* Critics: Time Out Film Guide – Top 100 Films (Centenary)
Time Out compiled this list in 1995. They polled critics, directors, producers, actors and programmers who submitted their TOP TEN best movies. Here is the results filtered for movies released through 1960:
- Citizen Kane
- The Rules of the Game
- Vertigo
- Seven Samurai
- Touch of Evil
- Tokyo Story
- L’Atalante
- The Night of the Hunter
- Children of Paradise
- A Matter of Life and Death (aka Stairway to Heaven)
That was the TOP TEN of movies released through 1960. The rest of the list follows:
- The Magnificent Ambersons
- North by Northwest
- La Doce Vita
- The Searchers
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
- Some Like It Hot
- Napoleon
- Rear Window
- Battleship Potemkin
- It’s A Wonderful Life
- The General
- Breathless
- Rio Bravo
- All About Eve
- My Darling Clementine
- Bringing Up Baby
- The 400 Blows
- Gone With The Wind
- The Lady Eve
- Letter From an Unknown Woman
- The Gold Rush
- Grand Illusion
- Une Partie de Campagne
- The Philadelphia Story
- Pickpocket
- The Third Man
- The Reckless Moment
- Singin’ in the Rain
- Pather Panchali
- Sweet Smell of Success
- Greed
- The Passion of Joan of Arc
- Rashomon
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- All That Heaven Allows
- Black Narcissus
- Double Indemnity
- Intolerance
- Notorious
- Out of the Past
- The Red Shoes
- Sunset Boulevard
- Casablanca
- City Lights
- Sunrise
- Ordet
- L’Avventura
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Earth
- Kind Hearts and Coronets
- Pandora’s Box
- The Quiet Man
- Sansho Dayu (Sansho the Bailiff)
- The Seventh Seal
- Ugetsu Monogatari
See the full list online here: Top 100 Films (Centenary) from Time Out