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Top Remakes

This list includes films that the Internet Movie Database labels as being remakes of the specific film(s). Some of the films below are rather loose remakes of the original films. Unless otherwise indicated, the original film does not appear on the Master List.

Rank Title Year Director(s) Original Film(s) Overall
Rank
1 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder Fanfares of Love (1951) 10
2 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand Snow White (1916) 104
3 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg Firelight (1964) 120
4 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill The Three Outlaws (1956) 136
5 Heat 1995 Michael Mann L.A. Takedown (1989) 157
6 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma Scarface1 (1932) 202
7 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz and William Keighley Robin Hood (1922) 212
8 The Fly 1986 David Cronenberg The Fly1 (1958) 223
9 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese Infernal Affairs1 (2002), Infernal Affairs II (2003), and Infernal Affairs: End Inferno 3 (2003) 238
10 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges The Seven Samurai2 (1954) 273
11 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson The Dirk Diggler Story (1988) 319
12 Twelve Monkeys 1995 Terry Gilliam La Jetée2 (1962) 354
13 A Fistful of Dollars 1964 Sergio Leone Yojimbo2 (1961) 383
14 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor A Star Is Born (1937) 396
15 The Evil Dead 1981 Sam Raimi Within the Woods (1978) 417
16 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Rainer Werner Fassbinder All That Heaven Allows1 (1955) 430
17 The Killer 1989 John Woo Magnificent Obsession (1954) 437
18 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 Philip Kaufman Invasion of the Body Snatchers2 (1956) 483
19 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille The Ten Commandments1 (1923) 493
20 District 9 2009 Neill Blomkamp Alive in Joburg (2006) 518
21 Imitation of Life 1959 Douglas Sirk Imitation of Life (1934) 519
22 If.... 1968 Lindsay Anderson Zero for Conduct1 (1933) 559
23 Office Space 1999 Mike Judge Office Space (1991) 570
24 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls Narkose (1929) 571
25 Whiplash 2014 Damien Chazelle Whiplash (2013) 583
26 An Affair to Remember 1957 Leo McCarey Love Affair (1939) 794
27 THX-1138 1971 George Lucas Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB (1967) 944
28 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 Werner Herzog Nosferatu2 (1922) 966
29 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 Mervyn LeRoy The Gold Diggers (1923) and Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929) 981
30 Ocean's Eleven 2001 Steven Soderbergh Ocean's Eleven (1960) 984
31 Assault on Precinct 13 1976 John Carpenter Rio Bravo2 (1959) 989
32 King Kong 2005 Peter Jackson King Kong2 (1933) 1027
33 3:10 to Yuma 2007 James Mangold 3:10 to Yuma2 (1957) 1059
34 Sons of the Desert 1933 William A. Seiter Ambrose's First Falsehood (1914) and We Faw Down (1928) 1066
35 The Thief of Bagdad 1940 Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan The Thief of Bagdad2 (1924) 1090
36 True Lies 1994 James Cameron The Jackpot! (1991) 1107
37 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 Rainer Werner Fassbinder Berlin - Alexanderplatz (1931) 1174
38 You've Got Mail 1998 Nora Ephron The Shop around the Corner2 (1940) 1175
39 Cape Fear 1991 Martin Scorsese Cape Fear1 (1962) 1179
40 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 1988 Frank Oz Bedtime Story (1964) 1227
41 The Ring 2002 Gore Verbinski Ring2 (1998) 1234
42 The Birdcage 1996 Mike Nichols La cage aux folles1 (1978) 1253
43 Scent of a Woman 1992 Martin Brest Scent of a Woman (1974) 1260
44 Dawn of the Dead 2004 Zack Snyder Dawn of the Dead2 (1978) 1280
45 Victor/Victoria 1982 Blake Edwards Viktor and Viktoria (1933 and 1957) and First a Girl (1935) 1354
46 Little Shop of Horrors 1986 Frank Oz The Little Shop of Horrors1 (1960) 1410
