Among the One Thousand Essential Films

Added on by C. Maoxian.

These lists are taken from the 2019 edition of The New York Times Book of Movies: The Essential 1,000 Films to See. Heavy on Hitchcock, I see.

Crime/Mystery/Suspense:

  1. Little Caesar (1931)

  2. M (1931)

  3. The Public Enemy (1931)

  4. The Thirty-nine Steps (1935)

  5. Fury (1936)

  6. They Won’t Forget (1937)

  7. You Only Live Once (1937)

  8. The Lady Vanishes (1938)

  9. Rebecca (1940)

  10. High Sierra (1941)

  11. The Maltese Falcon (1941)

  12. Suspicion (1941)

  13. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

  14. Laura (1944)

  15. Detour (1945)

  16. Spellbound (1945)

  17. The Big Sleep (1946)

  18. The Killers (1946)

  19. Notorious (1946)

  20. The Spiral Staircase (1946)

  21. Crossfire (1947)

  22. The Fugitive (1947)

  23. Odd Man Out (1947)

  24. Out of the Past (1947)

  25. The Big Clock (1948)

  26. Force of Evil (1948)

  27. They Live By Night (1949)

  28. White Heat (1949)

  29. The Third Man (1950)

  30. Strangers on a Train (1951)

  31. The Big Heat (1953)

  32. Dial M for Murder (1954)

  33. Rear Window (1954)

  34. Bob le Flambeur (1955)

  35. Diabolique (1955)

  36. To Catch a Thief (1955)

  37. The Wages of Fear (1955)

  38. Rififi (1956)

  39. I Want To Live! (1958)

  40. Touch of Evil (1958)

  41. Vertigo (1958)

  42. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

  43. North By Northwest (1959)

  44. The Big Deal on Madonna Street (1960)

  45. Pigs and Battleships (1961)

  46. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

  47. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

  48. High and Low (1963)

  49. Topkapi (1964)

  50. The Ipcress File (1965)

  51. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

  52. In Cold Blood (1967)

  53. Point Blank (1967)

  54. The Bride Wore Black (1968)

  55. Bullitt (1968)

  56. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

  57. La Femme Infidele (1969)

  58. Topaz (1969)

  59. Le Boucher (1970)

  60. This Man Must Die (1970)

  61. Dirty Harry (1971)

  62. The French Connection (1971)

  63. Get Carter (1971)

  64. Klute (1971)

  65. Play Misty for Me (1971)

  66. Shaft (1971)

  67. Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)

  68. Frenzy (1972)

  69. The Godfather (1972)

  70. Straw Dogs (1972)

  71. Badlands (1973)

  72. The Long Goodbye (1973)

  73. Mean Streets (1973)

  74. Serpico (1973)

  75. Chinatown (1974)

  76. The Godfather, Part II (1974)

  77. The Parallax View (1974)

  78. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

  79. Night Moves (1975)

  80. Three Days of the Condor (1975)

  81. The Warriors (1979)

  82. Dressed to Kill (1980)

  83. Diva (1982)

  84. The Verdict (1982)

  85. L’Argent (1983)

  86. Prizzi’s Honor (1985)

  87. Blue Velvet (1986)

  88. Fatal Attraction (1987)

  89. RoboCop (1987)

  90. Bull Durham (1988)

  91. Married to the Mob (1988)

  92. Black Rain (1989)

  93. Dead Calm (1989)

  94. Goodfellas (1990)

  95. The Grifters (1990)

  96. Reversal of Fortune (1990)

  97. A Brighter Summer Day (1991)

  98. Point Break (1991)

  99. The Killer (1991)

  100. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

  101. One False Move (1992)

  102. Reservoir Dogs (1992)

  103. Pulp Fiction (1994)

  104. Fargo (1996)

  105. Lone Star (1996)

  106. Donnie Brasco (1997)

  107. L.A. Confidential (1997)

  108. Face/Off (1997)

  109. Out of Sight (1998)

  110. Infernal Affairs (2003)

  111. Collateral (2004)

  112. L’Enfant (2006)

  113. Election (2007)

  114. Zodiac (2007)

Science Fiction:

  1. Metropolis (1927)

  2. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

  3. The Fly (1958)

  4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

  5. Blade Runner (1982)

  6. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

  7. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan )1982)

  8. Aliens (1986)

  9. Beetlejuice (1988)