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- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartKim NovakBarbara Bel GeddesA 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.Topped the Sight and Sound critics' poll in 2012 with 191 votes.
Ranked number 1 with 39 votes when German film magazine Steadycam asked 174 critics and filmmakers to vote for their favorite films in 2007.
Ranked number 1 with 25 votes when Iranian film magazine Film asked 92 Iranian critics to vote for the best films in 2009. - DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy ComingoreFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'Topped five Sight and Sound critics' polls, with 22 votes in 1962, 32 votes in 1972, 45 votes in 1982, 43 votes in 1992, and 46 votes in 2002. It also topped the first two directors' polls, with 30 votes in 1992 and 42 votes in 2002.
Ranked number 1 with 48 votes when French film magazine Cahiers du cinéma asked 78 French critics and historians to vote for the best films in 2007.
Ranked number 1 with 48 votes when Chinese website Cinephilia.net asked 135 Chinese-speaking critics, scholars, curators, and cultural workers to vote for the best films in 2012.
Ranked number 1 with 49 votes when Spanish film magazine Nickel Odeon asked 150 Spanish film experts to vote for the best films in 1999.
Selected as the greatest American film in 2015 by sixty-two international film critics surveyed by the BBC.
The American Film Institute polled 1,500 film community leaders for the lists 100 Years... 100 Movies and 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) in 1998 and 2007 respectively, asking voters to choose from a list of 400 nominations. Both polls identified Citizen Kane as the best American film ever. - DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsLamberto MaggioraniEnzo StaiolaLianella CarellIn post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.Topped the first Sight and Sound poll in 1952 with 25 votes.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsChishû RyûChieko HigashiyamaSô YamamuraAn old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.Topped the Sight and Sound directors' poll in 2012 with 48 votes.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsMarcel DalioNora GregorPaulette DubostA bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.The only movie to have appeared in every Sight and Sound critics' poll, achieving its highest rank of number 2 in 1972, 1982, and 1992; its only appearance in the directors' poll was number 9 in 2002.
Voted the best French film of all time with 15 votes in a 2012 poll of 85 film professionals conducted by Time Out Paris.
Voted the best European film of all time with 56 votes (tied with the German film Nosferatu) in a 1994 poll of 70 critics and film historians organized by Cinemateca Portuguesa - DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsAleksandr AntonovVladimir BarskiyGrigoriy AleksandrovIn the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.Ranked number 1 with 32 votes when the Festival Mondial du Film et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique asked 63 film professionals around the world, mostly directors, to vote for the best films of the half-century in 1951.
Ranked number 1 when the Brussels World's Fair polled 117 experts from 26 countries in 1958.
Voted the best silent film with 32 votes in a 1964 poll of 50 Swedish film professionals organized by Swedish film magazine Chaplin - DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnouk AiméeClaudia CardinaleA harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.Voted the best foreign (i.e. non-Swedish) sound film with 21 votes in a 1964 poll of 50 Swedish film professionals organized by Swedish film magazine Chaplin.
Ranked number 1 when the Museum of Cinematography in Łódź asked 279 Polish film professionals (filmmakers, critics, and professors) to vote for the best films in 2015. - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMarlon BrandoAl PacinoJames CaanThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.Ranked number 1 when Japanese film magazine Kinema Junpo asked 114 Japanese critics and film professionals to vote for the best foreign (i.e. non-Japanese) films in 2009.
Voted the greatest film in a Hollywood Reporter poll of 2120 industry members, including every studio, agency, publicity firm and production house in Hollywood in 2014.
Voted number 1 by Entertainment Weekly's readers in 1999.
Voted as number 1 in a Time Out readers' poll in 1998.
Voted the "Greatest Movie of All Time" in September 2008 by 10,000 readers of Empire magazine, 150 people from the movie business, and 50 film critics.
Selected as the greatest film by 2,120 industry professionals in a Hollywood survey undertaken by The Hollywood Reporter in 2014. - DirectorFrank DarabontStarsTim RobbinsMorgan FreemanBob GuntonA banker convicted of uxoricide forms a friendship over a quarter century with a hardened convict, while maintaining his innocence and trying to remain hopeful through simple compassion.IMDb's top rated movie as rated by 1,822,307 users with a rating of 9.2/10.
- DirectorVictor FlemingKing VidorStarsJudy GarlandFrank MorganRay BolgerYoung Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.1st place in the Rotten Tomatoes aggregate score rankings with a 99% rating based on 110 reviews.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGregory PeckAudrey HepburnEddie AlbertA bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.Voted the best foreign (i.e. non-Japanese) film of all time in a 1990 poll of about a million people organized by Japanese public broadcaster NHK.
