Village Voice 100 Best of 20th C

Village Voice 100 Best of 20th C is a ranked list published in 2000 — one of the 31 sources behind the film canon, weighted as critics' canon. 64 of its 100 entries appear in the aggregated canon. Its scope (…–1999) is calibrated against unrestricted lists before scoring.

1. 1Citizen Kane (1941)Canon #1
2. 2The Rules of the Game (1939)Canon #15
3. 3Vertigo (1958)Canon #3
4. 4The Searchers (1956)Canon #19
5. 5The Man With a Movie Camera (1929)Canon #67
6. 6Sunrise (1927)
7. 7L'Atalante (1934)Canon #30
8. 8The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)Canon #25
9. 9Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)Canon #111
10. 10Rashomon (1950)Canon #29
11. 112001: A Space Odyssey (1968)Canon #4
12. 12The Godfather (1972)Canon #2
13. 13Pather Panchali (1955)Canon #43
14. 14The Birth of a Nation (1915)Canon #194
15. 15The Wizard of Oz (1939)Canon #23
16. 16It's a Wonderful Life (1946)Canon #36
17. 17Ordet (1955)Canon #104
18. 18Intolerance (1916)
19. 19Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)Canon #60
20. 20Psycho (1960)Canon #13
21. 21Chinatown (1974)Canon #9
22. 22M (1931)Canon #39
23. 23The Seven Samurai (1954)Canon #5
24. 24The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)Canon #112
25. 25The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)Canon #220
26. 26A Man Escaped (1956)Canon #114
27. 27Broken Blossoms (1919)
28. 28Greed (1924)Canon #96
29. 29Ugetsu (1953)Canon #66
30. 30The Third Man (1949)Canon #44
31. 31The Godfather Part II (1974)Canon #7
32. 32The General (1927)Canon #58
33. 33The Seventh Seal (1956)Canon #73
34. 34Taxi Driver (1976)Canon #14
35. 35The Night of the Hunter (1955)Canon #34
36. 36Tokyo Story (1953)Canon #10
37. 37The Bicycle Thief (1948)
38. 38City Lights (1931)Canon #21
39. 39King Kong (1933)Canon #84
40. 40Metropolis (1927)Canon #99
41. 41My Life to Live (Vivre sa vie) (1962)
42. 42Sherlock Jr. (1924)Canon #155
43. 43Aguirre: the Wrath of God (1972)Canon #120
44. 44Duck Soup (1933)Canon #106
45. 45Sunset Boulevard (1950)Canon #33
46. 46Barry Lyndon (1975)Canon #51
47. 47The 400 Blows (1959)Canon #24
48. 48Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
49. 49Contempt (1963)Canon #74
50. 50The Gold Rush (1925)Canon #171
51. 51North by Northwest (1959)Canon #26
52. 52Hold Me While I'm Naked (1966)
53. 53The Rise of Louis XIV (1966)
54. 54The Apu Trilogy (1955)
55. 55Touch of Evil (1958)Canon #48
56. 56A Woman Under the Influence (1974)Canon #105
57. 57The Lady Eve (1941)Canon #162
58. 58The Conformist (1970)Canon #87
59. 59The Palm Beach Story (1942)
60. 60The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)Canon #181
61. 61Pickpocket (1959)Canon #152
62. 62An Actor's Revenge (1963)
63. 63Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
64. 64Close-Up (1990)Canon #109
65. 65The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1965)
66. 66La Jetee (1961)Canon #125
67. 67Modern Times (1936)Canon #135
68. 68October (1927)
69. 69Los Olvidados (1950)
70. 70Paisan (1946)
71. 71Performance (1970)
72. 72Shoah (1985)Canon #108
73. 73Singin' in the Rain (1952)Canon #8
74. 74Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1966)
75. 75Umberto D (1952)Canon #239
76. 76Les Vampires (1915)
77. 77All About Eve (1950)Canon #46
78. 78All That Heaven Allows (1955)
79. 79Battleship Potemkin (1925)Canon #53
80. 80Notorious (1946)Canon #75
81. 81Pierrot le Fou (1965)
82. 82Fox and His Friends (1975)
83. 83The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
84. 84A Trip to the Moon (1902)
85. 85Wavelength (1967)
86. 86Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
87. 87Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
88. 88The Golden Coach (1952)
89. 89Salo (1975)
90. 90Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
91. 91Masculine-Feminine (1966)
92. 92Nosferatu (1922)Canon #124
93. 93Star Wars (1977)
94. 94Blade Runner (1982)Canon #45
95. 95Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
96. 96Jules and Jim (1962)Canon #236
97. 97Landscape in the Mist (1988)
98. 98Mean Streets (1973)Canon #149
99. 99Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
100. 100Suspiria (1977)

List compiled and published by its original authors; positions shown as published. Canon ranks link to each entry's full evidence page.