The goal in this compilation was to determine film history's definitive creme de la creme. The titles considered to be the greatest of the great from around the world and throughout the history of film. So, after an in-depth analysis of respected critics and publications from around the globe, cross-referenced and tweaked to arrive at the ranking of films representing, we believe, the greatest cinema can offer. Browse, contemplate, and enjoy. Check off all the films you have seen 1 Citizen Kane 1941 USA 26 The 400 Blows 1959 France 51 Au Hasard Balthazar 1966 France 76 L.A. Confidential 1997 USA 2 Vertigo 1958 USA 27 Satantango 1994 Hungary 52 Andrei Rublev 1966 USSR 77 Modern Times 1936 USA 3 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 UK 28 Raging Bull 1980 USA 53 All About Eve 1950 USA 78 Mr Hulot's Holiday 1952 France 4 The Rules of the Game 1939 France 29 L'Atalante 1934 France 54 Sunset Boulevard 1950 USA 79 Wings of Desire 1978 France 5 Seven Samurai 1954 Japan 30 Annie Hall 1977 USA 55 The Turin Horse 2011 Hungary 80 Ikiru 1952 Japan 6 The Godfather 1972 USA 31 Persona 1966 Sweden 56 Jules and Jim 1962 France 81 The Apartment 1960 USA 7 Apocalypse Now 1979 USA 32 Man With a Movie Camera 1929 USSR 57 Double Indemnity 1944 USA 82 Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 France 8 Tokyo Story 1953 Japan 33 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 USA 58 Contempt (Le Mepris) 1963 France 83 The Seventh Seal 1957 Sweden 9 Taxi Driver 1976 USA 34 Star Wars Episode IV 1977 USA 59 Belle De Jour 1967 France 84 Wild Strawberries 1957 Sweden 10 Casablanca 1942 USA 35 Touch of Evil 1958 USA 60 Blade Runner: The Final Cut 1982 USA 85 King Kong 1933 USA 11 Pulp Fiction 1994 USA 36 Metropolis 1927 Germany 61 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 China 86 Children of Paradise 1945 France 12 8 1/2 1963 Italy 37 Some Like It Hot 1959 USA 62 Rear Window 1954 USA 87 Stalker 1979 USSR 13 Chinatown 1974 USA 38 GoodFellas 1990 USA 63 The Graduate 1967 USA 88 North by Northwest 1959 USA 14 Breathless (A Bout de Souffle) 1960 France 39 La Dolce Vita 1960 Italy 64 In the Mood for Love 2000 Hong Kong 89 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 USA 15 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 UK 40 City Lights 1931 USA 65 La Grande Illusion 1937 France 90 Nosferatu 1922 Germany 16 The Godfather Part II 1974 USA 41 The Conformist 1970 Italy 66 Nashville 1975 USA 91 Ran 1985 Japan 17 Singin' in the Rain 1952 USA 42 M (Fritz Lang) 1931 Germany 67 The Night of the Hunter 1955 USA 92 Shoah 1985 France 18 Sunrise 1927 USA 43 The Mirror 1974 USSR 68 The Third Man 1949 UK 93 Rio Bravo 1959 USA 19 The Searchers 1956 USA 44 Gone with the Wind 1939 USA 69 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 USA 94 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 USA 20 Battleship Potemkin 1925 USSR 45 Dr Strangelove 1964 UK 70 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Sweden 95 Mulholland Drive 2001 USA 21 Psycho 1960 USA 46 L'Avventura 1960 Italy 71 Aguirre, The Wrath of God 1972 Germany 96 The Wild Bunch 1969 USA 22 Bicycle Thieves (The Bicycle Thief)1948 Italy 47 On the Waterfront 1954 USA 72 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 USA 97 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Italy 23 Rashomon 1950 Japan 48 The Wizard of Oz 1939 USA 73 Playtime 1967 France 98 Pierrot Le Fou 1965 France 24 Greed 1925 USA 49 Ordet 1955 Denmark 74 Pather Panchali (Apu Trilogy Part 1) 1955 India 99 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Italy 25 Schindler's List 1993 