The Godfather
19722h 57mCrime · Drama
Widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, this mob drama, based on Mario Puzo's novel of the same name, focuses on the powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone…
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1 9.8average critics score, out of 102 9.8average critics score, out of 10The Godfather Part II
19743h 22mCrime · Drama
The compelling sequel to "The Godfather," contrasting the life of Corleone father and son. Traces the problems of Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) in 1958 and that of a young immigrant Vito Corleone…
3 9.8average critics score, out of 10The Godfather, Part II
19743h 22mCrime · Drama
The compelling sequel to "The Godfather," contrasting the life of Corleone father and son. Traces the problems of Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) in 1958 and that of a young immigrant Vito Corleone…
4 9.6average critics score, out of 10Casablanca
19431h 42mDrama
Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), who owns a nightclub in Casablanca, discovers his old flame Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) is in town with her husband, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid). Laszlo is a famed rebel,…
5 9.6average critics score, out of 102001: A Space Odyssey
19682h 19mSci-Fi
An imposing black structure provides a connection between the past and the future in this enigmatic adaptation of a short story by revered sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke. When Dr. Dave Bowman (Keir…
6 9.6average critics score, out of 10Rear Window
19541h 52mMystery & Thriller · Crime
A newspaper photographer with a broken leg passes time recuperating by observing his neighbors through his window. He sees what he believes to be a murder, and decides to solve the crime himself.…
7 9.6average critics score, out of 10Psycho
19601h 49mHorror · Mystery & Thriller
Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), is overcome by exhaustion during a…
8 9.5average critics score, out of 10E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
19821h 54mKids & Family · Sci-Fi
After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott…
9 9.5average critics score, out of 10Taxi Driver
19761h 53mCrime · Drama
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of…
10 9.5average critics score, out of 10Vertigo
19582h 8mMystery & Thriller
Hitchcock's romantic story of obsession, manipulation and fear. A detective is forced to retire after his fear of heights causes the death of a fellow officer and the girl he was hired to follow. He…
11 9.4average critics score, out of 10Raiders of the Lost Ark
19811h 55mAdventure · Action
Dr. Indiana Jones, a renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, is hired by the U.S. Government to find the ark of the covenant, which is believed to still hold the Ten Commandments.…
12 9.4average critics score, out of 10Toy Story
19951h 21mKids & Family · Comedy
Woody (Tom Hanks), a good-hearted cowboy doll who belongs to a young boy named Andy (John Morris), sees his position as Andy's favorite toy jeopardized when his parents buy him a Buzz Lightyear (Tim…
13 9.3average critics score, out of 10Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
19772h 1mSci-Fi · Adventure
The Imperial Forces -- under orders from cruel Darth Vader (David Prowse) -- hold Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) hostage, in their efforts to quell the rebellion against the Galactic Empire. Luke…
14 9.3average critics score, out of 10Schindler's List
19933h 15mHistory · Drama
Businessman Oskar Schindler arrives in Kraków in 1939, ready to make his fortune from World War II, which has just started. After joining the Nazi party primarily for political expediency, he staffs…
15 9.3average critics score, out of 10Alien
19791h 56mSci-Fi · Horror
In deep space, the crew of the commercial starship Nostromo is awakened from their cryo-sleep capsules halfway through their journey home to investigate a distress call from an alien vessel. The…
16 9.3average critics score, out of 10Apocalypse Now
19792h 27mWar · Drama
In Vietnam in 1970, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) takes a perilous and increasingly hallucinatory journey upriver to find and terminate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once-promising officer who…
17 9.3average critics score, out of 10One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
19752h 13mDrama
When Randle Patrick McMurphy gets transferred for evaluation from a prison farm to a mental institution, he assumes it will be a less restrictive environment. But the martinet Nurse Ratched runs the…
18 9.3average critics score, out of 10Toy Story 2
19991h 32mKids & Family · Comedy
Woody (Tom Hanks) is stolen from his home by toy dealer Al McWhiggin (Wayne Knight), leaving Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) and the rest of the gang to try to rescue him. But when Woody discovers that…
19 9.3average critics score, out of 10Boyhood
20142h 45mDrama
The joys and pitfalls of growing up are seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (Ellar Coltrane), his parents (Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke) and his sister (Lorelei Linklater). Vignettes,…
20 9.3average critics score, out of 10Raging Bull
19802h 8mBiography · Drama
The story of a middleweight boxer as he rises through ranks to earn his first shot at the middleweight crown. He falls in love with a gorgeous girl from the Bronx. The inability to express his…
