Movies by Lists - AFI Top 50 Villains (50 [50])| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Cape FearA lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail. | 1962 | J. Lee Thompson | Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (28.5K votes) | 106 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| DraculaTransylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night. | 1931 | Tod Browning, Karl Freund | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 7.5 (50.7K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| Marathon ManAfter the shocking murder of his older brother, a New York history student finds himself inexplicably hounded by shadowy government agents on the trail of a Nazi war criminal who is trying to retrieve smuggled diamonds. | 1976 | John Schlesinger (*) | Crime, Thriller | 7.4 (61.9K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| MiseryAfter a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse. | 1990 | Rob Reiner (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.8 (200.1K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Mommie DearestThe abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan Crawford, is depicted. | 1981 | Frank Perry | Biography, Drama | 6.7 (15.8K votes) | 129 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Nightmare on Elm Street, ATeenager Nancy Thompson must uncover the dark truth concealed by her parents after she and her friends become targets of the spirit of a serial killer with a bladed glove in their dreams, in which if they die, it kills them in real l | 1984 | Wes Craven (*) | Horror | 7.5 (226.5K votes) | 91 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Shining, TheA family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future. | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Drama, Horror | 8.4 (968K votes) | 146 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Sweet Smell of SuccessPowerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician. | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick (*) | Drama, Film-Noir | 8.0 (30.8K votes) | 96 | 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 |
| Terminator I - The TerminatorA human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation | 1984 | James Cameron (*) | Action, Sci-Fi | 8.0 (830.8K votes) | 107 | 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 |
| Training DayA rookie cop spends his first day as a Los Angeles narcotics officer with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears to be. | 2001 | Antoine Fuqua | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (417.5K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Usual Suspects, TheA sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which began when five criminals met at a seemingly random police lineup. | 1995 | Bryan Singer (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.5 (1M votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Wall StreetA young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing. | 1987 | Oliver Stone (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.4 (151.5K votes) | 126 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |