Top 250 films 01.07.2005

Rank	Title
1	The Godfather (1972) 9.0/10 (128473 votes)
2	The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 9.0/10 (156176 votes)
3	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 8.9/10 (110624 votes)
4	The Godfather: Part II (1974) 8.9/10 (74379 votes)
5	Shichinin no samurai (1954) 8.8/10 (33859 votes)
6	Schindler's List (1993) 8.8/10 (100960 votes)
7	Casablanca (1942) 8.8/10 (68183 votes)
8	Star Wars (1977) 8.7/10 (142263 votes)
9	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 8.7/10 (163139 votes)
10	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 8.7/10 (110233 votes)
11	Pulp Fiction (1994) 8.7/10 (138635 votes)
12	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 8.7/10 (72608 votes)
13	Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) 8.7/10 (31999 votes)
14	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 8.7/10 (120030 votes)
15	Citizen Kane (1941) 8.7/10 (62980 votes)
16	Rear Window (1954) 8.7/10 (42395 votes)
17	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 8.6/10 (65632 votes)
18	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 8.6/10 (96663 votes)
19	The Usual Suspects (1995) 8.6/10 (107209 votes)
20	Cidade de Deus (2002) 8.6/10 (28242 votes)
21	12 Angry Men (1957) 8.6/10 (30508 votes)
22	Memento (2000) 8.6/10 (94014 votes)
23	C'era una volta il West (1968) 8.6/10 (18181 votes)
24	North by Northwest (1959) 8.5/10 (36728 votes)
25	Psycho (1960) 8.5/10 (55541 votes)
26	It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 8.5/10 (42370 votes)
27	Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 8.5/10 (32213 votes)
28	Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 8.5/10 (62100 votes)
29	Goodfellas (1990) 8.5/10 (71030 votes)
30	The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 8.5/10 (94810 votes)
31	Sunset Blvd. (1950) 8.5/10 (16739 votes)
32	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 8.5/10 (50614 votes)
33	American Beauty (1999) 8.5/10 (113472 votes)
34	The Matrix (1999) 8.4/10 (148692 votes)
35	Fight Club (1999) 8.4/10 (117050 votes)
36	Apocalypse Now (1979) 8.4/10 (67006 votes)
37	Vertigo (1958) 8.4/10 (34937 votes)
38	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 8.4/10 (31167 votes)
39	Paths of Glory (1957) 8.4/10 (14954 votes)
40	The Pianist (2002) 8.4/10 (32221 votes)
41	Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) 8.4/10 (25846 votes)
42	The Third Man (1949) 8.4/10 (18995 votes)
43	Taxi Driver (1976) 8.4/10 (49681 votes)
44	Boot, Das (1981) 8.4/10 (29763 votes)
45	Singin' in the Rain (1952) 8.3/10 (21192 votes)
46	Se7en (1995) 8.3/10 (91745 votes)
47	Double Indemnity (1944) 8.3/10 (11956 votes)
48	M (1931) 8.3/10 (12467 votes)
49	Chinatown (1974) 8.3/10 (26594 votes)
50	Some Like It Hot (1959) 8.3/10 (26201 votes)
51	Requiem for a Dream (2000) 8.3/10 (50171 votes)
52	Rashômon (1950) 8.3/10 (12172 votes)
53	Léon (1994) 8.3/10 (55319 votes)
54	L.A. Confidential (1997) 8.3/10 (71533 votes)
55	Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 8.3/10 (62731 votes)
56	All About Eve (1950) 8.3/10 (13451 votes)
57	The Maltese Falcon (1941) 8.3/10 (20006 votes)
58	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 8.3/10 (23115 votes)
59	Modern Times (1936) 8.3/10 (10718 votes)
