The Best Films of All Time
and Where to Watch Them
Looking for great movies to watch? This is the place to find critically-acclaimed films you've never seen. Browse over 11,000 films released from 1891 to 2023, recommended by critics and filmmakers.
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Choose from foreign films, black & white films, award winners, non-winners, top tens, experimental films, family films, and much more - over 2,800 film lists sorted by rank, title, year, or director. With direct links to movie reviews, streaming guides and disc releases, this is your starting point for Great Movies!
Recent Award Winners >
Anatomy of a Fall 2023 Justine Triet
The Zone of Interest 2023 Jonathan Glazer
Fallen Leaves 2023 Aki Kaurismäki
The Eternal Memory 2023 Maite Alberdi
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project 2023 Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson
Scrapper 2023 Charlotte Regan
A Thousand and One 2023 A.V. Rockwell
Tár 2022 Todd Field
Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022 Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
The Fabelmans 2022 Steven Spielberg
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Best Films of 2022 >
Tár 2022 Todd Field
Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022 Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
The Fabelmans 2022 Steven Spielberg
Top Gun: Maverick 2022 Joseph Kosinski
The Banshees of Inisherin 2022 Martin McDonagh
Avatar: The Way of Water 2022 James Cameron
EO 2022 Jerzy Skolimowski
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery 2022 Rian Johnson
All Quiet on the Western Front 2022 Edward Berger
Close 2022 Lukas Dhont
Foreign Language Films >
The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir
Bicycle Thieves 1948 Vittorio De Sica
Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa
8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini
Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa
The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut
Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard
Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujiro Ozu
Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang
La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini
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Black & White Films >
Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles
The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir
Bicycle Thieves 1948 Vittorio De Sica
Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock
Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz
Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa
Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese
8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini
Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa
The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut
Early Color Films >
Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming
The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming, King Vidor, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand
The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
The Women 1939 George Cukor
Seven Chances 1925 Buster Keaton
Nothing Sacred 1937 William A. Wellman
The Black Pirate 1926 Albert Parker
The Great Train Robbery 1903 Edwin S. Porter
Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Christy Cabanne, J.J. Cohn, Rex Ingram
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Silent Films >
Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang
Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau
Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau
Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
The General 1926 Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer
City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin
The Man with a Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov
Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin
Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton
Early Sound Films >
Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau
The Jazz Singer 1927 Alan Crosland
Blackmail 1929 Alfred Hitchcock
Hallelujah 1929 King Vidor
Applause 1929 Rouben Mamoulian
The Love Parade 1929 Ernst Lubitsch
Wings 1927 William A. Wellman
Disraeli 1929 Alfred E. Green
Lonesome 1928 Pál Fejös
Bulldog Drummond 1929 F. Richard Jones, Sidney Howard
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Non-Award Winners >
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick
Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock
The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir
Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock
Singin' in the Rain 1952 Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
The Searchers 1956 John Ford
Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa
Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn
Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard
Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujiro Ozu
Walt Disney Pictures >
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand
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
Dumbo 1941 Ben Sharpsteen, Samuel Armstrong, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts
Fantasia 1940 James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Ben Sharpsteen
Beauty and the Beast 1991 Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson
Finding Nemo 2003 Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
The Lion King 1994 Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
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