My Top 100
by bseagrave54 | created - 30 Mar 2014 | updated - 10 months ago | PublicThis is my Top 100 (or so) Movies of All Time. I've been working on this list for years and though it is far from definitive, it is MY list and a constant work in progress.
Movie Ratings:
Acting- Ensemble Cast
Story- Overall Story/Screenplay
Visual- Cinematography/Production Design/ Costume/Makeup/Visual Effects
Technical- Direction/Editing
Audio- Score/Sound Editing/Mixing
Personal- My Personal Score
(On a scale of 1-10, where a 10 is master, 5 is average, 1 is pedestrian)
I've Seen:
2,700+ Movies
230+/250 - IMDB Top 250
100/100 - AFI Top 100
94/95 - Best Picture Winners
44/84- National Board of Review Best Picture
71/100 - Sight and Sound 2022
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1. Falling Leaves (1912)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Drama
Trixie believe the only way she can save her older sister from dying of tuberculosis is by preventing the autumn leaves from falling, so one night she steals into the garden in her nightie and fastens fallen leaves to branches with twine.
Director: Alice Guy | Stars: Mace Greenleaf, Blanche Cornwall, Marian Swayne, Magda Foy
Votes: 1,654
A moving short about a sister's love. Alice Guy is one of the first masters of using the full frame in film.
2. The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
On New Year's Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life.
Director: Victor Sjöström | Stars: Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg, Astrid Holm
Votes: 14,098
From Sweden, This Phantom Carriage is an intimate story that uses non-linear storytelling along with parallel editing to create tension in this dark and influential film. Its influences include It's a Wonderful Life and The Shining.
3. Nosferatu (1922)
Not Rated | 94 min | Fantasy, Horror
Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder
Votes: 105,532
Overall: 8.2
Acting: 8
Story: 8
Visual: 9
Technical: 8
Audio: 8
Personal: 8
F.W. Murnau's version of Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of the earliest and most influential horror films.
4. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Not Rated | 242 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede-Nissen, Gertrude Welcker, Alfred Abel
Votes: 9,175
Overall: 8.3
Acting: 8
Story: 8
Visual: 9
Technical: 9
Audio: 8
Personal: 8
5. The Wheel (1923)
Not Rated | 417 min | Drama
A railway engineer adopts a young girl orphaned by a train crash. Years later when she starts getting suitors, he grapples with whether or not to tell her the truth about her parentage.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Gabriel de Gravone, Pierre Magnier, Georges Térof, Séverin-Mars
Votes: 2,563
Abel Gance revolutionizes editing with a number of sequences (most notably the cliffhanger sequence) that have been unmatched in this fairly taboo story that concludes with a hauntingly beautiful shot.
6. Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)
Not Rated | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, sets off on a treacherous journey to the Kingdom of Burgundy to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Princess Kriemhild.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Paul Richter, Margarete Schön, Theodor Loos, Gertrud Arnold
Votes: 6,561
Overall: 8.3 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 9 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
7. Wings (1927)
PG-13 | 144 min | Drama, Romance, War
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.
Directors: William A. Wellman, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Stars: Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen, Jobyna Ralston
Votes: 14,550 | Gross: $6.59M
Overall: 7.8/10
Acting: 7
Story: 8
Visual: 8
Technical: 9
Audio: N/A
Personal: 7
In its era, Wings was a technical marvel which helps the film to feel timeless. The inventive direction and practical camerawork hold up nearly a century later. While the story is heavy-handed and meanders at times, the sincerity of the story overcomes its flaws.
8. Metropolis (1927)
Not Rated | 153 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Votes: 185,646 | Gross: $1.24M
Overall: 9
Acting: 8
Story: 8
Visual: 10
Technical: 10
Audio: 8
Personal: 10
The most influential sci-fi film of all time inspiring films from Star Wars to Blade Runner. But influence is not enough, Metropolis is grand and epic, but also intimate and profound.
9. Frankenstein (1931)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, John Boles
Votes: 79,773
10. M (1931)
Passed | 99 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke
Votes: 168,559 | Gross: $0.03M
Overall: 9.2
Acting: 8
Story: 8
Visual: 10
Technical: 10
Audio: 10
Personal: 9
Fritz Lang's transition into sound, M uses silence to build near unbearable tension.
