Ebert's Great Movies
Films Roger Ebert chose for his Great Movies essay series — landmark works he revisited in detail between 1996 and 2013.
293 movies
92
12 Angry Men
1957
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92
Schindler's List
1993
90
Pulp Fiction
1994
90
Casablanca
1942
89
Rear Window
1954
89
The Shawshank Redemption
1994
89
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1966
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89
Psycho
1960
89
Seven Samurai
1954
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88
GoodFellas
1990
88
Citizen Kane
1941
88
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
1977
87
City Lights
1931
ADAD
87
Lawrence of Arabia
1962
87
Vertigo
1958
87
Singin' in the Rain
1952
87
Grave of the Fireflies
1988
87
The Silence of the Lambs
1991
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86
Sunset Boulevard
1950
86
Apocalypse Now
1979
86
Alien
1979
86
It's a Wonderful Life
1946
86
Some Like It Hot
1959
ADAD
86
L.A. Confidential
1997
85
The Third Man
1949
ADAD
85
The Wizard of Oz
1939
85
Beauty and the Beast
1991
85
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981
85
Taxi Driver
1976
85
Gone with the Wind
1939
85
Rashomon
1950
AD
85
Metropolis
1927
ADAD
85
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948
85
Chinatown
1974
85
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004
85
Ran
1985
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85
All About Eve
1950
85
Double Indemnity
1944
84
Tokyo Story
1953
84
Notorious
1946
84
Cool Hand Luke
1967
84
The Maltese Falcon
1941
84
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
84
Fargo
1996
84
The Apartment
1960
ADAD
84
Jaws
1975
84
Paths of Glory
1957
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84
Amadeus
1984
83
The Battle of Algiers
1966
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83
On the Waterfront
1954
83
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
83
Annie Hall
1977
ADAD
83
Ikiru
1952
83
Yojimbo
1961
83
Unforgiven
1992
83
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968
83
Touch of Evil
1958
83
Battleship Potemkin
1925
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83
Raging Bull
1980
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83
Sweet Smell of Success
1957
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83
Pinocchio
1940
83
My Neighbor Totoro
1988
83
This Is Spinal Tap
1984
83
The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928
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83
The Night of the Hunter
1955
ADAD
82
Do the Right Thing
1989
82
Shoah
1985
82
La Dolce Vita
1960
82
The Wild Bunch
1969
82
Dog Day Afternoon
1975
82
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
82
M
1931
AD
82
The Great Dictator
1940
AD
82
Blade Runner
1982
82
Shadow of a Doubt
1943
82
Sunrise
1927
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82
The Rules of the Game
1939
82
Harakiri
1962
82
The Leopard
1963
82
King Kong
1933
82
Lost in Translation
2003
82
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
ADAD
82
Bicycle Thieves
1948
AD
82
The Seventh Seal
1957
AD
82
Hoop Dreams
1994
AD
82
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938
AD
82
The Manchurian Candidate
1962
ADAD
82
Playtime
1967
81
My Fair Lady
1964
81
Breathless
1960
81
Rio Bravo
1959
81
The Killing
1956
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81
Days of Heaven
1978
81
The Last Picture Show
1971
81
Badlands
1973
81
Red River
1948
ADAD
81
Rififi
1955
81
Sansho the Bailiff
1954
81
The Lady Eve
1941
81
Strangers on a Train
1951
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81
Goldfinger
1964
81
Children of Paradise
1945
81
Late Spring
1949
81
The Hustler
1961
81
Woodstock
1970
81
Stagecoach
1939
ADADAD
81
Bride of Frankenstein
1935
81
Solaris
1972
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81
Jules and Jim
1962
81
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1972
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80
Patton
1970
80
Persona
1966
80
The 400 Blows
1959
AD
80
Barry Lyndon
1975
80
The Conversation
1974
ADAD
80
Duck Soup
1933
80
The Searchers
1956
80
The Producers
1967
AD
80
The Right Stuff
1983
80
The Big Sleep
1946
80
Killer of Sheep
1978
80
Network
1976
80
Mean Streets
1973
80
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
2003
80
Top Hat
1935
80
The Circus
1928
AD
80
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1937
80
Secrets & Lies
1996
80
Paris, Texas
1984
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80
Great Expectations
1946
ADAD
80
Umberto D.
1952
80
Samurai Rebellion
1967
80
Crumb
1994
AD
80
Werckmeister Harmonies
2000
79
West Side Story
1961
ADAD
79
Manhattan
1979
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79
The Band Wagon
1953
79
Nashville
1975
79
Rebel Without a Cause
1955
79
Come and See
1985
79
The Shining
1980
79
After Hours
1985
79
The Thin Man
1934
79
Don't Look Now
1973
79
Groundhog Day
1993
79
Being There
1979
79
Say Anything...
