Rank   Title
1The Godfather (1972) 9.0/10 (114706 votes)
2The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 9.0/10 (92793 votes)
3The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 9.0/10 (139345 votes)
4The Godfather: Part II (1974) 8.9/10 (66569 votes)
5Shichinin no samurai (1954) 8.8/10 (29456 votes)
6Schindler's List (1993) 8.8/10 (92125 votes)
7Casablanca (1942) 8.7/10 (63200 votes)
8The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 8.7/10 (148670 votes)
9The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 8.7/10 (106201 votes)
10Star Wars (1977) 8.7/10 (128618 votes)
11Citizen Kane (1941) 8.7/10 (58610 votes)
12One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 8.7/10 (66733 votes)
13Pulp Fiction (1994) 8.7/10 (124276 votes)
14Rear Window (1954) 8.6/10 (38682 votes)
15Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 8.6/10 (99185 votes)
16Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 8.6/10 (59912 votes)
17Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 8.6/10 (89763 votes)
18The Usual Suspects (1995) 8.6/10 (99004 votes)
19Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) 8.6/10 (28063 votes)
20Memento (2000) 8.6/10 (84420 votes)
2112 Angry Men (1957) 8.6/10 (28078 votes)
22Cidade de Deus (2002) 8.6/10 (21958 votes)
23North by Northwest (1959) 8.5/10 (33785 votes)
24Psycho (1960) 8.5/10 (51215 votes)
25It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 8.5/10 (39401 votes)
26Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 8.5/10 (30339 votes)
27Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 8.5/10 (55138 votes)
28The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 8.5/10 (87992 votes)
29C'era una volta il West (1968) 8.5/10 (15497 votes)
30Goodfellas (1990) 8.5/10 (63632 votes)
31Sunset Blvd. (1950) 8.5/10 (15031 votes)
32Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 8.5/10 (36441 votes)
33American Beauty (1999) 8.5/10 (104787 votes)
34Vertigo (1958) 8.4/10 (32087 votes)
35The Matrix (1999) 8.4/10 (135878 votes)
36Apocalypse Now (1979) 8.4/10 (61009 votes)
37To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 8.4/10 (28522 votes)
38Fight Club (1999) 8.4/10 (104829 votes)
39Paths of Glory (1957) 8.4/10 (13411 votes)
40The Pianist (2002) 8.4/10 (27159 votes)
41The Third Man (1949) 8.4/10 (17377 votes)
42Taxi Driver (1976) 8.4/10 (44675 votes)
43Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) 8.4/10 (21565 votes)
44Double Indemnity (1944) 8.3/10 (10879 votes)
45Singin' in the Rain (1952) 8.3/10 (19287 votes)
46Some Like It Hot (1959) 8.3/10 (23974 votes)
47Boot, Das (1981) 8.3/10 (27298 votes)
48Chinatown (1974) 8.3/10 (24142 votes)
49M (1931) 8.3/10 (11243 votes)
50Rashômon (1950) 8.3/10 (10717 votes)
51Se7en (1995) 8.3/10 (83556 votes)
52The Maltese Falcon (1941) 8.3/10 (18412 votes)
53All About Eve (1950) 8.3/10 (12318 votes)
54L.A. Confidential (1997) 8.3/10 (66218 votes)
55The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 8.3/10 (21107 votes)
56Requiem for a Dream (2000) 8.3/10 (43546 votes)
57Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 8.3/10 (57857 votes)
58Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) 8.3/10 (58264 votes)
59Saving Private Ryan (1998) 8.3/10 (94918 votes)
