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This is a list of the top 100 movies based on Metascore’s ratings. There’s no indication of when this list was put together or how multiple ties were broken.
1. Tokyo Story (Tôkyô Monogatari) (1953)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. Citizen Kane (1941)
4. Rear Window (1954)
5. Casablanca (1942)
6. Three Colors: Red (Trois Couleurs: Rouge) (1994)
7. Boyhood (2014)
8. Vertigo (1958)
9. Notorious (1946)
10. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
11. Playtime (1967)
12. City Lights (1931)
13. Moonlight (2016)
14. Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
15. The Rules of the Game (La Règle du Jeu) (1939)
16. Pinocchio (1940)
17. Touch of Evil (1958)
18. Zone of Interest (2023)
19. The Seven Samurai (Schichinin no Samurai) (1954)
20. The Wild Bunch (1969)
21. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
22. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
23. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
24. Pan’s Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno) (2006)
25. Some Like It Hot (1959)
26. North by Northwest (1959)
27. Hoop Dreams (1994)
28. Rashômon (1950)
29. The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc) (1928)
30. All About Eve (1950)
31. Jules and Jim (Jules et Jim) (1961)
32. My Left Foot (1989)
33. Ran (1985)
34. The Third Man (1949)
35. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
36. Quo Vadis, Aida? (2021)
37. Psycho (1960)
38. Gone with the Wind (1939)
39. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
40. Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin) (1925)
41. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
42. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
43. American Graffiti (1973)
44. 12 Angry Men (1957)
45. Dumbo (1941)
46. Roma (2018)
47. Man with a Movie Camera (Chelovek s Kinoapparatom) (1929)
48. Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) (2001)
49. Parasite (Gisaengchung) (2019)
50. Toy Story (1995)
51. Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)
52. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
53. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
54. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
55. Manchester by the Sea (2016)
56. The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeria) (1966)
57. Killer of Sheep (1977)
58. Nashville (1975)
59. Red River (1948)
60. Sansho the Bailiff (Sansho Dayu) (1954)
61. Ratatouille (2007)
62. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
63. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
64. Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis) (1945)
65. Mean Streets (1973)
66. The Lady Eve (1941)
67. Gravity (2013)
68. Fantasia (1940)
69. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
70. Small Axe: Lovers Rock (2020)
71. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
72. Don’t Look Now (1973)
73. The Social Network (2010)
74. My Fair Lady (1964)
75. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
76. I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
77. Woodstock (1970)
78. Aftersun (2022)
79. Rocks (2021)
80. Amour (2012)
81. The Hurt Locker (2009)
82. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
83. Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
84. Collective (2020)
85. A Separation (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin) (2011)
86. Double Indemnity (1944)
87. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
88. Schindler’s List (1993)
89. Pulp Fiction (1994)
90. Wall-E (2008)
91. Carol (2015)
92. Before Midnight (2013)
93. Amazing Grace (2018)
94. Dunkirk (2017)
95. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
96. The Searchers (1956)
97. 45 Years (2015)
98. Taxi Driver (1976)
99. The Servant (1963)
100. Yi Yi (A One and a Two…) (2000)
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Originally posted 9/13/2019; last updated 6/10/2023. | 
