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Because movies are so versatile and unpredictable it was impossible for the box office to predict that Back to the Future would have drawn far more love than Lawrence of Arabia. And, maybe just end this whole list by making Pulp Fiction the no.1 movie of all time.
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List of Best Movies of All Time
1. The Godfather
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire
Gross Earning – $626,025,500
Release Year –1972
The Godfather adapted from the famous Mario Puzo’s novel, as pulp. Striving to be better than the book, Coppola and his collaborators made this Mafia drama to become the most prominent and popular art that can’t be debated with — A family drama, a crime saga, a visual and musical ravishment and undeniably one of the most truest portrayals of mob life.
2. The Wizard of Oz
Director: Victor Fleming
Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley
Gross Earnings: $32,950,500
Release Year –1940
Elizabeth Daley also the Dean of the USC School of Cinematic Arts was once quoted saying, “If I was on a desert island, I’d bring The Wizard of Oz with me,”.
According to the library of Congress it is also the most watched movies of all time. But, not counting the flying monkeys that Hollywood produces as sequels every couple of years. Based on an adventure of a teen girl, you can never get tired of this timeless classic wrapped in nostalgic love ooze.
3. Citizen Kane
Director: Orson Welles
Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick
Gross Earning- $2,998,000
Release Year –1942
Hailed for decades as one of the greatest movies ever to have been made, and a very easy choice for anybody. The story follows Charles Foster Kane and his lost sled. Making it a trip down to the road when Hollywood was great. Telling you the tale of the death of the publication tycoon Charles Foster Kane.
4. The Shawshank Redemption
Director: Frank Darabont
Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman
Gross Earnings – $53,014,600
Release Year – 1994
Of all the adaptations of Stephen King stories — and they are beyond amazing because he is the most-adapted living writer — this is only one of two (along with The Shining) to make the list.
All that Shawshank love apparently came after the film’s unexceptional theatrical release, when it began popping up on cable TV nearly as regularly as Geico commercials. In 2013, 151 hours of basic cable time was devoted to airing the 142-minute movie. Elaborate six days of watching Robbins trying to escape prison.
5. Pulp Fiction
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, VingRhames
Gross Earrings – $202,078,200
Release Year – 1994
“Quentin has always been a student of film, and after Reservoir Dogs he said to me: ‘The second movie from a filmmaker is almost more important than the first. We’ve got to get it right,'” commented by Mr. Lawrence Bender, Tarantino’s long-time producing partner.
Tarantino got it right, all right. In fact, Miramax’s Pulp Fiction might be the most influential movie made during the 1990s, inspiring scads of imitators (nicknamed Tarentines) and dozens of knockoffs. “We didn’t think we were taking a big risk,” says Bender. “We just thought we were making something really cool.”
6. Casablanca
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman
Domestic lifetime gross (adjusted for inflation, 2014): $4,452,100
Release Year – 1942
Beautifully depicted Rick and Ilsa’s war-torn romance was a grand favourite among seasoned poll respondents. Among middle aged people, it was the third-most-popular picture, while among those in their 20s, it was 37th. Also, not a big shocker, men and women had different opinions: Casablanca was males’ third-favourite film and females’ 14th. But, how can men not love their war movies without Nazis in them.
7. The Godfather Part 2
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
Gross Earnings – $202,374
Release Year – 1974
The sequel was released, and the world couldn’t seem to agree on anything anymore, which is better the Godfather 1 or 2? The first film has the edge among this poll’s respondents, but Part II has die-hard fans as well. “It’s one of those movies,” says producer Albert Berger, “that has every element of cinema working at the highest level. And it’s entertaining, and it says something about our country.”
8. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace
Gross earnings – $989,737,100
Release Year – 1982
And, as our first Spielberg film on our list but certainly the last (he has seven). And it makes absolute sense that E.T. would be his most popular because it’s The Wizard of Oz in reverse. Come to think of it: A 3-foot-tall munchkin lands on Earth, where he’s befriended by a trio of locals (and their little dog) who help him phone to no-place-like-home until, at the end, where does E.T. go in his spaceship? That’s right — over the rainbow. “I never thought of that before,” said Spielberg a few years ago when the theory was presented to him. “Do you mind if I steal that?”
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
Gross Earnings – $344,621,600
Release Year – 1968
Being the very first outer-space movie to take the space exploration — and amazing special effects — seriously (so seriously Kubrick had the sets destroyed after production to make sure they didn’t turn up in subsequent inferior sci-fi films). Sure, it creaks beside its successors, including Close Encounters and Star Wars, but 2001 does have one of the most famous match-cuts in movie history (the bone turning into a spaceship). And that smooth-talking computer in the film is 46 years old, everybody still wants to have it.
10. Schindler’s List
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley
Gross Earning – $183,022,100
Release Year – 1993
The most shocking thing about this emotionally wrenching black-and-white drama isn’t that it’s about an act of heart-breaking kindness during the Holocaust; it’s that Spielberg released it only months after his other big hit of 1993, the one with the dinosaurs. Unlike Jurassic Park, this film took home seven Oscars, including best director and best picture (the first black-and-white movie to win that statuette since 1960’s The Apartment).
11. Star Wars
Director: George Lucas
Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Gross Earnings – $1,136,162,800
Release Year – 1977
Star Wars is basically the father of many things in cinema special effects, box-office receipts, the incorporation of mythological storytelling structure, the number of aliens that can fit comfortably into a bar. But its real legacy is The Deal: Lucas negotiated rights to both the merchandising and the sequels — deemed worthless by Fox in 1977. And, today they are worth billions with a merchandise market that keeps breaking the glass ceiling.
