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Top Popular Films (#1-100)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 20
2 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 3
3 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 7
4 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 2
5 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 64
6 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 46
7 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 25
8 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 48
9 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 17
10 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 4
11 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 1
12 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 31
13 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg 32
14 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 16
15 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 22
16 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 15
17 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 27
18 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 37
19 The Matrix 1999 Andy and Larry Wachowski 59
20 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 39
21 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 54
22 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 13
23 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 8
24 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 9
25 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 6
26 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 21
27 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 90
28 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 11
29 Seven 1995 David Fincher 143
30 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 118
31 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 14
32 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 88
33 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 18
34 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 50
35 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 75
36 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 94
37 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 5
38 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 10
39 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 67
40 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 43
41 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 128
42 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 126
43 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 79
44 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 30
45 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 12
46 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 123
47 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 137
48 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 104
49 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 26
50 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 129
51 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 131
52 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 124
53 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 105
54 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 138
55 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 110
56 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 38
57 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 62
58 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 19
59 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 28
60 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 180
61 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand 199
62 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 145
63 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 140
64 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 83
65 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 24
66 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 196
67 The Professional 1994 Luc Besson 312
68 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 166
69 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 102
70 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 191
71 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 72
72 The Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 36
73 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 175
74 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 149
75 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 103
76 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 208
77 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 111
78 Grease 1978 Randal Kleiser 201
79 Amélie 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 230
80 Withnail & I 1987 Bruce Robinson 227
81 Stand by Me 1986 Rob Reiner 336
82 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 57
83 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 61
84 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 101
85 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann 235
86 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 107
87 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 267
88 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 269
89 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry 278
90 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 136
91 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 97
92 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 52
93 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 100
94 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 23
95 Life Is Beautiful 1997 Roberto Benigni 248
96 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 163
97 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 283
98 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 80
99 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore 192
100 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 127
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