বিশ্ব চলচ্চিত্রের ইতিহাসে এযাবতকালের সবচেয়ে আলোচিত ও বিখ্যাত প্রথম ৩০০টির মধ্যে ১০০ ছবির তালিকা এটি। যদিও বিখ্যাত চলচ্চিত্র বলতে সব মানুষের পছন্দের তালিকা এক না হবার সম্ভাবনাই বেশি। এই শ্রেষ্ঠত্ব বিচারের কোনও আধুনিক পদ্ধতিও নেই। চলচ্চিত্র গবেষক, সমালোচক ও দর্শকদের মতামতই এখানে প্রধান বিবেচ্য। বেশিরভাগ ছবিই অস্কার বা একাডেমি পুরস্কারপ্রাপ্ত। সুতরাং মানুষে মানুষে মতামতের পার্থক্য থাকবেই। এই তালিকায় ইংরেজী ব্যতীত অন্য ভাষার ছবি যুক্ত করা হয়নি। যুক্ত হয়নি ডকুমেন্টারি, শর্টফিল্ম, টিভিমোভিস বা সিরিজ ছবি। কোনও কোনও ছবি আছে অনেকদিনের পুরনো, কিন্তু চলচ্চিত্র বোদ্ধাদের কাছে সেগুলিও কিংবদন্তীর ন্যায় চিরস্মরণীয় আছে। আগেকার দিনে সিনেমাহলে গিয়ে দেখা ছাড়া ভিন্ন কোনও উপায় ছিল না। এখন ইন্টারনেটের আবির্ভাবের ফলে অতীতদিনের যেকোনও ছবিই হোক না কেন তা সিনেমাহলে না হলেও ঘরে বসেই দেখা সম্ভব, যদিও কম্পিউটারের ছোট স্ক্রীনে ছবি দেখা আর সিনেমাহলের বড় পর্দায় দেখার মধ্যে বেশ পার্থক্য আছে। এসব ছবির মধ্যে প্রায় সবগুলোই বলতে গেলে হলিউড(আমেরিকা) ও ব্রডওয়ে(ব্রিটেন) নির্মিত। ইউটিউব-এ ছবির নাম লিখে সার্চ করলেই পাওয়া যেতে পারে সব ছবির হদিস বা ট্রেইলর।
আর ভালো ছবি দেখতে পারাটাও এক ধরনের সার্থকতা। কি বলেন?

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) : Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, HAL 9000
Director: Stanley Kubrick
2. 42nd Street (1933): Starring: Warner Baxter, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Bebe Daniels
Director: Lloyd Bacon
3. A Night At The Opera (1935) : Starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Margaret Dumont
Director: Sam Wood
4. A Star Is Born (1954) : Starring: Judy Garland, James Mason
Director: George Cukor
5. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) : Starring: Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden
Director: Elia Kazan
6. All About Eve (1950): Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Thelma Ritter, Gary Merrill
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
7. All Quiet On The Western Front (1930) : Starring: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim
Director: Lewis Milestone
8. An American In Paris (1951) : Starring: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Nina Foch, Georges Guetary, Oscar Levant
Director: Vincente Minnelli
9. Annie Hall (1977) : Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane
Director: Woody Allen
10. Apocalypse Now (1979) : Starring: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
11. Ben-Hur (1959) : Starring: Charlton Heston, Hugh Griffith, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Martha Scott, Cathy O'Donnell
Director: William Wyler
12. Blade Runner (1982): Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Daryl Hannah, Sean Young, Joe Turkel, Joanna Cassidy, Edward James Olmos
Director: Ridley Scott
13. Bonnie And Clyde (1967): Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Michael J. Pollard
Director: Arthur Penn
14. Bride of Frankenstein (1935) : Starring: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Elsa Lanchester
Director: James Whale
15. Bringing Up Baby (1938): Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, May Robson
Director: Howard Hawks
16. Casablanca (1942): Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid
Director: Michael Curtiz
17. Chinatown (1974) : Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
Director: Roman Polanski
18. Citizen Kane (1941) : Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore
Director: Orson Welles
19. City Lights (1931) : Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill
Director: Charlie Chaplin
20. Double Indemnity (1944): Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Director: Billy Wilder
21. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964): Starring: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens
Director: Stanley Kubrick
22. Duck Soup (1933) : Starring: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Louis Calhern
Director: Leo McCarey
23. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982): Starring: Dee Wallace Stone, Peter Coyote, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore
Director: Steven Spielberg
24. Easy Rider (1969): Starring: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson
Director: Dennis Hopper
25. Fantasia (1940) : Starring: Leopold Stokowski, Sarah Thomas
Director: Ben Sharpsteen
26. Gone With The Wind (1939) : Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel
Director: Victor Fleming
27. Greed (1924): Starring: ZaSu Pitts, Gibson Gowland, Jean Hersholt
Director: Erich von Stroheim
28. High Noon (1952): Starring: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado
Director: Fred Zinnemann
29. His Girl Friday (1940) : Starring: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
Director: Howard Hawks
30. Intolerance (1916) : Starring: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Constance Talmadge
Director: D.W. Griffith
31. It Happened One Night (1934) : Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly,
Director: Frank Capra
32. It's A Wonderful Life (1946) : Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers
Director: Frank Capra
33. Jaws (1975) : Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss
Director: Steven Spielberg
34. King Kong (1933): Starring: Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot, Robert Armstrong
Director: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
35. Lawrence of Arabia (1962): Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif, Claude Rains, Jose Ferrer, Jack Hawkins
Director: David Lean
36. Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948): Starring: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan
Director: Max Ophuls
37. Meet Me In St. Louis (1944): Starring: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Leon Ames, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer
Director: Vincente Minnelli
38. Midnight Cowboy (1969) : Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight
Director: John Schlesinger
39. Modern Times (1936) : Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
Director: Charlie Chaplin
40. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939): Starring: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains
Director: Frank Capra
41. My Darling Clementine (1946): Starring: Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Walter Brennan, Cathy Downs
Director: John Ford
42. Nashville (1975) : Starring: Henry Gibson, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall
Director: Robert Altman
43. Ninotchka (1939) : Starring: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
44. North By Northwest (1959): Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
45. Notorious (1946): Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Leopoldine Konstantin
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
46. On The Waterfront (1954): Starring: Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, Rod Steiger
Director: Elia Kazan
47. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975): Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Brad Dourif, Will Sampson,
Director: Milos Forman
48. Out Of The Past (1947) : Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Virginia Huston
Director: Jacques Tourneur
49. Paths of Glory (1957) : Starring: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, George Macready, Adolphe Menjou, Timothy Carey
