OFC Top 100 Movies of All Time

Online Film Community’s Top 100 Movies of All Time

A short while ago I mentioned the OFC’s top 100 movie list. The list is a response to the AFI’s Top 100 List. While I really enjoy that the AFI celebrates American Film I think its very important to remember that cinema does not start and end with the United States. There is a lot of good Foreign film out there that is really worth watching. I also feel that the AFI focuses a bit to much on older movies. Their list really says that for a movie to be in the top 100 movies of all time it has to have been around for a while. I disagree with this. There have been a lot of good movies since the 1990s.

For me personally, the best part of this list is the fact that it was created by regular people who just love movies. With the exception of a few people on the list most of the contributors are not paid film critics. We just love movies. I’m proud to have contributed to this list and even though many of my nominated movies didn’t make it into the actual top 100 I have to say this is a fine list of movies.

The Online Film Community’s Top 100

  1. Godfather, The (Coppola, 1972)
  2. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
  3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick, 1964)
  4. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981)
  5. Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
  6. Blade Runner (R. Scott, 1982)
  7. Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
  8. Godfather Part II, The (Coppola, 1974)
  9. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980)
  10. Alien (R. Scott, 1979) (Tied with Pulp Fiction)
  11. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994) (Tied with Alien)
  12. Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)
  13. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (Lucas, 1977)
  14. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
  15. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
  16. Shawshank Redemption, The (Darabont, 1994)
  17. Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
  18. Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
  19. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
  20. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
  21. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
  22. It’s a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)
  23. Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1996)
  24. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
  25. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)
  26. Schindler’s List (Spielberg, 1993)
  27. Wizard of Oz, The (Fleming, 1939)
  28. Matrix, The (Wachowski/Wachowski, 1999)
  29. Third Man, The (Reed, 1949)
  30. Die Hard (McTiernan, 1988)
  31. Back to the Future (Zemeckis, 1985
  32. Annie Hall (W. Allen, 1977)
  33. Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)
  34. Fight Club (Fincher, 1999)
  35. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Gilliam/Jones, 1975)
  36. Usual Suspects, The (Singer, 1995)
  37. Princess Bride, The (Reiner, 1987)
  38. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975)
  39. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)
  40. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
  41. Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The (Leone, 1966)
  42. Searchers, The (Ford, 1956)
  43. Singin’ in the Rain (Donen/Kelly, 1952)
  44. E.T. (Spielberg, 1982)
  45. Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)
  46. Run Lola Run (Tykwer, 1998)
  47. This is Spinal Tap (Reiner, 1984)
  48. Sunset Blvd. (Wilder, 1950)
  49. Big Lebowski, The (J. Coen, 1998)
  50. Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)
  51. Bridge on River Kwai, The (Lean, 1957)
  52. Memento (Nolan, 2000)
  53. M (Lang, 1931)
  54. Shining, The (Kubrick, 1980)
  55. 12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957)
  56. L.A. Confidential (Hanson, 1997)
  57. Unforgiven (Eastwood, 1992)
  58. Passion of Joan of Arc, The (Dreyer, 1928)
  59. General, The (Keaton/Bruckman, 1927)
  60. Apartment, The (Wilder, 1960)
  61. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
  62. Incredibles, The (Bird, 2004)
  63. Silence of the Lambs, The (Demme, 1991)
  64. Aliens (Cameron, 1986)
  65. Lord of the Rings, The: The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson, 2001)
  66. Heat (Mann, 1995)
  67. Do the Right Thing (S. Lee, 1989)
  68. Rules of the Game, The (Renoir, 1939)
  69. Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)
  70. Network (Lumet, 1976)
  71. Graduate, The (Nichols, 1967)
  72. Bicycle Thief, The (De Sica, 1948)
  73. Conversation, The (Coppola, 1974)
  74. Groundhog Day (Ramis, 1993)
  75. Maltese Falcon, The (Huston, 1941)
  76. American History X (Kaye, 1998)
  77. Ed Wood (Burton, 1994)
  78. Manhattan (Allen, 1979)
  79. King Kong (Cooper/Shoedsack, 1933)
  80. North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)
  81. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Cameron, 1992)
  82. Manchurian Candidate, The (Frankenheimer, 1962)
  83. To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan, 1962)
  84. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Capra, 1939)
  85. Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)
  86. Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)
  87. Leon (Besson, 1994)
  88. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
  89. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
  90. Ghostbusters (Reitman, 1984)
  91. 400 Blows, The (Truffaut, 1959)
  92. Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946)
  93. Toy Story (Lasseter, 1995)
  94. Lord of the Rings, The: The Return of the King (Jackson, 2003)
  95. His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940)
  96. Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino, 1992)
  97. Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
  98. On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954)
  99. Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore, 1988)
  100. Nosferatu (Murnau, 1922)

Participants

I want to thank Andrew Olson from Movie Patron and Jonathan Burdick from Cinema Fusion for organizing this. They did a great job getting it completed and I’d like to encourage them to organize a year end list of the top 10 movies by the OFC coming up.

Posted by John Allison

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