Travel has become a increasingly popular global activity with no less than 940 million international tourist arrivals last year and a International tourism receipts total of around US$919 billion.  The following article is about the top 100 most popular travel sites in 2011 as per the number of unique visitors.  It includes some of the most popular travel booking agencies such as Expedia and SkyScanner, user generated portals with thousands of customer reviews such as TripAdvisor, as well as top hotel sites including Agoda and other well known hotel brands such as the Accorhotels and Intercontinental group.  Other top candidates on our list are websites mostly known for the quality of their travel content and unique insights on the world’s top destinations such as Lonely Planet as well as some of the most popular global airlines.  We divided the candidates into various topics including top booking websites,  hotel websites, travel content websites and top airline websites.  The complete top 100 travel sites list is displayed at the bottom of the article.

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Travel website categories

Although there are many different travel ways we could of categorize the top 100 winners, we divided our list into the following key topics: top booking sites such as Expedia, Priceline and Kayak, top hotel specific sites such as Hilton and Accorhotels,  top travel content sites such as Wikitravel and Lonely Planet, airline sites with the most popular carrier brands and finally other category where the rest of the travel related sites can be found including money conversion, cruises and timeshares bookings.

Top Booking websites

The following are the top Booking websites which include large holding companies such as Priceline (owner of Booking and Agoda) or Expedia (owner of TripAdvisor and Hotwire ) offering the full range of travel services, hotel specific sites such as Agoda, hostels sites, User Generated sites such as TripAdvisor as well as Flights specific sites such as the excellent SkyScanner service.

Booking.com

Booking.com is the web most popular accommodation reservation service attracting more than 30 million unique visitors each month from both leisure and business markets worldwide.  It offers various accommodations types from small independent to five star luxury hotels, with over 135,000 properties across 101 countries.  Along with Agoda it is part of Priceline.com.

TripAdvisor

TripAdvisor.com is the biggest travel site when it comes to customers reviews and opinions, making it the perfect place to gather travel information. The users provide most of the content including reviews, star ratings and travel forums. It is part of the TripAdvisor Media Group, operated by Expedia Inc.

Check out the latest travel offers on TripAdvisor.

Expedia.com

Expedia is one of the biggest web based travel booking agency offering a variety of services include airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, cruises and vacation package deals.  It is based in the US with localized sites for 20 countries including Canada, Japan, India, Singapore,  Australia New Zealand, UK  and many other European countries.  Expedia was first started by Microsoft and is now a publicly traded company.

Priceline

Priceline.com is a public traded company that facilitates the provision of travel services by its suppliers to its customers to helps users obtain discount rates for travel-related items such as airline tickets and hotel stays. Priceline was the brainchild of digital entrepreneur Jay S. Walker and later purchased by the Hong Kong company Cheung Kong Holdings.

Kayak

Kayak  is a famous metasearch engine which looks for flights, hotels and rental car rates from hundreds of other websites.  Indeed Kayak aggregates results from various top travel sites, allowing its visitors to compare options and redirects them to one of these sites for reservation.

Yahoo! Travel

Yahoo travel is an online travel site offering airline tickets, hotels, cars, cruises and vacation pack reservations.

Orbitz

Orbitz provides customers with an easy way to research, plan and book a broad range of travel products.  It facilitates no less than 1.5 million flight searches and one million hotel searches per day and give users access to some of the lowest fares.

Travelocity

Travelocity is perhaps the second biggest online travel agency offering a variety of travel services, including fare finder, hotel and car rental information.  It operates a full-service business agency with main offices in the USA but also in Canada, Germany, France, the Scandinavian countries, Mexico, India and the United Kingdom. Travelocity sister sites include lastminute.com in Europe and Zuji in Asia as well as other brands such as World Choice Travel, a travel affiliate marketing program, IgoUgo, an online travel community and travel-planning resource, and AllHotels, an online hotel reservation site.

Hotwire

Hotwire is a discount travel website that offers low prices on airfare, hotel, rental cars and vacation packages by selling off unsold travel inventory at discounted prices. It is headquartered in San Francisco and is part of the Expedia group along with hotels.com, ClassicVacations.com and TripAdvisor.com.

Travelzoo

Travelzoo is a global Internet media company with no less than 23 million subscribers around the world.  It publishes handpicked sales and special offers from over 2000 travel, entertainment and local companies.  Travelzoo is one of the largest and most trusted publisher of travel, entertainment and local deals with each deal published tested for accuracy, availability and overall ease of the booking process.

Venere.com

Venere is an online hotel, B&B and apartment reservation service.

Agoda

Agoda.com  is one of the best online hotel reservation services offering more than 150 thousands of accommodations, a real time booking system and the lowest rates guaranteed.  Agoda has a worldwide reach and is one of the market leader in the Asia Pacific Region with offices in Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Phuket, Bali, Sydney, Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai and Manila.

Check out the latest Agoda hotel deals, best prices guaranteed.

Hostelworld.com

Hostelworld.com is an online booking site offering over 17,000 hostels worldwide and over 1 million customer reviews.

Cheap Tickets

Cheaptickets.com offers a variety of travel services including airline tickets, cruise tickets, auto rentals and  hotel reservations.

Late Rooms

LateRooms.com is a hotel reservations website providing accommodation throughout the UK, Europe and the rest of the world.  It offers a wide choice of accommodations with more than 44,000 choices including independent and chain hotels, and has a daily unique visitors average of 231,758.

SkyScanner

Skyscanner is perhaps the best flight reservation tool on the web, comparing hundred of airlines across various dates, as well as having various handy tools such as the interactive flight map.  It offers some of the best flights deals worldwide but especially within Europe.
Check out the latest Skyscanner flight deals.

Cheap Flights

Cheapflights is a British based site, enabling users to browse worldwide flight destinations and find suitable cheap flights from all major destinations.

Hostelbookers.com

Hostelbookers.com is one of the biggest online worldwide hostels booking service.

Hotel.de

hotel.de is a Germany based hotel reservation website.

HRS Hotel Reservation Service

HRS Hotel Reservation as it name entails is one of the biggest worldwide hotel booking system.

Expedia.ca

Expedia.ca is the Canadian version of one of the biggest web based travel website offering a variety of travel services available both in French and English.

OneTravel.com

Onetravel is a travel website offering Flights, Hotels and other Packages deals to top destinations throughout the world.

Wotif.com

Wotif is an Australian reservation service offering worldwide hotels.  The key advantage of their site is that it provides information for the next 3 months,  with often hotels lowering their rates as the date gets closer.

BedandBreakfast.com

Bedandbreakfast is perhaps the biggest site of its kind offering thousands of bed and breakfasts, inns and homestays worldwide.

Thomas Cook Retail Ltd

Thomascook is an International accredited travel agency offering an online booking service for flights, hotels and other package deals.

Ebookers.com

Ebookers is a well known travel reservation center offering various vacation packages, hotels, air fares and car hire services.

Top Hotels websites

The following are the top Hotel websites which include some of the world’s biggest and most famous accommodation networks.

Marriott International

Marriott International is a worldwide operator and franchisor of hotels and related lodging facilities with more than 3,150 lodging properties within the US and in some 68 other countries and territories.  The company was initially founded by J. Willard Marriott and is now run by son J.W. (Bill) Marriott.  It has a variety of brands including but not limited to Marriott Hotels & Resorts, JW Marriott Hotels & Resorts, Renaissance Hotels, Ritz-Carlton, Autograph Collection Hotels & Resorts, Courtyard by Marriott, Marriott Executive Apartments and The Residences at the Ritz-Carlton.

Hilton

Hilton Hotels & Resorts is a well known international chain of full-service hotels and resorts founded by Conrad Hilton and currently owned by Hilton Worldwide.  It has more than 540 Hilton branded hotels in 76 countries across the world. The company places marketing emphasis on business travel, but also owns and operates a number of resorts and leisure-oriented hotels in popular vacation destinations around the world.

Check out the latest Hilton hotel deals.

Hyatt Hotels and Resorts

Hyatt Hotels Corporation is an international operator of hotels with the Hyatt Center in downtown Chicago the company headquarters.  The hotel chain offers business travellers a variety of worldwide luxury hotels to cater all of their needs.

Intercontinental Hotels Group

InterContinental Hotels Group is a global hotels company headquartered in the United Kingdom and considered the largest hotels company in the world measured by number of rooms.  It has over 4,500 hotels in over 100 countries, with a total of no less than 646,000.  It has a variety of brands including InterContinental, Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza and Park Royal.

Check out the latest Intercontinental hotel deals.

Accorhotels

The Accor group is one of the world’s biggest hotel chain offering over 4,000 hotels in 90 countries.  It has something for every taste and budget across all the different world’s regions from the Americas to Australia and New Zealand passing by Europe, Africa and Asia.  It has a variety of well known brands from the high end luxury hotels such as the known Sofitel to more budget accommodations such as Europe’s low cost leaders the Etap Hotel and Formule1.  Some of the great deals they currently offer include the possibility to win ten Free World Tour, a special gift on Accor’s 10th Anniversary or the possibility to stay 4 nights and get 1 night Free with Sofitel this summer at over 80 destinations worldwide.

Check out the latest Accor hotel deals.

Best Western

Best Western International is one of the world’s largest hotel chain with over 4,000 hotels, half in North America and the others set across nearly 80 countries.  It is known for offering free Wi-Fi access hotspots in its hotels.  Best Western International also owns Best Western Premier, an upscale hotel brand for some of its properties located in Europe and Asia.  Bestwestern.com website offers great deals, discounts, directory of locations and an online reservations service.

Choice Hotels International

Choice Hotels International is a famous hospitality holding corporation offering various brands including Ascend Collection, Cambria Suites, Clarion, Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Econo Lodge, Mainstay Suites, Quality Inn, Rodeway Inn, Sleep Inn NS Suburban Extended Stay Hotel.

Holiday Inn Express Hotels

Holiday Inn Express is one of the world’s most famous mid-priced hotel chain part of the larger InterContinental Hotels Group.  It offers a selection of 1,500 hotels worldwide at very competitive prices and is ideal for business travelers and short-term stays.  The official site offers the worldwide locations and a reservations system.

Check out the latest Holiday Inn Express Hotel deals.

Sheraton Hotels & Resorts

Sheraton Hotels and Resorts is Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide’s largest and second oldest brand (Westin being the oldest).   The Sheraton brand offer luxurious properties in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania and the Middle East.

Ibis Hotels

The Ibis brand is a network of 2, 3 and 4 star hotels, currently in 831 locations in 42 countries across North and South America, Europe, Asia and Oceania.   It is known as the worldwide economy hotel offering consistent quality accommodation and services.  It provides excellent value for money with all rooms fully-equipped and the hotel offering  a 24/7 reception.  The Ibis hotels are generally close to city centres, airports or rail stations and offer some of the best rates. It is part of the larger Accor group.
Check out the latest Ibis Hotel deals.

Top Travel Content websites

The following is the list of the top Content websites divided within the content type, wiki or the community type where the main focus is on user generated content in the form of post, pictures, ratings or comments.

Lonely Planet

Lonelyplanet.com is the most popular travel content site offering a variety of travel news and advices, detailed maps as well as popular message boards and health information.

The Virtual Tourist

The Virtual Tourist is an interactive site aimed at sharing travel knowledge using a variety of tools including a chat, forums, travelogues and photos.

Wikitravel

Wikitravel is perhaps the biggest free travel project on the web offering a complete and reliable world-wide travel guide.  It has literally thousands of up-to-date articles on almost all possible world destinations.

Time Out.com

Time Out is a global travel website offering weekly entertainment listings from over 25 of the world top cities.

AOL Travel

AOL Travel offers cheap airline ticket information, flight information, reservations and lodging to a various of world destinations.

TravelPod

TravelPod is one of the most popular travel blog on the web, enabling users to share their travels experiences and stories.  It has currently a community of over 66,000 users and offers various travel resources and services.

Thorn Tree

Thorn Tree is the famous Lonely Planet’s bulletin board for travellers to exchange travel information and various tips.

Frommers.com

Frommers offers quality travel information on various destinations around the globe including activities, feature articles and guidebooks.

Fodors.com

Fodors.com is the online version of the world’s largest publisher of English language travel and tourism information and travel guidebooks.

TravelBlog

TravelBlog is a travel community site where visitors can share their own experiences with travelogues and photos from around the world.

Travel and Leisure Magazine

Travel and Leisure is an online magazine offering travel reporting  as wells as access to destination facts and searchable archives.

Telegraph.co.uk: Travel

The travel section of the famous British newspaper offers a variety of travel news, information and advices.

Travellerspoint

Travellerspoint  is a worldwide travel community offering free travel tools and quality information to help travellers before and during their trips.

Top Airline websites

Southwest

Southwest is one of the biggest airline in the US.  Their sites offers various company information, flight schedules and reservations.

Delta Air Lines

Delta.com is an is an American airline site offering flight reservations, schedules and itineraries.

Ryanair

Ryanair is an Irish discount carrier offering a reservations system, flight schedules and company profile on their site.

American Airlines

The American Airlines site offers flight schedules, fares, special offers and the company’s frequent travel program.

EasyJet.com

Easyjet.com is a low cost travel airline offering cheap flights, hotels, car hire and parking .

United Airlines

United Air Lines is a major American airline and one of the world’s largest with 48,000 employees and 359 aircraft.  It is a founding member of the Star Alliance, the largest airline alliance in the world and offers connections to over 1,000 destinations in over 170 countries worldwide.

Continental Airlines

Continental Airlines is a major American airline based in Houston, Texas, offering flight schedules, reservations, vacation specials and corporate information on their site.

British Airways

British Airways (BA) is the largest airline in the UK based on fleet size, international flights and international destinations.   Their site offers online bookings, flight schedules and frequent flyer offers.

Lufthansa

Lufthansa is the flag carrier of Germany and the largest airline in Europe in terms of overall passengers carried. Their site includes downloadable timetables, photo gallery and online reservations.

Virgin Atlantic Airlines

Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited is a British airline owned by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group (51%) and Singapore Airlines (49%) headquartered in England near London Gatwick Airport.  It operates between the United Kingdom and North America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia from its bases at London Gatwick Airport and London Heathrow Airport, using a mixed fleet of Airbus and Boeing wide-body aircraft. Their site includes online booking, frequent flyer information and special offers.

Emirates

Emirates is the Dubai based quality international airline which flies to over 80 destinations on 5 continents.

Aero Berlin

Aero Berlin is the German airline offering scheduled flights in Europe.

Japan Airlines

Japan Airlines website offers flights schedule, destinations, reservation, frequent flyer program , seat availability and general information.

US Airways

US Airways offers affordable airline tickets and last minute airfare to destinations all over the worlds.

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is the national airline of the Netherlands and is part of Air France-KLM. It operates worldwide scheduled passenger and cargo services to more than 90 destinations.  KLM.com offers online booking, special offers, flight schedules, airline fares and frequent travel program.

LanChile

LanChile offers flight schedules, online ticket purchase, specials, destinations and frequent flyer program.

Air Canada

Aircanada.com include flight schedules, reservations, ground services, air cargo and vacation information.

Qantas Airways

Qantas Airways is a domestic and international airline based in Australia.  Their site includes schedules and flight information.

Alaska Airlines

Alaska Airlines  or alaskaair.com include flight information, schedules, reservations city guide, vacation packages and frequent flyer programs.

Alitalia

Alitalia is an Italian airline providing flight information, scheduling, online booking and various travel planner tools.

Iberia

Iberia  is the Spanish airline offering flight information and company history in English and Spanish.

Aeroflot

Aeroflot  is Russia’s most important International Airline with information on flight schedules, travel office, available on their site.

Turkish Airlines

Turkish Airlines site you can buy flight ticket, check in, make reservation, examine flight timetable and read arrivals.

TAM Airlines

TAM Airlines is the Brazilian carrier providing reservations, flight schedules and special Internet offers.

AirTran Airways

AirTran Airways is the American discount airline serving the eastern and central United States. Their website includes flight schedules and reservation.

Saudi Arabian Airlines

Saudi Arabian Airlines is the country’s national airline and their site offers general information, flight schedules and frequent flyer programs.

Cathay Pacific Airways

Cathay Pacific Airways  is a Hong Kong based airline which include reservations, frequent flyer programs, flight schedules and employment on their site.

Frontier Airlines

Frontier Airlines is Denver based national airline with company information, employment opportunities, and travel schedule on their site.

Cebu Pacific Air

Cebu Pacific Air is the Philippines’ leading domestic carrier and low fare leader.

Jet Airways (India) Ltd.

Jet Airways is India’s  based airline operating both international and internal flights.

Aer Lingus

Aer Lingus is Ireland’s national airline. Their website offers flight schedules, booking, company information and travel guides.

Qatar Airways

Qatar Airways is the international airline of Qatar. Their website  have information on in-flight services, cargo and holiday destinations deals.

Swiss

Swiss is Switzerland’s national airline and their site contains flight schedules, time table and special offers.

Air France

Air France is the country’s national airline offering travel information, services, cargo, corporate, industries on their site.

AeroMexico

AeroMexico offers flight information, schedules and online reservations.

WestJet

WestJet is the Canadian low cost carrier with their website offering online booking, flight schedules, special fares and corporate inform.

Allegiant Air

Allegiant Air is US domestic low cost carrier with hubs in Las Vegas, Phoenix, LA and various Florida airports.

Top other travel websites

The last category shows all the remaining travel website that didn’t appear in the previous categories.  Those include money converter sites, alternative accommodations portals , cruise lines as well as a visa site and the only city specific travel website on the top 100 list, Vegas.com, which offers all the needed information to fully enjoy sin city.

XE.com

Xe.com is the world’s most popular currency site offering free currency rates and other useful services such as money transfer.

Universal Currency Converter

UCC or Universal Currency Converter is part of XE.com and is the most popular currency converter with live foreign exchange rates.

CouchSurfing

CouchSurfing  is a unique travel site offering free accommodations around the world with the use of profile listing, discussion groups and other services.

Vacation Rentals by Owner

Vacation Rentals by Owner  or vrbo.com  is one of the top vacation rental sites with over 75,000 listings and offering the largest number of any vacation rentals.

Bureau of Consular Affairs, U.S. State Department

Bureau of Consular Affairs is a US state site offering travel warnings, international adoption, passport and visa service and problems for American citizens.

HomeAway Vacation Rentals Worldwide

HomeAway Vacation Rentals Worldwide or homeaway.com  offers over 65,000 vacation rentals all over the world from regular homes to luxury villas passing by beach houses and ski chalets.

X-Rates.com

X-rates.com is a popular currency exchange website offering various tools such as time plotted charts, conversion tables, calculator and historic lookups.

Carnival Cruise Lines

Carnival Cruise Lines is a well known mass-market cruise line with sailings to the Caribbean, Mexico, Europe and Alaska.

Royal Caribbean International (RCI)

Royal Caribbean International or RCI is a mass-market cruise line known for innovative large ships with features such as rock-climbing walls.

Vegas.com

Vegas.com is the official Vegas site and the city’s largest online booker for entertainment, hotels, restaurants, tours, golf and other services.  It is the only city specific travel website on our list.

Vacations To Go

Vacations To Go  is a cruise agency based in Houston which offers cruise search, ships, ratings and port information.

Owners Direct

Owners Direct is a British site offering holiday villas directly from the owners.

Visahq.com

Visahq.com is the complete database of visa requirements for all nations around the world.

RCI

RCI or Resort Condominiums International is one of the larger brokers of timeshare trades with over 4,700 affiliated resorts in over 100 countries and a membership base of approximately 3.6 million members worldwide.

Top 100 travel websites list

The following is the top 100 travel websites 2011 list in order of importance:

1. Booking.com
2. TripAdvisor
3. XE.com
4. Expedia.com
5. Universal Currency Converter
6. Priceline
7. Southwest.com
8. Kayak.com
9. Yahoo! Travel
10. Orbitz
11. Delta Air Lines
12. Ryanair
13. Travelocity
14. American Airlines
15. Marriott International
16. Hilton
17. EasyJet.com
18. Lonely Planet
19. Hotwire
20. Travelzoo
21. Venere.com
22. CouchSurfing
23. United Airlines
24. Continental Airlines
25. Agoda
26. British Airways
27. Lufthansa
28. Vacation Rentals by Owner
29. The Virtual Tourist
30. Bureau of Consular Affairs, U.S. State Department
31. Wikitravel
32. HomeAway Vacation Rentals Worldwide
33. Virgin Atlantic Airlines
34. Emirates
35. Aero Berlin
36. Japan Airlines
37. Hostelworld.com
38. Hyatt Hotels and Resorts
39. Cheap Tickets
40. Intercontinental Hotels Group
41. US Airways
42. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
43. Late Rooms
44. Time Out.com
45. SkyScanner
46. Accorhotels
47. Cheap Flights
48. Travel Pod
49. AOL Travel
50. Hostelbookers.com
51. Thorn Tree
52. LanChile
53. Air Canada
54. Hotel.de
55. HRS Hotel Reservation Service
56. Qantas Airways
57. Expedia.ca
58. X-Rates.com
59. Frommers.com
60. Alaska Airlines
61. Fodors.com
62. Alitalia
63. Iberia
64. Aeroflot
65. Best Western
66. Turkish Airlines
67. TAM Airlines
68. AirTran Airways
69. OneTravel.com
70. Qatar Airways
71. Wotif.com
72. TravelBlog
73. Saudi Arabian Airlines
74. Carnival Cruise Lines
75. Cathay Pacific Airways
76. Choice Hotels International
77. Frontier Airlines
78. Cebu Pacific Air
79. Travel and Leisure Magazine
80. Jet Airways (India) Ltd.
81. Aer Lingus
82. Holiday Inn Express Hotels
83. Royal Caribbean International (RCI)
84. BedandBreakfast.com
85. Swiss
86. Sheraton Hotels & Resorts
87. Air France
88. Thomas Cook Retail Ltd
89. Telegraph.co.uk: Travel
90. Vegas.com
91. Vacations To Go
92. Ibis Hotels
93. AeroMexico
94. WestJet
95. Owners Direct
96. Ebookers.com
97. Visahq.com
98. Travellerspoint
99. RCI
100. Allegiant Air

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The list is divided into 10 different categories following the history of cinema including:

Top 100 films interactive application

Origins of Cinema : from 1895 to 1929

The story of Cinema began with the Lumieres brothers in France in 1895.  In the following decades  a new visual language is created across both Europe and America.  The new born directors start working with recognizable cinematographic conventions and various films genre appear from science fiction with Fritz Lang to historical film epics with D. W. Griffith, passing by vampire horrors and surrealist cinema.

