Cinema

The fifty films still at the top of the chart.

IMDb rank beside the Tomatometer and the audience score, including the titles where those two disagree.

50 films

• 01

  The Shawshank Redemption

  1994·Frank Darabont

  9.3 IMDb89% critics98% audience

• 02

  The Godfather

  1972·Francis Ford Coppola

  9.2 IMDb97% critics98% audience

• 03

  The Dark Knight

  2008·Christopher Nolan

  9.1 IMDb94% critics94% audience

• 04

  The Godfather Part II

  1974·Francis Ford Coppola

  9.0 IMDb96% critics97% audience

• 05

  The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

  2003·Peter Jackson

  9.0 IMDb94% critics86% audience

• 06

  12 Angry Men

  1957·Sidney Lumet

  9.0 IMDb100% critics97% audience

• 07

  Schindler's List

  1993·Steven Spielberg

  9.0 IMDb98% critics97% audience

• 08

  The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

  2001·Peter Jackson

  8.9 IMDb91% critics95% audience

• 09

  Pulp Fiction

  1994·Quentin Tarantino

  8.8 IMDb92% critics96% audience

• 10

  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

  1966·Sergio Leone

  8.8 IMDb97% critics97% audience

• 11

  The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

  2002·Peter Jackson

  8.8 IMDb95% critics95% audience

• 12

  Forrest Gump

  1994·Robert Zemeckis

  8.8 IMDb75% critics95% audience

• 13

  Fight Club

  1999·David Fincher

  8.8 IMDb81% critics96% audience

• 14

  Inception

  2010·Christopher Nolan

  8.8 IMDb87% critics91% audience

• 15

  The Empire Strikes Back

  1980·Irvin Kershner

  8.7 IMDb94% critics97% audience

• 16

  The Matrix

  1999·The Wachowskis

  8.7 IMDb83% critics85% audience

• 17

  Interstellar

  2014·Christopher Nolan

  8.7 IMDb73% critics86% audience

• 18

  GoodFellas

  1990·Martin Scorsese

  8.7 IMDb95% critics97% audience

• 19

  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

  1975·Miloš Forman

  8.6 IMDb93% critics96% audience

• 20

  Se7en

  1995·David Fincher

  8.6 IMDb84% critics95% audience

• 21

  It's a Wonderful Life

  1946·Frank Capra

  8.6 IMDb94% critics95% audience

• 22

  The Silence of the Lambs

  1991·Jonathan Demme

  8.6 IMDb95% critics95% audience

• 23

  Saving Private Ryan

  1998·Steven Spielberg

  8.6 IMDb94% critics95% audience

• 24

  Seven Samurai

  1954·Akira Kurosawa

  8.6 IMDb100% critics97% audience

• 25

  The Green Mile

  1999·Frank Darabont

  8.6 IMDb79% critics94% audience

• 26

  City of God

  2002·Fernando Meirelles

  8.6 IMDb91% critics97% audience

• 27

  Life Is Beautiful

  1997·Roberto Benigni

  8.6 IMDb80% critics97% audience

• 28

  Terminator 2: Judgment Day

  1991·James Cameron

  8.6 IMDb93% critics94% audience

• 29

  Back to the Future

  1985·Robert Zemeckis

  8.5 IMDb93% critics95% audience

• 30

  Star Wars

  1977·George Lucas

  8.6 IMDb93% critics96% audience

• 31

  Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

  2006·Quentin Tarantino

  8.7 IMDb— critics— audience

• 32

  Spirited Away

  2001·Hayao Miyazaki

  8.6 IMDb97% critics96% audience

• 33

  Gladiator

  2000·Ridley Scott

  8.5 IMDb80% critics87% audience

• 34

  The Pianist

  2002·Roman Polanski

  8.5 IMDb95% critics96% audience

• 35

  Parasite

  2019·Bong Joon-ho

  8.5 IMDb99% critics90% audience

• 36

  Grave of the Fireflies

  1988·Isao Takahata

  8.5 IMDb100% critics95% audience

• 37

  Psycho

  1960·Alfred Hitchcock

  8.5 IMDb96% critics95% audience

• 38

  Harakiri

  1962·Masaki Kobayashi

  8.6 IMDb100% critics95% audience

• 39

  The Lion King

  1994·Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff

  8.5 IMDb93% critics93% audience

• 40

  The Departed

  2006·Martin Scorsese

  8.5 IMDb91% critics94% audience

• 41

  Whiplash

  2014·Damien Chazelle

  8.5 IMDb94% critics94% audience

• 42

  The Prestige

  2006·Christopher Nolan

  8.5 IMDb76% critics92% audience

• 43

  American History X

  1998·Tony Kaye

  8.5 IMDb83% critics96% audience

• 44

  Léon: The Professional

  1994·Luc Besson

  8.5 IMDb74% critics95% audience

• 45

  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

  2023·Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson

  8.5 IMDb95% critics94% audience

• 46

  Cinema Paradiso

  1988·Giuseppe Tornatore

  8.5 IMDb90% critics94% audience

• 47

  Casablanca

  1942·Michael Curtiz

  8.5 IMDb99% critics95% audience

• 48

  The Intouchables

  2011·Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano

  8.5 IMDb75% critics93% audience

• 49

  The Usual Suspects

  1995·Bryan Singer

  8.5 IMDb88% critics96% audience

• 50

  Django Unchained

  2012·Quentin Tarantino

  8.5 IMDb87% critics91% audience