America's Greatest 100 Movies over 100 Years (American Film Institute AFI)

  • 38. Double Indemnity

  • 6.3
  • An insurance investigator's suspicions are aroused when a Los Angeles insurance agent allows himself to be lured by an attractive housewife into an insurance fraud and murder conspiracy.


  • 37. The Best Years of Our Lives

  • 5.9
  • When a group of World War II veterans returns home to a small American town, they soon observe the changes that took place in the society, making them feel alienated as cracks in their familial...Read more relationships continue to widen in an irreversible manner.


  • 36. Midnight Cowboy

  • 5.5
  • When Texas naive hustler Joe Buck arrives in New York City, he meets resilient outcast Ratso Rizzo, and together they form an unlikely alliance.


  • 35. It Happened One Night

  • 6.1
  • After running away from her father, the spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews finds herself in desperate need of help. When she stumbles upon the reporter Peter Warne, he offers to lend her a hand while he...Read more secretly plans to write a story about her.


  • 34. To Kill a Mockingbird

  • 7
  • In a city torn apart by racism, when a respected lawyer and father to two children chooses to defend a black man wrongfully accused of rape, his kids get to experience horrors as racism bears its...Read more teeth, and he struggles to educate them about prejudice.


  • 33. High Noon

  • 0
      • MPAA
      • PG
  • As he prepares to retire after getting married, Marshal Will Kane is notified that a criminal that he arrested long ago is on the way to exact revenge on him. As Kane prepares to confront the criminal...Read more and his men, he is discouraged when the people of his town abandon him and wash their hands off the matter.


  • 32. The Godfather: Part II

  • 9.4
      • MPAA
      • R
  • In the 1950s, the son Michael Corleone is seeking to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood, and Cuba. Along side the history of the father Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily in the...Read more 1910s, forced to emigrate to America and founding the criminal family of Corleone in New York City.


  • 31. Annie Hall

  • 5.7
      • MPAA
      • PG
  • Alvy Singer tries to find out why his romance with Annie Hall didn't last and uses his mother to answer the tough questions. The questions lead Singer and Hal to discuss their relations with their...Read more former partners, as well as remembering their first meeting and how they fell in love.


  • 30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

  • 5.7
  • Set in 1925 Mexico, two unemployed Americans set out to look for gold with a grizzled prospector, where they encounter many obstacles that threaten to destroy their mission.


  • 29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

  • 5.5
  • When the idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate, he begins to clash with the state political boss Jim Taylor, who sets out to get rid of him by any...Read more means.