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1,000 Best Movies on DVD

by raj725 • Created 13 years ago • Modified 13 years ago
Peter Travers, movie critic for Rolling Stone, compiles the 1,000 best films available on DVD.

Peter Travers has been the movie critic for Rolling Stone since 1989. A former chair of the New York Film Critics Circle and a member of the National Society of Film Critics.

Book copyright 2006.

Notes:
Book is listed in alphabetical order.
Alien Quadrilogy listed as one entry. (4)
Back to the Future Trilogy listed as one entry. (3)
The Endless Summer Trilogy listed as one entry. (3)
The Matrix Trilogy listed as one entry. (3)
That's Entertainment Trilogy listed as one entry. (3)
Three Colors Trilogy listed as one entry. (3)

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  • Haley Joel Osment in A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

    1. A.I. Artificial Intelligence

    20012h 26mPG-1365Metascore
    7.2 (331K)
    A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.
    DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsHaley Joel OsmentJude LawFrances O'Connor
  • The Abyss (1989)

    2. The Abyss

    19892h 20mPG-1362Metascore
    7.5 (202K)
    A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.
    DirectorJames CameronStarsEd HarrisMary Elizabeth MastrantonioMichael Biehn
  • Nicolas Cage in Adaptation. (2002)

    3. Adaptation.

    20021h 55mR83Metascore
    7.7 (209K)
    A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.
    DirectorSpike JonzeStarsNicolas CageMeryl StreepChris Cooper
  • Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, and Eugene Pallette in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

    4. The Adventures of Robin Hood

    19381h 42mPG97Metascore
    7.9 (56K)
    When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence in 1190s England, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a resistance movement.
    DirectorsMichael CurtizWilliam KeighleyStarsErrol FlynnOlivia de HavillandBasil Rathbone
  • Griffin Dunne in After Hours (1985)

    5. After Hours

    19851h 37mR89Metascore
    7.6 (88K)
    Ordinary word processor Paul Hackett experiences the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit Marcy, a Soho resident that he met that evening at a coffee shop.
    DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsGriffin DunneRosanna ArquetteVerna Bloom
  • Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, and Daniel Day-Lewis in The Age of Innocence (1993)

    6. The Age of Innocence

    19932h 19mPG90Metascore
    7.2 (71K)
    A tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
    DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsDaniel Day-LewisMichelle PfeifferWinona Ryder
  • Klaus Kinski in Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

    7. Aguirre, the Wrath of God

    19721h 35mNot Rated
    7.8 (65K)
    In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.
    DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiRuy GuerraHelena Rojo
  • Harrison Ford in Air Force One (1997)

    8. Air Force One

    19972h 4mR62Metascore
    6.5 (218K)
    Communist radicals led by Ivan Korshunov hijack Air Force One with US President James Marshall and his family on board. Vice President Kathryn Bennett negotiates from Washington D.C., while Marshall fights to rescue the hostages on board.
    DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsHarrison FordGary OldmanGlenn Close
  • Airplane! (1980)

    9. Airplane!

    19801h 28mPG78Metascore
    7.7 (274K)
    After the crew becomes sick with food poisoning, a neurotic ex-fighter pilot must safely land a commercial airplane full of passengers.
    DirectorsJim AbrahamsDavid ZuckerJerry ZuckerStarsRobert HaysJulie HagertyLeslie Nielsen
  • Akira (1988)

    10. Akira

    19882h 4mR68Metascore
    8.0 (216K)
    A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a teenage biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by his best friend.
    DirectorKatsuhiro ÔtomoStarsMitsuo IwataNozomu SasakiMami Koyama
  • Alexander Nevsky (1938)

    11. Alexander Nevsky

    19381h 52mNot Rated
    7.5 (13K)
    The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.
    DirectorsSergei EisensteinDmitriy VasilevStarsNikolay CherkasovNikolai OkhlopkovAndrei Abrikosov
  • Will Smith in Ali (2001)

