Internet Movie DataBase's Top Films

Top 100 Films


The highly-respected site The Internet Movie Database asked its registered users to rank and rate films for their top 250 films survey. Below are the top 100 films from the results of their weighted, unscientific poll, tabulated in early 2004. The films are provided as a comparative measure with the other greatest films lists on this site.

This list of films reflects changing trends with a strong, heavily-weighted bias toward current hits, more recent releases, and personally popular films. Every few months, the list contains more and more top grossing, box-office smashes, familiar and current films that have become the latest craze, and other hits that have had tremendous exposure through expensive ad campaigns. Unfortunately, many of the most-acclaimed classics from Hollywood's Golden Age are pushed lower and lower in the list's ratings of popularity.

Note: The films that are marked with a yellow star are the films that "The Greatest Films" site has selected as the "100 Greatest Films".



IMDb's
Top 100 Films
(ranked)

  1. The Godfather (1972)
  2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  3. The Godfather, Part II (1974)
  4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2003)
  5. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
  6. Schindler's List (1993)
  7. Casablanca (1942)
  8. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  9. The Seven Samurai (1954) (Jp.)
  10. Star Wars (1977)
  11. Citizen Kane (1941)
  12. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
  13. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  14. Rear Window (1954)
  15. Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
  16. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  17. Memento (2000)
  18. The Usual Suspects (1995)
  19. Pulp Fiction (1994)
  20. North By Northwest (1959)
  21. Amelie (2001) (Fr.)
  22. Psycho (1960)
  23. 12 Angry Men (1957)
  24. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  25. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) (It.)
  26. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  27. It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
  28. GoodFellas (1990)
  29. American Beauty (1999)
  30. Vertigo (1958)
  31. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  32. The Matrix (1999)
  33. Apocalypse Now (1979)
  34. The Pianist (2002)
  35. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
  36. Some Like It Hot (1959)
  37. Taxi Driver (1976)
  38. Once Upon a Time in the West (1969) (It.)
  39. The Third Man (1949)
  40. Paths of Glory (1957)
  41. Fight Club (1999)
  42. Spirited Away (2001) (Jp.)
  43. Das Boot (1981) (Ger.)
  44. Double Indemnity (1944)
  45. L.A. Confidential (1997)
  46. Chinatown (1974)
  47. Singin' In The Rain (1952)
  48. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
  49. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  50. M (1931) (Ger.)
  1. All About Eve (1950)
  2. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
  3. Se7en (1995)
  4. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
  5. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  6. Raging Bull (1980)
  7. City of God (2002) (Brazil/Fr.)
  8. Rashomon (1950) (Jp.)
  9. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  10. The Sting (1973)
  11. Alien (1979)
  12. American History X (1998)
  13. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
  14. Leon, aka The Professional (1994) (Fr.)
  15. Life is Beautiful (1997) (It.)
  16. Touch Of Evil (1958)
  17. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
  18. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  19. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
  20. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  21. The Great Escape (1963)
  22. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  23. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
  24. Amadeus (1984)
  25. Annie Hall (1977)
  26. Jaws (1975)
  27. Ran (1985) (Jp.)
  28. Modern Times (1936)
  29. On The Waterfront (1954)
  30. Braveheart (1995)
  31. High Noon (1952)
  32. The Apartment (1960)
  33. The Sixth Sense (1999)
  34. Fargo (1996)
  35. Aliens (1986)
  36. The Shining (1980)
  37. Strangers on a Train (1951)
  38. Blade Runner (1982)
  39. Metropolis (1927) (Ger.)
  40. Duck Soup (1933)
  41. Finding Nemo (2003)
  42. Donnie Darko (2001)
  43. The General (1927)
  44. The Princess Bride (1987)
  45. Toy Story 2 (1999)
  46. City Lights (1931)
  47. Run Lola Run (1998) (Ger.)
  48. The Great Dictator (1940)
  49. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
  50. The Seventh Seal (1957) (Swd.)

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