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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 5
3 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 17
4 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 31
5 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 109
6 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 140
7 The Producers 1968 Mel Brooks 184
8 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 191
9 Greed1 1924 Erich von Stroheim 209
10 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 221
11 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 226
12 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 228
13 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 229
14 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 253
15 Freaks 1932 Tod Browning 289
16 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 Charles Crichton 334
17 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 337
18 Forbidden Planet 1956 Fred M. Wilcox 340
19 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 381
20 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 409
21 Moonstruck 1987 Norman Jewison 445
22 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 447
23 The Big Parade 1925 King Vidor 461
24 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 472
25 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 483
26 On the Town 1949 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 506
27 The Dirty Dozen 1967 Robert Aldrich 518
28 Gigi 1958 Vincente Minnelli 532
29 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston 558
30 Point Blank 1967 John Boorman 578
31 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen 580
32 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges 639
33 A Christmas Story 1983 Bob Clark 642
34 Diner 1982 Barry Levinson 646
35 National Velvet 1944 Clarence Brown 657
36 Camille 1936 George Cukor 681
37 Poltergeist 1982 Tobe Hooper 691
38 Shaft 1971 Gordon Parks 746
39 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 Tay Garnett 779
40 Queen Christina 1933 Rouben Mamoulian 800
41 The Women 1939 George Cukor 835
42 Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah 880
43 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973 Sam Peckinpah 885
44 Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding 911
45 Casino Royale 2006 Martin Campbell 917
46 Dinner at Eight 1933 George Cukor 922
47 Gaslight 1944 George Cukor 923
48 Mrs. Miniver 1942 William Wyler 949
49 The Naked Spur 1953 Anthony Mann 990
50 Kingpin 1996 Bobby and Peter Farrelly 1031
51 David Copperfield 1935 George Cukor 1062
52 Pat and Mike 1952 George Cukor 1105
53 Fury 1936 Fritz Lang 1115
54 Captains Courageous 1937 Victor Fleming 1137
55 The Year of Living Dangerously 1982 Peter Weir 1189
56 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Vincente Minnelli 1190
57 The Cameraman 1928 Edward Sedgwick 1208
58 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 1226
59 Soylent Green 1973 Richard Fleischer 1257
60 High Society 1956 Charles Walters 1263
61 The Time Machine 1960 George Pal 1264
62 Jailhouse Rock 1957 Richard Thorpe 1272
63 Legally Blonde 2001 Robert Luketic 1273
64 Pride and Prejudice 1940 Robert Z. Leonard 1277
65 9 1/2 Weeks 1986 Adrian Lyne 1280
66 Pink Floyd the Wall 1982 Alan Parker 1331
67 My Favorite Year 1982 Richard Benjamin 1337
68 Father of the Bride 1950 Vincente Minnelli 1372
69 Get Shorty 1995 Barry Sonnenfeld 1374
70 A Day at the Races 1937 Sam Wood 1385
71 They Were Expendable 1945 John Ford 1405
72 Victor/Victoria 1982 Blake Edwards 1433
73 Easter Parade 1948 Charles Walters 1437
74 Fame 1980 Alan Parker 1486
75 Lust for Life 1956 Vincente Minnelli 1525
76 The Red Badge of Courage 1951 John Huston 1554
77 Blackboard Jungle 1955 Richard Brooks 1556
78 The Great Ziegfeld 1936 Robert Z. Leonard 1562
79 Westworld 1973 Michael Crichton 1568
80 Kiss Me Kate 1953 George Sidney 1620
81 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1625
82 The Goodbye Girl 1977 Herbert Ross 1633
83 Some Came Running 1958 Vincente Minnelli 1640
84 Battleground 1949 William A. Wellman 1707
85 The Broadway Melody 1929 Harry Beaumont 1728
86 The Merry Widow 1934 Ernst Lubitsch 1734
87 The Hunger 1983 Tony Scott 1777
88 Lassie Come Home 1943 Fred M. Wilcox 1787
89 Anna Karenina 1935 Clarence Brown 1789
90 San Francisco 1936 W.S. Van Dyke 1854
91 The Secret of NIMH 1982 Don Bluth 1859
92 Quo Vadis 1951 Mervyn LeRoy 1871
93 Pennies from Heaven 1981 Herbert Ross 1875
94 Logan's Run 1976 Michael Anderson 1879
95 Kelly's Heroes 1970 Brian G. Hutton 1886
96 Annie Get Your Gun 1950 George Sidney 1993
97 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 Richard Brooks 2025
98 The Pirate 1948 Vincente Minnelli 2027
99 Clash of the Titans 1981 Desmond Davis 2064
100 The Americanization of Emily 1964 Arthur Hiller 2080
101 The Thomas Crown Affair 1999 John McTiernan 2093
102 Random Harvest 1942 Mervyn LeRoy 2097
103 The Good Earth 1937 Sidney Franklin 2112
104 Hallelujah! 1929 King Vidor 2116
105 The Unknown 1927 Tod Browning 2141
106 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse2 1921 Rex Ingram 2155
107 Somebody Up There Likes Me 1956 Robert Wise 2169
108 Thirty Seconds over Tokyo 1944 Mervyn LeRoy 2284
109 The Champ 1931 King Vidor 2307
110 Naughty Marietta 1935 Robert Z. Leonard and W.S. Van Dyke 2311
111 Zabriskie Point 1970 Michelangelo Antonioni 2321
112 Grand Prix 1966 John Frankenheimer 2324
113 Rocky IV 1985 Sylvester Stallone 2327
114 Tarzan and His Mate 1934 Cedric Gibbons 2328
115 Cabin in the Sky 1943 Vincente Minnelli 2344
116 The Search 1948 Fred Zinnemann 2385
117 Angels in the Outfield 1951 Clarence Brown 2386
118 Love Me or Leave Me 1955 Charles Vidor 2392

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

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