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1.
Seven Samurai
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Not Rated
| 207 min
| Action, Drama a list of 100 titles

8.6

Rate
98
Metascore
Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran
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him. As the samurai teach the peasants how to defend a list of 35 people
themselves, the village is attacked by an army of bandits.
Director:
Akira Kurosawa
| Stars:
Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko
Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki
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Votes:
343,398
| Gross:
$0.27M Movies of All Time
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2.
Schindler's List
(1993)
Top 25 Movie Directors
R
| 195 min
| Biography, Drama, History of All time
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9

Rate
94
Metascore
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist
Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish
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Director:
Steven Spielberg
| Stars:
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Votes:
1,337,680
| Gross:
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3.
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:
1,253,715
| Gross:
$57.30M

Watch on Prime Video
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4.
The Godfather
(1972)
R
| 175 min
| Crime, Drama

9.2

Rate
100
Metascore
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty in postwar
New York City transfers control of his clandestine empire to his
reluctant youngest son.
Director:
| Stars:
Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James
Caan, Diane Keaton
Votes:
1,828,316
| Gross:
$134.97M

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5.
Bicycle Thieves
(1948)
Not Rated
| 89 min
| Drama

8.3

Rate
In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen,
endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to
find it.
Director:
Vittorio De Sica
| Stars:
Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola,
Lianella Carell, Elena Altieri

Votes:
162,796
| Gross:
$0.33M
6.
Nayak: The Hero
(1966)
Not Rated
| 117 min
| Drama

8.2

Rate
En route to Delhi to receive an award, a Bengali film star
reevaluates his success through his fellow passengers, dreams,
and past experiences.
Director:
Satyajit Ray
| Stars:
Uttam Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Bireswar Sen,
Somen Bose

Votes:
4,423
7.
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 Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank
Finlay, Emilia Fox

Votes:
819,696
| Gross:
$32.57M
8.
Goodfellas
(1990)
R
| 145 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 Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci,
Lorraine Bracco
Votes:
1,142,856
| Gross:
$46.84M

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9.
Metropolis
(1927)
Not Rated
| 153 min
| Drama, Sci-Fi

8.3

Rate
98
Metascore
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and
the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love
with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior
to mediate their differences.
Director:
Fritz Lang
| Stars:
Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich,
Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Votes:
173,523
| Gross:
$1.24M

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10.
La dolce vita
(1960)
Not Rated
| 174 min
| Comedy, Drama

8

Rate
95
Metascore
A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering
tabloid journalist living in Rome.
Director:
Federico Fellini
| Stars:
Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk
Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux

Votes:
73,113
| Gross:
$19.52M
11.
Taxi Driver
(1976)
R
| 114 min
| Crime, Drama

8.2

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.
Director:
Martin Scorsese
| Stars:
Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill
Shepherd, Albert Brooks
Votes:
817,456
| Gross:
$28.26M

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12.
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
(1972)
Not Rated
| 95 min
| Action, Adventure, Biography

7.8

Rate
In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre
leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.
Director:
Werner Herzog
| Stars:
Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, Helena Rojo, Del
Negro

Votes:
57,215
13.
Tokyo Story
(1953)
Not Rated
| 136 min
| Drama

8.2

Rate
An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city,
but receive little attention.
Director:
Yasujirô Ozu
| Stars:
Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Sô
Yamamura, Setsuko Hara

Votes:
61,503
14.
Army of Shadows
(1969)
Not Rated
| 145 min
| Drama, War

8.1

Rate
99
Metascore
An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied
France.
Director:
Jean-Pierre Melville
| Stars:
Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-
Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret

Votes:
23,676
| Gross:
$0.74M
15.
Sansho the Bailiff
(1954)
Not Rated
| 124 min
| Drama

8.4

Rate
96
Metascore
In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile.
His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the
children grow up amid suffering and oppression.
Director:
Kenji Mizoguchi
| Stars:
Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyôko
Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô

Votes:
16,575
16.
The 400 Blows
(1959)
Not Rated
| 99 min
| Crime, Drama

8.1

Rate
A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty
crime.
Director:
François Truffaut
| Stars:
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, Claire
Maurier, Guy Decomble

Votes:
117,382
17.
The Boat
(1981)
R
| 149 min
| Drama, War

8.4

Rate
86
Metascore
The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom,
filth and sheer terror.
Director:
Wolfgang Petersen
| Stars:
Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer,
Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch

Votes:
249,913
| Gross:
$11.49M
18.
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:
439,321
| Gross:
$1.59M
19.
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
(2003)
R
| 103 min
| Drama, Romance

8

Rate
85
Metascore
A boy is raised by a Buddhist monk in an isolated floating temple
where the years pass like the seasons.
Director:
Kim Ki-duk
| Stars:
Kim Ki-duk, Oh Yeong-su, Jong-ho Kim, Kim
Young-min

Votes:
82,930
| Gross:
$2.38M
20.
I Remember
(1973)
R
| 123 min
| Comedy, Drama

7.9

Rate
A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian
coastal town.
Director:
Federico Fellini
| Stars:
Magali Noël, Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio,
Armando Brancia

Votes:
43,656
| Gross:
$0.58M
21.
Raise the Red Lantern
(1991)
PG
| 125 min
| Drama, History, Romance

8.1

Rate
A young woman becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy lord, and
must learn to live with the strict rules and tensions within the
household.
Director:
Yimou Zhang
| Stars:
Gong Li, Jingwu Ma, Saifei He, Cuifen Cao

Votes:
32,714
| Gross:
$2.60M
22.
Harakiri
(1962)
Not Rated
| 133 min
| Action, Drama, Mystery

8.6

Rate
85
Metascore
When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told
of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he
reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so
challenges the clan's integrity.
Director:
Masaki Kobayashi
| Stars:
Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Ishihama, Shima
Iwashita, Tetsurô Tanba

Votes:
56,070
23.
8½
(1963)
Not Rated
| 138 min
| Drama

8

Rate
91
Metascore
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and
fantasies.
Director:
Federico Fellini
| Stars:
Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia
Cardinale, Sandra Milo

Votes:
117,654
| Gross:
$0.05M
24.
Z
(1969)
M/PG
| 127 min
| Crime, Drama, Thriller

8.2

Rate
86
Metascore
The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a
violent demonstration is covered up by military and government
officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get
away with it.
Director:
Costa-Gavras
| Stars:
Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis
Trintignant, François Périer

Votes:
28,820
| Gross:
$0.08M
25.
The Music Room
(1958)
Not Rated
| 95 min
| Drama, Music

7.9

Rate
Depicts the end days of a decadent zamindar (landlord) in
Bengal, and his efforts to uphold his family prestige even when
faced with economic adversity.
Director:
Satyajit Ray
| Stars:
Chhabi Biswas, Sardar Akhtar, Gangapada
Basu, Bismillah Khan

Votes:
6,119
| Gross:
$0.09M
26.
Léon: The Professional
(1994)
R
| 110 min
| Action, Crime, Drama

8.5

Rate
64
Metascore
12-year-old Mathilda is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a
professional assassin, after her family is murdered. An unusual
relationship forms as she becomes his protégée and learns the
assassin's trade.
Director:
Luc Besson
| Stars:
Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman,
Danny Aiello

Votes:
1,145,398
| Gross:
$19.50M
27.
Gone with the Wind
(1939)
Passed
| 238 min
| Drama, Romance, War

8.2

Rate
97
Metascore
The manipulative daughter of a Georgia plantation owner
conducts a turbulent romance with a roguish profiteer 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:
313,946
| Gross:
$198.68M
28.
Rashomon
(1950)
Not Rated
| 88 min
| Crime, Drama, Mystery

8.2

Rate
98
Metascore
The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are
recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the
samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
Director:
Akira Kurosawa
| Stars:
Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki
Mori, Takashi Shimura

