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Monday, June 2, 2025

Film Affinity: Best Movies in the History of Film

Film Affinity

Best Movies in the History of Film: Top 100

FilmAffinity.com was launched in 2002. They claim that their 177 million votes from over a million users makes them the leading site for movie recommendations. They have more than a million registered users in more than 90 countries.

The only explanation of how the list was put together is that it is the 1000 top rated movies on the website with 1000 or more votes. There is no indication when this list was last updated or how often.

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. The Godfather Part II (1974)
3. 12 Angry Men (1957)
4. Schindler’s List (1939)
5. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
6. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
7. City Lights (1931)
8. The Great Dictator (1940)
9. Pulp Fiction (1994)
10. Modern Times (1936)

11. The Sting (1973)
12. To Be Or Not to Be (1942)
13. Harakiri (aka “Seppuka”) (1962)
14. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
15. Life Is Beautiful (La Vita è Bella) (1997)
16. Paths of Glory (1957)
17. All About Eve (1950)
18. The Seven Samurai (Schichinin no Samurai) (1954)
19. High and Low (Tengoku to Jigoku) (1963)
20. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

21. Double Indemnity (1944)
22. The Apartment (1960)
23. City of God (Cidade de Deus) (2002)
24. The Kid (1921)
25. Psycho (1960)
26. The Hole (Le Trou) (1960)
27. Goodfellas (1990)
28. The Gold Rush (1925)
29. Casablanca (1942)
30. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

31. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
32. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
33. American History X (1998)
34. The Young and the Damned (Los Olvidados) (1950)
35. Red Beard (Akahige) (1965)
36. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
37. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
38. Dersu Uzala (1974)
39. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
40. Once Upon a Time in America (1983)

41. M, the Vampire of Dusseldorf (M – Eine Stadt Sucht Einen Mörder) (1931)
42. Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di Biciclette) (1948)
43. Some Like It Hot (1959)
44. To Live (Ikiru) (1952)
45. A Night at the Opera (1935)
46. Se7en (1995)
47. Sansho the Bailiff (Sanshô Dayû) (1954)
48. The General (1927)
49. The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc) (1928)
50. The Pianist (2002)

51. North by Northwest (1959)
52. Limelight (1952)
53. Metropolis (1927)
54. The Executioner (El Verdugo) (1963)
55. Apocalypse Now (1979)
56. Tokyo Story (Tôkyô Monogatari) (1953)
57. Vertigo (1958)
58. Unforgiven (1992)
59. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
60. The Apu Trilogy: The World of Apu (Apur Sansar) (1959)

61. The Word (Ordet) (1954)
62. Rebecca (1940)
63. The Third Man (1949)
64. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
65. Rear Window (1954)
66. Scarface (1983)
67. The Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali (1955)
68. The Nights of Cabiria (Le Notti di Cabiria) (1957)
69. Rocco and His Brothers (“Rocco e i suoi Fratelli” or “Rocco et Ses Freres”) (1960)
70. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

71. Forrest Gump (1994)
72. The Last Laugh (Der Letzte Mann) (1924)
73. Scarlet Street (1945)
74. Freaks (1932)
75. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
76. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
77. Once Upon a Time in the West (C’era Una Volta il West) (1968)
78. Dial M for Murder (1954)
79. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
80. Samurai Rebellion (Jôi-uchi: Hairyô tsuma shimaatsu) (1967)

81. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
82. The Hustler (1961)
83. The Great Escape (1963)
84. Gran Tarino (2008)
85. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
86. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
87. One, Two, Three (1961)
88. Touch of Evil (1958)
89. Citizen Kane (1941)
90. In the Name of the Father (1993)

91. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
92. The Shining (1980)
93. A Man Escaped (Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut) (1956)
94. Ugetsu (aka “Ugetsu Monogatari” or “Tales of a Pale Moon after the Rain”) (1953)
95. 1900 (Novecento) (1976)
96. Captain Courageous (1937)
97. The Road (La Strada) (1954)
98. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
99. Rome, Open City (Roma Città Aperta) (1945)
100. The Holy Innocents (1984)

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Monday, January 23, 2023

Empire Magazine: Top 100 Movies

Empire Magazine:

Top 100 Movies

Empire is a British film magazine which was started in July 1989. Over the years, they have produced multiple best-of all-time movie lists. Dave’s Movie Database has compiled and aggregated nine of those lists into a “definitive” top 100 movies according to Empire.

