NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Films that have been considered the greatest ever

While it is impossible to objectively determine the greatest film of all time, it is possible to discuss the films that have been regarded as the greatest ever. The important criterion for inclusion in this article is that the film is the "greatest" by some specific criterion or indicator — be it a critics' poll, popular poll, box office receipts or awards. Obviously, the criterion is tilted heavily towards American films. See below for list of best movies for respective countries. Film refers to the celluloid medium on which motion pictures are printed. ...

1 Films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers
2 Films acclaimed in audience polls
3 Biggest box office successes
4 Films that have received the most Academy Awards
5 Films that are considered the greatest in their particular genre
6 In particular countries
7 See also
8 References

Films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers

Citizen Kane tops many critics' lists

Orson Welles' Citizen Kane has been voted number one in the Sight and Sound poll of film critics in each of the last five polls starting with the 1962 poll (the survey is carried out once every ten years). A separate poll of established film directors in the same magazine held for the first time in 1992 also has had Citizen Kane at the top. Influential critic Roger Ebert says that "The Sight and Sound poll is generally considered the most authoritative of all 'best film' lists". Perhaps not coincidentally, he considers Citizen Kane the best film ever. The film was also selected as number one in a Village Voice critics' poll, number one in a Time Out critics' poll in 1995 and listed as the greatest film ever by the American Film Institute in 1998. Citizen Kane, however, did not win the Academy Award for Best Picture, possibly because of extensive pressure exerted by William Randolph Hearst and his associates.^{[citation needed]}
La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game) by director Jean Renoir was named best film by the French film magazine Positif in 1991. It also holds the number two spot in the Village Voice poll. Along with Battleship Potemkin, it is one of only two films to have appeared in every one of Sight and Sound's six decennial polls.
The Battleship Potemkin was voted best film ever by a panel of experts at the 1958 World's Fair. ^{[citation needed]}
Ladri di Biciclette (The Bicycle Thief) was voted top film in a Sight & Sound magazine poll in 1952. Other than Citizen Kane, The Bicycle Thief is the only film to ever top the Sight and Sound poll.
In the book Halliwell's Top 1000 (ISBN 0-00-774511-7), the #1 film is Tokyo Story. The rest of the top five are La Règle du Jeu (#2), Lawrence of Arabia (#3), The Godfather Trilogy (#4) and The Seven Samurai (#5). Citizen Kane comes in at #6.

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Films acclaimed in audience polls

The Godfather has long stood atop IMDb's list of the top 250 films. It was also voted number one by Entertainment Weekly readers and number one in a Time Out Readers' poll in 1995.
The Godfather Part II, sometimes considered better than the original film, was voted best ever by TV Guide readers in 1998.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy was voted the most popular film of all time by an audience poll for the Australian television special My Favourite Film. Its first film, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), was the pick of readers in a poll by Empire magazine in November 2004. It is the only trilogy to have all 3 pictures in the Top 20 of the IMDb's top 250 films.
Casablanca (1942) is widely cited as the greatest film of all time and was voted as such by readers of the Los Angeles Daily News in 1997. It is also regarded the "best Hollywood movie of all time" by the influential Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide. On April 7, 2006, the Writer's Guild of America declared Casablanca's screenplay the best ever written.
Star Wars (1977) was chosen by readers of Empire magazine in November 2001 and by voters in a Channel 4/FilmFour poll [1].
The Shawshank Redemption, the #2 entry on the IMDb list, the highest rated film on Yahoo! Movies by Yahoo! users, and was voted the best film never to have won "Best Picture" in a 2005 BBC poll. [2] In January 2006 Empire magazine readers named it the best film ever.
Goodfellas was voted the greatest film of all time by Total Film.
According to the IMDB's polls, as of August 27, 2006, the top ten movies are:
- 1. The Godfather
- 2. The Shawshank Redemption
- 3. The Godfather: Part II
- 4. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- 5. Casablanca
- 6. Shichinin no samurai
- 7. Schindler's List
- 8. Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il
- 9. Pulp Fiction
- 10. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
As of August 27, 2006, only The Godfather and The Shawshank Redemption have received average scores of 9.0 or higher from IMDb voters. The scale is out of 10.

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Biggest box office successes

Main article: List of highest-grossing films

The following are two non-definitive lists of the all-time highest-grossing films. ...

