20 Best Movies of All Time Ranked by Critics and Audiences

Russell Crowe stars as betrayed Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius, who rises through the Colosseum arena to confront Emperor Commodus. The film grossed $465 million worldwide and revived the historical epic.

Parasite follows the struggling Kim family as they infiltrate the household of the wealthy Park family in Seoul. It swept the Palme d'Or at Cannes and four Academy Awards in 2020.

Matthew McConaughey leads a crew of astronauts through a wormhole near Saturn in search of a habitable planet for humanity. Theoretical physicist Kip Thorne advised on the Oscar-winning visual effects of the Gargantua black hole.

Ten-year-old Chihiro must work in a supernatural bathhouse run by the witch Yubaba to free her parents. Produced by Studio Ghibli, it held Japan's all-time box office record for nineteen years.

Following the D-Day landings at Omaha Beach, Captain John Miller leads a squad of U.S. Army Rangers behind enemy lines to bring home paratrooper James Francis Ryan, whose three brothers were killed in action.

Veteran detective William Somerset, played by Morgan Freeman, and newly transferred detective David Mills, played by Brad Pitt, track a killer who stages murders around the seven deadly sins.

Jodie Foster stars as FBI trainee Clarice Starling, who seeks the help of imprisoned psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, played by Anthony Hopkins, to catch a serial killer known as Buffalo Bill.

Set in sixteenth-century Japan during the Sengoku period, a farming village hires Toshiro Mifune and six other masterless samurai to defend their harvest against forty armed bandits.

Adapted from Nicholas Pileggi's book Wiseguy, the film stars Ray Liotta as mob associate Henry Hill alongside Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Keanu Reeves stars as computer programmer Thomas Anderson, known online as Neo, who learns from rebel leader Morpheus that humanity is trapped inside a simulated reality built by intelligent machines.

Leonardo DiCaprio plays Dom Cobb, a corporate extractor hired to plant an idea deep inside a business heir's subconscious across three stacked layers of shared dreams.

Edward Norton plays an insomniac office worker who forms an underground bare-knuckle fighting club with soap maker Tyler Durden, played by Brad Pitt, before the group evolves into Project Mayhem.

Divided into three storylines, the film follows Frodo and Sam's journey with Gollum toward Mordor while Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli defend the fortress of Helm's Deep against Saruman's ten-thousand-strong army.

Tom Hanks stars as an Alabama man whose kindness carries him through college football stardom, the Vietnam War, ping-pong diplomacy, and a shrimping fortune while he holds onto his love for childhood friend Jenny.

Filmed across New Zealand, the adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's novel brings together a nine-member fellowship led by Frodo Baggins and Gandalf to carry the One Ring toward the fires of Mount Doom.

Starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, and Bruce Willis, the film weaves together four intersecting Los Angeles crime stories and became the first independent release to surpass $200 million at the box office.

The conclusion to Peter Jackson's trilogy stages the siege of Minas Tirith and Frodo's final climb up Mount Doom. It grossed $1.15 billion worldwide and became the first fantasy film to win Best Picture.

Shot primarily in black-and-white by cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, the film tells the true story of German industrialist Oskar Schindler, played by Liam Neeson, who saved more than 1,100 Jewish refugees by employing them in his factories.

Christian Bale's Batman, Lieutenant Jim Gordon, and District Attorney Harvey Dent form an alliance to dismantle Gotham's organized crime syndicates before the Joker plunges the city into moral chaos.

Contrasting Al Pacino's cold consolidation of the Corleone empire in 1958 Nevada and Cuba with Robert De Niro's Oscar-winning portrayal of young Vito Corleone in early twentieth-century New York, the film won six Academy Awards.