Roger Ebert Great Movies List

Films that Roger Ebert considers, in an ongoing series of essays, the Greatest Movies Ever. Note that he doesn't rank them, because he dismisses the idea of Great Movies ranking. Contrast Roger Ebert Most Hated Film List. For those unaware of who Roger Ebert is, he's one of the most respected film critics ever, which is the main reason this list has it's own page.

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• Ace in the Hole
• Adaptation
• The Adventures of Robin Hood
• After Dark My Sweet
• After Hours
• The Age of Innocence
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God
• A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
• Ali Fear Eats The Soul
• Alien
• All About Eve
• Amadeus
• Amarcord
• Annie Hall
• The Apartment
• Apocalypse Now
• The Apu Trilogy
• Army Of Shadows
• L'Atalante
• Atlantic City
• Au Hasard Balthazar
• Au Revoir Les Enfants
• An Autumn Afternoon
• L'Avventura
• Babel
• Badlands
• The Band Wagon
• The Bank Dick
• Baraka
• Barry Lyndon
• The Battle of Algiers
• The Battleship Potemkin
• Beat the Devil
• Beauty and The Beast (1946)
• Being There
• Belle de Jour
• La Belle Noiseuse
• The Best Years of Our Lives
• Bicycle Thieves
• The Big Heat
• The Big Lebowski
• The Big Red One
• The Big Sleep
• The Birth of a Nation
• Blade Runner
• Blow Up
• The Blue Kite
• Bob Le Flambeur
• Body Heat
• Bonnie and Clyde
• Breathless
• Bride of Frankenstein
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
• Broken Blossoms
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Cabiria
• Cache
• Casablanca
• Cat People
• La Cérémonie
• Un Chien Andalou
• Children of Paradise
• Chimes at Midnight
• Chinatown
• Chop Shop
• A Christmas Story
• Chuck Jones cartoons:
  • Duck Amuck
  • One Froggy Evening
  • What's Opera, Doc?
• The Circus
• Citizen Kane
• City Lights
• La Collectionneuse
• The Color Purple
• Come and See
• The Conversation
• Cool Hand Luke
• Cries And Whispers
• Crimes And Misdemeanors
• Crumb
• Dark City
• Day for Night
• Days of Heaven
• The Dead
• The Decalogue
• Departures
• Detour
• Diary of a Country Priest
• Diary Of A Lost Girl
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
• Diva
• Do the Right Thing
• Dog Day Afternoon
• La Dolce Vita
• Don't Look Now
• Double Indemnity
• The Double Life of Veronique
• Dr. Strangelove
• Dracula
• Duck Soup
• ET the Extraterrestrial
• The Earrings of Madame de...
• Easy Rider
• Eight and A Half
• El Norte
• El Topo
• The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Exotica
• The Exterminating Angel
• The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
• Fanny And Alexander
• Fargo
• Faust
• The Firemens Ball
• Fitzcarraldo
• Five Easy Pieces
• Floating Weeds
• Forbidden Games
• The 400 Blows
• French Can-Can
• Gates Of Heaven
• The Godfather and The Godfather, Part II
• Goldfinger
• Gone with the Wind
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• Goodfellas
• The Gospel According To St Matthew
• The Grand Illusion
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Grave of the Fireflies
• The Great Dictator
• Great Expectations
• Greed
• The Grey Zone
• Groundhog Day
• The Hairdresser's Husband
• Harakiri
• A Hard Days Night
• Heart of Glass
• Hoop Dreams
• House of Games
• Howard's End
• The Hustler
• Ikiru
• In a Lonely Place
• In Cold Blood
• Inherit the Wind
• Its a Wonderful Life
• Ivan the Terrible
• Jaws
• JFK
• Johnny Guitar
• Jules and Jim
• Juliet of the Spirits
• The Buster Keaton films
  • The General
• Killer of Sheep
• The Killing
• Kind Hearts and Coronets
• King Kong
• L.A. Confidential
• The Lady Eve
• The Last Laugh
• The Last Picture Show
• Last Tango in Paris
• The Last Temptation of Christ
• Last Year at Marienbad
• Late Spring
