At the end of the day, of course, there is no one solitary answer as to what makes a great movie-just like there is no one type of great film.Ĭounting down from #100, here are the best movies of all time. That means everything from the writing to the music to the acting is memorable, if not downright iconic. Great films usually deliver the goods on multiple fronts. Films of all languages and from all countries were considered. To qualify, each movie needed at least 20,000 votes on IMDb and a Metascore. To explore the 100 best films of all time, Stacker analyzed IMDb ratings and Metascores to create a score equally weighting the two. The best movies arguably represent the pinnacle of artistic achievement in the modern era and that makes them worth celebrating over and over again. Every cinematic era has put forth its respective slate of timeless masterpieces. Naturally, movies have come a long way since the early days of 50-second reels, resulting in a rich variety of styles-many of which are easily streamed right from home. Audiences have been enraptured by cinema since 1895 when Auguste and Louis Lumière used a cinematograph machine to project moving images onto a screen.

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