National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films

• À Bout de Souffle (1960)
• All About Eve (1950)
• Annie Hall (1977)
• Aparajito (1956)
• Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
• L'Atalante (1934)
• The Bank Dick (1940)
• Battleship Potemkin (1925)
• The Birth of a Nation (1915)
• Blow Up (1966)
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
• Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
• Bringing Up Baby (1938)
• Casablanca (1942)
• The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
• Chinatown (1974)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• Closely Observed Trains (1966)
• Close-Up (1990)
• Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
• Dekalog (1989)
• Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
• Diner (1982)
• Do the Right Thing (1989)
• La Dolce Vita (1960)
• Double Indemnity (1944)
• Duck Soup (1933)
• Easy Rider (1969)
• Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)
• Enter the Dragon (1973)
• The Entertainer (1960)
• The Exorcist (1973)
• Faces (1968)
• Fargo (1996)
• 42nd Street (1933)
• The Four Hundred Blows (1959)
• Frankenstein (1931)
• The General (1927)
• The Godfather (1972)
• The Godfather: Part II (1974)
• Gone with the Wind (1939)
• The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
• The Graduate (1967)
• Greed (1924)
• Happy Together (1997)
• High Noon (1952)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
• Jailhouse Rock (1957)
• Ju Dou (1990)
• Killer of Sheep (1977)
• L.A. Confidential (1997)
• Landscape in the Mist (1988)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• M (1931)
• The Maltese Falcon (1941)
• Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
• The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
• Metropolis (1927)
• Modern Times (1936)
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
• Nashville (1975)
• The Night of the Hunter (1955)
• Night of the Living Dead (1968)
• Nights of Cabiria (1957)
• Nosferatu (1922)
• Los Olvidados (1950)
• On the Waterfront (1954)
• The Palm Beach Story (1942)
• Pandora's Box (1929)
• The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
• Pather Panchali (1955)
• The Piano (1993)
• Psycho (1960)
• The Public Enemy (1931)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Raging Bull (1980)
• Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
• Rashomon (1950)
• Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
• Red Sorghum (1987)
• La Règle du Jeu (1939)
• Rome, Open City (1945)
• Schindler's List (1993)
• The Searchers (1956)
• Seven Samurai (1954)
• Singin' in the Rain (1952)
• Star Wars (1977)
• La Strada (1954)
• Sunrise (1927)
• Sunset Boulevard (1950)
• The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
• Tokyo Story (1953)
• Top Hat (1935)
• Touch of Evil (1958)
• Trouble in Paradise (1932)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
• Unforgiven (1992)
• Vertigo (1958)
• The Wild Bunch (1969)
• Winchester '73 (1950)
• The Wizard of Oz (1939)
• The World of Apu (1959)
• Written on the Wind (1956)