Best Movies of All Time

View our rundown of the best rated movies ever made as voted for by critics and cinema goers.

Best Movies of All Time

These ground-breaking movies have been awarded the highest Cinafilm scores.

1.	The Godfather	14 Mar 1972	948 reviews
2.	12 Angry Men	10 Apr 1957	873 reviews
3.	Schindler's List	15 Dec 1993	975 reviews
4.	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	22 Dec 1966	877 reviews
5.	The Godfather Part II	20 Dec 1974	878 reviews
6.	Rear Window	01 Aug 1954	881 reviews
7.	Pulp Fiction	10 Sep 1994	1,016 reviews
8.	Seven Samurai	26 Apr 1954	734 reviews
9.	City Lights	06 Feb 1931	750 reviews
10.	Casablanca	15 Jan 1943	833 reviews
11.	Singin' in the Rain	09 Apr 1952	845 reviews
12.	Psycho	22 Jun 1960	945 reviews
13.	GoodFellas	12 Sep 1990	962 reviews
14.	The Shawshank Redemption	23 Sep 1994	985 reviews
15.	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	18 Dec 2001	1,035 reviews
16.	Sunrise	01 Jan 1985	475 reviews
17.	Baraka	15 Sep 1992	540 reviews
18.	All About Eve	09 Nov 1950	689 reviews
19.	Double Indemnity	06 Jul 1944	745 reviews
20.	Modern Times	05 Feb 1936	746 reviews
21.	Memento	31 Dec 1968	787 reviews
22.	Sunset Boulevard	10 Aug 1950	824 reviews
23.	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	29 Jan 1964	841 reviews
24.	Lawrence of Arabia	11 Dec 1962	853 reviews
25.	Vertigo	28 May 1958	888 reviews
26.	Star Wars	25 May 1977	914 reviews
27.	Apocalypse Now	19 May 1979	914 reviews
28.	Saving Private Ryan	24 Jul 1998	1,006 reviews
29.	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	18 Dec 2002	1,069 reviews
30.	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	17 Dec 2003	1,099 reviews
31.	Whiplash	10 Oct 2014	1,209 reviews
32.	The Dark Knight	16 Jul 2008	1,425 reviews
33.	High and Low	01 Mar 1963	308 reviews
34.	Stop Making Sense	16 Nov 1984	316 reviews
35.	Witness for the Prosecution	17 Dec 1957	421 reviews
36.	Anne of Green Gables	01 Dec 1985	462 reviews
37.	Fanny and Alexander	17 Dec 1982	584 reviews
38.	Hero	01 Jan 1989	600 reviews
39.	The Great Dictator	15 Oct 1940	629 reviews
40.	Ikiru	09 Oct 1952	636 reviews
41.	Once	14 Dec 2009	645 reviews
42.	Ran	01 Jun 1985	683 reviews
43.	Rashomon	26 Aug 1950	707 reviews
44.	Paths of Glory	25 Oct 1957	725 reviews
45.	It's a Wonderful Life	20 Dec 1946	740 reviews
46.	Some Like It Hot	19 Mar 1959	749 reviews
47.	The Lives of Others	23 Mar 2006	826 reviews
48.	A Separation	15 Feb 2011	886 reviews
49.	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	19 Nov 1975	899 reviews
50.	Back to the Future	03 Jul 1985	912 reviews
51.	The Empire Strikes Back	20 May 1980	933 reviews
52.	Citizen Kane	17 Apr 1941	945 reviews
53.	The Lion King	15 Jun 1994	955 reviews
54.	The Silence of the Lambs	14 Feb 1991	964 reviews
55.	WALL·E	22 Jun 2008	978 reviews
56.	Toy Story	22 Nov 1995	990 reviews
57.	Alien	25 May 1979	1,030 reviews
58.	Man with a Movie Camera	12 May 1929	339 reviews
59.	Avengers: Endgame	24 Apr 2019	432 reviews
60.	Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge	20 Oct 1995	456 reviews
61.	La Haine	31 May 1995	508 reviews
62.	Hoop Dreams	12 Sep 1994	518 reviews
63.	Like Stars on Earth	21 Dec 2007	569 reviews
64.	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	13 Apr 1962	594 reviews
65.	Volver	30 Jun 2009	606 reviews
66.	Yojimbo	25 Apr 1961	626 reviews
67.	Touch of Evil	30 Mar 1958	635 reviews
68.	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	15 Jan 1948	669 reviews
69.	Cinema Paradiso	17 Nov 1988	675 reviews
70.	The Apartment	21 Jun 1960	685 reviews
71.	M	11 May 1931	690 reviews
72.	Cool Hand Luke	01 Nov 1967	708 reviews
73.	Before Sunrise	02 Jan 1933	718 reviews
74.	Your Name.	26 Aug 2016	730 reviews
75.	On the Waterfront	22 Jun 1954	733 reviews
76.	The Third Man	31 Aug 1949	742 reviews
77.	City of God	30 Aug 2002	753 reviews
78.	North by Northwest	08 Jul 1959	788 reviews
79.	Monty Python and the Holy Grail	14 Mar 1975	795 reviews
80.	Gone with the Wind	15 Dec 1939	825 reviews
81.	Chinatown	20 Jun 1974	854 reviews
82.	L.A. Confidential	19 Sep 1997	873 reviews
83.	Aliens	18 Jul 1986	939 reviews
84.	Raiders of the Lost Ark	12 Jun 1981	975 reviews
85.	Memento	11 Oct 2000	1,038 reviews
86.	Pan's Labyrinth	10 Oct 2006	1,060 reviews
87.	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	19 Mar 2004	1,106 reviews
88.	Toy Story 3	16 Jun 2010	1,173 reviews
89.	Inside Out	17 Jun 2015	1,276 reviews
90.	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	06 Dec 2018	1,764 reviews
91.	Sherlock Jr.	17 Apr 1924	302 reviews
92.	Oppenheimer	19 Jul 2023	310 reviews
93.	Yi Yi	20 Sep 2000	324 reviews
94.	Woodstock	26 Mar 1970	325 reviews
95.	Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2	03 Jan 2013	355 reviews
96.	The Conformist	01 Jul 1970	411 reviews
97.	The Wages of Fear	22 Apr 1953	421 reviews
98.	Nobody Knows	07 Aug 2004	467 reviews
99.	Vincent	01 Oct 1982	471 reviews
100.	Won't You Be My Neighbor?	29 Jun 2018	521 reviews

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These Are The Best Movie Ever Made

These movies have the highest Cinafilm scores - shown in decending order.

This is our rundown of top 100 best rated movies of all time - as voted for by critics and cinema goers. Do you agree? These movies are some of the most critically acclaimed films ever released. They come from all movie genres and date from the 1920's right up to the present day.

So go ahead and find reviews for some of the iconic movies that made the list. You'll probably recognise many of the titles, but there are a few surprises in there as well.