My personal list of the 100 greatest (not favorite, or even best, but greatest) movies of the first 100 years of feature length cinema.
The films (see breakdown in pinned comment):
The Birth Of A Nation
Nosferatu
The Battleship Potemkin
The General
The Passion Of Joan Of Arc
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City Lights
King Kong
It Happened One Night
The Wizard Of Oz
Gone With The Wind
His Girl Friday
Citizen Kane
Casablanca
Double Indemnity
The Best Years Of Our Lives
Bicycle Thieves
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Third Man
Sunset Blvd
All About Eve
Rashomon
Singin' In The Rain
Tokyo Story
Seven Samurai
Rear Window
On The Waterfront
The Searchers
The Night of the Hunter
Paths of Glory
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Seventh Seal
Vertigo
The 400 Blows
Some Like It Hot
North By Northwest
Ben Hur
Psycho
Breathless
La Dolce Vita
West Side Story
Dr Strangelove
The Good The Bad And The Ugly
Bonnie and Clyde
The Graduate
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Godfather
The Exorcist
Chinatown
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Jaws
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Taxi Driver
Network
Annie Hall
Star Wars
Alien
Apocalypse Now
Stalker
Raging Bull
Das Boot
Raiders of the Lost Ark
ET: The Extraterrestrial
Back To The Future
The Princess Bride
Die Hard
Do The Right Thing
When Harry Met Sally…
Goodfellas
JFK
Silence of the Lambs
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Unforgiven
Schindler's List
Pulp Fiction
The Shawshank Redemption
Fargo
LA Confidential
Saving Private Ryan
American Beauty
The Matrix
Memento
Spirited Away
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Pianist
Adaptation
City of God
Memories of Murder
Kill Bill
The Incredibles
Million Dollar Baby
Brokeback Mountain
Children of Men
There Will Be Blood
Four Months Three Weeks Two Days
No Country For Old Men
The Hurt Locker
WALLE
The Social Network
12 Years A Slave
Mad Max: Fury Road
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