Movies by Lists - AFI Greatest Movie Nominees (403 [403]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 12 Angry MenThe 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. | 1957 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Crime, Drama | 9.0 (749.3K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the SeaA ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo. | 1954 | Richard Fleischer | Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 7.2 (32.9K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| 42nd StreetWhen the leading lady of a Broadway musical breaks her ankle, she is replaced by a young unknown actress, who becomes the star of the show. | 1933 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.4 (11.6K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| 101 DalmatiansWhen a litter of Dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella de Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement. | 1961 | Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family | 7.3 (162.7K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| 2001 A Space Odyssey The Monoliths push humanity to reach for the stars; after their discovery in Africa generations ago, the mysterious objects lead mankind on an awesome journey to Jupiter, with the help of H.A.L. 9000: the world's greatest supercomput | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Adventure, Sci-Fi | 8.3 (642.5K votes) | 149 | 20211228 |
| Adams RibDomestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband. | 1949 | George Cukor (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.5 (20.8K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Adventures of Robin Hood, TheWhen Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence in 1190s England, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a resistance movement. | 1938 | Michael Curtiz, William Keighley | Action, Adventure, Romance | 7.9 (50K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| African Queen, TheIn WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river and use his boat to attack a German gunship. | 1951 | John Huston (*) | Adventure, Drama, Romance, War | 7.8 (77.1K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| AlienThe crew of a commercial spacecraft encounter a deadly lifeform after investigating an unknown transmission. | 1979 | Ridley Scott (*) | Horror, Sci-Fi | 8.4 (841K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| All About EveA seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends. | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz (*) | Drama | 8.2 (128K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| All Quiet on the Western FrontA German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror. | 1930 | Lewis Milestone | Drama, War | 8.1 (60.2K votes) | 152 | 20211228 |
| All That JazzDirector/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid career of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer. | 1979 | Bob Fosse (*) | Drama, Music, Musical | 7.9 (30.6K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| All the King's MenThe rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal. | 1949 | Robert Rossen (*) | Drama, Film-Noir | 7.5 (14.6K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| All the President's Men"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation. | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula (*) | Drama, History, Thriller | 8.0 (111.6K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| AmadeusThe life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him. | 1984 | Milos Forman (*) | Biography, Drama, Music | 8.3 (388.6K votes) | 160 | 20211228 |
| American GraffitiA group of teenagers in California's central valley spend one final night after their 1962 high school graduation cruising the strip with their buddies before they pursue their varying goals. | 1973 | George Lucas (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 (87.2K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Americanization of Emily, TheAn American Naval Officer's talent for living the good life in wartime is challenged when he falls in love and is sent on a dangerous mission. | 1964 | Arthur Hiller | Comedy, Drama, Romance, War | 7.4 (5.1K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| An Affair to RememberA couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen? | 1957 | Leo McCarey (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (29.8K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| An American in ParisThree friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman. | 1951 | Vincente Minnelli (*) | Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.2 (32.8K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Anatomy of a MurderAn 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? | 1959 | Otto Preminger (*) | Drama, Mystery | 8.0 (64.6K votes) | 161 | 20211228 |
| Animal HouseAt a 1962 college, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him. | 1978 | John Landis (*) | Comedy | 7.5 (118.4K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Annie HallAlvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages. | 1977 | Woody Allen (*) | Comedy, Romance | 8.0 (260.6K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Apartment, TheA 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. | 1960 | Billy Wilder (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8.3 (175.7K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Apocalypse NowA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god. | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Drama, Mystery, War | 8.4 (641.8K votes) | 147 | 20211228 |
| Apollo 13NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy. | 1995 | Ron Howard | Adventure, Drama, History | 7.6 (285.9K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| Around The World In 80 DaysA Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. | 1956 | Michael Anderson, John Farrow | Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance | 6.8 (26.6K votes) | 175 | 20211228 |
| Atlantic CityIn a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger. | 1980 | Louis Malle (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.3 (16.4K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Awful Truth, TheA married couple file an amicable divorce, but find it harder to let go of each other than they initially thought. | 1937 | Leo McCarey (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.7 (19.2K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| BabeBabe, a pig raised by sheepdogs on a rural English farm, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett. | 1995 | Chris Noonan | Comedy, Drama, Family | 6.8 (122.7K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Babes in ArmsA group of vaudevillians struggling to compete with talkies hits the road hoping for a comeback. Frustrated to be left behind, all of their kids put on a show themselves to raise money for the families and to prove they've got talent | 1939 | Busby Berkeley (*) | Comedy, Musical | 6.4 (2.5K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Back to the FutureMarty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the eccentric scientist Doc Brown. | 1985 | Robert Zemeckis (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi | 8.5 (1.1M votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| BadlandsAn impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands. | 1973 | Terrence Malick (*) | Action, Crime, Drama | 7.8 (71.1K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| BambiThe story of a young deer growing up in the forest. | 1942 | James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, David Hand, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts | Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family | 7.3 (138.6K votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Band Wagon, TheA pretentiously artistic director is hired for a new Broadway musical and changes it beyond recognition. | 1953 | Vincente Minnelli (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.5 (11.1K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Bank Dick, TheHenpecked Egbert Sousé has comic adventures as a substitute film director and unlikely bank guard. | 1940 | Edward F. Cline | Comedy | 7.2 (7.1K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Barefoot In The ParkPaul, a conservative young lawyer, marries the vivacious Corie. Their highly passionate relationship descends into comical discord in a five-flight New York City walk-up apartment. | 1967 | Gene Saks | Comedy, Romance | 7.0 (18.5K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| BataanIn 1942, in the Bataan peninsula of the Philippines, a ragtag American unit commanded by Sergeant Bill Dane attempts to blow-up a bridge in order to slow the Japanese advance. | 1943 | Tay Garnett | Drama, War | 6.9 (2.4K votes) | 114 | 20220414 |
| BatmanThe Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker. | 1989 | Tim Burton (*) | Action, Adventure | 7.5 (359.1K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Beau GesteThree adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa after one of them steals their adoptive family's famous heirloom sapphire. | 1939 | William A. Wellman (*) | Action, Adventure, Drama, War | 7.6 (5.9K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Beauty and the BeastA prince cursed to spend his days as a hideous monster sets out to regain his humanity by earning a young woman's love. | 1991 | Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise | Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance | 8.0 (434.2K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Ben HurAfter 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. | 1959 | William Wyler (*) | Adventure, Drama, History | 8.1 (232.2K votes) | 212 | 20211228 |
| Ben-HurA Jewish prince seeks to find his family and revenge himself upon his childhood friend who had him wrongly imprisoned. | 1925 | Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Christy Cabanne, J.J. Cohn, Rex Ingram | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 7.8 (7.6K votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| Best Years of Our Lives, TheThree World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed. | 1946 | William Wyler (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 8.1 (62K votes) | 170 | 20211228 |
| Beverly Hills CopA freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills. | 1984 | Martin Brest (*) | Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 7.3 (177.6K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| BigAfter wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult. | 1988 | Penny Marshall (*) | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 7.3 (212.6K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Big Chill, TheA group of seven former college friends gather for a weekend reunion at a South Carolina vacation home after the funeral of another of their college friends. | 1983 | Lawrence Kasdan (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.2 (36.1K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Big Parade, TheA young American soldier witnesses the horrors of the Great War. | 1925 | King Vidor, George W. Hill | Drama, Romance, War | 7.9 (6.6K votes) | 151 | 20211228 |
| Big Sleep, ThePrivate detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love. | 1946 | Howard Hawks (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.9 (83.8K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Birds, TheA wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people. | 1963 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance | 7.7 (182.9K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Birth of a Nation, TheThe Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux K | 1915 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Drama, History, War | 6.2 (24.2K votes) | 195 | 20211228 |
