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Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Films From Year

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Films

1.
Broadcast News James L. Brooks
2.
Moonstruck Norman Jewison
3.
RoboCop Paul Verhoeven
4.
Tin Men Barry Levinson
5.
Radio Days Woody Allen
6.
Where is the Friend's Home?
Khane-ye doust kodjast? Abbas Kiarostami
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Films

7.
Swimming to Cambodia Jonathan Demme
8.
Planes, Trains & Automobiles John Hughes
9.
The Princess Bride Rob Reiner
10.
Empire of the Sun Steven Spielberg
11.
Wings of Desire
Der Himmel über Berlin
The Sky/Heaven Over Berlin Wim Wenders
12.
Blind Chance
Przypadek Krzysztof Kieslowski
13.
Raising Arizona Joel Coen
14.
Full Metal Jacket Stanley Kubrick
15.
The Dead John Huston
16.
The Living Daylights John Glen
17.
Barfly Barbet Schroeder
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Films

18.
Predator John McTiernan
19.
Dirty Dancing Emile Ardolino
20.
Roxanne Fred Schepisi
21.
House of Games David Mamet
22.
Good Morning, Vietnam Barry Levinson
23.
No Way Out Roger Donaldson
24.
Lethal Weapon Richard Donner
25.
Near Dark Kathryn Bigelow
26.
Spaceballs Mel Brooks
27.
Back to the Beach Lyndall Hobbs
28.
The Stepfather Joseph Ruben
29.
Hollywood Shuffle Robert Townsend
30.
Cry Freedom Richard Attenborough
31.
The Untouchables Brian De Palma
32.
Overboard Garry Marshall
33.
Ishtar Elaine May
34.
Hope and Glory John Boorman
35.
Fatal Attraction Adrian Lyne
36.
Evil Dead II Sam Raimi
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Films

37.
The Last Emperor Bernardo Bertolucci
38.
The Year My Voice Broke John Duigan
39.
Withnail & I Bruce Robinson
40.
Summer School Carl Reiner
41.
Adventures in Babysitting Chris Columbus
42.
Some Kind of Wonderful Howard Deutch
43.
The Hidden Jack Sholder
44.
The Witches of Eastwick George Miller
45.
The Gate Tibor Takács
46.
Five Corners Tony Bill
47.
Ironweed Hector Babenco
48.
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid Stephen Frears
49.
Intervista
Interview Federico Fellini
50.
The Big Easy Jim McBride
51.
Suspect Peter Yates
52.
Three Men and a Baby
3 Men and a Baby Leonard Nimoy
53.
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing Patricia Rozema
54.
The Lost Boys Joel Schumacher
55.
Flowers in the Attic Jeffrey Bloom
56.
Dragnet Tom Mankiewicz
57.
La Bamba Luis Valdez
58.
Cross My Heart Armyan Bernstein
59.
Innerspace Joe Dante
60.
Outrageous Fortune Arthur Hiller
61.
Project A 2
'A' gai wak 2 Jackie Chan
62.
Sign 'o' the Times Prince and Albert Magnoli
63.
Rita, Sue and Bob Too Alan Clarke
64.
The Bedroom Window Curtis Hanson
65.
Cherry 2000 Steve De Jarnatt
66.
Cobra Verde
Slave Coast Werner Herzog
67.
Dead End Drive-In Brian Trenchard-Smith
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Films

68.
September Woody Allen
69.
Prince of Darkness John Carpenter
70.
The Secret of My Success Herbert Ross
71.
Black Widow Bob Rafelson
72.
Blind Date Blake Edwards
73.
Stakeout John Badham
74.
Nuts Martin Ritt
75.
Street Trash Jim Muro
76.
The Belly of an Architect Peter Greenaway
77.
Amazon Women on the Moon Carl Gottlieb, John Landis, Robert K. Weiss, Joe Dante, and Peter Horton
78.
Beverly Hills Cop II Tony Scott
79.
Prom Night II
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II Bruce Pittman
80.
Angel Heart Alan Parker
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Films