Worldwide highest grossing films (Not adjusted for inflation)

Titanic broke box office records

Titanic (1997) $1,845,034,188
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) $1,118,888,979
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's (Sorcerer's) Stone (2001) $976,475,550
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) $926,287,400
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) $924,317,558
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) $923,877,220
Shrek 2 (2004) $920,665,658
Jurassic Park (1993) $914,691,118
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) $891,249,794
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) $876,688,482

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Prior highest-grossing films

The Birth of a Nation (1915): Highest-grossing film until 1925. Director D.W. Griffith said in 1929 that the film had taken $10m worldwide. This has been reported as both an under-estimate and an over-estimate, and its true takings may never be known.
The Big Parade (1925). The highest grossing silent film of all time, taking $22m world wide.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937): Highest grossing until 1939. Total gross $185m.
Gone with the Wind (1939): Highest grossing until 1966, when it was overtaken by The Sound of Music. Following a re-release in 1971, Gone with the Wind retook the lead for a further year. Current total gross $198m.
The Sound of Music (1965): Highest gross from August 1966 until the re-issue of Gone with the Wind in 1971. Current total gross $163m.
The Godfather (1972): Highest grossing until 1975. Current total gross $134m.
Jaws (1975): Highest grossing until 1977. Current total gross $470m.
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977): Highest grossing until January 1983. Current total gross $798m
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982): Highest grossing until 1993. Current total gross $757m. (Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope did not re-overtake E.T. until its re-release in 1997, by which time Jurassic Park had landed the top slot.)
Jurassic Park (1993): Highest grossing until 1997. Current total gross $920m.

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Highest USA grossing film adjusted for inflation

Gone with the Wind is the highest grossing film ever, when adjusted for inflation

By adjusting for inflated ticket prices, the popularity of films released at different times can be compared. This list estimates the number of admissions for each film by using the average ticket price at the time of each release [3]. Gone with the Wind, when adjusted for inflation is still the highest grossing film ever. The film has had at least four substantial releases worldwide (in 1939, 1954, 1961 and 1971). The adjusted for inflation value of these releases is $3.8bn worldwide, $1.3bn in the United States (2004 dollars). fairuse GWTW original poster This work is copyrighted. ... fairuse GWTW original poster This work is copyrighted. ... Gone with the Wind is a 1939 film adapted from Margaret Mitchells 1936 novel of the same name. ...

Gone with the Wind (1939) $1,293,085,600
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) $1,139,965,400
The Sound of Music (1965) $911,458,400
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) $907,867,700
The Ten Commandments (1956) $838,400,000
Titanic (1997) $821,413,700
Jaws (1975) $819,704,400
Doctor Zhivago (1965) $794,466,900
The Exorcist (1973) $707,639,500
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) $697,600,000

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Films that have received the most Academy Awards

Ever since their inception in 1928, the Academy Awards (the "Oscars") have been seen as the most significant of the film award ceremonies. The first film to dominate an Oscars ceremony was Frank Capra's It Happened One Night in 1935. It was the first film to win five awards. Moreover it won the "Oscar grand slam" by winning Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Screenplay—a feat that has been repeated only twice more, by One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1976 and by Silence of the Lambs in 1992. See also: 1927 in film 1928 1929 in film 1920s in film years in film film // Events Although some movies released in 1928 had sound, most were still silent. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States and most watched awards ceremony in the world. ... Frank Capra (May 18, 1897 â€“ September 3, 1991) was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films. ... It Happened One Night is a 1934 romantic comedy in which an elite socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her fathers thumb, and falls in with a rogue reporter (Clark Gable). ... See also: 1934 in film 1935 1936 in film 1930s in film years in film film Events Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). ... One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest is a 1975 film directed by MiloÅ¡ Forman. ... // Events March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas Star Wars science fiction film. ... Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins in the film version The Silence of the Lambs is a novel by Thomas Harris, his second to feature sociopath psychiatrist and cannibal Dr. Hannibal Lecter. ... This is a list of film-related events in 1992. ...

In 1939, Gone with the Wind was nominated for 13 awards and two special citations. It won eight of the Awards to beat It Happened One Night's record. All About Eve (1950) broke the nominations record with 14, and won in six categories. See also: 1938 in film 1939 1940 in film 1930s in film 1940s in film years in film film // Events Movie historians and film buffs often look back on the year 1939 as the greatest year in film history. ... Gone with the Wind is a 1939 film adapted from Margaret Mitchells 1936 novel of the same name. ... All About Eve is a 1950 movie drama written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, from the story The Wisdom of Eve, by Mary Orr. ... See also: 1949 in film 1950 1951 in film 1950s in film 1940s in film years in film film // Events February 15 - Walt Disney Studios animated film Cinderella debuts. ...