| Blackboard JungleA new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty. | 1955 | Richard Brooks | Crime, Drama | 7.4 (8.9K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Blade RunnerA blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space, and have returned to Earth to find their creator. | 1982 | Ridley Scott (*) | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 8.1 (738.2K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Blazing SaddlesIn order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary. | 1974 | Mel Brooks (*) | Comedy, Western | 7.7 (134.5K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Blue VelvetThe discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child. | 1986 | David Lynch (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (192.4K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Bonnie and ClydeBored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks. | 1967 | Arthur Penn (*) | Action, Biography, Crime, Drama | 7.8 (109.8K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Born on the Fourth of JulyThe biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for. | 1989 | Oliver Stone (*) | Biography, Drama, War | 7.2 (103.7K votes) | 145 | 20211228 |
| Boys TownWhen a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to start a home for young boys. | 1938 | Norman Taurog | Biography, Drama, Family | 7.3 (5.6K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| BraveheartScottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England. | 1995 | Mel Gibson (*) | Biography, Drama, History, War | 8.3 (1M votes) | 178 | 20211228 |
| BrazilA bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams. | 1985 | Terry Gilliam (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.9 (197.1K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Breakfast at TiffanysA young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way. | 1961 | Blake Edwards (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.6 (175.4K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Breaking AwayA working-class Indiana teen obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl while searching for life goals with his friends. | 1979 | Peter Yates | Comedy, Drama, Sport | 7.7 (23.1K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Bridge on the River Kwai, TheBritish 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. | 1957 | David Lean (*) | Adventure, Drama, War | 8.1 (214.6K votes) | 161 | 20211228 |
| Bringing Up BabyWhile trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby. | 1938 | Howard Hawks (*) | Comedy | 7.9 (60K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Broadcast NewsTake two rival television reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well, and watch the sparks fly. | 1987 | James L. Brooks (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (29.9K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| Broadway Melody, TheA pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt. | 1929 | Harry Beaumont | Drama, Musical, Romance | 5.7 (7K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| BullittAn all-guts, no-glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection. | 1968 | Peter Yates | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.4 (66.8K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance KidWyoming, early 1900s. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. After a train robbery goes wrong they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. Their solution - escape to Bolivia. | 1969 | George Roy Hill (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama, Western | 8.0 (211.5K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| CabaretA female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them. | 1972 | Bob Fosse (*) | Drama, Music, Musical, Romance | 7.8 (53K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Cabin in the SkyA compulsive gambler dies during a shooting, but he'll receive a second chance to reform himself and to make up with his worried wife. | 1943 | Vincente Minnelli, Busby Berkeley | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Musical | 7.1 (3K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Caine Mutiny, TheWhen a U.S. Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny. | 1954 | Edward Dmytryk (*) | Drama, War | 7.7 (27.1K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| CamilleA Parisian courtesan must choose between the young man who loves her and the callous baron who wants her, even as her own health begins to fail. | 1936 | George Cukor (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.4 (7.9K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Carmen JonesContemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast. | 1954 | Otto Preminger (*) | Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.8 (5.1K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| CarrieCarrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom. | 1976 | Brian De Palma (*) | Horror, Mystery | 7.4 (182.8K votes) | 98 | 20220524 |
| CasablancaA 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. | 1942 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 8.5 (558.2K votes) | 102 | 20220423 |
| CasinoA tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive compete against each other over a gambling empire, and over a fast-living and fast-loving socialite. | 1995 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.2 (504.1K votes) | 178 | 20220414 |
| Cat BallouA young schoolteacher turns into an outlaw to avenge her murdered father. | 1965 | Elliot Silverstein | Comedy, Romance, Western | 6.8 (14.5K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Cat PeopleAn American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together. | 1942 | Jacques Tourneur (*) | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | 7.3 (22K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| CavalcadeA portrayal of the triumphs and tragedies of two English families, the upper-crust Marryots and the working-class Bridgeses, from 1899 to 1933. | 1933 | Frank Lloyd | Drama, Romance, War | 5.9 (5.1K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Chariots of FireTwo British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience. | 1981 | Hugh Hudson | Biography, Drama, Sport | 7.2 (58.5K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Cheat, TheA venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the stolen money. | 1915 | Cecil B. DeMille (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.6 (2.5K votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
| Children of a Lesser GodA new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice. | 1986 | Randa Haines | Drama, Romance | 7.2 (16.2K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| ChinatownA private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder. | 1974 | Roman Polanski (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.2 (315K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| CimarronA newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century. | 1931 | Wesley Ruggles | Drama, Western | 5.9 (6K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| CinderellaWhen Cinderella's cruel stepmother prevents her from attending the Royal Ball, she gets some unexpected help from the lovable mice Gus and Jaq, and from her Fairy Godmother. | 1950 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske | Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance | 7.3 (154.8K votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Citizen KaneFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance; 'Rosebud'. | 1941 | Orson Welles (*) | Drama, Mystery | 8.3 (429.4K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| City LightsWith the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically. | 1931 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8.5 (179.3K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| CleopatraQueen Cleopatra VII of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome. | 1963 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz (*) | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 7.0 (32.1K votes) | 192 | 20211228 |
| Clockwork Orange, AIn the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned. | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Crime, Sci-Fi | 8.3 (799.7K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Close Encounters of the Third KindRoy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches. | 1977 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.6 (195.8K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| Color Purple, TheA black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades. | 1985 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Drama | 7.8 (84K votes) | 154 | 20211228 |
| Coming HomeA woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there. | 1978 | Hal Ashby (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 7.3 (13.3K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Conversation, TheA paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered. | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.8 (108K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Cool Hand LukeA laid back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform. | 1967 | Stuart Rosenberg (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.1 (172.7K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Crowd, TheThe life of a man and woman together in a large, impersonal metropolis through their hopes, struggles and downfalls. | 1928 | King Vidor (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.1 (8.2K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Dances with WolvesLieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Native Americans, making him an intolerable aberration in the military. | 1990 | Kevin Costner (*) | Adventure, Drama, Western | 8.0 (254.9K votes) | 181 | 20211228 |
| Dangerous LiaisonsA scheming widow and her manipulative ex-lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. | 1988 | Stephen Frears (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.6 (68.3K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| David CopperfieldA gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world. | 1935 | George Cukor (*) | Adventure, Drama, Family, Romance | 7.4 (4.2K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Day the Earth Stood Still, TheAn alien lands in Washington, D.C. and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets. | 1951 | Robert Wise (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.7 (80.5K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Days of HeavenA hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune. | 1978 | Terrence Malick (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.8 (56.5K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Days of Wine and RosesAn alcoholic marries a young woman and systematically addicts her to booze so that they can share his "passion" together. | 1962 | Blake Edwards (*) | Drama | 7.9 (12.5K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Dead Poets SocietyMaverick teacher John Keating uses poetry to embolden his boarding school students to new heights of self-expression. | 1989 | Peter Weir (*) | Comedy, Drama | 8.1 (461.9K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Deer Hunter, TheAn in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania. | 1978 | Michael Cimino (*) | Drama, War | 8.1 (329.7K votes) | 183 | 20211228 |