11. The Great Dictator (1940)
G | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 237,505 | Gross: $0.29M
Overall: 8
Acting: 8
Story: 8
Visual: 8
Technical: 8
Audio: 8
Personal: 8
The speech Chaplin gives at the end is one of the all time greats.
12. Citizen Kane (1941)
PG | 119 min | Drama, Mystery
Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead
Votes: 466,223 | Gross: $1.59M
Overall: 8.6
Acting: 8
Story: 8
Visual: 9
Technical: 10
Audio: 9
Personal: 8
13. Casablanca (1942)
PG | 102 min | Drama, Romance, War
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Votes: 606,413 | Gross: $1.02M
Overall: 8.5
Acting: 8
Story: 9
Visual: 9
Technical: 9
Audio: 8
Personal: 8
14. The Ox-Bow Incident (1942)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Western
When a posse captures three men suspected of killing a local farmer, they become strongly divided over whether or not to lynch the men.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes, Anthony Quinn
Votes: 24,966 | Gross: $1.64M
Overall: 7.8
Acting: 8
Story: 8
Visual: 7
Technical: 8
Audio: 8
Personal: 8
15. Double Indemnity (1944)
Passed | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Byron Barr
Votes: 167,565 | Gross: $5.72M
Overall: 7.7/10
Acting: 8
Story: 7
Visual: 8
Technical: 9
Audio: 7
Personal: 7
Stanwyck shines as a classic femme fatale in an expertly crafted noir from Billy Wilder (co-written with Raymond Chandler). The scene when Phyllis first brings up accident insurance to Neff is masterfully directed.
16. Drunken Angel (1948)
Not Rated | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reizaburô Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure
Votes: 13,367
Overall: 8
Acting: 8
Story: 7
Visual: 8
Technical: 9
Audio: 8
Personal: 8
17. The Third Man (1949)
Approved | 93 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard
Votes: 181,926 | Gross: $0.45M
Overall: 8 Acting: 8 Story: 7 Visual: 9 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 7
18. Stray Dog (1949)
Not Rated | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective tries to track down his stolen Colt pistol.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi
Votes: 18,949
Overall: 8.2
Acting: 8
Story: 8
Visual: 8
Technical: 9
Audio: 8
Personal: 8
19. Rashomon (1950)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Votes: 180,622 | Gross: $0.10M
Overall: 8.3 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 9 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
20. All About Eve (1950)
Passed | 138 min | Drama
A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm
Votes: 138,841 | Gross: $0.01M
Overall: 7.5/10
Acting: 8
Story: 7
Visual: 7
Technical: 8
Audio: 8
Personal: 7
21. Strangers on a Train (1951)
PG | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A psychopathic man tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman, Leo G. Carroll
Votes: 141,092 | Gross: $7.63M
Overall: 8 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 8 Technical: 8 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
22. To Live (1952)
Not Rated | 143 min | Drama
A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Shin'ichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka
Votes: 87,664 | Gross: $0.06M
Overall: 8.5
Acting: 9
Story: 9
Visual: 8
Technical: 9
Audio: 8
Personal: 8
23. The Big Heat (1953)
Passed | 89 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby
Votes: 29,212
Overall: 8
Acting: 8
Story: 8
Visual: 9
Technical: 8
Audio: 7
Personal: 8
Lang's noir masterpiece is skillfully shot utilizing a number of extended takes. Outstanding performances from Ford, Grahame and Lee Marvin. Anchored by a tight and singular script and a subtle, yet effective score.
24. Dial M for Murder (1954)
PG | 105 min | Crime, Thriller
A former tennis star arranges the murder of his adulterous wife.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams
Votes: 188,966 | Gross: $0.01M
Overall: 8.3 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 9 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
25. On the Waterfront (1954)
Approved | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger
Votes: 165,048 | Gross: $9.60M
Overall: 8.2
Acting: 9
Story: 8
Visual: 8
Technical: 8
Audio: 8
Personal: 8
26. Seven Samurai (1954)
Not Rated | 207 min | Action, Drama
Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki
Votes: 367,069 | Gross: $0.27M
Overall: 9.2
Acting: 8
Story: 9
Visual: 10
Technical: 10
Audio: 8
Personal: 10
27. Rear Window (1954)
PG | 112 min | Mystery, Thriller
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window and, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend, becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter
Votes: 522,500 | Gross: $36.76M
Overall: 9 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 10 Technical: 10 Audio: 9 Personal: 9
28. To Catch a Thief (1955)
PG | 106 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams
Votes: 79,820 | Gross: $8.75M
Overall: 8.3 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 8 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 9
29. Diabolique (1955)
Not Rated | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
The wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel
Votes: 69,433 | Gross: $1.09M
Overall: 8.3 Acting: 8 Story: 9 Visual: 8 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
30. Rififi (1955)
Not Rated | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Four men plan a technically perfect crime, but the human element intervenes...
