| Rank | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Godfather (1972) 9.0/10 (135214 votes) |
| 2 | The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 9.0/10 (163669 votes) |
| 3 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 8.9/10 (118190 votes) |
| 4 | The Godfather: Part II (1974) 8.9/10 (77944 votes) |
| 5 | Shichinin no samurai (1954) 8.8/10 (35716 votes) |
| 6 | Schindler's List (1993) 8.8/10 (104923 votes) |
| 7 | Casablanca (1942) 8.8/10 (70723 votes) |
| 8 | Star Wars (1977) 8.7/10 (147531 votes) |
| 9 | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 8.7/10 (114700 votes) |
| 10 | Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) 8.7/10 (34406 votes) |
| 11 | Pulp Fiction (1994) 8.7/10 (145556 votes) |
| 12 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 8.7/10 (169282 votes) |
| 13 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 8.7/10 (75465 votes) |
| 14 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 8.7/10 (125992 votes) |
| 15 | Rear Window (1954) 8.7/10 (44172 votes) |
| 16 | Citizen Kane (1941) 8.7/10 (65076 votes) |
| 17 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 8.6/10 (68191 votes) |
| 18 | Cidade de Deus (2002) 8.6/10 (31191 votes) |
| 19 | The Usual Suspects (1995) 8.6/10 (111250 votes) |
| 20 | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 8.6/10 (100105 votes) |
| 21 | 12 Angry Men (1957) 8.6/10 (31863 votes) |
| 22 | Memento (2000) 8.6/10 (98540 votes) |
| 23 | C'era una volta il West (1968) 8.6/10 (19411 votes) |
| 24 | North by Northwest (1959) 8.5/10 (38131 votes) |
| 25 | Psycho (1960) 8.5/10 (57606 votes) |
| 26 | Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 8.5/10 (65223 votes) |
| 27 | Goodfellas (1990) 8.5/10 (74242 votes) |
| 28 | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 8.5/10 (33404 votes) |
| 29 | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 8.5/10 (43682 votes) |
| 30 | The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 8.5/10 (98112 votes) |
| 31 | Sunset Blvd. (1950) 8.5/10 (17565 votes) |
| 32 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 8.5/10 (55944 votes) |
| 33 | American Beauty (1999) 8.5/10 (117750 votes) |
| 34 | The Matrix (1999) 8.5/10 (154287 votes) |
| 35 | Fight Club (1999) 8.5/10 (122977 votes) |
| 36 | Apocalypse Now (1979) 8.4/10 (69654 votes) |
| 37 | Vertigo (1958) 8.4/10 (36303 votes) |
| 38 | The Pianist (2002) 8.4/10 (34384 votes) |
| 39 | Paths of Glory (1957) 8.4/10 (15698 votes) |
| 40 | To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 8.4/10 (32366 votes) |
| 41 | Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) 8.4/10 (27671 votes) |
| 42 | Taxi Driver (1976) 8.4/10 (51933 votes) |
| 43 | The Third Man (1949) 8.4/10 (19769 votes) |
| 44 | Se7en (1995) 8.4/10 (95859 votes) |
| 45 | Boot, Das (1981) 8.4/10 (30919 votes) |
| 46 | M (1931) 8.3/10 (13061 votes) |
| 47 | Hotel Rwanda (2004) 8.3/10 (13768 votes) |
| 48 | Léon (1994) 8.3/10 (58043 votes) |
| 49 | Double Indemnity (1944) 8.3/10 (12513 votes) |
| 50 | Requiem for a Dream (2000) 8.3/10 (53229 votes) |
| 51 | Singin' in the Rain (1952) 8.3/10 (22047 votes) |
| 52 | Chinatown (1974) 8.3/10 (27812 votes) |
| 53 | Some Like It Hot (1959) 8.3/10 (27232 votes) |
| 54 | Rashômon (1950) 8.3/10 (12789 votes) |
| 55 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 8.3/10 (65350 votes) |
| 56 | L.A. Confidential (1997) 8.3/10 (73907 votes) |
| 57 | All About Eve (1950) 8.3/10 (13997 votes) |
| 58 | The Maltese Falcon (1941) 8.3/10 (20792 votes) |
| 59 | Crash (2004) 8.3/10 (13287 votes) |
| 60 | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 8.3/10 (24006 votes) |
