My Top 55 List

To be able to get into the list, you have to have a rating of 10, a feature-length film and released theatrically in North America. Next to the film is the year of release and name of director.

1. Modern Times (1936) (Charles Chaplin)
2. Cinema Paradiso (1989) (Giuseppe Tornatore)
3. Citizen Kane (1941) (Orson Welles)
4. City Lights (1931) (Charles Chaplin)
5. Magnolia (1999) (Paul Thomas Anderson)
6. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) (Frank Darabont)
7. The Godfather Part II (1974) (Francis Ford Coppola)
8. Goodfellas (1990) (Martin Scorsese)
9. Amadeus (1984) (Milos Forman)
10. The Graduate (1967) (Mike Nichols)
11. The Godfather (1972) (Francis Ford Coppola)
12. Chinatown (1974) (Roman Polanski)
13. Annie Hall (1977) (Woody Allen)
14. Life is Beautiful (1997) (Roberto Benigni)
15. Schindler's List (1993) (Steven Spielberg)
16. Singin' in the Rain (1952) (Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen)
17. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) (Steven Spielberg)
18. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) (Milos Forman)
19. Jaws (1975) (Steven Spielberg)
20. Casablanca (1942) (Michael Curtiz)
21. Star Wars (1977) (George Lucas)
22. A Clockwork Orange (1971) (Stanley Kubrick)
23. Spirited Away (2001) (Hayao Miyasaki)
24. Blazing Saddles (1974) (Mel Brooks)
25. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) (Steven Spielberg)
26. Raging Bull (1980) (Martin Scorsese)
27. Patton (1970) (Franklin J. Schaffner)
28. Fargo (1996) (Joel Coen)
29. Stand by Me (1986) (Rob Reiner)
30. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) (Robert Zemeckis)
31. MASH (1970) (Robert Altman)
32. Forrest Gump (1994) (Robert Zemeckis)
33. The Producers (1968) (Mel Brooks)
34. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) (Stanley Kubrick)
35. The Life of Brian (1979) (Terry Jones)
35. Pulp Fiction (1994) (Quentin Tarrantino)
36. The Producers (2005) (Susan Stroman)
37. The Gold Rush (1925) (Charles Chaplin)
38. Fight Club (1999) (David Fincher)
39. The Exorcist (1973) (William Friedkin)
40. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) (David Lean)
41. Young Frankenstein (1974) (Mel Brooks)
42. Back to the Future (1985) (Robert Zemeckis)
43. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) (Steven Spielberg)
44. The Circus (1928) (Charles Chaplin)
45. La Dolce Vita (1960) (Federico Fellini)
46. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) (Woody Allen)
47. The Little Mermaid (1989) (Ron Clements, John Musker)
48. Clerks (1994) (Kevin Smith)
49. It Happened One Night (1934) (Frank Capra)
50. Se7en (1995) (David Fincher)
51. Capote (2005) (Bennett Miller)
52. Reds (1981) (Warren Beatty)
53. Die Hard (1988) (John McTiernan)
54. Stagecoach (1939) (John Ford)
55. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) (Peter Jackson)