Share This
table started by
robert for the Great Films Base
There is no user-contributed description yet.
Add More Topics
Save this view to a base, or just for yourself.
500 Ranked item topics matching:
Filter this Collection| x name | x image | x Appears in ranked lists | x article | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| x List | x Ranking | |||
| x The Sound of Music |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 55 |
Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music is a 1965 musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews in the lead role. The film is based on the Broadway musical The Sound of Music, with songs written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar...
|
| x Citizen Kane |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 1 |
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film, and the first feature film directed by Orson Welles. It was nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories, but won only for Best Original Screenplay by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles. It was released by...
|
| Roger Ebert - Great films | ||||
| x The Wild Bunch |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 80 |
The Wild Bunch directed by Sam Peckinpah, is a 1969 Western film about an aging outlaw gang at the Texas-Mexico border trying to exist in the modern world of supposedly 1913. The film was controversial because of its violence and the portrayal of...
|
| Roger Ebert - Great films | ||||
| x The Best Years of Our Lives |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 37 |
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) is an American drama film about three servicemen trying to piece their lives back together after coming home from World War II.
Samuel Goldwyn was motivated to produce the film after his wife Frances read an August...
|
| Roger Ebert - Great films | ||||
| x Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 15 |
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, originally released simply as Star Wars, is an American 1977 space opera film, written and directed by George Lucas. It was the first of six films released in the Star Wars saga: two subsequent films continue the...
|
| x All Quiet on the Western Front |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 54 |
All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 war film set on the Erich Maria Remarque novel of the same name. It was directed by Lewis Milestone, and stars Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy and Ben Alexander.
All Quiet on the Western...
|
| x Stagecoach |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 63 |
Stagecoach is a 1939 western film directed by John Ford, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role. The screenplay, written by Dudley Nichols and Ben Hecht, is an adaptation of "The Stage to Lordsburg", a 1937 short story by...
|
| x From Here to Eternity |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 52 |
From Here to Eternity is a 1953 drama film based on the novel of the same name by James Jones. It deals with the troubles of soldiers, played by Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra, and Ernest Borgnine stationed on Hawaii in the months...
|
| x All About Eve |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 16 |
All About Eve is a 1950 American drama film, written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the short story "The Wisdom of Eve," by Mary Orr.
The film stars Bette Davis as Margo Channing, a highly regarded but aging Broadway star. Anne...
|
| Roger Ebert - Great films | ||||
| x Patton |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 89 |
Patton (UK: Patton: Lust for Glory) is a 1970 biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II. It stars George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, and Karl Michael Vogler. It was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from...
|
| Roger Ebert - Great films | ||||
| Metacritic Top Films | 35 | |||
| x Doctor Zhivago |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 39 |
Doctor Zhivago (Russian: До́ктор Жива́го) is a 1965 epic or drama-romance-war film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak.
The film takes place for the most part during the tumultuous period...
|
| x Schindler's List |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 9 |
Schindler's List is a 1993 American drama film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand Polish Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The film was directed by Steven...
|
| Roger Ebert - Great films | ||||
| Metacritic Top Films | 18 | |||
| x 2001: A Space Odyssey |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 22 |
2001: A Space Odyssey (occasionally referred to as simply 2001) is a 1968 science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick and written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. The film deals with thematic elements of human evolution, technology, artificial...
|
| Roger Ebert - Great films | ||||
| Metacritic Top Films | 128 | |||
| x Taxi Driver |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 47 |
Taxi Driver is a 1976 film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. The movie is set in New York City, soon after the Vietnam War. The film stars Robert De Niro and features Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle,...
|
| Roger Ebert - Great films | ||||
| x On the Waterfront |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 8 |
On the Waterfront is a 1954 American drama film about mob violence and corruption among longshoremen. The film was directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Steiger, Karl Malden and Lee J....
|
| Roger Ebert - Great films | ||||
| x Casablanca |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 2 |
Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Set during World War II, it focuses...
|
| Roger Ebert - Great films | ||||
| x Gone with the Wind |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 4 |
Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American drama romance film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the same name and directed by Victor Fleming (Fleming replaced George Cukor). The epic film, set in the American South in and around the time of...
|
| Roger Ebert - Great films | ||||
| x A Clockwork Orange |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 46 |
A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 British/American satirical futuristic film adaptation of Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name. The film concerns Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell), a charismatic, psychopathic delinquent whose pleasures are...
|
| x Yankee Doodle Dandy |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 100 |
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) is a biographical musical film about George M. Cohan (pronounced "Coe-Han"), the actor / singer / dancer / playwright / songwriter / producer / theatre owner / director / choreographer known as "The Man Who Owns Broadway",...
|
| Roger Ebert - Great films | ||||
| x Duck Soup |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 85 |
Duck Soup is a 1933 Marx Brothers anarchic comedy film written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, with additional dialogue by Arthur Sheekman and Nat Perrin, and directed by Leo McCarey. First released theatrically by Paramount Pictures on November 17...
|
| Roger Ebert - Great films | ||||
| x Psycho |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 18 |
Psycho is an American 1960 suspense/horror movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock, from the screenplay by Joseph Stefano. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Robert Bloch, which was in turn inspired by the crimes of Wisconsin serial...
|
| Roger Ebert - Great films | ||||
| x It's a Wonderful Life |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 11 |
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) is an American drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra and loosely based on the short story "The Greatest Gift" written by Philip Van Doren Stern.
