Top movies of all time: Greatest movies in the 30 to 21 slots

A list of the top 100 greatest movies of all times has been drawn up by IMDb and is not based on the personal preferences of the Addie’s staff.

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According to IMDb, the movies on this list are ranked according to their success (awards and nominations), their popularity, and their true greatness from a directing/writing standpoint.

Number 30:  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Stars: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn

Running time: 95 minutes

Oscars: 0, Oscar Nominations: 4

BAFTA Awards: 3, BAFTA Nominations: 6

Golden Globes: 0, Golden Globe Nominations: 0

Number 29:  12 Angry Men (1957)

A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court.

Director: Sidney Lumet

Stars: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler

Running time: 96 minutes

Oscars: 0, Oscar Nominations: 3

BAFTA Awards: 1, BAFTA Nominations: 2

Golden Globes: 0, Golden Globe Nominations: 4

Number 28:  Some Like It Hot (1959)

When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. (120 mins.)

Director: Billy Wilder

Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft

Running time: 120 minutes

Oscars: 1, Oscar Nominations: 6

BAFTA Awards: 1, BAFTA Nominations: 2

Golden Globes: 3, Golden Globe Nominations: 3

Number 27: It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed.

Director: Frank Capra

Stars: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell

Running time: 130 minutes

Oscars: 0, Oscar Nominations: 5

BAFTA Awards: 0, BAFTA Nominations: 0

Golden Globes: 1, Golden Globe Nominations: 1

Number 26:  Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound. (103 mins.)

Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly

Stars: Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen

Running time: 103 minutes

Oscars: 0, Oscar Nominations: 2

BAFTA Awards: 0, BAFTA Nominations: 1

Golden Globes: 1, Golden Globe Nominations: 2

Number 25:  The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men’s construction of a railway bridge for their captors – while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it. (161 mins.)

Director: David Lean

Stars: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa

Running time: 161 minutes

Oscars: 7, Oscar Nominations: 8

BAFTA Awards: 4, BAFTA Nominations: 4

Golden Globes: 3, Golden Globe Nominations: 4

Number 24:  Chinatown (1974)

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption and murder.

Director: Roman Polanski

Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez

Running time: 130 minutes

Oscars: 1, Oscar Nominations: 11

BAFTA Awards: 3, BAFTA Nominations: 10

Golden Globes: 4, Golden Globe Nominations: 7

Number 23: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

A young F.B.I. cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.

Director: Jonathan Demme

Stars: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Lawrence A. Bonney, Kasi Lemmons

Running time: 118 minutes

Oscars: 5, Oscar Nominations: 7

BAFTA Awards: 2, BAFTA Nominations: 9

Golden Globes: 1, Golden Globe Nominations: 5

Number 22: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter

Running time: 160 minutes

Oscars: 1, Oscar Nominations: 4

BAFTA Awards: 3, BAFTA Nominations: 5

Golden Globes: 0, Golden Globe Nominations: 0

Number 21: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home-world. (115 mins.)

Director: Steven Spielberg

Stars: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Dee Wallace

Running times: 115 minutes

Oscars: 4, Oscar Nominations: 9

BAFTA Awards: 1, BAFTA Nominations: 12

Golden Globes: 2, Golden Globe Nominations: 5