The Best Movies of All Time
Browse the best movies of all time, ranked and organized, with endless depth for serious film study or light entertainment. Find the best movies to watch right now on streaming services or to add to your home library.
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Foreign Language Films >
The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir
Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujiro Ozu
Bicycle Thieves 1948 Vittorio De Sica
Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa
8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini
Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa
Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard
The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut
Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman
La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini
Silent Films >
Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang
Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau
Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau
The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer
The Man with a Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov
City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin
The General 1926 Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin
Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton
Romantic Comedies >
Singin' in the Rain 1952 Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder
Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen
The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols
L'Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo
It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra
Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks
The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder
City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin
The General 1926 Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
Animated Films >
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand
Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki
Pinocchio 1940 Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen
Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter
Bambi 1942 David Hand, James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Graham Heid, Perce Pearce, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Norman Wright
Fantasia 1940 James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Ben Sharpsteen
Dumbo 1941 Ben Sharpsteen, Samuel Armstrong, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts
Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Robert Zemeckis
Beauty and the Beast 1991 Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Waltz with Bashir 2008 Ari Folman