| Rank | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Godfather (1972) 9.0/10 (111362 votes) |
| 2 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 9.0/10 (87558 votes) |
| 3 | The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 8.9/10 (135649 votes) |
| 4 | The Godfather: Part II (1974) 8.8/10 (64789 votes) |
| 5 | Shichinin no samurai (1954) 8.8/10 (28491 votes) |
| 6 | Schindler's List (1993) 8.8/10 (90059 votes) |
| 7 | Casablanca (1942) 8.7/10 (61847 votes) |
| 8 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 8.7/10 (144841 votes) |
| 9 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 8.7/10 (102599 votes) |
| 10 | Star Wars (1977) 8.7/10 (125999 votes) |
| 11 | Citizen Kane (1941) 8.7/10 (57423 votes) |
| 12 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 8.7/10 (65289 votes) |
| 13 | Pulp Fiction (1994) 8.6/10 (121046 votes) |
| 14 | Rear Window (1954) 8.6/10 (37801 votes) |
| 15 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 8.6/10 (58518 votes) |
| 16 | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 8.6/10 (97188 votes) |
| 17 | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 8.6/10 (88013 votes) |
| 18 | The Usual Suspects (1995) 8.6/10 (96879 votes) |
| 19 | Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) 8.6/10 (27001 votes) |
| 20 | Memento (2000) 8.6/10 (82225 votes) |
| 21 | 12 Angry Men (1957) 8.6/10 (27273 votes) |
| 22 | Cidade de Deus (2002) 8.5/10 (20489 votes) |
| 23 | North by Northwest (1959) 8.5/10 (33032 votes) |
| 24 | Psycho (1960) 8.5/10 (50237 votes) |
| 25 | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 8.5/10 (38564 votes) |
| 26 | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 8.5/10 (29737 votes) |
| 27 | Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 8.5/10 (53228 votes) |
| 28 | The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 8.5/10 (86267 votes) |
| 29 | Goodfellas (1990) 8.5/10 (62001 votes) |
| 30 | C'era una volta il West (1968) 8.5/10 (14853 votes) |
| 31 | Sunset Blvd. (1950) 8.5/10 (14643 votes) |
| 32 | American Beauty (1999) 8.5/10 (102515 votes) |
| 33 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 8.4/10 (31754 votes) |
| 34 | Vertigo (1958) 8.4/10 (31413 votes) |
| 35 | The Matrix (1999) 8.4/10 (132954 votes) |
| 36 | Apocalypse Now (1979) 8.4/10 (59616 votes) |
| 37 | To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 8.4/10 (27920 votes) |
| 38 | The Third Man (1949) 8.4/10 (16969 votes) |
| 39 | Paths of Glory (1957) 8.4/10 (13053 votes) |
| 40 | Fight Club (1999) 8.4/10 (101980 votes) |
| 41 | The Pianist (2002) 8.4/10 (26021 votes) |
| 42 | Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) 8.4/10 (20538 votes) |
| 43 | Taxi Driver (1976) 8.4/10 (43499 votes) |
| 44 | Singin' in the Rain (1952) 8.3/10 (18853 votes) |
| 45 | Double Indemnity (1944) 8.3/10 (10633 votes) |
| 46 | Boot, Das (1981) 8.3/10 (26716 votes) |
| 47 | Some Like It Hot (1959) 8.3/10 (23462 votes) |
| 48 | Chinatown (1974) 8.3/10 (23538 votes) |
| 49 | M (1931) 8.3/10 (10926 votes) |
| 50 | Rashômon (1950) 8.3/10 (10385 votes) |
| 51 | L.A. Confidential (1997) 8.3/10 (65063 votes) |
| 52 | All About Eve (1950) 8.3/10 (12065 votes) |
| 53 | Se7en (1995) 8.3/10 (81506 votes) |
| 54 | The Maltese Falcon (1941) 8.3/10 (18058 votes) |
| 55 | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 8.3/10 (20618 votes) |
| 56 | Requiem for a Dream (2000) 8.3/10 (42074 votes) |
| 57 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 8.3/10 (56655 votes) |
| 58 | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) 8.3/10 (55680 votes) |
| 59 | Saving Private Ryan (1998) 8.3/10 (92953 votes) |
| 60 | Raging Bull (1980) 8.3/10 (23727 votes) |
| 61 | Alien (1979) 8.3/10 (58478 votes) |
| 62 | Léon (1994) 8.3/10 (47523 votes) |
| 63 | American History X (1998) 8.3/10 (53534 votes) |
| 64 | The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 8.2/10 (12948 votes) |
| 65 | Modern Times (1936) 8.2/10 (9325 votes) |
| 66 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 8.2/10 (10659 votes) |
| 67 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 8.2/10 (9546 votes) |
| 68 | The Wizard of Oz (1939) 8.2/10 (35620 votes) |
| 69 | The Sting (1973) 8.2/10 (21876 votes) |
| 70 | On the Waterfront (1954) 8.2/10 (11599 votes) |
| 71 | Ran (1985) 8.2/10 (10763 votes) |
| 72 | A Clockwork Orange (1971) 8.2/10 (59895 votes) |
| 73 | Vita è bella, La (1997) 8.2/10 (34975 votes) |
| 74 | Touch of Evil (1958) 8.2/10 (10828 votes) |
| 75 | Reservoir Dogs (1992) 8.2/10 (62900 votes) |
| 76 | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 8.2/10 (60684 votes) |
| 77 | Amadeus (1984) 8.2/10 (34216 votes) |
| 78 | The Great Escape (1963) 8.2/10 (18309 votes) |
| 79 | The Apartment (1960) 8.2/10 (10236 votes) |
| 80 | Finding Nemo (2003) 8.2/10 (35768 votes) |
| 81 | City Lights (1931) 8.2/10 (7082 votes) |
| 82 | Metropolis (1927) 8.2/10 (10892 votes) |
| 83 | Annie Hall (1977) 8.2/10 (19600 votes) |
| 84 | Jaws (1975) 8.2/10 (43481 votes) |
| 85 | Aliens (1986) 8.2/10 (60267 votes) |
| 86 | High Noon (1952) 8.2/10 (11452 votes) |
| 87 | The Shining (1980) 8.2/10 (46325 votes) |
| 88 | Braveheart (1995) 8.2/10 (85557 votes) |
| 89 | Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) 8.2/10 (8594 votes) |
| 90 | Fargo (1996) 8.2/10 (61028 votes) |
| 91 | Strangers on a Train (1951) 8.1/10 (9613 votes) |
| 92 | Wo hu cang long (2000) 8.1/10 (48560 votes) |
| 93 | The General (1927) 8.1/10 (6072 votes) |
| 94 | Donnie Darko (2001) 8.1/10 (43231 votes) |
| 95 | Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989) 8.1/10 (12745 votes) |
| 96 | The Great Dictator (1940) 8.1/10 (9316 votes) |
| 97 | Blade Runner (1982) 8.1/10 (69951 votes) |
| 98 | Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) 8.1/10 (35414 votes) |
| 99 | Mononoke-hime (1997) 8.1/10 (17197 votes) |
| 100 | The Sixth Sense (1999) 8.1/10 (89909 votes) |
| Rank | Title |
|---|---|
| 101 | Ladri di biciclette (1948) 8.1/10 (6590 votes) |
| 102 | Yojimbo (1961) 8.1/10 (7929 votes) |
| 103 | The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 8.1/10 (5551 votes) |
| 104 | Duck Soup (1933) 8.1/10 (9082 votes) |
| 105 | Full Metal Jacket (1987) 8.1/10 (43691 votes) |
| 106 | Rebecca (1940) 8.1/10 (10393 votes) |
| 107 | The Princess Bride (1987) 8.1/10 (51298 votes) |
| 108 | The Big Sleep (1946) 8.1/10 (9122 votes) |
| 109 | The Incredibles (2004) 8.1/10 (17108 votes) |
| 110 | Notorious (1946) 8.1/10 (9730 votes) |
| 111 | Forrest Gump (1994) 8.1/10 (82966 votes) |
| 112 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 8.1/10 (71976 votes) |
| 113 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 8.1/10 (18601 votes) |
| 114 | It Happened One Night (1934) 8.1/10 (7221 votes) |
| 115 | Oldboy (2003) 8.1/10 (4037 votes) |
| 116 | Patton (1970) 8.1/10 (13093 votes) |
| 117 | The Graduate (1967) 8.0/10 (25360 votes) |
| 118 | Lola rennt (1998) 8.0/10 (30001 votes) |
| 119 | Toy Story 2 (1999) 8.0/10 (37774 votes) |
| 120 | The Deer Hunter (1978) 8.0/10 (25748 votes) |
| 121 | Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 8.0/10 (17033 votes) |
| 122 | Cool Hand Luke (1967) 8.0/10 (13075 votes) |
| 123 | Unforgiven (1992) 8.0/10 (28119 votes) |
| 124 | Ying xiong (2002) 8.0/10 (18589 votes) |
| 125 | Manhattan (1979) 8.0/10 (11436 votes) |
| 126 | Glory (1989) 8.0/10 (20260 votes) |
| 127 | The Elephant Man (1980) 8.0/10 (14960 votes) |
