Top 250 films 01.02.2006

Rank	Title
1	The Godfather (1972) 9.1/10 (151327 votes)
2	The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 9.0/10 (183005 votes)
3	The Godfather: Part II (1974) 8.9/10 (86672 votes)
4	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 8.9/10 (136625 votes)
5	Shichinin no samurai (1954) 8.8/10 (40238 votes)
6	Schindler's List (1993) 8.8/10 (114710 votes)
7	Casablanca (1942) 8.7/10 (77368 votes)
8	Pulp Fiction (1994) 8.7/10 (160924 votes)
9	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 8.7/10 (124550 votes)
10	Star Wars (1977) 8.7/10 (159323 votes)
11	Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) 8.7/10 (40054 votes)
12	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 8.7/10 (82377 votes)
13	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 8.7/10 (184379 votes)
14	Rear Window (1954) 8.7/10 (48516 votes)
15	Cidade de Deus (2002) 8.6/10 (38985 votes)
16	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 8.6/10 (140856 votes)
17	The Usual Suspects (1995) 8.6/10 (120997 votes)
18	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 8.6/10 (74349 votes)
19	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 8.6/10 (108104 votes)
20	12 Angry Men (1957) 8.6/10 (35399 votes)
21	Citizen Kane (1941) 8.6/10 (70454 votes)
22	Memento (2000) 8.6/10 (108977 votes)
23	C'era una volta il West (1968) 8.6/10 (22463 votes)
24	Psycho (1960) 8.6/10 (62607 votes)
25	Goodfellas (1990) 8.6/10 (82144 votes)
26	North by Northwest (1959) 8.5/10 (41549 votes)
27	Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 8.5/10 (72761 votes)
28	The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 8.5/10 (106414 votes)
29	Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 8.5/10 (36393 votes)
30	It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 8.5/10 (47691 votes)
31	Sunset Blvd. (1950) 8.5/10 (19664 votes)
32	American Beauty (1999) 8.5/10 (127951 votes)
33	Fight Club (1999) 8.5/10 (137051 votes)
34	The Matrix (1999) 8.4/10 (167650 votes)
35	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 8.4/10 (67783 votes)
36	Vertigo (1958) 8.4/10 (39602 votes)
37	Apocalypse Now (1979) 8.4/10 (76078 votes)
38	Paths of Glory (1957) 8.4/10 (17423 votes)
39	Taxi Driver (1976) 8.4/10 (57092 votes)
40	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 8.4/10 (35480 votes)
41	Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) 8.4/10 (32515 votes)
42	The Pianist (2002) 8.4/10 (40114 votes)
43	Se7en (1995) 8.4/10 (106120 votes)
44	Léon (1994) 8.4/10 (65294 votes)
45	The Third Man (1949) 8.4/10 (21752 votes)
46	Untergang, Der (2004) 8.4/10 (18813 votes)
47	Chinatown (1974) 8.4/10 (30625 votes)
48	Boot, Das (1981) 8.4/10 (33754 votes)
49	Hotel Rwanda (2004) 8.3/10 (20330 votes)
50	Requiem for a Dream (2000) 8.3/10 (60745 votes)
51	American History X (1998) 8.3/10 (73675 votes)
52	Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 8.3/10 (71805 votes)
53	Million Dollar Baby (2004) 8.3/10 (39120 votes)
54	The Maltese Falcon (1941) 8.3/10 (22749 votes)
55	M (1931) 8.3/10 (14629 votes)
56	L.A. Confidential (1997) 8.3/10 (79681 votes)
57	Rashômon (1950) 8.3/10 (14269 votes)
58	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 8.3/10 (26151 votes)
59	Modern Times (1936) 8.3/10 (12565 votes)
60	Singin' in the Rain (1952) 8.3/10 (24133 votes)
