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Top 1000 · 1948

Weighted toward critics

1
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948 · John Huston
90.4
8/8 sources
2
The Red Shoes
1948 · Michael Powell
89.7
7/8 sources
3
Bicycle Thieves
1948 · Vittorio De Sica
88.8
6/8 sources
4
Red River
1948 · Howard Hawks
86.5
8/8 sources
5
Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948 · Max Ophüls
86.3
6/8 sources
6
Germany, Year Zero
1948 · Roberto Rossellini
84.8
6/8 sources
7
The Fallen Idol
1948 · Carol Reed
83.3
7/8 sources
8
Oliver Twist
1948 · David Lean
82.8
6/8 sources
9
Fort Apache
1948 · John Ford
81.4
6/8 sources
10
The Search
1948 · Fred Zinnemann
81.0
6/8 sources
11
Hamlet
1948 · Laurence Olivier
80.3
7/8 sources
12
Rope
1948 · Alfred Hitchcock
78.8
8/8 sources
13
Drunken Angel
1948 · Akira Kurosawa
77.7
7/8 sources
14
Key Largo
1948 · John Huston
77.6
7/8 sources
15
Macbeth
1948 · Orson Welles
76.1
7/8 sources
16
The Naked City
1948 · Jules Dassin
75.8
7/8 sources
17
3 Godfathers
1948 · John Ford
75.3
8/8 sources
18
A Foreign Affair
1948 · Billy Wilder
74.9
7/8 sources
19
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
1948 · Charles Barton
71.9
7/8 sources
20
Sorry, Wrong Number
1948 · Anatole Litvak
71.3
6/8 sources
21
The Pirate
1948 · Vincente Minnelli
68.6
6/8 sources
22
Romance on the High Seas
1948 · Michael Curtiz
66.4
6/8 sources
23
Melody Time
1948 · Clyde Geronimi
61.6
7/8 sources