100 Most Influential Movies Beyond Times

The Indonesian film magazine Cinemags compiled a list titled 100 Most Influential Movies Beyond Times [sic] in December 2007. The list is heavily weighted towards American titles, with other films relegated to ‘outside Hollywood’ sidebars. In the UK, Total Film magazine published a similar list, The 67 Most Influential Films Ever Made, in 2009.

The 100 most influential movies, according to Cinemags:

• Harry Potter 1–8
  
• Reservoir Dogs
  
• Before Sunset / Before Sunrise
  
• Born on the 4th of July
  
• JFK
  
• The Aviator
  
• The Sixth Sense
  
• Farenheit 9/11c
  
• United 93
  
• The Graduate
  
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  
• Pretty Woman
  
• The Thin Red Line
  
• Mystic River
  
• The Green Mile
  
• Once Upon a Time in America
  
• The Wizard of Oz
  
• Full Metal Jacket
  
• Finding Nemo
  
• American History X
  
• Kill Bill 1–2
  
• Little Miss Sunshine
  
• Vertigo
  
• Fight Club
  
• The Pianist
  
• Dead Poets Society
  
• Traffic
  
• The Shining
  
• American Beauty
  
• On the Waterfront
  
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  
• Blade Runner
  
• Titanic
  
• Ben-Hur
  
• The Silence of the Lambs
  
• The Last Emperor
  
• Forrest Gump
  
• The Shawshank Redemption
  
• Saving Private Ryan
  
• The Deer Hunter
  
• Rocky
  
• A Clockwork Orange
  
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  
• Casablanca
  
• Gandhi
  
• King Kong
  
• Platoon
  
• The Sound of Music
  
• Dances with Wolves
  
• Gosford Park
  
• GoodFellas
  
• Apocalypse Now
  
• Indiana Jones 1–3
  
• Rebel Without a Cause
  
• To Kill a Mockingbird
  
• It’s A Wonderful Life
  
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  
• The Lord of the Rings 1–3
  
• Tootsie
  
• Jaws
  
• Double Indemnity
  
• Aliens
  
• Pulp Fiction
  
• ET
  
• Schindler’s List
  

Given that it’s a list of the most influential films — rather than the greatest films — it has some surprising entries: Finding Nemo is included, for example, though Toy Story isn’t. But Toy Story, being the first computer-animated film, is surely more influential than the later Finding Nemo? (Also, note that Scarface is the Brian de Palma remake, Ben-Hur is the William Wyler remake, and Titanic is the James Cameron version.)