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The Top 250 Movies of All Time
Global Ranking |
Movie Title |
Release Year |
Director |
MPAA Rating |
Your Ranking |
| 1 |
Star Wars |
1977 |
George Lucas |
PG |
- |
| 2 |
The Empire Strikes Back |
1980 |
Irvin Kershner |
PG |
- |
| 3 |
The Godfather |
1972 |
Francis Ford Coppola |
R |
- |
| 4 |
Raiders of the Lost Ark |
1981 |
Steven Spielberg |
PG |
- |
| 5 |
The Shawshank Redemption |
1994 |
Frank Darabont |
R |
- |
| 6 |
Pulp Fiction |
1994 |
Quentin Tarantino |
R |
- |
| 7 |
Harakiri |
1962 |
Masaki Kobayashi |
NR |
- |
| 8 |
Return of the Jedi |
1983 |
Richard Marquand |
PG |
- |
| 9 |
Back to the Future |
1985 |
Robert Zemeckis |
PG |
- |
| 10 |
Ikiru |
1952 |
Akira Kurosawa |
NR |
- |
| 11 |
The Dark Knight |
2008 |
Christopher Nolan |
PG13 |
- |
| 12 |
The Godfather Part II |
1974 |
Francis Ford Coppola |
R |
- |
| 13 |
Fight Club |
1999 |
David Fincher |
R |
- |
| 14 |
GoodFellas |
1990 |
Martin Scorsese |
R |
- |
| 15 |
High and Low |
1963 |
Akira Kurosawa |
NR |
- |
| 16 |
Rear Window |
1954 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
PG |
- |
| 17 |
City Lights |
1931 |
Charles Chaplin |
G |
- |
| 18 |
Alien |
1979 |
Ridley Scott |
R |
- |
| 19 |
The Silence of the Lambs |
1991 |
Jonathan Demme |
R |
- |
| 20 |
The Shining |
1980 |
Stanley Kubrick |
R |
- |
| 21 |
Se7en |
1995 |
David Fincher |
R |
- |
| 22 |
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade |
1989 |
Steven Spielberg |
PG13 |
- |
| 23 |
Reservoir Dogs |
1992 |
Quentin Tarantino |
R |
- |
| 24 |
The Apartment |
1960 |
Billy Wilder |
NR |
- |
| 25 |
The Matrix |
1999 |
The Wachowskis |
R |
- |
| 26 |
Casablanca |
1942 |
Michael Curtiz |
PG |
- |
| 27 |
Seven Samurai |
1954 |
Akira Kurosawa |
NR |
- |
| 28 |
Die Hard |
1988 |
John McTiernan |
R |
- |
| 29 |
M |
1931 |
Fritz Lang |
NR |
- |
| 30 |
Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
1975 |
Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones |
PG |
- |
| 31 |
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly |
1966 |
Sergio Leone |
NR |
- |
| 32 |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
1975 |
Milos Forman |
R |
- |
| 33 |
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring |
2001 |
Peter Jackson |
PG13 |
- |
| 34 |
The Night of the Hunter |
1955 |
Charles Laughton |
NR |
- |
| 35 |
Double Indemnity |
1944 |
Billy Wilder |
NR |
- |
| 36 |
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans |
1927 |
F.W. Murnau |
NR |
- |
| 37 |
Yojimbo |
1961 |
Akira Kurosawa |
NR |
- |
| 38 |
Ghostbusters |
1984 |
Ivan Reitman |
PG |
- |
| 39 |
Terminator 2: Judgment Day |
1991 |
James Cameron |
R |
- |
| 40 |
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb |
1964 |
Stanley Kubrick |
NR |
- |
| 41 |
The Princess Bride |
1987 |
Rob Reiner |
PG |
- |
| 42 |
The Third Man |
1949 |
Carol Reed |
NR |
- |
| 43 |
North by Northwest |
1959 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
NR |
- |
| 44 |
Citizen Kane |
1941 |
Orson Welles |
NR |
- |
| 45 |
Blade Runner |
1982 |
Ridley Scott |
R |
- |
| 46 |
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
2003 |
Peter Jackson |
PG13 |
- |
| 47 |
Rashômon |
1950 |
Akira Kurosawa |
NR |
- |
| 48 |
