#1 · 1941
Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane is a 1941 Drama / Mystery film directed by Orson Welles, featuring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore.
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Top 100 U.S. Movies of All Time
The American Film Institute’s 2007 10th Anniversary Edition, preserved from #1 through #100 with exact title identities, complete metadata, local cover art, and existing Reelkeeper pages reused wherever an exact match was available.
Published edition
2007
A historic expert ranking, not a personal score
Ranks 1–100 reproduce AFI’s official 10th Anniversary Edition order. Exact IMDb identities were cross-checked at title level, and Cinemeta supplied a retrieval-time metadata snapshot. AFI rank and external ratings are discovery facts, not the user’s personal ratings.
8 saved-library detail pages and 11 prior discovery detail pages are reused. The remaining 81 entries have dedicated AFI detail pages. All 100 cards use local artwork.
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All 100 films
Rank 1 through 100
#2 · 1972
The Godfather
The Godfather is a 1972 Crime / Drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, featuring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan.
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#3 · 1942
Casablanca
Casablanca is a 1942 Drama / Romance / War film directed by Michael Curtiz, featuring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid.
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#4 · 1980
Raging Bull
Raging Bull is a 1980 Biography / Drama / Sport film directed by Martin Scorsese, featuring Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci.
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#5 · 1952
Singin' in the Rain
Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 Comedy / Musical / Romance film directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, featuring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds.
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#6 · 1939
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind is a 1939 Drama / Romance / War film directed by Victor Fleming, featuring Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell.
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#7 · 1962
Lawrence of Arabia
Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 Adventure / Biography / Drama film directed by David Lean, featuring Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn.
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#8 · 1993
Schindler's List
Schindler's List is a 1993 Biography / Drama / History film directed by Steven Spielberg, featuring Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley.
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#9 · 1958
Vertigo
Vertigo is a 1958 Mystery / Romance / Thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, featuring James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes.
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#10 · 1939
The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 Adventure / Family / Fantasy film directed by Victor Fleming and George Cukor and Norman Taurog, featuring Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger.
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#11 · 1931
City Lights
City Lights is a 1931 Comedy / Drama / Romance film directed by Charles Chaplin, featuring Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee.
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#12 · 1956
The Searchers
The Searchers is a 1956 Adventure / Western film directed by John Ford, featuring John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles.
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#13 · 1977
Star Wars
Star Wars is a 1977 Action / Adventure / Fantasy film directed by George Lucas, featuring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher.
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#14 · 1960
Psycho
Psycho is a 1960 Drama / Horror / Mystery film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, featuring Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles.
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#15 · 1968
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 Adventure / Sci-Fi film directed by Stanley Kubrick, featuring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester.
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#16 · 1950
Sunset Blvd.
Sunset Blvd. is a 1950 Drama / Film-Noir film directed by Billy Wilder, featuring William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim.
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#17 · 1967
The Graduate
The Graduate is a 1967 Comedy / Drama / Romance film directed by Mike Nichols, featuring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross.
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#18 · 1926
The General
The General is a 1926 Action / Adventure / Comedy film directed by Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton, featuring Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender.
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#19 · 1954
On the Waterfront
On the Waterfront is a 1954 Crime / Drama / Thriller film directed by Elia Kazan, featuring Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb.
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#20 · 1946
It's a Wonderful Life
It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 Drama / Family / Fantasy film directed by Frank Capra, featuring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore.
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#21 · 1974
Chinatown
Chinatown is a 1974 Drama / Mystery / Thriller film directed by Roman Polanski, featuring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston.
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#22 · 1959
Some Like It Hot
Some Like It Hot is a 1959 Comedy / Music / Romance film directed by Billy Wilder, featuring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon.
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#23 · 1940
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath is a 1940 Drama film directed by John Ford, featuring Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine.
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#24 · 1982
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 Adventure / Family / Sci-Fi film directed by Steven Spielberg, featuring Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote.
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#25 · 1962
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 Crime / Drama film directed by Robert Mulligan, featuring Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton.
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#26 · 1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a 1939 Comedy / Drama film directed by Frank Capra, featuring James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains.
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#27 · 1952
High Noon
High Noon is a 1952 Drama / Thriller / Western film directed by Fred Zinnemann, featuring Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell.
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#28 · 1950
All About Eve
All About Eve is a 1950 Drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, featuring Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders.
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#29 · 1944
Double Indemnity
Double Indemnity is a 1944 Crime / Drama / Film-Noir film directed by Billy Wilder, featuring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson.
