The Top 250 Movies of All Time

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The Top 250 Movies of All Time
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
Rating		 Your
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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 -

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