The film takes place in the fictional town of Bedford Falls...
|
| Roger Ebert - Great films | ||||
| x The Maltese Falcon |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 23 |
The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 American Warner Bros. film based on novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett. Written and directed by John Huston, the movie stars Humphrey Bogart as private investigator Sam Spade, Mary Astor as his femme fatale...
|
| Roger Ebert - Great films | ||||
| x Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 49 |
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated feature based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Snow White. It was the first full-length cel-animated feature in motion picture history, as well as the first animated feature film produced...
|
| Roger Ebert - Great films | ||||
| x Bonnie and Clyde |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 27 |
Bonnie and Clyde is a 1967 American crime film about Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, the bank robbers who operated in the central United States during the Great Depression. The film was directed by Arthur Penn, and stars Warren Beatty as Clyde...
|
| Roger Ebert - Great films | ||||
| x Easy Rider |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 88 |
Easy Rider is a 1969 American road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. It tells the story of two bikers (played by Fonda and Hopper) who travel through the...
|
| Roger Ebert - Great films | ||||
| Metacritic Top Films | 119 | |||
| x Mutiny on the Bounty |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 86 |
Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 film starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, and directed by Frank Lloyd based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty.
The film was one of the biggest hits of its time and remains a...
|
| x The Silence of the Lambs |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 65 |
The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 psychological crime/horror thriller directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Anthony Heald and Brooke Smith. It is based on the novel of the same name by...
|
| Roger Ebert - Great films | ||||
| x Bringing up Baby |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 97 |
Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. The movie tells the story of a scientist winding up in various predicaments involving a woman with a unique sense of logic and a...
|
| x Fantasia |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 58 |
Fantasia is a 1940 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney and the third film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. Fantasia features animation set to classical music and no dialogue—only spoken introductions by the host, American...
|
| x The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 30 |
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is John Huston's 1948 American feature film adaptation of B. Traven's 1927 novel of the same name, in which two penurious Americans (Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt) during 1920s in Mexico join with an old-timer (Walter...
|
| Roger Ebert - Great films | ||||
| x The Philadelphia Story |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 51 |
The Philadelphia Story is a 1940 romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor, starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart. Based on a Broadway play of the same name by Philip Barry, with screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart and an...
|
| x Raging Bull |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 24 |
Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical film directed by Martin Scorsese, adapted by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin from the memoir Raging Bull: My Story. It stars Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta, a middleweight boxer whose sadomasochistic rage,...
|
| Roger Ebert - Great films | ||||
| Metacritic Top Films | 22 | |||
| x Shane |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 69 |
Shane is a 1953 western film produced and directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by A.B. Guthrie Jr., based on the 1949 novel of the same name by Jack Schaefer. The film stars Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur and Van Heflin, and features Brandon De...
|
| Roger Ebert - Great films | ||||
| x Apocalypse Now |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 28 |
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film set during the Vietnam War. The plot revolves around two US Army special operations officers, one of whom, Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Martin Sheen) of MACV-SOG, is sent into the jungle to assassinate...
|
| Roger Ebert - Great films | ||||
| x The Bridge on the River Kwai |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 13 |
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British World War II film by David Lean based on the novel The Bridge over the River Kwai by French writer Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942...
|
| Roger Ebert - Great films | ||||
| x Rocky |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 78 |
Rocky is a 1976 film written by and starring Sylvester Stallone and directed by John G. Avildsen. It tells the rags-to-riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa, an uneducated but good-hearted debt collector for a loan shark in Philadelphia....
|
| x Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 29 |
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is an American 1939 comedy/drama film starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur, about one man's effect on American politics. It was directed by Frank Capra – his last film for Columbia Pictures, the studio where he made...
|
| x The Graduate |
|
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 7 |
The Graduate is a 1967 American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols, based on the 1963 novel The Graduate by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College. The screenplay is by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry, who...
|
| x Nosferatu |
|
Roger Ebert - Great films |
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (translated as Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror; also known as Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror or simply Nosferatu) is a German Expressionist vampire horror film, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Max Schreck as...
|
|
| x Mean Streets |
|
Roger Ebert - Great films |
Mean Streets is a 1973 drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Scorsese and Mardik Martin. The film stars Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro and David Proval. It was released by Warner Bros. on October 2, 1973. De Niro won the National...
|
|
| x The Phantom of the Opera |
|
Roger Ebert - Great films |
The Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 silent film adaptation of the Gaston Leroux novel of the same title directed by Rupert Julian. The film featured Lon Chaney in the title role as the masked and facially deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera...
