| Top 100 American Films (Wendell's version) |
| Title |
Year |
Director |
|
|
| The Adventures of Robin Hood |
1938 |
Michael Curtiz |
| The African Queen |
1951 |
John Huston |
| After Hours |
1985 |
Martin Scorsese |
| Airplane! |
1980 |
Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker |
| Alien |
1979 |
Ridley Scott |
| All about Eve |
1950 |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| All Quiet on the Western Front |
1930 |
Lewis Milestone |
| American Graffiti |
1973 |
George Lucas |
| Annie Hall |
1977 |
Woody Allen |
| Apocalypse Now |
1979 |
Frances Ford Coppola |
| Beauty and the Beast |
1991 |
Gary Trousdale |
| The Best Years of Our Lives |
1946 |
William Wyler |
| Blade Runner |
1982 |
Ridley Scott |
| Blood Simple |
1985 |
Joel Coen |
| Body Heat |
1981 |
Lawrence Kasdan |
| Bonnie and Clyde |
1967 |
Arthur Penn |
| The Bridge on the River Kwai |
1957 |
David Lean |
| Bringing Up Baby |
1938 |
Howard Hawks |
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
1969 |
George Roy Hill |
| Cabaret |
1972 |
Bob Fosse |
| Carrie |
1976 |
Brian De Palma |
| Casablanca |
1972 |
Michael Curtiz |
| Chinatown |
1974 |
Roman Polanski |
| Citizen Kane |
1941 |
Orson Welles |
| City Lights |
1931 |
Charles Chaplin |
| A Clockwork Orange |
1971 |
Stanley Kubrick |
| Do the Right Thing |
1989 |
Spike Lee |
| Dr. Strangelove |
1964 |
Stanley Kubrick |
| Duck Soup |
1933 |
Leo McCarey |
| E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial |
1982 |
Steven Spielberg |
| Fantasia |
1940 |
Ben Sharpsteen |
| Forbidden Planet |
1956 |
Fred McLeod Wilcox |
| Frankenstein |
1931 |
James Whale |
| Freaks |
1932 |
Tod Browning |
| From Here to Eternity |
1953 |
Fred Zinnemann |
| The Godfather |
1972 |
Francis Ford Coppola |
| The Godfather Part II |
1974 |
Francis Ford Coppola |
| The Gold Rush |
1925 |
Charles Chaplin |
| Gone with the Wind |
1939 |
Victor Fleming |
| GoodFellas |
1990 |
Martin Scorsese |
| The Graduate |
1967 |
Mike Nichols |
| The Grapes of Wrath |
1940 |
John Ford |
| The Great Dictator |
1940 |
Charles Chaplin |
| Hannah and Her Sisters |
1986 |
Woody Allen |
| High Noon |
1952 |
Fred Zinnemann |
| His Girl Friday |
1940 |
Howard Hawks |
| House of Games |
1987 |
David Mamet |
| It Happened One Night |
1934 |
Frank Capra |
| It's a Wonderful Life |
1946 |
Frank Capra |
| Jaws |
1975 |
Steven Spielberg |
| King Kong |
1933 |
Merian C. Cooper |
| The Last Picture Show |
1971 |
Peter Bogdanovich |
| Lawrence of Arabia |
1962 |
David Lean |
| The Maltese Falcon |
1941 |
John Huston |
| Menace II Society |
1993 |
Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes |
| Midnight Cowboy |
1969 |
John Schlesinger |
| Modern Times |
1936 |
Charles Chaplin |
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
1939 |
Frank Capra |
| Mutiny on the Bounty |
1935 |
Frank Lloyd |
| My Fair Lady |
1964 |
George Cukor |
| Nashville |
1975 |
Robert Altman |
| North by Northwest |
1959 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
| On the Waterfront |
1954 |
Elia Kazan |
| One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest |
1975 |
Milos Forman |
| Out of the Past |
1947 |
Jacques Tourneur |
| Patton |
1970 |
Franklin Schaffner |
| The Philadelphia Story |
1940 |
George Cukor |
| The Player |
1992 |
Robert Altman |
| Play it Again, Sam |
1972 |
Herbert Ross |
| Play Misty for Me |
1971 |
Clint Eastwood |
| Psycho |
1960 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
| Pulp Fiction |
1994 |
Quentin Tarantino |
| Raging Bull |
1980 |
Martin Scorsese |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark |
1981 |
Steven Spielberg |
| Ride the High Country |
1962 |
Sam Peckinpah |
| Rocky |
1976 |
John G. Avildsen |
| Salvador |
1986 |
Oliver Stone |
| The Searchers |
1956 |
John Ford |
| Shane |
1953 |
George Stevens |
| The Silence of the Lambs |
1991 |
Jonathan Demme |
| Singin' in the Rain |
1952 |
Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen |
| Slacker |
1991 |
Richard Linklater |
| Some Like it Hot |
1959 |
Billy Wilder |
| Stagecoach |
1939 |
John Ford |
| Star Wars |
1977 |
George Lucas |
| A Streetcar Named Desire |
1951 |
Elia Kazan |
| Sunset Boulevard |
1950 |
Billy Wilder |
| Taxi Driver |
1976 |
Martin Scorsese |
| The Terminator |
1984 |
James Cameron |
| The Third Man |
1949 |
Carol Reed |
| To Kill a Mockingbird |
1962 |
Robert Mulligan |
| Touch of Evil |
1958 |
Orson Welles |
| The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
1948 |
John Huston |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey |
1968 |
Stanley Kubrick |
| The Usual Suspects |
1995 |
Bryan Singer |
| Vertigo |
1958 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
| West Side Story |
1961 |
Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins |
| The Wild Bunch |
1969 |
Sam Peckinpah |
| The Wizard of Oz |
1939 |
Victor Fleming |
| Wuthering Heights |
1939 |
William Wyler |
