Village Voice Top 100

(Best of the 20th Century)

1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. The Rules Of The Game (1939)
3. Vertigo (1958)
4. The Searchers (1956)
5. The Man With A Movie Camera (1929)
6. Sunrise (1927)
7. L’ Atalante (1934)
8. The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (1928)
9. Balthazar (1966)
10. Rashomon (1950)
11. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
12. The Godfather (1972)
13. Song Of The Little Road (1955)
14. The Birth Of A Nation (1915)
15. The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
16. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
17. The Word (1955)
18. Intolerance (1916)
19. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
20. Psycho (1960)
21. Chinatown (1974)
22. M (1931)
23. The Seven Samurai (1954)
24. Madame de… (1953)
25. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
26. A Man Escaped (1956)
27. Broken Blossoms (1919)
28. Greed (1924)
29. Ugetsu (1953)
30. The Third Man (1949)
31. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
32. The General (1926)
33. The Seventh Seal (1957)
34. Taxi Driver (1967)
35. The Night Of The Hunter (1955)
36. Tokyo Story (1953)
37. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
38. City Lights (1931)
39. King Kong (1933)
40. Metropolis (1926)
41. My Life To Live (1962)
42. Sherlock Jr. (1924)
43. Aguirre: The Wrath Of God (1972)
44. Duck Soup (1933)
45. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
46. Barry Lyndon (1975)
47. The 400 Blows (1959)
48. Steamboat Bill, Jr (1928)
49. Contempt (1963)
50. The Gold Rush (1925)
51. North By Northwest (1959)
52. Hold Me While I’m Naked (1966)
53. The Rise of Louis XIV (1966)
54. The Apu Trilogy (1955-59)
55. Touch Of Evil (1958)
56. A Woman Under The Influence (1974)
57. The Lady Eve (1941)
58. The Conformist (1970)
59. The Palm Beach Story (1942)
60. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
61. Pickpocket (1959)
62. An Actor’s Revenge (1963)
63. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
64. Close-Up (1990)
65. The Gospel According To St. Matthew (1965)
66. The Pier (1961)
67. Modern Times (1936)
68. October (1927)
69. The Forgotten Ones (1950)
70. Paisan (1946)
71. Performance (1970)
72. Shoah (1985)
73. Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
74. Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1966)
75. Umberto D (1952)
76. The Vampires (1915)
77. All About Eve (1950)
78. All That Heaven Allows (1956)
79. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
80. Notorious (1946)
81. Pierrot le Fou (1965)
82. Fox And His Friends (1975)
83. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
84. A Trip To The Moon (1902)
85. Wavelength (1967)
86. Ashes And Diamonds (1958)
87. Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls (1970)
88. The Golden Coach (1952)
89. Salo (1975)
90. Celine And Julie Go Boating (1974)
91. Masculine-Feminine (1966)
92. Nosferatu (1922)
93. Star Wars (1977)
94. Blade Runner (1982)
95. Bride Of Frankenstein (1935)
96. Jules And Jim (1961)
97. Landscape In The Mist (1968)
98. Mean Streets (1973)
99. Shadow Of A Doubt (1943)
100. Suspiria (1977)

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