| Defiant Ones, TheTwo escaped convicts chained together, white and black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture. | 1958 | Stanley Kramer (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.6 (15.1K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| DeliveranceIntent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country. | 1972 | John Boorman (*) | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (105.2K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Destry Rides AgainDeputy sheriff Destry tames the town of Bottle Neck, including saloon singer Frenchy. | 1939 | George Marshall (*) | Comedy, Western | 7.7 (11.2K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Diary of Anne Frank, TheDuring World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. | 1959 | George Stevens (*) | Biography, Drama, Family, History, War | 7.4 (12.6K votes) | 180 | 20211228 |
| Die Hard I - Die HardAn NYPD officer tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by German terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles. | 1988 | John McTiernan (*) | Action, Thriller | 8.2 (847.3K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Dirty HarryWhen a madman calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces the city, tough-as-nails San Francisco Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath. | 1971 | Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.7 (151.8K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Do the Right ThingOn the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. | 1989 | Spike Lee (*) | Comedy, Drama | 8.0 (98.7K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Doctor ZhivagoThe 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. | 1965 | David Lean (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 8.0 (74.6K votes) | 197 | 20211228 |
| DodsworthA retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life. | 1936 | William Wyler (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.8 (8.9K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Dog Day AfternoonThree amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does | 1975 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 8.0 (249.5K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Double IndemnityA 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. | 1944 | Billy Wilder (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 8.3 (152.5K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Dr. StrangeloveAn 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. | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Comedy, War | 8.4 (474.6K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Driving Miss DaisyAn old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years. | 1989 | Bruce Beresford | Drama | 7.4 (107K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Duck SoupRufus T. Firefly is named the dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of his wealthy backer Mrs. Teasdale, contending with two inept spies who can't seem to keep straight which side they' | 1933 | Leo McCarey (*) | Comedy, Musical | 7.8 (59.3K votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| E.T. - The Extra-TerrestrialA troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world. | 1982 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi | 7.8 (394.3K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| East of EdenTwo brothers in 1910s California struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father's favor as an old secret about their long-absent mother comes to light. | 1955 | Elia Kazan (*) | Drama | 7.9 (44.4K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Easy RiderTwo bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware. | 1969 | Dennis Hopper (*) | Adventure, Drama | 7.3 (107.5K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| El CidThe fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors. | 1961 | Anthony Mann (*) | Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War | 7.2 (13.9K votes) | 182 | 20211228 |
| El NorteAfter their family is killed in a government massacre, brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee Guatemala and embark on a perilous journey to "El Norte": the United States. | 1983 | Gregory Nava | Adventure, Drama | 7.7 (5K votes) | 141 | 20211228 |
| Elmer GantryA fast-talking traveling salesman with a charming, loquacious manner convinces a sincere evangelist that he can be an effective preacher for her cause. | 1960 | Richard Brooks | Drama | 7.7 (11.5K votes) | 146 | 20220414 |
| Empire Strikes Back, TheAfter the Rebels are brutally overpowered by the Empire on the ice planet Hoth, Luke Skywalker begins Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued across the galaxy by Darth Vader and bounty hunter Boba Fett. | 1980 | Irvin Kershner (*) | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 8.7 (1.2M votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| English Patient, TheAt the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair. | 1996 | Anthony Minghella | Drama, Romance, War | 7.4 (186.4K votes) | 162 | 20211228 |
| Exorcist, TheWhen a 12-year-old girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her. | 1973 | William Friedkin (*) | Horror | 8.0 (384.5K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| FantasiaA collection of animated interpretations of great works of Western classical music, ranging from the abstract to depictions of mythology and fantasy, and settings including the prehistoric, supernatural and sacred. | 1940 | James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, David Hand | Animation, Family, Fantasy, Music, Musical | 7.7 (93.5K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Fantastic VoyageA scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter it. | 1966 | Richard Fleischer | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi | 6.8 (18.5K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Farewell to Spring [Sekishunchô]An aspiring white actress takes in an African-American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white. | 1959 | Douglas Sirk (*) | Drama | 7.8 (15.8K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| FargoMinnesota 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. | 1996 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Crime, Thriller | 8.1 (654.8K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Fast Times At Ridgemont HighA group of Southern California high school students are enjoying their most important subjects: sex, drugs, and rock n' roll. | 1982 | Amy Heckerling (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.2 (101.8K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Fatal AttractionA married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family. | 1987 | Adrian Lyne (*) | Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (83K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Ferris Bueller's Day offA high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite what the Principal thinks of that. | 1986 | John Hughes (*) | Comedy | 7.8 (343.1K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Fiddler On The RoofIn pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village. | 1971 | Norman Jewison (*) | Drama, Family, Musical, Romance | 8.0 (42.5K votes) | 181 | 20211228 |
| Field of DreamsIowa farmer Ray Kinsella is inspired by a voice he can't ignore to pursue a dream he can hardly believe. Supported by his wife, Ray begins the quest by turning his ordinary cornfield into a place where dreams can come true. | 1989 | Phil Alden Robinson | Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport | 7.5 (116.1K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Five Easy PiecesA dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest. | 1970 | Bob Rafelson (*) | Drama | 7.4 (35.9K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Force Of EvilAn unethical lawyer, with an older brother he wants to help, becomes a partner with a client in the numbers racket. | 1948 | Abraham Polonsky (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.3 (6.6K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Forrest GumpThe presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal and other historical events unfold from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, whose only desire is to be reunited with his childhood sweeth | 1994 | Robert Zemeckis (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.8 (2M votes) | 142 | 20211228 |
| Four Horsement of the Apocalypse, TheAn extended family split up in France and Germany find themselves on opposing sides of the battlefield during World War I. | 1921 | Rex Ingram | Drama, Romance, War | 7.2 (3.3K votes) | 150 | 20211228 |
| FrankensteinDr. Frankenstein dares to tamper with life and death by creating a human monster out of lifeless body parts. | 1931 | James Whale (*) | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.8 (70.2K votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| FreaksA circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance. | 1932 | Tod Browning (*) | Drama, Horror | 7.9 (45.1K votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| French Connection, TheA pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal. | 1971 | William Friedkin (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (118.5K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| From Here To EternityAt 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. | 1953 | Fred Zinnemann (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 7.6 (45.9K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| From Russia With LoveJames Bond willingly falls into an assassination plot involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. | 1963 | Terence Young | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 7.4 (130.1K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Fugitive, TheDr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of murdering his wife, must find the real killer while being the target of a nationwide manhunt led by a seasoned U.S. Marshal. | 1993 | Andrew Davis | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.8 (284.5K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Funny GirlThe life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfeld girl, subsequent career, and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein. | 1968 | William Wyler (*) | Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.4 (22K votes) | 151 | 20211228 |
| FuryWhen a wrongly accused prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder. | 1936 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.9 (12.3K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| GandhiThe life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest. | 1982 | Richard Attenborough (*) | Biography, Drama | 8.0 (225.5K votes) | 191 | 20211228 |
| General, TheAfter being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy | 1926 | Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, War | 8.1 (88.5K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Gentlemen Prefer BlondesShowgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers. | 1953 | Howard Hawks (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.2 (35.8K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Gentlemen's AgreementA reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred. | 1947 | Elia Kazan (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (15.9K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| GhostbustersThree parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened yet skeptical customers. | 1984 | Ivan Reitman (*) | Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 7.8 (396.6K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| GiantSprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates. | 1956 | George Stevens (*) | Drama, Western | 7.6 (37.6K votes) | 201 | 20211228 |