12. Back to The Future
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover
Gross Earnings – $470,043,200
Release Year – 1985
Fox was filming Family Ties when Zemeckis offered the 24-year-old television star to play the now famous unwitting time traveller Marty McFly. (He was replacing Eric Stoltz, who had shot a few scenes but proved the wrong fit.) Fox worked nights and weekends, which explains why he looks so exasperated in most of the film.
13. Raiders of The Lost Ark
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen
Gross Earnings – $614,823,400
Release Year – 1981
A dream scene right from when George Lucas and Spielberg were vacationing in Hawaii, Raiders indulged Lucas’ want to make an old-fashioned serial and scratched Spielberg’s itch to make a world travelling James Bond film (incredibly, the 007 producers had turned down his services). Jeff Bridges said no to the role of Indiana Jones (initially named Smith) and Tom Selleck couldn’t get out of his Magnum P.I. contract, Lucas turned to his Han Solo.
14. Forrest Gump
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise
Domestic lifetime gross (adjusted for inflation, 2014): $625,223,100
Release Year – 1994
The expectations exceeding CGI — from the floating feather to removing Sinise’s legs — helped put Gump over the top in one of the most competitive best picture races in memory. The Shawshank Redemption (No. 4) and Pulp Fiction (No. 5) also were nominated that year.
15. Gone with the Wind
Director: Victor Fleming
Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh
Gross Earnings – $1,592,000,000
Release Year – 1939
The longest film to win best picture (nearly four hours) and the first to have an African American cast member win an Oscar (Hattie McDaniel). Ironically, its only surviving star is Olivia de Havilland, 97, whose character was the main one to die.
16. To Kill a Mocking Bird
Director: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Duvall, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford
Gross Earnings – Numbers unavailable
Release Year – 1962
More than 50 years later and will always be, this is still a pitch-perfect portrait of race and rural America during the Great Depression and of course, Clark Kent (Superman’s) favourite movie too. Most importantly, it shows you the picture of what racism and stereotyping can do to children, while the main character played by Gregory Peck defends a black man against fabricated rape charges in court.
17. Apocalypse Now
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall
Gross Earnings – $249,848,900
Release Year – 1979
Harvey Keitel was fired. Brando was overweight and far from prepared. Sheen almost died from a heart attack. And storms destroyed the sets. Would you find a better made film under such circumstances? We hardly think so.
18. Annie Hall
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
Domestic lifetime gross (adjusted for inflation, 2014): $136,538,700
Release Year – 1977
Riddled with years rumours of a stock cut of an original, much longer version — named Anhedonia — which supposedly was more of a surreal murder mystery than a love story. Let us know if you have a copy with you!
19. Goodfellas
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
Gross Earnings – $88,219,800
Release Year – 1990
Marking Scorsese’s first film on this list, we remember him for many things (like Pesci’s “You think I’m funny?”, making the record by dropping the F-bomb more than any other movie up till then (300 times). This record was beaten last year by The Wolf of Wall Street, which used the F-word 569 times.
20. It’s a Wonderful Life
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed
Gross Earnings – No numbers available
Release Year – 1946
It was Capra’s favourite, and Stewart’s yet totally bombed at the box office. But, just like George Bailey, redeemed by a second chance, it is the holiday classic thanks to the Christmas TV show times for years.
21. Chinatown
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway
Gross Earning – $124,295,200
Release Year – 1974
Marking the famous and extraordinarily acted out Nicholson films to make the 100 cuts. But he’s beaten by Robert Duvall and Robert De Niro (both with four) and by Marlon Brando and Harrison Ford (with five apiece).
22. The Silence of the Lambs
Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins
Gross Earnings – $247,200,400
Release Year – 1991
Best actor, best movie, best adapted screenplay, best actress and best actor, and 25 mins of Anthony Hopkins made a masterpiece that is remembered and revered for years. Also, the only horror movie to win best picture too.
23. Lawrence of Arabia
Director: David Lean
Cast: Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif
Gross Earnings – $426,376,100
Release Year – 1962
Steven Spielberg has estimated that remaking it now will cost about $300 million. Also, these days, they’d probably need to add some estragon; this 227-minute movie has not a single line spoken by a woman.
24. JAWS
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss
Gross Earnings – $1,019,507,400
Release Year – 1975
The original summer blockbuster and cult favourite among the 90’s. Costing only $9 million to film and produce JAWS grossed nearly as much its first weekend alone. But sadly, the shark still is super fake looking.
25. The Sound of Music
Director: Robert Wise
Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer
Gross Earnings – $1,133,626,400
Release Year – 1965
An absolute favourite no matter which generation you belong to, during the Cold War the BBC reportedly planned to air the film after a nuclear strike to improve the morale of survivors. “So Long, Farewell” being the perfect post-apocalyptic song.
26. Singing in The Rain
Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Cast: Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds
Gross Earnings – $1,741,800
Release Year – 1952
Reynolds once mentioned that birthing and making this film was the two hardest things she had ever done. Known to be a hard-line director, she brought out the very best.
27. The Breakfast Club
Director: John Hughes
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Paul Gleason, John Kapelos, Ally Sheedy
Gross Earning – $102,863,800
Release Year – 1985
The final proof that Men and Woman are just different: Hughes’ after-school detention drama was the ninth most-popular film for female respondents, but 75th for male movie goers.
28. The Graduate
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross
Gross Earning – $680,698,700
Release Year – 1967
Did you know who were up for the part? Mrs. Robinson: Deborah Kerr, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Rita Hayworth, Doris Day, Shelley Winters, Ava Gardner, Patricia Neal or Ingrid Bergman? Trick question: All supposedly were up for the part.
