AFI Top 100

A lot of the films on the list I have seen, although some of them it was a very long time ago or I had to watch them whilst studying so watched them way too critically to enjoy them… Therefore I am going to re-watch all 101 films.

  1. Citizen Kane
  2. The Godfather
  3. Casablanca
  4. Raging Bull
  5. Singin’ in the Rain
  6. Gone with the Wind
  7. Lawrence of Arabia
  8. Schindler’s List
  9. Vertigo
  10. The Wizard of Oz
  11. City Lights
  12. The Searchers
  13. Star Wars
  14. Psycho
  15. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  16. Sunset Boulevard
  17. The Graduate
  18. The General
  19. On the Waterfront
  20. It’s a Wonderful Life
  21. Chinatown
  22. Some Like it Hot
  23. The Grapes of Wrath
  24. ET The Extra-Terrestrial
  25. To Kill a Mockingbird
  26. Mr Smith Goes to Washington
  27. High Noon
  28. All About Eve
  29. Double Indemnity
  30. Apocalypse Now
  31. The Maltese Falcon
  32. The Godfather, Part II
  33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  34. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  35. Annie Hall
  36. The Bridge on the River Kwai
  37. The Best Years of Our Lives
  38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  39. Dr Strangelove
  40. The Sound of Music
  41. King Kong
  42. Bonnie and Clyde
  43. Midnight Cowboy
  44. The Philadelphia Story – Watched 22nd Jan 2009
  45. Shane
  46. It Happened One Night
  47. A Streetcar Named Desire
  48. Rear Window
  49. Intolerance
  50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  51. West Side Story
  52. Taxi Driver
  53. The Deer Hunter
  54. M*A*S*H
  55. North by Northwest
  56. Jaws
  57. Rocky
  58. The Gold Rush
  59. Nashville
  60. Duck Soup
  61. Sullivan’s Travels
  62. American Graffiti – Watched 10th Mar 2009
  63. Cabaret
  64. Network
  65. The African Queen
  66. Raiders of the Lost Ark
  67. Who’s Afraid of Virginla Wolf?
  68. Unforgiven
  69. Tootsie
  70. A Clockwork Orange
  71. Saving Private Ryan
  72. The Shawshank Redemption
  73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  74. The Silence of the Lambs
  75. In the Heat of the Night
  76. Forrest Gump
  77. All the President’s Men
  78. Modern Times
  79. The Wild Bunch
  80. The Apartment
  81. Spartacus
  82. Sunrise
  83. Titanic
  84. Easy Rider
  85. A Night at the Opera
  86. Platoon
  87. Angry Men
  88. Bringing Up Baby
  89. The Sixth Sense
  90. Swing Time
  91. Sophie’s Choice
  92. Goodfellas
  93. The French Connection
  94. Pulp Fiction
  95. The Last Picture Show
  96. Do the Right Thing
  97. Blade Runner
  98. Yankee Doodle Dandy
  99. Toy Story
  100. Ben-Hur
  101. Roman Holiday

*I have added Roman Holiday at 101 (personally I think it should be higher up the list), in honour of Susie from the support group on Ravelry, who watched the film thinking it was on the list only to discover it wasn’t.