Leonard Maltin's 4 Star Movies (2005 and 2010 Editions combined)

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  1. 4 Clowns (1970; Robert Youngson)
  2. 4 Little Girls (1997; Spike Lee)
  3. 8½ (1963; Federico Fellini)
  4. 10 from Your Show of Shows (1973; Max Liebman)
  5. 12 Angry Men (1957; Sidney Lumet)
  6. 30 Years of Fun (1963; Robert Youngson)
  7. The 39 Steps (1935; Alfred Hitchcock)
  8. 42nd Street (1933; Lloyd Bacon)
  9. The 400 Blows [Les quatre cents coups] (1959; Francois Truffaut)
  10. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968; Stanley Kubrick)
  11. 20000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954; Richard Fleischer)

  12. A

  13. À Nous la Liberté (1932; René Clair)
  14. Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940; John Cromwell)
  15. Adam's Rib (1949; George Cukor)
  16. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938; Michael Curtiz, William Keighley)
  17. The African Queen (1951; John Houston)
  18. L'âge d'or (1930; Luis Buñuel)
  19. Alexander Nevsky [Aleksandr Nevskiy] (1938; Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitri Vasilyev)
  20. All About Eve (1950; Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  21. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930; Lewis Milestone)
  22. All the King's Men (1949; Robert Rossen)
  23. All the President's Men (1976; Alan J. Pakula)
  24. America, America (1963; Elia Kazan)
  25. Anastasia (1956; Anatole Litvak)
  26. Anatomy of a Murder (1959; Otto Preminger)
  27. And Then There Were None (1945; René Clair)
  28. Andrei Rublev [Andrey Rublyov] (1966; Andrey Tarkovskiy)
  29. Anna Karenina (1935; Clarence Brown)
  30. Annie Hall (1977; Woody Allen)
  31. The Apartment (1960; Billy Wilder)
  32. L'Atalante (1934; Jean Vigo)
  33. Atlantic City (1980; Louis Malle)

  34. B

  35. Babette's Feast [Babettes gæstebud] (1987; Gabriel Axel)
  36. Bambi (1942; James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, David Hand, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Norman Wright)
  37. Bananas (1971; Woody Allen)
  38. The Band Wagon (1953; Vincente Minnelli)
  39. The Bank Dick (1940; Edward F. Cline)
  40. The Barbarian Invasions [Les invasions barbares] (2003; Denys Arcand)
  41. Battleship Potemkin [Bronenosets Potyomkin] (1925; Sergei M. Eisenstein)
  42. Beauty and the Beast [La belle et la bête] (1946; Jean Cocteau, René Clément), France
  43. Becket (1964; Peter Glenville)
  44. Belle de Jour (1967; Luis Buñuel)
  45. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980; Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  46. Best Boy (1979; Ira Wohl)
  47. The Best of Youth [La meglio gioventù] (2003; Marco Tullio Giordana)
  48. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946; William Wyler)
  49. The Bicycle Thief [Ladri di biciclette] (1948; Vittorio De Sica)
  50. The Big Sleep (1946; Howard Hawks)
  51. The Birth of a Nation (1915; DW Griffith)
  52. Bite the Bullet (1975; Richard Brooks)
  53. Black Narcissus (1947; Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
  54. Body and Soul (1947; Robert Rossen)
  55. Bonnie and Clyde (1967; Arthur Penn)
  56. Bride of Frankenstein (1935; James Whale)
  57. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957; David Lean)
  58. Brief Encounter (1945; David Lean)
  59. Bringing Up Baby (1938; Howard Hawks)
  60. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969; George Roy Hill)
  61. Butley (1974; Harold Pinter)

