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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)

Resources:

Dave’s Movie Database: Movie Lists
FilmAffinity.com “Best Movies in the History of Film” (top 1000 list)

Originally posted 6/3/2025.

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

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 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)

Resources:

Dave’s Movie Database: Movie Lists
DavesMovieDatabase.com “Ratings/Reviews”

Originally posted 8/15/2019; last updated 5/21/2025.

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Dave’s Movie Database: “The Top 100 Movies of All Time”

Dave’s Movie Database:

Top 100 Movies of All Time

At the turn of the century, I was enamored with all the best-of lists floating around. Being particularly interested in music, I created a database to accumulate as many music-focused lists as I could find. I ended up aggregating hundreds of lists to make “definitive” lists of the best songs, albums, and acts of all time – and more. I created a website – DavesMusicDatabase.com – to gather and publish those lists.

This endeavor is based on the same concept. Gather and aggregate multiple lists focused on the best movies of all time. The anchor list is this one – The Top 100 Movies of All Time. It was created by aggregating more than 50 lists (see those lists here) along with box office figures (sources here), ratings (sources here), and awards (sources here).

Note to Members of the Film Fanatics Movie Club: This is a revised version of the 2019 list we use for our group. You can check out the original list on which our group is based here.

Here’s the list: