AFI's 2007 Greatest Movies of All Time
 

Updated from their original Top 100 ten years ago...:

Rnk Movie
1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. Casablanca (1942)
4. Raging Bull (1980)
5. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
6. Gone With the Wind (1939)
7. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
8. Schindler's List (1993)
9. Vertigo (1958)
10. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
11. City Lights (1931)
12. The Searchers (1956)
13. Star Wars (1977)
14. Psycho (1960)
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
16. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
17. The Graduate (1967)
18. The General (1927)
19. On the Waterfront (1954)
20. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
21. Chinatown (1974)
22. Some Like it Hot (1959)
23. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
24. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
25. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
26. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
27. High Noon (1952)
28. All About Eve (1950)
29. Double Indemnity (1944)
30. Apocalypse Now (1979)
31. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
32. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
34. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
35. Annie Hall (1977)
36. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
37. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
39. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
40. The Sound of Music (1965)
41. King Kong (1933)
42. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
43. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
44. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
45. Shane (1953)
46. It Happened One Night (1934)
47. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
48. Rear Window (1954)
49. Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
51. West Side Story (1961)
52. Taxi Driver (1976)
53. The Deer Hunter (1978)
54. M*A*S*H" (1972)
55. North by Northwest (1959)
56. Jaws (1975)
57. Rocky (1976)
58. The Gold Rush (1925)
59. Nashville (1975)
60. Duck Soup (1933)
61. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
62. American Graffiti (1973)
63. Cabaret (1972)
64. Network (1976)
65. The African Queen (1951)
66. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
67. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
68. Unforgiven (1992)
69. Tootsie (1982)
70. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
71. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
72. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
74. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
75. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
76. Forrest Gump (1994)
77. All the President's Men (1976)
78. Modern Times (1936)
79. The Wild Bunch (1969)
80. The Apartment (1960)
81. Spartacus (1960)
82. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
83. Titanic (1997)
84. Easy Rider (1969)
85. A Night at the Opera (1935)
86. Platoon (1986)*
87. 12 Angry Men (1957)
88. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
89. The Sixth Sense (1999)
90. Swing Time (1936)
91. Sophie's Choice (1982)
92. Goodfellas (1990)
93. The French Connection (1971)
94. Pulp Fiction (1994)
95. The Last Picture Show (1971)
96. Do the Right Thing (1989)
97. Blade Runner (1982)
98. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
99. Toy Story (1995)
100. Ben-Hur (1959)

Pretty bad that there is nothing after 2001 on that list.

Not really, since one of the criteria used is popularity over time.

I can't believe they didn't include __________.

Yeah,



was a really good movie.

You have poor taste.

No Cameron Crowe or Wes Anderson, disappointing.

Wow, I've seen a grand total of 11 of those movies. How did Titanic get on there? Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs? Do the Right Thing?

Where's Braveheart?

Only 13 from the last 20 years and only one of those cracked the top 40? This old movie bias is for the birds.

Yawn. What a lame list. Not even worth arguing over. The American Film Institute ranks the top 100 films and surprise surprise you get average films like American Graffitti and Some Like it Hot. Have you guys seen Some Like it Hot? It's not even one of the better Jack Lemon movies. snoozeville.

Why wouldn't Titanic be on there? It was a critically acclaimed film, won 13 Oscars, and is the #1 grossing film of all time. It would have been ridiculous for it not to be there, almost as ridiculous as someone claiming that Braveheart is a better movie than Do the Right Thing.

Agreed on the Crowe part. Say Anything, Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire. At least one of those should be on there. At least his idol Billy Wilder was well represented.

I came into this thread expecting that list to contain 2007 movies, and by God, I expect Shorty to get his ass in gear.

I've seen exactly half of these.

It is becoming clear that 1994 is going to be one of the all-time great movie years, probably only rivaled by 1939. Shawhank Redemption, Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction are on the list. Clerks, True Lies, Dumb and Dumber, Maverick, Hudsucker Proxy, and many others were released in '94.

I don't think 1999 will ever be topped: Analyze This, American Beauty, The Matrix, eXistenZ (if you love video games, then you have to see this movie), Run Lola Run, Office Space, Tea with Mussoulini, South Park: Bigger, Louder, Uncut, The Blair Witch Project, The Sixth Sense, The Iron Giant, Three Kings, Boys Don't Cry, Fight Club, Being John Malkovich, The Insider, Dogma, Girl, Interrupted, The Talented Mr. Ripley

agreed...plus

magnolia, election, toy story 2, sleepy hollow, all about my mother, galaxy quest, green mile, bowfinger (guilty pleasure) and american pie.

Also Ace Ventura, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Leon (The Professional) - from what I own.

Agree with the '99 musings.


Also, I've seen 31 & own 14 of them, including the top 4. I agree wholeheartedly with the top 3, albeit in a slightly different order, but am not quite sure how I feel about Raging Bull getting that much credit.

I love The Searchers, but that is way too high to suit me

Some Like It Hot is an great movie. There is actually some subtlety in the humor that is very lacking now. Also glad to see Singing in the Rain so high, I watched that with my kids the other day and they loved it.

It's interesting that Raging Bull moved up 20 spots from 24 to 4 since the last time they put out their list. Meanwhile Taxi Driver dropped 5 spots from 47 to 52. I really like both, but I've always preferred Taxi Driver.

Can tell how much of a movie buff I am.... I've seen ONE of those.