| 61 | American History X (1998) 8.3/10 (65514 votes) |
| 62 | Modern Times (1936) 8.3/10 (11237 votes) |
| 63 | Raging Bull (1980) 8.3/10 (29408 votes) |
| 64 | Alien (1979) 8.3/10 (68060 votes) |
| 65 | Saving Private Ryan (1998) 8.3/10 (107418 votes) |
| 66 | Million Dollar Baby (2004) 8.3/10 (29189 votes) |
| 67 | Untergang, Der (2004) 8.3/10 (12307 votes) |
| 68 | Vita è bella, La (1997) 8.3/10 (40577 votes) |
| 69 | A Clockwork Orange (1971) 8.3/10 (70505 votes) |
| 70 | The Sting (1973) 8.3/10 (25298 votes) |
| 71 | Reservoir Dogs (1992) 8.2/10 (75275 votes) |
| 72 | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) 8.2/10 (73347 votes) |
| 73 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 8.2/10 (11274 votes) |
| 74 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 8.2/10 (12463 votes) |
| 75 | The Incredibles (2004) 8.2/10 (38075 votes) |
| 76 | Amadeus (1984) 8.2/10 (39464 votes) |
| 77 | The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 8.2/10 (15391 votes) |
| 78 | City Lights (1931) 8.2/10 (8465 votes) |
| 79 | On the Waterfront (1954) 8.2/10 (13960 votes) |
| 80 | The Apartment (1960) 8.2/10 (12125 votes) |
| 81 | The Shining (1980) 8.2/10 (55250 votes) |
| 82 | The Great Escape (1963) 8.2/10 (21943 votes) |
| 83 | Ran (1985) 8.2/10 (13186 votes) |
| 84 | The Wizard of Oz (1939) 8.2/10 (41155 votes) |
| 85 | Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) 8.2/10 (10660 votes) |
| 86 | Aliens (1986) 8.2/10 (68316 votes) |
| 87 | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 8.2/10 (69067 votes) |
| 88 | Touch of Evil (1958) 8.2/10 (12598 votes) |
| 89 | Metropolis (1927) 8.2/10 (13016 votes) |
| 90 | Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) 8.2/10 (51290 votes) |
| 91 | Sin City (2005) 8.2/10 (50320 votes) |
| 92 | Braveheart (1995) 8.2/10 (98697 votes) |
| 93 | The Great Dictator (1940) 8.2/10 (11527 votes) |
| 94 | Donnie Darko (2001) 8.2/10 (59576 votes) |
| 95 | Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989) 8.2/10 (15136 votes) |
| 96 | Jaws (1975) 8.2/10 (50939 votes) |
| 97 | Oldboy (2003) 8.2/10 (12801 votes) |
| 98 | Strangers on a Train (1951) 8.2/10 (11474 votes) |
| 99 | High Noon (1952) 8.2/10 (13387 votes) |
| 100 | Finding Nemo (2003) 8.2/10 (47033 votes) |
| Rank | Title |
|---|---|
| 101 | Annie Hall (1977) 8.2/10 (23246 votes) |
| 102 | Fargo (1996) 8.2/10 (69663 votes) |
| 103 | Mononoke-hime (1997) 8.2/10 (21337 votes) |
| 104 | Forrest Gump (1994) 8.1/10 (97047 votes) |
| 105 | Blade Runner (1982) 8.1/10 (79509 votes) |
| 106 | The General (1927) 8.1/10 (7166 votes) |
| 107 | Wo hu cang long (2000) 8.1/10 (55240 votes) |
| 108 | Full Metal Jacket (1987) 8.1/10 (51733 votes) |
| 109 | Rebecca (1940) 8.1/10 (12279 votes) |
| 110 | Yojimbo (1961) 8.1/10 (9960 votes) |
| 111 | Ladri di biciclette (1948) 8.1/10 (8070 votes) |
| 112 | Before Sunset (2004) 8.1/10 (11170 votes) |
| 113 | The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 8.1/10 (6675 votes) |
| 114 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 8.1/10 (83419 votes) |
| 115 | The Princess Bride (1987) 8.1/10 (57420 votes) |
| 116 | The Sixth Sense (1999) 8.1/10 (103618 votes) |
| 117 | Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 8.1/10 (21206 votes) |
| 118 | Batman Begins (2005) 8.1/10 (52193 votes) |
| 119 | The Big Sleep (1946) 8.1/10 (10766 votes) |
| 120 | It Happened One Night (1934) 8.1/10 (8549 votes) |
| 121 | Notorious (1946) 8.1/10 (11459 votes) |
| 122 | Duck Soup (1933) 8.1/10 (10649 votes) |
| 123 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 8.1/10 (21722 votes) |
| 124 | Smultronstället (1957) 8.1/10 (5828 votes) |
