Top 100 Films

Rob Harmon's Top 100 Films List 

(list chronologically - not ranked)

1.  The Freshman (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor, 1925)

2.  The General (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1926)

3.  Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927)

4.  Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)

5.  The Crowd (King Vidor, 1928)

6.  The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928)

7.  Pandora's Box (G.W. Pabst, 1928)

8.  The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg, 1930)

9.  City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931)

10.  Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)

11.  Modern Times (Charles Chaplin, 1936)

12.  The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, 1937)

13.  Holiday (George Cukor, 1938)

14.  Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)

15.  Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939)

16.  Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940)

17.  The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)

18.  Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941)

19.  Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)

20.  Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper, 1942)

21.  Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock, 1943)

22.  Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)

23.  The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges, 1944)

24.  Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)

25.  'I Know Where I'm Going!' (Michael Powell, 1945)

26.  Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang, 1945)

27.  Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)

28.  A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell)

29.  Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947)

30.  Black Narcissus (Michael Powell, 1947)

31.  Red River (Howard Hawks, 1948)

32.  Sorry, Wrong Number (Anatole Litvak, 1948)

33.  Stray Dog (Kurosawa Akira, 1949)

34.  The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)

35.  Late Spring (Ozu Yasujiro, 1949)

36.  Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1949)

37.  All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)

38.  Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950)

39.  Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel, 1950)

40.  In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)

41.  An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli, 1951)

42.  Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, 1951)

43.  The Importance of Being Earnest (Anthony Asquith, 1952)

44.  The Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi Kenji, 1952)

45.  Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952)

46.  The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann, 1953)

47.  Ugetsu (Mizoguchi Kenji, 1953)

48.  The Big Heat (Fritz Lang, 1953)

49.  Tokyo Story (Ozu Yasujiro, 1953)

50.  Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)

51.  Seven Samurai (Kurosawa Akira, 1954)

52.  The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)

53.  Floating Clouds (Naruse Mikio, 1955)

54.  Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955)

55.  The Ladykillers (Alexander Mackendrick, 1955)

56.  Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956)

57.  The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)

58.  Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957)

59.  Throne of Blood (Kurosawa Akira, 1957)

60.  Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

61.  Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)

62.  Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)

63.  Nazarín (Luis Buñuel, 1959)

64.  Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)

65.  North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)

66.  Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)

67.  The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)

68.  Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)

69.  Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman, 1961)

70.  Yojimbo (Kurosawa Akira, 1961)

71.  Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah, 1962)

72.  Harakiri (Kobayashi Masaki, 1962)

73.  The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962)

74.  Sanjuro (Kurosawa Akira, 1962)

75.  The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)

76.  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)

77.  Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara Hiroshi, 1964)

78.  Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965)

79.  Red Beard (Kurosawa Akira, 1965)

80.  Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)

81.  Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966)

82.  Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1967)

83.  Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968)

84.  Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)

85.  Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1974)

86.  Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)

87.  The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)

88.  A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)

89.  The Tenant (Roman Polanski, 1976)

90.  Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)

91.  Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)

92.  Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1978)

93.  Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)

94.  Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984)

95.  The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988)

96.  A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989)

97.  Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)

98.  Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh, 1996)

99.  In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)

100.  Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)

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