Votes:
167,733
| Gross:
$0.10M
29.
A City of Sadness
(1989)
Not Rated
| 157 min
| Drama, History

7.8

Rate
The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror" that was
wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government
after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s.
Director:
Hsiao-Hsien Hou
| Stars:
Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Shu-Fen Hsin,
Sung-Young Chen, Jack Kao

Votes:
4,950
30.
Children of Paradise
(1945)
Not Rated
| 189 min
| Drama, Romance

8.3

Rate
96
Metascore
The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan in 1830s Paris and the
four men who love her.
Director:
Marcel Carné
| Stars:
Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur,
Pierre Renoir

Votes:
19,934
31.
Grave of the Fireflies
(1988)
Not Rated
| 89 min
| Animation, Drama, War

8.5

Rate
94
Metascore
A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan
during World War II.
Director:
Isao Takahata
| Stars:
Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Akemi
Yamaguchi, Yoshiko Shinohara

Votes:
273,289
32.
The Departed
(2006)
R
| 151 min

8.5

Rate
85
Metascore
An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify
each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.
Director:
Martin Scorsese
| Stars:
Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack
Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg

Votes:
1,308,022
| Gross:
$132.38M
33.
Close-Up
(1990)
Not Rated
| 98 min
| Biography, Crime, Drama

8.2

Rate
The true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated
the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would
star in his so-called new film.
Director:
Abbas Kiarostami
| Stars:
Hossain Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf,
Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah

Votes:
19,864
| Gross:
$0.00M
34.
Andrei Rublev
(1966)
R
| 205 min
| Biography, Drama, History

8

Rate
The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian
iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
Director:
Andrei Tarkovsky
| Stars:
Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov,
Nikolay Grinko, Nikolay Sergeev

Votes:
53,587
| Gross:
$0.10M
35.
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
(1961)
Not Rated
| 190 min
| Drama, History, War

8.8

Rate
His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan's
military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for
survival.
Director:
Masaki Kobayashi
| Stars:
Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama,
Tamao Nakamura, Yûsuke Kawazu

Votes:
6,424
36.
Children of Heaven
(1997)
PG
| 89 min
| Drama, Family, Sport

8.2

Rate
77
Metascore
After a boy loses his sister's pair of shoes, he goes on a series of
adventures in order to find them. When he can't, he tries a new
way to "win" a new pair.
Director:
Majid Majidi
| Stars:
Mohammad Amir Naji, Amir Farrokh
Hashemian, Bahare Seddiqi, Nafise Jafar-Mohammadi

Votes:
74,607
| Gross:
$0.93M
37.
Once Upon a Time in the West
(1968)
PG-13
| 165 min
| Western

8.5

Rate
80
Metascore
A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a
notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless
assassin working for the railroad.
Director:
Sergio Leone
| Stars:
Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia
Cardinale, Jason Robards

Votes:
327,223
| Gross:
$5.32M
38.
Le Samouraï
(1967)
GP
| 101 min
| Crime, Drama

8

Rate
After professional hitman Jef Costello is seen by witnesses his
efforts to provide himself an alibi drive him further into a corner.
Director:
Jean-Pierre Melville
| Stars:
Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie
Delon, Cathy Rosier

Votes:
51,528
| Gross:
$0.04M
39.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the Bomb
(1964)
PG
| 95 min
| Comedy, War

8.4

Rate
97
Metascore
An insane American general orders a bombing attack on the
Soviet Union, triggering 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:
487,043
| Gross:
$0.28M
40.
The Leopard
(1963)
PG
| 186 min
| Drama, History

8

Rate
100
Metascore
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity,
tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social
upheavals of 1860s Sicily.
Director:
Luchino Visconti
| Stars:
Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia
Cardinale, Paolo Stoppa

Votes:
26,028
41.
Once Upon a Time in America
(1984)
R
| 229 min
| Crime, Drama

8.3

Rate
75
Metascore
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower
East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again
confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Director:
Sergio Leone
| Stars:
Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth
McGovern, Treat Williams