| 125 | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 8.1/10 (91591 votes) |
| 126 | The Elephant Man (1980) 8.1/10 (17835 votes) |
| 127 | The Graduate (1967) 8.1/10 (29700 votes) |
| 128 | Cool Hand Luke (1967) 8.1/10 (15317 votes) |
| 129 | Finding Neverland (2004) 8.1/10 (23821 votes) |
| 130 | Patton (1970) 8.1/10 (15511 votes) |
| 131 | Unforgiven (1992) 8.1/10 (33360 votes) |
| 132 | Lola rennt (1998) 8.1/10 (35219 votes) |
| 133 | The Deer Hunter (1978) 8.0/10 (30591 votes) |
| 134 | Amores perros (2000) 8.0/10 (16978 votes) |
| 135 | The Green Mile (1999) 8.0/10 (65360 votes) |
| 136 | The Philadelphia Story (1940) 8.0/10 (11293 votes) |
| 137 | Back to the Future (1985) 8.0/10 (73876 votes) |
| 138 | Ying xiong (2002) 8.0/10 (27852 votes) |
| 139 | Glory (1989) 8.0/10 (23344 votes) |
| 140 | Ben-Hur (1959) 8.0/10 (22572 votes) |
| 141 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 8.0/10 (66204 votes) |
| 142 | The Gold Rush (1925) 8.0/10 (6953 votes) |
| 143 | Stalag 17 (1953) 8.0/10 (7701 votes) |
| 144 | Toy Story 2 (1999) 8.0/10 (43924 votes) |
| 145 | Platoon (1986) 8.0/10 (38136 votes) |
| 146 | Bringing Up Baby (1938) 8.0/10 (9990 votes) |
| 147 | Manhattan (1979) 8.0/10 (13351 votes) |
| 148 | A Christmas Story (1983) 8.0/10 (21117 votes) |
| 149 | The Grapes of Wrath (1940) 8.0/10 (8455 votes) |
| 150 | Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 8.0/10 (12160 votes) |
| 151 | The Wild Bunch (1969) 8.0/10 (11387 votes) |
| 152 | Life of Brian (1979) 8.0/10 (35854 votes) |
| 153 | The African Queen (1951) 8.0/10 (14619 votes) |
| 154 | Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 8.0/10 (5535 votes) |
| 155 | The Searchers (1956) 8.0/10 (10969 votes) |
| 156 | The Hustler (1961) 8.0/10 (8936 votes) |
| 157 | All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 8.0/10 (7449 votes) |
| 158 | Hable con ella (2002) 8.0/10 (14017 votes) |
| 159 | Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, La (1928) 8.0/10 (3918 votes) |
| 160 | Gone with the Wind (1939) 8.0/10 (31006 votes) |
| 161 | Quatre cents coups, Les (1959) 8.0/10 (7138 votes) |
| 162 | Big Fish (2003) 8.0/10 (37063 votes) |
| 163 | Mystic River (2003) 8.0/10 (33278 votes) |
| 164 | Die Hard (1988) 8.0/10 (63132 votes) |
| 165 | The Night of the Hunter (1955) 8.0/10 (8260 votes) |
| 166 | Roman Holiday (1953) 8.0/10 (10289 votes) |
| 167 | Shrek (2001) 8.0/10 (70628 votes) |
| 168 | Hotaru no haka (1988) 8.0/10 (7974 votes) |
| 169 | The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) 8.0/10 (8019 votes) |
| 170 | The Straight Story (1999) 8.0/10 (15889 votes) |
| 171 | His Girl Friday (1940) 8.0/10 (7279 votes) |
| 172 | Gladiator (2000) 8.0/10 (99704 votes) |
| 173 | Festen (1998) 8.0/10 (13005 votes) |
| 174 | Mar adentro (2004/I) 8.0/10 (5462 votes) |
| 175 | The Killing (1956) 8.0/10 (7672 votes) |
| 176 | Ikiru (1952) 8.0/10 (4732 votes) |
| 177 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 7.9/10 (7927 votes) |
| 178 | Young Frankenstein (1974) 7.9/10 (23987 votes) |
| 179 | Grande illusion, La (1937) 7.9/10 (5407 votes) |
| 180 | Sideways (2004) 7.9/10 (23282 votes) |
| 181 | Magnolia (1999) 7.9/10 (49719 votes) |
| 182 | Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925) 7.9/10 (6600 votes) |
| 183 | Charade (1963) 7.9/10 (9919 votes) |
| 184 | Harvey (1950) 7.9/10 (8461 votes) |
| 185 | Ed Wood (1994) 7.9/10 (24913 votes) |
| 186 | 8½ (1963) 7.9/10 (8768 votes) |
| 187 | The Conversation (1974) 7.9/10 (11091 votes) |
| 188 | Monsters, Inc. (2001) 7.9/10 (42174 votes) |
| 189 | Strada, La (1954) 7.9/10 (5483 votes) |
| 190 | The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 7.9/10 (10918 votes) |
