Time Out's Centenary Top One Hundred 1995


  1. Citizen Kane (1941)
  2. The Godfather (1972)
    The Godfather: Part II (1974)
  3. La Règle du Jeu (1939)
  4. Vertigo (1958)
  5. Seven Samurai (1954)
  6. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  7. Raging Bull (1980)
  8. Touch of Evil (1958)
  9. Tokyo Story (1953)
  10. L'Atalante (1934)
  11. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
  12. The Conformist (1970)
  13. Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)
    A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
  14. 8½ (1963)
    The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
  15. Apocalypse Now (1979)
    North by Northwest (1959)
  16. Chinatown (1974)
  17. La Dolce Vita (1960)
    The Searchers (1956)
  18. The Wild Bunch (1969)
  19. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
    Some Like It Hot (1959)

    Taxi Driver (1976)
  20. Napoleon (1927)
    Rear Window (1954)
  21. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
    It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
    Performance (1970)
  22. The General (1927)
  23. À Bout de Souffle (1960)
    Mean Streets (1973)

    Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

    Rio Bravo (1959)
  24. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
  25. All About Eve (1950)
  26. My Darling Clementine (1946)
    2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  27. The Piano (1993)
    Pierrot le Fou (1965)
  28. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
    The Four Hundred Blows (1959)
    Gone with the Wind (1939)

    The Lady Eve (1941)

    Last Year in Marienbad (1961)

    Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
  29. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
  30. The Gold Rush (1925)
    La Grande Illusion (1937)

    Partie de Campagne (1936)

    The Philadelphia Story (1940)
    Pickpocket (1959)
    Schindler's List (1993)
    The Shining (1980)
    The Third Man (1949)
  31. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
    The Reckless Moment (1949)

    Singin' in the Rain (1952)
  32. Blade Runner (1982)
    Blue Velvet (1986)
    Pather Panchali (1955)
    Le Samourai (1967)
    Sans Soleil (1983)
    Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
  33. Amarcord (1973)
    Greed (1924)
    The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

    Persona (1966)

    Rashomon (1950)
    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  34. All That Heaven Allows (1955)
    Black Narcissus (1947)
    Double Indemnity (1944)
    Intolerance (1916)

    Notorious (1946)

    Build My Gallows High (1947)
    The Red Shoes (1948)
    Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  35. Casablanca (1942)
    City Lights (1931)

    Ran (1985)
    The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)

    Sunrise (1927)
  36. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
    Ordet (1955)
    Three Colours: Red (1994)
  37. Aliens (1986)
    Amadeus (1984)
    L'Avventura (1960)
  38. Badlands (1973)
    Barry Lyndon (1975)
    The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
    The Colour of Pomegranates (1968)

    Don't Look Now (1973)

    Earth (1930)
    Fanny and Alexander (1982)
    La Jetée (1962)
    Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
    The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
    Mirror (1975)
    Pandora's Box (1929)
    The Quiet Man (1952)
    Sansho Dayu (1954)
    The Seventh Seal (1957)
    Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
    West Side Story (1961)

Selected individual lists:


Pedro Almodóvar
  1. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
  2. La Règle du Jeu (1939)
  3. All About Eve (1950)
  4. Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
  5. North by Northwest (1959)
  6. Build My Gallows High (1947)
  7. Midnight (1939)
  8. Some Like It Hot (1959)
  9. Touch of Evil (1958)
  10. Senso (1954)

John Boorman
  1. Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
  2. 8½ (1963)
  3. Amarcord (1973)
  4. Seven Samurai (1954)
  5. The Seventh Seal (1957)
  6. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
  7. The Sacrifice (1986)
  8. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
  9. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
  10. Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Ethan Coen
  1. Brother's Keeper (1992)
  2. Il Bidone (1955)
  3. Salesman (1968)
  4. The Bad News Bears (1976)
  5. The Fortune (1975)

