Top 250 movies as voted by our users (IMDB.com)
note: for this top 250, only votes from regular
voters are considered.
Rank Title
1 Godfather, The (1972) 8.9/10 (27534
votes)
2 Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)
8.8/10 (39758 votes)
3 American Beauty (1999) 8.7/10 (25921
votes)
4 Schindler's List (1993) 8.7/10 (30860
votes)
5 Casablanca (1942) 8.7/10 (20883
votes)
6 Citizen Kane (1941) 8.7/10 (18007
votes)
7 Star Wars (1977) 8.7/10 (48966 votes)
8 Godfather: Part II, The (1974) 8.6/10
(13452 votes)
9
Shichinin no samurai (1954) 8.6/10 (5288 votes)
10 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
8.6/10 (20385 votes)
11 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the
Bomb (1964) 8.6/10 (17660 votes)
12 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 8.5/10
(28324 votes)
13 Rear Window (1954) 8.5/10 (10817 votes)
14 Usual Suspects, The (1995) 8.5/10
(31192 votes)
15 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire
Strikes Back (1980) 8.5/10 (35908 vote)
16 Psycho (1960) 8.5/10 (15508 votes)
17 Saving Private Ryan (1998) 8.4/10
(30164 votes)
18
Pulp Fiction (1994) 8.4/10 (39389 votes)
19 Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
8.4/10 (26405 votes)
20 North by Northwest (1959) 8.4/10
(9998 votes)
21 It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 8.4/10
(12187 votes)
22 Vita è bella, La
(1997) 8.4/10 (11695 votes)
23 Lawrence of
Arabia (1962) 8.4/10 (8381 votes)
24 Sixth Sense, The (1999) 8.4/10 (22671
votes)
25 12 Angry Men (1957) 8.4/10 (7154
votes)
26 Goodfellas (1990) 8.3/10 (17088
votes)
27 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 8.3/10
(8775 votes)
28 Vertigo (1958)
8.3/10 (9850 votes)
29 Toy Story 2 (1999) 8.3/10 (7459
votes)
30 Paths of Glory (1957) 8.3/10 (3013
votes)
31 Matrix, The (1999) 8.3/10 (34148
votes)
32 Fight Club (1999) 8.3/10 (16238
votes)
33 L.A. Confidential (1997) 8.3/10 (21515 votes)
34 Taxi Driver (1976) 8.3/10 (12412
votes)
35 Being John Malkovich (1999) 8.3/10 (10523
votes)
36 Maltese Falcon, The (1941) 8.3/10
(6103 votes)
37 Third Man, The (1949) 8.2/10 (4812
votes)
38 M (1931) 8.2/10 (2711 votes)
39 Wizard of Oz, The (1939) 8.2/10
(11913 votes)
40 Wrong Trousers, The (1993) 8.2/10
(7161 votes)
41 Singin' in the Rain (1952) 8.2/10
(5891 votes)
42 Raging Bull (1980) 8.2/10 (6959
votes)
43 Boot, Das (1981) 8.2/10 (7233 votes)
44 Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il
(1966) 8.2/10 (5389 votes)
45 Apocalypse Now
(1979) 8.2/10 (17189 votes)
46 Chinatown (1974) 8.2/10 (7281 votes)
47 Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)
8.2/10 (6388 votes)
48 All About Eve (1950) 8.2/10 (3232 votes)
49 Sunset Blvd. (1950) 8.2/10 (3425
votes)
50 Green Mile, The (1999) 8.2/10 (10066
votes)
51 Some Like It Hot
(1959) 8.1/10 (5593 votes)
52 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
8.1/10 (16475 votes)
53 Double Indemnity (1944) 8.1/10 (2856 votes)
54 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 8.1/10
(22099 votes)
55 How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966) (TV) 8.1/10 (3822 votes)
56 Magnolia (1999) 8.1/10 (7171 votes)
57 Lola rennt (1998) 8.1/10 (6757 votes)
58 American History X (1998) 8.1/10 (10594
votes)
59 Rashomon (1950) 8.1/10 (2576 votes)
60 Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)
8.1/10 (3934 votes)
