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Top Ten Greatest Movies Of All Time

Top Ten Greatest Movies Of All Time

As we celebrate International Star Wars Day this week, here's the Top Ten Greatest Movies Of All Time according to the IMDB website. Have your say at the bottom! 

1. The Godfather (1972)

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. 

Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton

2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency. 

Director: Frank Darabont

Stars: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler

3. Schindler's List (1993)

In German-occupied Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazi Germans. 

Director: Steven Spielberg

Stars: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall

4. Raging Bull (1980)

An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring destroys his life outside it. 

Director: Martin Scorsese

Stars: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent

5. Casablanca (1942)

In Casablanca in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate encounters a former lover, with unforeseen complications. 

Director: Michael Curtiz

Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains

6. Citizen Kane (1941)

Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance. 

Director: Orson Welles

Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead

7. Gone with the Wind (1939)

American film classic in which a manipulative woman and a roguish man conduct a turbulent romance during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods. 

Director: Victor Fleming

Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil

8. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to a magical land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home in Kansas and help her friends as well. 

Director: Victor Fleming

Stars: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr

9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients. 

Director: Milos Forman

Stars: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco

10. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks. 

Director: David Lean

Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins

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