Gigi was the film to break Gone with the Wind's record, winning in all nine of its nominated categories at the ceremony for films made in 1958. However, its moment at the top was short-lived, as the epic Ben-Hur went on to win 11 Oscars from 12 nominations the following year. Gigi is a 1958 motion picture musical set in Paris, France. ... // Events February 16- In the Money is released on this date. ... Ben-Hur is a 1959 film directed by William Wyler, and is the most recent and most popular, live-action film version of Lew Wallaces novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880). ...

Ben-Hur's eleven Oscars remains the record. This achievement in turn has been equalled twice—by Titanic in 1997 with 11 awards from 14 nominations, and by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which won in all 11 of its nominated categories in 2003 in the greatest 'sweep' in the history of the Academy Awards. Titanic is a romantic drama film written, directed and co-produced by James Cameron. ... This is a list of film-related events in 1997. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2003. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States and most watched awards ceremony in the world. ...

Films that are considered the greatest in their particular genre

Animation

Akira was voted best anime film in 2001

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) is the highest-grossing animated film of all time when adjusted for inflation. Snow White also appeared at #49 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American movies (compiled in 1998), higher than any other animated film.
Tale of Tales (Сказка сказок) (1979) - Yuriy Norshteyn's short film was voted by a large international jury to be the greatest animated film of all time at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympiad of Animation and the 2002 Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films. [4] [5]
Akira (1988) was chosen as the top anime ever by Anime Insider in fall 2001.
Beauty and the Beast (1991), is the only fully-animated movie (computerized or not) to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. It has also been nominated for a total of six Oscars, more than any other animated film. It was also the first animated movie to win the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical.
Lion King (1994) The highest grossing traditionally animated movie of all time.
Toy Story (1995) was voted #1 on the Top 100 Animated Features of All Time by the Online Film Critics Society (list published March 2003). Toy Story was also the first animated movie to be nominated for a Best Screenplay award at the Oscars.
Spirited Away (2001) was voted best animated movie by IMDb users. It was the first anime (Japanese animation) film to win an Academy Award. It is the only movie to earn $250M before its US release.
The Incredibles (2004), was nominated for 16 Annie Awards (the top award ceremony honoring animation), more than any other film. It also has won 10 of its nominations, another record. It also won the Best Animated Feature Oscar, and became one of only four animated movies ever to be nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar.

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Comedy

It Happened One Night (1934) is the only comedy (and one of only three movies) to win Best Leading Actor, Best Leading Actress, Best Picture and Best Director at the Academy Awards.
Some Like It Hot (1959) was listed Best Comedy by the American Film Institute in June 2000.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) is listed as the highest rated "Comedy" title by the IMDb and was #3 on AFI's "100 Years...100 Laughs". It was also the highest-rated comedy on the 2002 Sight and Sound Director's Poll.
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) was voted the greatest comedy ever by viewers of Channel 4 in 2005.[6]
National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) was voted #1 on the Bravo list of funniest movies of all time, and was #36 on AFI's "100 Years...100 Laughs".

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Concert

The Last Waltz (1978), Martin Scorsese's chronicling of The Band's farewell concert on Thanksgiving Day in 1976. Michael Wilmington of the Chicago Tribune calls it "The greatest rock concert movie ever made -- and maybe the best rock movie, period." Terry Lawson of the Detroit Free Press comments that "This is one of the great movie experiences." [7] The review at Total Film comments "In what is rightly considered the greatest concert film ever shot . . ." [8]
Stop Making Sense (1984) Film critic James Berardinelli wrote that Jonathan Demme's capturing of the Talking Heads in concert was "the best concert film to date when it first came out, and nothing in the past decade-and-a-half has come close to toppling it from that position." Edward Guthmann of the San Francisco Chronicle had similar praise: "Has there ever been a live concert film as vibrant or as brilliantly realized? I don't think so."

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Disaster

The Poseidon Adventure (1972) was voted best disaster movie in a consumer poll commissioned by UCI cinemas in May 2004.
Titanic (1997) (See Box office success and Academy Award sections above).

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Documentary

Man with the Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov's classic experimental silent, was the highest rated documentary on the 2002 Sight and Sound critic's poll, and made Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Movies list.
Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore's controversial documentary relating gun control and the culture of fear in the United States, heads the list of 20 all-time favorite non-fiction films selected by members of the International Documentary Association (IDA). [9]
The Thin Blue Line, Errol Morris' 1988 film, has long been considered one of the greatest documentaries ever made. It is actually credited not only with solving a murder case, but also as the major factor in freeing an innocent man from prison in Texas. It was voted number two by the IDA.
The Sorrow and the Pity is the highest rated documentary at the IMDb.
Seven Up! was voted as the greatest ever documentary in a Channel 4 poll of the 50 Greatest Documentaries in 2005.
Fahrenheit 9/11, also by Michael Moore, won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. It then became "the highest-grossing documentary in its opening weekend"[10] by breaking the old record held by Bowling for Columbine. It went on to become the "first ever documentary to cross the $100 million mark in the United States." [11]

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Epic

Lawrence of Arabia Voted best epic by readers of Total Film in May 2004. In addition it won 7 academy awards including best picture.
Ben-Hur (1959)- Collected 11 academy awards, matched by Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. (See Box office success and Academy Award sections above).

