Sunday, June 4, 2023

Dave’s Movie Database: Best Rated Movies

Dave’s Movie Database:

Best-Rated Movies

This is a list of the best-rated movies according to Dave’s Movie Database. Go to the “Ratings/Reviews” page on this site to see what movie ratings have been aggregated to create this list. All the movies on this list averaged at least 4.5 out of 5 stars and had to be rated by 9 or more sources.


1. The Godfather (1972)
2. 12 Angry Men (1957)
3. Schindler’s List (1993)
4. The Godfather Part II (1974)
5. Pulp Fiction (1994)
6. Tokyo Story (Tôkyô Monogatari) (1953)
7. City Lights (1931)
8. Rear Window (1954)
9. Star Wars – Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
10. Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander) (1982)

11. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
12. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
13. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
14. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
15. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
16. Casablanca (1942)
17. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
18. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
19. To Live (Ikiru) (1952)
20. Sansho the Bailiff (Sansho Dayu) (1954)

21. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
22. The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc) (1928)
23. The Dark Knight (2008)
24. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
25. Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis) (1945)
26. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
27. The Seven Samurai (Schichinin no Samurai) (1954)
28. Apocalypse Now (1979)
29. The Decalogue (Dekalog) (1988)
30. M – Eine Stadt Sucht Einen Mörder (1931)

31. Modern Times (1936)
32. Touch of Evil (1958)
33. All About Eve (1950)
34. Shoah (1985)
35. Rashômon (aka “In the Woods”) (1950)
36. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
37. Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) (1937)
38. The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di Biciclette) (1947)
39. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
40. The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups) (1959)

41. Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) (2001)
42. Alien (1979)
43. Psycho (1960)
44. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
45. The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet) (1957)
46. The Apu Trilogy: The World of Apu (Apur Sansar) (1959)
47. Strangers on a Train (1951)
48. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
49. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
50. Gone with the Wind (1939)
51. Double Indemnity (1944)
52. The Word (Ordet) (1954)
53. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
54. Toy Story (1995)
55. Back to the Future (1985)
56. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
57. Chinatown (1974)
58. The Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali (1955)
59. Raging Bull (1980)
60. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
61. The Great Dictator (1940)
62. Three Colors: Red (Trois Couleurs: Rouge) (1994)
63. Vertigo (1958)
64. Rififi (Du Rififi Chez les Hommes) (1955)
65. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
66. The Third Man (1949)
67. Forrest Gump (1994)
68. The Rules of the Game (La Règle du Jeu) (1939)
69. The Red Shoes (1948)
70. Trouble in Paradise (1932)

71. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
72. Citizen Kane (1941)
73. Metropolis (1927)
74. Paths of Glory (1957)
75. Yojimbo (Yôjinbô) (1961)
76. The Wild Bunch (1969)
77. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
78. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
79. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
80. Umberto D. (1952)

81. The Thin Man (1934)
82. It Happened One Night (1934)
83. Woman in the Dunes (Suna No Onna) (1964)
84. The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeria) (1966)
85. Man with a Movie Camera (Chelovek s Kinoapparatom) (1929)
86. The Apu Trilogy: Aparajito (1956)
87. Rebecca (1940)
88. Persona (aka “Masks”) (1966)
89. Ugetsu (aka “Ugetsu Mongatari” or “Tales of a Pale Moon After the Rain”) (1953)
90. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

91. Parasite (Gisaengchung) (2019)
92. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
93. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
94. City of God (Cidade de Deus) (2002)
95. Laura (1944)
96. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
97. Goodfellas (1990)
98. The Heiress (1949)
99. Jaws (1975)
100. Notorious (1946)


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Originally posted 8/15/2019; last updated 6/4/2023.

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