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100 "Greatest Films" (alphabetical by title)
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Another 100 "Greatest Films" (alphabetical)
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Summaries - Part 3
Summaries - Part 4
Summaries - Part 5
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Third 100 "Greatest Films" (alphabetical)
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200 Greatest Films
(chronological listing of top two
lists)
300 Greatest Films (chronological
listing of all three lists)
"Greatest Films" Lists - This Site
"Greatest Films"
Lists Index (This Site's Lists)
Top Films of All-Time
Filmsite's
Top 100 Films (5 Per Genre Category)
"Greatest Films Lists" - Other Sites
"Other Greatest Films" Lists Index (Other Sites' Lists) - same as links below
Time Magazine's
All-Time 100 Best Movies
Los
Angeles Daily News Readers' Poll: Greatest American Films
Academy of Motion Pictures
Arts and Sciences - Best Picture Winners
Sight & Sound
Magazine's 10 Best Films Polls
TV Guide's 50 Greatest
Movies (on TV and Video)
Guinness' Top
100 Films (5 Per Genre Category)
Mr. Showbiz's 100 Best
Movies of All Time - Readers and Critics Picks
Movieline Magazine's
100 Best Movies Ever Made
Movieline Magazine's
100 Greatest Foreign Films
Premiere Magazine's 100
Most Daring Movies Ever Made
Empire Magazine's
50 Greatest Independent Films
Rolling Stone's 100 Maverick
Movies of the Last 100 Years
FilmFour's 100 Greatest
Films of All Time
British Film Institute's
100 Favorite British Films of the 20th Century
Village Voice's 100 Best
Films of the 20th Century
Empire Magazine's 50 Best
Films
Empire Magazine's 100
Greatest Movies of All Time (two pollings)
Entertainment Weekly's 100
Greatest Movies of All Time
Leonard Maltin's 100 Must-See
Films of the 20th Century
Premiere Magazine's
50 Greatest Comedies of All Time
Maxim Magazine's 100 Greatest
Guy Movies Ever Made
Men's Journal's 50 Best
Guy Movies of All Time
Entertainment Weekly's
50 Best High School Movies
50 Greatest Chick
Flicks by O Magazine
100 Recommended Children's
Movies
BFI's Top 10 (and
Top 50) Greatest Children's Films
Vanity Fair's 50 Greatest
Films of All-Time
Arts and Faith's
Top 100 Spiritually-Significant Films
The Film 100 - 100 Most
Influential People (and Their Films)
National Film Registry
Titles
San Francisco Chronicle's
Vintage Video: Hot 100 From Out of the Past
Time Out's Centenary Top
Hundred Films
Time Out's Readers Top
Hundred Films
Video Detective's Top 100
Films
Internet Movie DataBase's
Top 100 Films
Entertainment Weekly's
100 Best Film Soundtracks
Film Comment's 101
Film Score Milestones (1933-2001)
Total Film's The Greatest Directors Ever
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies - The Top 100 Greatest American Movies
100 Years...100 Movies Series of Best American Films by American Film Institute (AFI):
Judging Criteria
and Facts About AFI's Top 100
400 Greatest American
Films (nominees)
Commentary on
100 Years...100 Movies
100 Years...100
Laughs (four parts) - The 100 Funniest American Movies
500 Greatest
Comedies (nominees)
100 Years...100
Thrills (two parts) - The 100 Greatest Thrillers
400 Greatest
Thrillers (nominees)
100 Years...100 Passions
(two parts) - The 100 Greatest Love Stories
400 Greatest
Love Stories (nominees)
100 Greatest
Heroes & Villains - The 100 Greatest Heroes & Villains
100
Greatest Heroes & Villains (nominees)
