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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 8
2 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 37
3 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 38
4 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 63
5 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 65
6 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 79
7 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 94
8 Sunrise1 1927 F.W. Murnau 99
9 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 102
10 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 128
11 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise 214
12 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann 219
13 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 222
14 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner 240
15 Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner 241
16 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 259
17 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 263
18 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton 287
19 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 Jim Sharman 301
20 The Full Monty 1997 Peter Cattaneo 366
21 Speed 1994 Jan de Bont 370
22 Romeo + Juliet 1996 Baz Luhrmann 406
23 Breaking Away 1979 Peter Yates 413
24 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 417
25 There's Something about Mary 1998 Bobby and Peter Farrelly 420
26 Independence Day 1996 Roland Emmerich 431
27 Say Anything… 1989 Cameron Crowe 448
28 Miller's Crossing 1990 Joel Coen 460
29 The King of Comedy 1982 Martin Scorsese 475
30 The King and I 1956 Walter Lang 519
31 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 William A. Wellman 525
32 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton 540
33 Broadcast News 1987 James L. Brooks 564
34 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse 577
35 The Innocents 1961 Jack Clayton 583
36 Big 1988 Penny Marshall 608
37 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 614
38 The Abyss 1989 James Cameron 661
39 Pickup on South Street 1953 Samuel Fuller 675
40 Sideways2 2004 Alexander Payne 680
41 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 Howard Hawks 719
42 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford 725
43 The Omen 1976 Richard Donner 739
44 Office Space 1999 Mike Judge 774
45 Working Girl 1988 Mike Nichols 789
46 Minority Report 2002 Steven Spielberg 796
47 Predator 1987 John McTiernan 814
48 The Seven Year Itch 1955 Billy Wilder 817
49 The Verdict 1982 Sidney Lumet 831
50 Little Miss Sunshine2 2006 Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris 851
51 X-Men 2000 Bryan Singer 858
52 Slumdog Millionaire2 2008 Danny Boyle 872
53 X2 2003 Bryan Singer 888
54 Waking Life2 2001 Richard Linklater 954
55 Norma Rae 1979 Martin Ritt 980
56 Twelve O'Clock High 1949 Henry King 1002
57 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 1970 Russ Meyer 1011
58 Napoleon Dynamite2 2004 Jared Hess 1015
59 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 Ronald Neame 1038
60 Boys Don't Cry2 1999 Kimberly Peirce 1052
61 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003 Peter Weir 1056
62 Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa 1061
63 Gentleman's Agreement 1947 Elia Kazan 1064
64 The Ice Storm2 1997 Ang Lee 1072
65 Point Break 1991 Kathryn Bigelow 1077
66 Alien: Resurrection 1997 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 1090
67 Cast Away 2000 Robert Zemeckis 1119
68 Wall Street 1987 Oliver Stone 1120
69 Home Alone 1990 Chris Columbus 1158
70 Carousel 1956 Henry King 1162
71 Alien³ 1992 David Fincher 1164
72 The Gunfighter 1950 Henry King 1203
73 Road to Perdition 2002 Sam Mendes 1224
74 Night and the City 1950 Jules Dassin 1251
75 The Towering Inferno 1974 John Guillermin and Irwin Allen 1267
76 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1307
77 Kiss of Death 1947 Henry Hathaway 1312
78 Fantastic Voyage 1966 Richard Fleischer 1361
79 Avatar 2009 James Cameron 1376
80 Juno2 2007 Jason Reitman 1378
81 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 Elia Kazan 1384
82 Mrs. Doubtfire 1993 Chris Columbus 1388
83 South Pacific 1958 Joshua Logan 1391
84 Cleopatra 1963 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1397
85 Julia 1977 Fred Zinnemann 1403
86 True Lies 1994 James Cameron 1411
87 White Men Can't Jump 1992 Ron Shelton 1421
88 The Diary of Anne Frank 1959 George Stevens 1427
89 Bigger Than Life 1956 Nicholas Ray 1461
90 A Letter to Three Wives 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1487
91 Highlander 1986 Russell Mulcahy 1490
92 Heaven Can Wait 1943 Ernst Lubitsch 1499
93 Zorba the Greek 1964 Michael Cacoyannis 1503
94 Ever After: A Cinderella Story 1998 Andy Tennant 1505
95 The Stunt Man 1980 Richard Rush 1540
96 Ice Age3 2002 Chris Wedge 1569
97 The Girl Can't Help It 1956 Frank Tashlin 1576
98 Cocoon 1985 Ron Howard 1578
99 Unfaithfully Yours 1948 Preston Sturges 1605
100 The Robe 1953 Henry Koster 1645
101 Solaris 2002 Steven Soderbergh 1689
102 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1969 Ronald Neame 1699
103 The Mark of Zorro 1940 Rouben Mamoulian 1710
104 Bulworth 1998 Warren Beatty 1727
105 Nine to Five 1980 Colin Higgins 1741
106 Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970 Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, and Toshio Masuda 1760
107 The War of the Roses 1989 Danny DeVito 1784
108 Die Hard 2 1990 Renny Harlin 1819
109 Die Hard with a Vengeance 1995 John McTiernan 1846
110 Romancing the Stone 1984 Robert Zemeckis 1872
111 The Crucible 1996 Nicholas Hytner 1932
112 My Cousin Vinny 1992 Jonathan Lynn 1940
113 Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story 2004 Rawson Marshall Thurber 1948
114 An Unmarried Woman 1978 Paul Mazursky 1955
115 Batman 1966 Leslie H. Martinson 1966
116 Von Ryan's Express 1965 Mark Robson 2007
117 Silver Streak 1976 Arthur Hiller 2037
118 Bedazzled 1967 Stanley Donen 2058
119 Big Trouble in Little China 1986 John Carpenter 2173
120 It Happens Every Spring 1949 Lloyd Bacon 2180
121 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 John M. Stahl 2194
122 The Fly 1958 Kurt Neumann 2198
123 The Three Musketeers 1973 Richard Lester 2216
124 Seventh Heaven1 1927 Frank Borzage 2282
125 My Bodyguard 1980 Tony Bill 2295
126 The Driver 1978 Walter Hill 2298
127 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939 Sidney Lanfield 2301
128 The Gang's All Here 1943 Busby Berkeley 2314
129 In America2 2003 Jim Sheridan 2341
130 Jane Eyre 1943 Robert Stevenson 2378

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

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