The Kid (1921)
Director: Charlie Chaplin | Actors: Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Coogan
The 100 Best Movies In History
Here follows the list of the Top 100 Movies In History according to GreatestMovies.org. The list is presented in chronology instead for by ranking and it includes in total 100 movies from the years 1921 to 2004. Besides the title and year the director and most important actors are mentioned for every movie. Some genres may be under represented in the Top 100 list, but you will find presentation of different genres in the By Genre section.
The list in chronologic order
The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen, 1921)
Director: Victor Sjöström | Actors: Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström
Nosferatu (Nosferau, eine Symphonie des Grauens, 1922)
Director: F.W. Murnau | Actors: Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim
The General (1926)
Director: Buster Keaton | Actors: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack
Metropolis (1927)
Director: Fritz Lang | Actors: Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel and Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
Director: F.W. Murnau | Actors: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor
Animal Crackers (1930)
Director: Victor Heerman | Actors: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx
Tabu (1931)
Director: F.W. Murnau | Actors: Matahi, Anne Chevalier
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Actors: Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall
Duck Soup (1933)
Director: Leo McCarey | Actors: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Director: Sam Wood | Actors: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Modern Times (1936)
Director: Charlie Chaplin | Actors: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
La grande illusion (1937)
Director: Jean Renoir | Actors: Jean Gabin, Erich von Stroheim
Port of Shadows (Quai des Brumes, 1938)
Director: Marcel Carné | Actors: Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Director: George Cukor | Actors: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
Citizen Kane (1941)
Director: Orson Welles | Actors: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore
Mildred Pierce (1941)
Director: Michael Curtiz | Actors: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Ann Blyth
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Director: John Huston | Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet
Casablanca (1942)
Director: Michael Curtiz | Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Director: Billy Wilder | Actors: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman
Fallen Angel (1945)
Director: Otto Preminger | Actors: Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell
Les enfants du paradis (1945)
Director: Marcel Carné | Actors: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Marcel Herrand
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Director: Tay Garnett | Actors: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
The Big Sleep (1946)
Director: Howard Hawks | Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
Odd Man Out (1947)
Director: Carol Reed | Actors: James Mason
The Red Shoes (1948)
Director: Michael Powell | Actors: Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Director: Robert Hamer | Actors: Dennis Price
Adam's Rib (1949)
Director: George Cukor | Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy
The Third Man (1949)
Director: Carol Reed | Actors: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
All About Eve (1950)
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Actors: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter
In A Lonely Place (1950)
Director: Nicholas Ray | Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Director: Billy Wilder | Actors: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim
An American in Paris (1951)
Director: Vincenti Minnelli | Actors: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant
Singin’ In the Rain (1952)
Director: Gene Kelly | Actors: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds
High Noon (1952)
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Actors: Gary Cooper
The Wages of Fear (La salaire de la peur, 1953)
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Actors: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli
Tokyo Story (1953)
Director: Yasujirō Ozu | Actors: Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama
Shane (1953)
Director: George Stevens | Actors: Alan Ladd, Brandon deWilde
La Strada (1954)
Director: Federico Fellini | Actors: Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina
Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens leende, 1955)
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Actors: Gunnar Björnstrand, Eva Dahlbeck, Bibi Andersson
Kiss me Deadly (1955)
Director: Robert Aldrich | Actors: Ralph Meeker
A Man Escaped (Un condamné à mort s'est éshappé, 1956)
Director: Robert Bresson | Actors: François Leterrier
The Searchers (1956)
Director: John Ford | Actors: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Natalie Wood
The Bridge Over River Kwai (1957)
Director: David Lean | Actors: Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa
Touch of Evil (1958)
Director: Orson Welles | Actors: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Director: Billy Wilder | Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
