AFI's 100 Greatest American Movies of all Time - Your Alternative

[Brotherdeacon]

Films rather than the AFI bunch:

Regeneration (1915, Raoul Walsh)
Broken Blossoms (DW Griffith, 1919)
Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim, 1922)
The Wind (Victor Sjostrom, 1924)
The Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh, 1924)
He Who Gets Slapped (Victor Sjostrom, 1924)
Lazybones (Frank Borzage, 1925)
The General (Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton, 1926)
The Winning of Barbara Worth (Henry King, 1926)
The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg, 1926)

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
The Crowd (King Vidor, 1928)
The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwich, Buster Keaton, 1928)
The Man Who Laughs (Paul Leni, 1928)
City Girl (F.W. Murnau, 1930)
Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy, 1932)
Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932)
The Story of Temple Drake (Stephen Roberts, 1933)
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (Josef von Sternberg, 1933)

The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1934)
The Scarlet Empress (Joseph von Sternberg, 1934)
Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey, 1935)
Dodsworth (William Wyler, 1936)
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936)
Angel (Ernst Lubitsch, 1937)
Jezebel (William Wyler, 1938)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz, William Keighley, 1938)
The Women (Frank Capra, 1939)
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)

High Sierra (Raoul Walsh, 1941)
Meet John Doe (Frank Capra, 1941)
The Ox-Bow Incident (William Wellman, 1943)
Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock, 1943)
The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson, 1943)
At Land (Maya Deren, 1944)
Murder My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk, 1944)
Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang, 1945)
The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946)
My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946)

Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls, 1948)
Intruder in the Dust (Clarence Brown, 1949)
The Gunfighter (Henry King, 1950)
In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, 1951)
The Prowler (Joseph Losey, 1951)
The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli, 1952)
The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino, 1953)
Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)

The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, 1956)
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)
Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
The Nun's Story (Fred Zinnemann, 1959)
Wild River (Elia Kazan, 1960)
The Hustler (Robert Rossen, 1961)
Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson, 1962)
David and Lisa (Frank Perry, 1962)
Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964)

The Night of the Iguana (John Huston, 1964)
The Pawnbroker (Sidney Lumet, 1964)
The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller, 1964)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Robert Ellis Miller, 1968)
Medium Cool (Haskell Wexler, 1969)
Wanda (Barbara Loden, 1970)
Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson, 1970)
Panic in Needle Park (Jerry Schatzberg, 1971)
Fat City (John Huston, 1972)
The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973)

Badlands (Terence Mallick, 1973)
Save the Tiger (John Avildsen, 1973)
The Cockfighter (Monte Hellman, 1974)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
92 in the Shade (Thomas McGuane, 1975)
Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, 1976)
Opening Night (John Cassavetes, 1977)
Northern Lights (John Hanson, Rob Nilsson, 1978)
Blue Collar (Paul Schrader, 1978)
Who'll Stop the Rain (Karel Reitz, 1978)

Wiseblood (John Huston, 1979)
Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
Breaking Away (Peter Yates, 1979)
Resurrection (Daniel Petrie, 1980)
Thief (Michael Mann, 1981)
The Verdict (Sidney Lumet, 1982)
Diner (Barry Levinson, 1982)
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton, 1985)
Landscape Suicide (James Benning, 1987)
House of Games (David Mamet, 1987)

Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant, 1989)
After Dark My Sweet (James Foley, 1990)
Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen, 1990)
Simple Men (Hal Hartley, 1992)
The Bed You Sleep In (Jon Jost, 1993)
Clean Shaven, (Lodge Kerrigan, 1993)
Safe (Todd Haines, 1995)
Kids (Larry Clark, 1995)
Bound (Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, 1996)
Lone Star (John Sayles, 1996)

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BLIND HUSBANDS (von Stroheim, 1919)
THE KID (Chaplin, 1921)
OUR HOSPITALITY (Keaton & Blystone, 1923)
SHERLOCK JR. (Keaton, 1924)
THE STUDENT PRINCE IN OLD HEIDELBERG (Lubitsch, 1927)
SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (Murnau, 1927)
STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (Reisner & Keaton, 1928)
TABU: A STORY OF THE SOUTH SEAS (Murnau, 1931)
BACK STREET (Stahl, 1932)
BLONDE VENUS (von Sternberg, 1932)

