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Top 100 Greatest Movies of All Time (The Ultimate List)

by ChrisWalczyk55 | created - 21 Dec 2012 | updated - 28 Mar 2017 | Public

The movies on this list are ranked according to their success (awards & nominations), their popularity, and their cinematic greatness from a directing/writing perspective. To me, accuracy when making a Top 10/Top 100 all time list is extremely important. My lists are not based on my own personal favorites; they are based on the true greatness and/or success of the person, place or thing being ranked. In other words, a film's commercial success (Oscars & BAFTA Awards), and greatness in direction, screenwriting and production, is how I ranked the films on this list. If you guys would like to view my other Top 10/Top 100 lists, feel free to check out my YouTube page and/or my IMDb page at *ChrisWalczyk55*.

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1. The Godfather (1972)

R | 175 min | Crime, Drama

100 Metascore

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: 2,002,769 | Gross: $134.97M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 3 Oscar Nominations: 11 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 4 Golden Globes: 6 Golden Globe Nominations: 8

2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

R | 142 min | Drama

82 Metascore

Over the course of several years, two convicts form a friendship, seeking consolation and, eventually, redemption through basic compassion.

Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler

Votes: 2,875,423 | Gross: $28.34M

Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 7 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 0 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 2

3. Schindler's List (1993)

R | 195 min | Biography, Drama, History

95 Metascore

In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall

Votes: 1,444,246 | Gross: $96.90M

Actors: 4.9 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 7 Oscar Nominations: 12 BAFTA Awards: 6 BAFTA Nominations: 12 Golden Globes: 3 Golden Globe Nominations: 6

4. Raging Bull (1980)

R | 129 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

90 Metascore

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent

Votes: 378,851 | Gross: $23.38M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 8 BAFTA Awards: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 4 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 7

5. Casablanca (1942)

PG | 102 min | Drama, Romance, War

100 Metascore

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: 604,073 | Gross: $1.02M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 3 Oscar Nominations: 8 BAFTA Awards: N/A BAFTA Nominations: N/A Golden Globes: N/A Golden Globe Nominations: N/A

6. Citizen Kane (1941)

PG | 119 min | Drama, Mystery

100 Metascore

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: 464,655 | Gross: $1.59M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 9 BAFTA Awards: N/A BAFTA Nominations: N/A Golden Globes: N/A Golden Globe Nominations: N/A

7. Gone with the Wind (1939)

Passed | 238 min | Drama, Romance, War

97 Metascore

A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.

Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood | Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil

Votes: 333,136 | Gross: $198.68M

***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 8 Oscar Nominations: 13 BAFTA Awards: N/A BAFTA Nominations: N/A Golden Globes: N/A Golden Globe Nominations: N/A

8. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

PG | 102 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

92 Metascore

Young 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.

Directors: Victor Fleming, King Vidor | Stars: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr

Votes: 427,131 | Gross: $2.08M

***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 6 BAFTA Awards: N/A BAFTA Nominations: N/A Golden Globes: N/A Golden Globe Nominations: N/A

9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

R | 133 min | Drama

84 Metascore

In the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.

Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco

Votes: 1,068,761 | Gross: $112.00M

***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 5 Oscar Nominations: 9 BAFTA Awards: 6 BAFTA Nominations: 9 Golden Globes: 6 Golden Globe Nominations: 6

10. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Approved | 218 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

100 Metascore

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: 313,070 | Gross: $44.82M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 7 Oscar Nominations: 10 BAFTA Awards: 4 BAFTA Nominations: 5 Golden Globes: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 7

11. Vertigo (1958)

PG | 128 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller

100 Metascore

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: 425,406 | Gross: $3.20M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 2 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 0 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 0

12. Psycho (1960)

R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

97 Metascore

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: 715,753 | Gross: $32.00M

***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 4 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 0 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 1

13. The Godfather Part II (1974)

R | 202 min | Crime, Drama

90 Metascore

The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton

Votes: 1,358,687 | Gross: $57.30M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 6 Oscar Nominations: 11 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 3 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 6

14. On the Waterfront (1954)

Approved | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

91 Metascore

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: 164,116 | Gross: $9.60M

***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 8 Oscar Nominations: 12 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 3 Golden Globes: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

15. Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir

94 Metascore

A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson

Votes: 235,602

***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 3 Oscar Nominations: 11 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 0 Golden Globes: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 7

16. Forrest Gump (1994)

PG-13 | 142 min | Drama, Romance

82 Metascore

The 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.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field

Votes: 2,245,746 | Gross: $330.25M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 6 Oscar Nominations: 13 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 7 Golden Globes: 3 Golden Globe Nominations: 7

17. The Sound of Music (1965)

G | 172 min | Biography, Drama, Family

63 Metascore

A young novice is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer.

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn

Votes: 259,660 | Gross: $163.21M

***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 5 Oscar Nominations: 10 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 1 Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

18. 12 Angry Men (1957)

Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama

97 Metascore

The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler

Votes: 860,213 | Gross: $4.36M

***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 3 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

19. West Side Story (1961)

Approved | 153 min | Crime, Drama, Musical

86 Metascore

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

Directors: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | Stars: Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn

Votes: 120,831 | Gross: $43.66M

***** Actors: 4.9 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 10 Oscar Nominations: 11 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 1 Golden Globes: 3 Golden Globe Nominations: 5

20. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

PG | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

90 Metascore

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: 1,444,619 | Gross: $322.74M

Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 6 Oscar Nominations: 10 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 5 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

21. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

G | 149 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

84 Metascore

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: 716,664 | Gross: $56.95M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 4 BAFTA Awards: 3 BAFTA Nominations: 5 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 0

22. E.T. (1982)

PG | 115 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi

92 Metascore

A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Dee Wallace

Votes: 436,008 | Gross: $435.11M

***** Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 4 Oscar Nominations: 9 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 12 Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globe Nominations: 5

23. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

R | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

86 Metascore

A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.

Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine

Votes: 1,541,529 | Gross: $130.74M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 5 Oscar Nominations: 7 BAFTA Awards: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 9 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 5

24. Chinatown (1974)

R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

92 Metascore

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez

Votes: 348,418

***** Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 11 BAFTA Awards: 3 BAFTA Nominations: 10 Golden Globes: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 7

25. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

PG | 161 min | Adventure, Drama, War

88 Metascore

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: 232,653 | Gross: $44.91M

Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 7 Oscar Nominations: 8 BAFTA Awards: 4 BAFTA Nominations: 4 Golden Globes: 3 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

26. Singin' in the Rain (1952)

G | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

99 Metascore

A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.

Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | Stars: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen

Votes: 259,674 | Gross: $8.82M

***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 2 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 1 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 2

27. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

PG | 130 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

89 Metascore

An 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.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 497,658

***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 5 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 0 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 1

28. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

PG | 95 min | Comedy, War

97 Metascore

An insane 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: 516,415 | Gross: $0.28M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 4 BAFTA Awards: 3 BAFTA Nominations: 6 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 0

29. Some Like It Hot (1959)

Passed | 121 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

98 Metascore

After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft

Votes: 282,648 | Gross: $25.00M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 6 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 3 Golden Globe Nominations: 3

30. Ben-Hur (1959)

G | 212 min | Adventure, Drama

90 Metascore

After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet

Votes: 252,577 | Gross: $74.70M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 11 Oscar Nominations: 12 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 1 Golden Globes: 3 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

31. Apocalypse Now (1979)

R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, War

94 Metascore

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: 707,315 | Gross: $83.47M

Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 8 BAFTA Awards: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 8 Golden Globes: 3 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

32. Amadeus (1984)

R | 160 min | Biography, Drama, Music

87 Metascore

The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.

Director: Milos Forman | Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice

Votes: 426,138 | Gross: $51.97M

***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars

Oscars: 8 Oscar Nominations: 11 BAFTA Awards: 4 BAFTA Nominations: 9 Golden Globes: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 6

33. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

PG-13 | 201 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

94 Metascore

Gandalf 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.

Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom

Votes: 1,970,430 | Gross: $377.85M

Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 11 Oscar Nominations: 11 BAFTA Awards: 4 BAFTA Nominations: 10 Golden Globes: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

34. Gladiator (2000)

R | 155 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

67 Metascore

A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed

Votes: 1,612,290 | Gross: $187.71M

***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 4.7 Stars Screenplay: 4.7 Stars

Oscars: 5 Oscar Nominations: 12 BAFTA Awards: 4 BAFTA Nominations: 12 Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globe Nominations: 5

35. Titanic (1997)

PG-13 | 194 min | Drama, Romance

75 Metascore

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates

Votes: 1,275,151 | Gross: $659.33M

***** Actors: 4.7 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.5 Stars

Oscars: 11 Oscar Nominations: 14 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 8 Golden Globes: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 8

36. From Here to Eternity (1953)

Passed | 118 min | Drama, Romance, War

85 Metascore

At a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his commanding officer's wife and top aide begin a tentative affair.

Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed

Votes: 50,661 | Gross: $30.50M

Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 5 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 8 Oscar Nominations: 13 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 1 Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globe Nominations: 2

37. Saving Private Ryan (1998)

R | 169 min | Drama, War

91 Metascore

Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns

Votes: 1,490,684 | Gross: $216.54M

Actors: 4.9 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 5 Oscar Nominations: 11 BAFTA Awards: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 8 Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globe Nominations: 5

38. Unforgiven (1992)

R | 130 min | Drama, Western

85 Metascore

Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The "Schofield Kid."

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris

Votes: 434,730 | Gross: $101.16M

Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 4 Oscar Nominations: 9 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 6 Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globe Nominations: 4

39. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

PG | 115 min | Action, Adventure

86 Metascore

In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, John Rhys-Davies

Votes: 1,033,927 | Gross: $248.16M

Actors: 4.7 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 4 Oscar Nominations: 8 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 6 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 1

40. Rocky (1976)

PG | 120 min | Drama, Sport

70 Metascore

A small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.

Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers

Votes: 625,972 | Gross: $117.24M

Actors: 4.6 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.6 Stars

Oscars: 3 Oscar Nominations: 10 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 5 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 6

41. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

PG | 122 min | Drama

97 Metascore

Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden

Votes: 113,982 | Gross: $8.00M

Actors: 4.9 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars

Oscars: 4 Oscar Nominations: 12 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 3

42. The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, Romance

96 Metascore

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey

Votes: 73,626

Actors: 4.9 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 6 BAFTA Awards: N/A BAFTA Nominations: N/A Golden Globes: N/A Golden Globe Nominations: N/A

43. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Approved | 129 min | Crime, Drama