| 191 | A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) 7.9/10 (10494 votes) |
| 192 | Sling Blade (1996) 7.9/10 (21750 votes) |
| 193 | Gandhi (1982) 7.9/10 (17062 votes) |
| 194 | Trainspotting (1996) 7.9/10 (56062 votes) |
| 195 | Groundhog Day (1993) 7.9/10 (48327 votes) |
| 196 | Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994) 7.9/10 (11169 votes) |
| 197 | Spartacus (1960) 7.9/10 (18502 votes) |
| 198 | Per qualche dollaro in più (1965) 7.9/10 (10092 votes) |
| 199 | A Night at the Opera (1935) 7.9/10 (6484 votes) |
| 200 | Brazil (1985) 7.9/10 (32930 votes) |
| 201 | Stand by Me (1986) 7.9/10 (33237 votes) |
| 202 | Twelve Monkeys (1995) 7.9/10 (66770 votes) |
| 203 | Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 7.9/10 (6256 votes) |
| 204 | All the President's Men (1976) 7.9/10 (13741 votes) |
| 205 | Laura (1944) 7.9/10 (5123 votes) |
| 206 | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) 7.9/10 (2933 votes) |
| 207 | In America (2002) 7.9/10 (9674 votes) |
| 208 | Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 7.9/10 (16517 votes) |
| 209 | Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) 7.9/10 (9224 votes) |
| 210 | Lost in Translation (2003) 7.9/10 (48252 votes) |
| 211 | Toy Story (1995) 7.9/10 (49241 votes) |
| 212 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) 7.9/10 (7582 votes) |
| 213 | Persona (1966) 7.9/10 (4162 votes) |
| 214 | Almost Famous (2000) 7.9/10 (41694 votes) |
| 215 | To Be or Not to Be (1942) 7.9/10 (3993 votes) |
| 216 | The Big Lebowski (1998) 7.9/10 (54946 votes) |
| 217 | The Insider (1999) 7.9/10 (30811 votes) |
| 218 | Snatch. (2000) 7.9/10 (49489 votes) |
| 219 | The Lion in Winter (1968) 7.9/10 (6325 votes) |
| 220 | Fanny och Alexander (1982) 7.9/10 (4877 votes) |
| 221 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) 7.9/10 (37675 votes) |
| 222 | Network (1976) 7.9/10 (10332 votes) |
| 223 | This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 7.9/10 (22356 votes) |
| 224 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 7.9/10 (68472 votes) |
| 225 | Mulholland Dr. (2001) 7.9/10 (39001 votes) |
| 226 | The Exorcist (1973) 7.9/10 (36990 votes) |
| 227 | The Terminator (1984) 7.9/10 (64222 votes) |
| 228 | Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) 7.9/10 (3762 votes) |
| 229 | Garden State (2004) 7.9/10 (30783 votes) |
| 230 | Battaglia di Algeri, La (1965) 7.8/10 (2499 votes) |
| 231 | Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) 7.8/10 (3896 votes) |
| 232 | The Station Agent (2003) 7.8/10 (8394 votes) |
| 233 | 21 Grams (2003) 7.8/10 (25404 votes) |
| 234 | Heat (1995) 7.8/10 (48668 votes) |
| 235 | Being There (1979) 7.8/10 (11370 votes) |
| 236 | Miller's Crossing (1990) 7.8/10 (15892 votes) |
| 237 | Rain Man (1988) 7.8/10 (45988 votes) |
| 238 | Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo (2004) 7.8/10 (2970 votes) |
| 239 | Barry Lyndon (1975) 7.8/10 (13548 votes) |
| 240 | Cinderella Man (2005) 7.8/10 (6093 votes) |
| 241 | Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom (2003) 7.8/10 (3718 votes) |
| 242 | Spider-Man 2 (2004) 7.8/10 (47169 votes) |
| 243 | Being John Malkovich (1999) 7.8/10 (59079 votes) |
| 244 | The Thin Man (1934) 7.8/10 (5296 votes) |
| 245 | Brief Encounter (1945) 7.8/10 (2928 votes) |
| 246 | In the Heat of the Night (1967) 7.8/10 (7475 votes) |
| 247 | Diarios de motocicleta (2004) 7.8/10 (11318 votes) |
| 248 | Dogville (2003) 7.8/10 (16988 votes) |
| 249 | Sullivan's Travels (1941) 7.8/10 (3177 votes) |
| 250 | Tonari no Totoro (1988) 7.8/10 (6096 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)