81.
Throw Momma from the Train Danny DeVito
82.
Eddie Murphy Raw Robert Townsend
83.
The Whales of August Lindsay Anderson
84.
Blue Monkey William Fruet
85.
Who's That Girl James Foley
86.
Burglar Hugh Wilson
87.
Hiding Out Bob Giraldi
88.
Mannequin Michael Gottlieb
89.
The Running Man Paul Michael Glaser
90.
Bagdad Cafe
Out of Rosenheim Percy Adlon
91.
Baby Boom Charles Shyer
92.
Less Than Zero Marek Kanievska
93.
Someone to Watch Over Me Ridley Scott
94.
Blood Rage
Nightmare at Shadow Woods
Slasher John Grissmer
95.
City on Fire
Lóng hǔ fēng yún Ringo Lam
96.
Masters of the Universe Gary Goddard
97.
Surrender Jerry Belson
98.
O.C. and Stiggs Robert Altman
99.
The Squeeze Roger Young
100.
Making Mr. Right Susan Seidelman
101.
Aria Robert Altman, Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Bruce Beresford, Julien Temple, Bill Bryden, Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, and Charles Sturridge
102.
The Pick-up Artist James Toback
103.
Beyond Therapy Robert Altman
104.
Hellraiser Clive Barker
105.
Project X Jonathan Kaplan
106.
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise Joe Roth
107.
Born in East L.A. Cheech Marin
108.
Fatal Beauty Tom Holland
109.
Witness in the War Zone
Deadline Nathaniel Gutman
110.
The Curse
The Farm David Keith
111.
Wall Street Oliver Stone
112.
Maid to Order Amy Holden Jones
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Films

113.
Rawhead Rex George Pavlou
114.
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol Jim Drake
115.
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace Sidney J. Furie
116.
Hello Again Frank Perry
117.
Harry and the Hendersons William Dear
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Films

