Afi top 100 movies of all time list

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.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola| Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton

Votes: 1,973,834 | Gross: $134.97M

G | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

99 Metascore

A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.

Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly| Stars: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen

Votes: 255,998 | Gross: $8.82M

SOA | 128 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller

100 Metascore

A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock| Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore

Votes: 420,533 | Gross: $3.20M

G | 102 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

92 Metascore

Young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.

Directors: Victor Fleming, King Vidor| Stars: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr

Votes: 421,238 | Gross: $2.08M

G | 119 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

94 Metascore

An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.

Director: John Ford| Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond

Votes: 94,816

NRC | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

90 Metascore

Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee 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.

Director: George Lucas| Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness

Votes: 1,426,853 | Gross: $322.74M

SOA | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

97 Metascore

A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 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.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock| Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin

Votes: 706,919 | Gross: $32.00M

G | 149 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

84 Metascore

After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.

Director: Stanley Kubrick| Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter

Votes: 706,380 | Gross: $56.95M

G | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines.

Directors: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton| Stars: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley

Votes: 96,588 | Gross: $1.03M

A | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

91 Metascore

An ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.

Director: Elia Kazan| Stars: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger

Votes: 162,145 | Gross: $9.60M

A | 121 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

98 Metascore

After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

Director: Billy Wilder| Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft

Votes: 279,479 | Gross: $25.00M

G | 129 min | Drama

96 Metascore

An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

Director: John Ford| Stars: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin

Votes: 98,549 | Gross: $0.06M

G | 129 min | Comedy, Drama

73 Metascore

A naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his character.

Director: Frank Capra| Stars: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold

Votes: 119,940 | Gross: $9.60M

G | 85 min | Drama, Thriller, Western

89 Metascore

A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at "high noon" when the gang leader, an outlaw he "sent up" years ago, arrives on the noon train.

Director: Fred Zinnemann| Stars: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges

Votes: 108,899 | Gross: $9.45M

A | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

95 Metascore

A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.

Director: Billy Wilder| Stars: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Byron Barr

Votes: 164,998 | Gross: $5.72M

A | 100 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

97 Metascore

San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.

Director: John Huston| Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre

Votes: 164,795 | Gross: $2.11M

M | 133 min | Drama

84 Metascore

In the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.

Director: Milos Forman| Stars: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco

Votes: 1,053,673 | Gross: $112.00M

G | 83 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

96 Metascore

Exiled into the dangerous forest by her wicked stepmother, a princess is rescued by seven dwarf miners who make her part of their household.

Directors: William Cottrell, David Hand, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, Ben Sharpsteen| Stars: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille La Verne, Roy Atwell

Votes: 212,182 | Gross: $184.93M

M | 93 min | Comedy, Romance

92 Metascore

Alvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.

Director: Woody Allen| Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane

Votes: 274,689 | Gross: $39.20M

G | 161 min | Adventure, Drama, War

87 Metascore

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.

Director: David Lean| Stars: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa

Votes: 230,436 | Gross: $44.91M

G | 170 min | Drama, Romance, War

93 Metascore

Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.

Director: William Wyler| Stars: Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Fredric March, Teresa Wright

Votes: 69,180 | Gross: $23.65M

A | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

98 Metascore

Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.

Director: John Huston| Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett

Votes: 130,760 | Gross: $5.01M

A | 95 min | Comedy, War

97 Metascore

An insane American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.

Director: Stanley Kubrick| Stars: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn

Votes: 510,833 | Gross: $0.28M

G | 118 min | Drama, Western

85 Metascore

A weary gunfighter in 1880s Wyoming begins to envision a quieter life after befriending a homestead family with a young son who idolizes him, but a smoldering range war forces him to act.

Director: George Stevens| Stars: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde

Votes: 43,466 | Gross: $20.00M

PG | 105 min | Comedy, Romance

87 Metascore

A renegade reporter trailing a young runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York, and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.

Director: Frank Capra| Stars: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns

Votes: 110,141 | Gross: $4.36M

SOA | 122 min | Drama

97 Metascore

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.

Director: Elia Kazan| Stars: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden

Votes: 113,036 | Gross: $8.00M

A | 112 min | Mystery, Thriller

100 Metascore

A photographer in a wheelchair spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window, and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock| Stars: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter

Votes: 513,858 | Gross: $36.76M

PG | 163 min | Drama, History

99 Metascore

The story of a poor young woman separated by prejudice from her husband and baby is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

Director: D.W. Griffith| Stars: Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, F.A. Turner

Votes: 16,500 | Gross: $2.18M

M | 178 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

92 Metascore

A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.

Director: Peter Jackson| Stars: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, Sean Bean

Votes: 1,966,165 | Gross: $315.54M

G | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

98 Metascore

A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock| Stars: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis

Votes: 341,396 | Gross: $13.28M

M | 124 min | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller

87 Metascore

When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.

Director: Steven Spielberg| Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary

Votes: 647,821 | Gross: $260.00M

NRC | 120 min | Drama, Sport

70 Metascore

A small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.

