Variety's The 100 Greatest Movies of All Time

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"The movies are now more than 100 years old. That still makes them a young medium, at least in art-form years (how old is the novel? the theater? the painting?). But they’re just old enough to make compiling Variety’s first-ever list of the 100 Greatest Movies of All Time a more daunting task than it once might have been. Think about it: You get an average of one film per year. A great deal of ardent discussion and debate went into the creation of this list. Our choices were winnowed from hundreds of titles submitted by more than 30 Variety critics, writers and editors. As we learned, coming up with which movies to include was the easy part. The hard part was deciding which movies to leave out."

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    The Graduate

    1967, in 29 top lists Check
  2. 99 new

    12 Angry Men

    1957, in 30 top lists Check
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    Mujeres al borde de un ataque de "nervios"

    1988 — a.k.a. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, in 17 top lists Check
  4. 97 new

    Alien

    1979, in 30 top lists Check
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    A Hard Day's Night

    1964, in 18 top lists Check
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    Toy Story

    1995, in 25 top lists Check
  7. 94 new

    Bridesmaids

    2011, in 8 top lists Check
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    Le samouraï

    1967 — a.k.a. Le Samouraï, in 20 top lists Check
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    Pink Flamingos

    1972, in 13 top lists Check
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    Scener ur ett äktenskap

    1973 — a.k.a. Scenes from a Marriage, in 4 top lists Check
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    The Shining

    1980, in 28 top lists Check
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    Belle de jour

    1967 — a.k.a. Belle de Jour, in 21 top lists Check
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    Malcolm X

    1992, in 7 top lists Check
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    The Sound of Music

    1965, in 25 top lists Check
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    Nema-ye Nazdik

    1990 — a.k.a. Close-Up, in 21 top lists Check
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    Natural Born Killers

    1994, in 9 top lists Check
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    El laberinto del fauno

    2006 — a.k.a. Pan's Labyrinth, in 33 top lists Check
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    Kramer vs. Kramer

    1979, in 8 top lists Check
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    Gisaengchung

    2019 — a.k.a. Parasite, in 22 top lists
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    The Dark Knight

    2008, in 27 top lists Check
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    Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco

    1980 — a.k.a. Pixote, in 7 top lists Check
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    Waiting for Guffman

    1996, in 2 top lists Check
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    Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080...

    1975, in 12 top lists Check
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    Goldfinger

    1964, in 15 top lists Check
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    The Tree of Life

    2011, in 13 top lists Check
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    Boogie Nights

    1997, in 12 top lists Check
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    Tonari no Totoro

    1988 — a.k.a. My Neighbor Totoro, in 23 top lists Check
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    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    1916, in 24 top lists Check
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    Breaking the Waves

    1996, in 14 top lists Check
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    My Best Friend's Wedding

    1997, in 3 top lists Check
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    12 Years a Slave

    2013, in 22 top lists Check
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    Beau travail

    1999, in 15 top lists Check
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    King Kong

    1933, in 26 top lists Check
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    Ladri di biciclette

    1948 — a.k.a. Bicycle Thieves, in 36 top lists Check
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    Paris Is Burning

    1990, in 12 top lists Check
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    Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent...

    1956 — a.k.a. A Man Escaped, in 20 top lists Check
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    Carrie

    1976, in 11 top lists Check
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    Bambi

    1942, in 13 top lists Check
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    Dazed and Confused

    1993, in 7 top lists Check
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    La passion de Jeanne d'Arc

    1928 — a.k.a. The Passion of Joan of Arc, in 27 top lists Check
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    Moulin Rouge!

    2001, in 17 top lists Check
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    Sans toit ni loi

    1985 — a.k.a. Vagabond, in 10 top lists Check
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    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    1982, in 30 top lists Check
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    Brokeback Mountain

    2005, in 21 top lists Check
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    Rosemary's Baby

    1968, in 21 top lists Check
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    Pather Panchali

    1955, in 21 top lists Check
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    Mad Max 2

    1981 — a.k.a. The Road Warrior, in 14 top lists Check
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    Fa yeung nin wah

    2000 — a.k.a. In the Mood for Love, in 30 top lists Check
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    The General

    1926, in 33 top lists Check
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    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 37 top lists Check
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