best movies

 It's obviously difficult to rank the greatest movies ever filmed. We were still going to try, despite that. Everyone has their own opinions, preferences, and thoughts. It's possible that you and I disagree. You must first read our list of recommended movies in order to understand any changes.

top films of all time

A Space Odyssey, first (1968)

Science fiction movies

The confluence of two brilliant minds—Stanley Kubrick and sci-fi visionary Arthur C. Clarke—led to the creation of the greatest movie ever. When Kubrick heard the name Arthur C. Clarke mentioned as a potential writer for his upcoming science fiction epic, along with those of Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and Ray Bradbury, he remarked, "I understand he's a nut who lives in a tree someplace in India." The two met, clicked, and created a story of technological advancement and disaster (hello, HAL) that is steeped in humanity, in all its brilliance, weakness, courage, and mad ambition. Clarke was actually living in Ceylon (not in India, or a tree), but the pair met, clicked, and forged the story. 

The Godfather, 2. (1972)

FilmThrillers

All crime families that emerged after The Godfather are descended from the Corleones, from the sage characters of Goodfellas to The Sopranos: Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece is the ultimate patriarch of the Mafia genre. The operatic Mario Puzo adaption begins with a powerful sentence, "I believe in America," before Coppola's epic transforms into a terrifying deconstruction of the American dream. These moral contradictions are crystallised in a legendary baptism sequence, which is masterfully edited in parallel to the murder of four rival dons. The corruption-drenched story follows a wealthy immigrant family as they struggle with the paradoxical values of reign and religion.

Citizen Kane (1941)

FilmDrama

With David Fincher's brilliantly satirical making-of film Mank bringing Citizen Kane back into the spotlight, it continues to attract new audiences. The journey of its bulldozer-shaped protagonist, Orson Welles, the actor-director-wunderkind, from rejected youngster to thrusting entrepreneur to press baron to populist, feels fully current to first-timers (in unconnected news, Donald Trump came out as a superfan). You can indulge in the movie's ground-breaking methods, such as Gregg Toland's deep focus photography, or the staging's boundless self-assurance and its examination of American capitalism.

4. Jeanne Dielman, 23 years old, Quai du Commerce, Brussels (1975)

Film

The softly destructive portrayal of a widow's daily routine by Chantal Akerman, which has long been hailed as a feminist masterpiece and shows her tasks gradually giving way to a sense of pent-up resentment, should earn a spot on any all-time list. This movie is more than just a specialty; it offers a window into a condition that affects everyone, and it does so in a focused structuralist manner. Akerman's unbroken takes, which are more hypnotic than you may expect, transform everyday activities like scrubbing the bathtub or dredging veal into subtly subversive critiques of filmmaking. (It is noteworthy that we are never shown the sex jobs Jeanne schedules in her bedroom to pay the bills.) Akerman and actor Delphine Seyrig establish a remarkable sense of sympathy that is rarely matched by other filmmakers by lulling us into her routine.

Raiders of the Lost Ark, No. 5 (1981)

Action and adventure movies

Raiders of the Lost Ark celebrates what movies can accomplish more enthusiastically than any other movie, beginning with a dissolve from the Paramount logo and concluding in a warehouse from Citizen Kane. Steven Spielberg's funniest blockbuster, which is intricately designed as a tribute to the craft, has it all: rolling boulders, a barroom brawl, a fiery heroine (Karen Allen) who can hold her liquor and lose her temper, a cunning monkey, a champagne-sipping villain (Paul Freeman), snakes ("Why did it have to be snakes? "), cinema's greatest truck chase, and a barnstorming supernatural finale where heads Harrison Ford's portrayal of Indiana Jones, a paradigm of reluctance combined with resourcefulness, is the cherry on top.