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Top Movies of All Time
Ranked according to average ranking by AFI, CinePad.com and IMDB (see below)
Rnk |
Movie |
Year |
Rank |
Score |
AFI |
cine pad |
imdb |
Yahoo Users |
1 |
Citizen Kane |
1941 |
1 |
1 |
8.6 |
B+ |
2 |
Schindler's List |
1993 |
9 |
10 |
8.8 |
A- |
3 |
Godfather, The |
1972 |
3 |
26 |
9.1 |
A- |
4 |
Casablanca |
1942 |
2 |
25 |
8.8 |
B+ |
5 |
Lawrence of Arabia |
1962 |
5 |
29 |
8.5 |
B+ |
6 |
Singin' In The Rain |
1952 |
10 |
6 |
8.3 |
B+ |
7 |
Star Wars |
1977 |
15 |
32 |
8.7 |
A- |
8 |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
1975 |
20 |
33 |
8.7 |
B+ |
9 |
The Bridge On The River Kwai |
1957 |
13 |
31 |
8.4 |
B+ |
10 |
All About Eve |
1950 |
16 |
18 |
8.3 |
B+ |
11 |
On The Waterfront |
1954 |
8.0 |
16 |
8.2 |
B+ |
12 |
2001: A Space Odyssey |
1968 |
22 |
12 |
8.3 |
B |
13 |
Godfather Part II |
1974 |
32 |
40 |
8.9 |
B+ |
14 |
It's A Wonderful Life |
1946 |
11 |
58 |
8.5 |
B+ |
15 |
Psycho |
1960 |
18 |
63 |
8.6 |
B+ |
16 |
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
1948 |
30 |
38 |
8.4 |
B+ |
18 |
Raging Bull |
1980 |
24 |
35 |
8.3 |
B+ |
17 |
Vertigo |
1958 |
61 |
3 |
8.5 |
B+ |
19 |
The Wizard of Oz |
1939 |
6 |
54 |
8.2 |
B+ |
20 |
Chinatown |
1974 |
19 |
63 |
8.4 |
B+ |
22 |
Some Like It Hot |
1959 |
14 |
59 |
8.3 |
B+ |
21 |
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb |
1964 |
26 |
70 |
8.6 |
B+ |
23 |
Gone With The Wind |
1939 |
4 |
28 |
8.0 |
B+ |
24 |
Annie Hall |
1977 |
31 |
14 |
8.1 |
B |
25 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | 47 | 50 | 8.5 | B+ |
26 | High Noon | 1952 | 33 | 41 | 8.2 | |
27 | Maltese Falcon, The | 1941 | 23 | 69 | 8.3 | |
28 | Rear Window | 1954 | 42 | 78 | 8.7 |
29 | North by Northwest | 1959 | 40 | 76 | 8.6 |
30 | Amadeus | 1984 | 53 | 26 | 8.2 |
31 | Sunset Boulevard | 1950 | 12 | | 8.5 |
32 | The Graduate | 1967 | 7 | 57 | 8.0 |
33 | It Happened One Night | 1934 | 35 | 42 | 8.1 |
34 | E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | 25 | 36 | 8.0 |
35 | Silence of the Lambs, The | 1991 | 65 | 60 | 8.6 |
36 | City Lights | 1931 | 76 | 8 | 8.2 |
37 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | 46 | 82 | 8.4 |
38 | African Queen, The | 1951 | 17 | 62 | 8.0 |
39 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | 28 | 120 | 8.5 |
40 | Pulp Fiction | 1994 | 95 | 48 | 8.8 |
41 | Seven Samurai, The | 1954 | 100 | 43 | 8.8 |
42 | goodfellas | 1990 | 94 | 47 | 8.6 |
43 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | 34 | 120 | 8.4 |
44 | Best Years of our Lives, The | 1946 | 37 | 20 | 7.9 |
45 | Gold Rush, The | 1925 | 74 | 7 | 8.0 |
46 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | 72 | 34 | 8.1 |
47 | Deer Hunter | 1978 | 79 | 37 | 8.1 |
48 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 1981 | 60 | 120 | 8.6 |
49 | West Side Story | 1961 | 41 | 21 | |
50 | Apartment, The | 1960 | 93 | 46 | 8.2 |
51 | Bonnie And Clyde | 1967 | 27 | 72 | 7.9 |