Top 10 films from the origin of cinema include:

A trip to the Moon (1902)

A Trip to the Moon or Le Voyage dans la lune is a 1902 French movie directed by magician director Georges Méliès, loosely based  on two popular Jules Verne novels and known to be the first science fiction film in cinematic history.  Indeed it uses innovative animation and special effects such as the famous scene where the spaceship land in the eye of the moon.

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Birth of a Nation (1915)

The Birth of a Nation is an American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith which chronicles the relationship of two families during the Civil War with key historic scenes such as the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.  The film was a huge commercial success, but was highly controversial due to the depiction of racism,  which inspired D.W. Griffith to produce Intolerance the following year.

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari directed by Robert Wiene is considered one of the greatest horror movies of the silent era as well as one of the most influential of German Expressionist.  The film is also famous for being the first to introduce the twist ending in cinema.

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Nosferatu (1922)

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, simply known as Nosferatu is a German Expressionist horror film directed by F. W. Murnau  and loosely based on Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula.  The film starred Max Schreck in the role of the vampire Nosferatu Count Orlok.

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Nanook of the North (1922)

Nanook of the North is a 1922 silent documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty in the tradition of what would later be called salvage ethnography.  The film is considered the first feature-length documentary, showing the struggles of Inuk Nanook and his family in the Canadian arctic.

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Battleship Potemkine (1925)

The Battleship Potemkin is one of the greatest masterpieces by Russian director Sergei Eisenstein showing a dramatized version of the 1905 mutiny of the battleship Potemkin crew against their officers of the Tsarist regime.  The film is known for being one of the most influential propaganda films of all time.

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Metropolis (1927)

Metropolis is a science-fiction film following the German expressionist school, directed by Fritz Lang and set in a futuristic urban dystopia,  depicting the social crisis between workers and owners.  It is famous for being the most expensive silent film ever made, at a cost of about 5 million Reichsmark ($200 million when adjusted for inflation).

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Napoleon (1927)

The 1927 Napoleon is an epic silent French film directed by Abel Gance displaying the rise of Napoleon from its school youth to the invasion of Italy.  The film is often considered to be ahead of its time being one of the first to use handheld cameras and new editing methods.

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Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

The Passion of Joan of Arc is a French silent film starring Renée Jeanne Falconetti and directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer depicting the trial, imprisonment, torture and execution of Joan of Arc.  It is widely regarded as a one of cinema greatest films, celebrated for its direction and main character excellent performance.

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An Andalucian Dog (1929)

Un Chien Andalou or An Andalusian Dog is a silent surrealist short film by debuting Spanish director Luis Bunuel and famous artist Salvador Dali.  It is famous for being unconventional with a disjointed chronology and use of dream logic or Freudian free association in its narrative flow.

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Cinema of the 30’s

The cinema of the 30’s is the decade of the classic Hollywood style where studios and their key directors from George Cukor to Michael Curtiz  passing by Victor Fleming, bring complete mastery to the movie enterprise.  It is the time where European new comer such as Ernst Lubitsch bring a touch of innovation and elegance to Hollywood.  Not to forget the new generation of American Mavericks such as Capra, Huston and Disney that challenge the limits of filmmaking, bringing this new Art to a whole new level.

Top 10 films of the 30’s include:

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 American epic war film directed by Lewis Milestone and based on the Erich Maria Remarque novel of the same name.  It is often considered one of the most realistic account of warfare in World War I.

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Blue Angel (1930)

The Blue Angel is a film directed by Josef von Sternberg considered to be the first major German sound film as well as bringing to world fame actress Marlene Dietrich.

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City Lights (1931)

City Lights is a silent romantic comedy-drama film written, directed and starring Charlie Chaplin.  It is often considered as one of the highest accomplishments of his prolific career. Although classified as a comedy, City Lights has an ending widely regarded as one of the most moving in cinema history.

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42nd Street (1933)

42nd Street is an American lively backstage musical directed by Lloyd Bacon.  It was very successful at the box office and widely nominated for different prestigious films awards.  The film is often considered a masterpiece in its genre and features on a variety of top cinema lists.

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Duck Soup (1933)

Duck Soup is a 1933 Marx Brothers anarchic comedy film directed by Leo McCarey and featuring the "Four Marx Brothers" including Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo.  Although it wasn’t a really a commercial and critical hit, it since achieved the status of a classic and often considered the Marx Brothers’ finest film.

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King Kong (1933)

King Kong is a fantasy monster adventure film co-directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack about the now famous gigantic island-dwelling gorilla-like creature called Kong who dies in an attempt to possess a beautiful young woman.

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Atalante (1934)

L’Atalante is a 1934 French film directed by Jean Vigo and starring Jean Dasté, Dita Parlo and Michel Simon. It has been hailed by many critics as one of the greatest films of all time.

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Snow white and the seven dwarfs (1937)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first animated feature film produced in America and  first to be produced by Walt Disney as well as the first full-length cel-animated feature in motion picture history.  Following its success, various Walt Disney animated classics followed.

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Olympia (1938)

Olympia is a 1938 film by Leni Riefenstahl documenting the 1936 Summer Games and known to be the first documentary feature film on the Olympic Games ever made.  The cinematography techniques employed were groundbreaking  and universally admired,  however the film remains controversial due to its political context.

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Rules of the Game (1939)

The Rules of the Game or La Règle du jeu is a 1939 French film directed by Jean Renoir about upper-class French society just before the start of World War II.  He was inspired by France greatest authors including Alfred de Musset’s Les Caprices de Marianne as well as Moliere and Marivaux.

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Cinema during the war: from 1939 to 1945

The cinema during  the wars were characterise by films with the obvious Second War Context such as the Casablanca, but also some of the greatest films in the short history of Cinema such as Citizen Kane.  It is also the beginning of poetic realism in France with amongst other Michel Carne and Italian neorealism with Luchino Visconti’s.

Top 10 films of the 30’s include:

Gone with the wind (1939)

Gone with the Wind is a American historical epic film directed by Victor Fleming and adapted from Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer-winning 1936 novel of the same name. It is the story of the American Civil War and Reconstruction era from a Southern point of view, starring  Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.  It is known to be the first major film shot in colour.

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Philadelphia Story (1940)

The Philadelphia Story is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor and starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn.  It is considered one of the best examples of a comedy of remarriage, a genre popular in the 1930s and 1940s, in which a couple divorce, flirt with outsiders and then remarry.

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His Girl Friday (1940)

His Girl Friday is an American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant as Walter Burns and Rosalind Russell as Hildy Johnson. It is famous for its rapid-fire dialogue.

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Grapes of Wrath (1940)

The Grapes of Wrath is a drama film directed by John Ford  and based on John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name.  The film follows an Oklahoma family across the United States journey during the Great Depression of  the 1930s.

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Citizen Kane (1941)

Citizen Kane is an American drama film directed by and starring Orson Welles often considered the greatest movie of all time.  It is famous for its innovative cinematography, music and narrative structure.  The story displays the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane, a character based upon the American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.

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The Maltese Falcon (1941)

The Maltese Falcon is a film written and directed by directorial debut John Huston, based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett and featuring Humphrey Bogart.  The story follows a private detective’s dealings with a jewel-encrusted statuette of a falcon mystery.  It is considered the first major work of the film noir genre.

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In Which We Serve (1942)

In Which We Serve is a British patriotic war film directed by David Lean and Noël Coward, based on the exploits of Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten, commander of the HMS Kelly destroyer which sunk during the Battle of Crete.  The film made with the assistance of the Ministry of Information remains a classic example of wartime British cinema through its patriotic imagery of national unity and social cohesion within the context of the Second World War.

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To Be or Not to Be(1942)

To Be or Not to Be is a American comedy directed by Ernst Lubitsch, about a troupe of actors in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who use their abilities at disguise and acting to fool the occupying troops.  The title is a reference to the famous "To be, or not to be" in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

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Casablanca (1942)

Casablanca is a American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.  The story is about a man torn between love and virtue. Indeed he must choose between his love for a woman and helping her and her Czech Resistance leader husband escape from the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis.

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Ossessione (1943)

Ossessione or Obsession is an Italian film based on the novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain.  The film is Luchino Visconti’s first feature film and it is often considered the first Italian neorealist film.

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Postwar Cinema: from 1945 to1950

The Postwar Cinema area is defined  by the few years following the end of the second World War.  Some of the key films including Rome, Open City and A Matter of life have a war related thematic other such as Passport to Pimlico try to depict a funnier side of events.   Japanese cinematography, especially with Kurosowa are starting to be discovered in Europe and America.

Top 10 films of Postwar Cinema include:

Children of Paradise (1945)

Children of Paradise  or Les Enfants du Paradis is a French film by Marcel Carné, made during the German occupation of France during World War II.  It is the story of a beautiful courtesan, Garance, and the four men who love her in their own ways: a mime artist, an actor, a criminal and an aristocrat.

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Rome, Open City (1945)

Rome, Open City is an Italian war drama film, directed by Roberto Rossellini set in Rome during the Nazi occupation in 1944. The film won several awards at various film festivals and was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

A Matter of Life and Death is a romantic fantasy film set during World War II created by the British writer-director-producer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

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It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

It’s a Wonderful Life is an American comedy/drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra and based on the short story "The Greatest Gift" written by Philip Van Doren Stern.  The film is about a man whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel.

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Bicycle Thieves (1948)

Bicycle Thieves is a Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica about the story of a poor man searching the streets of Rome for his stolen bicycle.  The film is based on the novel of the same name by Luigi Bartolini.

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Passport to Pimlico (1949)

Passport to Pimlico is a British comedy film directed by Henry Cornelius inspired by a true incident during the Second World War, when the royal family of the Netherlands fled to Canada.

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The Third Man (1949)

The Third Man is a British film noir directed by Carol Reed best known for its atmospheric cinematography, excellent performances and unique musical score.

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Orpheus (1950)

Orpheus is a French film starring Jean Marais directed by Jean Cocteau as the central part of his Orphic Trilogy, which also consists of The Blood of a Poet (1930) and Testament of Orpheus (1960).

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Rashomon (1950)

Rashomon is a crime mystery film directed by Akira Kurosawa, famous for being the film that introduced the master the and Japanese cinema to Western audiences. The film won many award including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and an Academy Honorary Award.

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Cinema of the 50’s

The Cinema of the 50’s Cinema is characterized by a new beginning with various dancing and singing films in Hollywood. On the other hand however, the is a remaining of war pessimism with the film noir genre and their dodgy detectives and femmes fatales.

Singin’ in the rain (1952)

Singin’ in the Rain is an American comedy musical film starring, choreographed and directed by Gene Kelly as well as Stanley Donen.  The film is a comic depiction of Hollywood during the transition from silent films to "talkies."  It is often described as one of the best musicals ever made.

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Tokyo Story (1953)

Tokyo Story is a Japanese film directed by Yasujiro Ozu and often regarded as his masterpiece.  The film is about an aging couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children, but find their children are too absorbed in their own lives to spend much time with their parents. 

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On the Waterfront (1954)

On the Waterfront is a American drama film directed by Elia Kazan and stars Marlon Brando about union violence and corruption among longshoremen.  Some say it was based on a series of articles written in the New York Sun by Malcolm Johnson.  The film received eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director.

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All That Heavens allows (1955)

All That Heaven Allows is a romance feature film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson.  The story is about a well-to-do widow and a younger landscape designer falling in love.  

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Rebel without a cause (1955)

Rebel Without a Cause is a American drama film Directed by Nicholas Ray about emotionally confused suburban, middle-class teenagers.  The film has today achieved landmark status for the acting of cultural icon James Dean who unfortunately died before the film’s release and it often considered his most celebrated role.

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Pather Panchali (1955)

Pather Panchali is a drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray based on a Bengali novel of the same name.  It is the first film of the Apu trilogy which depicts the childhood of the protagonist Apu in the rural countryside of Bengal in the 1920s.  It was Rays’ first feature film as well as the first movie from independent India to attract major international critical attention.  It is today considered one of the greatest films ever made.

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Night of the Hunter (1955)

The Night of the Hunter is an American thriller film directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum.  It is based on the true story of Harry Powers hanged in 1932 for the murders of two widows and three children in West Virginia. The film is famous for its lyric and expressionistic style which influenced later directors such as David Lynch and Martin Scorsese.

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Seventh Seal

The Seventh Seal is a Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.   It is the story of a medieval knight and a game of chess he plays with the personification of Death who has come to take his life. The film established  Bergman as a world-renowned director and is considered a major classic of world cinema.

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Vertigo

Vertigo is a 1958 cult psychological thriller by famous suspense director Alfred Hitchcock about a retired police detective suffering from acrophobia who is hired as a private investigator to follow the wife of an acquaintance to uncover the mystery of her peculiar behaviour.

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Ashes and Diamonds

Ashes and Diamonds is a Polish film directed by famous east European director Andrzej Wajda, based on the 1948 novel by writer Jerzy Andrzejewski. The film completed Wajda’s war films trilogy following A Generation (1954) and Kanal (1956).

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New wave Cinema: from 1959 to 1969

The decade of the 60’s in the history of Cinema is famous for bringing fresh ideas and new  techniques to the more author driven 7th art.  Indeed it is the age of the French New Wave  with the like of Godard and François Truffaut, Europe Avant garde cinema with Antonioni and Bergman, British Free cinema with Ken Loach and some new method of filmmaking on the other side of the Atlantic with Kubrick and Lumet amongst other.

Top 10 films of the New wave Cinema include:

400 Blows (1959)

The 400 Blows or Les Quatre Cents Coups is a French film directed by François Truffaut considered  one of the most defining films of the French New Wave displaying many of the characteristic traits of the movement. The story revolves around Antoine Doinel, an ordinary adolescent in Paris who is thought by his parents and teachers to be a trouble maker.

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Some Like it Hot (1959)

Some Like It Hot is an American comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon.

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Breathless (1960)

Breathless or À bout de soufflé is a French romantic crime drama film directed by Jean-Luc Godard.  It was Godard’s first feature film and much acclaimed for the use of bold visual style and the innovative editing use of jump cuts.  Along with Truffaut’s 400 Blows and Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima, it brought international acclaim to the nouvelle vague.

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La Dolce Vita (1960)

La Dolce Vita is a comedy-drama film written and directed by the critically acclaimed Italian director Federico Fellini. The film is a story of a passive journalist’s week in Rome and his search for both happiness and love that will never come.  The film is generally cited as that one that marks the transition between Fellini’s earlier neo-realist films and his later art films, and is widely considered one of the great achievements in world cinema.

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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Lawrence of Arabia is a British film directed by David Lean starring Peter O’Toole as  T. E. Lawrence. The film depicts Lawrence’s experiences in Arabia during World War I, including his emotional struggles, his personal identity, and his divided allegiance between his native Britain and its army and his newfound comrades within the Arabian desert tribes.  It is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential films in the history of cinema.

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Dr. Strangelove (1964)

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb commonly known as Dr. Strangelove, is a 1964 black comedy film which satirized the nuclear scare, directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick and starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott.

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Andrei Rublev (1966)

Andrei Rublev is a 1966 Russian film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky loosely based on the life of Andrei Rublev, the great 15th century Russian icon painter.  The film is all about the essence of art, artistic freedom and the importance of faith,  showing an artist who tries to find the appropriate response to the tragedies of his time.

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Chelsea Girls (1966)

Chelsea Girls is an experimental underground film directed by Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey and became the first of Warhol’s major commercial success.  It was shot at the Hotel Chelsea and other locations in New York City, and follows the lives of several of the young women who live there, and stars many of Warhol’s superstars.

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Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Bonnie and Clyde is a 1967 American crime film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the title characters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. It is considered as one of the first films of the New Hollywood era and its success motivated other filmmakers to be more forward about presenting sex and violence in their films.

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The Wild Bunch(1969)

The Wild Bunch is a 1969 cult American western film directed by Sam Peckinpah about an aging outlaw gang on the Texas-Mexico border.  The film was controversial because of its graphic, bloody violence and its portrayal of the crude men attempting to survive by any available means.

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Easy Rider (1969)

Easy Rider is a cult road movie representing America of the 60’s which also became a key piece of New Hollywood filmmaking.  It was written by Peter Fonda, directed by Dennis Hopper and have one of the first appearance of Jack Nicholson. It is the story of two bikers (played by Fonda and Hopper) who  are travelling across America to reach Louisiana with the plan to retire but discover the real America.

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The Cinema of the 70’s

The Cinema during the first half of the 70’s is remembered by the European intellectual directors such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Sergio Leone and Roman Polanski as well as the American screwball comedies of the like of Mel Brooks.  The other half of 70’s is known for  being the beginning of New Hollywood where a young generation of filmmakers combine their artistic vision with the financial backing of the Studios.   Those include some of the now considered greatest cinema author such as Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola , Brian de Palma and Martin Scorsese.

Top 10 films of the 70’s include:

Conformist (1970)

The Conformist  is a Italian drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci based on the 1951 featuring Jean-Louis Trintignant and using art and decor of the 30’s associated with the Fascist area.

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Godfather (1972)

The Godfather is a 1972 American gangster film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo and starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, and John Cazale.  It depicts the Italian-American Corleone crime family and is known as one of the best gangster films of all time.

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Aguirre: the wrath of god (1972)

Aguirre, the Wrath of God is a 1972 adventure film written and directed by famous German  director Werner Herzog, about the travels of Lope de Aguirre, a Spanish soldier, who goes to South America in search of El Dorado, the legendary city of gold.

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Nashville (1975)

Nashville is an American musical black comedy film directed by Robert Altman and often considered one of his best films.  The film takes a snapshot of people involved in the country music and gospel music businesses in Nashville, Tennessee, with no less than 24 main characters, an hour of musical numbers and multiple storylines.

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In the Realm of the senses (1976)

In the Realm of the Senses is a Franco-Japanese drama film directed by Nagisa Oshima about Sada Abe, a fictionalised and sexually explicit treatment of an incident from 1930s Japan. The film generated great controversy during its release, mostly because it contains real scenes of sexual activity between the actors.

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Taxi Driver (1976)

Taxi Driver is a 1976 American drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Jodie Foster.  The story is about a Vietnam war veteran  taxi driver, who takes New York City justice into his own hands.  The film won the Palme d’Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.

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Annie Hall (1977)

Annie Hall is a 1977 American romantic comedy directed by Woody Allen from featuring himself and Diane Keaton.   It is often considered one of Allen’s most popular and most honoured films, winning four Academy Awards.  Known for being the author of zany comedies, the is considered a major turning point in his career.

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Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, originally released as Star Wars is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first of six films released in the Star Wars saga: two subsequent films complete the original trilogy, while a prequel trilogy completes the six-film saga.

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Marriage of Maria Braun (1979 )

The Marriage of Maria Braun is a West German film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.  The story is about Maria, whose marriage with the soldier Hermann remained unfulfilled due to World War II and his post-war imprisonment.  The film is consider one of the more successful works of Fassbinder and known to have shaped the image of the New German Cinema in foreign countries.

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Deer Hunter (1978)

The Deer Hunter is a drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino starring stars Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and Meryl Streep.  It is about a trio of Russian American steel worker friends and their infantry service in the Vietnam War.

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The Cinema of the 80’s

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E.T. (1982 )

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is an American science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg about a lonely boy who befriends an extraterrestrial who is stranded on Earth. The film was huge blockbuster becoming the most financially successful film released to that point. It is a timeless story of friendship and sometimes considered the greatest science fiction film ever made.

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Blade Runner (1982)

Blade Runner is an 1982 American film directed by known director Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford.  It depicts the dystopian futuristic city of Los Angeles where exist genetically engineered organic robots.  Although the film performed poorly at the box office, it has since become a science fiction cult classic.

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Paris, Texas (1984)

Paris, Texas is a drama film directed by acclaimed European director Wim Wenders. The story is about Travis, who has been lost for four years and is taken in by his brother.  He later tries to put his life back together and understand what happened between him, his wife Jane (Nastassja Kinski) and his son Hunter (Hunter Carson).

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Heimat (1984)

Heimat meaning "homeland" in German are three series of 30 episodic films by Edgar Reitz.  The films are about the life in Germany between 1919 and 2000 through the eyes of a family from the Rhineland.  Personal and domestic life is set against glimpses of wider social and political events.

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Come and See (1985)

Come and See directed by Elem Klimov is a Soviet war movie and psychological horror drama about the Nazi German occupation of the Byelorussian SSR.  The film was produced to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Soviet victory in World War II, and was a large box-office hit, with 28,900,000 admissions in the Soviet Union alone.

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Blue Velvet (1986)

Blue Velvet is an American mystery film written and directed by David Lynch with elements of both film noir and surrealism.  Although the film was initially detested by some mainstream critics, it is now considered one of its greatest achievement.

