Entering the Top 200

The I’m just sayin… Top 2,982 Movies of All-Time Countdown


265 The Sheepman
George Marshall
Glenn Ford, Shirley MacLaine
1958

264 Batman Returns
Tim Burton
Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer
1992

263 A Streetcar Named Desire
Elia Kazan
Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Kim Hunter
1951
Stanley Kowalski: "Hey, STELLA!"

262 Thunderball
Terence Young
Sean Connery
1965
James Bond: "Bond, James Bond"

261 The Magnificent Seven
John Sturges
Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, Brad Dexter, Horst Buchholz
1960

260 Stand by Me
Rob Reiner
Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Kiefer Sutherland
1986

259 Analyze This
Harold Ramis
Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow
1999

258 Ghost Dad
Sidney Poitier
Bill Cosby
1990

257 Poltergeist
Tobe Hooper
Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne
1982

256 Pretty Woman
Garry Marshall
Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Hector Elizondo, Jason Alexander, Laura San Giacomo, Ralph Bellamy
1990

255 Roots
Marvin J. Chomsky, John Erman, Gilbert Moses
LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett, Jr., John Amos, Ben Vereen, Cicely Tyson, Georg Stanford Brown, Richard Roundtree, O. J. Simpson
1977

254 The Wedding Singer
Frank Coraci
Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Christine Taylor, Steve Buscemi, Alexis Arquette
1998
Robbie: "Hey, psycho - we're not gonna discuss this, OK, it's over. Please get out of my Van Halen t-shirt before you jinx the band and they break up".

253 Kung Fu Panda
Mark Osborne, John Wayne Stevenson
Jack Black, Jackie Chan, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Lucy Liu, Seth Rogen
2008

252 Footloose
Herbert Ross
Kevin Bacon, John Lithgow, Lori Singer, Dianne Wiest, Chris Penn, Sarah Jessica Parker
1984

251 Thor: The Dark World
Alan Taylor
Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Jaimie Alexander, Idris Elba, Zachary Levi, Stellan Skarsgård, Anthony Hopkins, Ray Stevenson, Tadanobu Asano, Christopher Eccleston, Kat Dennings, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Rene Russo
2013

250 Dances with Wolves
Kevin Costner
Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene
1990

249 Failure to Launch
Tom Dey
Matthew McConaughey, Sarah Jessica Parker, Terry Bradshaw, Kathy Bates
2006

248 A Christmas Story
Bob Clark
Peter Billingsley, Darren McGavin, Melinda Dillon
1983
Ralphie as Adult: [narrating, after BB gun shot bounces off target and hits his face] "Oh my god, I shot my eye out!"

Ralphie: "Oooh fuuudge!"
Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] "Only I didn't say 'Fudge.' I said THE word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words, the 'F-dash-dash-dash' word!"
Mr. Parker: [stunned] "*What* did you say?"
Ralphie: "Uh, um..."
Mr. Parker: "That's... what I thought you said. Get in the car. Go on!"
Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] "It was all over - I was dead. What would it be? The guillotine? Hanging? The chair? The rack? The Chinese water torture? Hmmph. Mere child's play compared to what surely awaited me".

247 BASEketball
David Zucker
Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Yasmine Bleeth, Jenny McCarthy, Robert Vaughn, Ernest Borgnine, Bob Costas, Al Michaels
1998

246 Erin Brockovich
Steven Soderbergh
Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart
2000

245 Holiday Inn
Mark Sandrich
Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire
1942

244 Raging Bull
Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty
1980
Jake La Motta: "I got these small hands. I got a little girl's hands".

243 The Hunt for Red October
John McTiernan
Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill, James Earl Jones, Courtney B. Vance, Tim Curry
1990

242 The Shawshank Redemption
Frank Darabont
Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, James Whitmore, Clancy Brown, William Sadler, Gil Bellows, Bob Gunton
1994

241 The Program
David S. Ward
James Caan, Halle Berry, Craig Sheffer, Omar Epps, Kristy Swanson
1993
Darnell Jefferson: "Darnell Jefferson, tailback".
Ray Griffen: "Ray Griffen, *starting* tailback".
Darnell Jefferson: "I know, that's why they recruited me".

Joe Kane: "Let's put the women and children to bed and go lookin' for dinner!"

Coach Winters: "Alright, this is Mississippi State's offensive set. Second and two on our own 24, what defensive set might we call?"
Alvin Mack: "Eagle Zipper Hero, unless the setback shifts into the I".
Coach Winters: "Good".
[clicks to next slide]
Coach Winters: "Third and seven?"
Alvin Mack: "Oakie Thunder Lion".
Coach Winters: "What's your assignment?"
Alvin Mack: "Kill the quarterback".
Coach Winters: [clicks to next slide]
Alvin Mack: "Hit the tight end so hard his girlfriend dies".
Coach Winters: [clicks to next slide]
Alvin Mack: "Kill everybody".