1989
79
Bonnie and Clyde
1967
79
Chimes at Midnight
1965
78
Nights of Cabiria
1957
78
Swing Time
1936
78
Laura
1944
78
The General
1926
78
Wings of Desire
1987
78
Howards End
1992
78
Shane
1953
78
The Long Goodbye
1973
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78
A Woman Under the Influence
1974
78
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1971
78
Adaptation.
2002
78
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920
AD
78
Magnolia
1999
78
Nosferatu
1922
ADAD
78
Through a Glass Darkly
1961
78
Out of the Past
1947
78
The Age of Innocence
1993
AD
77
A Christmas Story
1983
77
My Man Godfrey
1936
ADADAD
77
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942
77
Touchez pas au grisbi
1954
77
Johnny Guitar
1954
AD
77
Scarface
1983
77
Grand Illusion
1937
77
Woman in the Dunes
1964
77
Ugetsu
1953
77
The Big Lebowski
1998
77
Superman
1978
77
The Red Shoes
1948
ADAD
77
My Dinner with Andre
1981
AD
77
Beauty and the Beast
1946
AD
77
Victim
1961
77
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949
AD
77
A Man Escaped
1956
77
Rocco and His Brothers
1960
77
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972
ADAD
77
Vengeance Is Mine
1979
AD
77
Leaving Las Vegas
1995
AD
76
Yellow Submarine
1968
76
Moonstruck
1987
AD
76
Peeping Tom
1960
AD
76
Ordet
1955
76
L'Atalante
1934
76
The Big Heat
1953
76
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962
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76
In a Lonely Place
1950
76
Five Easy Pieces
1970
AD
76
Safety Last!
1923
AD
76
Cat People
1942
76
Day for Night
1973
76
Picnic at Hanging Rock
1975
76
Written on the Wind
1956
76
Red Beard
1965
76
The Last Laugh
1924
76
Bob le Flambeur
1956
76
In Cold Blood
1967
76
Withnail and I
1987
76
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
1987
76
JFK
1991
76
Waking Life
2001
76
The Exterminating Angel
1962
76
King Kong
2005
76
Body Heat
1981
76
Easy Rider
1969
76
My Darling Clementine
1946
76
Inherit the Wind
1960
AD
76
Walkabout
1971
76
Belle de Jour
1967
76
Viridiana
1961
75
The Butcher
1970
75
The Earrings of Madame De...
1953
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75
Ace in the Hole
1951
75
Make Way for Tomorrow
1937
75
Detour
1945
ADAD
75
Greed
1924
AD
75
Nanook of the North
1922
AD
75
Orpheus
1950
75
Amarcord
1973
75
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943
ADAD
75
House of Games
1987
AD
75
L'Avventura
1960
75
3 Women
1977
75
The Music Room
1958
75
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
75
The Blue Kite
1993
75
Baraka
1992
ADAD
75
The Thief of Bagdad
1940
AD
75
Richard III
1955
75
The Man Who Laughs
1928
AD
75
Mystery Train
1989
75
The Match Factory Girl
1990
75
La belle noiseuse
1991
75
The Fall of the House of Usher
1928
AD
74
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974
AD
74
Diva
1981
74
La cérémonie
1995
74
Dracula
1931
74
Stroszek
1977
AD
74
El Norte
1983
74
Trouble in Paradise
1932
74
The Color Purple
1985
74
Faust
1926
74
Silence
2016
74
Romeo and Juliet
1968
74
Juliet of the Spirits
1965
74
The Big Red One
1980
74
Diary of a Country Priest
1951
74
Last Year at Marienbad
1961
74
Nosferatu
2024
74
The Marriage of Maria Braun
1979
AD
74
Pandora's Box
1929
AD
74
Pickpocket
1959
74
Pixote
1980
74
Broken Blossoms
1919
AD
73
Santa Sangre
1989
ADAD
73
The Phantom of the Opera
1925
ADAD
73
The Silence
1963
73
Night Moves
1975
73
Ripley's Game
2002
73
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
1974
73
Pale Flower
1964
73
The River
1951
72
Saturday Night Fever
1977
72
Departures
2008
72
Fitzcarraldo
1982
ADAD
72
The Scarlet Empress
1934
72
Winter Light
1963
72
Last Tango in Paris
1972
72
Senso
1954
71
The Birth of a Nation
1915
71
Superman
2025
71
Babel
2006
71
Dark City
1998
AD
71
The Manchurian Candidate
2004
70
El Topo
1970
70
Mephisto
1981
70
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001
68
A Prairie Home Companion
2006
68
The Only Son
1936
68
La Collectionneuse
1967
67
Pink Floyd: The Wall
1982
66
The Grey Zone
2001
ADAD
61
Great Expectations
1998
57
The Phantom of the Opera
2004