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Shoah (1985)

Shoah is a nine-hour thirty-six minute documentary film completed by Claude Lanzmann in 1985 about the Holocaust or Shoah. The film primarily consists of interviews and visits to key Holocaust sites.

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A room with a view (1985)

A Room with a View is a British drama film directed by James Ivory adapted from  E. M. Forster’s novel of the same name.  The film stars Helena Bonham Carter as a young woman in the restrictive Edwardian culture of turn-of-the century England and her love for a free-spirited young man.

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Cinema paradiso (1988)

Nuovo cinema Paradiso or best known as Cinema Paradiso is an Italian drama film written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore featuring music by Ennio Morricone.  The film is known as a an example of "nostalgic postmodernism", by mixing  sentimentality with comedy.

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Do the right thing (1989)

Do the Right Thing is a American drama created by Spike Lee featuring film debut Martin Lawrence.  The film was a commercial success and received numerous accolades and awards, including an Academy Award nomination for Lee for Best Original Screenplay.

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The Cinema of the 90’s

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Raise the red lantern (1991)

Raise the Red Lantern is a Chinese film directed by Zhang Yimou, starring Gong Li and based on the 1990 novel Wives and Concubines by Su Tong.  The film noted for its opulent visuals and sumptuous use of colours, is the story of a young woman who becomes one of the concubines of a wealthy man during the Warlord Era.

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Unforgiven (1992)

Unforgiven is an American Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood.  The film which is about an aging outlaw and killer, was only the third western to win the Oscar for Best Picture following Cimarron (1931) and Dances With Wolves (1990).

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Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Reservoir Dogs is a American crime film and the debut of director and writer Quentin Tarantino starting Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen and Chris Penn. It depicts the events before and after a botched diamond heist, though not the heist itself.  The film has become a classic of independent film and a cult hit.

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Three Colours: Blue, White and Red (1994)

The Three Colours Trilogy is the collective title of three films Bleu, White and Red directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski.  Two films were made in French and one primarily in Polish.  The films were Kieslowski’s first major successes outside of Poland and are his most acclaimed works after The Decalogue.

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Through the Olive Trees (1994)

Through the Olive Trees is a film directed and written by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, known for its minimalist and naturalistic style.  It is set in earthquake-ravaged Northern Iran and is a complex study of the link between art and life, constantly blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality.

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Four Weddings and a funeral (1994)

Four Weddings and a Funeral is a British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell featuring Hugh Grant. The film was an unexpected success, becoming the highest-grossing British film in cinema history at the time an winning an Academy Award for Best Picture.

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Toy Story (1995)

Toy Story is an American computer-animated film released by Walt Disney Pictures and famous for being the first ever feature film to be made entirely with CGI as well as Pixar’s first big production.  The film follows a group of toys who pretend to be lifeless whenever humans are present.

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Fargo (1996)

Fargo is an American dark comedy-crime film produced, directed and written by the brothers Joel and Ethan Coen and starring Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi and William H. Macy.  The film was as huge success and earned seven Academy Award nominations and best Director at Cannes Film Festival.

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Boogie Nights (1997)

Boogie Nights is a drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.  It is set in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley and shows the 70s Golden Age of the Porn industry and its excess in the 1980s, following a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes a popular star.

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Fight Club (1999)

Fight Club is an American film directed by David Fincher adapted from the novel of the same name and starring Edward Norton and Brad Pitt. The film made poorly at the box office but quickly became one of the most controversial and talked-about films of 1999.  It only became a cult film when it was later release on DVD.

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Cinema of the noughties

The cinema of the noughties is characterize by being truly global with even main Hollywood productions such as acclaimed film Traffic have story set across various regions.  From Japan’s metropolis where you can get lost in translation to the favelas of Brazil, passing by Chinese martial art, film production has become a worldwide phenomenon with stories, styles and actors mixing on a global scale.  The techniques and visual effect seen in this decade are unprecedented and would make jealous even cinema greatest moviemakers.

Top 10 films of the noughties include:

Amores Perros (2000)

Amores Perros is a 2000 neorealist Mexican drama directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, the first of its triptych about death.  The film shows three distinct stories which are connected by a car accident in Mexico City and is often referred to as the "Mexican Pulp Fiction”.

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a martial art film directed by acclaimed director Ang Lee and is famous for its masterfully choreographed kung fu and action sequences.  Shot on a low budget It became the highest-grossing foreign-language film in American history and won over 40 awards.

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In the mood for Love (2000)

In the Mood for Love is a Hong Kong film directed by master cinematographer Wong Kar-wai nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000.  It is part of an informal trilogy, together with the first part Days of Being Wild released in 1991 and the last part 2046 released in 2004.

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Traffic (2000)

Traffic is a 2000 American crime drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh exploring the illegal drug trade from various perspectives including the user, enforcer, politician and a trafficker.  The film was critically acclaimed and earned numerous awards.

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Lord of the Rings (2001)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is a 2001 fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson based on the first volume of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.  The story is about the young hobbit Frodo Baggins and his eight companions that form the Fellowship of the Ring and their journey to Mount Doom.   It was a major box office success, being the second highest-grossing film of 2001 in the U.S.

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City of God (2002)

City of God  or Cidade de Deus is a Brazilian crime film directed by Fernando Meirelles based on real events.  It depicts the growth of organized crime in the Cidade de Deus suburb, a favelas of Rio de Janeiro, between the end of the ’60s and the beginning of the ’80s.

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Lost in Translation (2003)

Lost in Translation is an American film directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson.  The film blends elements of comedy as well as more serious themes common in drama films. It was a major critical success and won for Best Original Screenplay.

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind (2004)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is an American science fiction film directed by Michel Gondry.  The film is about a couple who have each other erased from their memories. It uses elements of science fiction, nonlinear narration and neo-surrealism to explore the nature of memory and romantic love.

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Children of Men (2006)

Children of Men is a American-British dystopian science fiction film directed by Alfonso Cuarón and starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine.  The story is set in the United Kingdom of 2027 where two decades of global human infertility have left humanity with less than a century to survive.

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The Dark Knight (2008)

The Dark Knight is a superhero film directed, produced and co-written by Christopher Nolan and a sequel to 2005′s Batman Begins.  The film is known for its beautiful cinematography and bringing back the dark Knight into Batman as well as for the great performance from the cast including Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman and especially Heath Ledger as the "Joker" who unfortunately died shortly after.

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The 2011 top 100 most popular videos are divided into the following categories:

Top 10 Comedy

This year’s comedy superstar is once again Charlie and his brother with two videos on the top 10 position.  Animals, especially sneezing baby pandas and cats remains hilariously funny, so as what can be found on Mars.

Charlie bit my finger – Again

The Sneezing Baby Panda

Try to watch this without laughing or grinning

Top 10 Education

Who would imagine that breast feeding would be such an important educational topic.  I don’t remember having that subject in school.  There are also other important  education material on the list such as the Pregnant Man, the Indian girl with two faces and the World’s Strongest Child.

1. First Latch
2. Phonics Song
3. The Pregnant Man
4. Dora the Explorer – Candy Land
5. Embrace Life – always wear your seat belt
6. My Love Secrets to Seduce Me: Your Sexist Comments
7. Breastfeeding Toddlers
8. The Girl with Two aces
9. Incy Wincy Spider – Nursery rhymes
10. The World’s Strongest Child and Me

Embrace Life – always wear your seat belt

My Love Secrets to Seduce Me: Your Sexist Comments

Top 10 Entertainment

Dirty Dancing final dance scene remains the internet users entertainment favourite.  It is followed by spectacular performance of newly discovered singer Susan Boyle as well as young Connie Talbot and Paul Potts remarkable voice.  Drunk people remains a very funny and entertaining subject but a bit less is the fat bus driver performance.

1. Dirty Dancing Time of my Life (Final Dance)
2. Susan Boyle – Singer – Britain’s Got Talent 2009
3. The Ultimate Drunk People Compilation Video Ever
4. Bgt Final – Connie Talbot High
5. The T-Mobile Dance
6. Bgt Final -Paul Potts
7. Fat bus driver fights with child
8. Adele – ”Someone Like You”
9. Clubtrinity
10. Teletubbies – Teletubbies Say ‘Eh Oh!’

The Ultimate Drunk People Compilation Video Ever

The T-Mobile Dance

Fat bus driver fights with child

Top 10 How to & Style

The third section of our top 100 most popular videos is all about education as well.  With plenty of massage tutorials and other how to including how to moon walk like the king of pop and how to check your breast.

UFO in Belgium chased by air force f16′s

Scary gun

Top 10 News & Politics

Our next section has a bit of controversies clips, from NYC and 9/11 to Iraq passing by Washington and Hilary.   It really shows some strange news from all around the world including the two faces baby and the one that smoked 40 cigarettes a day.

1. Strange things in 911 footage
2. Human Treeman begs for help as he turns into a tree
3. Baby born with two faces, four eyes, two noses, two mouths
4. 9/11: Total Proof That Bombs Were Planted In The Buildings.
5. 8 limbed baby to have an operation
6. Generation Kill – Iraq
7. Indonesian baby on 40 cigarettes a day
8. Theories And Bizarre Events On 9/11
9. Strange News : Episode # 1
10. The Shocking Video Hillary Does NOT Want you to see

Strange things in 911 footage

Indonesian baby on 40 cigarettes a day

The Shocking Video Hillary Does NOT Want you to see

Top 10 People & Blogs

The number one video in the people and blogs category is Britney Spears with over 36 millions views globally followed by the real aliens clip.  A bit of sexy footage is also on the list so is once again Charlie, the king of online video and Elvis, the king of Rock n’ Roll.

1. Britney Spears Topless Photos
2. Real alien
3. C-Walk crip walk London 5 Way
4. Take My Shirt
5. Naked Charity Calendar
6. Real sexy teen stripping on her bed
7. Missing you Iona
8. Charlie Bit Me – The First TV Interview
9. Suspicious Mind – Elvis Presley
10. Sophie Buntin pmsl

Britney Spears Topless Photos

C-Walk crip walk London 5 Way

Naked Charity Calendar

Top 10 Pets & Animals

Animals clip are always at the top of the charts from funny cats to horses or lion, will they be real ones or cartoons.  But would you expect a dog to attack a shark or make visual art with sheep?

Dog Attack Shark

Extreme Sheep LED Art

Cool and weird dog photos

Top 10 Science & Technology

A bit of science now, starting with some images of a sonic plane with over 23 millions views, followed by some scary ghost footage and a robot playing the violin.  Other  interesting videos are the rapidity of witting as text message and how unboxing a new device can bring a world of surprises.

1. Sonic Boom
2. Scary Ghost Footage caught on video tape
3. Robot Violinist
4. The First British Hydrogen Bomb
5. Most Amazing and Bizarre Deep Sea Creatures
6. Fastest text message – Guinness World Record
7. Lego Hello World
8. Samsung SSD Awesomeness
9. Runescape High/Max Hits With Melee
10. Samsung Omnia i900 Unboxing

Sonic Boom

Fastest text message – Guinness World Record

Samsung Omnia i900 Unboxing

Top 10 Sport

The number one sport video is Danny’s amazing BMX tricks, followed by  the 38-Meter High Dive.  From football (soccer)with the Ronaldo and Ronaldinho of this world, to the free running (Parlour) breathtaking moments with Damien Walters, the list covers some of the greatest sport moments.

1. Inspired Bicycles – Danny MacAskill April 2009
2. 38-Meter High Dive Goes Wrong
3. John Cena rap battles a fan
4. World Cup 2010 – Waving Flag
5. Football skills – Zidane, Ronaldo and Ronaldinho
6. Damien Walters 2010
7. Free running
8. Damien Walters Showreel 2009
9. Funny Football Moments and Painful Injuries
10. Joga bonito

Inspired Bicycles – Danny MacAskill April 2009

Football skills – Zidane, Ronaldo and Ronaldinho

Damien Walters 2010

Top 10 Travel & Events

Our last section from the top 100 online video list is all about world travel and spooky events.  From the Las Vegas and Dubai crazy rides, to cannibalism tribes, passing by all sorts of ghosts and haunted house, the travel & events list have some strange things to surprise you. 

Las Vegas Stratosphere X Scream Ride

What a pilot

Cannibalism tribe – BBC

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What is Philosophy?

The word "philosophy" comes from the Greek philosophia, which literally means "love of wisdom". Philosophy can be define as the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.   It is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational argument.

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Our structure follows the different time period of the various Western Philosophers.  Those are divide into the following categories:

The Ancient Philosophers

Ancient philosophy is that of the Greco-Roman world from the 6th century BC to the 6th century AD.  Those Philosophers are usually divided into three time periods including the pre-Socratic period, the Socratic with Plato and Aristotle and finally the post-Aristotelian (or Hellenistic) period.  A fourth period that is sometimes added includes the Neoplatonic and Christian philosophers of late Antiquity.

The most important of the ancient philosophers (in terms of subsequent influence) are Plato and Aristotle.  In this period the crucial features of the philosophical method were established: a critical approach to received or established views, and the appeal to reason and argumentation.

Top Ancient Philosophers

The top ancient philosophers include:

1. Thales of Miletos
2. Pythagoras of Samos
3. Xenophanes of Colophon
4. Parmenides of Elea
5. Heraclites
6. Zeno of Elea
7. Socrates
8. Plato
9. Aristotle
10. Democritus
11. Epicurus
12. Diogenes of Sinope
13. Marcus Tullius Cicero
14. Philo of Alexandria
15. Lucius Anneas Seneca
16. Marcus Aurelius
17. Sextus Empiricus
18. Plotinus

Thales of Miletos

Thales of Miletus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Miletus in Asia Minor, and one of the Seven Sages of Greece and often regarded as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition. Thales was one of the first to try to explain natural phenomena without reference to mythology and was tremendously influential in this respect.

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Pythagoras of Samos

Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher and known mathematician.

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Xenophanes of Colophon

Xenophanes of Colophon was a Greek philosopher known for criticizing wide range of ideas, including Homer and Hesiod, the belief in the pantheon of anthropomorphic gods and the Greeks’ veneration of athleticism. He is also the first Greek poet who claims explicitly to be writing for future generations.

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Parmenides of Elea

Parmenides of Elea was an ancient Greek philosopher founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy and is mostly known for his poem, On Nature, which describes two views of reality, ideas which strongly influenced the whole of Western philosophy and especially on Plato.

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Heraclites

Heraclitus of Ephesus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, who regarded himself as self-taught and a pioneer of wisdom.  He was often referred to as the " Obscure" or the "Weeping Philosopher", mainly because the lonely life he led as well as for his riddling nature of his philosophy and his contempt for humankind in general.

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Zeno of Elea

Zeno of  was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of southern Italy and a member of the Eleatic School founded by Parmenides. Aristotle called him the inventor of the dialectic and is best known for his paradoxes, which Bertrand Russell has described as "immeasurably subtle and profound".

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Socrates

Socrates was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher known as one of the founders of Western philosophy. He is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon, and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes.

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Plato

Plato was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.  Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science.

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Aristotle

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great, covering many topics including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theatre, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government and ethics. Together with Plato and Socrates, Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy, being the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality, logic and science, politics and metaphysics.

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Democritus

Democritus was an Ancient Greek philosopher born in Greece who formulated an atomic theory for the cosmos and therefore many consider home to be the "father of modern science".

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Epicurus

Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism which describes the purpose of philosophy was to attain a happy, tranquil life, characterized by ataraxia, peace and freedom from fear, and aponia, the absence of pain, and by living a self-sufficient life surrounded by friends.

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Diogenes of Sinope

Diogenes the Cynic was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy who believed that virtue was better revealed in action than in theory. He was a controversial figure, known for living in a tube as he moved to Athens to debunk cultural conventions, after being exiled from his native city for defacing the currency.

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist often considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists.

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Philo of Alexandria

Philo of Alexandria was a Hellenistic Jewish Biblical philosopher born in Alexandria who used philosophical allegory to fuse and harmonize Greek philosophy and Jewish traditions. His method followed the practices of both Jewish exegesis and Stoic philosophy.

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Lucius Annaeus Seneca often simply known as Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist and in one work humorist of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He is also famous for being the tutor and later advisor to the emperor Nero.

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Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius was the last of the Five Good Emperors  also considered one of the most important Stoic philosophers.

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Sextus Empiricus

Sextus Empiricus was a physician and philosopher famous for writing the most complete surviving account of ancient Greek and Roman scepticism. He is known to have belonged to the "empiric school", as reflected by his name but based on his writings seems to place himself closer to the "methodic school".

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Plotinus

Plotinus was a major philosopher of the ancient world famous for his system of theory from which there are the three principles: the One, the Intellect, and the Soul.  He is known to belong the school of Neo-Platonism philosophy which was influential in Late Antiquity.

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Medieval philosophers

Medieval philosophy is the philosophy of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, roughly extending from the Christianization of the Roman Empire until the Renaissance.  It is defined partly by the rediscovery and further development of classical Greek and Hellenistic philosophy, and partly by the need to address theological problems and to integrate the then widespread sacred doctrines of Abrahamic religion (Islam, Judaism, and Christianity) with secular learning. The western Medieval Philosophers includes some of the top Christians and  scholastic Philosophers.

Top medieval philosophers

The top medieval philosophers include:

1. St. Augustine of Hippo
2. Boethius
3. Anselm
4. St. Thomas of Aquino
5. Johannes Duns Scotus
6. William of Occam
7. Modern Philosophers

St. Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo also known as St. Augustine, Bishop of the Hippo Region was a Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian, whose writings became a very influential force in the development of Western Christianity.

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Boethius

Boethius was a philosopher of the early 6th century and while in jail composed his Consolation of Philosophy, a philosophical treatise on fortune, death and other issues which became one of the most popular and influential works of the Middle Ages.

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Anselm

Anselm of Canterbury was a Benedictine monk and philosopher known as the founder of scholasticism and famous for being the originator of the ontological argument for the existence of God.

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St. Thomas of Aquino

Thomas Aquinas was an Italian Dominican priest and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism. His influence on Western thought is considerable as much of modern philosophy was conceived as a reaction against, or as an agreement with his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law and political theory.

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Duns Scotus

Duns Scotus was one of the more important theologians and philosophers of the High Middle Ages with considerable influence on Roman Catholic thought especially through his best known doctrines the "univocity of being".

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William of Occam

William of Ockham was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher considered to be one of the major figures of medieval thought and commonly known for Occam’s razor, the methodological principle that bears his name.

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Modern Philosophers

Modern philosophers include those between the 17 century and 19 century, known as the age of reason as a lot of the text published were based on science.  That period is also known as the Renaissance, a French word that can be translated to being born again.

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Top Modern Philosophers

The top modern philosophers can be divided into the following categories:

The scientific area philosophers

The scientific area philosophers believed that philosophy is just one more science and that it should apply the hypothetical-deductive method like any other science.  Its object of study is the reality as a whole: it is all that is relevant to build our vision of the world and our place in it, but it does not want to look at concrete details, which are the object of study of other sciences.

The top scientific area philosophers include:

1. Nicolas Copernicus
2. Niccolo Machiavelli
3. Desiderius Erasmus
4. Thomas More
5. Francis Bacon
6. Galileo Galilei
7. Thomas Hobbes
8. Sir Isaac Newton

Nicolas Copernicus

Nicolas Copernicus was a Polish Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which displaced the Earth from the centre of the universe, best known for his On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres masterpiece.

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Niccolo Machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli was an Italian historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance and known to be the  main founders of modern political science.

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Desiderius Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus known as Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and a theologian, called the crowning glory of the Christian humanists.

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Thomas More

Sir Thomas More was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist known to coined the word "utopia" – a name he gave to the ideal, imaginary island nation whose political system he described in Utopia, published in 1516.

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Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and famous for being a philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution.

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Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei commonly known as Galileo, was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution known for improvements to the telescope and support for Copernicanism and ofteh  called the "the Father of Modern Science".

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Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy and his 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory.

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Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer and natural philosopher, mostly known for publishing Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica in 1687 considered to be one of the most important scientific books ever written.  He describes universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, which will dominate the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries.

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The rationalist philosophers

The rationalists philosophy could be defined as "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification".

The top rationalists philosophers include:

1. René Descartes
2. Antoine Arnauld
3. Nicolas Malebranche
4. Benedict de Spinoza
5. Gottfried von Leibniz

René Descartes

René Descartes was a French philosopher dubbed the “Father of Modern Philosophy” known for publishing his Meditations, for developing the Cartesian coordinate system and being a key figure in the Scientific Revolution.  He is perhaps best known for the philosophical statement "Cogito ergo sum", which can be translated into I think, therefore I am.

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Antoine Arnauld

Antoine Arnauld  was a French Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher, mathematician and one of the leading intellectuals of the Jansenist group of Port-Royal and had a very thorough knowledge of patristic.

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Nicolas Malebranche

Nicolas Malebranche was a French Oratorian and rationalist philosopher known for synthesizing the thought of St. Augustine and Descartes, in order to demonstrate the active role of God in every aspect of the world and famous for his doctrines of Vision in God and Occasionalism.

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Benedict de Spinoza

Benedict de Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher who revealed considerable scientific aptitude and laid the groundwork for the 18th century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism.  He came to be considered one of the great rationalists of the 17th-century philosophy and his magnum opus, the posthumous Ethics has also earned him recognition as one of Western philosophy’s most important philosophers.

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Gottfried von Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German philosopher and mathematician who occupies a prominent place in the history of mathematics and the history of philosophy, famous for developing the infinitesimal calculus independently of Isaac Newton

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The  empiricist philosophers

In philosophy, empiricism is a theory of knowledge which opposes other theories of knowledge, such as rationalism, idealism and historicism. Empiricism asserts that knowledge comes primarily via sensory experience as opposed to rationalism which asserts that knowledge comes from pure thinking.

