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Best Movies of the 1900s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
179 films from the 1900s are in our catalog; the 100 best are ranked below. Top of the list is A Trip to the Moon ('1902), at 8.1 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 6.4.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Trip to the Moon '1902 | Sci-Fi / Comedy | 8.1 | 100% | - | 7.9 | Georges Méliès |
| 2 | The Impossible Voyage '1904 | Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi | 7.5 | - | - | 7.3 | Georges Méliès |
| 3 | The Astronomer's Dream '1900 | Fantasy / Horror / Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 7.0 | Georges Méliès |
| 4 | The Great Train Robbery '1903 | Western / Crime / Action | 7.3 | 100% | - | 7.0 | Edwin S. Porter |
| 5 | The Diabolic Tenant '1909 | Fantasy / Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 6.8 | Georges Méliès |
| 6 | The Man with the Rubber Head '1901 | Comedy / Fantasy | 7.1 | - | - | 7.1 | Georges Méliès |
| 7 | The Kingdom of the Fairies '1903 | Fantasy | 7.3 | - | - | 7.0 | Georges Méliès |
| 8 | The One-Man Band '1900 | Comedy / Fantasy / Musical | 7.0 | - | - | 6.7 | Georges Méliès |
| 9 | The Bewitched House '1907 | Comedy / Fantasy / Animation / Horror | 7.0 | - | - | 6.6 | Segundo de Chomón |
| 10 | The Black Imp '1905 | Fantasy / Comedy | 6.9 | - | - | 6.5 | Georges Méliès |
| 11 | Fantasmagorie '1908 | Animation / Comedy | 6.9 | - | - | 6.6 | Émile Cohl |
| 12 | The Big Swallow '1901 | Comedy | 6.9 | - | - | 6.5 | James Williamson |
| 13 | Bluebeard '1901 | Drama / Horror / Fantasy | 6.9 | - | - | 6.3 | Georges Méliès |
| 14 | The Enchanted Drawing '1900 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 6.9 | - | - | 6.4 | J. Stuart Blackton |
| 15 | The Merry Frolics of Satan '1906 | Comedy / Fantasy / Horror | 6.8 | - | - | 6.5 | Georges Méliès |
| 16 | The Fat and Lean Wrestling Match '1900 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.9 | - | - | 6.6 | Georges Méliès |
| 17 | Dream of a Rarebit Fiend '1906 | Fantasy / Comedy | 6.7 | - | - | 6.3 | Edwin S. Porter |
| 18 | A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire '1906 | Documentary | 6.9 | - | - | 6.4 | Harry Miles |
| 19 | The Melomaniac '1903 | Comedy / Musical | 6.8 | - | - | 6.6 | Georges Méliès |
| 20 | A Corner in Wheat '1909 | Drama | 6.6 | - | - | 6.2 | D.W. Griffith |
| 21 | The '?' Motorist '1906 | Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Comedy | 6.6 | - | - | 6.4 | Walter R. Booth |
| 22 | The Consequences of Feminism '1906 | Comedy | 6.6 | - | - | 6.2 | Alice Guy-Blaché |
| 23 | The Living Playing Cards '1905 | Fantasy | 6.6 | - | - | 6.4 | Georges Méliès |
| 24 | The Infernal Cauldron '1903 | Fantasy / Horror | 6.6 | - | - | 6.3 | Georges Méliès |
| 25 | Rescued by Rover '1905 | Drama | 6.6 | - | - | 6.1 | Cecil M. Hepworth |
| 26 | Joan of Arc '1900 | Drama | 6.6 | - | - | 6.9 | Georges Méliès |
| 27 | An Interesting Story '1904 | Comedy | 6.8 | - | - | 6.0 | James Williamson |
| 28 | Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre '1901 | Documentary | 6.7 | - | - | 6.5 | Frederick S. Armitage |
| 29 | Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants '1902 | Fantasy | 6.6 | - | - | 6.1 | Georges Méliès |
| 30 | Going to Bed Under Difficulties '1900 | Comedy | 6.7 | - | - | 6.5 | Georges Méliès |
