Top 10 Movies Of All Time According To IMDB

It is very likely that no two people would have the same Top 10 movies of all time. There are far too many to choose from and quite a number of opinions on what makes a movie great.

However, based on numerous ratings, we have gathered the Top 10 movies of all time according to the media out, IMDB.com.

10. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966) – 8.8 ★

IMDB Summary:

Blondie, The Good (Clint Eastwood), is a professional gunslinger who is out trying to earn a few dollars. Angel Eyes, The Bad (Lee Van Cleef), is a hitman who always commits to a task and sees it through–as long as he’s paid to do so. And Tuco, The Ugly (Eli Wallach), is a wanted outlaw trying to take care of his own hide. 

9. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) – 8.8 ★

The first in the epic trilogy that follows the stories of the books by the same name, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings hit theaters in 2001. The movie starred Elijah Wood as hobbit, Frodo Baggins and his journey to destroy the ring of power.

IMDB Summary:

An ancient Ring thought lost for centuries has been found, and through a strange twist of fate has been given to a small Hobbit named Frodo. When Gandalf discovers the Ring is in fact the One Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron, Frodo must make an epic quest to the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it. However, he does not go alone. He is joined by Gandalf, Legolas the elf, Gimli the Dwarf, Aragorn, Boromir, and his three Hobbit friends Merry, Pippin, and Samwise. Through mountains, snow, darkness, forests, rivers and plains, facing evil and danger at every corner the Fellowship of the Ring must go. Their quest to destroy the One Ring is the only hope for the end of the Dark Lords reign.

8. Pulp Fiction (1994) – 8.9 ★

IMDB Summary:

Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent Vega (John Travolta) are two hit men who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames). Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia (Uma Thurman) out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents.

7. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) – 8.9 ★

The epic conclusion of The Lord of the Rings trilogy hit theaters in 2003 and concluded an epic three-movie job for a majority of the main cast.

IMDB Summary:

The final confrontation between the forces of good and evil fighting for control of the future of Middle-earth. Frodo and Sam reach Mordor in their quest to destroy the One Ring, while Aragorn leads the forces of good against Sauron’s evil army at the stone city of Minas Tirith.

6. Schindler’s List (1993) – 8.9 ★

IMDB Summary:

Oskar Schindler is a vain and greedy German businessman who becomes an unlikely humanitarian amid the barbaric German 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, it is a testament to the good in all of us.

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5. 12 Angry Men (1957) – 9.0 ★

IMDB Summary:

The defense and the prosecution have rested, and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open-and-shut case of murder soon becomes a detective story that presents a succession of clues creating doubt, and a mini-drama of each of the jurors’ prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, AND each other. Based on the play, all of the action takes place on the stage of the jury room.

4. The Godfather: Part II (1974) – 9.0 ★

IMDB Summary:

The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

3. The Dark Knight (2008) – 9.0 ★

The second in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight earned over $1 billion worldwide in theaters and is regarded as one of the best Batman live-action movies, if not the best, of all time.

IMDB Summary:

Set within a year after the events of Batman Begins (2005), Batman, Lieutenant James Gordon, and new District Attorney Harvey Dent successfully begin to round up the criminals that plague Gotham City, until a mysterious and sadistic criminal mastermind known only as “The Joker” appears in Gotham, creating a new wave of chaos. Batman’s struggle against The Joker becomes deeply personal, forcing him to “confront everything he believes” and improve his technology to stop him. A love triangle develops between Bruce Wayne, Dent, and Rachel Dawes.

2. The Godfather (1972) – 9.2 ★

IMDB Summary:

The Godfather “Don” Vito Corleone is the head of the Corleone mafia family in New York. He is at the event of his daughter’s wedding. Michael, Vito’s youngest son and a decorated WW II Marine is also present at the wedding. Michael seems to be uninterested in being a part of the family business. Vito is a powerful man, and is kind to all those who give him respect but is ruthless against those who do not. But when a powerful and treacherous rival wants to sell drugs and needs the Don’s influence for the same, Vito refuses to do it. What follows is a clash between Vito’s fading old values and the new ways which may cause Michael to do the thing he was most reluctant in doing and wage a mob war against all the other mafia families which could tear the Corleone family apart.

1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) – 9.2 ★

An adaption of the Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, the movie earned just under $29 million worldwide but has only grown in popularity since. Despite its poor box office performance, it was nominated for an oscar.

IMDB Summary:

Chronicles the experiences of a formerly successful banker as a prisoner in the gloomy jailhouse of Shawshank after being found guilty of a crime he did not commit. The film portrays the man’s unique way of dealing with his new, torturous life; along the way he befriends a number of fellow prisoners, most notably a wise long-term inmate named Red.