The Top 50 Movies of All Time

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The Top 50 Movies of All Time
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Movie Title Release
Year
Director MPAA
Rating
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1 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas PG -
2 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner PG -
3 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola R -
4 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg PG -
5 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont R -
6 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino R -
7 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand PG -
8 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis PG -
9 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa NR -
10 The Godfather Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola R -
11 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan PG13 -
12 Harakiri 1962 Masaki Kobayashi NR -
13 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher R -
14 GoodFellas 1990 Martin Scorsese R -
15 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
16 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa NR -
17 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin G -
18 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott R -
19 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme R -
20 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick R -
21 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 Steven Spielberg PG13 -
22 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino R -
23 Se7en 1995 David Fincher R -
24 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz PG -
25 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder NR -
26 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa NR -
27 The Matrix 1999 The Wachowskis R -
28 M 1931 Fritz Lang NR -
29 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones PG -
30 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan R -
31 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone NR -
32 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman R -
33 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder NR -
34 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa NR -
35 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927 F.W. Murnau NR -
36 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton NR -
37 Ghostbusters 1984 Ivan Reitman PG -
38 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
39 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick NR -
40 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson PG13 -
41 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed NR -
42 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles NR -
43 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner PG -
44 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa NR -
45 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron R -
46 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott R -
47 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese R -
48 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer R -
49 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson PG13 -
50 Aliens 1986 James Cameron R -

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