The Classic Cinema IMDB Top 100 thread ...

[douglasb]

Our friends over in the modern cinema forum are bravely working their way through the IMDB Top 100. Removing everything made since 1981, I think we're left with 57 films:

9.1 The Godfather (1972)
8.9 The Godfather: Part II (1974)
8.8 Shichinin no samurai (1954)
8.7 Casablanca (1942)
8.7 Star Wars (1977)
8.7 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
8.7 Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966)
8.7 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
8.7 Rear Window (1954)
8.6 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
8.6 12 Angry Men (1957)
8.6 Citizen Kane (1941)
8.6 C'era una volta il West (1968)
8.6 Psycho (1960)
8.5 North by Northwest (1959)
8.5 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
8.5 It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
8.5 Sunset Blvd. (1950)
8.4 Vertigo (1958)
8.4 Apocalypse Now (1979)
8.4 Paths of Glory (1957)
8.4 Taxi Driver (1976)
8.4 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
8.4 The Third Man (1949)
8.4 Chinatown (1974)
8.3 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
8.3 The Maltese Falcon (1941)
8.3 Rashômon (1950)
8.3 M (1931)
8.3 Singin' in the Rain (1952)
8.3 Modern Times (1936)
8.3 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
8.3 All About Eve (1950)
8.3 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
8.3 Alien (1979)
8.3 A Clockwork Orange (1971)
8.3 Raging Bull (1980)
8.3 Some Like It Hot (1959)
8.3 Double Indemnity (1944)
8.3 The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
8.3 Metropolis (1927)
8.2 The Shining (1980)
8.2 City Lights (1931)
8.2 The Sting (1973)
8.2 The Great Escape (1963)
8.2 On the Waterfront (1954)
8.2 Touch of Evil (1958)
8.2 Rebecca (1940)
8.2 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
8.2 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
8.2 The Apartment (1960)
8.2 Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)
8.2 The Wizard of Oz (1939)
8.2 Jaws (1975)
8.2 The Great Dictator (1940)
8.2 Strangers on a Train (1951)

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This is what I haven't seen:

8.7 Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966)
8.7 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
8.6 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
8.3 Rashômon (1950)
8.3 M (1931)
8.3 Singin' in the Rain (1952)
8.3 Modern Times (1936)
8.2 City Lights (1931)
8.2 The Sting (1973)
8.2 The Apartment (1960)
8.2 Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)
8.2 The Great Dictator (1940)
8.2 Strangers on a Train (1951)

I'm no the world's greatest buff, but that's not bad. What have you still to tick off?