21 9.3average critics score, out of 10L.A. Confidential
19972h 16mCrime · Drama
Three policemen, each with his own motives and obsessions, tackle the corruption surrounding an unsolved murder at a downtown Los Angeles coffee shop in the early 1950s. Detective Lieutenant Exley…
22 9.2average critics score, out of 10No Country for Old Men
20072h 2mCrime · Drama
While out hunting, Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) finds the grisly aftermath of a drug deal. Though he knows better, he cannot resist the cash left behind and takes it with him. The hunter becomes the…
23 9.2average critics score, out of 10Goodfellas
19902h 26mCrime · Drama
Henry Hill, a poor Irish-Italian growing up in the 1950s New York City, rises through the ranks of his neighborhood's organized crime branch; he ends up in the FBI's witness protection program after…
24 9.2average critics score, out of 10Fargo
19961h 37mComedy · Crime
"Fargo" is a reality-based crime drama set in Minnesota in 1987. Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) is a car salesman in Minneapolis who has gotten himself into debt and is so desperate for money…
25 9.2average critics score, out of 10The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
19672h 41mWestern
In the Southwest during the Civil War, a mysterious stranger, Joe (Clint Eastwood), and a Mexican outlaw, Tuco (Eli Wallach), form an uneasy partnership -- Joe turns in the bandit for the reward…
26 9.1average critics score, out of 10The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
20034h 10mFantasy · Adventure
The culmination of nearly 10 years' work and conclusion to Peter Jackson's epic trilogy based on the timeless J.R.R. Tolkien classic, "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" presents the…
27 9.1average critics score, out of 10Toy Story 3
20101h 42mKids & Family · Comedy
With their beloved Andy preparing to leave for college, Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), Jessie (Joan Cusack), and the rest of the toys find themselves headed for the attic but…
28 9.1average critics score, out of 10Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
19802h 7mSci-Fi · Adventure
The adventure continues in this "Star Wars" sequel. Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) and Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) face attack by the Imperial…
29 9.1average critics score, out of 10Up
20091h 36mKids & Family · Comedy
Carl Fredricksen, a 78-year-old balloon salesman, is about to fulfill a lifelong dream. Tying thousands of balloons to his house, he flies away to the South American wilderness. But curmudgeonly…
30 9.1average critics score, out of 10Gone with the Wind
3h 45mRomance · History
Winner of eight Academy Awards® (plus two special achievement Oscars) Celebrate the 85th Anniversary of one of the most celebrated motion pictures of all time, Gone With the Wind! Clark Gable, Vivien…
31 9.1average critics score, out of 10Brazil
19852h 22mComedy · Sci-Fi
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case…
32 9.0average critics score, out of 10Gravity
20131h 31mDrama · Sci-Fi
Dr. Ryan Stone is a medical engineer on her first shuttle mission. Her commander is veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski, helming his last flight before retirement. Then, during a routine space walk by…
33 9.0average critics score, out of 10Saving Private Ryan
19982h 49mWar · History
Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) takes his men behind enemy lines to find Private James Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Surrounded by the brutal realties of war, while searching…
34 9.0average critics score, out of 10Reservoir Dogs
19921h 45mMystery & Thriller · Action
A group of thieves assembles to pull off the perfect diamond heist. It turns into a bloody ambush when one of the men turns out to be a police informer. As the group begins to question each other's…
35 9.0average critics score, out of 10Back to the Future
1h 56mComedy · Sci-Fi
In this 1980s sci-fi classic, small-town California teen Marty McFly is thrown back into the '50s when an experiment by his eccentric scientist friend Doc Brown goes awry. Traveling through time in a…
36 9.0average critics score, out of 10The Social Network
20102hDrama · Biography
In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer genius Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years later,…
37 9.0average critics score, out of 1012 Years a Slave
20132h 14mHistory · Drama
In the years before the Civil War, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South. Subjected to the cruelty of one…
38 9.0average critics score, out of 10Halloween
19781h 31mHoliday · Horror
On a cold Halloween night in 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers brutally murdered his 17-year-old sister, Judith. He was sentenced and locked away for 15 years. But on October 30, 1978, while being…
39 8.9average critics score, out of 10The Dark Knight
20082h 32mAction · Adventure
With the help of allies, Lt. Jim Gordon and DA Harvey Dent, Batman is able to keep a tight lid on crime in Gotham City. But when a young criminal calling himself the Joker suddenly throws the town…
40 8.9average critics score, out of 10Finding Nemo
20031h 40mKids & Family · Comedy
Marlin (Albert Brooks), a clown fish, is overly cautious with his son, Nemo (Alexander Gould), who has a foreshortened fin. When Nemo swims too close to the surface to prove himself, he is caught by…
