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Greatest Films - Lists Index
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![]() Highly
recommended - here is this site's selection of 100 Greatest
Films in the 20th century
of American/Hollywood film-making (including English-language
films) - Tim Dirks' list of 100 Greatest Films covers, by conscious
choice and with specific
criteria, a wide range of genres,
decades, stars and directors. Each of the 8 parts below includes
a short synopsis with links to longer reviews for each film -
each designated in the review by a 'Top 100' graphic label. This "Greatest 100 Films" list - organized in 8 parts - was first created and posted on the Web in mid-1996 (see Other Greatest Films Lists including AFI's 100 Greatest American Films that came two years later in June of 1998) - long before Roger Ebert began his "Great Movies" website. Also, see all of Filmsite's 100 Greatest Films Title Screens. are the films that the site has selected as the "100 Greatest Films". |
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Also
highly recommended by this site - a suggested list of another one
hundred greatest films (# 101-200) (also predominantly American/Hollywood
and English-language films) to provide a more comprehensive collection
- many of which could easily be interchanged with the films selected
in the 100
Greatest Films list (above). Each of the 8 parts below includes
a short synopsis of each selection with links to longer reviews for
each film. |
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(chronologically ordered) Also highly recommended by this site - this compiled
list of predominantly American-Hollywood and English-language
films combines the 100 Greatest
Films list and the Another
100 Greatest Films list (from above) and orders all 200
films chronologically. |
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(chronologically ordered) Combines all three lists of predominantly
American-Hollywood and English-language films: the original 100
Greatest Films list, the Another
100 Greatest Films list, and the Third
100 Greatest Films list, and orders all 300 films chronologically. |
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Influential Films (in American Cinema) These are the most significant, influential, and important films in American cinema in approximately the last 100 years. The selections are not necessarily the 'greatest films of all time,' or the most favorite, or the ones that were best reviewed by critics or fans, but those which were major milestones in the development of US film-making. The films are organized by decade, and considerable discussion is provided about each's one's historical context. From silents to modern films, these are the exemplary films that transformed US film-making, and had the most impact. |
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Greatest Films - by Year
Yearly lists (and summary descriptions), with genre icons, of many of the greatest films, predominantly American-Hollywood and English-language films, including the 300 greatest films (from above) - and MANY more. |
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This presents an overview, in two
parts, of the rankings of films regarded as 'greatest' by other
critics and film-makers' polls, box-office totals, awards organizations,
and other tallies. Although this website doesn't believe in the
value of ranking films, it is nonetheless interesting to see how
a certain number of films often appear at the very top of their
rankings or ratings. |
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Filmsite has selected a Top 100 Films, comprised of the top 5 films for each of 20 different genres (including some sub-genres and other categories). |
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Top Films of Each Decade and Each Year Box-office earnings have often been a great predictor of the feature-length films that have been the most favorite, successful, and popular. However, they do not necessarily reflect the best (or greatest) films of the year or decade. They also provide a window into the era when the film was originally released. Rankings of the top US feature-length films by decade (based on domestic gross revenue) are presented, along with rankings of the top films by year. Exact dollar grosses for films at the box-office, especially for the first few decades, are often contradictory, spotty, unreliable and sometimes non-existent. |
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According to Box-Office Results Film franchises have became a major cinematic fact of life since the 1970s, beginning with the Planet of the Apes series, the James Bond series-franchise and then the Star Wars films. The corporate mentality, that began to look on films as "products," thereby named a series of films as "franchises." Film franchises in this compilation (in five major parts) are groups of films (in a series, including sequels, prequels, remakes, reboots), that have had significant earnings over time. The major franchises usually have a combined gross box-office (domestic) revenue income (unadjusted for inflation) of at least $450 million, although some of the older franchises haven't attained that level. |
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100 Most Iconic Film Images of All-Time These are 100 of the most iconic or defining moments, scenes, or images. They are the most memorable, defining film moments and some of the all-time best scenes or images in motion pictures history. |
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by Filmsite.org |
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'Greatest
Films' - Other Lists(Click here to access these other lists) Other published lists from various sources have been provided for website visitors as a basis for comparison and contrast to this site's listings. |
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