Votes:
349,113
| Gross:
$5.32M
42.
Paths of Glory
(1957)
Approved
| 88 min
| Drama, War

8.4

Rate
90
Metascore
After refusing to attack an enemy position, a general accuses the
soldiers of cowardice and their commanding officer must defend
them.
Director:
Stanley Kubrick
| Stars:
Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe
Menjou, George Macready

Votes:
196,216
43.
Life Is Beautiful
(1997)
PG-13
| 116 min
| Comedy, Drama, Romance

8.6

Rate
59
Metascore
When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims
of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor, and
imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their
camp.
Director:
Roberto Benigni
| Stars:
Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio
Cantarini, Giustino Durano

Votes:
686,654
| Gross:
$57.60M
44.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
(1966)
R
| 178 min
| Adventure, 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 Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef,
Aldo Giuffrè

Votes:
753,535
| Gross:
$6.10M
45.
Charulata
(1964)
Not Rated
| 117 min
| Drama, Romance

8.1

Rate
The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her
visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.
Director:
Satyajit Ray
| Stars:
Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhavi Mukherjee,
Shailen Mukherjee, Shyamal Ghoshal

Votes:
6,461
| Gross:
$0.08M
46.
Modern Times
(1936)
G
| 87 min

8.5

Rate
96
Metascore
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the
help of a young homeless woman.
Director:
Charles Chaplin
| Stars:
Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry
Bergman, Tiny Sandford

Votes:
240,741
| Gross:
$0.16M
47.
Stalker
(1979)
Not Rated
| 162 min
| Drama, Sci-Fi

8.1

Rate
A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to
find a room that grants wishes.
Director:
Andrei Tarkovsky
| Stars:
Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr
Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko

Votes:
133,401
| Gross:
$0.23M
48.
Se7en
(1995)
R
| 127 min

8.6

Rate
65
Metascore
Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who
uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.
Director:
David Fincher
| Stars:
Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey,
Andrew Kevin Walker

Votes:
1,622,233
| Gross:
$100.13M
49.
In the Mood for Love
(2000)
PG
| 98 min
| Drama, Romance

8.1

Rate
85
Metascore
Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect
extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to
keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.
Director:
Kar-Wai Wong
| Stars:
Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Maggie Cheung, Siu
Ping-Lam, Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung

Votes:
148,191
| Gross:
$2.73M
50.
Solaris
(1972)
PG
| 167 min
| Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

8

Rate
90
Metascore
A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in
order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
Director:
Andrei Tarkovsky
| Stars:
Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis,
Jüri Järvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetskiy

Votes:
91,050
51.
Apocalypse Now
(1979)
R
| 147 min
| Drama, Mystery, War

8.5

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:
| Stars:
Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert
Duvall, Frederic Forrest

Votes:
660,799
| Gross:
$83.47M
52.
Mirror
(1975)
Not Rated
| 107 min
| Biography, Drama

8

Rate
80
Metascore
A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his
mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the
recent history of all the Russian nation.
Director:
Andrei Tarkovsky
| Stars:
Margarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovskiy,
Ignat Daniltsev, Oleg Yankovskiy

Votes:
46,592
| Gross:
$0.18M
53.
Underground
(1995)
Not Rated
| 167 min
| Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

8.1

Rate
79
Metascore
A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal
underground filled by parties, tragedies, love, and hate.
Director:
Emir Kusturica
| Stars:
Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski,
Mirjana Jokovic, Slavko Stimac

Votes:
58,455
| Gross:
$0.17M
54.
City of God
(2002)
R
| 130 min
| Crime, Drama

8.6

Rate
79
Metascore
In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to
become a photographer and the other a kingpin.
Directors:
Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
| Stars:
Alexandre Rodrigues,
Leandro Firmino, Matheus Nachtergaele, Phellipe Haagensen

