A top 100 list

1. Les Vampires (1915-16)

2. Intolerance (1916)
3. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)
4. Nosferatu (1922)
5. Greed (1924)
6. The Navigator (1924)
7. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
8. Metropolis (1925)
9. The General (1927)
10. Napoleon (1927)
11. The Crowd (1928)
12. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
13. Speedy (1928)
14. Un Chien Andalou (1928)
15. The Wind (1928)
16. Pandoras Box (1929)
17. All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
18. The Blue Angel (1930)
19. M (1931)
20. Frankenstein (1931), The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
21. King Kong (1933)
22. Duck Soup (1933)
23. Scarface (1933)
24. LAtlante (1934)
25. Modern Times (1936)
26. La Grande Illusion (1937)
27. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
28. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
29. Olympia (1938)
30. The Rules of The Game (1939)*
31. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
32. Pinocchio (1940)
33. Citizen Kane (1941)
34. The Lady Eve (1941)
35. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
36. Double Indemnity (1944)
37. The Children of Paradise (1945)
38. Beauty And The Beast (1946)
39. Notorious (1946)
40. The Bicycle Thief (1948)
41. Red River (1948)
42. The Third Man (1949)
43. Rashomon (1950)
44. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
45. Singin In The Rain (1952)
46. Earrings of Madame De (1953)
47. Tokyo Story (1953)
48. Ugetsu (1953)

49. Wages of Fear (1953)

50. The Seven Samurai (1954)
51. La Strada (1954)
52. All That Heaven Allows (1955)
53. The Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956), The World of Apu
(1958)
54. Invasion of The Body Snatchers (1956(
55. The Searchers (1956)
56. The Seventh Seal (1956)
57. The Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
58. Vertigo (1958)
59. LAvventura (1959)
60. Breathless (1959)
61. The 400 Blows (1959)
62. Some Like It Hot (1959)
63. La Dolce Vita (1960)
64. Psycho (1960)
65. Jules And Jim (1962)
66. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
67. Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
(1964)
68. Andrei Rublev (1966)
69. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
70. Chimes At Midnight (1966)
71. Belle De Jour (1967)
72. Le Samourai (1967)
73. Bonnie And Clyde (1967)
74. Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)
75. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
76. The Wild Bunch (1969)
77. Le Boucher (1970)
78. Gimme Shelter (1970)
79. The Conformist (1971)
80. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)
81. McCabe And Mrs. Miller (1971)
82. The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974)
84. Day For Night (1973)
85. Ali-Fear Eats The Soul
86. Chinatown (1974)
87. The Parallax View (1974)
88. A Woman Under The Influence (1974)
89. The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
90. Nashville (1975)
91. Taxi Driver (1976)
92. Network (1976)
93. Apocalypse Now (1979)
94. Raging Bull (1980)
95. Blade Runner (1982)
96. Tootsie (1982)
97. The Terminator (1984), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

98. Hannah And Her Sisters (1986)

99. Decalogue (1988)
100. The Thin Blue Line (1988)
101. Ju Dou (1989)
102. The Sheltering Sky (1990)
103. Malcolm X (1992)
104. Crumb (1994)
105. Pulp Fiction (1994)
106. Through The Olive Trees (1994)
107. Breaking The Waves (1996)
108. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
109. All About My Mother (1999)
110. Yi Yi (2000)