| GigiWeary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long. | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.7 (22.3K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| GildaA small-time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino discovers his employer's new wife is his former lover. | 1946 | Charles Vidor (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 7.6 (31.5K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| GloryRobert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates. | 1989 | Edward Zwick (*) | Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.8 (131.7K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Godfather Part I, TheThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty in postwar New York City transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant youngest son. | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Crime, Drama | 9.2 (1.7M votes) | 175 | 20211228 |
| Godfather Part II, TheThe 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. | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Crime, Drama | 9.0 (1.2M votes) | 202 | 20211228 |
| Going My WayWhen young Father O'Malley arrives at St. Dominic's, old Father Fitzgibbon doesn't think much of the church's newest member. | 1944 | Leo McCarey (*) | Comedy, Drama, Music | 7.1 (11.7K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Gold Rush, TheA prospector goes to the Klondike during the 1890s gold rush in hopes of making his fortune, and is smitten with a girl he sees in a dance hall. | 1925 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Western | 8.2 (108.3K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| GoldfingerWhile investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve. | 1964 | Guy Hamilton (*) | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 7.7 (184.9K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Gone with the WindThe manipulative daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a turbulent romance with a roguish profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods. | 1939 | Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood | Drama, History, Romance, War | 8.1 (306.3K votes) | 238 | 20211228 |
| Goodbye Girl, TheAfter being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor. | 1977 | Herbert Ross | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.4 (13.6K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Goodbye Mr. ChipsAn aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades. | 1939 | Sam Wood, Sidney Franklin | Drama, Romance | 7.9 (10.4K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| GoodfellasThe story of Henry Hill and his life in the mob, covering his relationship with his wife Karen Hill and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito in the Italian-American crime syndicate. | 1990 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama | 8.7 (1.1M votes) | 146 | 20211228 |
| Graduate, TheA disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter. | 1967 | Mike Nichols (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8.0 (266.7K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Grand HotelA group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas. | 1932 | Edmund Goulding | Drama, Romance | 7.4 (18.8K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Grapes of Wrath, TheAn Oklahoma family driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression. | 1940 | John Ford (*) | Drama | 8.1 (90.3K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| GreaseGood girl Sandy Olsson and greaser Danny Zuko fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance? | 1978 | Randal Kleiser | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.2 (259.4K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Great Ziegfeld, TheThe ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed. | 1936 | Robert Z. Leonard | Drama, Musical | 6.7 (7.9K votes) | 176 | 20211228 |
| Greatest Show on Earth, TheThe dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle. | 1952 | Cecil B. DeMille (*) | Drama, Family, Romance | 6.6 (14.2K votes) | 152 | 20211228 |
| GreedThe sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved. | 1924 | Erich von Stroheim (*) | Drama, Thriller, Western | 8.1 (9.7K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| Guess Who's Coming To DinnerA couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé. | 1967 | Stanley Kramer (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.8 (44.1K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Gun CrazyTwo disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree. | 1950 | Joseph H. Lewis (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 7.6 (13K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Gunfighter, TheNotorious gunfighter Jimmy Ringo rides into town to find his true love, who doesn't want to see him. He hasn't come looking for trouble, but trouble finds him around every corner. | 1950 | Henry King | Western | 7.7 (10.8K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Gunga DinIn 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land. | 1939 | George Stevens (*) | Adventure, Comedy, War | 7.3 (11.7K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Hail The Conquering HeroWoodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving a heroic honorable discharge before returning home. | 1944 | Preston Sturges (*) | Comedy, War | 7.7 (4.6K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Hannah And Her SistersBetween two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly. | 1986 | Woody Allen (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.9 (70.3K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Heiress, TheA young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter. | 1949 | William Wyler (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.2 (15.4K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| High NoonA town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at high noon when the gang leader, an outlaw he sent up years ago, arrives on the noon train. | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann (*) | Drama, Thriller, Western | 8.0 (102.2K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| His Girl FridayA newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying. | 1940 | Howard Hawks (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (57.2K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| How Green Was My ValleyAt the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life. | 1941 | John Ford (*) | Drama, Family | 7.7 (23.4K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| HudHonest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash. | 1963 | Martin Ritt (*) | Drama, Western | 7.8 (21.3K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Hustler, TheAn up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match. | 1961 | Robert Rossen (*) | Drama, Sport | 8.0 (80.3K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| I Am a Fugitive From a Chain GangWrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him. | 1932 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 8.2 (13K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Imitation of LifeAn aspiring white actress takes in an African-American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white. | 1959 | Douglas Sirk (*) | Drama | 7.8 (15.9K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| In Cold BloodTwo ex-cons murder a family in a robbery attempt, before going on the run from the authorities. The police try to piece together the details of the murder in an attempt to track down the killers. | 1967 | Richard Brooks | Biography, Crime, Drama, History | 7.9 (26.1K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| In The Heat of The NightA black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case. | 1967 | Norman Jewison (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.9 (73.3K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Intolerance - Love's Struggle Through The AgesThe story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history. | 1916 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Drama, History | 7.7 (15.2K votes) | 197 | 20211228 |
| Intruder in the DustIn 1940s Mississippi, two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge. | 1949 | Clarence Brown | Crime, Drama, Family | 7.6 (2.3K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Invasion of the Body SnatchersA small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates. | 1956 | Don Siegel (*) | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.7 (48.2K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| It Happened One NightA renegade reporter trailing a young runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York, and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops. | 1934 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Romance | 8.1 (100.7K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad WorldA group of motorists witnesses a car crash in the California desert, and after the driver's dying words indicate the location of a hidden stash of loot, they turn against each in a race across the state to get to it. | 1963 | Stanley Kramer (*) | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 7.5 (40.6K votes) | 210 | 20211228 |
| It's a Wonderful LifeAn 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. | 1946 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy | 8.6 (438.9K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| JawsWhen a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Long Island, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down. | 1975 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Adventure, Thriller | 8.0 (573.2K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Jazz Singer, TheThe son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer. | 1927 | Alan Crosland | Drama, Music, Musical, Romance | 6.5 (9.8K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Jerry MaguireWhen a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former colleague. | 1996 | Cameron Crowe | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport | 7.3 (256.9K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| Joy Luck Club, TheThe life histories of four East Asian women and their daughters reflect and guide each other. | 1993 | Wayne Wang | Drama | 7.7 (16.1K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| Judgement At NurembergIn 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazis judged for war crimes. | 1961 | Stanley Kramer (*) | Drama, War | 8.2 (75.1K votes) | 179 | 20211228 |
| Jungle Book, TheBagheera the Panther and Baloo the Bear have a difficult time trying to convince a boy to leave the jungle for human civilization. | 1967 | Wolfgang Reitherman | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 7.6 (176.1K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Jurassic ParkA pragmatic paleontologist touring an almost complete theme park on an island in Central America is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose. | 1993 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 8.1 (929.6K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Kid, TheThe Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put that relationship in jeopardy. | 1921 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Comedy, Drama, Family | 8.3 (122.7K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Killing Fields, TheA journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians. | 1984 | Roland Joffé (*) | Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.8 (54.5K votes) | 141 | 20211228 |
