Rank | Film Title | Year | Rating | IMDb Top 250 | IMDb Site |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Schindler's List | 1993 | 9.9 | * | (site) |
2 | The Manchurian Candidate | 1962 | 9.7 | * | (site) |
3 | Patton | 1970 | 9.6 | * | (site) |
4 | Ran | 1985 | 9.6 | * | (site) |
5 | The Usual Suspects | 1995 | 9.5 | * | (site) |
6 | North by Northwest | 1959 | 9.5 | * | (site) |
7 | Casablanca | 1943 | 9.5 | * | (site) |
8 | My Neighbour Totoro | 1988 | 9.4 | (site) | |
9 | It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | 9.4 | * | (site) |
10 | Rear Window | 1954 | 9.4 | * | (site) |
11 | Children of Paradise | 1945 | 9.4 | * | (site) |
12 | Groundhog Day | 1993 | 9.4 | * | (site) |
13 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | 1967 | 9.3 | (site) | |
14 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1939 | 9.3 | * | (site) |
15 | The Lion in Winter | 1968 | 9.3 | * | (site) |
16 | Dr. Strangelove | 1964 | 9.3 | * | (site) |
17 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | 9.3 | * | (site) |
18 | The English Patient | 1996 | 9.3 | (site) | |
19 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | 9.2 | * | (site) |
20 | Open Your Eyes | 1998 | 9.2 | (site) | |
21 | All About Eve | 1950 | 9.2 | * | (site) |
22 | Sunrise | 1927 | 9.2 | (site) | |
23 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | 9.2 | * | (site) |
24 | L'Appartement | 1996 | 9.2 | (site) | |
25 | Before Sunrise | 1995 | 9.2 | (site) | |
26 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | 9.2 | (site) | |
27 | I Was Born, But... | 1946 | 9.2 | (site) | |
28 | Singin' in the Rain | 1952 | 9.2 | * | (site) |
29 | Brief Encounter | 1946 | 9.2 | (site) | |
30 | Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | 9.2 | * | (site) |
31 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | 9.2 | * | (site) |
32 | Gandhi | 1982 | 9.2 | * | (site) |
33 | Judgment at Nuremberg | 1961 | 9.1 | * | (site) |
34 | Annie Hall | 1977 | 9.1 | * | (site) |
35 | Pleasantville | 1998 | 9.1 | (site) | |
36 | The Counterfeit Traitor | 1962 | 9.1 | (site) | |
37 | Charade | 1963 | 9.1 | * | (site) |
38 | Vertigo | 1958 | 9.1 | * | (site) |
39 | Hilary and Jackie | 1998 | 9.1 | (site) | |
40 | It Happened One Night | 1934 | 9.1 | * | (site) |
41 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | 9.1 | * | (site) |
42 | To Be or Not to Be | 1942 | 9.1 | * | (site) |
43 | Gettysburg | 1993 | 9.1 | (site) | |
44 | The Apartment | 1960 | 9.1 | * | (site) |
45 | My Name Is Joe | 1999 | 9.1 | (site) | |
46 | Glory | 1989 | 9.1 | * | (site) |
47 | Chicago | 2002 | 9.0 | (site) | |
48 | Long Day's Journey Into Night | 1962 | 9.0 | (site) | |
49 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | 9.0 | * | (site) |
50 | The Miracle of Morgan's Creek | 1944 | 9.0 | (site) | |
51 | The Red Violin | 1999 | 9.0 | (site) | |
52 | The Odd Couple | 1968 | 9.0 | (site) | |
53 | Malcolm X | 1992 | 9.0 | (site) | |
54 | Manhattan | 1979 | 9.0 | * | (site) |
55 | Rififi | 1955 | 9.0 | (site) | |
56 | The Corporation | 2004 | 9.0 | (site) | |
57 | Mildred Pierce | 1945 | 9.0 | (site) | |
58 | Braveheart | 1995 | 9.0 | * | (site) |
59 | The Sound of Music | 1965 | 9.0 | (site) | |
60 | Lorenzo's Oil | 1993 | 9.0 | (site) | |
61 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | 9.0 | * | (site) |
62 | The Godfather | 1972 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
63 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
64 | Kings Row | 1942 | 8.9 | (site) | |
65 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
66 | Delicatessen | 1991 | 8.9 | (site) | |
67 | The Day of the Jackal | 1973 | 8.9 | (site) | |
68 | American History X | 1998 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
69 | Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
70 | Dances With Wolves | 1990 | 8.9 | (site) | |
71 | Rashomon | 1950 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
72 | Comrades, Almost a Love Story | 1997 | 8.9 | (site) | |
73 | To Each His Own | 1946 | 8.9 | (site) | |
74 | Contact | 1997 | 8.9 | (site) | |
75 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | 1945 | 8.9 | (site) | |
76 | Memento | 2001 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
77 | A Man and a Woman | 1966 | 8.9 | (site) | |
78 | Forrest Gump | 1994 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
79 | Barry Lyndon | 1975 | 8.9 | (site) | |
80 | American Beauty | 1999 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
81 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 1969 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
82 | A Simple Plan | 1998 | 8.9 | (site) | |
83 | Psycho | 1960 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
84 | A Short Film About Love | 1988 | 8.9 | (site) | |
85 | Kind Hearts and Coronets | 1949 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
86 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
87 | Once Were Warriors | 1994 | 8.9 | (site) | |
Jean de Florette Part I and II | 1986 | 8.9 | |||
88 | L.A. Confidential | 1997 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
89 | Meet John Doe | 1941 | 8.9 | (site) | |
90 | The Killer | 1989 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
91 | Traffic | 2000 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
92 | Chinatown | 1974 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
93 | Lantana | 2001 | 8.8 | (site) | |
94 | JFK | 1991 | 8.8 | (site) | |
95 | Bowling for Columbine | 2002 | 8.8 | ? | (site) |
96 | The Horse Whisperer | 1998 | 8.8 | (site) | |
97 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | 8.8 | * | (site) |
98 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | 8.8 | * | (site) |
99 | Searching for Bobby Fischer | 1993 | 8.8 | (site) | |
100 | Castle in the Sky | 1986 | 8.8 | (site) |
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