Ebert's Great Movies
Films Roger Ebert chose for his Great Movies essay series — landmark works he revisited in detail between 1996 and 2013.
285 movies
Schindler's List
1993
12 Angry Men
1957
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Pulp Fiction
1994
Casablanca
1942
Rear Window
1954
Seven Samurai
1954
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The Shawshank Redemption
1994
Psycho
1960
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1966
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Citizen Kane
1941
GoodFellas
1990
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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
1977
Grave of the Fireflies
1988
Lawrence of Arabia
1962
Vertigo
1958
The Silence of the Lambs
1991
Singin' in the Rain
1952
City Lights
1931
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L.A. Confidential
1997
Alien
1979
Sunset Boulevard
1950
Some Like It Hot
1959
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It's a Wonderful Life
1946
Apocalypse Now
1979
Metropolis
1927
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Ran
1985
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Beauty and the Beast
1991
The Wizard of Oz
1939
Double Indemnity
1944
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981
The Third Man
1949
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Gone with the Wind
1939
Rashomon
1950
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Chinatown
1974
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948
Taxi Driver
1976
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004
All About Eve
1950
Fargo
1996
The Apartment
1960
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Paths of Glory
1957
Amadeus
1984
The Maltese Falcon
1941
Notorious
1946
Cool Hand Luke
1967
Jaws
1975
Tokyo Story
1953
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
Pinocchio
1940
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
My Neighbor Totoro
1988
Battleship Potemkin
1925
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This Is Spinal Tap
1984
Touch of Evil
1958
The Night of the Hunter
1955
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Annie Hall
1977
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Sweet Smell of Success
1957
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On the Waterfront
1954
The Battle of Algiers
1966
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Ikiru
1952
The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928
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Raging Bull
1980
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Unforgiven
1992
Yojimbo
1961
M
1931
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The Rules of the Game
1939
La Dolce Vita
1960
Shoah
1985
Dog Day Afternoon
1975
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
The Seventh Seal
1957
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The Wild Bunch
1969
Do the Right Thing
1989
Blade Runner
1982
Shadow of a Doubt
1943
Sunrise
1927
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The Great Dictator
1940
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The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
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Playtime
1967
Hoop Dreams
1994
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Bicycle Thieves
1948
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Harakiri
1962
The Leopard
1963
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938
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Lost in Translation
2003
Red River
1948
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Children of Paradise
1945
The Lady Eve
1941
The Killing
1956
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Sansho the Bailiff
1954
The Hustler
1961
Rio Bravo
1959
Jules and Jim
1962
The Last Picture Show
1971
Late Spring
1949
Solaris
1972
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Rififi
1955
Bride of Frankenstein
1935
Strangers on a Train
1951
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Badlands
1973
My Fair Lady
1964
Breathless
1960
Stagecoach
1939
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1972
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Woodstock
1970
Goldfinger
1964
Days of Heaven
1978
Duck Soup
1933
Killer of Sheep
1978
The Producers
1967
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Crumb
1994
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Secrets & Lies
1996
Top Hat
1935
The Circus
1928
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The Conversation
1974
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Werckmeister Harmonies
2000
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
2003
Persona
1966
The Right Stuff
1983
The Big Sleep
1946
Paris, Texas
1984
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The 400 Blows
1959
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1937
The Searchers
1956
Umberto D.
1952
Samurai Rebellion
1967
Patton
1970
Mean Streets
1973
Barry Lyndon
1975
Network
1976
Rebel Without a Cause
1955
The Band Wagon
1953
Bonnie and Clyde
1967
Groundhog Day
1993
Nashville
1975
Don't Look Now
1973
Say Anything...
1989
Come and See
1985
After Hours
1985
Chimes at Midnight
1965
The Thin Man
1934
The Shining
1980
West Side Story
1961
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Manhattan
1979
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Being There
1979
Magnolia
1999
Out of the Past
1947
Laura
1944
Touchez pas au grisbi
1954
Adaptation.
2002
Howards End
1992
Through a Glass Darkly
1961
Wings of Desire
1987
Swing Time
1936
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1971
Nights of Cabiria
1957
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920
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The Age of Innocence
1993
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Shane
1953
The Long Goodbye
1973
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The General
1926
Grand Illusion
1937
Rocco and His Brothers
1960
Woman in the Dunes
1964
Ugetsu
1953
The Big Lebowski
1998
My Man Godfrey
1936
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942
Leaving Las Vegas
1995
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A Man Escaped
1956
A Christmas Story
1983
Victim
1961
A Woman Under the Influence
1974
Vengeance Is Mine
1979
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Scarface
1983
My Dinner with Andre
1981
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Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949
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The Red Shoes
1948
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972
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L'Atalante
1934
Viridiana
1961
Yellow Submarine
1968
Withnail and I
1987
Inherit the Wind
1960
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
1975
Belle de Jour
1967
The Big Heat
1953
Waking Life
2001
JFK
1991
My Darling Clementine
1946
Written on the Wind
1956
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
1987
Five Easy Pieces
1970
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962
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Red Beard
1965
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Safety Last!
1923
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Johnny Guitar
1954
Cat People
1942
Easy Rider
1969
Peeping Tom
1960
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Walkabout
1971
The Last Laugh
1924
Body Heat
1981
King Kong
2005
In Cold Blood
1967
Ordet
1955
In a Lonely Place
1950
Day for Night
1973
Moonstruck
1987
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Bob le Flambeur
1956
The Exterminating Angel
1962
Ace in the Hole
1951
The Thief of Bagdad
1940
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Orpheus
1950
Amarcord
1973
Richard III
1955
Mystery Train
1989
La belle noiseuse
1991
The Music Room
1958
The Fall of the House of Usher
1928
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Baraka
1992
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943
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3 Women
1977
L'Avventura
1960
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
The Match Factory Girl
1990
The Blue Kite
1993
House of Games
1987
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Make Way for Tomorrow
1937
Detour
1945
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The Earrings of Madame De...
1953
Nanook of the North
1922
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The Man Who Laughs
1928
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The Butcher
1970
Greed
1924
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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974
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The Color Purple
1985
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Dracula
1931
Diva
1981
La cérémonie
1995
Broken Blossoms
1919
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The Marriage of Maria Braun
1979
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Pixote
1980
Stroszek
1977
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Romeo and Juliet
1968
The Big Red One
1980
Trouble in Paradise
1932
Juliet of the Spirits
1965
Nosferatu
2024
Faust
1926
El Norte
1983
Last Year at Marienbad
1961
Diary of a Country Priest
1951
Pandora's Box
1929
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Pickpocket
1959
Silence
2016
Night Moves
1975
The River
1951
Ripley's Game
2002
Pale Flower
1964
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
1974
Santa Sangre
1989
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Senso
1954
Departures
2008
Winter Light
1963
Fitzcarraldo
1982
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Last Tango in Paris
1972
The Scarlet Empress
1934
Saturday Night Fever
1977
The Birth of a Nation
1915
Superman
2025
The Manchurian Candidate
2004
Dark City
1998
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Babel
2006
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001
El Topo
1970
Mephisto
1981
The Only Son
1936
A Prairie Home Companion
2006
La Collectionneuse
1967
Pink Floyd: The Wall
1982
The Grey Zone
2001
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Great Expectations
1998
The Phantom of the Opera
2004