52 | Midnight Cowboy | 1969 | 36 | 43 | |
53 | Jaws | 1975 | 48 | 120 | 8.2 |
54 | Forest Gump | 1994 | 71 | 104 | 8.3 |
55 | Manchurian Candidate, The | 1962 | 67 | 101 | 8.2 |
56 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1939 | 29 | 74 | |
57 | Unforgiven | 1992 | 98 | 51 | 8.1 |
58 | King Kong | 1933 | 43 | 79 | 7.9 |
59 | From Here to Eternity | 1953 | 52 | 53 | |
60 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | 45 | 81 | 7.9 |
61 | General, The | 1927 | 100 | 39 | 8.0 |
62 | Searchers, The | 1956 | 96 | 11 | 7.9 |
63 | M*A*S*H | 1970 | 56 | 54 | |
64 | Fargo | 1996 | 84 | 109 | 8.2 |
65 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | 50 | 120 | 8.0 |
66 | The Birth Of A Nation | 1915 | 44 | 80 | |
67 | Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs | 1937 | 49 | 83 | |
68 | Platoon | 1986 | 83 | 113 | 8.1 |
69 | An American In Paris | 1951 | 68 | 63 | |
70 | Sound of Music, The | 1965 | 55 | 96 | |
71 | Philadelphia Story, The | 1940 | 51 | 120 | 7.9 |
72 | Rocky | 1976 | 78 | 73 | |
73 | Tootsie | 1982 | 62 | 99 | |
74 | Network | 1976 | 66 | 100 | |
75 | All Quiet On The Western Front | 1930 | 54 | 120 | |
76 | French Connection | 1971 | 70 | 103 | |
77 | Dances With Wolves | 1990 | 75 | 106 | |
78 | American Grafitti | 1973 | 77 | 107 | |
Others with a top ranking in some database
Rnk |
Movie |
Year |
Rank |
Score |
AFI |
cine pad |
imdb |
Yahoo Users |
Meata- Critic |
|
Shawshank Redemption, The |
1994 |
|
|
9.1 |
A- | |
|
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The |
2003 |
|
|
8.8 |
A- | |
|
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back |
1980 |
|
|
8.8 |
| |
|
Good, The Bad, The Ugly, The |
1966, 2003 |
|
|
8.8 |
| 90 |
|
Superman II |
1981 |
|
|
|
| 99 |
|
Army of Shadows |
2006 |
|
|
|
| |
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 8.2 93
Toy Story 1995 7.9 91
Patton 1970 114 8.0 91
Queen, The 2006 91
Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 90
L.A. Confidential 1997 90
Saving Private Ryan 1998 90
Monty Python and the Holy Grail re-release) 2001 90
United 93 2006 90
High Noon re-release) 2004 89
Piano, The 1993 89
English Patient, The 1996 87
American Beauty 1999 86
Departed, The 2006 86
Easy Rider 1969 86
Bourne Ultimatum, The 2007 85
Love Story 1970 84
Manhattan 1979 82
Parenthood 1989 82
Animal House 1978 82
Blair Witch Project, The 1999 81
Foreign |
|
Pan's Labyrinth (Spain) Laberinto del fauno, El |
2006 |
|
|
8.4 |
B+ |
|
Rules of the Game, The
Règle du jeu, La (FR) |
1939 |
|
2 |
8.0 |
|
|
8 1/2 (IT) |
1963 |
|
4 |
8.0 |
|
|
Battleship Potemkin (USSR)
Bronenosets Potyomkin |
1925 |
|
4 |
|
|
|
Adventure, The (IT)
L'Avventura |
1960 |
|
8 |
7.9 |
|
My favorites from CNET's Top 40 must-have Blu-ray discs
2001: A Space Odyssey $13.67
Planet Earth: The Complete BBC Series $39.92
Lawrence of Arabia $17.59
Braveheart $12.66
Chinatown $28.99
Top Movies at:
1. American Film Institute (AFI) - 100 Greatest American Movies
400 greatest films.
