Best movies of all time
by torsteinholen | created - 07 Jun 2015 | updated - 22 Apr 2016 | PublicThere is no such thing as objectivity. I let personal guilty pleasures and respected quality compete on this list.
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1. Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
Not Rated | 178 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian.
Directors: Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed, George Seaton | Stars: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith
Votes: 17,892 | Gross: $13.68M
Classic conflict between protagonists conscience and sociopaths abuse of authority. Greatest hero ever, and the two rivals are exelently portrayed by the actors. Beautiful movie all over. Great, exiciting and very engaging epic adventure.
2. The Duellists (1977)
PG | 100 min | Drama, War
France, 1801. Due to a minor perceived slight, mild-mannered Lieutenant d'Hubert is forced into a duel with hot-headed irrational Lieutenant Feraud. The disagreement ultimately results in scores of duels spanning several years.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney, Edward Fox
Votes: 26,735 | Gross: $0.20M
extraordinary beautiful movie in every sense. Classic and rare portrayal of lifelong conflict with a psychopath. Acting,Casting, costumes and everything else is superb.
3. The Godfather Part II (1974)
R | 202 min | Crime, Drama
The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
Votes: 1,365,037 | Gross: $57.30M
The story of father and son Corleone touches on so many deep issues and problems we encounter as men dealing with modern life. The director turns a mediocre novel into the greatest "opera" of the history of filmmaking. Beautifully and masterly made. Casting, costumes, camera, lights, angles, editing everything absolutly everything is perfect.
4. The Godfather (1972)
R | 175 min | Crime, Drama
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton
Votes: 2,013,964 | Gross: $134.97M
Almost as good as 2
5. Das Boot (1981)
R | 149 min | Drama, War
A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch
Votes: 264,451 | Gross: $11.49M
This movie is so beautiful and exciting its impossible to understand why the director hasnt made more good movies for the international public. Never ending story is the greatest for kids though. I love the feeling i get of actually beeing locked up in a "tin can" at the bottom of the atlantic. No other movie has given me this feeling of being "in" the movie(exept maybe the next on my list). Love it to death.
6. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
R | 229 min | Crime, Drama
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams
Votes: 377,955 | Gross: $5.32M
No other movie has ever created a genuine ambience like this one. I felt like i traveled in time with the characters. An epic movie of friendship, brotherhood, conflict and betrayal. In my mind i believe it all has happend for real and that i was there as abystander watching it happend. A behind the scenes docu of this would have destroyed my brain. Its like a religion.
7. Platoon (1986)
R | 120 min | Drama, War
Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Keith David
Votes: 439,742 | Gross: $138.53M
The portayal of the two main characters (not the narrator) , and their conflict is like if it was taken from the Bible. Just as Oliver Stone ; i struggled to know which one to support as a teen (not as grownup offcource) , and that shows Stone succeded. Everything else is great. The vietnam war, what a setting.
8. Aliens (1986)
R | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn, Paul Reiser
Votes: 763,553 | Gross: $85.16M
All time best action film/ action thriller. Ripleys character has grown and matured since nr 1. Claustrophobic and extremely exciting. No action movie has ever competed. Man vs monster.
9. Jaws (1975)
PG | 124 min | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary
Votes: 659,880 | Gross: $260.00M
I thought i was childish loving this in my late teens, but this is shakespearian. It is actually a very deep movie. I saw it when i was 7 and at 42 i will still never ever jump from a sailboat far out to see to go swimming ever ever. Man vs anxiety "personified"
10. Heat (1995)
R | 170 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A group of high-end professional thieves start to feel the heat from the LAPD when they unknowingly leave a verbal clue at their latest heist.
Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight
Votes: 719,852 | Gross: $67.44M
Im reluctant to place this above many old great classics, but i could just as well have put it on top. The manlyest man man movie ever made is also one of the best thrillers and actionmovies ever. The conflict between the two (and their women) is amazingly told. It is extremly stylish and the music is fantastic. Police vs robber as told by Dante Aglierri.
11. The Deer Hunter (1978)
R | 183 min | Drama, War
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.
Director: Michael Cimino | Stars: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John Savage
Votes: 362,408 | Gross: $48.98M
I come short when trying to express words in english about Deer hunter. partly because ienglish is my second language, but also because this movie touches my heart,soul and unconscious parts of my mind in ways i dont really understand. The deeply sad, melancolic mood of the whole picture makes my whole being sob and cry so bad. Even at twelve i was heartbroken when De Niros character came home. I feel like i broke my heart an extra time in life just watching this. Pure art.
12. Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
R | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music
A confined but troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, James Laurenson, Eleanor David
Votes: 85,413 | Gross: $22.24M
Some movies hit you hard in solar plexus, but this one kicks u in the head and touches your heart and inner angs at the same time. And offcource; it has the best soundtrack ever. Its a musical when i think about it, and the best offcource. I cried when i saw it the firste time, but then again ; " First blood" made me cry as well( when i was nine) All jokes a side this is very deep politicly, philosophicly and psychologicly. Overwelming is an understatement.
13. La haine (1995)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama
24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, Abdel Ahmed Ghili
Votes: 196,641 | Gross: $0.31M
A great personal favourite of mine. ranking score a bit coloured by my love for Paris and Hiphop, but it is no doubt a great peace of cinema art. Parliament members where forced by the President to see the movie after release. Fantastic portrayal of the second hiphop generation in Paris, great music , casting, great humour and beautifully filmed. A very very very cool movie.
14. Moby Dick (1956)
Not Rated | 116 min | Adventure, Drama
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, James Robertson Justice
Votes: 21,926 | Gross: $10.40M
An amazing filmatisation of maybe the gratest novel ever written. Some storys are so Epic and some characthers are so arcetypes that to even aproach the idea of putting it on film is to risky for the greatest movimakers. Never ever have characters from great Novels been better portrayed. Orson welles and Gregory Peck have coined these characters in such a way that nobody can ever do a remake of this without failing big. Man vs monster, or is it Man vs windmills.
15. Serpico (1973)
R | 130 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire
Votes: 134,913 | Gross: $29.80M
Some heroes on film are so real youre convinced they exist, and here Al Pacino convinced me that he had a twin brother thats a hero cop. I saw this when i was a child and was reborn as a moral teen over night. The movie and its morals never left me sleep again unless i had as clean a consciense as Serpico. In adition to the acting , the rest is superbly done. I allways keep this movie physically close to me like a bible (and my 38)
16. Pelle the Conqueror (1987)
PG-13 | 157 min | Drama
When his wife dies, Lasse takes his 12-year-old son, Pelle, from their home in Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life.
Director: Bille August | Stars: Pelle Hvenegaard, Max von Sydow, Erik Paaske, Björn Granath
Votes: 11,868 | Gross: $2.05M
As a Norwegian it gives me joy to put this nordic movie up here. It is a very dark, warm and deeply touching movie with Max von Sydow in his best part ever. As a man it is rare to see such a great portrayal of what it feels like to be a little boy. We all feel like Pelle sometimes even as men , and I feel that Sydows character is kind of being God. A beautiful movie that will make you sulk and sob.
17. Paris, Texas (1984)
R | 145 min | Drama
Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Sam Berry
Votes: 119,158 | Gross: $2.18M
One of many Grown up movies I saw as a child that touched me deeply and formed me as a human beeing and as a horribly clumsy when i fall in love kind of guy. A perfect and rare example of director, cameraman, acters and music singing in perfect harmony with each other. This movie is an untouchable peace of art like Dolly Partons Jolene or Cashs Ring of fire.
18. Papillon (1973)
R | 151 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A French convict in the 1930s befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devil's Island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon
Votes: 138,434 | Gross: $53.27M
Now the fight for ranking gets tough, but that is again why Papillon wins this place. Steve Mcqueen is the coolest of the cool and the toughest of the hard in this one mans fight against the system of the man. Dustin Hoffman is perfect and the scenary and filming is beyond any critic. Did anyone say jailmovies are cool. There will be only One! ( jailmovie that is, not Highlander)
19. 1900 (1976)
Unrated | 317 min | Drama, History
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini
Votes: 27,290
When i saw this the first time at 17 , i felt like somebody had cheated me of knowing about the Bible or something more important. I felt like a catholic would have felt if he leaned he was grown and was cheated of a baptisn as an infant. Hey! I could have died and gone to hell! Why didnt anybody show me this earlier? This movie made me understand all politics and development of man from the dark ages untill today. It shaped my young political mind into a fairly mature one very early. Visually unbelievable. Superb acting and maybe the garndest epic tale on cinema after a certain russian Doctor, but this one teached me more about life and includes my favourite ingredience ; rivalery of equals. Men fencing
20. The Mission (1986)
PG | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Eighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn
Votes: 65,721 | Gross: $17.22M
I sometimes forhet how good Robert De Niro can because hes such a cliche in him self and has sold out many times, but here he shines and proves he is the best. Big big big hero in this extremely beautyful rembrantish canvas oilpainting of a movie. Jeremy Irons best ever and maybe best use of a classical peace of music ever in film. My brain cannot fathom that this didnt happend and that they are just actors. I copied De Niros hairstyle from this and will never cut it.
21. Paths of Glory (1957)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, War
After a failed attack on a German position, a general orders three soldiers, chosen at random, court-martialed for cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready
Votes: 212,406
Many has Gandhi as a hero and Gandhi had Tolstoy as one, and so goes the line back to the originals. Comicbook hero Blueberry were allways one of mine , and i just learned that he was modeled after Belmondos movie characters. But what i also just learned is that the hero in this movie was a model for the Cop in "the Wire" . Beat that! This movie is a bit like watching a theatre set, but it is so good, and portray one of my absolute biggest heroes on cellofane. And hat/hemet off for Kirk Douglas for this. Respect!
22. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
R | 136 min | Crime, Sci-Fi
In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke
Votes: 881,671 | Gross: $6.21M
Ranking the next 5 is really hard, but it shouldnt be. Im feel like I have never finished watching this one, and i have to see it again and again , because i feel like Kubric is trying to make me understand something very complex but important, but im not gonna claim to have got it yet. Deeply fascinating and engaging movie , made in such a good way it makes you think there are really truly very few good movies out there,and that this one is maybe the best. Had to have my self a picture taken dressed up as the main character once. Dont know why? Disturbing
23. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
PG-13 | 197 min | Drama, Romance, War
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger
Votes: 82,120 | Gross: $111.72M
They made the word Epic just for this movie. When ever i use the word , Inassociate the word with this one. Its truly magic is what i can say , and get away with it. And i cannot not say beauty again. I could even say breathtaking. This movie is borderline too much everything, but its perfectly not too much. You have to see it to understand what im talking about. Score is also a great classic. Why cant all movies beblike this?
24. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
R | 188 min | Drama
Two young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Kristina Adolphson, Börje Ahlstedt
Votes: 67,518 | Gross: $4.97M
Another nordic masterpiece, and this is where I see Im very nordic at heart. I love this so very much and try to see it every christmas. Camerawork, scenes and acting is great, but it is the all over ambiance and drive that makes this such an amazing peace of art. It scared the *beep* out of me as a child thou.
25. Blade Runner (1982)
R | 117 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos
Votes: 823,500 | Gross: $32.87M
First time I saw this as a child, i couldnt believe my eyes. There it was , how the future will truly be like , unlike starwars. Except It looked so real I for a miilisecound thought somebody had brought back a peice of film from the actual future . I was so small I remember I told the neighbour kid it was filmed in LA and thats what it looks like now , because they cant build sets like that. It is truly unreal!
26. Juice (1992)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Four inner-city teenagers get caught up in the pursuit of power and happiness, which they refer to as "the juice".
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson | Stars: Omar Epps, Tupac Shakur, Jermaine Hopkins, Khalil Kain
Votes: 30,389 | Gross: $20.15M
From now on all but a few movies ranked could have been a tiny bit better. (but so could have some of my guilty pleasures ranked on top) I therefore feel free as the hiphophead I am to put Juice here. It is a perfect portrayal of New Yorks second Hiphop generation ,and it is the movie that inspired La Haine. Tupac is amazing and got so caught up in the role that he almost became "bishop" for the rest of his life. Best portrayal of the bad kid on the block ever.And also portays a good character which was the perfect contemporary role model for a whole generation. Epmd is my favourite group ever.
27. Vertigo (1958)
PG | 128 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore
Votes: 427,192 | Gross: $3.20M
Have to put this one at least this high up to be true to my self. I remember that i thought it was the best movie ever at 21 and that she was the best looking actress ever. But I dont remember much of that year for some reason and have to see it again.
28. Raging Bull (1980)
R | 129 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent
Votes: 380,444 | Gross: $23.38M
Time for a testosterone flick again, of which genre this is the heaviest. I love the manlyness of this one so much I could be suspected to be playing on the other team. It is just that De Niro is flanked by one of the very sexiest women characters ever portrayed. It is a totally amazing and perfect movie in every sence. Joe Pescie in his best role ever. I love this movie as much as my brothers. Actually I think I am Jake La Motta.
29. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
R | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine
Votes: 1,549,235 | Gross: $130.74M
This has to go here. It is a masterpiece in its genre and a totally underrated great classic. If it had been made in the sixties im shure it would rank higher everywere. Both main actors in the roles of their lifetime. Psycopathy created by trauma has not been explored enough. Im studying to become a guess what?
30. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
R | 116 min | Drama, War
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin
Votes: 790,835 | Gross: $46.36M
I feel I have to explain myself for ranking this so low, but the thing is i find there to be something cold wih Kubric that holds my love back 4 millimeters from putting them all on top. But this is truly one of my very most prefered, but I cant miss the fact that I tend to see hos movies rearly. His a bit like Picasso to me. I aknowledge his greatness and love his pieces. I just dont looooove them like i do my top ten.
31. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Approved | 137 min | Drama, Horror
A young couple trying for a baby moves into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, where they find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer
Votes: 235,337
One of the greatest female characters ever portayed Very disturbing in a wierd cosy way. I feel this movie is a dark friend i know is really the dark lord , but he is cool to drink and have a laugh with so Ill let it slide. Why we are drawned to the darkness of this, I will never know. This movie just looks so amazingly good. I love it
32. Style Wars (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 69 min | Documentary, Music
A documentary that exposes the rich growing subculture of hip-hop that was developing in New York City in the late '70s and early '80s, specifically focusing on graffiti art and breakdancing.
Director: Tony Silver | Stars: Demon, Kase 2, Eric Haze, D. 5
Votes: 3,300
Im not listing documentaries here, but hiphop is so close to my heart and it is my tribe and family , so i do as i like with my list anyway. Its mine. My precious! Everybody should see this. People that talk about Scratch are not real hiphop heads.
33. Akira (1988)
R | 124 min | Animation, Action, Drama
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by a teenager, his gang of biker friends and a group of psychics.
