Dennis Grunes' 100 Greatest English-Language Films

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This list is chronological, although if there are multiple entries for a given year I have ranked those entries, beginning with my favorite among them. The list reflects my one hundred favorite English-language films, then—at a particular moment, that is, on a particular day.

Again, one hundred is a finite, unforgiving number, and everything including the kitchen sink dramas from England can’t make it in.

Here are the one hundred films, then, by year, through 2005.

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  1. 1.
    His Majesty the Scarecrow of Oz
    by L. Frank Baum
  2. 2.
    Nanook of the North (The Criterion Collection)
    by Robert J. Flaherty
  3. 3.
    Greed (1924)
    by Erich von Stroheim
  5. 5.
    The Gold Rush

  6. 6.
    The General (1927)
    by Clyde Bruckman
  7. 7.
    The Wind
    by Victor Sjöström
  8. 8.
    Underworld (1927)
    by Josef von Sternberg
  10. 10.
    Steamboat Bill, Jr.
    by Charles Reisner
  11. 11.
    City Lights
    by Charles Chaplin
  12. 12.
    Duck Soup

  13. 13.
    King Kong (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Ernest B. Schoedsack
  14. 14.
    Man of Aran
    by Robert J. Flaherty
  15. 15.
    The Lost Patrol (1934)

  16. 16.
    Twentieth Century
    by Howard Hawks
  17. 17.
    The Black Cat (1934)
    by Edgar G. Ulmer
  18. 18.
    The Devil is a Woman
    by Josef von Sternberg
  19. 19.
    The Informer
    by John Ford
  20. 20.
    Modern Times (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Chaplin
  21. 21.
    THE PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS

  22. 22.
    Swing Time

  23. 23.
    The River (1938 documentary short)
    by Pare Lorentz
  24. 24.
    ?
    The Spanish Earth (1937)
    by Joris Ivens
  25. 25.
    Pygmalion (The Criterion Collection)
    by Leslie Howard
  26. 26.
    Stagecoach
    by John Ford
  27. 27.
    The Long Voyage Home
    by John Ford
  28. 28.
    The Great Dictator

  29. 29.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Ford
  30. 30.
    The Shop Around the Corner
    by Ernst Lubitsch
  31. 31.
    ?
    Power and the Land (1940)

  32. 32.
    Citizen Kane [Region 2]
    by Orson Welles
  33. 33.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston
  34. 34.
    Sullivan's Travels
    by Preston Sturges
  35. 35.
    The Magnificent Ambersons
    by Orson Welles
  36. 36.
    Fires Were Started
    by Humphrey Jennings
  37. 37.
    Shadow of a Doubt

  38. 38.
    Henry V (The Criterion Collection)
    by Laurence Olivier
  39. 39.
    Meet Me In St. Louis (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Roy Mack
  40. 40.
    The Battle of San Pietro

  41. 41.
    Notorious (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  42. 42.
    The Lady from Shanghai
    by Orson Welles
  44. 44.
    Quiet One, The
    by Sidney Meyers
  45. 45.
    ?
    Wagon Master
    by John Ford
  46. 46.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder
  47. 47.
    The River (1951)
    by Jean Renoir
  48. 48.
    Europa '51
    by Roberto Rossellini
  49. 49.
    The Thing from Another World
    by Christian Nyby
  50. 50.
    The Man in the White Suit
    by Alexander Mackendrick

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