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The agony of a Top 100 is the cutting room floor. To include a beloved classic like It’s a Wonderful Life might mean excluding a modern masterpiece like Moonlight . To honor horror ( The Exorcist , Get Out ) might push out a musical ( The Wizard of Oz , Chicago ). Every inclusion is an act of violence against a deserving contender.
list, which focuses on the first century of American cinematic excellence. Check the current IMDb Top 250 Top 100 English Movies
Ask any five film lovers to name the greatest movie of all time, and you’ll likely get six different answers. Now multiply that argument by one hundred. The very idea of a definitive “Top 100 English Movies” list is a glorious, quixotic folly—a Rorschach test for cultural memory, personal taste, and cinematic history. Yet we can’t stop trying to assemble it. The agony of a Top 100 is the cutting room floor