The 100 Best Movies In History

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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 Kid (1921)
Director: Charlie Chaplin | Actors: Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Coogan

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

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