Top movies of all time: Greatest movies in the 50 to 41 slots
Moving into the top 50 movies on the Greatest 100 movies ever made, this week we look at films in the 50 to 41 positions.
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.
Check out the list and let us know if you agree or disagree and what other movies your would add to the list.
Remember that your favourite may be higher, or lower, on the list so make sure to read through all the lists (the top 100 hundred has been broken into sets of 10 movies for ease of reading) and let us know where these movies rank, if at all, in your list of favoured movies.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 50 : Jaws (1975)
When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary
Running time: 124 minutes.
Oscars: 3, Nominations: 4
BAFTA Awards: 0, Nominations: 6
Golden Globes: 1, Nominations: 4
Number 49: Patton (1970)
The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general, George S. Patton.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Stars: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young, Michael Strong
Running time: 174 minutes.
Oscars: 7, Nominations: 10
BAFTA Awards: 0, Nominations: 2
Golden Globes: 1, Nominations: 3
Number 48: Doctor Zhivago (1965)
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist’s wife and experiences hardship during the First World War and then the October Revolution.
Director: David Lean
Stars: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger
Running time: 197 minutes.
Oscars: 5, Nominations: 10
BAFTA Awards: 0, Nominations: 3
Golden Globes: 5, Nominations: 6
Number 47: Ben-Hur (1959)
When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
Director: William Wyler
Stars: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet
Running time: 212 minutes.
Oscars: 11, Nominations: 12
BAFTA Awards: 1, Nominations: 1
Golden Globes: 3, Nominations: 4
Number 46: My Fair Lady (1964)
A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Director: George Cukor
Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Running time: 170 minutes.
Oscars: 8, Nominations: 12
BAFTA Awards: 1, Nominations: 2
Golden Globes: 3, Nominations: 5
Number 45: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
Director: William Wyler
Stars: Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright
Running time: 172 minutes.
Oscars: 7, Nominations: 8
BAFTA Awards: 1, Nominations: 1
Golden Globes: 1, Nominations: 1
Number 44: An American in Paris (1951)
Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. However, things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Stars: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary
Running time: 113 minutes
Oscars: 6, Nominations: 8
BAFTA Awards: 0, Nominations: 1
Golden Globes: 1, Nominations: 3
Number 43: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice.
Director: Robert Mulligan
Stars: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy
Running time: 129 minutes.
Oscars: 3, Nominations: 8
BAFTA Awards: 0, Nominations: 2
Golden Globes: 3, Nominations: 5
Number 42: The Philadelphia Story (1940)
When a rich woman’s ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
Director: George Cukor
Stars: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey
Running time: 112 minutes.
Oscars: 2, Nominations: 6
There were no BAFTA or Golden Globe Nominations or awards for this film.
Number 41: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
Director: Elia Kazan
Stars: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden
Running time: 122 minutes
Oscars: 4, Nominations: 12
BAFTA Awards: 1, Nominations: 2
Golden Globes: 1, Nominations: 3