Joel Coen
  1. The Fortune (1975)
  2. High Noon (1952)
  3. Dames (1934)
  4. Separate Tables (1958)
  5. Where Eagles Dare (1968)

Terence Davies
  1. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
  2. Young at Heart (1954)
  3. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
  4. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
  5. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
  6. All About Eve (1950)
  7. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
  8. The Ladykillers (1955)
  9. The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)
  10. Brief Encounter (1945)

Atom Egoyan
  1. Vertigo (1958)
  2. Last Year in Marienbad (1961)
  3. India Song (1975)
  4. Wavelength (1967)
  5. The Colour of Pomegranates (1968)
  6. La Notte (1961)
  7. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
  8. Taxi Driver (1976)
  9. La Dolce Vita (1960)
  10. The Conversation (1974)

Samuel Fuller
  1. The Informer (1935)
  2. The Gold Rush (1925)
  3. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  4. Rashomon (1950)
  5. Citizen Kane (1941)
  6. Pierrot le Fou (1965)
  7. The Four Hundred Blows (1959)
  8. The Last Emperor (1987)
  9. La Dolce Vita (1960)
  10. Brief Encounter (1945)

Terry Gilliam
  1. Citizen Kane (1941)
  2. 8½ (1963)
  3. Pinocchio (1940)
  4. The Seventh Seal (1957)
  5. Seven Samurai (1954)
  6. Napoleon (1927)
  7. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
  8. Sherlock Jr. (1924)
  9. The Exterminating Angel (1962)
  10. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Todd Haynes
  • All That Heaven Allows (1955)
  • Citizen Kane (1941)
  • Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
  • Jeanne Dielman (1975)
  • Nashville (1975)
  • The Night of the Hunter (1955)
  • Performance (1970)
  • The Reckless Moment (1949)
  • Un Chant d'Amour (1950)
  • Vertigo (1958)

Krzysztof Kieslowski
  1. La Strada (1954)
  2. Kes (1970)
  3. A Man Escaped (1956)
  4. The Four Hundred Blows (1959)
  5. Citizen Kane (1941)
  6. The Kid (1921)
  7. Ivan's Childhood (1962)
  8. The Musicians (1960)
  9. The Pram (1963)
  10. Intimate Lighting (1965)

Richard Linklater
  1. Some Came Running (1958)
  2. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
  3. Barry Lyndon (1975)
  4. In the Year of the 13 Moons (1978)
  5. The Crowd (1928)
  6. They Were Expendable (1945)
  7. Bigger Than Life (1956)
  8. New York, New York (1977)
  9. O Lucky Man! (1973)
  10. El (1953)

Roman Polanski
  1. Citizen Kane (1941)
  2. Odd Man Out (1947)
  3. Hamlet (1948)
  4. 8½ (1963)
  5. The Gold Rush (1925)
  6. The Circus (1928)

Karel Reisz
  1. Earth (1930)
  2. The Lady Eve (1941)
  3. Citizen Kane (1941)
  4. Raging Bull (1980)
  5. Tokyo Story (1953)
  6. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
  7. The Godfather (1972)
    The Godfather: Part II (1974)
  8. La Règle du Jeu (1939)
  9. Fires Were Started (1943)
  10. The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Gus Van Sant
  1. Kids (1995)
  2. Kids (1995)
  3. Kids (1995)
  4. Kids (1995)
  5. Kids (1995)
  6. Kids (1995)
  7. Kids (1995)
  8. Citizen Kane (1941)
  9. Sunrise (1927)
  10. Broken Blossoms (1919)

Billy Wilder
  • The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  • Bicycle Thieves (1948)
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  • The Conformist (1970)
  • Les Diaboliques (1955)
  • 42nd Street (1933)
  • La Dolce Vita (1960)
  • La Grande Illusion (1937)
  • Seduced and Abandoned (1964)
  • The Shop Around the Corner (1940)