Top 100 Films

by the Internet Movie DataBase (IMDb)

Top 100 Films: The highly-respected site The Internet Movie Database asked its registered users to rank and rate films for their Top 250 Films survey.

Below are the top 100 films from the results of their weighted, unscientific poll, tabulated in the early 2020's decade.

Facts and Commentary About the List:

  • The films are provided as a comparative measure with the Greatest Films Lists on this site.
  • This list of films reflects changing trends with a strong, heavily-weighted bias toward current hits, more recent releases, and personally popular films.
  • Every few months, the list contains more and more top grossing, box-office smashes, familiar and current films that have become the latest craze, and other hits that have had tremendous exposure through expensive ad campaigns.
  • Unfortunately, as newly-released blockbusters fill up the top slots, many of the most-acclaimed classics from Hollywood's Golden Age are pushed lower and lower in the list's ratings of popularity. There are some astounding omissions in this list, and some equally-astonishing entries.
Note: The films that are marked with a yellow star are the
films that "The Greatest Films" site has selected as the "100 Greatest Films"
Top 100 Films
by the Internet Movie DataBase
(ranked)

  1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  2. The Godfather (1972)
  3. The Godfather, Part II (1974)
  4. The Dark Knight (2009)
  5. 12 Angry Men (1957)
  6. Schindler's List (1993)
  7. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
  8. Pulp Fiction (1994)
  9. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) (It.)
  10. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  11. Fight Club (1999)
  12. Forrest Gump (1994)
  13. Inception (2010)
  14. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
  15. Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
  16. The Matrix (1999)
  17. GoodFellas (1990)
  18. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
  19. The Seven Samurai (1954) (Jp.)
  20. Se7en (1995)
  21. Life is Beautiful (1997) (It.)
  22. City of God (2002, Brazil/Fr.)
  23. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  24. It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
  25. Star Wars (1977)
  26. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  27. Spirited Away (2001, Jp.)
  28. The Green Mile (1999)
  29. Interstellar (2014)
  30. Parasite (2019)
  31. Leon, aka The Professional (1994) (Fr.)
  32. The Usual Suspects (1995)
  33. Harakiri (1962)
  34. The Lion King (1994)
  35. Back to the Future (1985)
  36. The Pianist (2002)
  37. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
  38. American History X (1998)
  39. Modern Times (1936)
  40. Psycho (1960)
  41. Gladiator (2000)
  42. City Lights (1931)
  43. The Departed (2006)
  44. The Intouchables (2011)
  45. Whiplash (2014)
  46. The Prestige (2006)
  47. Grave of the Fireflies (1988, Jp.)
  48. Hamilton (2020)
  49. Once Upon a Time in the West (1969) (It.)
  50. Casablanca (1942)
  1. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
  2. Rear Window (1954)
  3. Alien (1979)
  4. Apocalypse Now (1979)
  5. Memento (2000)
  6. The Great Dictator (1940)
  7. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  8. Django Unchained (2012)
  9. The Lives of Others (2006, Germ.)
  10. Joker (2019)
  11. Paths of Glory (1957)
  12. WALL-E (2008)
  13. The Shining (1980)
  14. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
  15. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  16. Witness For the Prosecution (1957)
  17. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
  18. Oldboy (2003, S.Kor.)
  19. Princess Mononoke (1997, Jp.)
  20. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  21. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
  22. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
  23. Aliens (1986)
  24. Your Name. (2016)
  25. Avengers: Endgame (2019)
  26. Coco (2017)
  27. American Beauty (1999)
  28. Braveheart (1995)
  29. Das Boot (1981) (Ger.)
  30. 3 Idiots (2009, India)
  31. Toy Story (1995)
  32. High and Low (1963, Jp.)
  33. Capernaum (2018, Leb.)
  34. Amadeus (1984)
  35. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
  36. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
  37. Like Stars on Earth (2007, India)
  38. Good Will Hunting (1997)
  39. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
  40. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  41. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
  42. Vertigo (1958)
  43. M (1931) (Ger.)
  44. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
  45. The Hunt (2012, Denm/Swe.)
  46. Dangal (2016, India)
  47. Citizen Kane (1941)
  48. 1917 (2019)
  49. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  50. The Bicycle Thief (1948, It.)
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