Votes:
750,008
| Gross:
$7.56M
55.
Sunrise
(1927)
Passed
| 94 min
| Drama, Romance

8.1

Rate
A sophisticated urban woman seduces a farmer in the hopes that
he will murder his neglected wife and join her in the city, but he
ends up rekindling his romance with his wife when she discovers
their scheme.
Director:
F.W. Murnau
| Stars:
George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret
Livingston, Bodil Rosing

Votes:
51,040
| Gross:
$0.54M
56.
It Happened One Night
(1934)
Passed
| 105 min
| Comedy, Romance

8.1

Rate
87
Metascore
A renegade reporter trailing a young runaway heiress for a big
story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York, and
they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them
behind at one of the stops.
Director:
Frank Capra
| Stars:
Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter
Connolly, Roscoe Karns

Votes:
103,663
| Gross:
$4.36M
57.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
(1920)
Not Rated
| 67 min
| Horror, Mystery, Thriller

8

Rate
Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit
murders.
Director:
Robert Wiene
| Stars:
Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich
Feher, Lil Dagover

Votes:
63,624
58.
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:
451,094
59.
Spirited Away
(2001)
PG
| 125 min
| Animation, Adventure, Family

8.6

Rate
96
Metascore
During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl
wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and
where humans are changed into beasts.
Director:
Hayao Miyazaki
| Stars:
Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette, Miyu
Irino, Rumi Hiiragi

Votes:
749,361
| Gross:
$10.06M
60.
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:
1,371,308
| Gross:
$216.54M
61.
The Great Dictator
(1940)
G
| 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 Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack
Oakie, Reginald Gardiner

Votes:
222,770
| Gross:
$0.29M
62.
City Lights
(1931)
G
| 87 min

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 Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence
Lee, Harry Myers

Votes:
183,798
| Gross:
$0.02M
63.
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 Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L.
Jackson, Bruce Willis

Votes:
2,018,827
| Gross:
$107.93M
64.
Oldboy
(2003)
R
| 101 min
| Action, Drama, Mystery

8.4

Rate
77
Metascore
After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-
Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five
days.
Director:
Park Chan-wook
| Stars:
Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jeong,
Kim Byeong-Ok

Votes:
571,725
| Gross:
$0.71M
65.
Jaws
(1975)
PG
| 124 min
| Adventure, Thriller

8.1

Rate
87
Metascore
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off
Cape Cod, 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:
598,314
| Gross:
$260.00M
66.
American History X
(1998)
R
| 119 min
| Crime, Drama

8.5

Rate
62
Metascore
A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother
from going down the same wrong path that he did.
Director:
Tony Kaye
| Stars:
Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly
D'Angelo, Jennifer Lien

Votes:
1,110,671
| Gross:
$6.72M
67.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
(1975)
R
| 133 min
| Drama

8.7

Rate
84
Metascore
In the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads
insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies
up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.
Director:
Milos Forman
| Stars:
Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael
Berryman, Peter Brocco

Votes:
996,958
| Gross:
$112.00M
68.
Memento
(2000)
R
| 113 min
| Mystery, Thriller

8.4

Rate
80
Metascore
A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his
wife's murderer.
Director:
Christopher Nolan
| Stars:
Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe
Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior

Votes:
1,224,194
| Gross:
$25.54M
69.
The Wizard of Oz
(1939)
PG
| 102 min
| Adventure, Family, Fantasy

8.1

Rate
92
Metascore
Young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a
tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and
embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who
can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.
Directors:
Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Taurog,
Richard Thorpe, King Vidor
| Stars:
Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger,
Bert Lahr

Votes:
396,484
| Gross:
$2.08M
70.
A Separation
(2011)
PG-13
| 123 min
| Drama

8.3

Rate
95
Metascore
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve
the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in
Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's
disease.
Director:
Asghar Farhadi
| Stars:
Payman Maadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat,
Shahab Hosseini