Top Empiricist Philosophers

The top Empiricist philosophers include:

1. John Locke
2. David Hume
3. Thomas Reid
4. Voltaire
5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6. Denis Diderot

John Locke

John Locke widely known as the Father of Liberalism was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers.  His contributions to liberal theory are reflected in the American Declaration of Independence.

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David Hume

David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and scepticism. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment.

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Thomas Reid

The Reverend Thomas Reid was a religiously trained Scottish philosopher founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense, and played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment.

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Voltaire

Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and free trade.  Voltaire was one of several Enlightenment figures whose works and ideas influenced important thinkers of both the American and French Revolutions.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a major Genevan philosopher known for his political philosophy which heavily influenced the French Revolution. His Discourse on the Origin of Inequality and his On the Social Contract are cornerstones in modern political and social thought and make a strong case for democratic government and social empowerment.

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Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot was a French philosopher,  prominent during the Enlightenment and is best-known for serving as co-founder and chief editor of and contributor to the Encyclopédie.

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The idealists philosophers

The idealists philosophers maintain that experience is ultimately based on mental activity. In the philosophy of perception, idealism is contrasted with realism, in which the external world is said to have an apparent absolute existence. Epistemological idealists such as Kant claim that the only things which can be directly known for certain are just ideas (abstraction).

Top idealists philosophers

The top idealists philosophers include:

1. George Berkley
2. Immanuel Kant
3. Johan Schiller
4. Frederick Schelling
5. George Hegel
6. Arthur Schopenhauer

George Berkley

George Berkley was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism"  also referred to as "subjective idealism" which denies the existence of material substance and instead contends that familiar objects like tables and chairs are only ideas in the minds of perceivers, and as a result cannot exist without being perceived.

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Immanuel Kant

Immanuel was a German philosopher perhaps best known for his masterpiece the Critique of Pure Reason, which aimed to unite reason with experience to move beyond what he took to be failures of traditional philosophy and metaphysics.

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Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright known for his collaboration with Goethe  referred to as the Weimar Classicism.

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Friedrich Schelling

Friedrich Schelling was a German philosopher known for contributing to the development of German idealism.

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Georg Hegel

Georg Hegel was a German philosopher famous for being one of the creators of German Idealism and developing a comprehensive philosophical framework, or "system", of Absolute idealism. He developed the concept that mind or spirit manifested itself in a set of contradictions and oppositions that it ultimately integrated and united, without eliminating either pole or reducing one to the other.

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher known for his pessimism and philosophical clarity and with  most influential work, The World as Will and Representation, claimed that the world is fundamentally what humans recognize in themselves as their will.

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The liberal philosophers

At its very root, liberals Philosophers are concern about the meaning of humanity and society.  

The top liberal philosophers include:

1. Adam Smith
2. Mary Wollstonecraft
3. Thomas Paine
4. Jeremy Bentham
5. John Stuart Mill
6. Auguste Comte

Adam Smith

Adam Smith was a Scottish social philosopher and a pioneer of political economy, as well as one of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment.  He is mostly known as the author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations and widely cited as the father of modern economics and capitalism.

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason.

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Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine was an author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, famous for his Common Sense (1776) pamphlet, which became the all-time best-selling American book that advocated colonial America’s independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham was an English jurist, philosopher and legal and social reformer who became a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law, and a political radical whose ideas influenced the development of welfarism. He is best known for his advocacy of utilitarianism and animal rights.

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John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill was a British philosopher and an influential contributor to social and political theory as well as political economy.  His conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control.

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Auguste Comte

Auguste Comte  was a French philosopher known to be the founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism.  He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term.

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The evolutionists Philosophers

The top evolutionists philosophers include:

1. Charles Darwin
2. Henri Louis Bergson
3. A.N. Whitehead

Chalesr Darwin

Charles Darwin was an English naturalist famous for establishing that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry.  He proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, showing compelling evidence in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species.

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Henri Bergson

Henri-Louis Bergson was a major French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century by convincing many thinkers that immediate experience and intuition are more significant than rationalism and science for understanding reality.

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Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead was an English mathematician who became a philosopher known for influencing all of analytic philosophy and being the co-author of the classic Principia Mathematica with Russell.

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Contemporary Philosophers

The Contemporary Philosophers are the most recent philosophers, mainly from the

20th century. 

Top Contemporary Philosophers

The top contemporary philosophers can be grouped into the following categories:

The pragmatist philosophers

Pragmatism is an American philosophical tradition centred on the linking of practice and theory.  It describes a process where theory is extracted from practice, and applied back to practice to form what is called intelligent practice.

The top pragmatist philosophers include:

1. Ernst Mach
2. Charles Peirce
3. William James
4. John Dewey

Ernst Mach

Ernst Mach was an Austrian physicist and philosopher of science, who had a major influence on logical positivism and through his criticism of Newton, a forerunner of Einstein’s relativity.

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Charles Peirce

Charles Sanders was an American philosopher who was employed as a scientist for 30 years. Today he is appreciated largely for his contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy and semiotics, as well as the founding father of pragmatism.

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William James

William James, brother of novelist Henry James was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher who was trained as a physician. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience, mysticism and on the philosophy of pragmatism.

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John Dewey

John Dewey was an American philosopher who was an important early developer of the philosophy of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology.

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The materialist  philosophers

In philosophy, the theory of materialism holds that the only thing that exists is matter, that all things are composed of material and all phenomena (including consciousness) are the result of material interactions. In other words, matter is the only substance.

The top materialists philosophers include:

1. Karl Marx
2. Friedrich Engels
3. Vladimir Lenin
4. Sigmund Freud
5. Carl Jung
6. John Maynard Keynes

Karl Marx

Karl Heinrich was a German philosopher and revolutionary socialist who developed the socio-political theory of Marxism. His ideas have since played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement. He published various books during his lifetime, with the most notable being The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Capital (1867–1894), many of which were co-written with his friend, the fellow German revolutionary socialist Friedrich Engels.

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Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels was a German philosopher and father of Marxist theory, alongside Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research. In 1848 he produced with Marx The Communist Manifesto and later he supported Marx financially to do research and write Das Kapital.

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Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin was a Russian revolutionary and philosopher, creator of the Soviet Communist Party, leader of the 1917 October Revolution, and founder of the USSR.  His extensive theoretical and philosophical contributions to Marxism produced Leninism.  As the Bolshevik Revolution is considered the most significant political event in the 20th century, then Lenin must for good or ill be regarded as the century’s most significant political leader.

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Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the mechanism of repression.  He was also responsible for creating the clinical method of psychoanalysis for investigating the mind and treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient  and a psychoanalyst.

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Carl Jung

Carl Gustav was a Swiss psychiatrist founder of analytical psychology and often considered the first modern psychologist to state that the human psyche is "by nature religious" and to explore it in depth. He is also known for being a pioneer in the field of dream analysis.

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John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes was a British economist whose ideas have profoundly affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, as well as the economic policies of governments. His ideas are the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics.

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The existentialist philosophers

Existentialism is a term applied to the work of a number of philosophers since the 19th century who, despite large differences in their positions, generally focused on the condition of human existence with an individual’s emotions, actions, responsibilities, and thoughts as well as the meaning or purpose of life. 

The top existentialist philosophers include:

1. Soren Kierkegaard
2. Friedrich Nietzsche
3. Edmund Husserl
4. Martin Heidegger
5. Jean-Paul Sartre
6. Albert Camus
7. Simone de Beauvoir

Soren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard was a Danish Christian philosopher, theologian, religious author and widely considered, along with Friedrich Nietzsche, to be one of the founders of existentialism.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm was a 19th-century German philosopher who wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, science and famous for displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism.

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Edmund Husserl

Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl was a philosopher founder of the 20th century philosophical school of phenomenology.

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Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger was an influential German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological explorations of the "question of Being."

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher and one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy, particularly Marxism, and was one of the key figures in literary and philosophical existentialism. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature but refused it.

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Albert Camus

Albert Camus was a French author, journalist and key philosopher of the 20th-century who was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times”.

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Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, public intellectual, and social theorist  best known for her metaphysical novels, including She Came to Stay and The Mandarins.  She is also famous for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women’s oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism.

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The linguistic school philosophers

The top linguistic school philosophers include:

1. Gottlob Frege
2. Bertrand Russell
3. Ludwig Wittgenstein
4. Ferdinand de Saussure
5. George Edward Moore
6. Moritz Schlick
7. Lev Vygotsky
8. Rudolph Carnap
9. A.J. Ayer
10. Alfred Tarski
11. J.L. Austin
12. Gilbert Ryle
13. Noam Chomsky

Gottlob Frege

Gottlob Frege was a German mathematician who became a philosopher and who is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy, through his writings on the philosophy of language and mathematics.

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Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell, was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian and social critic. At various points in his life he imagined himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things, in any profound sense.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian philosopher known for having inspired two of the century’s principal philosophical movements, logical positivism and ordinary language philosophy.  His posthumously published Philosophical Investigations (1953) was ranked as the most important book of 20th-century philosophy.

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Ferdinand de Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist whose ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in linguistics in the 20th century and widely considered one of the fathers of 20th-century linguistics.

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George Edward Moore

George Edward Moore was an English philosopher known as one of the founders of the analytic tradition in philosophy and along with Russell he led the turn away from idealism in British philosophy and became well known for his advocacy of common sense concepts.

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Moritz Schlick

Moritz Schlick  was a German philosopher, physicist and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle.

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Lev Vygotsky

Lev Vygotsky was a Soviet psychologist, the founder of cultural-historical psychology as well as the leader of the Vygotsky Circle.

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Rudolf Carnap

Rudolf Carnap was an influential German-born philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter known for being a key member of the Vienna Circle and an advocate of logical positivism.

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A.J. Ayer

Sir Alfred Jules Ayer was a British philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books Language, Truth, and Logic (1936) and The Problem of Knowledge (1956).

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Alfred Tarski

Alfred Tarski was a Polish logician and mathematician member of the Lwow-Warsaw School of Logic and the Warsaw School of Mathematics and philosophy.  He emigrated to the USA in 1939, where he taught and carried out research in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.

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J.L. Austin

John Langshaw Austin was a British philosopher of language,  educated at Oxford University and widely associated with the concept of the speech act and the idea that speech is itself a form of action.

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Gilbert Ryle

Gilbert Ryle was a British philosopher, a representative of the generation of British ordinary language philosophers that shared Wittgenstein’s approach to philosophical problems and is principally known for his critique of Cartesian dualism, for which he coined the phrase "the ghost in the machine".

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Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist and activist well known in the academic and scientific community as one of the fathers of modern linguistics and a major figure of analytic philosophy.  He is author of more than 150 books and has received worldwide attention for his views

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The postmodernist philosophers

The top postmodernist philosophers include:

1. Claude Levi-Strauss
2. Michel Foucault
3. Jacques Derrida

Claude Levi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist and ethnologist known to be the father of modern anthropology.  He became famous for arguing that the "savage" mind had the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere  in his famous book Tristes Tropiques.

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Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas who held a chair at the prestigious College de France with the title "History of Systems of Thought" and also taught at the University at Buffalo and the University of California, Berkeley.

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Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida was a French Pied-noir philosopher, born in French Algeria who developed the critical theory known as deconstruction.  His work has been labelled as post-structuralism and associated with postmodern philosophy.

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The new scientist philosophers

The top new scientist philosophers include:

1. Emile Durkheim
2. Albert Einstein
3. Karl Popper
4. Kurt Gödel
5. Alan Turing
6. B.F. Skinner
7. Thomas Kuhn
8. Paul Feyerabend
9. W.V.O. Quine

Emile Durkheim

Emile Durkheim was a French sociologist known for establishing sociology as a recognized academic discipline and also became France’s first professor in that field.

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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history.  He is mostly famous for developing the theory of general relativity for which he received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics which later became pivotal in establishing quantum theory within physics.

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Karl Popper

Karl Popper was an Austro-British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics  regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century and also known for his extensive writing on social and political philosophy.

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Kurt Gödel

Kurt Gödel was an Austrian logician, mathematician and philosopher who emigrated to the United States to escape the effects of World War II.  He became one of the most significant logicians of all time and had an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century.

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Alan Turing

Alan Turing was an English mathematician and computer scientist who is often regarded as the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, by providing a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which played a significant role in the creation of the modern computer.

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B.F. Skinner

Burrhus Frederic was an American behaviourist and social philosopher known for being the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974 where he performed some of the greatest psychological experiments.

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Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Samuel Kuhn was an American physicist and philosopher who wrote extensively on the history of science.  His best known book is The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962).

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Paul Feyerabend

Paul Karl Feyerabend was an Austrian-born philosopher of science best known for his work as a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley

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Willard Van Orman Quine

Willard Van Orman Quine was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, best known for his continuous affiliation with Harvard University.

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What is a cult movie?

Although various definition exist as to what a cult movie is, it usually a flick that originally was dislike by the studios or made poorly at the box office compared to what was invested,  but manage to became a phenomenon because of the audience the love  for it.  Indeed , some cult masterpieces are stills admire and celebrated even decades after the original theatre release.  Cult Movies are usually avant garde, strange, offbeat, often outrageous and sometimes misunderstood by the masses, but one thing is for sure, is how passionate are the fans about it.

Top 10 all time cult movie

The following are the top 10 all time cult movies in alphabetic order.  Those are the films that just appeared time over time on the numerous film lists and are therefore the pure cult movies for so many fans.

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Blade Runner
3. Clerks
4. Die Hard
5. Easy Rider
6. Fight Club
7. Freaks
8. Heavy Metal
9. The Big Lebowski
10. The Rocky Horror Picture Show

A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange is one of the biggest cult movie ever.  It was directed and produced by famous English director Stanley Kubrick and staring Malcolm McDowell as a charismatic but psychopathic delinquent whose passion is in Beethoven as well as ultra-violence.  The film, based on Anthony Burgess’s 1962 novel of the same name was an instant hit with youngsters around the world (but perhaps not with parents and the establishment).

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Blade Runner

Blade Runner is an 1982 American film directed by known director Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford.  It depicts the dystopian futuristic city of Los Angeles where exist genetically engineered organic robots.  Although the film performed poorly at the box office, it has since become a science fiction cult classic.

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Clerks

Clerks was the 1994 film the put director Kevin Smith (who appeared in the film as Silent Bob) on the movie map.  It is an independent comedy film shot in black and white costing the author 30K USD of its own money but which manage to gross more than US$3 million at the box office.  Clerks enabled Kevin to continue his movie career by authoring films based on the same character including Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Clerks II.

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Die Hard

Die Hard is a 1988 American action flick directed by John McTiernan and starring Bruce Willis.  It became such a fan hit that it was followed by three sequels including Die Hard 2 in 1990, Die Hard With A Vengeance in 1995, and Live Free or Die Hard in 2007.

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Easy Rider

Easy Rider is a cult road movie representing America of the 60’s which also became a key piece of New Hollywood filmmaking.  It was written by Peter Fonda, directed by Dennis Hopper and have one of the first appearance of Jack Nicholson. It is the story of two bikers (played by Fonda and Hopper) who  are travelling across America to reach Louisiana with the plan to retire but discover the real America.

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Fight Club

Fight Club is a 1999 American film directed by David Fincher and starring Edward Norton, Brad Pitt  and adapted from the 1996 novel of the same name. Upon its release it became one of the most controversial and talked-about films of 1999, however made poorly at the box office.  Fight Club only became a cult film when it was later release on DVD.

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Freaks

Freaks is a cult horror film from the 30s directed and produced by Tod Browning who had the brilliant idea to cast real “freaks” carnival performers.

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Heavy Metal

Heavy Metal is a cult animation film produced by Leonard Mogel, the publisher behind the Heavy Metal magazine.  The film is an anthology of various science fiction and fantasy stories adapted from the  magazine, with lots of graphic violence, nudity, and sexuality.

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The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski is a 1998 cult comedy film written and directed by the famous Coen Brothers and starring Jeff Bridges as the “The Dude” as well as other great actors such as Steve Buscemi, Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Goodman.  The film did poorly at the box office and received mixed reviews at the time of its release but later became a cult favourite with fans around the world because of its unique characters, unconventional dialogue and eclectic soundtrack.

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Rocky Horror Picture Show has now became one of the greatest a parody of B-movie.  It was released in 1975  based on the British rock musical stage play and was known to be the first film from a major Hollywood studio to be in the midnight movie market. The motion picture has a large international following and is one of the most well known and financially successful midnight movies of all time.

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Top 10 cult thrillers films

The following are the top 10 all time cult thrillers films in alphabetic order.

1. Blood Simple
2. Cape Fear
3. Deliverance
4. Dirty Harry
5. M
6. Memento
7. Mildred Pierce
8. The night of the Hunter
9. Straw dogs
10. Vertigo

Blood Simple

Blood Simple is a 1984 neo-noir crime thriller written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.  The film is derived from the Dashiell Hammett novel Red Harvest, in which “blood simple” is a term to describe the addled, fearful mindset of people after a prolonged immersion in violent situations.

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Cape Fear (1962)

Cape Fear is a cult thriller from the 60s’ which was later remarked in the 1990’s by Martin Scorsese.  The film stars Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and is the story of an attorney family who is stalked by a criminal just released from jail.

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Deliverance

Deliverance is an 1972  American thriller film based on a novel of the same name produced and directed by John Boorman, starring Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds and.

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Dirty Harry

Dirty Harry is a 1971 Clint Eastwood action crime thriller classic, in which he plays a San Francisco Police Department Inspector. The film was directed by Don Siegel and became a huge critical and commercial success and set the style for a whole genre of police films including the four sequels that followed.

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M (fritz Lang 1931)

M is a cult 1931 German drama-thriller directed by celebrated moviemaker Fritz Lang and consider by the audience to be its finest work.

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Memento

Memento is a 2000 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, adapted from his younger brother Jonathan’s short story, Memento Mori, about a man who losses the use of his short memory.

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Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce is a 1945 cult American film noir thriller about a long-suffering mother and her ungrateful daughter directed by famous Casablanca director Michael Curtiz.

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The night of the Hunter

The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 American film noir thriller based on the 1953 novel of the same directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum.  The film soon became a cult among its audience, and is also known to have inspired later great directors such as David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Jim Jarmusch, the Coen brothers, and Spike Lee.

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Straw dogs

Straw Dogs is a 1971 cult psychological thriller directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George.

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Vertigo

Vertigo is a 1958 cult psychological thriller by famous suspense director Alfred Hitchcock about a retired police detective suffering from acrophobia who is hired as a private investigator to follow the wife of an acquaintance to uncover the mystery of her peculiar behaviour.

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Top 10 cult dramas films

The following are the top 10 all time cult drama films in alphabetic order.

1. All About Eve
2. Amores Perros
3. Barold and Maude
4. Black Narcissus
5. Blackbone  Jungle
6. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
7. Outsiders
8. The Lost Weekend
9. The Shawshank Redemption
10. The Swimmer

All About Eve

All About Eve is a 1950 American cult drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mickiewicz and starring Bette Davis.

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Amores Perros

Amores Perros is a 2000 neorealist Mexican drama directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, the first of its triptych about death.  The film shows three distinct stories which are connected by a car accident in Mexico City, and is often referred to as the “Mexican Pulp Fiction.

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Harold and Maude

Harold and Maude is a 1971 American comedy drama directed by Hal Ashby incorporating elements of dark humour and existentialist drama.  The film became a huge hit and had many theatrical adaptations as well as TV version.

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Black Narcissus

Black Narcissus is a 1947 is a  cult psychological drama authored by the British director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger about the emotional tensions within a convent of nuns in an isolated Himalayan valley.

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Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film based on a novel of the same, directed by John Schlesinger, and starring Dustin Hoffman and then-newcomer Jon Voight in the title role. It is known to be the only X rated film ever to win Best Picture.
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One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a 1975 American drama film directed by famous Czech director  Miloš Forman starring Jack Nicholson.

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Outsiders

The Outsiders is a 1983 American cult drama film directed by known director Francis Ford Coppola, and known for being the spark to start the Brat Pack genre of the 1980s.

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The Lost Weekend

The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American cult drama film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman.

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The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman and adapted from a Stephen King novel.  The film made poorly at the box office reception but later enjoyed a remarkable life on cable television, DVD and Blu-ray.

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The Swimmer

The Swimmer is a 1968 American drama directed by Frank Perry and starring Burt Lancaster, based on a surreal and allegorical short story by John Cheever.

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Top 10 cult action films

The following are the top 10 all time action movies in alphabetic order.

1. Adventures of Buckaroo Bansai across the 8th dimension
2. Death Race 2000
3. Escape from New York
4. First Blood
5. Mad Max
6. Race with the devil
7. The host
8. The Warriors
9. Tremors
10. Yoyimbo

Adventures of Buckaroo Bansai across the 8th dimension

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!, often shortened to Buckaroo Banzai, is an American science fiction action film released in 1984 and directed by W. D. Richter about a physicist, neurosurgeon and rock musician that needs to save the world.

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Death Race 2000

Death Race 2000 is a 1975 cult action film directed by Paul Bartel and starring David Carradine, Simone Griffeth and Sylvester Stallone about a dystopian American society in the year 2000, where the murderous Transcontinental Road Race has become a form of national entertainment.

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Escape from New York

Escape from New York is a cult 1981 American science fiction action film directed and scored by John Carpenter about a future crime-ridden Manhattan Island transformed into a maximum security prison. Since its release it has developed its own cult following, particularly around the anti-hero Plissken.

