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They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? 1,000 Greatest Films of All Time – 2024 Edition

This is the January 2024 edition of the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? list of the 1,000 greatest films.

2026 (21st edition): TSPDT 1–1,000, 1,001–2000, 21st Century
2025 (20th edition): TSPDT 1–1,000, 1,001–2,000, 21st Century
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
Paper Moon (1973), 841 to 738 (up 103)
My Own Private Idaho (1991), 725 to 640 (up 85)
Dear Diary (1993), 975 to 897 (up 78)
Y Tu Mamá También (2001), 823 to 747 (up 76)
Who's Afraid of…

  • Citizen Kane

    1

  • Vertigo

    2

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    3

  • Tokyo Story

    4

  • The Rules of the Game

    5

  • The Godfather

    6

  • 8½

    7

  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    8

  • The Searchers

    9

  • Seven Samurai

    10

  • Singin' in the Rain

    11

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

    12

  • Apocalypse Now

    13

  • Taxi Driver

    14

  • Bicycle Thieves

    15

  • Persona

    16

  • In the Mood for Love

    17

  • The Passion of Joan of Arc

    18

  • Breathless

    19

  • L'Atalante

    20

  • Battleship Potemkin

    21

  • Man with a Movie Camera

    22

  • Mirror

    23

  • Rashomon

    24

  • City Lights

    25

  • The 400 Blows

    26

  • Andrei Rublev

    27

  • Psycho

    28

  • Au Hasard Balthazar

    29

  • Mulholland Drive

    30

  • The Godfather Part II

    31

  • Some Like It Hot

    32

  • Ordet

    33

  • La Dolce Vita

    34

  • Raging Bull

    35

  • The Night of the Hunter

    36

  • L'Avventura

    37

  • Casablanca

    38

  • Rear Window

    39

  • PlayTime

    40

  • Blade Runner

    41

  • Contempt

    42

  • Barry Lyndon

    43

  • Pather Panchali

    44

  • Touch of Evil

    45

  • Sunset Boulevard

    46

  • Stalker

    47

  • Close-Up

    48

  • Lawrence of Arabia

    49

  • The General

    50

  • Beau Travail

    51

  • Modern Times

    52

  • Late Spring

    53

  • M

    54

  • The Third Man

    55

  • North by Northwest

    56

  • Ugetsu

    57

  • The Battle of Algiers

    58

  • The Apartment

    59

  • Grand Illusion

    60

  • Wild Strawberries

    61

  • Fanny and Alexander

    62

  • GoodFellas

    63

  • Shoah

    64

  • Rio Bravo

    65

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

    66

  • Pierrot le Fou

    67

  • Journey to Italy

    68

  • Once Upon a Time in the West

    69

  • Chinatown

    70

  • Do the Right Thing

    71

  • Metropolis

    72

  • La Strada

    73

  • A Woman Under the Influence

    74

  • Children of Paradise

    75

  • The Leopard

    76

  • Amarcord

    77

  • A Man Escaped

    78

  • Pulp Fiction

    79

  • The Wild Bunch

    80

  • It's a Wonderful Life

    81

  • The Seventh Seal

    82

  • The Conformist

    83

  • Sansho the Bailiff

    84

  • The Magnificent Ambersons

    85

  • The Shining

    86

  • Blue Velvet

    87

  • Viridiana

    88

  • Pickpocket

    89

  • Nashville

    90

  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

    91

  • Jaws

    92

  • The Gold Rush

    93

  • Gertrud

    94

  • La Jetée

    95

  • Sans Soleil

    96

  • Cléo from 5 to 7

    97

  • Jules and Jim

    98

  • Meshes of the Afternoon

    99

  • Satantango

    100