61	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 8.3/10 (12465 votes)
62	Alien (1979) 8.3/10 (74389 votes)
63	All About Eve (1950) 8.3/10 (15345 votes)
64	A Clockwork Orange (1971) 8.3/10 (77469 votes)
65	Saving Private Ryan (1998) 8.3/10 (116884 votes)
66	Double Indemnity (1944) 8.3/10 (13847 votes)
67	Raging Bull (1980) 8.3/10 (32684 votes)
68	Reservoir Dogs (1992) 8.3/10 (82898 votes)
69	Some Like It Hot (1959) 8.3/10 (29735 votes)
70	Sin City (2005) 8.3/10 (70012 votes)
71	Crash (2004) 8.3/10 (35201 votes)
72	The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 8.3/10 (16686 votes)
73	Vita è bella, La (1997) 8.3/10 (44383 votes)
74	Metropolis (1927) 8.3/10 (14521 votes)
75	The Shining (1980) 8.3/10 (61534 votes)
76	The Incredibles (2004) 8.2/10 (46027 votes)
77	Amadeus (1984) 8.2/10 (42913 votes)
78	The Great Escape (1963) 8.2/10 (24194 votes)
79	City Lights (1931) 8.2/10 (9393 votes)
80	Aliens (1986) 8.2/10 (74146 votes)
81	The Sting (1973) 8.2/10 (27534 votes)
82	Rebecca (1940) 8.2/10 (13718 votes)
83	Touch of Evil (1958) 8.2/10 (13775 votes)
84	On the Waterfront (1954) 8.2/10 (15430 votes)
85	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 8.2/10 (74647 votes)
86	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 8.2/10 (13673 votes)
87	Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) 8.2/10 (83042 votes)
88	Ran (1985) 8.2/10 (14569 votes)
89	The Apartment (1960) 8.2/10 (13343 votes)
90	Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) 8.2/10 (12120 votes)
91	The Wizard of Oz (1939) 8.2/10 (45039 votes)
92	Jaws (1975) 8.2/10 (55900 votes)
93	Strangers on a Train (1951) 8.2/10 (12756 votes)
94	The Great Dictator (1940) 8.2/10 (12912 votes)
95	Braveheart (1995) 8.2/10 (106996 votes)
96	Donnie Darko (2001) 8.2/10 (69300 votes)
97	Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989) 8.2/10 (16750 votes)
98	Forrest Gump (1994) 8.2/10 (107643 votes)
99	Fargo (1996) 8.2/10 (75171 votes)
100	Finding Nemo (2003) 8.2/10 (53568 votes)

Top 101 - 250

Rank	Title
101	Blade Runner (1982) 8.1/10 (85439 votes)
102	Mononoke-hime (1997) 8.1/10 (24056 votes)
103	Full Metal Jacket (1987) 8.1/10 (56949 votes)
104	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 8.1/10 (90745 votes)
105	Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) 8.1/10 (59551 votes)
106	Batman Begins (2005) 8.1/10 (72926 votes)
107	The Big Sleep (1946) 8.1/10 (11910 votes)
108	High Noon (1952) 8.1/10 (14639 votes)
109	Notorious (1946) 8.1/10 (12664 votes)
110	Yojimbo (1961) 8.1/10 (11225 votes)
111	The Elephant Man (1980) 8.1/10 (19791 votes)
112	Wo hu cang long (2000) 8.1/10 (59253 votes)
113	Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 8.1/10 (23972 votes)
114	Annie Hall (1977) 8.1/10 (25552 votes)
115	The Sixth Sense (1999) 8.1/10 (112035 votes)
116	Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 8.1/10 (99402 votes)
117	Oldboy (2003) 8.1/10 (19071 votes)
118	Ladri di biciclette (1948) 8.1/10 (9042 votes)
119	Cool Hand Luke (1967) 8.1/10 (16837 votes)
120	The General (1927) 8.1/10 (7898 votes)
121	The Princess Bride (1987) 8.1/10 (61920 votes)
122	It Happened One Night (1934) 8.1/10 (9476 votes)
123	Unforgiven (1992) 8.1/10 (36622 votes)
124	Ben-Hur (1959) 8.0/10 (24620 votes)
125	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 8.0/10 (23701 votes)
126	The Graduate (1967) 8.0/10 (32473 votes)
