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Top Films from 20th Century Fox

This list includes films from Fox Film Corporation, 20th Century Pictures, Fox Searchlight Pictures, and Blue Sky Studios.

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 7
2 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 35
3 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 54
4 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 62
5 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 68
6 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 79
7 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 88
8 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 94
9 Sunrise1 1927 F.W. Murnau 95
10 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 117
11 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 124
12 Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner 178
13 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 207
14 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 211
15 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 216
16 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann 235
17 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise 240
18 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner 279
19 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 Jim Sharman 333
20 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 342
21 Romeo + Juliet 1996 Baz Luhrmann 352
22 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton 354
23 Speed 1994 Jan de Bont 390
24 The Full Monty 1997 Peter Cattaneo 391
25 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 William A. Wellman 396
26 Independence Day 1996 Roland Emmerich 398
27 There's Something about Mary 1998 Bobby and Peter Farrelly 411
28 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton 421
29 Say Anything… 1989 Cameron Crowe 438
30 Breaking Away 1979 Peter Yates 458
31 The King and I 1956 Walter Lang 475
32 Broadcast News 1987 James L. Brooks 476
33 Miller's Crossing 1990 Joel Coen 478
34 The King of Comedy 1983 Martin Scorsese 480
35 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 536
36 Big 1988 Penny Marshall 563
37 Pickup on South Street 1953 Samuel Fuller 656
38 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford 659
39 The Seven Year Itch 1955 Billy Wilder 670
40 Working Girl 1988 Mike Nichols 694
41 Twelve O'Clock High 1949 Henry King 704
42 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 Howard Hawks 717
43 The Abyss 1989 James Cameron 731
44 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse 732
45 X-Men 2000 Bryan Singer 810
46 Minority Report 2002 Steven Spielberg 817
47 The Omen 1976 Richard Donner 840
48 The Innocents 1961 Jack Clayton 899
49 The Diary of Anne Frank 1959 George Stevens 912
50 Sideways2 2004 Alexander Payne 941
51 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 960
52 The Verdict 1982 Sidney Lumet 968
53 X2 2003 Bryan Singer 982
54 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 Ronald Neame 983
55 Predator 1987 John McTiernan 986
56 Alien: Resurrection 1997 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 997
57 Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa 1007
58 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 1970 Russ Meyer 1029
59 Office Space 1999 Mike Judge 1037
60 Norma Rae 1979 Martin Ritt 1043
61 Alien³ 1992 David Fincher 1071
62 Carousel 1956 Henry King 1075
63 Gentleman's Agreement 1947 Elia Kazan 1081
64 The Ice Storm2 1997 Ang Lee 1083
65 Waking Life2 2001 Richard Linklater 1087
66 South Pacific 1958 Joshua Logan 1105
67 Highlander 1986 Russell Mulcahy 1109
68 The Gunfighter 1950 Henry King 1115
69 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003 Peter Weir 1121
70 Fantastic Voyage 1966 Richard Fleischer 1123
71 Cast Away 2000 Robert Zemeckis 1125
72 Two for the Road 1967 Stanley Donen 1143
73 Home Alone 1990 Chris Columbus 1162
74 Cleopatra 1963 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1169
75 Road to Perdition 2002 Sam Mendes 1190
76 Napoleon Dynamite2 2004 Jared Hess 1237
77 Ever After: A Cinderella Story 1998 Andy Tennant 1252
78 The Towering Inferno 1974 John Guillermin and Irwin Allen 1265
79 Julia 1977 Fred Zinnemann 1287
80 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 Elia Kazan 1319
81 Wall Street 1987 Oliver Stone 1333
82 A Letter to Three Wives 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1352
83 The Stunt Man 1980 Richard Rush 1416
84 Zorba the Greek 1964 Michael Cacoyannis 1422
85 Bigger Than Life 1956 Nicholas Ray 1435
86 Unfaithfully Yours 1948 Preston Sturges 1463
87 Heaven Can Wait 1943 Ernst Lubitsch 1467
88 Romancing the Stone 1984 Robert Zemeckis 1478
89 Mrs. Doubtfire 1993 Chris Columbus 1512
90 The Mark of Zorro 1940 Rouben Mamoulian 1513
91 Nine to Five 1980 Colin Higgins 1516
92 Cocoon 1985 Ron Howard 1538
93 Kiss of Death 1947 Henry Hathaway 1556
94 Seventh Heaven1 1927 Frank Borzage 1563
95 White Men Can't Jump 1992 Ron Shelton 1601
96 The Robe 1953 Henry Koster 1606
97 An Unmarried Woman 1978 Paul Mazursky 1608
98 The War of the Roses 1989 Danny DeVito 1646
99 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939 Sidney Lanfield 1667
100 True Lies 1994 James Cameron 1701
101 Point Break 1991 Kathryn Bigelow 1743
102 My Cousin Vinny 1992 Jonathan Lynn 1749
103 Bulworth 1998 Warren Beatty 1755
104 The Crucible 1996 Nicholas Hytner 1780
105 Die Hard 2 1990 Renny Harlin 1788
106 The Girl Can't Help It 1956 Frank Tashlin 1821
107 Ice Age3 2002 Chris Wedge 1824
108 The Song of Bernadette 1943 Henry King 1853
109 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1969 Ronald Neame 1881
110 Cavalcade1 1933 Frank Lloyd 1896
111 Viva Zapata! 1952 Elia Kazan 1911
112 Night and the City 1950 Jules Dassin 1934
113 Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story 2004 Rawson Marshall Thurber 1936
114 My Bodyguard 1980 Tony Bill 1937
115 The Fly 1958 Kurt Neumann 1940
116 The Gang's All Here 1943 Busby Berkeley 1959
117 In America2 2002 Jim Sheridan 1973
118 The Snake Pit 1948 Anatole Litvak 1993
119 The Great White Hope 1970 Martin Ritt 2002
120 The Iron Horse1 1924 John Ford 2024
121 Silver Streak 1976 Arthur Hiller 2090
122 Guadalcanal Diary 1943 Lewis Seiler 2117
123 Jane Eyre 1944 Robert Stevenson 2151
124 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 John M. Stahl 2169
125 The Good Girl2 2002 Miguel Arteta 2220
126 Planet of the Apes 2001 Tim Burton 2225
127 It Happens Every Spring 1949 Lloyd Bacon 2299
128 Batman 1966 Leslie H. Martinson 2315
129 Alexander's Ragtime Band 1938 Henry King 2332
130 Niagara 1953 Henry Hathaway 2351
131 Lifeboat 1944 Alfred Hitchcock 2388
132 Von Ryan's Express 1965 Mark Robson 2395
133 Harry and Tonto 1974 Paul Mazursky 2406
134 Hombre 1967 Martin Ritt 2421
135 Les Misérables4 1935 Richard Boleslawski 2425
136 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing 1955 Henry King 2469

1 Produced by Fox Film Corporation.
2 Produced by Fox Searchlight Pictures.
3 Produced by Blue Sky Studios and Twentieth Century Fox Animation.
4 Produced by 20th Century Pictures.

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