The Greatest Films FilmSite Reviews

Greatest Films (or FilmSite) has lengthy analytical reviews written by author/reviewer Tim Dirks for many of the best movies ever made throughout the history of cinema. Reviews include a prominent movie poster, historical background for the film, a summary or synopsis of the film, excerpted dialogue, and critical commentary in order to appreciate the film more fully. Various visitors have commented upon the reviews -- "By far the best site on the Internet to receive thorough film analyzation," or "a wonderfully in-depth and detailed place not only interesting to browse through, but, being a teacher of media/film, academically worthwhile." The Greatest Films selected do not include foreign films or non-English language films for purposes of specialization and focus. No negative judgment on foreign films is intended.

Here are the major sections of the site's film reviews:

All Film Reviews Index - Alphabetical By Film Title A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z The films that are marked with a yellow star are the films that "The Greatest Films" site has selected as the "The 100 Greatest Films"

Reviews of Top Films By Decade This list of film reviews of the Top Films By Decade includes films that have been selected as the 100 Greatest Films - they are marked with a yellow star - and other supplemental lists of great films including Another 100 Greatest Films (101-200 Greatest Films) and Third 100 Greatest Films (201-300 Greatest Films). The reviews have also been ordered chronologically, by decade, in sections titled 200 Greatest Films and 300 Greatest Films.

Most Popular Film Reviews In this list are the site's Most Popular Film Reviews viewed by visitors on this site, in descending order of popularity.