| King KongA film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal ape who takes a shine to their female blonde star. He is then captured and brought back to New York City for public exhibition. | 1933 | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.9 (83.6K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Kramer vs KramerAfter his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation. | 1979 | Robert Benton (*) | Drama | 7.8 (141.4K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| La An' a LampA gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme. | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 8.0 (14.3K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Lady and the TrampThe romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt. | 1955 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Jack Cutting | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance | 7.3 (131K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Lady Eve, TheA trio of classy card sharps targets the socially awkward heir to brewery millions for his money, until one of them falls in love with him. | 1941 | Preston Sturges (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.8 (20.9K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Last Emperor, TheThe story of the final Emperor of China. | 1987 | Bernardo Bertolucci (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 7.7 (100.2K votes) | 163 | 20211228 |
| Last Picture Show, TheIn 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically. | 1971 | Peter Bogdanovich (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.0 (46.6K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Last Tango in ParisA young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex. | 1972 | Bernardo Bertolucci (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.0 (52.7K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Last Temptation of Christ, TheThe life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross. | 1988 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Drama | 7.5 (55.8K votes) | 164 | 20211228 |
| Last Temptation, The [O teleftaios peirasmos]The life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross. | 1988 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Drama | 7.5 (55.6K votes) | 164 | 20211228 |
| LauraA police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating. | 1944 | Otto Preminger (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 8.0 (46.1K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Lawrence of ArabiaThe 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. | 1962 | David Lean (*) | Adventure, Biography, Drama, War | 8.3 (284.5K votes) | 228 | 20211228 |
| Leaving Las VegasBen Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera. | 1995 | Mike Figgis | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (120.9K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Lethal WeaponTwo newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers. | 1987 | Richard Donner | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.6 (251.1K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Letter to Three Wives, AA letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one. | 1949 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.7 (9.3K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Life and Death of King Richard III, The [Richard III]Richard of Gloucester uses manipulation and murder to gain the English throne. | 1912 | André Calmettes, James Keane | Drama | 5.7 (268 votes) | 55 | 20211228 |
| Life of Emile Zola, TheThe biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair. | 1937 | William Dieterle (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.2 (8K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Lion King, TheLion prince Simba and his father are targeted by his bitter uncle, who wants to ascend the throne himself. | 1994 | Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff | Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical | 8.5 (1M votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Little Big ManJack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer. | 1970 | Arthur Penn (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Western | 7.6 (34.6K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| Little CaesarA small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune. | 1931 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (13K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Little Colonel, TheIn the post-Civil war south, a darling little girl attempts to restore the peace between her parents and her plantation owner grandfather. | 1935 | David Butler | Comedy, Family, Musical | 7.1 (1.7K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Little Foxes, TheThe ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the twentieth century. | 1941 | William Wyler (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.0 (11.6K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Local HeroAn American oil company has plans for a new refinery and sends someone to Scotland to buy up an entire village, but things don't go as expected. | 1983 | Bill Forsyth (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 (23.5K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Longest Day, TheThe events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view. | 1962 | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald, Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck | Action, Drama, History, War | 7.8 (54.6K votes) | 178 | 20211228 |
| Lost HorizonWhen a revered diplomat's plane is diverted and crashes in the peaks of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to an isolated monastery at Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay. | 1937 | Frank Capra (*) | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | 7.7 (12.8K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Lost Weekend, TheThe desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout. | 1945 | Billy Wilder (*) | Drama, Film-Noir | 7.9 (36K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Love StoryA boy and a girl from different backgrounds fall in love regardless of their upbringing - and then tragedy strikes. | 1970 | Arthur Hiller | Drama, Romance | 6.9 (33.3K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Magnificent Ambersons , TheThe spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved. | 1942 | Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise | Drama, Romance | 7.7 (24.3K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Maltese Falcon, TheSan Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered. | 1941 | John Huston (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance | 8.0 (155.4K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Man For All Seasons, AThe story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry. | 1966 | Fred Zinnemann (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 7.7 (33.8K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Man Who Would Be King, TheTwo former British soldiers in 1880s India decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great. | 1975 | John Huston (*) | Adventure, History, War | 7.8 (47.9K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Manchurian Candidate, TheAn American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy. | 1962 | John Frankenheimer (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.9 (74.3K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| ManhattanThe life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress. | 1979 | Woody Allen (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (137.9K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Mark of Zorro, TheA young Spanish aristocrat must masquerade as a fop in order to maintain his secret identity of Zorro as he restores justice to early California. | 1940 | Rouben Mamoulian (*) | Action, Adventure, Family, Romance, Western | 7.6 (10K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| MartyA middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other. | 1955 | Delbert Mann (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.7 (23.5K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Mary PoppinsIn turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father. | 1964 | Robert Stevenson (*) | Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 7.8 (167.2K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| MASHThe staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. | 1970 | Robert Altman (*) | Comedy, Drama, War | 7.4 (71.2K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| McCabe & Mrs. MillerA gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene. | 1971 | Robert Altman (*) | Drama, Western | 7.7 (24.3K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Mean StreetsA small-time hood tries to keep the peace between his friend Johnny and Johnny's creditors. | 1973 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (106.5K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Medium CoolA TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention. | 1969 | Haskell Wexler | Drama | 7.3 (4.3K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Meet Me in St LouisYoung love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family. | 1944 | Vincente Minnelli (*) | Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance | 7.6 (23.7K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Melvin and HowardThe story of hard-luck Melvin E. Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes. | 1980 | Jonathan Demme (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.8 (4.8K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Midnight CowboyA naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process. | 1969 | John Schlesinger (*) | Drama | 7.8 (108.2K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Miracle of Morgan's Creek, TheAfter an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl with an awkward boyfriend wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity. | 1944 | Preston Sturges (*) | Comedy, Romance, War | 7.6 (7.4K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Miracle on 34th StreetAfter a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mistak | 1947 | George Seaton | Comedy, Drama, Family | 7.9 (47K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| MissingWhen an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him. | 1982 | Costa-Gavras (*) | Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (21K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Mister RobertsIn the waning days of World War II, the cargo officer of a Navy supply ship chafes at its role far from the action in the Pacific's backwater areas, his frustration rising when its captain denies the crew liberty over petty irritatio | 1955 | John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, Joshua Logan | Comedy, Drama, War | 7.7 (16.4K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Modern TimesThe Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman. | 1936 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance | 8.5 (233.6K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| MoonstruckLoretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry. | 1987 | Norman Jewison (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.1 (57.2K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| MoroccoA cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and due to the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself. | 1930 | Josef von Sternberg (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (6.5K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Mr. Deeds Goes to TownA unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him. | 1936 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (21K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Mr. Smith Goes to WashingtonA naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his char | 1939 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Drama | 8.1 (113.2K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Mrs. MiniverA British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II. | 1942 | William Wyler (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 7.6 (17.2K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| Mutiny on the BountyFirst mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny. | 1935 | Frank Lloyd | Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 7.7 (22.3K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| My Darling ClementineAfter their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family. | 1946 | John Ford (*) | Drama, Romance, Western | 7.8 (23.1K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| My Fair LadyIn 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl Eliza Doolittle presentable in high society. | 1964 | George Cukor (*) | Drama, Family, Musical, Romance | 7.8 (93K votes) | 170 | 20211228 |
