Top movies of all time: Greatest movies in the 70 to 61 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 70: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the US Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn’t back down. (129 mins.)

Director: Frank Capra

Stars: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold

Running time: 129 minutes

Oscars: 1, Nominations: 11

There were no BAFTA or Golden Globe nominations for this movie.

Number 69: Midnight Cowboy (1969)

A naive prostitute and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City.

Director: John Schlesinger

Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver

Running time: 113 minutes

Oscars: 3, Nominations: 7

BAFTA Awards: 6, Nominations: 6

Golden Globes: 1, Nominations: 7

Number 68: A Place in the Sun (1951)

A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.

Director: George Stevens

Stars: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere

Running time: 122 minutes

Oscars: 6, Nominations: 9

BAFTA Awards: 0, Nominations: 0

Golden Globes: 1, Nominations: 4

Number 67: It Happened One Night (1934)

A spoiled heiress, running away from her family, is helped by a man who is actually a reporter in need of a story.

Director: Frank Capra

Stars: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns

Running time: 105 minutes

Oscars: 5, Nominations: 5

There were no BAFTA or Golden Globe nominations for this movie.

Number 66: The King’s Speech (2010)

The story of King George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it. (118 mins.)

Director: Tom Hooper

Stars: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Derek Jacobi

Running time: 118 minutes

Oscars: 4, Nominations: 12

BAFTA Awards: 5, Nominations: 11

Golden Globes: 1, Nominations: 7

Number 65: City Lights (1931)

With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.

Director: Charles Chaplin

Stars: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers

Running time: 87 minutes

There were no Oscar, BAFTA or Golden Globe nominations for this movie.

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Number 64: The French Connection (1971)

A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.

Director: William Friedkin

Stars: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco

Running time: 104 minutes.

Oscars: 5, Nominations: 8

BAFTA Awards: 2, Nominations: 5

Golden Globes: 3, Nominations: 4

Number 63: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.

Director: Lewis Milestone

Stars: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Arnold Lucy

Running time: 136 minutes

Oscars: 2, Nominations: 4

There were no BAFTA or Golden Globe nominations for this movie.

Number 62: The Deer Hunter (1978)

An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam war impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.

Director: Michael Cimino

Stars: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John Savage

Running time: 183 minutes

Oscars: 5, Nominations: 9
BAFTA Awards: 2, Nominations: 9

Golden Globes: 1, Nominations: 6

Number 61: The Exorcist (1973)

When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.

Director: William Friedkin

Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Lee J. Cobb

Running time: 122 minutes.

Oscars: 2, Nominations: 10

BAFTA Awards: 0, Nominations: 1

Golden Globes: 4, Nominations: 7