Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Films From Year

1.
William Wyler
2.
Michael Curtiz
3.
Victor Fleming
4.
Roman Polanski
5.
George Lucas
6.
Steven Spielberg
7.
Woody Allen
8.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Sergio Leone
9.
The Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler
10.
Jaws Steven Spielberg
11.
12.
13.
Sydney Pollack
14.
The Thing John Carpenter
15.
The Muppet Movie James Frawley
16.
Spike Lee
17.
Midnight Cowboy John Schlesinger
18.
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life Terry Jones
19.
Psycho Alfred Hitchcock
20.
2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick
21.
David Lean
22.
Broadway Danny Rose Woody Allen
23.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre John Huston
24.
The Last Picture Show Peter Bogdanovich
25.
Alien Ridley Scott
26.
Victor/Victoria Blake Edwards
27.
Airplane! Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker
28.
Body Heat Lawrence Kasdan
29.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller Robert Altman
30.
The Exorcist William Friedkin
31.
Unforgiven Clint Eastwood
32.
The Sound of Music Robert Wise
33.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Stanley Kubrick
34.
Milos Forman
35.
Die Hard John McTiernan
36.
Captains Courageous Victor Fleming
37.
Alan J. Pakula
38.
Local Hero Bill Forsyth
39.
Groundhog Day Harold Ramis
40.
The Third Man Carol Reed
41.
Inglourious Basterds Quentin Tarantino
42.
Broadcast News James L. Brooks
43.
Paths of Glory Stanley Kubrick
44.
Ghostbusters Ivan Reitman
45.
The Big Sleep Howard Hawks
46.
47.
You Can Count on Me Kenneth Lonergan
48.
Anatomy of a Murder Otto Preminger
49.
Raging Bull Martin Scorsese
50.
The Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme
51.
The Philadelphia Story George Cukor
52.
Francis Ford Coppola
53.
North by Northwest Alfred Hitchcock
54.
Moonstruck Norman Jewison
55.
56.
Zodiac David Fincher
57.
Night of the Demon Jacques Tourneur
58.
Lost in Translation Sofia Coppola
59.
Crumb Terry Zwigoff
60.
Martin Scorsese
61.
His Girl Friday Howard Hawks
62.
David Lean and Noel Coward
63.
All About Eve Joseph L. Mankiewicz
64.
Hannah and Her Sisters Woody Allen
65.
John Ford
66.
The Breakfast Club John Hughes
67.
Blue Velvet David Lynch
68.
Paris, Texas Wim Wenders
69.
Witness Peter Weir
70.
Beverly Hills Cop Martin Brest
71.
JFK Oliver Stone
72.
After Hours Martin Scorsese
73.
Crossing Delancey Joan Micklin Silver
74.
Night of the Living Dead George A. Romero
75.
Tin Men Barry Levinson
76.
Dr. No Terence Young
77.
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
78.
Wild Strawberries Ingmar Bergman
79.
David Cronenberg
80.
Caché Michael Haneke
81.
High and Low Akira Kurosawa
82.
To Have and Have Not Howard Hawks
83.
Midnight Run Martin Brest
84.
Bound Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski
85.
Wilfred Jackson, Clyde Geronimi, and Hamilton Luske
86.
The Thin Man W.S. Van Dyke
87.
Alan Parker
88.
The Talented Mr. Ripley Anthony Minghella
89.
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid Sam Peckinpah
90.
Frankenstein James Whale
91.
Brazil Terry Gilliam
92.
Out of Sight Steven Soderbergh
93.
Sabrina Billy Wilder
94.
Cameron Crowe
95.
Rob Reiner
96.
Philip Kaufman
97.
The Lives of Others Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
98.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Joseph L. Mankiewicz
99.
Another Woman Woody Allen
100.