| 128 | The Philadelphia Story (1940) 8.0/10 (9665 votes) |
| 129 | Ben-Hur (1959) 8.0/10 (19378 votes) |
| 130 | The African Queen (1951) 8.0/10 (12862 votes) |
| 131 | The Searchers (1956) 8.0/10 (9396 votes) |
| 132 | The Grapes of Wrath (1940) 8.0/10 (7178 votes) |
| 133 | The Green Mile (1999) 8.0/10 (54418 votes) |
| 134 | Before Sunset (2004) 8.0/10 (4883 votes) |
| 135 | Mystic River (2003) 8.0/10 (23553 votes) |
| 136 | Amores perros (2000) 8.0/10 (13028 votes) |
| 137 | Bringing Up Baby (1938) 8.0/10 (8465 votes) |
| 138 | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 8.0/10 (77080 votes) |
| 139 | Stalag 17 (1953) 8.0/10 (6504 votes) |
| 140 | Smultronstället (1957) 8.0/10 (4504 votes) |
| 141 | Big Fish (2003) 8.0/10 (25750 votes) |
| 142 | Hable con ella (2002) 8.0/10 (11054 votes) |
| 143 | Back to the Future (1985) 8.0/10 (63290 votes) |
| 144 | Gone with the Wind (1939) 8.0/10 (26566 votes) |
| 145 | All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 8.0/10 (6186 votes) |
| 146 | Platoon (1986) 8.0/10 (32124 votes) |
| 147 | A Christmas Story (1983) 8.0/10 (18365 votes) |
| 148 | The Night of the Hunter (1955) 8.0/10 (6870 votes) |
| 149 | The Hustler (1961) 8.0/10 (7476 votes) |
| 150 | Shrek (2001) 8.0/10 (58929 votes) |
| 151 | The Gold Rush (1925) 8.0/10 (5849 votes) |
| 152 | The Wild Bunch (1969) 8.0/10 (9776 votes) |
| 153 | Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 8.0/10 (10496 votes) |
| 154 | The Straight Story (1999) 8.0/10 (13446 votes) |
| 155 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 8.0/10 (57929 votes) |
| 156 | Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925) 8.0/10 (5391 votes) |
| 157 | Quatre cents coups, Les (1959) 7.9/10 (5786 votes) |
| 158 | Young Frankenstein (1974) 7.9/10 (20598 votes) |
| 159 | Life of Brian (1979) 7.9/10 (31446 votes) |
| 160 | Die Hard (1988) 7.9/10 (55263 votes) |
| 161 | Dogville (2003) 7.9/10 (11336 votes) |
| 162 | Grande illusion, La (1937) 7.9/10 (4568 votes) |
| 163 | The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) 7.9/10 (6633 votes) |
| 164 | His Girl Friday (1940) 7.9/10 (6091 votes) |
| 165 | Lost in Translation (2003) 7.9/10 (35557 votes) |
| 166 | Garden State (2004) 7.9/10 (12806 votes) |
| 167 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 7.9/10 (6625 votes) |
| 168 | Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 7.9/10 (4624 votes) |
| 169 | Spartacus (1960) 7.9/10 (15527 votes) |
| 170 | Hotaru no haka (1988) 7.9/10 (5855 votes) |
| 171 | Ikiru (1952) 7.9/10 (3464 votes) |
| 172 | Roman Holiday (1953) 7.9/10 (8597 votes) |
| 173 | Gladiator (2000) 7.9/10 (84709 votes) |
| 174 | The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 7.9/10 (9389 votes) |
| 175 | Festen (1998) 7.9/10 (10982 votes) |
| 176 | Charade (1963) 7.9/10 (8221 votes) |
| 177 | The Conversation (1974) 7.9/10 (9317 votes) |
| 178 | Sling Blade (1996) 7.9/10 (19057 votes) |
| 179 | A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) 7.9/10 (8822 votes) |
| 180 | Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994) 7.9/10 (9527 votes) |
| 181 | Magnolia (1999) 7.9/10 (42089 votes) |
| 182 | Monsters, Inc. (2001) 7.9/10 (35770 votes) |
| 183 | The Killing (1956) 7.9/10 (6260 votes) |
| 184 | Toy Story (1995) 7.9/10 (42586 votes) |
| 185 | All the President's Men (1976) 7.9/10 (11670 votes) |
| 186 | Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) 7.9/10 (7588 votes) |
| 187 | To Be or Not to Be (1942) 7.9/10 (3206 votes) |
| 188 | Gandhi (1982) 7.9/10 (14459 votes) |
| 189 | The Insider (1999) 7.9/10 (26525 votes) |
| 190 | Almost Famous (2000) 7.9/10 (35527 votes) |
| 191 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) 7.9/10 (6464 votes) |
