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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  1. 73 new

    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    1916, in 24 top lists Check
  2. 52 new

    The General

    1926, in 34 top lists Check
  3. 15 new

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
  4. 61 new

    La passion de Jeanne d'Arc

    1928 — a.k.a. The Passion of Joan of Arc, in 27 top lists Check
  5. 28 new

    City Lights

    1931, in 34 top lists Check
  6. 68 new

    King Kong

    1933, in 26 top lists Check
  7. 25 new

    Bringing Up Baby

    1938, in 23 top lists Check
  8. 21 new

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  9. 13 new

    La règle du jeu

    1939 — a.k.a. The Rules of the Game, in 24 top lists Check
  10. 34 new

    Stagecoach

    1939, in 21 top lists Check
  11. 2 new

    The Wizard of Oz

    1939, in 38 top lists Check
  12. 4 new

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  13. 63 new

    Bambi

    1942, in 13 top lists Check
  14. 16 new

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  15. 29 new

    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
  16. 8 new

    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
  17. 46 new

    Notorious

    1946, in 24 top lists Check
  18. 67 new

    Ladri di biciclette

    1948 — a.k.a. Bicycle Thieves, in 36 top lists Check
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    All About Eve

    1950, in 25 top lists Check
  20. 11 new

    Singin' in the Rain

    1952, in 37 top lists Check
  21. 24 new

    Tôkyô monogatari

    1953 — a.k.a. Tokyo Story, in 27 top lists Check
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    On the Waterfront

    1954, in 32 top lists Check
  23. 6 new

    Shichinin no samurai

    1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check
  24. 55 new

    Pather Panchali

    1955, in 21 top lists Check
  25. 65 new

    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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    12 Angry Men

    1957, in 30 top lists Check
  27. 32 new

    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
  28. 26 new

    Les quatre cents coups

    1959 — a.k.a. The 400 Blows, in 26 top lists Check
  29. 39 new

    Some Like It Hot

    1959, in 35 top lists Check
  30. 23 new

    The Apartment

    1960, in 28 top lists Check
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    À bout de souffle

    1960 — a.k.a. Breathless, in 29 top lists Check
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    L'avventura

    1960 — a.k.a. L'Avventura, in 24 top lists Check
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    Psycho

    1960, in 39 top lists Check
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    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962, in 40 top lists Check
  35. 33 new

    8½

    1963, in 35 top lists Check
  36. 77 new

    Goldfinger

    1964, in 15 top lists Check
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    A Hard Day's Night

    1964, in 18 top lists Check
  38. 87 new

    The Sound of Music

    1965, in 25 top lists Check
  39. 18 new

    Persona

    1966, in 25 top lists Check
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    Belle de jour

    1967 — a.k.a. Belle de Jour, in 21 top lists Check
  41. 27 new

    Bonnie and Clyde

    1967, in 28 top lists Check
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    The Graduate

    1967, in 29 top lists Check
  43. 93 new

    Le samouraï

    1967 — a.k.a. Le Samouraï, in 20 top lists Check
  44. 7 new

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  45. 56 new

    Rosemary's Baby

    1968, in 21 top lists Check
  46. 41 new

    The Wild Bunch

    1969, in 25 top lists Check
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    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  48. 92 new

    Pink Flamingos

    1972, in 13 top lists Check
  49. 47 new

    Mean Streets

    1973, in 22 top lists Check
  50. 91 new

    Scener ur ett äktenskap

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