Criteria: These Greatest Movies of all time are ranked according to their initial and lasting acclaim, influence as well as initial and lasting popularity.
Edited By: Tim, pauldrach, ManPerson, Bruno, Dubrow
- The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola (1972)
- Citizen Kane - Orson Welles (1941)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick (1968)
- Seven Samurai - Akira Kurosawa (1954)
- Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
- Star Wars - George Lucas (1977)
- Battleship Potemkin - Sergei M. Eisenstein (1925)
- The Wizard of Oz - Victor Fleming (1939)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - David Hand et al. (1937)
- The Birth of a Nation - D. W. Griffith (1915)
- Casablanca - Michael Curtiz (1942)
- Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock (1958)
- Gone with the Wind - Victor Fleming (1939)
- Jaws - Steven Spielberg (1975)
- A Trip to the Moon - Georges Méliès (1902)
- Singin' in the Rain - Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly (1952)
- Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
- Lawrence of Arabia - David Lean (1962)
- Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino (1994)
- The Godfather Part II - Francis Ford Coppola (1974)
- Metropolis - Fritz Lang (1927)
- City Lights - Charles Chaplin (1931)
- Breathless - Jean-Luc Godard (1960)
- Bicycle Thieves - Vittorio De Sica (1948)
- Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese (1976)
- M - Fritz Lang (1931)
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans - F. W. Murnau (1927)
- Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock (1954)
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Stanley Kubrick (1964)
- Rashōmon - Akira Kurosawa (1950)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark - Steven Spielberg (1981)
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Sergio Leone (1966)
- Modern Times - Charles Chaplin (1936)
- The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Theodor Dreyer (1927)
- The Searchers - John Ford (1956)
- 8½ - Federico Fellini (1963)
- 12 Angry Men - Sidney Lumet (1957)
- It's a Wonderful Life - Frank Capra (1946)
- Stagecoach - John Ford (1939)
- The Empire Strikes Back - Irvin Kershner (1980)
- Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder (1959)
- North by Northwest - Alfred Hitchcock (1959)
- Toy Story - John Lasseter (1995)
- The Exorcist - William Friedkin (1973)
- Schindler's List - Steven Spielberg (1993)
- Alien - Ridley Scott (1979)
- The Gold Rush - Charles Chaplin (1925)
- Intolerance - D. W. Griffith (1916)
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Steven Spielberg (1982)
- The Graduate - Mike Nichols (1967)
- The 400 Blows - François Truffaut (1959)
- Tokyo Story - Yasujirō Ozu (1953)
- Bonnie and Clyde - Arthur Penn (1967)
- The Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir (1939)
- The Terminator - James Cameron (1984)
- GoodFellas - Martin Scorsese (1990)
- Sunset Boulevard - Billy Wilder (1950)
- Blade Runner - Ridley Scott (1982)
- Raging Bull - Martin Scorsese (1980)
- A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick (1971)
- Goldfinger - Guy Hamilton (1964)
- The Third Man - Carol Reed (1949)
- One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Miloš Forman (1975)
- The Kid - Charles Chaplin (1921)
- Pather Panchali - Satyajit Ray (1955)
- Do the Right Thing - Spike Lee (1989)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Peter Jackson (2003)
- Spirited Away - Hayao Miyazaki (2001)
- Double Indemnity - Billy Wilder (1944)
- Once upon a Time in the West - Sergio Leone (1968)
- King Kong - Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack (1933)
- Persona - Ingmar Bergman (1966)
- La dolce vita - Federico Fellini (1960)
- Rome, Open City - Roberto Rossellini (1945)
- The Matrix - Lana & Lilly Wachowski (1999)
- On the Waterfront - Elia Kazan (1954)
- Chinatown - Roman Polański (1974)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- The Deer Hunter - Michael Cimino (1978)
- The Great Dictator - Charles Chaplin (1940)
- It Happened One Night - Frank Capra (1934)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Peter Jackson (2001)
- Back to the Future - Robert Zemeckis (1985)
- Night of the Living Dead - George A. Romero (1968)
- The Bridge on the River Kwai - David Lean (1957)
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - Robert Wiene (1920)
- The Maltese Falcon - John Huston (1941)
- Fantasia - Ben Sharpsteen et al. (1940)
- Midnight Cowboy - John Schlesinger (1969)
- Ben-Hur - William Wyler (1959)
- The Seventh Seal - Ingmar Bergman (1957)
- Man with a Movie Camera - Dziga Vertov (1929)
- The Dark Knight - Christopher Nolan (2008)
- Rocky - John G. Avildsen (1976)
- Halloween - John Carpenter (1978)
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Robert Mulligan (1962)
- Annie Hall - Woody Allen (1977)
- The Apartment - Billy Wilder (1960)
- The Shawshank Redemption - Frank Darabont (1994)
- Forrest Gump - Robert Zemeckis (1994)