Movies Gallery Movies: Top 100 All-Time Greatest: Movies By EW Staff Published on July 11, 2013 04:00PM EDT Trending Videos Close this video player 1. Citizen Kane (1941) Everett Collection Directed by Orson Welles One word: Rosebud. It's still the greatest movie of all time. Telling the story of a newspaper tycoon based on William Randolph Hearst, the 25-year-old genius Orson Welles poured his own swaggering, larger-than-life soul into a tragic and exuberant American saga of journalism, power, celebrity, idealism, betrayal, and lost love. No matter how many times you've seen Kane, it always feels like the first time. That's because Welles' filmmaking remains spectacularly alive: The thrill of invention is there in every shot, every performance, every breathless narrative surge. Download it:AmazoniTunes Want to see EW's picks of the top 100 all-time greatest movies? Buy this week's magazine now,, in print or for your tablet. 2. The Godfather (1972) Directed by Francis Ford Coppola Coppola's tale of crime and family is the most mythic cinematic landmark of the past half century. It heightens Mafia violence into a metaphor for American corporate ruthlessness, presenting Marlon Brando's Don Corleone as the grandest of movie criminals — a monster we revere for his courtly loyalty. Download it:AmazoniTunes 3. Casablanca (1942) Everett Collection Directed by Michael Curtiz WWII movie perfection. Hollywood's most celebrated love story was made as just an average studio pic but now exemplifies old-movie magic. Story, lighting, music, craftsmanship, and every glance between Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman resonate with a magnificence that even the brashest studio mogul couldn't have predicted. Download it:AmazoniTunes 4. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Everett Collection Directed by Arthur Penn A touchstone of screen violence, the exhilarating account of '30s bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker kicked open the door to the cinematic freedom of the post-studio-system era. Download it:AmazoniTunes 5. Psycho (1960) Everett Collection Directed by Alfred Hitchcock The granddaddy of all slasher films (as well as the most profound horror movie ever made), Hitchcock's famous thriller takes the revolutionary step of killing off its heroine (Janet Leigh) halfway through, all as a way of placing the audience in the mind of a madman (Anthony Perkins). Download it:AmazoniTunes 6. It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Directed by Frank Capra In Capra's eternal holiday classic, James Stewart gives one of the best big-screen performances as a small-town good guy who learns what life would have been like without him. The movie is really about how hard it is for us to see the magic of life as we're living it. Download it:AmazoniTunes 7. Mean Streets (1973) Everett Collection Directed by Martin Scorsese Scorsese's film about low-level New York Mob hoods is still the director's greatest exploration of crime, rock & roll, Italian-American manhood, and the wages of sin. The ''Be My Baby'' opening credits may be the single most electrifying use of pop music in Hollywood history. Download it:AmazoniTunes 8. The Gold Rush (1925) Everett Collection Directed by Charles Chaplin Divine slapstick and social commentary from a silent-film genius, as Chaplin's Little Tramp prospects for gold in the Yukon. It's the most iconic performance by Hollywood's most indelible movie star. Download it:AmazoniTunes 9. Nashville (1975) Everett Collection Directed by Robert Altman Altman's organically structured masterpiece turns the stories of 24 linked characters in the country & western music capital into a crazy quilt of politics, celebrity, and American life in the '70s. Download it:AmazoniTunes 10. Gone with the Wind (1939) Everett Collection Directed by Victor Fleming The sweeping tale of the Civil War, a plantation named Tara, and a girl named Scarlett O'Hara was long thought of as the ultimate ''women's picture.'' But it's really Hollywood's most tragic romance. Download it:AmazoniTunes 11. King Kong (1933) Everett Collection Directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack The stop-motion effects retain every bit of their magic as Kong the giant gorilla awes, terrifies, and breaks your heart. Download it:AmazoniTunes NOT RATED 12. The Searchers (1956) Everett Collection Directed by John Ford Ford's darkest Western stars John Wayne as a Civil War veteran who becomes obsessed with finding his niece, who's been captured by Indians. This one has a closing shot for the ages. Download it:AmazoniTunes NOT RATED 13. Annie Hall (1977) Everett Collection Directed by Woody Allen Allen's matchless autobiographical ode to New York City, neurosis, and former sweetheart Diane Keaton has some of the most quoted dialogue in movie history. The template for the perfect smart romantic comedy. Download it:AmazoniTunes PG 14. Bambi (1942) Everett Collection Directed by David Hand It's gorgeous and touching. When hunters kill Bambi's mother, it's a sentimental shock that sends the young deer on a primal journey. Download it:Amazon G 15. Blue Velvet (1986) Everett Collection Directed by David Lynch Lynch's masterpiece of erotic obsession is a hallucinatory thriller that turns into a surrealist nightmare. Dennis Hopper plays the most outrageous psycho villain ever. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 16. Singin' in the Rain (1952) Everett Collection Directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen The greatest of all movie musicals is a glittering MGM gem set in the days when Hollywood was transitioning from silents to talkies. It boasts sublime singin' (and dancin') in glorious Technicolor. Download it:AmazoniTunes G 17. Seven Samurai (1954) Everett Collection Directed by Akira Kurosawa Unemployed samurai defend a village against bandits in Kurosawa's thrilling Japanese period Western, which towers over all action films. Download it:AmazoniTunes NOT RATED 18. Jaws (1975) Directed by Steven Spielberg It's what we don't see that makes us scream in Spielberg's terrifying tale of what happens When Sharks Attack. Hollywood's blockbuster era began here. Download it:AmazoniTunes PG 19. Pulp Fiction (1994) Linda R. Chen Directed by Quentin Tarantino Tarantino seemed to be reinventing the pleasures of movies with this ingeniously time-bent yarn of bad behavior, surf rock, and outlaws who talk like pop culture junkies. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 20. The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) Everett Collection Directed by Marcel Ophüls In documenting the history of the Nazi occupation of France with exhaustive patience, Ophüls' film plumbs vital questions of truth and memory. Download it:Amazon PG 21. Some Like It Hot (1959) Everett Collection Directed by Billy Wilder One of the most perfect of all farcical comedies, about two musicians who dress in drag to join an all-girl band because...well, nobody's perfect. Download it:Amazon NOT RATED 22. Toy Story (1995) Directed by John Lasseter The first, and still the best, of Pixar's films, this tale of a bedroom full of quirky, quarrelsome toys is a witty miracle of plastic come to life. Download it:AmazoniTunes G 23. Notorious (1946) Everett Collection Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Hitchcock's hypnotically suspenseful saga of love and espionage, starring Cary Grant as a supersuave secret agent and Ingrid Bergman as the woman who engages him in one of the longest kisses in screen history. Download it:Amazon NOT RATED 24. The Sound of Music (1965) Everett Collection Directed by Robert Wise The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical about the von Trapp family singers gets turned into a famously square movie. But it's remarkably, wholesomely impassioned, with an incandescent Julie Andrews as the would-be nun who finds herself as a choral den mother. Download it:AmazoniTunes 25. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Everett Collection Directed by Stanley Kubrick Kubrick's science-fiction masterpiece is a cosmic jaw-dropper of unearthly beauty, whether we're watching ships glide through space to ''The Blue Danube'' or charting the showdown between two astronauts and a computer that seems to have feelings. The ending can still blow your mind. Download it:AmazoniTunes G 26. Bicycle Thieves (1948) Everett Collection Directed by Vittorio De Sica A workingman and his son look for the father's stolen bicycle in De Sica's gloriously simple story, the essential specimen of Italian neorealist style. Download it:AmazoniTunes NOT RATED 27. The Maltese Falcon (1941) Everett Collection Directed by John Huston Film-noir perfection and the stuff that dreams are made of: Humphrey Bogart is Sam Spade, a detective entangled with a valuable carved bird, unsavory types who covet it, and a divinely shady dame. It was the amazing directorial debut of Huston, who went on to form a beautiful professional friendship with Bogart. Download it:AmazoniTunes NOT RATED 28. The Wizard of Oz (1939) Directed by Victor Fleming The most powerfully odd and enchanting fairy tale to come out of Hollywood, the adventure of Dorothy in Oz has the enduring magic of a backlot daydream, with a shivery touch of nightmare in Margaret Hamilton's performance as the Wicked Witch of the West. Download it:AmazoniTunes G 29. North by Northwest (1959) Everett Collection Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Hitchcock's globe-trotting suspense classic, starring Cary Grant as an innocent man mistaken for a spy. It's the first true contemporary thriller, with an out-of-the-frying-pan existential wildness typified by the famous crop-dusting sequence. Download it:AmazoniTunes NOT RATED 30. Sunrise (1927) Everett Collection Directed by F.W. Murnau The most heart-wrenching and lyrical of all silent films, Murnau's rapturous tale uses breathtakingly advanced cinematographic techniques to tell the story of a couple who must fall apart in order to come together. Download it:Amazon NOT RATED 31. Chinatown (1974) Everett Collection Directed by Roman Polanski Polanski's moody, labyrinthine thriller about the dark side of 1930s Los Angeles is the richest of all of Hollywood's political-corruption mazes. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 32. Duck Soup (1933) Everett Collection Directed by Leo McCarey The Marx Brothers hit their uproarious, looney-tunes peak in this madcap vision of a political empire gone gleefully berserk. Download it:AmazoniTunes NOT RATED 33. The Graduate (1967) Everett Collection Directed by Mike Nichols The story of a boy, a girl, and a Mrs. Robinson is one of the most revolutionary movies of the '60s. As Benjamin Braddock, a lad torn between respectability and dropping out (and as confused about it as Hamlet), Dustin Hoffman redefined movie stardom. Download it:AmazoniTunes PG 34. Adam's Rib (1949) Everett Collection Directed by George Cukor Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy play married lawyers arguing the opposite sides of a case — a perfect metaphor for marriage itself. Download it:AmazoniTunes NOT RATED 35. Apocalypse Now (1979) Everett Collection Directed by Francis Ford Coppola Coppola's Vietnam saga is a psychedelic meditation on the evil that men do. The ''Ride of the Valkyries'' helicopter attack may be the single most riveting sequence in any war film. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 36. Rosemary's Baby (1968) Everett Collection Directed by Roman Polanski More artful than The Exorcist (and just as disturbing), Polanski's chiller gives you a magnificent case of the everyday shivers. Mia Farrow is a pregnant New Yorker who never suspects that the quirky old couple down the hall are Satan worshippers. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 37. Manhattan (1979) Everett Collection Directed by Woody Allen Allen's finest portrait of brainy, artistic, neurotic, and deeply lovestruck New Yorkers. Gordon Willis' black-and-white cinematography and the lush Gershwin score make every moment indelible. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 38. Vertigo (1958) Everett Collection Directed by Alfred Hitchcock In Hitchcock's romantic mystery, James Stewart is a detective whose lover (Kim Novak) dies and then comes back to life. It's the master's personal poem of longing. Download it:AmazoniTunes PG 39. The Rules of the Game (1939) Everett Collection Directed by Jean Renoir Renoir's masterpiece of social satire, set among romping aristocrats at a country château, is part comedy, part tragedy, and totally sublime. Download it:AmazoniTunes NOT RATED 40. Double Indemnity (1944) Everett Collection Directed by Billy Wilder A delicious film noir, with Fred MacMurray as the ultimate tough sap and Barbara Stanwyck at the height of her powers. Download it:AmazoniTunes NOT RATED 41. The Road Warrior (1981) Everett Collection Directed by George Miller Mel Gibson rules as Mad Max in Miller's speed-demon action Western in a postapocalyptic Aussie wasteland. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 42. Taxi Driver (1976) Everett Collection Directed by Martin Scorsese Yes, he's talkin' to you. As Travis Bickle, Robert De Niro is pent-up and explosive in Scorsese's mesmerizing look at how New York City's scuzzy post-Vietnam streets tip a lonely cabbie toward violence. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 43. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Everett Collection Directed by Peter Jackson Jackson demonstrates the definitive way to translate a popular literary epic for the screen, with sweep and passion and grandeur. He conquers all of Middle-earth! Download it:AmazoniTunes PG-13 44. On the Waterfront (1954) Everett Collection Directed by Elia Kazan Marlon Brando's unforgettable performance as the longshoreman who ''coulda been a contender'' defines Method acting at its most powerful and influential in this brilliantly tough study of dockside politics. Download it:AmazoniTunes NOT RATED 45. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Everett Collection Directed by Frank Capra Anyone who thinks that Capra was a softy should see this wrenching political fable, in which James Stewart, as a novice legislator, discovers — and filibusters to save — a Washington, D.C., as dysfunctional as our own. Download it:AmazoniTunes NOT RATED 46. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) Everett Collection Directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley The perfect old-fashioned lighthearted adventure, with swordplay that still sparkles. As Robin the noble bandit, Errol Flynn seems to be having the time of his life, and his spirit is infectious. Download it:AmazoniTunes PG 47. A Clockwork Orange (1971) Everett Collection Directed by Stanley Kubrick Kubrick's cathartically disturbing — and audiovisually addictive — shock classic is a cautionary tale of youthful hooligans that dares to put you in the jackboots of its punk-sociopath antihero. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 48. It Happened One Night (1934) Everett Collection Directed by Frank Capra The original romantic comedy, in which Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert demonstrate for all time why falling in love masquerades as verbal war. Capra keeps the banter bouncing along with a sublime lightness. Download it:AmazoniTunes NOT RATED 49. Goldfinger (1964) Everett Collection Directed by Guy Hamilton The quintessential James Bond movie because it's got everything: cool gizmos and a gold-painted girl, a villain of very grand cunning, and Sean Connery at the peak of his debonair invincibility. Download it:AmazoniTunes PG 50. Intolerance (1916) Everett Collection Directed by D.W. Griffith The silent master Griffith did more than anyone else to invent the language of movie storytelling, and this four-part parable of intolerance through the ages is his loopiest, most colossal, and most inspired achievement. The Babylonian sequence seems to exemplify the infinite possibilities of movies. Download it:Amazon NOT RATED 51. A Hard Day's Night (1964) Everett Collection Directed by Richard Lester A jukebox rock fable that's really one of the great screen musicals, with the young Beatles snarking and cavorting like gods at play. Download it:Amazon G 52. Titanic (1997) Rick Lynch Directed by James Cameron The one disaster movie that's also a work of art, Cameron's magnificent epic moves us with a youthful love story made memorable by tragedy. The sinking of the Titanic unfolds in real time, which only heightens the film's everlasting romantic grandeur. Download it:AmazoniTunes PG-13 53. Star Wars — Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Lucasfilm Directed by Irvin Kershner Cloud City! The AT-AT Walkers! The sage of the Dagobah system, Yoda! The deepening relationships among darkening characters! For those reasons and so many more, this centerpiece in the first Star Wars trilogy remains the jewel in the intergalactic crown. Download it:Amazon PG 54. Breathless (1960) Everett Collection Directed by Jean-Luc Godard Cops chase a French punk and his American girl in Godard's seismically influential cornerstone of the French New Wave, based on a story by fellow cinema poet-rebel François Truffaut. Download it:AmazoniTunes NOT RATED 55. Frankenstein (1931) Everett Collection Directed by James Whale Whale's enduring tale of the undead is a myth of science gone mad, featuring an unforgettable Boris Karloff as the horror genre's most sympathetic monster. Download it:AmazoniTunes NOT RATED 56. Schindler's List (1993) Everett Collection Directed by Steven Spielberg Spielberg's shattering Holocaust epic, based on the real life of a gentile who saved Jews in World War II, made the darkest chapter of 20th-century history real in a way that no other dramatic reenactment has. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 57. Midnight Cowboy (1969) Everett Collection Directed by John Schlesinger Jon Voight, as a naive would-be gigolo, and Dustin Hoffman, as a down-and-out disabled con artist, make for filmdom's most moving buddies in this epochal portrait of life on the mean streets of late-'60s Manhattan. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 58. The Seventh Seal (1957) Everett Collection Directed by Ingmar Bergman Bergman's tale of a medieval knight's journey is full of legendary symbols (like the chess game with Death), and the film itself has come to stand for the heady pleasures of foreign cinema. Download it:AmazoniTunes NOT RATED 59. All the President's Men (1976) Everett Collection Directed by Alan J. Pakula The ultimate newspaper film, this dramatization of how Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered the Watergate scandal is a true-life testament to the fervor — and obsessive, midnight-oil dedication — that fuels the fourth estate. Download it:AmazoniTunes PG 60. Top Hat (1935) Everett Collection Directed by Mark Sandrich Heaven, we're in heaven — and we seem to find the happiness we seek when Fred and Ginger are dancing cheek to cheek. Download it:AmazoniTunes NOT RATED 61. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Ken Regan/Camera 5 Directed by Jonathan Demme To find a serial killer, an FBI trainee (Jodie Foster) consults a genius of a psychopath (Anthony Hopkins, the chillingly urbane face of evil as Hannibal Lecter) in a horror-thriller classic that's at once disquieting, moving, and mesmerizing. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 62. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Directed by Steven Spielberg Its special effects no longer look as dazzling, but that only underscores the storytelling incandescence of Spielberg's suburban fairy tale about a family's close encounter with a scrunchy-faced munchkin from outer space. Download it:AmazoniTunes PG 63. Network (1976) Directed by Sidney Lumet In the '70s, Paddy Chayefsky's biting vision of where TV and celebrity were headed seemed like an over-the-top satire. It now looks like one of the most prophetic movies ever, as Peter Finch's mad truth-teller single-handedly invents reality TV. The movie foresaw how even authentic populist anger could turn itself into entertainment. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 64. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Everett Collection Directed by William Wyler Three World War II veterans return home in one of the least sentimental war pictures of all time, a soldiers' story as vital and relevant today as it was then. Download it:AmazoniTunes NOT RATED 65. Last Tango in Paris (1973) Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci Bertolucci's landmark of screen eroticism has become famous for its emotionally naked sex scenes, but Marlon Brando, in one of his greatest performances, also makes the film into a searing tragedy of midlife despair. Download it:Amazon NC-17 66. The Shining (1980) Everett Collection Directed by Stanley Kubrick Kubrick turns Stephen King's domestic ghost story about a kid who sees visions of his father's hidden malevolence into a gothic horror movie as dislocatingly odd as it is scary. Just because Jack Nicholson's marvelously controlled nutjob performance (''Heeeere's Johnny!'') is drop-dead funny doesn't mean it's not also seriously terrifying. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 67. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Everett Collection Directed by Nicholas Ray James Dean's smashing star turn as an alienated young guy set the standard for the movie representation of alienated young guys (and their like-minded gals). Download it:AmazoniTunes PG-13 68. GoodFellas (1990) Everett Collection Directed by Martin Scorsese Scorsese's crackerjack gangster drama, starring Ray Liotta as an up-and-coming mobster, is a showcase for the filmmaker's famous virtuosity, from his perfectionist craftsmanship (check out that restaurant tracking shot!) to his kid-from-city-streets feel for Italian-American blood bonds. The film's highlight performance is the one by Joe (''I amuse you?'') Pesci. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 69. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Everett Collection Directed by Stanley Kubrick A pitch-black comedy about the threat of nuclear annihilation that only gets funnier — and blacker — as the decades go by, Kubrick's satire is shot like a documentary and laced with an almost psychotic sense of danger. Peter Sellers plays three different roles, all brilliantly. Download it:AmazoniTunes PG 70. L'Avventura (1960) Everett Collection Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni Antonioni's immortal tale of aristocratic ennui is a kind of anti-thriller about the search for a woman who vanishes mysteriously during a day trip...and never returns. Download it:Amazon NOT RATED 71. American Graffiti (1973) Everett Collection Directed by George Lucas Before he took us to a galaxy far, far away, Lucas more or less invented nostalgia culture with this loving tribute to the last days of greasers, drive-in diners, and cruising up and down Main Street in classic American cars. For a movie full of iconic moments, it's a breathtakingly fluid and spontaneous rock & roll comedy (with a who's who of future big stars). It's set just as the '50s youthquake was winding down, but the key to its wistful melancholy is that it's really about the changes coming around the corner that no one could see. Download it:AmazoniTunes PG 72. The 400 Blows (1959) Everett Collection Directed by François Truffaut Truffaut's first film was also his first collaboration with his onscreen alter ego, Jean-Pierre Léaud. A piercing study of a Parisian kid, adrift and on the road to nothing good. Download it:AmazoniTunes NOT RATED 73. Cabaret (1972) Everett Collection Directed by Bob Fosse Liza Minnelli's Sally Bowles, a ''divinely decadent'' American in pre-WWII Berlin, belts out ''Life is a cabaret,'' and we believe every word, even when the meaning turns ominously ironic. No one does Bowles like Liza. Download it:AmazoniTunes PG 74. The Hurt Locker (2009) Directed by Kathryn Bigelow Bigelow's powerful portrait of bomb defusers during the Iraq war uses the hair-trigger suspense of men who could die at any moment to express the mad reality of combat in the age of modern guerrilla war. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 75. Touch of Evil (1958) Everett Collection Directed by Orson Welles Set in a squalid Mexican border town, Welles' most fully realized film after Citizen Kane is a yarn of kidnapping and murder that was so shockingly dark for its time (and we don't just mean the gorgeous chiaroscuro photography) that its studio cut it to ribbons. Completely restored, it now looks like the missing link between film noir and David Lynch. Download it:AmazoniTunes PG-13 76. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Everett Collection Directed by David Lean The grandeur of Lean's wide-screen filmmaking is its own reward in this beloved epic about the life of eccentric adventurer T.E. Lawrence, played by Peter O'Toole as a golden-haired sand god. Download it:AmazoniTunes PG 77. Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Everett Collection Directed by Sidney Lumet Lumet, that prince of New York City-steeped moviemaking, turns this stranger-than-fiction story of a bank robbery gone crazy wrong into a marvel of urban tension and zigzaggy action. He has immeasurable help from the combustible combination of Al Pacino as a desperate man with big demands and the late, great John Cazale as his gentler sidekick. Superb work from two acting titans. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 78. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Lucasfilm Directed by Steven Spielberg The era's defining blockbuster confectioners, Spielberg and George Lucas, teamed up for a throwback to the action-adventure serials they grew up on. Harrison Ford's whip-cracking archaeologist dodges Rube Goldberg booby traps and squares off against Nazis while hunting for biblical booty. Celluloid escapism doesn't come more rollicking than this. Download it:AmazoniTunes PG 79. Night of the Living Dead (1968) Everett Collection Directed by George A. Romero The ghouls run wild in Romero's low-budget landmark of zombie terror, as pure a nightmare as any put on film. The grisly scenes of flesh-eating serve as bracing metaphors for Vietnam and an America coming apart. Download it:AmazoniTunes NOT RATED 80. Dazed and Confused (1993) Everett Collection Directed by Richard Linklater No other movie not made in the '70s has captured the loose, stoned, wistful slow-ride groove of that decade better than Linklater's snapshot of the last day of high school in 1976. The film is fun enough to qualify as a classic teen flick, yet its artful, this-is-how-it-was flow evokes the storytelling poetry of Robert Altman. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 81. Blade Runner (1982) Kobal Collection Directed by Ridley Scott Harrison Ford plays a 21st-century cop tracking replicants (including Rutger Hauer) in Scott's spellbinding futuristic thriller based on the cult novel by Philip K. Dick. It's the ultimate Do machines have souls? movie. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 82. Scenes From a Marriage (1973) Everett Collection Directed by Ingmar Bergman One of Bergman's finest achievements hinged on just two superb actors, Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson, enacting the drama of a bourgeois marriage in all its complexities. Download it:Amazon PG 83. The Wild Bunch (1969) Everett Collection Directed by Sam Peckinpah In Peckinpah's unflinching blood ballet, the director explodes the myth of the Old West as he tells a tale of gruffly sympathetic outlaws. The virtuosity of the violence has never been surpassed. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 84. Olympia (1938) Kobal Collection Directed by Leni Riefenstahl Riefenstahl's two-part chronicle of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin is a visually transporting documentary: a poetic pageant of flying, writhing, diving, and twisting bodies that connects us to the primal seed of athletic passion. The smash cuts, tracking shots, silhouettes, and slow motion make this an encyclopedia of all the modern film techniques that Riefenstahl helped invent. Download it:Amazon NOT RATED 85. Dirty Harry (1971) Everett Collection Directed by Don Siegel Clint Eastwood gives a mythic performance as a lean, mean police enforcer out to wipe the streets of San Francisco clean of ''scum'' in this furious, drum-tight urban Western. It's the single greatest expression of Eastwood's populist fury. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 86. All About Eve (1950) Everett Collection Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz Fasten your seat belts. You will never find a wittier, more sophisticated, more biting studio comedy than this wry look at how to make it in show business. The theater-world satire about a scheming ingenue casts its shadow over the age of corporate climbers. Download it:AmazoniTunes NOT RATED 87. La Dolce Vita (1960) Everett Collection Directed by Federico Fellini It's here, in the fragmented story of a playboy gossip journalist (played to the marrow by Marcello Mastroianni) ambling around Rome, that Fellini broke away from neorealism and perfected the ''Felliniesque.'' Watching Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg frolic in the Trevi Fountain makes for a sweet life indeed. Download it:AmazoniTunes NOT RATED 88. The Dark Knight (2008) Stephen Vaughan Directed by Christopher Nolan With Christian Bale as an ambivalent Batman and Heath Ledger as a psychotically scarred jack-in-the-box Joker, good and evil are sometimes just a whisper away from each other in Nolan's smashingly sophisticated comic-book movie. Download it:AmazoniTunes PG-13 89. Woodstock (1970) Everett Collection Directed by Michael Wadleigh The single greatest film ever made about the 1960s, Wadleigh's account of the legendary three-day rock festival uses long, wandering takes and split screen to capture the idealism, naïveté, and musical soul of the peace-mud-and-flower-power generation. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 90. The French Connection (1971) Everett Collection Directed by William Friedkin A nail-biter about international heroin smuggling, with a remarkable performance by Gene Hackman as sleazo-heroic New York cop Popeye Doyle and one of the most exciting car chases ever put on film. No other '70s movie so brilliantly used New York as a natural-born film set. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 91. Do the Right Thing (1989) Everett Collection Directed by Spike Lee Lee's ferocious and supremely tasty slice of neighborhood life is set on the hottest day of the summer in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, in the late '80s. In its feel for how racial tensions can simmer just beneath the surface of encounters, turning a melting pot into a pressure cooker, it remains a timelessly complex portrait of race in America. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 92. The Piano (1993) Directed by Jane Campion Campion's affecting drama is a haunting vision of 19th-century New Zealand as a place of external wildness that reflects the internal wildness of female will. Holly Hunter's mesmerizing depiction of a mute pianist is matched by the astonishing work of a 10-year-old Anna Paquin. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 93. A Face in the Crowd (1957) Everett Collection Directed by Elia Kazan In a shockingly prophetic media-age drama, Andy Griffith is electrifying as Larry ''Lonesome'' Rhodes, a hayseed who becomes a folksy TV demagogue. He's Will Rogers, Elvis, and Rush Limbaugh rolled into one. Download it:AmazoniTunes NOT RATED 94. Brokeback Mountain (2005) Kimberly French Directed by Ang Lee In Lee's beautifully delicate romance, a couple of seasonal cowboys fall in love in Wyoming in 1963, then suffer in secret over what they can't express in public. More than just moving, it's a memorable look at how having to hide passion shifts your identity. Heath Ledger's moving turn serves as the film's emblem of gruff eloquence. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 95. Rushmore (1998) Everett Collection Directed by Wes Anderson Anderson's second feature is the quintessence of his precise personal aesthetic and his infectious delight in creating biospheres that are populated by singularly eccentric characters. There's no mistaking the Andersonian universe for any other place on earth. The unexpected pleasure here is that the one and only Bill Murray feels so at home in Mr. Anderson's neighborhood. Download it:Amazon R 96. Sullivan's Travels (1941) Everett Collection Directed by Preston Sturges The finest comedy from Hollywood's finest madcap writer-director, this is the tale of a famous filmmaker who goes AWOL by pretending to be an ordinary schmo. It's a grand salute to the glory of movies (and, of course, to Veronica Lake's platinum-hooded sultriness). Download it:AmazoniTunes NOT RATED 97. Diner (1982) Everett Collection Directed by Barry Levinson Levinson's directorial debut brims with warmth, humor, hometown love for Baltimore, and a perceptive affection for the eternal struggles of young men who, while figuring out how to be adults, do a lot of sitting around diner tables, talking about nothing. There'd be no Seinfeld without Diner. There'd also be no stardom for Kevin Bacon, Mickey Rourke, Paul Reiser, or Ellen Barkin. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 98. All About My Mother (1999) Everett Collection Directed by Pedro Almodóvar The great Spanish director Almodóvar is in full flower in this elaborate and sincere melodrama. It's a riot of color and design that deepens — in a profound leap from his earlier, chaotic films — into a moving meditation on motherhood, womanhood, AIDS, and the high calling of actresses acting. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 99. There Will Be Blood (2007) Francois Duhamel Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson Anderson's towering American epic about ambition, commerce, self-invention, and self-destruction — all embodied in an especially fierce performance by Daniel Day-Lewis as oil tycoon Daniel Plainview, whose insatiable hunger for money and power consumes absolutely everything before him. For a huge picture, it's also keenly intimate, and Jonny Greenwood's musical score is revolutionary. Download it:AmazoniTunes R 100. Sweet Smell of Success (1957) Everett Collection Directed by Alexander Mackendrick In this blistering story of sucking-up and self-loathing in show business, Tony Curtis plays an oily press agent and Burt Lancaster is a gossip columnist modeled on the infamous Walter Winchell. The script, appropriately enough, is as black as poison ink. Download it:Amazon NOT RATED