TOP 15 GREATEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME
4 min readOct 31, 2017
These are the movies that made Hollywood great. And today I’m counting down my picks for the Top 15 Greatest Movies of All Time. All those listed movies that I have watched left me a huge impact In no particular time.
So here are the movies that are highly considered as The Greatest Movies of All Time:
1. The GodFather (1972): Considered by many as a one of the Greatest movie of all time and one of the most influential, especially in the gangster genre. This classic movie follows the corleone family as the reigns of the business passed from Don Vito to son Micheal.
In this film and it’s 1974 sequel. Francis Coppola crafts a world that allows us to care for and even identify with men who are fundamentally bad guys. And virtuoso performances by greats like Brando, pacino and Duvall. Elevate the subtle writing and graphic violence. To make the God Father a truly Great Movie.
2. The Shawshank Redemption: Is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, and based on the Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. The story is about how hope can make you reclaim your life even if tragedy strikes.The screenwriting is perfect. The acting is perfect. The emotions are conveyed in a very delicate manner in some of the scenes and in some scenes, the emotions scream out of the screen and catch you by the collar. If there is a movie which comes close to a perfect 10 for me, it is this.
Framed in the 1940’s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates — including an older prisoner named Red — for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
3. Forrest Gump: Released in 1994 was based on the novel of the same title by Winston Groom. Though its strong language, violence, and sexual situations make it questionable for children, Forrest Gump can introduce young viewers to prominent moments in the 20th century. Through the use of Oscar-winning visual effects, Forrest interacts with U.S. presidents, teaches Elvis Presley how to do his famous “pelvis dance,” and inspires John Lennon to write the song “Imagine.”
The encounters sometimes border on the absurd, but they’re anchored by Hanks’ extraordinary, Oscar-winning performance. He makes the slow-witted Forrest a sympathetic and believable character instead of a stereotyped simpleton. Superb acting by the entire cast, especially Wright as Jenny and Gary Sinise as Forrest’s army lieutenant, add substance to this sentimental tearjerker.
4. Pulp Fiction: Pulp Fiction was released in 1994.It defined a generation of film making. If you watch this film closely, you will notice many memes and styles from this film have been copied into later comedy, gangster, Western genre of films.
It brilliantly portrays tragic situations with a funny zing. It takes a certain genius to be able to do that on screen.
You may not find anything special about Pulp Fiction, it keeps you on the edge but it got no story line. There is no conclusion or result. We are used to a certain catharsis at the end of watching a film and yes this film doesn’t offer that.
5. schindler’s list: Is one of the most critically acclaimed films of the 1990’s. This Steven Spielberg historical drama, based on the life of Oskar Schindler, an ethnic German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories.
