* Critics: Films101 – Top 100 Movies

They compiled a database of movies based on critics reviews which they update with new information periodically (so the list may change whenever they do an update). Since the list is based on a database, their website lets you change how you view it – you can sort it by YEAR or by COUNTRY, for example. Here are the movies released through 1960 from their June 24, 2012 ranked listing of the Top 100 Movies:

1. Citizen Kane
2. Bicycle Thieves
3. Psycho
4. The Rules of the Game
5. Singin’ in the Rain
6. The Searchers
7. Casablanca
8. Seven Samurai
9. Rashomon
10. The 400 Blows

That was their TOP TEN from the movies released through 1960. The rest of their top 100 movies follows:

11. Breathless
12. Vertigo
13. Metropolis
14. Some Like It Hot
15. La Dolce Vita
16. M
17. On the Waterfront
18. All About Eve
19. Gone With The Wind
20. The Wizard of Oz
21. Tokyo Story
22. Sunset Boulevard
23. The World of Apu
24. Double Indemnity
25. L’Avventura
26. It’s A Wonderful Life
27. Ikiru
28. The Maltese Falcon
29. Grand Illusion
30. Pather Panchali
31. Nosferatu
32. King Kong
33. The Seventh Seal
34. The Bridge on the River Kwai
35. It Happened One Night
36. North by Northwest
37. Bringing Up Baby
38. Children of Paradise
39. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
40. Battleship Potemkin
41. The Third Man
42. Touch of Evil
43. High Noon
44. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
45. Rome Open City
46. Ashes and Diamonds
47. Ugetsu
48. The Best Years of Our Lives
49. A Streetcar Named Desire
50. Beauty and the Beast (1946 not Disney)
51. Duck Soup
52. The Apartment
53. Sunrise
54. Stagecoach
55. The Grapes of Wrath
56. Top Hat

You can view the full list here: Films101 Top 100 Movies