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In 2012, ScreenRant.com responded to an upcoming Sight & Sound poll of best movies by compiling a list of their own top 10 movies of all time. Over a decade later, they created a top 50 list with a system that weighed the overall scores from the Internet Movie Database and Metacritic. They put out a list of the top 60 movies of all time in 2024. Here are the results when the 3 lists are aggregated:
1. The Godfather (1972)
2. Casablanca (1942)
3. Citizen Kane (1941)
4. Vertigo (1958)
5. 12 Angry Men (1957)
6. The Seven Samurai (Schichinin no Samurai) (1954)
7. Schindler’s List (1993)
8. Rear Window (1954)
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
10. Psycho (1960)
11. Pulp Fiction (1994)
12. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
13. North by Northwest (1959)
14. Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) (2001)
15. Parasite (Gisaengchung) (2019)
16. Some Like It Hot (1959)
17. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
18. All About Eve (1950)
19. Pan’s Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno) (2006)
20. Boyhood (2014)
21. Rashômon (1950)
22. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
23. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
24. The Godfather Part II (1974)
25. City Lights (1931)
26. Gone with the Wind (1939)
27. The Dark Knight (2008)
28. Notorious (1946)
29. The Third Man (1949)
30. Ran (1985)
31. Moonlight (2016)
32. Three Colors: Red (Trois Couleurs: Rouge) (1994)
33. Toy Story (1995)
34. Playtime (1967)
35. Goodfellas (1990)
36. Apocalypse Now (1979)
37. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
38. Pinocchio (1940)
39. A Separation (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin) (2011)
40. Touch of Evil (1958)
41. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
42. Double Indemnity (1944)
43. The Rules of the Game (La Règle du Jeu) (1939)
44. Hoop Dreams (1994)
45. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
46. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
47. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
48. 8 ½ (Otto e Mezzo) (1963)
49. Back to the Future (1985)
50. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
51. Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di Biciclette) (1948)
52. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
53. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
54. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
55. Aliens (1986)
56. Jurassic Park (1993)
57. Titanic (1997)
58. Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
59. Stand by Me (1986)
60. Star Wars – Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
61. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
62. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
63. Pretty Woman (1990)
64. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
65. Jules and Jim (Jules et Jim) (1961)
66. The Wild Bunch (1969)
67. My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
68. Jaws (1975)
69. Ratatouille (2007)
70. The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
71. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
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Originally posted 5/28/2023; last updated 7/21/2024. | 
