Leonard Maltin's 100 "Must See" Films of the 20th Century

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This list is not ranked and is shown by release year.

Title Year Rating
Birth of a Nation, The 1915
Intolerance aka Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages 1916
Our Hospitality 1923
Greed 1924
Battleship Potemkin aka Bronenosets Potyomkin 1925
Big Parade, The 1925
Freshman, The 1925
Gold Rush, The 1925
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General, The 1927
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Metropolis 1927
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Sunrise aka Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927
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Crowd, The 1928
All Quiet on the Western Front 1930
City Lights 1931
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Dracula 1931
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Frankenstein 1931
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M 1931
Trouble in Paradise 1932
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Duck Soup 1933
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King Kong 1933
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Sons of the Desert 1933
It Happened One Night 1934
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It's a Gift 1934
39 Steps, The 1935
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A Night at the Opera 1935
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Bride of Frankenstein 1935
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Dodsworth 1936
Modern Times 1936
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936
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Swing Time 1936
Grand Illusion, The aka Grande illusion, La 1937
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937
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Adventures of Robin Hood, The 1938
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Lady Vanishes, The 1938
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Gone with the Wind 1939
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Stagecoach 1939
Wizard of Oz, The 1939
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Fantasia 1940
Grapes of Wrath, The 1940
His Girl Friday 1940
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Citizen Kane 1941
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Lady Eve, The 1941
Maltese Falcon, The 1941
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Sullivan's Travels 1941
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Casablanca 1942
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Ox-Bow Incident, The 1943
Double Indemnity 1944
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Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The 1944
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Best Years of Our Lives, The 1946
Great Expectations 1946
It's a Wonderful Life 1946
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My Darling Clementine 1946
Bicycle Thief, The aka Ladri di biciclette 1948
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The 1948
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Gun Crazy aka Deadly Is the Female 1949
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All About Eve 1950
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Rashômon 1950
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Sunset Boulevard 1950
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Strangers on a Train 1951
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High Noon 1952
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Singin' in the Rain 1952
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On the Waterfront 1954
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954
Seven Samurai aka Shichinin no samurai 1954
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Searchers, The 1956
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Paths of Glory 1957
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Seventh Seal, The aka Sjunde inseglet, Det 1957
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Vertigo 1958
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400 Blows, The aka Quatre cents coups, Les 1959
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North by Northwest 1959
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Some Like It Hot 1959
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Dolce vita, La 1960
Psycho 1960
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Lawrence of Arabia 1962
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8½ aka 8 1/2 1963
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964
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Mary Poppins 1964
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Blowup 1966
Bonnie and Clyde 1967
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Graduate, The 1967
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2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
Midnight Cowboy 1969
Wild Bunch, The 1969
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Godfather, The 1972
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Mean Streets 1973
Blazing Saddles 1974
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Conversation, The 1974
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Godfather: Part II, The 1974
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Jaws 1975
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Nashville 1975
Annie Hall 1977
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Star Wars 1977
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Deer Hunter, The 1978
Apocalypse Now 1979
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Raging Bull 1980
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982
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Goodfellas 1990
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Schindler's List 1993
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Pulp Fiction 1994
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Fargo 1996
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