240 Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
George Lucas
Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd
1999
Senator Palpatine: "There is no civility, only politics".

Yoda: "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you".

Obi-Wan: "I have a bad feeling about this".

Mace Windu: "May the force be with you".

239 Ride Along
Tim Story
Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, John Leguizamo, Bruce McGill, Tika Sumpter, Laurence Fishburne
2014

238 Guys and Dolls
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons
1955

237 Back to the Future Part II
Robert Zemeckis
Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson
1989
[Flying above Biff in 1955]
Marty McFly: "There he is, Doc! Let's land on him, we'll cripple his car".
Doc: "Marty, he's in a '46 Ford, we're in a DeLorean. He'd rip through us like we were tin foil".

Doc: "The justice system works swiftly in the future now that they've abolished all lawyers".

236 Sweet Charity
Bob Fosse
Shirley MacLaine, Chita Rivera, Ricardo Montalbán, John McMartin, Paula Kelly, Sammy Davis, Jr.
1969

235 Four Christmases
Seth Gordon
Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon
2008
Howard: "Boys, I don't want to speak ill of your mother on Christmas, but she's nothing but a common street whore".

Darryl: "Look, Brad. I'm not trying to be your father, you already got one of those. I'm just hoping for a chance to be your friend".
Brad: "You were my friend, Darryl. You were my best friend. We grew up together, we rode bikes together, we used to smell each others hands. But now you're sleeping with my mom and it's a little bit weird for me. Can you appreciate that?"
Darryl: "I never had a sexual thought about your mom until I was 30".
Brad: "Can you leave it alone? You can't be my friend anymore. You can't be sleeping with my mom and still be my friend, ok?"

Brad: "My childhood was like the Shawshank Redemption, except I didn't have some old, warm, black man to share my story with!"

234 Father of the Bride
Vincente Minnelli
Elizabeth Taylor, Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett
1950

233 Avengers: Age of Ultron
Joss Whedon
Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Cobie Smulders, Anthony Mackie, Hayley Atwell, Idris Elba, Stellan Skarsgård, James Spader, Samuel L. Jackson
2015
Steve Rogers: You get hurt, hurt 'em back. You get killed... walk it off.

232 Mississippi Burning
Alan Parker
Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand
1988

231 The Muppet Movie
James Frawley
James Coburn, Mel Brooks, Orson Welles
1979

230 Around the World in Eighty Days
Michael Anderson, John Farrow
David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine, Robert Newton
1956

229 Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Tarantino
Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Chris Penn, Michael Madsen
1992
Nice Guy Eddie: "We got places all over the place".

228 Olympus Has Fallen
Antoine Fuqua
Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Rick Yune, Dylan McDermott, Angela Bassett, Radha Mitchell, Robert Forster, Ashley Judd, Melissa Leo
2013

227 School of Rock
Richard Linklater
Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Mike White, Sarah Silverman
2003
Dewey Finn: "In the words of AC/DC: We roll tonight... to the guitar bite... and for those about to rock... I salute you".

Tomika: "Why don't you go on a diet?"
Dewey Finn: "Because I like to eat! Is that such a crime?"

Dewey Finn: "8:15 to 10, rock history. 10 to 11, rock appreciation in theory. And then band practice till the end of the day".

Dewey Finn: "Give up, just quit, because in this life, you can't win. Yeah, you can try, but in the end you're just gonna lose, big time, because the world is run by the Man. The Man, oh, you don't know the Man. He's everywhere. In the White House... down the hall... Ms. Mullins, she's the Man. And the Man ruined the ozone, he's burning down the Amazon, and he kidnapped Shamu and put her in a chlorine tank! And there used to be a way to stick it to the Man. It was called rock 'n roll, but guess what, oh no, the Man ruined that, too, with a little thing called MTV! So don't waste your time trying to make anything cool or pure or awesome 'cause the Man is just gonna call you a fat washed up loser and crush your soul. So do yourselves a favor and just GIVE UP!"

226 Rush Hour 2
Brett Ratner
Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker
2001
James Carter: "Who died, Lee?"
Lee: "You!"
James Carter: "Detective Yu?"
Lee: "Not Yu, you!"
James Carter: "Who?
Lee: "You!"
James Carter: "Who?"
Lee: "Do you understand the words that are a-coming out of my mouth?"
James Carter: "Don't nobody understand the words that are comin' out of your mouth".