| My Man GodfreyA scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye. | 1936 | Gregory La Cava (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8.0 (23.2K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| NashvilleOver the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention. | 1975 | Robert Altman (*) | Comedy, Drama, Music | 7.7 (25.6K votes) | 160 | 20211228 |
| NetworkA television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control. | 1976 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Drama | 8.1 (154.7K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Night at the Opera, AA sly business manager and the wacky friends of two opera singers in Italy help them achieve success in America while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies. | 1935 | Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding | Comedy, Music, Musical | 7.9 (32.3K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Night of the HunterA religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery. | 1955 | Charles Laughton (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 8.0 (87K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Night of the Living DeadA ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the East Coast of the United States. | 1968 | George A. Romero (*) | Horror, Thriller | 7.9 (124.5K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| NinotchkaA stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest. | 1939 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.9 (20.6K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| North by NorthwestA 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. | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller | 8.3 (317.8K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| NotoriousThe daughter of a convicted Nazi spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of Nazi scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them? | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 8.0 (98.8K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Now, VoyagerA frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman. | 1942 | Irving Rapper | Drama, Romance | 7.9 (16.5K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| OklahomaIn Oklahoma, several farmers, cowboys and a traveling salesman compete for the romantic favors of various local ladies. | 1955 | Fred Zinnemann (*) | Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, Western | 7.1 (12.5K votes) | 145 | 20211228 |
| Oliver!After being sold to a mortician, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor in 1830s London. | 1968 | Carol Reed (*) | Drama, Family, Musical | 7.4 (37.4K votes) | 153 | 20211228 |
| On Golden PondNorman is a curmudgeon with an estranged relationship with his daughter Chelsea. At Golden Pond, he and his wife nevertheless agree to care for Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms. | 1981 | Mark Rydell | Drama | 7.6 (30.3K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| On the BeachAfter a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months. | 1959 | Stanley Kramer (*) | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | 7.2 (12.8K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| On The WaterfrontAn 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. | 1954 | Elia Kazan (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 8.1 (150.9K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoos NestA criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients. | 1975 | Milos Forman (*) | Drama | 8.7 (970.7K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| Only Angels Have WingsAt a remote South American trading port, the manager of an air-freight company is forced to risk his pilots' lives in order to win an important contract as a traveling American showgirl stops in town. | 1939 | Howard Hawks (*) | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 7.7 (13.7K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Ordinary PeopleThe accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son. | 1980 | Robert Redford (*) | Drama | 7.7 (50.4K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Out of AfricaIn 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter. | 1985 | Sydney Pollack (*) | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (77.6K votes) | 161 | 20211228 |
| Out of the PastA private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses and duplicitous dames. | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 8.0 (36K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Outlaw Josey Wales, TheMissouri farmer Josey Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family. | 1976 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Western | 7.8 (71.4K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Ox-Bow Incident, TheWhen a posse captures three men suspected of killing a local farmer, they become strongly divided over whether or not to lynch the men. | 1942 | William A. Wellman (*) | Drama, Western | 8.0 (22.7K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Paths of GloryAfter refusing to attack an enemy position, a general accuses the soldiers of cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them. | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Drama, War | 8.4 (190.5K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| PattonThe World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton. | 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner (*) | Biography, Drama, War | 7.9 (100K votes) | 172 | 20211228 |
| Phantom Of The Opera, TheA mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer. | 1925 | Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney, Ernst Laemmle, Edward Sedgwick | Horror | 7.6 (18K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| PhiladelphiaWhen a man with HIV is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit. | 1993 | Jonathan Demme (*) | Drama | 7.7 (235.6K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Philadelphia Story, TheWhen 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. | 1940 | George Cukor (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.9 (67.5K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Pillow TalkAn interior decorator and a playboy songwriter share a telephone party line and size each other up. | 1959 | Michael Gordon | Comedy, Romance | 7.4 (17K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Pink Panther, TheThe bumbling Inspector Clouseau travels to Rome to catch a notorious jewel thief known as "The Phantom" before he conducts his most daring heist yet: a princess' priceless diamond with one slight imperfection, known as "The Pink Pant | 1963 | Blake Edwards (*) | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 7.1 (51.2K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| PinocchioA living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy. | 1940 | Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 7.4 (139.9K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Place In The Sun, AA poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women. | 1951 | George Stevens (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.8 (22K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Planet of the ApesAn astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved. | 1968 | Franklin J. Schaffner (*) | Adventure, Sci-Fi | 8.0 (175K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| PlatoonChris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict. | 1986 | Oliver Stone (*) | Drama, War | 8.1 (401.4K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Player, TheA Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected, but which one? | 1992 | Robert Altman (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.5 (58.5K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Poor Little Rich Girl, TheThe wealthy but selfish parents of a lonely young girl begin to rethink what is important to them after a servant's irresponsibility results in a crisis. | 1917 | Maurice Tourneur | Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance | 6.7 (1.4K votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Pretty WomanA man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets... only to fall in love. | 1990 | Garry Marshall (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.1 (311.3K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Pride of the Yankees, TheThe story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig. | 1942 | Sam Wood (*) | Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport | 7.7 (10.7K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Producers, TheA stage-play producer devises a plan to make money by producing a sure-fire flop. | 1967 | Mel Brooks (*) | Comedy, Music | 7.6 (54.8K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| PsychoA 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. | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 8.5 (643.8K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Public Enemy, TheAn Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime. | 1931 | William A. Wellman (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.6 (20.6K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Pulp FictionThe 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. | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.9 (2M votes) | 154 | 20211228 |
| Quiet Man, TheA retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in 1920s Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union. | 1952 | John Ford (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.8 (37.4K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Raging BullThe life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it. | 1980 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Biography, Drama, Sport | 8.2 (341.4K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Raiders of the Lost ArkIn 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler's Nazis can obtain its awesome powers. | 1981 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Action, Adventure | 8.4 (932.2K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Rain ManAfter a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritan | 1988 | Barry Levinson (*) | Drama | 8.0 (497.3K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| Raisin in the Sun, AA substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family. | 1961 | Daniel Petrie | Drama | 8.0 (8.2K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Rambling RoseA young woman who exudes sexuality battles temptation. | 1991 | Martha Coolidge | Drama | 6.6 (4.9K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Rear WindowA wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window, and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend. | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Mystery, Thriller | 8.5 (474.2K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| RebeccaA self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence. | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 8.1 (133.3K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Rebel Without a CauseA rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies. | 1955 | Nicholas Ray (*) | Drama | 7.7 (88.3K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Red RiverDunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son. | 1948 | Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson | Drama, Western | 7.8 (30.4K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| RedsA radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States. | 1981 | Warren Beatty (*) | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 7.3 (22.4K votes) | 195 | 20211228 |