1. Star Wars – Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
3. The Godfather (1972)
4. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
5. Pulp Fiction (1994)
6. Goodfellas (1990)
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
8. Jaws (1975)
9. Aliens (1986)
10. The Godfather Part II (1974)

11. Apocalypse Now (1979)
12. Blade Runner (1982)
13. Casablanca (1942)
14. The Matrix (1999)
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
16. Alien (1979)
17. Schindler’s List (1993)
18. The Usual Suspects (1995)
19. Citizen Kane (1941)
20. Taxi Driver (1976)

21. Se7en (Seven) (1995)
22. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
23. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
24. Star Wars – Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
25. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
26. Rear Window (1954)
27. Fight Club (1999)
28. Back to the Future (1985)
29. Die Hard (1988)
30. The Big Lebowski (1998)

31. Heat (1995)
32. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
33. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
34. Gladiator (2000)
35. Vertigo (1958)
36. The Shining (1980)
37. L.A. Confidential (1997)
38. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
39. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
40. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

41. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
42. Psycho (1960)
43. The Seven Samurai (Schichinin no Samurai) (1954)
44. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
45. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
46. Jurassic Park (1993)
47. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
48. Gone with the Wind (1939)
49. American Beauty (1999)
50. Raging Bull (1980)

51. Forrest Gump (1994)
52. Some Like It Hot (1959)
53. Titanic (1997)
54. Donnie Darko (2001)
55. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
56. Léon: The Professional (1994)
57. 12 Angry Men (1957)
58. Stand by Me (1986)
59. Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) (2001)
60. The Terminator (1984)

61. Fargo (1996)
62. Once Upon a Time in the West (C’era Una Volta il West) (1968)
63. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
64. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
65. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
66. Braveheart (1995)
67. Memento (2001)
68. Trainspotting (1996)
69. Toy Story (1995)
70. Ghostbusters (1984)

71. The Exorcist (1973)
72. Annie Hall (1977)
73. True Romance (1993)
74. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
75. Magnolia (1999)
76. The Third Man (1949)
77. Chinatown (1974)
78. Scarface (1983)
79. North by Northwest (1959)
80. Grease (1978)

81. Lost in Translation (2003)
82. Withnail and I (1987)
83. The Princess Bride (1987)
84. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
85. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
86. The Blues Brothers (1980)
87. The Great Escape (1963)
88. Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
89. Good Will Hunting (1997)
90. The Searchers (1956)

91. Platoon (1986)
92. The Graduate (1967)
93. The Wild Bunch (1969)
94. The Dark Knight (2008)
95. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
96. The Thing (1982)
97. There Will Be Blood (2007)
98. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
99. Rocky (1976)
100. The Lion King (1994)

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Originally posted 7/25/2019; last updated 5/28/2023.
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Saturday, December 31, 2022

USA Today: 100 Best Movies of All Time

USA Today:

100 Best Movies of All Time

This is an aggregate of 3 lists featured in the newspaper USA Today from 2017 to 2022. See the bottom of the page for details and links.

1. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. Psycho (1960)
4. The Dark Knight (2008)
5. Casablanca (1942)
6. Chinatown (1974)
7. Citizen Kane (1941)
8. North by Northwest (1959)
9. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
10. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

11. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
12. Pulp Fiction (1994)
13. Schindler’s List (1993)
14. 12 Angry Men (1957)
15. Goodfellas (1990)
16. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
17. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
18. Star Wars – Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
19. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
20. City Lights (1931)

21. Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
22. Once Upon a Time in the West (C’era Una Volta il West) (1968)
23. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
24. Toy Story 3 (2010)
25. Modern Times (1936)
26. Rear Window (1954)
27. All About Eve (1950)
28. Apocalypse Now (1979)
29. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
30. Paths of Glory (1957)

31. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

32. The Great Dictator (1940)
33. Alien (1979)
34. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
35. The Godfather Part II (1974)
36. Aliens (1986)
37. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
38. Arrival (2016)
39. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
40. Independence Day (1996)

41. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
42. Galaxy Quest (1999)
43. Star Trek (2009)
44. The Martian (2015)
45. Moon (2009)
46. Blade Runner (1982)
47. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
48. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (aka “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”) (2001)
49. How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
50. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

51. The Matrix (1999)
52. The Never Ending Story (1984)
53. The Princess Bride (1987)
54. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
55. Back to the Future (1985)
56. Father of the Bride (1991)
57. Frozen (2013)
58. The Incredibles (2004)
59. Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
60. Mary Poppins (1964)

61. Meet the Parents (2000)
62. The Sound of Music (1965)
63. Step Brothers (2008)
64. National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)
65. The Blues Brothers (1980)
66. Booksmart (2019)
67. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
68. Ghostbusters (1984)
69. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
70. Groundhog Day (1993)

71. The Hangover (2009)
72. Inception (2010)
73. Old School (2003)
74. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
75. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
76. On the Waterfront (1954)
77. Young Frankenstein (1974)
78. Vertigo (1958)
79. Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987)
80. Taxi Driver (1976)

81. The Exorcist (1973)
82. Double Indemnity (1944)
83. Get Out (2017)
84. Some Like It Hot (1959)
85. It (2017)
86. Whiplash (2014)
87. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
88. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
89. Se7en (1995)
90. Wall-E (2008)

91. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
92. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
93. The Shining (1980)
94. Raging Bull (1980)
95. The Witch (2015)
96. Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
97. Black Panther (2018)
98. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
99. Flash Gordon (1980)
100. The Goonies (1985)

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Originally posted 8/3/2019; last updated 5/26/2025.
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Monday, June 10, 2019

Time Out: 100 Best Films

Time Out:

100 Best Films

Time Out is a London-based magazine which offers reviews of various forms of entertainment, including film. Over the years, they have published various all-time best lists of movies and a book of the 1000 top movies. This list is an aggregate of six of those lists (see resources at the bottom of the page). Astonishingly, only 10 titles appear on all six lists.

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. Citizen Kane (1941)
3. Taxi Driver (1976)
4. Chinatown (1974)
5. Apocalypse Now (1979)
6. Some Like It Hot (1959)
7. Raging Bull (1980)
8. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
9. Tokyo Story (Tôkyô Monogatari) (1953)
10. Blade Runner (1982)

11. The General (1927)
12. Goodfellas (1990)
13. Pulp Fiction (1994)
14. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
15. The Red Shoes (1948)
16. A Matter of Life and Death (aka “Stairway to Heaven”) (1946)
17. Annie Hall (1977)
18. The Shining (1980)
19. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
20. Gone with the Wind (1939)

21. Casablanca (1942)
22. Mean Streets (1973)
23. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
24. The Third Man (1949)
25. The Piano (1993)
26. Persona (aka “Masks”) (1966)
27. Schindler’s List (1993)
28. The Seven Samurai (Schichinin no Samurai) (1954)
29. Vertigo (1958)
30. North by Northwest (1959)

31. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
32. The Searchers (1956)
33. Jaws (1975)
34. The Rules of the Game (La Règle du Jeu) (1939)
35. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
36. Once Upon a Time in the West (C’era Una Volta Il West) (1968)
37. Fargo (1996)
38. The Sweet Life (La Dolce Vita) (1960)
39. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
40. Double Indemnity (1944)

41. Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin) (1925)
42. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
43. Breathless (A Bout de Souffle) (1959)
44. Notorious (1946)
45. The Deer Hunter (1978)
46. Brazil (1985)
47. The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeria) (1966)
48. Paris, Texas (1984)
49. Don’t Look Now (1973)
50. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

51. Withnail and I (1987)
52. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
53. Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) (1988)
54. There Will Be Blood (2007)
55. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
56. All About Eve (1950)
57. The Apartment (1960)
58. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
59. The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet) (1957)
60. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

61. Boogie Nights (1997)
62. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
63. Kes (1969)
64. On the Waterfront (1954)
65. Breaking the Waves (1996)
66. La Haine (1995)
67. Rear Window (1954)
68. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
69. The Wild Bunch (1969)
70. L’Atalante (aka “Le Chaland Qui Passe”) (1934)

71. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
72. Touch of Evil (1958)
73. Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) (1937)
74. Psycho (1960)
75. Performance (1970)
76. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
77. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
78. American Beauty (1999)
79. His Girl Friday (1940)
80. Léon: The Professional (1994)

81. Rashômon (1950)
82. The Conformist (Il Conformista) (1971)
83. City Lights (1931)
84. An American in Paris (1951)
85. Blue Velvet (1986)
86. The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc) (1928)
87. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
88. Harold and Maude (1971)
89. Sansho the Bailiff (Sansho Dayu) (1954)
90. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

91. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
92. Monster (2003)
93. Andrei Rublev (1996)
94. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
95. M – Eine Stadt Sucht Einen Mörder (1931)
96. Naked (1993)
97. Se7en (Seven) (1995)
98. Black Narcissus (1947)
99. Hidden (Caché) (2004)
100. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

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Originally posted 7/25/2019; last updated 5/29/2023.
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Thursday, July 19, 2018

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)

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Monday, July 20, 2015

BBC: Top 100 Movies

BBC:

Top 100 Movies

These are the top 100 movies according to the British BBC News, as determined by aggregating five different lists. See the details and links at the bottom of the page.

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. Pulp Fiction (1994)
3. Casablanca (1942)
4. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
5. Citizen Kane (1941)
6. Back to the Future (1985)
7. Forrest Gump (1994)
8. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
9. Taxi Driver (1976)
10. The Searchers (1956)

11. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
12. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
13. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
14. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
15. Goodfellas (1990)
16. Some Like It Hot (1959)
17. Psycho (1960)
18. Schindler’s List (1993)
19. Jaws (1975)
20. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

21. Star Wars – Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
22. Gone with the Wind (1939)
23. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
24. The Godfather Part II (1974)
25. Die Hard (1988)
26. Apocalypse Now (1979)
27. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
29. Raging Bull (1980)
30. Vertigo (1958)

31. The Graduate (1967)
32. Brief Encounter (1946)
33. West Side Story (1961)
34. Blade Runner (1982)
35. Titanic (1997)
36. Braveheart (1995)
37. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
38. Toy Story (1995)
39. The Great Escape (1963)
40. Aliens (1986)

41. Ben-Hur (1959)
42. The Sound of Music (1965)
43. Star Wars – Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
44. Alien (1979)
45. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
46. Trainspotting (1996)
47. The Third Man (1949)
48. Jurassic Park (1993)
49. The Usual Suspects (1995)
50. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

51. Ghost (1990)
52. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
53. Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)
54. The Shining (1980)
55. The Dark Knight (2008)
56. The Terminator (1984)
57. North by Northwest (1959)
58. Se7en (Seven) (1995)
59. Annie Hall (1977)
60. L.A. Confidential (1997)

61. Do the Right Thing (1969)
62. The Italian Job (1969)
63. Scream (1996)
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
65. Dances with Wolves (1990)
66. Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
67. Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) (1988)
68. Highlander (1986)
69. Thelma & Louise (1991)
70. 12 Monkeys (1995)

71. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
72. The Deer Hunter (1978)
73. The English Patient (1996)
74. The Fifth Element (1997)
75. Shakespeare in Love (1998)
76. The Lion King (1994)
77. The Exorcist (1973)
78. Brazil (1985)
79. The Blues Brothers (1980)
80. Blue Velvet (1986)

81. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
82. The Magnificent Seven (1960)
83. My Fair Lady (1964)
84. Stagecoach (1939)
85. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
86. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
87. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
88. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
89. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
90. Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)

91. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
92. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
93. Inception (2010)
94. The Full Monty (1997)
95. Fight Club (1999)
96. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
97. Chinatown (1974)
98. The Big Lebowski (1998)
99. Grease (1978)
100. Nashville (1975)

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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Hollywood Reporter: “Hollywood’s 100 Favorite Films”

Originally posted 7/28/2019.

Here’s what it says on their website about the making of this list: “Who better to judge the best movies of all time than the people who make them? Studio chiefs, Oscar winners and TV royalty all were surveyed as THR publishes its first definitive entertainment-industry ranking of cinema's most superlative.” Here is the top 100 list:

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
3. Citizen Kane (1941)
4. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
5. Pulp Fiction (1994)
6. Casablanca (1942)
7. The Godfather Part II (1974)
8. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
10. Schindler’s List (1993)

11. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
12. Back to the Future (1985)
13. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
14. Forrest Gump (1994)
15. Gone with the Wind (1939)
16. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
17. Apocalypse Now (1979)
18. Annie Hall (1977)
19. Goodfellas (1990)
20. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

21. Chinatown (1974)
22. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
23. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
24. Jaws (1975)
25. The Sound of Music (1965)
26. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
27. The Breakfast Club (1985)
28. The Graduate (1967)
29. Blade Runner (1982)
30. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

31. The Princess Bride (1987)
32. Star Wars – Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
33. Fargo (1996)
34. American Beauty (1999)
35. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
36. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
37. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
38. When Harry Met Sally (1989)
39. The Shining (1980)
40. Fight Club (1999)

41. Psycho (1960)
42. Alien (1979)
43. Toy Story (1995)
44. The Matrix (1999)
45. Titanic (1997)
46. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
47. Some Like It Hot (1959)
48. The Usual Suspects (1995)
49. Rear Window (1954)
50. Jurassic Park (1993)

51. The Big Lebowski (1998)
52. All About Eve (1950)
53. Good Will Hunting (1997)
54. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
55. Taxi Driver (1976)
56. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
57. The Dark Knight (2008)
58. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
59. Thelma & Louise (1991)
60. Amélie (Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain) (2001)

61. West Side Story (1961)
62. North by Northwest (1959)
63. Groundhog Day (1993)
64. Mary Poppins (1964)
65. Raging Bull (1980)
66. The Lion King (1994)
67. Avatar (2009)
68. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
69. Gladiator (2000)
70. Vertigo (1958)

71. Almost Famous (2000)
72. Young Frankenstein (1974)
73. All the President’s Men (1976)
74. Blazing Saddles (1974)
75. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
76. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
77. Ghostbusters (1984)
78. 12 Angry Men (1957)
79. Wall-E (2008)
80. On the Waterfront (1954)

81. Amadeus (1984)
82. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
83. Die Hard (1988)
84. Inception (2010)
85. Se7en (1995)
86. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
87. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
88. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
89. Braveheart (1995)
90. Memento (2001)

91. Rocky (1976)
92. Up (2009)
93. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
94. The Deer Hunter (1978)
95. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
96. Pan’s Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno) (2006)
97. Airplane! (1980)
98. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
99. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
100. The Seven Samurai (Shichinin No Samurai) (1954)

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Friday, December 31, 1999

Top Movies of the 1990s

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 1990s

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

1) 5192.10: Titanic (1997)
2) 2860.20: Jurassic Park (1993)
3) 2384.50: The Lion King (1994)
4) 2344.40: Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)
5) 2173.00: Independence Day (1996)

