Mr. Showbiz's
CRITICS' Picks:
The 100 Best Movies
of All Time
The
films chosen for
this list were
limited to English
language films made
since the birth of
the talkies.
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Casablanca
(1942), dir.
Michael Curtiz
-
The Godfather
Part II (1974),
dir. Francis
Ford Coppola
-
North By
Northwest (1959),
dir. Alfred
Hitchcock
-
Citizen Kane
(1941), dir.
Orson Welles
-
Lawrence of
Arabia (1962),
dir. David Lean
-
Manhattan
(1979), dir.
Woody Allen
-
Gone With The
Wind (1939),
dir. Victor
Fleming
-
Chinatown (1974),
dir. Roman
Polanski
-
The Man Who
Shot Liberty
Valance (1962),
dir. John Ford
-
City Lights
(1931), dir.
Charles Chaplin
-
Raging Bull
(1980), dir.
Martin Scorsese
-
Sunset Boulevard
(1950), dir.
Billy Wilder
-
2001: A Space
Odyssey (1968),
dir. Stanley
Kubrick
-
The Philadelphia
Story (1940),
dir. George
Cukor
-
To Have and Have
Not (1944),
dir. Howard
Hawks
-
The Graduate
(1967), dir.
Mike Nichols
-
The Maltese
Falcon (1941),
dir. John Huston
-
Star Wars (1977),
dir. George
Lucas
-
It's A Wonderful
Life (1946),
dir. Frank Capra
-
The Wild Bunch
(1969), dir.
Sam Peckinpah
-
Vertigo (1958),
dir. Alfred
Hitchcock
-
Singin' In The
Rain (1952),
dir. Stanley
Donen and Gene
Kelly
-
The Godfather
(1972), dir.
Francis Ford
Coppola
-
E.T. - The
Extra-Terrestrial
(1982), dir.
Steven Spielberg
-
The Palm Beach
Story (1942),
dir. Preston
Sturges
-
Blade Runner
(1982), dir.
Ridley Scott
-
Double Indemnity
(1944), dir.
Billy Wilder
-
The Manchurian
Candidate (1962),
dir. John
Frankenheimer
-
All About Eve
(1950), dir.
Joseph
Mankiewicz
-
The Searchers
(1956), dir.
John Ford
-
Rear Window
(1954), dir.
Alfred Hitchcock
-
Annie Hall
(1977), dir.
Woody Allen
-
Ninotchka (1939),
dir. Ernst
Lubitsch
-
Blue Velvet
(1986), dir.
David Lynch
-
The Wizard of Oz
(1939), dir.
Victor Fleming
-
Bringing Up Baby
(1938), dir.
Howard Hawks
-
The Bridge On
The River Kwai
(1957), dir.
David Lean
-
Dr. Strangelove
or: How I
Learned To Stop
Worrying And
Love The Bomb
(1964), dir.
Stanley Kubrick
-
Pulp Fiction
(1994), dir.
Quentin
Tarantino
-
Some Like It Hot
(1959), dir.
Billy Wilder
-
On The
Waterfront
(1954), dir.
Elia Kazan
-
One Flew Over
The Cuckoo's
Nest (1975),
dir. Milos
Forman
-
Taxi Driver
(1976), dir.
Martin Scorsese
-
Touch Of Evil
(1958), dir.
Orson Welles
-
Nashville (1975),
dir. Robert
Altman
-
Apocalypse Now
(1979), dir.
Francis Ford
Coppola
-
The Hustler
(1961), dir.
Robert Rossen
-
The Big Sleep
(1946), dir.
Howard Hawks
-
Bonnie And Clyde
(1967), dir.
Arthur Penn
-
Unforgiven
(1992), dir.
Clint Eastwood
-
Network (1976),
dir. Sidney
Lumet
-
The Silence of
the Lambs (1991),
dir. Jonathan
Demme
-
Jaws (1975),
dir. Steven
Spielberg
-
The Deer Hunter
(1978), dir.
Michael Cimino
-
Hannah and
Her Sisters
(1986), dir.
Woody Allen
-
Gunga Din
(1939), dir.
George Stevens
-
Schindler's List
(1993), dir.
Steven Spielberg
-
Hud (1963),
dir. Martin Ritt
-
The Third Man
(1949), dir.
Carol Reed
-
Modern Times
(1936), dir.
Charles Chaplin
-
Raiders of the
Lost Ark (1981),
dir. Steven
Spielberg
-
Red River (1948),
dir. Howard
Hawks
-
The Empire
Strikes Back
(1980), dir.
Irvin Kershner
-
Hamlet
(1948), dir.
Laurence Olivier
-
Notorious (1946),
dir. Alfred
Hitchcock
-
A Streetcar
Named Desire
(1951), dir.