  62. C

  63. The Caine Mutiny (1954; Edward Dmytryk)
  64. Captains Courageous (1937; Victor Fleming)
  65. Casablanca (1942; Michael Curtiz)
  66. Castle in the Sky [Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta] (1986; Hayao Miyazaki)
  67. Cavalcade (1933; Frank Lloyd)
  68. La Chienne (1931; Jean Renoir)
  69. Children of Paradise [Les enfants du paradis] (1945; Marcel Carné)
  70. The China Syndrome (1979; James Bridges)
  71. Chinatown (1974; Roman Polanski)
  72. A Christmas Carol [Scrooge] (Brian Desmond Hurst; 1951)
  73. A Christmas Story (1983; Bob Clark)
  74. The Cider House Rules (1999; Lasse Hallström)
  75. Citizen Kane (1941; Orson Welles)
  76. City Lights (1931; Charles Chaplin)
  77. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977; Steven Speilberg)
  78. The Conversation (1974; Francis Ford Coppola)
  79. Counsellor at Law (1933; William Wyler)
  80. The Court Jester (1956; Melvin Frank, Norman Panama)
  81. The Crowd (1928; King Vidor)
  82. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008; David Fincher)

  83. D

  84. Dance Program [Un Carnet de Bal] (1937; Julien Duvivier)
  85. Dances With Wolves (1990; Kevin Costner)
  86. Danton (1983; Andrzej Wajda)
  87. David Copperfield [The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger] (1935; George Cukor)
  88. Partie de campagne (1936; Jean Renoir)
  89. Days of Thrills and Laughter (1961; Robert Youngson)
  90. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951; Robert Wise)
  91. Dead of Night (1945; Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer)
  92. The Deer Hunter (1978; Michael Cimino)
  93. The Defiant Ones (1958; Stanley Kramer)
  94. Deliverance (1972; John Boorman)
  95. Destry Rides Again (1939; George Marshall)
  96. Dinner at Eight (1933; George Cukor)
  97. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie [Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie] (1972; Luis Buñuel)
  98. The Docks of New York (1928; Josef von Sternberg)
  99. Dodsworth (1936; William Wyler)
  100. Double Indemnity (1944; Billy Wilder)
  101. Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964; Stanley Kubrick)
  102. Duck Soup (1933; Leo McCarey)
  103. Dumbo (1941; Samuel Armstrong, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts, Ben Sharpsteen, John Elliotte)

  104. E

  105. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982; Steven Speilberg)
  106. The Earrings of Madame de... [Madame de...] (1953; Max Ophüls)
  107. Earth [Zemlya] (1930; Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
  108. East of Eden (1955; Elia Kazan)
  109. Edge of the City (1957; Martin Ritt)
  110. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser [Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle] [Every man for himself and God against all] (1974; Werner Herzog)

  111. F

  112. Die Fälschung (1981; Volker Schlöndorff)
  113. Fanny and Alexander [Fanny och Alexander] (1982; Ingmar Bergman)
  114. The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) [Atanarjuat] (2001; Zacharias Kunuk)
  115. Father of the Bride (1950; Vincente Minnelli)
  116. Fists in the Pocket [I pugni in tasca] (1965; Marco Bellocchio)
  117. Fitzcarraldo (1982; Werner Herzog)
  118. Five Easy Pieces (1970; Bob Rafelson)
  119. Follow the Fleet (1936; Mark Sandrich)
  120. For Heaven's Sake (1926; Sam Taylor)
  121. Foreign Correspondent (1940; Alfred Hitchcock)
  122. The Four Feathers (1939; Zoltan Korda)
  123. Fox and His Friends [Faustrecht der Freiheit] (1975; Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  124. The French Connection (1971; William Friedkin)
  125. The Freshman (1925; Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor)
  126. Friendly Persuasion (1956; William Wyler)
  127. From Here to Eternity (1953; Fred Zinnemann)
  128. The Front (1976; Martin Ritt)
  129. Frost/Nixon (2008; Ron Howard)

