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100 Must-See Films of the
20th Century
(in chronological order*)
The Birth of a Nation
(1915)
Directed by D. W. Griffith
Intolerance (1916)
Directed by D. W. Griffith
Our Hospitality (1923)
Directed Buster Keaton
Greed (1924)
Directed by Erich von Stroheim
The Gold Rush (1925)
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Battleship Potemkin (1925
- Russia)
Directed by Sergei Eisenstein
The Big Parade (1925)
Directed by King Vidor
The Freshman (1925)
Directed by Sam Taylor and Fred Newmeyer
Metropolis (1926 - Germany)
Directed by Fritz Lang
The General (1927)
Directed by Buster Keaton
Sunrise (1927)
Directed by F. W. Murnau
The Crowd (1928)
Directed by King Vidor
All Quiet on the Western Front
(1930)
Directed by Lewis Milestone
City Lights (1931)
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
M (1931 - Germany)
Directed by Fritz Lang
Dracula (1931)
Directed by Tod Browning
Frankenstein (1931)
Directed by James Whale
Trouble in Paradise
(1932)
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
King Kong (1933)
Directed by Merian C. Cooper
Duck Soup (1933)
Directed by Leo McCarey
Sons of the Desert
(1933)
Directed by William A. Seiter
It Happened One Night
(1934)
Directed by Frank Capra
It's A Gift (1934)
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
A Night at the Opera
(1935)
Directed by Sam Wood
Bride of Frankenstein
(1935)
Directed by James Whale
The 39 Steps (1935 - United Kingdom)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Swing Time (1936)
Directed by George Stevens
Modern Times (1936)
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Dodsworth (1936)
Directed by William Wyler
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Directed by Frank Capra
Grand Illusion
(1937 - France)
Directed by Jean Renoir
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
(1937)
Directed by David Hand
The Adventures of Robin
Hood (1938)
Directed by Michael Curtiz
The Lady Vanishes (1938
- British)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Stagecoach (1939)
Directed by John Ford
Gone With The Wind
(1939)
Directed by Victor Fleming
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Directed by Victor Fleming
His Girl Friday (1940)
Directed by Howard Hawks
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Directed by John Ford
Fantasia (1940)
Directed by Walt Disney
Sullivan's Travels
(1941)
Directed by Preston Sturges
Citizen Kane (1941)
Directed by Orson Welles
The Maltese Falcon
(1941)
Directed by John Huston
The Lady Eve (1941)
Directed by Preston Sturges
Casablanca (1942)
Directed by Michael Curtiz
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Directed by William A. Wellman
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
(1944)
Directed by Preston Sturges
Double Indemnity
(1944)
Directed by Billy Wilder
My Darling Clementine
(1946)
Directed by John Ford
It's A Wonderful Life
(1946)
Directed by Frank Capra
The Best Years of Our Lives
(1946)
Directed by William Wyler
Great Expectations (1946
- United Kingdom)
Directed by David Lean
The Bicycle Thief (1948
- Italy)
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
(1948)
Directed by John Huston
Gun Crazy (1949)
Directed by Joseph H. Lewis
All About Eve (1950)
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Sunset Boulevard
(1950)
Directed by Billy Wilder
Rashomon (1950 - Japan)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Strangers on a Train
(1951)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Singin' In The Rain
(1952)
Directed by Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
High Noon (1952)
Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
(1954)
Directed by Stanley Donen
On The Waterfront
(1954)
Directed by Elia Kazan
The Seven Samurai
(1954 - Japan)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
The Searchers (1956)
Directed by John Ford
Paths of Glory (1957)
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
The Seventh Seal (1957
- Sweden)
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Vertigo (1958)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
North By Northwest (1959)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
The 400 Blows (1959 - France)
Directed by Francois Truffaut
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Directed by Billy Wilder
Psycho (1960)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
La Dolce Vita (1962
- Italy)
Directed by Federico Fellini
Lawrence of Arabia
(1962 - United Kingdom)
Directed by David Lean
8 1/2 (1963 -
Italy)
Directed by Federico Fellini
Dr. Strangelove or: How I
Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964
- British)
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Mary Poppins (1964)
Directed by Robert Stevenson
Blow-Up (1966 - United Kingdom/Italy)
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
The Graduate (1967)
Directed by Mike Nichols
Bonnie And Clyde
(1967)
Directed by Arthur Penn
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968
- British)
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Directed by Sam Peckinpah
Midnight Cowboy
(1969)
Directed by John Schlesinger
The Godfather (1972)
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Mean Streets (1973)
Directed by Martin Scorsese
The Godfather, Part II
(1974)
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
The Conversation
(1974)
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Directed by Mel Brooks
Jaws (1975)
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Nashville (1975)
Directed by Robert Altman
Annie Hall (1977)
Directed by Woody Allen
Star Wars (1977)
Directed by George Lucas
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Directed by Michael Cimino
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Raging Bull (1980)
Directed by Martin Scorsese
E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial
(1982)
Directed by Steven Spielberg
GoodFellas (1990)
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Schindler's List
(1993)
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Fargo (1996)
Directed by Joel Coen
*from Leonard Maltin's 2006 Movie Guide
by Leonard Maltin
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