Greatest Films Reviews

The Best Films of All Time - A Primer of Cinematic History
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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.

O

Odd Man Out (1947)
Of Human Bondage (1934)
Of Mice and Men (1939)
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
The Old Dark House (1932)
The Old Maid (1939)
On The Town (1949)
On The Waterfront (1954)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
101 Dalmatians (1961)
One Hour With You (1932)
One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
Orphans of the Storm (1921-2)
Our Hospitality (1923)
Out Of The Past (1947)
The Outlaw (1943)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

P

The Pajama Game (1957)
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
Pat and Mike (1952)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Patton (1970)
The Pawnbroker (1965)
Peeping Tom (1960)
The Perils of Pauline (1914)
Peter Pan (1953)
The Petrified Forest (1936)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Picnic (1955)
Pickup on South Street (1953)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Pinky (1949)
Pinocchio (1940)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
The Plainsman (1937)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Platoon (1986)
Play It Again, Sam (1972)
Play Misty for Me (1971)
The Player (1992)
Point Blank (1967)
Poltergeist (1982)
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Predator (1987)
Pretty Poison (1968)
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
Pride of the Marines (1945)
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
The Princess Bride (1987)
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
Private Lives (1931)
Prizzi's Honor (1985)
The Producers (1967)
The Professionals (1966)
Psycho (1960)
The Public Enemy (1931)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Pursued (1947)
Pygmalion (1938)

Q

Queen Christina (1933)
The Quiet Man (1952)

R

Raging Bull (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Rain Man (1988)
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Rancho Notorious (1952)
Random Harvest (1942)
Rear Window (1954)
Rebecca (1940)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
The Reckless Moment (1949)
The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
Red Dust (1932)
Red River (1948)
The Red Shoes (1948)
Reds (1981)
Repulsion (1965)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Return of the Jedi (1983)
Ride the High Country (1962)
The Right Stuff (1983)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Rio Grande (1950)
The Road Warrior (1981)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
The Robe (1953)
Roberta (1935)
Robin Hood (1922)
Rocky (1976)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Romeo and Juliet (1936)
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Rope (1948)
Rose Marie (1936)
The Rose Tattoo (1955)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

S

Saboteur (1942)
Sabrina (1954)
Safety Last (1923)
Sahara (1943)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
San Francisco (1936)
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Saratoga Trunk (1945)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Sayonara (1957)
Scarface: The Shame of the Nation (1932)
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
The Scarlet Letter (1926)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Schindler's List (1993)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
The Searchers (1956)
Seconds (1966)
Separate Tables (1958)
Sergeant York (1941)
Serpico (1973)
The Set-Up (1949)
Seven (1995)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
Seven Days in May (1964)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Seventh Heaven (1927)
The Seventh Victim (1943)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Shall We Dance (1937)
Shane (1953)
Shanghai Express (1932)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
The Sheik (1921)
Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
The Shining (1980)
The Shootist (1976)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Show Boat (1936)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Silkwood (1983)
Silver Lode (1954)
Since You Went Away (1944)
Singin' In The Rain (1952)
Sleeper (1973)
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Sleuth (1972)
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
The Snake Pit (1948)
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Son of the Sheik (1926)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Song of the South (1946)
Sons of the Desert (1933)
Sophie's Choice (1982)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
The Sound of Music (1965)
The Southerner (1945)
Sparrows (1926)
Spartacus (1960)
Spellbound (1945)
The Spiral Staircase (1946)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
The Squaw Man (1914)
Stage Door (1937)
Stagecoach (1939)
Stalag 17 (1953)
A Star Is Born (1937)
A Star Is Born (1954)
Star Wars (1977)
State Fair (1945)
State of the Union (1948)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
Stella Dallas (1937)
The Sting (1973)
Stormy Weather (1943)
The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
The Sundowners (1960)
Sunrise (1927)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Suspicion (1941)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Swing Time (1936)

T

Tabu (1931)
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
The Tall T (1957)
Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
Tarzan The Ape Man (1932)
Taxi Driver (1976)
10 (1979)
The Ten Commandments (1923)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Terminator (1984)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
Test Pilot (1938)
That Hamilton Woman (1941)
Thelma & Louise (1991)
These Three (1936)
They Died With Their Boots On (1942)
They Drive By Night (1940)
They Live By Night (1949)
They Were Expendable (1945)
They Won't Forget (1937)
The Thief of Bagdad (1924 and 1940)
The Thin Man (1934)
The Thing (From Another World) (1951)
Things to Come (1936)
The Third Man (1949)
The 39 Steps (1935)
This Gun For Hire (1942)
Three Comrades (1938)
The Three Musketeers (1921 and 1948)
Three Smart Girls (1937)
3:10 To Yuma (1957)
The Time Machine (1960)
Titanic (1997)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
To Each His Own (1946)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Tobacco Road (1941)
Tol'able David (1921)
Tom Jones (1963)
Tootsie (1982)
Top Hat (1935)
Topper (1937)
Tortilla Flat (1942)
Touch Of Evil (1958)
Toy Story (1995)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
True Grit (1969)
True Lies (1994)
Try and Get Me (1950)
Tumbleweeds (1925)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
Twentieth Century (1934)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

U

Underworld (1927)
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
Unforgiven (1992)
The Uninvited (1944)
Union Pacific (1939)
The Usual Suspects (1995)

V

The Verdict (1982)
Vertigo (1958)
The Virginian (1929)
Viva Villa! (1934)
Le Voyage Dans La Lune
(A Trip to the Moon) (1902 French)

W

Wait Until Dark (1967)
Wake Island (1942)
A Walk in the Sun (1945)
War and Peace (1956)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Way Down East (1920)
The Way of All Flesh (1927)
Way Out West (1937)
The Wedding March (1927)
West Side Story (1961)
Western Union (1941)
The Westerner (1940)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
What Price Glory (1926)
When Harry Met Sally...(1989)
White Heat (1949)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
The Wild One (1953)
Winchester '73 (1950)
The Wind (1928)
The Window (1949)
Wings (1927)
Witness (1985)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Wolf Man (1941)
The Woman in the Window (1944)
Woman of the Year (1942)
The Women (1939)
Written on the Wind (1956)
The Wrong Man (1956)
Wuthering Heights (1939)

Y

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
The Yearling (1946)
You Can't Take It With You (1938)
You Only Live Once (1937)
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

Z

Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
Zorba the Greek (1964)

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