Michael Wilmington's The 100 Best Films A Century's Worth Of The Greatest Movies Ever Made, Anywhere In The Universe

This list appeared in and is copyrighted by the Chicago Tribune on March 19, 1995.

"The following are, in my opinion, the 100 best-and most culturally significant-fiction films ever made. The list is personal, but it also tries to be historically broad and representative. It is an attempt at the sort of all-time canon common in literature or music. These are the films that changed the face of the art, influenced other filmmakers and stayed in the hearts of the public."

NOTE: This list appears here as 101 films because Wilmington originally listed both Heimat and Heimat 2 together as no. 71.