Time Out: 100 Best Films

Note: The number in parentheses following the top 20 films is the number of points received based on a division of 40 total points for each individual top ten list. For those lists given in order of preference the division was 7-6-5-4-3-3-3-3-3-3. For those lists not given in order of preference each film was awarded 4 points.


  1. Citizen Kane (111)
  2. The Godfather (101)
  3. La Règle du jeu (77)
  4. Vertigo (73)
  5. Seven Samurai (63)
  6. Lawrence of Arabia (60)
  7. Raging Bull (58)
  8. Touch of Evil (55)
  9. Tokyo Story (50)
  10. L'Atalante (49)
  11. Night of the Hunter (47)
  12. The Conformist (46)
  13. Les Enfants du paradis (41)
  14. A Matter of Life and Death (41)
  15. 8½ (37)
  16. The Magnificent Ambersons (37)
  17. Apocalypse Now (36)
  18. North by Northwest (36)
  19. Chinatown (32)
  20. La dolce vita (31)
  21. The Searchers
  22. The Wild Bunch
  23. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
  24. Some Like It Hot
  25. Taxi Driver
  26. Napoleon
  27. Rear Window
  28. Battleship Potemkin
  29. It's a Wonderful Life
  30. Performance
  31. The General
  32. À bout de souffle
  33. Mean Streets
  34. Once Upon a Time in the West
  35. Rio Bravo
  36. Once Upon a Time in America
  37. All About Eve
  38. My Darling Clementine
  39. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  40. The Piano
  41. Pierrot le Fou
  42. Bringing Up Baby
  43. The Four Hundred Blows
  44. Gone With the Wind
  45. The Lady Eve
  46. Last Year in Marienbad
  47. Letter from an Unknown Woman
  48. Battle of Algiers
  49. The Gold Rush
  50. La Grande Illusion
  51. Partie de campagne
  52. The Philadelphia Story
  53. Pickpocket
  54. Schindler's List
  55. The Shining
  56. The Third Man
  57. Dr. Strangelove
  58. The Reckless Moment
  59. Singin' in the Rain
  60. Blade Runner
  61. Blue Velvet
  62. Pather Panchali
  63. Le Samourai
  64. Sans Soleil
  65. Sweet Smell of Success
  66. Amarcord
  67. Greed
  68. The Passion of Joan of Arc
  69. Persona
  70. Rashomon
  71. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  72. All That Heaven Allows
  73. Black Narcissus
  74. Double Indemnity
  75. Intolerance
  76. Notorious
  77. Out of the Past
  78. The Red Shoes
  79. Sunset Boulevard
  80. Casablanca
  81. City Lights
  82. Ran
  83. Spirit of the Beehive
  84. Sunrise
  85. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
  86. Ordet
  87. Three Colours: Red
  88. Aliens
  89. Amadeus
  90. L'avventura
  91. Badlands
  92. Barry Lyndon
  93. The Bridge on the River Kwai
  94. The Colour of Pomegranates
  95. Don't Look Now
  96. Earth
  97. Fanny and Alexander
  98. La Jetée
  99. Kind Hearts and Coronets
  100. The Man Who Fell to Earth
  101. Mirror
  102. Pandora's Box
  103. The Quiet Man
  104. Sansho dayu
  105. The Seventh Seal
  106. Ugetsu monogatari
  107. West Side Story