VIDEO DETECTIVE'S TOP 100 (1997)

• African Queen, The (1951, John Huston)
• All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
• Amadeus (1984, Milos Forman)
• American in Paris, An (1951, Vincente Minnelli)
• Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen)
• Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
• Bad Day at Black Rock (1955, John Sturges)
• Ben-Hur (1959, William Wyler)
• Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946, William Wyler)
• Big Sleep, The (1946, Howard Hawks)
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Arthur Penn)
• Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957, David Lean)
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, George Roy Hill)
• Caine Mutiny, The (1954, Edward Dmytryk)
• Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)
• Chinatown (1974, Roman Polanski)
• Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
• City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)
• Clockwork Orange, A (1971, Stanley Kubrick)
• Cool Hand Luke (1967, Stuart Rosenberg)
• Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989, Woody Allen)
• Deer Hunter, The (1978, Michael Cimino)
• Deliverance (1972, John Boorman)
• Dog Day Afternoon (1975, Sidney Lumet)
• Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder)
• Dr. Strangelove (1964, Stanley Kubrick)
• Duck Soup (1933, Leo McCarey)
• E.T. (1982, Steven Spielberg)
• East of Eden (1955, Elia Kazan)
• Exorcist, The (1973, William Friedkin)
• Five Easy Pieces (1970, Bob Rafelson)
• Frankenstein (1931, James Whale)
• French Connection, The (1971, William Friedkin)
• Gandhi (1982, Richard Attenborough)
• General, The (1927, Buster Keaton)
• Godfather, The (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
• Godfather Part II, The (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
• Gold Rush, The (1925, Charles Chaplin)
• Gone with the Wind (1939, Victor Fleming)
• Graduate, The (1967, Mike Nichols)
• Grapes of Wrath, The (1940, John Ford)
• Harold and Maude (1971, Hal Ashby)
• High Noon (1952, Fred Zinnemann)
• How Green Was My Valley (1941, John Ford)
• It Happened One Night (1934, Frank Capra)
• It's a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)
• King and I, The (1956, Walter Lang)
• Lady Eve, The (1941, Preston Sturges)
• Laura (1944, Otto Preminger)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)
• Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942, Orson Welles)
• Maltese Falcon, The (1941, John Huston)
• Manchurian Candidate, The (1962, John Frankenheimer)
• Manhattan (1979, Woody Allen)
• M*A*S*H (1970, Robert Altman)
• Midnight Cowboy (1969, John Schlesinger)
• Miracle on 34th Street (1947, George Seaton)
• Modern Times (1936, Charles Chaplin)
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, Frank Capra)
• Mutiny on the Bounty (1935, Frank Lloyd)
• My Fair Lady (1964, George Cukor)
• North By Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
• On the Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975, Milos Forman)
• Ordinary People (1980, Robert Redford)
• Papillon (1973, Franklin J. Schaffner)
• Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick)
• Patton (1970, Frankin J. Schaffner)
• Philadelphia Story, The (1940, George Cukor)
• Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg)
• Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Room with a View, A (1986, James Ivory)
• Searchers, The (1956, John Ford)
• Shadow of a Doubt (1943, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Shane (1953, George Stevens)
• Silence of the Lambs, The (1991, Jonathan Demme)
• Singin' in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937, Ben Sharpsteen)
• Some Like It Hot (1959, Billy Wilder)
• Sound of Music, The (1965, Robert Wise)
• Stagecoach (1939, John Ford)
• Star Wars (1977, George Lucas)
• Sting, The (1973, George Roy Hill)
• Sullivan's Travels (1941, Preston Sturges)
• Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)
• Terms of Endearment (1983, James L. Brooks)
• Third Man, The (1949, Carol Reed)
• Top Hat (1935, Mark Sandrich)
• Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)
• Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948, John Huston)
• 12 Angry Men (1957, Sidney Lumet)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
• Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
• West Side Story (1961, Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins)
• Wild Bunch, The (1969, Sam Peckinpah)
• Wizard of Oz, The (1939, Victor Fleming)
• Wuthering Heights (1939, William Wyler)
• Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942, Michael Curtiz)