| Rank | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Godfather (1972) 9.0/10 (124948 votes) |
| 2 | The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 9.0/10 (152102 votes) |
| 3 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 8.9/10 (106518 votes) |
| 4 | The Godfather: Part II (1974) 8.9/10 (72514 votes) |
| 5 | Shichinin no samurai (1954) 8.8/10 (32826 votes) |
| 6 | Schindler's List (1993) 8.8/10 (98923 votes) |
| 7 | Casablanca (1942) 8.8/10 (66807 votes) |
| 8 | Star Wars (1977) 8.7/10 (138504 votes) |
| 9 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 8.7/10 (159875 votes) |
| 10 | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 8.7/10 (107078 votes) |
| 11 | Pulp Fiction (1994) 8.7/10 (134985 votes) |
| 12 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 8.7/10 (71159 votes) |
| 13 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 8.7/10 (116868 votes) |
| 14 | Citizen Kane (1941) 8.7/10 (61791 votes) |
| 15 | Rear Window (1954) 8.7/10 (41564 votes) |
| 16 | Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) 8.7/10 (30848 votes) |
| 17 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 8.6/10 (64268 votes) |
| 18 | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 8.6/10 (94746 votes) |
| 19 | The Usual Suspects (1995) 8.6/10 (105140 votes) |
| 20 | 12 Angry Men (1957) 8.6/10 (29767 votes) |
| 21 | Cidade de Deus (2002) 8.6/10 (26810 votes) |
| 22 | Memento (2000) 8.6/10 (91616 votes) |
| 23 | North by Northwest (1959) 8.6/10 (36075 votes) |
| 24 | C'era una volta il West (1968) 8.5/10 (17594 votes) |
| 25 | Psycho (1960) 8.5/10 (54564 votes) |
| 26 | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 8.5/10 (31629 votes) |
| 27 | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 8.5/10 (41654 votes) |
| 28 | Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 8.5/10 (60551 votes) |
| 29 | Goodfellas (1990) 8.5/10 (69271 votes) |
| 30 | The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 8.5/10 (93086 votes) |
| 31 | Sunset Blvd. (1950) 8.5/10 (16373 votes) |
| 32 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 8.5/10 (47983 votes) |
| 33 | American Beauty (1999) 8.5/10 (111340 votes) |
| 34 | The Matrix (1999) 8.4/10 (145815 votes) |
| 35 | Vertigo (1958) 8.4/10 (34286 votes) |
| 36 | Apocalypse Now (1979) 8.4/10 (65657 votes) |
| 37 | Fight Club (1999) 8.4/10 (113907 votes) |
| 38 | To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 8.4/10 (30505 votes) |
| 39 | Paths of Glory (1957) 8.4/10 (14633 votes) |
| 40 | The Pianist (2002) 8.4/10 (31138 votes) |
| 41 | The Third Man (1949) 8.4/10 (18628 votes) |
| 42 | Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) 8.4/10 (24816 votes) |
| 43 | Taxi Driver (1976) 8.4/10 (48585 votes) |
| 44 | Singin' in the Rain (1952) 8.4/10 (20810 votes) |
| 45 | Boot, Das (1981) 8.4/10 (29234 votes) |
| 46 | Double Indemnity (1944) 8.3/10 (11713 votes) |
| 47 | M (1931) 8.3/10 (12217 votes) |
| 48 | Se7en (1995) 8.3/10 (89627 votes) |
| 49 | Chinatown (1974) 8.3/10 (26022 votes) |
| 50 | Some Like It Hot (1959) 8.3/10 (25682 votes) |
| 51 | Rashômon (1950) 8.3/10 (11850 votes) |
| 52 | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 8.3/10 (22688 votes) |
| 53 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 8.3/10 (61407 votes) |
| 54 | L.A. Confidential (1997) 8.3/10 (70344 votes) |
| 55 | The Maltese Falcon (1941) 8.3/10 (19641 votes) |
| 56 | Requiem for a Dream (2000) 8.3/10 (48733 votes) |
| 57 | All About Eve (1950) 8.3/10 (13178 votes) |
| 58 | Léon (1994) 8.3/10 (53870 votes) |
| 59 | Modern Times (1936) 8.3/10 (10459 votes) |
| 60 | Raging Bull (1980) 8.3/10 (27207 votes) |
