Top Movies of All Time Part One

Hello, here is part one of the top 100 greatest movies of all time. So, if you are in need of a really good movie...check out this list. There will be more posts in the future continuing the list.

1) The Godfather

The story begins as "Don" Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia "family", oversees his daughter's wedding with his wife Carmela. His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father's business. Through Michael's life the nature of the family business becomes clear. The business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but given to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. Don Vito lives his life in the way of the old country, but times are changing and some don't want to follow the old ways and look out for community and "family". An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants to start selling drugs in New York, and needs the Don's influence to further his plan. The clash of the Don's fading old world values and the new ways will demand a terrible price, especially from Michael, all for the sake of the family.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Writers: Mario Puzo (screenplay), Francis Ford Coppola(screenplay), 1 more credit »
Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1972



2) The Shawshank Redemption

Andy Dufresne is a young and successful banker whose life changes drastically when he is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and her lover. Set in the 1940's, the film shows how Andy, with the help of his friend Red, the prison entrepreneur, turns out to be a most unconventional prisoner.

Director: Frank Darabont
Writers: Stephen King (short story "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption"), Frank Darabont (screenplay)
Stars: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1994



3) Schindler's List

Oskar Schindler is a vainglorious and greedy German businessman who becomes unlikely humanitarian amid the barbaric Nazi reign when he feels compelled to turn his factory into a refuge for Jews. Based on the true story of Oskar Schindler who managed to save about 1100 Jews from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. A testament for the good in all of us.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Thomas Keneally (book), Steven Zaillian(screenplay)
Stars: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1993



4) Raging Bull
When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he's a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he's a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his family's love, something always seems to come between them. Perhaps it's his violent bouts of paranoia and jealousy. This kind of rage helped make him a champ, but in real life, he winds up in the ring alone.

Director: Martin Scorsese
Writers: Jake LaMotta (based on the book by), Joseph Carter (with), 3 more credits »
Stars: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1980



5) Casablanca

In World War II Casablanca, Rick Blaine, exiled American and former freedom fighter, runs the most popular nightspot in town. The cynical lone wolf Blaine comes into the possession of two valuable letters of transit. When Nazi Major Strasser arrives in Casablanca, the sycophantic police Captain Renault does what he can to please him, including detaining a Czechoslovak underground leader Victor Laszlo. Much to Rick's surprise, Lazslo arrives with Ilsa, Rick's one time love. Rick is very bitter towards Ilsa, who ran out on him in Paris, but when he learns she had good reason to, they plan to run off together again using the letters of transit. Well, that was their original plan....

Director: Michael Curtiz
Writers: Julius J. Epstein (screenplay), Philip G. Epstein(screenplay), 4 more credits »
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1942



6) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
McMurphy has a criminal past and has once again gotten himself into trouble with the law. To escape labor duties in prison, McMurphy pleads insanity and is sent to a ward for the mentally unstable. Once here, McMurphy both endures and stands witness to the abuse and degradation of the oppressive Nurse Ratched, who gains superiority and power through the flaws of the other inmates. McMurphy and the other inmates band together to make a rebellious stance against the atrocious Nurse.

Director: Milos Forman
Writers: Lawrence Hauben (screenplay), Bo Goldman(screenplay), 2 more credits »
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1975



7) Gone with the Wind
Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie.

Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor (uncredited) , 1 more credit »
Writers: Margaret Mitchell (story), Sidney Howard (screen play), 4 more credits »
Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1939



8) Citizen Kane

A group of reporters who are trying to decipher the last word ever spoke by Charles Foster Kane, the millionaire newspaper tycoon: "Rosebud." The film begins with a news reel detailing Kane's life for the masses, and then from there, we are shown flashbacks from Kane's life. As the reporters investigate further, the viewers see a display of a fascinating man's rise to fame, and how he eventually fell off the "top of the world."

Director: Orson Welles
Writers: Herman J. Mankiewicz (original screen play),Orson Welles (original screen play), 3 more credits »
Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1941



9) The Wizard of Oz

In this charming film based on the popular L. Frank Baum stories, Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught in a tornado's path and somehow end up in the land of Oz. Here she meets some memorable friends and foes in her journey to meet the Wizard of Oz who everyone says can help her return home and possibly grant her new friends their goals of a brain, heart and courage.

Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor (uncredited) , 3 more credits »
Writers: Noel Langley (screenplay), Florence Ryerson(screenplay), 18 more credits »
Stars: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1939



10) Titanic

84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning.

Director: James Cameron
Writer: James Cameron
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1997