USA 50 The General 1926 USA 75 Barry Lyndon 1975 UK 100 The Gold Rush 1925 USA GREATEST FILMS OF ALL TIME 101-200 101 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 USA 126 Bringing Up Baby 1938 USA 151 Day for Night 1973 France 176 The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 Spain 102 The Maltese Falcon 1941 USA 127 Fargo 1996 USA 152 Stagecoach 1939 USA 177 Yi Yi (A One and a Two) 2000 Taiwan 103 Springtime in a Small Town 2002 China 128 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 USA 153 L'eclisse 1962 Italy 178 The Usual Suspects 1995 USA 104 The Exterminating Angel 1962 Mexico 129 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 USA 154 The Conversation 1974 USA 179 Stairway to Heaven 1946 UK 105 Saving Private Ryan 1998 USA 130 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 USA 155 A Woman Under the Influence 1974 USA 180 A day in the Country 1936 France 106 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 USA 131 Close-Up 1990 Iran 156 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Italy 181 Land Without Bread (Las Hurdes) 1929 France 107 Blow-Up 1966 UK 132 Jaws 1975 USA 157 Manhattan 1979 USA 182 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Germany 108 Blue Velvet 1986 USA 133 The Shining 1980 USA 158 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 USA 183 Alien 1979 USA 109 Avatar 2009 USA 134 Open City (Aka Rome, Open City) 1945 Italy 159 Dersu Uzala 1975 Japan 184 Paris, Texas 1984 West Germany 110 Amarcord 1974 Italy 135 Amour 2012 Austria 160 The King of Comedy 1982 USA 185 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 USA 111 La Strada (The Road) 1954 Italy 136 Sansho the Bailiff 1936 Japan 161 No Country for Old Men 2007 USA 186 The French Connection 1971 USA 112 It Happened One Night 1934 USA 137 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 France 162 Letter From an Unknown Woman 1948 USA 187 Cabaret 1972 USA 113 Unforgiven 1992 USA 138 High Noon 1952 USA 163 The Earrings of Madame De... 1953 France 188 Z 1969 France 114 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 UK 139 La Jetee / Sans Soleil 1962/1983 France 164 Rosemary's Baby 1968 USA 189 Days of Heaven 1978 USA 115 The African Queen 1951 USA 140 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France 165 Hiroshima, Mon Amour 1959 France 190 Aparajito (Apu Trilogy Part 2) 1957 India 116 The Deer Hunter 1978 USA 141 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 USA 166 Out of the Past 1947 USA 191 Diary of a Country Priest 1951 France 117 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 USA 142 Ugetsu 1953 Japan 167 Notorious 1946 USA 192 The Last Picture Show 1971 USA 118 Late Spring 1949 Japan 143 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Poland 168 The Young and the Damned 1950 Mexico 193 Rebel Without a Cause 1955 USA 119 The Leopard 1963 Italy 144 Intolerance 1916 USA 169 Top Hat 1935 USA 194 Reservoir Dogs 1991 USA 120 Pickpocket 1959 France 145 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 USA 170 The Bride of Frankenstein 1935 USA 195 Seven 1995 USA 121 A Clockwork Orange 1971 UK 146 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 USA 171 M*A*S*H 1969 USA 196 Videodrome 1983 USA 122 A Man Escaped 1956 France 147 The Mother and the Whore 1973 France 172 Don't Look Now 1972 UK 197 Come and See 1985 USSR 123 Gertrud 1964 Denmark 148 To Be Or Not To Be 1942 USA 173 Badlands 1973 USA 198 Network 1976 USA 124 Viridiana 1961 Spain 149 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 USA 174 West Side Story 1961 USA 199 Brief Encounter 1945 UK 