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. 399 -

    Greed

    1924, in 21 top lists Check
  2. 313 -

    Bronenosets Potemkin

    1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check
  3. 342 -

    The Gold Rush

    1925, in 29 top lists Check
  4. 356 -

    Napoléon vu par Abel Gance

    1927 — a.k.a. Napoleon, in 24 top lists Check
  5. 250 -

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
  6. 354 -

    Un chien andalou

    1929 — a.k.a. An Andalusian Dog, in 25 top lists Check
  7. 248 -

    Die Büchse der Pandora

    1929 — a.k.a. Pandora's Box, in 18 top lists Check
  8. 212 -

    M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

    1931 — a.k.a. M, in 35 top lists Check
  9. 135 -

    Duck Soup

    1933, in 24 top lists Check
  10. 242 -

    King Kong

    1933, in 26 top lists Check
  11. 257 -

    The Black Cat

    1934, in 8 top lists Check
  12. 297 -

    It Happened One Night

    1934, in 29 top lists Check
  13. 204 -

    Bride of Frankenstein

    1935, in 19 top lists Check
  14. 141 -

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    1937, in 25 top lists Check
  15. 268 -

    The Lady Vanishes

    1938, in 15 top lists Check
  16. 256 -

    Le quai des brumes

    1938 — a.k.a. Port of Shadows, in 10 top lists Check
  17. 31 -

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  18. 255 -

    Ninotchka

    1939, in 20 top lists Check
  19. 104 -

    La règle du jeu

    1939 — a.k.a. The Rules of the Game, in 24 top lists Check
  20. 172 -

    The Wizard of Oz

    1939, in 37 top lists Check
  21. 58 -

    His Girl Friday

    1940, in 22 top lists Check
  22. 246 -

    The Philadelphia Story

    1940, in 22 top lists Check
  23. 318 -

    Rebecca

    1940, in 23 top lists Check
  24. 384 -

    The Shop Around the Corner

    1940, in 14 top lists Check
  25. 28 -

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  26. 178 -

    Hellzapoppin'

    1941, in 7 top lists Check
  27. 359 -

    The Lady Eve

    1941, in 20 top lists Check
  28. 273 -

    The Maltese Falcon

    1941, in 27 top lists Check
  29. 18 -

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  30. 334 -

    The Magnificent Ambersons

    1942, in 15 top lists Check
  31. 299 -

    The Palm Beach Story

    1942, in 14 top lists Check
  32. 80 -

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    1943, in 16 top lists Check
  33. 176 -

    A Canterbury Tale

    1944, in 8 top lists Check
  34. 133 -

    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
  35. 424 -

    To Have and Have Not

    1944, in 15 top lists Check
  36. 171 -

    Brief Encounter

    1945, in 22 top lists Check
  37. 346 -

    Leave Her to Heaven

    1945, in 12 top lists Check
  38. 292 -

    La belle et la bête

    1946 — a.k.a. Beauty and the Beast, in 26 top lists Check
  39. 302 -

    The Best Years of Our Lives

    1946, in 30 top lists Check
  40. 195 -

    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
  41. 75 -

    A Matter of Life and Death

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
  42. 249 -

    My Darling Clementine

    1946, in 20 top lists Check
  43. 147 -

    Notorious

    1946, in 24 top lists Check
  44. 165 -

    Partie de campagne

    1946 — a.k.a. A Day in the Country, in 13 top lists Check
  45. 236 -

    Black Narcissus

    1947, in 15 top lists Check
  46. 434 -

    The Cat Concerto

    1947, in 4 top lists Check
  47. 479 -

    The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

    1947, in 1 top list Check
  48. 241 -

    Brighton Rock

    1948, in 8 top lists Check
  49. 194 -

    Ladri di biciclette

    1948 — a.k.a. Bicycle Thieves, in 36 top lists Check
  50. 149 -

    The Red Shoes

    1948, in 27 top lists Check
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