| Return of the JediAfter a daring mission to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels dispatch to Endor to destroy the second Death Star. Meanwhile, Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side without falling into the Emperor's tr | 1983 | Richard Marquand | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 8.3 (1M votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Return of the Secaucus 7Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer house in New Hampshire to reminisce about the good old days, when they got arrested on the way to a protest in Washington, DC. | 1979 | John Sayles (*) | Drama | 7.0 (2K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Right Stuff, TheThe U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers prefe | 1983 | Philip Kaufman (*) | Adventure, Biography, Drama, History | 7.8 (60.2K votes) | 193 | 20211228 |
| Risky BusinessA Chicago teenager is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but the situation quickly gets out of hand. | 1983 | Paul Brickman | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.8 (86.7K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Road to MoroccoTwo carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar. | 1942 | David Butler | Adventure, Comedy, Family, Music, Romance | 7.1 (5.3K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| RockyA 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. | 1976 | John G. Avildsen (*) | Drama, Sport | 8.1 (551.3K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Rocky Horror Picture Show, TheA newly-engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must seek shelter at the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-n-Furter. | 1975 | Jim Sharman | Comedy, Horror, Musical | 7.4 (145.6K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Rosemary's BabyA young couple trying for a baby move into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, but find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors. | 1968 | Roman Polanski (*) | Drama, Horror | 8.0 (207.9K votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| Run Silent Run DeepA U.S. sub commander, obsessed with sinking a certain Japanese ship, butts heads with his first officer and crew. | 1958 | Robert Wise (*) | Action, Drama, War | 7.3 (11.3K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Safety Last!A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures. | 1923 | Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor | Action, Comedy, Thriller | 8.1 (20K votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Salt of the EarthMexican workers at a Zinc mine call a general strike. It is only through the solidarity of the workers, and importantly the indomitable resolve of their wives, mothers and daughters, that they eventually triumph. | 1954 | Herbert J. Biberman | Drama, History | 7.4 (3.5K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Sands of Iwo JimaHaunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipli | 1949 | Allan Dwan | Action, Drama, Romance, War | 7.1 (10.2K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Saturday Night FeverAnxious about his future after high school, a 19-year-old Italian-American from Brooklyn tries to escape the harsh reality of his bleak family life by dominating the dance floor at the local disco. | 1977 | John Badham (*) | Drama, Music | 6.8 (77.5K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| ScarfaceAn ambitious and nearly insane violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall. | 1932 | Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson | Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.7 (27.3K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Scarlet EmpressA German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power. | 1934 | Josef von Sternberg (*) | Drama, History, Romance | 7.6 (6.4K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Schindlers ListIn German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis. | 1993 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 8.9 (1.3M votes) | 195 | 20211228 |
| Searchers, TheAn 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. | 1956 | John Ford (*) | Adventure, Drama, Western | 7.9 (86.6K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Sense and SensibilityRich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the title opposites. | 1995 | Ang Lee (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.7 (111.8K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Sergeant YorkA Tennessee farmer and marksman is drafted in World War I, and struggles with his pacifist inclinations before becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes. | 1941 | Howard Hawks (*) | Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War | 7.7 (17.8K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| Seven Year Itch, TheWhen his family goes away for the summer, a hitherto faithful husband with an overactive imagination is tempted by a beautiful neighbbor. | 1955 | Billy Wilder (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.1 (37.7K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Sex, Lies and VideotapeA sexually repressed woman's husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything. | 1989 | Steven Soderbergh (*) | Drama | 7.2 (53.7K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Shadow of a DoubtA teenage girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities. | 1943 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.8 (63.8K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| ShadowsCassavetes' jazz-scored improvisational film explores interracial friendships and relationships in Beat-Era (1950s) New York City. | 1958 | John Cassavetes (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (11.2K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| ShaneA weary gunfighter in 1880s Wyoming begins to envision a quieter life after befriending a homestead family with a young son who idolizes him, but a smoldering range war forces him to act. | 1953 | George Stevens (*) | Drama, Western | 7.6 (39.6K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Shawshank Redemption, TheTwo imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency. | 1994 | Frank Darabont (*) | Drama | 9.3 (2.5M votes) | 142 | 20211228 |
| She Done Him WrongIn the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer contends with several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome temperance league member. | 1933 | Lowell Sherman | Comedy, Drama, History, Musical, Romance | 6.4 (6K votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Silence of the Lambs, TheA 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. | 1991 | Jonathan Demme (*) | Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 8.6 (1.4M votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Singin in the RainA 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. | 1952 | Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 8.3 (233.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Sleepless in SeattleA recently widowed man's son calls a radio talk-show in an attempt to find his father a partner. | 1993 | Nora Ephron | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.8 (172.5K votes) | 105 | 20220414 |
| Snow White and the Seven DwarvesExiled into the dangerous forest by her wicked stepmother, a princess is rescued by seven dwarf miners who make her part of their household. | 1937 | William Cottrell, David Hand, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce | Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance | 7.6 (192.9K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Some Like It HotAfter two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. | 1959 | Billy Wilder (*) | Comedy, Music, Romance | 8.2 (258.9K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Sons of the DesertWhen Stan and Ollie trick their wives into thinking that they are taking a medicinal cruise while they're actually going to a convention, the wives find out the truth the hard way. | 1933 | William A. Seiter (*) | Comedy, Family | 7.6 (8.7K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Sophie's ChoiceSophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. | 1982 | Alan J. Pakula (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.6 (46.6K votes) | 150 | 20211228 |
| Sound of Music, TheA young novitiate is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer. | 1965 | Robert Wise (*) | Biography, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance | 8.0 (221.6K votes) | 172 | 20211228 |
| SounderThe oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food. | 1972 | Martin Ritt (*) | Drama, Family | 7.6 (4.1K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| SpartacusThe slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising. | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.9 (131.8K votes) | 197 | 20211228 |
| Splendor In The GrassA fragile Kansas girl's love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness. | 1961 | Elia Kazan (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.8 (20.5K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| StagecoachA group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process. | 1939 | John Ford (*) | Adventure, Drama, Western | 7.9 (47.4K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Stalag 17After two Americans are killed while escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer. | 1953 | Billy Wilder (*) | Comedy, Drama, War | 8.0 (54.8K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Star Is Born, AA young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him. | 1937 | William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, Victor Fleming | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (9.5K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Star is Born, AA film star helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral. | 1954 | George Cukor (*) | Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.6 (17.5K votes) | 154 | 20211228 |
