If you are wondering what to do with some of your spare time – how about catching up on a few of these classic movies you may have missed over the years.
| 1. | Citizen Kane (1941) |
| 2. | The Godfather (1972) |
| 3. | Casablanca (1942) |
| 4. | Raging Bull (1980) |
| 5. | Singin’ in the Rain (1952) |
| 6. | Gone with the Wind (1939) |
| 7. | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) |
| 8. | Schindler’s List (1993) |
| 9. | Vertigo (1958) |
| 10. | The Wizard of Oz (1939) |
| 11. | City Lights (1931) |
| 12. | The Searchers (1956) |
| 13. | Star Wars (1977) |
| 14. | Psycho (1960) |
| 15. | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) |
| 16. | Sunset Blvd. (1950) |
| 17. | The Graduate (1967) |
| 18. | The General (1927) |
| 19. | On the Waterfront (1954) |
| 20. | It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) |
| 21. | Chinatown (1974) |
| 22. | Some Like It Hot (1959) |
| 23. | The Grapes of Wrath (1940) |
| 24. | E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) |
| 25. | To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) |
| 26. | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) |
| 27. | High Noon (1952) |
| 28. | All About Eve (1950) |
| 29. | Double Indemnity (1944) |
| 30. | Apocalypse Now (1979) |
| 31. | The Maltese Falcon (1941) |
| 32. | The Godfather Part II (1974) |
| 33. | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) |
| 34. | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) |
| 35. | Annie Hall (1977) |
| 36. | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) |
| 37. | The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) |
| 38. | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) |
| 39. | Dr. Strangelove (1964) |
| 40. | The Sound of Music (1965) |
| 41. | King Kong (1933) |
| 42. | Bonnie and Clyde (1967) |
| 43. | Midnight Cowboy (1969) |
| 44. | The Philadelphia Story (1940) |
| 45. | Shane (1953) |
| 46. | It Happened One Night (1934) |
| 47. | A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) |
| 48. | Rear Window (1954) |
| 49. | Intolerance (1916) |
| 50. | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) |
| 51. | West Side Story (1961) |
| 52. | Taxi Driver (1976) |
| 53. | The Deer Hunter (1978) |
| 54. | M*a*s*h (1970) |
| 55. | North By Northwest (1959) |
| 56. | Jaws (1977) |
| 57. | Rocky (1976) |
| 58. | The Gold Rush (1925) |
| 59. | Nashville (1975) |
| 60. | Duck Soup (1933) |
| 61. | Sullivan’s Travels (1958) |
| 62. | American Graffiti (1973) |
| 63. | Cabaret (1972) |
| 64. | Network (1976) |
| 65. | The African Queen (1951) |
| 66. | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) |
| 67. | Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) |
| 68. | Unforgiven (1992) |
| 69. | Tootsie (1982) |
| 70. | A Clockwork Orange (1971) |
| 71. | Saving Private Ryan (1998) |
| 72. | The Shawshank Redemption (1994) |
| 73. | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) |
| 74. | The Silence of the Lambs (1991) |
| 75. | In the Heat of the Night (1967) |
| 76. | Forrest Gump (1994) |
| 77. | All the President’s Men (1976) |
| 78. | Modern Times (1936) |
| 79. | The Wild Bunch (1969) |
| 80. | The Apartment (1960) |
| 81. | Spartacus (1960) |
| 82. | Sunrise (1927) |
| 83. | Titanic (1997) |
| 84. | Easy Rider (1969) |
| 85. | A Night at the Opera (1935) |
| 86. | Platoon (1986) |
| 87. | 12 Angry Men (1957) |
| 88. | Bringing Up Baby (1938) |
| 89. | The Sixth Sense (1999) |
| 90. | Swing Time (1936) |
| 91. | Sophie’s Choice (1982) |
| 92. | Goodfellas (1990) |
| 93. | The French Connection (1971) |
| 94. | Pulp Fiction (1994) |
| 95. | The Last Picture Show (1971) |
| 96. | Do the Right Thing (1989) |
| 97. | Blade Runner (1982) |
| 98. | Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) |
| 99. | Toy Story (1995) |
| 100. | Ben-Hur (1959) |
This list includes the top 100 greatest movies of all time, according to the American Film Institute, including films such as Citizen Kane, The Godfather, and Casablanca. The American Film Institute asked more than 1,500 members of the film community to pick the 100 best films of all time from a list of 400 movies nominated by the institute. The criteria for inclusion was historical significance, critical recognition and awards, and popularity determined by box-office revenue, syndication, video sale and rental figures.