60Raging Bull (1980) 8.3/10 (24398 votes)
61Alien (1979) 8.3/10 (59831 votes)
62Léon (1994) 8.3/10 (49100 votes)
63American History X (1998) 8.3/10 (55181 votes)
64Modern Times (1936) 8.2/10 (9596 votes)
65The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 8.2/10 (13318 votes)
66Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 8.2/10 (10893 votes)
67The Wizard of Oz (1939) 8.2/10 (36337 votes)
68The Sting (1973) 8.2/10 (22380 votes)
69The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 8.2/10 (9792 votes)
70On the Waterfront (1954) 8.2/10 (11880 votes)
71A Clockwork Orange (1971) 8.2/10 (61263 votes)
72Touch of Evil (1958) 8.2/10 (11055 votes)
73Vita è bella, La (1997) 8.2/10 (35775 votes)
74Ran (1985) 8.2/10 (11062 votes)
75Reservoir Dogs (1992) 8.2/10 (64570 votes)
762001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 8.2/10 (61843 votes)
77Amadeus (1984) 8.2/10 (34948 votes)
78The Great Escape (1963) 8.2/10 (18767 votes)
79The Apartment (1960) 8.2/10 (10474 votes)
80City Lights (1931) 8.2/10 (7261 votes)
81Metropolis (1927) 8.2/10 (11177 votes)
82Finding Nemo (2003) 8.2/10 (37497 votes)
83Jaws (1975) 8.2/10 (44399 votes)
84The Shining (1980) 8.2/10 (47583 votes)
85Aliens (1986) 8.2/10 (61441 votes)
86High Noon (1952) 8.2/10 (11721 votes)
87Annie Hall (1977) 8.2/10 (20081 votes)
88Strangers on a Train (1951) 8.2/10 (9863 votes)
89Braveheart (1995) 8.2/10 (87320 votes)
90Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) 8.2/10 (8870 votes)
91The General (1927) 8.2/10 (6266 votes)
92Fargo (1996) 8.2/10 (62221 votes)
93Wo hu cang long (2000) 8.1/10 (49633 votes)
94The Great Dictator (1940) 8.1/10 (9625 votes)
95Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) 8.1/10 (37951 votes)
96Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989) 8.1/10 (13066 votes)
97Donnie Darko (2001) 8.1/10 (45345 votes)
98Blade Runner (1982) 8.1/10 (71220 votes)
99Mononoke-hime (1997) 8.1/10 (17824 votes)
100The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 8.1/10 (5690 votes)

Top 101 - 250

Rank   Title
101The Sixth Sense (1999) 8.1/10 (91808 votes)
102Ladri di biciclette (1948) 8.1/10 (6783 votes)
103Yojimbo (1961) 8.1/10 (8189 votes)
104Duck Soup (1933) 8.1/10 (9294 votes)
105Full Metal Jacket (1987) 8.1/10 (44802 votes)
106Rebecca (1940) 8.1/10 (10647 votes)
107Oldboy (2003) 8.1/10 (5058 votes)
108The Big Sleep (1946) 8.1/10 (9356 votes)
109The Princess Bride (1987) 8.1/10 (52172 votes)
110Forrest Gump (1994) 8.1/10 (84994 votes)
111Notorious (1946) 8.1/10 (9984 votes)
112Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 8.1/10 (73467 votes)
113The Incredibles (2004) 8.1/10 (20808 votes)
114Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 8.1/10 (19045 votes)
115It Happened One Night (1934) 8.1/10 (7398 votes)
116Patton (1970) 8.1/10 (13422 votes)
117The Graduate (1967) 8.1/10 (25969 votes)
118Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 8.0/10 (17626 votes)
119Lola rennt (1998) 8.0/10 (30775 votes)
120The Deer Hunter (1978) 8.0/10 (26411 votes)
121Toy Story 2 (1999) 8.0/10 (38649 votes)
122Cool Hand Luke (1967) 8.0/10 (13364 votes)
123Unforgiven (1992) 8.0/10 (28790 votes)
124Before Sunset (2004) 8.0/10 (6028 votes)
125Manhattan (1979) 8.0/10 (11707 votes)
