The best movies of all time

TOPICAL scores 6,624 films on seven parts: critics, audiences, awards, historical impact, lasting engagement, cast and legacy (how the score works). Here are the top 250. Every scored film is on its decade's page, and the best of each genre on its genre page.

TOPICAL rank	Film	Year	Score
1	The Godfather	1972	100.0
2	Pulp Fiction	1994	99.2
3	The Silence of the Lambs	1991	98.8
4	The Godfather Part II	1974	98.6
5	Schindler's List	1993	98.3
6	Casablanca	1942	98.1
7	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	1975	97.9
8	Lawrence of Arabia	1962	97.7
9	Star Wars	1977	97.5
10	Apocalypse Now	1979	97.4
11	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	2001	97.2
12	The Dark Knight	2008	97.0
13	Forrest Gump	1994	96.9
14	Taxi Driver	1976	96.8
15	GoodFellas	1990	96.6
16	WALL·E	2008	96.5
17	Gone with the Wind	1939	96.4
18	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	2003	96.2
19	12 Angry Men	1957	96.1
20	No Country for Old Men	2007	96.0
21	Spirited Away	2001	95.9
22	12 Years a Slave	2013	95.8
23	Citizen Kane	1941	95.7
24	Parasite	2019	95.6
25	It's a Wonderful Life	1946	95.5
26	Toy Story	1995	95.4
27	Titanic	1997	95.3
28	The Bridge on the River Kwai	1957	95.2
29	Inception	2010	95.1
30	All About Eve	1950	95.0
31	On the Waterfront	1954	94.9
32	The Apartment	1960	94.8
33	L.A. Confidential	1997	94.7
34	Oppenheimer	2023	94.6
35	Saving Private Ryan	1998	94.5
36	The Departed	2006	94.4
37	Sunset Boulevard	1950	94.3
38	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	1964	94.2
39	Chinatown	1974	94.1
40	Unforgiven	1992	94.1
41	The Pianist	2002	94.0
42	Rear Window	1954	93.9
43	Some Like It Hot	1959	93.8
44	Brokeback Mountain	2005	93.7
45	Million Dollar Baby	2004	93.7
46	Raging Bull	1980	93.6
47	Psycho	1960	93.5
48	The Matrix	1999	93.4
49	The Grand Budapest Hotel	2014	93.3
50	The Deer Hunter	1978	93.3
51	A Streetcar Named Desire	1951	93.2
52	Alien	1979	93.1
53	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	2004	93.0
54	The Sting	1973	93.0
55	Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981	92.9
56	Blade Runner	1982	92.8
57	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	2002	92.8
58	Back to the Future	1985	92.7
59	The Shawshank Redemption	1994	92.6
60	One Battle After Another	2025	92.5
61	Amadeus	1984	92.5
62	Fargo	1996	92.4
63	Jurassic Park	1993	92.3
64	The King's Speech	2010	92.3
65	Ben-Hur	1959	92.2
66	The Empire Strikes Back	1980	92.1
67	North by Northwest	1959	92.1
68	Gladiator	2000	92.0
69	La La Land	2016	91.9
70	There Will Be Blood	2007	91.9
71	Annie Hall	1977	91.8
72	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	1948	91.7
73	The Third Man	1949	91.7
74	Django Unchained	2012	91.6
75	The Lion King	1994	91.6
76	Platoon	1986	91.5
77	Dead Poets Society	1989	91.4
78	Rebecca	1940	91.4
79	All the President's Men	1976	91.3
80	The Graduate	1967	91.2
81	Good Will Hunting	1997	91.2
82	Spartacus	1960	91.1
83	The Father	2020	91.1
84	The Truman Show	1998	91.0
85	Shrek	2001	90.9
86	Toy Story 3	2010	90.9
87	The Grapes of Wrath	1940	90.8
88	The French Connection	1971	90.8
89	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	1991	90.7
90	Network	1976	90.7
91	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	2017	90.6
92	The Incredibles	2004	90.5
93	The Wizard of Oz	1939	90.5
94	Fight Club	1999	90.4
95	Double Indemnity	1944	90.4
96	It Happened One Night	1934	90.3
97	The Philadelphia Story	1940	90.3
98	Once Upon a Time in the West	1968	90.2
99	Iron Man	2008	90.1
100	Rashomon	1950	90.1
101	The Social Network	2010	90.0
102	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	1982	90.0
103	High Noon	1952	89.9
104	Whiplash	2014	89.9
105	Her	2013	89.8
106	The Best Years of Our Lives	1946	89.8
107	Gravity	2013	89.7
108	To Kill a Mockingbird	1962	89.7
109	Modern Times	1936	89.6
110	Apollo 13	1995	89.6
111	2001: A Space Odyssey	1968	89.5
112	Roman Holiday	1953	89.4
113	Seven Samurai	1954	89.4
114	The Great Dictator	1940	89.3
115	The Exorcist	1973	89.3
116	Amour	2012	89.2
117	Roma	2018	89.2
118	My Fair Lady	1964	89.1
119	Up	2009	89.1
120	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	2018	89.0
121	A Separation	2011	89.0
122	8½	1963	88.9
