Bertz & Fischer 100 Greatest Movies List

Added on by C. Maoxian.

Two German gentlemen, Bertz & Fischer, came up with a “list to end all lists” of the 100 greatest movies. It’s just another meta-list, but it’s worth recording anyway:

  1. The Gold Rush, Chaplin, 1925

  2. Battleship Potemkin, Eisenstein, 1925

  3. The General, Keaton, 1926

  4. Metropolis, Lang, 1927

  5. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Murnau, 1927

  6. The Passion of Joan of Arc, Dreyer, 1928

  7. City Lights, Chaplin, 1931

  8. M, Lang, 1931

  9. Modern Times, Chaplin, 1936

  10. Grand Illusion, Renoir, 1937

  11. Bringing Up Baby, Hawks, 1938

  12. The Rules of the Game, Renoir, 1939

  13. The Wizard of Oz, Fleming, 1939

  14. Gone with the Wind, Fleming, 1939

  15. Citizen Kane, Welles, 1941

  16. The Maltese Falcon, Huston, 1941

  17. Casablanca, Curtiz, 1943

  18. Double Indemnity, Wilder, 1944

  19. Children of Paradise, Carne, 1945

  20. It’s a Wonderful Life, Capra, 1946

  21. Bicycle Thieves, De Sica, 1948

  22. The Third Man, Reed, 1949

  23. Sunset Blvd., Wilder, 1950

  24. Rashomon, Kurosawa, 1950

  25. All About Eve, Mankiewicz, 1950

  26. Singin’ in the Rain, Donen, 1952

  27. Tokyo Story, Ozu, 1953

  28. Seven Samurai, Kurosawa, 1954

  29. On the Waterfront, Kazan, 1954

  30. Rear Window, Hitchcock, 1954

  31. The Night of the Hunter, Laughton, 1955

  32. The Searchers, Ford, 1956

  33. The Seventh Seal, Bergman, 1957

  34. Touch of Evil, Welles, 1958

  35. Vertigo, Hitchcock, 1958

  36. Some Like It Hot, Wilder, 1959

  37. The 400 Blows, Truffaut, 1959

  38. North by Northwest, Hitchcock, 1959

  39. La Dolce Vita, Fellini, 1960

  40. Breathless, Godard, 1960

  41. L’avventura, Antonioni, 1960

  42. The Apartment, Wilder, 1960

  43. Psycho, Hitchcock, 1960

  44. Lawrence of Arabia, Lean, 1962

  45. 8 1/2, Fellini, 1963

  46. The Leopard, Visconti, 1963

  47. Dr. Strangelove, Kubrick, 1964

  48. Persona, Bergman, 1966

  49. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Leone, 1966

  50. Bonnie and Clyde, Penn, 1967

  51. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick, 1968

  52. Once Upon a Time in the West, Leone, 1968

  53. Andrei Rublev, Tarkovsky, 1969

  54. The Wild Bunch, Peckinpah, 1969

  55. A Clockwork Orange, Kubrick, 1971

  56. The Godfather, Coppola, 1972

  57. Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Herzog, 1972

  58. Chinatown, Polanski, 1974

  59. The Godfather: Part II, Coppola, 1974

  60. Nashville, Altman, 1975

  61. Jaws, Spielberg, 1976

  62. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Forman, 1975

  63. Taxi Driver, Scorsese, 1976

  64. Annie Hall, Allen, 1977

  65. Star Wars, Lucas, 1977

  66. The Deer Hunter, Cimino, 1978

  67. Apocalypse Now, Coppola, 1979

  68. Alien, Scott, 1979

  69. The Empire Strikes Back, Kershner, 1980

  70. The Shining, Kubrick, 1980

  71. Raging Bull, Scorsese, 1980

  72. Raiders of the Lost Arc, Speilberg, 1981

  73. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Spielberg, 1982

  74. Blade Runner, Scott, 1982

  75. Fanny and Alexander, Bergman, 1982

  76. Once Upon a Time in America, Leone, 1984

  77. Back to the Future, Zemeckis, 1985

  78. Blue Velvet, Lynch, 1986

  79. Die Hard, McTiernan, 1988

  80. GoodFellas, Scorsese, 1990

  81. The Silence of the Lambs, Demme, 1991

  82. Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Cameron, 1991

  83. Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino, 1992

  84. Schindler’s List, Spielberg, 1993

  85. Pulp Fiction, Tarantino, 1994

  86. Forrest Gump, Zemeckis, 1994

  87. The Shawshank Redemption, Darabont, 1994

  88. The Usual Suspects, Singer, 1995

  89. Fargo, Coen, 1996

  90. L.A. Confidential, Hanson, 1997

  91. The Big Lebowski, Coen, 1998

  92. Saving Private Ryan, Spielberg, 1998

  93. The Matrix, Wachowski, 1999

  94. American Beauty, Mendes, 1999

  95. Fight Club, Fincher, 1999

  96. Gladiator, Scott, 2000

  97. Amelie, Jeunet, 2001

  98. The Lord of the Rings, Jackson, 2001

  99. City of God, Meirelles, 2002

  100. The Dark Knight, Nolan, 2008