Filmsite's Top 100+ Films by Genre Type (5 Per Genre)
Filmsite has selected a Top 100 Films (see further below) comprised of the top 5 films for each of 20 different genres (including some sub-genres and other categories). The links directly below are to Filmsite's essays on Film Genres.
The unranked 100+ film selections (below in chronological order in each category) are based upon popularity, critical reviews and awards, box-office appeal, memorable films with the best screenplays (characters and stories), and classic status in the genre (or sub-genre) category. Some films could have appeared in more than one list or category of genre, due to their hybrid nature, but each film was only allowed one listing.
See also Filmsite's other detailed version of Top
Films of All Time: By Genre, Greatest
Films - By Genre Type,
Compare to
The
Guinness Book of Film's outdated Top
100 Films, 5 Per Genre Type, and AFI's somewhat dubious The
Top 10 Films in 10 Genres.
The Road Warrior (1982) (aka Mad Max 2 (1981, Australia))
Aliens (1986)
Die Hard (1988)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Casino Royale (2006)
E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
The Princess Bride (1987)
Harry Potter Franchise (2001-2011)
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
King Kong (1933)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Jurassic Park (1993)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Animated
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Fantasia (1940)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Toy Story (1995)
Spirited Away (2001, Jp.)
Psycho (1960)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
The Exorcist (1973)
Halloween (1978)
The Shining (1980)
Biopic
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Patton (1970)
Amadeus (1984)
Malcolm X (1992)
Lincoln (2012)
Top Hat (1935)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
My Fair Lady (1964)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Duck Soup (1933)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Dr. Strangelove, Or:... (1964)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975, UK)
Airplane! (1980)
Casablanca (1942)
Brief Encounter (1945, UK)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Annie Hall (1977)
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
The French Connection (1971)
The Godfather (1972) & The Godfather Part II (1974)
GoodFellas (1990)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Star Wars (1977) and Franchise
Blade Runner (1982)
The Matrix (1999)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Easy Rider (1969)
Harold and Maude (1971)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Rocky (1976)
Slap Shot (1977)
Raging Bull (1980)
Bull Durham (1988)
Hoop Dreams (1994)
Disaster
The Birds (1963)
Airport (1970)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972) & The Towering Inferno (1974)
Twister (1996)
Titanic (1997)
Rear Window (1954)
Vertigo (1958)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Wait Until Dark (1967)
Children of Men (2006)
Citizen Kane (1941)
All About Eve (1950)
On The Waterfront (1954)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Paths of Glory (1957)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Platoon (1986)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Gone With The Wind (1939)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Schindler's List (1993)
Braveheart (1995)
Gladiator (2000)
High Noon (1952)
The Searchers (1956)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Unforgiven (1992)
The General (1927)
Sunrise (1927)
Metropolis (1927)
City Lights (1931)
Modern Times (1936)
It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
A Christmas Story (1983)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Stella Dallas (1937)
The Letter (1940)
Now, Voyager (1942)
Imitation of Life (1959)
Far From Heaven (2002)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
JFK (1991)
A Few Good Men (1992)
The Thin Man (1934)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Chinatown (1974)
Memento (2002)
Don't Look Now (1973)
Poltergeist (1982)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
The Others (2001)
The Ring (2002)
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