The Wages of Fear |
1953 |
Henri-Georges Clouzot |
NR |
- |
| 49 |
Taxi Driver |
1976 |
Martin Scorsese |
R |
- |
| 50 |
The Usual Suspects |
1995 |
Bryan Singer |
R |
- |
| 51 |
Saving Private Ryan |
1998 |
Steven Spielberg |
R |
- |
| 52 |
Aliens |
1986 |
James Cameron |
R |
- |
| 53 |
Paths of Glory |
1957 |
Stanley Kubrick |
NR |
- |
| 54 |
Jurassic Park |
1993 |
Steven Spielberg |
PG13 |
- |
| 55 |
Come and See |
1985 |
Elem Klimov |
NR |
- |
| 56 |
12 Angry Men |
1957 |
Sidney Lumet |
NR |
- |
| 57 |
Psycho |
1960 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
NR |
- |
| 58 |
Schindler's List |
1993 |
Steven Spielberg |
R |
- |
| 59 |
The Passion of Joan of Arc |
1928 |
Carl Theodor Dreyer |
NR |
- |
| 60 |
Persona |
1966 |
Ingmar Bergman |
NR |
- |
| 61 |
Apocalypse Now |
1979 |
Francis Ford Coppola |
R |
- |
| 62 |
Forrest Gump |
1994 |
Robert Zemeckis |
PG13 |
- |
| 63 |
The Red Shoes |
1948 |
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
NR |
- |
| 64 |
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers |
2002 |
Peter Jackson |
PG13 |
- |
| 65 |
Toy Story |
1995 |
John Lasseter |
G |
- |
| 66 |
Touch of Evil |
1958 |
Orson Welles |
NR |
- |
| 67 |
Jaws |
1975 |
Steven Spielberg |
PG |
- |
| 68 |
The Big Lebowski |
1998 |
Joel & Ethan Coen |
R |
- |
| 69 |
Vertigo |
1958 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
PG |
- |
| 70 |
Memento |
2000 |
Christopher Nolan |
R |
- |
| 71 |
Chinatown |
1974 |
Roman Polanski |
R |
- |
| 72 |
Le samouraï |
1967 |
Jean-Pierre Melville |
PG |
- |
| 73 |
Bicycle Thieves |
1948 |
Vittorio De Sica |
NR |
- |
| 74 |
Tokyo Story |
1953 |
Yasujirô Ozu |
NR |
- |
| 75 |
Ferris Bueller's Day Off |
1986 |
John Hughes |
PG13 |
- |
| 76 |
A Clockwork Orange |
1971 |
Stanley Kubrick |
R |
- |
| 77 |
The General |
1926 |
Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton |
NR |
- |
| 78 |
Inception |
2010 |
Christopher Nolan |
PG13 |
- |
| 79 |
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
1948 |
John Huston |
NR |
- |
| 80 |
Full Metal Jacket |
1987 |
Stanley Kubrick |
R |
- |
| 81 |
The Terminator |
1984 |
James Cameron |
R |
- |
| 82 |
Fargo |
1996 |
Joel & Ethan Coen |
R |
- |
| 83 |
It Happened One Night |
1934 |
Frank Capra |
NR |
- |
| 84 |
The Departed |
2006 |
Martin Scorsese |
R |
- |
| 85 |
The 400 Blows |
1959 |
François Truffaut |
NR |
- |
| 86 |
Wild Strawberries |
1957 |
Ingmar Bergman |
NR |
- |
| 87 |
Notorious |
1946 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
NR |
- |
| 88 |
Sunset Blvd. |
1950 |
Billy Wilder |
NR |
- |
| 89 |
The Seventh Seal |
1957 |
Ingmar Bergman |
NR |
- |
| 90 |
Batman Begins |
2005 |
Christopher Nolan |
PG13 |
- |
| 91 |
Stalker |
1979 |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
NR |
- |
| 92 |
Inglourious Basterds |
2009 |
Quentin Tarantino |
R |
- |
| 93 |
Ace in the Hole |
1951 |
Billy Wilder |
NR |
- |
| 94 |
Grand Illusion |
1937 |
Jean Renoir |
NR |
- |
| 95 |
2001: A Space Odyssey |
1968 |
Stanley Kubrick |
G |
- |
| 96 |
The Professional |
1994 |
Luc Besson |
R |
- |
| 97 |
Strangers on a Train |
1951 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
PG |
- |
| 98 |
Modern Times |
1936 |
Charles Chaplin |
G |
- |
| 99 |
In a Lonely Place |
