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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. 200 -

    Pulp Fiction

    1994, in 38 top lists Check
  2. 92 -

    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  3. 504 -

    Psycho

    1960, in 39 top lists Check
  4. 17 -

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  5. 36 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  6. 294 -

    Taxi Driver

    1976, in 34 top lists Check
  7. 461 -

    Alien

    1979, in 30 top lists Check
  8. 395 -

    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
  9. 473 -

    Fight Club

    1999, in 19 top lists Check
  10. 48 -

    The Silence of the Lambs

    1991, in 36 top lists Check
  11. 520 new

    Goodfellas

    1990, in 31 top lists Check
  12. 179 -

    Rear Window

    1954, in 31 top lists Check
  13. 247 -

    Back to the Future

    1985, in 25 top lists Check
  14. 240 -

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    1975, in 35 top lists Check
  15. 75 -

    Singin' in the Rain

    1952, in 37 top lists Check
  16. 253 -

    Se7en

    1995, in 29 top lists Check
  17. 45 -

    Raiders of the Lost Ark

    1981 — a.k.a. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, in 29 top lists Check
  18. 309 -

    Fargo

    1996, in 27 top lists Check
  19. 439 -

    The Wizard of Oz

    1939, in 38 top lists Check
  20. 445 -

    The Third Man

    1949, in 37 top lists Check
  21. 15 -

    M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

    1931 — a.k.a. M, in 35 top lists Check
  22. 515 -

    Raging Bull

    1980, in 34 top lists Check
  23. 424 -

    The Big Lebowski

    1998, in 26 top lists Check
  24. 152 -

    Jurassic Park

    1993, in 23 top lists Check
  25. 391 -

    Ladri di biciclette

    1948 — a.k.a. Bicycle Thieves, in 36 top lists Check
  26. 299 -

    Blue Velvet

    1986, in 27 top lists Check
  27. 140 -

    The Exorcist

    1973, in 27 top lists Check
  28. 133 -

    8½

    1963, in 35 top lists Check
  29. 230 -

    The Night of the Hunter

    1955, in 34 top lists Check
  30. 440 -

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  31. 170 -

    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
  32. 292 -

    Persona

    1966, in 25 top lists Check
  33. 13 -

    City Lights

    1931, in 34 top lists Check
  34. 345 -

    The Graduate

    1967, in 29 top lists Check
  35. 94 -

    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    1982, in 31 top lists Check
  36. 269 -

    Modern Times

    1936, in 30 top lists Check
  37. 150 -

    Groundhog Day

    1993, in 22 top lists Check
  38. 498 -

    All About Eve

    1950, in 25 top lists Check
  39. 280 -

    The Searchers

    1956, in 26 top lists Check
  40. 244 -

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    1975, in 23 top lists Check
  41. 246 -

    Brazil

    1985, in 23 top lists Check
  42. 18 -

    The Maltese Falcon

    1941, in 27 top lists Check
  43. 400 -

    Touch of Evil

    1958, in 30 top lists Check
  44. 129 -

    Tôkyô monogatari

    1953 — a.k.a. Tokyo Story, in 27 top lists Check
  45. 178 -

    On the Waterfront

    1954, in 32 top lists Check
  46. 306 -

    Trainspotting

    1996, in 18 top lists Check
  47. 112 -

    King Kong

    1933, in 26 top lists Check
  48. 339 -

    Paths of Glory

    1957, in 26 top lists Check
  49. 242 -

    Barry Lyndon

    1975, in 24 top lists Check
  50. 341 -

    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    1957, in 32 top lists Check
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