Composite 77.91
Composite 82.24
Your #1 was The Great Dictator (#1).
Composite 82.24
Dir. Charlie Chaplin · Charlie Chaplin · Paulette Goddard · Jack Oakie · Reginald Gardiner
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Composite 77.91
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · Joan Fontaine · Laurence Olivier · George Sanders · Judith Anderson
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.
Composite 77.5
Dir. John Ford · Henry Fonda · Jane Darwell · John Carradine · Charley Grapewin
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
Composite 75.53
Dir. Ernst Lubitsch · Margaret Sullavan · James Stewart · Frank Morgan · Joseph Schildkraut
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
Composite 74.53
Dir. George Cukor · Cary Grant · Katharine Hepburn · James Stewart · Ruth Hussey
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
Composite 73.93
Dir. Wilfred Jackson · Deems Taylor · Walt Disney · Julietta Novis · Leopold Stokowski
Walt Disney's timeless masterpiece is an extravaganza of sight and sound! See the music come to life, hear the pictures burst into song and experience the excitement that is Fantasia over and over again.
Composite 73.74
Dir. Howard Hawks · Cary Grant · Rosalind Russell · Ralph Bellamy · Gene Lockhart
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
Composite 72.63
Dir. Hamilton Luske · Dickie Jones · Cliff Edwards · Christian Rub · Evelyn Venable
When the gentle woodcarver Geppetto builds a marionette to be his substitute son, a benevolent fairy brings the toy to life. The puppet, named Pinocchio, is not yet a human boy. He must earn the right to be real by proving that he is brave, truthful, and unselfish.
Composite 69.02
Dir. Mervyn LeRoy · Vivien Leigh · Robert Taylor · Lucile Watson · Virginia Field
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
Composite 68.6
Dir. William Wyler · Bette Davis · Herbert Marshall · James Stephenson · Frieda Inescort
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
Composite 68.5
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · Joel McCrea · Laraine Day · Herbert Marshall · George Sanders
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
Composite 67.83
Dir. Michael Curtiz · Errol Flynn · Brenda Marshall · Claude Rains · Donald Crisp
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
Composite 67.73
Dir. Michael Powell · Conrad Veidt · Sabu · June Duprez · John Justin
When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.
Composite 67.38
Dir. Rouben Mamoulian · Tyrone Power · Linda Darnell · Basil Rathbone · Gale Sondergaard
In 1820 Spain, the son of a California nobleman comes home to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On one hand, he plays the useless fop, while on the other, he is the masked avenger Zorro.
Composite 66.49
Dir. Garson Kanin · Cary Grant · Irene Dunne · Randolph Scott · Gail Patrick
Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a shock when he learns that Ellen spent her time alone on an island with another man.
Composite 66.28
Dir. Anatole Litvak · Bette Davis · Charles Boyer · Jeffrey Lynn · Barbara O'Neil
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband. Though she saves the duchess's little son from a near-death illness and warms herself to all the children, she is nevertheless dismissed by the vengeful duchess. Meanwhile, the attraction between the duke and Henriette continues to grow, eventually leading to tragedy.
Composite 65.83
Dir. Raoul Walsh · George Raft · Ann Sheridan · Ida Lupino · Humphrey Bogart
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
Composite 63.77
Dir. John Ford · John Wayne · Thomas Mitchell · Ian Hunter · Barry Fitzgerald
The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.
Composite 63.61
Dir. Sam Wood · Ginger Rogers · Dennis Morgan · James Craig · Eduardo Ciannelli
A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.
Composite 61.85
Dir. Sam Wood · William Holden · Martha Scott · Fay Bainter · Beulah Bondi
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. We see birth, life and death in this small community.
How scoring works: films are ranked by a composite of a weighted (Bayesian) IMDb rating — the same method as the IMDb Top 250, so a high score from few voters can't outrank a strong score from many — blended with TMDB. Box office is a tiebreaker and a badge, never part of the score. Raw IMDb ratings and vote counts are shown on each card.