A FAREWELL TO ARMS (Borzage, 1932)
SCARFACE (Hawks, 1932)
MAN'S CASTLE (Borzage, 1933)
THE SCARLET EMPRESS (von Sternberg, 1934)
TWENTIETH CENTURY (Hawksm, 1934)
THE AWFUL TRUTH (McCarey, 1937)
HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT (Borzage, 1937)
MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (McCarey, 1937)
LOVE AFFAIR (McCarey, 1939)
MIDNIGHT (Leisen, 1939)

NINOTCHKA (Lubitsch, 1939)
ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (Hawks, 1939)
THE ROARING TWENTIES (Walsh, 1939)
THE GREAT DICTATOR (Chaplin, 1940)
PINOCCHIO (Sharpsteen & Luske, 1940)
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (Lubitsch, 1940)
THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER (Dieterle, 1941)
HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (Ford, 1941)
BAMBI (Hand, 1942)
THE PALM BEACH STORY (Sturges, 1942)

TO BE OR NOT TO BE (Lubitsch, 1942)
LAURA (Preminger, 1942)
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (Minnelli, 1944)
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (Hawks, 1944)
THEY WERE EXPENDABLE (Ford, 1945)
THE BIG SLEEP (Hawks, 1946)
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (Ford, 1946)
NOTORIOUS (Hitchcock, 1946)
DAISY KENYON (Preminger, 1947)
THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (Welles, 1947)

OUT OF THE PAST (Tourneur, 1947)
LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (Ophüls, 1948)
THE NAKED CITY (Dassin, 1948)
RED RIVER (Hawks, 1948)
GUN CRAZY (Lewis, 1950)
IN A LONELY PLACE (Ray, 1950)
ON DANGEROUS GROUND (Ray & Lupino, 1951)
THE LUSTY MEN (Ray, 1952)
THE HITCH-HIKER (Lupino, 1953)
I CONFESS (Hitchcock, 1953)

A STAR IS BORN (Cukor, 1954)
KISS ME DEADLY (Aldrich, 1955)
TOUCH OF EVIL (Welles, 1958)
RIO BRAVO (Hawks, 1959)
SHADOWS (Cassavetes, 1959)
SOMETHING WILD (Garfein, 1961)
THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (Ford, 1962)
THE BIRDS (Hitchcock, 1963)
THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (Lewis, 1963)
TORN CURTAIN (Hitchcock, 1966)

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (Romero, 1968)
WANDA (Loden, 1970)
THE BEGUILED (Siegel, 1971)
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (Nichols, 1971)
HAROLD AND MAUDE (Ashby, 1971)
MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (Altman, 1971)
TAKING OFF (Forman, 1971)
TWO-LANE BLACKTOP (Hellman, 1971)
THE HEARTBREAK KID (May, 1971)
THE LAST DETAIL (Ashby, 1973)

ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE (Scorsese, 1974)
THE CONVERSATION (Coppola, 1974)
THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (Hooper, 1974)
MIKEY AND NICKY (May, 1976)
A STAR IS BORN (Pierson, 1976)
ERASERHEAD (Lynch, 1977)
DAWN OF THE DEAD (Romero, 1978)
DAYS OF HEAVEN (Malick, 1978)
GIRLFRIENDS (Weill, 1978)
HALLOWEEN (Carpenter, 1978)

ALIEN (Scott, 1979)
MANHATTAN (Allen, 1979)
ORDINARY PEOPLE (Redford, 1980)
THIEF (Mann, 1981)
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (Heckerling, 1982)
FIRST BLOOD (Kotcheff, 1982)
THE KING OF COMEDY (Scorsese, 1982)
STRANGER THAN PARADISE (Jarmusch, 1984)
THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (Allen, 1985)
BLUE VELVET (Lynch, 1986)

HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (Allen, 1986)
FULL METAL JACKET (Kubrick, 1987)
DO THE RIGHT THING (Lee, 1989)
BARTON FINK (Coen & Coen, 1991)
POISON (Haynes, 1991)
SURVIVING DESIRE (Haynes, 1991)
BARCELONA (Stillman, 1994)
BEFORE SUNRISE (Linklater, 1995)
KICKING AND SCREAMING (Baumbach, 1995)
SAFE (Haynes, 1995)

