| Rank | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Godfather, The (1972) 9.0/10 (87416 votes) |
| 2 | Shawshank Redemption, The (1994) 8.9/10 (109121 votes) |
| 3 | Godfather: Part II, The (1974) 8.8/10 (51137 votes) |
| 4 | Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) 8.8/10 (46722 votes) |
| 5 | Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002) 8.8/10 (73139 votes) |
| 6 | Casablanca (1942) 8.7/10 (50694 votes) |
| 7 | Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) 8.7/10 (117062 votes) |
| 8 | Schindler's List (1993) 8.7/10 (74486 votes) |
| 9 | Shichinin no samurai (1954) 8.7/10 (21386 votes) |
| 10 | Star Wars (1977) 8.7/10 (106439 votes) |
| 11 | Citizen Kane (1941) 8.7/10 (47252 votes) |
| 12 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 8.6/10 (53018 votes) |
| 13 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 8.6/10 (47965 votes) |
| 14 | Rear Window (1954) 8.6/10 (30890 votes) |
| 15 | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 8.6/10 (81945 votes) |
| 16 | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 8.6/10 (72873 votes) |
| 17 | Memento (2000) 8.6/10 (64800 votes) |
| 18 | Usual Suspects, The (1995) 8.6/10 (80073 votes) |
| 19 | Pulp Fiction (1994) 8.6/10 (96743 votes) |
| 20 | North by Northwest (1959) 8.5/10 (27535 votes) |
| 21 | 12 Angry Men (1957) 8.5/10 (21099 votes) |
| 22 | Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 8.5/10 (40637 votes) |
| 23 | Psycho (1960) 8.5/10 (41959 votes) |
| 24 | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 8.5/10 (23764 votes) |
| 25 | Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) 8.5/10 (18926 votes) |
| 26 | Silence of the Lambs, The (1991) 8.5/10 (71690 votes) |
| 27 | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 8.5/10 (32330 votes) |
| 28 | Goodfellas (1990) 8.5/10 (50178 votes) |
| 29 | American Beauty (1999) 8.4/10 (84820 votes) |
| 30 | Sunset Blvd. (1950) 8.4/10 (11607 votes) |
| 31 | Vertigo (1958) 8.4/10 (26107 votes) |
| 32 | Matrix, The (1999) 8.4/10 (110372 votes) |
| 33 | Apocalypse Now (1979) 8.4/10 (48559 votes) |
| 34 | Pianist, The (2002) 8.4/10 (16726 votes) |
| 35 | To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 8.4/10 (22727 votes) |
| 36 | C'era una volta il West (1968) 8.3/10 (10102 votes) |
| 37 | Some Like It Hot (1959) 8.3/10 (18945 votes) |
| 38 | Third Man, The (1949) 8.3/10 (13942 votes) |
| 39 | Taxi Driver (1976) 8.3/10 (35083 votes) |
| 40 | Paths of Glory (1957) 8.3/10 (10446 votes) |
| 41 | Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) 8.3/10 (12895 votes) |
| 42 | Fight Club (1999) 8.3/10 (79447 votes) |
| 43 | Boot, Das (1981) 8.3/10 (21933 votes) |
| 44 | Double Indemnity (1944) 8.3/10 (8761 votes) |
| 45 | L.A. Confidential (1997) 8.3/10 (55080 votes) |
| 46 | Chinatown (1974) 8.3/10 (19226 votes) |
| 47 | Singin' in the Rain (1952) 8.3/10 (15562 votes) |
| 48 | Maltese Falcon, The (1941) 8.3/10 (15247 votes) |
| 49 | M (1931) 8.3/10 (8706 votes) |
| 50 | Requiem for a Dream (2000) 8.3/10 (30777 votes) |
| 51 | Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957) 8.3/10 (17227 votes) |
| 52 | All About Eve (1950) 8.3/10 (9951 votes) |
| 53 | Se7en (1995) 8.3/10 (65296 votes) |
| 54 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 8.3/10 (45822 votes) |
| 55 | Cidade de Deus (2002) 8.3/10 (8319 votes) |
| 56 | Saving Private Ryan (1998) 8.2/10 (77608 votes) |
| 57 | Raging Bull (1980) 8.2/10 (19384 votes) |
| 58 | Rashômon (1950) 8.2/10 (8053 votes) |
| 59 | Wizard of Oz, The (1939) 8.2/10 (29690 votes) |
| 60 | Sting, The (1973) 8.2/10 (18155 votes) |
| 61 | Alien (1979) 8.2/10 (47916 votes) |
| 62 | American History X (1998) 8.2/10 (41695 votes) |
| 63 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 8.2/10 (8796 votes) |
| 64 | Léon (1994) 8.2/10 (36963 votes) |
| 65 | Vita è bella, La (1997) 8.2/10 (29296 votes) |
| 66 | Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) 8.2/10 (9969 votes) |
| 67 | Touch of Evil (1958) 8.2/10 (9022 votes) |
| 68 | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 8.2/10 (51423 votes) |
| 69 | Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948) 8.2/10 (7817 votes) |
| 70 | Great Escape, The (1963) 8.2/10 (14680 votes) |
| 71 | Clockwork Orange, A (1971) 8.2/10 (49252 votes) |
| 72 | Reservoir Dogs (1992) 8.2/10 (49509 votes) |
| 73 | Wo hu cang long (2000) 8.2/10 (41151 votes) |
| 74 | Amadeus (1984) 8.2/10 (28589 votes) |
| 75 | Modern Times (1936) 8.2/10 (7330 votes) |
| 76 | Ran (1985) 8.2/10 (8553 votes) |
| 77 | On the Waterfront (1954) 8.2/10 (9120 votes) |
| 78 | Annie Hall (1977) 8.2/10 (15906 votes) |
| 79 | Jaws (1975) 8.2/10 (35896 votes) |
| 80 | Braveheart (1995) 8.1/10 (71340 votes) |
| 81 | High Noon (1952) 8.1/10 (9211 votes) |
| 82 | Apartment, The (1960) 8.1/10 (8241 votes) |
| 83 | Fargo (1996) 8.1/10 (51446 votes) |
| 84 | Aliens (1986) 8.1/10 (49847 votes) |
| 85 | Sixth Sense, The (1999) 8.1/10 (74088 votes) |
| 86 | Shining, The (1980) 8.1/10 (37298 votes) |
| 87 | Strangers on a Train (1951) 8.1/10 (7672 votes) |
| 88 | Blade Runner (1982) 8.1/10 (59935 votes) |
| 89 | Metropolis (1927) 8.1/10 (8632 votes) |
| 90 | Duck Soup (1933) 8.1/10 (7462 votes) |
| 91 | Finding Nemo (2003) 8.1/10 (20534 votes) |
| 92 | Donnie Darko (2001) 8.1/10 (25898 votes) |
| 93 | General, The (1927) 8.1/10 (4960 votes) |
| 94 | City Lights (1931) 8.1/10 (5598 votes) |
| 95 | Princess Bride, The (1987) 8.1/10 (42615 votes) |
| 96 | Toy Story 2 (1999) 8.1/10 (30615 votes) |
| 97 | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) 8.1/10 (25810 votes) |
| 98 | Great Dictator, The (1940) 8.1/10 (7152 votes) |
| 99 | Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) 8.0/10 (6601 votes) |
| 100 | Notorious (1946) 8.0/10 (7777 votes) |
| Rank | Title |
|---|---|
| 101 | Lola rennt (1998) 8.0/10 (24363 votes) |
| 102 | Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989) 8.0/10 (10470 votes) |
| 103 | Full Metal Jacket (1987) 8.0/10 (35222 votes) |
| 104 | Rebecca (1940) 8.0/10 (8421 votes) |
| 105 | Mononoke-hime (1997) 8.0/10 (13152 votes) |
| 106 | Big Sleep, The (1946) 8.0/10 (7579 votes) |
| 107 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 8.0/10 (15383 votes) |
| 108 | Graduate, The (1967) 8.0/10 (21057 votes) |
| 109 | It Happened One Night (1934) 8.0/10 (5773 votes) |
| 110 | Manhattan (1979) 8.0/10 (9482 votes) |
| 111 | Patton (1970) 8.0/10 (10698 votes) |
| 112 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 8.0/10 (59881 votes) |
| 113 | Deer Hunter, The (1978) 8.0/10 (20891 votes) |
| 114 | Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946) 8.0/10 (4565 votes) |
| 115 | Searchers, The (1956) 8.0/10 (7737 votes) |
| 116 | Yojimbo (1961) 8.0/10 (5954 votes) |
| 117 | Glory (1989) 8.0/10 (17114 votes) |
| 118 | Ladri di biciclette (1948) 8.0/10 (5311 votes) |
| 119 | Philadelphia Story, The (1940) 8.0/10 (8098 votes) |
| 120 | African Queen, The (1951) 8.0/10 (10933 votes) |
| 121 | Forrest Gump (1994) 8.0/10 (67002 votes) |
| 122 | Bringing Up Baby (1938) 8.0/10 (6919 votes) |
| 123 | Cool Hand Luke (1967) 8.0/10 (10742 votes) |
| 124 | Ben-Hur (1959) 8.0/10 (16024 votes) |
| 125 | Green Mile, The (1999) 8.0/10 (43273 votes) |
| 126 | Shrek (2001) 8.0/10 (44103 votes) |
| 127 | Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 8.0/10 (12854 votes) |
| 128 | Hable con ella (2002) 8.0/10 (7707 votes) |
| 129 | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 8.0/10 (64130 votes) |
| 130 | Unforgiven (1992) 8.0/10 (22955 votes) |
| 131 | Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 8.0/10 (8636 votes) |
| 132 | Stalag 17 (1953) 8.0/10 (5170 votes) |
| 133 | Grapes of Wrath, The (1940) 7.9/10 (5814 votes) |
| 134 | Gone with the Wind (1939) 7.9/10 (22135 votes) |
| 135 | Night of the Hunter, The (1955) 7.9/10 (5536 votes) |
| 136 | Christmas Story, A (1983) 7.9/10 (15128 votes) |
| 137 | Wild Bunch, The (1969) 7.9/10 (8140 votes) |
| 138 | Straight Story, The (1999) 7.9/10 (10651 votes) |
| 139 | Elephant Man, The (1980) 7.9/10 (11998 votes) |
| 140 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 7.9/10 (47128 votes) |
| 141 | All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 7.9/10 (4970 votes) |
| 142 | Hustler, The (1961) 7.9/10 (6136 votes) |
| 143 | Lost in Translation (2003) 7.9/10 (9935 votes) |
| 144 | Platoon (1986) 7.9/10 (25879 votes) |
| 145 | Back to the Future (1985) 7.9/10 (52352 votes) |
| 146 | Young Frankenstein (1974) 7.9/10 (16777 votes) |
| 147 | His Girl Friday (1940) 7.9/10 (4896 votes) |
| 148 | Monsters, Inc. (2001) 7.9/10 (26628 votes) |
| 149 | Die Hard (1988) 7.9/10 (45419 votes) |
| 150 | Amores perros (2000) 7.9/10 (9148 votes) |
| 151 | Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938) 7.9/10 (5216 votes) |
| 152 | Grande illusion, La (1937) 7.9/10 (3742 votes) |
| 153 | Gold Rush, The (1925) 7.9/10 (4623 votes) |
| 154 | Dogville (2003) 7.9/10 (3716 votes) |
| 155 | Spartacus (1960) 7.9/10 (12549 votes) |
| 156 | Almost Famous (2000) 7.9/10 (28387 votes) |
| 157 | Charade (1963) 7.9/10 (6488 votes) |
| 158 | Life of Brian (1979) 7.9/10 (24775 votes) |
| 159 | Conversation, The (1974) 7.9/10 (7421 votes) |
| 160 | Gladiator (2000) 7.9/10 (69783 votes) |
| 161 | Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962) 7.9/10 (5293 votes) |
| 162 | Mystic River (2003) 7.9/10 (7931 votes) |
| 163 | Smultronstället (1957) 7.9/10 (3416 votes) |
| 164 | Festen (1998) 7.9/10 (9012 votes) |
| 165 | Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 7.9/10 (3735 votes) |
| 166 | Magnolia (1999) 7.9/10 (33844 votes) |
| 167 | Roman Holiday (1953) 7.9/10 (6890 votes) |
| 168 | Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925) 7.9/10 (4136 votes) |
| 169 | Sling Blade (1996) 7.9/10 (16253 votes) |
| 170 | Toy Story (1995) 7.9/10 (35329 votes) |
| 171 | Being John Malkovich (1999) 7.9/10 (40955 votes) |
| 172 | Insider, The (1999) 7.9/10 (21641 votes) |
| 173 | Night at the Opera, A (1935) 7.9/10 (4477 votes) |
| 174 | Brazil (1985) 7.9/10 (23897 votes) |
| 175 | Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951) 7.8/10 (7715 votes) |
| 176 | Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951) 7.8/10 (7057 votes) |
| 177 | All the President's Men (1976) 7.8/10 (9655 votes) |
| 178 | Mulholland Dr. (2001) 7.8/10 (23854 votes) |
| 179 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) 7.8/10 (5348 votes) |
| 180 | Killing, The (1956) 7.8/10 (4820 votes) |
| 181 | Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 7.8/10 (3914 votes) |
| 182 | Quatre cents coups, Les (1959) 7.8/10 (4422 votes) |
| 183 | Exorcist, The (1973) 7.8/10 (24724 votes) |
| 184 | To Be or Not to Be (1942) 7.8/10 (2569 votes) |
| 185 | Ed Wood (1994) 7.8/10 (15605 votes) |
| 186 | Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994) 7.8/10 (7912 votes) |
| 187 | Terminator, The (1984) 7.8/10 (45690 votes) |
| 188 | Stand by Me (1986) 7.8/10 (23316 votes) |
| 189 | Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) 7.8/10 (5825 votes) |
| 190 | Twelve Monkeys (1995) 7.8/10 (48286 votes) |
| 191 | Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 7.8/10 (10540 votes) |
| 192 | Ying xiong (2002) 7.8/10 (5477 votes) |
| 193 | Adaptation. (2002) 7.8/10 (14552 votes) |
| 194 | This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 7.8/10 (14724 votes) |
| 195 | Harvey (1950) 7.8/10 (5840 votes) |
| 196 | Gandhi (1982) 7.8/10 (11943 votes) |
| 197 | Trainspotting (1996) 7.8/10 (39394 votes) |
| 198 | Miller's Crossing (1990) 7.8/10 (10275 votes) |
| 199 | Network (1976) 7.8/10 (6948 votes) |
| 200 | Right Stuff, The (1983) 7.8/10 (10279 votes) |
| 201 | Lion in Winter, The (1968) 7.8/10 (4362 votes) |
| 202 | Midnight Cowboy (1969) 7.8/10 (9734 votes) |
| 203 | Groundhog Day (1993) 7.8/10 (32652 votes) |
| 204 | Rain Man (1988) 7.8/10 (32565 votes) |
| 205 | Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 7.8/10 (9380 votes) |
| 206 | Others, The (2001) 7.8/10 (25971 votes) |
| 207 | 8½ (1963) 7.8/10 (5671 votes) |
| 208 | Laura (1944) 7.8/10 (3453 votes) |
| 209 | King Kong (1933) 7.8/10 (7465 votes) |
| 210 | Whale Rider (2002) 7.8/10 (4513 votes) |
| 211 | Snatch. (2000) 7.8/10 (30248 votes) |
| 212 | Minority Report (2002) 7.8/10 (35823 votes) |
| 213 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) 7.8/10 (24205 votes) |
| 214 | Stagecoach (1939) 7.8/10 (4136 votes) |
| 215 | Hotaru no haka (1988) 7.8/10 (4025 votes) |
| 216 | 39 Steps, The (1935) 7.8/10 (5661 votes) |
| 217 | Traffic (2000) 7.8/10 (32352 votes) |
| 218 | Strada, La (1954) 7.7/10 (3495 votes) |
| 219 | Untouchables, The (1987) 7.7/10 (23182 votes) |
| 220 | Big Lebowski, The (1998) 7.7/10 (34953 votes) |
| 221 | Beauty and the Beast (1991) 7.7/10 (19056 votes) |
| 222 | Thin Man, The (1934) 7.7/10 (3478 votes) |
| 223 | Rio Bravo (1959) 7.7/10 (5281 votes) |
| 224 | Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, La (1928) 7.7/10 (2208 votes) |
| 225 | Henry V (1989) 7.7/10 (6839 votes) |
| 226 | Todo sobre mi madre (1999) 7.7/10 (9853 votes) |
| 227 | In the Heat of the Night (1967) 7.7/10 (4777 votes) |
| 228 | Planet of the Apes (1968) 7.7/10 (15283 votes) |
| 229 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 7.7/10 (33262 votes) |
| 230 | Fantasia (1940) 7.7/10 (11856 votes) |
| 231 | Being There (1979) 7.7/10 (7968 votes) |
| 232 | Die xue shuang xiong (1989) 7.7/10 (6765 votes) |
| 233 | Good Will Hunting (1997) 7.7/10 (48234 votes) |
| 234 | Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 7.7/10 (3076 votes) |
| 235 | X2 (2003) 7.7/10 (23833 votes) |
| 236 | Beautiful Mind, A (2001) 7.7/10 (30904 votes) |
| 237 | Red River (1948) 7.7/10 (2719 votes) |
| 238 | Clerks. (1994) 7.7/10 (31176 votes) |
| 239 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) 7.7/10 (34588 votes) |
| 240 | Big Fish (2003) 7.7/10 (6136 votes) |
| 241 | Ikiru (1952) 7.7/10 (2386 votes) |
| 242 | MASH (1970) 7.7/10 (12046 votes) |
| 243 | Man Who Would Be King, The (1975) 7.7/10 (6434 votes) |
| 244 | Sleuth (1972) 7.7/10 (3563 votes) |
| 245 | Heat (1995) 7.7/10 (32290 votes) |
| 246 | Quiet Man, The (1952) 7.7/10 (5530 votes) |
| 247 | Road to Perdition (2002) 7.7/10 (21528 votes) |
| 248 | JFK (1991) 7.7/10 (20716 votes) |
| 249 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 7.7/10 (10979 votes) |
| 250 | Birds, The (1963) 7.7/10 (15541 votes) |
To take part in our poll see the options at the bottom of each title page or see the weekly ballot.
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 1250) C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 6.9) note: for this top 250, only votes from regular voters are considered.