Mr. Showbiz's CRITICS' Picks:
The 100 Best Movies of All Time
The films chosen for this list were limited
to English language films made since the birth of the talkies.
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Casablanca (1942), dir. Michael Curtiz
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The Godfather Part II (1974), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
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North By Northwest (1959), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
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Citizen Kane (1941), dir. Orson Welles
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962), dir. David Lean
- Manhattan (1979), dir. Woody Allen
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Gone With The Wind (1939), dir. Victor Fleming
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Chinatown (1974), dir. Roman Polanski
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), dir.
John Ford
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City Lights (1931), dir. Charles Chaplin
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Raging Bull (1980), dir. Martin Scorsese
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Sunset Boulevard (1950), dir. Billy Wilder
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), dir. Stanley Kubrick
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The Philadelphia Story (1940), dir. George Cukor
- To Have and Have Not (1944),
dir. Howard Hawks
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The Graduate (1967), dir. Mike Nichols
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The Maltese Falcon (1941), dir. John Huston
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Star Wars (1977), dir. George Lucas
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It's A Wonderful Life (1946), dir. Frank Capra
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The Wild Bunch (1969), dir. Sam Peckinpah
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Vertigo (1958), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
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Singin' In The Rain (1952), dir. Stanley Donen and Gene
Kelly
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The Godfather (1972), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
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E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), dir. Steven Spielberg
- The Palm Beach Story (1942),
dir. Preston Sturges
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Blade Runner (1982), dir. Ridley Scott
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Double Indemnity (1944), dir. Billy Wilder
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962),
dir. John Frankenheimer
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All About Eve (1950), dir. Joseph Mankiewicz
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The Searchers (1956), dir. John Ford
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Rear Window (1954), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
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Annie Hall (1977), dir. Woody Allen
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Ninotchka (1939), dir. Ernst Lubitsch
- Blue Velvet (1986),
dir. David Lynch
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The Wizard of Oz (1939), dir. Victor Fleming
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Bringing Up Baby (1938), dir. Howard Hawks
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The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957), dir. David Lean
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The
Bomb (1964), dir. Stanley Kubrick
- Pulp Fiction (1994), dir. Quentin Tarantino
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Some Like It Hot (1959), dir. Billy Wilder
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On The Waterfront (1954), dir. Elia Kazan
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975), dir. Milos Forman
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Taxi Driver (1976), dir. Martin Scorsese
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Touch Of Evil (1958), dir. Orson Welles
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Nashville (1975), dir. Robert Altman
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Apocalypse Now (1979), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
- The Hustler (1961),
dir. Robert Rossen
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The Big Sleep (1946), dir. Howard Hawks
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Bonnie And Clyde (1967), dir. Arthur Penn
- Unforgiven (1992),
dir. Clint Eastwood
- Network (1976), dir.
Sidney Lumet
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991),
dir. Jonathan Demme
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Jaws (1975), dir. Steven Spielberg
- The Deer Hunter (1978),
dir. Michael Cimino
- Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), dir. Woody
Allen
- Gunga Din (1939), dir. George Stevens
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Schindler's List (1993), dir. Steven Spielberg
- Hud (1963), dir. Martin
Ritt
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The Third Man (1949), dir. Carol Reed
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Modern Times (1936), dir. Charles Chaplin
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981),
dir. Steven Spielberg
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Red River (1948), dir. Howard Hawks
- The Empire Strikes Back (1980), dir. Irvin
Kershner
- Hamlet (1948), dir. Laurence Olivier
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Notorious (1946), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), dir. Elia Kazan
- Last Tango in Paris (1972), dir. Bernardo
Bertolucci
- Sweet Smell of Success (1957),
dir. Alexander Mackendrick
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Out Of The Past (1947), dir. Jacques Tournier
- All That Jazz (1979), dir. Bob Fosse
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Top Hat (1935), dir. Mark Sandrich
- The Misfits (1961),
dir. John Huston
- Tootsie (1982), dir. Sydney Pollack
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), dir. Frank Capra