Votes:
244,129
| Gross:
$7.10M
71.
2001: A Space Odyssey
(1968)
G
| 149 min
| Adventure, Sci-Fi

8.3

Rate
84
Metascore
After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar
surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins - a
spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer H.A.L.
9000.
Director:
Stanley Kubrick
| Stars:
Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William
Sylvester, Daniel Richter

Votes:
661,624
| Gross:
$56.95M
72.
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 Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles,
John Gavin

Votes:
663,732
| Gross:
$32.00M
73.
Vertigo
(1958)
PG
| 128 min
| Mystery, Romance, Thriller

8.3

Rate
100
Metascore
A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his

personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly
beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply
disturbed.
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
| Stars:
James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel
Geddes, Tom Helmore

Votes:
399,390
| Gross:
$3.20M
74.
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 Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von
Stroheim, Nancy Olson

Votes:
220,658
75.
Witness for the Prosecution
(1957)
Approved
| 116 min

8.4

Rate
76
Metascore
A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial

that has surprise after surprise.
Director:
Billy Wilder
| Stars:
Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles
Laughton, Elsa Lanchester

Votes:
124,529
| Gross:
$8.18M
76.
Rear Window
(1954)
PG
| 112 min
| Mystery, Thriller

8.5

Rate
100
Metascore
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his
Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window, and becomes
convinced one of them has committed murder, despite the
skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend.
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
| Stars:
James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell
Corey, Thelma Ritter

Votes:
487,215
| Gross:
$36.76M
77.
The Apartment
(1960)
Approved
| 125 min

8.3

Rate
94
Metascore
A Manhattan insurance clerk 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 Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred
MacMurray, Ray Walston

Votes:
180,599
| Gross:
$18.60M
78.
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 Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan
Freeman, Richard Harris

Votes:
409,447
| Gross:
$101.16M
79.
Breathless
(1960)
Not Rated
| 90 min
| Crime, Drama

7.7

Rate
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a
motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he reunites
with a hip American journalism student and attempts to persuade
her to run away with him to Italy.
Director:
Jean-Luc Godard
| Stars:
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel
Boulanger, Henri-Jacques Huet

Votes:
80,981
| Gross:
$0.34M
80.
A Clockwork Orange
(1971)
R
| 136 min
| Crime, 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 McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael
Bates, Warren Clarke

Votes:
821,116
| Gross:
$6.21M
81.
12 Angry Men
(1957)
Approved
| 96 min
| Crime, Drama

9

Rate
96
Metascore
The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single
member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully
consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.
Director:
Sidney Lumet
| Stars:
Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam,
John Fiedler

Votes:
778,824
| Gross:
$4.36M
82.
Full Metal Jacket
(1987)
R
| 116 min
| Drama, War

8.3

Rate
76
Metascore
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the
Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot
camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Director:
Stanley Kubrick
| Stars:
Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent
D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin

Votes:
735,181
| Gross:
$46.36M
83.
Fargo
(1996)
R
| 98 min
| Crime, Thriller

8.1

Rate
85
Metascore
Minnesota car salesman 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 Coen, Ethan Coen
| Stars:
William H. Macy, Frances
McDormand, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare

Votes:
672,498
| Gross:
$24.61M
84.
No Country for Old Men
(2007)
R
| 122 min

8.2

Rate
92
Metascore
Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug
deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near
the Rio Grande.
Directors:
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
| Stars:
Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem,
Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson

Votes:
958,660
| Gross:
$74.28M
85.
North by Northwest
(1959)
Approved
| 136 min
| Action, Adventure, Mystery

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,
and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
| Stars:
Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James
Mason, Jessie Royce Landis

Votes:
325,848
| Gross:
$13.28M
86.
The General
(1926)
Passed
| 67 min
| Action, Adventure, Comedy

8.2

Rate
After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it
was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-
handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by
Union spies and return it through enemy lines.
Directors:
Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton
| Stars:
Buster Keaton, Marion
Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley

Votes:
91,174
| Gross:
$1.03M
87.
The Lives of Others
(2006)
R
| 137 min
| Drama, Mystery, Thriller

8.4

Rate
89
Metascore
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting
surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming
increasingly absorbed by their lives.
Director:
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
| Stars:
Ulrich Mühe, Martina
Gedeck, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur

Votes:
387,267
| Gross:
$11.29M
88.
Requiem for a Dream
(2000)
R
| 102 min
| Drama

8.3

Rate
68
Metascore
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are
shattered when their addictions run deep.
Director:
Darren Aronofsky
| Stars:
Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer
Connelly, Marlon Wayans

Votes:
832,928
| Gross:
$3.64M
89.
The Cloud-Capped Star
(1960)
Not Rated
| 126 min
| Drama, Musical

7.9

Rate
A selfless young woman (Supriya Choudhury) sacrifices her own
happiness for her unappreciative family.
Director:
Ritwik Ghatak
| Stars:
Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee,
Gyanesh Mukherjee, Bijon Bhattacharya

Votes:
2,842
90.
Casablanca
(1942)
PG
| 102 min
| Drama, Romance, War

8.5

Rate
100
Metascore
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide
whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband
escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
Director:
Michael Curtiz
| Stars:
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul
Henreid, Claude Rains

Votes:
566,684
| Gross:
$1.02M
91.
The Rules of the Game
(1939)
Not Rated
| 110 min
| Comedy, Drama

7.9

Rate
A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich
and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.
Director:
Jean Renoir
| Stars:
Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost,
Mila Parély

Votes:
29,107
92.
Amadeus
(1984)
R
| 160 min
| Biography, Drama, Music

8.4

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:
398,374
| Gross:
$51.97M
93.
Frankenstein
(1931)
Passed
| 70 min
| Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

7.8

Rate
91
Metascore
Dr. Frankenstein dares to tamper with life and death by creating
a human monster out of lifeless body parts.
Director:
James Whale
| Stars:
Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, John
Boles

Votes:
72,113
94.
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 Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor
Howard

Votes:
171,180
| Gross:
$0.45M
95.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
(2007)
PG-13
| 112 min
| Biography, Drama

8

Rate
92
Metascore
The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a
stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only
his left eye isn't paralyzed.
Director:
Julian Schnabel
| Stars:
Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner,
Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny

Votes:
107,708
| Gross:
$5.99M
96.
All About Eve
(1950)
Passed
| 138 min
| Drama

8.2

Rate
98
Metascore
A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself
into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater
friends.
Director:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
| Stars:
Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George
Sanders, Celeste Holm

Votes:
131,040
| Gross:
$0.01M
97.
Pather Panchali
(1955)
Not Rated
| 125 min
| Drama

8.3

Rate
Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for
himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of
work.
Director:
Satyajit Ray
| Stars:
Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir
Banerjee, Chunibala Devi

Votes:
32,724
| Gross:
$0.54M
98.
King Kong
(1933)
Passed
| 100 min
| Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi

7.9

Rate
90
Metascore
A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot
and discovers a colossal ape who takes a shine to their female
blonde star. He is then captured and brought back to New York
City for public exhibition.
Directors:
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
| Stars:
Fay Wray, Robert
Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher

Votes:
85,452
| Gross:
$10.00M
99.
The Bandit
(1996)
Not Rated
| 128 min

8.1

Rate
Baran the Bandit, released from prison after 35 years, searches
for vengeance and his lover.
Director:
Yavuz Turgul
| Stars:
Sener Sen, Ugur Yücel, Sermin Hürmeriç,
Yesim Salkim

Votes:
69,963
100.
The Motorcycle Diaries
(2004)
R
| 126 min
| Adventure, Biography, Drama

7.8

Rate
75
Metascore
The dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on
in his youth that showed him his life's calling.
Director:
Walter Salles
| Stars:
Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Mía
Maestro, Mercedes Morán

Votes:
101,318
| Gross:
$16.76M
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