New York Times - Best 1,000 Movies Ever

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As the source says, "This list is drawn from the second edition of The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made … edited by Peter M. Nichols and published in 2004."

Actually, there are a few more than 1000 on the list, perhaps because some were listed more than once—for example, Little Women of both 1933 and 1994 are listed.

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  1. 1.
    A Nous La Liberte - Criterion Collection
    by René Clair

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  2. 2.
    About Schmidt
    by Alexander Payne

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  3. 3.
    Absence of Malice
    by Sydney Pollack

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  4. 4.
    Adam's Rib
    by George Cukor

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  5. 5.
    Adaptation (Superbit Collection)

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  6. 6.
    The Adjuster
    by Atom Egoyan

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  7. 7.
    The Adventures of Robin Hood (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Michael Curtiz

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  8. 8.
    Affliction
    by Paul Schrader

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  9. 9.
    The African Queen
    by John Huston

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  10. 10.
    Luis Bunuel's L'Age d'Or

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    Aguirre, the Wrath of God
    by Werner Herzog

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  12. 13.
    Airplane!
    by David Zucker

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  13. 14.
    Aladdin (Disney Special Platinum Edition)
    by John Musker

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  14. 15.
    Alexander Nevsky
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

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  15. 16.
    Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
    by Martin Scorsese

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  16. 17.
    Alice's Restaurant
    by Arthur Penn

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  17. 18.
    Aliens (Special Edition)
    by James Cameron

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  18. 19.
    All About Eve
    by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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  19. 20.
    All About My Mother

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  20. 21.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Lewis Milestone

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  21. 22.
    All That Heaven Allows - Criterion Collection
    by Douglas Sirk

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  22. 23.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Rossen

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  23. 24.
    All the President's Men (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Alan J. Pakula

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  24. 25.
    Amadeus
    by Milos Forman

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  25. 26.
    Amarcord - Criterion Collection
    by Federico Fellini

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  26. 27.
    Amelie
    by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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  27. 29.
    The American Friend

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  28. 30.
    American Graffiti (Collector's Edition)
    by George Lucas

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  29. 31.
    An American in Paris
    by Vincente Minnelli

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  30. 32.
    The Americanization of Emily
    by Arthur Hiller

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  31. 33.
    American Movie
    by Chris Smith (II)

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  32. 34.
    Amores Perros
    by Alejandro González Iñárritu

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  33. 35.
    Anastasia
    by Anatole Litvak

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  34. 36.
    Anatomy of a Murder
    by Otto Preminger

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    The Angry Silence
    by Guy Green

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  36. 38.
    Anna and the King of Siam
    by John Cromwell

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  37. 39.
    Anna Christie
    by Clarence Brown

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  38. 40.
    Annie Hall

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  39. 41.
    The Apartment

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  40. 42.
    Apocalypse Now

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  41. 43.
    Apollo 13 (Widescreen 2-Disc Anniversary Edition)
    by Ron Howard

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  42. 44.
    The Apostle

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  43. 45.
    L' Argent
    by Robert Bresson

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  44. 46.
    Ashes and Diamonds (Popiol i Diament)
    by Andrzej Wajda

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  45. 47.
    The Asphalt Jungle
    by John Huston

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  46. 48.
    L' Atalante
    by Jean Vigo

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  47. 49.
    Atlantic City
    by Louis Malle

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  48. 50.
    Au revoir les enfants - Criterion Collection
    by Louis Malle

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javert
Arlington

Every time... — 11 weeks ago

...I look at this list, I hate it even more. I’m going to have to drop it.


Netflixfan
Greensboro

Face to Face — 19 weeks ago

I replaced the incorrect Face to Face with the Ingmar Bergman film of the same name from 1976.


ellie
Grand Rapids

I can't believe ... — 27 weeks ago

... “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” didn’t make this top 1000 list.

Utterly incredible.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061735/


Untitled — 36 weeks ago

Well, hardly a great list. Should be more by Mizoguchi of course. I was at least pleasantly surprised to find The Well-Digger’s Daughter here; haven’t seen it for 25 years but brings back some good memories.


javert
Arlington

I Agree. — 41 weeks ago

This is hands down the worst list in this category.


39 Steps — 1 year ago

Someone needs to change 39 Steps to the Alfred Hitchcock version!!!


terrible list!! — 1 year ago

i can’t believe some of the choices on here. first I noticed that Buster Keaton’s The General wasn’t here (unforgivable). Then as I went I noticed there were absolutely no silent films. if they wanna call it the greatest movies ever made then maybe they should include the 30+ years before sound film.
also: Ruthless People?? really?

PS The 39 Steps should be changed to the correct 1935 Hitchcock version.


Mary Hawkins
New York City

I just double checked... — 1 year ago

And this list is correct and in the proper order… Still, if anyone wants to go over it with a fine toothed comb, please do!


Loi13
Arizona

My Musical! — 1 year ago

Where’s Little Shop of Horrors? That musical ROCKS THE HOUSE! Maybe I should just stop complaining and add it to the list.


Loi13
Arizona

Where's Shawshank?! — 1 year ago

I was shocked to see that Mary Poppins somehow made the list but not The Shawshank Redemption.
I was very glad to see One Flew Over the Cuukoos Nest, Thelma and Louise and The Purple Rose of Cairo. I’ve always thought that The Purple Rose of Cairo was a very overlooked movie.
I’m only 3% done with this list. :(



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