- Short Cuts (1993), dir. Robert Altman
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The Grapes of Wrath (1940), dir. John Ford
- The Apartment (1960),
dir. Billy Wilder
- A Clockwork Orange (1971),
dir. Stanley Kubrick
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Psycho (1960), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Moonstruck (1987), dir. Norman Jewison
- GoodFellas (1990),
dir. Martin Scorsese
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Stagecoach (1939), dir. John Ford
- The Last Picture Show (1971),
dir. Peter Bogdanovich
- Die Hard (1988), dir. John McTiernan
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Midnight Cowboy (1969), dir. John Schlesinger
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West Side Story (1961), dir. Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
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The Quiet Man (1952), dir. John Ford
- Reds (1981), dir. Warren Beatty
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Rebel Without a Cause (1955), dir. Nicholas Ray
- A Hard Day's Night (1964), dir. Richard Lester
- A Room With A View (1986), dir. James Ivory
- From Here to Eternity (1953),
dir. Fred Zinnemann
- The Piano (1993), dir. Jane Campion
- Adam's Rib (1949),
dir. George Cukor
- This Is Spinal Tap (1984), dir. Rob Reiner
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It Happened One Night (1934), dir. Frank Capra
- Do the Right Thing (1989), dir. Spike Lee
- The Thin Man (1934),
dir. W.S. Van Dyke
- Patton (1970), dir.
Franklin Schaffner
- The Terminator (1984),
dir. James Cameron
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Mr. Showbiz's READERS' Picks:
The 100 Best Movies of All Time
Visitors were asked to vote for their Ten
Best Movies of All Time, and the responses were tabulated.
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Pulp Fiction (1994), dir.
Quentin Tarantino
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The Empire Strikes Back (1980),
dir. Irvin Kershner
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Braveheart (1995), dir.
Mel Gibson
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Forrest Gump (1994), dir.
Robert Zemeckis
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Independence Day (1996),
dir. Roland Emmerich
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Return of the Jedi (1983),
dir. Richard Marquand
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Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
(1996), dir. Mike Judge
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Die Hard (1988), dir. John
McTiernan
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The Usual Suspects (1995),
dir. Bryan Singer
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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994),
dir. Tom Shadyac
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Grease (1978), dir. Randal
Kleiser
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Reservoir Dogs (1992), dir.
Quentin Tarantino
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Aliens (1986), dir. James
Cameron
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Dances With Wolves (1990),
dir. Kevin Costner
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The Princess Bride (1987),
dir. Rob Reiner
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Top Gun (1986), dir. Tony
Scott
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Seven (1995), dir. David
Fincher
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The Piano (1993), dir. Jane
Campion
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The Rock (1996), dir. Michael
Bay
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Trainspotting (1996), dir.
Danny Boyle
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Jerry Maguire (1996), dir.
Cameron Crowe
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(Monty Python's) Life of Brian
(1979), dir. Terry Jones
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Jurassic Park (1993), dir.
Steven Spielberg
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
(1989), dir. Steven Spielberg
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Twister (1996), dir. Jan
De Bont
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Heat (1995), dir. Michael
Mann
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Back to the Future (1989),
dir. Robert Zemeckis
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Apollo 13 (1995), dir. Ron
Howard
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Amadeus (1984), dir. Milos
Forman
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Speed (1994), dir. Jan De
Bont
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Dead Poets Society (1989),
dir. Peter Weir
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Rain Man (1988), dir. Barry
Levinson
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
(1966), dir. Sergio Leone
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Manhattan (1979), dir. Woody
Allen
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The Lion King (1994), dir.
Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
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Platoon (1986), dir. Oliver
Stone
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Raising Arizona (1987),
dir. Joel Coen
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The Breakfast Club (1985),
dir. John Hughes
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Doctor Zhivago (1965), dir.
David Lean
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A Time to Kill (1996), dir.
Joel Schumacher
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Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961),
dir. Blake Edwards
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A Few Good Men (1992), dir.
Rob Reiner
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Tootsie (1982), dir. Sydney
Pollack
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The Fugitive (1993), dir.
Andrew Davis
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The English Patient (1996),
dir. Anthony Minghella
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Toy Story (1995), dir. John
Lasseter
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