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   >
Tokyo Story   1953  Yasujiro Ozu
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
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
Un Chien Andalou   1928  Luis Buñuel
Sherlock, Jr.   1924  Buster Keaton