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1. THE GODFATHER (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
2. CASABLANCA (1942, Michael Curtiz)
3. STAR WARS - EPISODE IV - A NEW HOPE (1977, George Lucas)
4. THE GODFATHER PART II (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
5. CITIZEN KANE (1941, Orson Welles)
6. SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993, Steven Spielberg)
7. PULP FICTION (1994, Quentin Tarantino)
8. GONE WITH THE WIND (1939, Victor Fleming)
9. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
10. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946, Frank Capra)
11. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962, David Lean)
12. THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994, Frank Darabont)
13. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981, Steven Spielberg)
14. GOODFELLAS (1990, Martin Scorsese)
15. PSYCHO (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
16. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971, Stanley Kubrick)
17. FORREST GUMP (1994, Robert Zemeckis)
18. THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939, Victor Fleming)
19. APOCALYPSE NOW (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
20. VERTIGO (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
21. THE LORD OF THE RINGS - THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003, Peter Jackson)
22. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975, Milos Forman)
23. THE LORD OF THE RINGS - THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001, Peter Jackson)
24. TAXI DRIVER (1976, Martin Scorsese)
25. DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (1964, Stanley Kubrick)
26. FIGHT CLUB (1999, David Fincher)
27. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991, Jonathan Demme)
28. SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952, Stanley Donen, Gene Kelley)
29. THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965, Robert Wise)
30. JAWS (1975, Steven Spielberg)
31. THE LORD OF THE RINGS - THE TWO TOWERS (2002, Peter Jackson)
32. BRAVEHEART (1995, Mel Gibson)
33. STAR WARS - EPISODE V - THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980, Irving Kirshner)
34. BLADE RUNNER (1982, Ridley Scott)
35. REAR WINDOW (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
36. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998, Steven Spielberg)
37. THE DARK KNIGHT (2008, Christopher Nolan)
38. THE DEPARTED (2006, Martin Scorsese)
39. ANNIE HALL (1977, Woody Allen)
40. THE MATRIX (1999, Larry & Andy Wachowski)
41. CHINATOWN (1974, Roman Polanski)
42. ON THE WATERFRONT (1954, Eliza Kazan)
43. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
44. SEVEN SAMURAI (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
45. GLADIATOR (2000, Ridley Scott)
46. TITANIC (1997, James Cameron)
47. UNFORGIVEN (1992, Clint Eastwood)
48. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (2004, Michael Gondry)
49. AMERICAN HISTORY X (1998, Tony Kaye)
50. SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959, Billy Wilder)
51. THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957, David Lean)
52. E.T. - THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982, Steven Spielberg)
53. THE SEARCHERS (1956, John Ford)
54. BEN-HUR (1959, William Wyler)
55. THE GRADUATE (1967, Mike Nichols)
56. SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950, Billy Wilder)
57. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962, Robert Mulligan)
58. RAGING BULL (1980, Martin Scorsese)
59. THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (1966, Sergio Leone)
60. ALL ABOUT EVE (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
61. AMERICAN BEAUTY (1999, Sam Mendes)
62. AMELIE (2001, Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
63. THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998, Joel & Ethan Coen)
64. BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985, Robert Zemeckis)
65. THE SHINING (1980, Stanley Kubrick)
66. THE MALTESE FALCON (1941, John Huston)
67. MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939, Frank Capra)
68. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944, Billy Wilder)
69. RESERVIOR DOGS (1992, Quentin Tarantino)
70. ROCKY (1976, John G. Avildsen)
71. MEMENTO (2000, Christopher Nolan)
72. A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001, Ron Howard)
73. SCARFACE (1983, Brian De Palma)
74. 8 1/2 (1963, Federico Fellini)
75. THE USUAL SUSPECTS (1995, Bryan Singer)
76. SE7EN (1995, David Fincher)
77. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940, George Cukor)
78. THE THIRD MAN (1949, Carol Reed)
79. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005, Joe Wright)
80. THE NOTEBOOK (2004, Nick Cassavetes)
81. CITY OF GOD (2002, Fernando Meirelles, Katia Lund)
82. DIE HARD (1988, John McTiernan)
83. 12 ANGRY MEN (1957, Sidney Lumet)
84. THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940, John Ford)
85. WEST SIDE STORY (1961, Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins)
86. CRASH (2004, Paul Haggis)
87. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007, Joel & Ethan Coen)
88. BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967, Arthur Penn)
89. AMADEUS (1984, Milos Forman)
90. SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995, Ang Lee)
91. HIGH NOON (1952, Fred Zinnemann)
92. TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY (1991, James Cameron)
93. DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990, Kevin Costner)
94. THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962, John Frankenheimer)
95. MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969, John Schlesinger)
96. THE WILD BUNCH (1969, Sam Peckinpah)
97. LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (1997, Roberto Benigni)
98. THE STING (1973, George Roy Hill)
99. SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES (1937, William Cottrell, David Hand)
100. THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946, William Wyler)
101. BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969, George Roy Hill)
102. MY FAIR LADY (1964, George Cukor)
103. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948, John Huston)
104. THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (1992, Michael Mann)
105. HEAT (1995, Michael Mann)
106. MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones)
107. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1935, Frank Capra)
108. THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951, John Huston)
109. KING KONG (1933, Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoesdsack)
110. THE DEER HUNTER (1978, Michael Cimino)
111. THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987, Rob Reiner)
112. GREASE (1978, Randal Kleiser)
113. ALIENS (1986, James Cameron)
114. DUCK SOUP (1933, Leo McCarey)
115. NASHVILLE (1975, Robert Altman)
116. BLUE VELVET (1986, David Lynch)
117. BRINGING UP BABY (1938, Howard Hawks)
118. FARGO (1996, Joel & Ethan Coen)
119. THE GOLD RUSH (1925, Charles Chaplin)
120. OLDBOY (2003, Park Chan-wook)
121. SIN CITY (2005, Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller)
122. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951, Elia Kazan)
123. INTOLERANCE (1916, D.W. Griffith)
124. SHANE (1953, George Stevens)
125. STAR WARS - EPISODE VI - RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983, Richard Marquand)
126. THE SEVENTH SEAL (1941, Ingmar Bergman)
127. TOOTSIE (1982, Sydney Pollack)
128. PLATOON (1986, Oliver Stone)
129. LOST IN TRANSLATION (2003, Sofia Coppola)
130. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968, Sergio Leone)
131. NETWORK (1976, Sidney Lumet)
132. RAIN MAN (1988, Barry Levinson)
133. A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (1966, Fred Zinnemann)
134. THE SIXTH SENSE (1999, M. Night Shyamalan)
135. AVATAR (2009, James Cameron)
136. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956, Cecil B. DeMille)
137. CITY LIGHTS (1931, Charles Chaplin)
138. MANHATTAN (1979, Woody Allen)
139. HENRY V (1944, Laurence Olivier)
140. THE GREEN MILE (1999, Frank Darabont)
141. HAMLET (1948, Laurence Olivier)
142. SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (1942, Preston Sturges)
143. ALIEN (1979, Ridley Scott)
144. CHICAGO (2002, Rob Marshall)
145. TOUCH OF EVIL (1958, Orson Welles)
146. THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971, William Friedkin)
147. BRAZIL (1985, Terry Gilliam)
148. MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001, David Lynch)
149. SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (2008, Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan)
150. LES MISERABLES (1935, Richard Boleslawski)
151. COOL HAND LUKE (1967, Stuart Rosenberg)
152. A TALE OF TWO CITIES (1935, Jack Conway)
153. SERGEANT YORK (1941, Howard Hawks)
154. INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989, Steven Spielberg)
155. THE ROBE (1953, Henry Koster)
156. THE SWEET LIFE (1960, Federico Fellini)
157. THE GENERAL (1926, Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton)
158. BABETTE'S FEAST (1987, Gabriel Axel)
159. TROY (2004, Wolfgang Petersen)
160. CHARIOTS OF FIRE (1981, Hugh Hudson)
161. M*A*S*H (1970, Robert Altman)
162. LEON - THE PROFESSIONAL (1994, Luc Besson)
163. THE HIDING PLACE (1975, James F. Collier)
164. WEAPONS OF THE SPIRIT (1987, Pierre Sauvage)
165. THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (1959, George Stevens)
166. REPENTANCE (1987, Tengiz Abuladze)
167. DO THE RIGHT THING (1989, Spike Lee)
168. PLACES IN THE HEART (1984, Robert Benton)
169. ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944, Frank Capra)
170. DARK CITY (1998, Alex Proyas)
171. TENDER MERCIES (1983, Bruce Beresford)
172. TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944, Howard Hawks)
173. MODERN TIMES (1936, Charles Chaplin)
174. SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957, Alexander Mackendrick)
175. WITHNAIL & I (1987, Bruce Robinson)
176. SHOW ME LOVE (1998, Lukas Moodysson)
177. CLERKS (1994, Kevin Smith)
178. THE BIG SLEEP (1946, Howard Hawks)
179. THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1952, Byron Haskin)
180. INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996, Roland Emmerich)
181. RAN (1985, Akira Kurosawa)
182. THE KING OF KINGS (1927, Cecil B. DeMille)
183. BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (1961, Blake Edwards)
184. THE APARTMENT (1960, Billy Wilder)
185. DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965, David Lean)
186. THE BICYCLE THIEF (1948, Vittorio De Sica)
187. QUO VADIS (1951, Mervyn LeRoy)
188. REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2000, Darren Aronofsky)
189. THE TREE OF THE WOODEN CLOGS (1978, Ermanno Olmi)
190. L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997, Curtis Hanson)
191. THE PALM BEACH STORY (1942, Preston Sturges)
192. DEAD MAN WALKING (1995, Tim Robbins)
193. BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD DO AMERICA (1996, Mike Judge)
194. THE BOONDOCK SAINTS (1999, Troy Duffy)
195. THE TERMINATOR (1984, James Cameron)
196. THE PRINCE OF EGYPT (1998, Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, Simon Wells)
197. ELENI (1985, Peter Yates)
198. FULL METAL JACKET (1987, Stanley Kubrick)
199. HENRY V (1989, Kenneth Branagh)
200. HAMLET (1990, Franco Ziffirelli)
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Some statistics:

TOP DIRECTORS:
6 films - Steven Spielberg
5 films - Stanley Kubrick, James Cameron
4 films - Frank Capra, Martin Scorsese, Howard Hawks
3 films - Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola, John Huston, Charlie Chaplin, Joel & Ethan Coen, Peter Jackson

TOP ACTORS:
6 films - Humphrey Bogart, Harrison Ford, Robert DeNiro
5 films - James Stewart
4 films - Robert Duvall, Cary Grant, Orson Welles, Dustin Hoffman, William Holden, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Alec Guiness