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

Added on by C. Maoxian.

The Greatest Films of All Time … 2022 poll … English Language Only, listed chronologically … movies I’ve see are in bold and movies I’ve see and recommend are noted:

  1. Intolerance (1916)

  2. Greed (1923)

  3. Sherlock Jr. (1924)

  4. The General (1926)

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

  6. The Crowd (1928)

  7. City Lights (1931)

  8. Trouble in Paradise (1932)

  9. Duck Soup (1933)

  10. Modern Times (1936)

  11. Bringing Up Baby (1938)

  12. His Girl Friday (1939)

  13. Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

  14. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

  15. Citizen Kane (1941)

  16. Sullivan’s Travels (1941) — recommended

  17. Casablanca (1942)

  18. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

  19. To Be Or Not To Be (1942) — recommended

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

  21. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)

  22. A Canterbury Tale (1944)

  23. Double Indemnity (1944) — recommended

  24. Brief Encounter (1945)

  25. I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)

  26. My Darling Clementine (1946)

  27. Notorious (1946) — recommended

  28. Black Narcissus (1947)

  29. It’s a Wonderful Life (1947)

  30. Out of the Past (1947) — recommended

  31. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) — long, boring, unrealistic

  32. The Red Shoes (1948) — too long, too boring, too gay

  33. The Third Man (1949) — recommended

  34. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

  35. All about Eve (1950)

  36. In a Lonely Place (1950)

  37. Sunset Blvd. (1950)

  38. SIngin’ in the Rain (1951) — recommended

  39. The River (1951)

  40. Johnny Guitar (1954)

  41. Rear Window (1954) — recommended

  42. All That Heaven Allows (1955) — recommended

  43. The Night of the Hunter (1955) — recommended

  44. The Searchers (1956)

  45. Rio Bravo (1958)

  46. Vertigo (1958) — recommended

  47. Imitation of Life (1959) — another Sirk? One Sirk is enough

  48. North by Northwest (1959) — recommended

  49. Some Like It Hot (1959) — recommended

  50. Touch of Evil (1958)

  51. Psycho (1960)

  52. The Apartment (1960) — recommended

  53. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

  54. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

  55. Dr. Strangelove or… (1963) — recommended

  56. The Birds (1963)

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

  58. Symbiopyschotaxiplasm: Take One (1967)

  59. Wavelength (1967)

  60. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

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

  62. The Wild Bunch (1969)

  63. Wanda (1970) — token “feminist” movie

  64. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

  65. The Godfather (1972) — recommended

  66. Pink Flamingos (1972) — John Waters’ movies good if you need to induce vomiting

  67. Don’t Look Now (1973)

  68. A Woman under the Influence (1974) — Cassavetes means hell no, hard pass, awful awful awful

  69. Chinatown (1974) — recommended

  70. The Godfather Part II (1974) — recommended

  71. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

  72. Barry Lyndon (1975)

  73. Jaws (1975)

  74. Mirror (1975)

  75. Nashville (1975)

  76. Harlan County, USA (1976)

  77. News from Home (1976)

  78. Taxi Driver (1976) — recommended

  79. Annie Hall (1977) — recommended

  80. Killer of Sheep (1977)

  81. Star Wars (1977) — recommended

  82. Days of Heaven (1978) — recommended

  83. The Deer Hunter (1978)

  84. Alien (1979)

  85. Apocalypse Now (1979)

  86. Raging Bull (1980)

  87. The Shining (1980) — recommended

  88. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) — recommended

  89. Blade Runner (1982) — recommended

  90. The Thing (1982)

  91. Born in Flames (1983)

  92. Once upon a Time in America (1983)

  93. Videodrome (1983)

  94. Love Streams (1984) — there is NOTHING WORSE on the planet than a Cassavetes movie

  95. Paris, Texas (1984) — hated this

  96. Blue Velvet (1986) — creepy weirdo David Lynch (not again)

  97. Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)

  98. Do the Right Thing (1989) — if you’re going to include a token black movie, I guess this it it

  99. GoodFellas (1990)

  100. Paris is Burning (1990)

  101. Daughters of the Dust (1991)

  102. Orlando (1992) — sort of interesting

  103. The Piano (1992)

  104. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) — creepy weirdo David Lynch

  105. Pulp Fiction (1994) — recommended (with caveats)

  106. Heat (1995) — recommended (with caveats)

  107. Crash (1996)

  108. The Watermelon Woman (1997) — token black homosexual movie (two for one), bah

  109. Magnolia (1999) — PT Anderson, hard pass

  110. The Matrix (1999)

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

  112. Morvern Callar (2001) — incomprehensible without subtitles

  113. Mulholland Dr. (2001) — recommended

  114. There Will Be Blood (2007) — way way too long

  115. The Tree of Life (2010) — interminable navel gazing, Malick made one good movie

  116. Under the Skin (2013) — recommended

  117. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) — recommended

  118. Moonlight (2016) — token black homosexual movie (two for one), bah

  119. Get Out (2017) — token black movie, bah

  120. Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) — creepy weirdo David lynch, bah

  121. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) — Lesbians, bah