Variety: The 100 Greatest Movies of All Time

Hot on the heels of Sight & Sound's 2022 poll, entertainment news magazine Variety released their own selection of the 100 greatest movies, based on submissions from 30 Variety critics, writers and editors.

# Film Year Country Director
1 Psycho 1960 USA Alfred Hitchcock
2 The Wizard of Oz 1939 USA Victor Fleming
3 The Godfather 1972 USA Francis Ford Coppola
4 Citizen Kane 1941 USA Orson Welles
5 Pulp Fiction 1994 USA Quentin Tarantino
6 Seven Samurai 1954 Japan Akira Kurosawa
7 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 USA, UK Stanley Kubrick
8 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 USA Frank Capra
9 All About Eve 1950 USA Joseph L. Mankiewicz
10 Saving Private Ryan 1998 USA Steven Spielberg
11 Singin' in the Rain 1952 USA Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
12 GoodFellas 1990 USA, USA, USA Martin Scorsese
13 The Rules of the Game 1939 France Jean Renoir
14 Do the Right Thing 1989 USA Spike Lee
15 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927 USA F. W. Murnau
16 Casablanca 1943 USA Michael Curtiz
17 Nashville 1975 USA Robert Altman
18 Persona 1966 Sweden Ingmar Bergman
19 The Godfather Part II 1974 USA, USA, USA Francis Ford Coppola
20 Blue Velvet 1986 USA David Lynch
21 Gone with the Wind 1939 USA, USA Victor Fleming
22 Chinatown 1974 USA Roman Polanski
23 The Apartment 1960 USA, USA Billy Wilder
24 Tokyo Story 1953 Japan Yasujirō Ozu
25 Bringing Up Baby 1938 USA Howard Hawks
26 The 400 Blows 1959 France François Truffaut
27 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 USA Arthur Penn
28 City Lights 1931 USA Charlie Chaplin
29 Double Indemnity 1944 USA Billy Wilder
30 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 USA, USA, USA Irvin Kershner
31 Network 1976 USA Sidney Lumet
32 Vertigo 1958 USA Alfred Hitchcock
33 8½ 1963 France, Italy Federico Fellini
34 Stagecoach 1939 USA John Ford
35 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 USA Jonathan Demme
36 On the Waterfront 1954 USA Elia Kazan
37 Annie Hall 1977 USA Woody Allen
38 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 UK David Lean
39 Some Like It Hot 1959 USA Billy Wilder
40 Fargo 1996 USA, UK Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
41 The Wild Bunch 1969 USA Sam Peckinpah
42 Moonlight 2016 USA Barry Jenkins
43 Shoah 1985 France Claude Lanzmann
44 L'Avventura 1960 France, Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
45 Titanic 1997 USA James Cameron
46 Notorious 1946 USA Alfred Hitchcock
47 Mean Streets 1973 USA Martin Scorsese
48 The Piano 1993 France, New Zealand, Australia Jane Campion
49 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 USA, USA Tobe Hooper
50 Breathless 1960 France Jean-Luc Godard
51 Apocalypse Now 1979 USA Francis Ford Coppola
52 The General 1926 USA, UK Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
53 In the Mood for Love 2000 France, Hong Kong Wong Kar-wai
54 Mad Max 2 1981 USA, UK, Australia, Australia George Miller
55 Pather Panchali 1955 India Satyajit Ray
56 Rosemary's Baby 1968 USA Roman Polanski
57 Brokeback Mountain 2005 USA, Canada Ang Lee
58 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 USA Steven Spielberg
59 Vagabond 1985 France, UK Agnès Varda
60 Moulin Rouge! 2001 USA, Australia Baz Luhrmann
61 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France Carl Theodor Dreyer
62 Dazed and Confused 1993 USA Richard Linklater
63 Bambi 1942 USA David Hand
64 Carrie 1976 USA Brian De Palma
65 A Man Escaped 1956 France Robert Bresson
66 Paris Is Burning 1991 USA, UK Jennie Livingston
67 Bicycle Thieves 1948 Italy Vittorio De Sica
68 King Kong 1933 USA Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
69 Beau Travail 2000 France Claire Denis
70 12 Years a Slave 2013 USA, USA, USA, USA, USA Steve McQueen
71 My Best Friend's Wedding 1997 USA P.J. Hogan
72 Breaking the Waves 1996 France, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway Lars von Trier
73 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages 1916 USA D.W. Griffith
74 My Neighbor Totoro 1988 Japan Hayao Miyazaki
75 Boogie Nights 1997 USA Paul Thomas Anderson
76 The Tree of Life 2011 USA, USA, USA, USA, USA Terrence Malick
77 Goldfinger 1964 USA, UK Guy Hamilton
78 Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1976 Belgium, France Chantal Akerman
79 Waiting for Guffman 1996 USA Christopher Guest
80 Pixote 1980 Brazil Héctor Babenco
81 The Dark Knight 2008 USA, UK Christopher Nolan
82 Parasite 2019 South Korea Bong Joon-ho
83 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 USA Robert Benton
84 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 USA, Spain, Mexico Guillermo del Toro
85 Natural Born Killers 1994 USA Oliver Stone
86 Close-Up 1990 Iran Abbas Kiarostami
87 The Sound of Music 1965 USA Robert Wise
88 Malcolm X 1992 USA Spike Lee
89 Belle de Jour 1967 France, Italy Luis Buñuel
90 The Shining 1980 USA, UK Stanley Kubrick
91 Scenes from a Marriage 1974 Sweden Ingmar Bergman
92 Pink Flamingos 1972 USA John Waters
93 Le Samouraï 1967 France, Italy Jean-Pierre Melville
94 Bridesmaids 2011 USA Paul Feig
95 Toy Story 1995 USA John Lasseter
96 A Hard Day's Night 1964 UK Richard Lester
97 Alien 1979 USA, UK Ridley Scott
98 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 Spain Pedro Almodóvar
99 12 Angry Men 1957 USA Sidney Lumet
100 The Graduate 1967 USA Mike Nichols