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First Blood

First Blood also mostly known as Rambo is an 1982 action thriller film starring Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo, a troubled and misunderstood Vietnam War veteran who goes on a killing spree. It since became a classic in its genre and chosen by Empire magazine as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time.

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Mad Max

is a 1979 Australian dystopian action film starring Mel Gibson, about a  breakdown of society, love and revenge. It became a top-grossing Australian film and has been credited for further opening up the global market to Australian New Wave films.

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Race with the devil

Race with the Devil is a 1975 occult thriller and action film starring Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit and Lara Parker.

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The host

The Host  which can be translated to Creature is a 2006 South Korean action monster film, which also contains elements of comedy and drama. By the end of its run the film was seen 13 million times, making it the highest grossing South Korean film of all time.

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The Warriors

The Warriors is a 1979 American cult action thriller film directed by Walter Hill and based on Sol Yurick’s 1965 novel of the same name. Like the novel, the film borrows elements from the Anabasis by Xenophon.

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Tremors

Tremors is a 1990 American science fiction horror comedy film directed by Ron Underwood, starring Kevin Bacon soon emerged as a cult classic and was followed by various direct-to-video sequels Tremors.

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Yoyimbo

Yojimbo, which can be translated to bodyguard is a 1961  action packed period drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa about a “ronin”, a masterless samurai, who arrives in a small town where competing crime lords make their money from gambling.

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Other action packed films include Quentin Tarrantino martial art classic

Kill Bill: Vol. 1  and Vol. 2 starring Uma Thurman, David Carradine and Daryl Hannah.

Top 10 cult criminal films

The following are the top 10 all time criminal movies in alphabetic order.

1. Badlands
2. Dog day afternoon
3. Goodfellas
4. La Haine
5. Leon
6. Mean Streets
7. Pulp Fiction
8. Scarface
9. The Usual suspects
10. Touch of Evil

Badlands

Badlands is a 1973 American crime drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick (the author behind this year Palmes d’Or winner The Tree of Life) starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, and loosely based on the real-life of murderer Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend.

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Dog day afternoon

Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 drama film directed by Sidney Lumet starring Al Pacino and John Cazale, about a bank robbery going terribly wrong inspired by the “The Boys in the Bank” article based on real facts.

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Goodfellas

Goodfellas a 1990 cult mafia film directed by Martin Scorsese, one of today’s greatest American director .  The film is an adaptation of the Pileggi book Wiseguy featuring Robert Deniro, Ray Liotta and Joe Pesci, about the rise and fall of the Lucchese crime family associates Henry Hill and his friends over the course of thirty years from the 1950s to 1980.

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La Haine

La Haine is a 1995 French black-and-white film written directed by Mathieu Kassovitz who won the Palmes d’Or at Cannes.  The movie is about a day in the life of three teenage friends and their struggle to live in the banlieues of Paris.

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Leon

Léon also known under The Professional is a 1994 thriller film written and directed by French director Luc Besson and starring Jean Reno, Gary and a young Natalie Portman.  The film based in Manhattan is about a hitman protecting a young girl after her family is murdered by corrupt police agents.

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Mean Streets

Mean Streets is a 1973 drama film by world class director Martin Scorsese starring Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro about Italian American in New York City a theme which will continue to have a fundamental place in his career.

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Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction is a American gangster film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who was awarded the Palmes d’Or at Cannes in 1994. The film is known for its rich, eclectic dialogue, ironic mix of humour and violence, nonlinear storyline and host of cinematic allusions and pop culture references.

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Scarface

Scarface is a 1983 American epic crime drama movie directed by Brian De Palma, written by Oliver Stone, produced by Martin Bregman and starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana. The story is about  the rise and fall of Tony Montana in the cocaine boom of the 1980s.  The film was largely criticised upon its release but since gained a massive cult following and has become an important cultural.

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The Usual suspects

The Usual Suspects is a brilliant 1995 American neo-noir film directed by Bryan Singer starring Benicio del Toro, Kevin Pollak and Kevin Spacey about a criminal interrogation.

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Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil is a 1958 American crime thriller film, written, directed  and co-starring Orson Welles as well as Charlton Heston, and Marlene Dietrich.  It has gain a cult status by being one of the last examples of film noir in the genre’s classic era .

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Other great criminal movies worth discovering includes: Jean Luc Godard’s A Bout de Souffle, Anatomy of a murder, Chopper, Reservoir Dogs  starting Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, and Michael Madsen, The Harder they come, The Mack, Point Blank, The taking of Pelham one two three, Hard Boiled, Blue Velvet and Death Wish

Top 10 cult comedy films

The following are the top 10 all time comedy movies in alphabetic order.

1. 24 hour party people
2. A Christmas story
3. Bubba Ho-tep
4. Dr. Strangelove
5. Friday
6. Heathers
7. The Adventure of Priscilla
8. This is spinal tap
9. Withnail and I
10. Yourng Frankenstein

24 hour party people

24 Hour Party People is a 2002 British film written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Michael Winterbottom about Manchester’s popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records.

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A Christmas story

A Christmas Story is a 1983 American Christmas comedy directed by Bob Clark and based on the short stories and semi-fictional anecdotes of author and raconteur Jean Shepherd. It has since become a holiday classic and is known to be shown numerous times on television during the Christmas season.

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Bubba Ho-tep

Bubba Ho-tep is a 2002 drama starring Bruce Campbell as Elvis Presley residing in a nursing home as well as Ossie Davis as Jack, a black man who claims to be John F. Kennedy.

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Dr. Strangelove

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb commonly known as Dr. Strangelove, is a 1964 black comedy film which satirized the nuclear scare, directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick and starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott.

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Friday

Friday is a 1995 comedy-drama-buddy film directed by F. Gary Gray and starring Ice Cube , Chris Tucker and Bernie Mac about 16 hours in the lives of Craig Jones (Ice Cube) and Smokey (Chris Tucker), who must pay a drug dealer $200 on Friday night by 10:00 PM.

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Heathers

Heathers is a 1989 black comedy film starring Winona Ryder, Christian Slater and Shannen Doherty about four girls in a trend-setting clique ruling their school through intimidation, contempt, and sex appeal.

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The Adventure of Priscilla, Queen of the desert

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian comedy-drama film written and directed by Stephan Elliott about the journey of three drag queens who travel across the Australian Outback .

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This is spinal tap

This Is Spinal Tap is an 1984  American rock musical “mockumentary” directed by Rob Reiner satirizing heavy metal band musical pretensions as well as the hagiographic tendencies of rock documentaries of the time.

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Withnail and I

Withnail and I is a 1986  British black comedy written and directed by Bruce Robinson about the life of two unemployed young actors in London  and their trip to the Lake District in the late 1960s.

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Yourng Frankenstein

Young Frankenstein is a 1974 American comedy film directed by Mel Brooks and starring Gene Wilder as the title character, a descendant of the infamous Dr. Victor Frankenstein.

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Top 10 cult horror films

The following are the top 10 all time cult horror movies in alphabetic order.

1. An American werewolf in London
2. Army Of Darkness
3. Eraserhead
4. Labyrinth
5. Night of the Demon
6. Night of the living dead
7. Repo Man
8. The Evil dead
9. The Haunting
10. The Shining

An American werewolf in London

An American Werewolf in London is a 1981 British-American horror comedy film, written and directed by John Landis and staring David Naughton, Griffin Dunne and Jenny Agutter.

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Army Of Darkness

Army Of Darkness also known  as Evil Dead III is an 1993 American comedy horror fantasy film written  and directed by Sam Raimi.  It shows the story of Ash Williams trapped in the Middle Ages and his quest to return to the present.

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Eraserhead

Eraserhead is a 1977 cult surrealist movie written, directed, and produced by David Lynch where he used money from a $10,000 grant as well from various other sources such as friend and odd jobs to finish the film.  It finally did paid off as the film is considered one of Lynch greatest by his fans.

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Labyrinth

Labyrinth is a 1986 British/American fantasy film directed by Jim Henson, produced by George Lucas and starring David Bowie.

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Night of the Demon

Night of the Demon is a 1957 British horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur adaptation from the M. R. James story “Casting the Runes” about an American psychologist investigating a satanic cult suspected of more than one murder.

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Night of the living dead

Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent black-and-white zombie film directed by George A. Romero and completed on a very low budget of USD$114,000.  It was hugely criticized during its release because of its explicit content but eventually received critical acclaim and became a cult film.

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Repo Man

is a 2010 American-Canadian science fiction action-thriller film directed by Miguel Sapochnik, starring Jude Law and Forest Whitaker and based on the novel Repossession Mambo by Eric Garcia.

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The Evil dead

The Evil Dead is a 1981 horror film written and directed by Sam Raimi about five college students vacationing in an isolated cabin in a wooded area who find an audiotape that releases evil spirits.

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The Haunting

The Haunting is a 1963 British psychological horror film by American director by Robert Wise about  the conflict between a team of paranormal investigators and the house in which they spend several nights.

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The Shining

The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick, inspired by Stephen King novel and starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, and Danny Lloyd. The film is about a writer with a wife and young son who accepts the job of an off-season caretaker at an isolated hotel.

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Other great cult horror movies worth discovering includes: Child’s Play, The Thing,What ever happened to baby Jane, The Wicker Man, Blair Witch Project.

Top 10 science-fiction films

The following are the top 10 all time cult science-fiction movie in alphabetic order.

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Akira
3. A Scanner Darkly
4. Brazil
5. Pan’s Labrynth
6. PI
7. Planet of the Apes
8. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
9. The day the earth stood still
10. Videodrome

2001: A Space Odyssey

2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968  science-fiction film, produced and written by Arthur C. Clarke and directed by famous British director Stanley Kubrick.  It has become a classic in its genre and an inspiration for many movie fans across the world.

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Akira

Akira is a 1988 Japanese animated cyberpunk science fiction film written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo and based on a manga of the same name. The film is set in a futuristic and post- Neo-Tokyo war city, and considered to be a landmark in Japanese animation and film making in general.

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A Scanner Darkly

A Scanner Darkly is a 2006 rotoscoped film directed by Richard Linklater based on the novel of the same name showing identity and deception in a near-future dystopia constantly under intrusive high-technology police surveillance in the midst of a drug addiction epidemic.

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Brazil

Brazil is a 1985 British science fiction fantasy black comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam features Robert De Niro about  a dystopian world.

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Pan’s Labrynth

Pan’s Labyrinth is a 2006 Mexican Spanish-language fantasy film written and directed by Mexican film-maker Guillermo del Toro.

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Pi

Pi is a 1998 American psychological thriller film written and made by first time director Darren Aronofsky which earned him the many various awards.

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Planet of the Apes (1968)

Planet of the Apes is a 1968 American science fiction film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, based on the 1963 novel La planète des singes by Pierre Boulle and starring Charlton Heston.

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Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, originally released as Star Wars is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first of six films released in the Star Wars saga: two subsequent films complete the original trilogy, while a prequel trilogy completes the six-film saga.

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The day the earth stood still

The Day the Earth Stood Still is a 1951 American science fiction film directed by Robert Wise about  a humanoid alien visiting Earth.

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Videodrome

Videodrome is a 1983 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, starring James Woods and set in Toronto during the early 80s.  It follows the CEO of a small cable station who stumbles upon a broadcast signal featuring extreme violence and torture.

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Top 10 cult westerns films

The following are the top 10 all time cult westerns movie in alphabetic order.

1. Cat Ballou
2. Dead Man
3. High Plains Drifter
4. Johnny Guitar
5. One-eyed jacks
6. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
7. The Great Silence
8. The Outlaw Josey Wales
9. The Searchers
10. The Wild Bunch

Cat Ballou

Cat Ballou is a 1965 comedy/western film starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin, about  a woman who hires a famous gunman to protect her father’s ranch and later to avenge his murder, but finds that the man she hires is not what she expected.

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High Plains Drifter

High Plains Drifter is a 1973 American western film, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood about a mysterious gunfighter hired by the residents of a corrupt frontier mining town to defend them against a group of criminals.

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Johnny Guitar

Johnny Guitar is a 1954 Western film directed by Nicholas Ray.

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One-eyed jacks

One-Eyed Jacks, a 1961 Western, is the only film directed by actor Marlon Brando, who also played its lead character, Rio.

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The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a 1966 Italian epic spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood.  It is the third and final film in the Dollars Trilogy following A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and For a Few Dollars More (1965).

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The Great Silence

The Great Silence also known as The Big Silence is an Italian spaghetti western considered by many as Sergio Corbucci masterpiece set in the snow-filled landscapes of Utah during the Great Blizzard of 1899.  The movie features a score by Ennio Morricone and stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as Silence, a mute gunfighter with a grudge against bounty hunters.

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The Outlaw Josey Wales

The Outlaw Josey Wales is a 1976 American revisionist western film set after the end of the American Civil War directed by and starring Clint Eastwood .

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The Searchers

The Searchers is a 1956 cult American western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne as a middle-aged Civil War veteran who spends years looking for his abducted niece.

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The Wild Bunch

The Wild Bunch is a 1969 cult American western film directed by Sam Peckinpah about an aging outlaw gang on the Texas-Mexico border.  The film was controversial because of its graphic, bloody violence and its portrayal of the crude men attempting to survive by any available means.

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Top 10 cult experiental films

The following are the top 10 all time cult experiental movies in alphabetic order.

1. Aguirre: the wrath of god
2. Barry Lyndon
3. Donnie Darko
4. Eraserhead
5. Fantasia
6. Performance
7. Repo Man
8. The Decline of Western Civilization
9. The trip
10. Two-lane blacktop

Aguirre: the wrath of god

Aguirre, the Wrath of God is a 1972 adventure film written and directed by famous German  director Werner Herzog, about the travels of Lope de Aguirre, a Spanish soldier, who goes to South America in search of El Dorado, the legendary city of gold.

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Barry Lyndon

Barry Lyndon is a 1975 period film directed by great British director Stanley Kubrick based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon and is known to have been shot entirely using candle lights. Upon its release the film had a modest commercial success but slowly grew in popularity with the audience and is now consider one of Kubrick’s finest films.

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Donnie Darko

Donnie Darko is a 2001 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly and starring Drew Barrymore and Patrick Swayze.  The whole film was shot in only 28 days, made poorly at the box office but since then received favourable reviews from critics and developed a large cult following.

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Fantasia

Fantasia is a 1940 cult American animated film produced by Walt Disney and consisting of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski.

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Performance

Performance is a British film made in 1968 directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, and starring James Fox and Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones in his film acting debut.

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Repo Man

Repo Man is a 1984 cult experimental film directed by Alex Cox starring Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton.

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The Decline of Western Civilization

The Decline of Western Civilization is an American documentary film of the 80s about the Los Angeles punk rock scene. Shortly after its release the LAPD Chief of Police demanded that the film not be shown again in L.A which contributed to the film a cult status.

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The trip

The Trip is a 1967 cult film directed by Roger Corman and written by Jack Nicholson, shot on location in and around Los Angeles, including on top of Kirkwood in Laurel Canyon, Hollywood Hills, and near Big Sur, California in 1966.

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Two-lane blacktop

The Two-Lane Blacktop is a 1971 road movie directed by Monte Hellman and considered by some to be the hit of the year even though it wasn’t a commercial success. The film has since become a cult experimental movie.

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Other cult experiental films

Other experiental movies that are worth viewing include C’est arrive pres de chez vous, Dazed and confused, Elephant and The idiots.

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Top 10  Actresses at the Box Office

The first section is about the top 10 actresses that made the most money with their films for both themselves and the studios.

1. Keira Knightley
2. Natalie Portman
3. Monica Bellucci
4. Bonnie Hunt
5. Cameron Diaz
6. Annie Potts
7. Liv Tyler
8. Julie Andrews
9. Lindsay Lohan
10. Catherine Zeta-Jones

Keira Knightley

Keira Knightley is a popular British actress as well as model best known for playing alongside Johnny Depp in the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels.

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Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman is an American actress which first came to fame in 1994 in the classic Luc Besson’s film Léon the professional. She then became even more known when cast in a key role in the Star Wars sequels.

Top 100 actresses

Monica Bellucci

Monica Bellucci is an Italian actress married to actor Vincent Cassel and best known for her roles in the controversial Scorsese movie The Passion of the Christ, as well as the blockbusters sequel Matrix.

Top 100 actresses

Bonnie Hunt

Bonnie Lynne Hunt is well known American television host as well as actress known to be the voice behind key characters in the animated hits Monsters Inc. and Toy Story 3.

Top 100 actresses

Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz is a very well known American actress and former model, which first appeared in 1990 in the movies The Mask.  She later became famous for her parts in huge blockbusters including There’s Something About Mary, Being John Malkovich, Vanilla Sky, and Gangs of New York.

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Annie Potts

Annie Potts is an American television and film actress well known for her roles in Ghostbusters, Pretty in Pink, and Jumpin’ Jack Flash, as well as a leading role on CBS sitcom Designing Women.

Top 100 actresses

Liv Tyler

Liv Tyler is an American model, actress as well as the daughter of Aerosmith’s lead singer, Steven Tyler.  She is best known for her roles in Empire Records (1995), Heavy (1996) and That Thing You Do! (1996), the Abbotts (1997) and Cookie’s Fortune (1999).

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Julie Andrews

Julia Andrews is a British theatre and film actress best known for her roles in musical films including Mary Poppins (1964)  and The Sound of Music (1965): the roles for which she is still best-known.

Top 100 actresses

Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan is an American actress, pop singer and model who became famous in Disney’s 1998 remake of The Parent Trap and later in such films as Freaky Friday, Mean Girls and Herbie: Fully Loaded as well as Robert Altman’s A Prairie Home Companion and Emilio Estevez’s Bobby.

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Catherine Zeta-Jones

Catherine Zeta-Jones is a Welsh actress who came famous in Hollywood playing in movies such as the Mask of Zorro and the Entrapment and in the 2000 film Traffic, for which she earned her first Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

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Top 50 Actresses of all time

Our second list consists of the best 50 actresses as compiled by different user generated lists.  It doesn’t include the actresses already in other lists.  Most of the actresses are figures known from the 90’s and 2000s decades.

1. Katherine Hepburn (Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner)
2. Meryl Streep (Sophie’s Choice)
3. Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight)
4. Grace Kelly (The Country Girl)
5. Bette Davis (All About Eve)
6. Barbara Stanwyck (Ball of Fire)
7. Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday)
8. Olivia De Havilland (The Heiress)
9. Diane Keaton (Annie Hall)
10. Joan Fontaine (Suspicion)
11. Greer Garson (Mrs. Miniver)
12. Faye Dunaway (Network)
13. Susan Hayward (I Want to Live)
14. Elizabeth Taylor (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf)
15. Ava Gardner (The Night Of The Iguana)
16. Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore)
17. Vivien Leigh (Gone With the Wind)
18. Jane Wyman (Johnny Belinda)
19. Sophie Loren (Two Women)
20. Jodie Foster (Silence of the Lambs)
21. Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment)
22. Joan Crawford (Sudden Fear)
23. Emma Thompson (Howard’s End)
24. Julia Roberts (Erin Brokovich)
25. Jennifer Jones (The Song Of Bernadette)
26. Kathy Bates (Misery)
27. Judy Garland (A Star Is Born)
28. Marilyn Monroe (Some Like It Hot)
29. Sally Field (Norma Rae)
30. Deborah Kerr (The King and I)
31. Susan Sarandon (Thelma and Louise)
32. Sissy Spacek (Carrie)
33. Louise Rainer (The Good Earth)
34. Greta Garbo (Camille)
35. Glenn Close (Fatal Attraction)
36. Doris Day (Pillow Talk)
37. Natalie Wood (Rebel Without a Cause)
38. Jane Fonda (Coming Home)
39. Holly Hunter (The Piano)
40. Hillary Swank (Boys Don’t Cry)
41. Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night)
42. Diane Lane (Unfaithful)
43. Jessica Lange (Blue Sky)
44. Gloria Swanson (Sunset Boulevard)
45. Lauren Bacall (Key Largo)
46. Frances McDormand (Fargo)
47. Nicole Kidman (Moulian Rouge)
48. Norma Shearer (The Divorcee)
49. Bette Midler (Beaches)
50. Uma Thurman(Kill Bill)

Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn was an American actress of film who won an  Academy Award for Morning Glory and later known for her role Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.

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Meryl Streep

Mary Streep is one of the most acclaimed American actresses  known for her roles in The Deer Hunter (1978), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and her performance in Sophie’s Choice (1982) which got her the Academy Award for Best Actress.

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Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman is perhaps the most renown Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films which won her many various awards including three Academy Awards.  Listed  as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute, she is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca (1942), Hitchcock thriller Notorious (1946) and Gaslight.

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Grace Kelly

Grace Kelly was an acclaimed American actress as well as the Princess consort of Monaco.  She is ranked #13 in the American Film Institute top female list and is best remembered for her  role in The Country Girl.

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Bette Davis

Bette Davis was an American actress remembered for her performances in a range of film genres including great commercial successes such as All About Eve.

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Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck was an American actress ranked by the American Film Institute as the eleventh greatest female star of all time and mostly remembered for her role in Ball of Fire.

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Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn was a British actress ranked as the third greatest female by the American Film Institute. This legend in the history of American cinema played in various hits including Roman Holiday.

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Olivia De Havilland

Olivia de Havilland is a British and American film actress who won the Academy Award for Best Actress both in 1946 and 1949, and remember for her performance in The Heiress.

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Diane Keaton

Diane Keaton is an American film actress best known for her impersonation of Annie Hall which won her the Academy Award for Best Actress, as well as other Woody Allen movies.  She is also remembered as Kay Adams-Corleone in the Coppola classic, The Godfather (1972).

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Joan Fontaine

Joan Fontaine is a British American  actress who won an Academy Award for her performance in Hitchcock classic film Suspicion.