1950 |
Nicholas Ray |
NR |
- |
| 100 |
Rocky |
1976 |
John G. Avildsen |
PG |
- |
| 101 |
On the Waterfront |
1954 |
Elia Kazan |
NR |
- |
| 102 |
8½ |
1963 |
Federico Fellini |
NR |
- |
| 103 |
Sweet Smell of Success |
1957 |
Alexander Mackendrick |
NR |
- |
| 104 |
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom |
1984 |
Steven Spielberg |
PG |
- |
| 105 |
Throne of Blood |
1957 |
Akira Kurosawa |
NR |
- |
| 106 |
Network |
1976 |
Sidney Lumet |
R |
- |
| 107 |
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
1962 |
John Ford |
NR |
- |
| 108 |
Memories of Murder |
2003 |
Bong Joon Ho |
NR |
- |
| 109 |
The Conversation |
1974 |
Francis Ford Coppola |
PG |
- |
| 110 |
The Philadelphia Story |
1940 |
George Cukor |
NR |
- |
| 111 |
A Matter of Life and Death |
1946 |
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
PG |
- |
| 112 |
Groundhog Day |
1993 |
Harold Ramis |
PG |
- |
| 113 |
Parasite |
2019 |
Bong Joon Ho |
NR |
- |
| 114 |
All About Eve |
1950 |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
NR |
- |
| 115 |
Whiplash |
2014 |
Damien Chazelle |
R |
- |
| 116 |
Good Will Hunting |
1997 |
Gus Van Sant |
R |
- |
| 117 |
Shadow of a Doubt |
1943 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
PG |
- |
| 118 |
Cool Hand Luke |
1967 |
Stuart Rosenberg |
NR |
- |
| 119 |
In the Mood for Love |
2000 |
Wong Kar-Wai |
PG |
- |
| 120 |
Raging Bull |
1980 |
Martin Scorsese |
R |
- |
| 121 |
Sherlock Jr. |
1924 |
Buster Keaton |
NR |
- |
| 122 |
His Girl Friday |
1940 |
Howard Hawks |
NR |
- |
| 123 |
No Country for Old Men |
2007 |
Joel & Ethan Coen |
R |
- |
| 124 |
The Rules of the Game |
1939 |
Jean Renoir |
NR |
- |
| 125 |
Out of the Past |
1947 |
Jacques Tourneur |
NR |
- |
| 126 |
Kill Bill Vol. 1 |
2003 |
Quentin Tarantino |
R |
- |
| 127 |
Shaun of the Dead |
2004 |
Edgar Wright |
R |
- |
| 128 |
Badlands |
1973 |
Terrence Malick |
PG |
- |
| 129 |
The Thing |
1982 |
John Carpenter |
R |
- |
| 130 |
Gladiator |
2000 |
Ridley Scott |
R |
- |
| 131 |
The Lion King |
1994 |
Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff |
G |
- |
| 132 |
The Gold Rush |
1925 |
Charles Chaplin |
NR |
- |
| 133 |
The Big Sleep |
1946 |
Howard Hawks |
NR |
- |
| 134 |
Aguirre: The Wrath of God |
1972 |
Werner Herzog |
NR |
- |
| 135 |
Diabolique |
1955 |
Henri-Georges Clouzot |
NR |
- |
| 136 |
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
2004 |
Michel Gondry |
R |
- |
| 137 |
La Dolce Vita |
1960 |
Federico Fellini |
NR |
- |
| 138 |
The Great Dictator |
1940 |
Charles Chaplin |
G |
- |
| 139 |
The Maltese Falcon |
1941 |
John Huston |
NR |
- |
| 140 |
Anatomy of a Murder |
1959 |
Otto Preminger |
NR |
- |
| 141 |
Stand by Me |
1986 |
Rob Reiner |
R |
- |
| 142 |
The Searchers |
1956 |
John Ford |
NR |
- |
| 143 |
My Neighbor Totoro |
1988 |
Hayao Miyazaki |
G |
- |
| 144 |
Days of Heaven |
1978 |
Terrence Malick |
PG |
- |
| 145 |
Office Space |
1999 |
Mike Judge |
R |
- |
| 146 |
American History X |
1998 |
Tony Kaye |
R |
- |
| 147 |
Rope |
1948 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
NR |
- |
| 148 |
The Breakfast Club |
1985 |
John Hughes |
R |
- |
| 149 |
Fanny and Alexander |
1982 |
Ingmar Bergman |
R |
- |
| 150 |
The Killing |
