50 Best Hollywood Movies Of All Time

Here in this article, I will be giving you an exceptional list of the fifty best Hollywood movies of all time; that you must watch once in your lifetime. I will be giving a short description of the movies too. Hollywood is the biggest film industry in the world and is based in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

In this massive film or entertainment industry; a massive amount of films are published every year.  But, we can still count favorite films from this massive pile. Because of the storyline, cinematography, acting, and some other little aspects; some movies become more favorite to people than others movies.

And, thus this inspires me to make a list of my favorite movie or you can say a list of all-time best movies. But, I can’t say this list would be similar to others. But, it doesn’t matter cause a list of 50 all-time best movies will not hunt you down. You can just enjoy watching these movies on the list.

So, I will start to write down the list without any further delay. just take a look at this list.

Discover The Best Hollywood Movies Of All Time

Before Starting the list; I must say that all the movies in this list are not merely personal choices but also hold their place in the film universe as the most remarkable movies. I will list movies based on different things; so you can enjoy every part of this list.

1. The Godfather (1972)
   

• Director: Francis Ford Coppola
• Writers: Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola
• Casts: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton, Richard S. Castellano, Robert Duvall,
  Sterling Hayden and others.

2. Schindler’s List (1993)

• Director: Steven Spielberg
• Writers: Thomas Keneally, Steven Zaillian
• Casts: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley,
  Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall, Embeth Davidtz,
  Malgorzata Gebel, and others.

3. Life Is Beautiful (1997)

• Director: Roberto Benigni
• Writers: Vincenzo CeramiRoberto Benigni
• Cast: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano, Sergio Bini Bustric, Marisa Paredes, Horst Buchholz, and Others.

4. The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

• Director: Gabriele Muccino
• Writer: Steve Conrad
• Cast: Will Smith, Thandiwe Newton, Jaden Smith, Brian Howe, James Karen, Dan Castellaneta, Kurt Fuller, Takayo Fischer, And others.

5. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

• Director: Frank Darabont
• Writers: Stephen King, Frank Darabont
• Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton,
  William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, and others.

6. A Beautiful Mind (2001)

• Director: Ron Howard
• Writers: Akiva Goldsman, Sylvia Nasar
• Casts: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer, Paul Bettany, and Others.

7. The Pianist (2002)

• Director: Roman Polanski
• Writers: Ronald Harwood, Wladyslaw Szpilman
• Casts: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox,
  Michal Zebrowski, Ed Stoppard, Maureen Lipman, Jessica Kate Meyer, and others.

8. Titanic (1997) 

• Director: James Cameron
• Writer: James Cameron
• Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Bill Paxton, and others.

9. The Terminal (2004)

• Director: Steven Spielberg
• Writers: Andrew Niccol, Sacha Gervasi, Jeff Nathanson
• Cast: Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chi McBride, Stanley Tucci, Diego Luna, Barry Shabaka Henley, And Others.

10. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

• Director: Peter Jackson
• Writers: J.R.R. Tolkien, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens
• Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, Sean Bean, Alan Howard, Noel Appleby, Sean Astin, and Others.

11. Phone Booth (2002)

• Director: Joel Schumacher
• Writer: Larry Cohen
• Cast: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Radha Mitchell, Katie Holmes, Paula Jai Parker, Arian Ash, Tia Texada.

12. Raging Bull (1980)

• Director: Martin Scorsese
• Writers: Jake LaMotta, Joseph Carter, Peter Savage
• Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto, Theresa Saldana, Mario Gallo and Others.

13. Casablanca (1942)

• Director: Michael Curtiz
• Writers: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein , and Howard Koch
• Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains,
  Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, And others.

14. Citizen Kane (1941)

• Director: Orson Welles
• Writer: Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles, John Houseman(uncredited)
• Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, William Alland, and Others.