    12. Ali

    20012h 37mR65Metascore
    6.7 (108K)
    A biography of sports legend Muhammad Ali, focusing on his triumphs and controversies between 1964 and 1974.
    DirectorMichael MannStarsWill SmithJamie FoxxJon Voight
  • Ellen Burstyn and Kris Kristofferson in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)

    13. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

    19741h 52mPG78Metascore
    7.3 (29K)
    A recently-widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.
    DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsEllen BurstynKris KristoffersonMia Bendixsen
  • Alice's Restaurant (1969)

    14. Alice's Restaurant

    19691h 51mR
    6.3 (4.8K)
    A cinematic adaption of Arlo Guthrie's classic story-song.
    DirectorArthur PennStarsArlo GuthriePatricia QuinnJames Broderick
  • Alien (1979)

    15. Alien

    19791h 57mR89Metascore
    8.5 (1M)
    After investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin, the crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform.
    DirectorRidley ScottStarsSigourney WeaverTom SkerrittJohn Hurt
  • Sigourney Weaver and Carrie Henn in Aliens (1986)

    16. Aliens

    19862h 17mR84Metascore
    8.4 (808K)
    Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.
    DirectorJames CameronStarsSigourney WeaverMichael BiehnCarrie Henn
  • Alien³ (1992)

    17. Alien³

    19921h 54mR59Metascore
    6.4 (340K)
    Returning from LV-426, Ellen Ripley crash-lands on the maximum-security prison Fiorina 161, where she discovers that she has unwittingly brought along an unwelcome visitor.
    DirectorDavid FincherStarsSigourney WeaverCharles S. DuttonCharles Dance
  • Winona Ryder and Sigourney Weaver in Alien Resurrection (1997)

    18. Alien Resurrection

    19971h 49mR62Metascore
    6.2 (282K)
    Two centuries after her death, a powerful human/alien hybrid clone of Ellen Ripley aids a crew of space pirates in stopping the aliens from reaching Earth.
    DirectorJean-Pierre JeunetStarsSigourney WeaverWinona RyderDominique Pinon
  • All About Eve (1950)

    19. All About Eve

    19502h 18mApproved98Metascore
    8.2 (145K)
    A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.
    DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsBette DavisAnne BaxterGeorge Sanders
  • All About My Mother (1999)

    20. All About My Mother

    19991h 41mR87Metascore
    7.8 (107K)
    A comedy-drama about a bereaved mother, an overwrought actress, her jealous lover, and a pregnant nun.
    DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsCecilia RothMarisa ParedesCandela Peña
  • Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman in All That Heaven Allows (1955)

    21. All That Heaven Allows

    19551h 29mApproved78Metascore
    7.6 (18K)
    An upper-class widow falls in love with a much younger, down-to-earth nurseryman, much to the disapproval of her children and criticism of her country club peers.
    DirectorDouglas SirkStarsJane WymanRock HudsonAgnes Moorehead
  • All That Jazz (1979)

    22. All That Jazz

    19792h 3mR72Metascore
    7.8 (38K)
    Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid career of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.
    DirectorBob FosseStarsRoy ScheiderJessica LangeAnn Reinking
  • John Derek, Broderick Crawford, Joanne Dru, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, and Shepperd Strudwick in All the King's Men (1949)

    23. All the King's Men

    19491h 50mApproved
    7.4 (17K)
    The rise and fall of a grass-roots rural politician who eventually becomes mired in the sort of political corruption he vehemently railed against on his way to the governor's mansion.
    DirectorRobert RossenStarsBroderick CrawfordJohn IrelandJoanne Dru
  • Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford in All the President's Men (1976)

    24. All the President's Men

    19762h 18mPG84Metascore
    7.9 (131K)
    "The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
    DirectorAlan J. PakulaStarsDustin HoffmanRobert RedfordJack Warden
  • Kate Hudson in Almost Famous (2000)

    25. Almost Famous

    20002h 2mR90Metascore
    7.9 (304K)
    A high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.
    DirectorCameron CroweStarsBilly CrudupPatrick FugitKate Hudson

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