Top 100 Classics Movies

Best of Rotten Tomatoes

Best of Rotten Tomatoes

Movies with 20 or more critic reviews vie for their place in history at Rotten Tomatoes. Eligible movies are ranked based on their Tomatometer Scores.

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Rank Tomatometer Title No. of Reviews
1. 100% Citizen Kane (1941) 65
2. 100% Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 63
3. 100% North by Northwest (1959) 62
4. 100% Rear Window (1954) 62
5. 100% The Third Man (1949) 60
6. 100% Laura (1944) 58
7. 100% Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai) (1954) 57
8. 100% Repulsion (1965) 58
9. 100% All About Eve (1950) 55
10. 100% On the Waterfront (1954) 55
11. 100% Modern Times (1936) 53
12. 100% The 400 Blows (Les Quatre cents coups) (1959) 51
13. 100% Rashômon (Rashomon) (In the Woods) (1951) 47
14. 100% Singin' in the Rain (1952) 47
15. 100% The Last Picture Show (1971) 46
16. 100% The Philadelphia Story (1940) 46
17. 100% 12 Angry Men (Twelve Angry Men) (1957) 45
18. 100% Cool Hand Luke (1967) 45
19. 100% Battleship Potemkin (1925) 44
20. 100% The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) 44
21. 100% Rebecca (1940) 43
22. 100% The Gold Rush (1925) 42
23. 100% The Grapes of Wrath (1940) 42
24. 100% The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 42
25. 100% Frankenstein (1931) 42
26. 100% The Searchers (1956) 41
27. 100% Anatomy of a Murder (1959) 40
28. 100% The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 41
29. 100% The Leopard (1963) 39
30. 100% Rio Bravo (1959) 38
31. 100% The Birth of a Nation (1915) 38
32. 100% Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari. (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) (1920) 37
33. 100% Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) 37
34. 100% The African Queen (1952) 37
35. 100% Top Hat (1935) 37
36. 100% Stagecoach (1939) 36
37. 100% Purple Noon (Plein soleil) (1960) 32
38. 100% The Invisible Man (1933) 33
39. 100% Quai des Orfevres (Quay of the Goldsmiths) (Jenny Lamour) (1947) 31
40. 100% Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 31
41. 100% The Killers (1946) 31
42. 100% The Odd Couple (1968) 31
43. 100% Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) 30
44. 100% Scarface (1932) 30
45. 100% Sullivan's Travels (1941) 30
46. 100% The Lost Weekend (1945) 30
47. 100% Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (A Man Escaped) (1956) 30
48. 100% Sleeper (1973) 29
49. 100% L'Atalante (1934) 28
50. 100% Marty (1955) 28
51. 100% My Man Godfrey (1936) 28
52. 100% The Lady Eve (1941) 28
53. 100% White Heat (1949) 28
54. 100% Suspicion (1941) 27
55. 100% The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) 27
56. 100% Adam's Rib (1949) 26
57. 100% The Big Heat (1953) 26
58. 100% The Fallen Idol (1948) 26
59. 100% The Public Enemy (1931) 26
60. 100% Black Narcissus (1947) 25
61. 100% Great Expectations (1946) 25
62. 100% The Shop Around the Corner (1940) 25
63. 100% Them! (1954) 25
64. 100% Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 25
65. 100% Alfie (1966) 24
66. 100% Captain Blood (1935) 24
67. 100% Day of Wrath (Vredens Dag)(Day of Anger) (1943) 24
68. 100% Henry V (The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France (1944) 24
69. 100% Kes (1969) 24
70. 100% Odd Man Out (1947) 24
71. 100% A Room With A View (1986) 23
72. 100% My Darling Clementine (1946) 23
73. 100% National Velvet (2000) 23
74. 100% The Ipcress File (1965) 23
75. 100% Holiday (1938) 22
76. 100% The Hidden Fortress (kakushi-toride No San-akunin) (1958) 22
77. 100% Holiday Inn (1942) 21
78. 100% How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1965) 21
79. 100% The Bank Dick (1940) 21
80. 100% The Palm Beach Story (1942) 21
81. 100% To Have and Have Not (1944) 21
82. 100% Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) 20
83. 100% Cat Ballou (1965) 20
84. 100% I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932) 20
85. 100% Murder on the Orient Express (1974) 20
86. 100% Swing Time (1936) 20
87. 100% The Ladykillers (1955) 20
88. 100% Young Mr. Lincoln (2013) 20
89. 99% Metropolis (1927) 109
90. 99% The Wizard of Oz (1939) 103
91. 99% A Hard Day's Night (1964) 77
92. 98% Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 65
93. 98% Rosemary's Baby (1968) 63
94. 98% Chinatown (1974) 60
95. 98% Vertigo (1958) 58
96. 98% Sunset Boulevard (1950) 56
97. 98% King Kong (1933) 53
98. 98% A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) 52
99. 98% The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 51
100. 98% Mean Streets (1973) 50

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