Director: John G. Avildsen| Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers

Votes: 617,015 | Gross: $117.24M

G | 69 min | Comedy, Musical

93 Metascore

Rufus T. Firefly is named the dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of his wealthy backer Mrs. Teasdale, contending with two inept spies who can't seem to keep straight which side they're on.

Director: Leo McCarey| Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx

Votes: 62,248

PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama

97 Metascore

A group of teenagers in California's central valley spend one final night after their 1962 high school graduation cruising the strip with their buddies before they pursue their varying goals.

Director: George Lucas| Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith

Votes: 96,772 | Gross: $115.00M

M | 124 min | Drama, Music, Musical

80 Metascore

A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.

Director: Bob Fosse| Stars: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey

Votes: 58,384 | Gross: $42.77M

M | 121 min | Drama

83 Metascore

A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control.

Director: Sidney Lumet| Stars: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall

Votes: 167,496

G | 105 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

91 Metascore

In WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river and use his boat to attack a German gunship.

Director: John Huston| Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull

Votes: 82,977 | Gross: $0.54M

NRC | 115 min | Action, Adventure

86 Metascore

In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.

Director: Steven Spielberg| Stars: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, John Rhys-Davies

Votes: 1,021,974 | Gross: $248.16M

R18+ | 169 min | Drama, War

91 Metascore

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.

Director: Steven Spielberg| Stars: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns

Votes: 1,467,757 | Gross: $216.54M

A | 110 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

66 Metascore

In 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid lead a band of outlaws. When a train robbery goes wrong, they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. After considering their options, they escape to South America.

Director: George Roy Hill| Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin

Votes: 224,365 | Gross: $102.31M

R | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

86 Metascore

A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.

Director: Jonathan Demme| Stars: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine

Votes: 1,515,394 | Gross: $130.74M

SOA | 110 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

76 Metascore

A black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.

Director: Norman Jewison| Stars: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant

Votes: 81,923 | Gross: $24.38M

M | 142 min | Drama, Romance

82 Metascore

The history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.

Director: Robert Zemeckis| Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field

Votes: 2,207,015 | Gross: $330.25M

A | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

94 Metascore

A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.

Director: Billy Wilder| Stars: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston

Votes: 192,486 | Gross: $18.60M

94 min | Drama, Romance

95 Metascore

A sophisticated city woman seduces a farmer and convinces him to murder his wife and join her in the city, but he ends up rekindling his romance with his wife when he changes his mind at the last moment.

Director: F.W. Murnau| Stars: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing

Votes: 53,224 | Gross: $0.54M

SOA | 95 min | Adventure, Drama

85 Metascore

Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware.

Director: Dennis Hopper| Stars: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Antonio Mendoza

Votes: 115,622 | Gross: $41.73M

R | 120 min | Drama, War

92 Metascore

Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.

Director: Oliver Stone| Stars: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Keith David

Votes: 432,237 | Gross: $138.53M

G | 96 min | Crime, Drama

97 Metascore

The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.

Director: Sidney Lumet| Stars: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler

Votes: 844,868 | Gross: $4.36M

M | 107 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

64 Metascore

Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist, starts treating a young boy, Cole, who encounters dead people and convinces him to help them. In turn, Cole helps Malcolm reconcile with his estranged wife.

Director: M. Night Shyamalan| Stars: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams

Votes: 1,034,461 | Gross: $293.51M

G | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

91 Metascore

Roguish gambler/dancer "Lucky" Garnett is challenged by his fiance's father to come up with $25,000 to prove he's worthy of her hand. But after he falls in love with a dance instructor, Lucky'll do anything to keep from earning the bucks.

Director: George Stevens| Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick

Votes: 14,414

M | 150 min | Drama, Romance

68 Metascore

Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust.

Director: Alan J. Pakula| Stars: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin

Votes: 51,716 | Gross: $30.04M

R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama

94 Metascore

A pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal.

Director: William Friedkin| Stars: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco

Votes: 132,787 | Gross: $15.63M

R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama

93 Metascore

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

Director: Spike Lee| Stars: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson

Votes: 110,159 | Gross: $27.55M

G | 126 min | Biography, Drama, Family

89 Metascore

The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.

Director: Michael Curtiz| Stars: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf

Votes: 16,668 | Gross: $11.80M

G | 81 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

96 Metascore

A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman action figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's bedroom.

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What is the 1 greatest movie of all time?

Citizen Kane (1941), starring and directed by Orson Welles, has topped several international polls, including five consecutive decades at number 1 in the British Film Institute's Sight and Sound decennial poll of critics.

Where does Psycho rank on AFI's 100 best movies list?

This film is ranked on the following lists.

5th on 100 All-Time Greatest Movies by Entertainment Weekly..

8th on The 100 greatest American films by BBC..

9th on The 50 Greatest Films by The One-Line Review..

18th on AFI's 100 Greatest American Movies of All Time by American Film Institute..