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#30 · 1979
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 Drama / Mystery / War film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, featuring Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall.
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#31 · 1941
The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 Crime / Drama / Film-Noir film directed by John Huston, featuring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George.
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#32 · 1974
The Godfather Part II
The Godfather Part II is a 1974 Crime / Drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, featuring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall.
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#33 · 1975
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 Drama film directed by Miloš Forman, featuring Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman.
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#34 · 1937
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 Animation / Adventure / Family film directed by William Cottrell and David Hand and Wilfred Jackson, featuring Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille La Verne.
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#35 · 1977
Annie Hall
Annie Hall is a 1977 Comedy / Romance film directed by Woody Allen, featuring Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts.
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#36 · 1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 Adventure / Drama / War film directed by David Lean, featuring William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins.
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#37 · 1946
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Best Years of Our Lives is a 1946 Drama / Romance / War film directed by William Wyler, featuring Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Fredric March.
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#38 · 1948
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a 1948 Adventure / Drama / Western film directed by John Huston, featuring Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt.
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#39 · 1964
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a 1964 Comedy / War film directed by Stanley Kubrick, featuring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden.
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#40 · 1965
The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music is a 1965 Biography / Drama / Family film directed by Robert Wise, featuring Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker.
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#41 · 1933
King Kong
King Kong is a 1933 Adventure / Horror film directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, featuring Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot.
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#42 · 1967
Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde is a 1967 Action / Biography / Crime film directed by Arthur Penn, featuring Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard.
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#43 · 1969
Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 Drama film directed by John Schlesinger, featuring Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles.
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#44 · 1940
The Philadelphia Story
The Philadelphia Story is a 1940 Comedy / Romance film directed by George Cukor, featuring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart.
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#45 · 1953
Shane
Shane is a 1953 Drama / Western film directed by George Stevens, featuring Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin.
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#46 · 1934
It Happened One Night
It Happened One Night is a 1934 Comedy / Romance film directed by Frank Capra, featuring Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly.
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#47 · 1951
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1951 Drama film directed by Elia Kazan, featuring Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter.
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#48 · 1954
Rear Window
Rear Window is a 1954 Drama / Mystery / Thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, featuring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey.
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#49 · 1916
Intolerance
Intolerance is a 1916 Drama / History film directed by D.W. Griffith, featuring Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh.
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#50 · 2001
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is a 2001 Adventure / Drama / Fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson, featuring Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom.
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#51 · 1961
West Side Story
West Side Story is a 1961 Crime / Drama / Musical film directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise, featuring Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer.
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#52 · 1976
Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver is a 1976 Crime / Drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, featuring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd.
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#53 · 1978
The Deer Hunter
The Deer Hunter is a 1978 Drama / War film directed by Michael Cimino, featuring Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale.
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#54 · 1970
M*A*S*H
M*A*S*H is a 1970 Comedy / Drama / War film directed by Robert Altman, featuring Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt.
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#55 · 1959
North by Northwest
North by Northwest is a 1959 Adventure / Drama / Mystery film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, featuring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason.
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#56 · 1975
Jaws
Jaws is a 1975 Adventure / Horror / Thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, featuring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss.
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#57 · 1976
Rocky
Rocky is a 1976 Drama / Sport film directed by John G. Avildsen, featuring Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young.
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#58 · 1925
The Gold Rush
The Gold Rush is a 1925 Adventure / Comedy / Drama film directed by Charles Chaplin, featuring Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray.
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#59 · 1975
Nashville
Nashville is a 1975 Comedy / Drama / Music film directed by Robert Altman, featuring Keith Carradine, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley.
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#60 · 1933
Duck Soup
Duck Soup is a 1933 Comedy / Musical film directed by Leo McCarey, featuring Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx.
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#61 · 1941
Sullivan's Travels
Sullivan's Travels is a 1941 Adventure / Comedy / Drama film directed by Preston Sturges, featuring Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick.
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#62 · 1973
American Graffiti
American Graffiti is a 1973 Comedy / Drama film directed by George Lucas, featuring Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat.
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#63 · 1972
Cabaret
Cabaret is a 1972 Drama / Music / Musical film directed by Bob Fosse, featuring Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem.
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#64 · 1976
Network
Network is a 1976 Drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, featuring Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch.
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#65 · 1951
The African Queen
The African Queen is a 1951 Adventure / Drama / Romance film directed by John Huston, featuring Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley.