Elia Kazan
-
Last Tango in
Paris (1972),
dir. Bernardo
Bertolucci
-
Sweet Smell of
Success (1957),
dir. Alexander
Mackendrick
-
Out Of The Past
(1947), dir.
Jacques Tournier
-
All That Jazz
(1979), dir. Bob
Fosse
-
Top Hat (1935),
dir. Mark
Sandrich
-
The Misfits
(1961), dir.
John Huston
-
Tootsie
(1982), dir.
Sydney Pollack
-
Mr. Smith Goes
to Washington
(1939), dir.
Frank Capra
-
Short Cuts
(1993), dir.
Robert Altman
-
The Grapes of
Wrath (1940),
dir. John Ford
-
The Apartment
(1960), dir.
Billy Wilder
-
A Clockwork
Orange (1971),
dir. Stanley
Kubrick
-
Psycho (1960),
dir. Alfred
Hitchcock
-
Moonstruck
(1987), dir.
Norman Jewison
-
GoodFellas
(1990), dir.
Martin Scorsese
-
Stagecoach
(1939), dir.
John Ford
-
The Last Picture
Show (1971),
dir. Peter
Bogdanovich
-
Die Hard (1988),
dir. John
McTiernan
-
Midnight Cowboy
(1969), dir.
John Schlesinger
-
West Side Story
(1961), dir.
Robert Wise,
Jerome Robbins
-
The Quiet Man
(1952), dir.
John Ford
-
Reds (1981),
dir. Warren
Beatty
-
Rebel Without a
Cause (1955),
dir. Nicholas
Ray
-
A Hard Day's
Night (1964),
dir. Richard
Lester
-
A Room With A
View (1986),
dir. James Ivory
-
From Here to
Eternity (1953),
dir. Fred
Zinnemann
-
The Piano
(1993), dir.
Jane Campion
-
Adam's Rib
(1949), dir.
George Cukor
-
This Is
Spinal Tap
(1984), dir. Rob
Reiner
-
It Happened One
Night (1934),
dir. Frank Capra
-
Do the Right
Thing (1989),
dir. Spike Lee
-
The Thin Man
(1934), dir.
W.S. Van Dyke
-
Patton (1970),
dir. Franklin
Schaffner
-
The Terminator
(1984), dir.
James Cameron
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Mr. Showbiz's
READERS' Picks:
The 100 Best Movies
of All Time
Visitors were asked
to vote for their
Ten Best Movies of
All Time, and the
responses were
tabulated.
-
Star Wars (1977),
dir. George
Lucas
-
The Godfather
(1972), dir.
Francis Ford
Coppola
-
Pulp Fiction
(1994), dir.
Quentin
Tarantino
-
Casablanca
(1942), dir.
Michael Curtiz
-
Gone With The
Wind (1939),
dir. Victor
Fleming
-
Raiders of the
Lost Ark (1981),
dir. Steven
Spielberg
-
Schindler's List
(1993), dir.
Steven Spielberg
-
Citizen Kane
(1941), dir.
Orson Welles
-
The Empire
Strikes Back
(1980),
dir. Irvin
Kershner
-
It's A Wonderful
Life (1946),
dir. Frank Capra
-
The Silence of
the Lambs (1991),
dir. Jonathan
Demme
-
Braveheart
(1995), dir. Mel
Gibson
-
E.T. - The
Extra-Terrestrial
(1982), dir.
Steven Spielberg
-
The Godfather
Part II (1974),
dir. Francis
Ford Coppola
-
Forrest Gump
(1994), dir.
Robert Zemeckis
-
Apocalypse Now
(1979), dir.
Francis Ford
Coppola
-
2001: A Space
Odyssey (1968),
dir. Stanley
Kubrick
-
The Shawshank
Redemption
(1994), dir.
Frank Darabont
-
The Wizard of Oz
(1939), dir.
Victor Fleming
-
Independence
Day (1996), dir.
Roland Emmerich
-
GoodFellas
(1990), dir.
Martin Scorsese
-
Blade Runner
(1982), dir.
Ridley Scott
-
Return of the
Jedi (1983),
dir. Richard
Marquand
-
Jaws (1975),
dir. Steven
Spielberg
-
Beavis and
Butt-Head Do
America (1996),
dir. Mike Judge
-
Die Hard (1988),
dir. John
McTiernan
-
One Flew Over
The Cuckoo's
Nest (1975),
dir. Milos
Forman
-
The Sound of
Music (1965),
dir. Robert Wise
-
Dr. Strangelove
or: How I
Learned
To Stop Worrying
And Love The
Bomb (1964),
dir. Stanley
Kubrick
-
The Usual
Suspects (1995),
dir. Bryan
Singer
-
Ace Ventura:
Pet Detective
(1994), dir. Tom
Shadyac
-
Lawrence of
Arabia (1962),
dir. David Lean
-
A Clockwork
Orange (1971),
dir. Stanley
Kubrick
-
Taxi Driver
(1976), dir.
