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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 A superb, enduring, sile 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 (ক্রমশ)
 
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