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel, Janine Darcey
Votes: 36,861 | Gross: $0.06M
Overall: 8.3 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 8 Technical: 10 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
31. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
PG-13 | 111 min | Drama
A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.
Director: Nicholas Ray | Stars: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus
Votes: 98,011
32. The Killing (1956)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five-man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen
Votes: 97,600
Overall: 8.5 Acting: 8 Story: 9 Visual: 8 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 9
33. The Searchers (1956)
Passed | 119 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond
Votes: 96,379
Overall: 9 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 10 Technical: 10 Audio: 9 Personal: 9
34. Paths of Glory (1957)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, War
After a failed attack on a German position, a general orders three soldiers, chosen at random, court-martialed for cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready
Votes: 212,461
Overall: 8.5 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 9 Technical: 10 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
35. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
PG | 161 min | Adventure, Drama, War
British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.
Director: David Lean | Stars: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa
Votes: 233,448 | Gross: $44.91M
Overall: 8.7 Acting: 9 Story: 8 Visual: 10 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
36. Vertigo (1958)
PG | 128 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore
Votes: 427,292 | Gross: $3.20M
Overall: 8.2/10
Acting: 8
Story: 7
Visual: 9
Technical: 9
Audio: 9
Personal: 7
37. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Not Rated | 161 min | Drama, Mystery
An upstate Michigan lawyer defends a soldier who claims he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell
Votes: 71,407 | Gross: $11.90M
Overall: 7.8/10
Acting: 9
Story: 8
Visual: 7
Technical: 8
Audio: 7
Personal: 8
Anatomy of a Murder is Jimmy Stewart in one of his best performances as a defense attorney.
38. North by Northwest (1959)
Approved | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis
Votes: 346,378 | Gross: $13.28M
Overall: 8.3 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 9 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
39. Psycho (1960)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Votes: 718,870 | Gross: $32.00M
Overall: 9 Acting: 9 Story: 8 Visual: 9 Technical: 10 Audio: 9 Personal: 9
40. The Apartment (1960)
Approved | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston
Votes: 197,012 | Gross: $18.60M
Overall: 7.8/10 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 8 Technical: 8 Audio: 7 Personal: 8
41. Yojimbo (1961)
Not Rated | 110 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa
Votes: 131,446
Overall: 8.3 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 8 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 9
42. Sanjuro (1962)
Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi, Yûnosuke Itô
Votes: 41,165
Overall: 7.8 Acting: 8 Story: 7 Visual: 8 Technical: 8 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
43. Harakiri (1962)
Not Rated | 133 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Ishihama, Shima Iwashita, Tetsurô Tanba
Votes: 68,789
Overall: 9.2
Acting: 8
Story: 10
Visual: 10
Technical: 10
Audio: 8
Personal: 9
Harakiri is a masterpiece. Expertly directed by Kobayashi, every frame is precise and stunning. Exquisite performances, along with a sparse, but impactful score, bring a harrowing story to life.