50 Greatest Screen Legends - 50 Greatest Screen Legends
100 Greatest American Movie Poster Classics
100 Years...100 Songs
- The Top 100 Greatest Songs in American Movies
400 Greatest
Songs (nominees)
100 Years...100
Movie Quotes - The Top 100 Movie Quotes in American Movies
400 Greatest
Movie Quotes (nominees)
100 Years...100
Cheers - The Top 100 Inspirational American Films
300 Greatest
Inspirational Films (nominees)
100 Years of Musicals - The 25 Greatest Movie Musicals of All Time
100 Greatest American Films - 10th Anniversary Edition
400 Greatest Films (nominees)
The 10 Top 10 - The Top 10 Films in 10 Genres
The 10 Top 10 (500 nominees, 10 in each genre category, and 100 winners)
All-Time Box-Office
Top 100 (domestic, unadjusted and adjusted for inflation, and worldwide)
Box-Office Top 10
(By Decade and Year)
Top 100 Films of All-Time (Inflation-Adjusted)
Greatest Film Series
Franchises (ordered by domestic revenue) (in four parts)
Top Summer Blockbusters
All-Time Highest Grossing Films by Genre Type
Greatest Box-Office Bombs, Disasters, and Flops
Academy Awards Summaries Academy Awards Summaries
Most Oscar Wins by
Film
Most Oscar Nominations
by Film
Most Acting Nominations
by Film
Actors/Actresses with
the Most Nominations and Wins (4 parts)
Best Picture Winners (1927/28
- present)
20th Century
Best Picture Winners (ranked by artistic merit)
Best Picture Oscar Winners
Genre Biases
Best Picture
Milestones (multi-sectioned,
by decade)
Best Director Winners
(1927/28 - present)
Best Actor Winners
(1927/28 - present)
Best Supporting
Actor Winners (1927/28 - present)
Best Actress Winners
(1927/28 - present)
Best Supporting
Actress Winners (1927/28 - present)
Best Screenplay/Writer
Winners (1927/28 - present)
101 Greatest
Film Screenplays of All-Time
Academy
Award Nominees and Winners by Decade
(A Complete Academy Awards History
and Commentary)
1927/8-1939 (individual years branch off decades)
1940-1949
1950-1959
1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-1989
1990-1999
2000-2009
2010-2019
2020-2029
Academy Awards Mistakes and Omissions
(Films Without Oscars)
Academy Awards-Nominated
Great Films That Didn't Win a Single Oscar
Great Films That
Weren't Nominated
'Best Pictures' Not
Nominated for Best Picture
Great Acting Performances
That Weren't Nominated
Great Actors,
Great Actresses, and Great
Directors Who Have Not Won Actor, Actress and Best Director
Academy Awards®
Greatest
Films: Introduction
What Makes
a Great Film and Scene?
100 Most Iconic Film
Images - Filmsite's Top 100 (and Honorable Mentions)
100 Most Iconic Scary
Movie Images, Moments & Scenes
Film Scenes: Mini-Quiz
A Tribute to the 100 Greatest Film Scenes of All Time (chronological and illustrated)
Introduction
Silents (1)
Silents (2)
1930s (1)
1930s (2)
1940s (1)
1940s (2)
1950s (1)
1950s (2)
1960s
1970s-1990s
100's of the Greatest Films (and Their Scenes):
Film Titles A - H | Film Titles I - R | Film
Titles S - Z
100 Great Movie Moments (Roger Ebert) (illustrated)
50 Greatest Movie Moments of All Time - by TV Guide (4
parts, ranked)
Part 1 | Part
2 | Part
3 | Part
4
100 Years at the Movies, analysis of short film by Chuck Workman
Scariest Movie Moments and Scenes
100 + Scariest Movie Images of All-Time
Greatest Movie Entrances of All-Time
Best and Most Memorable Film Kisses of All Time in Cinematic History
Greatest Tearjerker Films, Moments and Scenes
Greatest Plot Twists, Spoilers, and Surprise Endings
Funniest Movie Moments and Scenes and Greatest Comedy Films of All-Time
Greatest Musical Song/Dance Movie Moments and Scenes and Greatest Musical-Dance Films of All-Time
Greatest Classic Chase Scenes in Films
Greatest War Films and Greatest War Films of All Time
Greatest Westerns and Greatest Westerns of All Time
Memorable and Great 'Chick' Flicks
Greatest Film Franchises: Movie Title Screens
Movie
Title Screens
Best Picture
Academy Award Winners
James Bond
Films
Film Studio
Logos
Saul Bass Titles
100 Years
of Title Screens (1900-1919)
(1920-1929)
(1930-1939)
(1940-1949)
(1950-1959)
(1960-1969)
(1970-1979)
(1980-1989)
(1990-1999)
(2000-2009)
(2010-2019)
(2020-2029)
Classic
Film Noir (1940s) and (1950s)
Alfred Hitchcock Films
Greatest
Westerns
Creature
Features of the Mid-20th Century
Filmsite's
100 Greatest Films, Another 100
Films and Third 100 Films collections
Cinematic History and Timelines By Decade - (illustrated)
Index (individual years branch off decades)
Pre-20s History
1920s Film History
1930s Film History
1940s Film History
1950s Film History
1960s Film History
1970s Film History
1980s Film History
1990s Film History
2000s Film History
2010s Film History
Film History Milestones - Timelines
Introduction | Pre-1900s | 1900s | 1910s | 1920s | 1930s | 1940s | 1950s
1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s
Great Films
- By Year
(selections for greatest films of each year -
one page per year)
History of Sex in Cinema:
Greatest and Most Influential Erotic / Sexual Films and Scenes
(chronological by film title and illustrated)
Most Influential Films in American Cinema
50 States: Most Authentic and Famous Films
Greatest Movie Props in Film History (illustrated)
Greatest Femmes Fatales in Classic Film Noir (illustrated)
Film Milestones in Visual
and Special Effects
(chronological by date, multiple parts and illustrated)
The 100 Most Controversial
Films of All-Time
(chronological, multiple parts, and illustrated)
Robots
in Film
(A comprehensive illustrated history)
Greatest
Zombie Films
(chronological by date, multiple parts, illustrated)
Greatest James Bond Girls (illustrated)
The Star Wars Saga: Reviewed and Ranked
Best Film Editing Sequences (illustrated)
Great Film Quotes - Index of Contents
Best Film Speeches and Monologues
(in multiple parts, and illustrated)
Greatest Film Misquotes
Top 100 Greatest Film Quotes (illustrated)
Ten Best Movie Lines
Ever
Ten Most Famous Movie
Quotes
Most Popular Movie
Lines
Top 10 Worst Film
Quotes
Funniest Movie Quotes
Brief Film Quotes
Great Film Taglines
Greatest Opening
Film Lines and Quotes
Greatest Last
Words and Film Lines
Great Film Quotes By Decade (Introduction)
Great Film Quotes - 1920s-1930s
Great Film Quotes - 1940s
Great Film Quotes - 1950s
Great Film Quotes - 1960s
Great Film Quotes - 1970s
Great Film Quotes - 1980s
Great Film Quotes - 1990s
Great Film Quotes - 2000s
Great Film Quotes
- 2010s
Great Film Quotes -
2020s
100 Years...100 Movie
Quotes - The Top 100 Movie Quotes in American Movies
400 Greatest Movie
Quotes (nominees)
Action Films
Adventure Films
Comedy Films
Crime and Gangster
Films
Drama Films
Epics
Horror Films
Musicals (Dance)
Films
Science Fiction Films
War (Anti-War) Films
Western Films
Film Sub-Genres
Biopics (Biographical)
Chick Flicks
Courtroom
Dramas
Detective-Mystery
Films
Disaster Films
Fantasy Films
Film Noir
Guy Films
Melodrama Films
Road Films
Romance Films
Sports Films
Superhero Films
Supernatural Films
Thriller-Suspense
Films
Zombies Films
Film Sub-Genres Types (and Hybrids)