118.
Ernest Goes to Camp John Cherry
119.
Blood Circus John Corso, Joseph Ryan Zwick, and Santo Victor Rigatuso
120.
Rampage William Friedkin
Adventures in Babysitting Chris Columbus 
Amazon Women on the Moon Carl Gottlieb, John Landis, Robert K. Weiss, Joe Dante, and Peter Horton 
Angel Heart Alan Parker 
Aria Robert Altman, Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Bruce Beresford, Julien Temple, Bill Bryden, Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, and Charles Sturridge 
Baby Boom Charles Shyer 
Back to the Beach Lyndall Hobbs 
Bagdad Cafe
Out of Rosenheim Percy Adlon 
Barfly Barbet Schroeder 
Beverly Hills Cop II Tony Scott 
Beyond Therapy Robert Altman 
Black Widow Bob Rafelson 
Blind Chance
Przypadek Krzysztof Kieslowski 
Blind Date Blake Edwards 
Blood Circus John Corso, Joseph Ryan Zwick, and Santo Victor Rigatuso 
Blood Rage
Nightmare at Shadow Woods
Slasher John Grissmer 
Blue Monkey William Fruet 
Born in East L.A. Cheech Marin 
Broadcast News James L. Brooks 
Burglar Hugh Wilson 
Cherry 2000 Steve De Jarnatt 
City on Fire
Lóng hǔ fēng yún Ringo Lam 
Cobra Verde
Slave Coast Werner Herzog 
Cross My Heart Armyan Bernstein 
Cry Freedom Richard Attenborough 
Dead End Drive-In Brian Trenchard-Smith 
Dirty Dancing Emile Ardolino 
Dragnet Tom Mankiewicz 
Eddie Murphy Raw Robert Townsend 
Empire of the Sun Steven Spielberg 
Ernest Goes to Camp John Cherry 
Evil Dead II Sam Raimi 
Fatal Attraction Adrian Lyne 
Fatal Beauty Tom Holland 
Five Corners Tony Bill 
Flowers in the Attic Jeffrey Bloom 
Full Metal Jacket Stanley Kubrick 
Good Morning, Vietnam Barry Levinson 
Harry and the Hendersons William Dear 
Hello Again Frank Perry 
Hellraiser Clive Barker 
Hiding Out Bob Giraldi 
Hollywood Shuffle Robert Townsend 
Hope and Glory John Boorman 
House of Games David Mamet 
Innerspace Joe Dante 
Intervista
Interview Federico Fellini 
Ironweed Hector Babenco 
Ishtar Elaine May 
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing Patricia Rozema 
La Bamba Luis Valdez 
Less Than Zero Marek Kanievska 
Lethal Weapon Richard Donner 
Maid to Order Amy Holden Jones 
Making Mr. Right Susan Seidelman 
Mannequin Michael Gottlieb 
Masters of the Universe Gary Goddard 
Moonstruck Norman Jewison 
Near Dark Kathryn Bigelow 
No Way Out Roger Donaldson 
Nuts Martin Ritt 
O.C. and Stiggs Robert Altman 
Outrageous Fortune Arthur Hiller 
Overboard Garry Marshall 
Planes, Trains & Automobiles John Hughes 
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol Jim Drake 
Predator John McTiernan 
Prince of Darkness John Carpenter 
Project A 2
'A' gai wak 2 Jackie Chan 
Project X Jonathan Kaplan 
Prom Night II
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II Bruce Pittman 
Radio Days Woody Allen 
Raising Arizona Joel Coen 
Rampage William Friedkin 
Rawhead Rex George Pavlou 
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise Joe Roth 
Rita, Sue and Bob Too Alan Clarke 
RoboCop Paul Verhoeven 
Roxanne Fred Schepisi 
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid Stephen Frears 
September Woody Allen 
Sign 'o' the Times Prince and Albert Magnoli 
Some Kind of Wonderful Howard Deutch 
Someone to Watch Over Me Ridley Scott 
Spaceballs Mel Brooks 
Stakeout John Badham 
Street Trash Jim Muro 
Summer School Carl Reiner 
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace Sidney J. Furie 
Surrender Jerry Belson 
Suspect Peter Yates 
Swimming to Cambodia Jonathan Demme 
The Bedroom Window Curtis Hanson 
The Belly of an Architect Peter Greenaway 
The Big Easy Jim McBride 
The Curse
The Farm David Keith 
The Dead John Huston 
The Gate Tibor Takács 
The Hidden Jack Sholder 
The Last Emperor Bernardo Bertolucci 
The Living Daylights John Glen 
The Lost Boys Joel Schumacher 
The Pick-up Artist James Toback 
The Princess Bride Rob Reiner 
The Running Man Paul Michael Glaser 
The Secret of My Success Herbert Ross 
The Squeeze Roger Young 
The Stepfather Joseph Ruben 
The Untouchables Brian De Palma 
The Whales of August Lindsay Anderson 
The Witches of Eastwick George Miller 
The Year My Voice Broke John Duigan 
Three Men and a Baby
3 Men and a Baby Leonard Nimoy 
Throw Momma from the Train Danny DeVito 
Tin Men Barry Levinson 
Wall Street Oliver Stone 
Where is the Friend's Home?
Khane-ye doust kodjast? Abbas Kiarostami 
Who's That Girl James Foley 
Wings of Desire
Der Himmel über Berlin
The Sky/Heaven Over Berlin Wim Wenders 
Withnail & I Bruce Robinson 
Witness in the War Zone
Deadline Nathaniel Gutman 
Dead End Drive-In Brian Trenchard-Smith 22 August 1986
Blind Chance
Przypadek Krzysztof Kieslowski 10 January 1987
The Bedroom Window Curtis Hanson 16 January 1987
Radio Days Woody Allen 30 January 1987
Outrageous Fortune Arthur Hiller 30 January 1987
Black Widow Bob Rafelson 06 February 1987
Beyond Therapy Robert Altman 06 February 1987
City on Fire
Lóng hǔ fēng yún Ringo Lam 13 February 1987
Mannequin Michael Gottlieb 13 February 1987
Some Kind of Wonderful Howard Deutch 27 February 1987
Lethal Weapon Richard Donner 06 March 1987
Angel Heart Alan Parker 06 March 1987
Evil Dead II Sam Raimi 13 March 1987
Tin Men Barry Levinson 13 March 1987
Swimming to Cambodia Jonathan Demme 13 March 1987
Burglar Hugh Wilson 20 March 1987
Hollywood Shuffle Robert Townsend 20 March 1987
Blind Date Blake Edwards 27 March 1987
