The Best Films of All Time
and Where to Watch Them

Looking for great movies to watch? This is the place to find critically-acclaimed films you've never seen. Browse over 11,000 films released from 1891 to 2023, recommended by critics and filmmakers.
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Choose from yearly top tens, foreign films, black & white films, award winners, non-winners, experimental films, family films, and much more - over 2,800 film lists sorted by rank, title, year, or director. With direct links to movie reviews, streaming guides and disc releases, this is your starting point for Great Movies!
Recent Award Winners   >
Anatomy of a Fall   2023  Justine Triet
The Zone of Interest   2023  Jonathan Glazer
Fallen Leaves   2023  Aki Kaurismäki
The Eternal Memory   2023  Maite Alberdi
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project   2023  Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson
Scrapper   2023  Charlotte Regan
A Thousand and One   2023  A.V. Rockwell
Tár   2022  Todd Field
Everything Everywhere All at Once   2022  Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
The Fabelmans   2022  Steven Spielberg
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Best Films of 2023   >
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.   2023  Kelly Fremon Craig
Oppenheimer   2023  Christopher Nolan
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse   2023  Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson
Air   2023  Ben Affleck
Blackberry   2023  Matt Johnson
You Hurt My Feelings   2023  Nicole Holofcener
Past Lives   2023  Celine Song
Anatomy of a Fall   2023  Justine Triet
The Zone of Interest   2023  Jonathan Glazer
Asteroid City   2023  Wes Anderson
Foreign Language Films   >
The Rules of the Game   1939  Jean Renoir
Bicycle Thieves   1948  Vittorio De Sica
Seven Samurai   1954  Akira Kurosawa
8 1/2   1963  Federico Fellini
Rashômon   1950  Akira Kurosawa
The 400 Blows   1959  François Truffaut
Breathless   1960  Jean-Luc Godard
Tokyo Story   1953  Yasujiro Ozu
Metropolis   1927  Fritz Lang
La Dolce Vita   1960  Federico Fellini
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Black & White Films   >
Citizen Kane   1941  Orson Welles
The Rules of the Game   1939  Jean Renoir
Bicycle Thieves   1948  Vittorio De Sica
Psycho   1960  Alfred Hitchcock
Casablanca   1942  Michael Curtiz
Seven Samurai   1954  Akira Kurosawa
Raging Bull   1980  Martin Scorsese
8 1/2   1963  Federico Fellini
Rashômon   1950  Akira Kurosawa
The 400 Blows   1959  François Truffaut
Early Color Films   >
Gone with the Wind   1939  Victor Fleming
The Wizard of Oz   1939  Victor Fleming, King Vidor, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs   1937  David Hand
The Adventures of Robin Hood   1938  Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
The Women   1939  George Cukor
Seven Chances   1925  Buster Keaton
Nothing Sacred   1937  William A. Wellman
The Black Pirate   1926  Albert Parker
The Great Train Robbery   1903  Edwin S. Porter
Ben-Hur   1925  Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Christy Cabanne, J.J. Cohn, Rex Ingram
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Silent Films   >
Metropolis   1927  Fritz Lang
Sunrise   1927  F.W. Murnau
Nosferatu   1922  F.W. Murnau
Battleship Potemkin   1925  Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
The General   1926  Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
The Passion of Joan of Arc   1928  Carl Theodor Dreyer
City Lights   1931  Charles Chaplin
The Man with a Movie Camera   1929  Dziga Vertov
Modern Times   1936  Charles Chaplin
Sherlock, Jr.   1924  Buster Keaton
Early Sound Films   >
Sunrise   1927  F.W. Murnau
The Jazz Singer   1927  Alan Crosland
Blackmail   1929  Alfred Hitchcock
Hallelujah   1929  King Vidor
Applause   1929  Rouben Mamoulian
The Love Parade   1929  Ernst Lubitsch
Wings   1927  William A. Wellman
Disraeli   1929  Alfred E. Green
Lonesome   1928  Pál Fejös
Bulldog Drummond   1929  F. Richard Jones, Sidney Howard
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Non-Award Winners   >
2001: A Space Odyssey   1968  Stanley Kubrick
Vertigo   1958  Alfred Hitchcock
The Rules of the Game   1939  Jean Renoir
Psycho   1960  Alfred Hitchcock
Singin' in the Rain   1952  Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
The Searchers   1956  John Ford
Seven Samurai   1954  Akira Kurosawa
Bonnie and Clyde   1967  Arthur Penn
Breathless   1960  Jean-Luc Godard
Tokyo Story   1953  Yasujiro Ozu
Walt Disney Pictures   >
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs   1937  David Hand
Pinocchio   1940  Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen
Toy Story   1995  John Lasseter
Bambi   1942  David Hand, James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Graham Heid, Perce Pearce, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Norman Wright
Dumbo   1941  Ben Sharpsteen, Samuel Armstrong, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts
Fantasia   1940  James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Ben Sharpsteen
Beauty and the Beast   1991  Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Mary Poppins   1964  Robert Stevenson
Finding Nemo   2003  Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
The Lion King   1994  Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
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