IMDb’s 50 Most Voted Movies by Users

IMDb’s 50 Most Voted Movies

When classifying films, different criteria can be followed. For example, be based on the best of a specific year, such as the best movies of the decade; also in a compilation of the great classics of cinema or the most voted by specialized critics. However, sometimes it is much more interesting to know which are the ones that users see the most.

To find out which movies are the most viewed by users, you would have to ask a sample varied enough to be meaningful and create such a list. Or resort to IMDb votes. This is how this list of the fifty most voted movies on IMDb and that Bobby Belt published on Twitter was born .

In it you will find a wide variety of genres, as well as tapes from different years. So, depending on your age and love for the movies, you may have seen more or less, but it can be an interesting compilation far from what recommendation algorithms such as Netflix insist you see. These are the fifty titles.

Life Chain (1994)

Andrew Dufresne (Tim Robbins), is accused and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife. After being sent to Shawshank Prison, over the years he has gained the trust of the director of the center and the respect of his fellow prisoners, especially Red (Morgan Freeman), the boss of the bribery mafia.

The Dark Knight (2008)

Batman / Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) returns to the city to continue his war against organized crime. But neither he nor Lt. Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) will have it easy with the sudden appearance of Joker (Heath Ledger).

Origin (2010)

Dom Cobb (DiCaprio) is an expert in the art of appropriating, during sleep, the secrets of the subconscious of others. Cobb’s uncanny ability makes him a highly sought-after man in the spy world, but it has also doomed him to be a fugitive.

Fight Club (1999)

Fed up with his monotonous life, a young man (Edward Norton) meets during a plane trip a charismatic soap salesman (Brad Pitt) who holds a very particular theory: perfectionism is a thing of weak people; only self-destruction makes life worth living. This is how they decide to found a secret fighting club.

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Jules and Vincent are two dim-witted hit men who work for the gangster Marsellus Wallace. Both must recover a mysterious briefcase while taking care of his attractive wife at the request of their boss.

Forrest Gump (1994)

Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) has suffered from a certain mental retardation since he was a child, but that makes him even more special thanks to his tenacity and his good heart. Sprinkled with winks of important events from those years, it is a film that continues to be loved over and over again.

The Matrix (1999)

The beginning of the Wachowski sisters trilogy, a film where humanity is a slave to machines and therefore a group of rebels fight to regain freedom.

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

The first installment of the story written by JRR Tolkien. A classic of fantastic literature.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

This is the second part of the trilogy of Tolkien’s work that Peter Jackson adapted for the big screen.

The Godfather (1972)

The Godfather is one of the masterpieces of Francis Ford Coppola, a film about the mafia and Al Pacino.

The Dark Knight: Legend Rises (2012)

Part of the Batman trilogy produced by Nolan, it is another of the great batman movies made in the history of cinema.

The Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers (2002)

The second installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy of which all who have seen it especially remember the battle in Helm’s Deep.

Interstellar (2014)

A science fiction movie where you play with the idea of ​​travel through wormholes. With a spectacular soundtrack, it is quite a visual spectacle.

Seven (1995)

A serial killer who must be arrested by two policemen before he commits seven crimes, one for each capital sin.

Django Unchained (2012)

Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained is a western genre film where Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L Jackson and Christoph Waltz are superb.

Gladiator (2000)

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For many it was the discovery of two actors who would later become true Hollywood stars: Russel Crowe and Jaquien Phoenix. An epic story in every way.

Batman Begins (2005)

New adaptation of the popular comic where the origins of the bat man are narrated, who returns to Gotham after years of the event that left him marked: the murder of his parents.

The Avengers (2012)

The first installment of Marvel‘s Avengers. The group of superheroes who unite in order to combat threats that come from outside the Earth. The first of a total of five films that together with the rest of the MCU tapes shaped the infinity saga.

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

The FBI is looking for “Buffalo Bill,” a serial killer they can’t catch. Therefore, Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) seeks in another serial killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), enough clues to help her understand what the patterns of behavior of such a person are in order to be able to give with him and catch him.

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

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A group of Jewish soldiers attack specific objectives of the German army, until they seek what will be their great blow: to destroy the main leaders of the Third Reich. With a luxurious cast, it is a film with a lot of rhythm and directed by Quentin Tarantino

Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)

The first film in the Star Wars universe, although not the first in the Skywalker saga that would end up being made up of a total of nine titles.

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

A group of soldiers must rescue Private Ryan, the last of the brothers left alive during World War II.

Schindler’s List (1993)

Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) is a German businessman who began hiring Jewish workers after the invasion of Prolonia by the Germans in 1939 to work in his factory in Krakow. As time goes by, he realizes that his hiring is actually a way to save their life and that changes him completely.

The Departed (2006)

The Massachusetts Police Department faces the largest organized crime gang in the city of Boston and is aware that the best strategy is to finish from the inside with Frank Costello, the powerful boss of the Irish mafia (Jack Nicholson).

The Final Trick (2006)

An encounter between two 19th century magicians, Alfred Borden and Rupert Angier, provokes an intense battle to prove who is the best of all. With some superb Hugh Jackmans, Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Scarlett Johansson, the movie is wonderful.