Director: Stanley Kubrick
50. Psycho (1960) : Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Vera Miles, Martin Balsam
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
51. Pulp Fiction (1994): Starring: John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Samuel Jackson, Ving Rhames, Uma Thurman, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Harvey Keitel
Director: Quentin Tarantino
52. Raging Bull (1980): Starring: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci
Director: Martin Scorsese
53. Rear Window (1954) : Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
54. Rebecca (1940): Starring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
55. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) : Starring: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus
Director: Nicholas Ray
56. Red River (1948) : Starring: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, Joanne Dru, John Ireland
Director: Howard Hawks
57. Roman Holiday (1953) : Starring: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert
Director: William Wyler
58. Schindler's List (1993): Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Steven Spielberg
59. Shane (1953) : Starring: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Jack Palance, Van Heflin, Emile Meyer, Ben Johnson, Brandon de Wilde
Director: George Stevens
60. Singin' In The Rain (1952): Starring: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Cyd Charisse
Directors: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
61. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937) : Starring: Voices of Harry Stockwell, Lucille La Verne, Adriana Caselotti
Director: David Hand, Perce Pearce
62. Some Like It Hot (1959): Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Joe E. Brown, George Raft
Director: Billy Wilder
63. Stagecoach (1939) : Starring: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Thomas Mitchell, George Bancroft, John Carradine, Andy Devine, Donald Meek, Berton Churchill, Louise Platt
Director: John Ford
64. Star Wars (1977) (tie): Starring: Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, James Earl Jones, Alec Guinness, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing
Director: George Lucas
65. Sunrise (1927): Starring: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston
Director: F. W. Murnau
66. Sunset Boulevard (1950) : Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Jack Webb
Director: Billy Wilder
67. Taxi Driver (1976) : Starring: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Albert Brooks, Peter Boyle
Director: Martin Scorsese
68. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) : Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Melville Cooper, Ian Hunter, Director: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
69. The African Queen (1951): Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley
Director: John Huston
70. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) : Starring: Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Harold Russell, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, Cathy O'Donnell
Director: William Wyler
71. The Big Sleep (1946) : Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers, John Ridgely
Director: Howard Hawks
72. The Birth Of A Nation (1915) : Starring: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh
Director: D.W. Griffith
73. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957): Starring: Alec Guinness, William Holden, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Hawkins
Director: David Lean
74. The Crowd (1928) : Starring: Eleanor Boardman, James Murray
Director: King Vidor
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75. The General (1927): Starring: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack
Director: Buster Keaton
76. The Godfather –Part I(1972) (tie) Part II (1974) (tie) : Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, John Cazale, Talia Shire, Michael V. Gazzo, Lee Strasberg, Robert De Niro
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
77. The Gold Rush (1925) : Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Georgia Hale
Director: Charlie Chaplin
78. The Graduate (1967) : Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross
Director: Mike Nichols
79. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) : Starring: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine
Director: John Ford
80. The Lady Eve (1941) : Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn
Director: Preston Sturges
81. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) : Starring: Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Dolores Costello
Director: Orson Welles
82. The Maltese Falcon (1941): Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Elisha Cook, Jr.
Director: John Huston
83. The Night of the Hunter (1955) : Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
Director: Charles Laughton
84. The Philadelphia Story (1940) : Starring: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard
Director: George Cukor
85. The Quiet Man (1952) : Starring: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen, Barry Fitzgerald
Director: John Ford
86. The Searchers (1956) : Starring: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Natalie Wood, Ward Bond, Henry Brandon, Vera Miles
Director: John Ford
87. The Shawshank Redemption (1994): Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton
Director: Frank Darabont
88. The Third Man (1949): Starring: Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard
Director: Carol Reed
89. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948): Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Alfonso Bedoya
Director: John Huston
90. The Wild Bunch (1969) : Starring: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Robert Ryan, Emilio Fernandez
Director: Sam Peckinpah
91. The Wizard of Oz (1939) : Starring: Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Margaret Hamilton, Frank Morgan, Billie Burke
Director: Victor Fleming
92. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) : Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Philip Alford, John Megna
Director: Robert Mulligan
93. Top Hat (1935) : Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Helen Broderick, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore
Director: Mark Sandrich
94. Touch Of Evil (1958) : Starring: Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff
Director: Orson Welles
95. Trouble in Paradise (1932) : Starring: Herbert Marshall, Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
96. Vertigo (1958) : Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
97. West Side Story (1961) : Starring: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, Russ Tamblyn, George Chakiris
Director: Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
98. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966): Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
Director: Mike Nichols
99. Wuthering Heights (1939): Starring: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Director: William Wyler
100. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942): Starring: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Rosemary DeCamp
Director: Michael Curtiz


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