Turin University: “The Most Influential Films of All Time”

University of Turin: The Most Influential Films of All Time

A team of researchers from Italy’s University of Turin developed an algorithm for measuring the influence of more than 47,000 movies. They used the Internet Movie Database to search for which films were most referenced. The study was published in the Applied Network Science journal. 1. The Wizard of Oz (1939) 2. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) 3. Psycho (1960) 4. King Kong (1933) 5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 6. Metropolis (1927) 7. Citizen Kane (1941) 8. The Birth of a Nation (1915) 9. Frankenstein (1931) 10. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 11. Casablanca (1942) 12. Dracula (1931) 13. The Godfather (1972) 14. Jaws (1975) 15. Nosferatu, a Symphony of Terror (aka “Nosferatu, the Vampire”) (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens) (1922) 16. The Searchers (1956) 17. Cabiria (1914) 18. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 19. Gone with the Wind (1939) 20. Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin) (1925) Resources: Dave’s Movie Database: Movie Lists Newsweek (11/29/2018). “These Are the Most Influential Films, Directors and Actors of All Time – According to Science” Originally posted 8/27/2019; last updated 6/4/2023.

MSN Entertainment “100 Best Movies of All Time”

MSN Entertainment: 100 Best Movies of All Time

This list was originally published in 2018. The now-dead link included blurbs about the movies by Shahnaz Mahmud. Because I can no longer find the link online, I don’t know how it was created. 1. The Godfather (1972) 2. The Godfather Part II (1974) 3. Sherlock Jr. (1924) 4. 12 Angry Men (1957) 5. Schindler’s List (1993) 6. Sunset Boulevard (1950) 7. City Lights (1931) 8. Pulp Fiction (1994) 9. Citizen Kane (1941) 10. Goodfellas (1990) 11. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) 12. All About Eve (1950) 13. Casablanca (1942) 14. Modern Times (1936) 15. The Dark Knight (2008) 16. Chinatown (1974) 17. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 18. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 19. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) 20. On the Waterfront (1954) 21. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 22. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 23. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 24. Psycho (1960) 25. Rear Window (1954) 26. Paths of Glory (1957) 27. Double Indemnity (1944) 28. North by Northwest (1959) 29. The Great Dictator (1940) 30. Toy Story 3 (2010) 31. Star Wars – Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 32. The General (1927) 33. Apocalypse Now (1979) 34. Whiplash (2014) 35. Singin’ in the Rain (1952) 36. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) 37. Some Like It Hot (1959) 38. Taxi Driver (1976) 39. Inside Out (2015) 40. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) 41. The Last Picture Show (1971) 42. The Night of the Hunter (1955) 43. It Happened One Night (1934) 44. The Gold Rush (1925) 45. Raging Bull (1980) 46. Vertigo (1958) 47. 12 Years a Slave (2013) 48. Alien (1979) 49. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 50. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) 51. Duck Soup (1933) 52. The Maltese Falcon (1941) 53. Touch of Evil (1958) 54. Out of the Past (1947) 55. Stagecoach (1939) 56. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 57. Boyhood (2014) 58. To Be Or Not to Be (1942) 59. Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 60. Reservoir Dogs (1992) 61. Spotlight (2015) 62. Sweet Smell of Success (1957) 63. Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 64. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) 65. Wall-E (2008) 66. Coco (2017) 67. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) 68. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 69. Holiday (1938) 70. Laura (1944) 71. Notorious (1946) 72. His Girl Friday (1940) 73. The Kid (1921) 74. Aliens (1986) 75. All the President’s Men (1976) 76. Rebecca (1940) 77. Cool Hand Luke (1967) 78. L.A. Confidential (1997) 79. Inception (2010) 80. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 81. The Apartment (1960) 82. La La Land (2016) 83. Badlands (1973) 84. In a Lonely Place (1950) 85. Strangers on a Train (1951) 86. The Big Sleep (1946) 87. Unforgiven (1992) 88. Saving Private Ryan (1998) 89. The Searchers (1956) 90. Call Me by Your Name (2017) 91. Sullivan’s Travels (1941) 92. The Artist (2011) 93. The Philadelphia Story (1940) 94. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) 95. Annie Hall (1977) 96. The Thin Man (1934) 97. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 98. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) 99. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 100. The Social Network (2010) Resources: Dave’s Movie Database: Movie Lists Original link (now dead) at MSN Entertainment (7/19/2018). “100 Best Movies” by Shahnaz Mahmud Originally posted 6/7/2023.

 

50 years ago: 2001: A Space Odyssey, the sci-fi classic, released

2001: A Space Odyssey Released: April 3, 1968 Studio: MGM Genre: sci fi Box Office (numbers in millions): Domestic: 60.54 Worldwide: -- Adjusted for Inflation: Domestic: 409.68 Worldwide: 815.73