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

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There is little to say about this story in which Leonardo DiCaprio shows the wildest side of The Wall Street, the great financial center of the world.

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Another of the first films in the Star Wars saga that practically everyone knows and has seen by now.

The Green Mile (1999)

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There are few films that are capable of moving so much. The Green Mile tells the life of an old man who tells his story as a death row officer at Cold Mountain Prison.

Avatar (2009)

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Avatar is the story of a lush planet called Pandora live the Na’vi, beings that appear to be primitive but are actually highly evolved. Because Pandora’s environment is poisonous, human / Na’vi hybrids, called Avatars, are related to human minds, allowing them to move freely around Pandora.

Memento (200)

Memento tells the story of Leonard, a man who after a blow suffers a brain trauma that causes anterograde amnesia. In order to remember the events of his daily life from that moment on, he creates a system based on snapshots to have a record of the people with whom he interacts, etc.

The Godfather II (1974)

The second part of the trilogy with the same name that follows the story of Al Pacino and other gangsters of the time.

Shutter Island (2010)

A thriller where two federal agents are sent to a mental institution in order to search for Rachel Solando, a psychotic patient who has escaped from her cell.

American Beauty (1999)

American Beauty is a drama directed by Sam Mendes in which Kevin Spacey stars as a family man whose life is not at all wonderful according to himself. Until a series of events begin to occur that, in a somewhat particular way, end up costing him his life as announced at the beginning of the film.

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

One of the funniest Marvel movies, with a group of heroes who casually go from being complete strangers to a group that still has a lot to offer with the upcoming premiere of the third part.

Titanic (1997)

As its name suggests, Titanic tells the story of the well-known ship that sank after colliding with an iceberg through the eyes of two of its crew. These belong to different social classes, but they end up meeting them and starring in a story that left many marks.

Back to the Future (1985)

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A true classic, a film that plays with the idea of ​​time travel through a car, a De Lorean who is already an icon in the world of cinema.

American History X (1998)

American History X is a tough movie, because it tells how is the life of a young man who belongs to a group of neo-Nazi ideology. There are tough scenes, although one in particular is remembered by everyone who has seen it.

V for Vendetta (2005)

Inspired by the graphic novel of the same name, V for Vendetta is inspired by the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

Leon: the professional (1994)

The Professional is a French crime film that captivated many by its way of showing the action in each and every one of its scenes. A reference and a film that lovers of the police genre will like.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

Captain Jack Sparrow comes into action in the first installment of one of the great sagas of recent years, at least at the level of repercussion and income for Disney.

One of Ours (1990)

Henry Hill, the son of an Irish father and a Sicilian mother, lives in Brooklyn and is fascinated by the life of the gangsters in his neighborhood, where most of the neighbors are immigrants. Paul Cicero, the patriarch of the Pauline family, is the protector of the neighborhood. That’s why he ends up dropping out of school and joining the mafia organization as an errand boy.

Kill Bill: Volume 1 (1995)

Between action and suspense, this film is the first of two whose story is about the revenge of a girlfriend who miraculously survives a shooting by a group of former professional murderers former colleagues of hers on the subject of jealousy.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

It is the year 2029 and humanity faces the machines on Doomsday. Skynet, the army of machines loses, but does not give up. Draw up a plan to take advantage of a portal in time and thus assassinate who in the future will lead the army that will defeat them.

Wall-E (2008)

Wall-E is a Disney animated film in which we are told the story of a robot that collects garbage on Earth, a planet that has changed a lot after a bad attitude on the part of humans who now navigate through space practically aimlessly .

The Usual Suspects (1995)

A special agent of the United States customs service is investigating the causes of the fire of a ship, in the port of San Pedro de Los Angeles, which caused 27 deaths. His only source is a crippled con man who survived the fire.

Braveheart (1995)

Mel Gibson stars in one of the most epic stories in film history, that of William Wallace, a Scottish national hero who participated in the First Scottish War of Independence.

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983)

The third installment in the original Star Wars trilogy. A must-see movie for fans of science fiction and space battles.

Finding Nemo (2003)

Capitalized animation, a film in which Disney tells the story of a father in search of his son, a clown fish that has been caught and is now in a dentist’s aquarium.

Iron Man (2008)

The movie that started the infinity saga. In it they introduce us to Tony Stark, a scientist with great knowledge in all kinds of fields, but especially the weapons. This is how he ends up building armor to escape those who have captured him and results in the creation of Iron Man.

The Lion King (1994)

The Disney classic, a story that was recently remade where animation was abandoned to move to Action Live. With a super recognizable soundtrack, it is one of the most representative titles in the Disney catalog.

How many movies have you seen

Now that you know this list of the movies that IMDb users have voted the most, the question is, how many have you already seen? If you like the fantasy genre, science fiction and the world of comics, it is very likely that you will quickly mark titles such as The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars or Marvel.

However, there are other movies that are really good and not only the most voted by the users of the page. Shutter Island is a proposal that leaves you totally unsettled at the end and American History X has some scenes that impact, but again it is a highly recommended proposal.

So now you know, if you didn’t know what to see, here is a good and interesting proposal. Combined with others such as the best movies of 2019, you can make up any excuse not to sit down and enjoy the movies, but not that you don’t know what to see.