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Top 100 Films

Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley, London

Another film list? The same old Citizen Kane? No - this one’s different, says The Times’s chief film critic James Christopher

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100 - 91

From dinosaurs to life in a Florida work camp, ten films from the Top 100 to get the debate started

90 - 81

Moral corruption from Orson Welles and a wildcard performance by Al Pacino

80 - 71

Banjos, babies, bodices and bad boys. Plus the first and best of the "spoof" movies

70 - 61

Racial tension, sexual tension, paranoia and conflicting points of view

Classic love stories

The rise of the musical

60 - 51

Film plots with a twist - men who live as women and life in a fake alternative reality

50 - 41

Brilliance from Brando and an ether-inhaling performance from Hopper

40 - 31

Which 70's film won all five, major Oscars? What was so special about Tommy Johnson's Tuba?

30 - 21

Four brothers, a bunch of Gangsters, a school outing that goes wrong and a naughty heiress

From silent films to talkies

Shakespeare on screen

20 - 11

Jungle warfare, jungle capers, red shoes and a shiny red mac

10 - 4

Hitchcock's finest feature, Gloria Swanson's revival and some classic performances by Jack Nicholson

3 - ET: The Extra Terrestrial

It happened, according to movie lore, at the first Cannes Film Festival screening of E.T...

2 - There Will Be Blood

Few films in recent years have made such an instant and dramatic impact as this

1 - Casablanca

Of all the films in all the cinemas in all the world . . . why this?

TIMES, Sunday May 25, 2008