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You might think that it is impossible to locate, the best American movies of all time. After all, there isso muchAnd the cinema is almost as subjective and primed for the debate that a subject can get. But in 2007, theAmerican Film Institute-Experts in this area, if there were all possibly defined to define once and for all that American films are really a cup above the rest.

For a movie to qualify, he must answer two requirements. A: It must be in a narrative format and no shorter than an hour. Two: It must be an American film or have a strong involvement of US production or funding companies. (Due to the flexibility of the rule, some movies, likethe Lord of the Rings andThe Bridge on the Kwai River, makes the cup but are not technically entirely American productions.) Use of five criteria (critical recognition, great rewards earned, popularity over time, historical importance and cultural impact), the hundreds of major players in the industry Cinematographic about which American films were they - all-and-end - all the best. Here are the results.

The Lord of the Rings: The Camaraderie of the Ring-Part one of thePeter Jackson's Adaptation into three parts ofJ.R.R. Tolkein's The seminal fantasy trilogy came out at the turn of the millennia and blew both critics and fans. He was named for 13 Oscars (and finally picked up four victories). To date, you can always visit the Hobbiton Set in Matamata, New Zealand.

The film of 1916,Intolerance, picked up mixed examinations to liberation, but it has come to be considered one of the masterpieces of the silent era. With a 210-minute numbness of four distinct periods of four times on a history of 2,500 years of humanity, it is the type of film that you might want to plan to visualize with an intermission.

Largely considered one of theALFRED HITCHCOCK best images,Rear windowstarsJames Stewart As a man confined to his apartment after he breaks his leg. (In 1954, these practical walking scooters had not yet been invented.) After witnessing what he thinks is a murder, Stewart's character decides to solve the crime. Of course, everything is not like planned ... and for cinematographic trivia more impressive, consult the50 original tracks for stricken films, we are so happy did not happen.

If you hear someone to believe "Stella! Stella!" You have 1951A tram named desire to thank. Realized byElia Kazan,The film has been adapted from the 1947Tennessee Williams Play the same name. He focuses on white Dubois, a beautiful south who, after meeting a series of personal losses, leaves his aristocratic history and seeks refuge with his sister and his mother-in-law in a dilapidated building of New Orleans. The movie doesMarlon Brando a star; beforeTramwayThe Hollywood legend was a virtual stranger.

It happened a nightis one of the three movies only in history to win the five main majorOscars (Best image, best director, best actor, best actress and best scenario).

Alan ladd Play in the holder, an enigmatic Gunslinger that walks in a small Wyoming town with hopes to settle quietly as a farm. As you have already guessed, things are not going to really plan. Soon, Shane arises between the city dwellers and a ruthless baron of cattle. LegendaryNew York Times Crimeatographic Crime Crowther called the film has "rich and dramatic mobile painting of the American border scene".

Katherine Hepburn Play Tracy Lord in the 1940sThe history of Philadelphia. TheGeorge Cukor-Damiccom is about a socialite whose wedding plans are complicated during his ex-husband and a journalist of the tabloid magazine - played byCapricious andJames Stewart-Replerate it disintegrate.

In 1969Midnight cowboy,Jon Voigt Play a Texas dishwasher who thinks that working as a sex worker in New York would move. After some unsuccessful attempts on the sale of his body, he is taken under the wing of a bubbled nea-well played byDustin Hoffman And both develop a business relationship. As the legend did, the film was one of the favorites of President Jimmy Carter, with him would have detected several times in the cinema of the White House.

FeaturedFAYE DUNAWAY andWarren Beatty As a couple holding, 1967Bonnie and Clydeis a simplified version of the life of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow-a real life couple of depression of the time which, with their gang, stolen and killed their way across the United States of America. TheArthur PennFilm -Directed is considered one of the first films of the New Hollywood era.

PROTO Creature FunctionKing Kong Tell the story of a huge creature monkey that is driven by a desire to own a beautiful young woman. The classic 1933 is especially remarkable for its stop-motion animation, byWillis O'Brien, And a revolutionary musical partition byMax Steiner. Not so much today, but at the time,King Kong was terrifying.

There are sumptuous musicals, there is Mishima, and there are films on the Nazis. A movie that manages to combine everything there is an extremely rare thing, but that's what 1965 forThe sound of music-StartureJulie Andrews andChristopher Plummer star that the heads of the family von trapp-The fact with plumb. Yes, it is based on a true story. In the real life, the singers of the Von Trappy family were one of the world's best-known concert groups in the 1930s. The film is adapted from the musical of the same stage of Rogers 1959 and Hammerstein. And for more films that are reality, consult these18 best movies ever done on the basis True Stories.