44. Lolita (1962)
Not Rated | 153 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old girl.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon, Gary Cockrell
Votes: 108,858 | Gross: $9.25M
Overall: 8.3 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 9 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
45. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Approved | 218 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins
Votes: 314,592 | Gross: $44.82M
Overall: 9 Acting: 9 Story: 8 Visual: 10 Technical: 10 Audio: 9 Personal: 8
46. High and Low (1963)
Not Rated | 143 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Yutaka Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa
Votes: 53,284
Overall: 8.5 Acting: 8 Story: 9 Visual: 9 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
47. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
R | 99 min | Action, Drama, Western
A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy
Votes: 232,918 | Gross: $14.50M
Overall: 8 Acting: 8 Story: 7 Visual: 8 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
48. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, War
An unhinged American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 518,597 | Gross: $0.28M
Overall: 8.3 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 9 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
49. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
R | 132 min | Drama, Western
Two bounty hunters with the same intentions team up to track down a gang of outlaws led by a psychotic Mexican bandit, who is plotting an audacious bank robbery.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè, Mara Krupp
Votes: 274,903 | Gross: $15.00M
Overall: 8.2 Acting: 8 Story: 7 Visual: 9 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
50. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
PG-13 | 197 min | Drama, Romance, War
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger
Votes: 82,135 | Gross: $111.72M
Overall: 8.3 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 9 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
51. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Approved | 178 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè
Votes: 811,881 | Gross: $6.10M
Overall: 9.2
Acting: 8
Story: 9
Visual: 10
Technical: 9
Audio: 10
Personal: 9
52. Belle de Jour (1967)
R | 100 min | Drama, Romance
A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page
Votes: 49,090 | Gross: $0.03M
53. Samurai Rebellion (1967)
Not Rated | 128 min | Drama
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Gô Katô, Tatsuyoshi Ehara
Votes: 14,112
Overall: 8 Acting: 8 Story: 7 Visual: 8 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
54. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
GP | 127 min | Crime, Drama
A laid-back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, J.D. Cannon
Votes: 188,663 | Gross: $16.22M
Overall: 7.8 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 8 Technical: 8 Audio: 7 Personal: 8
55. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
G | 149 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter
Votes: 720,150 | Gross: $56.95M
Overall: 8.7 Acting: 7 Story: 8 Visual: 10 Technical: 10 Audio: 9 Personal: 8
56. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
PG-13 | 166 min | Western
A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards
Votes: 349,291 | Gross: $5.32M
Overall: 9 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 10 Technical: 10 Audio: 9 Personal: 9
57. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
R | 136 min | Crime, Sci-Fi
In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke
Votes: 881,829 | Gross: $6.21M
Overall: 8.3 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 9 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
58. The Godfather (1972)
R | 175 min | Crime, Drama
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton
Votes: 2,014,488 | Gross: $134.97M
Overall: 9.2
Acting: 9
Story: 9
Visual: 9
Technical: 10
Audio: 10
Personal: 8
59. Badlands (1973)
PG | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands.
Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri
Votes: 78,450
Overall: 8.2 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 9 Technical: 8 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
60. Taxi Driver (1976)
R | 114 min | Crime, Drama
A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks
Votes: 921,571 | Gross: $28.26M
Overall: 8.8 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 10 Technical: 10 Audio: 8 Personal: 9
61. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
PG | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.
Director: George Lucas | Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness
Votes: 1,450,855 | Gross: $322.74M
Overall: 9.2
Acting: 7
Story: 9
Visual: 10
Technical: 9
Audio: 10
Personal: 10
62. Apocalypse Now (1979)
R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, War
A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest
Votes: 710,858 | Gross: $83.47M
Overall: 8.7 Acting: 9 Story: 8 Visual: 9 Technical: 9 Audio: 9 Personal: 8
63. Stalker (1979)
Not Rated | 162 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko
Votes: 144,886 | Gross: $0.23M
Overall: 8.2/10 Acting: 7 Story: 8 Visual: 8 Technical: 10 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
64. The Shining (1980)
R | 146 min | Drama, Horror
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
Votes: 1,107,695 | Gross: $44.02M
Overall: 8.8 Acting: 9 Story: 9 Visual: 9 Technical: 10 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
65. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
PG | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After the Rebel Alliance are overpowered by the Empire, Luke Skywalker begins his Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued across the galaxy by Darth Vader and bounty hunter Boba Fett.
Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams
Votes: 1,380,996 | Gross: $290.48M
Overall: 9.2 Acting: 8 Story: 9 Visual: 10 Technical: 9 Audio: 10 Personal: 9
66. Das Boot (1981)
R | 149 min | Drama, War
A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch
Votes: 264,491 | Gross: $11.49M
Overall: 8.3 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 9 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
67. Blade Runner (1982)
R | 117 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos
Votes: 823,640 | Gross: $32.87M
Overall: 8.3 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 9 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
68. Nostalghia (1983)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama
A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy researching the life of an 18th-century composer, and instead meet a ruminative madman who tells the poet how the world may be saved.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano, Patrizia Terreno
Votes: 30,105 | Gross: $0.01M
69. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
PG | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After rescuing Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebel Alliance attempt to destroy the second Death Star, while Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side.
