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Top Popular Films (#1-100)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 15
2 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 8
3 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 1
4 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 3
5 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 46
6 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 43
7 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 26
8 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg 29
9 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 55
10 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 13
11 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 22
12 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 21
13 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 14
14 The Matrix 1999 Andy and Larry Wachowski 42
15 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 19
16 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 2
17 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 4
18 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 35
19 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 30
20 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 24
21 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 38
22 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 16
23 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 9
24 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 7
25 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 5
26 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 83
27 Seven 1995 David Fincher 112
28 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 17
29 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 50
30 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 18
31 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 12
32 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 23
33 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 65
34 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 36
35 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 63
36 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 66
37 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 93
38 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 116
39 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 6
40 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 11
41 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 49
42 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 91
43 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 10
44 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 34
45 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 60
46 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 111
47 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 94
48 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 98
49 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 113
50 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 87
51 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 117
52 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 27
53 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 82
54 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 118
55 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 96
56 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 149
57 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand 178
58 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 123
59 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 39
60 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 132
61 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 79
62 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 20
63 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 136
64 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 31
65 The Professional 1994 Luc Besson 282
66 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 25
67 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 95
68 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 64
69 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 76
70 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 147
71 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 150
72 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 133
73 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 85
74 The Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 32
75 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 62
76 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 122
77 Stand by Me 1986 Rob Reiner 315
78 Amélie 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 182
79 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry 176
80 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 173
81 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann 219
82 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 166
83 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 103
84 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 101
85 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 212
86 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 202
87 Grease 1978 Randal Kleiser 187
88 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 140
89 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 107
90 Withnail & I 1987 Bruce Robinson 183
91 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 114
92 Life Is Beautiful 1997 Roberto Benigni 238
93 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 239
94 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 Quentin Tarantino 351
95 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet 154
96 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 28
97 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 77
98 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 59
99 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore 192
100 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003 Gore Verbinski 379
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