47 Traffic 2000 Steven Soderbergh Traffik (1989) 1452
48 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 Alfred Hitchcock The Man Who Knew Too Much1 (1934) 1463
49 The Last House on the Left 1972 Wes Craven The Virgin Spring2 (1960) 1483
50 Bottle Rocket 1996 Wes Anderson Bottle Rocket (1994) 1511
51 Scarlet Street 1945 Fritz Lang La Chienne1 (1931) 1513
52 The Beat That My Heart Skipped 2005 Jacques Audiard Fingers (1978) 1563
53 Bad Education 2004 Pedro Almodóvar Law of Desire1 (1987) 1577
54 Meet the Parents 2000 Jay Roach Meet the Parents (1992) 1588
55 Floating Weeds 1959 Yasujirô Ozu A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) 1630
56 Hairspray 2007 Adam Shankman Hairspray2 (1988) 1637
57 Cyrano de Bergerac 1990 Jean-Paul Rappeneau Cyrano de Bergerac (1945) 1641
58 Cleopatra 1963 Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cleopatra (1917 and 1934) 1654
59 The Ballad of Narayama 1983 Shôhei Imamura Ballad of Narayama (1958) 1670
60 The Babadook 2014 Jennifer Kent Monster (2005) 1682
61 13 Assassins 2010 Takashi Miike 13 Assassins (1963) 1683
62 The Music Box 1932 James Parrott Hats Off (1927) 1691
63 House of Wax 1953 André De Toth Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) 1711
64 The Golem 1920 Carl Boese and Paul Wegener Der Golem (1915) 1728
65 Sorcerer 1977 William Friedkin The Wages of Fear2 (1953) 1747
66 High Society 1956 Charles Walters The Philadelphia Story2 (1940) 1795
67 Victory 1981 John Huston Two Half-Times in Hell (1962) 1809
68 Seven Chances 1925 Buster Keaton Meet Me at the Fountain (1904), Personal (1904), and How a French Nobleman Got a Wife … (1904) 1840
69 Crank 2006 Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor D.O.A.2 (1949) 1863
70 The Informer 1935 John Ford The Informer (1929) 1868
71 The Fall 2006 Tarsem Singh Yo ho ho (1981) 1883
72 The Chorus 2004 Christophe Barratier A Cage of Nightingales (1945) 1941
73 Insomnia 2002 Christopher Nolan Insomnia (1997) 1962
74 Solaris 2002 Steven Soderbergh Solaris2 (1972) 2161
75 El Dorado 1967 Howard Hawks Rio Bravo2 (1959) 2172
76 Captain Blood 1935 Michael Curtiz Captain Blood (1924) 2176
77 The Parent Trap 1961 David Swift Das doppelte Lottchen (1950) 2195
78 Freaky Friday 2003 Mark Waters Freaky Friday (1976) 2220
79 Diary of a Lost Girl 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst The Diary of a Lost Woman (1918) 2322
80 Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2011 Rupert Wyatt Planet of the Apes2 (1968) and Planet of the Apes (2001) 2334
81 Pariah 2011 Dee Rees Pariah (2007) 2383
82 The Mummy 1999 Stephen Sommers The Mummy2 (1932) and The Mummy's Hand (1940) 2388
83 The Sure Thing 1985 Rob Reiner It Happened One Night2 (1934) 2393
84 The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 Terence Fisher Frankenstein2 (1931) 2395
85 One Hour with You 1932 Ernst Lubitsch So This Is Paris (1926) 2399
86 Zatôichi 2003 Takeshi Kitano Zatoichi on the Road (1963) and Zatôichi (1989) 2550
87 Fist of Legend 1994 Gordon Chan Fist of Fury (1972) 2555
88 The Jungle Book 2016 Jon Favreau The Jungle Book2 (1967) 2631
89 The Italian Job 2003 F. Gary Gray The Italian Job2 (1969) 2656
90 Mother India 1957 Mehboob Khan Aurat (1940) 2662
91 What We Do in the Shadows 2014 Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi What We Do in the Shadows: Interviews with Some Vampires (2005) 2688
92 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1981 Bob Rafelson The Postman Always Rings Twice2 (1946) 2714
93 Tetsuo: The Iron Man 1989 Shinya Tsukamoto Futsû saizu no kaijin (1986) 2748
94 Vanilla Sky 2001 Cameron Crowe Open Your Eyes2 (1997) 2767
95 The Thomas Crown Affair 1999 John McTiernan The Thomas Crown Affair2 (1968) 2769
96 The Five Obstructions 2003 Jørgen Leth and Lars von Trier The Perfect Human (1968) 2790
97 The Promised Land 1975 Andrzej Wajda Ziemia obiecana (1927) 2793

1 Indicates that the original film is ranked on the Master List, but lower than the remake.
2 Indicates that the original film is ranked on the Master List higher than the remake.

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