Top 100 Films in Chronological Order

1924        Sherlock, Jr.

1925        The Gold Rush

1927        The General

1931        City Lights

1932        I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang

1933        Duck Soup

1933        King Kong

1934        It Happened One Night

1934        The Thin Man

1936        Modern Times

1938        Bringing Up Baby

1938        The Lady Vanishes

1939        Gone With the Wind

1939        Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939        The Wizard of Oz

1939        Wuthering Heights

1940        The Grapes of Wrath

1940        His Girl Friday

1941        Citizen Kane

1941        The Maltese Falcon

1943        Casablanca

1943        The Ox-Bow Incident

1943        Shadow of a Doubt

1944        Double Indemnity

1946        The Best Years of Our Lives

1946        The Big Sleep

1946        Great Expectations

1946        It’s a Wonderful Life

1947        Out of the Past

1948        Red River

1948        Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1950        In a Lonely Place

1950        Sunset Blvd.

1951        The African Queen

1951        The Day the Earth Stood Still

1951        Strangers On a Train

1951        A Streetcar Named Desire

1952        High Noon

1952        The Quiet Man

1952        Singin’ in the Rain

1953        From Here to Eternity

1954        On the Waterfront

1954        Rear Window

1955        East of Eden

1955        Rebel Without a Cause

1956        The Killing

1956        The Searchers

1957        The Bridge on the River Kwai

1957        Paths of Glory

1957        Twelve Angry Men

1958        Touch of Evil

1958        Vertigo

1959        Anatomy of a Murder

1959        North By Northwest

1959        Some Like It Hot

1960        Psycho

1962        Lawrence of Arabia

1964        Dr. Strangelove

1967        Bonnie and Clyde

1967        The Graduate

1968        2001: A Space Odyssey

1969        Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid

1969        Midnight Cowboy

1969        The Wild Bunch

1970        Patton

1972        The Godfather

1974        The Godfather Part II

1974        Chinatown

1975        Jaws

1975        One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

1976        All the President’s Men

1976        Network

1977        Annie Hall

1977        Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1977        Star Wars

1978        The Deer Hunter

1979        Kramer vs. Kramer

1980        The Empire Strikes Back

1980        Raging Bull

1981        Raiders of the Lost Ark

1982        E.T. The Extraterrestrial  

1984        This is Spinal Tap

1989        Do the Right Thing

1989        Field of Dreams

1989        Glory

1990        Dances With Wolves

1991        JFK

1991        The Silence of the Lambs

1993        Schindler’s List

1994        Pulp Fiction

1995        Before Sunrise

1995        Seven

1996        Fargo

1996        Lone Star

1997        Jackie Brown

1998        Saving Private Ryan

1998        Shakespeare In Love

1998        L.A. Confidential

2000        Traffic  

2001        Waking Life

 

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