. Bonnie And Clyde (1967), Arthur Penn
50. Unforgiven (1992), Clint Eastwood
51. Network (1976), Sidney Lumet
52. The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Jonathan Demme
53. Jaws (1975), Steven Spielberg
54. The Deer Hunter (1978), Michael Cimino
55. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Woody Allen
56. Gunga Din (1939), George Stevens
57. Schindler’s List (1993), Steven Spielberg
58. Hud (1963), Martin Ritt
59. The Third Man (1949), Carol Reed
60. Modern Times (1936), Charles Chaplin
61. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Steven Spielberg
62. Red River (1948), Howard Hawks
63. The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Irvin Kershner
64. Hamlet (1948), Laurence Olivier
65. Notorious (1946), Alfred Hitchcock
66. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Elia Kazan
67. Last Tango in Paris (1972), Bernardo Bertolucci
68. Sweet Smell of Success (1957), Alexander Mackendrick
69. Out Of The Past (1947), Jacques Tournier
70. All That Jazz (1979), Bob Fosse
71. Top Hat (1935), Mark Sandrich
72. The Misfits (1961), John Huston
73. Tootsie (1982), Sydney Pollack
74. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Frank Capra
75. Short Cuts (1993), Robert Altman
76. The Grapes of Wrath (1940), John Ford
77. The Apartment (1960), Billy Wilder
78. A Clockwork Orange (1971), Stanley Kubrick
79. Psycho (1960), Alfred Hitchcock
80. Moonstruck (1987), Norman Jewison
81. GoodFellas (1990), Martin Scorsese
82. Stagecoach (1939), John Ford
83. The Last Picture Show (1971), Peter Bogdanovich
84. Die Hard (1988), John McTiernan
85. Midnight Cowboy (1969), John Schlesinger
86. West Side Story (1961), Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
87. The Quiet Man (1952), John Ford
88. Reds (1981), Warren Beatty
89. Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Nicholas Ray
90. A Hard Day’s Night (1964), Richard Lester
91. A Room With A View (1986), James Ivory
92. From Here to Eternity (1953), Fred Zinnemann
93. The Piano (1993), Jane Campion
94. Adam’s Rib (1949), George Cukor
95. This Is Spinal Tap (1984), Rob Reiner
96. It Happened One Night (1934), Frank Capra
97. Do the Right Thing (1989), Spike Lee
98. The Thin Man (1934), W.S. Van Dyke
99. Patton (1970), Franklin Schaffner
100. The Terminator (1984), James Cameron
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Best 100 Movies Ever Made – TIME Magazine
American Film Institute’s Top 100 Movies of All Times
BAFTA Award for Best Film 1948 –
British Film Institute – Top 100 British Films of the 20th Century
Cahiers du Cinema – Best Movies 1951 – 2006
Cahiers du Cinema: 100 Most Beautiful Films in the World
Empire’s 500 Best Movies of All Time
FIPRESCI Grand Prix for Best Film of the Year