The Greatest Films of All Time (BFI Ranked) -- English Language Only

Added on by C. Maoxian.

The Greatest Films of All Time (Foreign language movies in italics) … 2022 poll … English Language Only … stupid ranking… see my Chronological Listing instead!

  1. Vertigo (1958)

  2. Citizen Kane (1941)

  3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

  4. Mulholland Dr. (2001)

  5. SIngin’ in the Rain (1951)

  6. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

  7. The Godfather (1972)

  8. The Searchers (1956)

  9. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)

  10. Apocalypse Now (1979)

  11. Do the Right Thing (1989)

  12. The Night of the Hunter (1955)

  13. Taxi Driver (1976)

  14. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

  15. Mirror (1975)

  16. Psycho (1960)

  17. City Lights (1931)

  18. Some Like It Hot (1959)

  19. Rear Window (1954)

  20. Killer of Sheep (1977)

  21. North by Northwest (1959)

  22. Barry Lyndon (1975)

  23. Wanda (1970)

  24. The Piano (1992)

  25. News from Home (1976)

  26. Blade Runner (1982)

  27. Sherlock Jr. (1924)

  28. The Apartment (1960)

  29. Moonlight (2016)

  30. Daughters of the Dust (1991)

  31. Casablanca (1942)

  32. GoodFellas (1990)

  33. The Third Man (1949)

  34. The Red Shoes (1948)

  35. Imitation of Life (1959)

  36. Sunset Blvd. (1950)

  37. Modern Times (1936)

  38. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

  39. Blue Velvet (1986)

  40. The Shining (1980)

  41. Get Out (2017)

  42. The General (1926)

  43. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

  44. Rio Bravo (1958)

  45. Jaws (1975)

  46. The Godfather Part II (1974)

  47. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

  48. Touch of Evil (1958)

  49. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

  50. Bringing Up Baby (1938)

  51. To Be Or Not To Be (1942)

  52. A Woman under the Influence (1974)

  53. Nashville (1975)

  54. Don’t Look Now (1973)

  55. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

  56. The Thing (1982)

  57. There Will Be Blood (2007)

  58. The Matrix (1999)

  59. Johnny Guitar (1954)

  60. Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

  61. His Girl Friday (1939)

  62. Raging Bull (1980)

  63. Pulp Fiction (1994)

  64. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

  65. Notorious (1946)

  66. It’s a Wonderful Life (1947)

  67. The Wild Bunch (1969)

  68. Trouble in Paradise (1932)

  69. All That Heaven Allows (1955)

  70. The Watermelon Woman (1997)

  71. Alien (1979)

  72. Chinatown (1974)

  73. Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)

  74. Days of Heaven (1978)

  75. Orlando (1992)

  76. Once upon a Time in America (1983)

  77. Out of the Past (1947)

  78. Symbiopyschotaxiplasm: Take One (1967)

  79. Heat (1995)

  80. Under the Skin (2013)

  81. Black Narcissus (1947)

  82. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

  83. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)

  84. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

  85. Magnolia (1999)

  86. Greed (1923)

  87. Love Streams (1984)

  88. The River (1951)

  89. The Birds (1963)

  90. Paris, Texas (1984)

  91. Paris is Burning (1990)

  92. The Tree of Life (2010)

  93. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

  94. Dr. Strangelove or… (1963)

  95. Double Indemnity (1944)

  96. I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)

  97. Wavelength (1967)

  98. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

  99. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

  100. Pink Flamingos (1972)

  101. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

  102. The Deer Hunter (1978)

  103. In a Lonely Place (1950)

  104. Brief Encounter (1945)

  105. All about Eve (1950)

  106. Duck Soup (1933)

  107. Crash (1996)

  108. As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)

  109. The Crowd (1928)

  110. Intolerance (1916)

  111. Star Wars (1977)

  112. Harlan County, USA (1976)

  113. Morvern Callar (2001)

  114. Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)

  115. Videodrome (1983)

  116. A Canterbury Tale (1944)

  117. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

  118. My Darling Clementine (1946)

  119. Annie Hall (1977)

  120. Sullivan’s Travels (1941)

  121. Born in Flames (1983)