Director: Richard Marquand | Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams
Votes: 1,122,335 | Gross: $309.13M
Overall: 9 Acting: 8 Story: 9 Visual: 10 Technical: 8 Audio: 10 Personal: 9
70. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
R | 116 min | Drama, War
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin
Votes: 790,989 | Gross: $46.36M
Overall: 8.5 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 9 Technical: 10 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
71. Goodfellas (1990)
R | 145 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco
Votes: 1,258,463 | Gross: $46.84M
Overall: 8.7 Acting: 8 Story: 9 Visual: 9 Technical: 10 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
72. Pulp Fiction (1994)
R | 154 min | Crime, Drama
The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis
Votes: 2,222,396 | Gross: $107.93M
Overall: 8.2 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 8 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
73. Se7en (1995)
R | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey, Andrew Kevin Walker
Votes: 1,800,701 | Gross: $100.13M
Overall: 8.3 Acting: 8 Story: 9 Visual: 8 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
74. Fargo (1996)
R | 98 min | Crime, Thriller
Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare
Votes: 727,229 | Gross: $24.61M
Overall: 8.3 Acting: 9 Story: 8 Visual: 8 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
75. The Thin Red Line (1998)
R | 170 min | Drama, History, War
Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.
Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Kirk Acevedo
Votes: 199,708 | Gross: $36.40M
Overall: 9 Acting: 9 Story: 7 Visual: 10 Technical: 10 Audio: 9 Personal: 9
76. In the Mood for Love (2000)
PG | 98 min | Drama, Romance
Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Siu Ping-Lam, Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung
Votes: 167,044 | Gross: $2.73M
Overall: 7.5/10
Acting: 8
Story: 7
Visual: 8
Technical: 8
Audio: 7
Personal: 7
77. Memento (2000)
R | 113 min | Mystery, Thriller
A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior
Votes: 1,323,861 | Gross: $25.54M
Overall: 8.5 Acting: 8 Story: 9 Visual: 8 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 9
78. City of God (2002)
R | 130 min | Crime, Drama
In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.
Directors: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund | Stars: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Matheus Nachtergaele, Phellipe Haagensen
Votes: 801,683 | Gross: $7.56M
Overall: 8 Acting: 7 Story: 8 Visual: 8 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
79. Downfall (2004)
R | 156 min | Biography, Drama, History
Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler
Votes: 375,461 | Gross: $5.51M
Overall: 8.2 Acting: 9 Story: 8 Visual: 8 Technical: 8 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
80. Batman Begins (2005)
PG-13 | 140 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After witnessing his parents' death, Bruce learns the art of fighting to confront injustice. When he returns to Gotham as Batman, he must stop a secret society that intends to destroy the city.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Ken Watanabe, Liam Neeson
Votes: 1,579,734 | Gross: $206.85M
Overall: 8.7 Acting: 8 Story: 9 Visual: 9 Technical: 9 Audio: 9 Personal: 8
81. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
R | 118 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú
Votes: 703,370 | Gross: $37.63M
Overall: 8.5 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 9 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 9
82. The Prestige (2006)
PG-13 | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
After a tragic accident, two stage magicians in 1890s London engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Michael Caine
Votes: 1,442,415 | Gross: $53.09M
Overall: 9.3
Acting: 8
Story: 10
Visual: 10
Technical: 10
Audio: 8
Personal: 10
83. Zodiac (2007)
R | 157 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Between 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards
Votes: 598,899 | Gross: $33.08M
Overall: 8.5 Acting: 8 Story: 9 Visual: 9 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
84. There Will Be Blood (2007)
R | 158 min | Drama
A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds, Martin Stringer
Votes: 641,627 | Gross: $40.22M
Overall: 9.2
Acting: 10
Story: 8
Visual: 10
Technical: 10
Audio: 9
Personal: 8
85. No Country for Old Men (2007)
R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong and over two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson
Votes: 1,061,288 | Gross: $74.28M
Overall: 9.2 Acting: 9 Story: 9 Visual: 10 Technical: 10 Audio: 8 Personal: 9
86. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
PG-13 | 166 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with consequences.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Julia Ormond
Votes: 696,141 | Gross: $127.51M
Overall: 8.7 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 10 Technical: 9 Audio: 9 Personal: 8
87. The Hurt Locker (2008)
R | 131 min | Drama, Thriller, War
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce
Votes: 474,061 | Gross: $17.02M
Overall: 8.3 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 9 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
88. The Dark Knight (2008)
PG-13 | 152 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine
Votes: 2,873,224 | Gross: $534.86M
Overall: 9.3
Acting: 8
Story: 9
Visual: 10
Technical: 10
Audio: 9
Personal: 10
89. Up (2009)
PG | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
78-year-old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his house equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway.