127	The Deer Hunter (1978) 8.0/10 (33786 votes)
128	Smultronstället (1957) 8.0/10 (6712 votes)
129	The Green Mile (1999) 8.0/10 (72340 votes)
130	Amores perros (2000) 8.0/10 (19487 votes)
131	Duck Soup (1933) 8.0/10 (11696 votes)
132	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 8.0/10 (71735 votes)
133	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 8.0/10 (7385 votes)
134	Back to the Future (1985) 8.0/10 (80654 votes)
135	Lola rennt (1998) 8.0/10 (38492 votes)
136	Life of Brian (1979) 8.0/10 (39398 votes)
137	Salaire de la peur, Le (1953) 8.0/10 (3683 votes)
138	Toy Story 2 (1999) 8.0/10 (47833 votes)
139	The Killing (1956) 8.0/10 (8545 votes)
140	Platoon (1986) 8.0/10 (42042 votes)
141	The African Queen (1951) 8.0/10 (15827 votes)
142	Before Sunset (2004) 8.0/10 (14087 votes)
143	The Gold Rush (1925) 8.0/10 (7695 votes)
144	The Philadelphia Story (1940) 8.0/10 (12382 votes)
145	Glory (1989) 8.0/10 (25239 votes)
146	Notti di Cabiria, Le (1957) 8.0/10 (2903 votes)
147	Patton (1970) 8.0/10 (16971 votes)
148	Ying xiong (2002) 8.0/10 (32020 votes)
149	Finding Neverland (2004) 8.0/10 (29866 votes)
150	Gladiator (2000) 8.0/10 (109748 votes)
151	Kumonosu jô (1957) 8.0/10 (4279 votes)
152	A Christmas Story (1983) 8.0/10 (23842 votes)
153	Per qualche dollaro in più (1965) 8.0/10 (11738 votes)
154	Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 8.0/10 (7165 votes)
155	The Night of the Hunter (1955) 8.0/10 (9214 votes)
156	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) 8.0/10 (8848 votes)
157	The Grapes of Wrath (1940) 8.0/10 (9294 votes)
158	Die Hard (1988) 8.0/10 (68722 votes)
159	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) 8.0/10 (4405 votes)
160	Gandhi (1982) 8.0/10 (18728 votes)
161	Gone with the Wind (1939) 8.0/10 (33950 votes)
162	Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 7.9/10 (6143 votes)
163	The Conversation (1974) 7.9/10 (12247 votes)
164	Shrek (2001) 7.9/10 (77810 votes)
165	Mystic River (2003) 7.9/10 (38367 votes)
166	Brief Encounter (1945) 7.9/10 (3476 votes)
167	Stand by Me (1986) 7.9/10 (36467 votes)
168	Quatre cents coups, Les (1959) 7.9/10 (7970 votes)
169	Festen (1998) 7.9/10 (14236 votes)
170	Hable con ella (2002) 7.9/10 (15891 votes)
171	The Hustler (1961) 7.9/10 (9838 votes)
172	The Wild Bunch (1969) 7.9/10 (12447 votes)
173	Stalag 17 (1953) 7.9/10 (8424 votes)
174	Magnolia (1999) 7.9/10 (54578 votes)
175	Big Fish (2003) 7.9/10 (43608 votes)
176	Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) 7.9/10 (10434 votes)
177	Harvey (1950) 7.9/10 (9275 votes)
178	Manhattan (1979) 7.9/10 (14734 votes)
179	The Straight Story (1999) 7.9/10 (17579 votes)
180	Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 7.9/10 (18304 votes)
181	Spartacus (1960) 7.9/10 (20280 votes)
182	The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 7.9/10 (11988 votes)
183	Bringing Up Baby (1938) 7.9/10 (10940 votes)
184	Diaboliques, Les (1955) 7.9/10 (4011 votes)
185	All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 7.9/10 (8292 votes)
186	Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 7.9/10 (13363 votes)
187	Kabinett des Doktor Caligari, Das (1920) 7.9/10 (4780 votes)
188	His Girl Friday (1940) 7.9/10 (8082 votes)
189	Trainspotting (1996) 7.9/10 (61452 votes)
190	Ikiru (1952) 7.9/10 (5418 votes)
191	Toy Story (1995) 7.9/10 (53522 votes)
192	Groundhog Day (1993) 7.9/10 (53273 votes)
193	Hotaru no haka (1988) 7.9/10 (9338 votes)
194	Belle et la bête, La (1946) 7.9/10 (2955 votes)
195	Ed Wood (1994) 7.9/10 (27999 votes)
196	Monsters, Inc. (2001) 7.9/10 (46706 votes)
197	The Searchers (1956) 7.9/10 (12088 votes)
198	Young Frankenstein (1974) 7.9/10 (26238 votes)
199	Sling Blade (1996) 7.9/10 (23495 votes)
200	Twelve Monkeys (1995) 7.9/10 (72679 votes)
201	Roman Holiday (1953) 7.9/10 (11486 votes)
202	Grande illusion, La (1937) 7.9/10 (6026 votes)
203	The Exorcist (1973) 7.9/10 (41018 votes)
204	The Big Lebowski (1998) 7.9/10 (61194 votes)
205	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 7.9/10 (8662 votes)
206	Brazil (1985) 7.9/10 (35948 votes)
207	Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994) 7.9/10 (12227 votes)
208	Snatch. (2000) 7.9/10 (55812 votes)
209	The Lady Vanishes (1938) 7.9/10 (5517 votes)
210	The Terminator (1984) 7.9/10 (69951 votes)
211	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) 7.9/10 (42046 votes)
212	King Kong (1933) 7.9/10 (14506 votes)
213	Charade (1963) 7.9/10 (10961 votes)
214	A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) 7.9/10 (11582 votes)
215	Strada, La (1954) 7.9/10 (6140 votes)
216	Cinderella Man (2005) 7.9/10 (15156 votes)
217	Almost Famous (2000) 7.9/10 (46016 votes)
218	Heat (1995) 7.9/10 (53699 votes)
219	Sideways (2004) 7.9/10 (29270 votes)
220	Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 7.9/10 (5868 votes)
221	8½ (1963) 7.9/10 (9870 votes)
222	The Insider (1999) 7.8/10 (33539 votes)
223	All the President's Men (1976) 7.8/10 (15010 votes)
224	A Night at the Opera (1935) 7.8/10 (7205 votes)
225	Lost in Translation (2003) 7.8/10 (56001 votes)
226	Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925) 7.8/10 (7471 votes)
227	In the Heat of the Night (1967) 7.8/10 (8321 votes)
228	Scarface (1983) 7.8/10 (39282 votes)
229	Mulholland Dr. (2001) 7.8/10 (43634 votes)
230	Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 7.8/10 (15083 votes)
231	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 7.8/10 (78311 votes)
232	Sleuth (1972) 7.8/10 (5540 votes)
233	Rosemary's Baby (1968) 7.8/10 (15176 votes)
234	Laura (1944) 7.8/10 (5751 votes)
235	Frankenstein (1931) 7.8/10 (7694 votes)
236	Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) 7.8/10 (80285 votes)
237	Rain Man (1988) 7.8/10 (50078 votes)
238	This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 7.8/10 (24833 votes)
239	The Thing (1982) 7.8/10 (22002 votes)
240	Doctor Zhivago (1965) 7.8/10 (12078 votes)
241	Anatomy of a Murder (1959) 7.8/10 (4595 votes)
242	Miller's Crossing (1990) 7.8/10 (17791 votes)
243	Being John Malkovich (1999) 7.8/10 (64438 votes)
244	Planet of the Apes (1968) 7.8/10 (23632 votes)
245	Mar adentro (2004/I) 7.8/10 (7563 votes)
246	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) 7.8/10 (8376 votes)
247	Network (1976) 7.8/10 (11430 votes)
248	Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, La (1928) 7.8/10 (4550 votes)
249	Barry Lyndon (1975) 7.8/10 (15249 votes)
250	The Untouchables (1987) 7.8/10 (37695 votes)

The formula for calculating the Top Rated 250 Titles gives a true Bayesian estimate:

weighted rating (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 1300)
  C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 6.8)

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