1956 |
Stanley Kubrick |
NR |
- |
| 151 |
It's a Wonderful Life |
1946 |
Frank Capra |
NR |
- |
| 152 |
Rififi |
1955 |
Jules Dassin |
NR |
- |
| 153 |
Brief Encounter |
1945 |
David Lean |
NR |
- |
| 154 |
The Thin Man |
1934 |
W.S. Van Dyke |
NR |
- |
| 155 |
Unforgiven |
1992 |
Clint Eastwood |
R |
- |
| 156 |
Iron Man |
2008 |
Jon Favreau |
PG13 |
- |
| 157 |
Bringing Up Baby |
1938 |
Howard Hawks |
NR |
- |
| 158 |
Rebecca |
1940 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
NR |
- |
| 159 |
A Fistful of Dollars |
1964 |
Sergio Leone |
R |
- |
| 160 |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
1969 |
George Roy Hill |
PG |
- |
| 161 |
Ran |
1985 |
Akira Kurosawa |
R |
- |
| 162 |
The Prestige |
2006 |
Christopher Nolan |
PG13 |
- |
| 163 |
Paris, Texas |
1984 |
Wim Wenders |
R |
- |
| 164 |
Once Upon a Time in the West |
1968 |
Sergio Leone |
PG13 |
- |
| 165 |
Rio Bravo |
1959 |
Howard Hawks |
NR |
- |
| 166 |
To Be or Not to Be |
1942 |
Ernst Lubitsch |
NR |
- |
| 167 |
The Wizard of Oz |
1939 |
Victor Fleming |
NR |
- |
| 168 |
Sullivan's Travels |
1941 |
Preston Sturges |
NR |
- |
| 169 |
Andrei Rublev |
1966 |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
NR |
- |
| 170 |
The Battle of Algiers |
1966 |
Gillo Pontecorvo |
NR |
- |
| 171 |
The Best Years of Our Lives |
1946 |
William Wyler |
NR |
- |
| 172 |
Laura |
1944 |
Otto Preminger |
NR |
- |
| 173 |
For a Few Dollars More |
1965 |
Sergio Leone |
R |
- |
| 174 |
Chungking Express |
1994 |
Wong Kar-Wai |
PG13 |
- |
| 175 |
Witness for the Prosecution |
1957 |
Billy Wilder |
NR |
- |
| 176 |
Stalag 17 |
1953 |
Billy Wilder |
NR |
- |
| 177 |
Annie Hall |
1977 |
Woody Allen |
PG |
- |
| 178 |
Back to the Future Part II |
1989 |
Robert Zemeckis |
PG |
- |
| 179 |
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
1939 |
Frank Capra |
NR |
- |
| 180 |
Lawrence of Arabia |
1962 |
David Lean |
G |
- |
| 181 |
All the President's Men |
1976 |
Alan J. Pakula |
PG |
- |
| 182 |
The Sting |
1973 |
George Roy Hill |
PG |
- |
| 183 |
Duck Soup |
1933 |
Leo McCarey |
NR |
- |
| 184 |
Dog Day Afternoon |
1975 |
Sidney Lumet |
R |
- |
| 185 |
Charade |
1963 |
Stanley Donen |
NR |
- |
| 186 |
Django Unchained |
2012 |
Quentin Tarantino |
R |
- |
| 187 |
WALL·E |
2008 |
Andrew Stanton |
PG |
- |
| 188 |
City of God |
2002 |
Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund |
R |
- |
| 189 |
The Kid |
1921 |
Charles Chaplin |
NR |
- |
| 190 |
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp |
1943 |
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
NR |
- |
| 191 |
The Shop Around the Corner |
1940 |
Ernst Lubitsch |
NR |
- |
| 192 |
The King of Comedy |
1982 |
Martin Scorsese |
PG |
- |
| 193 |
The Hidden Fortress |
1958 |
Akira Kurosawa |
NR |
- |
| 194 |
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory |
1971 |
Mel Stuart |
G |
- |
| 195 |
Metropolis |
1927 |
Fritz Lang |
NR |
- |
| 196 |
The Graduate |
1967 |
Mike Nichols |
PG |
- |
| 197 |
The Great Escape |
1963 |
John Sturges |
NR |
- |
| 198 |
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial |
1982 |
Steven Spielberg |
PG |
- |
| 199 |
Breathless |
1960 |
Jean-Luc Godard |
NR |
- |
| 200 |
The Incredibles |
2004 |
Brad Bird |