| Star WarsLuke 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 Vad | 1977 | George Lucas (*) | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 8.6 (1.3M votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Sting, TheTwo grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con. | 1973 | George Roy Hill (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 8.3 (254.4K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Stranger Than ParadiseA New Yorker's life is thrown into a tailspin when his younger cousin surprise-visits him, starting a strange, unpredictable adventure. | 1984 | Jim Jarmusch (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 (36.9K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Strangers on a TrainA psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder. | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 8.0 (131K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Streetcar Named Desire, ADisturbed 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. | 1951 | Elia Kazan (*) | Drama | 8.0 (105.5K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Sullivans TravelsHollywood director John L Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie. | 1941 | Preston Sturges (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (25.8K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| SunriseA sophisticated urban woman seduces a farmer in the hopes that he will murder his neglected wife and join her in the city, but he soon finds himself rekindling his romance with the latter when she discovers their scheme. | 1927 | F.W. Murnau (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.1 (50.2K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Sunset BlvdA screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return. | 1950 | Billy Wilder (*) | Drama, Film-Noir | 8.4 (214.8K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Swing TimeRoguish gambler/dancer "Lucky" Garnett is challenged by his fiance's father to come up with $25,000 to prove he's worthy of her hand. But after he falls in love with a dance instructor, Lucky'll do anything to keep from earning the b | 1936 | George Stevens (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.5 (13.3K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Taxi DriverA 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. | 1976 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.2 (780.5K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Ten Commandments, TheMoses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery. | 1956 | Cecil B. DeMille (*) | Adventure, Drama, Family | 7.9 (68.3K votes) | 220 | 20211228 |
| Terminator II - Judgement DayA cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten-year-old son John from a more advanced and powerful cyborg. | 1991 | James Cameron (*) | Action, Sci-Fi | 8.5 (1.1M votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| Terms of EndearmentFollows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love, and her daughter's family problems. | 1983 | James L. Brooks (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 (58.8K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Thelma & LouiseTwo best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two girls escape for the crimes they committed. | 1991 | Ridley Scott (*) | Adventure, Crime, Drama | 7.5 (148.2K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Thief of Bagdad, TheA recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess. | 1924 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance | 7.7 (6K votes) | 155 | 20211228 |
| Thin Man, TheFormer detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora investigate a murder case, mostly for the fun of it. | 1934 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Comedy, Mystery | 8.0 (28.8K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Third Man, ThePulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime. | 1949 | Carol Reed (*) | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 8.1 (167.7K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Thirty Seconds Over TokyoIn the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland. | 1944 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Drama, History, War | 7.2 (5.8K votes) | 138 | 20220414 |
| To Be or Not to BeDuring the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy. | 1942 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Romance, War | 8.2 (35.1K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| To Have and Have NotDuring World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer. | 1944 | Howard Hawks (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller, War | 7.8 (33.7K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| To Kill a MockingbirdAtticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice. | 1962 | Robert Mulligan (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.2 (308.4K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Tom JonesThe romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th-century England. | 1963 | Tony Richardson | Adventure, Comedy, History, Romance | 6.5 (12.7K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| TootsieMichael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap. | 1982 | Sydney Pollack (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.4 (103.6K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Top HatAn American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer. | 1935 | Mark Sandrich (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.8 (18.8K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Touch of EvilA stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town. | 1958 | Orson Welles (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 8.0 (102.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Toy StoryA cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room. | 1995 | John Lasseter (*) | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 8.3 (947.3K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Treasure of the Sierra Madre, TheTwo down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains. | 1948 | John Huston (*) | Adventure, Drama, Western | 8.2 (121.7K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Trouble in ParadiseA gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme. | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 8.0 (14.3K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Twelve O'Clock HighA hard-as-nails general takes over a bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape. | 1949 | Henry King | Drama, War | 7.7 (14.3K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Two For The RoadA couple in the south of France non-sequentially spin down the highways of infidelity in their troubled ten-year marriage. | 1967 | Stanley Donen (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.5 (13.2K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| UnforgivenRetired 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." | 1992 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Drama, Western | 8.2 (398.7K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Untouchables, TheDuring the era of Prohibition in the United States, Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone and, because of rampant corruption, assembles a small, hand-picked team to help him. | 1987 | Brian De Palma (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.9 (299.4K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| VertigoA 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. | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 8.3 (389.4K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| War of the Worlds, TheA small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion. | 1953 | Byron Haskin | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.1 (34.8K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Way We Were, TheIn pre-WWII, McCarthyism, a diametrically opposed couple come together only to find out that geniune friendship and physical attraction is not enough to overcome fundamental societal beliefs. | 1973 | Sydney Pollack (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (24.3K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| West Side StoryTwo youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy. | 1961 | Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | Crime, Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.5 (108.1K votes) | 153 | 20211228 |
| What Ever Happened to Baby JaneA former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion. | 1962 | Robert Aldrich (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 8.0 (54.8K votes) | 134 | 20220414 |
| White HeatA psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. | 1949 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 8.1 (32K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Whos Afraid of Virginia WoolfA bitter middle-aged couple, her derisive of his lowly position at a New England college, ask a new colleague and his wife over for drinks, and use them to fuel anguish and emotional pain toward each other through a distressing night | 1966 | Mike Nichols (*) | Drama | 8.0 (73.6K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Wild Bunch, TheAn aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them. | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah (*) | Action, Adventure, Western | 7.9 (82.6K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Winchester '73A cowboy's obsession with a stolen rifle leads to a bullet-ridden odyssey through the American West. | 1950 | Anthony Mann (*) | Action, Drama, Western | 7.6 (19.3K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Wind, TheA frail young woman from the east moves in with her cousin in the west, where she causes tension within the family and is slowly driven mad. | 1928 | Victor Sjöström (*) | Drama, Romance, Thriller, Western | 8.1 (6.5K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| WingsTwo young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I. | 1927 | William A. Wellman, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Drama, Romance, War, Action | 7.5 (12.5K votes) | 144 | 20211228 |
| Within Our GatesAbandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youths. | 1920 | Oscar Micheaux | Drama, Romance | 6.4 (3K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| WitnessWhen a young Amish boy is sole witness to a murder while visiting Philadelphia with his mother, police detective John Book tries to protect the boy until an attempt on Book's life forces him into hiding in Amish country. | 1985 | Peter Weir (*) | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.4 (92.3K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Wizard of Oz, TheYoung Dorothy Gale and her dog 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' wishe | 1939 | Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Taurog, Richard Thorpe | Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 8.0 (384.7K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Woman of the YearRival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle. | 1942 | George Stevens (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport | 7.2 (9.9K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Wuthering HeightsA servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff. | 1939 | William Wyler (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.6 (17.7K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Yankee Doodle DandyThe life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan. | 1942 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Biography, Drama, Family, Music, Musical | 7.7 (15.2K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Yearling, TheA boy persuades his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves? | 1946 | Clarence Brown | Drama, Family, Western | 7.2 (5.8K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| You Can't Take It With YouThe son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family, not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development. | 1938 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (25.1K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Young Mr LincolnA fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case. | 1939 | John Ford (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 7.6 (8K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |