100 American Films: A Chronological Survey 2.0

By: Devon Gallant

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• 01
  Citizen Kane
  Orson Welles
• 02
  The Maltese Falcon
  John Huston
• 03
  The Devil and Daniel Webster
  William Dieterle
• 04
  Casablanca
  Michael Curtiz
• 05
  Notorious
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 06
  The Big Sleep
  Howard Hawks
• 07
  Out of the Past
  Jacques Tourneur
• 08
  Nightmare Alley
  Edmund Goulding
• 09
  Key Largo
  John Huston
• 10
  The Baron of Arizona
  Samuel Fuller
• 11
  The Asphalt Jungle
  John Huston
• 12
  In a Lonely Place
  Nicholas Ray
• 13
  Night and the City
  Jules Dassin
• 14
  Sunset Blvd.
  Billy Wilder
• 15
  The African Queen
  John Huston
• 16
  Ace in the Hole
  Billy Wilder
• 17
  The Bad and the Beautiful
  Vincente Minnelli
• 18
  The Wild One
  László Benedek
• 19
  Rear Window
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 20
  On the Waterfront
  Elia Kazan
• 21
  East of Eden
  Elia Kazan
• 22
  Rebel Without a Cause
  Nicholas Ray
• 23
  The Desperate Hours
  William Wyler
• 24
  The Night of the Hunter
  Charles Laughton
• 25
  All That Heaven Allows
  Douglas Sirk
• 26
  Written on the Wind
  Douglas Sirk
• 27
  Bigger Than Life
  Nicholas Ray
• 28
  The Man Who Knew Too Much
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 29
  The Searchers
  John Ford
• 30
  Bitter Victory
  Nicholas Ray
• 31
  Sweet Smell of Success
  Alexander Mackendrick
• 32
  Paths of Glory
  Stanley Kubrick
• 33
  Touch of Evil
  Orson Welles
• 34
  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  Richard Brooks
• 35
  North by Northwest
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 36
  Shadows
  John Cassavetes
• 37
  Breakfast at Tiffany's
  Blake Edwards
• 38
  Underworld U.S.A
  Samuel Fuller
• 39
  The Hustler
  Robert Rossen
• 40
  Blast of Silence
  Allen Baron
• 41
  To Kill a Mockingbird
  Robert Mulligan
• 42
  Cape Fear
  J. Lee Thompson
• 43
  The Manchurian Candidate
  John Frankenheimer
• 44
  Seven Days in May
  John Frankenheimer
• 45
  The Night of the Iguana
  John Huston
• 46
  The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
  Martin Ritt
• 47
  Bunny Lake Is Missing
  Otto Preminger
• 48
  Seconds
  John Frankenheimer
• 49
  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  Mike Nichols
• 50
  How to Steal a Million
  William Wyler
• 51
  The Graduate
  Mike Nichols
• 52
  Reflections in a Golden Eye
  John Huston
• 53
  Who's That Knocking at My Door
  Martin Scorsese
• 54
  2001: A Space Odyssey
  Stanley Kubrick
• 55
  Bullitt
  Peter Yates
• 56
  Rosemary's Baby
  Roman Polanski
• 57
  John and Mary
  Peter Yates
• 58
  Husbands
  John Cassavetes
• 59
  Two-Lane Blacktop
  Monte Hellman
• 60
  The Godfather
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 61
  Mean Streets
  Martin Scorsese
• 62
  Papillon
  Franklin J. Schaffner
• 63
  Madhouse
  Jim Clark
• 64
  The Conversation
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 65
  Chinatown
  Roman Polanski
• 66
  The Man Who Would Be King
  John Huston
• 67
  Death Race 2000
  Paul Bartel
• 68
  Taxi Driver
  Martin Scorsese
• 69
  The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
  John Cassavetes
• 70
  Killer of Sheep
  Charles Burnett
• 71
  Eraserhead
  David Lynch
• 72
  Annie Hall
  Woody Allen
• 73
  Interiors
  Woody Allen
• 74
  Days of Heaven
  Terrence Malick
• 75
  Manhattan
  Woody Allen
• 76
  Apocalypse Now
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 77
  The Shining
  Stanley Kubrick
• 78
  Stardust Memories
  Woody Allen
• 79
  A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
  Woody Allen
• 80
  Rumble Fish
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 81
  Hannah and Her Sisters
  Woody Allen
• 82
  Wild at Heart
  David Lynch
• 83
  Night on Earth
  Jim Jarmusch
• 84
  Bram Stoker's Dracula
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 85
  Hard Eight
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 86
  Buffalo '66
  Vincent Gallo
• 87
  Celebrity
  Woody Allen
• 88
  Sweet and Lowdown
  Woody Allen
• 89
  Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
  Jim Jarmusch
• 90
  Eyes Wide Shut
  Stanley Kubrick
• 91
  The Royal Tenenbaums
  Wes Anderson
• 92
  Coffee and Cigarettes
  Jim Jarmusch
• 93
  The Aviator
  Martin Scorsese
• 94
  The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
  Wes Anderson
• 95
  Broken Flowers
  Jim Jarmusch
• 96
  The Darjeeling Limited
  Wes Anderson
• 97
  Youth Without Youth
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 98
  There Will Be Blood
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 99
  Tetro
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 100
  Black Swan
  Darren Aronofsky