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The Top 100 Films by Genre Type

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Top 100 Films by Genre Type: The Guinness Book of Film, subtitled The Ultimate Guide to the Best Films Ever, was an essential hard-cover movie guide published in 1999. It reviewed the top 1000 movies of the 20th Century. Facts and Commentary About the Top 100 Films by Genre Type: The ultimate selection of films was based upon a few criteria:  sound films that were easily available in video format (with a few exceptions)  "the movies that have given the most pleasure to the most people"  From the 1000 films, the guide also selected a Top 100 Films, "essential recommendations" categorized into a Top 5 for each of twenty different genres (action, biopic, cartoon, comedy, cult, disaster, drama, fantasy, gangster, horror, musical, period, romance, science-fiction, silent, spy, swashbuckler, thriller, war, western), each represented below by icons. The links from the genre categories are to this site's essays on film genres. Note: The films that are marked with a yellow star  are the films that "The Greatest Films" site has selected as the "100 Greatest Films"

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The Top 100 Films by Genre by Guinness Book of Film 

Action Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)Aliens (1986)Die Hard (1988)Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)Con Air (1997)	Musicals  Top Hat (1935)On the Town (1949)The Sound of Music (1965)Grease (1978)Evita (1996)
Biopic The Life of Emile Zola (1937)Lust for Life (1956)Reds (1981)Malcolm X (1992)Shine (1996)	Period Pride and Prejudice (1940)Tom Jones (1963)A Room With a View (1986)Dangerous Liaisons (1988)Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Cartoon (Animated) Pinocchio (1940)Bambi (1942)The Jungle Book (1967)Yellow Submarine (1968)Toy Story (1995)	Romance  Casablanca (1942)Now, Voyager (1942)Love Story (1970)Ghost (1990)The English Patient (1996)
Comedy Monkey Business (1931) Bringing Up Baby (1938)The Pink Panther (1963)Airplane! (1980)The Full Monty (1997)	Science Fiction Forbidden Planet (1956) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Star Wars (1977) Blade Runner (1982) E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Cult Barbarella (1968) Easy Rider (1969)A Clockwork Orange (1971)Badlands (1973) Pulp Fiction (1994)	Silent Napoleon (1927, Fr.)The Wind (1928)Pandora's Box (1928)The Cameraman (1929) Modern Times (1936)
Disaster Airport (1970)The Poseidon Adventure (1972)The Towering Inferno (1974)Twister (1996)Armageddon (1998)	Spy Dr. No (1962)Goldfinger (1964)The Ipcress File (1965)Three Days of the Condor (1975)Mission: Impossible (1996)
Drama  Gone With The Wind (1939) Citizen Kane (1941) On The Waterfront (1954)The Deer Hunter (1978)Titanic (1997)	Swashbuckler Captain Blood (1935)The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)The Princess Bride (1987)The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
Fantasy  King Kong (1933) The Wizard of Oz (1939)Jason and the Argonauts (1963)Superman (1978)Batman (1989)	Thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935) Vertigo (1958) Touch Of Evil (1958)The French Connection (1971)The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Gangster Scarface (1932) Bonnie And Clyde (1967) The Godfather (1972)The Untouchables (1987)GoodFellas (1990)	War The Guns of Navarone (1961)The Great Escape (1963)Where Eagles Dare (1969) Apocalypse Now (1979)Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Horror The Exorcist (1973)Carrie (1976) Halloween (1978)The Shining (1980)Poltergeist (1982)	Westerns  Stagecoach (1939) High Noon (1952)Rio Bravo (1959) The Wild Bunch (1969)Unforgiven (1992)