Best Movies of All Time – The Top 100 Movies of All Time (IMDB)

This is the official list of the Best Movies of All Time, according to IMDB. These are the Top 100 Movies of All Time as rated by users.

The Best Movies of All Time:

What is IMDB?

IMDb stand for the Internet Movie Database, and it is a website that provides information about movies, TV series, actors, directors, and other entertainment industry professionals. It’s known for its comprehensive database of information, including plot summaries, cast and crew lists, ratings, user reviews, and more.

One of the most popular features of IMDb is the IMDb Top 250 Movies list. This list ranks movies based on the average rating given by registered users of the website, on a scale of 1 to 10. It’s constantly updated, and often considered a go-to guide for discovering highly-rated and acclaimed films.

This what you need to know about the IMDb Top 250:

• It is based on user ratings: It reflects the preferences of a large and diverse audience, not just critics.
• Dynamic and ever-changing: As users rate new movies and existing ratings evolve, the list updates accordingly.
• Not without its limitations: User ratings can be subjective and influenced by various factors, and the list might not include hidden gems, that few have seen, or films from underrepresented genres. There is a criteria of minimum number of rating a film must have before it can appear on the best movies of all time list.

The Best Movies of All Time:

These are the Too 100 Best Movies of All Time, according to IMDB:

1. The Shawshank Redemption

   • Year: 1994
   • Movie Length: 2h 22m
   • Rating: 9.3 (2.9M)

2. The Godfather

   • Year: 1972
   • Movie Length: 2h 55m
   • Rating: 9.2 (2M)

3. The Dark Knight

   • Year: 2008
   • Movie Length: 2h 32m
   • Rating: 9.0 (2.8M)

4. The Godfather Part II

   • Year: 1974
   • Movie Length: 3h 22m
   • Rating: 9.0 (1.3M)

5. 12 Angry Men

   • Year: 1957
   • Movie Length: 1h 36m
   • Rating: 9.0 (853K)

6. Schindler’s List

   • Year: 1993
   • Movie Length: 3h 15m
   • Rating: 9.0 (1.4M)

7. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

   • Year: 2003
   • Movie Length: 3h 21m
   • Rating: 9.0 (2M)

8. Pulp Fiction

   • Year: 1994
   • Movie Length: 2h 34m
   • Rating: 8.9 (2.2M)

9. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

   • Year: 2001
   • Movie Length: 2h 58m
   • Rating: 8.9 (2M)

10. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    • Year: 1966
    • Movie Length: 2h 58m
    • Rating: 8.8 (803K)

11. Forrest Gump

    • Year: 1994
    • Movie Length: 2h 22m
    • Rating: 8.8 (2.2M)

12. Fight Club

    • Year: 1999
    • Movie Length: 2h 19m
    • Rating: 8.8 (2.3M)

13. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    • Year: 2002
    • Movie Length: 2h 59m
    • Rating: 8.8 (1.8M)

14. Inception

    • Year: 2010
    • Movie Length: 2h 28m
    • Rating: 8.8 (2.5M)

15. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back

    • Year: 1980
    • Movie Length: 2h 4m
    • Rating: 8.7 (1.4M)

16. The Matrix

    • Year: 1999
    • Movie Length: 2h 16m
    • Rating: 8.7 (2M)

17. Goodfellas

    • Year: 1990
    • Movie Length: 2h 25m
    • Rating: 8.7 (1.2M)

18. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

    • Year: 1975
    • Movie Length: 2h 13m
    • Rating: 8.7 (1.1M)

19. Se7en

    • Year: 1995
    • Movie Length: 2h 7m
    • Rating: 8.6 (1.8M)

20. It’s a Wonderful Life

    • Year: 1946
    • Movie Length: 2h 10m
    • Rating: 8.6 (495K)

21. Interstellar

    • Year: 2014
    • Movie Length: 2h 49m
    • Rating: 8.7 (2.1M)

22. Seven Samurai

    • Year: 1954
    • Movie Length: 3h 27m
    • Rating: 8.6 (364K)

23. The Silence of the Lambs

    • Year: 1991
    • Movie Length: 1h 58m
    • Rating: 8.6 (1.5M)

24. Saving Private Ryan

    • Year: 1998
    • Movie Length: 2h 49m
    • Rating: 8.6 (1.5M)

25. City of God

    • Year: 2002
    • Movie Length: 2h 10m
    • Rating: 8.6 (794K)

26. Life Is Beautiful

    • Year: 1997
    • Movie Length: 1h 56m
    • Rating: 8.6 (736K)

27. The Green Mile

    • Year: 1999
    • Movie Length: 3h 9m
    • Rating: 8.6 (1.4M)

28. Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    • Year: 1991
    • Movie Length: 2h 17m
    • Rating: 8.6 (1.2M)

29. Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope

    • Year: 1977
    • Movie Length: 2h 1m
    • Rating: 8.6 (1.4M)

30. Back to the Future

    • Year: 1985
    • Movie Length: 1h 56m
    • Rating: 8.5 (1.3M)

31. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    • Year: 2023
    • Movie Length: 2h 20m
    • Rating: 8.6 (343K)

32. Spirited Away

    • Year: 2001
    • Movie Length: 2h 5m
    • Rating: 8.6 (835K)

33. The Pianist

    • Year: 2002
    • Movie Length: 2h 30m
    • Rating: 8.5 (900K)

34. Parasite

    • Year: 2019
    • Movie Length: 2h 12m
    • Rating: 8.5 (933K)

35. Psycho

    • Year: 1960
    • Movie Length: 1h 49m
    • Rating: 8.5 (712K)

36. Gladiator

    • Year: 2000
    • Movie Length: 2h 35m
    • Rating: 8.5 (1.6M)

37. The Lion King

    • Year: 1994
    • Movie Length: 1h 28m
    • Rating: 8.5 (1.1M)

38. Léon: The Professional

    • Year: 1994
    • Movie Length: 1h 50m
    • Rating: 8.5 (1.2M)

39. The Departed

    • Year: 2006
    • Movie Length: 2h 31m
    • Rating: 8.5 (1.4M)

40. American History X

    • Year: 1998
    • Movie Length: 1h 59m
    • Rating: 8.5 (1.2M)

41. Whiplash

    • Year: 2014
    • Movie Length: 1h 46m
    • Rating: 8.5 (968K)

42. The Prestige

    • Year: 2006
    • Movie Length: 2h 10m
    • Rating: 8.5 (1.4M)

43. Grave of the Fireflies

    • Year: 1988
    • Movie Length: 1h 29m
    • Rating: 8.5 (305K)

44. Harakiri

    • Year: 1962
    • Movie Length: 2h 13m
    • Rating: 8.6 (67K)

45. The Usual Suspects

    • Year: 1995
    • Movie Length: 1h 46m
    • Rating: 8.5 (1.1M)

46. Casablanca

    • Year: 1942
    • Movie Length: 1h 42m
    • Rating: 8.5 (601K)

47. The Intouchables

    • Year: 2011
    • Movie Length: 1h 52m
    • Rating: 8.5 (918K)

48. Modern Times

    • Year: 1936
    • Movie Length: 1h 27m
    • Rating: 8.5 (257K)

49. Cinema Paradiso

    • Year: 1988
    • Movie Length: 2h 35m
    • Rating: 8.5 (280K)

50. 12th Fail

    • Year: 2023
    • Movie Length: 2h 27m
    • Rating: 9.2 (94K)

51. Rear Window

    • Year: 1954
    • Movie Length: 1h 52m
    • Rating: 8.5 (518K)

52. Once Upon a Time in the West

    • Year: 1968
    • Movie Length: 2h 46m
    • Rating: 8.5 (347K)

53. Alien

    • Year: 1979
    • Movie Length: 1h 57m
    • Rating: 8.5 (939K)

54. City Lights

    • Year: 1931
    • Movie Length: 1h 27m
    • Rating: 8.5 (194K)

55. Apocalypse Now

    • Year: 1979
    • Movie Length: 2h 27m
    • Rating: 8.4 (703K)

56. Django Unchained

    • Year: 2012
    • Movie Length: 2h 45m
    • Rating: 8.5 (1.7M)

57. Memento

    • Year: 2000
    • Movie Length: 1h 53m
    • Rating: 8.4 (1.3M)

58. WALL·E

    • Year: 2008
    • Movie Length: 1h 38m
    • Rating: 8.4 (1.2M)

59. Raiders of the Lost Ark

    • Year: 1981
    • Movie Length: 1h 55m
    • Rating: 8.4 (1M)

60. The Lives of Others

    • Year: 2006
    • Movie Length: 2h 17m
    • Rating: 8.4 (407K)

61. Sunset Blvd.

    • Year: 1950
    • Movie Length: 1h 50m
    • Rating: 8.4 (234K)

62. Paths of Glory

    • Year: 1957
    • Movie Length: 1h 28m
    • Rating: 8.4 (210K)

63. Avengers: Infinity War

    • Year: 2018
    • Movie Length: 2h 29m
    • Rating: 8.4 (1.2M)

64. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

    • Year: 2018
    • Movie Length: 1h 57m
    • Rating: 8.4 (657K)

65. The Shining

    • Year: 1980
    • Movie Length: 2h 26m
    • Rating: 8.4 (1.1M)

66. Witness for the Prosecution

    • Year: 1957
    • Movie Length: 1h 56m
    • Rating: 8.4 (136K)

67. The Great Dictator

    • Year: 1940
    • Movie Length: 2h 5m
    • Rating: 8.4 (235K)

68. Aliens

    • Year: 1986
    • Movie Length: 2h 17m
    • Rating: 8.4 (756K)

69. Inglourious Basterds

    • Year: 2009
    • Movie Length: 2h 33m
    • Rating: 8.4 (1.6M)

70. The Dark Knight Rises

    • Year: 2012
    • Movie Length: 2h 44m
    • Rating: 8.4 (1.8M)

71. American Beauty

    • Year: 1999
    • Movie Length: 2h 2m
    • Rating: 8.3 (1.2M)

72. Dr. Strangelove

    • Year: 1964
    • Movie Length: 1h 35m
    • Rating: 8.4 (514K)

73. Oldboy

    • Year: 2003
    • Movie Length: 2h
    • Rating: 8.3 (627K)

74. Coco

    • Year: 2017
    • Movie Length: 1h 45m
    • Rating: 8.4 (579K)

75. Amadeus

    • Year: 1984
    • Movie Length: 2h 40m
    • Rating: 8.4 (424K)

76. Toy Story

    • Year: 1995
    • Movie Length: 1h 21m
    • Rating: 8.3 (1.1M)

77. The Boat (Das Boot)

    • Year: 1981
    • Movie Length: 2h 29m
    • Rating: 8.4 (262K)

78. Braveheart

    • Year: 1995
    • Movie Length: 2h 58m
    • Rating: 8.3 (1.1M)

79. Avengers: Endgame

    • Year: 2019
    • Movie Length: 3h 1m
    • Rating: 8.4 (1.2M)

80. Joker

    • Year: 2019
    • Movie Length: 2h 2m
    • Rating: 8.4 (1.5M)

81. Oppenheimer

    • Year: 2023
    • Movie Length: 3h
    • Rating: 8.4 (626K)

82. Princess Mononoke

    • Year: 1997
    • Movie Length: 2h 14m
    • Rating: 8.3 (427K)

83. Good Will Hunting

    • Year: 1997
    • Movie Length: 2h 6m
    • Rating: 8.3 (1.1M)

84. Your Name.

    • Year: 2016
    • Movie Length: 1h 46m
    • Rating: 8.4 (312K)

85. Once Upon a Time in America

    • Year: 1984
    • Movie Length: 3h 49m
    • Rating: 8.3 (374K)

86. High and Low

    • Year: 1963
    • Movie Length: 2h 23m
    • Rating: 8.4 (52K)

87. 3 Idiots

    • Year: 2009
    • Movie Length: 2h 50m
    • Rating: 8.4 (429K)

88. Singin’ in the Rain

    • Year: 1952
    • Movie Length: 1h 43m
    • Rating: 8.3 (258K)

89. Capernaum

    • Year: 2018
    • Movie Length: 2h 6m
    • Rating: 8.4 (103K)

90. Requiem for a Dream

    • Year: 2000
    • Movie Length: 1h 42m
    • Rating: 8.3 (890K)

91. Come and See

    • Year: 1985
    • Movie Length: 2h 22m
    • Rating: 8.4 (94K)

92. Toy Story 3

    • Year: 2010
    • Movie Length: 1h 43m
    • Rating: 8.3 (884K)

93. Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi

    • Year: 1983
    • Movie Length: 2h 11m
    • Rating: 8.3 (1.1M)

94. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    • Year: 2004
    • Movie Length: 1h 48m
    • Rating: 8.3 (1.1M)

95. The Hunt

    • Year: 2012
    • Movie Length: 1h 55m
    • Rating: 8.3 (359K)

96. 2001: A Space Odyssey

    • Year: 1968
    • Movie Length: 2h 29m
    • Rating: 8.3 (712K)

97. Poor Things

    • Year: 2023
    • Movie Length: 2h 21m
    • Rating: 8.4 (74K)

98. Reservoir Dogs

    • Year: 1992
    • Movie Length: 1h 39m
    • Rating: 8.3 (1.1M)

99. Ikiru

    • Year: 1952
    • Movie Length: 2h 23m
    • Rating: 8.3 (86K)

100. Lawrence of Arabia

     • Year: 1962
     • Movie Length: 3h 38m
     • Rating: 8.3 (311K)

The IMDB Top 100 Best Movies of All Time list, is based on IMDB Users Ratings.

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