Internet Movie Database: Top 100 Movies

Internet Movie Database: Top 100 Movies

The Internet Movie Database includes ratings for movies. Their “Top Rated Movies” list shows which movies rate highest. A 2013 list ranks movies based on their metascores. A 2012 list, simply identified as being created by ChrisWalczyk55, was posted on the site which appears to be his own personal list, but includes 65 movies from the IMDB “Top Rated Movies” list. The three lists have been aggregated here to create one list. Here are the top 100 movies: 1. The Godfather (1972) 2. Schindler’s List (1993) 3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 4. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 5. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) 6. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 7. Pulp Fiction (1994) 8. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) 9. Saving Private Ryan (1998) 10. Amadeus (1984) 11. Apocalypse Now (1979) 12. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 13. Raging Bull (1980) 14. Taxi Driver (1976) 15. The Wizard of Oz (1939) 16. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 17. The Godfather Part II (1974) 18. 12 Angry Men (1957) 19. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) 20. Forrest Gump (1994) 21. The Seven Samurai (Schichinin no Samurai) (1954) 22. Casablanca (1942) 23. Psycho (1960) 24. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 25. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) 26. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) 27. Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) (2001) 28. Modern Times (1936) 29. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 30. Sunset Boulevard (1950) 31. Citizen Kane (1941) 32. Goodfellas (1990) 33. Gladiator (2000) 34. Vertigo (1958) 35. The French Connection (1971) 36. Wall-E (2008) 37. The Pianist (2002) 38. City Lights (1931) 39. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 40. The Green Mile (1999) 41. Singin’ in the Rain (1952) 42. Patton (1970) 43. Metropolis (1927) 44. Braveheart (1995) 45. A Clockwork Orange (1971) 46. A Separation (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin) (2011) 47. Rear Window (1954) 48. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 49. Pan’s Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno) (2006) 50. The Great Dictator (1940) 51. Some Like It Hot (1959) 52. Chinatown (1974) 53. Toy Story 3 (2010) 54. Unforgiven (1992) 55. On the Waterfront (1954) 56. The Apartment (1960) 57. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 58. Gone with the Wind (1939) 59. North by Northwest (1959) 60. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 61. Good Will Hunting (1997) 62. Double Indemnity (1944) 63. L.A. Confidential (1997) 64. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 65. There Will Be Blood (2007) 66. Ran (1985) 67. No Country for Old Men (2007) 68. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 69. Ben-Hur (1959) 70. The Third Man (1949) 71. The Deer Hunter (1978) 72. Jurassic Park (1993) 73. Fargo (1996) 74. Platoon (1986) 75. Finding Nemo (2003) 76. Rocky (1976) 77. It Happened One Night (1934) 78. The Truman Show (1998) 79. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 80. Network (1976) 81. Jaws (1975) 82. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) 83. The Exorcist (1973) 84. The Maltese Falcon (1941) 85. Before Sunset (2004) 86. The Dark Knight (2008) 87. Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander) (1982) 88. Sweet Smell of Success (1957) 89. The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) (1963) 90. The Conformist (Il Conformista) (1971) 91. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) 92. The Night of the Hunter (1955) 93. Fight Club (1999) 94. Army of Shadows (L'Armée des Ombres) (1969) 95. Shoah (1985) 96. Inception (2010) 97. Superman II (1980) 98. Star Wars – Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 99. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 100. Pépé le Moko (1937) Resources: Dave’s Movie Database: Movie Lists Internet Movie Database (7/18/2019). “Top Rated Movies” Internet Movie Database (5/7/2013). “Movies with Highest Metascore” Internet Movie Database (12/21/2012). “Top 100 Greatest Movies of All Time (The Ultimate List)” Originally posted 7/31/2019; last updated 5/26/2023.

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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Top Movies of the 1970s

This page offers lists of the top 25 movies of the decade as determined by two different metrics. The first list is based on box office and the second is based on critics’ picks.

Box Office: Top 25 of the 1970s These are the top 25 movies of the decade as determined by worldwide box office gross. The first number indicates dollars made in millions. See sources for box office figures here.

1) 3753.70: Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) 2) 2712.00: Jaws (1975) 3) 2680.60: The Exorcist (1973) 4) 1938.60: Grease (1978) 5) 1851.00: The Sting (1973) 6) 1820.00: Enter the Dragon (1973) 7) 1730.00: The Godfather (1972) 8) 1560.10: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 9) 1507.90: Superman: The Movie (1978) 10) 1240.10: Rocky (1976) 11) 1132.89: Airport (1970) 12) 1060.28: Blazing Saddles (1974) 13) 1012.40: American Graffiti (1973) 14) 984.50: Moonraker (1979) 15) 977.10: The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) 16) 937.10: Rocky II (1979) 17) 823.55: Robin Hood (1973) 18) 640.52: Love Story (1970) 19) 561.49: The Towering Inferno (1974) 20) 547.90: National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978) 21) 519.93: Smokey and the Bandit (1977) 22) 514.37: Saturday Night Fever (1977) 23) 503.80: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) 24) 502.26: The Poseidon Adventure (1972) 25) 491.26: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

Critics’ Picks: Top 25 of the 1970s These are the top 25 movies of the decade as determined by a combination of the movies’ ratings points and awards points.

1) The Godfather (1972) 2) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) 3) The Godfather Part II (1974) 4) Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) 5) Apocalypse Now (1979) 6) The Deer Hunter (1978) 7) Annie Hall (1977) 8) Chinatown (1974) 9) Patton (1970) 10) Taxi Driver (1976) 11) Rocky (1976) 12) Jaws (1975) 13) The Sting (1973) 14) The French Connection (1971) 15) The Exorcist (1973) 16) Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) 17) Nashville (1975) 18) All the President’s Men (1976) 19) Network (1976) 20) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 21) American Graffiti (1973) 22) A Clockwork Orange (1971) 23) M*A*S*H (1970) 24) Alien (1979) 25) Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Resources: Dave’s Movie Database: Eras Dave’s Movie Database: Movies of the Year Dave’s Movie Database: Box Office Dave’s Movie Database: Awards Page Dave’s Movie Database: Ratings Page Originally posted 3/8/2025.