GUINNESS
BOOK OF FILM: THE TOP 100
Top
100 By Genre Category
Action:
Raiders
of the Lost Ark (1981)
Aliens
(1986)
Die
Hard (1988)
Terminator
2: Judgment Day (1991)
Con
Air (1997)
Musical:
Top
Hat (1935)
On
the Town (1949)
The
Sound of Music (1965)
Grease
(1978)
Evita
(1996)
Biopic:
The
Life of Emile Zola (1937)
Lust
for Life (1956)
Reds
(1981)
Malcolm
X (1992)
Shine
(1996)
Period:
Pride
and Prejudice (1940)
Tom
Jones (1963)
A
Room With a View (1986)
Dangerous
Liaisons (1988)
Sense
and Sensibility (1995)
Cartoon
(Animated):
Pinocchio
(1940)
Bambi
(1942)
The
Jungle Book (1967)
Yellow
Submarine (1968)
Toy
Story (1995)
Romance:
Casablanca
(1942)
Now,
Voyager (1942)
Love
Story (1970)
Ghost
(1990)
The
English Patient (1996)
Comedy:
Monkey
Business (1931)
Bringing
Up Baby (1938)
The
Pink Panther (1963)
Airplane!
(1980)
The
Full Monty (1997)
Science
Fiction:
Forbidden
Planet (1956)
2001:
A Space Odyssey (1968)
Star
Wars (1977)
Blade
Runner (1982)
E.T.
- The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Cult:
Barbarella
(1968)
Easy
Rider (1969)
A
Clockwork Orange (1971)
Badlands
(1973)
Pulp
Fiction (1994)
Silent:
Napoleon
(Fr.) (1927)
The
Wind (1928)
Pandora's
Box (1928)
The
Cameraman (1929)
Modern
Times (1936)
Disaster:
Airport
(1970)
The
Poseidon Adventure (1972)
The
Towering Inferno (1974)
Twister
(1996)
Armageddon
(1998)
Spy:
Dr. No (1962)
Goldfinger
(1964)
The
Ipcress File (1965)
Three
Days of the Condor (1975)
Mission:
Impossible (1996)
Drama:
Gone
With The Wind (1939)
Citizen
Kane (1941)
On
The Waterfront (1954)
The
Deer Hunter (1978)
Titanic
(1997)
Swashbuckler:
Captain
Blood (1935)
The
Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
The
Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
The
Princess Bride (1987)
The
Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
Fantasy:
King
Kong (1933)
The
Wizard of Oz (1939)
Jason
and the Argonauts (1963)
Superman
(1978)
Batman
(1989)
Thriller:
The
Thirty-Nine Steps (1935)
Vertigo
(1958)
Touch
Of Evil (1958)
The
French Connection (1971)
The
Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Gangster:
Scarface
(1932)
Bonnie
And Clyde (1967)
The
Godfather (1972)
The
Untouchables (1987)
GoodFellas
(1990)
War:
The
Guns of Navarone (1961)
The
Great Escape (1963)
Where
Eagles Dare (1969)
Apocalypse
Now (1979)
Saving
Private Ryan (1998)
Horror:
The Exorcist (1973)
Carrie
(1976)
Halloween
(1978)
The
Shining (1980)
Poltergeist
(1982)
Western:
Stagecoach
(1939)
High
Noon (1952)
Rio
Bravo (1959)
The
Wild Bunch (1969)
Unforgiven
(1992)
An
essential hard-cover movie guide published in 1999, The Guinness Book of Film,
subtitled The Ultimate Guide to the Best Films Ever, reviewed the top 1000 movies
of the 20th century. The ultimate selection of films was based upon a few criteria:
sound films that were easily available in video format (with a few exceptions)
"the movies that have given the most pleasure to the most people." From the 1000
films, the guide also selected a Top 100 Films, "essential recommendations" categorized
into a Top 5 for each of twenty different genres (action, biopic, cartoon, comedy,
cult, disaster, drama, fantasy, gangster, horror, musical, period, romance, science-fiction,
silent, spy, swashbuckler, thriller, war, western).