|
|
| x Méphisto | Roger Ebert - Great films |
Méphisto is the title of a 1930 French film directed by Henri Debain and Georges Vinter, starring Janine Ronceray and Jean Gabin. It was Gabin's first role in a long and illustrious career.
|
||
| x Ali: Fear Eats the Soul |
|
Roger Ebert - Great films |
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (German: Angst essen Seele auf) is a 1974 West German film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Brigitte Mira and El Hedi ben Salem. The film won two awards at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival and is...
|
|
| x The Rules of the Game |
|
Roger Ebert - Great films |
The Rules of the Game (original French title: La Règle du jeu, "the rule of the game") is a 1939 film directed by Jean Renoir about upper-class French society just before the start of World War II. Renoir's film is in part an adaptation of Alfred de...
|
|
| x The Leopard |
|
Roger Ebert - Great films |
The Leopard (Italian: Il Gattopardo) is an award-winning 1963 film by Italian director Luchino Visconti, based on Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's novel of the same name.
The film features an international cast including the American Burt Lancaster,...
|
|
| x The Big Heat |
|
Roger Ebert - Great films |
The Big Heat is a 1953 film noir directed by Fritz Lang, starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Lee Marvin. It is about a cop who takes on the crime syndicate that controls his city after the brutal murder of his beloved wife. The film was written...
|
|
| x The Passion of Joan of Arc |
|
Roger Ebert - Great films |
The Passion of Joan of Arc (French: La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc) is a silent film produced in France in 1928. It is based on the trial records of Joan of Arc. The film was directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer and stars Renée Jeanne Falconetti and Antonin...
|
|
| x Pinocchio |
|
Roger Ebert - Great films |
Pinocchio is a 1940 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney and based on the story Pinocchio: Tale of a Puppet by Carlo Collodi. The second film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, it was made after the success of Snow White and the...
|
|
| x W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism |
|
Roger Ebert - Great films |
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (Serbo-Croatian: W.R. - Misterije organizma, W.R. - Мистерије организма) is a 1971 film by Yugoslav director Dušan Makavejev that explores the relationship between communist politics and sexuality, as well as...
|
|
| x Forbidden Games |
|
Roger Ebert - Great films |
Forbidden Games (French: Jeux interdits), is a 1952 French language film directed by René Clément and based on François Boyer's novel, Jeux interdits.
The film recounts the death of five-year-old Paulette's (Brigitte Fossey) parents and of her pet...
|
|
| x Dracula |
|
Roger Ebert - Great films |
Dracula is a 1931 United States horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring Béla Lugosi as the title character. The film was produced by Universal and is based on the stage play of the same name by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, which...
|
|
| x Le Samouraï |
|
Roger Ebert - Great films |
Le Samouraï (English title The Samurai) is a 1967 French minimalist crime drama/thriller film directed by French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville. The film's protagonist Jef Costello is played by Alain Delon.
The story follows a perfectionist free...
|
|
| x Floating Weeds |
|
Roger Ebert - Great films |
Floating Weeds (浮草, Ukikusa) is a 1959 film by Yasujiro Ozu and shot in colour by Kazuo Miyagawa, one of Japan's most highly regarded cinematographers. It is a remake of Ozu's own black-and-white silent film A Story of Floating Weeds (1934).
Early...
|
|
| x Léolo |
|
Roger Ebert - Great films |
Léolo is a 1992 film by Quebec director Jean-Claude Lauzon.
The film tells the story of Léo Lauzon (Maxime Collin), a young boy living in a Montreal tenement with his dysfunctional family. He uses his active fantasy life and the book L'avalée des...
|
|
| x The Scarlet Empress |
|
Roger Ebert - Great films |
The Scarlet Empress is a 1934 historical drama film made by Paramount Pictures about the life of Catherine the Great (Catherine II). It was directed and produced by Josef von Sternberg, with Emanuel Cohen as executive producer, from a screenplay by...
|
|
| x Nanook of the North |
|
Roger Ebert - Great films |
Nanook of the North: A Story Of Life and Love In the Actual Arctic (1922) is a silent documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty. In the tradition of what would later be called salvage ethnography, Flaherty captured the struggles of the Inuk Nanook and...
|
|
| x Beauty and the Beast |
|
Roger Ebert - Great films |
Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation which premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on November 13, 1991. The thirtieth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film...
|
|
| x The Bank Dick |
|
Roger Ebert - Great films |
The Bank Dick (released as The Bank Detective in the United Kingdom) is a 1940 comedy film. (At the time, dick was common USA slang for detective.) W. C. Fields plays a character named Egbert Sousé who trips a bank robber and ends up a security...
|
|
| x Fanny and Alexander |
|
Roger Ebert - Great films |
Fanny and Alexander (Swedish: Fanny och Alexander) is a 1982 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It was originally conceived as a four part TV movie which spanned 312 minutes. A version lasting 188 minutes was created later for...
|
|
