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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 Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton

Votes: 1,465,852 | Gross: $134.97M

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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

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 Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William
Sadler

Votes: 2,135,006 | 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

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 Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline
Goodall

Votes: 1,108,140 | 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

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 Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent

Votes: 293,124 | 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
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 Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude
Rains

Votes: 483,752 | 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

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 Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes
Moorehead
Votes: 368,790 | 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

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 Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood | Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh,
Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil

Votes: 267,760 | 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
8. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

PG | 102 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Rate
100 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 Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Taurog, Richard Thorpe,
King Vidor | Stars: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr

Votes: 355,914 | 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

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


R | 133 min | Drama

8.7

Rate
83 Metascore

A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution
rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.

Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Will Sampson, Michael
Berryman

Votes: 844,562 | 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

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'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins

Votes: 246,821 | 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

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 Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom
Helmore

Votes: 327,029 | 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
12. Psycho (1960)

R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

8.5

Rate
97 Metascore

A Phoenix secretary embezzles forty thousand dollars 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 Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin

Votes: 548,686 | 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

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 Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane
Keaton

Votes: 1,019,852 | 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

14. On the Waterfront (1954)

Not Rated | 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 Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger

Votes: 130,675 | 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
15. Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Not Rated | 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 Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy
Olson

Votes: 182,895

***** 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

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
history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field

Votes: 1,643,068 | Gross: $330.25M

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

17. The Sound of Music (1965)

G | 172 min | Biography, Drama, Family

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 Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard
Haydn

Votes: 185,513 | 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

18. 12 Angry Men (1957)

Not Rated | 96 min | 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 Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler

Votes: 608,942 | 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

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 Robbins, Robert Wise | Stars: Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard
Beymer, Russ Tamblyn

Votes: 89,181 | 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

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 Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness

Votes: 1,137,472 | 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

21. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

G | 149 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

8.3

Rate
82 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 Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel
Richter

Votes: 552,122 | 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
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 Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Dee
Wallace

Votes: 342,213 | 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

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 Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Lawrence A. Bonney,
Kasi Lemmons

Votes: 1,156,314 | 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

24. Chinatown (1974)

R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

8.2

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 Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez

Votes: 269,957 | 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

25. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

PG | 161 min | Adventure, Drama, War

8.1

Rate
87 Metascore

After settling his differences with a Japanese P.O.W. camp commander, a British Colonel co-
operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors, while
oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.

Director: David Lean | Stars: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue
Hayakawa

Votes: 188,564 | 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
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 Donen, Gene Kelly | Stars: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie
Reynolds, Jean Hagen

Votes: 200,655 | 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

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 Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas
Mitchell

Votes: 363,127
***** 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

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 Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan
Wynn

Votes: 420,549 | Gross: $0.28M

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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
29. Some Like It Hot (1959)

Not Rated | 121 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

8.2

Rate
97 Metascore

When 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 Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft

Votes: 224,411 | 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

30. Ben-Hur (1959)

G | 212 min | Adventure, Drama, History


8.1

Rate
90 Metascore

When 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 Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya
Harareet

Votes: 204,064 | 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

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 Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall,
Frederic Forrest

Votes: 558,058 | 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

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 Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy
Dotrice

Votes: 342,132 | 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
33. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

PG-13 | 201 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

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 Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Orlando
Bloom

Votes: 1,518,423 | 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

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 Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed

Votes: 1,232,508 | Gross: $187.71M


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***** 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

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 DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates

Votes: 972,131 | 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
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 Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna
Reed

Votes: 39,914 | 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

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 Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns

Votes: 1,131,348 | 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

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 and a young man.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard
Harris

Votes: 346,667 | 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

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 Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, John Rhys-
Davies

Votes: 824,848 | 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
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 Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers

Votes: 480,019 | 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

41. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

PG | 122 min | Drama


8

Rate
96 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 Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden

Votes: 92,687 | 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

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 Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey

Votes: 59,231

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
43. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Not Rated | 129 min | Crime, Drama

8.3

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 Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary
Murphy

Votes: 276,134

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

44. An American in Paris (1951)

Passed | 114 min | Drama, Musical, Romance


7.2

Rate
84 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 Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary

Votes: 27,783 | 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

45. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Approved | 170 min | Drama, Romance, War

Rate
92 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 Loy, Dana Andrews, Fredric March, Teresa Wright

Votes: 53,888 | 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
46. My Fair Lady (1964)

G | 170 min | Drama, Family, Musical

7.8

Rate
95 Metascore

Snobbish phonetics Professor Henry Higgins (Sir Rex Harrison) agrees to a wager that he can
make flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) presentable in high society.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid
Hyde-White

Votes: 80,693 | 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

47. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

R | 136 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi


8.3

Rate
80 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 McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren
Clarke

Votes: 700,718

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

48. Doctor Zhivago (1965)

PG-13 | 197 min | Drama, Romance, War

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 Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger

Votes: 65,177 | 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

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 Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond

Votes: 74,143

***** 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

50. Jaws (1975)


PG | 124 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

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 Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine
Gary

Votes: 517,154 | Gross: $260.00M

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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

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