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.
Nicholas Meyer
12.
Sam Wood
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.
Ivan Reitman
45.
The Big Sleep
Howard Hawks
46.
Rob Reiner
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.
Spike Lee
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.
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
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
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
Alien
Ridley Scott
22 June 1979
The Muppet Movie
James Frawley
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
Ivan Reitman
08 June 1984
Paris, Texas
Wim Wenders
23 August 1984
Milos Forman
19 September 1984
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