TIME’s Top 100 Films




There’s nothing like a list to stimulate a strong discussion, so in the hopes of striking a few sparks among movie lovers, TIME asked its longtime film critics Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel to compile a list of the 100 greatest films ever made. Of course, the discussions that followed between the two critics were entirely civil at all times. Below, the films and the year they were released.

A–C
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)
The Apu Trilogy (1955, 1956, 1959)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Baby Face (1933)
Bande à part (1964)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
Blade Runner (1982)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Brazil (1985)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Camille (1936)
Casablanca (1942)
Charade (1963)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Chinatown (1974)
Chungking Express (1994)
Citizen Kane (1941)
City Lights (1931)
City of God (2002)
Closely Watched Trains (1966)
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
The Crowd (1928)
D–F
Day for Night (1973)
The Decalogue (1989)
Detour (1945)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Dodsworth (1936)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop
Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Drunken Master II (1994)
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
8 1/2 (1963)
The 400 Blows (1959)
Farewell My Concubine (1993)
Finding Nemo (2003)
The Fly (1986)
G–J
The Godfather, Parts I and II (1972, 1974)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
Goodfellas (1990)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Ikiru (1952)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
It’s a Gift (1934)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
K–M
Kandahar (2001)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
King Kong (1933)
The Lady Eve (1941)
The Last Command (1928)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Léolo (1992)
The Lord of the Rings (2001, 2002, 2003)
The Man with a Camera (1929)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Metropolis (1927)
Miller’s Crossing (1990)
Mon oncle d’Amérique (1980)
Mouchette (1967)
N–P
Nayakan (1987)
Ninotchka (1939)
Notorious (1946)
Olympia, Parts 1 and 2 (1938)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Once upon a Time in the West (1968)
Out of the Past (1947)
Persona (1966)
Pinocchio (1940)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Pyaasa (1957)
Q–S
Raging Bull (1980)
Schindler’s List (1993)
The Searchers (1956)
Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
The Singing Detective (1986)
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Star Wars (1977)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Sunrise (1927)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Swing Time (1936)
T–Z
Talk to Her (2002)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Tokyo Story (1953)
A Touch of Zen (1971)
Ugetsu (1953)
Ulysses’ Gaze (1995)
Umberto D (1952)
Unforgiven (1992)
White Heat (1949)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Yojimbo (1961)     

100 Greatest Films (alphabetical)
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The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) The African Queen (1951) All About Eve (1950) All Quiet On The Western Front (1930) An American In Paris (1951) Annie Hall (1977) Apocalypse Now (1979) Ben-Hur (1959) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) The Big Sleep (1946) The Birth Of A Nation (1915) Blade Runner (1982)	Bonnie And Clyde (1967) Bride of Frankenstein (1935) The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957) Bringing Up Baby (1938) Casablanca (1942) Chinatown (1974) Citizen Kane (1941) City Lights (1931) The Crowd (1928) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Double Indemnity (1944)	Duck Soup (1933) E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Easy Rider (1969) Fantasia (1940) 42nd Street (1933) The General (1927) The Godfather (1972) (tie) The Godfather, Part II (1974) (tie) The Gold Rush (1925) Gone With The Wind (1939) The Graduate (1967) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Greed (1924)	High Noon (1952) His Girl Friday (1940) Intolerance (1916) It Happened One Night (1934) It's A Wonderful Life (1946) Jaws (1975) King Kong (1933) The Lady Eve (1941) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) The Maltese Falcon (1941)
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Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) Midnight Cowboy (1969) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Modern Times (1936) My Darling Clementine (1946) Nashville (1975) A Night At The Opera (1935) The Night of the Hunter (1955) Ninotchka (1939) North By Northwest (1959) Notorious (1946) On The Waterfront (1954)	One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Out Of The Past (1947) Paths of Glory (1957) The Philadelphia Story (1940) Psycho (1960) Pulp Fiction (1994) (coming soon) The Quiet Man (1952) Raging Bull (1980) Rear Window (1954) Rebecca (1940) Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Red River (1948) Roman Holiday (1953) Schindler's List (1993)	The Searchers (1956) Shane (1953) The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Singin' In The Rain (1952) Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937) Some Like It Hot (1959) Stagecoach (1939) A Star Is Born (1954) Star Wars (1977) (tie) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Sunrise (1927) Sunset Boulevard (1950) Taxi Driver (1976) The Third Man (1949)	To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) Top Hat (1935) Touch Of Evil (1958) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Trouble in Paradise (1932) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Vertigo (1958) West Side Story (1961) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) The Wild Bunch (1969) The Wizard of Oz (1939) Wuthering Heights (1939) Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)