The Ultimate List, Top 100 Greatest Movies of All Time

Top 100 Greatest Movies of All Time (The Ultimate List)

by ChrisWalczyk55 | created – 21 Dec 2012 | updated – 28 Mar 2017 | Public

The movies on this list are ranked according to their success (awards & nominations), their popularity, and their cinematic greatness from a directing/writing perspective. To me, accuracy when making a Top 10/Top 100 all time list is extremely important. My lists are not based on my own personal favorites; they are based on the true greatness and/or success of the person, place or thing being ranked. In other words, a film’s commercial success (Oscars & BAFTA Awards), and greatness in direction, screenwriting and production, is how I ranked the films on this list. If you guys would like to view my other Top 10/Top 100 lists, feel free to check out my YouTube page and/or my IMDb page at *ChrisWalczyk55*.

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The Godfather

1. The Godfather (1972)

R | 175 min | Crime, Drama 9.2  Rate 100 Metascore

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Marlon BrandoAl PacinoJames CaanDiane Keaton

Votes: 1,586,362 | Gross: $134.97M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 3 Oscar Nominations: 11 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 4 Golden Globes: 6 Golden Globe Nominations: 8

The Shawshank Redemption

2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

R | 142 min | Drama 9.3  Rate 80 Metascore

Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.

Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Tim RobbinsMorgan FreemanBob GuntonWilliam Sadler

Votes: 2,298,551 | Gross: $28.34M

Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 7 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 0 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 2

Schindler's List

3. Schindler’s List (1993)

R | 195 min | Biography, Drama, History 8.9  Rate 94 Metascore

In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Liam NeesonRalph FiennesBen KingsleyCaroline Goodall

Votes: 1,192,895 | Gross: $96.90M

Actors: 4.9 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 7 Oscar Nominations: 12 BAFTA Awards: 6 BAFTA Nominations: 12 Golden Globes: 3 Golden Globe Nominations: 6

Raging Bull

4. Raging Bull (1980)

R | 129 min | Biography, Drama, Sport 8.2  Rate 89 Metascore

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De NiroCathy MoriartyJoe PesciFrank Vincent

Votes: 316,527 | Gross: $23.38M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 8 BAFTA Awards: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 4 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 7

Casablanca

5. Casablanca (1942)

PG | 102 min | Drama, Romance, War 8.5  Rate 100 Metascore

A cynical American expatriate struggles to decide whether or not he should help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape French Morocco.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul HenreidClaude Rains

Votes: 513,990 | Gross: $1.02M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 3 Oscar Nominations: 8 BAFTA Awards: N/A BAFTA Nominations: N/A Golden Globes: N/A Golden Globe Nominations: N/A

Citizen Kane

6. Citizen Kane (1941)

PG | 119 min | Drama, Mystery 8.3  Rate 100 Metascore

Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance; ‘Rosebud’.

Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy ComingoreAgnes Moorehead

Votes: 392,701 | Gross: $1.59M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 9 BAFTA Awards: N/A BAFTA Nominations: N/A Golden Globes: N/A Golden Globe Nominations: N/A

Gone with the Wind

7. Gone with the Wind (1939)

Passed | 238 min | Drama, History, Romance 8.1  Rate 97 Metascore

A manipulative woman and a roguish man conduct a turbulent romance during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods.

Directors: Victor FlemingGeorge CukorSam Wood | Stars: Clark GableVivien LeighThomas MitchellBarbara O’Neil

Votes: 285,872 | Gross: $198.68M

***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 8 Oscar Nominations: 13 BAFTA Awards: N/A BAFTA Nominations: N/A Golden Globes: N/A Golden Globe Nominations: N/A

The Wizard of Oz

8. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

PG | 102 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy 8  Rate 92 Metascore

Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to a magical land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home to Kansas and help her friends as well.

Directors: Victor FlemingGeorge CukorMervyn LeRoyNorman TaurogRichard ThorpeKing Vidor | Stars: Judy GarlandFrank MorganRay BolgerBert Lahr

Votes: 367,787 | Gross: $2.08M

***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 6 BAFTA Awards: N/A BAFTA Nominations: N/A Golden Globes: N/A Golden Globe Nominations: N/A

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

R | 133 min | Drama 8.7  Rate 83 Metascore

A criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.

Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Jack NicholsonLouise FletcherMichael BerrymanPeter Brocco

Votes: 902,465 | Gross: $112.00M

***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 5 Oscar Nominations: 9 BAFTA Awards: 6 BAFTA Nominations: 9 Golden Globes: 6 Golden Globe Nominations: 6

Lawrence of Arabia

10. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Approved | 228 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama 8.3  Rate 100 Metascore

The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.

Director: David Lean | Stars: Peter O’TooleAlec GuinnessAnthony QuinnJack Hawkins

Votes: 263,716 | Gross: $44.82M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 7 Oscar Nominations: 10 BAFTA Awards: 4 BAFTA Nominations: 5 Golden Globes: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 7

Vertigo

11. Vertigo (1958)

PG | 128 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller 8.3  Rate 100 Metascore

A former police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with a hauntingly beautiful woman.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James StewartKim NovakBarbara Bel GeddesTom Helmore

Votes: 357,057 | Gross: $3.20M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 2 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 0 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 0

Psycho

12. Psycho (1960)

R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller 8.5  Rate 97 Metascore

A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer’s client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera MilesJohn Gavin

Votes: 593,228 | Gross: $32.00M

***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 4 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 0 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 1

The Godfather: Part II

13. The Godfather: Part II (1974)

R | 202 min | Crime, Drama 9  Rate 90 Metascore

The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Al PacinoRobert De NiroRobert DuvallDiane Keaton

Votes: 1,108,363 | Gross: $57.30M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 6 Oscar Nominations: 11 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 3 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 6

On the Waterfront

14. On the Waterfront (1954)

Approved | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller 8.1  Rate 91 Metascore

An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Marlon BrandoKarl MaldenLee J. CobbRod Steiger

Votes: 139,804 | Gross: $9.60M

***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 8 Oscar Nominations: 12 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 3 Golden Globes: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

Sunset Blvd.

15. Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir 8.4  Rate

A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: William HoldenGloria SwansonErich von StroheimNancy Olson

Votes: 198,026

***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 3 Oscar Nominations: 11 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 0 Golden Globes: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 7

Forrest Gump

16. Forrest Gump (1994)

PG-13 | 142 min | Drama, Romance 8.8  Rate 82 Metascore

The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the events of Vietnam, Watergate and other historical events unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, whose only desire is to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Tom HanksRobin WrightGary SiniseSally Field

Votes: 1,771,179 | Gross: $330.25M


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Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 6 Oscar Nominations: 13 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 7 Golden Globes: 3 Golden Globe Nominations: 7

The Sound of Music

17. The Sound of Music (1965)

G | 172 min | Biography, Drama, Family 8  Rate 63 Metascore

A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Julie AndrewsChristopher PlummerEleanor ParkerRichard Haydn

Votes: 199,894 | Gross: $163.21M

***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 5 Oscar Nominations: 10 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 1 Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

12 Angry Men

18. 12 Angry Men (1957)

Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama 8.9  Rate 96 Metascore

A jury holdout attempts to prevent a miscarriage of justice by forcing his colleagues to reconsider the evidence.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Henry FondaLee J. CobbMartin BalsamJohn Fiedler

Votes: 675,394 | Gross: $4.36M

***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 3 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

West Side Story

19. West Side Story (1961)

Not Rated | 153 min | Crime, Drama, Musical 7.5  Rate 86 Metascore

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

Directors: Jerome RobbinsRobert Wise | Stars: Natalie WoodGeorge ChakirisRichard BeymerRuss Tamblyn

Votes: 95,511 | Gross: $43.66M

***** Actors: 4.9 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 10 Oscar Nominations: 11 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 1 Golden Globes: 3 Golden Globe Nominations: 5

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

20. Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)

PG | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy 8.6  Rate 90 Metascore

Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire’s world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.

Director: George Lucas | Stars: Mark HamillHarrison FordCarrie FisherAlec Guinness

Votes: 1,212,003 | Gross: $322.74M

Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 6 Oscar Nominations: 10 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 5 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

2001: A Space Odyssey

21. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

G | 149 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi 8.3  Rate 84 Metascore

After discovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, mankind sets off on a quest to find its origins with help from intelligent supercomputer H.A.L. 9000.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Keir DulleaGary LockwoodWilliam SylvesterDaniel Richter

Votes: 593,007 | Gross: $56.95M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 4 BAFTA Awards: 3 BAFTA Nominations: 5 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 0

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

22. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

PG | 115 min | Family, Sci-Fi 7.8  Rate 91 Metascore

A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Henry ThomasDrew BarrymorePeter CoyoteDee Wallace

Votes: 365,780 | Gross: $435.11M

***** Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 4 Oscar Nominations: 9 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 12 Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globe Nominations: 5

The Silence of the Lambs

23. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

R | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller 8.6  Rate 85 Metascore

A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.

Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Jodie FosterAnthony HopkinsLawrence A. BonneyKasi Lemmons

Votes: 1,246,314 | Gross: $130.74M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 5 Oscar Nominations: 7 BAFTA Awards: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 9 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 5

Chinatown

24. Chinatown (1974)

R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller 8.1  Rate 92 Metascore

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jack NicholsonFaye DunawayJohn HustonPerry Lopez

Votes: 289,417 | Gross: $29.20M

***** Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 11 BAFTA Awards: 3 BAFTA Nominations: 10 Golden Globes: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 7

The Bridge on the River Kwai

25. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

PG | 161 min | Adventure, Drama, War 8.1  Rate 87 Metascore

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors, not knowing that the allied forces are planning to destroy it.

Director: David Lean | Stars: William HoldenAlec GuinnessJack HawkinsSessue Hayakawa

Votes: 200,405 | Gross: $44.91M

Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 7 Oscar Nominations: 8 BAFTA Awards: 4 BAFTA Nominations: 4 Golden Globes: 3 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

Singin' in the Rain

26. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

G | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance 8.3  Rate 99 Metascore

A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.

Directors: Stanley DonenGene Kelly | Stars: Gene KellyDonald O’ConnorDebbie ReynoldsJean Hagen

Votes: 215,053 | Gross: $8.82M

***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 2 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 1 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 2

It's a Wonderful Life

27. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

PG | 130 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy 8.6  Rate 89 Metascore

An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: James StewartDonna ReedLionel BarrymoreThomas Mitchell

Votes: 391,183

***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 5 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 0 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 1

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

28. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

PG | 95 min | Comedy 8.4  Rate 97 Metascore

An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a War Room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Peter SellersGeorge C. ScottSterling HaydenKeenan Wynn

Votes: 444,213 | Gross: $0.28M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 4 BAFTA Awards: 3 BAFTA Nominations: 6 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 0

Some Like It Hot

29. Some Like It Hot (1959)

Passed | 121 min | Comedy, Music, Romance 8.2  Rate 98 Metascore

After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Marilyn MonroeTony CurtisJack LemmonGeorge Raft

Votes: 239,999 | Gross: $25.00M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 6 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 3 Golden Globe Nominations: 3

Ben-Hur

30. Ben-Hur (1959)

G | 212 min | Adventure, Drama, History 8.1  Rate 90 Metascore

After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Charlton HestonJack HawkinsStephen BoydHaya Harareet

Votes: 216,300 | Gross: $74.70M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 11 Oscar Nominations: 12 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 1 Golden Globes: 3 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

Apocalypse Now

31. Apocalypse Now (1979)

R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, War 8.4  Rate 94 Metascore

A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Martin SheenMarlon BrandoRobert DuvallFrederic Forrest

Votes: 596,104 | Gross: $83.47M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 8 BAFTA Awards: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 8 Golden Globes: 3 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

Amadeus

32. Amadeus (1984)

R | 160 min | Biography, Drama, History 8.3  Rate 88 Metascore

The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart’s talent and claimed to have murdered him.

Director: Milos Forman | Stars: F. Murray AbrahamTom HulceElizabeth BerridgeRoy Dotrice

Votes: 363,671 | Gross: $51.97M

***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 8 Oscar Nominations: 11 BAFTA Awards: 4 BAFTA Nominations: 9 Golden Globes: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 6

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

33. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

PG-13 | 201 min | Action, Adventure, Drama 8.9  Rate 94 Metascore

Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron’s army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.

Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Elijah WoodViggo MortensenIan McKellenOrlando Bloom

Votes: 1,615,756 | Gross: $377.85M

Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 11 Oscar Nominations: 11 BAFTA Awards: 4 BAFTA Nominations: 10 Golden Globes: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

Gladiator

34. Gladiator (2000)

R | 155 min | Action, Adventure, Drama 8.5  Rate 67 Metascore

A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Russell CroweJoaquin PhoenixConnie NielsenOliver Reed

Votes: 1,318,232 | Gross: $187.71M

***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 4.7 Stars Screenplay: 4.7 Stars

Oscars: 5 Oscar Nominations: 12 BAFTA Awards: 4 BAFTA Nominations: 12 Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globe Nominations: 5

Titanic

35. Titanic (1997)

PG-13 | 194 min | Drama, Romance 7.8  Rate 75 Metascore

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprioKate WinsletBilly ZaneKathy Bates

Votes: 1,029,598 | Gross: $659.33M

***** Actors: 4.7 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.5 Stars

Oscars: 11 Oscar Nominations: 14 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 8 Golden Globes: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 8

From Here to Eternity

36. From Here to Eternity (1953)

Passed | 118 min | Drama, Romance, War 7.6  Rate 85 Metascore

In Hawaii in 1941, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit’s team, while his captain’s wife and second-in-command are falling in love.

Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Burt LancasterMontgomery CliftDeborah KerrDonna Reed

Votes: 42,701 | Gross: $30.50M

Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 8 Oscar Nominations: 13 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 1 Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globe Nominations: 2

Saving Private Ryan

37. Saving Private Ryan (1998)

R | 169 min | Drama, War 8.6  Rate 91 Metascore

Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom HanksMatt DamonTom SizemoreEdward Burns

Votes: 1,213,900 | Gross: $216.54M


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Actors: 4.9 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 5 Oscar Nominations: 11 BAFTA Awards: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 8 Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globe Nominations: 5

Unforgiven

38. Unforgiven (1992)

R | 130 min | Drama, Western 8.2  Rate 85 Metascore

Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The “Schofield Kid.”

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint EastwoodGene HackmanMorgan FreemanRichard Harris

Votes: 370,210 | Gross: $101.16M

Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 4 Oscar Nominations: 9 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 6 Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

Raiders of the Lost Ark

39. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

PG | 115 min | Action, Adventure 8.4  Rate 85 Metascore

In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler‘s Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison FordKaren AllenPaul FreemanJohn Rhys-Davies

Votes: 871,283 | Gross: $248.16M

Actors: 4.7 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 4 Oscar Nominations: 8 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 6 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 1

Rocky

40. Rocky (1976)

PG | 120 min | Drama, Sport 8.1  Rate 70 Metascore

A small-time boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight a heavy-weight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.

Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Sylvester StalloneTalia ShireBurt YoungCarl Weathers

Votes: 509,831 | Gross: $117.24M

Actors: 4.6 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.6 Stars

Oscars: 3 Oscar Nominations: 10 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 5 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 6

A Streetcar Named Desire

41. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

PG | 122 min | Drama 8  Rate 97 Metascore

Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Vivien LeighMarlon BrandoKim HunterKarl Malden

Votes: 97,803 | Gross: $8.00M

Actors: 4.9 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 4 Oscar Nominations: 12 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 3

The Philadelphia Story

42. The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, Romance 7.9  Rate 96 Metascore

When a rich woman’s ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Cary GrantKatharine HepburnJames StewartRuth Hussey

Votes: 62,517

Actors: 4.9 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 6 BAFTA Awards: N/A BAFTA Nominations: N/A Golden Globes: N/A Golden Globe Nominations: N/A

To Kill a Mockingbird

43. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Approved | 129 min | Crime, Drama 8.2  Rate 88 Metascore

Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.

Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Gregory PeckJohn MegnaFrank OvertonRosemary Murphy

Votes: 290,567

Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.7 Stars

Oscars: 3 Oscar Nominations: 8 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 3 Golden Globe Nominations: 5

An American in Paris

44. An American in Paris (1951)

Passed | 114 min | Drama, Musical, Romance 7.2  Rate 83 Metascore

Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.

Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Gene KellyLeslie CaronOscar LevantGeorges Guétary

Votes: 29,955 | Gross: $4.50M

Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 6 Oscar Nominations: 8 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 1 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 3

The Best Years of Our Lives

45. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Approved | 170 min | Drama, Romance, War 8  Rate 93 Metascore

Three World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Myrna LoyDana AndrewsFredric MarchTeresa Wright

Votes: 56,595 | Gross: $23.65M

Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 7 Oscar Nominations: 8 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 1 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 1

My Fair Lady

46. My Fair Lady (1964)

G | 170 min | Drama, Family, Musical 7.8  Rate 95 Metascore

Snobbish phonetics Professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make flower girl Eliza Doolittle presentable in high society.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Audrey HepburnRex HarrisonStanley HollowayWilfrid Hyde-White

Votes: 85,284 | Gross: $72.00M

Actors: 4.9 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 8 Oscar Nominations: 12 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 3 Golden Globe Nominations: 5

A Clockwork Orange

47. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

R | 136 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi 8.3  Rate 77 Metascore

In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn’t go as planned.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Malcolm McDowellPatrick MageeMichael BatesWarren Clarke

Votes: 745,953 | Gross: $6.21M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 4 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 7 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 3

Doctor Zhivago

48. Doctor Zhivago (1965)

PG-13 | 197 min | Drama, Romance, War 8  Rate 69 Metascore

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist’s wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

Director: David Lean | Stars: Omar SharifJulie ChristieGeraldine ChaplinRod Steiger

Votes: 68,780 | Gross: $111.72M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 5 Oscar Nominations: 10 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 3 Golden Globes: 5 Golden Globe Nominations: 6

The Searchers

49. The Searchers (1956)

Passed | 119 min | Adventure, Drama, Western 7.9  Rate 94 Metascore

An American Civil War veteran embarks on a journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches.

Director: John Ford | Stars: John WayneJeffrey HunterVera MilesWard Bond

Votes: 79,108

***** Actors: 4.9 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 0 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Award Nominations: 0 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 0

Jaws

50. Jaws (1975)

PG | 124 min | Adventure, Thriller 8  Rate 87 Metascore

When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community, it’s up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Roy ScheiderRobert ShawRichard DreyfussLorraine Gary

Votes: 538,298 | Gross: $260.00M

Actors: 4.7 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.7 Stars

Oscars: 3 Oscar Nominations: 4 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 6 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

Patton

51. Patton (1970)

GP | 172 min | Biography, Drama, War 7.9  Rate 91 Metascore

The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: George C. ScottKarl MaldenStephen YoungMichael Strong

Votes: 92,868 | Gross: $61.70M

***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 7 Oscar Nominations: 10 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 3

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

52. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

PG | 110 min | Biography, Crime, Drama 8  Rate 66 Metascore

Wyoming, early 1900s. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. After a train robbery goes wrong they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. Their solution – escape to Bolivia.

Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Paul NewmanRobert RedfordKatharine RossStrother Martin

Votes: 199,978 | Gross: $102.31M

***** Actors: 4.6 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.7 Stars

Oscars: 4 Oscar Nominations: 7 BAFTA Awards: 8 BAFTA Nominations: 9 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

53. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

Passed | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, Western 8.2  Rate 98 Metascore

Two Americans searching for work in Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Humphrey BogartWalter HustonTim HoltBruce Bennett

Votes: 112,484 | Gross: $5.01M

Actors: 4.7 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 3 Oscar Nominations: 4 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 1 Golden Globes: 3 Golden Globe Nominations: 3

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

54. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

R | 178 min | Western 8.8  Rate 90 Metascore

A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.

Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint EastwoodEli WallachLee Van CleefAldo Giuffrè

Votes: 677,740 | Gross: $6.10M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 0 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Award Nominations: 0 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 0

The Apartment

55. The Apartment (1960)

Approved | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance 8.3  Rate 94 Metascore

A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Jack LemmonShirley MacLaineFred MacMurrayRay Walston

Votes: 160,830 | Gross: $18.60M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 5 Oscar Nominations: 10 BAFTA Awards: 3 BAFTA Nominations: 3 Golden Globes: 3 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

Platoon

56. Platoon (1986)

R | 120 min | Drama, War 8.1  Rate 92 Metascore

A young soldier in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Charlie SheenTom BerengerWillem DafoeKeith David

Votes: 375,671 | Gross: $138.53M

***** Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 4 Oscar Nominations: 8 BAFTA Awards: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 3 Golden Globes: 3 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

High Noon

57. High Noon (1952)

PG | 85 min | Drama, Thriller, Western 7.9  Rate 89 Metascore

A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at high noon when the gang leader, an outlaw he sent up years ago, arrives on the noon train.

Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Gary CooperGrace KellyThomas MitchellLloyd Bridges

Votes: 96,008 | Gross: $9.45M

***** Actors: 4.6 Stars Direction: 4.7 Stars Screenplay: 4.7 Stars

Oscars: 4 Oscar Nominations: 7 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 0 Golden Globes: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 7

Braveheart

58. Braveheart (1995)

R | 178 min | Biography, Drama, History 8.3  Rate 68 Metascore

Scottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.

Director: Mel Gibson | Stars: Mel GibsonSophie MarceauPatrick McGoohanAngus Macfadyen

Votes: 947,096 | Gross: $75.60M

Actors: 4.7 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.7 Stars

Oscars: 5 Oscar Nominations: 10 BAFTA Awards: 3 BAFTA Nominations: 5 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

Dances with Wolves

59. Dances with Wolves (1990)

PG-13 | 181 min | Adventure, Drama, Western 8  Rate 72 Metascore

Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.

Director: Kevin Costner | Stars: Kevin CostnerMary McDonnellGraham GreeneRodney A. Grant

Votes: 236,589 | Gross: $184.21M

***** Actors: 4.5 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.6 Stars

Oscars: 7 Oscar Nominations: 12 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 9 Golden Globes: 3 Golden Globe Nominations: 6

Jurassic Park

60. Jurassic Park (1993)

PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi 8.1  Rate 68 Metascore

A pragmatic paleontologist visiting an almost complete theme park is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park’s cloned dinosaurs to run loose.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Sam NeillLaura DernJeff GoldblumRichard Attenborough

Votes: 853,182 | Gross: $402.45M

Actors: 4.6 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.7 Stars

Oscars: 3 Oscar Nominations: 3 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 0

The Exorcist

61. The Exorcist (1973)

R | 122 min | Horror 8  Rate 81 Metascore

When a 12-year-old girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her.

Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Ellen BurstynMax von SydowLinda BlairLee J. Cobb

Votes: 357,258 | Gross: $232.91M

Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 10 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 1 Golden Globes: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 7

The Pianist

62. The Pianist (2002)

R | 150 min | Biography, Drama, Music 8.5  Rate 85 Metascore

A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Adrien BrodyThomas KretschmannFrank FinlayEmilia Fox

Votes: 714,651 | Gross: $32.57M

***** Actors: 4.9 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.7 Stars

Oscars: 3 Oscar Nominations: 7 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 5 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 2

Goodfellas

63. Goodfellas (1990)

R | 146 min | Biography, Crime, Drama 8.7  Rate 90 Metascore

The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mob, covering his relationship with his wife Karen Hill and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito in the Italian-American crime syndicate.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De NiroRay LiottaJoe PesciLorraine Bracco

Votes: 1,000,664 | Gross: $46.84M

***** Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 6 BAFTA Awards: 5 BAFTA Nominations: 7 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 5

The Deer Hunter

64. The Deer Hunter (1978)

R | 183 min | Drama, War 8.1  Rate 86 Metascore

An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.

Director: Michael Cimino | Stars: Robert De NiroChristopher WalkenJohn CazaleJohn Savage

Votes: 306,660 | Gross: $48.98M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 5 Oscar Nominations: 9 BAFTA Awards: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 9 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 6

All Quiet on the Western Front

65. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Passed | 152 min | Drama, War 8  Rate 91 Metascore

A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Lew AyresLouis WolheimJohn WrayArnold Lucy

Votes: 56,679 | Gross: $3.27M

***** Actors: 4.7 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.7 Stars

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 4 BAFTA Awards: N/A BAFTA Nominations: N/A Golden Globes: N/A Golden Globe Nominations: N/A

Bonnie and Clyde

66. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

R | 111 min | Action, Biography, Crime 7.8  Rate 86 Metascore

Bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.

Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Warren BeattyFaye DunawayMichael J. PollardGene Hackman

Votes: 100,866

Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 4.7 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 10 BAFTA Awards: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 4 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 7

The French Connection

67. The French Connection (1971)

R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama 7.7  Rate 94 Metascore

A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.

Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Gene HackmanRoy ScheiderFernando ReyTony Lo Bianco

Votes: 108,268 | Gross: $15.63M

***** Actors: 4.9 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 5 Oscar Nominations: 8 BAFTA Awards: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 5 Golden Globes: 3 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

City Lights

68. City Lights (1931)

G | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance 8.5  Rate 99 Metascore

With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.

Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles ChaplinVirginia CherrillFlorence LeeHarry Myers

Votes: 164,505 | Gross: $0.02M

***** Actors: 4.9 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 0 BAFTA Awards: N/A BAFTA Nominations: N/A Golden Globes: N/A Golden Globe Nominations: N/A

It Happened One Night

69. It Happened One Night (1934)

Approved | 105 min | Comedy, Romance 8.1  Rate 87 Metascore

A spoiled heiress running away from her family is helped by a man who is actually a reporter in need of a story.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Clark GableClaudette ColbertWalter ConnollyRoscoe Karns

Votes: 92,194 | Gross: $4.36M

***** Actors: 4.7 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 5 Oscar Nominations: 5 BAFTA Awards: N/A BAFTA Nominations: N/A Golden Globes: N/A Golden Globe Nominations: N/A

A Place in the Sun

70. A Place in the Sun (1951)

Passed | 122 min | Drama, Romance 7.8  Rate 76 Metascore

A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.

Director: George Stevens | Stars: Montgomery CliftElizabeth TaylorShelley WintersAnne Revere

Votes: 19,803

***** Actors: 4.6 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.7 Stars

Oscars: 6 Oscar Nominations: 9 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 0 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

Midnight Cowboy

71. Midnight Cowboy (1969)

R | 113 min | Drama 7.8  Rate 79 Metascore

A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.

Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Dustin HoffmanJon VoightSylvia MilesJohn McGiver

Votes: 99,444 | Gross: $44.79M

***** Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 4.7 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 3 Oscar Nominations: 7 BAFTA Awards: 6 BAFTA Nominations: 6 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 7

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

72. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Passed | 129 min | Comedy, Drama 8.1  Rate 73 Metascore

A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn’t back down.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: James StewartJean ArthurClaude RainsEdward Arnold

Votes: 105,297 | Gross: $9.60M

Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 11 BAFTA Awards: N/A BAFTA Nominations: N/A Golden Globes: N/A Golden Globe Nominations: N/A

Rain Man

73. Rain Man (1988)

R | 133 min | Drama 8  Rate 65 Metascore

Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt’s father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Dustin HoffmanTom CruiseValeria GolinoGerald R. Molen

Votes: 467,442 | Gross: $178.80M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 4 Oscar Nominations: 8 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 3 Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

Annie Hall

74. Annie Hall (1977)

PG | 93 min | Comedy, Romance 8  Rate 92 Metascore

Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditzy Annie Hall.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody AllenDiane KeatonTony RobertsCarol Kane

Votes: 249,443 | Gross: $39.20M

***** Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 4 Oscar Nominations: 5 BAFTA Awards: 5 BAFTA Nominations: 6 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 5

Fargo

75. Fargo (1996)

R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller 8.1  Rate 85 Metascore

Jerry Lundegaard’s inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen’s bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.

Directors: Joel CoenEthan Coen | Stars: William H. MacyFrances McDormandSteve BuscemiPeter Stormare

Votes: 606,120 | Gross: $24.61M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 7 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 6 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

Giant

76. Giant (1956)

G | 201 min | Drama, Western 7.6  Rate 84 Metascore

Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.

Director: George Stevens | Stars: Elizabeth TaylorRock HudsonJames DeanCarroll Baker

Votes: 33,517

***** Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 4.7 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 10 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 0 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 1

Shane

77. Shane (1953)

Not Rated | 118 min | Drama, Western 7.6  Rate 80 Metascore

A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smoldering settler/rancher conflict forces him to act.

Director: George Stevens | Stars: Alan LaddJean ArthurVan HeflinBrandon De Wilde

Votes: 36,523 | Gross: $20.00M

Actors: 4.7 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.7 Stars

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 6 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 0

The Grapes of Wrath

78. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Passed | 129 min | Drama, History 8  Rate 96 Metascore

A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Henry FondaJane DarwellJohn CarradineCharley Grapewin

Votes: 84,924 | Gross: $0.06M

Actors: 4.6 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.7 Stars

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 7 BAFTA Awards: N/A BAFTA Nominations: N/A Golden Globes: N/A Golden Globe Nominations: N/A

The Green Mile

79. The Green Mile (1999)

R | 189 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy 8.6  Rate 61 Metascore

The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.

Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Tom HanksMichael Clarke DuncanDavid MorseBonnie Hunt

Votes: 1,123,587 | Gross: $136.80M

Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 4 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 0 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 1

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

80. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

PG | 138 min | Drama, Sci-Fi 7.6  Rate 90 Metascore

Roy Neary, an electric lineman, watches how his quiet and ordinary daily life turns upside down after a close encounter with a UFO.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Richard DreyfussFrançois TruffautTeri GarrMelinda Dillon

Votes: 181,988 | Gross: $132.09M

Actors: 4.6 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.7 Stars

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 8 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 4 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 8

Nashville

81. Nashville (1975)

R | 160 min | Comedy, Drama, Music 7.7  Rate 96 Metascore

Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention.

Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Keith CarradineKaren BlackRonee BlakleyShelley Duvall

Votes: 23,366 | Gross: $14.82M

***** Actors: 4.7 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 5 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 5 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 11

Network

82. Network (1976)

R | 121 min | Drama 8.1  Rate 83 Metascore

A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor’s ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Faye DunawayWilliam HoldenPeter FinchRobert Duvall

Votes: 142,955

Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 4 Oscar Nominations: 10 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 9 Golden Globes: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 5

The Graduate

83. The Graduate (1967)

PG | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance 8  Rate 83 Metascore

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Dustin HoffmanAnne BancroftKatharine RossWilliam Daniels

Votes: 251,084 | Gross: $104.95M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 7 BAFTA Awards: 5 BAFTA Nominations: 7 Golden Globes: 5 Golden Globe Nominations: 7

American Graffiti

84. American Graffiti (1973)

PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama 7.4  Rate 97 Metascore

A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.

Director: George Lucas | Stars: Richard DreyfussRon HowardPaul Le MatCharles Martin Smith

Votes: 80,704 | Gross: $115.00M

***** Actors: 4.7 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 5 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 1 Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

Pulp Fiction

85. Pulp Fiction (1994)

R | 154 min | Crime, Drama 8.9  Rate 94 Metascore

The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: John TravoltaUma ThurmanSamuel L. JacksonBruce Willis

Votes: 1,794,673 | Gross: $107.93M

Actors: 4.7 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 7 BAFTA Awards: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 8 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 6

Terms of Endearment

86. Terms of Endearment (1983)

PG | 132 min | Comedy, Drama 7.4  Rate 79 Metascore

Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love, and her daughter’s family problems.

Director: James L. Brooks | Stars: Shirley MacLaineDebra WingerJack NicholsonDanny DeVito

Votes: 54,208 | Gross: $108.42M

***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 5 Oscar Nominations: 11 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 1 Golden Globes: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 6

Good Will Hunting

87. Good Will Hunting (1997)

R | 126 min | Drama, Romance 8.3  Rate 70 Metascore

Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.

Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Robin WilliamsMatt DamonBen AffleckStellan Skarsgård

Votes: 845,089 | Gross: $138.43M

Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 9 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 0 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

The African Queen

88. The African Queen (1951)

PG | 105 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance 7.7  Rate 91 Metascore

In WWI Africa, a gin-swilling riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Humphrey BogartKatharine HepburnRobert MorleyPeter Bull

Votes: 70,603 | Gross: $0.54M

Actors: 4.7 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 4 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 3 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 0

Stagecoach

89. Stagecoach (1939)

Passed | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Western 7.8  Rate 93 Metascore

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.

Director: John Ford | Stars: John WayneClaire TrevorAndy DevineJohn Carradine

Votes: 42,728

Actors: 4.6 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.7 Stars

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 7 BAFTA Awards: N/A BAFTA Nominations: N/A Golden Globes: N/A Golden Globe Nominations: N/A

Mutiny on the Bounty

90. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

Passed | 132 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama 7.7  Rate 87 Metascore

First mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1788 mutiny.

Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Charles LaughtonClark GableFranchot ToneHerbert Mundin

Votes: 20,489

Actors: 4.9 Stars Direction: 4.7 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 8 BAFTA Awards: N/A BAFTA Nominations: N/A Golden Globes: N/A Golden Globe Nominations: N/A

The Great Dictator

91. The Great Dictator (1940)

Passed | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, War 8.4  Rate

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel’s regime.

Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles ChaplinPaulette GoddardJack OakieReginald Gardiner

Votes: 199,401 | Gross: $0.29M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 5 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 0 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 0

Double Indemnity

92. Double Indemnity (1944)

Passed | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir 8.3  Rate 95 Metascore

An insurance representative lets himself be talked by a seductive housewife into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses the suspicion of an insurance investigator.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Fred MacMurrayBarbara StanwyckEdward G. RobinsonByron Barr

Votes: 141,044 | Gross: $5.72M

Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 7 BAFTA Awards: N/A BAFTA Nominations: N/A Golden Globes: N/A Golden Globe Nominations: N/A

The Maltese Falcon

93. The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Not Rated | 100 min | Film-Noir, Mystery 8  Rate 96 Metascore

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Humphrey BogartMary AstorGladys GeorgePeter Lorre

Votes: 147,391 | Gross: $2.11M

Actors: 4.7 Stars Direction: 4.7 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 3 BAFTA Awards: N/A BAFTA Nominations: N/A Golden Globes: N/A Golden Globe Nominations: N/A

Wuthering Heights

94. Wuthering Heights (1939)

Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance 7.6  Rate

A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Merle OberonLaurence OlivierDavid NivenFlora Robson

Votes: 16,180 | Gross: $0.76M

***** Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 8 BAFTA Awards: N/A BAFTA Nominations: N/A Golden Globes: N/A Golden Globe Nominations: N/A

Taxi Driver

95. Taxi Driver (1976)

R | 114 min | Crime, Drama 8.3  Rate 94 Metascore

A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action by attempting to liberate a presidential campaign worker and an underage prostitute.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De NiroJodie FosterCybill ShepherdAlbert Brooks

Votes: 710,212 | Gross: $28.26M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 4 BAFTA Awards: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 6 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 2

Rear Window

96. Rear Window (1954)

PG | 112 min | Mystery, Thriller 8.4  Rate 100 Metascore

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James StewartGrace KellyWendell CoreyThelma Ritter

Votes: 436,460 | Gross: $36.76M

Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 4 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 1 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 0

The Third Man

97. The Third Man (1949)

Approved | 93 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller 8.1  Rate 97 Metascore

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.

Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Orson WellesJoseph CottenAlida ValliTrevor Howard

Votes: 156,492 | Gross: $0.45M

Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 3 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 0

Rebel Without a Cause

98. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

PG-13 | 111 min | Drama 7.7  Rate 89 Metascore

A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.

Director: Nicholas Ray | Stars: James DeanNatalie WoodSal MineoJim Backus

Votes: 82,164

***** Actors: 4.7 Stars Direction: 4.7 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 3 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 0

North by Northwest

99. North by Northwest (1959)

Approved | 136 min | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller 8.3  Rate 98 Metascore

A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Cary GrantEva Marie SaintJames MasonJessie Royce Landis

Votes: 294,465 | Gross: $13.28M

Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 3 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 0 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 0

Yankee Doodle Dandy

100. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Passed | 126 min | Biography, Drama, Music 7.7  Rate 89 Metascore

The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: James CagneyJoan LeslieWalter HustonRichard Whorf

Votes: 13,946 | Gross: $11.80M

Actors: 4.6 Stars Direction: 4.7 Stars Screenplay: 4.6 Stars

Oscars: 3 Oscar Nominations: 8 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 0 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 0

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