| 61 | American History X (1998) 8.3/10 (60647 votes) |
| 62 | Alien (1979) 8.3/10 (64193 votes) |
| 63 | Saving Private Ryan (1998) 8.3/10 (101485 votes) |
| 64 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 8.2/10 (10592 votes) |
| 65 | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) 8.2/10 (66564 votes) |
| 66 | A Clockwork Orange (1971) 8.2/10 (66182 votes) |
| 67 | The Sting (1973) 8.2/10 (23962 votes) |
| 68 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 8.2/10 (11708 votes) |
| 69 | The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 8.2/10 (14421 votes) |
| 70 | On the Waterfront (1954) 8.2/10 (12985 votes) |
| 71 | Amadeus (1984) 8.2/10 (37378 votes) |
| 72 | Vita è bella, La (1997) 8.2/10 (38401 votes) |
| 73 | The Wizard of Oz (1939) 8.2/10 (38871 votes) |
| 74 | Reservoir Dogs (1992) 8.2/10 (70323 votes) |
| 75 | City Lights (1931) 8.2/10 (7917 votes) |
| 76 | Ran (1985) 8.2/10 (12198 votes) |
| 77 | The Great Escape (1963) 8.2/10 (20420 votes) |
| 78 | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 8.2/10 (65702 votes) |
| 79 | Touch of Evil (1958) 8.2/10 (11877 votes) |
| 80 | The Apartment (1960) 8.2/10 (11358 votes) |
| 81 | Million Dollar Baby (2004) 8.2/10 (21293 votes) |
| 82 | Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) 8.2/10 (9819 votes) |
| 83 | Metropolis (1927) 8.2/10 (12164 votes) |
| 84 | The Shining (1980) 8.2/10 (51654 votes) |
| 85 | Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) 8.2/10 (45515 votes) |
| 86 | Aliens (1986) 8.2/10 (64701 votes) |
| 87 | Hotel Rwanda (2004) 8.2/10 (9467 votes) |
| 88 | The Great Dictator (1940) 8.2/10 (10631 votes) |
| 89 | Jaws (1975) 8.2/10 (47605 votes) |
| 90 | Braveheart (1995) 8.2/10 (93607 votes) |
| 91 | Strangers on a Train (1951) 8.2/10 (10798 votes) |
| 92 | High Noon (1952) 8.2/10 (12634 votes) |
| 93 | Finding Nemo (2003) 8.2/10 (42816 votes) |
| 94 | The Incredibles (2004) 8.2/10 (32292 votes) |
| 95 | Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989) 8.2/10 (14225 votes) |
| 96 | Annie Hall (1977) 8.2/10 (21759 votes) |
| 97 | The General (1927) 8.2/10 (6723 votes) |
| 98 | Fargo (1996) 8.2/10 (66263 votes) |
| 99 | Donnie Darko (2001) 8.2/10 (53275 votes) |
| 100 | Wo hu cang long (2000) 8.1/10 (52749 votes) |
| Rank | Title |
|---|---|
| 101 | Blade Runner (1982) 8.1/10 (75626 votes) |
| 102 | Oldboy (2003) 8.1/10 (9743 votes) |
| 103 | Mononoke-hime (1997) 8.1/10 (19698 votes) |
| 104 | Ladri di biciclette (1948) 8.1/10 (7485 votes) |
| 105 | Yojimbo (1961) 8.1/10 (9158 votes) |
| 106 | The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 8.1/10 (6206 votes) |
| 107 | Untergang, Der (2004) 8.1/10 (8922 votes) |
| 108 | Full Metal Jacket (1987) 8.1/10 (48440 votes) |
| 109 | Forrest Gump (1994) 8.1/10 (91010 votes) |
| 110 | Rebecca (1940) 8.1/10 (11534 votes) |
| 111 | The Sixth Sense (1999) 8.1/10 (98130 votes) |
| 112 | The Big Sleep (1946) 8.1/10 (10086 votes) |
| 113 | The Princess Bride (1987) 8.1/10 (54517 votes) |
| 114 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 8.1/10 (78647 votes) |
| 115 | Duck Soup (1933) 8.1/10 (9980 votes) |
| 116 | Notorious (1946) 8.1/10 (10768 votes) |
| 117 | Before Sunset (2004) 8.1/10 (9224 votes) |
| 118 | It Happened One Night (1934) 8.1/10 (8004 votes) |
| 119 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 8.1/10 (20421 votes) |
| 120 | Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 8.1/10 (19601 votes) |
| 121 | Sin City (2005) 8.1/10 (25826 votes) |
| 122 | Patton (1970) 8.1/10 (14558 votes) |
| 123 | The Graduate (1967) 8.1/10 (27880 votes) |
| 124 | Cool Hand Luke (1967) 8.0/10 (14346 votes) |