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Greer Garson

Greer Garson was a British-born actress very popular during World War II, who won numerous Academy Award nominations and winning the Best Actress award for Mrs. Miniver (1942).

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Faye Dunaway (Network)

Faye Dunaway is well known American actress acclaimed for her performance in Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Chinatown (1974) and Network (1976) for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress.

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Susan Hayward

Susan Hayward was an American actress best remembered for her performance in the Story of a Woman (1947) and her portrayal of death row inmate Barbara Graham in I Want to Live! (1958).

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Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor was a British-American actress and one of the world’s most famous film stars, remembered for her roles in Terfield 8 (1960), Cleopatra (1963) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).

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Ava Gardner

Ava Gardner was an American actress who is best remembered for her performance in The Killers (1946), Mogambo (1953), The Night of the Iguana (1964), Earthquake (1974) and The Cassandra Crossing (1976).

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Ellen Burstyn

Ellen Burstyn is an American actress who achieved recognition for her roles in The Last Picture Show (1971) , The Exorcist (1973) and acclaimed Martin Scorsese’s film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1973) for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

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Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh was an English actress who won two Best Actress Academy Awards for playing Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).

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Jane Wyman

Jane Wyman was an American  actress who received an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Johnny Belinda (1948) and later achieved success during the 1980s for her leading role in the television series Falcon Crest.

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Sophie Loren

Sophie Loren is a well known Italian actress who won more than 50 international awards and celebrated for her roles in Houseboat (1958), El Cid (1961), Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963), Marriage Italian Style (1964), A Special Day (1977), Courage (1986) and in American blockbusters such as Grumpier Old Men (1995) and Nine (2009).

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Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster  is an American actress best remembered for playing an FBI trainee in Silence of the Lambs.  Her other popular films include Maverick (1994), Contact (1997), Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005), Inside Man (2006), The Brave One (2007) and Nim’s Island (2008).

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Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine is an American actress who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Terms of Endearment.

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Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford was an American film actress best known for her appearance in Sudden Fear.

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Emma Thompson

Emma Thompson is a British actress nominated as Best Actress for The Remains of the Day and as Best Supporting Actress for In the Name of the Father.

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Julia Roberts

Julia Fiona Roberts is an American actress who became famous in Hollywood in the 1990′s playing a prostitute in the romantic comedy Pretty Woman.  She then won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2001 for her performance in Erin Brokovich.

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Jennifer Jones

Jennifer Jones was an American actress who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Song of Bernadette (1943).

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Kathy Bates

Kathleen Bates is an American actress best remembered for her performance in Misery (1990), for which she won both the Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe.

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Judy Garland

Judy Garland was an American actress who obtained international stardom playing in various musical and dramatic roles including A Star Is Born.

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Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe is perhaps one of the best known American icons remembered in films such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), The Seven Year Itch (1955) and Some Like It Hot (1959).

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Sally Field

Sally Field is an American actress remembered in her roles in Smokey and the Bandit (1977) and Norma Rae (1979) and later in Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) and Forrest Gump.

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Deborah Kerr

Deborah Kerr was a Scottish-born film actress who was awarded the Academy Honorary Award.  She played in many notorious films including The King and I, An Affair to Remember, From Here to Eternity, Quo Vadis, The Innocents, Black Narcissus, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and Separate Tables.

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Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon is an American actress who won the Academy Award for Best Actress in the film Dead Man Walking (1995) as well as remembered for her performance in Thelma and Louise.

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Sissy Spacek

Sissy Spacek is an American actress and singer who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as country star Loretta Lynn and also known for her roles as Carrie White in Brian De Palma’s 1976 horror film Carrie.

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Louise Rainer

Louise Rainer is a former German film actress who became the first woman to win two Academy Awards, and the first person to win them consecutively. She is best remembered for her role in The Good Earth.

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Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo was a known Swedish actress who became a major star in Hollywood during the silent film era and then the Golden Age.  She is ranked fifth in the American Film Institute list of greatest female stars of all time and is perhaps best remember for her role in Camille.

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Glenn Close

Glenn Close is an American actress known for her roles as a femme fatale in Dangerous Liaisons (1988), a deranged stalker Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction (1987)and known for playing Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians (1996)and its sequel.

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Doris Day

Doris Day is an American actress perhaps the top-ranking female box office star of all time and best remembered for her role in Pillow Talk.

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Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood was an American actress who began her stardom in Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and later remembered for her exceptional performance opposite James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and her roles in the musicals West Side Story (1961) and Gypsy (1962).

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Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda is an American actress who rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou and later became known for her roles in Coming Home.

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Holly Hunter

Holly Hunter is an American actress known for her role the Piano for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

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Hillary Swank

Hilary Ann Swank is an American actress who debuted her career in  films such as Vampire Slayer (1992)and The Next Karate Kid (1994).  She then won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, as Brandon Teena in Boys Don’t Cry (1999) and as struggling waitress-turned-boxer, Maggie Fitzgerald, in Million Dollar Baby (2004).

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Claudette Colbert

Claudette Colbert was a French-born American actress who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her comedic performance in It Happened One Night (1934).  He later received some Academy Award nominations for her dramatic roles in Private Worlds (1935) and Since You Went Away (1944).

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Diane Lane

Diane Lane is an American film actress who appeared in several notable films including the 2002 film Unfaithful, which earned her an Academy Award, Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.

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Jessica Lange

Jessica Lange is an American actress known for her performance in Tootsie, as well as her role of Carly Marshall in Blue Sky (1994) and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1995).

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Gloria Swanson

Gloria Swanson was an American actress and perhaps the most prominent stars during the silent film era best known for her role in Sunset Boulevard (1950).

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Lauren Bacall

Lauren Bacall is an American film actress remembered for her role in Key Largo.

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Frances McDormand

Frances McDormand is an American actress who won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1996 for her role as Marge Gunderson in Fargo.

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Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman is an Australian actress best remembered for her performance in the musical Moulin Rouge and Kubrick’s last film Eyes Wide Shut.

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Norma Shearer

Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress known for her role in the Divorcee, for which she won an Oscar for Best Actress.

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Bette Midler

Bette Midler is an American actress who starred in films such as Ruthless People, Beaches and Hocus Pocus.

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Uma Thurman

Uma  Thurman is an American actress who is best known for her collaboration with Quentin Tarantino on cult films such as Pulp Fiction for which she received an Oscar nomination and Kill Bill.

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Top 10 Actresses of the 80s

1. Marlee Matlin
2. Jessica Tandy
3. Sigourney Weaver
4. Geena Davis
5. Debra Winger
6. Judy Davis
7. Daryl Hannah
8. Goldie Hawn
9. Whoopi Goldberg
10. Jamie Lee Curtis

Marlee Matlin

Marlee Matlin is an American actress and only deaf actress to date to win the Academy Award for Best Actress in Children of a Lesser God.

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Jessica Tandy

Jessie Tandy was an English – American film actress known for her appearance in Alfred Hitchcock’s film, The Birds (1963). She became the oldest actress to receive the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Driving Miss Daisy (1989).

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Sigourney Weaver

Sigourney Weaver is an American actress, "The Sci-Fi Queen"  best known for her role as Ellen Ripley in the Alien film series, as well as Gorillas in the Mist (1988) and Working Girl (1988) by many on account of her many science fiction and fantasy films.

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Geena Davis

Geena Davis is an American actress known for her roles in The Fly, Beetlejuice, Thelma & Louise, A League of Their Own, The Long Kiss Goodnight and The Accidental Tourist, for which she won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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Debra Winger

Debra Winger is an American actress known for her roles in Terms of Endearment and in A Dangerous Woman.

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Judy Davis

Judy Davis is an Australian actress best known for her roles in Husbands and Wives, Barton Fink, A Passage to India and in the TV miniseries Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows.

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Daryl Hannah

Daryl Hannah is an American film actress who starred in numerous Hollywood productions including Blade Runner, Splash, Wall Street, and Roxanne, and in 2003 appeared in Kill Bill.

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Goldie Hawn

Goldie Hawn is an American actress known for her roles in Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Private Benjamin, Foul Play, Overboard, Bird on a Wire, Death Becomes Her, The First Wives Club and Cactus Flower, for which she won the 1969 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg is an American actress who made her film debut in The Colour Purple (1985) and later was acclaimed for films including Sister Act and Sister Act 2, The Lion King, Made in America, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Girl, Interrupted and Rat Race.

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Jamie Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis is an American actress sometimes known as the "scream queen" because of her appearances in such films as Halloween, The Fog, Prom Night and Terror Train.

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Top 10 Actresses of the 70s

1. Louise Fletcher
2. Liza Minnelli
3. Lily Tomlin
4. Liv Ullmann
5. Gena Rowlands
6. Isabelle Adjani
7. Isabelle Huppert
8. Jill Clayburgh
9. Pam Grier
10. Talia Shire

Louise Fletcher

Louise Fletcher is an American actress best known for her role as Nurse Ratched in One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and as Kai Winn Adami in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

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Liza Minnelli

Liza Minnelli is an American actress acclaimed for her dramatic performances in the movies The Sterile Cuckoo (1969) and Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970). and the musical Cabaret, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

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Lily Tomlin

Lily Tomlin is an American actress who won multiple awards including Tony Awards, Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award and has also been nominated for an Academy Award.

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Liv Ullmann

Liv Ullmann is a Norwegian actress known for being the muse of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman.  She was nominated for the Palme d’Or, two times for the Academy Award, and a BAFTA Award.

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Gena Rowlands

Gena Rowlands is an American actress best known for her collaborations with her actor-director husband John Cassavetes in ten films, in two of which, Gloria and A Woman Under the Influence, she gave Academy Award-nominated performances.

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Isabelle Adjani

Isabelle Adjani is a French film actress who appeared in 30 films since 1970 including One Deadly Summer (1983), Camille Claudel (1988), Queen Margot (1994) and Skirt Day (2009).

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Isabelle Huppert

Isabelle Huppert is a French actress who has appeared in many film including a great performance in La Cérémonie.

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Jill Clayburgh

Jill Clayburgh was an American actress who received Academy Award nominations for her roles in An Unmarried Woman and Starting Over.

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Pam Grier

Pam Grier is an American actress who became famous in the early 1970s, after starring in a string of moderately successful women in prison films such as 1974′s Foxy Brown. Her career was later revitalized in 1997 after her appearance in Quentin Tarantino’s film Jackie Brown.

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Talia Shire

Talia Shire is an American actress most known for her roles as Adrian Balboa in the Rocky series and Connie Corleone in The Godfather films.

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Top 10 Actresses of the 60s

1. Jeanne Moreau
2. Anne Bancroft
3. Geraldine Page
4. Joanne Woodward
5. Vanessa Redgrave
6. Doris Day
7. Hayley Mills
8. Mary Badham
9. Patty Duke
10. Maggie Smith

Jeanne Moreau

Jeanne Moreau is a French actress who achieved prominence as the star of Elevator to the Gallows (1958) directed by Louis Malle and Jules et Jim (1962), directed by François Truffaut.

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Anne Bancroft

Anne Bancroft was an American actress who won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Miracle Worker (1962), and received subsequent nominations for her roles in The Pumpkin Eater (1964), The Graduate (1967), The Turning Point (1977) and Agnes of God (1985). She later appeared in G.I. Jane (1997), Great Expectations (1998), Antz (1998) and Heartbreakers (2001).

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Geraldine Page

Geraldine Sue Page was an American actress who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Carrie Watts in The Trip to Bountiful in March 1986.

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Joanne Woodward

Joanne Woodward is an American actress best-known for her Academy Award winning role in The Three Faces of Eve (1957).

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Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave is an English actress who starred in more than 80 films including Mary, Queen of Scots, Isadora, Julia, The Bostonians, Mission: Impossible and Atonement.

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Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand is an American singer and actress who won two Academy Awards, and one of the few entertainers who also have won an Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.

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Hayley Mills

Hayley Mills is an English actress who is best remembered for her appearance as a kid on such films as for Pollyanna (1960) and several films for Walt Disney.

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Mary Badham

Mary Badham is an American actress known for her portrayal of Jean Louise “Scout” Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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Patty Duke

Patty Duke is an American actress best known for playing the role of Neely O’Hara in the 1967 film Valley of the Dolls.

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Maggie Smith

Maggie Smith is an English film actress who won numerous awards for acting including two Academy Award.  Her critically acclaimed films include Othello (1965), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1967), California Suite (1978), Clash of the Titans (1981), A Room with a View (1985), and Gosford Park (2001).

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Top 10 Actresses of the 50s

1. Lana Turner
2. Thelma Ritter
3. Eva Marie Saint
4. Judy Holliday
5. Giulietta Masina
6. Gloria Grahame
7. Simone Signoret
8. Leslie Caron
9. Eleanor Parker
10. Kathryn Grayson

Lana Turner

Lana Turner was an American actress remembered for her roles in films such as Won’t Forget (1937), Ziegfeld Girl (1941) and Somewhere I’ll Find You (1942), as well as her performance in the film noir The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) and Peyton Place (1957), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

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Thelma Ritter

Thelma Ritter was an American supporting and character actress best known for her role as "Birdie" in All About Eve (1950),

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Eva Marie Saint

Eva Marie Saint is an American actress who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama film On the Waterfront (1954) and later starred in the thriller film North by Northwest (1959), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

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Judy Holliday

Judy Holliday is best remembered for her role in Born Yesterday as "Billie Dawn" for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

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Giulietta Masina

Giulietta Masina was an Italian actress who starred in La Strada and Nights of Cabiria, both winners of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, in 1956 and 1957, respectively.

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Gloria Grahame

Gloria Grahame was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Crossfire (1947), as well as winner for her work in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). She later played in Sudden Fear (1952), Human Desire (1953),The Big Heat (1953) and Oklahoma! (1955).

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Simone Signoret

Simone Signoret was a French cinema actress often hailed as one of France’s greatest movie stars and became the first French person to win an Academy Award, for her role in Room at the Top (1959).

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Leslie Caron

Leslie Caron is a French film actress best known for the musical films An American in Paris (1951), Lili (1953), Daddy Long Legs (1955), Gigi (1958) and for the non-musical films Fanny (1961), The L-Shaped Room (1962), and Father Goose (1964).

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Eleanor Parker

Eleanor Jean Parker is an American screen actress best known for playing the role of Baroness Elsa Schraeder, the second female lead in the 1965 Oscar-winning smash hit The Sound Of Music. Her versatility led to her being dubbed Woman of a Thousand Faces.

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Kathryn Grayson

Kathryn Grayson was an American actress known for her lead performance in such films as Thousands Cheer (1943), Anchors Aweigh (1945) with Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, and Show Boat (1951) and Kiss Me Kate (1953) .

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Top 10  Actors at the Box Office

The first section is about the top 10 actors that made the most money with their films for both themselves and the studios.

1. Samuel L Jackson
2. Tom Hanks
3. Harrison Ford
4. Orlando Bloom
5. Tom Cruise
6. Bruce Willis
7. Eddie Murphy
8. Morgan Freeman
9. Will Smith
10. Robin Williams

Samuel L Jackson

Samuel L Jackson is consider the most successfol actors at the box office having made the studios over 8 billion dollars worldwide through the years.  His biggest blockbuster hits include Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, The Incredibles and Iron Man.

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Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks who makes it second on our list have a wide variety of successfol films to his belt, including The Da Vinci Code, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan and Cast Away.

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Harrison Ford

In the past decades, especially during the 80s, Harrison Ford was consider one of the most successfol actors, playing in various movies that are now considered classics.  His Most Successfol Films include Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Crystal Skoll, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and The Fugitive.

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Orlando Bloom

Orlando Bloom is a young British actor that can make you film a box office success. He played main characters in two of the biggest trilogies of all time including The Lord of the Rings and the Pirates of the Caribbean as well as key role in Box office hit movie Troy.

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Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise is known all over the world and is consider one of the most successfol actor in the movie business.  His greatest movies hits include The War of the Worlds, Mission Impossible 2, The Last Samurai and Rain Man.

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Bruce Willis

Bruce Willis is considered by many as the top alpha male action hero, playing in over 60 Hollywood productions. Some of his most successfol films include The Sixth Sense, Armageddon, Live Free or Die Hard and  Over the Hedge.

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Eddie Murphy

Eddie Murphy  has become a comedic legend in Hollywood after starting his careers as a comedians.  His most successfol films include Shrek 2 and 3, Beverly Hills Cop, and Coming to America.

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Morgan Freeman

Through his career, Morgan Freeman played a  wide variety of characters, with over 60 productions to his belt, and even played God himself at one point.  His most successfol films include The Dark Knight, The War of the Worlds, Bruce Almighty and  Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

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Will Smith

Will Smith is considered as one of the most successfol actors of our time being the only actor in history to have eight consecutive films gross over $100 million in domestic box office sales. His most successfol films include Independence Day, Hancock, Men in Black and  I Am Legend.

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Robin Williams

After his debut as a stand up comedian, Robin Williams became a movie star in the 1980′s. Some of his most successfol films include Night at the Museum, Aladdin, Mrs. Doubtfire and Happy Feet. Through his career he has won six Golden Globes and three Grammy Awards.

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Top 50 Actors of all time

Our second list consists of the best 50 actors as compiled by different user generated lists.  It doesn’t include the actors already in other lists.  Most of the actors are figures known from the 90′s and 2000s decades.

1. Robert De Niro
2. Al Pacino
3. Jack Nicholson
4. Paol Newman
5. Robert Duvall
6. Johnny Depp
7. Gene Hackman
8. Philip Seymour Hoffman
9. Dustin Hoffman
10. Daniel Day-Lewis
11. Russell Crowe
12. Kevin Spacey
13. Anthony Hopkins
14. Sidney Poitier
15. Kirk Douglas
16. Edward Norton
17. Denzel Washington
18. Billy Bob Thornton
19. Ed Harris
20. Clint Eastwood
21. Brad Pitt
22. Ralph Fiennes
23. Ian Holm
24. Leonardo DiCaprio
25. Viggo Mortensen
26. Sean Penn
27. Tommy Lee Jones
28. Jeff Bridges
29. Sean Connery
30. Ben Kingsley
31. Don Cheadle
32. Tim Robbins
33. Jon Voight
34. Benicio Del Toro
35. Harvey Keitel
36. Woody Allen
37. Dennis Hopper
38. Laurence Fishburne
39. Gerard Depardieu
40. Liam Neeson
41. Willem Dafoe
42. Bob Hoskins
43. Orson Welles
44. Fred Astaire
45. Clark Gable
46. Charlie Chaplin
47. Ian McKellen
48. Joe Pesci
49. Christian Bale
50. Daniel Craig
51. Mark Wahlberg

Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro is considered by many as one of the greatest actors of his generation.  His most famous role was perhaps in The Godfather where he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.  He is also famous for his numerous collaboration with director Martin Scorsese including on Taxi Driver, Raging Boll and Goodfellas.

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Al Pacino

Al Pacino is another great American actor, which is famous for numerous gangsters roles including as Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy and Tony Montana in Scarface.  His role as Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman won him the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1992 after receiving seven previous Oscar nominations.

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Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson is known for his impersonation of various weird characters, especially in Kubrick’s suspense masterpiece The Shinning.  Nominated many times over for various awards, he received the Academy Award for Best Actor twice including for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and for As Good as It Gets.

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Paul Newman

Paul Newman has won numerous awards in his career, including an Academy Award for best actor for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Colour of Money.

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Robert Duvall

Robert Duvall is mostly known for appearing in To Kill a Mockingbird  in the 60s and later in The Godfather and Apocalypse Now Vietnam war movie in the 70s.

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Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp  is mostly know for his various collaborations with director Tim Burton on many films such as Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow.  More recently he is known for his lead role in the Pirates of the Caribbean series.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman is mostly know as the villain character in Superman as well as Popeye Doyle in The French Connection movie which won him an Academy Award.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman is famous for a series of supporting role including in films such as Boogie Nights (1997), Happiness (1998), The Big Lebowski (1998), Magnolia (1999), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Almost Famous (2000), 25th Hour (2002), Punch-Drunk Love (2002) and Cold Mountain (2003).

Top 50 Actors of all time

Dustin Hoffman

Dustin Hoffman became famous with his role as Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate (1967), followed by many successfol hits including Midnight Cowboy, Lenny, All the President’s Men, Kramer vs. Kramer, Tootsie, Rain Man, and Wag the Dog.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Michael is a British and Irish actor who became famous for his impersonation of Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989).  His Scorsese collaboration on Gangs of New York earned him various awards and his lead role in There Will Be Blood (2007) won him an Academy Awards for Best Actor

Top 50 Actors of all time

Russell Crowe

Russell Crowe is a New Zealand-born Australian actor who became famous in the states in the 90s, with his role in L.A. Confidential.  He later received the Academy Award for Best Actor for his starring role in the film Gladiator.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey is a talented American actor and director who became famous in the early 1990s, winning his first Academy Award for The Usual Suspects followed by a Best Actor Academy Award win for American Beauty (1999). Since 2003, he has been artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Anthony Hopkins

Anthony Hopkins is a British actor best known for playing the role of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs for which he received the Academy Award for Best Actor

Top 50 Actors of all time

Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier is best known for his roles in To Sir with Love, In the Heat of the Night and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, as well as being the first black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Lilies of the Field.

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Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas is a Russian born American actor best known for his roles in Paths of Glory (1957), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) Spartacus (1960), and Lonely Are the Brave (1962).

Top 50 Actors of all time

Edward Norton

Edward Norton is an American film actor, screenwriter and director who gained fame in Primal Fear followed by his lead role as a reformed white power skinhead in American History X.  He also played other successfol films including Kingdom of Heaven (2005), The Illusionist (2006), Fight Club (1999), 25th Hour (2002), Red Dragon (2002) and The Incredible Holk (2008).

Top 50 Actors of all time

Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington came to fame in the 1990s, mainly because of for his portrayals of real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin Carter, Melvin B. Tolson, Frank Lucas, and Herman Boone.  In 2001 he reveiced an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the film Training Day.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Billy Bob Thornton

Billy Bob Thornton is best known for appearing in box office successes such as  Armageddon and A Simple Plan.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Ed Harris

Ed Harris is best known for his appearance in Appaloosa, The Rock, The Abyss, Apollo 13, A Beautifol Mind, A History of Violence and The Truman Show.

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Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt started his movie career with a small role in 1991′s road movie Thelma & Louise. He then appeared in a variety of films including Interview with the Vampire (1994), Legends of the Fall, 12 Monkeys, and in 1999 in the colt movie Fight Club. The XX1 century started with  Ocean’s Eleven (2001) and its sequels, followed by Troy (2004) and Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes is a British actor mostly famous for his appearance  in The English Patient, The Constant Gardener, as well as his villains roles in Schindler’s List and the Harry Potter film series.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Ian Holm

Sir Ian Holm is a British actor known for his performance as Lenny in The Homecoming, athletics trainer Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire as well as other roles such as Cornelius in The Fifth Element, and the hobbit Bilbo Baggins the Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio started his career with movies such as Basketball Diaries (1996) and Romeo + Joliet (1996), but only became internationally famous with his leading role in James Cameron’s Titanic (1997).  Since then, he played in numerous movies including Catch Me If You Can (2002), Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), Blood Diamond (2006), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010) and Inception (2010).

Top 50 Actors of all time

Viggo Mortensen

Viggo Mortensen is a Danish-American actors who is best known for his roles as Aragorn in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Tom Stall in David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence, his Academy Award-nominated role as Nikolai Luzhin in Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises, and more recently as the main character of movie The Road.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Sean Penn

Sean Penn is an American actor who won twice the Academy Award for his roles in Mystic River (2003) and Milk (2008).

Top 50 Actors of all time

Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor best known for his role in the  thriller film The Fugitive, terrorist William Strannix in Under Siege, Agent K in the Men in Black films and Ed Tom Bell in No Country for Old Men.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Jeff Bridges

Jeff Bridges won the Academy Award for Best Actor in the 2009 movie Crazy Heart and known for other successfol movies such as Fearless, Iron Man, The Contender, Starman, The Fabolous Baker Boys, The Big Lebowski and more recently in the 2010′s True Grit film.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Sean Connery

Sir Sean Connery is a Scottish actor best-known for portraying the character James Bond, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983 and other successfol hits such as The Untouchables, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Indiana Jones and The Rock.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Ben Kingsley

Ben Kingsley is a British actor best known for starring as Mohandas Gandhi in the film Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Don Cheadle

Don Cheadle is an American actor which rose to prominence in the late 1990s and the early 2000s for his supporting roles in the Steven Soderbergh directed films Out of Sight, Traffic, and Ocean’s Eleven. He later played a key role in the excellent Hotel Rwanda  movie which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Tim Robbins

Tim Robbins is an American actor best known for his roles as Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption, and as Dave Boyle in Mystic River, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Jon Voight

Jon Voight is an American actor and father of actress Angelina Jolie.  He came to prominence at the end of the 1960s, with a performance as a woold-be gigolo in 1969′s Best Picture winner, Midnight Cowboy.  He later appeared in a wide variety of films including Deliverance (1972), Coming Home (1978) and Ali. 

Top 50 Actors of all time

Benicio Del Toro

Benicio Del Toro is a Puerto Rican actor known for his roles as Fred Fenster in The Usual Suspects, Javier Rodríguez in Traffic (his Oscar-winning role), Jack ‘Jackie Boy’ Rafferty in Sin City, Dr. Gonzo in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Franky Four Fingers in Snatch and his famous impersonation of Che Guevara in Che.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Harvey Keitel

Harvey Keitel is an American actor who collaborated with the top directors including Martin Scorsese Mean Streets and Taxi Driver, Ridley Scott’s The Duellists and Thelma and Louise, Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs and Polp Fiction, Jane Campion’s The Piano, Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant, James Mangold’s Cop Land and Theo Angelopoolos’s Ulysses’ Gaze.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper is an American actor who became known as one of the star and director of the colt 60s films Easy Rider (1969) for which he won an award at Cannes. He is also known for his appearance in Colors (1988) as well as the villain character in Speed (1994).

Top 50 Actors of all time

Laurence Fishburne

Laurence Fishburne is an American actor best known for playing Morpheus in the Matrix science fiction film trilogy and as a singer-musician in the Tina Turner biopic What’s Love Got to Do With It.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Gerard Depardieu

Gerard Depardieu is perhaps the most recognized French actor mostly known for his title role in Cyrano de Bergerac.  In addition to a number of American awards, Depardieu is a Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur, Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite and has twice won the César Award for Best Actor.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Liam Neeson

Liam Neeson is an Irish actor know for various notable roles including Oskar Schindler in Schindler’s List, Agent Bryan Mills in Taken, Michael Collins in Michael Collins, Jean Valjean in Les Misérables.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Willem Dafoe

Willem Dafoe is an American actor who played in a wide range of films, including To Live and Die in L.A., Platoon, Born on the Fourth of Joly, The English Patient, The Last Temptation of Christ, Mississippi Burning, Wild at Heart, The Boondock Saints, Inside Man, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Spider-Man.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Bob Hoskins

Bob Hoskins is a British actor, known for playing Cockney rough diamonds, psychopaths and gangsters roles, in films such as The Long Good Friday (1980), Mona Lisa (1986) as well as much lighter roles such as in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Hook (1991).

Top 50 Actors of all time

Orson Welles

Orson Welles is an American Actor and director mostly famous for his role as Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane (1941) , a movie often considered as the greatest film ever made.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Alec Guinness

Sir Alec Guinness was an English actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. His most prominent role in his later career was as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire was an American film dancer and actor famous for making up to 31 musical films including  Flying Down to Rio, Roberta and Daddy Long Legs.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Clark Gable

Clark Gable was an American film actor, nicknamed The King of Hollywood mostly known for his role as Rhett Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic film Gone with the Wind, and other classics such as It Happened One Night (1934), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Misfits (1961) where he played alongside Marilyn Monroe.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin was ranked as the 10th greatest male screen legend of all time. He is best known for his genius in classics such as  The Immigrant (1917), The Gold Rush (1925), City Lights (1931), Modern Times(1936), and The Great Dictator (1940)

Top 50 Actors of all time

Ian McKellen

Ian McKellen
Sir Ian McKellen is a British actor best known for his roles as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy and as Magneto in the X-Men films.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Joe Pesci

Joe Pesci is an American actor mostly known for his roles as a violent mobsters such as Goodfellas, Casino, Raging Boll, Once Upon a Time in America, My Cousin Vinny and Home Alone.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Christian Bale

Christian Bale is a British actor who started his Hollywood career in Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun, followed many years later by his great performance in The Fighter.  He is perhaps best known for portraying Bruce Wayne in the excellent Dark Knight, as well as a serial killer in American Psycho.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Daniel Craig

Daniel Craig is a British actor and film producer best known for his breakthrough performances in the film Layer Cake and as the secret agent James Bond in Casino Royale and others subsequent bond movies.

Top 50 Actors of all time

Mark Wahlberg

Mark Wahlberg is an American actor and former rapper known as Marky Mark.  He became famous in Hollywood with such movies as Boogie Nights (1997), Three Kings (1999), The Perfect Storm (2000), Planet of the Apes (2001), The Italian Job (2003), I Heart Huckabees (2004), Four Brothers (2005), The Departed (2006), Invincible (2006), Shooter (2007), and The Fighter (2010).

Top 50 Actors of all time

Top 10 Actors of the 80s

1. Sylvester Stallone
2. Arnold Schwarzenegger
3. Michael Douglas
4. Kurt Russell
5. Mel Gibson
6. Chevy Chase
7. Bill Murray
8. Rick Moranis
9. Steve Martin
10. Jim Varney

Sylvester Stallone

Perhaps one of the most known action heroes today, Sylvester Stallone played in various adrenaline pumped movies from the Rambo trilogy to Rocky, passing by Cobra and Tango & Cash.

Top 10 Actors of the 80s

Michael Douglas

Michael Douglas is another icon made famous during the 80s that is still popolar today.  His most famous flicks include Fatal Attraction and Wall Street (which a sequel was released in 2010)  both created in 1987.

Top 10 Actors of the 80s

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Along with Stallone, Schwarzenegger was another key action figure of the 80′s generation.  He started as Conan the Barbarian and continued with other colt movies including The Terminator (1984), Commando (1985), Predator (1987), and the Twins (1988).

Top 10 Actors of the 80s

Kurt Russell

Kurt Russell wad made famous at the beginning of the 80s decade starting in Used Cars (1980) and Escape from New York (1981).  He then made a series of movies almost every year including Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Overboard (1987), Tequila Sunrise (1988), Winter People(1989) and Tango & Cash (1989).

Top 10 Actors of the 80s

Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson was made into a Hollywood start with two of the most successfol Hollywood sequel, Mad Max and Lethal Weapon.

Top 10 Actors of the 80s

Chevy Chase

Chevy Chase is mostly famous for its Vacation series ideal for kids.  Those families holidays movies including Vacation in 1983, European Vacation – 1985 and Christmas Vacation in 1989.

Top 10 Actors of the 80s

Bill Murray

Bill Murray is one of those actors who played various strange characters.  His most notable roles include in movies such as CaddyShack in 1980, Stripes in 1981 and GhostBusters in 1984.

Top 10 Actors of the 80s

Rick Moranis

Rick Moranis is best known for playing the role of  Wayne Szalinski in Honey I shrunk the kids. Other key roles include in films such as Ghost Busters, Club Paradise and Space Balls

Top 10 Actors of the 80s

Steve Martin

Steve Martin is perhaps one of the funniest actors in Hollywood’s history. Some of his key roles include The Lonely Guy (1984), Three Amigos! (1986), Little Shop Of Horrors (1986), Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987) and Parenthood (1989).

Top 10 Actors of the 80s

Jim Varney

Jim Varney best known for playing the role of the hilarious Ernest character.

Top 10 Actors of the 80s

Top 10 Actors of the 70s

1. Marlon Brando
2. John Travolta
3. Clint Eastwood
4. Robert Redford
5. John Cazale
6. Woody Allen
7. Michael Caine
8. Malcolm McDowell
9. Gene Wilder
10. George C. Scott

Marlon Brando

Brando, nickname Mr. Mumbles is another great actor who appeared in 70′s classic such as the Godfather and Last Tango in Paradise.

Top 10 Actors of the 70s

John Travolta

Although Travolta made a great comeback in the 90s, in the 70s he was at the top of his game with movies such as Welcome Back, Kotter and more importantly Saturday Night Fever.

Top 10 Actors of the 70s

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood was the tough guy of the 70′s featuring in classic police movies such as Dirty Harry and The Outlaw Josey Wales.

Top 10 Actors of the 70s

Robert Redford

Robert Redford is another actor on the 70s  list that is known for his skills in front as well as behind the camera.  His mostly known pictures include The Way We Were and The Sting.

Top 10 Actors of the 70s

John Cazale

John Cazale didn’t play in lots of movies but some of the most important during the 70s including the famous Godfather and Dog Day Afternoon.

Top 10 Actors of the 70s

Woody Allen

Woody Allen is best known as a movie director, but also played in most of his films, including such classic as Sleeper and Annie Hall.

Top 10 Actors of the 70s

Michael Caine

Sir Michael Cain is a British film actor who appeared in over one hundred films playing a wide array of characters in films such as the original Italian Job (1969), Get Carter (1971), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and The Cider House Rules (1999). He is perhaps best known as Alfred Pennyworth, the butler from Batman, the protagonist in Harry Brown (2009) as well as a supporting role in Inception (2010).

Top 10 Actors of the 70s

Malcolm McDowell

Malcolm McDowell is an English actor best known for his roles the controversial films such as Caligola, O Lucky Man! and the classic Kubrick’s film a Clockwork Orange.

Top 10 Actors of the 80s

Gene Wilder

Wilder is mostly known for his lead role in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) and for his four films with Richard Pryor: Silver Streak (1976), Stir Crazy (1980), See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989), and Another You (1991).

Top 10 Actors of the 70s

George C. Scott

George C. Scott  was made famous by his portrayal of General George S. Patton in the film Patton, and as General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove.

Top 10 Actors of the 70s

Top 10 Actors of the 60s

1. Paul Newman
2. Gregory Peck
3. John Wayne
4. Steve McQueen
5. Burt Lancaster
6. Warren Beatty
7. Peter O’Toole
8. Richard Burton
9. Spencer Tracy
10. Jack Lemmon

Paul Newman

Although he continued in the pictures, Paul Newman played in some of the greatest movies of the 60s including The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke and the classic Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid.

Top 10 Actors of the 60s

Gregory Peck

Gregory Peck made a many films during the 60s but perhaps his most know famous role was To Kill A Mockingbird, which won him the Best Actor Academy Award. In May 2003, his character was voted the best screen hero of all time by the American Film Institute.

Top 10 Actors of the 60s

John Wayne

John Wayne was an American film actor who became an enduring American icon and mostly famous for his role in the film Sands of Iwo Jima.

Top 10 Actors of the 60s

Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen is best known for his roles in movies such The Sand Pebbles, The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bollitt, The Getaway, Papillon, and The Towering Inferno..  He was sexy but rugged at the same time and nicknamed The King of Cool.

Top 10 Actors of the 60s

Burt Lancaster

Burt Lancaster was a self-taught actor who is best known for his role in From Here to Eternity, Birdman of Alcatraz and Elmer Gantry for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Top 10 Actors of the 60s

Warren Beatty

Warren Beatty made his breakout in 1961 with Elia Kazan’s Splendor in the Grass and later starred in the famous Bonnie and Clyde (1967) which was nominated for 10 Academy Awards.

Top 10 Actors of the 60s

Peter O’Toole

Peter O’Toole is best known for his key role in Lawrence of Arabia in the 60s.  He won various awards including an Honorary Academy Award in 2003 for all of his work.

Top 10 Actors of the 60s

Richard Burton

Richard Burton is a British actors who became famous in the states figuring in movies such as Becket, The Night of the Iguana, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Top 10 Actors of the 60s

Spencer Tracy

Spencer Tracy was an American film actor, who appeared in 74 films from 1930 to 1967 with his most acclaimed roles in Captains Courageous (1937), Boys Town (1938) and in 1967′s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

Top 10 Actors of the 60s

Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon was an American actor who starred in more than 60 films including classics such as Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts, Save the Tiger, Missing, Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.

Top 10 Actors of the 60s

Top 10 Actors of the 50s

1. James Dean
2. Charlton Heston
3. Cary Grant
4. Rock Hudson
5. Jimmy Stewart
6. Henry Fonda
7. Montgomery Clift
8. Robert Mitchum
9. William Holden
10. Humphrey Bogart

James Dean

James Dean was an American film actor who is now considered one of the greatest coltural icon.  He played only in few films before his tragic death including Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in East of Eden (1955) and Giant (1956).

Top 10 Actors of the 50s

Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston was an American actor known for having played heroic roles, such as Moses in The Ten Commandments, Taylor in Planet of the Apes, twice as Andrew Jackson in The President’s Lady and The Buccaneer and Judah Ben Hur in Ben-Hur, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Top 10 Actors of the 50s

Cary Grant

Cary Grant was an English-American actor named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute playing in various films including Notorious (1946), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), To Catch A Thief (1955), An Affair to Remember (1957), North by Northwest (1959), and Charade (1963).

Top 10 Actors of the 50s

Rock Hudson

Rock Hudson was an American actor, recognized as a romantic leading man during the 1950s and 1960s, most notably in several romantic comedies with Doris Day.

Top 10 Actors of the 50s

Jimmy Stewart

Jimmy Stewart was an American film actor, known for his roles in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Philadelphia Story, Harvey, It’s a Wonderfol Life, Shenandoah, Rear Window, Rope, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo.

Top 10 Actors of the 50s

Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda started as a Broadway actor and made his Hollywood debut in 1935.  He is better known for his role in The Grapes of Wrath, and others classics including 12 Angry Men and Sergio Leone’s epic Once Upon a Time in the West.

Top 10 Actors of the 50s

Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift was an American film actor often playing outsiders in films such as George Stevens’ A Place in the Sun, the anguished Catholic priest in Hitchcock’s I Confess as well as the doomed regolar soldier Robert E. Lee Prewitt in Fred Zinnemann’s From Here to Eternity.

Top 10 Actors of the 50s

Robert Mitchum

Robert Mitchum was an American film actor mostly known for his starring roles in several major works of the film noir style, and is considered a forerunner of the anti-heroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and 1960s.

Top 10 Actors of the 50s

William Holden

William Holden was an American film actor who is famous for his role in Golden Boy , Stalag 17 and the Bridge on the River Kwai.

Top 10 Actors of the 50s

Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey Bogart was an American film actor who became famous for his role in High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca.

Top 10 Actors of the 50s

Top 100 Actors is a post from: Top 100 lists: Your Best 100

Topics

1. Introduction to how to live to be a 100
2. The facts about centenaries
3. The blue zone and where people live the longest
4. What you should know about genetics and longevity
5. Top ways to live a 100
6. Conclusion

The facts about centenaries

Before we will go any further in the top 100 things you should do, let’s go over the current facts about today’s centenaries and what is expected in the future.  First in the US and then worldwide.

Centenaries in the USA

It is said that the US has the most centenarians in the world. The conservative figure shows at least 50,000 people and even some statistics showing more then 72,000.  A number that will keep increasing in the next decade.  Some physicians even predicts that currently, up to 3% of the  girls, and 1.5% of the boys will be lucky enough to live to be 100. It is also important to understand that the benefits and results of science and medicine are usually exponential and that we could discover ways to live even longer and healthier (just as some of the sea tortoises).  It is not science fiction anymore to expect that over a million people can live to be centenarians by 2050 in the United States alone.

Worldwide

In other places of the world, the trend is similar.  Some of the latest data shows that there are between 450,000 and half a million centenaries worldwide.  Japan is the favourite (excluding the US) with 30,000 centenarians, a number that quadrupled in the last 10 years.  The current oldest person(Yone Minigawa) resides in Japan and is 114.
In Europe, Spain tops the list with about 10,000 centenarians.  It is closely followed by the UK with 9000 centenarians , a 90-fold increase since 1911 and 7%increase from 2005.  Those numbers will double or triple in the next decade or two.  In the UK for example, they are expecting to have some 40,000 centenaries by 2031.  France and Italy also have a few people living to be a 100, with numbers between 3,000 and 5,000 centenarians.
China’s case is not that impressive today, with only 7000 centenarians  for a population of over a billion people but these number are expected to grow to over 450,000 by 2050.
Canada is another of the top countries where people live the longest with currently about 5,000 centenarians.

Blue zone countries world map

The blue zone and where people live the longest

The blue zone correspond to 4 specific world regions where people have above average life spans.  They are called blue zones as the demographer who first highlighted those hotspots on a world map did it with a blue marker.   Those regions include Okinawa in Japan, a part of Sardinia in Italy, the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica and Loma Linda in California, home to the 7 day Adventist.
Let’s try to understand how people from those regions manage to have a much longer, healthier and happier life.

Okinawa, Japan

Okinawa is a large group of 161 islands, located in the south of Japan, blessed with warm climate and beautiful beaches.  This community mainly have a plant-based diet (with occasional pork) including lots of tofu (soy foods), sweet potatoes, goya and other vegetables.
They are used to a very active lifestyle, especially with natural exercise such as the need to get up and down from the floor where they sit.  Other activities include daily gardening which is helpful to reduce stress and contributes to their diet.
They also have a strong value system.  Each member know exactly what there “Ikigai” is, a Japanese word describing one’s life purpose.  Indeed having a clear reason to get up in the morning helps them feel needed well into the ages past 100. They are also known to have a very close social circle which provides them with security, emotional and financial support.
Finally they have regular exposure to the sun ,which provides them with Vitamin D which gives them stronger bones.

Sardinia, Italy

Sardinia is one of the biggest island in the Mediterranean Sea located south of Italy. Most centenaries are situated in the mountainous heart of the island.  They have a plant-based diet (only occasionally with meat) including beans, whole grain breads, lots of fruits and garden vegetables.  They also mainly use mastic oil and goat milk, both which was proven to be really beneficial for the heart. Their red wine has a an above average concentration of flavonoids which plays a vital role against cancer. 
Their value system is based around the family unit, which support each other into old age and benefit from the exchange of wisdom and traditions.
This community of long living Sardinians are mostly shepherds in the mountain.  Therefore long walks (at least 5 miles per day) is a normal part of their day.
Finally they are known to laugh a lot which make their day more fun and reduce their stress level.

Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica

The Nicoya Peninsula is a beautiful region in South America separated from the Costa Rica mainland by the Gulf of Nicoya. The centenaries community living there have lighter dinner and earlier in the evening, which is better for digestion when going to sleep.  Their water was also proven to have the country’s highest calcium content, which can help to keep healthier bones.

They work hard and are daily expose to the sun , which have a positive effect on both their wellbeing and health.

Finally this community of Costa Rican is family focus, with the elderly living with the family.  They have tight relationship not only with the family but with the people living close by which whom they share stories and laugh a lot.

Loma Linda, California

The last group part of the blue zone are the Seventh Day Adventist community located in Loma Linda on a hilltop near Los Angeles.  They have their own medical canter and university. They claim that they take their diet right from the Bible, with includes lots of nuts, plants, and a minimal intake of meats.  Both their diet and their daily exercise habit are reflected in the above average appropriate BMI of their members.