Director: Katsuhiro Ôtomo | Stars: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tesshô Genda
Votes: 205,406 | Gross: $0.55M
Time to rank an Anime. And the best there ever will be. An animee so deep I never really got it.And so well drawed and cut together I was totally knocked over I have serious problems remembering where and when i saw it. Some movies moves younoff your feet so strongly youre taken out of time and place and will never remember any soroundings. Its like that with this , beatstreet and a few others for me. Tetsuo follows his Dean Moriarty and then turns Captain Ahab loco... What the..
34. Waterloo (I) (1970)
G | 123 min | Action, Biography, Drama
Facing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and his army confront the British at the Battle of Waterloo.
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk | Stars: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins
Votes: 12,639 | Gross: $3.05M
Sorry, the boy in me wants this up here. Its the Napoleonic era and they moved the set to russia and got the red army to be statists. Napoleon is boss and the battle and costumes are beyond anything ever. I kind of like the boy in me, he has good taste. It is Wateloo, what do you want?
35. Apocalypse Now (1979)
R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, War
A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest
Votes: 710,702 | Gross: $83.47M
Wow! The movie based on Joseph Conrads heart of darkness , that destroyed The maker of the Godfather and his studio and maybe even his mind. Brandos goodbye also, and a really amazing goodbye. And Jimmy hendrix soundtrack. The potential crazy project to become the biggest flop ever , became one of the very best movies ever made. I love Coppola so much for this , and will mary his daugther, I swear!
36. Amarcord (1973)
R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama
A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Magali Noël, Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia
Votes: 46,847 | Gross: $0.58M
This movie is such a nice story of how it is to grow up as a boy, and is the perfect example of how film as art can be something a book cannot. Very few puts as much heart in his movies as Fellini does with this.
37. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
R | 120 min | Drama, Western
A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, William Devane
Votes: 27,663 | Gross: $8.20M
I grew up with westerns and all my grown life I have been looking for the feeling it gave me when i dreamed my self into the world of gunslingers as a child. This is truly one that comes pretty close, but it is also a very good movie.
38. Romeo and Juliet (1968)
PG | 138 min | Drama, Romance
When two young members of feuding families meet, forbidden love ensues.
Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, John McEnery, Milo O'Shea
Votes: 34,790 | Gross: $38.90M
Time for romance. I was such a hopeless romantic as a boy and all thou I havent seen this since I remember how deeply it touched me and the incredible ending. Its shakespeare after all and I was so taken by this girl who also played in my favourite childhood flic Ivanhoe.
39. A Man and a Woman (1966)
Approved | 102 min | Drama, Romance
A widow and a widower find their relationship developing into love, but their past tragedies prove hard to overcome, causing them to proceed with utmost delicacy.
Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Barouh, Valérie Lagrange
Votes: 11,811
it was watching this movie and the next in my late teens my reptile brain desided to look for the love of my life and make offspring. Pure Biologi
40. Marriage Italian Style (1964)
Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Wealthy businessman Domenico and penniless prostitute Filumena share a large part of their lives in post-WWII Italy.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi, Tecla Scarano
Votes: 11,039
I put three very romantic movies in a row just to be done with them and write more about the action movies. Jokes aside Sophia Loren is the numero uno dream woman and they are the best movie couple ever. I love the others wit them too.
41. Brubaker (1980)
R | 131 min | Crime, Drama
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Morgan Freeman, Jane Alexander
Votes: 19,445 | Gross: $37.12M
Havent seen it since my teens, but this movie shaped me so much as a man that it belongs way up there. Its like a Also spracht Zaratustra for boys. The ultimate hero alone against everybody.
42. The Name of the Rose (1986)
R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger, Elya Baskin
Votes: 117,328 | Gross: $7.15M
Sholuld be so much further up. This movie is one of my hreatest love affairs with cinema. Its just a pure pleasure to watch. Crime novel, thriller , mideval historical drama. They really built the whole set in stone and its still there. I often go there in my dreams because watching it makes you feel you are locked up in there. You can smell this movie
43. The Exorcist (1973)
R | 122 min | Horror
When a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 455,266 | Gross: $232.91M
I was still a very religious child when I saw this and thus thought it had really happend and that the film itself was cursed and so on. You can imagine the extreme thrill it was. I recomend converting and then see this. You willenjoy it imensly. Max von sydow in this , is the best casting ever.
44. The Shining (1980)
R | 146 min | Drama, Horror
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
Votes: 1,107,502 | Gross: $44.02M
It scares the living *beep* out of me , even today and I avoid seeing it as much as I can, but I cannot resist. Its just so extremly well made. The hotel is currently for rent. Im nooot going, because all that stuff really went down
45. Zero Kelvin (1995)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
A young writer whose proposal was recently rejected goes to Greenland to spend a year at an outpost for hunting and trapping animals for furs. At the outpost he meets two men who are none too keen to spend the winter with the newcomer.