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Fantasy

Victor Fleming's acclaimed adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz filmed in 1939 as The Wizard of Oz is regarded as a landmark in film history and frequently appears on lists of greatest American movies of all time.
Peter Jackson's highly acclaimed The Lord of the Rings film trilogy earned 17 Oscars with The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King becoming the first fantasy film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. All three films as of 2006 [12] are in the top 20 of the IMDb Top 250 films which is selected by user votings. Also, all-told the trilogy earned 2.91 billion dollars worldwide, outpacing the next highest trilogy (Star Wars episodes 1, 2 and 3) by nearly half-a-billion dollars. Furthermore it was included as a single entry in the Time magazine top 100 films of all time as selected by critics of Time magazine — Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel.

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Film noir

Sunset Boulevard: Voted the best film noir of all-time by IMDb users. It was also ranked the highest on American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American movies at #12

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Horror/thriller

Psycho tops several lists

Psycho: the Alfred Hitchcock classic was voted the best horror film by IMDb users. Tops AFI’s list of the 100 most thrilling American films.
The Silence of the Lambs: the only movie classified as "horror" to ever win the "Best Picture" Oscar. One of only 3 movies to win the top 5 Oscars. Is at #2 in the list of best horror films, as voted by IMDb voters, and at #5 in the AFI’s list of the 100 most thrilling American films. The movie is perhaps most famous for Anthony Hopkins' brilliant performance as the spine-chilling Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Apart from imprinting itself in popular culture, the portrayal tops the AFI's list of the greatest villains of all time. Jodie Foster's Clarice Starling made it to #6 in the AFI's greatest heroes list.
Halloween: Voted best horror film of all time by readers of SFX magazine in June 2004. Also was the most "profitable" film of all time (lowest production cost vs. highest box office gross) until surpassed in 1990 by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This, in turn, was overtaken by The Blair Witch Project in 1999. Before Halloween, the most profitable film was Easy Rider.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Voted by Entertainment Weekly, the second scariest film of all time, making it runner up to the Exorcist. It is also one of the most profitable independent horror films, produced on a budget of $140,000 and grossing $31 million at the US box office.
The Exorcist: Voted scariest movie of all time by Entertainment Weekly. Was notorious for its ability to make moviegoers pass out and vomit in the cinema.
The Shining: Stanley Kubrick's haunting The Shining was calculated to be the perfect scary movie[13].

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Musical

Singin' in the Rain The highest rated movie musical at the IMDb. Highest ranked musical at the 2002 Sight and Sound poll.
The Wizard of Oz The highest ranked musical on AFI's list of the 100 best American films.
Grease was voted the greatest musical by viewers of Channel 4 in 2003.
The Sound of Music is the highest grossing musical when adjusted for inflation.
West Side Story is the winner of the most Academy Awards of any movie musical (10).
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the highest grossing movie ever to be played in under 200 theatres. The film also boosts the longest theater run of any film.[14]

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Propaganda

Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefenstahl's documentary film glorifying Hitler and the 1934 Nazi Party Convention, in Nuremberg is widely renowned and reviled as the best propaganda film ever [15], although Riefenstahl claimed she intended it only as a documentary.
Battleship Potemkin (see Films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers above.)

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Romance

Casablanca - Voted best American-based film in which there is "a romantic bond between two or more characters, whose actions and/or intentions provide the heart of the film’s narrative" by the AFI.
Gone with the Wind, considered to be one of the greatest films of all time. After adjusting for inflation, it is the highest grossing film ever. The AFI voted it as the fourth greatest film of all time.

