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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The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938, in 17 top lists Check -
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The African Queen
1951, in 11 top lists Check -
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An American in Paris
1951, in 18 top lists Check -
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Annie Hall
1977, in 34 top lists Check -
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The Best Years of Our Lives
1946, in 30 top lists Check -
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The Birth of a Nation
1915, in 21 top lists Check -
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Bringing Up Baby
1938, in 23 top lists Check -
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Casablanca
1942, in 39 top lists Check -
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City Lights
1931, in 34 top lists Check -
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The Crowd
1928, in 20 top lists Check -
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42nd Street
1933, in 12 top lists Check -
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Gone with the Wind
1939, in 31 top lists Check -
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The Graduate
1967, in 29 top lists Check -
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His Girl Friday
1940, in 22 top lists Check -
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It Happened One Night
1934, in 29 top lists Check -
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The Lady Eve
1941, in 20 top lists Check -
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Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948, in 15 top lists Check -
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The Magnificent Ambersons
1942, in 15 top lists Check -
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Ninotchka
1939, in 20 top lists Check -
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Notorious
1946, in 24 top lists Check -
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On the Waterfront
1954, in 32 top lists Check -
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The Philadelphia Story
1940, in 22 top lists Check -
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The Quiet Man
1952, in 15 top lists Check -
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Red River
1948, in 16 top lists Check -
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Roman Holiday
1953, in 14 top lists Check -
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Shane
1953, in 18 top lists Check -
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Singin' in the Rain
1952, in 37 top lists Check -
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A Star Is Born
1954, in 13 top lists Check -
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check -
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Sunset Blvd.
1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check -
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Top Hat
1935, in 14 top lists Check -
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Trouble in Paradise
1932, in 17 top lists Check -
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Vertigo
1958, in 42 top lists Check -
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Wuthering Heights
1939, in 10 top lists Check -
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Adam's Rib
1949, in 8 top lists Check -
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The Apartment
1960, in 28 top lists Check -
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The Awful Truth
1937, in 15 top lists Check -
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The Bad and the Beautiful
1952, in 9 top lists Check -
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The Big Parade
1925, in 13 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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Cabaret
1972, in 24 top lists Check -
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Camille
1936, in 6 top lists Check -
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Days of Heaven
1978, in 19 top lists Check -
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Dodsworth
1936, in 10 top lists Check -
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From Here to Eternity
1953, in 13 top lists Check -
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The Heiress
1949, in 10 top lists Check -
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Jezebel
1938, in 7 top lists Check -
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Manhattan
1979, in 20 top lists Check -
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Mean Streets
1973, in 22 top lists Check
Last updated on Dec 28, 2011; source