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Top Films from Columbia Pictures

This list includes films from TriStar Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics, and Screen Gems Television.

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 9
2 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 12
3 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 19
4 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 36
5 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 52
6 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 58
7 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 78
8 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 98
9 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 136
10 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 149
11 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 157
12 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 173
13 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 175
14 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon1 2000 Ang Lee 188
15 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 240
16 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 271
17 Jerry Maguire2 1996 Cameron Crowe 298
18 Ghostbusters 1984 Ivan Reitman 303
19 Stand by Me 1986 Rob Reiner 321
20 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson 337
21 Glory2 1989 Edward Zwick 359
22 Sense and Sensibility 1995 Ang Lee 420
23 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton 456
24 The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey 462
25 Starship Troopers2 1997 Paul Verhoeven 471
26 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray 492
27 Spider-Man 2002 Sam Raimi 503
28 The Age of Innocence 1993 Martin Scorsese 525
29 Men in Black 1997 Barry Sonnenfeld 531
30 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang 543
31 Boyz N the Hood 1991 John Singleton 566
32 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 Frank Capra 589
33 The Remains of the Day 1993 James Ivory 594
34 Funny Girl 1968 William Wyler 602
35 Almost Famous 2000 Cameron Crowe 603
36 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse 605
37 As Good as It Gets2 1997 James L. Brooks 615
38 The Man Who Would be King 1975 John Huston 620
39 Sleepless in Seattle2 1993 Nora Ephron 630
40 Gilda 1946 Charles Vidor 641
41 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967 Stanley Kramer 642
42 A League of Their Own 1992 Penny Marshall 648
43 Born Yesterday 1950 George Cukor 654
44 Lone Star 1996 John Sayles 671
45 Jason and the Argonauts 1963 Don Chaffey 679
46 Before Sunrise 1995 Richard Linklater 758
47 Spider-Man 2 2004 Sam Raimi 790
48 All the King's Men 1949 Robert Rossen 797
49 The Guns of Navarone 1961 J. Lee Thompson 803
50 Fat City 1972 John Huston 828
51 The Way We Were 1973 Sydney Pollack 834
52 Total Recall2 1990 Paul Verhoeven 840
53 Philadelphia2 1993 Jonathan Demme 846
54 Hope and Glory 1987 John Boorman 848
55 Little Women 1994 Gillian Armstrong 858
56 Gattaca 1997 Andrew Niccol 872
57 Donnie Brasco2 1997 Mike Newell 873
58 In Cold Blood 1967 Richard Brooks 874
59 The Lady from Shanghai 1947 Orson Welles 886
60 Lost Horizon 1937 Frank Capra 891
61 The Big Chill 1983 Lawrence Kasdan 939
62 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Howard Hawks 968
63 Curse of the Demon 1957 Jacques Tourneur 973
64 The Karate Kid 1984 John G. Avildsen 1016
65 Roxanne 1987 Fred Schepisi 1018
66 Holiday 1938 George Cukor 1029
67 Snatch. 2000 Guy Ritchie 1032
68 Waiting for Guffman1 1996 Christopher Guest 1047
69 Brian's Song3 1971 Buzz Kulik 1048
70 Shampoo 1975 Hal Ashby 1055
71 The Natural2 1984 Barry Levinson 1079
72 A Few Good Men 1992 Rob Reiner 1092
73 Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992 Francis Ford Coppola 1167
74 Twentieth Century 1934 Howard Hawks 1168
75 My Best Friend's Wedding2 1997 P.J. Hogan 1179
76 Bottle Rocket 1996 Wes Anderson 1183
77 A Raisin in the Sun 1961 Daniel Petrie 1198
78 Here Comes Mr. Jordan 1941 Alexander Hall 1235
79 Places in the Heart2 1984 Robert Benton 1268
80 Casino Royale 2006 Martin Campbell 1279
81 The Last Detail 1973 Hal Ashby 1283
82 You Can't Take It with You 1938 Frank Capra 1288
83 Cruel Intentions 1999 Roger Kumble 1311
84 Big Fish 2003 Tim Burton 1342
85 Rudy2 1993 David Anspaugh 1344
86 The Fisher King 1991 Terry Gilliam 1351
87 Cat Ballou 1965 Elliot Silverstein 1404
88 Fail-Safe 1964 Sidney Lumet 1426
89 In the Line of Fire 1993 Wolfgang Petersen 1430
90 Husbands and Wives2 1992 Woody Allen 1445
91 Stripes 1981 Ivan Reitman 1452
92 City Slickers 1991 Ron Underwood 1482
93 Stuart Little 1999 Rob Minkoff 1484
94 To Die For 1995 Gus Van Sant 1547
95 Labyrinth2 1986 Jim Henson 1582
96 The American President 1995 Rob Reiner 1583
97 Bugsy2 1991 Barry Levinson 1609
98 Fly Away Home 1996 Carroll Ballard 1615
99 The People vs. Larry Flynt 1996 Milos Forman 1638
100 Devil in a Blue Dress2 1995 Carl Franklin 1665
101 The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T 1953 Roy Rowland 1703
102 The Man from Laramie 1955 Anthony Mann 1727
103 The Reckless Moment 1949 Max Ophüls 1731
104 Air Force One 1997 Wolfgang Petersen 1752
105 Bye Bye Birdie 1963 George Sidney 1760
106 The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara1 2003 Errol Morris 1771
107 The Go-Between 1970 Joseph Losey 1780
108 Requiem for a Heavyweight 1962 Ralph Nelson 1814
109 Stepmom2 1998 Chris Columbus 1891
110 Picnic 1955 Joshua Logan 1896
111 Girl, Interrupted 1999 James Mangold 1899
112 1941 1979 Steven Spielberg 1903
113 Legends of the Fall2 1994 Edward Zwick 1904
114 Gloria 1980 John Cassavetes 1934
115 The Talk of the Town 1942 George Stevens 1958
116 Persepolis1 2007 Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi 1967
117 Superbad 2007 Greg Mottola 1981
118 Starman 1984 John Carpenter 1992
119 El Mariachi 1992 Robert Rodriguez 1997
120 The Patriot 2000 Roland Emmerich 2034
121 The Mask of Zorro2 1998 Martin Campbell 2038
122 The Professionals 1966 Richard Brooks 2058
123 Stir Crazy 1980 Sidney Poitier 2061
124 Ali 2001 Michael Mann 2099
125 A Knight's Tale 2001 Brian Helgeland 2104
126 Go2 1999 Doug Liman 2156
127 The More the Merrier 1943 George Stevens 2166
128 A Soldier's Story 1984 Norman Jewison 2168
129 The Harder They Fall 1956 Mark Robson 2189
130 Ride Lonesome 1959 Budd Boetticher 2232
131 Fright Night 1985 Tom Holland 2261

1 Produced by Sony Pictures Classics.
2 Produced by TriStar Pictures.
3 Produced by Screen Gems Television.

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