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
93
12 Angry Men
1957
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92
Schindler's List
1993
90
Seven Samurai
1954
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90
The Shawshank Redemption
1994
89
GoodFellas
1990
89
Rear Window
1954
89
Psycho
1960
89
Grave of the Fireflies
1988
89
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1966
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89
Casablanca
1942
89
Pulp Fiction
1994
88
Citizen Kane
1941
88
Lawrence of Arabia
1962
88
Singin' in the Rain
1952
87
Apocalypse Now
1979
87
Sunset Boulevard
1950
87
Paths of Glory
1957
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87
City Lights
1931
ADAD
87
Vertigo
1958
87
Some Like It Hot
1959
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87
It's a Wonderful Life
1946
87
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
1977
87
Ran
1985
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87
All About Eve
1950
87
The Silence of the Lambs
1991
86
Ikiru
1952
86
Tokyo Story
1953
86
The Battle of Algiers
1966
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86
Rashomon
1950
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86
The Apartment
1960
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86
The Third Man
1949
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86
Chinatown
1974
86
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948
86
Alien
1979
86
Harakiri
1962
86
Metropolis
1927
ADAD
86
L.A. Confidential
1997
86
Double Indemnity
1944
85
Yojimbo
1961
85
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
85
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981
85
Taxi Driver
1976
85
Cool Hand Luke
1967
85
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004
85
Touch of Evil
1958
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85
Amadeus
1984
85
The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928
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84
Sansho the Bailiff
1954
84
La Dolce Vita
1960
84
The Leopard
1963
84
Dog Day Afternoon
1975
84
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
84
The Great Dictator
1940
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84
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
84
Shoah
1985
84
Notorious
1946
84
Come and See
1985
84
Fargo
1996
ADAD
84
Unforgiven
1992
84
The Wizard of Oz
1939
84
On the Waterfront
1954
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84
M
1931
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84
Beauty and the Beast
1991
84
Do the Right Thing
1989
84
Gone with the Wind
1939
84
The Maltese Falcon
1941
84
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968
84
The Seventh Seal
1957
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84
Raging Bull
1980
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84
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
ADAD
84
Sweet Smell of Success
1957
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84
Bicycle Thieves
1948
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84
My Neighbor Totoro
1988
84
Hoop Dreams
1994
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84
The Night of the Hunter
1955
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83
The Rules of the Game
1939
83
Strangers on a Train
1951
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83
Children of Paradise
1945
83
Jaws
1975
83
The Wild Bunch
1969
83
The Last Picture Show
1971
83
Persona
1966
83
Late Spring
1949
83
The 400 Blows
1959
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83
Battleship Potemkin
1925
AD
83
Annie Hall
1977
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83
Sunrise
1927
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83
Blade Runner
1982
83
Rififi
1955
83
Rio Bravo
1959
83
Secrets & Lies
1996
83
Paris, Texas
1984
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83
Solaris
1972
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83
Umberto D.
1952
83
Playtime
1967
82
Lost in Translation
2003
82
Nights of Cabiria
1957
82
Network
1976
82
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938
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82
Breathless
1960
82
The Lady Eve
1941
82
Badlands
1973
82
Red River
1948
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82
Days of Heaven
1978
82
Barry Lyndon
1975
82
Bride of Frankenstein
1935
82
The Killing
1956
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82
The Hustler
1961
82
The Manchurian Candidate
1962
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82
Shadow of a Doubt
1943
82
Woman in the Dunes
1964
82
This Is Spinal Tap
1984
82
Woodstock
1970
82
Stagecoach
1939
ADADAD
82
The Red Shoes
1948
ADAD
82
Samurai Rebellion
1967
82
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1972
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82
Werckmeister Harmonies
2000
81
After Hours
1985
81
Goldfinger
1964
81
Ordet
1955
81
The General
1926
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81
The Big Sleep
1946
81
Nashville
1975
81
Wings of Desire
1987
81
A Woman Under the Influence
1974
81
Killer of Sheep
1978
81
Ugetsu
1953
81
The Long Goodbye
1973
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81
The Right Stuff
1983
81
The Conversation
1974
ADAD
81
King Kong
1933
81
Crumb
1994
81
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
2003
81
The Circus
1928
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81
Pinocchio
1940
81
Jules and Jim
1962
81
Through a Glass Darkly
1961
81
A Man Escaped
1956
80
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920
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80
Grand Illusion
1937
80
Being There
1979
80
Manhattan
1979
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80
Laura
1944
80
My Fair Lady
1964
80
The Shining
1980
80
Duck Soup
1933
80
Top Hat
1935
80
The Producers
1967
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80
The Thin Man
1934
80
Adaptation.
