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The Best Movies For Guys

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Updated March 1, 2021 172.8k votes 8.5k voters 300.6k views450 items

List RulesVote up your favorite movies that are great "guy" movies.

These are the best guy movies of all time, ranked by fans and critics. This list includes some of the greatest cool guy movies ever to hit the big screen - those whose quotable lines all guys seem to know, manly characters, masculine themes that guys love. They aren't just action movies either - the best manly movies are as diverse as the men who love them. Comedies old and new - from Animal House to The Hangover - fall into the category of movies dudes love, as do bromance movies like Superbad and I Love You Man. This list includes war movies like Saving Private Ryan and cult favorite guy films like A Clockwork Orange and Trainspotting, which are just as popular as good male sports films like Major League, The Natural, and The Blind Side.

Vote on the movies for guys you love most to move them up the list, or hit "rerank" to personalize your own list of guy flicks to watch.

Check out more lists like a list of movies with tough guys without superpowers, movies where the villain wins, and the films most likely to make men cry.

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Tom Hanks, Sally Field
Released: 1994
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
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Saving Private Ryan
Tom Hanks, Matt Damon
Released: 1998
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
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Apollo 13
Tom Hanks, Bryce Dallas Howard
Released: 1995
Directed by: Ron Howard
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach
Released: 1966
Directed by: Sergio Leone
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For a Few Dollars More
Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef
Released: 1965
Directed by: Sergio Leone
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Full Metal Jacket
Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey
Released: 1987
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
Alec Guinness, William Holden
Released: 1957
Directed by: David Lean
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The Great Escape
Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough
Released: 1963
Directed by: John Sturges
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The Outlaw Josey Wales
Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke
Released: 1976
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Blazing Saddles
Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder
Released: 1974
Directed by: Mel Brooks
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The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Elijah Wood, Ian McKellan
Released: 2001 - 2003
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Tombstone
Val Kilmer, Kurt Russell
Released: 1993
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Braveheart
Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau
Released: 1995
Directed by: Mel Gibson
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Ben-Hur
Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins
Released: 1959
Directed by: William Wyler
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Blade Runner
Harrison Ford, Daryl Hannah
Released: 1982
Directed by: Ridley Scott
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Pale Rider
Clint Eastwood, Chris Penn
Released: 1985
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
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Apocalypse Now
Marlon Brando, Harrison Ford
Released: 1979
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
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Predator
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jesse Ventura
Released: 1987
Directed by: John McTiernan
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High Plains Drifter
Clint Eastwood, Geoffrey Lewis
Released: 1973
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Dirty Harry
Clint Eastwood, Don Siegel
Released: 1971
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Heartbreak Ridge
Clint Eastwood, Mario Van Peebles
Released: 1986
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