Films101.com Top 500 Films

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A list of the best films (according to the website), ordered by rank.

From the site: "The films are ranked in order of acclaim among film professionals, using proprietary formulas.

"As new sources and films are added, rankings will change. Occasionally, the source lists are re-evaluated and rankings may be tweaked to achieve the best possible results. Also, as some source lists get older, they lose some weight."

Note: Some films are tied for a certain rank, so there are more than 500 titles on the list.

(Last update: November 5, 2009)

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  1. 1.
    Citizen Kane (1941)
    by Orson Welles

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  2. 2.
    The Bicycle Thieves
    by Vittorio de sica

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  3. 3.
    Psycho (1960)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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  4. 4.
    2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  5. 5.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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  6. 6.
    Singin' In The Rain (1952)
    by Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly

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  7. 7.
    Bonnie and Clyde
    by Arthur Penn

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  8. 8.
    The Rules of the Game - Criterion Collection
    by Jean Renoir

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  9. 9.
    The Searchers
    by John Ford

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  10. 10.
    Casablanca
    by Michael Curtiz

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  12. 12.
    Annie Hall
    by Woody Allen

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  13. 13.
    Chinatown

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  14. 14.
    Pulp Fiction
    by Quentin Tarantino

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  15. 16.
    Rashomon - Criterion Collection

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  17. 18.
    Raging Bull (Special Edition)

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  18. 19.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)

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  19. 20.
    À bout de souffle (Breathless)
    by Jean-Luc Godard

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  20. 21.
    Schindler's List

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  21. 23.
    E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (Widesceen)
    by Steven Spielberg

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  22. 24.
    8 1/2 - Criterion Collection

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  23. 25.
    Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
    by Fritz Lang

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  24. 26.
    All About Eve (1950)
    by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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  25. 27.
    Goodfellas (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese

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  26. 28.
    Gone With the Wind
    by Victor Fleming

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  27. 29.
    The Wizard of Oz (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Victor Fleming

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  28. 30.
    The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie - 1972
    by Luis Bunuel

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  29. 31.
    On The Waterfront - 1954
    by Elia Kazan

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  30. 33.
    Some Like It Hot (1959)
    by Billy Wilder

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  31. 34.
    Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)

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  32. 35.
    The Conformist (Extended Edition)
    by Bernardo Bertolucci

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  33. 37.
    La Dolce Vita - 1960
    by Federico Fellini

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  34. 38.
    The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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  35. 39.
    Sunset Blvd.
    by Billy Wilder

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  36. 40.
    Raise The Red Lantern - 1991
    by Zhang Yimou

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  37. 41.
    Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Billy Wilder

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  38. 42.
    Tokyo Story - Criterion Collection
    by Yasujiro Ozu

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  39. 43.
    The World of Apu - 1959
    by Satyajit Ray

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  40. 44.
    Children Of Paradise (Les Enfants Du Paradis) - 1945
    by Marcel Carne

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  41. 45.
    Belle de Jour

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  42. 46.
    Persona
    by Ingmar Bergman

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  43. 47.
    Apocalypse Now (1979)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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  44. 48.
    Nashville
    by Robert Altman

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  45. 50.
    Jules Et Jim (1962)
    by François Truffaut

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Created by convenientparking on Apr 04, 2009.
 

Comments

greenfruit
Augusta

Finished! — 22 weeks ago

I had some time today so I went ahead and completed the list, adding the rest of the films up to rank 500. It was quite a task because the source list seems to go through frequent updates—I had to move a lot of things around. But I was in one of my organizing, listing & categorizing moods (lol) so I plowed through to the end.

Hopefully, they won’t be making any major changes any time soon… (fingers crossed) :)


Thanks — 27 weeks ago

That’s definitely cool. I’ve been busy and haven’t had a chance to touch this.


greenfruit
Augusta

Untitled — 28 weeks ago

I added more films from the source list up to #150 (there’s several ties so it’s a bit more than 150 titles on the list). Since this is a community list, I figured it would be ok if I worked on it too. I was careful about following the source list.

I’ll add more films later when I get a chance. If you don’t want me to do that, please let me know. Otherwise, I’ll just assume it’s cool and go ahead with the additions.


Untitled — 31 weeks ago

I’ve set to work on creating this list—for some reason it doesn’t bring up options with pictures on about half of them. I’m not sure how to remedy that.