6) 1924.90: Forrest Gump (1994)
7) 1583.70: Jurassic Park II: The Lost World (1997)
8) 1557.70: The Sixth Sense (1999)
9) 1508.80: Men in Black (1997)
10) 1450.90: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

11) 1427.10: Aladdin (1992)
12) 1404.70: Ghost (1990)
13) 1387.20: Armageddon (1998)
14) 1312.40: Twister (1996)
15) 1287.20: Pretty Woman (1990)

16) 1249.60: Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
17) 1216.70: Mission: Impossible (1996)
18) 1202.20: Saving Private Ryan (1998)
19) 1186.10: Beauty and the Beast (1991)
20) 1180.60: Dances with Wolves (1990)

21) 1163.50: The Bodyguard (1992)
22) 1117.00: Toy Story 2 (1999)
23) 1091.10: True Lies (1994)
24) 1089.90: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
25) 1076.30: The Matrix (1999)

Critics’ Picks:

Top 25 of the 1990s

These are the top 25 movies of the decade as determined by a combination of the movies’ ratings points and awards points.

1) Schindler’s List (1993)
2) Saving Private Ryan (1998)
3) Fargo (1996)
4) Pulp Fiction (1994)
5) American Beauty (1999)

6) L.A. Confidential (1997)
7) Goodfellas (1990)
8) The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
9) Forrest Gump (1994)
10) Titanic (1997)

11) Dances with Wolves (1990)
12) Unforgiven (1992)
13) Toy Story (1995)
14) Apollo 13 (1995)
15) The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

16) Jurassic Park (1993)
17) Shakespeare in Love (1998)
18) Beauty and the Beast (1991)
19) The Matrix (1999)
20) The Sixth Sense (1999)

21) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
22) Good Will Hunting (1997)
23) The Lion King (1994)
24) The English Patient (1996)
25) Hoop Dreams (1994)

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Thursday, December 30, 1999

Rolling Stone “100 Years, 100 Maverick Movies”

Rolling Stone:

100 Years, 100 Maverick Movies

As the website explained, the movies on this list “had to embody that rock spirit of artful defiance. Each director had to be limited to only one movie – otherwise you could just list the collected works of Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, John Ford, Billy Wilder and Martin Scorsese and end it…Don’t look for the biggest cash cow (Titanic), the winner of the most Oscars (Ben-Hur) or film-school staples like Battleship Potemkin.” Here’s the list.

1. The Godfather (1972) / The Godfather Part II (1974) / The Godfather Part III (1990)
2. Vertigo (1958)
3. The Searchers (1956)
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
5. Citizen Kane (1941)
6. Raging Bull (1980)
7. Chinatown (1974)
8. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
9. Blue Velvet (1986)
10. Pulp Fiction (1994)

11. King Kong (1933)
12. The Manchurian Candidate (1961)
13. Fargo (1996)
14. All About Eve (1950)
15. Do the Right Thing (1989)
16. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
17. Sherlock Jr. (1924)
18. Some Like It Hot (1959)
19. Nashville (1975)
20. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

21. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
22. Brazil (1985)
23. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
24. Badlands (1973)
25. Don’t Look Now (1973)
26. Gone with the Wind (1939)
27. Casablanca (1942)
28. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
29. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
30. On the Waterfront (1954)

31. Jaws (1975)
32. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
33. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
34. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
35. Star Wars – Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
36. Ed Wood (1994)
37. Faces (1968)
38. Annie Hall (1977)
39. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
40. Straw Dogs (1971)

41. The Third Man (1949)
42. All the President’s Men (1976)
43. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
44. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
45. Written on the Wind (1956)
46. Swing Time (1936)
47. The Red Shoes (1948)
48. Network (1976)
49. Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
50. The Graduate (1967)

