Barry Norman - The 100 Best Films of the Century

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This is the definitive list by British film critic Barry Norman from his book "The 100 Best Films of the Century" published by Citadel Press, 1993, ISBN 0-8065-1426-4. The list is in unranked, alphabetical order (though Norman varies between translated and original titles for non-English films. The list is in book order.)

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  2. 2.
    The African Queen [IMPORT]

  3. 3.
    All About Eve
    by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  4. 4.
    All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal Cinema Classics)
    by Lewis Milestone
  5. 5.
    Apocalypse Now
    by Francis Ford Coppola
  6. 6.
    Bad Day At Black Rock (1955)
    by John Sturges
  7. 7.
    Bambi (Two-Disc Platinum Edition)
    by Bill Roberts
  8. 8.
    The Bank Dick (The Criterion Collection)
    by Edward F. Cline
  9. 9.
    Battleship Potemkin
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein
  10. 10.
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    by William Wyler
  11. 11.
    Bicycle Thieves (The Criterion Collection)
    by Vittorio De Sica
  12. 12.
    The Big Sleep
    by Howard Hawks
  13. 13.
    The Birth of a Nation
    by D.W. Griffith
  14. 14.
    Bonnie and Clyde
    by Arthur Penn
  15. 15.
    Breathless (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean-Luc Godard
  16. 16.
    Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Howard Hawks
  17. 17.
  18. 18.
    Cabaret
    by Bob Fosse
  19. 19.
    Casablanca (Snap Case)
    by Michael Curtiz
  20. 20.
    Chinatown
    by Roman Polanski
  21. 21.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles
  23. 23.
    Dog Day Afternoon
    by Sidney Lumet
  24. 24.
    Double Indemnity
    by Billy Wilder
  25. 25.
    Duck Soup
    by Leo McCarey
  26. 26.
    Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du paradis)
    by Marcel Carné
  29. 29.
    General (1927)
    by Buster Keaton
  30. 30.
    Genevieve
    by Henry Cornelius
  31. 31.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola
  32. 32.
    The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola
  34. 34.
    Gone with the Wind
    by George Cukor
  35. 35.
    Grand Illusion (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Renoir
  36. 36.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Ford
  37. 37.
    Great Expectations (The Criterion Collection)
    by David Lean
  38. 38.
    Gregory's Girl
    by Bill Forsyth
  39. 39.
    Hannah and Her Sisters

  40. 40.
    High Noon (Collector's Edition)
    by Fred Zinnemann
  41. 41.
    His Girl Friday
    by Howard Hawks
  42. 42.
    I Know Where I'm Going! (The Criterion Collection) (1945)
    by Emeric Pressburger
  43. 43.
    It Happened One Night
    by Frank Capra
  44. 44.
    It's a Wonderful Life
    by Frank Capra
  45. 45.
    Forbidden Games (The Criterion Collection)
    by René Clément
  46. 46.
    Kind Hearts and Coronets
    by Robert Hamer
  47. 47.
    The Lady Eve (The Criterion Collection)
    by Preston Sturges
  48. 48.
    The Lady Vanishes (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  49. 49.
    Laura (Fox Film Noir)
    by Otto Preminger
  50. 50.
    The Lavender Hill Mob
    by Charles Crichton

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Comments

mizoguchi

Untitled — 5 years ago

You’ve got the wrong version of All Quiet on the Western Front here. I’ll change it. Well done on providing the list though. Barry Norman did a good job presenting the BBC’s flagship Film programme for many years- and a lot more knowledgeable than his successor Jonathon Ross!

Nov 26, 12:06AM | 1 comment | Reply to this



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