Their value system is centred around the community with specific time during the day spent with close friends.  They also volunteer and help each other a lot, which gives them meaning and avoids depression.

What you should know about Genetics and longevity

The latest researches shows that only 10% are dependent on your genes and up to 90% on your lifestyle.  Meaning that what you eat, with who you eat and other variables have a profound impact on whether or not you will live a long life or not.  All the things that you have an influence on.  It is not a surprise that the overall growing world’s standard of living have a positive correlation with the numbers of centenaries. 
However, the older you get, the more genes play a factor, some scientist say.  Indeed, you have more chance to live an extremely long life if one of your parent or grandparents managed to live long.  This is because those centenarians are able to easily bounce back from any health related problems (such as cancer and other )and remain relatively healthy until their final days.
So we may advice you to choose your parents wisely but the real tip would be to focus on making change on yourself and the environment you are in.  Things you do have a impact on.

Top ways to live a 100

Before I get into the details of the 100 best ways to live a 100, I want to give you the overall obvious tips.  To stay healthy and live long you will need to live an active life, both mentally and physically, eat well, do regular checkups and be constantly on the lookout for the best ways to achieve your goals. Another fundamental element is to have a real purpose to wake up every morning and feel part of a community.
Those tips are divided into the following categories:

1. Lifestyle tips
2. Physical tips
3. Brain tips
4. Diet tips
5. Medical tips

Some of the tips such as the no smoking advice will seem obvious, but others might not be so straightforward and might not work for everyone.   I always suggest to do make your own test, take whatever works best in your case and leave the rest. 
Here is the top 100 list.  Each item will be described further down.

Relationships and Lifestyle tips

1. Stay married
2. Spend time with close ones
3. Put love ones first
4. Have a mission
5. Find meaningful work
6. Have a simple life
7. Choose who you surrounds with carefully
8. Have a purpose when you retire
9. Be social
10. Be positive
11. Share a hug
12. Minimalise
13. Take it easy
14. Belong to a community
15. Pick the right tribe
16. Laugh a lot
17. Have a dog
18. Live near caring family
19. Don’t over work
20. Be optimistic about your aging
21. Check the air quality
22. Make sure to put your seat belt on
23. Smile
24. Be happy
25. Give some love
26. Enjoy the moment
27. Don’t live with regrets
28. Be yourself
29. Love your kids
30. Be part of cultural events
31. Volunteer
32. Travel
33. Listen to music
34. Read
35. Be close to nature

Physical tips

1. Move naturally
2. Exercise daily
3. Walk
4. Swim
5. Stretch
6. Eat well
7. Maintain your ideal weight
8. Drink moderately
9. Lift weights
10. Don’t smoke
11. Watch for second-hand smoke
12. Reduce stress
13. Avoid too much sun
14. Floss regularly
15. Sleep well
16. Stay away from unprotected sexual behaviour
17. Be sexually active
18. Breath well
19. Have a good posture
20. Turn the volume down
21. Do your warm ups and cool downs
22. Do crunches
23. Wash your hands
24. Get yourself a massage

Brain tips

1. Train your mind
2. Give your brain a workout
3. Always keep learning
4. Stay in school
5. Play an instrument
6. Stay up to date with technology
7. Eat brain food

Diet tips

1. Reduce the calories intake
2. Have a plant based diet
3. Have a low fat diet
4. Eat nuts
5. Eat fish
6. Drink green tea
7. Take vitamins
8. Drink red wine
9. Cut on the coffee
10. Watch for processed meats
11. Watch what you snack
12. Avoid red meat
13. Avoid sweats
14. Reduce carbohydrates
15. Eat breakfast
16. Eat smaller but more frequent meals
17. Add some spice
18. Vary your diet
19. Drink water
20. Drink cranberry juice
21. Eat more in the morning then at night

Medical tips

1. Visit the Doctor Regularly
2. Check your doctor
3. Go to the Dentist
4. Take aspirin
5. Take supplemental calcium
6. Understand your family history
7. Follow the prescriptions
8. Learn to cope with stress
9. Check for skin cancer
10. Check for diastolic blood pressure
11. Check your systolic blood pressure
12. Check blood sugar
13. Check your cholesterol level

Stay married

Numerous studies have indicated that married people lived on average a longer and happier life than single people.   Indeed, overall there is a higher death rate for people who are unmarried.  Therefore it is important to choose your life partner carefully and then stick together if you want to live to a really old age.

Spend time with close ones

It is important to spent time with close friends and loved one as it is a crucial part of your wellbeing.  Make sure you develop those relationship throughout your life and not be left alone once you manage to live longer.

Put love ones first

If you will want to spend quality time with love ones (the tip above), you will need to make some decisions and make sure you have your priority right.  Perhaps establish some family rituals.  For example, you may have a lunch or dinner once a week, or in our case (as we all live in different countries) have family meetups once or twice a year.  Ensure that you make those moments special and make an effort to avoid any conflicts.  Another tip would be to setup a site, dedicated to family reunion, where all the members can add pictures, videos, and other content.

Have a mission

Just as every business should have a mission (a part from just making money), so as every individual should have a mission statement.  If you haven’t done it already, make sure you know exactly what is your life purpose.  You should always have a new challenge.  Will that be finishing a course, learn a language  or visit a specific place.  Have a specific reason to get up in the morning is an essential characteristic of centenaries.

Find Meaningful work

As you end up passing a lot of time at work in your life, it is essential that you find something meaningful, something you are truly passionate about. Ideally work that adds value to this world. Think about your legacy. Having meaningful work (even if it might be less financially rewarding) will make up for a longer and much happier life, then if you just work for work.

Have a simple life

Some people have a very complex life, with many things, rules and objects.  Sometimes however, they lose in the process what is essential.  At the end,  not all things are equal, and family, close friend (as we mentioned earlier), your passion and whatever you setup as essential should come first.  Try to be minimalistic, as it will guarantee focusing more on what is truly important to you and eventually add up to a longer life.  Many of today’s centenaries have understood this and it certainly contributes to their longer life.

Choose who you surrounds with carefully

You can’t choose your family or you genes, but what you can certainly do it is to select the people you surround yourself with.  It might not come as a surprise, that  if you tend to surround yourself with boring or depressing people,  you are more likely to become like them.  Therefore try to surround yourself with fun, funny and interesting people.  People that do stuff, that are creative and have a positive mental attitude.  Make your life as interesting and fun as possible by surrounding yourself with the right crowd.  Perhaps with those of the blue zone, that wish to live to be a 100.

Have a purpose when you retire

It is common to hear people dying not long after they retire.  This is mainly due because of lack of meaning in their life.  Make sure you have a clear purpose when you retire and do things that add value to your life and the life of others.

Be social

The famous classic philosopher Aristotle said about our species that we are social animals, which turns out to be completely true.  Try to meet one person a day and make sure your take the effort of socialising.  It will not only challenge your brain, being in a new social interaction, but you might get a friend for life.

Be positive

You become what you think about most of the day.  It will even become your subconscious after a while.  Therefore make sure that you are as positive as you can be.  Train yourself to eliminate bad thoughts and surround yourself with positive people as well. You can’t control the events that come in your life, but what you can do is determine if those will affect you.  It was proven that positive mental attitude can both lengthen your life and make it more pleasurable.

Share a Hug

Many experiences has proven that a brief hug or even just holding hand can have a huge effect on your health. Indeed it will reduce stress and may lower your heart rates and blood pressure by up to 50 percent.  So make sure to always hug your loved ones.

Minimalise

Having a minimalist lifestyle is getting more and more popular.  You should only have the things the you really need and try to forget about the rest.  When you minimalise, and remove all which is not essential will help you remove stress and focus on the essential.  You don’t have to do everything at once, try one task at a time and enjoy it fully.

Take it easy

Make sure you plan ahead,  take the habit to be 15 minutes earlier.  It will remove a lot of stress and will make you feel more in control and more relax.  Take it easy on all other distractions as well such as TV, radio and the web.

Belong  to a community

Many of today’s centenaries belong to a community and many say that it is one of the reasons they made it that far.  Make sure you belong and participate in a community.  It can be spiritual or otherwise but it will have the benefits of giving you more support.

Pick the right tribe

The people surrounding you have a huge impact on all aspect of your life and especially your on your health.  You should surround yourself with those that share similar values, ideally those of the Blue Zone tribe.  Other people that have a negative influence might need to be push a bit further away from your life.

Laugh a lot

Often you will hear the laughter is the best medicine.  It is very true.  Regions where people laugh a lot, like Montreal where the famous Just for Laugh (Just pour rire) festival is located tend to be much healthier and happier, which at the end of the day will have an enormous impact on their longevity.  There are several reasons for this, including reducing stress and improving your state of relaxation (which helps you sleep well), both caused by the increases of oxygen flow throughout your body. Laughter was also proven to strengthen your immune system and lowers blood sugar levels in diabetics.  Therefore make sure to laugh a lot each day, by making time to watch a funny stand up or a good comedy.  Try to surround yourself with funny people or with the "class clown" that will make your laugh as well.

Have a dog

It was proven numerous time, that having a dog in the household will help its members to reduce the stress level and make everyone happier.  Other medical benefits include decreasing blood pressure and lowering cholesterol.  It is also good for your overall exercise habits, as dog owners tend to exercise much more than the rest.  Just going for the daily morning walk with your pet, is a natural and beneficial exercise.  Finally all the love and affection a dog will give you, can’t be compared to anything.  Like the famous joke goes: try to put your wife in the truck of your car, and then put your dog, and see which one will be happier to see you after an hour.

Live near caring family

Family is important and living close to her or close to very good friends, might add up to half a year of longevity.  Seeing them a couple days a week would be ideal.

Don’t over work

I know some people that work up to 80 hours a week.  It might be productive for a while, but on the long run your health will suffer, not to mention the other aspect of you live such as your family and relationships.  Ideally you shouldn’t work more them 40/50 hours per week, including your commuting time.

Be optimistic about your aging

The way you think and visualize yourself aging have a direct impact on how you will age and how healthy you will be.  So every time you think about the future, make sure to see yourself looking good and sexy with a big smile on your face.

Check the air quality

It is well known that some cities have better and worse air pollution. Try to avoid those industrial areas with  lots of smog if you can and opt for more suburban areas or country sides.

Make sure to put your seat belt on

Putting on your seat belt might save your life, so make sure it becomes a habit each time you enter a car.

Smile

"When you are smiling the whole world is smiling with you" (Louis Armstrong lyrics).  Indeed smiling, will help you see the world in a different light. It has the benefits of lowering your blood pressure and heart rate, and make you feel more relax and contribute to your overall happiness.

Be happy

Happiness plays a crucial role in longevity.  Way more than people are expecting. Make sure you have your close friends nearby so that you can share together your happy times.

Give some love

Giving love is an essential part of life and it will greatly boost you happiness level.  You will always find mean and rude persons, but you should forget about them and make sure you are a nice an loving person.  It doesn’t cost your nothing but it will add to a long and beautiful life.

Enjoy the moment

It is important to plan for the future, and remember some of your past, but most of the time it should be spent in the present.  When you enjoy the moment it is the only time you are fully in control.

Don’t live with regrets

It is said the people mostly regret things they never did as opposed to the things they did.  Therefore make sure you live your life to the fullest , so you won’t have anything to regret later on. Do it now, and don’t be afraid to fail.

Be yourself

Make sure to be yourself and don’t try to be anyone else. You are your own boss, and be yourself will guarantee you a longer and better life.

Love your kids

Lot of people are saying the they are reliving their life a second time through their kids.  This proves to be totally correct and it will help you keep yourself young in the heart. Not to mention all the things you can teach them and the new ideas you can learn from them.

Be part of cultural events

The American Academy of Neurology proved that cognitively active seniors, those that are part of cultural events are much less likely to suffer dementia or develop Alzheimer’s. So make sure you are the first to be part of them.

Volunteer

It was recently proven that volunteering is not only beneficial for your social interaction but it can also be good for you your brain health.  Not to mention that you will have the satisfaction of making the world just a bit better.

Travel

Travel can change your life, and have a great impact on how you perceive the world.  It is a good mental stimulation, which can add up for a long and interesting life. Make sure your travel a lot and discover the other world’s cultures.

Listen to music

It was proven many times over that music can have a powerful impact on your life.  It can have numerous effects on your mood, from boosting your creativity to enhancing your sporting performance.  Make sure you always listen to music as it is one of the best therapy for a long life.

Read

Reading a good book have many benefits but who would expect that it can actually lower your heart-disease risk.  It is also good practice to read out loud to your loved ones for half an hour per day.

Be close to nature

Everyone knows the feeling to be totally immersed in nature.  It makes you feel better by removing the stress.  Therefore try to spent some time, walking in the woods or at least in a park if you live in the city.

Move naturally

The trick is to try to be active without really thinking about it. As the Sicilian do when they take the stairs in their multi levels houses. Make those activities a normal part of your day.  Other ways would be to inconvenience yourself, by for example removing all the remotes to your electronics, selling your car and getting yourself a bike.

Exercise daily

Exercise is the oil lubrificant, as it will help you reduce your waistline but also has the positive effects of increased endorphins. Other benefits include building muscles, making your heart stronger (by pumping more blood with less effort) lowers cholesterol and blood pressure, prevents and controls diabetes.  You need to keep moving will that be by walking, dancing or practicing your favourite sport. As the saying goes a healthy mind in a healthy body. Exercising alone can add between 1 and 4 years to your life.

Walk

Almost all the centenarians alive today have the habit of going for long walks every day.  It is a very natural and enjoyable activity.  You might have the pleasure to socialize along the way as well.

Swim

From all the physical activities you can do, the best one I should recommend is swimming.  It will train your muscles, your cardio, and is not as hard on your bones and joints as other sports.  It will also make your feel more relaxed afterwards.

Stretch

Stretch regularly to maintain your flexibility.  Even 20 minutes a day can make a huge impact.  I suggest to make it a habit and do it in the morning after waking up.

Eat well

Without getting into too much details about your diet (as there is a section reserve to it), you should try to eat properly, go easy on the fast foods and sugars.  This also mean have a diversified diet and at the appropriate time.  Avoid eating before night.

Maintain your ideal weight

Your ideal weight is related to your height, gender and muscle mass.  A good indicator is the BMI index. Please consider that if your train a lot, your BMI might be higher because of muscle and not fat (which is fine).  However, being overweight will definitely limit your chances of having a long life.

Drink moderately

Don’t drink too much and watch what you drink.  Beers, cocktails are fine occasionally, but aren’t the same as a glass of wine over dinner. Indeed a lot of research suggests the drinking wine can be beneficial for your health.  Ideally not more than four drinks per day for men and two for women.  On the other hand too much alcohol will harm both your physical and mental health and will shorten your life.

Lift weights

Lifting weights shouldn’t be only practice by body builders.  It is a good exercise for people of all ages as not only it will build muscle, which will make you feel stronger but also will prevent osteoporosis.

Don’t smoke

Don’t smoke at all. Quite obvious this one. I know everyone know someone that lived quite old and still smoked a couple of cigarettes.  Perhaps, but that person could have lived even longer and healthier.   Some researches reveal that adult male smokers lost approximately 13.2 years of their lives and female smokers lost 14.5 years of their lives because of smoking. Plus, chronic diseases caused by smoking tended to curtail the quality of life of smokers while they were still alive.

Watch for second-hand smoke

If you don’t smoke, make sure you are not affected by second-hand smoke as it will have a huge impact on your health.  Luckily for us, more and more countries in Europe and north America banned smoking in public places such as bars and restaurants.

Reduce stress

Eliminate unnecessary stress as it may have a huge impact on your life span.

Avoid too much sun

It was proven over and over that too much ultraviolet rays , too much exposure to the sun could have a negative impact on your skin, with higher risk of skin cancer and may also increase wrinkles on your body.  If you do love sunbathing make sure you always wear some sunscreen (at least SPF 30) and perhaps limit your exposure during peak hours.

Floss regularly

Flossing should become one of those habit that you will implement as it will add a year in your life if you do it on a daily basis.  Indeed physician now understand the relation between inflammation of gum disease and heart disease.

Sleep well

Sleeping is a big part of your life and contribute to your health and longevity. Therefore you should make sure that you sleep well and sleep enough, ideally between six and nine hours per night.  There are many techniques you can use to make sure you have a perfect night sleep and feel rested and ready to attack the new day.

Stay away from unprotected sexual behaviour

This one is quite obvious.  Always make sure to protect yourself when engaging in an risky sexual liaison.

Be sexually active

Being sexually active with not only be beneficial in your relationships but it has also proven to have quite positive effects on your heart.  Not to mention the psychological benefits of well being and removing pain and stress.

Breath well

Breathing is such an essential part of our life, but so many of us seem to forget this.  The more conscious you can be about breathing, the better it will be for your body.  Make sure to take deep breaths every once in a while.

Have a good posture

Being conscious of your posture is essential.  Always make sure you are walking and sitting straight.  Try to avoid  sitting cross-legged as it can put excessive stress on your knees, hips and low back.

Turn the volume down

Try not to overexpose your ears to high volume as it can build up to further hearing difficulties.  Always have your radio, TV and PC put to a normal volume level.

Do your warm ups and cool downs

Make sure you always do you warming up and cooling down activities regardless of the sport you practice. It will better prepare you for that activity, help you get back to your normal state and will help you avoid any injuries.

Do crunches

Crunches should be an essential part of your workout.  It will help you build strong abs, reduce your belly fat, and reduce the risk of any heart diseases. No to mention that well built abs will make you look good and healthy.

Wash your hands

Always wash your hands.  Try to use liquid soap as germs can live on bars.

Get yourself a massage

Many researches seem to indicate that regular massage is good for your muscles  but it is also the perfect way to lower your heart rate, blood pressure and anxiety levels.  It will make you feel like a new person after each session.

Train your mind

Keep your brain active all the time.  There are plenty of ways to do that.  Will that be by reading, writing, finishing a crossword puzzle, playing games such as chess and bridge (both Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are big bridge fans).  It is important to understand that exercising your brain will be very beneficial for your cognitive abilities, especially as you age.  It will lower you risk of cognitive issues such of Alzheimer’s.

Give Your Brain a Workout

The same way you workout your body with various exercises and sports, you should work out your brain as well.  Indeed latest researches proved that people who regularly train mentally have a much lower risk of any cognitive impairment.

Always keep learning

As we mentioned earlier, all activities that somehow challenge your mind are beneficial for your brain and for your longevity.  Another way to put it is to make sure you always keep learning. Will that be from home, books , film or from all the content available online. Another suggestions, is to get involved in your children learning process if you have kids.

Stay in school

Researchers found out that there is a positive correlation between the years spent in school and the number of years you will live.  Indeed the more education you have the more chances you will have to live to a 100.  If you quit school at an early age, don’t worry but make sure to go back to it or study on your own.  Knowledge is power and it is also a sign of longevity.

Play an instrument

It was proven that kids that learn to play an instrument have on average better learning capacities and tend to be more focused.  Indeed to learn and play a musical instruments can be beneficial for your brain, by improving your memory, focus and also gives you more joy in your life.  All those elements can contribute to a longer life.

Stay up to date with technology

I always remind myself how grateful I am to be living in the 21st century, will all this amazing technology.  Not only it is very pleasurable to learn about the latest gadget, but it is a perfect way to keep your neuron going.

Eat brain food

Doing different exercise to train your mind is good to keep you brain from aging but some aliments can help boost it even more.  Thos includes beans, dark skinned fruits, olive oil, soy, oatmeal and nuts,

Reduce the calories intake

As the Japanese saying goes : "Hara hachi bi"; which can be translated to stop eating once the stomach is 80 percent full.  It takes about half an hour for your stomach to tell your brain that it is full, therefore eating only to 80% make sure you will never overeat. Some practical tips include to use smaller plates or focus only on eating while eating (instead of being distracted by any other things such as TV).  Another interesting technique, it to serve yourself, put the food away, and then eat (as opposed to leaving the rest of the food on the table).

Have a Plant-based diet

As the saying goes, "an apple a day, keeps the doctors away".  No, you don’t need to become a vegetarian, but you should boost up your intake of fruits and veggies. Use beans, rice or tofu as the anchor of your meals. 

Have a Low-fat Diet

This one is quite obvious as well.  All that fast food and fuzzy drinks aren’t good for your heath.  It is ok once in a while, and that means once or twice a month, but on a daily basis you should have a low fat diet and cut those calories if you want to live to be a 100.

Eat nuts

Have a 2-ounce handful of nuts daily.  They are not only very healthy, but they are also good for the brain.  No to mention it will prevent you from digging in the chip bag.

Eat Fish

Eating fish a couple of times a week can be very beneficial for you r health.  Indeed those omega-3′s fatty acids are really good for your blood stream and will cut the risk of heart disease.

Drink green Tea

Drinking tea can be really beneficial for you health as it will reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease.  Try to reduce you coffee and soda intake and replace with green tea.

Take Vitamins

Taking vitamin on a daily basis will help you live longer as it will make sure you have all the elements your body require such as minerals, amino acids, herbal extracts, and other specialty nutrients.

Drink red wine

It is know that in the Mediterranean countries, such as Italy, they serve wine at the table to teens.  It not only make the meal more savoury but it is also recommend for better digestion and better blood flow.  Therefore we recommend to keep a bottle of red wine near your dinner table, keeping the daily intake to two servings or less.

Cut on the coffee

As we mentioned earlier drinking green tea have a positive impact on your health, however with coffee it might be the other way away and reduce your chance to live a 100.  Try to replace it with tea or just water, and if you are a big coffee lover try to limit your use and avoid drinking it on an empty stomach (ideally after lunch).