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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

1. The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola (1972)
2. Citizen Kane - Orson Welles (1941)
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick (1968)
4. Seven Samurai - Akira Kurosawa (1954)
5. Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
6. Star Wars - George Lucas (1977)
7. Battleship Potemkin - Sergei M. Eisenstein (1925)
8. The Wizard of Oz - Victor Fleming (1939)
9. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - David Hand et al. (1937)
10. The Birth of a Nation - D. W. Griffith (1915)
11. Casablanca - Michael Curtiz (1942)
12. Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock (1958)
13. Gone with the Wind - Victor Fleming (1939)
14. Jaws - Steven Spielberg (1975)
15. A Trip to the Moon - Georges Méliès (1902)
16. Singin' in the Rain - Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly (1952)
17. Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
18. Lawrence of Arabia - David Lean (1962)
19. Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino (1994)
20. The Godfather Part II - Francis Ford Coppola (1974)
21. Metropolis - Fritz Lang (1927)
22. City Lights - Charles Chaplin (1931)
23. Breathless - Jean-Luc Godard (1960)
24. Bicycle Thieves - Vittorio De Sica (1948)
25. Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese (1976)
26. M - Fritz Lang (1931)
27. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans - F. W. Murnau (1927)
28. Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock (1954)
29. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Stanley Kubrick (1964)
30. Rashōmon - Akira Kurosawa (1950)
31. Raiders of the Lost Ark - Steven Spielberg (1981)
32. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Sergio Leone (1966)
33. Modern Times - Charles Chaplin (1936)
34. The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Theodor Dreyer (1927)
35. The Searchers - John Ford (1956)
36. 8½ - Federico Fellini (1963)
37. 12 Angry Men - Sidney Lumet (1957)
38. It's a Wonderful Life - Frank Capra (1946)
39. Stagecoach - John Ford (1939)
40. The Empire Strikes Back - Irvin Kershner (1980)
41. Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder (1959)
42. North by Northwest - Alfred Hitchcock (1959)
43. Toy Story - John Lasseter (1995)
44. The Exorcist - William Friedkin (1973)
45. Schindler's List - Steven Spielberg (1993)
46. Alien - Ridley Scott (1979)
47. The Gold Rush - Charles Chaplin (1925)
48. Intolerance - D. W. Griffith (1916)
49. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Steven Spielberg (1982)
50. The Graduate - Mike Nichols (1967)
51. The 400 Blows - François Truffaut (1959)
52. Tokyo Story - Yasujirō Ozu (1953)
53. Bonnie and Clyde - Arthur Penn (1967)
54. The Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir (1939)
55. The Terminator - James Cameron (1984)
56. GoodFellas - Martin Scorsese (1990)
57. Sunset Boulevard - Billy Wilder (1950)
58. Blade Runner - Ridley Scott (1982)
59. Raging Bull - Martin Scorsese (1980)
60. A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick (1971)
61. Goldfinger - Guy Hamilton (1964)
62. The Third Man - Carol Reed (1949)
63. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Miloš Forman (1975)
64. The Kid - Charles Chaplin (1921)
65. Pather Panchali - Satyajit Ray (1955)
66. Do the Right Thing - Spike Lee (1989)
67. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Peter Jackson (2003)
68. Spirited Away - Hayao Miyazaki (2001)
69. Double Indemnity - Billy Wilder (1944)
70. Once upon a Time in the West - Sergio Leone (1968)
71. King Kong - Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack (1933)
72. Persona - Ingmar Bergman (1966)
73. La dolce vita - Federico Fellini (1960)
74. Rome, Open City - Roberto Rossellini (1945)
75. The Matrix - Lana & Lilly Wachowski (1999)
76. On the Waterfront - Elia Kazan (1954)
77. Chinatown - Roman Polański (1974)
78. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
79. The Deer Hunter - Michael Cimino (1978)
80. The Great Dictator - Charles Chaplin (1940)
81. It Happened One Night - Frank Capra (1934)
82. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Peter Jackson (2001)
83. Back to the Future - Robert Zemeckis (1985)
84. Night of the Living Dead - George A. Romero (1968)
85. The Bridge on the River Kwai - David Lean (1957)
86. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - Robert Wiene (1920)
87. The Maltese Falcon - John Huston (1941)
88. Fantasia - Ben Sharpsteen et al. (1940)
89. Midnight Cowboy - John Schlesinger (1969)
90. Ben-Hur - William Wyler (1959)
91. The Seventh Seal - Ingmar Bergman (1957)
92. Man with a Movie Camera - Dziga Vertov (1929)
93. The Dark Knight - Christopher Nolan (2008)
94. Rocky - John G. Avildsen (1976)
95. Halloween - John Carpenter (1978)
96. To Kill a Mockingbird - Robert Mulligan (1962)
97. Annie Hall - Woody Allen (1977)
98. The Apartment - Billy Wilder (1960)
99. The Shawshank Redemption - Frank Darabont (1994)
100. Forrest Gump - Robert Zemeckis (1994)

I'll post the rest later.

I feel somewhere in the top 250 we should have Sholay by Ramesh Sippy. It's probably the most pivotal Indian studio system movie.