Top 250 films 01.05.2005

Rank	Title
1	The Godfather (1972) 9.0/10 (122670 votes)
2	The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 8.9/10 (149409 votes)
3	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 8.8/10 (103494 votes)
4	Shichinin no samurai (1954) 8.8/10 (31831 votes)
5	The Godfather: Part II (1974) 8.8/10 (71838 votes)
6	Casablanca (1942) 8.7/10 (66476 votes)
7	Schindler's List (1993) 8.7/10 (98007 votes)
8	Pulp Fiction (1994) 8.7/10 (132568 votes)
9	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 8.7/10 (70607 votes)
10	Citizen Kane (1941) 8.6/10 (61514 votes)
11	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 8.6/10 (157613 votes)
12	Star Wars (1977) 8.6/10 (134677 votes)
13	Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) 8.6/10 (30703 votes)
14	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 8.6/10 (114828 votes)
15	The Usual Suspects (1995) 8.6/10 (104101 votes)
16	Cidade de Deus (2002) 8.6/10 (25564 votes)
17	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 8.6/10 (103921 votes)
18	12 Angry Men (1957) 8.6/10 (29874 votes)
19	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 8.6/10 (64039 votes)
20	Rear Window (1954) 8.6/10 (41741 votes)
21	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 8.5/10 (93942 votes)
22	C'era una volta il West (1968) 8.5/10 (17063 votes)
23	Psycho (1960) 8.5/10 (53673 votes)
24	Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 8.5/10 (59202 votes)
25	Memento (2000) 8.5/10 (90692 votes)
26	Goodfellas (1990) 8.5/10 (67731 votes)
27	Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 8.5/10 (31846 votes)
28	The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 8.5/10 (92389 votes)
29	Sunset Blvd. (1950) 8.5/10 (16038 votes)
30	American Beauty (1999) 8.4/10 (110151 votes)
31	North by Northwest (1959) 8.4/10 (36398 votes)
32	The Matrix (1999) 8.4/10 (143016 votes)
33	Apocalypse Now (1979) 8.4/10 (64404 votes)
34	It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 8.4/10 (41961 votes)
35	Fight Club (1999) 8.4/10 (112055 votes)
36	Paths of Glory (1957) 8.4/10 (14312 votes)
37	The Third Man (1949) 8.4/10 (18289 votes)
38	Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) 8.4/10 (23980 votes)
39	Singin' in the Rain (1952) 8.4/10 (20434 votes)
40	Boot, Das (1981) 8.3/10 (28746 votes)
41	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 8.3/10 (46349 votes)
42	Double Indemnity (1944) 8.3/10 (11518 votes)
43	M (1931) 8.3/10 (11968 votes)
44	Rashômon (1950) 8.3/10 (11540 votes)
45	Se7en (1995) 8.3/10 (88605 votes)
46	Vertigo (1958) 8.3/10 (34635 votes)
47	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 8.3/10 (22247 votes)
48	Requiem for a Dream (2000) 8.3/10 (47391 votes)
49	The Maltese Falcon (1941) 8.3/10 (19358 votes)
50	All About Eve (1950) 8.3/10 (12959 votes)
51	Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 8.3/10 (61015 votes)
52	Léon (1994) 8.3/10 (52528 votes)
53	Taxi Driver (1976) 8.3/10 (48494 votes)
54	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 8.3/10 (30901 votes)
55	Saving Private Ryan (1998) 8.3/10 (99692 votes)
56	American History X (1998) 8.3/10 (59204 votes)
57	Alien (1979) 8.3/10 (63037 votes)
58	Modern Times (1936) 8.3/10 (10257 votes)
59	The Pianist (2002) 8.3/10 (31089 votes)