• Laura
• Lawrence of Arabia
• The Butcher
• Le Samourai
• Leaving Las Vegas
• Leolo
• Leon Morin, Priest
• The Leopard
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
• The Long Goodbye
• Lost in Translation
• M
• Magnolia
• Make Way For Tomorrow
• The Maltese Falcon
• A Man Escaped
• The Man Who Laughs
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
• The Man with the Movie Camera
• The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
• Manhattan
• The Marriage of Maria Braun
• The Match Factory Girl
• McCabe and Mrs. Miller
• Mean Streets
• Mephisto
• Metropolis (1927)
• Mishima a Lifein Four Chapters
• Mon Oncle
• Mon Oncle Antoine
• Mon Oncle d'Amerique
• Moolaade
• Moonstruck
• Mr. Hulot's Holiday
• The Music Room
• My Darling Clementine
• My Dinner with Andre
• My Fair Lady
• My Life to Live
• My Man Godfrey
• My Neighbor Totoro
• Mystery Train
• Nanook of the North
• Nashville
• Network
• Night Moves
• The Night of the Hunter
• Nights of Cabiria
• Nosferatu (both Murnau's and Herzog's)
• Notorious
• On the Waterfront
• One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
• The Only Son
• Ordet
• Orpheus
• Out of the Past
• Pale Flower
• Pans Labyrinth
• Pandora's Box
• Paris, Texas
• The Passion of Joan of Arc
• Paths of Glory
• Patton
• Peeping Tom
• Persona
• The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
• Pickpocket
• Picnic at Hanging Rock
• Pink Floyd The Wall
• Pinocchio
• Pixote
• Planes, Trains and Automobiles
• Playtime
• A Prairie Home Companion
• The Producers
• Psycho (1960)
• Pulp Fiction
• Raging Bull
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Ran
• Rashomon
• Rear Window
• Rebel Without a Cause
• Red Beard
• Red River
• The Red Shoes (1948)
• Richard III (the McKellen/Loncraine version)
• Rififi
• The Right Stuff
• Rio Bravo
• Ripley's Game
• The River
• Rocco and his Brothers
• Romeo and Juliet (the 1968 Zefirelli version)
• The Rules of the Game
• Safety Last
• Samurai Rebellion
• Sansho the Bailiff
• Santa Sangre
• Saturday Night Fever
• Say Anything
• Scarface
• The Scarlet Empress
• Schindler's List
• The Searchers
• Secrets And Lies
• Senso
• Se7en
• The Seven Samurai
• The Seventh Seal
• Shadow of a Doubt
• Shane
• The Shawshank Redemption
• The Shining
• Shoah
• The Silence of the Lambs
• The Silence
• Singin in The Rain
• Smiles on a Summer Night
• Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs
• Solaris
• Some Like It Hot
• Souls For Sale
• Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring
• Stagecoach
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
• Strangers on a Train
• Stroszek
• A Sunday in the Country
• Sunrise
• Sunset Boulevard
• Superman
• Sweet Smell of Success
• Swing Time
• A Tale of Winter
• Taxi Driver
• Tender Mercies
• The Terrorist
• The Thief of Bagdad (1940 version)
• The Thin Man
• The Third Man
• This Is Spinal Tap
• Three Colors Trilogy: Blue, White, Red
• 3 Women
• Through a Glass Darkly
• Tokyo Story
• Top Hat
• Touch of Evil
• Touchez Pas Au Grisbi
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• Triumph of the Will
• Trouble in Paradise
• 12 Angry Men (1957)
• Twenty Fifth Hour
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Ugetsu
• Umberto D
• Unforgiven
• The Up Documentaries
• Vengeance Is Mine
• Vertigo
• Victim
• Viridiana
• Waking Life
• Walkabout
• Werckmeister Harmonies
• West Side Story
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane
• The Wild Bunch
• Wings of Desire
• Winter Light
• Withnail and I
• The Wizard of Oz
• Woman in the Dunes
• A Woman Under the Influence
• A Woman's Tale
• Woodstock
• W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism
• Written on the Wind
• Yankee Doodle Dandy
• A Year of the Quiet Sun
• Yellow Submarine
• Yojimbo