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Choose from the entire index of recommended films, including all films with linked reviews at this site. In this list, one can locate films that have been selected as the 100 Greatest Films - they are marked with a yellow star . Supplemental lists of great films - Another 100 Greatest Films and Third 100 Greatest Films - have also been selected and those films are included here. A collection of the greatest films from the silent era have been compiled in the Greatest Silent Films section. If you would like film recommendations organized by film genre (or category), choose the Film Genres section, or if you prefer film recommendations described chronologically, choose the Film History section.

Detailed descriptions for many of these films include Memorable Movie Quotes and Dialogue, and Greatest Moments or Scenes. Refer to Film References and Sources for suggested bibliographic materials.

PLEASE NOTE: 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.

A

Ace in the Hole (a.k.a. The Big Carnival) (1951)
Adam's Rib (1949)
The Adventures of Don Juan (1949)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
An Affair to Remember (1957)
The African Queen (1951)
Aladdin (1992)
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Algiers (1938)
Alice Adams (1935)
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Alien (1979)
Aliens (1986)
All About Eve (1950)
All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
All That Jazz (1979)
All the King's Men (1949)
All The President's Men (1976)
All This and Heaven Too (1940)
Amadeus (1984)
America (1924)
American Graffiti (1973)
An American In Paris (1951)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
And Then There Were None (1945)
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
Animal Crackers (1930)
Anna Christie (1930)
Anna Karenina (1935)
Annie Hall (1977)
The Apartment (1960)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Applause (1929)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
At The Circus (1939)
The Awful Truth (1937)

B

Baby Doll (1956)
Back to the Future (1985)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
Badlands (1973)
Ball of Fire (1941)
Bambi (1942)
Bananas (1971)
The Band Wagon (1953)
The Bank Dick (1940)
The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
Basic Instinct (1992)
Batman (1989)
Battleground (1949)
Beau Geste (1939)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Becket (1964)
Being There (1979)
The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
Bend of the River (1952)
Ben-Hur (1925-6)
Ben-Hur (1959)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Beyond the Forest (1949)
The Big Country (1958)
Bigger Than Life (1956)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Big Parade (1925)
The Big Sleep (1946)
A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
The Birds (1963)
The Birth Of A Nation (1915)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
The Black Cat (1934)
Black Narcissus (1947)
The Black Pirate (1926)
The Black Stallion (1979)
The Black Swan (1942)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Blackmail (1929)
Blade Runner (1982)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Blonde Venus (1932)
Blood and Sand (1922 and 1941)
Blood Simple (1984)
Blow-Up (1966)
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Body and Soul (1947)
Body Heat (1981)
The Body Snatcher (1945)
Bonnie And Clyde (1967)
Born Yesterday (1950)
Boys Town (1938)
Braveheart (1995)
Brazil (1985)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
Brief Encounter (1946)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Broadcast News (1987)
Broken Blossoms (1919)
Brute Force (1947)
Bulldog Drummond (1929)
Bull Durham (1988)
Bullitt (1968)
Bus Stop (1956)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Butterfield 8 (1960)

C

Cabaret (1972)
Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Call Northside 777 (1948)
The Cameraman (1928)
Camille (1936)
Cape Fear (1962)
Captain Blood (1935)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Carousel (1956)
Carrie (1976)
Casablanca (1942)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Cat People (1942)
Cavalcade (1933)
Champion (1949)
Charade (1963)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
Chinatown (1974)
Cimarron (1931)
Cinderella (1950)
The Circus (1928)
Citizen Kane (1941)
City Lights (1931)
Cleopatra (1934)
The Clock (1945)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Compulsion (1959)
The Conversation (1974)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
The Court Jester (1956)
The Covered Wagon (1923)
Cover Girl (1944)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Crossfire (1947)
The Crowd (1928)

D

D. O. A. (1950)
Dances With Wolves (1990)
Dangerous (1935)
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Dark Victory (1939)
David Copperfield (1935)
A Day at the Races (1937)
Days of Heaven (1978)
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Dead End (1937)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
Deliverance (1972)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
Detour (1945)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Die Hard (1988)
Diner (1982)
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Dirty Dancing (1987)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 and 1932)
Dr. No (1962)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned
To Stop Worrying... (1964)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Dodge City (1939)
Dodsworth (1936)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
A Dog's Life (1918)
Don Juan (1926)
Don't Look Now (1973)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dracula (1931)
Dressed to Kill (1980)
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
Duck Soup (1933)
Duel in the Sun (1946)
Dumbo (1940)

E

E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
East of Eden (1955)
Easter Parade (1948)
Easy Rider (1969)
The Egg and I (1947)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Elmer Gantry (1960)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The Exorcist (1973)

F

Fantasia (1940)
Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
A Farewell to Arms (1932)
Fargo (1996)
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Father of the Bride (1950)
Field of Dreams (1989)
Fire Over England (1937)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Five Fingers (1952)
Flesh and the Devil (1926)
Flying Down to Rio (1933)
Follow The Fleet (1936)
Footlight Parade (1933)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Force of Evil (1948)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Fort Apache (1948)
42nd Street (1933)
The Four Feathers (1939)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
Frankenstein (1931)
Freaks (1932)
The French Connection (1971)
Frenzy (1972)
The Freshman (1925)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
From Russia With Love (1963)
The Front Page (1931)
The Fugitive (1993)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Funny Face (1957)
Funny Girl (1968)
Fury (1936)

G

Gandhi (1982)
Gaslight (1944)
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
The General (1927)
The General Died at Dawn (1936)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Gettysburg (1993)
Ghost (1990)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Giant (1956)
Gigi (1958)
Gilda (1946)
Girl Crazy (1943)
The Glass Key (1942)
The Glenn Miller Story (1953)
Glory (1989)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather, Part II (1974)
Going My Way (1944)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
The Gold Rush (1925)
Goldfinger (1964)
Gone With The Wind (1939)
The Good Earth (1937)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
GoodFellas (1990)
Go West (1925)
The Graduate (1967)
Grand Hotel (1932)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Great Escape (1963)
Great Expectations (1946)
The Great McGinty (1940)
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Greed (1924)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Gun Crazy (1949)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
The Gunfighter (1950)
Gunga Din (1939)

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