60	L.A. Confidential (1997) 8.2/10 (70216 votes)
61	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 8.2/10 (10413 votes)
62	The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 8.2/10 (14146 votes)
63	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 8.2/10 (11493 votes)
64	The Sting (1973) 8.2/10 (23543 votes)
65	The Wizard of Oz (1939) 8.2/10 (38177 votes)
66	On the Waterfront (1954) 8.2/10 (12718 votes)
67	Ran (1985) 8.2/10 (11877 votes)
68	Amadeus (1984) 8.2/10 (36751 votes)
69	Vita è bella, La (1997) 8.2/10 (37691 votes)
70	Chinatown (1974) 8.2/10 (26471 votes)
71	The Great Escape (1963) 8.2/10 (19943 votes)
72	Touch of Evil (1958) 8.2/10 (11680 votes)
73	City Lights (1931) 8.2/10 (7750 votes)
74	Some Like It Hot (1959) 8.2/10 (26144 votes)
75	The Apartment (1960) 8.2/10 (11101 votes)
76	The Shining (1980) 8.2/10 (50556 votes)
77	Metropolis (1927) 8.2/10 (11890 votes)
78	Million Dollar Baby (2004) 8.2/10 (19567 votes)
79	Aliens (1986) 8.2/10 (64443 votes)
80	Jaws (1975) 8.2/10 (46709 votes)
81	Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) 8.2/10 (65310 votes)
82	Finding Nemo (2003) 8.2/10 (41408 votes)
83	A Clockwork Orange (1971) 8.2/10 (65787 votes)
84	Braveheart (1995) 8.2/10 (91929 votes)
85	Raging Bull (1980) 8.2/10 (27479 votes)
86	Reservoir Dogs (1992) 8.2/10 (69721 votes)
87	Annie Hall (1977) 8.2/10 (21330 votes)
88	High Noon (1952) 8.2/10 (12391 votes)
89	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 8.1/10 (65603 votes)
90	The Incredibles (2004) 8.1/10 (29849 votes)
91	Wo hu cang long (2000) 8.1/10 (51933 votes)
92	Hotel Rwanda (2004) 8.1/10 (7628 votes)
93	Oldboy (2003) 8.1/10 (8570 votes)
94	Yojimbo (1961) 8.1/10 (8890 votes)
95	Fargo (1996) 8.1/10 (66203 votes)
96	The Princess Bride (1987) 8.1/10 (54492 votes)
97	Before Sunset (2004) 8.1/10 (8550 votes)
98	Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) 8.1/10 (44606 votes)
99	It Happened One Night (1934) 8.1/10 (7880 votes)
100	Blade Runner (1982) 8.1/10 (75342 votes)

Top 101 - 250

Rank	Title
101	The Sixth Sense (1999) 8.1/10 (97450 votes)
102	Forrest Gump (1994) 8.1/10 (90184 votes)
103	Donnie Darko (2001) 8.0/10 (52304 votes)
104	Untergang, Der (2004) 8.0/10 (7362 votes)
105	Sin City (2005) 8.0/10 (22141 votes)
106	Smultronstället (1957) 8.0/10 (5115 votes)
107	Full Metal Jacket (1987) 8.0/10 (48433 votes)
108	The Philadelphia Story (1940) 8.0/10 (10470 votes)
109	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 8.0/10 (78162 votes)
110	Ying xiong (2002) 8.0/10 (23791 votes)
111	Strangers on a Train (1951) 8.0/10 (11555 votes)
112	The Gold Rush (1925) 8.0/10 (6392 votes)
113	The Night of the Hunter (1955) 8.0/10 (7485 votes)
114	All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 8.0/10 (6785 votes)
115	Quatre cents coups, Les (1959) 8.0/10 (6429 votes)
116	The Great Dictator (1940) 8.0/10 (11376 votes)
117	The Graduate (1967) 8.0/10 (28408 votes)
118	Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) 8.0/10 (10551 votes)
119	Unforgiven (1992) 8.0/10 (31686 votes)
120	Back to the Future (1985) 8.0/10 (69210 votes)
121	Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925) 8.0/10 (6001 votes)
122	Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989) 7.9/10 (14893 votes)
123	Ikiru (1952) 7.9/10 (4061 votes)
124	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 7.9/10 (21026 votes)
125	The Deer Hunter (1978) 7.9/10 (29024 votes)
126	His Girl Friday (1940) 7.9/10 (6623 votes)
127	Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 7.9/10 (5076 votes)
128	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) 7.9/10 (7310 votes)
129	The Green Mile (1999) 7.9/10 (60741 votes)
130	Toy Story 2 (1999) 7.9/10 (41709 votes)
131	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 7.9/10 (7238 votes)
132	Mononoke-hime (1997) 7.9/10 (20189 votes)
133	Grande illusion, La (1937) 7.9/10 (4981 votes)
134	Lola rennt (1998) 7.9/10 (33594 votes)
135	Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 7.9/10 (20130 votes)
136	Hotaru no haka (1988) 7.9/10 (6813 votes)
137	Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 7.9/10 (82798 votes)
138	Platoon (1986) 7.9/10 (35934 votes)
139	Rebecca (1940) 7.9/10 (12321 votes)
140	Charade (1963) 7.9/10 (8988 votes)
141	Patton (1970) 7.9/10 (15231 votes)
142	The Elephant Man (1980) 7.9/10 (17292 votes)
143	Notorious (1946) 7.9/10 (11559 votes)
144	Shrek (2001) 7.9/10 (65728 votes)
145	Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, La (1928) 7.9/10 (3436 votes)
146	Glory (1989) 7.9/10 (22734 votes)
147	Finding Neverland (2004) 7.9/10 (17085 votes)
148	Die Hard (1988) 7.9/10 (59534 votes)
149	Sideways (2004) 7.9/10 (16337 votes)
150	The Big Sleep (1946) 7.9/10 (10921 votes)
151	Ben-Hur (1959) 7.9/10 (21912 votes)
152	Duck Soup (1933) 7.9/10 (10813 votes)
153	The Killing (1956) 7.9/10 (6917 votes)
154	To Be or Not to Be (1942) 7.9/10 (3557 votes)
155	The General (1927) 7.9/10 (7599 votes)
156	Cool Hand Luke (1967) 7.9/10 (15084 votes)
157	A Night at the Opera (1935) 7.9/10 (5970 votes)
158	Gladiator (2000) 7.9/10 (92798 votes)
159	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) 7.9/10 (2627 votes)
160	Gone with the Wind (1939) 7.9/10 (29681 votes)
161	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 7.9/10 (62150 votes)
162	Strada, La (1954) 7.9/10 (4972 votes)
163	Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) 7.9/10 (8345 votes)
164	Ladri di biciclette (1948) 7.9/10 (8302 votes)
165	Life of Brian (1979) 7.9/10 (34110 votes)
166	Harvey (1950) 7.9/10 (7832 votes)
167	Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 7.9/10 (5639 votes)
168	Mystic River (2003) 7.9/10 (29568 votes)
169	The Terminator (1984) 7.9/10 (60231 votes)
170	8½ (1963) 7.9/10 (7908 votes)
171	The Lion in Winter (1968) 7.9/10 (5838 votes)
172	Manhattan (1979) 7.8/10 (13304 votes)
173	A Christmas Story (1983) 7.8/10 (20580 votes)
174	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 7.8/10 (7094 votes)
175	The African Queen (1951) 7.8/10 (14698 votes)
176	Laura (1944) 7.8/10 (4586 votes)
177	Big Fish (2003) 7.8/10 (32086 votes)
178	Young Frankenstein (1974) 7.8/10 (23073 votes)
179	The Station Agent (2003) 7.8/10 (7019 votes)
180	Magnolia (1999) 7.8/10 (46616 votes)
181	Fanny och Alexander (1982) 7.8/10 (4319 votes)
182	Monsters, Inc. (2001) 7.8/10 (39440 votes)
183	Amores perros (2000) 7.8/10 (15931 votes)
184	Twelve Monkeys (1995) 7.8/10 (62900 votes)
185	Groundhog Day (1993) 7.8/10 (45473 votes)
186	Toy Story (1995) 7.8/10 (46716 votes)
187	Per qualche dollaro in più (1965) 7.8/10 (8754 votes)
188	The 39 Steps (1935) 7.8/10 (7878 votes)
189	Persona (1966) 7.8/10 (3636 votes)
190	Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) 7.8/10 (3286 votes)
191	Lost in Translation (2003) 7.8/10 (42933 votes)
192	The Wild Bunch (1969) 7.8/10 (11437 votes)
193	Trainspotting (1996) 7.8/10 (52515 votes)
194	King Kong (1933) 7.8/10 (10232 votes)
195	Bringing Up Baby (1938) 7.8/10 (10194 votes)
196	The Straight Story (1999) 7.8/10 (15519 votes)
197	The Searchers (1956) 7.8/10 (11132 votes)
198	Spartacus (1960) 7.8/10 (17907 votes)
199	Ed Wood (1994) 7.8/10 (23452 votes)
200	Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 7.8/10 (12210 votes)
201	The Grapes of Wrath (1940) 7.8/10 (8783 votes)
202	Brazil (1985) 7.8/10 (31508 votes)
203	Rio Bravo (1959) 7.8/10 (7138 votes)
204	The Thin Man (1934) 7.8/10 (4724 votes)
205	Almost Famous (2000) 7.8/10 (39368 votes)
206	Sling Blade (1996) 7.8/10 (21208 votes)
207	The Insider (1999) 7.8/10 (29534 votes)
208	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) 7.8/10 (3465 votes)
209	Sullivan's Travels (1941) 7.8/10 (2865 votes)
210	Stagecoach (1939) 7.8/10 (5603 votes)
211	Stand by Me (1986) 7.8/10 (31542 votes)
212	Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 7.8/10 (4695 votes)
213	In the Heat of the Night (1967) 7.8/10 (6699 votes)
214	The Hustler (1961) 7.8/10 (9089 votes)
215	Diarios de motocicleta (2004) 7.8/10 (8185 votes)
216	Barry Lyndon (1975) 7.8/10 (12192 votes)
217	The Exorcist (1973) 7.8/10 (34869 votes)
218	Battaglia di Algeri, La (1965) 7.8/10 (1982 votes)
219	All the President's Men (1976) 7.8/10 (13582 votes)
220	Being John Malkovich (1999) 7.8/10 (55703 votes)
221	Stalag 17 (1953) 7.8/10 (8097 votes)
222	Hable con ella (2002) 7.8/10 (13502 votes)
223	Sleuth (1972) 7.8/10 (4770 votes)
224	Mar adentro (2004/I) 7.8/10 (3495 votes)
225	Mulholland Dr. (2001) 7.8/10 (36151 votes)
226	Rain Man (1988) 7.8/10 (43299 votes)
227	Brief Encounter (1945) 7.8/10 (2556 votes)
228	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 7.8/10 (61122 votes)
229	The Big Lebowski (1998) 7.8/10 (50822 votes)
230	Gandhi (1982) 7.8/10 (16707 votes)
231	Fa yeung nin wa (2000) 7.8/10 (7301 votes)
232	Diaboliques, Les (1955) 7.8/10 (3032 votes)
233	The Last Picture Show (1971) 7.8/10 (5295 votes)
234	Die xue shuang xiong (1989) 7.8/10 (9252 votes)
235	Beauty and the Beast (1991) 7.7/10 (25484 votes)
236	The Killing Fields (1984) 7.7/10 (9520 votes)
237	Snatch. (2000) 7.7/10 (45425 votes)
238	Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 7.7/10 (15786 votes)
239	Good Will Hunting (1997) 7.7/10 (60518 votes)
240	Scarface (1983) 7.7/10 (27854 votes)
241	Red River (1948) 7.7/10 (3843 votes)
242	Todo sobre mi madre (1999) 7.7/10 (13378 votes)
243	Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (1986) 7.7/10 (4877 votes)
244	Rosemary's Baby (1968) 7.7/10 (11905 votes)
245	Shaun of the Dead (2004) 7.7/10 (18102 votes)
246	Kumonosu jô (1957) 7.7/10 (3289 votes)
247	The Lady Vanishes (1938) 7.7/10 (4382 votes)
248	Da hong deng long gao gao gua (1991) 7.7/10 (4369 votes)
249	Enfants du paradis, Les (1945) 7.7/10 (3321 votes)
250	Fucking Åmål (1998) 7.7/10 (13893 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 6.7)

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