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Alice's 500 Greatest Films

The goal in this compilation was to determine film history's definitive creme de la creme. The titles considered to be the greatest of the great from around the world and throughout the history of film.. So, after an in-depth analysis of respected critics and publications from around the globe, cross referenced and tweaked to arrive at the ranking of films representing, we believe, the greatest cinema can offer. Scroll, contemplate and enjoy..... Want a printable list of the 500 greatest to check off? Click here

To Be Or Not To Be (1942)

8.2/10
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Starring: Jack Benny, Carole Lombard, Robert Stack

The original WWII satire and comedy classic. Jack Benny is a hammy Shakespearean actor who, along with members of his Polish acting troupe, becomes in... Read more

Tokyo Story (1953)

8.2/10
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Starring: Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara

Aka "Tokyo Monogatari". One of the legendary classics of humanist cinema tells the simple, sad story of an elderly couple who travel to Tokyo to visit... Read more

Top Hat (1935)

7.8/10
Director: Mark Sandrich
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton

Commonly called the quintessential Astaire-Rogers musical, Top Hat is a breathless combination of glorious music, marvelous dance routines which seem... Read more

Touch of Evil (1958)

8.1/10
Director: Orson Welles
Starring: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Akim Tamiroff, Joseph Calleia, Marle...

This twisting cinematic masterpiece of style and suspense, based on the Whit Masterson novel, features Orson Welles as a corrupt cane-wielding officia... Read more

Toy Story (1995)

8.3/10
Director: John Lasseter
Starring: Annie Potts, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, John Ratzenberger, Tim Allen, Tom Hanks, W...

A very clever, incredible-looking computer animated feature film telling the tale of a boy's favourite toy, a cowboy doll named Woody who's feeling th... Read more

Toy Story ( Blu-ray ) (1995)

8.3/10
Director: John Lasseter
Starring: Annie Potts, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, John Ratzenberger, Tim Allen, Tom Hanks, W...

A very clever, incredible-looking computer animated feature film telling the tale of a boy's favourite toy, a cowboy doll named Woody who's feeling th... Read more

Toy Story 2 (1999)

7.9/10
Director: John Lasseter
Starring: Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Tim Allen, Tom Hanks

When Woody is mistakenly left in a yard sale and taken by a fanatical toy collector, it's up to Buzz, Slinky Dog, Mr. Potato Head and the gang to stag... Read more

Toy Story 2 ( Blu-ray ) (1999)

7.9/10
Director: John Lasseter
Starring: Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Tim Allen, Tom Hanks

When Woody is mistakenly left in a yard sale and taken by a fanatical toy collector, it's up to Buzz, Slinky Dog, Mr. Potato Head and the gang to stag... Read more

Toy Story 3 (2010)

8.3/10
Director: Lee Unkrich
Starring: Don Rickles, Estelle Harris, Joan Cusack, John Ratzenberger, Michael Keaton, Ned...

Join these beloved toy-box residents for their third heart-warming and hilarious adventure. All your favourite characters return, along with some new... Read more

Toy Story 3 ( Blu-ray ) (2010)

8.3/10
Director: Lee Unkrich
Starring: Don Rickles, Estelle Harris, Joan Cusack, John Ratzenberger, Michael Keaton, Ned...

Join these beloved toy-box residents for their third heart-warming and hilarious adventure. All your favourite characters return, along with some new... Read more

Trainspotting (1995)

8.2/10
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Ewen Bremner, Robert Carlyle, Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Kel...

A gritty, graphically painful and, at times, blackly funny look at a group of heroin addicts in Edinburgh, Scotland focusing on one young man as he re... Read more

Trainspotting ( Blu-ray ) (1995)

8.2/10
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kelly Macdonald, Kevin McKidd, Ro...

A gritty, graphically painful and, at times, blackly funny look at a group of heroin addicts in Edinburgh, Scotland focusing on one young man as he re... Read more

Triumph of the Will (1934)

7.5/10
Director: Leni Riefenstahl
Starring: Adolf Hitler

Leni Riefenstahl's breathtaking film record of the 1934 Nazi Nuremberg Rally is universally regarded as one of the most outstanding documentaries ever... Read more

Trouble in Paradise (1932)

8.2/10
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Starring: Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charlie Ruggles, Edward Everett H...

When thief Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall) meets his true love in pickpocket Lily (Miriam Hopkins), they embark on a scam to rob lovely perfume comp... Read more

Ugetsu (1953)

8.2/10
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Starring: Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo, Kinuyo Tanaka

Aka "Ugetsu Monogatari". Quite simply one of the greatest of filmmakers, said Jean-Luc Godard of Kenji Mizoguchi. And "Ugetsu", a ghost story like n... Read more

Umberto D. (1952)

8.2/10
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Starring: Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari

One of the masterpieces of Italian Neo-Realist cinema - the Italian postwar Renaissance. The story centres on a retired civil servant, living only on... Read more

Un Chien Andalou / Land Without Bread ( Las Hurdes ) (1929)

Director: Luis Bunuel

Luis Bunuel's first film, the surrealistic masterpiece "Un Chien Andalou" ("An Andalusian Dog"), was based after an exchange of dreams with co-writer... Read more

Une Partie de Campagne ( A Day in the Country ) (1936)

7.8/10
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Sylvia Bataille, Georges D'Arnoux

A short and semisweet romantic vignette based on a story by Guy de Maupassant. A group of family members spend a day away from the city in the French... Read more

Unforgiven (1992)

8.2/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Richard Harris, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, Clint Eastwood

Revisionist western that has Clint Eastwood as a one-time mad killer, long since reformed, who comes reluctantly out of 'retirement' to make one more... Read more

Unforgiven ( Blu-ray ) (1992)

8.2/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris

Revisionist western that has Clint Eastwood as a one-time mad killer, long since reformed, who comes reluctantly out of 'retirement' to make one more... Read more