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Filmsite says: "Arguably, there is reasonable consensus by most film historians, critics and reviewers that these selections are among cinema's most critically-acclaimed, significant "must-see" films (of predominantly Hollywood-American production). These 100 choices were limited to English-language, theatrically-distributed and narrative feature films, listed here in alphabetical order." These are the 100 best movies you need to see. For the full article go to: http://www.filmsite.org/momentsindx.html

 
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  Name Release Directed by Genre(s) Actor(s)
  1. 1938
    Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
    Drama, Costume drama, Action, Adventure, Action/Adventure, Romance film, Swashbuckler films More
    Ian Hunter, Basil Rathbone, Alan Hale, Sr., Eugene Pallette, Melville Cooper, Lester Matthews, Una O'Connor, Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles, Herbert Mundin, Olivia de Havilland, Montagu Love, Leonard Willey More
  2. 1951
    John Huston
    Drama, Action, Adventure, Action/Adventure, Romance film, War, Film adaptation More
    Gerald Onn, Walter Gotell, Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Morley, Richard Marner, Peter Bull, Theodore Bikel, Peter Swanwick More
  3. 1950
    Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Drama, Black-and-white, LGBT, Black comedy
    George Sanders, Anne Baxter, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Marilyn Monroe, Gregory Ratoff, Walter Hampden, Hugh Marlowe, Barbara Bates, Bette Davis, Thelma Ritter More
  4. 1930
    Lewis Milestone
    Drama, Black-and-white, War, Film adaptation, Pre-Code
    Louis Wolheim, James Gleason, G. Pat Collins, Lew Ayres, Owen Davis, Jr., William Bakewell, Walter B. Rogers, Ben Alexander, John Wray, Beryl Mercer, Scott Kolk, Richard Alexander, Slim Summerville, Harold Goodwin, Arnold Lucy More
  5. 1951
    Vincente Minnelli
    Musical
    Leslie Caron, Nina Foch, Gene Kelly, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary
  6. 1977
    Woody Allen
    Comedy, Romance film, Romantic comedy, New Hollywood
    Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Walken, John Glover, Shelley Hack, Tony Roberts, Woody Allen, Quinn Cummings, Paul Simon, Joan Newman, Mordecai Lawner, Helen Ludlam, Carol Kane, Diane Keaton, Shelley Duvall, Jeff Goldblum, Colleen Dewhurst, Janet Margolin, Donald Symington More
  7. 1979
    Francis Ford Coppola
    War, Cult, Existentialism, New Hollywood
    Scott Glenn, Emilio Estevez, Henry Strzalkowski, Don Gordon Bell, Vittorio Storaro, Jim Gaines, Joe Estevez, R. Lee Ermey, Evan A. Lottman, Glenn Walken, Sam Bottoms, Bill Graham, Cynthia Wood, Dennis Hopper, Marlon Brando, Jack Thibeau, Francis Ford Coppola, G. D. Spradlin, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Colleen Camp, Laurence Fishburne, Harrison Ford, Linn Phillips, Kerry Rossall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Nick Nicholson, Bo Byers, Tom Mason, Ron McQueen, Jerry Ziesmer, James Keane, Linda Carpenter More
  8. 1959
    William Wyler
    Drama, Costume drama, Family, Action, Action/Adventure, LGBT, Sword and Sandal, Movies About Gladiators, Roadshow theatrical release, War, Epic, Religious Film, Christian film, Remake More
    Sam Jaffe, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Claude Heater, André Morell, Charlton Heston, Martha Scott, Hugh Griffith, Cathy O'Donnell, George Relph, Frank Thring, Finlay Currie, Terence Longdon More
  9. 1946
    William Wyler
    Drama, Black-and-white, War
    Myrna Loy, Roman Bohnen, Harold Russell, Gladys George, Virginia Mayo, Cathy O'Donnell, Fredric March, Steve Cochran, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Hoagy Carmichael, Ray Collins More
  10. 1925
    King Vidor
    Drama, Black-and-white, Silent film, Indie, War
    Renée Adorée, Claire McDowell, Claire McDowell, Hobart Bosworth, John Gilbert More
  11. 1978
    Michael Winner
    Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime fiction, Crime Thriller, Gangster
    Candy Clark, Tom Laughlin, Joan Collins, James Stewart, John Mills, Oliver Reed, Robert Mitchum, Colin Blakely, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, Richard Todd, Simon Fisher Turner More
  12. 1915
    D. W. Griffith
    Drama, Black-and-white, Costume drama, Silent film, Indie, War, Epic
    Elmer Clifton, Josephine Cromwell, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Elmo Lincoln, Walter Long, Violet Wilkey, George Siegmann, Spottiswoode Aitken, Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Mary Alden, Miriam Cooper More
  13. 1982
    Ridley Scott
    Thriller, Science fiction, Crime Thriller, Dystopia, Cult, Film noir, Existentialism, Future noir, Cyberpunk, Neo-noir More
    Joanna Cassidy, Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah, John Edward Allen, Edward James Olmos, Kevin Thompson, James Hong, M. Emmet Walsh, Morgan Paull, William Sanderson, Rutger Hauer, Brion James, Joe Turkel, Hy Pyke More
  14. 1967
    Arthur Penn
    Drama, Biography, Action, Action/Adventure, Romance film, Crime fiction, Gangster, Heist, Road movie, Outlaw, New Hollywood More
    Martha Adcock, Faye Dunaway, Gene Wilder, Denver Pyle, Estelle Parsons, Dub Taylor, Warren Beatty, Gene Hackman, Evans Evans, Michael J. Pollard More
  15. 1935
    James Whale
    Comedy, Black-and-white, Science fiction, Horror, Monster
    Billy Barty, Gavin Gordon, Ernest Thesiger, Boris Karloff, Una O'Connor, Valerie Hobson, E. E. Clive, Reginald Barlow, Walter Brennan, Dwight Eyre, John Carradine, Colin Clive, Elsa Lanchester, Douglas Walton, O.P. Heggie More
  16. 1957
    David Lean, Gus Agosti
    Drama, Action, Adventure, Action/Adventure, Roadshow theatrical release, War, Film adaptation More
    Ann Sears, William Holden, John Boxer, M. R. B. Chakrabandhu, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Peter Williams, Harold Goodwin, André Morell, Geoffrey Horne, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Percy Herbert, Henry Okawa, Keiichiro Katsumoto More
  17. 1938
    Howard Hawks
    Comedy, Romance film, Romantic comedy, Screwball comedy
    George Irving, Barry Fitzgerald, Skippy, Cary Grant, Tala Birell, May Robson, Walter Catlett, Charles Ruggles, Katharine Hepburn, Fritz Feld, Leona Roberts, John Kelly More
  18. 1919
    D. W. Griffith
    Drama, Black-and-white, Silent film, Romance film, Indie, Romantic drama More
    Donald Crisp, Richard Barthelmess, Lillian Gish
  19. 1942
    Michael Curtiz
    Drama, Black-and-white, Romance film, War, Romantic drama, Drama film, Airplanes and airports More
    John Qualen, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Dooley Wilson, Helmut Dantine, Humphrey Bogart, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Lou Marcelle, Madeleine LeBeau, Conrad Veidt, S.Z. Sakall, Joy Page, Leonid Kinskey, Paul Panzer More
  20. 1974
    Roman Polanski
    Drama, Period piece, Mystery, Thriller, Crime fiction, Crime Thriller, Film noir, Detective, Tragedy, New Hollywood, Neo-noir More
    Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, Richard Bakalyan, Diane Ladd, Roman Polanski, Roy Jenson, James Hong, Bruce Glover, John Huston, Darrell Zwerling, John Hillerman, Perry Lopez, Burt Young, Joe Mantell More
  21. 1941
    Orson Welles
    Drama, Black-and-white, Period piece, Political drama, Epic
    Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Philip Van Zandt, Ray Collins, Harry Shannon, Carl Ekberg, Buddy Swan, Fortunio Bonanova, Alan Ladd, William Alland, Georgia Backus, Dorothy Comingore, Sonny Bupp, Ruth Warrick, Erskine Sanford, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris, Arthur O'Connell, Everett Sloane, Gus Schilling, Orson Welles, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Thomas A. Curran, Louise Currie, Walter Sande, Charles Bennett More
  22. 1931
    Charlie Chaplin
    Drama, Comedy, Black-and-white, Silent film, Romance film, Romantic comedy, Romantic drama More
    Harry Myers, Hank Mann, Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Al Ernest Garcia, Florence Lee More
  23. 1928
    King Vidor
    Drama, Black-and-white, Silent film
    Daniel G. Tomlinson, Eleanor Boardman, Bert Roach, James Murray, Estelle Clark More
  24. 1964
    Stanley Kubrick
    Comedy, Black-and-white, Cold War, Black comedy, War, Parody, Political cinema, Satire, Airplanes and airports, Nuclear warfare More
    Peter Sellers, Jack Creley, Slim Pickens, Tracy Reed, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Peter Bull, James Earl Jones More
  25. 1944
    Billy Wilder
    Drama, Black-and-white, Thriller, Crime fiction, Film noir
    Tom Powers, Byron Barr, Edward G. Robinson, Fortunio Bonanova, Richard Gaines, Fred MacMurray, Porter Hall, Barbara Stanwyck, Jean Heather, John Philliber More

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