29. Blade Runner
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young
Domestic lifetime gross (adjusted for inflation, 2014): $74,672,70
Release Year – 1982
Despite studio tinkering (adding a voiceover, slapping in aerial footage shot for Kubrick’s The Shining to give the ending a sunny feel), it remains as the ultimate, sci-fi detective movie.
30. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Will Sampson
Gross Earnings – $427,335,400
Release Year – 1978
Kirk Douglas wanted Ken Kesey’s book in the early ’60s but decided he was too old to play McMurphy, so he gave the rights to his son, Michael, who produced it instead.
31. The Princess Bride
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin
Gross Earnings – $62,820,500
Release Year – 1989
Did you know that hardly anybody had seen Rob Reiner’s adaptation of William Goldman’s comic-fantasy novel in theatres? But this was back when video could create a cult hit — and that’s exactly what happened.
32. The Empire Strikes Back
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Gross Earning – $627,743,400
Release Year- 1980
And, just like that, like a Shakespeare Tragedy our hero loses a hand but earns a father. And his best friend is frozen solid. Try and imagine the second instalment of another giant sci-fi franchise that ends on such a downer. Go ahead.
33. Fargo
Directors: Joel and Ethan Coen
Cast: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy
Gross Earning – $43,930,100
Release Year – 1996
Did you know that this movie inspired hit TV shows that are current Emmy contenders? The other shows are Bonnie and Clyde, Hannibal and Bates Motel.
List of the Best Movies Lists of All Time | How DO Movies Make the List?
We believe the best movies list should contain the movies that are powerful, moving and most importantly it should have had an impact on a generation of moviegoers. For example, one of the best movies of all time is undoubtedly The Godfather.
The magnetic performance, gripping storyline, aptly adapted from the Mario Puzo’s book, everything was right in place. Carefully crafted and incredibly told.
Those are the features that make the best movies of all time.
34. American Beauty
Director: Sam Mendes
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening
Gross earnings – $198,483,000
Release Year – 1999
Chevy Chase, Kevin Costner, and John Travolta all reportedly were considered for the part of Lester Burnham (which, incidentally, is an anagram for “Humbert learns,” one of the film’s many gestures to Lolita).
35. A Clockwork Orange
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee
Gross Earnings – $124,500,700
Release Year – 1971
This is the film that started the debate over violence in cinema. The director was so horrified by a copycat murder in England that he pulled the movie from U.K. theaters.
36. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Director: John Hughes
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, Jennifer Grey, Alan Ruck
Gross earnings – $150,481,300
Release Date – 1986
The director paid homage to his previous movies via the license plates on the characters’ cars: “VCATION” for National Lampoon’s Vacation, “MMOM” for Mr. Mom and “TBC” for The Breakfast Club.
37. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens
Domestic lifetime gross (adjusted for inflation, 2014): $78,439,100
Release Year – 1964
Sellers the lead actor was the very first actor to be nominated for a single Oscar for playing three characters (he lost on all three counts to Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady).
38. When Harry Met Sally
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan
Gross Earnings – $186,114,700
Release Year – 1989
It is amazing to see the great acting in this film. According to sources on the set, Crystal and Ryan hated each other’s guts. (Although Crystal denies it, saying he and Ryan had a great working relationship.)
39. The Shining
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley
Gross earnings- $130,252,200
Release year – 1980
The director has realized that the shot of Nicholson repeatedly typing “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” would make no sense to European audiences, so he had the line typed in Italian, German and Spanish.
40. Fight Club
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter
Gross Earnings – $57,957,800
Release Date – 1999
Bonham Carter’s dialogue after her sex scene with Pitt — “That was the best f– I’ve had since grade school” — was a replacement. The original, more offensive line: “I want to have your abortion.”
This is a very accurate depiction of mental health.
41. Raging Bull
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent
Gross Earnings – $23.38M
Release Date – 1980
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta played by Robert De Niro, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it. With a stellar cast Robert De Niro became a house hold name after that.
42. Vertigo
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore
Gross Earnings – $3.20M
Release Date – 1958
A former police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with a hauntingly beautiful woman. Amazingly made and convincing acting, this is a movie that can easily be on all best films of all-time lists.
43. Psycho
Director – Alfred Hitchcock
Cast – Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Gross Earnings – $32.00M
Release Date – 1960
A secretary living in Phoenix embezzles forty thousand dollars from her employer’s client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.And, that is when all hell breaks loose. A haunting performance by the cast, the end is set to thrill you and remind you why people come to the movies after all.
44. Sunset Blvd.
Director – Billy Wilder |
Cast – William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson
Gross Earnings – Unknown
Release Date – 1950
When a screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return, you know the story line is going to be gripping. Well shot, amazing performances and a climax set to dazzle you.
45. 12 Angry Men
Director – Sidney Lumet
Cast – Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler
Gross earnings – $4.36M
Release Date – 1957
A jury holdout attempts to prevent a miscarriage of justice by forcing his colleagues to reconsider the evidence. A compelling, reality check and a staking investigation in to the human mind, this movie is going to make sure you do not get off your seat and hailed as one of the most important movies ever made in Hollywood.
46. Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
Director: George Lucas
Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness
Gross Earnings – $322.74M
Release Year – 1977
Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookie and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire’s world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader. Also, a movie hailed to be a Geek’s most precious procession.
47. The Bridge on the River Kwai
Director: David Lean
Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa
Gross: $44.91M
Release Year – 1957
After settling his differences with a Japanese P.O.W. camp commander, a British Colonel co-operates to oversee his men’s construction of a railway bridge for their captors, while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it. A war drama set very realistically and a story worth a million hearts.
48. Some Like It Hot
Director: Billy Wilder
cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft
Gross: $25.00M
Release Year – 1959
When two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. Also, easily one of the very best films of all time that stars Marilyn Monroe.
49. Ben-Hur
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet
Gross Earnings: $74.70M
Release Year – 1958
When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge. A odyssey of the past and a love letter to amazing acting. Watched all over the world.
50. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Director: Peter Jackson
Stars: Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom
Gross: $377.85M
Release Year – 2003
Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron’s army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring. It is all about bringing all our high school favourites to character and life. One of the best movie adaptions ever made and one of the most powerful and bets films ever made.
51. Gladiator
Director: Ridley Scott
Stars: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed
Gross: $187.71M
Release Year – 2000
A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery. Magnificently shot with sets that look as if they came out of a Roman historical book.
52. From Here to Eternity
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed
Gross Earnings: $30.50M
Release Year – 1953
In Hawaii in 1941, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit’s team, while his captain’s wife and second-in-command are falling in love.
53. Saving Private Ryan
Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns
Gross: $216.54M
Release Year – 1998
Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action. A war drama and a war movie that shows you the destruction and sacrifices of war.
54. Raiders of the Lost Ark
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, John Rhys-Davies
Gross: $248.16M
Release Year – 1981
In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler’s Nazis can obtain its awesome powers. This is a childhood favourite and an absolute stunner. Marking the charisma of Harrison Ford.
55. Rocky
Director: John G. Avildsen
Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers
Gross: $117.24M
Release Year – 1976
A small-time boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight a heavy-weight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect. If you don’t cry at the end, then you probably are dead inside, and making Sylvester Stallone a household name.
56. A Streetcar Named Desire
Director: Elia Kazan
Stars: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden
Gross: $8.00M
Release Year – 1951
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her. Shooting Marlon Brando in to the A listers overnight and establishing the foundation of what we know as Brando’s charm.
57. An American in Paris
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Stars: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary
Gross: $4.50M
Release Year – 1951
Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman. A drama, a musical and a romantic movie you can never feel out of place with the milestone classic.
58. The Best Years of Our Lives
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Fredric March, Teresa Wright
Gross: $23.65M
Release Year – 1946
Three World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed. Showing you the effects of war up front in the American middle class.
59. My Fair Lady
Director: George Cukor
Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Gross: $72.00M
Release year – 1964
Snobbish phonetics Professor Henry Higgins (Sir Rex Harrison) agrees to a wager that he can make flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) presentable in high society.Audrey Hepburn magically portrays her character flawlessly reminding the world what an outstanding gift she was to the cinematic universe.
60. Doctor Zhivago
Director: David Lean
Stars: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger
Gross: $111.72M
Release Year – 1965
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.
61. The Searchers
Director: John Ford
Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond
Gross Earnings – Not Known
Release Year – 1956
An American Civil War veteran embarks on a journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches. Absolutely brutally real and one of the best films of all time thanks to John Wayne’s fantabulous performance.
62. Patton
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Stars: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young, Michael Strong
Gross: $61.70M
Release Year – 1970
The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general, George S. Patton. Beautifully moving and accurate depiction of what really went down then.
63. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Director: George Roy Hill
Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin
Gross: $102.31M
Release Year – 1969
Wyoming, the early 1900s. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. After a train robbery goes wrong, they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. Their solution – escape to Bolivia.
64. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Director: John Huston
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett
Gross: $5.01M
Release Year – 1948
Fred Dobbs and Bob Curtin, two Americans searching for work in Mexico, convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
65. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Director: Sergio Leone
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè
Gross: $6.10M
Release Year – 1966
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
66. The Apartment
Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston
Gross: $18.60M
Release Year – 1960
A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
67. Platoon
Director: Oliver Stone
Stars: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Keith David
Gross: $138.53M
Release Year – 1986
A young soldier in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man. A heart wrenching and daunting real portrayal of war.
68. Braveheart
Director: Mel Gibson
Stars: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Angus Macfadyen
Gross: $75.60M
Release Year – 1995
When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, William Wallace begins a revolt against King Edward I of England.
69. Dances with Wolves
Director: Kevin Costner
Stars: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant
Gross: $184.21M
Release Year – 1990
Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.
70. Jurassic Park
Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough
Gross: $402.45M
Release Year – 1993
A pragmatic Palaeontologist visiting a near-complete theme park with reviving ancient creatures is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park’s cloned dinosaurs to run loose.
71. The Exorcist
Director: William Friedkin
Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Lee J. Cobb
Gross: $232.91M
Release Year – 1973
When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.
72. The Pianist
Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox
Gross: $32.57M
Release Year – 2002
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.Heartbreaking, real and one of the best films of all time to have been made on World War 2.
73. The Deer Hunter
Director: Michael Cimino
Stars: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John Savage
Gross: $48.98M
Release Year – 1978
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
74. All Quiet on the Western Front
Director: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Arnold Lucy
Gross: $3.27M
Release Year – 1930
A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I. A war drama that tells you exactly what it is like to be in front of showering guns.
75. Bonnie and Clyde
Director: Arthur Penn
Stars: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman
Gross: Not Known
Release Year – 1967
Bonnie Parker, a bored waitress 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.
76. The French Connection
Director: William Friedkin
Stars: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco
Gross: Not Known
Release Year – 1971
A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.
77. City Lights
Director: Charles Chaplin
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers
Gross: $0.02M
Release Year – 1931
With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.
