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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The Big Sleep
1946, in 22 top lists Check -
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Bonnie and Clyde
1967, in 28 top lists Check -
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Double Indemnity
1944, in 37 top lists Check -
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The Godfather
1972, in 42 top lists Check -
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The Godfather Part II
1974, in 32 top lists Check -
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The Maltese Falcon
1941, in 27 top lists Check -
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The Night of the Hunter
1955, in 34 top lists Check -
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North by Northwest
1959, in 30 top lists Check -
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On the Waterfront
1954, in 32 top lists Check -
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Pulp Fiction
1994, in 38 top lists Check -
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The Shawshank Redemption
1994, in 24 top lists Check -
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Some Like It Hot
1959, in 35 top lists Check -
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Taxi Driver
1976, in 34 top lists Check -
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To Kill a Mockingbird
1962, in 18 top lists Check -
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Touch of Evil
1958, in 31 top lists Check -
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Trouble in Paradise
1932, in 17 top lists Check -
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West Side Story
1961, in 22 top lists Check -
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The Asphalt Jungle
1950, in 15 top lists Check -
110 -
Bad Day at Black Rock
1955, in 7 top lists Check -
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Badlands
1973, in 23 top lists Check -
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The Big Heat
1953, in 18 top lists Check -
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Blue Velvet
1986, in 27 top lists Check -
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969, in 21 top lists Check -
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A Clockwork Orange
1971, in 37 top lists Check -
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Fargo
1996, in 27 top lists Check -
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The French Connection
1971, in 23 top lists Check -
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Goodfellas
1990, in 31 top lists Check -
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Gun Crazy
1950, in 17 top lists Check -
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1932, in 14 top lists Check -
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The Killers
1946, in 15 top lists Check -
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Kiss Me Deadly
1955, in 20 top lists Check -
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Laura
1944, in 21 top lists Check -
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Little Caesar
1931, in 10 top lists Check -
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Mean Streets
1973, in 22 top lists Check -
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Mildred Pierce
1945, in 17 top lists Check -
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Murder, My Sweet
1944, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946, in 9 top lists Check -
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The Public Enemy
1931, in 13 top lists Check -
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Scarface
1932, in 16 top lists Check -
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The Silence of the Lambs
1991, in 36 top lists Check -
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Strangers on a Train
1951, in 17 top lists Check -
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The Thin Man
1934, in 14 top lists Check -
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White Heat
1949, in 15 top lists Check -
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Arsenic and Old Lace
1944, in 9 top lists Check -
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Atlantic City
1980, in 14 top lists Check -
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The Crying Game
1992, in 11 top lists Check -
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Do the Right Thing
1989, in 25 top lists Check -
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Enter the Dragon
1973, in 14 top lists Check -
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A Fish Called Wanda
1988, in 8 top lists Check -
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Gaslight
1944, in 12 top lists Check
Last updated on Dec 28, 2011; source