Look Back In Anger (1959)
Director: Tony Richardson | Actors: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure
Psycho (1960)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Actors: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Breathless (À bout de souffle, 1960)
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg
The Hole (Le Trou, 1960)
Director: Jacques Becker | Actors: Michel Constantin, Jean Keraudy, Philippe Leroy
The Apartment (1960)
Director: Billy Wilder | Actors: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine
The Hustler (1961)
Director: Robert Rossen | Actors: Paul Newman, Piper Laurie
A Taste of Honey (1961)
Director: Tony Richardson | Actors: Rita Tushingham, Murray Melvin
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Director: David Lean | Actors: Peter O'Toole
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Director: John Ford | Actors: James Stewart, John Wayne
Eclipse (L'Eclisse, 1962)
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Actors: Alain Delon, Monica Vitti
The Leopard (1963)
Director: Luchino Visconti | Actors: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Terence Hill
Raven's End (Kvarteret Korpen, 1963)
Director: Bo Widerberg | Actors: Thommy Berggren, Keve Hjelm
The Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna, 1964)
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | Actors: Eiji Okada, Kyōko Kishida
Charulata (1964)
Director: Satyajit Ray | Actors: Madhabi Mukherjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sailen Mukherjee
Pierrot le fou (1965)
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, 1966)
Director: Sergio Leone | Actors: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef
The Battle of Algiers (La battaglia di Algeri, 1966)
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo | Actors: Brahim Haggiag, Jean Martin, Saadi Yacef
The Graduate (1967)
Director: Mike Nichols | Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Director: Norman Jewison | Actors: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Actors: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Douglas Rain
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Director: Roman Polanski | Actors: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Director: Bob Rafelson | Actors: Jack Nicholson
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridge
The French Connection (1971)
Director: William Friedkin | Actors: Gene Hackman
Morte a Venezia (1971)
Director: Luchino Visconti | Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Björn Andrésen
The Godfather (1972)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Actors: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall
Fat City (1972)
Director: John Huston | Actors: Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges
Mean Streets (1973)
Director: Martin Scorsese | Actors: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel
Chinatown (1974)
Director: Roman Polanski | Actors: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Actors: Al Pacino, Robert de Niro, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Director: Milos Forman | Actors: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Brad Dourif, Danny DeVito
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson
Nashville (1975)
Director: Robert Altman | Actors: Ned Beatty, Ronee Blakley, Geraldine Chaplin, Henry Gibson
Taxi Driver (1976)
Director: Martin Scorsese | Actors: Robert de Niro, Jodie Foster
Annie Hall (1977)
Director: Woody Allen | Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
Manhattan (1979)
Director: Woody Allen | Actors: Woody Allen, Mariel Hemingway, Diane Keaton
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Actors: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando
Blade Runner (1982)
Director: Ridley Scott | Actors: Harrison Ford
Diner (1982)
Director: Barry Levinson | Actors: Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Tim Daly
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Director: Sergio Leone | Actors: Robert De Niro, James Woods
Ran (1985)
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai
Goodfellas (1990)
Director: Martin Scorsese | Actors: Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci
Metropolitan (1990)
Director: Whit Stillman | Actors: Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Chris Eigeman
Trust (1990)
Director: Hal Hartley | Actors: Martin Donovan, Adrienne Shelly
Slacker (1991)
Director: Richard Linklater | Actors: Kim Krizan, Mark James, Stella Weir
Naked (1993)
Director: Mike Leigh | Actors: David Thewlis
The Ice Storm (1997)
Director: Ang Lee | Actors: Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver
Happiness (1998)
Director: Todd Solondz | Actors: Jane Adams
Magnolia (1999)
Director: P.T. Anderson | Actors: Jeremy Blackman, Tom Cruise, Philip Baker Hall, Julianne Moore
The Matrix (1999)
Director: Lana and Andy Wachowski | Actors: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss
Chelsea Walls (2001)
Director: Ethan Hawke | Actors: Vincent D'Onofrio, Kris Kristofferson, Uma Thurman
Secretary (2002)
Director: Steven Shainberg | Actors: James Spader, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Downfall (Der Untergang, 2004)
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Actors: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes