Top 100 films
Citizen Kane
Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final ...
The Godfather
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his relu...
2001: A Space Odyssey
Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the i...
Singin' in the Rain
A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
Casablanca
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unfores...
Schindler's List
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish...
Annie Hall
Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditzy Annie Hall.
Taxi Driver
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perc...
Pulp Fiction
The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four ...
The Wizard of Oz
Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who ca...
Lawrence of Arabia
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and lead the diverse, often warri...
The Godfather: Part II
The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York is portrayed while his son, Michael, expands...
Apocalypse Now
During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a ren...
Goodfellas
Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.
The Searchers
A Civil War veteran embarks on a journey to rescue his niece from an Indian tribe.
Some Like It Hot
When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but f...
All About Eve
An ingenue insinuates herself into the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle o...
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals f...
On the Waterfront
An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.
Bicycle Thieves
Set in Post-WWII Italy, a working class man's bicycle is stolen. He and his son set out to find it.
It's a Wonderful Life
An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have be...
Seven Samurai
A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.
Gone with the Wind
A manipulative Southern belle carries on a turbulent affair with a blockade runner during the American Ci...
The Third Man
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the my...
A Clockwork Orange
In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental avers...
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home-world.
North by Northwest
A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, ...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels aga...
Sunset Boulevard
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscur...
Raging Bull
An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him t...
The Best Years of Our Lives
Three World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families ha...
The Bridge on the River Kwai
After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to overs...
The Hurt Locker
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mat...
The Graduate
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
Tokyo Story
An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city; but the children have little time for t...
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a wookiee and two droids to save the galax...
The Silence of the Lambs
A young F.B.I. cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catch...
The Apartment
A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complicati...
Rear Window
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced o...
City Lights
With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flow...
To Kill a Mockingbird
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charg...
The Gold Rush
A prospector goes to the Klondike in search of gold and finds it and more.
Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true...
The Rules of the Game
A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a...
The Shining
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the fa...
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as th...
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenan...
Blade Runner
A blade runner must pursue and try to terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have return...
It Happened One Night
A spoiled heiress, running away from her family, is helped by a man who is actually a reporter in need of...
West Side Story
Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends...
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
After the rebels have been brutally overpowered by the Empire on their newly established base, Luke Skywa...
Modern Times
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
The Maltese Falcon
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, an...
American Beauty
A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's...
The Grapes of Wrath
A poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes o...
There Will Be Blood
A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the...
All the President's Men
"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scan...
The Wild Bunch
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing ...
L.A. Confidential
As corruption grows in 1950s LA, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investi...
Mean Streets
Following the life of a small-time hood who struggles with a moral crisis regarding his friends, family, ...
Double Indemnity
An insurance representative lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an i...
The Night of the Hunter
A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their r...
Brokeback Mountain
The story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys, and their lives over the years.
Touch of Evil
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town.
The Sound of Music
A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.
Midnight Cowboy
A naive hustler goes to New York to seek personal fortune but in the process finds himself a new friend.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Fred Dobbs and Bob Curtin, two Americans searching for work in Mexico, convince an old prospector to help...
The 400 Blows
Moving story of a young boy who, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.
Bonnie and Clyde
A somewhat romanticized account of the career of the notoriously violent bank robbing couple and their ga...
Saving Private Ryan
Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper...
Battleship Potemkin
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resulting street demonstration which brought o...
Do the Right Thing
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate...
Mulholland Drive
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hop...
The Shawshank Redemption
Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of co...
12 Years a Slave
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and...
The Deer Hunter
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of peopl...
A Streetcar Named Desire
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-...
The Social Network
Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, b...
The Dark Knight
When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, the caped crusader mus...
The Philadelphia Story
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, sh...
The General
When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single-handedly and straight throu...
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Film lists
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1. Top 100 Movies of All Time by Rotten Tomatoes
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2. 100 All-Time Greatest Movies by Entertainment Weekly
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3. The 50 Greatest Films of All Time by Sight & Sound
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4. The 50 Greatest Movies by Black Directors by Slate
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5. The 80 Best-Directed Films by Directors Guild of America (DGA)
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6. Directors’ 10 Greatest Films of All Time by Sight and Sound
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7. Hollywood's 100 Favorite Films by The Hollywood Reporter
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8. The 100 best movies of all time by Time Out
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9. The 100 greatest American films by BBC
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10. Best Picture by New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC)
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11. Best Film by National Board of Review of Motion Pictures
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12. The 50 Greatest Films by The One-Line Review
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13. BAFTA Award for Best Film by British Academy of Film and Television Arts
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14. Top 100 British films by British Film Institute
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15. Best Picture by National Society of Film Critics
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16. AFI's 100 Greatest American Movies of All Time by American Film Institute
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17. Top Rated Movies by IMDb
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18. 102 Greatest Films by filmsite
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19. John Kobal Presents the Top 100 Movies by John Kobal
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20. Ten Greatest Films of All Time by Roger Ebert
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21. The 25 Best Films of the 21st Century So Far by The New York Times
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22. 12 Greatest Films of All Time by Quentin Tarantino
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23. Academy Award for Best Picture by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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24. Essential List of Films for Filmmakers by Spike Lee
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25. 12 Greatest Films of All Time by Martin Scorsese
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26. Best Picture by Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association
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27. Best European Film of the Year by European Film Awards
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28. Best Film by Independent Spirit Awards
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29. Best Picture by Los Angeles Film Critics Association
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30. Best Picture by Chicago Film Critics Association
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31. Best Picture by Boston Society of Film Critics
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32. The 25 "Greatest" Documentaries of All Time by POV
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33. Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy by Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Golden Globe)
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34. Best Film by Austin Film Critics Association
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35. Best Picture by The San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle
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36. Best Film by Village Voice Film Poll
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37. Best Motion Picture - Drama by Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Golden Globe)
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38. The 25 Best Sci-Fi Movies of the Last 25 Years by ScreenCrush
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39. Best Picture by Florida Film Critics Circle
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40. Best Theatrical Motion Picture by Producers Guild of America