The Rules of the Game Jean Renoir
2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick 
After Hours Martin Scorsese 
Airplane! Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker 
Alien Ridley Scott 
All About Eve Joseph L. Mankiewicz 
Alan J. Pakula 
Milos Forman 
Anatomy of a Murder Otto Preminger 
Sam Wood 
Woody Allen 
Another Woman Woody Allen 
Beverly Hills Cop Martin Brest 
Blue Velvet David Lynch 
Body Heat Lawrence Kasdan 
Bound Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski 
Brazil Terry Gilliam 
Broadcast News James L. Brooks 
Broadway Danny Rose Woody Allen 
Caché Michael Haneke 
Captains Courageous Victor Fleming 
Michael Curtiz 
Roman Polanski 
Wilfred Jackson, Clyde Geronimi, and Hamilton Luske 
Crossing Delancey Joan Micklin Silver 
Crumb Terry Zwigoff 
Die Hard John McTiernan 
Spike Lee 
Dr. No Terence Young 
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Stanley Kubrick 
Frankenstein James Whale 
Ghostbusters Ivan Reitman 
Martin Scorsese 
Groundhog Day Harold Ramis 
Hannah and Her Sisters Woody Allen 
High and Low Akira Kurosawa 
His Girl Friday Howard Hawks 
Inglourious Basterds Quentin Tarantino 
David Lean and Noel Coward 
Jaws Steven Spielberg 
JFK Oliver Stone 
David Lean 
Local Hero Bill Forsyth 
Lost in Translation Sofia Coppola 
McCabe & Mrs. Miller Robert Altman 
Midnight Cowboy John Schlesinger 
Midnight Run Martin Brest 
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life Terry Jones 
Moonstruck Norman Jewison 
Night of the Demon Jacques Tourneur 
Night of the Living Dead George A. Romero 
North by Northwest Alfred Hitchcock 
Out of Sight Steven Soderbergh 
Paris, Texas Wim Wenders 
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid Sam Peckinpah 
Paths of Glory Stanley Kubrick 
Psycho Alfred Hitchcock 
Raging Bull Martin Scorsese 
Steven Spielberg 
William Wyler 
Sabrina Billy Wilder 
Cameron Crowe 
Spike Lee 
Nicholas Meyer 
George Lucas 
The Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler 
The Big Sleep Howard Hawks 
The Breakfast Club John Hughes 
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman 
Alan Parker 
Francis Ford Coppola 
The Exorcist William Friedkin 
David Cronenberg 
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Joseph L. Mankiewicz 
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Sergio Leone 
The Last Picture Show Peter Bogdanovich 
The Lives of Others Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 
The Muppet Movie James Frawley 
The Philadelphia Story George Cukor 
Rob Reiner 
Philip Kaufman 
The Rules of the Game Jean Renoir 
John Ford 
The Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme 
The Sound of Music Robert Wise 
The Talented Mr. Ripley Anthony Minghella 
The Thing John Carpenter 
The Thin Man W.S. Van Dyke 
The Third Man Carol Reed 
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre John Huston 
Victor Fleming 
Tin Men Barry Levinson 
To Have and Have Not Howard Hawks 
Sydney Pollack 
Unforgiven Clint Eastwood 
Victor/Victoria Blake Edwards 
Rob Reiner 
Wild Strawberries Ingmar Bergman 
Witness Peter Weir 
You Can Count on Me Kenneth Lonergan 
Zodiac David Fincher 
Frankenstein James Whale 21 November 1931
The Thin Man W.S. Van Dyke 25 May 1934
Sam Wood 15 November 1935
Captains Courageous Victor Fleming 25 June 1937
Victor Fleming 25 August 1939
His Girl Friday Howard Hawks 18 January 1940
The Philadelphia Story George Cukor 17 January 1941
David Lean and Noel Coward 23 December 1942
Michael Curtiz 23 January 1943
To Have and Have Not Howard Hawks 20 January 1945
The Big Sleep Howard Hawks 31 August 1946
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Joseph L. Mankiewicz 18 June 1947
The Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler 03 October 1947
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre John Huston 24 January 1948
