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Top Films from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

This list includes films from Metro Pictures Corporation and Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation.

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 4
2 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 7
3 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 15
4 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 32
5 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 93
6 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 129
7 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 176
8 Greed1 1924 Erich von Stroheim 181
9 The Producers 1968 Mel Brooks 192
10 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 204
11 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 211
12 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 215
13 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 216
14 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 250
15 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 297
16 Freaks 1932 Tod Browning 306
17 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 Charles Crichton 344
18 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 347
19 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 371
20 Forbidden Planet 1956 Fred M. Wilcox 373
21 Moonstruck 1987 Norman Jewison 376
22 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 400
23 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 405
24 The Big Parade 1925 King Vidor 461
25 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 490
26 Gigi 1958 Vincente Minnelli 508
27 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston 518
28 The Dirty Dozen 1967 Robert Aldrich 536
29 On the Town 1949 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 537
30 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen 560
31 Point Blank 1967 John Boorman 588
32 Camille 1936 George Cukor 596
33 Diner 1982 Barry Levinson 618
34 Shaft 1971 Gordon Parks 664
35 A Christmas Story 1983 Bob Clark 677
36 Poltergeist 1982 Tobe Hooper 693
37 National Velvet 1944 Clarence Brown 698
38 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges 706
39 Queen Christina 1933 Rouben Mamoulian 740
40 Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah 749
41 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 Tay Garnett 777
42 Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding 794
43 Mrs. Miniver 1942 William Wyler 820
44 Gaslight 1944 George Cukor 852
45 The Women 1939 George Cukor 855
46 Dinner at Eight 1933 George Cukor 895
47 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973 Sam Peckinpah 896
48 The Naked Spur 1953 Anthony Mann 951
49 David Copperfield 1935 George Cukor 953
50 Fury 1936 Fritz Lang 1026
51 Kingpin 1996 Bobby and Peter Farrelly 1045
52 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 1058
53 Captains Courageous 1937 Victor Fleming 1116
54 Soylent Green 1973 Richard Fleischer 1141
55 The Year of Living Dangerously 1982 Peter Weir 1150
56 The Cameraman 1928 Edward Sedgwick 1164
57 Jailhouse Rock 1957 Richard Thorpe 1185
58 Legally Blonde 2001 Robert Luketic 1186
59 The Time Machine 1960 George Pal 1222
60 Pride and Prejudice 1940 Robert Z. Leonard 1231
61 Pat and Mike 1952 George Cukor 1242
62 They Were Expendable 1945 John Ford 1248
63 Pink Floyd the Wall 1982 Alan Parker 1274
64 Victor/Victoria 1982 Blake Edwards 1277
65 Casino Royale 2006 Martin Campbell 1279
66 Get Shorty 1995 Barry Sonnenfeld 1291
67 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Vincente Minnelli 1295
68 My Favorite Year 1982 Richard Benjamin 1297
69 Father of the Bride 1950 Vincente Minnelli 1332
70 A Day at the Races 1937 Sam Wood 1338
71 High Society 1956 Charles Walters 1350
72 9 1/2 Weeks 1986 Adrian Lyne 1362
73 The Goodbye Girl 1977 Herbert Ross 1412
74 Westworld 1973 Michael Crichton 1423
75 Lust for Life 1956 Vincente Minnelli 1459
76 The Red Badge of Courage 1951 John Huston 1496
77 Easter Parade 1948 Charles Walters 1530
78 The Great Ziegfeld 1936 Robert Z. Leonard 1567
79 Some Came Running 1958 Vincente Minnelli 1568
80 Pennies from Heaven 1981 Herbert Ross 1585
81 Kelly's Heroes 1970 Brian G. Hutton 1590
82 Fame 1980 Alan Parker 1618
83 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse2 1921 Rex Ingram 1686
84 Lassie Come Home 1943 Fred M. Wilcox 1706
85 Blackboard Jungle 1955 Richard Brooks 1712
86 Logan's Run 1976 Michael Anderson 1720
87 The Broadway Melody 1929 Harry Beaumont 1751
88 The Hunger 1983 Tony Scott 1763
89 Kiss Me Kate 1953 George Sidney 1770
90 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1775
91 San Francisco 1936 W.S. Van Dyke 1788
92 The Secret of NIMH 1982 Don Bluth 1794
93 Quo Vadis 1951 Mervyn LeRoy 1804
94 The Americanization of Emily 1964 Arthur Hiller 1845
95 Battleground 1949 William A. Wellman 1866
96 The Merry Widow 1934 Ernst Lubitsch 1905
97 Annie Get Your Gun 1950 George Sidney 1933
98 Anna Karenina 1935 Clarence Brown 1945
99 The Pirate 1948 Vincente Minnelli 1965
100 Thirty Seconds over Tokyo 1944 Mervyn LeRoy 2018
101 Random Harvest 1942 Mervyn LeRoy 2028
102 The Good Earth 1937 Sidney Franklin 2035
103 Cabin in the Sky 1943 Vincente Minnelli 2045
104 The Unknown 1927 Tod Browning 2067
105 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 Richard Brooks 2095
106 Tarzan and His Mate 1934 Cedric Gibbons 2098
107 The Yearling 1946 Clarence Brown 2117
108 Show People 1928 King Vidor 2134
109 The Sunshine Boys 1975 Herbert Ross 2205
110 Naughty Marietta 1935 Robert Z. Leonard and W.S. Van Dyke 2210

1 Produced by Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation.
2 Produced by Metro Pictures Corporation.

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