Directors: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson | Stars: Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger, Christopher Plummer
Votes: 1,125,909 | Gross: $293.00M
90. The Social Network (2010)
PG-13 | 120 min | Biography, Drama
As Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Rooney Mara
Votes: 759,328 | Gross: $96.96M
Overall: 8.5 Acting: 8 Story: 9 Visual: 9 Technical: 9 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
91. Inception (2010)
PG-13 | 148 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elliot Page, Ken Watanabe
Votes: 2,553,219 | Gross: $292.58M
Overall: 9.2
Acting: 8
Story: 9
Visual: 10
Technical: 10
Audio: 9
Personal: 9
92. The Tree of Life (2011)
PG-13 | 139 min | Drama, Fantasy
The story of a family in Waco, Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents' conflicting teachings.
Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken
Votes: 184,197 | Gross: $13.30M
Overall: 8.2
Acting: 8
Story: 6
Visual: 10
Technical: 9
Audio: 8
Personal: 8
93. Drive (I) (2011)
R | 100 min | Action, Drama
A mysterious Hollywood action film stuntman gets in trouble with gangsters when he tries to help his neighbor's husband rob a pawn shop while serving as his getaway driver.
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks
Votes: 705,033 | Gross: $35.06M
Overall: 8.5
Acting: 8
Story: 7
Visual: 9
Technical: 10
Audio: 9
Personal: 8
94. Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
R | 157 min | Drama, History, Thriller
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt, Mark Strong
Votes: 319,109 | Gross: $95.72M
Overall: 8.5 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 9 Technical: 10 Audio: 8 Personal: 8
95. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
PG-13 | 164 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Eight years after the Joker's reign of chaos, Batman is coerced out of exile with the assistance of the mysterious Selina Kyle in order to defend Gotham City from the vicious guerrilla terrorist Bane.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Gary Oldman
Votes: 1,829,105 | Gross: $448.14M
Overall: 8.7 Acting: 8 Story: 8 Visual: 9 Technical: 10 Audio: 9 Personal: 8
96. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
R | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free Black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt
Votes: 741,683 | Gross: $56.67M
Overall: 9
Acting: 9
Story: 8
Visual: 10
Technical: 10
Audio: 9
Personal: 8
97. Interstellar (2014)
PG-13 | 169 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
When Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Mackenzie Foy
Votes: 2,103,190 | Gross: $188.02M
Overall: 9.2
Acting: 8
Story: 8
Visual: 10
Technical: 10
Audio: 10
Personal: 9
98. The Handmaiden (2016)
Not Rated | 145 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.
Director: Park Chan-wook | Stars: Kim Min-hee, Ha Jung-woo, Cho Jin-woong, Moon So-ri
Votes: 173,005 | Gross: $2.01M
Overall: 8/10
Acting: 8
Story: 8
Visual: 9
Technical: 8
Audio: 7
Personal: 8
The Handmaiden is full of twists that keep he audience guessing as to who is in control at any given moment and comes to a beautiful conclusion.
99. Moonlight (I) (2016)
R | 111 min | Drama
A young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood.
Director: Barry Jenkins | Stars: Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Trevante Rhodes, Alex R. Hibbert
Votes: 332,086 | Gross: $27.85M
Overall: 8.5
Acting: 9
Story: 8
Visual: 9
Technical: 9
Audio: 8
Personal: 8
Moonlight is a stunning and unique coming of age story that is authentic and well executed on every level.
100. Dunkirk (2017)
PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Drama, History
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Commonwealth and Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy
Votes: 740,787 | Gross: $188.37M
Overall: 9/10
Acting: 8
Story: 7
Visual: 10
Technical: 10
Audio: 10
Personal: 9
Dunkirk is a completely unique cinematic experience. Nolan's intricate, minimal story allows the emotions and decisions of characters to drive the narrative. Beyond the gripping tension, the film is beautifully shot. And the performances across the film are impeccable. The amazing score by Hans Zimmer is immersive and heightens the emotional impact. Dunkirk is a masterpiece.
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