| 192 | Brazil (1985) 7.9/10 (28480 votes) |
| 193 | Ed Wood (1994) 7.9/10 (21269 votes) |
| 194 | A Night at the Opera (1935) 7.9/10 (5493 votes) |
| 195 | Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 7.9/10 (13438 votes) |
| 196 | Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 7.9/10 (5085 votes) |
| 197 | Harvey (1950) 7.9/10 (7253 votes) |
| 198 | Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, La (1928) 7.9/10 (3054 votes) |
| 199 | Groundhog Day (1993) 7.9/10 (40864 votes) |
| 200 | Trainspotting (1996) 7.9/10 (47700 votes) |
| 201 | Twelve Monkeys (1995) 7.9/10 (57755 votes) |
| 202 | In America (2002) 7.9/10 (6931 votes) |
| 203 | 21 Grams (2003) 7.8/10 (17591 votes) |
| 204 | Stand by Me (1986) 7.8/10 (28213 votes) |
| 205 | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) 7.8/10 (2366 votes) |
| 206 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 7.8/10 (52691 votes) |
| 207 | The Exorcist (1973) 7.8/10 (31129 votes) |
| 208 | The Terminator (1984) 7.8/10 (56172 votes) |
| 209 | Miller's Crossing (1990) 7.8/10 (13152 votes) |
| 210 | Strada, La (1954) 7.8/10 (4459 votes) |
| 211 | Being John Malkovich (1999) 7.8/10 (50647 votes) |
| 212 | Mulholland Dr. (2001) 7.8/10 (31775 votes) |
| 213 | The Lion in Winter (1968) 7.8/10 (5359 votes) |
| 214 | This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 7.8/10 (18551 votes) |
| 215 | 8½ (1963) 7.8/10 (7174 votes) |
| 216 | Finding Neverland (2004) 7.8/10 (5364 votes) |
| 217 | Network (1976) 7.8/10 (8786 votes) |
| 218 | Rain Man (1988) 7.8/10 (39140 votes) |
| 219 | Laura (1944) 7.8/10 (4173 votes) |
| 220 | Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 7.8/10 (11652 votes) |
| 221 | The Big Lebowski (1998) 7.8/10 (45177 votes) |
| 222 | The Station Agent (2003) 7.8/10 (5362 votes) |
| 223 | The Right Stuff (1983) 7.8/10 (12100 votes) |
| 224 | Midnight Cowboy (1969) 7.8/10 (11992 votes) |
| 225 | King Kong (1933) 7.8/10 (9430 votes) |
| 226 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) 7.8/10 (30738 votes) |
| 227 | Snatch. (2000) 7.8/10 (39830 votes) |
| 228 | The 39 Steps (1935) 7.8/10 (7175 votes) |
| 229 | Stagecoach (1939) 7.8/10 (5108 votes) |
| 230 | Whale Rider (2002) 7.8/10 (8887 votes) |
| 231 | Persona (1966) 7.8/10 (3214 votes) |
| 232 | Rio Bravo (1959) 7.8/10 (6540 votes) |
| 233 | Fanny och Alexander (1982) 7.8/10 (3872 votes) |
| 234 | The Thin Man (1934) 7.8/10 (4327 votes) |
| 235 | The Untouchables (1987) 7.8/10 (28859 votes) |
| 236 | In the Heat of the Night (1967) 7.8/10 (6037 votes) |
| 237 | The Last Samurai (2003) 7.8/10 (26805 votes) |
| 238 | Sullivan's Travels (1941) 7.8/10 (2534 votes) |
| 239 | Planet of the Apes (1968) 7.8/10 (19045 votes) |
| 240 | Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 7.8/10 (4239 votes) |
| 241 | Being There (1979) 7.8/10 (9718 votes) |
| 242 | Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) 7.8/10 (2880 votes) |
| 243 | Adaptation. (2002) 7.8/10 (22148 votes) |
| 244 | Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) 7.8/10 (3088 votes) |
| 245 | Die xue shuang xiong (1989) 7.8/10 (8419 votes) |
| 246 | Heat (1995) 7.8/10 (40118 votes) |
| 247 | Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (1986) 7.8/10 (3975 votes) |
| 248 | Barry Lyndon (1975) 7.8/10 (10822 votes) |
| 249 | Kumonosu jô (1957) 7.8/10 (2670 votes) |
| 250 | Fa yeung nin wa (2000) 7.8/10 (6054 votes) |
The formula for calculating the Top Rated 250 Titles gives a true Bayesian estimate:weighted rank (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C
for the Top 250, only votes from regular voters are considered.
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 6.8)