123	Mad Max: Fury Road	2015	88.9
124	Rosemary's Baby	1968	88.8
125	Singin' in the Rain	1952	88.8
126	City of God	2002	88.7
127	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	2014	88.7
128	Interstellar	2014	88.6
129	Dog Day Afternoon	1975	88.6
130	The Wolf of Wall Street	2013	88.5
131	Finding Nemo	2003	88.5
132	A Clockwork Orange	1971	88.4
133	Spotlight	2015	88.4
134	Memento	2000	88.3
135	Jaws	1975	88.3
136	Bicycle Thieves	1948	88.2
137	Dunkirk	2017	88.2
138	City Lights	1931	88.2
139	Rocky	1976	88.1
140	The Hurt Locker	2008	88.1
141	Vertigo	1958	88.0
142	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	1966	88.0
143	La Dolce Vita	1960	87.9
144	Dances with Wolves	1990	87.9
145	Midnight Cowboy	1969	87.8
146	The Sound of Music	1965	87.8
147	Cinema Paradiso	1988	87.7
148	Notorious	1946	87.7
149	Bonnie and Clyde	1967	87.6
150	Oldboy	2003	87.6
151	Stagecoach	1939	87.5
152	Life Is Beautiful	1997	87.5
153	Mary Poppins	1964	87.5
154	The Elephant Man	1980	87.4
155	Ratatouille	2007	87.4
156	The Irishman	2019	87.3
157	The Leopard	1963	87.3
158	The Maltese Falcon	1941	87.2
159	Beauty and the Beast	1991	87.2
160	Aliens	1986	87.1
161	Patton	1970	87.1
162	Mystic River	2003	87.1
163	Avatar	2009	87.0
164	A Beautiful Mind	2001	87.0
165	Rain Man	1988	86.9
166	Poor Things	2023	86.9
167	Argo	2012	86.8
168	From Here to Eternity	1953	86.8
169	Coco	2017	86.7
170	Pan's Labyrinth	2006	86.7
171	Manchester by the Sea	2016	86.7
172	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	1939	86.6
173	Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge	1995	86.6
174	Toy Story 2	1999	86.5
175	Inglourious Basterds	2009	86.5
176	The Conversation	1974	86.4
177	Kramer vs. Kramer	1979	86.4
178	Barry Lyndon	1975	86.4
179	Slumdog Millionaire	2008	86.3
180	Wild Strawberries	1957	86.3
181	Avengers: Endgame	2019	86.2
182	The Battle of Algiers	1966	86.2
183	Lost in Translation	2003	86.2
184	The Shape of Water	2017	86.1
185	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans	1927	86.1
186	The Favourite	2018	86.0
187	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2	2011	86.0
188	The Big Lebowski	1998	85.9
189	Top Gun: Maverick	2022	85.9
190	Arrival	2016	85.9
191	Cool Hand Luke	1967	85.8
192	Inside Out	2015	85.8
193	The Artist	2011	85.7
194	Fanny and Alexander	1982	85.7
195	The English Patient	1996	85.7
196	Boyhood	2014	85.6
197	Everything Everywhere All at Once	2022	85.6
198	In the Heat of the Night	1967	85.5
199	Silver Linings Playbook	2012	85.5
200	All Quiet on the Western Front	1930	85.5
201	Grave of the Fireflies	1988	85.4
202	Get Out	2017	85.4
203	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	1937	85.3
204	Thelma & Louise	1991	85.3
205	Call Me by Your Name	2017	85.3
206	West Side Story	1961	85.2
207	The Last Picture Show	1971	85.2
208	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	2000	85.1
209	Anatomy of a Murder	1959	85.1
210	Moonlight	2016	85.1
211	The Avengers	2012	85.0
212	Anora	2024	85.0
213	The Hustler	1961	84.9
214	My Neighbor Totoro	1988	84.9
215	In the Mood for Love	2000	84.9
216	Paths of Glory	1957	84.8
217	The Big Short	2015	84.8
218	Who Framed Roger Rabbit	1988	84.7
219	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	1969	84.7
220	Marriage Story	2019	84.7
221	Paris, Texas	1984	84.6
222	The Piano	1993	84.6
223	Gandhi	1982	84.6
224	The Revenant	2015	84.5
225	The African Queen	1951	84.5
226	Die Hard	1988	84.4
227	Return of the Jedi	1983	84.4
228	Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood	2019	84.4
229	The Wild Bunch	1969	84.3
230	Cabaret	1972	84.3
231	Sense and Sensibility	1995	84.2
232	American Beauty	1999	84.2
233	Tootsie	1982	84.2
234	The Adventures of Robin Hood	1938	84.1
235	Dallas Buyers Club	2013	84.1
236	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse	2023	84.1
237	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	1966	84.0
238	Room	2015	84.0
239	Soul	2020	83.9
240	The Imitation Game	2014	83.9
241	Zootopia	2016	83.9
242	The Gold Rush	1925	83.8
243	Hacksaw Ridge	2016	83.8
244	The Usual Suspects	1995	83.8
245	Manhattan	1979	83.7
246	The Right Stuff	1983	83.7
247	Coraline	2009	83.7
248	Sabrina	1954	83.6
249	Gaslight	1944	83.6
250	The Night of the Hunter	1955	83.5