Top 100 Movies Of All Time (Jan, 2010)

After seeing Avatar (brilliant BTW) and checking its position on IMDB’s Top 250 list, I was amazed to find a lot of very new films infiltrating the ranks of the much thought of classics. I’m trying to decide whether this is simply because they are new – in which case they are at the fore-front of peoples mind when voting on their top 250, or because a large minority of films being produced today are in fact the best films ever created? Below I give you the the Top 100 so you can make up your own mind.

Please note this is not my own Top 100 but that created by the regular voters of the IMDB community.

  1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  2. The Godfather (1972)
  3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
  4. Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo. (1966)
  5. Pulp Fiction (1994)
  6. Schindler’s List (1993)
  7. 12 Angry Men (1957)
  8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
  9. The Dark Knight (2008)
  10. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

  11. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
  12. Star Wars (1977)
  13. Casablanca (1942)
  14. Goodfellas (1990)
  15. Shichinin no samurai (1954)
  16. Cidade de Deus (2002)
  17. Fight Club (1999)
  18. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  19. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  20. Rear Window (1954)
  21. The Usual Suspects (1995)
  22. Psycho (1960)
  23. C’era una volta il West (1968)
  24. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  25. The Matrix (1999)
  26. Memento (2000)
  27. Se7en (1995)
  28. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
  29. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
  30. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
  31. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
  32. Citizen Kane (1941)
  33. North by Northwest (1959)
  34. Léon (1994)
  35. Apocalypse Now (1979)
  36. American Beauty (1999)
  37. American History X (1998)
  38. Forrest Gump (1994)
  39. Taxi Driver (1976)
  40. Avatar (2009)
  41. Vertigo (1958)
  42. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  43. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
  44. Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain (2001)
  45. WALL·E (2008)
  46. Alien (1979)
  47. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  48. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  49. The Shining (1980)
  50. Paths of Glory (1957)
  51. The Departed (2006)
  52. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
  53. The Pianist (2002)
  54. Aliens (1986)
  55. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
  56. Das Leben der Anderen (2006)
  57. M (1931)
  58. Double Indemnity (1944)
  59. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
  60. Chinatown (1974)
  61. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
  62. The Third Man (1949)
  63. L.A. Confidential (1997)
  64. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
  65. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  66. Das Boot (1981)
  67. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
  68. El laberinto del fauno (2006)
  69. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
  70. City Lights (1931)
  71. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  72. Up (2009)
  73. Raging Bull (1980)
  74. The Prestige (2006)
  75. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
  76. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  77. La vita è bella (1997)
  78. Back to the Future (1985)
  79. Some Like It Hot (1959)
  80. Der Untergang (2004)
  81. Modern Times (1936)
  82. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  83. Amadeus (1984)
  84. Gran Torino (2008)
  85. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
  86. Rashômon (1950)
  87. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  88. Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988)
  89. Braveheart (1995)
  90. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
  91. All About Eve (1950)
  92. The Elephant Man (1980)
  93. Sin City (2005)
  94. The Green Mile (1999)
  95. Metropolis (1927)
  96. Rebecca (1940)
  97. The Great Dictator (1940)
  98. The Apartment (1960)
  99. The Sting (1973)
  100. The Great Escape (1963)

Link: [IMDB]

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