| 125 | The Deer Hunter (1978) 8.0/10 (28665 votes) |
| 126 | Unforgiven (1992) 8.0/10 (31267 votes) |
| 127 | Smultronstället (1957) 8.0/10 (5287 votes) |
| 128 | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 8.0/10 (85388 votes) |
| 129 | The Elephant Man (1980) 8.0/10 (16654 votes) |
| 130 | Lola rennt (1998) 8.0/10 (33225 votes) |
| 131 | The Philadelphia Story (1940) 8.0/10 (10645 votes) |
| 132 | Glory (1989) 8.0/10 (22136 votes) |
| 133 | Toy Story 2 (1999) 8.0/10 (41480 votes) |
| 134 | Back to the Future (1985) 8.0/10 (69569 votes) |
| 135 | Amores perros (2000) 8.0/10 (15405 votes) |
| 136 | Ben-Hur (1959) 8.0/10 (21301 votes) |
| 137 | Manhattan (1979) 8.0/10 (12564 votes) |
| 138 | Bringing Up Baby (1938) 8.0/10 (9366 votes) |
| 139 | Ying xiong (2002) 8.0/10 (24851 votes) |
| 140 | The Green Mile (1999) 8.0/10 (61066 votes) |
| 141 | The Gold Rush (1925) 8.0/10 (6525 votes) |
| 142 | The Grapes of Wrath (1940) 8.0/10 (7944 votes) |
| 143 | Stalag 17 (1953) 8.0/10 (7247 votes) |
| 144 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 8.0/10 (62496 votes) |
| 145 | The African Queen (1951) 8.0/10 (13887 votes) |
| 146 | Platoon (1986) 8.0/10 (35731 votes) |
| 147 | A Christmas Story (1983) 8.0/10 (19982 votes) |
| 148 | The Wild Bunch (1969) 8.0/10 (10668 votes) |
| 149 | The Searchers (1956) 8.0/10 (10335 votes) |
| 150 | Gone with the Wind (1939) 8.0/10 (29181 votes) |
| 151 | All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 8.0/10 (6950 votes) |
| 152 | Crash (2004) 8.0/10 (4634 votes) |
| 153 | Quatre cents coups, Les (1959) 8.0/10 (6594 votes) |
| 154 | Hable con ella (2002) 8.0/10 (12871 votes) |
| 155 | The Night of the Hunter (1955) 8.0/10 (7662 votes) |
| 156 | The Hustler (1961) 8.0/10 (8351 votes) |
| 157 | Mystic River (2003) 8.0/10 (29704 votes) |
| 158 | Ikiru (1952) 8.0/10 (4221 votes) |
| 159 | Life of Brian (1979) 8.0/10 (33766 votes) |
| 160 | Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 8.0/10 (11494 votes) |
| 161 | Shrek (2001) 8.0/10 (66135 votes) |
| 162 | Die Hard (1988) 8.0/10 (59597 votes) |
| 163 | Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925) 8.0/10 (6141 votes) |
| 164 | The Straight Story (1999) 8.0/10 (14858 votes) |
| 165 | Big Fish (2003) 8.0/10 (32415 votes) |
| 166 | Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 8.0/10 (5162 votes) |
| 167 | His Girl Friday (1940) 7.9/10 (6745 votes) |
| 168 | Grande illusion, La (1937) 7.9/10 (5084 votes) |
| 169 | Young Frankenstein (1974) 7.9/10 (22573 votes) |
| 170 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 7.9/10 (7370 votes) |
| 171 | The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) 7.9/10 (7474 votes) |
| 172 | Roman Holiday (1953) 7.9/10 (9579 votes) |
| 173 | Gladiator (2000) 7.9/10 (93805 votes) |
| 174 | Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, La (1928) 7.9/10 (3546 votes) |
| 175 | Hotaru no haka (1988) 7.9/10 (7058 votes) |
| 176 | Finding Neverland (2004) 7.9/10 (18828 votes) |
| 177 | Festen (1998) 7.9/10 (12141 votes) |
| 178 | Monsters, Inc. (2001) 7.9/10 (39360 votes) |
| 179 | Ed Wood (1994) 7.9/10 (22963 votes) |
| 180 | Charade (1963) 7.9/10 (9178 votes) |
| 181 | Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994) 7.9/10 (10518 votes) |
| 182 | Sling Blade (1996) 7.9/10 (20566 votes) |
| 183 | Magnolia (1999) 7.9/10 (46622 votes) |
| 184 | Spartacus (1960) 7.9/10 (17305 votes) |
| 185 | A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) 7.9/10 (9748 votes) |
| 186 | The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 7.9/10 (10265 votes) |
| 187 | To Be or Not to Be (1942) 7.9/10 (3644 votes) |