125 Do the Right Thing 1989 USA 150 The Lady Eve 1941 USA 175 Trouble in Paradise 1932 USA 200 American Beauty 1999 USA GREATEST FILMS OF ALL TIME 201-300 201 The Philadelphia Story 1940 USA 226 All About My Mother 1999 Spain 251 Smiles of a Summer Night 1955 Sweden 276 Death in Venice 1971 Italy 202 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 Italy 227 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 USA 252 The Producers 1967 USA 277 Umberto D. 1952 Italy 203 Toy Story 1995 USA 228 City of God 2002 Brazil 253 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 UK 278 Le Samourai 1967 France 204 Beau Travail 1999 France 229 Y Tu Mama Tambien 2001 Mexico 254 The Dark Knight 2008 USA 279 The Quiet Man 1952 USA 205 The Red Shoes 1948 UK 230 Paths of Glory 1957 USA 255 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 USA 280 The UP Series 1963-2005 UK 206 Cries and Whispers 1972 Sweden 231 Farewell my Concubine 1993 China 256 Red River 1948 USA 281 Salo (120 Days of Sodom) 1975 Italy 207 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Italy 232 The Wages of Fear 1953 France 257 12 Angry Men 1957 USA 282 Nanook of the North 1922 USA 208 Duck Soup 1933 USA 233 Brazil 1985 UK 258 The Hustler 1961 USA 283 Nights of Cabiria 1957 Italy 209 The Passenger 1995 Italy 234 Performance 1970 UK 259 Life is Beautiful 1998 Italy 284 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her 1966 France 210 Napoleon 1927 France 235 Das Boot (aka The Boat) 1981 Germany 260 The Big Lebowski 1998 USA 285 The Piano 1993 NZ 211 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 USA 236 Celine and Julie Go Boating 1974 France 261 Forbidden Games 1952 France 286 The Thin Red Line 1998 USA 212 Sullivan's Travels 1941 USA 237 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 France 262 Spirited Away 2001 Japan 287 Hidden (Cache) 2005 France 213 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 China 238 The Decalogue 1989 Poland 263 Cinema Paradiso 1989 Italy 288 If.... 1968 UK 214 Midnight Cowboy 1969 USA 239 There Will Be Blood 2007 USA 264 Titanic 1997 USA 289 Great Expectations 1946 UK 215 My Fair Lady 1964 USA 240 The Last Laugh 1924 Germany 265 The Sound of Music 1964 USA 290 Forrest Gump 1994 USA 216 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 USA 241 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Italy 266 An American in Paris 1951 USA 291 Pinocchio 1940 USA 217 A Hard Day's Night 1964 UK 242 The Great Dictator 1940 USA 267 Leviathan (Leviafan) 2014 Russia 292 Amelie 2001 France 218 L'argent (Money) 1983 France 243 Night and Fog 1955 France 268 My Darling Clementine 1946 USA 293 Being There 1979 USA 219 Mouchette 1967 France 244 McCabe and Mrs Miller 1971 USA 269 The Birth of a Nation 1915 USA 294 The Social Network 2010 USA 220 Imitation of Life 1934/1959 USA 245 Shane 1953 USA 270 The Exorcist 1973 USA 295 Easy Rider 1969 USA 221 Black Narcissus 1947 UK 246 Solaris 1972 USSR 271 Throne of Blood 1957 Japan 296 Zodiac 2007 USA 222 A Seperation 2011 Iran 247 American Graffiti 1973 USA 272 The Lost Weekend 1945 USA 297 The Pianist 2002 France 223 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 USA 248 Easerhead 1977 USA 273 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 Mexico 298 Harold and Maude 1971 USA 224 All the President's Men 1976 USA 249 Lord of the Rings: Return of the King 2003 NZ/USA 274 Mean Streets 1973 USA 299 The Salt of the Earth 2014 Brazil/France 225 Three Colours: Red 1994 France 250 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 USA 275 Meet Me in St Louis 1944 USA 300 Samsara 2011 USA