78. It Happened One Night
Director: Frank Capra
Stars: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns
Gross: $4.36M
Release Year – 1934
A spoiled heiress running away from her family is helped by a man who is a reporter in need of a story. And, if you don’t fall in love with Clark Gable then well, it is impossible not to. Starring one of the most infamous scenes in movies of Claudette Colbert stretching her dress up to her knees. In 1934 that was very scandalous.
79. A Place in the Sun
Director: George Stevens
Stars: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere
Gross: Not Known
Released Year – 1953
A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women. And who doesn’t like a three-way love story in the 1950s? We all do.
80. Midnight Cowboy
Director: John Schlesinger
Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver
Gross: $44.79M
Release Year -1969
A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process. Discovering New York and himself in the process.
81. Rain Man
Director: Barry Levinson
Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen
Gross: $178.80M
Release Year – 1988
Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt’s father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.
82. The Grapes of Wrath
Director: John Ford
Stars: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin
Gross: $0.06M
Release Year – 1940
A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
83. The Green Mile
Director: Frank Darabont
Stars: Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt
Gross: $136.80M
Release Year – 1999
The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.
84. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon
Gross: $132.09M
Release Year – 1977
Roy Neary, an electric lineman, watches how his quiet and ordinary daily life turns upside down after a close encounter with a UFO.
85. Nashville
Director: Robert Altman
Stars: Keith Carradine, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley, Shelley Duvall
Gross: $14.82M
Release Year – 1975
Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention as secrets and lies are surfaced and revealed. Eye-opening, moving and one of the very best of films ever to have been made.
86. Network
Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall
Gross: Not Known
Release Year – 1976
A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor’s ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit. A bizarre, intriguing and easily one of the best movies of all time.
87. American Graffiti
Director: George Lucas
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith
Gross: $115.00M
Release Year – 1973
A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college. A fitting member of the lists of the best movies of all time. Reminding us all of what we feel when we were carefree in college.
88. Terms of Endearment
Director: James L. Brooks
Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito
Gross: $108.42M
Release Year – 1983
Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love, and her daughter’s family problems. A tearful yet amazing written movie.
89. Good Will Hunting
Director: Gus Van Sant
Stars: Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, StellanSkarsgård
Gross: $138.43M
Release Year – 1997
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. One of Robin William’s best dramatic movies and no wonder it is also one of the best movies of all time.
90. The African Queen
Director: John Huston
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull
Gross: $0.54M
Release Year – 1951
In Africa during World War I, a gin-swilling riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.
91. Stagecoach
Director: John Ford
Stars: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine, John Carradine
Gross: Not Known
Release Year – 1939
A group of people travelling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.
92. Mutiny on the Bounty
Director: Frank Lloyd
Stars: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Herbert Mundin
Gross: Not Known
Release Year – 1935
A tyrannical ship captain decides to exact revenge on his abused crew after they form a mutiny against him, but the sailor he targets had no hand in it.
93. The Great Dictator
Director: Charles Chaplin
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner
Gross: Not Known
Release Year – 1940
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel’s regime. The best movie of all time, having the best speech of all time and the only talkies of Charlie Chaplin. DO we need any more reasons to watch this?
94. Double Indemnity
Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Byron Barr
Gross: $5.72M
Release Year – 1944
An insurance representative lets himself be talked by a seductive housewife into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses the suspicion of an insurance investigator.
95. Taxi Driver
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks
Gross: $28.26M
Release Year – 1976
A mentally unstable veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action by attempting to liberate a presidential campaign worker and an underage prostitute.
96. The Third Man
Director: Carol Reed
Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard
Gross: $0.45M
Release Year – 1949
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, post-war Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
97. Rebel Without a Cause
Director: Nicholas Ray
Stars: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus
Gross: Not Known
Release Year – 1955
A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies. It has James Dean in it, do we need anymore reasons as to why it is one of the best movies of all time.
98. Yankee Doodle Dandy
Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf
Gross: $11.80M
Release Year – 1942
The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.
99. Amadeus
Director: Milos Forman
Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice
Gross: $51.97M
Release Year – 1984
The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart’s talent and claimed to have murdered him.
100. Titanic
Director: James Cameron
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates
Gross: $659.33M
Release Year – 1997
A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic. Leonardo shines and Kate Winslet easily writes her name down on concrete on one of the best movies of all time.
101. Unforgiven
Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris
Gross: $101.16M
Release Year – 1992
Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny (Clint Eastwood) reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) and a young man, The “Schofield Kid” (JaimzWoolvett).
102. Die Hard
Director: John McTiernan
Stars: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia
Gross: $83,008,852
Release Year -1988
An NYPD officer tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by German terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
103. Moonlight
Director: Barry Jenkins
Stars: Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Trevante Rhodes
Gross: $65.3 million
Release Year – 2016
A young African American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood.
104. This Is Spinal Tap
Director: Rob Reiner
Stars: Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer
Gross: $4.7 million
Release Year – 1984
Filmmaker Marty Di Bergi follows the English rock group Spinal Tap on their 1982 United States concert tour to promote their new album Smell the Glove. Making it one of the best films of all time and an American mockumentary.
105. ‘Do the Right Thing’
Director: Spike Lee
Stars: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee
Gross: $27,545,445
Release Year – 1989
The sad thing about Spike Lee’s intense “Do the Right Thing” is that, as WBUR wrote in 2017, its unflinching look at American racial divisions is always timely. Set in a sweltering Brooklyn summer, this film examines neighbourhood tensions that boil over, with several key moments resembling tragic stories we constantly see in the news today.
106. The Class (2008)
Director: Laurent Cantet
Stars: François Bégaudeau, AgameMalembo-Emene, AngélicaSancio
Gross: $28.7 million
Release Year: 2008
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau play a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighbourhood.
107. Inside Llewyn Davis
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Stars: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman
Gross: $13,235,319
Release Year – 2013
A week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Beautifully detailed to the very core with magnetic acting by Oscar Isaac. Easily of the best films of all time in recent years.
108. Days of Heaven
Director: Terrence Malick
Stars: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard
Gross: $3,446,749
Release Year – 1978
A hot-tempered farm labourer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.
Best Action Movie Stars of All Time?
You can’t think of the best movies of all time without counting the contribution of the action movie stars and directors and writers who make all that magic happen. A franchise like ‘Expendables’ only works because of how action films have shaped our cinematic experience over time.
So, here are the Top Action Heroes of All Time!
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Best Known For – The Terminator Series, Predator
With an almost unpronounceable surname and a thick Austrian accent, who would have ever believed that a brash, quick talking bodybuilder from a small European village would become one of Hollywood’s biggest stars.
Sylvester Stallone
Best Known For – Rocky, Rambo, Expendables Franchise
This athletically built, dark-haired American actor/screenwriter/director who gave us one of the very best movies of all time. Rocky and Rambo.
Bruce Willis
Best Known For- Die Hard Franchise
Actor and musician Bruce Willis are well known for playing wisecracking or hard-edged characters, often in spectacular action films. Can you imagine a world where in action you don’t have Bruce Willis’s Die Hard as one of the best movies of all time?
Bruce Lee
Best Known For- Meng long guo jiang
Bruce Lee remains the greatest icon of martial arts cinema and a key figure of modern popular media. Had it not been for Bruce Lee and his movies in the early 1970s, it’s arguable whether the martial arts film genre would have ever become a mainstream cinema genre.
Harrison Ford
Best Known For- Star Trek Franchise, Raiders of The Lost Ark
Harrison Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (Nidelman), a radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford), an actor turned advertising executive. His Indiana Jones franchise is basically there reason why we have lists like Best movies of all time.
109. Sita Sings the Blues
Director: Nina Paley
Stars: Annette Hanshaw, Aseem Chhabra, Bhavana Nagulapally
Gross: Not Known
Release Year – 2009
An animated version of the epic Indian tale of Ramayana set to the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw.
110. “Jackie”
Director: Pablo Larraín
Stars: Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig
Gross: $25.1 million
Release Year – 2016
Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husband’s historic legacy.
111. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Director: Ang Lee
Stars: Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang
Gross: $213.5 million
Release Year: 2000
A young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.
112. Crash
Director: Paul Haggis
Stars: Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Thandie Newton
Gross: $54,580,300
Release Year: 2004
Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.A moving portrayal of race relations and police culture.
113. We Were Here
Directors: David Weissman, Bill Weber (co-director)
Stars: Ed Wolf, Daniel Goldstein, Guy Clark
Gross: Not Known
Release Year: 2011
A deep and reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the first years of this unimaginable crisis.
114. WALL-E
Director: Andrew Stanton
Stars: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin
Gross: $533.3 million
Release Year: 2008
In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.
115. Spotlight
Director: Tom McCarthy
Stars: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams
Gross: $45,055,776
Release Year: 2015
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
116. Zero Dark Thirty
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Stars: Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt
Gross: $29.5 million
Release Year: 2012
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011.
117. Thelma & Louise
Director: Ridley Scott
Stars: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel
Gross: $45,360,915
Release Year: 1991
Two best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two girls escape for the crimes they committed.
118. 12 Years a Slave
Director: Steve McQueen
Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender
Gross: $244.5 Million
Release Year: 2013
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
119. The Wolf of Wall Street
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie
Gross: $392 million
Release Year: 2013
Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stockbroker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.
Why Martin Scorsese Makes the Best Movies of All Time?
Did you ever wonder why Martin Scorsese is the best? Let us just start by the following;
- Martin Scorsese is the winner of an Oscar
- Two Golden Globes, and
- Two BAFTA awards
- One from the Directors Guild of America
- one of the founders of the World Cinema Foundation and
- Has been decorated with the French Legion of Honor in 1987
- Scorsese is President of The Film Foundation, a non-profit foundation dedicated to the preservation of deteriorating film material.
120. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
Director: Je-kyu Kang (as Je-gyu Kang)
Stars: Dong-Gun Jang, Won Bin, Eun-Ju Le
Gross: Not Known
Release Year: 2004
When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.
121. Gandhi
Director: Richard Attenborough
Stars: Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Rohini Hattangadi
Gross: US$52,767,889
Release Year: 1982
Gandhi’s character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he can drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed.
122. Inception
Director: Christopher Nolan
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page
Gross: $823 million
Release Year: 2010
A thief who steals corporate secrets using dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O.
123. Pan’s Labyrinth
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López
Gross: $121 Million
Release Year: 2006
In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world. Easily one of the best films of all time and also the 5th highest-grossing foreign-language film too.
124. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Director: Michel Gondry
Stars: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson
Gross: $8,175,198
Release Year: 2004
When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories.
Best Extreme Method Actors & their Best Movies of All Time
Best Movies of All Time are not made without the dedication actors put in to assuming the character they play. Even so many actors have pushed the boundaries of how far actors can immerse themselves in acting out that character.
Here are the Best Extreme Method Actors of All Time
Daniel Day-Lewis
Best Known For- There Will Be Blood
Born in London, England, Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is the second child of Cecil Day-Lewis (pseudonym Nicholas Blake), Poet Laureate of the U.K., and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon.