126Ying xiong (2002) 8.0/10 (20413 votes)
127The Elephant Man (1980) 8.0/10 (15351 votes)
128Glory (1989) 8.0/10 (20708 votes)
129Ben-Hur (1959) 8.0/10 (19823 votes)
130The Philadelphia Story (1940) 8.0/10 (9879 votes)
131The Searchers (1956) 8.0/10 (9611 votes)
132The Grapes of Wrath (1940) 8.0/10 (7356 votes)
133The African Queen (1951) 8.0/10 (13101 votes)
134Amores perros (2000) 8.0/10 (13593 votes)
135Smultronstället (1957) 8.0/10 (4647 votes)
136Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 8.0/10 (78730 votes)
137The Green Mile (1999) 8.0/10 (55939 votes)
138Bringing Up Baby (1938) 8.0/10 (8653 votes)
139Stalag 17 (1953) 8.0/10 (6670 votes)
140Back to the Future (1985) 8.0/10 (64770 votes)
141Hable con ella (2002) 8.0/10 (11461 votes)
142Mystic River (2003) 8.0/10 (25083 votes)
143The Night of the Hunter (1955) 8.0/10 (7054 votes)
144Gone with the Wind (1939) 8.0/10 (27209 votes)
145Platoon (1986) 8.0/10 (32973 votes)
146The Wild Bunch (1969) 8.0/10 (9999 votes)
147The Hustler (1961) 8.0/10 (7691 votes)
148Big Fish (2003) 8.0/10 (27429 votes)
149The Gold Rush (1925) 8.0/10 (6003 votes)
150A Christmas Story (1983) 8.0/10 (18771 votes)
151Shrek (2001) 8.0/10 (60722 votes)
152All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 8.0/10 (6342 votes)
153Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 8.0/10 (10724 votes)
154Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 8.0/10 (59134 votes)
155Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925) 8.0/10 (5564 votes)
156The Straight Story (1999) 8.0/10 (13774 votes)
157Quatre cents coups, Les (1959) 7.9/10 (5962 votes)
158Life of Brian (1979) 7.9/10 (32158 votes)
159Die Hard (1988) 7.9/10 (56413 votes)
160Grande illusion, La (1937) 7.9/10 (4680 votes)
161The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 7.9/10 (6828 votes)
162Young Frankenstein (1974) 7.9/10 (21072 votes)
163Dogville (2003) 7.9/10 (12144 votes)
164His Girl Friday (1940) 7.9/10 (6247 votes)
165The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) 7.9/10 (6814 votes)
166Lost in Translation (2003) 7.9/10 (37686 votes)
167Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 7.9/10 (4759 votes)
168Ikiru (1952) 7.9/10 (3623 votes)
169Spartacus (1960) 7.9/10 (15928 votes)
170Roman Holiday (1953) 7.9/10 (8828 votes)
171Gladiator (2000) 7.9/10 (86810 votes)
172The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 7.9/10 (9600 votes)
173Festen (1998) 7.9/10 (11268 votes)
174Hotaru no haka (1988) 7.9/10 (6115 votes)
175A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) 7.9/10 (9027 votes)
176Garden State (2004) 7.9/10 (17412 votes)
177Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994) 7.9/10 (9719 votes)
178Charade (1963) 7.9/10 (8433 votes)
179Sling Blade (1996) 7.9/10 (19419 votes)
180Magnolia (1999) 7.9/10 (43112 votes)
181The Conversation (1974) 7.9/10 (9558 votes)
182All the President's Men (1976) 7.9/10 (11966 votes)
183Monsters, Inc. (2001) 7.9/10 (36801 votes)
184Toy Story (1995) 7.9/10 (43563 votes)
185The Killing (1956) 7.9/10 (6472 votes)
186Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) 7.9/10 (7817 votes)
187To Be or Not to Be (1942) 7.9/10 (3284 votes)
188Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) 7.9/10 (6624 votes)