PG |
- |
| 201 |
The Long Goodbye |
1973 |
Robert Altman |
R |
- |
| 202 |
Army of Shadows |
1969 |
Jean-Pierre Melville |
NR |
- |
| 203 |
12 Monkeys |
1995 |
Terry Gilliam |
R |
- |
| 204 |
Mad Max: Fury Road |
2015 |
George Miller |
R |
- |
| 205 |
A Face in the Crowd |
1957 |
Elia Kazan |
NR |
- |
| 206 |
Scarface |
1983 |
Brian De Palma |
R |
- |
| 207 |
Grave of the Fireflies |
1988 |
Isao Takahata |
NR |
- |
| 208 |
American Beauty |
1999 |
Sam Mendes |
R |
- |
| 209 |
Dial M for Murder |
1954 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
NR |
- |
| 210 |
Braveheart |
1995 |
Mel Gibson |
R |
- |
| 211 |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
1962 |
Robert Mulligan |
NR |
- |
| 212 |
The Hustler |
1961 |
Robert Rossen |
NR |
- |
| 213 |
The Wild Bunch |
1969 |
Sam Peckinpah |
R |
- |
| 214 |
Ugetsu |
1953 |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
NR |
- |
| 215 |
Barry Lyndon |
1975 |
Stanley Kubrick |
PG |
- |
| 216 |
The Lady Vanishes |
1938 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
NR |
- |
| 217 |
Finding Nemo |
2003 |
Andrew Stanton |
G |
- |
| 218 |
The French Connection |
1971 |
William Friedkin |
R |
- |
| 219 |
Sanjuro |
1962 |
Akira Kurosawa |
PG13 |
- |
| 220 |
Young Frankenstein |
1974 |
Mel Brooks |
PG |
- |
| 221 |
The Sixth Sense |
1999 |
M. Night Shyamalan |
PG13 |
- |
| 222 |
Woman in the Dunes |
1964 |
Hiroshi Teshigahara |
NR |
- |
| 223 |
Miller's Crossing |
1990 |
Joel & Ethan Coen |
R |
- |
| 224 |
Bride of Frankenstein |
1935 |
James Whale |
NR |
- |
| 225 |
The Bridge on the River Kwai |
1957 |
David Lean |
PG |
- |
| 226 |
Spirited Away |
2001 |
Hayao Miyazaki |
PG |
- |
| 227 |
Black Narcissus |
1947 |
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
NR |
- |
| 228 |
Kill Bill Vol. 2 |
2004 |
Quentin Tarantino |
R |
- |
| 229 |
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind |
1984 |
Hayao Miyazaki |
PG |
- |
| 230 |
Airplane! |
1980 |
Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker |
PG |
- |
| 231 |
My Man Godfrey |
1936 |
Gregory La Cava |
NR |
- |
| 232 |
Life of Brian |
1979 |
Terry Jones |
R |
- |
| 233 |
The Goonies |
1985 |
Richard Donner |
PG |
- |
| 234 |
Oldboy |
2003 |
Chan-wook Park |
R |
- |
| 235 |
Late Spring |
1949 |
Yasujirô Ozu |
NR |
- |
| 236 |
The Truman Show |
1998 |
Peter Weir |
PG |
- |
| 237 |
A Man Escaped |
1956 |
Robert Bresson |
NR |
- |
| 238 |
High Noon |
1952 |
Fred Zinnemann |
NR |
- |
| 239 |
Paper Moon |
1973 |
Peter Bogdanovich |
PG |
- |
| 240 |
Children of Men |
2006 |
Alfonso Cuarón |
R |
- |
| 241 |
The Bourne Identity |
2002 |
Doug Liman |
PG13 |
- |
| 242 |
White Heat |
1949 |
Raoul Walsh |
NR |
- |
| 243 |
The Green Mile |
1999 |
Frank Darabont |
R |
- |
| 244 |
Predator |
1987 |
John McTiernan |
R |
- |
| 245 |
Singin' in the Rain |
1952 |
Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly |
NR |
- |
| 246 |
There Will Be Blood |
2007 |
Paul Thomas Anderson |
R |
- |
| 247 |
Pan's Labyrinth |
2006 |
Guillermo del Toro |
R |
- |
| 248 |
The Avengers |
2012 |
Joss Whedon |
PG13 |
- |
| 249 |
Sansho the Bailiff |
1954 |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
NR |
- |
| 250 |
Ocean's Eleven |
2001 |
Steven Soderbergh |
PG13 |
- |