2. Jeeem's CinePad (all time) (Movies from 1915-1997)
No single group or organization or poll has really done a good job of selecting the best movies of all time. Naturally, they all have their biases and limitations.
Jeeem's CinePad uses their exclusive Cine-Sort technology ©™® (involving ultra-complex mathematical formulas to precisely adjust for and counter-balance the strengths and shortcomings of the various sources).
Some Sources: American Film Institute poll of greatest American Films, 1915-1997. Listed by rank; Sight & Sound -- respected British film magazine's international critics' poll of top ten greatest films of all time selected each decade.
3. Internet Movie Database Inc. (IMDB) (Movies from 1920-2006)
User ratings from 1-10. (Movies from 1920-2006)
4.
Yahoo (more recent)
Top 50 listd by user ratings. Also contains critics ratings (A - F)
5. MetaCritic.com (Movies from 1962-2006)
Based on reviews of 28 critics to provide a score from 1 to 100..
6. Top Films Of All-Time at FilmSite.org (Movies from 1941-2004)
7. CNET's Top 40 must-have Blu-ray discs
Academy Awards at Wikipedia
Best Picture | Best Leading Actor | Best Leading Actress | Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress
Some Actors:
Ben Affleck, Alan Alda, Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, John Belushi, Mel Blanc, Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, James Cagney, Charlie Chaplin, George Clooney, Sean Connery, Gary Cooper, Bill Cosby, Kevin Costner, Tom Cruise, Tony Curtis, Matt Damon, Ted Danson, Robert De Niro, James Dean, Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Douglas, Kirk Douglas, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Duvall, Clint Eastwood,, Henry Fonda, Harrison Ford, Michael J. Fox, Clark Gable, James Garner, Richard Gere, Mel Gibson, Cary Grant, Alec Guinness, Gene Hackman, Tom Hanks, Woody Harrelson, Charlton Heston, Dustin Hoffman, Anthony Hopkins, Rock Hudson, James Earl Jones, Burt Lancaster, Bruce Lee, Jack Lemmon, Steve Martin, Lee Marvin, Groucho Marx, Walter Matthau, Steve McQueen, Dudley Moore, Rodger Moore, Eddie Murphy, Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson, David Niven, Peter O'Toole, Lawrence Olivier, Al Pacino, Gregory Peck, Senn Penn, Brad Pitt, Sidney Poitier, Richard Pryor, Robert Redford, Burt Reynolds, Jason Robards, Mickey Rooney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, George C. Scott, Peter Sellers, Will Smith, Sylvester Stallone, James Stewart, Spencer Tracy, John Travolta, Jon Voight, Denzel Washington, John Wayne, Orson Welles, Robin Williams, Gene Wilder, Bruce Willis
Some Actresses:
Ursula Andress, Julie Andrews, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Kim Basinger, Ingrid Bergman, Lauren Bacall, Sandra Bullock, Bette Davis, Doris Day, Bo Derek, Catherine Deneuve, Cameron Diaz, Mia Farrow, Sally Field, Jane Fonda, Jodie Foster, Judy Garland, Whoopi Goldberg, Rita Hayworth, Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn, Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, Grace Kelly, Nicole Kidman, Jessica Lange, Eva Longoria, Jennifer Lopez, Shirley MacLaine, Liza Minnelli, Marilyn Monroe, Demi Moore, Vanessa Redgrave, Julia Roberts, Meg Ryan, Susan Sarandon, Susan Shields, Sissy Spacek, Sharon Stone, Meryl Streep, Elizabeth Taylor, Kathleen Turner, Liv Ullmann, Sigourney Weaver, Debra Winger, Kate Winslet, Reese Witherspoon, Natalie Wood, Renée Zellweger
Actor/Actress Lists at: Listology
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last updated 24 Oct 2007
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