as of Jan. 2003
100. Raise the Red Lantern - Zhang Yimou (1991, Taiwan/ China/ Hong Kong)
99. Brazil - Terry Gilliam (1985, Great Britain)
98. Ugetsu - Kenji Mizoguchi (1953, Japan)
97. Titanic - James Cameron (1997)
96. The Piano - Jane Campion (1993, Australia/ France)
95. Three Colors: Red - Krzysztof Kieslowski (1994, France/ Poland/ Switzerland)
94. Bride of Frankenstein - James Whale (1935)
93. Pather Panchali - Satyajit Ray (1955, India)
92.The Birth of a Nation - D.W. Griffith (1915)
91. L' Atalante - Jean Vigo (1934, France)
90. Unforgiven - Clint Eastwood (1992)
89. The General - Buster Keaton (1927)
88. Wings of Desire - Wim Wenders (1987, West Germany/ France)
87. Goodfellas - Martin Scorsese (1990)
86. The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Theodor Dreyer (1928, France)
85. Fargo - Coen Brothers (1996)
84. Belle de Jour - Luis Bunuel (1967, France/ Italy)
83. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - John Huston (1948)
82. Rashomon - Akira Kurosawa (1951, Japan)
81. To Kill a Mockingbird - Robert Mulligan (1962)
80. High Noon - Fred Zinnemann (1952)
79. The Seventh Seal - Ingmar Bergman (1957, Sweden)
78. It Happened One Night - Frank Capra (1934)
77. Midnight Cowboy - John Schlesinger (1969)
76. West Side Story - Robert Wise (1961)
75. A Streetcar Named Desire - Elia Kazan (1951)
74. Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
73. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Milos Forman (1975)
72. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Ang Lee (2000, Taiwan/ U.S.A.)
71. Blow-Up - Michelangelo Antonioni (1966, Great Britain/ Italy)
70. The Best Years of Our Lives - William Wyler (1946)
69. Grand Illusion - Jean Renoir (1937, France)
68. Duck Soup - Leo McCarey (1933)
67. The 400 Blows - Francois Truffaut (1959, France)
66. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs - David Hand, Perce Pearce/Walt Disney (1937)
65. Rebel Without a Cause - Nicholas Ray (1955)
64. Do The Right Thing - Spike Lee (1989)
63. The Battleship Potemkin - Sergei Eisenstein (1925, USSR)
62. Tootsie - Sidney Pollack (1982)
61. M - Fritz Lang (1931, Germany)
60. Raiders of the Lost Ark - Steven Spielberg (1981)
59. City Lights - Charles Chaplin (1931)
58. The Third Man - Carol Reed (1949)
57. The Wild Bunch - Sam Peckinpah (1969)
56. Jaws - Steven Spielberg (1975)
55. The Silence of The Lambs - Jonathan Demme (1991)
54. The Conformist - Bernardo Bertolucci (1969, Italy/France/West Germany)
53. Double Indemnity - Billy Wilder (1944)
52. Bonnie And Clyde - Arthur Penn (1967)
51. King Kong - Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack (1933)
50. The Bridge On The River Kwai - David Lean (1957, Great Britain/ U.S.A.)
49. Breathless - Jean-Luc Godard (1959, France)
48. Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock (1954)
47. Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese (1976)
46. Nashville - Robert Altman (1975)
45. Bringing Up Baby - Howard Hawks (1938)
44. Blue Velvet - David Lynch (1986)
43. Annie Hall - Woody Allen (1977)
42. Children of Paradise - Marcel Carne (1945, France)
41. North By Northwest - Alfred Hitchcock (1959)
40. The Philadelphia Story - Howard Hawks (1938)
39. Tokyo Story - Yasujiro Ozu (1953, Japan)
38. The Wizard of Oz - Victor Fleming (1939)
37. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Frank Capra (1939)
36. The Grapes of Wrath - John Ford (1940)
35. Persona - Ingmar Bergman (1966, Sweden)
34. Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino (1994)
33. Blade Runner - Ridley Scott (1982)
32. La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini (1960, Italy)
31. The Maltese Falcon - John Huston (1941)
30. Star Wars - George Lucas (1977)
29. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb - Stanley Kubrick (1964, Great Britain/ U.S.A.)
28. The Searchers - John Ford (1956)
27. Jules and Jim - Francois Truffaut (1962, France)
26. Sunset Blvd. - Billy Wilder (1950)
25. E.T. - The Extra Terrestrial - Steven Spielberg (1982)
24. Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
23. It's A Wonderful Life - Frank Capra (1946)
22. The Graduate - Mike Nichols (1967)
21. The Bicycle Thief - Vittorio De Sica (1948, Italy)
20. All About Eve - Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950)
19. On The Waterfront - Elia Kazan (1954)
18. The Empire Strikes Back - Irvin Kershner/George Lucas (1980)
17. The Gold Rush - Charles Chaplin (1925)
16. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick (1968, Great Britain/ U.S.A.)
15. 8 1/2 - Federico Fellini (1963, Italy)
14. Lawrence of Arabia - David Lean (1962, Great Britain/ U.S.A.)
13. Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder (1959)
12. Singin' In The Rain - Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen (1952)
11. The Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir (1939, France)
10. Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock (1958)
9. Raging Bull - Martin Scorsese (1980)
8. Chinatown - Roman Polanski (1974)
7. Schindler's List - Steven Spielberg (1993)
6. Seven Samurai - Akira Kurosawa (1954, Japan)
5. The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola (1972)
4. Gone With The Wind - George Cukor/Sam Wood/Victor Fleming/ David O. Selznick (1939)
3. Citizen Kane - Orson Welles (1941)
2. Casablanca - Michael Curtiz (1942)
1. The Godfather, Part II - Francis Ford Coppola (1974)