Tim Dirks' Greatest Films
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This selection of 100 Greatest Films in the last century of film-making covers, by conscious choice, a wide range of genres, decades, stars and directors. Emphasis in these selections is purposely directed toward earlier, more classic Hollywood/American films than more recent films, although some recent films (and British films) are included. (An Additional 100 Greatest Films, and Third 100 Greatest Films are also indexed here.) The Greatest Films selected do not include foreign films or non-English language films for purposes of specialization and focus. Negative judgment on foreign films or non-English language films is not intended or implied.
Over a long period of time, the English-language films found here have repeatedly appeared on all-time best film lists and are often noted in the collective responses of film viewers and critics. Arguably, there has been reasonable consensus by most film historians, critics, movie-lovers, and reviewers that the selections chosen by this site are among cinema's most critically-acclaimed, significant "must-see" films (of predominantly Hollywood-American production). They are the films almost every educated person with a solid knowledge of film history and cinema would be expected to know and be literate about.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
1968, in 45 top lists Check -
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The Godfather
1972, in 42 top lists Check -
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Vertigo
1958, in 42 top lists Check -
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Lawrence of Arabia
1962, in 40 top lists Check -
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Star Wars
1977, in 40 top lists Check -
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Casablanca
1942, in 39 top lists Check -
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Citizen Kane
1941, in 39 top lists Check -
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Psycho
1960, in 39 top lists Check -
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Pulp Fiction
1994, in 38 top lists Check -
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The Wizard of Oz
1939, in 38 top lists Check -
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Apocalypse Now
1979, in 37 top lists Check -
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A Clockwork Orange
1971, in 37 top lists Check -
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Double Indemnity
1944, in 37 top lists Check -
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...
1964, in 37 top lists Check -
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Singin' in the Rain
1952, in 37 top lists Check -
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The Third Man
1949, in 37 top lists Check -
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Blade Runner
1982, in 36 top lists Check -
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Metropolis
1927, in 36 top lists Check -
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The Silence of the Lambs
1991, in 36 top lists Check -
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check -
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975, in 35 top lists Check -
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Schindler's List
1993, in 35 top lists Check -
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Some Like It Hot
1959, in 35 top lists Check -
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Sunset Blvd.
1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check -
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Annie Hall
1977, in 34 top lists Check -
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City Lights
1931, in 34 top lists Check -
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The General
1926, in 34 top lists Check -
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The Night of the Hunter
1955, in 34 top lists Check -
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Raging Bull
1980, in 34 top lists Check -
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Taxi Driver
1976, in 34 top lists Check -
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It's a Wonderful Life
1946, in 33 top lists Check -
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957, in 32 top lists Check -
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The Godfather Part II
1974, in 32 top lists Check -
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On the Waterfront
1954, in 32 top lists Check -
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Chinatown
1974, in 31 top lists Check -
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982, in 31 top lists Check -
34 -
Gone with the Wind
1939, in 31 top lists Check -
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Goodfellas
1990, in 31 top lists Check -
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Rear Window
1954, in 31 top lists Check -
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12 Angry Men
1957, in 30 top lists Check -
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Alien
1979, in 30 top lists Check -
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The Best Years of Our Lives
1946, in 30 top lists Check -
266 -
The Matrix
1999, in 30 top lists Check -
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Modern Times
1936, in 30 top lists Check -
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North by Northwest
1959, in 30 top lists Check -
92 -
Touch of Evil
1958, in 30 top lists Check -
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The Gold Rush
1925, in 29 top lists Check -
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The Graduate
1967, in 29 top lists Check -
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It Happened One Night
1934, in 29 top lists Check -
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Jaws
1975, in 29 top lists Check
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