Empire's The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time

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The 500 movies in this list have been selected by a combination of 10,000 Empire readers, 50 critics and 150 of Hollywood's finest.

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  1. 336 -

    Titanic

    1997, in 25 top lists Check
  2. 460 -

    Crash

    2004, in 4 top lists Check
  3. 53 -

    Donnie Darko

    2001, in 21 top lists Check
  4. 463 -

    Juno

    2007, in 12 top lists Check
  5. 211 -

    Moulin Rouge!

    2001, in 17 top lists Check
  6. 240 -

    Forrest Gump

    1994, in 25 top lists Check
  7. 37 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  8. 73 -

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    2004, in 28 top lists Check
  9. 418 -

    V for Vendetta

    2005, in 10 top lists Check
  10. 128 -

    Lost in Translation

    2003, in 19 top lists Check
  11. 15 -

    The Dark Knight

    2008, in 27 top lists Check
  12. 450 -

    King Kong

    2005, in 6 top lists Check
  13. 265 -

    A.I. Artificial Intelligence

    2001, in 11 top lists Check
  14. 151 -

    Gladiator

    2000, in 25 top lists Check
  15. 238 -

    Requiem for a Dream

    2000, in 21 top lists Check
  16. 228 -

    No Country for Old Men

    2007, in 23 top lists Check
  17. 490 -

    Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

    2007, in 6 top lists Check
  18. 473 -

    Into the Wild

    2007, in 10 top lists Check
  19. 320 -

    Braveheart

    1995, in 19 top lists Check
  20. 9 -

    Pulp Fiction

    1994, in 38 top lists Check
  21. 96 -

    American Beauty

    1999, in 25 top lists Check
  22. 10 -

    Fight Club

    1999, in 19 top lists Check
  23. 484 -

    The Fountain

    2006, in 4 top lists Check
  24. 226 -

    Romeo + Juliet

    1996, in 7 top lists Check
  25. 144 -

    There Will Be Blood

    2007, in 20 top lists Check
  26. 132 -

    El laberinto del fauno

    2006 — a.k.a. Pan's Labyrinth, in 33 top lists Check
  27. 455 -

    Top Gun

    1986, in 8 top lists Check
  28. 391 -

    Mulholland Dr.

    2001 — a.k.a. Mulholland Drive, in 26 top lists Check
  29. 405 -

    Dirty Dancing

    1987, in 10 top lists Check
  30. 380 -

    Children of Men

    2006, in 13 top lists Check
  31. 402 -

    Little Miss Sunshine

    2006, in 7 top lists Check
  32. 1 -

    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  33. 284 -

    Scarface

    1983, in 19 top lists Check
  34. 208 -

    The Departed

    2006, in 20 top lists Check
  35. 31 -

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  36. 156 -

    Saving Private Ryan

    1998, in 28 top lists Check
  37. 28 -

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  38. 435 -

    American Psycho

    2000, in 12 top lists Check
  39. 388 -

    The English Patient

    1996, in 19 top lists Check
  40. 191 -

    Brokeback Mountain

    2005, in 21 top lists Check
  41. 5 -

    Jaws

    1975, in 28 top lists Check
  42. 89 -

    Magnolia

    1999, in 17 top lists Check
  43. 305 -

    The Prestige

    2006, in 15 top lists Check
  44. 364 -

    Natural Born Killers

    1994, in 9 top lists Check
  45. 159 -

    The Royal Tenenbaums

    2001, in 8 top lists Check
  46. 4 -

    The Shawshank Redemption

    1994, in 24 top lists Check
  47. 316 -

    Trainspotting

    1996, in 18 top lists Check
  48. 332 -

    The Sixth Sense

    1999, in 20 top lists Check
  49. 68 -

    Annie Hall

    1977, in 34 top lists Check
  50. 198 -

    Fargo

    1996, in 27 top lists Check
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