Tim Dirks' Greatest Films
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This selection of 100 Greatest Films in the last century of film-making covers, by conscious choice, a wide range of genres, decades, stars and directors. Emphasis in these selections is purposely directed toward earlier, more classic Hollywood/American films than more recent films, although some recent films (and British films) are included. (An Additional 100 Greatest Films, and Third 100 Greatest Films are also indexed here.) The Greatest Films selected do not include foreign films or non-English language films for purposes of specialization and focus. Negative judgment on foreign films or non-English language films is not intended or implied.
Over a long period of time, the English-language films found here have repeatedly appeared on all-time best film lists and are often noted in the collective responses of film viewers and critics. Arguably, there has been reasonable consensus by most film historians, critics, movie-lovers, and reviewers that the selections chosen by this site are among cinema's most critically-acclaimed, significant "must-see" films (of predominantly Hollywood-American production). They are the films almost every educated person with a solid knowledge of film history and cinema would be expected to know and be literate about.
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12 Angry Men
1957, in 30 top lists Check -
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Adam's Rib
1949, in 8 top lists Check -
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All About Eve
1950, in 25 top lists Check -
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All Quiet on the Western Front
1930, in 19 top lists Check -
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All the King's Men
1949, in 8 top lists Check -
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Amadeus
1984, in 23 top lists Check -
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American Beauty
1999, in 25 top lists Check -
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American Graffiti
1973, in 17 top lists Check -
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Annie Hall
1977, in 34 top lists Check -
106 -
The Apartment
1960, in 28 top lists Check -
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Apocalypse Now
1979, in 38 top lists Check -
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The Asphalt Jungle
1950, in 15 top lists Check -
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Atlantic City
1980, in 14 top lists Check -
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Babe
1995, in 12 top lists Check -
211 -
Baby Doll
1956, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Bad and the Beautiful
1952, in 9 top lists Check -
110 -
Bad Day at Black Rock
1955, in 7 top lists Check -
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Badlands
1973, in 23 top lists Check -
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Bambi
1942, in 13 top lists Check -
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Ben-Hur
1959, in 22 top lists Check -
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The Best Years of Our Lives
1946, in 30 top lists Check -
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The Big Parade
1925, in 13 top lists Check -
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The Birth of a Nation
1915, in 21 top lists Check -
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Blow-Up
1966, in 20 top lists Check -
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Blue Velvet
1986, in 27 top lists Check -
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Bonnie and Clyde
1967, in 28 top lists Check -
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957, in 32 top lists Check -
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Brief Encounter
1945, in 22 top lists Check -
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Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
1919 — a.k.a. Broken Blossoms, in 13 top lists Check -
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Bus Stop
1956, in 2 top lists Check -
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Cabaret
1972, in 24 top lists Check -
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Camille
1936, in 6 top lists Check -
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Casablanca
1942, in 39 top lists Check -
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Chinatown
1974, in 31 top lists Check -
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The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth...
1944 — a.k.a. Henry V, in 12 top lists Check -
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Citizen Kane
1941, in 39 top lists Check -
20 -
City Lights
1931, in 34 top lists Check -
123 -
A Clockwork Orange
1971, in 37 top lists Check -
124 -
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977, in 23 top lists Check -
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The Conversation
1974, in 23 top lists Check -
126 -
Cool Hand Luke
1967, in 13 top lists Check -
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Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989, in 12 top lists Check -
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The Crowd
1928, in 20 top lists Check -
221 -
The Crying Game
1992, in 11 top lists Check -
222 -
Dark Victory
1939, in 6 top lists Check -
223 -
The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951, in 12 top lists Check -
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Days of Heaven
1978, in 19 top lists Check -
128 -
The Deer Hunter
1978, in 26 top lists Check -
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Deliverance
1972, in 15 top lists Check -
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Dinner at Eight
1933, in 5 top lists Check
Last updated on Dec 28, 2011; source