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#66 · 1981
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 Action / Adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, featuring Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman.
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#67 · 1966
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a 1966 Drama film directed by Mike Nichols, featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal.
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#68 · 1992
Unforgiven
Unforgiven is a 1992 Drama / Western film directed by Clint Eastwood, featuring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman.
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#69 · 1982
Tootsie
Tootsie is a 1982 Comedy / Drama / Romance film directed by Sydney Pollack, featuring Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr.
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#70 · 1971
A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 Crime / Sci-Fi film directed by Stanley Kubrick, featuring Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates.
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#71 · 1998
Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 Drama / War film directed by Steven Spielberg, featuring Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore.
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#72 · 1994
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 Drama film directed by Frank Darabont, featuring Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton.
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#73 · 1969
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 Adventure / Biography / Crime film directed by George Roy Hill, featuring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross.
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#74 · 1991
The Silence of the Lambs
The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 Crime / Drama / Horror film directed by Jonathan Demme, featuring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn.
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#75 · 1967
In the Heat of the Night
In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 Drama / Mystery / Thriller film directed by Norman Jewison, featuring Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates.
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#76 · 1994
Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump is a 1994 Drama / Romance film directed by Robert Zemeckis, featuring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise.
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#77 · 1976
All the President's Men
All the President's Men is a 1976 Drama / History / Thriller film directed by Alan J. Pakula, featuring Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden.
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#78 · 1936
Modern Times
Modern Times is a 1936 Comedy / Drama / Romance film directed by Charles Chaplin, featuring Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman.
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#79 · 1969
The Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch is a 1969 Action / Adventure / Drama film directed by Sam Peckinpah, featuring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan.
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#80 · 1960
The Apartment
The Apartment is a 1960 Comedy / Drama / Romance film directed by Billy Wilder, featuring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray.
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#81 · 1960
Spartacus
Spartacus is a 1960 Adventure / Biography / Drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick, featuring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Tony Curtis.
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#82 · 1927
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans is a 1927 Drama / Romance film directed by F.W. Murnau, featuring George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston.
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#83 · 1997
Titanic
Titanic is a 1997 Drama / Romance film directed by James Cameron, featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane.
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#84 · 1969
Easy Rider
Easy Rider is a 1969 Adventure / Drama film directed by Dennis Hopper, featuring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson.
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#85 · 1935
A Night at the Opera
A Night at the Opera is a 1935 Comedy / Music / Musical film directed by Sam Wood and Edmund Goulding, featuring Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx.
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#86 · 1986
Platoon
Platoon is a 1986 Drama / War film directed by Oliver Stone, featuring Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe.
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#87 · 1957
12 Angry Men
12 Angry Men is a 1957 Crime / Drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, featuring Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam.
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#88 · 1938
Bringing Up Baby
Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 Comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, featuring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles.
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#89 · 1999
The Sixth Sense
The Sixth Sense is a 1999 Drama / Mystery / Thriller film directed by M. Night Shyamalan, featuring Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette.
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#90 · 1936
Swing Time
Swing Time is a 1936 Comedy / Musical / Romance film directed by George Stevens, featuring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore.
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#91 · 1982
Sophie's Choice
Sophie's Choice is a 1982 Drama / Romance film directed by Alan J. Pakula, featuring Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol.
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#92 · 1990
Goodfellas
Goodfellas is a 1990 Biography / Crime / Drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, featuring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci.
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#93 · 1971
The French Connection
The French Connection is a 1971 Action / Crime / Drama film directed by William Friedkin, featuring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey.
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#94 · 1994
Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction is a 1994 Crime / Drama film directed by Quentin Tarantino, featuring John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson.
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#95 · 1971
The Last Picture Show
The Last Picture Show is a 1971 Drama / Romance film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, featuring Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd.
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#96 · 1989
Do the Right Thing
Do the Right Thing is a 1989 Comedy / Drama film directed by Spike Lee, featuring Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee.
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#97 · 1982
Blade Runner
Blade Runner is a 1982 Action / Drama / Sci-Fi film directed by Ridley Scott, featuring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young.
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#98 · 1942
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 Biography / Drama / Family film directed by Michael Curtiz, featuring James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston.
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#99 · 1995
Toy Story
Toy Story is a 1995 Animation / Adventure / Comedy film directed by John Lasseter, featuring Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles.
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#100 · 1959
Ben-Hur
Ben-Hur is a 1959 Adventure / Drama film directed by William Wyler, featuring Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd.
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