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The Canonical List
1921 — 2026
The Top

ONE HUNDRED

THE DEFINITIVE LIST OF THE BEST FILMS EVER MADE
Ranked by master score across 74,571 films and a hundred years of cinema. A weighted composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, TMDB, Oscar performance, and box office.
1921 — 2026
100
Films Ranked
92.5
Avg Master Score
85
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1921
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The Top Ten

THE CANON

Ten films. The peak. If you only see ten things from the catalog, see these.

No.01
MS95.9
SERGIO LEONE|1966
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY

“For three men the Civil War wasn't hell. It was practice.”

No.02
MS95.3
ALFRED HITCHCOCK|1960
PSYCHO

“A new and altogether different screen excitement!”

No.03
MS95.2
ALFRED HITCHCOCK|1954
REAR WINDOW

“It only takes one witness to spoil the perfect crime.”

No.04
MS95.1
SIDNEY LUMET|1957
12 ANGRY MEN
No.05
MS94.6
STEVEN SPIELBERG|1993|7 OSCARS
SCHINDLER'S LIST
No.06
MS94.5
MASAKI KOBAYASHI|1962
HARAKIRI
No.07
MS94.3
CHARLES CHAPLIN|1921
THE KID
No.08
MS94.3
AKIRA KUROSAWA|1954
SEVEN SAMURAI
No.09
MS94.1
GEORGE LUCAS|1977|7 OSCARS
STAR WARS: EPISODE IV - A NEW HOPE
No.10
MS93.9
MAKOTO SHINKAI|2016
YOUR NAME.
Eleven Through Fifty

THE MASTERS

Forty films that define the second tier of the catalog. Every one a heavyweight.

The 2020s
6 films
#25
92.8
Shatak
2026 · Aashish Mall
#30
92.7
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021 · Jon Watts
#37
92.5
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc
2025 · Tatsuya Yoshihara
#38
92.5
The Rescue
2021 · Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
#43
92.4
Attack on Titan the Movie: The Last Attack
2024 · Yûichirô Hayashi
#47
92.4
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Mugen Train
2020 · Haruo Sotozaki
The 2010s
3 films
#14
93.5
The Intouchables
2011 · Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano
#21
93.1
Klaus
2019 · Sergio Pablos, Carlos Martínez López
#32
92.7
The Man from Nowhere
2010 · Lee Jeong-beom
The 2000s
5 films
#12
93.8
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 · Peter Jackson · 11 Oscars
#29
92.8
Like Stars on Earth
2007 · Aamir Khan
#44
92.4
The Best of Youth
2003 · Marco Tullio Giordana
#46
92.4
Slumdog Millionaire
2008 · Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan · 8 Oscars
#49
92.3
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
2008 · Kurt Kuenne
The 1990s
2 films
#26
92.8
Trainspotting
1996 · Danny Boyle
#31
92.7
Raise the Red Lantern
1991 · Yimou Zhang
The 1980s
4 films
#13
93.6
Stop Making Sense
1984 · Jonathan Demme
#33
92.7
The Breakfast Club
1985 · John Hughes
#34
92.6
My Neighbor Totoro
1988 · Hayao Miyazaki
#36
92.5
Shoah
1985 · Claude Lanzmann
The 1970s
10 films
#15
93.5
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975 · Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
#18
93.4
Taxi Driver
1976 · Martin Scorsese
#19
93.2
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975 · Milos Forman · 5 Oscars
#22
93.1
Young Frankenstein
1974 · Mel Brooks
#23
93.0
The Godfather
1972 · Francis Ford Coppola · 3 Oscars
#27
92.8
The Sting
1973 · George Roy Hill · 7 Oscars
#28
92.8
Halloween
1978 · John Carpenter
#39
92.5
Stalker
1979 · Andrei Tarkovsky
#48
92.3
A Clockwork Orange
1971 · Stanley Kubrick
#50
92.3
The Godfather Part II
1974 · Francis Ford Coppola · 6 Oscars
The 1960s
2 films
#17
93.4
A Fistful of Dollars
1964 · Sergio Leone
#40
92.5
Night of the Living Dead
1968 · George A. Romero
The 1950s
5 films
#20
93.1
On the Waterfront
1954 · Elia Kazan · 8 Oscars
#35
92.6
The Wages of Fear
1953 · Henri-Georges Clouzot
#41
92.4
Tokyo Story
1953 · Yasujirô Ozu
#42
92.4
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 · David Lean · 7 Oscars
#45
92.4
The 400 Blows
1959 · François Truffaut
The 1940s
1 film
#24
92.9
The Big Sleep
1946 · Howard Hawks
The 1930s
2 films
#11
93.8
Gone with the Wind
1939 · Victor Fleming · 10 Oscars
#16
93.4
M
1931 · Fritz Lang
Fifty-One Through One Hundred

THE BENCH

The next fifty. The films just one place outside the canon — and in any other year, they'd be in it.

