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They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1,000 Greatest Films of All Time – 2021 Edition

This is the January 2021 edition of the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? list of the 1,000 greatest films.

2024 (19th edition): TSPDT 1–1,000, 1,001–2,000, 21st Century
2023 (18th edition): TSPDT 1–1,000, 1,001–2,000, 21st Century
2022 (17th edition): TSPDT 1–1,000, 1,001–2,000, 21st Century
2021 (16th edition): TSPDT 1–1,000, 1,001–2,000, 21st Century, Poll
2020 (15th edition): TSPDT 1–1,000

The Winners – Top Climbers within the 1,000
Holy Motors (2012), 619 to 285 (up 334)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), 629 to 351 (up 278)
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985), 690 to 513 (up 177)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011), 706 to 538 (up 168)
Amour (2012), 620 to 458 (up 162)

The Winners – Highest Entrants into the 1,000…

Block or Report
  • Citizen Kane

    1

  • Vertigo

    2

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    3

  • The Rules of the Game

    4

  • Tokyo Story

    5

  • 8½

    6

  • The Godfather

    7

  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    8

  • The Searchers

    9

  • Seven Samurai

    10

  • Apocalypse Now

    11

  • Singin' in the Rain

    12

  • Bicycle Thieves

    13

  • Battleship Potemkin

    14

  • Taxi Driver

    15

  • Breathless

    16

  • L'Atalante

    17

  • The Passion of Joan of Arc

    18

  • Persona

    19

  • Man with a Movie Camera

    20

  • Rashomon

    21

  • Psycho

    22

  • Andrei Rublev

    23

  • The 400 Blows

    24

  • Raging Bull

    25

  • The Godfather: Part II

    26

  • City Lights

    27

  • Some Like It Hot

    28

  • Mirror

    29

  • La Dolce Vita

    30

  • Touch of Evil

    31

  • Lawrence of Arabia

    32

  • Sunset Boulevard

    33

  • Au Hasard Balthazar

    34

  • Ordet

    35

  • Casablanca

    36

  • L'Avventura

    37

  • Blade Runner

    38

  • The General

    39

  • Contempt

    40

  • Rear Window

    41

  • In the Mood for Love

    42

  • The Night of the Hunter

    43

  • Grand Illusion

    44

  • Ugetsu

    45

  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    46

  • The Third Man

    47

  • Barry Lyndon

    48

  • PlayTime

    49

  • Mulholland Drive

    50

  • Modern Times

    51

  • Stalker

    52

  • Fanny and Alexander

    53

  • Rio Bravo

    54

  • Chinatown

    55

  • M

    56

  • Pather Panchali

    57

  • North by Northwest

    58

  • The Apartment

    59

  • Metropolis

    60

  • Wild Strawberries

    61

  • Children of Paradise

    62

  • Pierrot le Fou

    63

  • Pulp Fiction

    64

  • Once Upon a Time in the West

    65

  • Viridiana

    66

  • La Strada

    67

  • GoodFellas

    68

  • The Wild Bunch

    69

  • Amarcord

    70

  • Shoah

    71

  • The Leopard

    72

  • The Seventh Seal

    73

  • Journey to Italy

    74

  • The Battle of Algiers

    75

  • The Gold Rush

    76

  • A Clockwork Orange

    77

  • The Magnificent Ambersons

    78

  • Pickpocket

    79

  • Late Spring

    80

  • Close-Up

    81

  • Jules and Jim

    82

  • It's a Wonderful Life

    83

  • The Shining

    84

  • Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

    85

  • Annie Hall

    86

  • The Conformist

    87

  • Nashville

    88

  • Blue Velvet

    89

  • Gertrud

    90

  • Sansho the Bailiff

    91

  • A Man Escaped

    92

  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

    93

  • Jaws

    94

  • A Woman Under the Influence

    95

  • Once Upon a Time in America

    96

  • Greed

    97

  • Blow-Up

    98

  • Last Year at Marienbad

    99

  • To Be or Not to Be

    100