Director: Hans Petter Moland | Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Gard B. Eidsvold, Bjørn Sundquist, Camilla Martens
Votes: 2,089
Underrated very manly Norwegian movie with the best Norwegian actor ever Bjørn Sundquist.Conflict between three very different men in the middle of icy nowhere. Fantastic
46. Bitter Moon (1992)
R | 139 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
After hearing stories of her, a passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner, Peter Coyote
Votes: 42,710 | Gross: $1.86M
So very erotic, my very erotic awakening I must say. From I was a child I was allways very drawned to everything french, and this movie sealed my faith. Married a french girl mainly because of her, but a tiny bit because of this flic I must admit.
47. Paprika (1991)
Unrated | 99 min | Drama
A young country girl comes to town and works in a brothel in order to help her fiance get the money to start his own business. "Paprika" is the name given to her by the madam.
Director: Tinto Brass | Stars: Debora Caprioglio, Stéphane Ferrara, Martine Brochard, Stéphane Bonnet
Votes: 4,705
My erotic self became a man with this movie. Nuff said
48. Scarface (1983)
R | 170 min | Crime, Drama
In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Votes: 917,086 | Gross: $45.60M
The hardest movie ever made. Miami, the suits, Al Pacino, the guns, Michel Pfeifer. Coolness, hardcore, blood, murder, STRUGGLE. Money, power and respect. You rise, life is *beep* then you die. The world is yours!
49. Lord of the Flies (1990)
R | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Stranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery.
Director: Harry Hook | Stars: Balthazar Getty, Chris Furrh, Danuel Pipoly, James Badge Dale
Votes: 33,633 | Gross: $13.99M
Havent red the book i am ashamed to admit, but no other movie explaines better the life of boys in the schoolyard. Ive lived that *beep* all my childhood, so has most boys. Amd offcource i know its deeper than that but thats whats important for me with the movie, the portayal of conflict within a pack of wolfcubs. Fight the badboy or not?
50. Evil (2003)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
A teenage boy expelled from school for fighting arrives at a boarding school where the systematic bullying of younger students is encouraged as a means to maintain discipline, and decides to fight back.
Director: Mikael Håfström | Stars: Andreas Wilson, Henrik Lundström, Gustaf Skarsgård, Linda Zilliacus
Votes: 42,097 | Gross: $0.02M
This falls into the same category as the latter for me and it is also therefore a very important movie for me. The fight between the good and the bad in the schoolyard is what shapes us as men.
51. Taxi Driver (1976)
R | 114 min | Crime, Drama
A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks
Votes: 921,367 | Gross: $28.26M
Not much to say about this very well known classic. Its brilliant and untouchable. Scorcese and De Niros best.
52. Black Hawk Down (2001)
R | 144 min | Action, Drama, History
The story of 160 elite U.S. soldiers who dropped into Mogadishu in October 1993 to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord, but found themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily armed Somalis.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore, Eric Bana
Votes: 423,827 | Gross: $108.64M
Time to be true to my self and true to pure entertainment. The following three movies are so high and my list because i enjoy them so very much. To create something which is so enjoyable is also an art an this one is the best action movie ever only flanked by Aliens and Heat. No other movie has this drive.
53. Gladiator (2000)
R | 155 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed
Votes: 1,621,321 | Gross: $187.71M
The greatest first 15 minutes in a movie ever. Marcus friggin Aurelius the greatest of ceasars with his greatest general, wimp of a son and extremly sexy daughter kicks ze germans it their cohonas. The rest of the movie I care much less for. Adventure and Hero
54. Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
R | 144 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Balian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the Crusades of the 12th century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Liam Neeson, Martin Hancock
Votes: 315,462 | Gross: $47.40M
Maybe my greatest guilty pleasure. Im a history geek and as a secret lover of historical costume drama as long as swords cut through flesh and bone and the gutters are filled with blood, I love this so much. This movie has truly astonishing and beautiful imagery that blows me off my chair every time. There are also many great scenes and a lot of great battle scenes. And a great Hero
55. The Great Silence (1968)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Western
A mute gunfighter defends a young widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty killers in the winter of 1898, and a grim, tense struggle unfolds.
Director: Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff, Vonetta McGee
Votes: 18,113 | Gross: $0.05M
One of the coolest westerns ever.
56. Mississippi Burning (1988)
R | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.
Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif
Votes: 111,127 | Gross: $34.60M
Growing up in europe in the early 80s i had no clue about the dark past of the south and seeing this afterwords totally shocked me. What the two leads do here is theatre acting on a shakespearean level. Gene hackman in the role of his life. A very realistic movie.
57. East of Eden (1955)
PG | 118 min | Drama
Two brothers in 1910s California struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father's favor as an old secret about their long-absent mother comes to light.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: James Dean, Raymond Massey, Julie Harris, Burl Ives
Votes: 48,835
Feeling a bit like culturesnob putting this up here, but its truly a really great movie and James Dean is amazing. The scene where he cries infront of his dad is heartbraking.
58. The Leopard (1963)
PG | 186 min | Drama, History
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Paolo Stoppa
Votes: 28,847
Snobbish of me too, but this movie is so grand its almost tacky so lets label it as my kitchy side. A truly magnificent motion picture.
59. Colors (1988)
R | 120 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An experienced cop and his rookie partner patrol the streets of East Los Angeles while trying to keep the gang violence under control.