The Third Man Carol Reed 31 August 1949
Wilfred Jackson, Clyde Geronimi, and Hamilton Luske 04 March 1950
The Rules of the Game Jean Renoir 08 April 1950
All About Eve Joseph L. Mankiewicz 27 October 1950
William Wyler 02 September 1953
Sabrina Billy Wilder 15 October 1954
John Ford 13 March 1956
Paths of Glory Stanley Kubrick 25 December 1957
Night of the Demon Jacques Tourneur 30 March 1958
Wild Strawberries Ingmar Bergman 22 June 1959
Anatomy of a Murder Otto Preminger 13 July 1959
North by Northwest Alfred Hitchcock 18 December 1959
Psycho Alfred Hitchcock 08 September 1960
Dr. No Terence Young 10 October 1962
David Lean 11 December 1962
High and Low Akira Kurosawa 26 November 1963
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Stanley Kubrick 29 January 1964
The Sound of Music Robert Wise 01 April 1965
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Sergio Leone 29 December 1967
Night of the Living Dead George A. Romero 01 October 1968
Midnight Cowboy John Schlesinger 16 June 1969
2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick 24 June 1970
McCabe & Mrs. Miller Robert Altman 24 June 1971
The Last Picture Show Peter Bogdanovich 22 October 1971
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid Sam Peckinpah 23 May 1973
The Exorcist William Friedkin 26 December 1973
Francis Ford Coppola 12 April 1974
Roman Polanski 20 June 1974
Jaws Steven Spielberg 20 June 1975
Alan J. Pakula 09 April 1976
Woody Allen 20 April 1977
George Lucas 25 May 1977
The Muppet Movie James Frawley 22 June 1979
Alien Ridley Scott 22 June 1979
Airplane! Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker 02 July 1980
Raging Bull Martin Scorsese 19 December 1980
Steven Spielberg 12 June 1981
Body Heat Lawrence Kasdan 28 August 1981
Victor/Victoria Blake Edwards 19 March 1982
Nicholas Meyer 04 June 1982
The Thing John Carpenter 25 June 1982
Sydney Pollack 17 December 1982
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life Terry Jones 31 March 1983
Local Hero Bill Forsyth 29 April 1983
Broadway Danny Rose Woody Allen 27 January 1984
Philip Kaufman 17 February 1984
Ghostbusters Ivan Reitman 08 June 1984
Paris, Texas Wim Wenders 23 August 1984
Milos Forman 19 September 1984
Beverly Hills Cop Martin Brest 05 December 1984
Witness Peter Weir 08 February 1985
The Breakfast Club John Hughes 15 February 1985
After Hours Martin Scorsese 11 October 1985
Brazil Terry Gilliam 18 December 1985
Hannah and Her Sisters Woody Allen 07 February 1986
Spike Lee 08 August 1986
David Cronenberg 15 August 1986
Blue Velvet David Lynch 19 September 1986
Tin Men Barry Levinson 13 March 1987
Rob Reiner 09 October 1987
Broadcast News James L. Brooks 25 December 1987
Moonstruck Norman Jewison 15 January 1988
Die Hard John McTiernan 20 July 1988
Midnight Run Martin Brest 20 July 1988
Crossing Delancey Joan Micklin Silver 16 September 1988
Another Woman Woody Allen 18 November 1988
Cameron Crowe 14 April 1989
Spike Lee 30 June 1989
Rob Reiner 21 July 1989
Martin Scorsese 19 September 1990
The Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme 14 February 1991
Alan Parker 13 September 1991
JFK Oliver Stone 20 December 1991
Unforgiven Clint Eastwood 07 August 1992
Groundhog Day Harold Ramis 12 February 1993
Crumb Terry Zwigoff 28 April 1995
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman 15 March 1996
Bound Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski 04 October 1996
Out of Sight Steven Soderbergh 26 June 1998
The Talented Mr. Ripley Anthony Minghella 25 December 1999
You Can Count on Me Kenneth Lonergan 22 December 2000
Lost in Translation Sofia Coppola 03 October 2003
Caché Michael Haneke 05 October 2005
Zodiac David Fincher 02 March 2007
The Lives of Others Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 30 March 2007
Inglourious Basterds Quentin Tarantino 21 August 2009