Introduction to Filmsite:
Films, also known as movies, motion pictures, flicks, the pictures, and the cinema, are undoubtedly the most influential art form of the 20th century. From the early days of Hollywood to the high-tech cinema of today, the silver screen has projected our dreams and fantasies, presented both glamour and works of social conscience, and served as our collective memory.

This site was created in May 1996, and it initiated the recent trend to select 100 landmark movies in the history of American/Hollywood cinema, that serve as signposts to map the milestones of our cinematic past. You may be interested in Tips on Viewing Films Critically provided by the site's author.

'Greatest Films' Lists - The Best:
The English-language films chosen here repeatedly appear on all-time best film lists - arguably, there is reasonable consensus by most film historians, critics and reviewers that they are among cinema's most critically-acclaimed, significant "must-see" films (of predominantly Hollywood-American output, although there are other English-language films included).

Access this site's "Greatest Films" Lists, that first highlights 100 films (in unranked, alphabetical order) which have left an indelible mark on our century's culture and have been part of our lives for over a century. Criteria for Selection are also detailed.

"Greatest Films" Lists
100 Greatest Films, (identified throughout the site by a yellow star ) - are film selections that have undoubtedly left an indelible mark upon our lives and reflect the defining moments of the last 100 years - films that give us pieces of time we can never forget. Detailed analysis and synopses for each of the Greatest Films include memorable movie quotes and lines of dialogue, and great moments or scenes.
Another 100 Greatest Films supplements the original list because it was almost impossible to be limited to only 100 Greatest Films.
Third 100 Greatest Films adds an additional selection of 100 more films, to make a total of 300 Greatest Films for consideration.
200 and 300 Greatest Films combines all lists of predominantly American-Hollywood films (and other English-language films), and presents them in chronological (and) alphabetical order.

More Greatest Lists:
Other "Greatest" Lists - will provide a basis of comparison - they are listed here as reference to this site's own lists:

• Summary of Top Films
• Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Best Movies
• Los Angeles Daily News Readers' Poll: Greatest American Films
• Mr. Showbiz's Critics' Picks: The 100 Best Movies of All Time
• Mr. Showbiz's Readers' Picks: The 100 Best Movies of All Time
• TV Guide's: 50 Greatest Movies (on TV and Video)
• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Academy Awards Best Pictures
• Entertainment Weekly's 100 Greatest Movies of All Time
• Leonard Maltin's 100 Must-See Films of the 20th Century
• Sight & Sound Magazine's 10 Best Films Polls
• Guinness Book of Film's Top 100 Films (by genre category)
• Movieline Magazine's 100 Best Movies Ever Made
• Movieline Magazine's 100 Greatest Foreign Films
• Empire Magazine's 50 Best Films
• Empire Magazine's 100 Greatest Movies of All Time (two pollings)
• Premiere Magazine's 100 Most Daring Movies Ever Made
• Empire Magazine's 50 Greatest Independent Films
• Rolling Stone Magazine's 100 Maverick Movies of the Last 100 Years
• FilmFour's 100 Greatest Films of All Time
• British Film Institute's 100 Favorite British Films of the 20th Century
• Village Voice's 100 Best Films of the 20th Century
• San Francisco Chronicle's Vintage Video: A Hot 100 From Out of the Past
• Time Out's Centenary Top 100 Films
• Time Out's Readers' Top 100 Films
• Vanity Fair's 50 Greatest Films of All-Time
• Video Detective's Top 100 Films of All Time
• Premiere Magazine's 50 Greatest Comedies of All Time
• Maxim Magazine's 100 Greatest Guy Movies Ever Made
• Men's Journal's 50 Best Guy Movies of All Time
• Greatest Films' 100 Memorable and Great 'Chick' Flicks
• O Magazine's 50 Greatest Chick Flicks
• New York Times' Essential Library 100 Recommended Children's Movies
• BFI's Top 10 (and Top 50) Children's Films
• Entertainment Weekly's 50 Best High School Movies
• Arts & Faith's Top 100 Spiritually-Significant Films
• The Library of Congress' National Film Registry Titles
• Entertainment Weekly's 100 Best Film Soundtracks
• Film Comment's 101 Film Score Milestones (1933-2001)
• Greatest Films' Greatest Silent Films
• Greatest Films' Greatest Directors and their Best Films (illustrated)
• Greatest Films' The Most Controversial Films of All-Time
• WGA's 101 Greatest Film Screenplays of All-Time

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