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. 416 -

    Bad Taste

    1987, in 6 top lists Check
  2. 237 -

    Delicatessen

    1991, in 15 top lists Check
  3. 355 -

    Sunshine

    2007, in 1 top list Check
  4. 452 -

    Unbreakable

    2000, in 6 top lists Check
  5. 174 -

    Superman

    1978, in 11 top lists Check
  6. 484 -

    The Fountain

    2006, in 4 top lists Check
  7. 265 -

    A.I. Artificial Intelligence

    2001, in 11 top lists Check
  8. 350 -

    Planet of the Apes

    1968, in 16 top lists Check
  9. 383 -

    Serenity

    2005, in 3 top lists Check
  10. 404 -

    RoboCop

    1987, in 15 top lists Check
  11. 309 -

    Transformers

    2007, in 4 top lists Check
  12. 394 -

    Cloverfield

    2008, in 3 top lists Check
  13. 409 -

    Men in Black

    1997, in 6 top lists Check
  14. 285 -

    Solyaris

    1972 — a.k.a. Solaris, in 27 top lists Check
  15. 440 -

    Akira

    1988, in 22 top lists Check
  16. 366 -

    Predator

    1987, in 9 top lists Check
  17. 204 -

    Bride of Frankenstein

    1935, in 19 top lists Check
  18. 59 -

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    1977, in 23 top lists Check
  19. 432 -

    X2

    2003 — a.k.a. X2: X-Men United, in 5 top lists Check
  20. 83 -

    Brazil

    1985, in 23 top lists Check
  21. 328 -

    The Truman Show

    1998, in 14 top lists Check
  22. 47 -

    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    1982, in 30 top lists Check
  23. 189 -

    Ghostbusters

    1984, in 13 top lists Check
  24. 380 -

    Children of Men

    2006, in 13 top lists Check
  25. 406 -

    Iron Man

    2008, in 8 top lists Check
  26. 308 -

    The Terminator

    1984, in 24 top lists Check
  27. 289 -

    The Thing

    1982, in 20 top lists Check
  28. 465 -

    Twelve Monkeys

    1995 — a.k.a. 12 Monkeys, in 14 top lists Check
  29. 498 -

    Back to the Future Part II

    1989, in 6 top lists Check
  30. 35 -

    Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    1991, in 27 top lists Check
  31. 232 -

    Jurassic Park

    1993, in 23 top lists Check
  32. 53 -

    Donnie Darko

    2001, in 21 top lists Check
  33. 73 -

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    2004, in 28 top lists Check
  34. 30 -

    Aliens

    1986, in 24 top lists Check
  35. 23 -

    Back to the Future

    1985, in 25 top lists Check
  36. 20 -

    Blade Runner

    1982, in 36 top lists Check
  37. 39 -

    The Matrix

    1999, in 30 top lists Check
  38. 33 -

    Alien

    1979, in 30 top lists Check
  39. 37 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  40. 16 -

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
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