| 31 | Kiri-Kis '1907 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.7 | - | - | 6.8 | Segundo de Chomón |
| 32 | Princess Nicotine '1909 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.5 | - | - | 5.8 | J. Stuart Blackton |
| 33 | The Witch '1906 | Fantasy | 6.4 | - | - | 6.3 | Georges Méliès |
| 34 | The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ '1906 | Drama | 6.4 | - | - | 6.0 | Alice Guy-Blaché |
| 35 | The Little Match Seller '1902 | Drama | 6.7 | - | - | 6.3 | James Williamson |
| 36 | The Red Spectre '1907 | Fantasy / Horror | 6.5 | - | - | 6.1 | Segundo de Chomón |
| 37 | The Golden Beetle '1907 | Fantasy | 6.5 | - | - | 6.0 | Segundo de Chomón |
| 38 | Flight of the Large Blue Fly '1905 | Documentary | 6.5 | - | - | 5.7 | Lucien Georges Bull |
| 39 | Humorous Phases of Funny Faces '1906 | Comedy / Animation | 6.3 | - | - | 5.8 | J. Stuart Blackton |
| 40 | The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon '1907 | Comedy / Fantasy / Romance | 6.4 | - | - | 6.1 | Georges Méliès |
| 41 | The Electric Hotel '1908 | Fantasy / Animation | 6.6 | - | - | 6.2 | Segundo de Chomón |
| 42 | Tunneling the English Channel '1907 | - | 6.5 | - | - | 6.5 | Georges Méliès |
| 43 | Life of an American Fireman '1903 | Action | 6.4 | - | - | 6.0 | Edwin S. Porter |
| 44 | That Fatal Sneeze '1907 | Comedy / Sci-Fi | 6.5 | - | - | 5.7 | Lewin Fitzhamon |
| 45 | The Country Doctor '1909 | Drama | 6.4 | - | - | 6.1 | D.W. Griffith |
| 46 | The Haunted Hotel '1907 | Comedy / Animation / Horror | 6.5 | - | - | 5.7 | J. Stuart Blackton |
| 47 | Mary Jane's Mishap '1903 | Comedy | 6.5 | - | - | 5.7 | George Albert Smith |
| 48 | The Hilarious Posters '1906 | Fantasy / Comedy | 6.2 | - | - | 6.1 | Georges Méliès |
| 49 | A Sticky Woman '1906 | Comedy | 6.0 | - | - | 5.6 | Alice Guy-Blaché |
| 50 | The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ '1903 | Drama | 6.5 | - | - | 6.6 | Ferdinand Zecca |
| 51 | The Dancing Pig '1907 | Comedy | 6.3 | - | - | 6.1 | Millard Mercury |
| 52 | A Trip to Jupiter '1909 | Fantasy / Sci-Fi | 6.4 | - | - | 6.3 | Segundo de Chomón |
| 53 | The Thieving Hand '1908 | Comedy | 6.6 | - | - | 6.5 | - |
| 54 | Whimsical Illusions '1909 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.3 | - | - | 6.3 | Georges Méliès |
| 55 | The Prince of Magicians '1901 | Fantasy / Comedy | 6.5 | - | - | 6.4 | Georges Méliès |
| 56 | The Terrible Turkish Executioner '1903 | Comedy | 6.6 | - | - | 6.2 | Georges Méliès |
| 57 | Those Awful Hats '1909 | Comedy | 6.2 | - | - | 6.1 | D.W. Griffith |
| 58 | The Monster '1903 | Fantasy / Horror | 6.3 | - | - | 6.1 | Georges Méliès |
| 59 | The Story of the Kelly Gang '1906 | Crime / Drama / Action | 6.0 | 80% | - | 5.2 | Charles Tait |
| 60 | The Night Before Christmas '1905 | Fantasy | 6.2 | - | - | 6.1 | Edwin S. Porter |
| 61 | Explosion of a Motor Car '1900 | Comedy | 6.3 | - | - | 6.1 | Cecil M. Hepworth |
| 62 | The Mermaid '1904 | Fantasy | 6.2 | - | - | 5.8 | Georges Méliès |
| 63 | The Untamable Whiskers '1904 | Fantasy / Comedy | 6.2 | - | - | 6.0 | Georges Méliès |
| 64 | The Policemen's Little Run '1907 | Crime / Comedy | 6.2 | - | - | 6.0 | Ferdinand Zecca |
| 65 | Alice in Wonderland '1903 | Fantasy | 6.2 | - | - | 6.0 | Cecil M. Hepworth |
| 66 | An Extraordinary Dislocation '1901 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.5 | - | - | 6.1 | Georges Méliès |
| 67 | The Hairdresser '1905 | Documentary | 6.1 | - | - | 6.0 | - |
| 68 | The Glue '1907 | Comedy | 6.2 | - | - | 5.8 | Louis Feuillade |
| 69 | The Airship Destroyer '1909 | Drama / War / Sci-Fi / Action | 6.1 | - | - | 5.8 | Walter R. Booth |
| 70 | The Spider and the Butterfly '1909 | Horror / Fantasy | 6.1 | - | - | 5.7 | Georges Méliès |
| 71 | The Palace of the Arabian Nights '1905 | Fantasy | 6.1 | - | - | 5.7 | Georges Méliès |
| 72 | Madame's Cravings '1906 | Comedy | 5.7 | - | - | 5.8 | Alice Guy-Blaché |
| 73 | The Lonely Villa '1909 | Thriller / Drama / Crime | 6.1 | - | - | 6.0 | D.W. Griffith |
| 74 | The Mysterious Retort '1906 | Fantasy / Horror | 5.8 | - | - | 5.7 | Georges Méliès |
| 75 | The Race for the Sausage '1907 | Comedy | 6.1 | - | - | 5.9 | Alice Guy-Blaché |
| 76 | Le village de Namo - Panorama pris d'une chaise à porteurs '1900 | Documentary | 6.3 | - | - | 6.1 | Gabriel Veyre |
| 77 | Jack and the Beanstalk '1902 | Fantasy | 6.1 | - | - | 6.0 | Edwin S. Porter |
| 78 | Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves '1902 | - | 6.1 | - | - | 6.0 | Ferdinand Zecca |
| 79 | An Impossible Balancing Feat '1902 | Comedy | 6.1 | - | - | 5.9 | Georges Méliès |
| 80 | The Scheming Gambler's Paradise '1905 | Comedy | 6.0 | - | - | 5.8 | Georges Méliès |
| 81 | The Sealed Room '1909 | Romance / Drama / Horror | 6.0 | - | - | 5.1 | D.W. Griffith |
| 82 | The 'Teddy' Bears '1907 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.0 | - | - | 5.6 | Edwin S. Porter |
| 83 | Faust in the Underworld '1903 | Fantasy | 6.2 | - | - | 5.8 | Georges Méliès |
| 84 | The Triple Conjurer and the Living Head '1900 | Comedy | 6.2 | - | - | 5.9 | Georges Méliès |
| 85 | Living Sculptures: Film Study for Screen Artist '1903 | Documentary | 6.3 | - | - | 5.8 | Oskar Messter |
| 86 | The Cook in Trouble '1904 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.0 | - | - | 5.5 | Georges Méliès |
| 87 | The Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship '1905 | Sci-Fi / Comedy / Fantasy | 5.9 | - | - | 5.8 | Georges Méliès |
| 88 | Ball Passing Through a Soap Bubble '1904 | Documentary | 5.9 | - | - | 6.1 | Lucien Georges Bull |
| 89 | Fire! '1901 | Action / Drama | 6.2 | - | - | 5.8 | James Williamson |
| 90 | The Inn Where No Man Rests '1903 | Fantasy / Comedy / Horror | 6.2 | - | - | 6.0 | Georges Méliès |
| 91 | History of a Crime '1901 | Drama / Crime | 6.2 | - | - | 5.8 | Ferdinand Zecca |
| 92 | The Human Fly '1902 | Fantasy | 6.0 | - | - | 5.9 | Georges Méliès |
| 93 | Edgar Allen Poe '1909 | Drama | 5.9 | - | - | 5.4 | D.W. Griffith |
| 94 | An Extraordinary Cab Accident '1903 | Comedy | 6.1 | - | - | 5.8 | Walter R. Booth |
| 95 | The Runaway Horse '1908 | Action / Comedy | 6.2 | - | - | 6.1 | Louis J. Gasnier |
| 96 | A Funny Shave '1905 | Comedy | 5.8 | - | - | 5.6 | - |
| 97 | The Magic Book '1900 | Fantasy | 6.1 | - | - | 6.2 | Georges Méliès |
| 98 | Cyrano de Bergerac '1900 | Comedy / Drama | 6.2 | - | - | 5.8 | Clément Maurice |
| 99 | The Infernal Cake-Walk '1903 | Fantasy / Comedy | 6.0 | - | - | 5.6 | Georges Méliès |
| 100 | The Enchanted Well '1903 | Fantasy | 6.0 | - | - | 5.5 | Georges Méliès |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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