15. Gone with the Wind (1939)

• Director: Victor Fleming, George Cukor(uncredited), and Sam Wood(uncredited)
• Writers: Margaret Mitchell, Sidney Howard, and Oliver H.P. Garrett(uncredited)
• Cast: Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O’Neil, Vivien Leigh, Evelyn Keyes, Ann Rutherford, George Reeves, Fred Crane, Hattie McDaniel and Others.

16. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

• Director: Milos Forman
• Writers: Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman, Ken Kesey
• Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco, Dean R. Brooks, Alonzo Brown, and Scatman Crothers.

17. Vertigo (1958)

• Director: Alfred Hitchcock
• Writers: Alec Coppel, Samuel A. Taylor, Pierre Boileau
• Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones, Raymond Bailey, Ellen Corby, and Others.

18. Psycho (1960)

• Director: Alfred Hitchcock
• Writers: Joseph Stefano, and Robert Bloch
• Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin,
  Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Simon Oakland, Frank Albertson, and Others.

19. The Godfather Part II (1974)

• Director: Francis Ford Coppola
• Writers: Francis Ford And, CoppolaMario Puzo
• Cast: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, John Cazale, Lee Strasberg and Others.

20. Forrest Gump (1994)

• Director: Robert Zemeckis
• Writers: Winston Groom, Eric Roth
• Casts: Tom Hanks, Rebecca Williams, Sally Field, Michael Conner Humphreys, Margo Moorer, Peter Dobson, Elizabeth Hanks, Hanna Hall, Christopher Jones, Robin Wright, Daniel C. Striepeke and Others.

21. 12 Angry Men (1957)

• Director: Sidney Lumet
• Writer: Reginald Rose
• Casts: Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman, Edward Binns, Jack Warden, Henry Fonda and others.

22. Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)

• Director: George Lucas
• Writer: George Lucas
• Casts: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, Jack Purvis and others.

23. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

• Director: Stanley Kubrick
• Writers: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke
• Casts: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack, Robert Beatty, Sean Sullivan, Douglas Rain, Bill Weston, and Others.

24. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

• Director: Jonathan Demme
• Writers: Thomas Harris, Ted Tally
• Casts: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Anthony Heald, Brooke Smith, Kasi Lemmons, Charles Napier, Chris Isaak, Cynthia Ettinger, and Others.

25. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

• Director: David Lean
• Writers: Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson
• Casts: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Geoffrey Horne, André Morell, Percy Herbert, And Others.

26.  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

• Director: Stanley Kubrick
• Writers: Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, and Peter George
• Casts: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, Peter Bull, James Earl Jones, Tracy Reed and Others.

27. Some Like It Hot (1959)

• Director: Billy Wilder
• Writers: Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond, and Robert Thoeren
• Casts: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Pat O’Brien, Joe E. Brown, Nehemiah Persoff, Joan Shawlee, and Others.

28. Amadeus (1984)

• Director: Milos Forman
• Writers: Peter Shaffer, and Zdenek Mahler
• Casts: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice, Simon Callow, Christine Ebersole, Jeffrey Jones, Charles Kay, Kenneth McMillan, Kenny Baker, Cynthia Nixon and Others.

29. Gladiator (2000)

• Director: Ridley Scott
• Writers: David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson
• Casts: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris, Derek Jacobi, Djimon Hounsou, Giannina Facio, Giorgio Cantarini and Others.

30. Saving Private Ryan (1998)

• Director: Steven Spielberg
• Writer: Robert Rodat
• Casts: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg, Vin Diesel, Giovanni Ribisi, Jeremy Davies, Matt Damon, Ted Danson and Others.

31. Rocky (1976)

• Director: John G. Avildsen
• Writer: Sylvester Stallone
• Casts: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith, Thayer David, Joe Spinell, Jimmy Gambina, Bill Baldwin, Jodi Letizia, and Others.

32. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

• Director: Elia Kazan
• Writers: Tennessee Williams, and Oscar Saul.
• Casts: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond, Nick Dennis, Peg Hillias, Wright King, Richard Garrick and Others.

33. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

• Director: Robert Mulligan
• Writers: Harper Lee, Horton Foote
• Casts: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy, Ruth White, Brock Peters, Estelle Evans, Paul Fix, Collin Wilcox Paxton, and Others.

34. An American in Paris (1951)

• Director: Vincente Minnelli
• Writer: Alan Jay Lerner
• Casts: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétar, Nina Foch and others.

35. Ben-Hur (1959)

• Director: William Wyler
• Writers: Lew Wallace, Karl Tunberg, and Gore Vidal
• Casts: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott, Cathy O’Donnell, Sam Jaffe, and Others.

36. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

• Director: Stanley Kubrick
• Writers: Stanley Kubrick, and Anthony Burgess
• Casts: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, John Clive, Adrienne Corri, Carl Duering, and Others.

37. City Lights (1931)

• Director: Charles Chaplin
• Writers: Charles Chaplin, Harry CarrHarry, and Crocker
• Casts: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Al Ernest Garcia, Hank Mann, and others.

38. The Green Mile (1999)

• Director: Frank Darabont
• Writers: Stephen King, and Frank Darabont
• Casts: Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Cromwell, Michael Jeter, Graham Greene, Doug Hutchison, Sam Rockwell and Others.

39. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

• Director: Frank Capra
• Writers: Sidney Buchman, Lewis R. Foster, and Myles Connolly
• Casts: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell, Eugene Pallette, Beulah Bondi and Others.

40. The French Connection (1971)

• Director: William Friedkin
• Writers: Ernest Tidyman, Robin Moore, and William Friedkin.
• Casts: Gene Hackman, Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi, Bill Hickman, Eddie Egan, and others.

41. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

• Director: John Ford
• Writers: Nunnally Johnson, and John Steinbeck.
• Casts: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Dorris Bowdon, Russell Simpson, O.Z. Whitehead, John Qualen, Eddie Quillan, Zeffie Tilbury, Frank Sully, Frank Darien, and Others.

42. Network (1976)

• Director: Sidney Lumet
• Writer: Paddy Chayefsky
• Casts: Faye Dunaway, William Holden,  Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty and Others.

43. The Graduate (1967)

• Director: Mike Nichols
• Writers: Calder Willingham, Buck Henry, and Charles Webb.
• Casts: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross, William Daniels, Murray Hamilton, Elizabeth Wilson, Buck Henry, Brian Avery, Eddra Gale, And Others.

44. American Graffiti (1973)

• Director: George Lucas
• Writers: George Lucas, Gloria Katz, and Willard Huyck
• Casts: Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips, Wolfman Jack, Bo Hopkins and Others.

45. Pulp Fiction (1994)

• Director: Quentin Tarantino
• Writers: Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
• Casts: Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Laura Lovelace, John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Phil LaMarr, Frank Whaley, Burr Steers, and Others.

46. Terms of Endearment (1983) 

• Director: James L. Brooks
• Writers: Larry McMurtry, and James L. Brooks
• Casts: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels, John Lithgow, Lisa Hart Carroll, Troy Bishop, and Others.

47. Good Will Hunting (1997)

• Director: Gus Van Sant
• Writers: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
• Casts: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Stellan Skarsgård, John Mighton, Casey Affleck, Cole Hauser, Matt Mercier, Alison Folland and others.

48. The Great Dictator (1940)

• Director: Charles Chaplin
• Writer: Charles Chaplin
• Casts: Charles Chaplin, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Paulette Goddard, Emma Dunn, Paul Weigel and Others.

49. Rear Window (1954)

• Director: Alfred Hitchcock
• Writers: John Michael Hayes and Cornell Woolrich
• Casts: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr, Judith Evelyn, Ross Bagdasarian, Georgine Darcy, and Others.

50. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

• Director: Michael Curtiz
• Writers: Robert Buckner, Edmund Joseph, and Julius J. Epstein
• Casts: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf, Irene Manning, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp, Jeanne Cagney and Others.

so, this is my list of 50 all-time best Hollywood movies that are must-watch for you. This short list of all-time best movies will help you to understand the basics of the best films.