2002
80
Out of the Past
1947
80
The Searchers
1956
80
Don't Look Now
1973
80
Patton
1970
80
Magnolia
1999
80
Chimes at Midnight
1965
80
Rocco and His Brothers
1960
79
Day for Night
1973
79
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1971
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79
Johnny Guitar
1954
AD
79
Groundhog Day
1993
79
The Band Wagon
1953
79
Safety Last!
1923
AD
79
Great Expectations
1946
ADAD
79
In a Lonely Place
1950
AD
79
My Dinner with Andre
1981
AD
79
Rebel Without a Cause
1955
79
Mean Streets
1973
AD
79
Red Beard
1965
79
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962
AD
79
West Side Story
1961
AD
79
The Exterminating Angel
1962
79
My Darling Clementine
1946
79
Bonnie and Clyde
1967
79
Baraka
1992
ADAD
79
Nosferatu
1922
ADAD
79
Beauty and the Beast
1946
AD
79
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949
AD
79
Viridiana
1961
79
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972
ADAD
78
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943
ADAD
78
Shane
1953
78
Peeping Tom
1960
AD
78
L'Avventura
1960
78
The Big Heat
1953
78
My Man Godfrey
1936
ADADAD
78
L'Atalante
1934
78
Touchez pas au grisbi
1954
78
Orpheus
1950
78
The Last Laugh
1924
78
Howards End
1992
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78
Make Way for Tomorrow
1937
78
Yellow Submarine
1968
78
JFK
1991
78
Ace in the Hole
1951
78
Scarface
1983
78
Say Anything...
1989
78
Last Year at Marienbad
1961
78
The Big Lebowski
1998
78
Belle de Jour
1967
78
Victim
1961
78
Vengeance Is Mine
1979
78
Pixote
1980
78
The Match Factory Girl
1990
78
La belle noiseuse
1991
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78
The Age of Innocence
1993
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77
Written on the Wind
1956
77
Stroszek
1977
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77
3 Women
1977
77
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
1987
77
The Earrings of Madame De...
1953
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77
In Cold Blood
1967
77
Swing Time
1936
77
The Music Room
1958
77
Diary of a Country Priest
1951
77
Cat People
1942
77
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1937
77
Moonstruck
1987
77
Amarcord
1973
77
Picnic at Hanging Rock
1975
77
Withnail and I
1987
77
Five Easy Pieces
1970
AD
77
La cérémonie
1995
77
Waking Life
2001
77
Leaving Las Vegas
1995
ADAD
77
Faust
1926
77
Easy Rider
1969
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77
Inherit the Wind
1960
77
Superman
1978
77
Walkabout
1971
77
The Marriage of Maria Braun
1979
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77
The Man Who Laughs
1928
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77
Mystery Train
1989
76
The Butcher
1970
76
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
76
Bob le Flambeur
1956
76
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942
76
Trouble in Paradise
1932
76
A Christmas Story
1983
76
Santa Sangre
1989
ADAD
76
Detour
1945
ADAD
76
Silence
2016
76
Greed
1924
AD
76
Winter Light
1963
76
Body Heat
1981
76
The Thief of Bagdad
1940
AD
76
Pickpocket
1959
75
Fitzcarraldo
1982
ADAD
75
Pale Flower
1964
75
The Silence
1963
75
Dracula
1931
75
Juliet of the Spirits
1965
75
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974
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75
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
1974
75
The Color Purple
1985
75
Nanook of the North
1922
AD
75
Diva
1981
75
House of Games
1987
75
Nosferatu
2024
75
Pandora's Box
1929
AD
75
The Fall of the House of Usher
1928
AD
74
The Big Red One
1980
74
Romeo and Juliet
1968
74
King Kong
2005
74
The Phantom of the Opera
1925
ADAD
74
Night Moves
1975
74
El Norte
1983
74
Departures
2008
74
The Blue Kite
1993
74
The River
1951
74
Senso
1954
74
Richard III
1955
73
Superman
2025
73
The Scarlet Empress
1934
73
Broken Blossoms
1919
AD
72
Mephisto
1981
72
Ripley's Game
2002
71
Saturday Night Fever
1977
AD
71
El Topo
1970
71
Pink Floyd: The Wall
1982
71
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001
71
Last Tango in Paris
1972
71
Babel
2006
71
The Only Son
1936
71
Dark City
1998
AD
71
La Collectionneuse
1967
70
The Manchurian Candidate
2004
68
A Prairie Home Companion
2006
AD
66
The Grey Zone
2001
ADAD
65
The Birth of a Nation
1915
60
Great Expectations
1998
59
The Phantom of the Opera
2004
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