Marianna Amill, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
By Geoff Carter
This week, just for fun, I’ve decided to compile a ranked list of what I very subjectively consider to be the best fifty films of all time. After all, everyone likes a list, right? Now, because there’s only room for fifty films and these picks are my personal favorites, I’m sure there will be some feathers ruffled and some eyebrows raised. As a caveat to criticisms, I did not include any monster movies or B-movies (although Them and Attack of the Saucer Men are two of my favorites) nor did I include many indie films (Stranger than Paradise and Blue Velvet also rank high on my list). So some of these might be considered classics, some are modern classics, a couple are brand new, and a few are not really part of the canon.
So agree, disagree, chortle, harrumph, add your own choices, or tell me why Juno should not be here but Metropolis should. I hope you enjoy reading this list as much as I did making it.
The Fifty Best Movies of All Time
50. The Elephant Man
49. Unforgiven
48. Ladybird
47. Cabaret
46. Juno
45. Alien
44. Deliverance
43. The Exorcist
42. The Grapes of Wrath
41. Do the Right Thing
40. Moonrise Kingdom
39. Children of Paradise
38. The Silence of the Lambs
37. Treasure of the Sierra Madre
36. Playtime
35. The 400 Blows
34. 12 Angry Men
33. The Apartment
32. 2001: A Space Odyssey
31. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
30. Chinatown
29. 8 1/2
28. Pan’s Labyrinth
27. Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
26. The Deer Hunter
25. The Shining
24. The Maltese Falcon
23. Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
22. Raging Bull
21. Rules of the Game
20. Pulp Fiction
19. Psycho
18. Some Like it Hot
17. West Side Story (1961)
16. Spirited Away
15. Moonlight
14. On the Waterfront
13. Fargo
12. Vertigo
11. Goodfellas
10. To Kill a Mockingbird
9. Schindler’s List
8. Citizen Kane
7. Parasite
6. Lincoln
5. Saving Private Ryan
4. Dr. Strangelove
3. Godfather II
2. Jaws
1. The Godfather
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