Empire's 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time Empire's 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time


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Raging Bull (1980)
Director: Martin Scorsese
Bruising, beautiful and a never-bettered showcase for De Niro’s once-legendary physical immersion into a role. We’re not just talking about the weight gain: look into those eyes and try telling us they’re anyone else’s but Jake LaMotta’s... Read Review ›
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Fight Club (1999)
Director: David Fincher
It could have just been pre-millennial angst, but Fincher’s grimly ironic epic of maladjusted masculinity shows no sign of fading. Read Review ›
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Pulp Fiction (1994)
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Perfectly encapsulating the absolute-zero cool of the ‘Indiewood’ scene. QT has yet to better its excessive appeal. Read Review ›
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Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
Director: Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
Appropriately, the highest scoring Hollywood musical is a musical about Hollywood — an admirably self-mocking one at that. Read Review ›
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Apocalypse Now (1979)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
A movie so lauded and debated it has a ‘making of’ story as well-known as the film itself. Brando and Coppola are surely cinema’s ultimate teaming. Read Review ›
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GoodFellas (1990)
Director: Martin Scorsese
Where The Godfather positioned itself in the dark corridors of Mafiosi management, GoodFellas rolls around in blood and sawdust on the shopfloor. Read Review ›

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