The Godfather
1972★ 10.0
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Citizen Kane
1941★ 9.9
Seven Samurai
1954★ 9.9
Vertigo
1958★ 9.9
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968★ 9.8
Tokyo Story
1953★ 9.8
The Godfather: Part II
1974★ 9.8
Lawrence of Arabia
1962★ 9.8
Schindler's List
1993★ 9.7
Casablanca
1942★ 9.7
Singin' in the Rain
1952★ 9.7
Apocalypse Now
1979★ 9.7
Dr. Strangelove
1964★ 9.6
Goodfellas
1990★ 9.6
Taxi Driver
1976★ 9.6
Raging Bull
1980★ 9.6
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981★ 9.5
Psycho
1960★ 9.5
Pulp Fiction
1994★ 9.5
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
1977★ 9.5
Sunset Boulevard
1950★ 9.5
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
1980★ 9.4
Chinatown
1974★ 9.4
Some Like it Hot
1959★ 9.4
There Will Be Blood
2007★ 9.4
In the Mood for Love
2000★ 9.3
Rear Window
1954★ 9.3
The Third Man
1949★ 9.3
City Lights
1931★ 9.3
Spirited Away
2001★ 9.3
8.5
1963★ 9.2
Jaws
1975★ 9.2
The Dark Knight
2008★ 9.2
The Shining
1980★ 9.2
Blade Runner
1982★ 9.2
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003★ 9.1
Bicycle Thieves
1948★ 9.1
Mulholland Drive
2001★ 9.1
The Wizard of Oz
1939★ 9.1
North by Northwest
1959★ 9.1
Rashomon
1950★ 9.1
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968★ 9.0
Alien
1979★ 9.0
Double Indemnity
1944★ 9.0
The Searchers
1956★ 9.0
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975★ 9.0
It's a Wonderful Life
1946★ 9.0
The Silence of the Lambs
1991★ 8.9
The Shawshank Redemption
1994★ 8.9
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004★ 8.9
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001★ 8.9
The Matrix
1999★ 8.9
No Country for Old Men
2007★ 8.9
M
1931★ 8.9
On the Waterfront
1954★ 8.9
Parasite
2019★ 8.9
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1966★ 8.9
Annie Hall
1977★ 8.8
Back to the Future
1985★ 8.8
La Dolce Vita
1960★ 8.8
Saving Private Ryan
1998★ 8.8
Fargo
1996★ 8.8
The Apartment
1960★ 8.8
ET the Extra-Terrestrial
1982★ 8.8
City of God
Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund
2002★ 8.8
The Rules of the Game
1939★ 8.8
Metropolis
1927★ 8.8
12 Angry Men
1957★ 8.7
Modern Times
1936★ 8.7
Toy Story
1995★ 8.7
The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928★ 8.7
Ran
1985★ 8.7
Unforgiven
1992★ 8.7
The Social Network
2010★ 8.7
A Clockwork Orange
1971★ 8.7
Children of Men
2006★ 8.7
Inception
2010★ 8.6
The Exorcist
1973★ 8.6
Fight Club
1999★ 8.6
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927★ 8.6
The General
Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman
1926★ 8.6
All About Eve
1950★ 8.6
The 400 Blows
1959★ 8.6
Late Spring
1949★ 8.6
Aliens
1986★ 8.6
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002★ 8.6
Come and See
1985★ 8.6
The Wild Bunch
1969★ 8.6
Pan's Labyrinth
2006★ 8.5
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2019★ 8.5
Persona
1966★ 8.5
WALL-E
2008★ 8.5
Pather Panchali
1955★ 8.5
Boyhood
2014★ 8.5
Ikiru
1952★ 8.5
The Graduate
1967★ 8.5
LA Confidential
1997★ 8.5
Yi Yi
2000★ 8.4
Yojimbo
1961★ 8.4
A Separation
2011★ 8.4
Grave of the Fireflies
1988★ 8.4
The Night of the Hunter
1955★ 8.4
Moonlight
2016★ 8.4
Nosferatu
1922★ 8.4
Notorious
1946★ 8.4
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951★ 8.4
Barry Lyndon
1975★ 8.4
Paths of Glory
1957★ 8.3
The Lives of Others
2006★ 8.3
12 Years a Slave
2013★ 8.3
Breathless (A Bout de Souffle)
1960★ 8.3
Full Metal Jacket
1987★ 8.3
The Seventh Seal
1957★ 8.3
Rosemary's Baby
1968★ 8.3
Stalker
1979★ 8.3
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957★ 8.2
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962★ 8.2
My Neighbor Totoro
1988★ 8.2
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991★ 8.2
Beau Travail
1999★ 8.2
