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The best movies of the 20th century as shown by the cinema Filmpodium in Zurich, Switzerland. The project lasted from 2011 to 2020. In each of the 10 years during this retrospective the best movies of the years with the corresponding end number were shown: in 2011 those were the films of the years 1911, 1921, 1931 up to 1991. At the end of the project in 2020 the list contains 522 of the very best movies of the first century of cinema.
You'll find the program of the actual month at their website www.filmpodium.ch. Original title of this series is: Das erste Jahrhundert des Films.

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  1. 473 -

    Fight Club

    1999, in 19 top lists Check
  2. 200 -

    Pulp Fiction

    1994, in 38 top lists Check
  3. 247 -

    Back to the Future

    1985, in 25 top lists Check
  4. 152 -

    Jurassic Park

    1993, in 23 top lists Check
  5. 48 -

    The Silence of the Lambs

    1991, in 36 top lists Check
  6. 253 -

    Se7en

    1995, in 29 top lists Check
  7. 420 -

    The Truman Show

    1998, in 14 top lists Check
  8. 94 -

    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    1982, in 31 top lists Check
  9. 92 -

    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  10. 45 -

    Raiders of the Lost Ark

    1981 — a.k.a. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, in 29 top lists Check
  11. 439 -

    The Wizard of Oz

    1939, in 38 top lists Check
  12. 36 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  13. 244 -

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    1975, in 23 top lists Check
  14. 424 -

    The Big Lebowski

    1998, in 26 top lists Check
  15. 461 -

    Alien

    1979, in 30 top lists Check
  16. 191 -

    Ghostbusters

    1984, in 13 top lists Check
  17. 150 -

    Groundhog Day

    1993, in 22 top lists Check
  18. 327 -

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    1937, in 25 top lists Check
  19. 240 -

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    1975, in 35 top lists Check
  20. 520 new

    Goodfellas

    1990, in 31 top lists Check
  21. 306 -

    Trainspotting

    1996, in 18 top lists Check
  22. 504 -

    Psycho

    1960, in 39 top lists Check
  23. 294 -

    Taxi Driver

    1976, in 34 top lists Check
  24. 140 -

    The Exorcist

    1973, in 27 top lists Check
  25. 309 -

    Fargo

    1996, in 27 top lists Check
  26. 467 -

    Life of Brian

    1979 — a.k.a. Monty Python's Life of Brian, in 18 top lists Check
  27. 495 -

    Fantasia

    1940, in 20 top lists Check
  28. 237 -

    The Sound of Music

    1965, in 25 top lists Check
  29. 17 -

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  30. 179 -

    Rear Window

    1954, in 31 top lists Check
  31. 190 -

    Amadeus

    1984, in 23 top lists Check
  32. 474 -

    Being John Malkovich

    1999, in 14 top lists Check
  33. 256 -

    Heat

    1995, in 23 top lists Check
  34. 395 -

    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
  35. 345 -

    The Graduate

    1967, in 29 top lists Check
  36. 440 -

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  37. 75 -

    Singin' in the Rain

    1952, in 37 top lists Check
  38. 356 -

    RoboCop

    1987, in 15 top lists Check
  39. 134 -

    The Birds

    1963, in 18 top lists Check
  40. 515 -

    Raging Bull

    1980, in 34 top lists Check
  41. 183 -

    Goldfinger

    1964, in 15 top lists Check
  42. 34 -

    West Side Story

    1961, in 22 top lists Check
  43. 452 -

    Ben-Hur

    1959, in 22 top lists Check
  44. 516 -

    The Elephant Man

    1980, in 16 top lists Check
  45. 414 -

    Akira

    1988, in 22 top lists Check
  46. 269 -

    Modern Times

    1936, in 30 top lists Check
  47. 361 -

    Jackie Brown

    1997, in 5 top lists Check
  48. 246 -

    Brazil

    1985, in 23 top lists Check
  49. 405 -

    Night of the Living Dead

    1968, in 20 top lists Check
  50. 112 -

    King Kong

    1933, in 26 top lists Check
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