  130. G

  131. The Garden of the Finzi Continis [Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini] (1970; Vittorio De Sica)
  132. The General (1926; Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton)
  133. Giant (1956; George Stevens)
  134. Gigi (1958; Vincente Minnelli)
  135. Gimme Shelter (1970; Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin)
  136. Glory (1989; Edward Zwick)
  137. The Godfather (1972; Francis Ford Coppola)
  138. The Godfather Part II (1974; Francis Ford Coppola)
  139. Going My Way (1944; Leo McCarey)
  140. The Gold Rush (1925; Charles Chaplin)
  141. The Golden Age of Comedy (1957; Robert Youngson)
  142. Gone With the Wind (1939; Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood)
  143. The Good Earth (1937; Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming, Gustav Machatý, Sam Wood)
  144. The Gospel According to St. Matthew [Il Vangelo secondo Matteo] (1964; Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  145. The Graduate (1967; Mike Nichols)
  146. Grand Hotel (1932; Edmund Goulding)
  147. La Grande Illusion (1937; Jean Renoir)
  148. The Grapes of Wrath (1940; John Ford)
  149. The Great Escape (1963; John Sturges)
  150. Great Expectations (1946; David Lean)
  151. Greed (1924; Erich von Stroheim)
  152. Green for Danger (1946; Sidney Gilliat)
  153. Gunga Din (1939; George Stevens)

  154. H

  155. Hail the Conquering Hero (1944; Preston Sturges)
  156. Hamlet (1948; Laurence Olivier)
  157. A Hard Day's Night (1964; Richard Lester)
  158. Harvest [Regain] (1937; Marcel Pagnol)
  159. The Heiress (1949; William Wyler)
  160. Henry V [The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France] (1944; Laurence Olivier)
  161. Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941; Alexander Hall)
  162. High Noon (1952; Fred Zinnemann)
  163. His Girl Friday (1940; Howard Hawks)
  164. How Green Was My Valley (1941; John Ford)
  165. Howards End (1992; James Ivory)
  166. Hud (1963; Martin Ritt)
  167. The Hustler (1961; Robert Rossen)

  168. I

  169. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932; Mervyn LeRoy)
  170. 'I Know Where I'm Going!' (1945; Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
  171. If.... (1968; Lindsay Anderson)
  172. Ikiru (1952; Akira Kurosawa)
  173. In Cold Blood (1967; Richard Brooks)
  174. In the Heat of the Night (1967; Norman Jewison)
  175. In the Shadow of the Moon (2007; David Sington)
  176. In Which We Serve (1942; Noel Coward, David Lean)
  177. L'innocente (1976; Luchino Visconti)
  178. Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916; DW Griffith)
  179. It Happened One Night (1934; Frank Capra)
  180. It's A Gift (1934; Norman Z. McLeod)
  181. Its a Wonderful Life (1946; Frank Capra)
  182. Ivan the Terrible, Part I [Ivan Groznyy] (1944; Sergei M. Eisenstein)

  183. J

  184. Jaws (1975; Steven Speilberg)
  185. Johnny in the Clouds [The Way to the Stars] (1945; Anthony Asquith)
  186. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961; Stanley Kramer)
  187. Jules and Jim [Jules et Jim] (1961; François Truffaut)
  188. Julia (1977; Fred Zinnemann)

  189. K

  190. Kagemusha (1980; Akira Kurosawa)
  191. The Kid Brother (1927; Ted Wilde, J.A. Howe, Harold Lloyd, Lewis Milestone)
  192. The Killers (1946; Robert Siodmak)
  193. King Kong (1933; Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack)
  194. Knife in the Water [Nóż w wodzie] (1962; Roman Polanski)
  195. Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance [Koyaanisqatsi] (1982; Godfrey Reggio)
  196. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979; Robert Benton)

