Time Out’s Readers’ Top One Hundred was compiled in 1998 from readers who submitted their all-time Top Ten film lists.
(1) The Godfather (1972), d. Francis Ford Coppola, US
(2) Casablanca (1942), Michael Curtiz, US
(3) Citizen Kane (1941), d. Orson Welles, US
(4) Blade Runner (1982), d. Ridley Scott, US
(5) Vertigo (1958), d. Alfred Hitchcock, US
(6) Apocalypse Now (1979), d. Francis Ford Coppola, US
(7) Some Like It Hot (1959), d. Billy Wilder, US
8) Taxi Driver (1976), d. Martin Scorsese, US
(9) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), d. Stanley Kubrick, US
(10) It’s A Wonderful Life (1946), d. Frank Capra, US
(11) GoodFellas (1990), d. Martin Scorsese, US
(12) North By Northwest (1959), d. Alfred Hitchcock, US
(13) Pulp Fiction (1994), d. Quentin Tarantino, US
(14) Seven Samurai (1954), d. Akira Kurosawa, Jap
(15) The Third Man (1949), d. Carol Reed, GB
(16) Lawrence of Arabia (1962), d. David Lean, GB
— Raging Bull (1980), d. Martin Scorsese, US
(18) Gone With The Wind (1939), d. Victor Fleming, US
(19) A Matter of Life and Death (aka Stairway to Heaven) (1946), d. Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, GB
(20) Schindler’s List (1993), d. Steven Spielberg, US
(21) Rear Window (1954), d. Alfred Hitchcock, US
— The Searchers (1956), d. John Ford, US
(23) Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) (1945), d. Marcel Carne, Fr
(24) Chinatown (1974), d. Roman Polanski, US
(25) Manhattan (1979), d. Woody Allen, US
(26) Star Wars (1977), d. George Lucas, US
— Withnail & I (1986), d. Bruce Robinson, GB
(28) Singin’ In The Rain (1952), d. Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly, US
(29) The Night of the Hunter (1955), d. Charles Laughton, US
— Psycho (1960), d. Alfred Hitchcock, US
— The Wild Bunch (1969), d. Sam Peckinpah, US
(32) The Shawshank Redemption (1994), d. Frank Darabont, US
(33) Three Colors: Red (1994), d. Krzysztof Kieslowski, Fr/Pol/Switz
(34) The Big Sleep (1946), d. Howard Hawks, US
(35) One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), d. Milos Forman, US
(36) Paris, Texas (1984), d. Wim Wenders, WGer/Fr/GB
(37) Blue Velvet (1986), d. David Lynch, US
(38) Tokyo Story (1953), d. Yasujiro Ozu, Jap
(39) The Deer Hunter (1978), d. Michael Cimino, US
— Three Colors: Blue (1993), d. Krzysztof Kieslowski, Fr
(41) Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), d. Sergio Leone, It
(42) The Piano (1993), d. Jane Campion, NZ/Fr
(43) Double Indemnity (1944), d. Billy Wilder, US
— Once Upon a Time in America (1983), d. Sergio Leone, US
(45) L’Atalante (1934), d. Jean Vigo, Fr
(46) Aliens (1986), d. James Cameron, US
(47) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying… (1964), d. Stanley Kubrick, GB
— Performance (1970), d. Nicolas Roeg/Donald Cammell, GB
(49) Wings of Desire (1987), d. Wim Wenders, WGer/Fr
(50) Brazil (1985), d. Terry Gilliam, GB
— The Double Life of Veronique (1991), d. Krzysztof Kieslowski, Pol
(52) The Maltese Falcon (1941), d. John Huston, US
(53) La Regle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game) (1939), d. Jean Renoir, Fr
— The Wizard of Oz (1939), d. Victor Fleming, US
(55) Fargo (1996), d. Joel Coen, US
(56) Don’t Look Now (1973), d. Nicolas Roeg, GB
(57) Touch Of Evil (1958), d. Orson Welles, US
(58) Annie Hall (1977), d. Woody Allen, US
— Cinema Paradiso (1988), d. Giuseppe Tornatore, It/Fr
— L.A. Confidential (1997), d. Curtis Hanson, US
— The English Patient (1996), d. Anthony Minghella, US
(62) The Apartment (1960), d. Billy Wilder, US
— The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), d. Orson Welles, US
— Un Coeur en hiver (1991), d. Claude Sautet, Fr
(65) Jules and Jim (1962), d. Francois Truffaut, Fr
— Reservoir Dogs (1991), d. Quentin Tarantino, US
(67) High Noon (1952), d. Fred Zinnemann, US
(68) Mean Streets (1973), d. Martin Scorsese, US
— The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), d. Sergio Leone, It
(70) His Girl Friday (1940), d. Howard Hawks, US
— Mirror (1974), d. Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR
— The Usual Suspects (1995), d. Bryan Singer, US
— Trainspotting (1995), d. Danny Boyle, GB
(74) Chungking Express (1994), d. Wong Kar-Wai, HK
— Seven (1995), d. David Fincher, US
(76) The Sound of Music (1965), d. Robert Wise, US
— The Thing from Another World (1951), d. Christian Nyby, US
— Battleship Potemkin (1925), d. Sergei Eisenstein, USSR
(79) Amadeus (1984), d. Milos Forman, US
— The Age of Innocence (1993), d. Martin Scorsese, US
— The Seventh Seal (1956), d. Ingmar Bergman, Swe
(82) Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), d. Robert Hamer, GB
— The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), d. Peter Greenaway, GB/Fr
— The General (1927), d. Buster Keaton/Clyde Bruckman, US
(85) La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life) (1960), d. Federico Fellini, It
— Miller’s Crossing (1990), d. Joel Coen, US
— The Battle of Algiers (1965), d. Gillo Pontecorvo, It/Alg
— Top Hat (1935), d. Mark Sandrich, US
(89) My Life as a Dog (1985), d. Lasse Hallstrom, Swe
— The Full Monty (1997), d. Peter Cattaneo, US/GB
(91) Black Narcissus (1946), d. Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, GB
— Halloween (1978), d. John Carpenter, US
— Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948), d. Max Ophuls, US
— M (1931), d. Fritz Lang, Ger
— Ran (1985), d. Akira Kurosawa, Fr/Jap
— Secrets & Lies (1995), d. Mike Leigh, GB
(97) A Bout de Souffle (Breathless) (1959), d. Jean-Luc Godard, Fr
— Andrei Rublev (1966), d. Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR
— L’Avventura (The Adventure) (1960), d. Michelangelo Antonioni, It
— Delicatessen (1991), d. Jean-Pierre Jeunet/Marc Caro, Fr
— Great Expectations (1946), d. David Lean, GB
— The Remains of the Day (1993), d. James Ivory, US