Saturday, February 2, 2008

Top 100 Movies

Crime/Drama
1. On the Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan)
2. The Killing (1956, Stanley Kubrick)
3. The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
4. The Godfather: Part II (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
5. Chinatown (1974, Roman Polanski)
7. Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)
8. The Untouchables (1987, Brian de Palma)
9. Goodfellas (1990, Martin Scorsese)
10. Reservoir Dogs (1992, Quentin Tarantino)
11. Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino)
12. Heat (1995, Michael Mann)
13. Road to Perdition (2002, Sam Mendes)
14. The Departed (2006, Martin Scorsese)

Drama
15. Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
16. Sunset Blvd. (1950, Billy Wilder)
17. Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
18. Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
19. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, Robert Mulligan)
20. Cool Hand Luke (1967, Stuart Rosenberg)
21. Midnight Cowboy (1969, John Schlesinger)
22. The Sting (1973, George Roy Hill)
23. One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975, Milos Foreman)
24. Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)
25. Amadeus (1984, Milos Foreman)
26. The Natural (1984, Barry Levison)
27. Rain Man (1988, Barry Levison)
28. Awakenings (1990, Penny Marshal)
29. Schindler’s List (1992, Steven Spielberg)
30. Magnolia (1999, Paul Thomas Anderson)
31. Memento (2000, Christopher Nolan)
32. A Beautiful Mind (2001, Ron Howard)
33. Million Dollar Baby (2004, Clint Eastwood)

War
34. Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick)
35. Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)
36. The Deer Hunter (1978, Michael Camino)
37. Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
38. Full Metal Jacket (1987, Stanley Kubrick)
39. Saving Private Ryan (1998, Steven Spielberg)
40. Letters of Iwo Jima (2006, Clint Eastwood)

Action/Adventure
41. Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
42. The Ten Commandments (1956, Cecil B. DeMille)
43. Ben-Hur (1959, William Wyler)
44. Goldfinger (1964, Guy Hamilton)
45. Barry Lyndon (1975, Stanley Kubrick)
46. Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)
47. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg)
48. Aliens (1986, James Cameron)
49. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989, Steven Spielberg)
50. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991, James Cameron)
51. Gladiator (2000, Ridley Scott)
52. Children of Men (2006, Alfonso Cuaron)
53. Casino Royale (2006, Martin Campbell)

Western
54. The Magnificent Seven (1960, John Sturges)
55. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)
56. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, Sergio Leone)
57. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, George Roy Hill)
58. Little Big Man (1970, Arthur Penn)
59. Unforgiven (1992, Clint Eastwood)
60. 3:10 to Yuma (2007, James Mangold)

Horror/Suspense
61. Nosferatu (1922, F. W. Murnau)
62. Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
63. Night of the Living Dead (1968, George A. Romero)
64. Alien (1979, Ridley Scott)
65. The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)
66. Silence of the Lambs (1991, Jonathan Demme)
67. Seven (1995, David Fincher)
68. The Sixth Sense (1999, M. Night Shyamalan)
69. Requiem for a Dream (2000, Darren Aronofsky)
70. The Ring (2002, Gore Verbinski)

Sci-Fi/Fantasy
71. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
72. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, Steven Spielberg)
73. Star Wars IV: A New Hope (1977, George Lucas)
74. Superman: The Movie (1978, Richard Donner)
75. Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner)
76. Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi (1983, Richard Marquand)
77. Edward Scissorhands (1990, Tim Burton)
78. Jurassic Park (1993, Steven Spielberg)
79. The Matrix (1999, Andy & Larry Wachowski)
80. Unbreakable (2000, M. Night Shyamalan)
81. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001, Peter Jackson)
82. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002, Peter Jackson)
83. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003, Peter Jackson)
84. Batman Begins (2005, Christopher Nolan)
85. The Prestige (2006, Christopher Nolan)
86. The Fountain (2006, Darren Aronofsky)

Comedy
87. Dr. Strangelove (1964, Stanley Kubrick)
88. Blazing Saddles (1974, Mel Brooks)
89. Young Frankenstein (1974, Mel Brooks)
90. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975, Terry Gilliam)
91. Airplane! (1980, Jim Abrahams & David Zucker)
92. Caddyshack (1980, Harold Ramis)
93. Ghostbusters (1984, Ivan Reitman)
94. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987, John Hughes)
95. Groundhog Day (1993, Harold Ramis)
96. Ed Wood (1994, Tim Burton)
97. Rushmore (1998, Wes Anderson)
98. Little Miss Sunshine (2006, Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Feris)
99. Grindhouse (2007, Robert Rodriquez & Quentin Tarantino)
100. Hot Fuzz (2007, Edgar Wright)

So what do you all think about these, agree or disagree?

1 comment:

Bad Waiter Productions said...

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment on our blog! Dig yours too. We want to check out all those flicks of course. I'm really curious about Get Smart. I'm sure it will be fun.

-BWP