Director: Dennis Hopper | Stars: Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, Maria Conchita Alonso, Randy Brooks
Votes: 29,840 | Gross: $46.62M
The emodiment of the late 80s . The happy eightys are def over, chuck taylors are back, bandanas are back, shades are darker than ever and its all about the hardcore westcoast, Ice T, gangsigns and Latino cool. I moved to the westcoast after this and walked around dressing like an extra from Colors. Sean Penn was dating Madonna and Robert Duvall was back. Did anyone play policequest back then? Best Main track on score ever.
60. Boyz n the Hood (1991)
R | 112 min | Crime, Drama
Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence, and future prospects.
Director: John Singleton | Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Laurence Fishburne, Hudhail Al-Amir, Lloyd Avery II
Votes: 154,749 | Gross: $57.50M
Had to team up Colors with this one. We all wore BKs and Raiders and had become one of them instead of watching from the angle of the cops. There was no turning back. Westcoast fo life!
61. Lean on Me (1989)
PG-13 | 108 min | Drama
The dedicated but tyrannical Joe Clark is appointed the principal of a decaying inner-city school he is determined to improve by any and all means.
Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Beverly Todd, Robert Guillaume, Alan North
Votes: 22,993 | Gross: $31.91M
Have to keep going. I saw this the year I went to Highschool in the states and could relate so much. Even joined a phony gang. Feelgood movie of the kind that is just not made anymore,but mostly because of the main score and the rap version of Big Daddy Cane. Some movies just lift you up and make you feel so good when the main score and the endcredits start roling . You are floating on air but dont know why. A sign of a great movie experience. Welcome to the jungle!
62. Alien (1979)
R | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 951,640 | Gross: $78.90M
Feel very guilty for placing this so low, but the truth is I dont enjoy it as much as I used to, but my best exuse is that it belongs with number 2 up there, so lets say that.
63. Gandhi (1982)
PG | 191 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Rohini Hattangadi, Roshan Seth
Votes: 240,243 | Gross: $52.77M
I saw this at 12 years old and knew nothing about India or British colonial rule. I was blown away and knocked off my feet. Maybe my first political awakening and first step to beeing shaped as a moral being. It is really beatiful , and Kingsley is historical. Movies like this are deffinitly not made anymore.
64. 12 Angry Men (1957)
Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama
The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler
Votes: 865,833 | Gross: $4.36M
Also one of the movies that shaped me towords becoming a man and a mench. Really hraet, have to see it again.
65. Wild at Heart (1990)
R | 125 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, J.E. Freeman
Votes: 101,028 | Gross: $14.56M
Raw grown romance , and very very cool. This movie made Nocolas Cage and Laura Dern is great. I even bought the soundtrack on vinyl when this came out.
66. King Kong (1976)
PG | 134 min | Adventure, Horror
A petroleum exploration expedition comes to an isolated island and encounters a colossal giant gorilla.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, Jessica Lange, John Randolph
Votes: 35,576 | Gross: $52.61M
One of my greatest childhood memories at the cinema. Great adventure movies are just not made for kids today , and i feel sorry for them if movies like this one looks outdatedet to them. I can still taste the m&ms and popcorn in my mouth that i ate that day.
67. The Rescuers (1977)
G | 77 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Two mice of the Rescue Aid Society search for a little girl kidnapped by unscrupulous treasure hunters.
Directors: John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman, Art Stevens | Stars: Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, Geraldine Page, Joe Flynn
Votes: 69,946 | Gross: $71.22M
My first cinema experience. I must have been 5 , and i still remember that i lost a tooth that day.
68. Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966)
Not Rated | 90 min | Adventure
Tarzan battles a megalomaniac millionaire named Vinero, who kidnaps a young boy whom he believes can lead him to a legendary city of gold. Vinero is accompanied by his own army, including henchman Mr. Train and gorgeous Sophia.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Mike Henry, David Opatoshu, Manuel Padilla Jr., Nancy Kovack
Votes: 587
My favourite comicbook hero as a kid, and one of my first cinema experiences. I absolutly loved it, but im not 100% it was this one. I think it was in colour, but im not shure because i think i recognise Johnny Weismuller. After all ,we were so used to black and white that we almost didnt notice the difference once you were inside the movie. I remember the staff at the cinema even wore hats with their uniforms.
69. Giant (1956)
G | 201 min | Drama, Western
Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker
Votes: 42,268
I remember being glued to the tv screen as a child falling in love with Elisabeth Taylor and loving the image of James Dean with his hat.
70. Jamón, Jamón (1992)
Unrated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When a mother disapproves of her son's lover, she hires an underwear model and former bullfighter to seduce her away.
Director: Bigas Luna | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Stefania Sandrelli, Anna Galiena, Juan Diego
Votes: 15,095 | Gross: $0.94M
The sexiest movie ever made, I was so going to spain to find myself a Penelope Cruz with a booty like that. Found here on the Cote dazur instead.
71. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
G | 149 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter
Votes: 720,014 | Gross: $56.95M
I havent seen this one again since I saw it to early and probably didnt understand the quality or enjoy it as much as one is supposed to. I was just a kid. Bought it on blueray now.
72. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
G | 127 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre
Votes: 37,197 | Gross: $28.20M
The first movie i saw on vhs in 1980 at my childhood neighbour buddys 7th birthday party. so many feelings and memories. Jules Verne
73. Superman (1978)
PG | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando
Votes: 187,606 | Gross: $134.22M
One of my first really great movie experiences. This superman script actually has some depth to it, and the first half is much much better than the last part. I love to watch this with my kids.
74. The Way of the Dragon (1972)
R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A man visits his relatives at their restaurant in Italy and has to help them defend against brutal gangsters harassing them.
Director: Bruce Lee | Stars: Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Nora Miao, Ping-Ou Wei
Votes: 41,073 | Gross: $4.06M
The tough kids skipped school, listened to Kizz records, breakedanced to james brown,stole candy at the cornershop and watced bigger brothers Bruce Lee movies together , while all the grownups were at work. The soft kids bullied different looking kids , had George Michael hair,and played with starwars toys and danced like Carlton in Fresh Prince. Bruce Lee could rip somebodys heart out with his fist.
75. Beat Street (1984)
PG | 105 min | Drama, Music
An aspiring DJ from the South Bronx and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and the local culture.
Director: Stan Lathan | Stars: Rae Dawn Chong, Guy Davis, Jon Chardiet, Leon W. Grant
Votes: 4,330 | Gross: $16.60M
This should offcource be much higher up, but then I would not have the oppurtinity to say I once knew Crazy Legs from Rock Steady Crew and he said they hated this flick because they got screwed by the director during the making and that all the graffiti is made by artclass students. The writers were screwed too. We absolutly loved it as kids though. One og the movies that moved me so much I have absolutly no recolection when and where i watched it.
76. The Old Man and the Sea (1990 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. Santiago goes out on his usual fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life. Then a shark attacks and tries to steal his catch. ... See full summary »
Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Gary Cole, Patricia Clarkson, Joe Santos
Votes: 1,702
One of many where im ashamed that i havent seen the original, but I loved this one at 16. One of the deepest most important novels ever. Who cannot love Anthony Quinn the original man.
77. Watchmen (2009)
R | 162 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
In a version of 1985 where superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach on the trail of a conspiracy that will change the course of history.
Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino, Malin Akerman
Votes: 582,804 | Gross: $107.51M
Comicbooks where so important in the late 80s and is such an underated artform . This adaption to the screen is really cool. A very good, no the best adaption of a graphic novel ever. The colors, suits , music and ship is amazing.
78. Deliverance (1972)
R | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox
Votes: 119,328 | Gross: $7.06M
Wow! Grew up watching this standing on the videorental kiosk for years where we rented crap like Cobra and Deltaforce and didnt have a clue what we were missing. Saw it at 20 something and loved it.
79. Shark (1969)
M | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.
Directors: Samuel Fuller, Rafael Portillo | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Arthur Kennedy, Barry Sullivan, Silvia Pinal
Votes: 1,208
I have to be honest, thou I know this is rated as crap by all. But when i saw it at 15 i loved it. Havent seen it since thou.
80. Carrie (1976)
R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery
Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, John Travolta
Votes: 206,797 | Gross: $33.80M
This movie touched me a lot in my teens. Few movies are made with troubled outsider girl as the theme, and it was interesting and important to get to see this angle as a teen. Still looked upon girls as aliens for some years thou.
81. Angel Heart (1987)
X | 113 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A private investigator is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite. But the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn.
Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling
Votes: 95,875 | Gross: $17.19M
This was so very cool, Mickey rourke was such a hero and Lisa Bonet was so sexy, and De Niro as the Devil. What more could one ask for.
82. Rumble Fish (1983)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Absent-minded street thug Rusty James struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days of gang warfare.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Dennis Hopper
Votes: 37,711 | Gross: $2.49M
A deep great movie with Mickey Rourke on a Harley? Really? Loved Mat Dillon too. Hes a bit underrated.
83. The Outsiders (1983)
PG | 91 min | Crime, Drama
In a small Oklahoma town in 1964, the rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, heats up when one gang member accidentally kills a member of the other.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze
Votes: 97,633 | Gross: $25.60M
Oh my friggin God, what a cast and what a cool story. I absolutly dig this flic so much im ranking it up at once actually.
84. The Warriors (1979)
R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A street gang known as the Warriors must fight its way from the Bronx to its home turf on Coney Island when its members are falsely accused of assassinating a respected gang leader.
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Michael Beck, James Remar, Dorsey Wright, Brian Tyler
Votes: 110,764 | Gross: $22.49M
I should have this In my top five actually. It portays New York before hiphop and thus a time before my rebirth with Bambaataa. It is extremly cool and it was my favourite for many years as a child, i even made my own ganglogo and tried to tatoo it on my skin at 10.
85. Zulu (1964)
Not Rated | 138 min | Drama, History, War
Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth
Votes: 42,766
This is such a great favourite of mine. I could dream my self away playing with my toy soldiers and watching films like this. Previous top 10 movie, but watched it far too much.