Dr. Folamor or: How can I learn to stop worrying and love the bomb is a 1964 political satire that emphasizes the prospect of nuclear confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. (For the context, two years before the world had almost been obliterated as a result of the Cuba missile crisis. We could call the humor for the nuclear era.) The film was made, produced and co-written throughStanley Kubrick and starsPeter sellers,George C. Scott, andSlim Pickens.

The treasure of Sierra Madre Was one of the first Hollywood productions to be shot in place outside the United States ... but not far! The filming took place in Mexico. Realized byJohn HustonHe starsHumphrey Bogart andTim Holt Like two teamy driftmers with a grocker prospecter to find-eh yes, you guessed it. The treasure of Sierra Madre.

After reading An7 August 1944, articleTime On the difficulties faced by men come home after the war,Samuel Goldwyn was inspired to produce a movie on veterans. 1946 ofThe best years of our life Has three veterans-each that have been affected by the war in different ways-they return to their hometown of Boone City. Among the films out before 1950, only seven titles made more total business than it.

Before he was Obi-Wan Kenobi,Alec Guinness was probably the best known for his interpretation of Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholson in the 1957 epic warfare filmThe Bridge on the Kwai River. The film is on a group of British prisoners in the Second World War. Ordered by their Japanese kidnappers to build a bridge of strategic importance, sabotage of soldiers and delaying progress until their commanders order them to continue the work.

Apart from some cinematographic techniques, is not going well in 1977 ofAnnie Hall. A comedian played byWoody Allen (Which also wrote and realized the film) dissects his relationship with a nascent nightclub singer named Annie Hall, played byDiane Keaton. Frankly, with the writing of this good, must not do much. The film was named the funniest ever written by the Writers Guild of America in his list of "101 Funny Screenplays. »

A single animated image ranks among the best American films, and it is 1937 ofSnow White and Seven Dwarves. Based on the German fairy tale by the Grimm brothers, it's the first animation images of Disney.White as snowThe success of "leads to Disney moving forward with more feature films, and Walt then used the benefits to finance a $ 4.5 million studio in Burbank-Location where Walt Disney Studios is so far. .

Flight over a cuckoo nestis yet another movie among the best American films that have won the five big Oscars. It starsJack NicholsonAs a criminal who decides on false mental illnesses to emerge from the prison sentence for violation of a 15-year-old girl's legislation. It is opposed to a tyrannical nurse who subtly intimates his patients to go auction.Christopher Lloyd andDanny Devito Play other Nicolson patients; Six years later, the two were television members on televisionTaxi.

When you enter this conversation on the suites are never as good as the original, invariably someone will mention 1974Part of the sponsor II as an exception that proves the rule. Case in particular, it is the only sequence of the best American films. Although its predecessor covered the events that assail the Corleone family in the late 1940s, the suite jumps between the sectors of the late 1950s of Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) And the story of his immigrant father Don Vito Corleone-played in this deposit byRobert de Niro, not Marlon Brando-at the beginning of the 20th century. On his release,Part of the sponsor II Grapping mixed criticism of criticism. Its reputation, however, has improved only.

InThe Maltese falcon, Bogart plays at Sam Spade, a detective that needs a business by a beautiful but the secret woman played byMary Astor. Sam's partner is murdered and he is quickly entangled in a dangerous nuance of crime and intrigue that stand around the Maltese Bejeweled figurine mentioned in the title.

The 1970s were a good decade for the directorFrancis Ford Coppola. He started with the famous acclaimed criticallyPatton, then the twoGodfather Films in '71 and '74, before falling the decade with 1979Apocalypse now. Located during the Vietnam War, a young captain of the American army played byMartin Sheen Is responsible for entering the wild nature to find and take Colonel Kurtz out. Played by Marlon Brando, Kurtz is an once promising officer who would have been mad. "The horror!"

The term "double indemnity" refers to a clause of certain life insurance policies that double the payment in rare cases when death is accidentally caused, as when driving a railway. The movie of 1944 black crime drama of the same name starsFred MacMurray As an insurance seller,Barbara Stanwyck like a provocative housewife who wants her husband to be dead, andEdward G. Robinson As a claims setting whose job is to find Fule claims. While the comments of theBilly Wilder-The classic led was mostly favorable, the content of the content of the history madeDouble indemnity Uncomfortable viewing for many at the time.

FeaturedBette Davis in whatRoger Ebert called his biggest role, 1950All about Eveis on a grass actress - the holder (Anne Baxter) -What happens in the cloakroom of Broadway Mega-Star Margo Channing. Channing, played by Davis, is taken by his melancholy life story and folds the top and fan in his life, although it appears soon that Eve has subsequent motivations.