The 2020s
2 films
076
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
2025 · Haruo Sotozaki, Hikaru Kondô
91.7
079
MST - Terra Prometida
2025 · Elton Mesquita
91.7
The 2010s
10 films
051
Dangal
2016 · Nitesh Tiwari
92.2
059
Ne Zha
2019 · Yu Yang
92.0
067
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011 · David Yates
91.9
073
Parasite
2019 · Bong Joon Ho · 4 Oscars
91.8
074
Temple Grandin
2010 · Mick Jackson
91.8
075
Searching
2018 · Aneesh Chaganty
91.7
087
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
2016 · Ron Howard
91.6
088
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
2018 · Morgan Neville
91.5
090
Song of the Sea
2014 · Tomm Moore
91.5
096
Avengers: Endgame
2019 · Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
91.4
The 2000s
1 film
064
Memories of Murder
2003 · Bong Joon Ho
92.0
The 1990s
10 films
060
The Silence of the Lambs
1991 · Jonathan Demme · 5 Oscars
92.0
065
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
1995 · Aditya Chopra
92.0
066
Clerks
1994 · Kevin Smith
91.9
068
The Sixth Sense
1999 · M. Night Shyamalan
91.9
069
Se7en
1995 · David Fincher
91.9
071
Princess Mononoke
1997 · Hayao Miyazaki
91.8
083
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1998 · Guy Ritchie
91.6
089
Hoop Dreams
1994 · Steve James
91.5
092
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991 · Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola
91.5
094
American Beauty
1999 · Sam Mendes · 5 Oscars
91.4
The 1980s
3 films
052
The Terminator
1984 · James Cameron
92.2
058
Come and See
1985 · Elem Klimov
92.0
061
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981 · Steven Spielberg · 5 Oscars
92.0
The 1970s
1 film
077
Blazing Saddles
1974 · Mel Brooks
91.7
The 1960s
5 films
054
For a Few Dollars More
1965 · Sergio Leone
92.2
055
Sanjuro
1962 · Akira Kurosawa
92.2
057
Woman in the Dunes
1964 · Hiroshi Teshigahara
92.0
081
The Odd Couple
1968 · Gene Saks
91.7
098
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1964 · Jacques Demy
91.3
The 1950s
8 films
056
Wild Strawberries
1957 · Ingmar Bergman
92.1
062
Sansho the Bailiff
1954 · Kenji Mizoguchi
92.0
063
Ben-Hur
1959 · William Wyler · 11 Oscars
92.0
078
Ugetsu
1953 · Kenji Mizoguchi
91.7
084
The World of Apu
1959 · Satyajit Ray
91.6
085
Pather Panchali
1955 · Satyajit Ray
91.6
093
Godzilla
1954 · Ishirô Honda
91.4
095
Throne of Blood
1957 · Akira Kurosawa
91.4
The 1940s
5 films
053
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946 · William Wyler · 8 Oscars
92.2
070
Children of Paradise
1945 · Marcel Carné
91.9
080
Notorious
1946 · Alfred Hitchcock
91.7
099
Rome, Open City
1945 · Roberto Rossellini
91.3
100
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949 · Robert Hamer
91.3
The 1930s
1 film
091
Frankenstein
1931 · James Whale
91.5
The 1920s
4 films
072
The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928 · Carl Theodor Dreyer
91.8
082
Safety Last!
1923 · Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
91.6
086
Sherlock Jr.
1924 · Buster Keaton
91.6
097
The Big Parade
1925 · King Vidor, George W. Hill
91.3
The Methodology

HOW THIS LIST WAS MADE

Master score is a weighted composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, TMDB, Oscar performance, and box office across the entire catalog. No editorial overrides. No favourites. Just the math.

Methodology
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