Part 1. List of top 100 movies of all time
Part 2. Breif introductions to the 10 greatest movies
Part 3. How to download classic movies with ease
Part 1. List of top 100 movies ever
It is never easy to create a list of the best 100 movies ever. Many have tried to come up with such list with varying degrees of success. What can be classified as a good movie to one person may not be to another. After all, movies are subjective and film is a subjective art form and people's taste varies infinitely. Over time, many knowledgeable and intellectual people have listed out what they deem to be the best movies of all time and revise it decade after decade. You can find such lists generated by organizations like the AFI (American Film Institute). Without further ado, here is the list of top 100 movies.
Rank | Movie | Release Year | Director | Stars |
1 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton |
2 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | Frank Darabont | Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler |
3 | Schindler's List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall |
4 | Raging Bull | 1980 | Martin Scorsese | Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent |
5 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains |
6 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 | Milos Forman | Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco |
7 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil |
8 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles | Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead |
9 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming | Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr |
10 | Titanic | 1997 | James Cameron | Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates |
11 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins |
12 | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder | William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson |
13 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton |
14 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin |
15 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore |
16 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan | Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger |
17 | Forrest Gump | 1994 | Robert Zemeckis | Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field |
18 | The Sound of Music | 1965 | Robert Wise | Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn |
19 | West Side Story | 1961 | Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn |
20 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness |
21 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | Steven Spielberg | Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Dee Wallace |
22 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter |
23 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme | Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Lawrence A. Bonney, Kasi Lemmons |
24 | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski | Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez |
25 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | David Lean | William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa |
26 | Singin' in the Rain | 1952 |
Stanley Donen Gene Kelly |
Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen |
27 | It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra | James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell |
28 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Sidney Lumet | Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler |
29 | Chicago | 2002 | Rob Marshall | Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Taye Diggs |
30 | Shakespeare in Love | 1998 | John Madden | Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Wilkinson |
31 | Amadeus | 1984 | Milos Forman | F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice |
32 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Coppola | Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest |
33 | Gandhi | 1982 | Richard Attenborough | Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox |
34 |
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
2003 | Peter Jackson | Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom |
35 | Gladiator | 2000 | Ridley Scott | Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed |
36 | From Here to Eternity | 1953 | Fred Zinnemann | Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed |
37 | Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | Steven Spielberg | Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns |
38 | Unforgiven | 1992 | Clint Eastwood | Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris |
39 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 1981 | Steven Spielberg | Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, John Rhys-Davies |
40 | Rocky | 1976 | John G. Avildsen | Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers |
41 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder | Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft |
42 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | William Wyler | Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright |
43 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | Elia Kazan | Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden |
44 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn |
45 | The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | George Cukor | Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey |
46 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Robert Mulligan | Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy |
47 | My Fair Lady | 1964 | George Cukor | Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White |
48 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler | Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet |
49 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean | Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger |
50 | Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg | Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary |
51 | Patton | 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner | George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young, Michael Strong |
52 | Dances with Wolves | 1990 | Kevin Costner | Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant |
53 | Braveheart | 1995 | Mel Gibson | Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Angus Macfadyen |
54 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 1966 | Sergio Leone | Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè |
55 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill | Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin |
56 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | John Huston | Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett |
57 | High Noon | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann | Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges |
58 | The Apartment | 1960 | Billy Wilder | Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston |
59 | Platoon | 1986 | Oliver Stone | Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Keith David |
60 | The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski | Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox |
61 | Goodfellas | 1990 | Martin Scorsese | Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco |
62 | The Exorcist | 1973 | William Friedkin | Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Lee J. Cobb |
63 | The Deer Hunter | 1978 | Michael Cimino | Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John Savage |
64 | All Quiet on the Western Front | 1930 | Lewis Milestone | Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Arnold Lucy |
65 | The French Connection | 1971 | William Friedkin | Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco |
66 | City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin | Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers |
67 | It Happened One Night | 1934 | Frank Capra | Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns |
68 | A Place in the Sun | 1951 | George Stevens | Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere |
69 | Midnight Cowboy | 1969 | John Schlesinger | Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver |
70 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1939 | Frank Capra | James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold |
71 | An American in Paris | 1951 | Vincente Minnelli | Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary |
72 | Annie Hall | 1977 | Woody Allen | Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane |
73 | Rain Man | 1988 | Barry Levinson | Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen |
74 | The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | John Ford | Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin |
75 | Out of Africa | 1985 | Sydney Pollack | Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen |
76 | Good Will Hunting | 1997 | Gus Van Sant | Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Stellan Skarsgård |
77 | Terms of Endearment | 1983 | James L. Brooks | Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito |
78 | Tootsie | 1982 | Sydney Pollack | Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman |
79 | Fargo | 1996 | Joel Coen | William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare |
80 | Shane | 1953 | George Stevens | Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde |
81 | Giant | 1956 | George Stevens | Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker |
82 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg | Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon |
83 | Network | 1976 | Sidney Lumet | Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall |
84 | Nashville | 1975 | Robert Altman | Keith Carradine, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley, Shelley Duvall |
85 | Wuthering Heights | 1939 | William Wyler | Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Flora Robson |
86 | The Graduate | 1967 | Mike Nichols | Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, William Daniels |
87 | American Graffiti | 1973 | George Lucas | Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith |
88 | Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis |
89 | The African Queen | 1951 | John Huston | Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull |
90 | Stagecoach | 1939 | John Ford | John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine, John Carradine |
91 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1935 | Frank Lloyd | Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Herbert Mundin |
92 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston | Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre |
93 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke |
94 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese | Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks |
95 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Byron Barr |
96 | Rebel Without a Cause | 1955 | Nicholas Ray | James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus |
97 | Rear Window | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter |
98 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed | Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard |
99 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis |
100 | Yankee Doodle Dandy | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf |
Original source: IMDb.com
Part 2. Reviews of the top 10 classic movies
1 The Godfather
There probably exists no guy on the planet who can't endlessly quote the movie. Francis Ford Coppola's gangster movie, now the template for all gangster films forever, depicts the trials and tribulations of La familia Corleone.
2 The Shawshank Redemption
The tale of how Andy Dufresne is wrongfully convicted to Shawshank prison and finds redemption in his dealings with his fellow inmates and the warden, Frank Darabont's wonderful take on Stephen King's book is, quite frankly, amazing.
3 Schindler's List
The amazingly emotional tale of how Oskar Schindler saves the lives of 1100 Jews from the Nazis. Steven Speilberg brings an amazing emotional heft to the film.
4 Raging Bull
Martin Scorsese directs this tale of (now) legendary boxer Jake LaMotta (played by extra-ordinarily good Robert DeNiro) deal with his mental and emotional issues both inside and outside the ring.
5Casablanca
Another Golden Age Hollywood classic, only this time its Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. And, quite frankly, he doesn't give a damn.
6One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Milos Forman's wonderfully bittersweet drama of how Jack Nicholson's R.P McMurphy falsely (and intentionally) enters a mental institute and bonds with the other patients there.
7Gone with the Wind
A classic from Hollywood's golden age. Watch how Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh find love during the American Civil War.
8Citizen Kane
Just what is Rosebud? Orson Welles' instant classic. The movie is one of the most talked-about movies of all time and one of the most studied movies by film scholars.
9The Wizard of Oz
A movie every human being on the planet (regardless of age) has probably seen by now, Judy Garland plays Dorothy and (to put it mildly) finds out she isn't in Kansas anymore.
10Titanic
James Cameron's epic masterpiece (although many claim Avatar super seeds it; I personally do not), Titanic tells the tale of the grandiose (if somewhat simplistic) romance with plenty of visual splendor.
Part 3. The easiest way to download movies
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YouTube Downloader is fully compatible with Windows 8/7/XP/Vista. For Mac users, please download and install YouTube Downloader for Mac. It works well in Mac OS X 10.6 or later (Mavericks included).
1 Locate the movie you want to download
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While the video is playing, a pop-up button will emerge on the video window, which reads as Download. Click on the button and select the resolution of the video you want to download it in.
Another simple way to download the movie is to copy the video URL and then come back to the software and click the Paste URL button. Mac version also allows users to save the movie by dragging and dropping the video UL to the program.
3 Convert the video to other format (Optional)
If you'd like to convert the movie to fit various devices, you can go to the Finished menu and click the Convert button beside the target clip. Then select a format you prefer in the Output window.
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