Best Movies List

The Godfather (1972)

Aggregate Rating: 292 | Imdb: 9 | Metascore: 100 | Earnings: $134.82M

Lead Role: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton, | Director: Francis Ford Coppola,

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

Aggregate Rating: 283 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 94 | Earnings: $377.02M

Lead Role: Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, | Director: Peter Jackson,

Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.

Schindler's List (1993)

Aggregate Rating: 282 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 93 | Earnings: $96.07M

Lead Role: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall, | Director: Steven Spielberg,

In German-occupied Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazi Germans.

Psycho (1960)

Aggregate Rating: 282 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 97 | Earnings: $32.00M

Lead Role: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, | Director: Alfred Hitchcock,

A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Aggregate Rating: 281 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 96 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, | Director: Stanley Kubrick,

An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Aggregate Rating: 280 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 92 | Earnings: $313.84M

Lead Role: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, Sean Bean, | Director: Peter Jackson,

A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle Earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.

Star Wars (1977)

Aggregate Rating: 279 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 92 | Earnings: $460.94M

Lead Role: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, | Director: George Lucas,

Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee, and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle-station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the evil Darth Vader.

Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)

Aggregate Rating: 279 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 90 | Earnings: $6.10M

Lead Role: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè, | Director: Sergio Leone,

A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Aggregate Rating: 276 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 90 | Earnings: $216.12M

Lead Role: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, | Director: Steven Spielberg,

Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.

Goodfellas (1990)

Aggregate Rating: 276 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 89 | Earnings: $46.84M

Lead Role: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, | Director: Martin Scorsese,

The story of Henry Hill and his life through the teen years into the years of mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen Hill and his Mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito in the Italian-American crime syndicate.

Taxi Driver (1976)

Aggregate Rating: 276 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 93 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks, | Director: Martin Scorsese,

A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, while attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.

The Godfather: Part II (1974)

Aggregate Rating: 275 | Imdb: 9 | Metascore: 85 | Earnings: $57.30M

Lead Role: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, | Director: Francis Ford Coppola,

The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York is portrayed while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Aggregate Rating: 275 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 88 | Earnings: $340.48M

Lead Role: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom, | Director: Peter Jackson,

While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard.

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Aggregate Rating: 273 | Imdb: 9 | Metascore: 80 | Earnings: $28.34M

Lead Role: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, | Director: Frank Darabont,

Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Aggregate Rating: 272 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 100 | Earnings: $6.00M

Lead Role: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, | Director: David Lean,

The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.

The Dark Knight (2008)

Aggregate Rating: 272 | Imdb: 9 | Metascore: 82 | Earnings: $533.32M

Lead Role: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, | Director: Christopher Nolan,

When the menace known as the Joker emerges from his mysterious past, he wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, the Dark Knight must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice.

No Country for Old Men (2007)

Aggregate Rating: 272 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 91 | Earnings: $74.27M

Lead Role: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, | Director:

Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Aggregate Rating: 272 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 89 | Earnings: $34.13M

Lead Role: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, Gerry Robert Byrne, | Director: Michel Gondry,

When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a procedure to have each other erased from their memories. But it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with.

Back to the Future (1985)

Aggregate Rating: 271 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 86 | Earnings: $210.61M

Lead Role: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, | Director: Robert Zemeckis,

Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.

Blade Runner (1982)

Aggregate Rating: 271 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 89 | Earnings: $27.00M

Lead Role: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, | Director: Ridley Scott,

A blade runner must pursue and try to terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.