Time magazine top 100

compiled a list of the of all time. The list is not a qualitative ranking of the films. Instead it is just a choice of the top 100 films across the world. This list is different enough from the in that it has international movies.

The concept of 100 films is used a little loosely here because there are actually 106 films in this list.

* Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
* The Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956), Apur Sansar (1959) (Bengali)
* The Awful Truth (1937)
* Baby Face (1933)
* Bande à part (1964) (French)
* Barry Lyndon (1975)
* Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
* Blade Runner (1982)
* Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
* Brazil (1985)
* Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
* Camille (1936)
* Casablanca (1942)
* Charade (1963)
* Children of Paradise (1945) (French)
* Chinatown (1974)
* Chungking Express (1994) (Chinese - Cantonese)
* Citizen Kane (1941)
* City Lights (1931)
* City of God (2002) (Portuguese) (Brazilian title Cidade de Deus)
* Closely Watched Trains (1966) (Czechoslovak title Ostre sledované vlaky)
* The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936) (French title Le Crime de Monsieur Lange)
* The Crowd (1928)
* Day for Night (1973) (French title La Nuit Americaine)
* The Decalogue (1989) (Polish title Dekalog)
* Detour (1945)
* The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) (French title Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie)
* Dodsworth (1936)
* Double Indemnity (1944)
* Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
* Drunken Master II (1994) (Chinese title Jui kuen II)
* E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
* 8 1/2 (1963)
* The 400 Blows (1959) (French title Les Quatre cents coups)
* Farewell My Concubine (1993) (Chinese title Ba wang bie ji)
* Finding Nemo (2003)
* The Fly (1986)
* The Godfather, Parts I (1972) and II (1974)
* The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) (Italian title Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo)
* Goodfellas (1990)
* ' (1964)
* His Girl Friday (1940)
* Ikiru (1952) (Japanese)
* In a Lonely Place (1950)
* Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
* It's a Gift (1934)
* It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
* Kandahar (2001) (Afghan title Safar e Ghandehar)
* Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
* King Kong (1933)
* The Lady Eve (1941)
* The Last Command (1928)
* Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
* Léolo (1992) (French)
* The Lord of the Rings film trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002), The Return of the King (2003)
* Man with a Movie Camera (1929) (Russian title Chelovek s kino-apparatom)
* The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
* Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
* Metropolis (1927)
* Miller's Crossing (1990)
* Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980) (French)
* Mouchette (1967)
* Nayagan (1987) (Tamil)
* Ninotchka (1939)
* Notorious (1946)
* Olympia (1938), Part 1 (German title Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker), Part 2 (Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit)
* On the Waterfront (1954)
* Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) (Italian title C'era una volta il West)
* Out of the Past (1947)
* Persona (1966) (Swedish)
* Pinocchio (1940)
* Psycho (1960)
* Pulp Fiction (1994)
* The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
* Pyaasa (1957) (Hindi)
* Raging Bull (1980)
* Schindler's List (1993)
* The Searchers (1956)
* Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
* The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
* ' (1952)
* The Singing Detective (1986)
* Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) (Swedish title Sommarnattens leende)
* Some Like It Hot (1959)
* Star Wars (1977)
* A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
* Sunrise (1927)
* Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
* Swing Time (1936)
* Talk to Her (2002) (Spanish title Hable con ella)
* Taxi Driver (1976)
* Tokyo Story (1953) (Japanese title Tôkyô monogatari)
* A Touch of Zen (1971) (Chinese title Hsia nu)
* Ugetsu (1953) (Japanese title Ugetsu monogatari)
* Ulysses' Gaze (1995) (Greek title To Vlemma tou Odyssea)
* Umberto D. (1952) (Italian)
* Unforgiven (1992)
* White Heat (1949)
* Wings of Desire (1987) (German title Der Himmel über Berlin)
* Yojimbo (1961) (Japanese)

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