51. M – Eine Stadt Sucht Einen Mörder (1931)
52. Zero for Conduct (1933)
53. The Rules of the Game (La Règle du Jeu) (1939)
54. Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis) (1945)
55. The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di Biciclette) (1947)
56. The Earrings of Madame De… (1953)
57. Tokyo Story (Tôkyô Monogatari) (1953)
58. The Seven Samurai (Schichinin no Samurai) (1954)
59. The Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali (1955)
60. Breathless (A Bout de Souffle) (1959)

61. The 400 Hundred Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups) (1959)
62. The Sweet Life (La Dolce Vita) (1960)
63. Viridana (1961)
64. Persona (aka “Masks”) (1966)
65. The Conformist (Il Conformista) (1971)
66. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) (1972)
67. Seven Beauties (1976)
68. Wings of Desire (Der Himmel uber Berlin) (1988)
69. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
70. The Killer (Dip Huet Seung Hung) (1989)

71. City Lights (1931)
72. Cabaret (1972)
73. Quiz Show (1994)
74. A Night at the Opera (1935)
75. The Producers (1967)
76. Lost in America (1985)
77. The Terminator (1984)
78. White Heat (1949)
79. His Girl Friday (1940)
80. Out of the Past (1947)

81. The Piano (1993)
82. Blow-Up (1966)
83. Blow Out (1981)
84. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
85. Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
86. Ninotchka (1939)
87. Diner (1982)
88. To Sleep with Anger (1990)
89. Unforgiven (1992)
90. Midnight Cowboy (1969)

91. Lone Star (1996)
92. The Naked Kiss (1964)
93. The Crying Game (1992)
94. Broadcast News (1987)
95. Dead Ringers (1988)
96. My Little Chickadee (1940)
97. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
98. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
99. Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
100. Freaks (1932)

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Friday, October 14, 1994

Pulp Fiction released

Pulp Fiction

Released: October 14, 1994

Studio: Miramax

Genre: crime drama

Box Office (numbers in millions):

Domestic: 107.90 Worldwide: 213.90

Adjusted for Inflation:

Domestic: 226.70 Worldwide: 913.10

Directing: Quentin Tarantino

Screenwriting: Roger Avery, Quentin Tarantino

Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Ving Rames, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Harvey Keitel

Review:

Quentin Tarantino “made good on the promise of his 1992 debut (Reservoir Dogs) and crafted one of the most innovative crime dramas. Ever.” RS Pulp Fiction was “a stylish, immensely-popular, violent, off-beat, modern B-movie cult classic from writer/director Tarantino.” FS “Not since Orson Welles had a writer-director taken more joy in reinventing film form.” RS Tarantino “broke new ground with his non-linear,” A07 “audacious [and] outrageous look at honor among lowlifes.” LM

Tarantino’s “tale of violence, corruption and redemption” A07 garnered “career-best performances from John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis and Uma Thurman.” RS “In fact, there are no slackers in this cast.” LM

Vincent Vega (Travolta) and Jules Winfield (Jackson) are “magnetic” LM as “philosophically-talkative hit men” FS “who live by a strict moral code” A07 in “the seamy side of Los Angeles.” A98 They work for “vengeful, underworld boss Marsellus Wallace” FS (Rhames), who puts a hit out on Willis when the boxer double crosses him by failing to take dive. Thurman is the crime boss’s drug-overdosing wife, Roth and Plummer are a couple of small-time crooks who hold up a diner, and Keitel is The Wolf, a cleanup specialist.

“This voluble, violent, pumped-up movie isn’t for every taste – certainly not for the squeamish – but it’s got more vitality than almost any other film of 1994.” LM

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Awards/Honors/Lists:

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Awards:

Oscars:

Wins: 1 – Best Original Screenplay

Nominations: 7 – including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Travolta), Best Supporting Actor (Jackson), Best Supporting Actress (Thurman)

Other Lists/Honors:

Critics’ Picks:

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