Thursday, July 17, 2025

The Top 25 Movies of All Time According to the World's Greatest Directors

 


I did this really quickly and off the top of my head, but I still think it's pretty comprehensive - I asked Grok 4 to compile the favorite movies of some of the greatest Directors of all time: 

Martin Scorsese
Steven Spielberg
David Fincher
Christopher Nolan
Quentin Tarantino
Denis Villeneuve
Steven Soderbergh
Brian De Palma
The Coen Brothers
Paul Thomas Anderson

And this is what Grok was able to surmise, Top 25 here: 

1. Lawrence of Arabia, 1962, directed by David Lean

2. Citizen Kane, 1941, Orson Welles

3. 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968, Stanley Kubrick

4. Vertigo, 1958, Alfred Hitchcock

5. The Godfather, 1972, Francis Ford Coppola

6. Psycho, 1960, Alfred Hitchcock

7. The Searchers, 1956, John Ford

8. Dr. Strangelove, 1964, Stanley Kubrick

9. Chinatown, 1974, Roman Polanski

10. Alien, 1979, Ridley Scott

11. Jaws, 1975, Steven Spielberg

12. Rear Window, 1954, Alfred Hitchcock

13. The Red Shoes, 1948, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

14. Seven Samurai, 1954, Akira Kurosawa

15. The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946, William Wyler

16. Blade Runner, 1982, Ridley Scott

17. Taxi Driver, 1976, Martin Scorsese

18. No Country for Old Men, 2007, The Coen Brothers

19. The Shining, 1980, Stanley Kubrick

20. 8 1/2, 1963, Federico Fellini

21. Rosemary's Baby, 1968, Roman Polanski

22. Metropolis, 1927, Fritz Lang

23. The Godfather Part II, 1974, Francis Ford Coppola

24. Sunrise, 1927, F.W. Murnau

25. Inception, 2010, Christopher Nolan 

John Frascella is a 2nd generation Film Critic and Sports Personality. Follow him on Twitter @FrascellaMovies and @NFLFrascella. 

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