61 Reservoir Dogs (1992) 8.1/10 (18102
votes)
62 Clockwork Orange, A (1971) 8.1/10
(18927 votes)
63 Gladiator (2000) 8.1/10 (14884 votes)
64 Braveheart (1995) 8.1/10 (29398
votes)
65 Alien (1979) 8.1/10 (18692 votes)
66 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
8.1/10 (3498 votes)
67 Insider, The (1999) 8.1/10 (5512
votes)
68 Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948) 8.1/10
(2996 votes)
69 Touch of Evil (1958) 8.1/10 (3089
votes)
70 Sting, The (1973) 8.1/10 (7286 votes)
71 Fargo (1996) 8.1/10 (22481 votes)
72 Blade Runner (1982) 8.1/10 (27111
votes)
73 Amadeus (1984) 8.1/10 (13073 votes)
74 Ran (1985) 8.1/10 (3217 votes)
75 Jaws (1975) 8.0/10 (13143 votes)
76
Modern Times (1936) 8.0/10 (2868 votes)
77 City Lights (1931) 8.0/10 (1993
votes)
78 Straight Story, The (1999) 8.0/10
(2587 votes)
79 General, The (1927) 8.0/10 (1583
votes)
80 On the Waterfront (1954) 8.0/10 (3319
votes)
81 Léon (1994) 8.0/10 (12426 votes)
82 Ladri di biciclette (1948) 8.0/10
(1595 votes)
83 Annie Hall
(1977) 8.0/10 (6236 votes)
84 Dogme 1 - Festen
(1998) 8.0/10 (3000 votes)
85 Aliens (1986) 8.0/10 (21509 votes)
86 Duck Soup (1933) 8.0/10 (3064 votes)
87 Iron Giant, The
(1999) 8.0/10 (3130 votes)
88 C'era una volta
il West (1969) 8.0/10 (2923 votes)
89 African Queen,
The (1951) 8.0/10 (4896 votes)
90 Great Escape, The (1963) 8.0/10 (5078
votes)
91 Todo sobre mi
madre (1999) 8.0/10 (2769 votes)
92 Princess Bride,
The (1987) 8.0/10 (18912 votes)
93 Sling Blade (1996) 8.0/10 (7919
votes)
94 Yojimbo (1961)
8.0/10 (1597 votes)
95 Glory (1989) 8.0/10 (7225 votes)
96 Se7en (1995)
7.9/10 (22095 votes)
97 Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) 7.9/10
(2275 votes)
98 Strangers on a Train (1951) 7.9/10
(2486 votes)
99 Graduate, The (1967) 7.9/10 (8448 votes)
100 Mononoke Hime (1997) 7.9/10 (1969
votes)
101 Deer Hunter, The (1978) 7.9/10 (7308
votes)
102 High Noon (1952) 7.9/10 (3363
votes)
103 Philadelphia Story, The (1940)
7.9/10 (3463 votes)
104
Full
Metal Jacket (1987) 7.9/10 (12181 votes)
105 Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
7.9/10 (1763 votes)
106 Shining, The (1980) 7.9/10 (12853
votes)
107 Great Dictator, The (1940) 7.9/10
(2501 votes)
108 Rebecca (1940) 7.9/10 (3013 votes)
109 Bringing Up
Baby (1938) 7.9/10 (2592 votes)
110 Ben-Hur (1959)
7.9/10 (6151 votes)
111 Notorious
(1946) 7.9/10 (2632 votes)
112 It Happened One Night (1934) 7.9/10
(2021 votes)
113 Gone with the Wind (1939) 7.9/10
(9471 votes)
114 Searchers, The
(1956) 7.9/10 (2559 votes)
115 Close Shave, A (1995) 7.9/10 (4014
votes)
116 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
7.9/10 (27565 votes)
117 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(1969) 7.9/10 (5848 votes)
118 Grapes of Wrath, The (1940) 7.9/10 (2198 votes)
119 Big Sleep, The (1946) 7.9/10 (2896
votes)
120 Manhattan (1979) 7.9/10 (3643
votes)
121 Apartment, The (1960) 7.9/10 (2389
votes)
122 Gold Rush, The (1925) 7.8/10 (1868
votes)
123 Christmas Story, A (1983) 7.8/10 (5843
votes)
124 Night of the Hunter, The (1955)
7.8/10 (1731 votes)
125 Quatre cents
coups, Les (1959) 7.8/10 (1354 votes)
126 Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994) 7.8/10
(3721 votes)
127 All Quiet on
the Western Front (1930) 7.8/10 (1719 votes)
128 Nuovo cinema
Paradiso (1988) 7.8/10 (4735 votes)
129 Grande
illusion, La (1937) 7.8/10 (1147 votes)