James Carter: "Lee, let me introduce you to Carter's new theory of criminal investigation: follow the rich white man".
Lee: "Follow the rich white man?"
James Carter: "Behind every big crime there's a rich white man waiting for his cut".

James Carter: "Just tell me how the Triads gonna kill us".
Lee: "They will torture us for three days".
James Carter: "Okay, I can handle that".
Lee: "Then they will cut off our eggrolls".
James Carter: "Cut off our eggrolls? Oh hell no! We gotta get out of here! Don't give up!"

James Carter: [In a casino] "My people did not go through 362 years of slavery just so you could send us back to the cotton fields with $500 chips!"

James Carter: [In a casino] "I have a dream! That white people, and black people... and even Chinese people, can gamble together without getting different chips!"
Audience: [Applause, Cheering]
James Carter: [Sees that Lee no longer needs a distraction] "Whoa, whoa, whoa... in the spirit of brotherhood... let's just play craps man".

James Carter: "How come you ain't got no black people performing in this casino? We ain't good enough for you?"
Pit Boss: "We got Lionel Ritchie!"
James Carter: "Lionel Ritchie ain't been black since the commodores!"

225 Lincoln
Steven Spielberg
Daniel Day-Lewis, David Strathairn, Hal Holbrook, Sally Field, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, John Hawkes, Tim Blake Nelson, Jared Harris, Tommy Lee Jones
2012

224 Tin Cup
Ron Shelton
Kevin Costner, Rene Russo, Don Johnson, Cheech Marin, Linda Hart
1996
Romeo Posar: "Look, boss, I only got one rule. And that's never bet money that you don't have on a dog race with an ex-girlfriend who happens to be a stripper".

Dewey: "Winner, winner! Chicken Dinner!"

223 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Michael Bay
Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, Matthew Marsden
2009

222 Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Glenn Ficarra and John Requa
Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, John Carroll Lynch, Marisa Tomei and Kevin Bacon, Analeigh Tipton, Liza Lapira, Joey King, Mekia Cox
2011
Jacob: "I'm going to help you rediscover your manhood. Do you have any idea where you could have lost it?"

Jacob: "The war between the sexes is over. We won the second women started doing pole dancing for exercise".

Bernie Riley: "Claire said I can't be friends with you anymore".
Cal: "What?"
Bernie Riley: "She said we had to choose between you and Emily. I chose you. But she said no".

221 Hidden Figures
Theodore Melfi
Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Kevin Costner, Jim Parsons, Janelle Monáe, Kirsten Dunst, Glen Powell, Mahershala Ali, Jim Parsons
2016

220 U.S. Marshals
Stuart Baird
Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey, Jr., Joe Pantoliano, Irene Jacob
1998
John Royce: "I thought we didn't take our work personally".
Sam Gerard: "We don't. I do".

219 Bad Boys
Michael Bay
Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Tea Leoni
1995

218 Invictus
Clint Eastwood
Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon
2009

217 Spartacus
Stanley Kubrick
Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Tony Curtis, Peter Ustinov, Charles Laughton, John Gavin, Woody Strode
1960
Antoninus: "I'm Spartacus!"
[everyone around Antoninus and Spartacus takes up the shout]

216 D-Day
Nikhil Advani
Arjun Rampal, Irrfan Khan, Huma Qureshi, Rishi Kapoor, Shruti Haasan, Nassar, Sandeep Kulkarni, K. K. Raina, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Imran Hasnee, Maryam Zakaria
2013

215 The Usual Suspects
Bryan Singer
Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Kevin Spacey, Chazz Palminteri, Suzy Amis, Giancarlo Esposito, Pete Postlethwaite
1995

214 Captain America: Civil War
Anthony Russo/Joe Russo
Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Emily VanCamp, Tom Holland, Frank Grillo, William Hurt, Daniel Brühl
2016

213 Pitch Perfect
Jason Moore
Anna Kendrick, Anna Camp, Rebel Wilson, Adam DeVine, Alexis Knapp, Brittany Snow, Freddie Stroma
2012

212 21 Jump Street
Phil Lord/Chris Miller
Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube, Brie Larson, Rob Riggle, DeRay Davis, Dave Franco, Jake Johnson, Johnny Simmons, Johnny Pemberton, Dakota Johnson, Ellie Kemper, Johnny Depp
2012

211 Captain America: The First Avenger
Joe Johnston
Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Dominic Cooper, Neal McDonough, Derek Luke and Stanley Tucci, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Kenneth Choi, Toby Jones, Richard Armitage, J. J. Feild, Samuel L. Jackson
2011