60	American History X (1998) 8.3/10 (62218 votes)
61	Raging Bull (1980) 8.3/10 (27983 votes)
62	Alien (1979) 8.3/10 (65500 votes)
63	Saving Private Ryan (1998) 8.3/10 (103508 votes)
64	Hotel Rwanda (2004) 8.3/10 (10994 votes)
65	A Clockwork Orange (1971) 8.2/10 (67614 votes)
66	Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) 8.2/10 (68939 votes)
67	The Sting (1973) 8.2/10 (24367 votes)
68	Vita è bella, La (1997) 8.2/10 (39141 votes)
69	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 8.2/10 (10808 votes)
70	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 8.2/10 (11967 votes)
71	The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 8.2/10 (14733 votes)
72	Reservoir Dogs (1992) 8.2/10 (72047 votes)
73	Amadeus (1984) 8.2/10 (38084 votes)
74	On the Waterfront (1954) 8.2/10 (13295 votes)
75	Million Dollar Baby (2004) 8.2/10 (22890 votes)
76	City Lights (1931) 8.2/10 (8090 votes)
77	The Wizard of Oz (1939) 8.2/10 (39600 votes)
78	Ran (1985) 8.2/10 (12548 votes)
79	The Apartment (1960) 8.2/10 (11592 votes)
80	The Great Escape (1963) 8.2/10 (20924 votes)
81	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 8.2/10 (66795 votes)
82	Touch of Evil (1958) 8.2/10 (12133 votes)
83	The Shining (1980) 8.2/10 (52871 votes)
84	Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) 8.2/10 (10123 votes)
85	Aliens (1986) 8.2/10 (65888 votes)
86	Metropolis (1927) 8.2/10 (12415 votes)
87	Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) 8.2/10 (47544 votes)
88	The Incredibles (2004) 8.2/10 (34386 votes)
89	The Great Dictator (1940) 8.2/10 (10922 votes)
90	Jaws (1975) 8.2/10 (48746 votes)
91	Braveheart (1995) 8.2/10 (95343 votes)
92	Untergang, Der (2004) 8.2/10 (9892 votes)
93	Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989) 8.2/10 (14512 votes)
94	High Noon (1952) 8.2/10 (12885 votes)
95	Strangers on a Train (1951) 8.2/10 (11010 votes)
96	Donnie Darko (2001) 8.2/10 (55315 votes)
97	Annie Hall (1977) 8.2/10 (22231 votes)
98	Finding Nemo (2003) 8.2/10 (44282 votes)
99	Batman Begins (2005) 8.2/10 (34349 votes)
100	Fargo (1996) 8.2/10 (67404 votes)

Top 101 - 250

Rank	Title
101	Oldboy (2003) 8.1/10 (10686 votes)
102	The General (1927) 8.1/10 (6867 votes)
103	Mononoke-hime (1997) 8.1/10 (20267 votes)
104	Blade Runner (1982) 8.1/10 (76986 votes)
105	Wo hu cang long (2000) 8.1/10 (53641 votes)
106	Ladri di biciclette (1948) 8.1/10 (7674 votes)
107	Yojimbo (1961) 8.1/10 (9441 votes)
108	Forrest Gump (1994) 8.1/10 (93072 votes)
109	Sin City (2005) 8.1/10 (34103 votes)
110	Full Metal Jacket (1987) 8.1/10 (49552 votes)
111	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 8.1/10 (6346 votes)
112	Rebecca (1940) 8.1/10 (11788 votes)
113	The Sixth Sense (1999) 8.1/10 (99979 votes)
114	Crash (2004) 8.1/10 (6743 votes)
115	Before Sunset (2004) 8.1/10 (9928 votes)
116	The Princess Bride (1987) 8.1/10 (55506 votes)
117	The Big Sleep (1946) 8.1/10 (10322 votes)
118	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 8.1/10 (80224 votes)
119	It Happened One Night (1934) 8.1/10 (8172 votes)
120	Notorious (1946) 8.1/10 (10999 votes)
121	Duck Soup (1933) 8.1/10 (10194 votes)
122	Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 8.1/10 (20122 votes)
123	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 8.1/10 (20861 votes)
124	Patton (1970) 8.1/10 (14891 votes)
125	Smultronstället (1957) 8.1/10 (5466 votes)
126	The Graduate (1967) 8.1/10 (28570 votes)
127	Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 8.1/10 (88036 votes)
128	Cool Hand Luke (1967) 8.1/10 (14673 votes)
129	Unforgiven (1992) 8.1/10 (31962 votes)
130	The Elephant Man (1980) 8.0/10 (16979 votes)
131	The Deer Hunter (1978) 8.0/10 (29288 votes)
132	Lola rennt (1998) 8.0/10 (33888 votes)
133	The Philadelphia Story (1940) 8.0/10 (10847 votes)
134	Amores perros (2000) 8.0/10 (15895 votes)
135	Back to the Future (1985) 8.0/10 (71062 votes)
136	Glory (1989) 8.0/10 (22543 votes)
137	Toy Story 2 (1999) 8.0/10 (42260 votes)
138	The Green Mile (1999) 8.0/10 (62527 votes)
139	Ben-Hur (1959) 8.0/10 (21684 votes)
140	Ying xiong (2002) 8.0/10 (25947 votes)
141	Manhattan (1979) 8.0/10 (12815 votes)
142	The Gold Rush (1925) 8.0/10 (6662 votes)
143	Bringing Up Baby (1938) 8.0/10 (9549 votes)
144	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 8.0/10 (63853 votes)
145	Stalag 17 (1953) 8.0/10 (7386 votes)
146	Platoon (1986) 8.0/10 (36534 votes)
147	The Grapes of Wrath (1940) 8.0/10 (8121 votes)
148	A Christmas Story (1983) 8.0/10 (20380 votes)
149	The Wild Bunch (1969) 8.0/10 (10912 votes)
150	The African Queen (1951) 8.0/10 (14136 votes)
151	Finding Neverland (2004) 8.0/10 (20555 votes)
152	All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 8.0/10 (7110 votes)
153	The Searchers (1956) 8.0/10 (10541 votes)
154	Gone with the Wind (1939) 8.0/10 (29784 votes)
155	Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 8.0/10 (11698 votes)
156	Quatre cents coups, Les (1959) 8.0/10 (6767 votes)
157	Life of Brian (1979) 8.0/10 (34416 votes)
158	The Hustler (1961) 8.0/10 (8535 votes)
159	Hable con ella (2002) 8.0/10 (13274 votes)
160	The Night of the Hunter (1955) 8.0/10 (7827 votes)
161	Mystic River (2003) 8.0/10 (30886 votes)
162	Ikiru (1952) 8.0/10 (4381 votes)
163	The Straight Story (1999) 8.0/10 (15218 votes)
164	Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 8.0/10 (5270 votes)
165	Big Fish (2003) 8.0/10 (33832 votes)
166	Die Hard (1988) 8.0/10 (60808 votes)
167	Shrek (2001) 8.0/10 (67627 votes)
168	Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, La (1928) 8.0/10 (3642 votes)
169	Grande illusion, La (1937) 8.0/10 (5184 votes)
170	Roman Holiday (1953) 8.0/10 (9801 votes)
171	His Girl Friday (1940) 8.0/10 (6921 votes)
172	Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925) 8.0/10 (6276 votes)
173	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 7.9/10 (7543 votes)
174	Young Frankenstein (1974) 7.9/10 (22995 votes)
175	Gladiator (2000) 7.9/10 (95876 votes)
176	Festen (1998) 7.9/10 (12428 votes)
177	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) 7.9/10 (7629 votes)
178	Hotaru no haka (1988) 7.9/10 (7342 votes)
179	The Killing (1956) 7.9/10 (7301 votes)
180	Charade (1963) 7.9/10 (9437 votes)
181	Ed Wood (1994) 7.9/10 (23490 votes)
182	Monsters, Inc. (2001) 7.9/10 (40293 votes)
183	Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994) 7.9/10 (10743 votes)
184	Magnolia (1999) 7.9/10 (47603 votes)
185	A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) 7.9/10 (9973 votes)
186	The Conversation (1974) 7.9/10 (10630 votes)
187	Sling Blade (1996) 7.9/10 (21005 votes)