Martin Scorsese
-
The Graduate
(1967), dir.
Mike Nichols
-
Terminator 2:
Judgment Day
(1991), dir.
James Cameron
-
The Terminator
(1984), dir.
James Cameron
-
Fargo (1996),
dir. Joel Coen
-
North By
Northwest (1959),
dir. Alfred
Hitchcock
-
Rear Window
(1954), dir.
Alfred Hitchcock
-
Raging Bull
(1980), dir.
Martin Scorsese
-
Grease
(1978), dir.
Randal Kleiser
-
Singin' In The
Rain (1952),
dir. Stanley
Donen and Gene
Kelly
-
Reservoir
Dogs (1992),
dir. Quentin
Tarantino
-
Psycho (1960),
dir. Alfred
Hitchcock
-
Aliens (1986),
dir. James
Cameron
-
Annie Hall
(1977), dir.
Woody Allen
-
Vertigo (1958),
dir. Alfred
Hitchcock
-
Dances With
Wolves (1990),
dir. Kevin
Costner
-
The Princess
Bride (1987),
dir. Rob Reiner
-
Top Gun
(1986), dir.
Tony Scott
-
Unforgiven
(1992), dir.
Clint Eastwood
-
Seven (1995),
dir. David
Fincher
-
West Side Story
(1961), dir.
Robert Wise,
Jerome Robbins
-
Chinatown (1974),
dir. Roman
Polanski
-
The Piano
(1993), dir.
Jane Campion
-
Field of Dreams
(1989), dir.
Phil Alden
Robinson
-
The Rock
(1996), dir.
Michael Bay
-
Trainspotting
(1996), dir.
Danny Boyle
-
Jerry Maguire
(1996), dir.
Cameron Crowe
-
The Deer Hunter
(1978), dir.
Michael Cimino
-
(Monty
Python's) Life
of Brian (1979),
dir. Terry Jones
-
Some Like It Hot
(1959), dir.
Billy Wilder
-
Jurassic Park
(1993), dir.
Steven Spielberg
-
The Bridge On
The River Kwai
(1957), dir.
David Lean
-
Indiana Jones
and the Last
Crusade (1989),
dir. Steven
Spielberg
-
The Maltese
Falcon (1941),
dir. John Huston
-
Twister
(1996), dir. Jan
De Bont
-
Ben-Hur (1959),
dir. William
Wyler
-
Heat (1995),
dir. Michael
Mann
-
When Harry Met
Sally...(1989),
dir. Rob Reiner
-
The Philadelphia
Story (1940),
dir. George
Cukor
-
Back to the
Future (1989),
dir. Robert
Zemeckis
-
Apollo 13
(1995), dir. Ron
Howard
-
Rocky (1976),
dir. John G.
Avildsen
-
Blue Velvet
(1986), dir.
David Lynch
-
Amadeus
(1984), dir.
Milos Forman
-
Speed (1994),
dir. Jan De Bont
-
Dead Poets
Society (1989),
dir. Peter Weir
-
Rain Man
(1988), dir.
Barry Levinson
-
The Good, the
Bad, and the
Ugly (1966),
dir. Sergio
Leone
-
Midnight Cowboy
(1969), dir.
John Schlesinger
-
Manhattan
(1979), dir.
Woody Allen
-
The Lion King
(1994), dir.
Roger Allers,
Rob Minkoff
-
Platoon
(1986), dir.
Oliver Stone
-
Brazil (1985),
dir. Terry
Gilliam
-
All About Eve
(1950), dir.
Joseph
Mankiewicz
-
Raising
Arizona (1987),
dir. Joel Coen
-
The Breakfast
Club (1985),
dir. John Hughes
-
The Quiet Man
(1952), dir.
John Ford
-
Doctor
Zhivago (1965),
dir. David Lean
-
A Time to
Kill (1996),
dir. Joel
Schumacher
-
Breakfast at
Tiffany's
(1961), dir.
Blake Edwards
-
A Few Good
Men (1992), dir.
Rob Reiner
-
Tootsie
(1982), dir.
Sydney Pollack
-
The Fugitive
(1993), dir.
Andrew Davis
-
The English
Patient (1996),
dir. Anthony
Minghella
-
Toy Story
(1995), dir.
John Lasseter
-
Alien (1979),
dir. Ridley
Scott
-
Patton (1970),
dir. Franklin
Schaffner
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