Top movies of all time: Greatest movies in the 90 to 81 slots
In slots 90 to 1, here are this week's Top Movies ever made.
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 90: Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on avenging his captors.
Director: Frank Lloyd
Stars: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Herbert Mundin
Running time: 132 minutes
Oscars: 1, Nominations: 8
Number 89: Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
A somewhat romanticized account of the career of the notoriously violent bank robbing couple and their gang.
Director: Arthur Penn
Stars: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman
Running time: 111 minutes
Oscars: 2, Nominations: 10
BAFTA Awards: 2, Nominations: 4
Golden Globes: 0, Nominations: 7
Number 88: Stagecoach (1939)
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.
Director: John Ford
Stars: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine, John Carradine
Running time: 96 minutes
Oscars: 2, Nominations: 7
There were no BAFTAs or Golden Globe nominations for this film.
Number 87: The African Queen (1951)
In Africa during WWI, a gin-swilling riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship. (105 mins.)
Director: John Huston
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull
Running time: 105 minutes
Oscars: 1, Nominations: 4
There were no BAFTA or Golden Globe nominations for this film.
Number 86: Pulp Fiction (1994)
The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster’s wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Stars: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis
Running time: 154 minutes
Oscars: 1, Nominations: 7
BAFTA Awards: 2, Nominations: 8
Golden Globes: 1, Nominations: 6
Number 85: American Graffiti (1973)
A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
Director: George Lucas
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith
Running time: 110 minutes
Oscars: 0, Nominations: 5
BAFTA Awards: 0, Nominations: 1
Golden Globes: 2, Nominations: 4
Number 84: The Graduate (1967)
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
Director: Mike Nichols
Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, William Daniels
Running time: 106 minutes
Oscars: 1, Nominations: 7
BAFTA Awards: 5, Nominations: 7
Golden Globes: 5, Nominations: 7
Number 83: Nashville (1975)
Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention as secrets and lies are surfaced and revealed. (159 mins.)
Director: Robert Altman
Stars: Keith Carradine, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley, Shelley Duvall
Running time: 159 minutes
Oscars: 1, Nominations: 5
BAFTA Awards: 1, Nominations: 5
Golden Globes: 1, Nominations: 11
Number 82: Network (1976)
A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor’s ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.
Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall
Running time: 121 minutes
Oscars: 4, Nominations: 10
BAFTA Awards: 1, Nominations: 9
Golden Globes: 4, Nominations: 5
Number 81: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
After an encounter with U.F.O.s, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon
Running time: 137 minutes
Oscars: 1, Nominations: 8
BAFTA Awards: 0, Nominations: 4
Golden Globes: 1, Nominations: 8