Christian Bale
Best Known For- The Dark Knight
Christian Charles Philip Bale was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK on January 30, 1974, to English parents Jennifer “Jenny” (James) and David Bale. His mother was a circus performer and his father, who was born in South Africa, was a commercial pilot.
Marlon Brando
Best Known For- Apocalypse Now
Marlon Brando is widely considered the greatest movie actor of all time, rivalled only by the more theatrically oriented Laurence Olivier in terms of esteem.
Joaquin Phoenix
Best Known For- Walk the Line, Her, Joker
Joaquin Phoenix was born Joaquin Rafael Bottom in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Arlyn (Dunetz) and John Bottom, and is the middle child in a brood of five. His parents, from the continental United States, were then serving as Children of God missionaries.
Jim Carrey
Best Known For- Ace Ventura, Bruce Almighty, The Mask
Jim Carrey, Canadian-born and a U.S. citizen since 2004, is an actor and producer famous for his rubbery body movements and flexible facial expressions. Also giving you one of the best movies of all time and being a two-time Golden Globe winner too.
125. The Usual Suspects
Director: Bryan Singer
Stars: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Stephen Baldwin
Gross: $23.34M
Release Year: 1995
A sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which began when five criminals met at a seemingly random police lineup.
126. PK
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
Stars: Aamir Khan, Anushka Sharma, Sanjay Dutt, Boman Irani
Gross: $10.62M
Release Year: 2014
An alien on Earth loses the only device he can use to communicate with his spaceship. His innocent nature and child-like questions force the country to evaluate the impact of religion on its people.
127. A Separation
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Stars: PaymanMaadi, Leila Hatami, SarehBayat, Shahab Hosseini
Gross: $7.10M
Release Year: 2011
A married couple is faced with a difficult decision – to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer’s disease.
128. Life of Pi
Director: Ang Lee
Stars: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain, Tabu
Gross: $124.99M
Release Year: 2012
A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.
129. Oldboy
Director: Chan-wook Park
Stars: Min-Sik Choi, Ji-Tae Yu, Hye-Jeong Kang, Dae-Han Ji
Gross: $0.71M
Release Year: 2003
After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days.
130. Her
Director: Spike Jonze
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson, Rooney Mara
Gross: $25.57M
Release Year: 2013
In the near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need.
131. Dredd
Director: Pete Travis
Stars: Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey, Rachel Wood
Gross: $13.41M
Release Year: 2012
In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO.
132. Reservoir Dogs
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Stars: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn
Gross: $2.83M
Release Year: 1992
When a simple jewellery heist goes horribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.
133. Bernie
Director: Richard Linklater
Stars: Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey, Brady Coleman
Gross: $9.20M
Release Year: 2011
In small-town Texas, an affable mortician strikes up a friendship with a wealthy widow, though when she starts to become controlling, he goes to great lengths to separate himself from her grasp.
134. Broken Flowers
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Stars: Bill Murray, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Julie Delpy
Gross: $13.74M
Release Year: 2005
As the extremely withdrawn Don Johnston is dumped by his latest woman, he receives an anonymous letter from a former lover informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him. A freelance sleuth neighbour moves Don to embark on a cross-country search for his old flames in search of answers.
135. Django Unchained
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Stars: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington
Gross: $162.81M
Release Year: 2012
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
136. Seven Years in Tibet
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Stars: Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, BD Wong, Mako
Gross: $37.96M
Release Year: 1997
A true story of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountain climber who became friends with the Dalai Lama at the time of China’s takeover of Tibet.
137. The Truman Show
Director: Peter Weir
Stars: Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich
Gross: $125.62M
Release Year: 1998
An insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show. One of the best films of all-time starring Jim Carrey.
138. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Director: Terry Gilliam
Stars: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Tobey Maguire, Michael Lee Gogin
Gross: $10.68M
Release Year: 1998
An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades.
139. This Is England
Director: Shane Meadows
Stars: Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley, Andrew Shim
Gross: $0.33M
Release Year: 2006
A young boy becomes friends with a gang of skinheads. Friends soon become like family, and relationships will be pushed to the very limit.
140. Groundhog Day
Director: Harold Ramis
Stars: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky
Gross: $70.91M
Release Year: 1993
A weatherman finds himself inexplicably living the same day repeatedly.
141. True Grit
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Stars: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld, Josh Brolin
Gross: $171.24M
Release Year: 2010
A stubborn teenager enlists the help of a tough U.S. Marshal to track down her father’s murderer.
142. Nacho Libre
Director: Jared Hess
Stars: Jack Black, Ana de la Reguera, Héctor Jiménez, Darius Rose
Gross: $80.20M
Release Year: 2006Berated all his life by those around him, a monk follows his dream and dons a mask to moonlight as a Luchador (Mexican wrestler).
Top Movie Directors for the Best Movies of All Time
You would never have the best movies of all time had it not been for the artistry of directors and their visions. So, as a tribute to the best movies of all time to have ever graced the silver screen;
Here are the top Directors of All Time-
Steven Spielberg
Best Known For- Schindler’s List
One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood’s best-known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. Bring your best movies of all time like Saving Private Ryan, E.T, Jurassic Part etc.
Martin Scorsese
Best Known For- Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Casino, Taxi Driver, The Departed, Gangs of New York
Martin Charles Scorsese was born on November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York City, to Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa) and Charles Scorsese, who both worked in Manhattan’s garment district, and whose families both came from Palermo, Sicily.
Alfred Hitchcock
Best Known For- Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, North by Northwest
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England. He was the son of Emma Jane (Whelan; 1863 – 1942) and East End greengrocer William Hitchcock (1862 – 1914). His parents were both of half English and half Irish ancestry.
Stanley Kubrick
Best Known For- 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut
Stanley Kubrick was born in Manhattan, New York City, to Sadie Gertrude (Perveler) and Jacob Leonard Kubrick, a physician. His family were Jewish immigrants (from Austria, Romania, and Russia).
Orson Welles
Best Known For- Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, The Magnificent Ambersons
His father was a well-to-do inventor, his mother a beautiful concert pianist; Orson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. When his mother died (he was six) he travelled the world with his father.
You can’t imagine the world of cinema and the best movies of all time without a mention and shout out to the above veteran directors. They paved the way and has changed how we perceive cinema on-screen and off-screen.
143. Let the Right One In
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Stars: KåreHedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl
Gross: $2.12M
Release Year: 2008
Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.
144. Dog Day Afternoon
Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Penelope Allen, Sully Boyar
Gross: $50.00M
Release Year: 1975
A man robs a bank to pay for his lover’s operation, which turns into a hostage situation and a media circus. If you are looking for the all-time best movie list, then it will be incomplete without AL Pacino’s Dog Day Afternoon.
145. Scarface (1983)
Director: Brian De Palma
Stars: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Gross: $45.60M
Release Year: 1983
In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.
146. Memento
Director: Christopher Nolan
Stars: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior
Gross: $25.54M
Release Year: 2000
A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife’s murderer. One of the movies on our list that marks the excellence of best films of all time.
147. Les Misérables
Director: Tom Hooper
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway
Gross: $441.8 million
Release Year: 2012
In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker’s daughter. The decision changes their lives forever.
148. Hard-Boiled
Director: John Woo
Stars: Yun-Fat Chow, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Teresa Mo, Philip Chan
Gross: Not Known
Release Year: 1992
A tough-as-nails cop teams up with an undercover agent to shut down a sinister mobster and his crew.
149. Enter the Dragon
Director: Robert Clouse
Stars: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly, Ahna Capri
Gross: $25.00M
Release Year: 1973
A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.
150. Police Story
Directors: Jackie Chan, Chi-Hwa Chen
Stars: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Kwok-Hung Lam
Gross: $0.11M
Release Year: 1985
A virtuous Hong Kong Police Officer must clear his good name when the drug lord he is after frames him for the murder of a dirty cop.
151. The Matrix
Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
Gross: $171.48M
Release Year: 1999
A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.
152. Léon: The Professional
Director: Luc Besson
Stars: Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman, Danny Aiello
Gross: $19.50M
Release Year: 1994
Mathilda, a 12-year-old girl, is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin after her family is murdered. Léon and Mathilda form an unusual relationship, as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin’s trade.
153. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Stars: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen
Gross: $70.10M
Release Year: 2003
After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her.
154. Predator
Director: John McTiernan
Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall, Elpidia Carrillo
Gross: $59.74M
Release Year: 1987
A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extra-terrestrial warrior.
155. Avatar
Director: James Cameron
Stars: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez
Gross: $760.51M
Release Year: 2009
A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
156. City of Angels
Director: Brad Silberling
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, Andre Braugher, Dennis Franz
Gross: $78.69M
Release Year: 1998
An angel on Earth, a doctor unable to believe, a patient with a secret, a love story made in Heaven.
157. Pearl Harbor
Director: Michael Bay
Stars: Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, William Lee Scott
Gross: $198.54M
Release Year: 2001
A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941.
158. Mr Nobody
Director: Jaco Van Dormael
Stars: Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger, Linh Dan Pham
Gross: Not Known
Release Year: 2009
A boy stands on a station platform as a train is about to leave. Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? Infinite possibilities arise from this decision. If he doesn’t choose, anything is possible.
159. American History X
Director: Tony Kaye
Stars: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D’Angelo, Jennifer Lien
Gross: $6.72M
Release Year: 1998
A former neo-Nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did.
160. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Director: David Fincher
Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Julia Ormond
Gross: $127.51M
Release Year: 2008
This movie tells you the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts ageing backwards with bizarre consequences.
161. Catch Me If You Can
Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen
Gross: $164.62M
Release Year: 2002
A seasoned FBI agent pursues Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully forged millions of dollars’ worth of checks while posing as a Pan Am pilot, a doctor, and a legal prosecutor.
162. A Beautiful Mind
Director: Ron Howard
Stars: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer
Gross: $170.74M
Release Year: 2001
After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
163. There Will Be Blood
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds, Martin Stringer
Gross: $40.22M
Release Year: 2007
A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.
164. Being John Malkovich
Director: Spike Jonze
Stars: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich
Gross: $22.86M
Release Year: 1999
A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of the movie star John Malkovich.
165. The Wrestler
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Stars: Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Mark Margolis
Gross: $26.24M
Release Year: 2008
A faded professional wrestler must retire but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.
166. Hotel Rwanda
Director: Terry George
Stars: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Xolani Mali
Gross: $23.53M
Release Year: 2004
Paul Rusesabagina was a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.
167. Babel
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Mohamed Akhzam
Gross: $34.30M
Release Year: 2006
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
168. Dancer in the Dark
Director: Lars von Trier
Stars: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare
Gross: $4.18M
Release Year: 2000
An east European girl goes to America with her young son, expecting it to be like a Hollywood film.
169. The Hours
Director: Stephen Daldry
Stars: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane
Gross: $41.68M
Release Year: 2002
The story of how the novel “Mrs Dalloway” affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives.
