100 Best Movies of the Last 100 Years, According to Critics

Special Report

April 1, 2021 9:00 am

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70. The French Connection (1971)
> Gross: $15.6 million
> Lead: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey
> Director: William Friedkin

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69. Shane (1953)
> Gross: $20.0 million
> Lead: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin
> Director: George Stevens

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68. An American In Paris (1951)
> Gross: $4.5 million
> Lead: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant
> Director: Vincente Minnelli

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67. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
> Gross: Not available
> Lead: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh
> Director: John Frankenheimer

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66. Network (1976)
> Gross: Not available
> Lead: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch
> Director: Sidney Lumet

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65. The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)
> Gross: $130.7 million
> Lead: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Lawrence A. Bonney
> Director: Jonathan Demme

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64. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977)
> Gross: $132.1 million
> Lead: Richard Dreyfuss, FranÃÂ§ois Truffaut, Teri Garr
> Director: Steven Spielberg

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63. Stagecoach (1939)
> Gross: Not available
> Lead: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine
> Director: John Ford

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62. Tootsie (1982)
> Gross: $177.2 million
> Lead: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr
> Director: Sydney Pollack

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61. Vertigo (1958)
> Gross: $3.2 million
> Lead: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
> Director: Alfred Hitchcock

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