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Science fiction

2001: A Space Odyssey, a popular and influential film directed by Stanley Kubrick. The highest ranked science fiction film (#11) on the Village Voice 100 Best films of the 20th century list. Also the only Science Fiction film to make the Sight and Sound Top Ten Poll. [16]
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) - the highest-grossing sci-fi film ever.
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) - the highest-rated sci-fi film on the IMDb.
Blade Runner - Voted the best science fiction film by a panel of scientists assembled by the British newspaper The Guardian in 2004. [17]

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Silent

Battleship Potemkin (see Films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers above.)
Greed, Erich von Stroheim's 1924 film has been included in numerous Sight and Sound Top Ten polls. It was the highest rated silent film (number four overall) in the 1962 poll.
Modern Times, the last major American film to make use of silent film conventions such as title cards for dialogue, is the highest-rated silent film on the IMDb. There is a recorded soundtrack; one scene has dialogue spoken over an intercom, and Charlie Chaplin sings nonsense lyrics to a song at the end. City Lights, another of Chaplin's films, is the highest-rated movie without any dialogue, spoken or sung. It too has a recorded soundtrack. Metropolis is the highest-rated movie that was totally silent when released. However, IMDb viewers most likely watched the restored version which has a recorded soundtrack.
The Big Parade is the highest-grossing silent film of all time, taking $22m world wide.
The Birth of a Nation (1915) - In the 1920s the New York Mail described the movie as "the supreme picture of all time".

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War

Schindler's List is the number one film on IMDb's list of top rated war titles.
In 2005 Saving Private Ryan was voted as the greatest ever war film in a Channel 4 poll of the 100 Greatest ever war films.
Critic Gabriel J. Wallace regards the World War I film All Quiet on the Western Front as being the greatest movie ever made.
From Here to Eternity won eight Academy Awards from 13 nominations, the most of any war film.
Patton won seven Academy Awards.

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Western

The Searchers was voted the greatest Western of all time by Entertainment Weekly. (See also: films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers above).
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is listed as Best Western by the IMDb's list of Top Rated "Western" Titles. Once Upon a Time in the West is listed second. Both films appear on the Time magazine poll. Also both were directed by Sergio Leone.
Dances with Wolves is the highest grossing Western of all time, taking nearly $184 million in US box office sales [18]. It was nominated for 11 Oscars and won seven.

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In particular countries

Australia

See also: Cinema of Australia

Mad Max: voted the best Australian film ever by the Australian Film Institute Nominated for four Australian Film Institute Awards, and collecting over AUD $100 million worldwide. It was shot on a budget of only AUD $300,000.

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Brazil

See also: Cinema of Brazil

City of God is the highest ranked Brazilian film in the IMDb

City of God (Cidade de Deus in Portuguese), is the highest ranking Brazilian film featured in TIME magazine's 100 best movies of all-time list [19]. It is also the highest ranked (#18) in IMDb's top 250 list.
Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (English: God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun, also known as Black God, White Devil) an example of Brazilian cinema movement known as Cinema Novo ("New Cinema"), is considered by many critics to be the best Brazilian movie of all time[20]; was named as such from a poll conducted by the Brazilian cinema magazine Contracampo (no. 27) Click on "articles".

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Canada

See also: Cinema of Canada

Mon oncle Antoine: A poll of critics at the 1984 Toronto International Film Festival and again at the 1993 and 2004 festivals named this the greatest Canadian film of all time.
Un Zoo la Nuit: Winner of the most Genie Awards with 13.

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China

See also: Cinema of China

Spring in a Small Town (小城之春): This 1948 film was voted the best Chinese film ever made by Hong Kong Film Awards Association in 2005.

The history of Chinese-language cinema has three separate threads of development: Cinema of Hong Kong, Cinema of China, and Cinema of Taiwan. ... Media:Example. ... See also: 1947 in film 1948 1949 in film 1940s in film years in film film // Events Top grossing films North America The Red Shoes, (55th in year of release, lifetime box office would place it in first) The Road to Rio Easter Parade Red River The Three Musketeers, Johnny... Image:HKfilmawards award. ...

Finland

See also: Cinema of Finland

The Unknown Soldier (Tuntematon Sotilas in Finnish), holds the record for the highest grossing domestic film in Finland, and received seven "Jussi" (Finnish Oscar) statuettes [21].
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning was downloaded over 700,000 times during the first week after its release. Current estimates by the hosting service, Magenta sites, are between 3.5 - 4 million downloads, including mirror sites.

In Finnish cinema, Aki KaurismÃ¤ki is a big name. ... The Unknown Soldier (Tuntematon sotilas) is a Finnish film directed by Edvin Laine and premiered in December 1955. ... The Jussi is the Finnish equivalent of the Oscar Academy Award. ...

France

See also: Cinema of France

Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise): Voted "Best French Film of the Century" in a poll of 600 French critics and professionals in the late 1990s.
La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game): see films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers

France has been influential in the development of film as a mass medium and as an art form. ... This article is about Children of Paradise, the film. ... The Rules of the Game (original French title: La rÃ¨gle du jeu) is a 1939 film directed by Jean Renoir about upper-class French society just before the start of World War II. The film was initially condemned for its satire on the French upper classes and was greeted...

