Ten Greatest Films of All Time by Roger Ebert
"If I must make a list of the Ten Greatest Films of All Time, my first vow is to make the list for myself, not for anybody else. I am sure than Eisenstein's "The Battleship Potemkin" is a great film, but it's not going on my list simply so I can impress people. Nor will I avoid "Casablanca" simply because it's so popular: I love it all the same."
- Roger Ebert
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Detractions
- Single author (-50)
- Limited to ~75 years or less (-10)
Films (10)
1. 28 Up
Directed by Michael Apted | N/A | 136 min | 1984|
Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last ...
2. Raging Bull
Directed by Martin Scorsese | R | 129 min | 1980|
An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring destroys his life outside it.
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3. Gates of Heaven
Directed by Errol Morris | 85 min | 1978|
A documentary about a pet cemetery in California, and the people who have pets buried there.
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4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
Directed by Stanley Kubrick | G | 149 min | 1968|
Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.
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5. La Dolce Vita
Directed by Federico Fellini | 174 min | 1960|
A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering paparazzo journalist living in Rome.
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6. Floating Weeds
Directed by Yasujirô Ozu | 119 min | 1959|
The head of a Japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous.
7. The Third Man
Directed by Carol Reed | 93 min | 1949|
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
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8. Notorious
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock | 101 min | 1946|
A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
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9. Casablanca
Directed by Michael Curtiz | PG | 102 min | 1942|
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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10. Citizen Kane
Directed by Orson Welles | 119 min | 1941|
Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.
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