86. Zulu Dawn (1979)
PG | 98 min | Adventure, Drama, History
A dramatization of the Battle of Isandlwana, where the British Army met its match against the Zulu nation.
Director: Douglas Hickox | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 7,599
Also one of my historical war drama favs. The building up to the fights are so cool.
87. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
PG | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After the Rebel Alliance are overpowered by the Empire, Luke Skywalker begins his Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued across the galaxy by Darth Vader and bounty hunter Boba Fett.
Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams
Votes: 1,380,611 | Gross: $290.48M
Starwars was such a great part of my childhood but bruce lee and warriors, hiphop,batman and westerns were bigger for me. Starwars as a phenomena was bigger than the movies themselves and therefore i should have this in my top 15. But sadly the movies dont age very well. Cant really enjoy them as a grownup, but love the momories. Whatch them with my kids thou, and its a blast.
88. The NeverEnding Story (1984)
PG | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A troubled boy dives into a wondrous fantasy world through the pages of a mysterious book.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach, Gerald McRaney
Votes: 157,043 | Gross: $20.16M
Wow!1984 was such an amazing year for pop kid culture. This movie is so great to watch with my kids today and i have such great memories from this.
89. Seven Samurai (1954)
Not Rated | 207 min | Action, Drama
Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki
Votes: 367,019 | Gross: $0.27M
Hard to believe this is so old. It is such a cool movie, and I love Rashomon just as much.
90. Last Tango in Paris (1972)
NC-17 | 129 min | Drama, Romance
A young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi, Giovanna Galletti
Votes: 58,390 | Gross: $36.14M
This is so misunderstood as everybody thinks of it as a over the top kinky movie. It is simply a really great movie ,and Marlon Brandos goodbye to the world as a serious actor.
91. Bronson (2008)
R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A young man who was sentenced to seven years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending three decades in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter-ego, Charles Bronson.
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn | Stars: Tom Hardy, Kelly Adams, Luing Andrews, Katy Barker
Votes: 140,942 | Gross: $0.10M
They say great movies are not made anymore, but they havent seen this one. Its awsome. Finally a real male hero again. The scene where they dance to Pet shop boys is so good and hilarious.
92. Chinatown (1974)
R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez
Votes: 350,049
I know this is better than half my list, but what we love is what we like. Very sexy and stylish movie.
93. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
R | 111 min | Action, Biography, Crime
Bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman
Votes: 120,653
Used to be in my top ten but havent seen it in 20 years , so i lost the passion for it. Gonna watch it soon , but not before i have technically 4kd my livingroom fith 60 inches.
94. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
R | 133 min | Drama
In the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco
Votes: 1,072,926 | Gross: $112.00M
Moved me so much as a teen , but havent seen it since. Nicholsen is such a legend.
95. Easy Rider (1969)
R | 95 min | Adventure, Drama
Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware.
Director: Dennis Hopper | Stars: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Antonio Mendoza
Votes: 116,993 | Gross: $41.73M
Im a biker at heart and this is so extremly cool. Gonna be the first 4k movie i buy.
96. The Doors (1991)
R | 140 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band The Doors and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison, from his days as a UCLA film student in Los Angeles, to his untimely death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Frank Whaley
Votes: 99,114 | Gross: $35.18M
It was such an awakening to see this movie. What an extraordinary performence by the lead and what a surprice from Stone. I went to visit Jims grave in Paris with my best buddy because of this. Even Billy Idol is in there!
97. Dead Poets Society (1989)
PG | 128 min | Comedy, Drama
Maverick teacher John Keating returns in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys' boarding school where he was once a star student, using poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles
Votes: 546,663 | Gross: $95.86M
No movie has moved me more beeing a school dropout and all. yes I cried, a lot. Oh captain my captain indeed!
98. Good Will Hunting (1997)
R | 126 min | Drama, Romance
Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Stellan Skarsgård
Votes: 1,069,081 | Gross: $138.43M
To me there is a link to Dead poets society, and I almost loved this one as much, and as a school dropout who is actually at least a bit bright, I can relate so much. But I had to see about a girl , and bring on the hiphop revolution. Will do quantum Physics and Chaos Math when im done changing diapers on kids and sent them off to college, or woodshop.
99. Footloose (1984)
PG | 107 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A city teenager moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest
Votes: 92,415 | Gross: $80.04M
My secret guilty pleasure from childhood. At least I have the excuse of growing up in a strict christian surrounding and im a Bowie fan too. There you have 1984 again.
100. At Close Range (1986)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama
Reunited with his career criminal father, tough teen Brad thinks he's found his ticket to an exciting life of crime, only to find out he's wrong.
Director: James Foley | Stars: Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Mary Stuart Masterson, Chris Penn
Votes: 17,761 | Gross: $2.35M
Christopher walken and Sean Penn, and a sountrack from Madonna who was with Penn at the time. What more could you ask for. I thought this was so romantic as a teen and ran out looking for anHarly Davidson Shirt with roled up arms at once.
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