210 The Gods Must Be Crazy
Jamie Uys
N!xua, Sandra Prinsloo, Marius Weyers, Louw Verwey, Michael Thys
1980

209 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Stephen Sommers
Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Saïd Taghmaoui, Jonathan Pryce, Rachel Nichols, Sienna Miller, Lee Byung-hun, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Christopher Eccleston, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
2009

208 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Tom Shadyac
Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox, Sean Young, Dan Marino
1994
Ace Ventura: [has been trying to figure out a connection between Lt. Lois Einhorn and football player Ray Finkle, when he sees his dog's fur overlapping Finkle's hair in a photo] "What the... That's it! Einhorn is Finkle! Finkle is Einhorn! Einhorn is a man!"
[Ace remembers how Einhorn kissed him and the pieces fall into place]
Ace Ventura: "Oh, my GOD! Einhorn is a man!"
[Ace heads to the bathroom to throw up]

207 La Bamba
Luis Valdez
Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, Elizabeth Pena, Danielle Von Zerneck
1987

206 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
George Roy Hill
Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
1969
Sundance Kid: "You just keep thinkin', Butch. That's what you're good at".

Butch Cassidy: [to Sundance] "Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals".

Butch Cassidy: "Alright. I'll jump first".
Sundance Kid: "No".
Butch Cassidy: "Then you jump first".
Sundance Kid: "No, I said".
Butch Cassidy: "What's the matter with you?"
Sundance Kid: "I can't swim".
Butch Cassidy: "Are you crazy? The fall will probably kill you".
Sundance Kid: "Oh, shit..."

205 A Beautiful Mind
Ron Howard
Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris
2001

204 Rules of Engagement
William Friedkin
Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Guy Pearce
2000
Colonel Hayes Hodges: "If this gets bad, it gets bad for both of us".
Colonel Terry L. Childers: "Why, Hodge? Are you going to jail too?"

203 Crimson Tide
Tony Scott
Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, James Gandolfini
1995
Capt. Ramsey: "I expect and demand your very best. Anything less, you should have joined the Air Force".

202 Missing in Action 2: The Beginning
Lance Hool
Chuck Norris, Soon-Tek Oh, Steven Williams
1985

201 Mission: Impossible
Brian De Palma
Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Jon Voight, Vanessa Redgrave, Emmanuelle Béart, Kristin Scott Thomas, Henry Czerny, Jean Reno
1996

200 Summer School
Carl Reiner
Mark Harmon, Kirstie Alley
1987
Chainsaw: "You passed and I failed! You asshole! How could you do that to me?"
Dave: "It was an accident. I'll take it again. I can fail, I know I can".

199 Ghosts of Mississippi
Rob Reiner
Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, James Woods
1996

198 Star Trek
J. J. Abrams
Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Zoe Saldana, John Cho, Ben Cross, Anton Yelchin, Winona Ryder, Eric Bana, Leonard Nimoy
2009
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: "Dammit, man! I'm a doctor, not a physicist!"

197 The Perfect Storm
Wolfgang Petersen
George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, John C. Reilly, John Hawkes, Karen Allen
2000

196 Transformers The Movie
Nelson Shin
Judd Nelson, Leonard Nimoy, Robert Stack, Orson Welles, Eric Idle, Chris Latta, Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, Neil Ross
1986

195 Shrek
Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson
Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow
2001
[Dragon, having a crush on Donkey, is cuddling him]
Donkey: [desperately talking] "I don't want to rush into a... physical relationship... I'm not that emotionally ready for a... uh... commitment of this... uh... magnitude! Really, that's the word I'm looking for, magnitude... Huh! Hey, that is unwanted physical contact! Hey! What're you doing? Okay, okay, okay... let's just back up a little and take this one step at a time... I mean, we should really get to know each other first, you know, as friends or maybe even as pen pals, you know, coz I'm on the road a lot, but I just love to get a card... Hey, hey, hey, don't do that, that's my TAIL, that's my personal tail, you gonna tear it off! I don't give permission to... Hey, what're you gonna do with that? Oh, no, no, no, no... no!"

194 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Jay Roach
Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael York, Robert Wagner, Seth Green, Mindy Sterling, Mimi Rogers
1997
Dr. Evil: "Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?"

Austin Powers: "Allow myself to introduce... myself".

193 The Da Vinci Code
Ron Howard
Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina, Paul Bettany, Jean Reno
2006

192 From Russia with Love
Terence Young
Sean Connery
1963
James Bond: "Bond, James Bond"

191 Fight Club
David Fincher
Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter
1999
Tyler Durden: "Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club! Third rule of Fight Club: someone yells "stop!", goes limp, taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: No shirts, no shoes. Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight".