Empire 100 Greatest Movies 1999

Another readers poll from Empire Magazine for the Greatest films of all time unveiled in 1999. Titanic remarkably makes the top 10 although this was only 2 years after its release. There’s even a top 20 place for The Sound of Music!

1 Star Wars 1977
2 Jaws 1975
3 Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back 1980
4 Shawshank Redemption, The 1994
5 Goodfellas 1990
6 Pulp Fiction 1994
7 Godfather, The 1972
8 Saving Private Ryan 1998
9 Schindler’s List 1993
10 Titanic 1997
11 Usual Suspects, The 1995
12 Citizen Kane 1941
13 Godfather: Part II, The 1974
14 Aliens 1986
15 Blade Runner 1982
16 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981
17 Casablanca 1942
18 Gone with the Wind 1939
19 Sound of Music, The 1965
20 It’s a Wonderful Life 1946
21 Reservoir Dogs 1992
22 Apocalypse Now 1979
23 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
24 L.A. Confidential 1997
25 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1975
26 Silence of the Lambs, The 1991
27 Return of the Jedi 1983
28 Professional, The 1994
29 Braveheart 1995
30 Se7en 1995
31 Die Hard 1988
32 North by Northwest 1959
33 Truman Show, The 1998
34 Taxi Driver 1976
35 Jurassic Park 1993
36 Alien 1979
37 Psycho 1960
38 Raging Bull 1980
39 Some Like It Hot 1959
40 Lawrence of Arabia 1962
41 Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The 1966
42 Rear Window 1954
43 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982
44 Deer Hunter, The 1978
45 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991
46 Terminator, The 1984
47 Fargo 1996
48 Great Escape, The 1963
49 Face/Off 1997
50 Speed 1994




51 Matrix, The 1999
52 Singin’ in the Rain 1952
53 Exorcist, The 1973
54 Ben-Hur 1959
55 Trainspotting 1996
56 Forrest Gump 1994
57 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964
58 Zulu 1964
59 Vertigo 1958
60 Wild Bunch, The 1969
61 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968
62 Italian Job, The 1969
63 Shining, The 1980
64 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977
65 English Patient, The 1996
66 Heat 1995
67 Wizard of Oz, The 1939
68 A Clockwork Orange 1971
69 Grease 1978
70 Platoon 1986
71 Stand by Me 1986
72 Back to the Future 1985
73 Withnail & I 1987
74 JFK 1991
75 Seven Samurai 1954
76 Get Carter 1971
77 Third Man, The 1949
78 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 1997
79 Armageddon 1998
80 Chinatown 1974
81 Goldfinger 1964
82 Untouchables, The 1987
83 Once Upon a Time in America 1984
84 True Romance 1993
85 Unforgiven 1992
86 Scarface 1983
87 Blues Brothers, The 1980
88 Graduate, The 1967
89 When Harry Met Sally… 1989
90 Dances with Wolves 1990
91 Spartacus 1960
92 Toy Story 1995
93 Cinema Paradiso 1989
93 Life is Beautiful 1997
95 Grosse Pointe Blank 1997
96 Annie Hall 1977
97 Dead Poets Society 1989
98 Good Will Hunting 1997
99 12 Angry Men 1957
100 Easy Rider 1969

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