  197. L

  198. Lacombe Lucien (1974; Louis Malle)
  199. Lady for a Day (1933; Frank Capra)
  200. The Lady Vanishes (1938; Alfred Hitchcock)
  201. The Last Command (1928; Josef von Sternberg)
  202. The Last Picture Show (1971; Peter Bogdonovich)
  203. The Last Waltz (1978; Martin Scorsese)
  204. Laura (1944; Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian)
  205. Lawrence of Arabia (1962; David Lean)
  206. Lenny (1974; Bob Fosse)
  207. The Leopard [Il gattopardo] (1963; Luchino Visconti)
  208. A Letter to Three Wives (1949; Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  209. Libeled Lady (1936; Jack Conway)
  210. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943; Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
  211. The Life of Emile Zola (1937; William Dieterle)
  212. Life with Father (1947; Michael Curtiz)
  213. Lili (1953; Charles Walters)
  214. The Lion in Winter (1968; Anthony Harvey)
  215. Little Big Man (1970; Arthur Penn)
  216. Little Children (2006; Todd Field)
  217. Little Women (1933; George Cukor)
  218. Little Women (1994; Gillian Armstrong)
  219. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935; Henry Hathaway)
  220. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962; Tony Richardson)
  221. Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962; Sidney Lumet)
  222. The Longest Day (1962; Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck)
  223. Lost Horizon (1937; Frank Capra)
  224. The Lost Patrol (1934; John Ford)
  225. The Lost Weekend (1945; Billy Wilder)
  226. Louisiana Story (1948; Robert J. Flaherty)
  227. Love Me Tonight (1932; Rouben Mamoulian)
  228. Lust for Life (1956; Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor)

  229. M

  230. M (1931 - German; Fritz Lang)
  231. The Magic Box (1951; John Boulting)
  232. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942; Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise)
  233. Major Barbara (1941; Gabriel Pascal, Harold French, David Lean)
  234. The Maltese Falcon (1941; John Huston)
  235. A Man for All Seasons (1966; Fred Zinnemann)
  236. Man of Aran (1934; Robert J. Flaherty)
  237. Man of Marble [Czlowiek z marmuru] (1977; )Andrzej Wajda
  238. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962; John Ford)
  239. Marat/Sade (1967; Peter Brook)
  240. Mary Poppins (1964; Robert Stevenson)
  241. M*A*S*H (1970; Robert Altman)
  242. Mean Streets (1973; Martin Scorsese)
  243. Medium Cool (1969; Haskell Wexler)
  244. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944; Vincente Minnelli)
  245. The Memory of Justice (1976; Marcel Ophüls)
  246. Metropolis (1927; Fritz Lang)
  247. Midnight Cowboy (1969; John Schlesinger)
  248. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944; Preston Sturges)
  249. Mister Roberts (1955; John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, Joshua Logan)
  250. Modern Times (1936; Charles Chaplin)
  251. Mon oncle (1958; Jacques Tati)
  252. Moonlighting (1982; Jerzy Skolimowski)
  253. Moonstruck (1987; Norman Jewison)
  254. The Motorcycle Diaries [Diarios de motocicleta] (2004; Walter Salles)
  255. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936; Frank Capra)
  256. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939; Frank Capra)
  257. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935; Frank Lloyd)
  258. My Architect (2003; Nathaniel Kahn)
  259. My Darling Clementine (1946; John Ford)

  260. N

  261. Napoleon (1927; Abel Gance)
  262. Nashville (1975; Robert Altman)
  263. National Velvet (1944; Clarence Brown)
  264. Network (1976; Sidney Lumet)
  265. A Night at the Opera (1935; Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding)
  266. The Night My Number Came Up (1955; Leslie Norman)
  267. A Night to Remember (1958; Roy Ward Baker)
  268. Nights of Cabiria [Le Notti di Cabiria](1957; Federico Fellini)
  269. No End in Sight (2007; Charles Ferguson)
  270. El Norte (1983; Gregory Nava)
  271. North By Northwest (1959; Alfred Hitchcock)
  272. Nowhere in Africa [Nirgendwo in Afrika] (2001; Caroline Link)

  273. O

  274. O Lucky Man! (1973; Lindsay Anderson)
  275. Odd Man Out (1947; Carol Reed)
  276. Of Mice and Men (1939; Lewis Milestone)
  277. The Official Story [La historia oficial] (1985; Luis Puenzo)
  278. Oliver Twist (1948; David Lean)
  279. Olympia (actually 2 films) [Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker; Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit] (1938; Leni Riefenstahl)
  280. On the Beach (1959; Stanley Kramer)
  281. On the Town (1949; Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)
  282. On the Waterfront (1954; Elia Kazan)
  283. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1975; Milos Forman)
  284. One, Two, Three (1961; Billy Wilder)
  285. Open City [Roma, città aperta] (1945; Roberto Rosellini)
  286. Ordet (1955; Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  287. Ordinary People (1980; Robert Redford)
  288. Othello (1965; Stuart Burge)
  289. Our Hospitality (1923; John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton)
  290. The Overcoat [Shinel] (1960; Aleksey Batalov)
  291. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943; William A. Wellman)