Midi high follows two hours of watchmaking in the life of an old marshal (Gary Cooper) and his new bride (Grace KellyAs they prepare to leave the small town. The former advance learns that Frank Miller Criminal Local was released and just revenge from the marshal which turned to him.

Mr. Smith go to Washington Tell the story of an American senator who fights against a corrupt political system.Frank Capra-Quo also huer the aforesaidIt happened a night-Dire the film, which finally won 11 Academy awards.

In 1960,Kill a mocking bird,Harper Lee's new Roman About race and justice in Midcentin Alabama, struck shelves. This was immediately fruitful and then won a spray. Just two years after publication, a movie adaptation - featuredGrégoire Picle As moral screens of Lodestone Atticus Finch.

E.T. The extraterrestrial is a story of a benevolent stranger discovered and friendship of a young boy and a miniatureDrew Barrymore After being brronted on earth.And.was an immediate blockbuster and exceededStars wars Becoming the highest film of all time - a record he took place for eleven years untilJurassic Park, Another film directed byStevenSpielberg, exceeded him in 1993.

Only after the 1939 publication ofJohn Steinbeck'snew era of depression, the movie version ofGrapes of Wrath Screens of success. History tells the story of a family of farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic difficulties and changes in the agricultural industry and part for the hope of a better life in California.

Some love it hot 1959 starsMarylin Monroe,Tony Curtis, andJack Lemmon. After witnessing a murder, Curtis and the characters of Lemmon disguise women and join a woman-orchestra of jazz led by Monroe. At the time, the subject prevented the film from obtaining the approval of the Motion Picture Production Code because it played with the idea of ​​homosexuality and featured travesting. The success ofSome love it hot was partly responsible with the code being deleted.

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Realized byRoman Polanski,Chinese district is a 1974 neo-black mystery movie than stars Jack Nicolson and Faye Dunaway.Chinese district Has been inspired by a series of conflicts on South California's water at the beginning of the 20th century, which, based on the way the film is exciting, could not have been so almost dull as the sound. a critical consensus Rotten Tomatoes reads, "as bruised and cynical as the decade that produced it, this black conventional benefits ofRobert Towne de Bright Scenario, director Roman Polanski Main Farm, and wonderful show of Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway ".

James Stewart and Frank Capra stars in a film that has become an inextricable part of the holiday season. Fun: Mr. Potter was played byLionel Barrymore, A famous ebenezer scrooge in radio dramatizations ofA Christmas Carol at the time.

InON THE WATERFRONT, Marlon Brando plays Terry Malloy, a docker who testifies against a ruthless crowd boss that controls Hoboken Waterfront. The intrigue is based on a true history of Docker denunciation Anthony Devincenzo. In its July 29, 1954, examination,New York Times Critique A. H. WEILER called the film "An outstanding powerful, exciting and imaginative use of the screen by talented professionals. »

The general, featuringBUSTER KEATON, Was not welcomed by criticism and the public, which in the statements of the mediocre box office. The film was made for $ 750,000 a fortune at the time and its inability to make a significant profit means that Keaton lost independence as a filmmaker. Despite this,The general has since been re-evaluated and is now often ranked among the best American films ever done.

A young man directionless (Dustin Hoffman) has a gallant appointment with the friend of his parents, Ms. Robinson (Anne Bancroft). Things are totally aside, however, when he falls in love with Ms. Robinson's daughter, Elaine (Katharine Ross).

In 1950Sunset Boulevard, A mute aging movie played queen by the star of real mute cinemaGloria Swanson-Can't resolve to accept that his celebrity ended, and uses a young screenwriter (William Holden) To help set up his movie feedback. The screenwriter thinks he can get the best of the faded star, but he underestimates it, which finally leads to a situation of violence and madness. On his release,Hollywood journalist wrote that future generations "set the task of analyzing the durability and size" of the film.

Before Alexa, there was Hal 9000, the antagonistStanley Kubrick a seminal science fiction film,2001: An odyssey of space. Like Alexa, Hal is a speaking computer. Unlike Alexa, HAL is in charge of an interplanetary and malicious spatial vessel with a fault. When he went out, in 1968, Penelope Gilliatt, written inThe New Yorker, Describes as "hypnotically entertaining ... funny without being gaggy times, but ... also rather trying. »

PsychoAnother movie from Alfred Hitchcock, is a polite but high enough threaded young man who has an interest in taxidermy and a relationship with his mother who today would be best described as "problematic".Psycho Broke taboos for the representation of deviant behavior, sexuality, and gore in American cinema. Now, many consider it as the first example of the Slasher genre.

