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.