189Gandhi (1982) 7.9/10 (14809 votes)
190Brazil (1985) 7.9/10 (29119 votes)
191Million Dollar Baby (2004) 7.9/10 (4424 votes)
192Ed Wood (1994) 7.9/10 (21887 votes)
193A Night at the Opera (1935) 7.9/10 (5619 votes)
194The Insider (1999) 7.9/10 (27148 votes)
195Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 7.9/10 (5232 votes)
196Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 7.9/10 (13838 votes)
197Sideways (2004) 7.9/10 (5812 votes)
198Almost Famous (2000) 7.9/10 (36385 votes)
199Groundhog Day (1993) 7.9/10 (41879 votes)
200Harvey (1950) 7.9/10 (7414 votes)
201Trainspotting (1996) 7.9/10 (48731 votes)
202Twelve Monkeys (1995) 7.9/10 (58932 votes)
203Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, La (1928) 7.9/10 (3153 votes)
204Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) 7.9/10 (2446 votes)
20521 Grams (2003) 7.9/10 (18852 votes)
206Stand by Me (1986) 7.9/10 (28857 votes)
207The Terminator (1984) 7.8/10 (57347 votes)
208The Exorcist (1973) 7.8/10 (31889 votes)
209Strada, La (1954) 7.8/10 (4602 votes)
210In America (2002) 7.8/10 (7325 votes)
211Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 7.8/10 (54990 votes)
212The Lion in Winter (1968) 7.8/10 (5506 votes)
213Being John Malkovich (1999) 7.8/10 (51847 votes)
214Mulholland Dr. (2001) 7.8/10 (32730 votes)
2158½ (1963) 7.8/10 (7395 votes)
216Miller's Crossing (1990) 7.8/10 (13598 votes)
217This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 7.8/10 (19072 votes)
218Network (1976) 7.8/10 (8972 votes)
219Laura (1944) 7.8/10 (4267 votes)
220Rain Man (1988) 7.8/10 (40018 votes)
221The Station Agent (2003) 7.8/10 (5891 votes)
222Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 7.8/10 (11939 votes)
223The Big Lebowski (1998) 7.8/10 (46545 votes)
224Finding Neverland (2004) 7.8/10 (8396 votes)
225Midnight Cowboy (1969) 7.8/10 (12290 votes)
226King Kong (1933) 7.8/10 (9673 votes)
227The Right Stuff (1983) 7.8/10 (12324 votes)
228Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) 7.8/10 (31666 votes)
229The 39 Steps (1935) 7.8/10 (7387 votes)
230Snatch. (2000) 7.8/10 (41168 votes)
231Persona (1966) 7.8/10 (3343 votes)
232Stagecoach (1939) 7.8/10 (5225 votes)
233Fanny och Alexander (1982) 7.8/10 (4015 votes)
234Rio Bravo (1959) 7.8/10 (6725 votes)
235The Untouchables (1987) 7.8/10 (29654 votes)
236Whale Rider (2002) 7.8/10 (9309 votes)
237Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 7.8/10 (4395 votes)
238The Thin Man (1934) 7.8/10 (4433 votes)
239Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) 7.8/10 (3019 votes)
240In the Heat of the Night (1967) 7.8/10 (6220 votes)
241Planet of the Apes (1968) 7.8/10 (19503 votes)
242Being There (1979) 7.8/10 (9979 votes)
243Sullivan's Travels (1941) 7.8/10 (2634 votes)
244Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) 7.8/10 (3212 votes)
245Diarios de motocicleta (2004) 7.8/10 (4849 votes)
246Heat (1995) 7.8/10 (41219 votes)
247Adaptation. (2002) 7.8/10 (23084 votes)
248Kumonosu jô (1957) 7.8/10 (2833 votes)
249Barry Lyndon (1975) 7.8/10 (11234 votes)
250Per qualche dollaro in più (1965) 7.8/10 (7753 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

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)
for the Top 250, only votes from regular voters are considered.