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| Top 100 American Films (Adam's version) |
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2001: A Space Odyssey |
Stanley Kubrick |
| Absence of Malice |
Sydney Pollack |
| Accused, The |
Jonathan Kaplan |
| African Queen, The |
John Huston |
| Airplane! |
Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker |
| Alien |
Ridley Scott |
| Aliens |
James Cameron |
| All of Me |
Carl Reiner |
| American Graffiti |
George Lucas |
| Annie Hall |
Woody Allen |
| Apocalypse Now |
Francis Ford Coppola |
| Blade Runner (Director's Cut) |
Ridley Scott |
| Blow Out |
Brian De Palma |
| Bonnie and Clyde |
Arthur Penn |
| Body Heat |
Lawrence Kasdan |
| Boyz N the Hood |
John Singleton |
| Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid |
George Roy Hill |
| Candidate, The |
Michael Ritchie |
| Casablanca |
Michael Curtiz |
| Chinatown |
Roman Polanski |
| Citizen Kane |
Orson Welles |
| Clockwork Orange, A |
Stanley Kubrick |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
Steven Spielberg |
| Conversation, The |
Francis Ford Coppola |
| Die Hard |
John McTiernan |
| Dirty Harry |
Don Siegel |
| Do the Right Thing |
Spike Lee |
| Dog Day Afternoon |
Sidney Lumet |
| Double Indemnity |
Billy Wilder |
| Dr. Strangelove |
Stanley Kubrick |
| Easy Rider |
Dennis Hopper |
| Empire Strikes Back, The |
Irvin Kershner |
| Eight Men Out |
John Sayles |
| E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial |
Steven Spielberg |
| Exorcist, The |
William Friedkin |
| Field of Dreams |
Phil Alden Robinson |
| Forrest Gump |
Robert Zemeckis |
| Fugitive, The |
Andrew Davis |
| Full Metal Jacket |
Stanley Kubrick |
| Godfather, The |
Francis Ford Coppola |
| Godfather Part II, The |
Francis Ford Coppola |
| Goldfinger |
Guy Hamilton |
| GoodFellas |
Martin Scorsese |
| Graduate, The |
Mike Nichols |
| High Noon |
Fred Zinneman |
| Hustler, The |
Robert Rossen |
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade |
Steven Spielberg |
| It's a Wonderful Life |
Frank Capra |
| Jaws |
Steven Spielberg |
| King Kong |
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack |
| Lawrence of Arabia |
David Lean |
| Love and Death |
Woody Allen |
| Maltese Falcon, The |
John Huston |
| Manchurian Candidate, The |
John Frankenheimer |
| Mean Streets |
Martin Scorsese |
| Naked Gun, The |
David Zucker |
| National Lampoon's Animal House |
John Landis |
| Natural, The |
Barry Levinson |
| Network |
Sidney Lumet |
| Night of the Hunter, The |
Charles Laughton |
| North by Northwest |
Alfred Hitchcock |
| Notorious |
Alfred Hitchcock |
| On the Waterfront |
Elia Kazan |
| Once Upon a Time in America (Director's Cut) |
Sergio Leone |
| One False Move |
Carl Franklin |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo*s Nest |
Milo Forman |
| Paths of Glory |
Stanley Kubrick |
| Psycho |
Alfred Hitchcock |
| Public Enemy, The |
William A. Wellman |
| Pulp Fiction |
Quentin Tarantino |
| Raging Bull |
Martin Scorsese |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark |
Steven Spielberg |
| Rain Man |
Barry Levinson |
| Reservoir Dogs |
Quentin Tarantino |
| Return of the Jedi |
Richard Marquand |
| Rocky |
John G. Alvidsen |
| Schindler's List |
Steven Spielberg |
| Searchers, The |
John Ford |
| Shining, The |
Stanley Kubrick |
| Silence of the Lambs, The |
Jonathan Demme |
| Sleeper |
Woody Allen |
| Some Like it Ho |
Billy Wilder |
| Stagecoach |
John Ford |
| Star Wars |
George Lucas |
| Sting, The |
George Roy Hill |
| Taxi Driver |
Martin Scorsese |
| Terminator, The |
James Cameron |
| Terminator 2 |
James Cameron |
| Third Man, The |
Carol Reed |
| This is Spinal Tap |
Rob Reiner |
| To Have and Have Not |
Howard Hawks |
| Touch of Evil |
Orson Welles |
| Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The |
John Huston |
| Usual Suspects, The |
Bryan Singer |
| Unforgiven |
Clint Eastwood |
| Untouchables, The |
Brian De Palma |
| Vertigo |
Alfred Hitchcock |
| Wait Until Dark |
Terence Young |
| Wild Bunch, The |
Sam Peckinpah |
| Witness |
Peter Weir |
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