Germany

See also: Cinema of Germany

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's famed silent film Nosferatu is regarded by critics and acclaimed German director Werner Herzog as the greatest German movie of all time. ^{[citation needed]}
Der Untergang (Downfall): This German World War II epic depicts the final days of the Third Reich in Adolf Hitler's bunker. It is currently the highest-ranked German film in the IMDb (as of June 2006)[22]. Das Boot, a World War II epic film about life on a submarine, is the second highest.

Cinema in Germany can be traced back to the very beginnings of the medium at the end of the 19th Century and German cinema has made major technical and artistic contributions to film. ... F W Murnau Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (December 28, 1888 â€“ March 11, 1931) was one of the most influential directors of the silent film era. ... A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ... Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (A Symphony of Horror in German) is a German Expressionist film shot in 1922 by F.W. Murnau. ... Werner Herzog. ... Der Untergang (2004; international English title Downfall) is a German film depicting the final days of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany in 1945. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, the use of images on this page may require cleanup, involving adjustment of image placement, formatting, size, or other adjustments. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... Hitler redirects here. ... Das Boot (IPA: , German for The Boat) is a film directed by Wolfgang Petersen, adapted from a novel of the same name by Lothar-GÃ¼nther Buchheim. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, the use of images on this page may require cleanup, involving adjustment of image placement, formatting, size, or other adjustments. ... U-boat is also a nickname for some diesel locomotives built by GE; see List of GE locomotives October 1939. ...

India

See also: Cinema of India

See also: List of popular Bollywood films

See also: List of popular Kollywood films

See also: List of popular Tollywood films

Pather Panchali (1955) is the only Indian film to have ever appeared on Sight and Sound Critics's Top Ten Poll (ranked #9 in 1992). It was ranked the top Indian film in a 2002 popularity poll by the British Film Institute (BFI) conducted on the web, and number two in the BFI critics' poll in which critics were asked to compile a list of 50 best Indian as well as South Asian films [23]. Pather Panchali is the first film of director Satyajit Ray's Apu trilogy (1955-1959, which are listed in the "top 100 best movies in the world", as rated by TIME magazine.
Nayakan (The Hero, 1987) is a great movie in Tamil which is in "top 100 best movies in the world", as rated by Time magazine [24]
Pushpak (The Love Chariot), from 1988, is the highest rated Indian film on IMDb.com. The specialty of this movie is that it does not contain any dialogue.
Gandhi (1982), an Anglo-Indian production, received eight awards and eleven nominations at the Academy Awards.
Sholay is the highest grossing movie of all time in India. It was also the top film selected in the 2002 BFI critics' poll.
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) is the longest running movie ever, released in 1995 and still running endlessly since 1995 in a theater in Mumbai. This is also the greatest earning movie of all time in the history of Indian cinema.
Hum Aapke Hain Koun(1994) is the second most highest grossing movie in india(unadjusted).

The Indian film industry is the largest in the world (877 feature films and 1177 short films made in India were released in the year 2003 alone)(Central Board of Film Certification of India) [1]. Correspondingly, only 473 movies were released in the US in 2003 (MPAA U.S. Theatrical... Popular Bollywood films (in reverse chronological order) No claim is made that these are the best Bollywood movies, though many of fans all-time favorites will be found on this list. ... Popular Kollywood films (in reverse chronological order) No claim is made that these are the best Kollywood movies, though many of fans all-time favorites will be found on this list. ... Telugu is one of Indias most widely spoken languages, and Tollywood produces numerous films each year. ... Image File history File links PatherDVD.jpg Summary Pather Panchali DVD Cover Licensing This image is of a DVD cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the DVD or the studio which produced the DVD in question. ... Image File history File links PatherDVD.jpg Summary Pather Panchali DVD Cover Licensing This image is of a DVD cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the DVD or the studio which produced the DVD in question. ... Pather Panchali, released in 1955, is the first film of director Satyajit Rays Apu trilogy. ... (Bangla:à¦¸à¦¤à§à¦¯à¦œà¦¿à§Ž à¦°à¦¾à¦¯à¦¼) (May 2, 1921 - April 23, 1992) was an Indian film director, regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of twentieth century cinema for his subtle, austere and lyrical style of film-making. ... The Apu trilogy is a series of three films directed by Satyajit Ray. ... Image:Http://www. ... Pushpak is a dark comedy film released in 1988. ... Gandhi (1982) is an Anglo-Indian film, directed by Richard Attenborough, about the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (also known as Mahatma Gandhi, Great Soul), leader of the nonviolent resistance movement against British colonial rule in India during the first half of the 20th century. ... Sholay (Hindi: à¤¶à¥‹à¤²à¥‡, Urdu: Ø´Ø¹Ù„Û’) (advertised in English as Embers, Flames, or Flames of the Sun) is one of the biggest blockbusters in the history of Bollywood, Indias Bombay film industry. ... Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, also known as DDLJ (English: The One with a True Heart Will Take the Bride) is an Indian film which premiered on October 19, 1995 and was released nationwide on October 20, 1995. ... Mumbai (IPA: ,Marathi: à¤®à¥à¤‚à¤¬à¤ˆ), formerly known as Bombay, is the capital of the state of Maharashtra, and the most populous city of India, with an estimated population of about 13 million (as of 2006)[1]. Mumbai is located on Salsette Island, off the west coast of Maharashtra. ... Hum Aapke Hain Koun. ...