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Orphans of the Storm (Griffith, 1921)
Foolish Wives (Stroheim, 1922)
He Who Gets Slapped (Sjostrom, 1924)
Manhandled (Dwan, 1924)
The Thief of Bagdad (Walsh, 1924)
Flesh and the Devil (Brown, 1926)
The King of Kings (DeMille, 1927)
The Crowd (Vidor, 1928)
Street Angel (Borzage, 1928)
Her Man (Garnett, 1930)

Ladies of Leisure (Capra, 1930)
Night Nurse (Wellman, 1931)
Shanghai Express (Sternberg, 1932)
Blessed Event (Del Ruth, 1932)
Me and My Gal (Walsh, 1932)
The Sign of the Cross (DeMille, 1932)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (LeRoy, 1933)
The Gay Divorcee (Sandrich, 1934)
Ruggles of Red Gap (McCarey, 1935)
Dodsworth (Wyler, 1936)

Angel (Lubitsch, 1937)
Stage Door (La Cava, 1937)
Holiday (Cukor, 1938)
You and Me (Lan, 1938)
The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch, 1940)
The Strawberry Blonde (Walsh, 1941)
Cat People (Tourneur, 1942)
Gentleman Jim (Walsh, 1942)
Gaslight (Cukor, 1944)
Meet Me in St Louis (Minnelli, 1944)

Leave Her to Heaven (Stahl, 1945)
Margie (King, 1946)
Fort Apache (Ford, 1948)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Ophuls, 1948)
Pitfall (De Toth, 1948)
Criss Cross (Siodmak, 1949)
Flamingo Road (Curtiz, 1949)
The Heiress (Wyler, 1949)
Intruder in the Dust (Brown, 1949)
The Set-Up (Wise, 1949)

Devil’s Doorway (Mann, 1950)
No Way Out (Mankiewicz, 1950)
Westward the Women (Wellman, 1951)
The Marrying Kind (Cukor, 1952)
99 River Street (Karlson, 1953)
The Band Wagon (Minnelli, 1953)
The Sun Shines Bright (Ford, 1953)
Riot in Cell Block 11 (Siegel, 1954)
It’s Always Fair Weather (Donen, 1955)
Baby Doll (Kazan, 1956)

Bigger Than Life (Ray, 1956)
The Wrong Man (Hitchcock, 1956)
Forty Guns (Fuller, 1957)
The Tarnished Angels (Sirk, 1957)
The Line-Up
 (Siegel, 1958)
Some Came Running (Minnelli, 1958)
Anatomy of a Murder (Preminger, 1959)
The Hanging Tree (Daves, 1959)
Rio Bravo (Hawks, 1959)

Warlock
 (Dmytryk, 1959)
Wild River (Kazan, 1960)
Advise and Consent
 (Preminger, 1962)
Days of Wine and Roses (Edward, 1962)
Hatari (Hawks, 1962)
The Birds (Hitchcock, 1963)
Fail-Safe (Lumet, 1964)
Kiss Me Stupid (Wilder, 1964)
Seven Days in May (Frankenheimer, 1964)
The Boston Strangler (Fleischer, 1968)

Petulia (Lester, 1968)
The Swimmer (Perry, 1968)
The Landlord (Ashby, 1970)
The Beguiled (Siegel, 1971)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman, 1971)
Straw Dogs (Peckinpah, 1971)
Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman, 1971)
Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes, 1974)
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)
Hard Times (Hill, 1975)

Night Moves (Penn, 1975)
Mikey and Nicky (May, 1976)
3 Women (Altman, 1977)
Blue Collar (Schrader, 1978)
Dawn of the Dead (Romero, 1978)
Blow Out (De Palma, 1981)
Ms. 45 (Ferrara, 1981)
Modern Romance (Brooks, 1981)
SOB (Edwards, 1981)
The Verdict (Lumet, 1982)

The Big Red One (Fuller, 1980)
The King of Comedy (Scorsese, 1983)
Trouble in Mind (Rudolph, 1985)
Something Wild (Demme, 1986)
Do the Right Thing
 (Lee, 1989)
To Sleep with Anger (Burnett, 1990)
Trust (Hartley, 1990)
Matinee (Dante, 1993)
Dead Man (Jarmusch, 1995)
Bottle Rocket (Anderson, 1996)