John Kobal Presents the Top 100 Movies


  1. Citizen Kane (1941)
  2. La Règle du Jeu (1939)
  3. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  4. 8½ (1963)
  5. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
  6. Modern Times (1936)
  7. Wild Strawberries (1957)
  8. The Gold Rush (1925)
  9. Casablanca (1942)
  10. Rashomon (1950)
  11. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
  12. City Lights (1931)
  13. Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)
  14. Sunrise (1927)
  15. Madame de... (1953)
  16. La Grande Illusion (1937)
  17. The Searchers (1956)
  18. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  19. Some Like It Hot (1959)
  20. Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1944)
    Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (1946)
  21. Jules and Jim (1962)
  22. Stagecoach (1939)
  23. Vertigo (1958)
  24. Seven Samurai (1954)
  25. Tokyo Story (1953)
  26. Andrei Rublev (1966)
  27. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
  28. L'Atalante (1934)
  29. Viridiana (1961)
  30. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
  31. The Third Man (1949)
  32. Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
  33. Zéro de Conduite (1933)
  34. Ikiru (1952)
  35. Pather Panchali (1955)
  36. The Band Wagon (1953)
  37. Gone with the Wind (1939)
  38. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  39. La Dolce Vita (1960)
  40. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
  41. Rome, Open City (1945)
  42. Touch of Evil (1958)
  43. L'Âge d’Or (1930)
  44. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
  45. The Seventh Seal (1957)
  46. Amarcord (1973)
  47. Sansho Dayu (1954)
  48. L'Avventura (1960)
  49. The General (1927)
  50. The Life of Oharu (1952)
  51. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
  52. Napoleon (1927)
  53. The Sacrifice (1986)
  54. Nights of Cabiria (1957)
  55. The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
  56. Alexander Nevsky (1938)
  57. East of Eden (1955)
  58. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
  59. The Navigator (1924)
  60. Ordet (1955)
  61. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
  62. Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
  63. Senso (1954)
  64. Mirror (1975)
  65. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  66. Claire's Knee (1970)
  67. Earth (1930)
  68. La Terra Trema (1948)
  69. The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920)
  70. Paisan (1946)
  71. Casque d'Or (1952)
  72. The Exterminating Angel (1962)
  73. Manhattan (1979)
  74. Last Year in Marienbad (1961)
  75. My Darling Clementine (1946)
  76. The Scarlet Empress (1934)
  77. Greed (1924)
  78. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
  79. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  80. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
  81. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
  82. If... (1968)
  83. La Strada (1954)
  84. In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
  85. The African Queen (1951)
  86. The Great Dictator (1940)
  87. Heimat (1984)
  88. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  89. Signs of Life (1968)
  90. To Be or Not to Be (1942)
  91. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
  92. Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
  93. Brief Encounter (1945)
  94. The Far Country (1954)
  95. Freaks (1932)
  96. Moonfleet (1955)
  97. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
  98. Psycho (1960)
  99. Rebecca (1940)
  100. Viaggio in Italia (1954)

Selected individual lists:

Nestor Alemandros
  1. Citizen Kane (1941)
  2. The Four Hundred Blows (1959)
  3. Alexander Nevsky (1938)
  4. Design for Living (1933)
  5. The Crowd (1928)
  6. Madame de... (1953)
  7. The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
  8. Sansho Dayu (1954)
  9. Rebecca (1940)
  10. Nights of Cabiria (1957)

Lindsay Anderson
  • L'Âge d’Or (1930)
  • A Diary for Timothy (1945)
  • Earth (1930)
  • A Generation (1955)
  • If... (1968)
  • The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  • Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
  • They Were Expendable (1945)
  • Tokyo Story (1953)
  • Zéro de Conduite (1933)

Bertrand Tavernier
  1. La Règle du Jeu (1939)
  2. L'Atalante (1934)
  3. I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
  4. Madame de... (1953)
  5. Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
  6. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
  7. Casque d'Or (1952)
  8. The Crowd (1928)
  9. Sunrise (1927)
  10. Fury (1936)
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