Making Mr. Right Susan Seidelman 03 April 1987
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol Jim Drake 03 April 1987
The Secret of My Success Herbert Ross 10 April 1987
Raising Arizona Joel Coen 17 April 1987
Project X Jonathan Kaplan 17 April 1987
Rawhead Rex George Pavlou 17 April 1987
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing Patricia Rozema 01 May 1987
Blood Rage
Nightmare at Shadow Woods
Slasher John Grissmer 01 May 1987
Street Trash Jim Muro 09 May 1987
Ishtar Elaine May 15 May 1987
The Gate Tibor Takács 15 May 1987
Beverly Hills Cop II Tony Scott 20 May 1987
Ernest Goes to Camp John Cherry 22 May 1987
Rita, Sue and Bob Too Alan Clarke 29 May 1987
The Untouchables Brian De Palma 03 June 1987
The Stepfather Joseph Ruben 05 June 1987
Harry and the Hendersons William Dear 05 June 1987
The Witches of Eastwick George Miller 12 June 1987
Predator John McTiernan 12 June 1987
Roxanne Fred Schepisi 19 June 1987
Withnail & I Bruce Robinson 19 June 1987
Spaceballs Mel Brooks 24 June 1987
Dragnet Tom Mankiewicz 26 June 1987
Innerspace Joe Dante 01 July 1987
Adventures in Babysitting Chris Columbus 03 July 1987
O.C. and Stiggs Robert Altman 10 July 1987
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise Joe Roth 10 July 1987
Full Metal Jacket Stanley Kubrick 10 July 1987
The Squeeze Roger Young 10 July 1987
RoboCop Paul Verhoeven 17 July 1987
Summer School Carl Reiner 22 July 1987
La Bamba Luis Valdez 24 July 1987
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace Sidney J. Furie 24 July 1987
The Lost Boys Joel Schumacher 31 July 1987
The Living Daylights John Glen 31 July 1987
Maid to Order Amy Holden Jones 31 July 1987
Stakeout John Badham 05 August 1987
Masters of the Universe Gary Goddard 07 August 1987
Back to the Beach Lyndall Hobbs 07 August 1987
Who's That Girl James Foley 07 August 1987
No Way Out Roger Donaldson 14 August 1987
The Whales of August Lindsay Anderson 19 August 1987
Project A 2
'A' gai wak 2 Jackie Chan 19 August 1987
Born in East L.A. Cheech Marin 21 August 1987
The Big Easy Jim McBride 21 August 1987
Dirty Dancing Emile Ardolino 21 August 1987
Five Corners Tony Bill 11 September 1987
Witness in the War Zone
Deadline Nathaniel Gutman 11 September 1987
Aria Robert Altman, Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Bruce Beresford, Julien Temple, Bill Bryden, Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, and Charles Sturridge 15 September 1987
The Pick-up Artist James Toback 18 September 1987
Fatal Attraction Adrian Lyne 18 September 1987
Hellraiser Clive Barker 18 September 1987
Amazon Women on the Moon Carl Gottlieb, John Landis, Robert K. Weiss, Joe Dante, and Peter Horton 18 September 1987
The Belly of an Architect Peter Greenaway 23 September 1987
Blue Monkey William Fruet 25 September 1987
Someone to Watch Over Me Ridley Scott 09 October 1987
Surrender Jerry Belson 09 October 1987
The Princess Bride Rob Reiner 09 October 1987
House of Games David Mamet 14 October 1987
Barfly Barbet Schroeder 16 October 1987
The Year My Voice Broke John Duigan 17 October 1987
Prince of Darkness John Carpenter 23 October 1987
Suspect Peter Yates 23 October 1987
The Hidden Jack Sholder 30 October 1987
Fatal Beauty Tom Holland 30 October 1987
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid Stephen Frears 30 October 1987
Baby Boom Charles Shyer 30 October 1987
Cry Freedom Richard Attenborough 06 November 1987
Hello Again Frank Perry 06 November 1987
Less Than Zero Marek Kanievska 06 November 1987
Hiding Out Bob Giraldi 06 November 1987
Prom Night II
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II Bruce Pittman 13 November 1987
The Running Man Paul Michael Glaser 13 November 1987
Cross My Heart Armyan Bernstein 13 November 1987
Flowers in the Attic Jeffrey Bloom 20 November 1987
Sign 'o' the Times Prince and Albert Magnoli 20 November 1987
Blood Circus John Corso, Joseph Ryan Zwick, and Santo Victor Rigatuso 25 November 1987
Planes, Trains & Automobiles John Hughes 25 November 1987
Three Men and a Baby
3 Men and a Baby Leonard Nimoy 25 November 1987
Cobra Verde
Slave Coast Werner Herzog 03 December 1987
Nuts Martin Ritt 11 December 1987
Wall Street Oliver Stone 11 December 1987
Throw Momma from the Train Danny DeVito 11 December 1987
Overboard Garry Marshall 16 December 1987
The Dead John Huston 18 December 1987
Eddie Murphy Raw Robert Townsend 18 December 1987
September Woody Allen 18 December 1987
Empire of the Sun Steven Spielberg 25 December 1987
Broadcast News James L. Brooks 25 December 1987
Near Dark Kathryn Bigelow 08 January 1988
Moonstruck Norman Jewison 15 January 1988
Good Morning, Vietnam Barry Levinson 15 January 1988
Cherry 2000 Steve De Jarnatt 05 February 1988
Ironweed Hector Babenco 12 February 1988
Hope and Glory John Boorman 19 February 1988
The Last Emperor Bernardo Bertolucci 15 April 1988
Bagdad Cafe
Out of Rosenheim Percy Adlon 22 April 1988
Wings of Desire
Der Himmel über Berlin
The Sky/Heaven Over Berlin Wim Wenders 06 May 1988
The Curse
The Farm David Keith 14 September 1988
Where is the Friend's Home?
Khane-ye doust kodjast? Abbas Kiarostami 21 March 1990
Rampage William Friedkin 30 October 1992
Intervista
Interview Federico Fellini 06 November 1992
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