Discover the 30 best movies of all time with GupsupIndia! From timeless classics to modern masterpieces, our list features must-watch films that have shaped cinema history. Explore a diverse range of genres and unforgettable stories that continue to captivate audiences worldwide.
Ranking the best movies ever made is clearly not easy. But that didn’t stop us from trying. On this ever-growing list, you’ll find box-office blockbusters, cult classics, silly romantic comedies, horror films, and crime films. It spans over a hundred years and several countries. And even with all this ground covered, it’s sure not to please every reader…
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1) The Godfather – 1972
The film was a huge success at the 45th Academy Awards , winning Best Picture, Best Actor (Marlon Brando), and Best Adapted Screenplay. It tops our list of the 100 Movies You Must See Before You Die.
2) 2001: A Space Odyssey – 1968
This is a movie so great that when another movie is equally great, it’s often referred to as the “Citizen Kane” of its respective field. As a result, this 1941 film—which chronicles the ambitious rise of newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles)—only gets better with age. While it won nine Academy Awards, the film only won one, for Best Original Screenplay. Welcome to the must-see-before-you-die podium .
4) Pulp Fiction – 1994
Pulp Fiction is simply the stuff of great cinema. Speaking of influences, the blockbuster has not shied away from emulating others, inspiring a wave of new auteurs. In 2013, Pulp Fiction was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
5) Rear window – 1954
Or is wheelchair-bound James Stewart simply getting the better of his paranoia? To say more would be to spoil the pleasure of watching this classic for the first time. The film earned four Oscar nominations, including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.
6) The 7 Samurai – 1954
This is the easiest 207 minutes of cinema to endure. Based on a simple plot—a community of poor farmers pools their resources to hire samurai to protect them from brutal bandits who steal their crops—Akira Kurosawa crafts a finely drawn epic that is by turns gripping, funny, and exciting.
7) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark – 1981
Our top 10 movies to see before you die includes a classic adventure film . Beginning with a fade-out of the Paramount logo and ending in a Citizen Kane -inspired warehouse , Raiders of the Lost Ark celebrates what cinema can do more joyously than any other film.
8) Raging Bull – 1980
Martin Scorsese’s hallucinogenic biography of boxer Jake LaMotta (Robert De Niro) is a daring blend of neorealist brutality and hyperstylized beauty. Put on the gloves and LaMotta is in his element; take them off and he becomes an insecure sociopath consumed by sexual jealousy.
9) The Matrix – 1999
The Wachowskis’ sci-fi action film broke all the rules, captured the zeitgeist, and won four Oscars (including beating out Star Wars: The Phantom Menace for visual effects and American Beauty for editing). With each descent down the rabbit hole, The Matrix loses none of its appeal or excitement.
The second and third installments ran out of steam. 2022’s fourth installment brought a return to the alternate reality mythology that captivated us in the first installment, capturing the magic of the classic.
10) Casablanca – 1942
We end our top 10 movies to see before you die with Casablanca . This 1942 masterpiece is set in the Moroccan city of Casablanca, where jaded nightclub owner Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) helps refugees flee to America to escape the Nazis. When Blaine’s old flame (Ingrid Bergman) and her husband come to him for help, he finds himself in a world of trouble. Most moviegoers would say that Casablanca is the result of a perfect script.
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11) Star Wars Episode 4 – 1977
The biggest franchise in cinematic history began with this groundbreaking space epic, which introduced audiences to Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader. Drawing inspiration from everything from Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey to the work of philosopher Joseph Campbell, George Lucas created a fully realized world that continues to expand with each installment.
12) Schindler’s List – 1993
While Steven Spielberg was no stranger to serious films in the early 1990s, he nevertheless surprised audiences with this award-winning drama. The film tells the true story of Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved the lives of 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust.
13) La Dolce Vita – 1960
Made in the midst of Italy’s boom, Federico Fellini’s box-office smash defined glamour and celebrity culture for the world. It also made a star of Marcello Mastroianni, who plays a gossip columnist caught up in the fast-paced, freewheeling world of Roman nightlife. Ironically, the film portrays this milieu as vapid and mindlessly hedonistic, something that many viewers seem to have missed.
14) In The Mood for Love – 2000
Can a film really be an instant classic? Anyone who watched In The Mood for Love when it came out in 2000 could answer yes. From the opening of this love story, you feel like you’re in the hands of a master. Wong Kar-wai guides us through the narrow streets and stairways of 1960s Hong Kong and into the lives of two neighbors (Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung) who discover that their spouses are having an affair.
15) Cold Sweat – 1958
Nothing is as it seems in Vertigo , an Alfred Hitchcock classic based on Boileau-Narcejac’s 1954 novel “From the Dead.” In the film, a former police detective (James Stewart) is hired to track down a friend’s wife (Kim Novak) who is behaving strangely and is in danger of harming herself.
16) Psychosis – 1960
Even today, the famous shower scene is one of the most important sequences in cinema history. The film was also nominated for four Academy Awards and earned Janet Leigh a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.
17) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – 2001
Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy began in 2001 with this famous installment of The Fellowship of the Ring . After coming into possession of a powerful ring, a hobbit named Frodo (Elijah Wood) and his companions set out to destroy the relic before it falls into the wrong hands.
18) Singin’ in the Rain – 1952
One of the most famous musicals of all time, Singin’ in the Rain is set during the rise of the talkies and sees members of a production company struggling to adapt. Not only did Gene Kelly star in, co-direct, and choreograph the film, but he also performed a song-and-dance number in 103-degree Fahrenheit weather.
19) Dr. Strangelove – 1964
2nd in our must-see list. Famous director Stanley Kubrick enters the list with the film Dr. Strangelove , a film that puts the “black” in black comedy. In this film, a series of miscommunications leads to a nuclear clash between the most powerful nations in the world.
20) There Will Be Blood – 2007
Loosely based on a novel by Upton Sinclair, Paul Thomas Anderson’s drama follows the rise to power of oilman Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) at the turn of the century. One of the few things standing in Plainview’s way is a local preacher named Eli, played brilliantly by Paul Dano.
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