The Top 100 Films by Genre by Guinness Book of Film
The Guinness Book of Film,
subtitled The Ultimate Guide to the Best Films Ever, was an essential
hard-cover movie guide published in 1999. It reviewed the
top 1000 movies of the 20th Century.
Facts and Commentary About the List:
The ultimate selection of films was
based upon a few criteria:
sound films that were easily available in video format
(with a few exceptions)
"the movies that have given the most pleasure to the
most people"
From the 1000 films, the guide also selected a Top
100 Films, "essential recommendations" categorized into a Top 5 for
each of twenty different genres (action, biopic, cartoon, comedy, cult,
disaster, drama, fantasy, gangster, horror, musical, period, romance,
science-fiction, silent, spy, swashbuckler, thriller, war, western), each represented
below by icons.
The links from the genre categories are to this site's essays on film genres.
are the films that 
Action
Musicals
Biopic
Cartoon (Animated)
Romance
Comedy
Science Fiction
Cult
Silent
Disaster
Drama
Swashbuckler
Fantasy
Thriller
Gangster
War
Horror
Westerns