  292. P

  293. Pandoras Box [Die Büchse der Pandora] (1928; Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
  294. Paper Moon (1973; Peter Bogdanovich)
  295. Partie de campagne (1936; Jean Renoir)
  296. The Passion of Joan of Arc [La passion de Jeanne d'Arc] (1928; Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  297. Paths of Glory (1957; Stanley Kubrick)
  298. Patton (1970; Franklin J. Schaffner)
  299. The Pawnbroker (1964; Sidney Lumet)
  300. Pépé le Moko (1937; Julien Duvivier)
  301. Petulia (1968; Richard Lester)
  302. The Philadelphia Story (1940; George Cukor)
  303. Pinocchio (1940; Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Ben Sharpsteen)
  304. Pixote [Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco] (1981; Hector Babenco)
  305. Playtime (1967; Jacques Tati)
  306. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946; Tay Garnett)
  307. The President's Analyst (1967; Theodore J. Flicker)
  308. Pride and Prejudice (1940; Robert Z. Leonard)
  309. The Pride of the Yankees (1942; Sam Wood)
  310. Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955; Kenji Mizoguchi)
  311. The Prisoner of Zenda (1937; John Cromwell, W.S. Van Dyke)
  312. The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933; Alexander Korda)
  313. Psycho (1960; Alfred Hitchcock)
  314. Pygmalion (1938; Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard)

  315. Q

  316. Quartet (1948; Ken Annakin, Arthur Crabtree, Harold French, Ralph Smart)
  317. Queen Christina (1933; Rouben Mamoulian)
  318. The Quiet Man (1952; John Ford)

  319. R

  320. Raging Bull (1980; Martin Scorcese)
  321. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981; Steven Speilberg)
  322. Raise the Red Lantern [Da hong deng long gao gao gua] (1991; Yimou Zhang)
  323. A Raisin in the Sun (1961; Daniel Petrie)
  324. Rashomon (1950; Akira Kurosawa)
  325. Rear Window (1954; Alfred Hitchcock)
  326. Rebecca (1940; Alfred Hitchcock)
  327. Rebel Without a Cause (1955; Nicholas Ray)
  328. Red River (1948; Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson)
  329. The Red Shoes (1948; Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger)
  330. Repulsion (1965; Roman Polanski)
  331. Ride the High Country (1962; Sam Peckinpah)
  332. Rififi [Du rififi chez les hommes] (1954; Jules Dassin)
  333. The River (1951; Jean Renoir)
  334. Room at the Top (1959; Jack Clayton)
  335. Rosemary's Baby (1968; Roman Polanski)
  336. Ruggles of Red Gap (1935; Leo McCarey)
  337. The Rules of the Game [La Règle du jeu] (1939; Jean Renoir)

  338. S

  339. Sansho the Bailiff [Sanshô dayû] (1954; Kenji Mizoguchi)
  340. Sawdust and Tinsel [Gycklarnas afton] (1953; Ingmar Bergman)
  341. Say Amen, Somebody (1982; George T. Nierenberg)
  342. Scenes From a Marriage [Scener ur ett äktenskap] (1973; Ingmar Bergman)
  343. Schindlers List (1993; Stephen Speilberg)
  344. The Sea Hawk (1940; Michael Curtiz)
  345. Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964; Bryan Forbes)
  346. The Search (1948; Fred Zinnemann)
  347. The Searchers (1956; John Ford)
  348. Separate Tables (1958; Delbert Mann)
  349. Seven Beauties [Pasqualino Settebellezze] (1975; Lina Wertmüller)
  350. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954; Stanley Donen)
  351. Seven Days to Noon (1950; John Boulting, Roy Boulting)
  352. Seven Samurai [Shichinin no samurai] (1954; Akira Kurosoawa)
  353. The Seventh Seal [Det sjunde inseglet] (1957; Ingmar Bergman)
  354. Shame [Skammen] (1968; Ingmar Bergman)
  355. Shane (1953; George Stevens)
  356. She Done Him Wrong (1933; Lowell Sherman)
  357. Sherlock, Jr. (1924; Buster Keaton)
  358. Sherman's March (1986; Ross McElwee)
  359. Ship of Fools (1965; Stanley Kramer)
  360. Shoah (1985; Claude Lanzmann)
  361. Shoeshine ['Sciuscià' (Ragazzi)] (1946; Vittorio De Sica)
  362. Shoot the Piano Player [Tirez sur le pianiste] (1960; Francois Truffaut)
  363. The Shop on Main Street [Obchod na korze] (1965; Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos)
  364. A Shot in the Dark (1964; Blake Edwards)
  365. Siegfried [Die Nibelungen: Siegfried] (1924; Fritz Lang)
  366. Simon of the Desert [Simón del desierto] (1965; Luis Buñuel)
  367. Singin' in the Rain (1952; Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)
  368. Sleuth (1972; Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  369. Slumdog Millionaire (2008; Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan)
  370. Small Change [L'argent de poche] (1976; François Truffaut)
  371. Smiles of a Summer Night [Sommarnattens leende] (1955; Ingmar Bergman)
  372. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937; David Hand, William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, Ben Sharpsteen)
  373. Some Like It Hot (1959; Billy Wilder)
  374. The Song of Bernadette (1943; Henry King)
  375. Songcatcher (2000; Maggie Greenwald)
  376. The Sorrow and the Pity [Le chagrin et la pitié] (1969; Marcel Ophüls)
  377. Sounder (1972; Martin Ritt)
  378. The Southerner (1945; Jean Renoir)
  379. Stagecoach (1939; John Ford)
  380. Stage Door (1937; Gregory La Cava)
  381. Stairway to Heaven [A Matter of Life and Death] (1946; Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
  382. Stalag 17 (1953; Billy Wilder)
  383. A Star Is Born (1954; George Cukor)
  384. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980; Irvin Kershner)
  385. The Stars Look Down (1940; Carol Reed)
  386. Stolen Kisses [Baisers volés] (1968; François Truffaut)
  387. Stop Making Sense (1984; Jonathan Demme)
  388. La Strada (1954; Federico Fellini)
  389. Strangers on a Train (1951; Alfred Hitchcock)
  390. Stray Dog [Nora inu] (1949; Akira Kurosawa)
  391. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951; Elia Kazan)
  392. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927; Ernst Lubitsch, John M. Stahl)
  393. The Stunt Man (1980; Richard Rush)
  394. Sullivan's Travels (1941; Preston Sturges)
  395. The Sundowners (1960; Fred Zinnemann)
  396. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927; F.W. Murnau)
  397. Sunset Blvd. (1950; Billy Wilder)
  398. Swept Away [Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto] (1974; Lina Wertmüller)
  399. Swing Time (1936; George Stevens)

  400. T

  401. A Tale of Two Cities (1935; Jack Conway, Robert Z. Leonard)
  402. The Talk of the Town (1942; George Stevens)
  403. Talk to Her [Hable con ella] (2002; Pedro Almodóvar)
  404. The Ten Commandments (1956; Cecil B. DeMille)
  405. Terms of Endearment (1983; James L. Brooks)
  406. La Terra Trema (1948; Luchino Visconti)
  407. That's Entertainment! (1974; Jack Haley Jr.)
  408. These Three (1936; William Wyler)
  409. They Were Expendable (1945; John Ford, Robert Montgomery)
  410. They Wont Forget (1937; Mervyn LeRoy)
  411. The Thief of Bagdad (1924; Raoul Walsh)
  412. The Thin Blue Line (1988; Errol Morris)
  413. The Thin Man (1934; W.S. Van Dyke)
  414. The Third Man (1949; Carol Reed)
  415. Three Sisters (1970; Laurence Olivier, John Sichel)
  416. Throne of Blood [Kumonosu-jô]] (1957; Akira Kurosawa)
  417. The Tin Drum [Die Blechtromme] (1979; Volker Schlöndorff)
  418. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962; Robert Mulligan)
  419. Tokyo Olympiad [Tôkyô orimpikku] (1965; Kon Ichikawa)
  420. Tokyo Story [Tôkyô monogatari] (1953; Yasujiro Ozu)
  421. Tom Jones (1963; Tony Richardson)
  422. Tootsie (1982; Sidney Pollock)
  423. Top Hat (1935; Mark Sandrich)
  424. Topkapi (1964; Jules Dassin)
  425. Touch Of Evil (1958; Orson Welles)
  426. The Train (1964; John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn)
  427. La Traviata (1982; Franco Zeffirelli)
  428. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948; John Houston)
  429. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945; Elia Kazan)
  430. The Tree of Wooden Clogs [L'albero degli zoccoli] (1978; Ermanno Olmi)
  431. Triumph of the Will [Triumph des Willens] (1935; Leni Riefenstahl)
  432. Trouble in Paradise (1932; Ernst Lubitsch)
  433. Tunes of Glory (1960; Ronald Neame)
  434. Twelve O'Clock High (1949; Henry King)
  435. Twentieth Century (1934; Howard Hawks)
  436. Two English Girls [Les deux Anglaises et le continent] (132 min version) (1971; François Truffaut)
  437. Two Women [La ciociara] (1960; Vittorio De Sica)

  438. U

  439. Umberto D (1952; Vittorio De Sica)
  440. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988, Philip Kaufman)
  441. Unfaithfully Yours (1948; Preston Sturges)
  442. An Unmarried Woman (1978; Paul Mazursky)
  443. The Untouchables (1987; Brian De Palma)

  444. V

  445. The Verdict (1982; Sidney Lumet)
  446. Vertigo [1958; Alfred Hitchcock)
  447. Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others [Vincent, François, Paul... et les autres] (1974; Claude Sautet)
  448. I Vitelloni (1953; Federico Fellini)
  449. Viva Zapata! (1952; Elia Kazan)

  450. W

  451. War and Peace [Voyna i mir] (1967; Sergei Bondarchuk)
  452. The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time! (1982; Jim Brown)
  453. The Wedding March (1928; Erich von Stroheim)
  454. West Side Story (1961; Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins)
  455. When Comedy Was King (1960; Robert Youngson)
  456. Whisky Galore [Tight Little Island] (1949; Alexander Mackendrick)
  457. The Wild Bunch (1969; Sam Peckinpah)
  458. Wild Strawberries [Smultronstället] (1957; Ingmar Bergman)
  459. The Wind (1928; Victor Sjöström)
  460. Witness for the Prosecution (1957; Billy Wilder)
  461. The Wizard of Oz (1939; Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, King Vidor)
  462. Woodstock (1970; Michael Wadleigh)
  463. Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin' (1984; Jim Brown)
  464. The World According to Garp (1982; George Roy Hill)
  465. World Without Sun [Le monde sans soleil] (1964; Jacques-Yves Cousteau)
  466. Wuthering Heights (1939; William Wyler)

  467. Y

  468. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942; Michael Curtiz)
  469. Yellow Submarine (1968; George Dunning)
  470. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow [Ieri, oggi, domani] (1963; Vittorio De Sica)
  471. Yojimbo [Yôjinbô] (1961; Akira Kurosawa)

  472. Z

  473. Zero de Conduite [Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège] (1933; Jean Vigo)
Author Comments: 

Combination of the 2005 and 2010 editions of Leonard Maltin's list of 4-star movies.
448 entries
Alphebetized
Foreign films will be listed under their English titles with their actual titles in brackets.

Cloned From: 
Leonard Maltin's 4 Star Movies (2010 Edition)
enigmazach08/11/2010

Guess I'm not a big Maltin fan. He has a few puzzling omissions... and inclusions.

dashforcover08/20/2010

Most assuredly. What are, in your view, the critical omissions?