You know the transaction: a farm boy and a gang of Ragtag composed of a sorcerer, a smugger, a princess, two robots and an Irish set of 7 feet tall fixing the task of saving The galaxy of a diabolical empire. Written and directed byGeorge LucasThe success of the original film generated the second film franchise of all time. More than 11 films - with an average lug of 840 million dollars eachStars wars brought $ 9.2 billion worldwide.

Researchers is a western 1956 starJohn Wayne andNataly. Ethan Edwards (Wayne) returns home to Texas after the civil war. When the family members of his brother are killed or kidnapped by Mauding Comanches, he promises to find them and bring them home - so long, you need. Critique Roger Ebert wrote that Ethan Edwards is ", one of the most convincing characters Ford and Wayne ever created."

Although so-called "sound films" become popular whenCharlie Chaplin started developing the script forLights of the city In 1928, he chose to continue working with silent productions. The written story, produced, directed, marked and edited by Chaplin-Sure the mishaps of the character of Trapp Chaplin while he falls in love with a blind girl and develops a turbulent friendship with an alcoholic millionaire.

The Wizard of Oz is the only movie among the best American films to have been directed byfive Directors. Nevertheless, it was mainly huer byVictor Fleming who left the plateau to take charge of the troubled production ofWandered.

Vertigo is a story of a former CDP officer who suffers from an intense fear of heights. He is hired to prevent the wife of an old friend to commit suicide, but everything is not like it seems. Hatchcock's Hunting, the convincing masterpiece tells us a lot about the ups rack and predilections. The critics have been mixed and, for what it costs,Vertigo Has not done as well as the previous Hitchcock movies. Frustrated by his reception, Hitchcock partially blamed the aging appearance of Star Jimmy Stewart - who at the time was 50 years old.

Schindler's list tells the story of the real life ofOskar Schindler, a German businessman who organizes his protected Jewish workers, keep his plant going, and doing so, saves their lives. The critical consensus of rotten tomatoes reads as follows: "Schindler's list Mix the horror abjecting the Holocaust with Steven Spielberg's humanism Steven Spielberg to create the director's dramatic masterpiece. "

Laurence of Arabia is based on the true story of the British lieutenantYou. Lawrence. During the First World War, Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) is sent to Arabia to use the Arabs in the British fight against the Turks. Against the orders of his senior officer, Lawrence headed for a camel route through the desert to attack a Turkish port.Laurence of Arabianominations received for ten Oscars in 1963; He won a total of seven, including the best image and the best director.

Remember how Victor Fleming was removed fromThe Wizard of Oz so that he can getWandered Back on the right track? Well, it worked. The drama of epic civil war quickly became the highest film at this point and held the file of a generation. When adjusted for inflation, it remains the most successful box office success in history.

The 1952 classic is a light outlet on the massive transition of movies silent images with its films. Gift (played byGene Kelly) and Lina (Jean Hagen) have been thrown several times like a romantic couple, but when their last movie is redone to a musical, only giving to the voice of the new singing part and Kathy (played byDebbie Reynolds) is hired to record the voice of Lina.

Shot in the black and white, 1980Furious bullis the true story ofJake Lamotta, a middle weight boxer that lies through ranks to win his first crown of middle weights, fight against his own demons along the way. Although he has received initial reviews and mixed criticism because of his violent content, he continued to earn a high criticism and is now often considered as DirectorMartin Scorsese Mistress work.

"Of all Gin joints in all cities around the world, she goes to mine." The immortal line is pronounced Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) in the movieCasablanca. Set and shot duringThe Second World WarIt is an American expatriate who manages a disco in Casablanca, Morocco. Very exceeding expectations,Casablanca continued to win the price of the Academy for the best image, whileMichael Curtiz has been selected as better director.

The Godfather Focus on the powerful family of Italian Crimes from Don Vitto Corleone (Marlon Brando) In the years after the Second World War. In particular, the narrative shows in his youngest son, Michael (Al Pacino), dragged into the family business. Based on Mario Puzo's novel of the same name,The Godfather is widely regarded as one of the biggest movies of all time. And for more emblematic movies, checkThe 40 most famous movie scenes of all time.

It starts with the dying word of an old man: "Rosebud". From this point on, 1941Kane Citizen Is mainly told through flashbacks and looking for a journalist journal seeking to understand the meaning of this word. The quasi-biographical film, written, directed and produced byOrson Welles Examine the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane-who is also played by Welles. And for more way, checkThe 40 best teen movies have always been classified.

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