Harakiri
1962★ 8.2
Groundhog Day
1993★ 8.2
Network
1976★ 8.2
Jurassic Park
1993★ 8.2
The Departed
2006★ 8.2
Ugetsu
1953★ 8.2
Do the Right Thing
1989★ 8.2
Lost in Translation
2003★ 8.2
Memories of Murder
2003★ 8.1
Heat
1995★ 8.1
The Big Lebowski
1998★ 8.1
Close-Up
1990★ 8.1
Le Samourai
1967★ 8.1
Seven
1995★ 8.1
Fanny & Alexander
1982★ 8.1
Das Boot
1981★ 8.1
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948★ 8.0
The Red Shoes
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1948★ 8.0
Whiplash
2014★ 8.0
Dog Day Afternoon
1975★ 8.0
Before Sunset
2004★ 8.0
Die Hard
1988★ 8.0
Memento
2000★ 8.0
Princess Mononoke
1997★ 8.0
Cleo from 5 to 7
1962★ 8.0
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977★ 8.0
The Deer Hunter
1978★ 8.0
Blue Velvet
1986★ 8.0
Before Midnight
2013★ 8.0
Once Upon a Time in America
1984★ 7.9
Inglourious Basterds
2009★ 7.9
The Wages of Fear
1953★ 7.9
The Battle of Algiers
1966★ 7.9
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975★ 7.9
La Strada
1954★ 7.9
All the President's Men
1976★ 7.9
Manhattan
1979★ 7.9
The Terminator
1984★ 7.9
Amadeus
1984★ 7.8
Up
Pete Docter and Bob Peterson
2009★ 7.8
Wild Strawberries
1957★ 7.8
Airplane!
David Zucker and Jim Abrahams
1980★ 7.8
Finding Nemo
2003★ 7.8
High and Low
1963★ 7.8
The Act of Killing
Joshua Oppenheimer and Christine Cynn
2012★ 7.8
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2000★ 7.8
Boogie Nights
1997★ 7.8
Bonnie and Clyde
1967★ 7.8
Oldboy
2003★ 7.8
Au Hasard Balthazar
1966★ 7.8
Brokeback Mountain
2005★ 7.7
The Gold Rush
1925★ 7.7
The Tree of Life
2011★ 7.7
It Happened One Night
1934★ 7.7
The Maltese Falcon
1941★ 7.7
Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis)
1945★ 7.7
Cache (Hidden)
2005★ 7.7
Nights of Cabiria
1957★ 7.7
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972★ 7.7
Andrei Rublev
1966★ 7.7
Badlands
1973★ 7.7
Monty Python's Life of Brian
1979★ 7.7
The Conversation
1974★ 7.7
Touch of Evil
1958★ 7.6
L'Avventura
1960★ 7.6
Lady Bird
2017★ 7.6
The French Connection
1971★ 7.6
A Prophet
2009★ 7.6
Young Frankenstein
1974★ 7.6
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962★ 7.6
The Truman Show
1998★ 7.6
The Lion King
Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff
1994★ 7.5
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1937★ 7.5
Nashville
1975★ 7.5
Amour
2012★ 7.5
Belle de Jour
1967★ 7.5
Gladiator
2000★ 7.5
Inside Llewyn Davis
2013★ 7.5
High Noon
1952★ 7.5
The Wolf of Wall Street
2013★ 7.5
Cool Hand Luke
1967★ 7.5
Wings of Desire
1987★ 7.5
The Princess Bride
1987★ 7.5
Hoop Dreams
1994★ 7.5
The Last Picture Show
1971★ 7.4
The Pianist
2002★ 7.4
The Manchurian Candidate
1962★ 7.4
Out of the Past
1947★ 7.4
First Cow
2019★ 7.4
Toy Story 3
2010★ 7.4
Gone with the Wind
1939★ 7.4
Brazil
1985★ 7.4
This is Spinal Tap
1984★ 7.4
Cabaret
1972★ 7.3
Mean Streets
1973★ 7.3
Reservoir Dogs
1992★ 7.3
Beauty and the Beast
Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise
1991★ 7.3
Dazed and Confused
1993★ 7.3
Ratatouille
Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava
2007★ 7.3
The Hurt Locker
2009★ 7.3
The Usual Suspects
1995★ 7.3
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969★ 7.3
American Graffiti
1973★ 7.3
Trainspotting
1996★ 7.3
Y Tu Mama Tambien
2001★ 7.3
Gravity
2013★ 7.3
West Side Story
Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins
1961★ 7.3
Platoon
1986★ 7.3
East of Eden
1955★ 7.3
Almost Famous
2000★ 7.3
A Serious Man
2009★ 7.3
The Rider
2017★ 7.3
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Cristian Mungiu
2007★ 7.2
Midnight Cowboy
1969★ 7.2
Django Unchained
2012★ 7.2
When Harry Met Sally
1989★ 7.2
Zero Dark Thirty
2012★ 7.2
The Sound of Music
1965★ 7.2
The Great Beauty
2013★ 7.2
Tootsie
1982★ 7.2