Other Major (Non-Genre) Film Categories
Animated Films
British (UK) Films
Childrens - Kids
- Family-Oriented Films
(also Top
10 'Must-See' and Top 100 Children's
Films)
Classic Films
Cult Films (also
Top 50 Cult Movies)
Documentary Films
Serial Films
Sexual (or Erotic)
Films
Silent Films
Greatest Films - By Genre Type
Greatest Action Films of All-Time
Greatest Adventure Films of All-Time
Greatest Comedy Films of All-Time
Greatest Crime & Gangster Films of All-Time
Greatest Cult Films of All-Time
Greatest Drama Films of All-Time
Greatest Epics-Historical Films of All-Time
Greatest Fantasy Films of All-Time
Greatest Film Noirs (Classic and Neo-Noir)
Greatest Horror Films of All-Time
Greatest Musical-Dance Films of All-Time
Greatest Romance Films of All-Time
Greatest Sci-Fi Films of All-Time
Greatest Sports Films of All-Time
Greatest Thriller-Suspense Films of All-Time
Greatest War Films of All-Time
Greatest Western Films of All-Time
Reference Film and Book
Resources (part 1)
Reference Film and Book
Resources (part 2)
Reference Film and Book
Resources (part 3)
Internet Links and Other Resources
Tips on Viewing Films Critically (two parts)
Film-Making Dictionary or Glossary (alphabetical, and illustrated)
A1 A2-B1
B2 B3-C1
C2 C3
C4-D1 D2-E1
F1 F2-I1
I2-L1 L2-M1
M2-O1 O2-P1
P2-S1 S2
S3 S4
S5-T1 T2-Z
Greatest Directors (of English-Language Films) (alphabetical by last name, unranked and illustrated)
Greatest Directors
and Their Best Films (Introduction)
Greatest Directors
and Their Best Films - Part 1
Greatest Directors
and Their Best Films - Part 2
Greatest Directors
and Their Best Films - Part 3
Greatest Directors
and Their Best Films - Part 4
Greatest Directors
and Their Best Films - Part 5
Greatest Directors
and Their Best Films - Part 6
More Greatest Directors (alphabetical by last name, unranked)
More Great Directors
and Their Best Films - Part 1
More Great Directors
and Their Best Films - Part 2
More Great Directors
and Their Best Films - Part 3
More Great Directors
and Their Best Films - Part 4
Film Directors Information
Alfred Hitchcock's
Cameos (multiple
parts, and illustrated)
Alfred Hitchcock's MacGuffins (illustrated)
Most Famous Film
Director Cameos (illustrated)
Notable Appearances
of Directors in Films of Other Directors
(illustrated)
Alfred
Hitchcock's Greatest Films
Stanley
Kubrick's Greatest Films
100 Greatest Film Stars of All-Time (unranked)
Introduction
50 Greatest Film Star Actors (multiple parts, and illustrated)
50 Greatest Film Star Actresses (multiple parts, and illustrated)
Greatest
Starring Roles and Filmographies (alphabetical by last name,
and illustrated)
Introduction
A1 | A2 | B1 | B2 | B3 | C1 | C2 | C3 | D1 | D2 | E
F1 | F2 | G1 | G2 | H1 | H2 | H3 | I-J | K
L1 | L2 | M1 | M2 | M3 | M4 | N | O | P1 | P2-Q | R1
R2 | S1 | S2 | S3 | T1 | T2 | U-V | W1 | W2-Z
50 Greatest Film Star Legends (alphabetical by last name, and illustrated)
Introduction
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Greatest Film Characters of All-Time
Introduction
to Greatest Film Characters of All-Time (alphabetical
by character name, and illustrated) - multiple parts
100 Best Female Characters (Movieline
Magazine)
100 Greatest Movie
Characters of All Time (Premiere Magazine)
100 Greatest Movie
Performances of All-Time (Premiere Magazine)
Greatest Hollywood Bombshells
History of Hollywood Bombshells
Top 25 Sexy
Hollywood Bombshells (alphabetical
by last name, illustrated)
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