- DirectorKang Je-kyuStarsHan Suk-kyuChoi Min-sikYunjin KimSouth Korean agents Ryu and Lee are tracking a female assassin from North Korea who has mysteriously disappeared. With new killings and the theft of a deadly bomb, time is running out to catch her.Voted the favorite film of Koreans with 11,918 votes in a 2002 online poll of 54,013 people conducted by Korean movie channel Orion Cinema Network.
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsElijah WoodIan McKellenOrlando BloomA meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.Voted the most popular film of all time by an audience poll for the Australian television special My Favourite Film in 2005.
Voted the most popular film of all time by a poll cast by 120,000 German voters for the TV special "Die besten Filme aller Zeiten" (German "The best films of all time") in 2004. - DirectorPeter JacksonStarsElijah WoodViggo MortensenIan McKellenGandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.Voted the most popular film of all time by an audience poll for the Australian television special My Favourite Film in 2005.
Voted the most popular film of all time by a poll cast by 120,000 German voters for the TV special "Die besten Filme aller Zeiten" (German "The best films of all time") in 2004.
IMDb top rated Adventure and Fantasy Movie with a rating of 8.9/10 as rated by 1,307,703 users. - DirectorPeter JacksonStarsElijah WoodIan McKellenViggo MortensenWhile Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard.Voted the most popular film of all time by an audience poll for the Australian television special My Favourite Film in 2005.
Voted the most popular film of all time by a poll cast by 120,000 German voters for the TV special "Die besten Filme aller Zeiten" (German "The best films of all time") in 2004. - DirectorGeorge MillerStarsMel GibsonBruce SpenceMichael PrestonIn the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community get rid of a horde of bandits.Voted the greatest action film of all time in a readers' poll by American magazine Rolling Stone in 2015.
- DirectorJohn McTiernanStarsBruce WillisAlan RickmanBonnie BedeliaA New York City police officer tries to save his estranged wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.Voted the best action film of all time with 21 votes in a 2014 poll of 50 directors, actors, critics, and experts conducted by Time Out New York.
Voted the greatest Christmas movie by British film magazine Empire's readers in 2015. - DirectorChristopher NolanStarsChristian BaleHeath LedgerAaron EckhartWhen a menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman, James Gordon and Harvey Dent must work together to put an end to the madness.IMDb top rated Action and Thriller Movie with a rating of 9.0/10 as rated by 802,320 users.
Voted the greatest superhero movie in a reader's poll conducted by American magazine Rolling Stone in 2014.
Tops a list on comic book adaptations by Movie Review Query Engine's. - DirectorYuri NorsteinStarsVyacheslav NevinnyyMariya VinogradovaAleksey BatalovA little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying new aspect.Ranked number 1 in a poll at the 2003 Laputa Animation Festival where 140 animators from around the world voted for the best animated films of all time.
- DirectorYuri NorsteinStarsAleksandr KalyaginDistant, well-worn memories of childhood are inhabited by a little gray wolf. Through astonishing imagery, the memory of all of Russia is depicted.Ranked number 1 with 17 votes in a poll at the Olympiad of Animation in 1984 where an international panel of 35 journalists, scholars, festival directors, and animation programmers voted for the best animated films.
Ranked number 1 in a poll organized by the Channel 4 animation magazine Dope Sheet in 1997.
Ranked number 1 in a poll organized by the Zagreb International Animation Festival, which announced the results in 2002. - DirectorJohn LasseterStarsTom HanksTim AllenDon RicklesA cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman action figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's bedroom.Voted number 1 on the "Top 100 Animated Features of All Time" list by the Online Film Critics Society (published March 2003). Voters chose from a reminder list of more than 350 films.
- DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsDaveigh ChaseSuzanne PleshetteMiyu IrinoDuring her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.Received 39 votes, more than any other film, when Time Out New York asked 112 animators, critics, and experts voted for the best animated movies.[32] Time Out only published their own version of the list (not based on the poll results), but they also published the individual ballots.
IMDb top rated Animated Movie with a rating of 8.6/10 as rated by 463,012 users. - DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartDonna ReedLionel BarrymoreAn angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.Number 1 on the Movie Review Query Engine's list of the best holiday movies.
- DirectorTerry JonesStarsGraham ChapmanJohn CleeseMichael PalinBorn on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.Voted the greatest comedy ever in a poll conducted by British film magazine Total Film in 2000.
Voted the greatest comedy ever in a poll conducted by the British TV network Channel 4 in 2006.
Voted the greatest comedy ever in a poll conducted by the British newspaper The Guardian in 2007. - DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsTom HanksRobin WrightGary SiniseThe history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.IMDb top rated Comedy Movie with a rating of 8.8/10 as rated by 1,369,325 users.