Ireland

The Commitments (1991) was voted the best Irish film of all time in a 2005 Jameson Whiskey poll of 10,000 Irish people, with My Left Foot coming second. 24

The novel The Commitments was made into a film in 1991, directed by Alan Parker. ... Jameson whiskey was founded by John Jameson. ... My Left Foot, is a 1989 film which tells the story of Christy Brown, an Irishman born with cerebral palsy, who can only move his left foot. ...

Italy

Ladri di Biciclette (The Bicycle Thief) (See: Films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers section above.)
8½ – Director Federico Fellini's 1963 film about filmmaking was the highest rated Italian film in the 2002 Sight & Sound poll of the best films of all time.

Ladri di biciclette (literally translated as Bicycle Thieves) is a 1948 Italian neorealist film known in its US English release as The Bicycle Thief. ... 8Â½ (Italian: Otto e Mezzo) is a 1963 film written and directed by Italian director Federico Fellini. ... Federico Fellini Federico Fellini (January 20, 1920 â€“ October 31, 1993) was one of the most influential and widely revered Italian film-makers of the 20th century and is considered to be one of the finest film directors of all time. ...

Japan

See also: Cinema of Japan

The Seven Samurai

Rashōmon (羅生門): This 1950 film by Akira Kurosawa was the first Japanese film to gain world-wide acclaim. The highest-ranked Japanese film (#10) on the Village Voice list of 100 Best Films of the 20th Century. It was also the highest-ranked Japanese film on the Sight and Sound 2002 Directors' Top Ten Poll.
Tokyo Story (東京物語 Tokyo Monogatari), 1953. This film by Yasujiro Ozu about an aging couple as they journey from their rural village to visit their two married children in postwar Tokyo was declared the greatest film ever by Halliwell's Film Guide in 2005 25. It was also the highest-ranked Japanese film on the Sight and Sound 2002 Critics' Top Ten Poll. (As well as the only non-Kurosawa Japanese film in any of its polls.)
The Seven Samurai (七人の侍 Shichinin no samurai), 1954: Also by Kurosawa, this period adventure film is frequently cited as the greatest Japanese film ever; consistently the highest-rated foreign-made (outside of the United States) film on the IMDb Top 250, appropriately enough it is ranked #6 (as of September 2006).

Japanese cinema (æ˜ ç”»; Eiga) has a history in Japan that spans more than 100 years. ... Image File history File links SevenSamurai(ITA). ... Image File history File links SevenSamurai(ITA). ... Rashomon (羅生門) is a Japanese motion picture made in 1950 by director Akira Kurosawa. ... See also: 1949 in film 1950 1951 in film 1950s in film 1940s in film years in film film // Events February 15 - Walt Disney Studios animated film Cinderella debuts. ... I believe that he is the most successuful person in his country|image_caption=Akira Kurosawa on the set of Kagemusha (1980). ... Sight and Sound is a British monthly magazine about film. ... Tokyo Story (æ±äº¬ç‰©èªž Tokyo Monogatari) is a 1953 Japanese movie by Yasujiro Ozu, in which elderly parents from the seaside town of Onomichi visit their busy children in Tokyo â€” a journey which, before the introduction of the bullet train, took almost a day â€” only to be neglected by them. ... See also: 1952 in film 1953 1954 in film 1950s in film years in film film Events September 16 - The Robe debuts as the first anamorphic, widescreen CinemaScope film. ... Yasujiro Ozu (å°æ´¥ å®‰äºŒéƒŽ Ozu YasujirÅ) (December 12, 1903 - December 12, 1963) was an influential Japanese film director. ... Tokyo , literally eastern capital) is the capital of Japan and one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. ... Sight and Sound is a British monthly magazine about film. ... 7 Samurai redirects here. ...

Russia

See also: Cinema of Russia and Soviet Union

Броненосец Потёмкин (Battleship Potemkin) see: Films acclaimed by critics and filmakers above.