All Film Reviews - Alphabetical by Film Title

A Adam's Rib (1949) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) The African Queen (1951) Alice Adams (1935) Alien (1979) All About Eve (1950) All Quiet On The Western Front (1930) All the King's Men (1949) American Graffiti (1973) An American In Paris (1951) Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) Animal Crackers (1930) Anna Christie (1930) Annie Hall (1977) The Apartment (1960) Apocalypse Now (1979) Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) The Asphalt Jungle (1950) The Awful Truth (1937) B Baby Doll (1956) The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) Badlands (1973) Bananas (1971) The Bank Dick (1940) Basic Instinct (1992) Beau Geste (1939) Being There (1979) Ben-Hur (1959) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Beyond the Forest (1949) The Big Heat (1953) The Big Parade (1925) The Big Sleep (1946) The Birds (1963) The Birth Of A Nation (1915) The Black Cat (1934) Blade Runner (1982) Blazing Saddles (1974) Blow-Up (1966) Blue Velvet (1986) Body Heat (1981) Bonnie And Clyde (1967) Brazil (1985) Bride of Frankenstein (1935) The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957) Brief Encounter (1946) Bringing Up Baby (1938) Broken Blossoms (1919) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) C Cabin in the Cotton (1932) The Caine Mutiny (1954) Camille (1936) Captains Courageous (1937) Casablanca (1942) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) Cat People (1942) Charade (1963) Chinatown (1974) Citizen Kane (1941) City Lights (1931) Cleopatra (1934) A Clockwork Orange (1971) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) The Conversation (1974) Cool Hand Luke (1967) The Court Jester (1956) The Crowd (1928) D Dark Victory (1939) A Day at the Races (1937) Days of Heaven (1978) Days of Wine and Roses (1962) The Deer Hunter (1978) The Defiant Ones (1958) Deliverance (1972) Destry Rides Again (1939) Dinner at Eight (1933) Dirty Harry (1971) Dr. No (1962) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying... (1964) Double Indemnity (1944) Dracula (1931) Duck Soup (1933) Duel in the Sun (1946) E E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) East of Eden (1955) Easy Rider (1969) Elmer Gantry (1960) The Exorcist (1973) F Fantasia (1940) Fargo (1996) Father of the Bride (1950) Field of Dreams (1989) Five Easy Pieces (1970) Foreign Correspondent (1940) 42nd Street (1933) Frankenstein (1931) The French Connection (1971) From Here to Eternity (1953) G Gaslight (1944) The General (1927) The General Died at Dawn (1936) Ghostbusters (1984) Gilda (1946) The Godfather (1972) The Godfather, Part II (1974) The Gold Rush (1925) Gone With The Wind (1939) Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) GoodFellas (1990) The Graduate (1967) Grand Hotel (1932) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) The Great Train Robbery (1903) Greed (1924) Gun Crazy (1949) H Halloween (1978) Hell's Angels (1930) High Noon (1952) His Girl Friday (1940) Horse Feathers (1932) How Green Was My Valley (1941) Hud (1963) The Hustler (1961) I I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932) I Remember Mama (1948) I'm No Angel (1933) In the Heat of the Night (1967) Inherit the Wind (1960) Intolerance (1916) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) It Happened One Night (1934) It's A Gift (1934) It's A Wonderful Life (1946) J Jaws (1975) The Jazz Singer (1927) Jezebel (1938) K The Killers (1946) The Killing Fields (1984) The King and I (1956) King Kong (1933) Kings Row (1942) Kiss Me Deadly (1955) Knute Rockne, All American (1940) L The Lady Eve (1941) The Lady From Shanghai (1948) The Last Picture Show (1971) Laura (1944) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) The Letter (1940) Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948) Little Caesar (1930) Little Women (1933) The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) Lolita (1962) Lost Horizon (1937) The Lost Weekend (1945) Love Story (1970) M The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) The Maltese Falcon (1941) The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Marathon Man (1976) Marty (1955) Maytime (1937) Meet John Doe (1941) Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) Midnight Cowboy (1969) Mildred Pierce (1945) The Misfits (1961) Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Modern Times (1936) The More the Merrier (1943) Morning Glory (1933) Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) My Darling Clementine (1946) My Fair Lady (1964) My Man Godfrey (1936) N Nashville (1975) Network (1976) Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941) Night after Night (1932) A Night At The Opera (1935) The Night of the Hunter (1955) Ninotchka (1939) North By Northwest (1959) Notorious (1946) Now, Voyager (1942) O Of Human Bondage (1934) On The Waterfront (1954) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Only Angels Have Wings (1939) Out Of The Past (1947) The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) P The Palm Beach Story (1942) Paths of Glory (1957) Patton (1970) The Perils of Pauline (1914) The Philadelphia Story (1940) A Place in the Sun (1951) Play It Again, Sam (1972) Play Misty for Me (1971) Poltergeist (1982) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) Psycho (1960) The Public Enemy (1931) Pygmalion (1938) Q Queen Christina (1933) The Quiet Man (1952) R Raging Bull (1980) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Rear Window (1954) Rebecca (1940) Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Red Dust (1932) Red River (1948) The Roaring Twenties (1939) Rocky (1976) Roman Holiday (1953) Romeo and Juliet (1968) Rose Marie (1936) Rosemary's Baby (1968) S Safety Last (1923) Sayonara (1957) Scarface: The Shame of the Nation (1932) Schindler's List (1993) The Searchers (1956) The Seven Year Itch (1955) Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Shane (1953) Shanghai Express (1932) The Shawshank Redemption (1994) She Done Him Wrong (1933) The Shining (1980) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Since You Went Away (1944) Singin' In The Rain (1952) Sleeper (1973) Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937) Some Like It Hot (1959) Sons of the Desert (1933) The Sound of Music (1965) Splendor in the Grass (1961) Stage Door (1937) Stagecoach (1939) A Star Is Born (1954) Star Wars (1977) Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) Sullivan's Travels (1941) Sunrise (1927) Sunset Boulevard (1950) Sweet Smell of Success (1957) Swing Time (1936) T The Talk of the Town (1942) Tarzan and His Mate (1934) Tarzan The Ape Man (1932) Taxi Driver (1976) 10 (1979) The Ten Commandments (1956) The Terminator (1984) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Terms of Endearment (1983) The Thin Man (1934) The Third Man (1949) The 39 Steps (1935) To Catch a Thief (1955) To Have and Have Not (1944) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Top Hat (1935) Touch Of Evil (1958) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Trouble in Paradise (1932) 12 Angry Men (1957) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) U Unfaithfully Yours (1948) Unforgiven (1992) V Vertigo (1958) The Virginian (1929) Le Voyage Dans La Lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1902 French) W Way Down East (1920) Way Out West (1937) West Side Story (1961) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) When Harry Met Sally...(1989) White Heat (1949) Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) The Wild Bunch (1969) The Wild One (1953) The Wizard of Oz (1939) Written on the Wind (1956) Wuthering Heights (1939) Y Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) Young Frankenstein (1974) Z