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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 10 or more sources.
1. The Godfather (1972)
2. 12 Angry Men (1957)
3. The Godfather Part II (1974)
4. Casablanca (1942)
5. Pulp Fiction (1994)
6. Rear Window (1954)
7. All About Eve (1950)
8. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
9. Apocalypse Now (1979)
10. Schindler’s List (1993)
11. City Lights (1931)
12. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
13. Goodfellas (1990)
14. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
15. Toy Story (1995)
16. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
17. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
18. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
19. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
20. Citizen Kane (1941)
21. Psycho (1960)
22. Double Indemnity (1944)
23. Star Wars – Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
24. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
25. The Seven Samurai (Schichinin no Samurai) (1954)
26. Gone with the Wind (1939)
27. Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) (2001)
28. Tokyo Story (Tôkyô Monogatari) (1953)
29. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
30. The Dark Knight (2008)
31. Modern Times (1936)
32. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
33. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
34. Some Like It Hot (1959)
35. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
36. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
37. Rashômon (1950)
38. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
39. Vertigo (1958)
40. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
41. Chinatown (1974)
42. Raging Bull (1980)
43. North by Northwest (1959)
44. High Noon (1952)
45. To Live (Ikiru) (1952)
46. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
47. Parasite (Gisaengchung) (2019)
48. Alien (1979)
49. Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander) (1982)
50. The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups) (1959)
51. On the Waterfront (1954)
52. Network (1976)
53. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
54. Rebecca (1940)
55. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
56. The Decalogue (Dekalog) (1988)
57. Paths of Glory (1957)
58. The Deer Hunter (1978)
59. Three Colors: Red (Trois Couleurs: Rouge) (1994)
60. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
61. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
62. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
63. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
64. The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet) (1957)
65. Taxi Driver (1976)
66. The Hustler (1961)
67. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
68. The Wild Bunch (1969)
69. Pan’s Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno) (2006)
70. Finding Nemo (2003)
71. The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc) (1928)
72. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
73. All the President’s Men (1976)
74. The Apartment (1960)
75. Amadeus (1984)
76. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
77. It Happened One Night (1934)
78. Jaws (1975)
79. Touch of Evil (1958)
80. Unforgiven (1992)
81. Metropolis (1927)
82. Annie Hall (1977)
83. M – Eine Stadt Sucht Einen Mörder (1931)
84. Forrest Gump (1994)
85. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
86. 8 ½ (Otto e Mezzo) (1963)
87. Ran (1985)
88. L.A. Confidential (1997)
89. Back to the Future (1985)
90. Patton (1970)
91. Wall-E (2008)
92. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
93. The Gold Rush (1925)
94. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
95. The Great Dictator (1940)
96. West Side Story (1961)
97. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
98. Inception (2010)
99. The Princess Bride (1987)
100. The Sting (1973)
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Originally posted 8/15/2019; last updated 5/21/2025. | 