Introduction While Russia was involved in filmmaking as early as most of the other nations in the West, it only came into prominence during the 1920s when it explored editing as the primary mode of cinematic expression. ... For the battleship, see Russian battleship Potemkin article Броненосец Потемкин (1925) (variously Bronenosec Potemkin, Battleship Potemkin, Battleship Potyomkin and The Battleship Potemkin) is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein. ...

Sweden

See also: Cinema of Sweden

The Emigrants (Utvandrarna): Jan Troell's naturalist masterwork was the first Scandinavian film to receive Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Director, and it is often cited in Sweden as the greatest Swedish film of all-time. ^{[citation needed]}
Persona: voted "Best Picture" by US National Society of Film Critics. This film by acclaimed director Ingmar Bergman also reached the highest position (#5) of any Swedish film on Sight & Sound's 1972 list of greatest films of all time.
The Seventh Seal: also directed by Ingmar Bergman, is the highest rated Swedish film on the IMDB.

Swedish cinema is one of the most widely-known national cinemas in the world, and certainly the most prominent of Scandinavia. ... The Emigrants, or Utvandrarna, is a 1971 film which tells the story of a Swedish couple who emigrate to 19th century America. ... Jan Troell (born July 23, 1931 in Limhamn outside MalmÃ¶, SkÃ¥ne lÃ¤n, Sweden) is a Swedish film director. ... Persona is a movie by Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, released in 1966, and featuring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann. ... Ingmar Bergman (IPA: in Swedish) (born July 14, 1918) is a Swedish stage and film director who is one of the key film auteurs of the second half of the twentieth century. ... Det sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal) is a 1957 film directed by Ingmar Bergman, most notable for the scene in which a medieval knight (played by Max von Sydow) plays chess with the personification of Death, with his life resting on the outcome of the game. ... Ingmar Bergman (IPA: in Swedish) (born July 14, 1918) is a Swedish stage and film director who is one of the key film auteurs of the second half of the twentieth century. ...

United Kingdom

See also: Cinema of the United Kingdom

Lawrence of Arabia: voted "best British film of all time" in August of 2004 by a London Sunday Telegraph poll of Britain's leading filmmakers. (See also: Epic above).
The Third Man: Voted best British film ever by members of the British Film Institute in 1999.

Michael Caine in Get Carter (1971) The United Kingdom has been influential in the technological, commercial, and artistic development of cinema. ... Lawrence of Arabia is an Academy Award-winning film based, with some licence, on the life of T. E. Lawrence, starring Peter OToole as the title character, directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel, from a script by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and of the United Kingdom. ... This article deals with The Daily Telegraph in Britain, see The Daily Telegraph (Australia) for the Australian publication The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. ... The Third Man (1949) is a British film noir directed by Carol Reed. ... The British Film Institute (BFI) is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record of contemporary life and manners, to promote education about film, television and...

United States

See also: Cinema of the United States

Citizen Kane: voted the best American film ever by the American Features Institute. (See also: Films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers section above).
2001: A Space Odyssey is considered by some critics, including the late Gene Siskel, to be the greatest film ever made, American or otherwise. Roger Ebert has also cited it in his top ten.
See also: Casablanca, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Goodfellas, Star Wars and The Shawshank Redemption in the Films acclaimed in audience polls section above.
See also: Titanic and Gone with the Wind in the Biggest box office successes section above.
See also: Ben-Hur and Titanic in the Films that have received the most Academy Awards section above.

The cinema of the United States, sometimes simply referred to as Hollywood, is typically used in reference to the larger, studio-produced cinema within the U.S.. Much like American popular music, the American film industry has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th... Citizen Kane is a 1941 mystery/drama film released by RKO Pictures. ... This article is about the 1942 film. ... The Godfather is a 1972 film adaptation of the novel of the same name, written by Mario Puzo, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino. ... The Godfather Part II is a 1974 motion picture directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script he co-wrote with Mario Puzo. ... Goodfellas (also spelled GoodFellas) is a 1990 film directed by Martin Scorsese, based on the book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, the true story of mobster Henry Hill. ... This movie poster for Star Wars depicts many of the films important elements, such as Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, X-Wing and Y-Wing fighters Star Wars, retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in 1981 (see note at Title,) is the original (and in chronological... The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 movie, written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. ... Titanic is a romantic drama film written, directed and co-produced by James Cameron. ... Gone with the Wind is a 1939 film adapted from Margaret Mitchells 1936 novel of the same name. ... Ben-Hur is a 1959 film directed by William Wyler, and is the most recent and most popular, live-action film version of Lew Wallaces novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880). ... Titanic is a romantic drama film written, directed and co-produced by James Cameron. ...

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