Directing: Stanley Kubrick Screenwriting: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester Review: “Man, from prehistoric times to a futuristic space age, is eerily defined in” VD “Kubrick’s metaphoric, thought-provoking, grandiose, science-fiction landmark film.” FS “Stunning images and imaginative script create an unforgettable viewing experience:” VD “the most spectacular and magisterial space movie of all time.” T98 The story centers around the investigation of the appearance on the Moon of a mysterious monolith whose radio signal leads to Jupiter. The audience learns that the first monolith appeared four million years earlier, giving insight to prehistoric ape-men how to use tools as killing weapons. Bowman (Dullea) and Poole (Lockwood), the astronauts on the mission, encounter “superior life and rebirth in some sort of embryonic divine form.” T95 The movie “is beautiful, infuriatingly slow, and pretty half-baked.” T95 So “why is this cold, oddly optimistic, overreaching sci-fi poem so interesting?” ML HAL 9000 (voiced by Douglas Rain), “the film’s major protagonist – an omniscient super-computer,” FS “has personal problems that make him a more engaging character than any of the humans in this or most other movies of the last few decades.” ML The movie doesn’t make it clear how “the lurking, unambiguous danger of the rogue computer” T98 fits with the monoliths, which “seem to coax humankind to make evolutionary leaps and transcend bodily and technological limits.” FS “Nevertheless…Kubrick’s vision…demands attention as superior sci-fi, simply because it’s more concerned with ideas than…pyrotechnics.” T95 The movie “hit home mostly with acid trippers (dig that time warp) and intellectuals (deconstruct that star child).” RS The film “also boasts distinction of having put Richard Strauss into the Top 40 with ‘Also Sprach Zarathustra.’” LM Sources: FS Filmsite.org “100 Greatest Films” LM Leonard Maltin “100 Must-See Films of the 20th Century” ML Movieline (Dec. 1995). “100 Best Movies Ever Made” by Virginia Campbell and Edward Margulies RS Rolling Stone (12/30/1999). “100 Maverick Movies of the Last 100 Years” T95 Time Out (1995). “Centenary Top One Hundred Films” T98 Time Out (1998). “Readers’ Top 100 Films” VD Video Detective (1997). “Top 100 Films of All Time”

Awards/Honors/Lists: Dave’s Movie Database Lists: Dave’s Movie Database Genre Lists: Awards: Oscars: Wins: 1 – Best Special Visual Effects Nominations: 4 – including Best Director, Best Story and Screenplay Other Lists/Honors: Critics’ Picks: Roger Ebert Leslie Halliwell/John Walker Leonard Maltin Martin Scorsese Edgar Wright First posted 7/30/2019; last updated 6/4/2023.

Ultimate Movie Rankings: Top 100 Movies

Originally posted 7/31/2019.

The website says UltimateMovieRankings.com has rated more than 20,000 movies, each with a minimum of five sources, such as the Internet Movie Database, Rotten Tomatoes, and MetaCritic. The site published its list of best review movies in 2015 (article isn’t dated, but that’s when the earliest comments on the post appear).

In 2018 (again, based on comments since article isn’t dated), the site published a list of the top 100 movies and factored box office and awards in as well as ratings.

Here is the result of aggregating the two lists:

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1. The Godfather (1972)
2. Schindler’s List (1993)
3. Casablanca (1942)
4. The Godfather Part II (1974)
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
6. On the Waterfront (1954)
7. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
8. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
9. Rebecca (1940)
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

11. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
12. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
13. It Happened One Night (1934)
14. All About Eve (1950)
15. Pulp Fiction (1994)
16. Apocalypse Now (1979)
17. Toy Story 3 (2010)
18. Gone with the Wind (1939)
19. Patton (1970)
20. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

21. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
22. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
23. Unforgiven (1992)
24. Jaws (1975)
25. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
26. Annie Hall (1977)
27. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
28. Amadeus (1984)
29. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
30. The Great Dictator (1940)

31. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
32. Rear Window (1954)
33. Tokyo Story (Tôkyô Monogatari) (1953)
34. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
35. 12 Angry Men (1957)
36. North by Northwest (1959)
37. Star Wars – Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
38. Ben-Hur (1959)
39. The Seven Samurai (Schichinin no Samurai) (1954)
40. The Apartment (1960)

41. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
42. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
43. Aliens (1986)
44. My Fair Lady (1964)
45. Once Upon a Time in the West (C’era Una Volta Il West) (1968)
46. Goodfellas (1990)
47. Gladiator (2000)
48. The Sound of Music (1965)
49. Chinatown (1974)
50. Sunset Boulevard (1950)

51. The French Connection (1971)
52. Double Indemnity (1944)
53. American Beauty (1999)
54. Modern Times (1936)
55. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
56. The Lost Weekend (1945)
57. Psycho (1960)
58. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
59. Some Like It Hot (1959)
60. Platoon (1986)

61. Mrs. Miniver (1942)
62. Terms of Endearment (1983)
63. Vertigo (1958)
64. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
65. West Side Story (1961)
66. Rain Man (1988)
67. Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) (2002)
68. A Man for All Seasons (1966)
69. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
70. Taxi Driver (1976)

71. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
72. The Dark Knight (2008)
73. Dances with Wolves (1990)
74. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
75. Forrest Gump (1994)
76. Going My Way (1944)
77. Titanic (1997)
78. The Sting (1973)
79. L.A. Confidential (1997)
80. Rocky (1976)

81. White Heat (1949)
82. Oliver! (1968)
83. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
84. An American in Paris (1951)
85. The Kid (1921)
86. Alien (1979)
87. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
88. Chicago (2002)
89. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
90. Raging Bull (1980)

91. Citizen Kane (1941)
92. Toy Story (1995)
93. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
94. From Here to Eternity (1953)
95. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
96. Strangers on a Train (1951)
97. Up (2009)
98. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
99. Whiplash (2014)
100. The Deer Hunter (1978)

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Resources:

• UltimateMovieRankings.com (2/21/2018). “Top 100 Movies”
• UltimateMovieRankings.com (5/26/2015). “Top 100 Best Reviewed Movies”

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