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

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