130 Metropolis (1927) 7.8/10 (2931
votes)
131 Patton (1970)
7.8/10 (4131 votes)
132 Boys Don't Cry (1999) 7.8/10 (3458
votes)
133 Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
7.8/10 (2454 votes)
134 Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 7.8/10
(3516 votes)
135 Bronenosets
Potyomkin (1925) 7.8/10 (1411 votes)
136 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
(1966) 7.8/10 (2109 votes)
137
Good Will Hunting (1997) 7.8/10
(20415 votes)
138 His Girl Friday (1940) 7.8/10 (1747
votes)
139 Shakespeare in Love (1998) 7.8/10
(15939 votes)
140 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
(1998) 7.8/10 (5990 votes)
141 Die Hard (1988) 7.8/10 (17700 votes)
142 Cool Hand Luke (1967) 7.8/10 (4086
votes)
143 Toy Story (1995) 7.8/10 (15205
votes)
144 Wild Bunch, The (1969) 7.8/10 (3365 votes)
145 Young Frankenstein (1974) 7.8/10
(6313 votes)
146
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 7.8/10 (22931 votes)
147 Unforgiven (1992) 7.8/10 (8682
votes)
148 Hustler, The (1961) 7.8/10 (2192
votes)
149 X-Men (2000) 7.8/10 (7193 votes)
150 Smultronstället (1957) 7.8/10 (1106
votes)
151 Night at the Opera, A (1935) 7.7/10
(1722 votes)
152 Platoon (1986) 7.7/10 (8898 votes)
153 Conversation, The (1974) 7.7/10
(2464 votes)
154
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 7.7/10 (18743 votes)
155 Brazil (1985) 7.7/10 (11239 votes)
156 Elephant Man, The (1980) 7.7/10 (4172 votes)
157 Sweet Hereafter, The (1997) 7.7/10
(3579 votes)
158 Fantasia
(1940) 7.7/10 (4883 votes)
159 Stalag 17
(1953) 7.7/10 (1629 votes)
160 Spartacus (1960) 7.7/10 (4310
votes)
161 Truman Show, The (1998) 7.7/10 (21233
votes)
162 Chicken Run (2000) 7.7/10 (3208
votes)
163 October Sky (1999) 7.7/10 (3948
votes)
164 Terminator,
The (1984) 7.7/10 (16864 votes)
165 Killing, The (1956) 7.7/10 (1540
votes)
166 Right Stuff, The (1983) 7.7/10 (4486 votes)
167 Forrest Gump (1994) 7.7/10 (26466
votes)
168 Central do Brasil (1998) 7.7/10
(5141 votes)
169 Rain Man (1988) 7.7/10 (14378
votes)
170 Die xue shuang xiong (1989) 7.7/10
(2566 votes)
171 Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 7.7/10
(4431 votes)
172 Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des
Grauens (1922) 7.7/10 (1601 votes)
173 Henry V (1989) 7.7/10 (3593 votes)
174 Back to the Future (1985) 7.7/10
(21001 votes)
175 Fugitive, The (1993) 7.7/10 (18855
votes)
176 Stand by Me (1986) 7.7/10 (9407
votes)
177 Untouchables,
The (1987) 7.7/10 (8394 votes)
178 Strada, La (1954) 7.7/10 (1291 votes)
179 Trainspotting
(1996) 7.7/10 (16707 votes)
180 Three Kings (1999) 7.7/10 (8036
votes)
181 Exorcist, The (1973) 7.7/10 (7053
votes)
182 As Good As It Gets (1997) 7.7/10
(16762 votes)
183 Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938) 7.7/10
(1848 votes)
184 Enfants du
paradis, Les (1945) 7.7/10 (966 votes)
185 Witness for
the Prosecution (1957) 7.7/10 (1160 votes)
186 Scrooge (1951) 7.7/10 (1366 votes)
187 High Fidelity (2000) 7.6/10 (3555
votes)
188 Da hong deng
long gao gao gua (1991) 7.6/10 (1201 votes)
189 Midnight Cowboy (1969) 7.6/10 (3684
votes)
190 Life of Brian (1979) 7.6/10 (9975 votes)
191 Simple Plan, A (1998) 7.6/10 (5884
votes)
192 Gandhi (1982) 7.6/10 (5070 votes)
193 Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The
(1962) 7.6/10 (1823 votes)
194 Beauty and the Beast (1991) 7.6/10
(7462 votes)
195 E.T. the
Extra-Terrestrial (1982) 7.6/10 (12436 votes)
196 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
(1977) 7.6/10 (8085 votes)
197 Quiet Man, The (1952) 7.6/10 (2442
votes)
198 Clerks (1994) 7.6/10 (12392 votes)
199 Fucking Åmål (1998) 7.6/10 (2411
votes)
200 Twelve Monkeys (1995) 7.6/10 (20038
votes)
201 Go (1999) 7.6/10 (6713 votes)
202 Killing Fields, The (1984) 7.6/10 (3101 votes)
203 All the President's Men (1976)
7.6/10 (3854 votes)
204 Player, The (1992) 7.6/10 (5670
votes)
205 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
(1937) 7.6/10 (3406 votes)
206 Stagecoach (1939) 7.6/10 (1435
votes)
207 Bonnie and
Clyde (1967) 7.6/10 (2983 votes)
208 Birds, The (1963) 7.6/10 (5026
votes)
209 Rio Bravo (1959) 7.6/10 (1819 votes)
210 Roman Holiday
(1953) 7.6/10 (2611 votes)
211 Laura (1944) 7.6/10 (1239 votes)
212
Being There (1979) 7.6/10 (3463 votes)
213 Fanny och Alexander (1982) 7.6/10
(1281 votes)
214 Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 7.6/10
(3275 votes)
215 Harvey (1950) 7.6/10 (2170 votes)
216 MASH (1970) 7.6/10 (5089 votes)
217 Gods and Monsters (1998) 7.6/10
(3728 votes)
218 South Park: Bigger, Longer and
Uncut (1999) 7.6/10 (8700 votes)
219 39 Steps, The (1935) 7.6/10 (1899 votes)
220 This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 7.6/10
(4898 votes)
221 Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 7.6/10
(1118 votes)
222 Cider House Rules, The (1999)
7.6/10 (4034 votes)
223 Fish Called Wanda, A (1988) 7.6/10
(9900 votes)
224
Jean de Florette (1986) 7.6/10 (1897 votes)
225 Violon rouge, Le (1998) 7.6/10
(2116 votes)
226 Day the Earth
Stood Still, The (1951) 7.6/10 (3292 votes)
227 Deliverance (1972) 7.6/10 (3794
votes)
228 Charade (1963) 7.6/10 (2012 votes)
229 Amarcord
(1974) 7.6/10 (1431 votes)
230 Man Who Would Be King, The (1975)
7.6/10 (2488 votes)
231 Ed Wood (1994) 7.6/10 (5734 votes)
232 8 1/2 (1963) 7.6/10 (2166 votes)
233 King Kong (1933) 7.6/10 (2649
votes)
234 Miller's
Crossing (1990) 7.6/10 (3915 votes)
235 Lion in Winter, The (1968) 7.6/10
(1695 votes)
236 Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) 7.6/10 (2464 votes)
237 Rebel Without a Cause (1955) 7.6/10
(3766 votes)
238 Network (1976) 7.6/10 (2580 votes)
239 My Fair Lady (1964) 7.6/10 (4396
votes)
240 Dead Man Walking (1995) 7.6/10
(6920 votes)
241 Erin Brockovich
(2000) 7.6/10 (4234 votes)
242
Secrets & Lies (1996) 7.6/10 (3548 votes)
243 Au revoir les enfants (1987) 7.6/10
(1315 votes)
244 Remains of the
Day, The (1993) 7.6/10 (4053 votes)
245 Groundhog Day (1993) 7.5/10 (11306
votes)
246 Bug's Life, A
(1998) 7.5/10 (7423 votes)
247 Happiness (1998) 7.5/10 (3430
votes)
248 From Here to Eternity (1953) 7.5/10
(1475 votes)
249 Goldfinger
(1964) 7.5/10 (6329 votes)
250 Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993) 7.5/10
(3418 votes)
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The formula for calculating the top 250
films gives a true Bayesian estimate:
weighted rank (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m
÷ (v+m)) × C
where:
R = average for the movie (mean) =
(Rating)
v = number of votes for the movie =
(votes)
m = minimum votes required to be listed
in the top 250 (currently 750)
C = the mean vote across the whole
report (currently 6.9)
note: for this top 250, only votes from
regular voters are considered.