| 188 | The Conversation (1974) 7.9/10 (10415 votes) |
| 189 | All the President's Men (1976) 7.9/10 (12862 votes) |
| 190 | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) 7.9/10 (2704 votes) |
| 191 | A Night at the Opera (1935) 7.9/10 (6061 votes) |
| 192 | The Killing (1956) 7.9/10 (7106 votes) |
| 193 | Strada, La (1954) 7.9/10 (5085 votes) |
| 194 | Lost in Translation (2003) 7.9/10 (43519 votes) |
| 195 | Sideways (2004) 7.9/10 (18376 votes) |
| 196 | Groundhog Day (1993) 7.9/10 (45443 votes) |
| 197 | Brazil (1985) 7.9/10 (31099 votes) |
| 198 | Gandhi (1982) 7.9/10 (16079 votes) |
| 199 | Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) 7.9/10 (8558 votes) |
| 200 | Toy Story (1995) 7.9/10 (46568 votes) |
| 201 | Trainspotting (1996) 7.9/10 (52619 votes) |
| 202 | Twelve Monkeys (1995) 7.9/10 (63068 votes) |
| 203 | Harvey (1950) 7.9/10 (7980 votes) |
| 204 | The Insider (1999) 7.9/10 (29136 votes) |
| 205 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) 7.9/10 (7139 votes) |
| 206 | 8½ (1963) 7.9/10 (8118 votes) |
| 207 | Almost Famous (2000) 7.9/10 (39155 votes) |
| 208 | Stand by Me (1986) 7.9/10 (31208 votes) |
| 209 | Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 7.9/10 (5801 votes) |
| 210 | Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 7.9/10 (15162 votes) |
| 211 | The Lion in Winter (1968) 7.9/10 (5945 votes) |
| 212 | Garden State (2004) 7.9/10 (25113 votes) |
| 213 | Laura (1944) 7.9/10 (4703 votes) |
| 214 | Fanny och Alexander (1982) 7.9/10 (4433 votes) |
| 215 | The Exorcist (1973) 7.9/10 (34658 votes) |
| 216 | In America (2002) 7.8/10 (8581 votes) |
| 217 | The Terminator (1984) 7.8/10 (60553 votes) |
| 218 | Dogville (2003) 7.8/10 (14812 votes) |
| 219 | Mulholland Dr. (2001) 7.8/10 (36053 votes) |
| 220 | The Big Lebowski (1998) 7.8/10 (51003 votes) |
| 221 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 7.8/10 (62080 votes) |
| 222 | The Station Agent (2003) 7.8/10 (7320 votes) |
| 223 | 21 Grams (2003) 7.8/10 (22481 votes) |
| 224 | This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 7.8/10 (20863 votes) |
| 225 | Persona (1966) 7.8/10 (3746 votes) |
| 226 | Miller's Crossing (1990) 7.8/10 (14793 votes) |
| 227 | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) 7.8/10 (42906 votes) |
| 228 | Network (1976) 7.8/10 (9616 votes) |
| 229 | Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) 7.8/10 (3392 votes) |
| 230 | Rain Man (1988) 7.8/10 (43100 votes) |
| 231 | Mar adentro (2004/I) 7.8/10 (4036 votes) |
| 232 | Per qualche dollaro in più (1965) 7.8/10 (9064 votes) |
| 233 | Snatch. (2000) 7.8/10 (45609 votes) |
| 234 | Being John Malkovich (1999) 7.8/10 (55776 votes) |
| 235 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) 7.8/10 (34839 votes) |
| 236 | The 39 Steps (1935) 7.8/10 (8043 votes) |
| 237 | Spider-Man 2 (2004) 7.8/10 (41395 votes) |
| 238 | Heat (1995) 7.8/10 (45329 votes) |
| 239 | Being There (1979) 7.8/10 (10659 votes) |
| 240 | The Right Stuff (1983) 7.8/10 (13041 votes) |
| 241 | Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 7.8/10 (12838 votes) |
| 242 | Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) 7.8/10 (3538 votes) |
| 243 | The Thin Man (1934) 7.8/10 (4825 votes) |
| 244 | King Kong (1933) 7.8/10 (10464 votes) |
| 245 | Battaglia di Algeri, La (1965) 7.8/10 (2124 votes) |
| 246 | Midnight Cowboy (1969) 7.8/10 (13287 votes) |
| 247 | Diarios de motocicleta (2004) 7.8/10 (9099 votes) |
| 248 | Rio Bravo (1959) 7.8/10 (7305 votes) |
| 249 | The Untouchables (1987) 7.8/10 (32183 votes) |
| 250 | In the Heat of the Night (1967) 7.8/10 (6863 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)