The Best Movies
These are the movies that appealed to a large audience and had wide social impact to 1) inform, 2) educate, and 3) entertain. More movies may be added or any movie may be taken out of the list at anytime.
Intolerance (1916, Griffith)
The Gold Rush (1925, Chaplin)
The General (1926, Bruckman, Keaton)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, Murnau)
City Lights (1931, Chaplin)*
Duck Soup (1933, McCarey)
King Kong (1933)
It Happened One Night (1934, Capra)*
A Night at the Opera (1935, Wood, Goulding)
Top Hat (1935, Sandrich)*
Modern Times (1936, Chaplin)
Swing Time (1936, Stevens)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937, Cottrell, Hand, Jackson, Morey, Pearce, Sharpsteen)
Bringing Up Baby (1938, Hawks)
Gone With the Wind (1939, Fleming, Cukor, Wood)*
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939, Capra)
Ninotchka (1939, Lubitsch)
The Rules of the Game (1939, Renoir)*
The Wizard of Oz (1939, Fleming)*
Rebecca (1940, Hitchcock)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940, Ford)
The Great Dictator (1940, Chaplin)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Citizen Kane (1941, Welles)*
Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941, Huston)
Casablanca (1942, Curtiz)*
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942, Curtiz)
Double Indemnity (1944, Wilder)*
Mildred Pierce (1945, Curtiz)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946, Capra)*
Notorious (1946, Hitchcock)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)*
The Big Sleep (1946, Hawks)
Out of the Past (1947, Tourneur)
Red River (1948, Hawks, Rosson)
Rope (1948, Hitchcock)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, Huston)
All About Eve (1950, Mankiewicz)*
Sunset Boulevard (1950, Wilder)*
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, Kazan)*
Strangers on a Train (1951, Hitchcock)*
The African Queen (1951, Huston)*
High Noon (1952, Finnemann)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952, Donen, Kelly)*
The Quiet Man (1952, Ford)
Roman Holiday (1953, Wyler)
Shane (1953, Stevens)
Stalag 17 (1953, Wilder)
Tokyo Story (1953, Ozu)
Dial M for Murder (1954, Hitchcock)
On The Waterfront (1954, Kazan)*
Rear Window (1954, Hitchcock)
The Night of the Hunter (1955, Laughton)
The Searchers (1956, Ford)*
12 Angry Men (1957, Lumet)
Funny Face (1957, Donen)*
Sweet Smell of Success (1957, Mackendrick)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, Lean)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957, Wilder)
Touch of Evil (1958, Welles, Keller)
Vertigo (1958, Hitchcock)*
Ben-Hur (1959, Wyler)
North by Northwest (1959, Hitchcock)*
Some Like It Hot (1959, Wilder)*
La Dolce Vita (1960, Fellini)*
Psycho (1960, Hitchcock)*
Spartacus (1960, Kubrick)
The Apartment (1960, Wilder)
West Side Story (1961, Robbins, Wise)
Jules and Jim (1962, Truffaut)*
Lawrence of Arabia (1962, Lean)*
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, Mulligan)*
8 1/2 (1963, Fellini)*
Hud (1963, Ritt)
The Great Escape (1963, Sturges)
Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb (1964, Kubrick)*
For a Few Dollars More (1965, Leone)
The Sound of Music (1965, Wise)
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966, Leone)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966, Nichols)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Penn)*
In The Heat of the Night (1967, Jewison)
The Graduate (1967, Nichols)*
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Kubrick)*
Oliver! (1968, Reed)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, Leone)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, Hill)
Easy Rider (1969, Hopper)
Midnight Cowboy (1969, Schlesinger)
The Wild Bunch (1969, Peckinpah)
MASH (1970, Altman)
The Conformist (1970, Bertolucci)*
A Clockwork Orange (1971, Kubrick)
The French Connection (1971, Friedkin)
The Last Picture Show (1971, Bogdanovich)
Cabaret (1972, Fosse)
Jeremiah Johnson (1972, Pollack)
The Godfather (1972, Coppola)*
American Graffiti (1973, Lucas)
The Sting (1973, Hill)
Chinatown (1974, Polanski)*
The Godfather Part II (1974, Coppola)*
Jaws (1975, Spielberg)
Nashville (1975, Altman)*
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975, Forman)
All The President’s Men (1976, Pakula)
Network (1976, Lumet)
Rocky (1976, Avildsen)
Taxi Driver (1976, Scorsese)*
Annie Hall (1977, Allen)*
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977, Lucas)
The Deer Hunter (1978, Cimino)*
Apocalypse Now (1979, Coppola)*
Manhattan (1979, Allen)
Ordinary People (1980, Redford)
Raging Bull (1980, Scorsese)*
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Spielberg)
Blade Runner (1982, Scott)*
Diner (1982, Levinson)*
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982, Spielberg)
Sophie’s Choice (1982, Pakula)
Tootsie (1982, Pollack)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984, Leone)
Platoon (1986, Stone)
Full Metal Jacket (1987, Kubrick)
Do The Right Thing (1989, Lee)
Glory (1989, Zwick)
Goodfellas (1990, Scorsese)*
Beauty and the Beast (1991, Trousdale, Wise)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991, Demme)
A River Runs Through It (1992, Redford)
Unforgiven (1992, Eastwood)
Farewell My Concubine (1993, Chen)
Schindler’s List (1993, Spielberg)*
Forrest Gump (1994, Zemeckis)
Pulp Fiction (1994, Tarantino)
The Lion King (1994, Allers, Minkoff)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Darabont)
Heat (1995, Mann)
Toy Story (1995, Lasseter)
Life Is Beautiful (1997, Benigni)
L.A. Confidential (1997, Hanson)
Titanic (1997, Cameron)
Saving Private Ryan (1998, Howard)*
The Sixth Sense (1999, Shyamalan)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Lee)
Gladiator (2000, Scott)
A Beautiful Mind (2001, Howard)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001, Jackson)
City of God (2002, Meirelles
The Pianist (2002, Polanski)
Finding Nemo (2003, Stanton, Unkrich)
Mystic River (2003, Eastwood)
The Incredibles (2004, Bird)
Million Dollar Baby (2004, Eastwood)
Pan’s Labyrinth (2005, del Torro)*
The Lives of Others (2006, Donnersmarck)*
No Country For Old Men (2007, Coen, Coen)
Gran Torino (2008, Eastwood)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Boyle, Tandan)
The Hurt Locker (2008, Bigelow)
The King’s Speech (2010, Hooper)
The Artist (2011, Hazanavicius)
* Disclaimer: Strong sexual and/or violent content not recommended below age 16. Personal discretion or parental guidance advised.+
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