188	Strada, La (1954) 7.9/10 (5209 votes)
189	Spartacus (1960) 7.9/10 (17733 votes)
190	The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 7.9/10 (10455 votes)
191	A Night at the Opera (1935) 7.9/10 (6193 votes)
192	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) 7.9/10 (2766 votes)
193	Sideways (2004) 7.9/10 (20255 votes)
194	8½ (1963) 7.9/10 (8325 votes)
195	Groundhog Day (1993) 7.9/10 (46445 votes)
196	All the President's Men (1976) 7.9/10 (13183 votes)
197	Harvey (1950) 7.9/10 (8130 votes)
198	Brazil (1985) 7.9/10 (31656 votes)
199	Trainspotting (1996) 7.9/10 (53738 votes)
200	Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) 7.9/10 (8763 votes)
201	Gandhi (1982) 7.9/10 (16400 votes)
202	Lost in Translation (2003) 7.9/10 (45017 votes)
203	Twelve Monkeys (1995) 7.9/10 (64261 votes)
204	Mar adentro (2004/I) 7.9/10 (4561 votes)
205	Stand by Me (1986) 7.9/10 (31883 votes)
206	Toy Story (1995) 7.9/10 (47436 votes)
207	Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 7.9/10 (5943 votes)
208	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) 7.9/10 (7272 votes)
209	The Insider (1999) 7.9/10 (29691 votes)
210	The Lion in Winter (1968) 7.9/10 (6055 votes)
211	Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 7.9/10 (15591 votes)
212	Laura (1944) 7.9/10 (4840 votes)
213	Almost Famous (2000) 7.9/10 (40011 votes)
214	In America (2002) 7.9/10 (8909 votes)
215	To Be or Not to Be (1942) 7.9/10 (3762 votes)
216	Per qualche dollaro in più (1965) 7.9/10 (9405 votes)
217	Garden State (2004) 7.9/10 (27166 votes)
218	The Big Lebowski (1998) 7.9/10 (52300 votes)
219	Fanny och Alexander (1982) 7.9/10 (4563 votes)
220	Persona (1966) 7.9/10 (3879 votes)
221	The Exorcist (1973) 7.9/10 (35391 votes)
222	The Terminator (1984) 7.8/10 (61762 votes)
223	Mulholland Dr. (2001) 7.8/10 (37062 votes)
224	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 7.8/10 (64032 votes)
225	This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 7.8/10 (21344 votes)
226	The Station Agent (2003) 7.8/10 (7652 votes)
227	Spider-Man 2 (2004) 7.8/10 (43454 votes)
228	Network (1976) 7.8/10 (9823 votes)
229	Snatch. (2000) 7.8/10 (46907 votes)
230	21 Grams (2003) 7.8/10 (23424 votes)
231	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) 7.8/10 (35829 votes)
232	Miller's Crossing (1990) 7.8/10 (15138 votes)
233	Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) 7.8/10 (3517 votes)
234	Rain Man (1988) 7.8/10 (44067 votes)
235	Dogville (2003) 7.8/10 (15510 votes)
236	Being John Malkovich (1999) 7.8/10 (56853 votes)
237	Heat (1995) 7.8/10 (46427 votes)
238	Being There (1979) 7.8/10 (10887 votes)
239	The 39 Steps (1935) 7.8/10 (8232 votes)
240	Battaglia di Algeri, La (1965) 7.8/10 (2256 votes)
241	The Thin Man (1934) 7.8/10 (4968 votes)
242	Diarios de motocicleta (2004) 7.8/10 (9880 votes)
243	Barry Lyndon (1975) 7.8/10 (12839 votes)
244	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) 7.8/10 (3650 votes)
245	The Right Stuff (1983) 7.8/10 (13270 votes)
246	Midnight Cowboy (1969) 7.8/10 (13589 votes)
247	Meglio gioventù, La (2003) 7.8/10 (1526 votes)
248	Rio Bravo (1959) 7.8/10 (7553 votes)
249	Fa yeung nin wa (2000) 7.8/10 (7717 votes)
250	Diaboliques, Les (1955) 7.8/10 (3210 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.