Top 100 Films
by the Internet Movie DataBase (IMDB)

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 mid 2008.

Facts and Commentary About the List:

  • The films are provided as a comparative measure with the 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, as newly-released blockbusters fill up the top slots, 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"


Top 100 Films
by the Internet Movie DataBase
(ranked)

  1. The Godfather (1972)
  2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  3. The Godfather, Part II (1974)
  4. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) (It.)
  5. Pulp Fiction (1994)
  6. Schindler's List (1993)
  7. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
  8. Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
  9. Casablanca (1942)
  10. Star Wars (1977)
  11. 12 Angry Men (1957)
  12. The Seven Samurai (1954) (Jp.)
  13. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
  14. GoodFellas (1990)
  15. Rear Window (1954)
  16. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  17. City of God (2002, Brazil/Fr.)
  18. Once Upon a Time in the West (1969) (It.)
  19. WALL-E (2008)
  20. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  21. The Usual Suspects (1995)
  22. Psycho (1960)
  23. Fight Club (1999)
  24. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  25. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  26. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  27. North By Northwest (1959)
  28. Citizen Kane (1941)
  29. Memento (2000)
  30. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
  31. The Matrix (1999)
  32. It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
  33. Se7en (1995)
  34. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  35. Apocalypse Now (1979)
  36. Taxi Driver (1976)
  37. American Beauty (1999)
  38. Leon, aka The Professional (1994) (Fr.)
  39. Vertigo (1958)
  40. American History X (1998)
  41. Amelie (2001) (Fr.)
  42. Paths of Glory (1957)
  43. The Departed (2006)
  44. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
  45. M (1931) (Ger.)
  46. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  47. Alien (1979)
  48. Chinatown (1974)
  49. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  50. The Third Man (1949)
  1. Forrest Gump (1994)
  2. The Lives of Others (2006, Germ.)
  3. The Shining (1980)
  4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
  5. Double Indemnity (1944)
  6. The Pianist (2002)
  7. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  8. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
  9. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
  10. Spirited Away (2001, Jp.)
  11. L.A. Confidential (1997)
  12. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
  13. Aliens (1986)
  14. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
  15. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
  16. Das Boot (1981) (Ger.)
  17. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  18. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
  19. Downfall (2004, Germ)
  20. Raging Bull (1980)
  21. No Country For Old Men (2007)
  22. Rashomon (1950) (Jp.)
  23. Metropolis (1927) (Ger.)
  24. There Will Be Blood (2007)
  25. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  26. Modern Times (1936)
  27. Rebecca (1940)
  28. Sin City (2005)
  29. Singin' In The Rain (1952)
  30. Amadeus (1984)
  31. All About Eve (1950)
  32. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
  33. Some Like It Hot (1959)
  34. The Prestige (2006)
  35. Life is Beautiful (1997) (It.)
  36. The Great Escape (1963)
  37. The Elephant Man (1980)
  38. City Lights (1931)
  39. The Seventh Seal (1957) (Swd.)
  40. Jaws (1975)
  41. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  42. On The Waterfront (1954)
  43. Touch Of Evil (1958)
  44. The Sting (1973)
  45. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
  46. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
  47. The Apartment (1960)
  48. Blade Runner (1982)
  49. Braveheart (1995)
  50. The Great Dictator (1940)


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