What are the greatest movies of all time? These are the list of best movies of all time. The list includes a wide range of films, from art house European cinema to top action films and blockbusters to established, highly-regarded classics of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Best Movies of All Time
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1. The Godfather, 1972 |
| Description Don Vito Corleone, head of a mafia family, decides to hand over his empire to his youngest son Michael. However, his decision unintentionally puts the lives of his loved ones in grave danger. |
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2. The Shawshank Redemption, 1994 |
| Description Andy Dufresne, a successful banker, is arrested for the murders of his wife and her lover and is sentenced to life imprisonment at the Shawshank prison. He becomes the most unconventional prisoner. |
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3. Schindler’s List, 1993 |
| Description Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist and member of the Nazi party, tries to save his Jewish employees after witnessing the persecution of Jews in Poland. |
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4. Forrest Gump, 1994 |
| Description Forrest Gump, a man with a low I.Q., joins the army for service where he meets Dan and Bubba. However, he cannot stop thinking about his childhood sweetheart Jenny Curran, whose life is messed up. |
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5. Titanic, 1997 |
| Description Seventeen-year-old Rose hails from an aristocratic family and is set to be married. When she boards the Titanic, she meets Jack Dawson, an artist, and falls in love with him. |
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6. The Silence of the Lambs, 1991 |
| Description Clarice Starling, an FBI agent, seeks help from Hannibal Lecter, a psychopathic serial killer and former psychiatrist, in order to apprehend another serial killer who has been claiming female victims. |
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7. Back to the Future, 1985 |
| Description Marty travels back in time using the time machine invented by an eccentric scientist. He meets his parents there and accidentally attracts his mother’s attention. He must make his parents fall in love. |
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8. Gladiator, 2000 |
| Description Commodus takes over power and demotes Maximus, one of the preferred generals of his father, Emperor Marcus Aurelius. As a result, Maximus is relegated to fighting till death as a gladiator. |
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9. The Dark Knight, 2008 |
| Description After Gordon, Dent and Batman begin an assault on Gotham’s organised crime, the mobs hire the Joker, a psychopathic criminal mastermind, who wants to bring all the heroes down to his level. |
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10. GoodFellas, 1990 |
| Description Young Henry Hill begins the climb from petty criminal to gangster on the mean streets of New York with his friends Jimmy and Tommy. |
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11. Saving Private Ryan, 1998 |
| Description During the Normandy invasion of World War II, Captain John Miller is assigned the task of searching for Private James Ryan, whose three brothers have already been killed in the war. |
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12. The Lord of the Rings – The Return of the King, 2003 |
| Description The former Fellowship of the Ring prepare for the final battle. While Frodo and Sam approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring, they follow Gollum, unaware of the path he is leading them to. |
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13. Braveheart, 1995 |
| Description William Wallace, a Scottish rebel, sets out to battle an English tyrant who killed his wife a day after their marriage. |
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14. Pulp Fiction, 1994 |
| Description The tales of two Los Angeles mobsters, a gangster’s wife, a boxer, two small-time criminals and a mysterious briefcase intertwine. |
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15. The Godfather Part II, 1974 |
| Description Michael, Vito Corleone’s son, attempts to expand his family’s crime empire. While he strikes a business deal with gangster Hyman Roth, he is unaware of the dangers he has gotten himself into. |
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16. Fight Club, 1999 |
| Description Discontented with his capitalistic lifestyle, a white-collared insomniac forms an underground fight club with Tyler, a careless soap salesman. The project soon spirals down into something sinister. |
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17. The Matrix, 1999 |
| Description Thomas, a computer programmer, is led to fighting an underground war against powerful computers who now rule the world with a system called ‘The Matrix’. |
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18. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 2001 |
| Description A young hobbit, Frodo, who has found the One Ring that belongs to the Dark Lord Sauron, begins his journey with eight companions to Mount Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed. |
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19. Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 1991 |
| Description A terminator is set on a mission to kill Sarah’s son, John Connor. However, a cyborg, who once was after the life of Sarah, has been assigned to protect him. |
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20. Inception, 2010 |
| Description Cobb steals information from his targets by entering their dreams. He is wanted for his alleged role in his wife’s murder and his only chance at redemption is to perform the impossible, an inception. |
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21. Seven, 1995 |
| Description A serial killer begins murdering people according to the seven deadly sins. Two detectives, one new to the city and the other about to retire, are tasked with apprehending the criminal. |
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22. Rocky, 1976 |
| Description Rocky Balboa, a small-time boxer, gets a chance to fight heavyweight champion Apollo Creed. In a bid to earn respect and glory, Rocky jumps into the ring, unaware of the tough task ahead of him. |
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23. Jurassic Park, 1993 |
| Description A joyride at a wildlife amusement park, which contains cloned dinosaurs, soon becomes a horrifying experience when a power breakdown afflicts the park and the dinosaurs begin to react violently. |
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24. Die Hard, 1988 |
| Description Just as Detective McClane lands in LA to spend Christmas with his wife, he learns about a hostage situation in an office building. Hans Gruber is the culprit and McClane’s wife is one of the hostages. |
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25. Scarface, 1983 |
| Description Tony Montana and his close friend Manny, build a strong drug empire in Miami. However as his power begins to grow, so does his ego and his enemies, and his own paranoia begins to plague his empire. |
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