Top 250 films 01.04.2006

Rank	Title
1	The Godfather (1972) 9.1/10 (158439 votes)
2	The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 9.0/10 (191860 votes)
3	The Godfather: Part II (1974) 8.9/10 (90560 votes)
4	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 8.8/10 (143469 votes)
5	Shichinin no samurai (1954) 8.8/10 (42038 votes)
6	Schindler's List (1993) 8.8/10 (118753 votes)
7	Casablanca (1942) 8.7/10 (79928 votes)
8	Pulp Fiction (1994) 8.7/10 (167357 votes)
9	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 8.7/10 (128443 votes)
10	Star Wars (1977) 8.7/10 (163654 votes)
11	Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) 8.7/10 (42144 votes)
12	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 8.7/10 (85329 votes)
13	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 8.7/10 (190043 votes)
14	Rear Window (1954) 8.7/10 (50175 votes)
15	The Usual Suspects (1995) 8.6/10 (125000 votes)
16	Cidade de Deus (2002) 8.6/10 (42479 votes)
17	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 8.6/10 (146305 votes)
18	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 8.6/10 (111250 votes)
19	12 Angry Men (1957) 8.6/10 (36945 votes)
20	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 8.6/10 (76863 votes)
21	Citizen Kane (1941) 8.6/10 (72520 votes)
22	Psycho (1960) 8.6/10 (64551 votes)
23	Memento (2000) 8.6/10 (113023 votes)
24	Goodfellas (1990) 8.6/10 (85446 votes)
25	C'era una volta il West (1968) 8.6/10 (23701 votes)
26	North by Northwest (1959) 8.5/10 (42921 votes)
27	The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 8.5/10 (109937 votes)
28	Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 8.5/10 (37605 votes)
29	Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 8.5/10 (75825 votes)
30	It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 8.5/10 (49055 votes)
31	Sunset Blvd. (1950) 8.5/10 (20541 votes)
32	Fight Club (1999) 8.5/10 (143063 votes)
33	American Beauty (1999) 8.5/10 (132228 votes)
34	The Matrix (1999) 8.4/10 (173308 votes)
35	Vertigo (1958) 8.4/10 (40952 votes)
36	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 8.4/10 (72484 votes)
37	Taxi Driver (1976) 8.4/10 (59319 votes)
38	Apocalypse Now (1979) 8.4/10 (78737 votes)
39	Paths of Glory (1957) 8.4/10 (18116 votes)
40	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 8.4/10 (36890 votes)
41	Untergang, Der (2004) 8.4/10 (21277 votes)
42	Se7en (1995) 8.4/10 (110288 votes)
43	The Pianist (2002) 8.4/10 (42632 votes)
44	Léon (1994) 8.4/10 (68648 votes)
45	Chinatown (1974) 8.4/10 (31792 votes)
46	Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) 8.4/10 (34639 votes)
47	Hotel Rwanda (2004) 8.4/10 (22948 votes)
48	American History X (1998) 8.4/10 (77338 votes)
49	The Third Man (1949) 8.3/10 (22582 votes)
50	Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 8.3/10 (74341 votes)
51	Boot, Das (1981) 8.3/10 (34854 votes)
52	Requiem for a Dream (2000) 8.3/10 (64001 votes)
53	The Maltese Falcon (1941) 8.3/10 (23540 votes)
54	L.A. Confidential (1997) 8.3/10 (81994 votes)
55	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 8.3/10 (27085 votes)
56	Rashômon (1950) 8.3/10 (14930 votes)
57	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 8.3/10 (12939 votes)
58	Sin City (2005) 8.3/10 (76324 votes)
59	Alien (1979) 8.3/10 (76735 votes)
60	A Clockwork Orange (1971) 8.3/10 (80373 votes)
61	Million Dollar Baby (2004) 8.3/10 (42907 votes)
62	M (1931) 8.3/10 (15235 votes)
63	Singin' in the Rain (1952) 8.3/10 (24967 votes)
64	Modern Times (1936) 8.3/10 (13128 votes)
65	Reservoir Dogs (1992) 8.3/10 (86075 votes)
66	Saving Private Ryan (1998) 8.3/10 (120825 votes)
67	Metropolis (1927) 8.3/10 (15126 votes)
68	All About Eve (1950) 8.3/10 (15872 votes)
69	The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 8.3/10 (17203 votes)
70	Raging Bull (1980) 8.3/10 (34104 votes)
71	The Shining (1980) 8.3/10 (64042 votes)
72	Some Like It Hot (1959) 8.3/10 (30788 votes)
73	Double Indemnity (1944) 8.3/10 (14366 votes)
74	Vita è bella, La (1997) 8.2/10 (46115 votes)
75	Aliens (1986) 8.2/10 (76323 votes)
76	The Great Escape (1963) 8.2/10 (25101 votes)
77	Rebecca (1940) 8.2/10 (14240 votes)
78	Amadeus (1984) 8.2/10 (44478 votes)
79	Touch of Evil (1958) 8.2/10 (14296 votes)
80	The Incredibles (2004) 8.2/10 (48872 votes)
81	The Sting (1973) 8.2/10 (28651 votes)
82	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 8.2/10 (77005 votes)
83	Crash (2004) 8.2/10 (49944 votes)
84	On the Waterfront (1954) 8.2/10 (16133 votes)
85	Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) 8.2/10 (86937 votes)
86	Strangers on a Train (1951) 8.2/10 (13345 votes)
87	Jaws (1975) 8.2/10 (57997 votes)
88	City Lights (1931) 8.2/10 (9813 votes)
89	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 8.2/10 (14207 votes)
90	The Apartment (1960) 8.2/10 (13944 votes)
91	Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989) 8.2/10 (17449 votes)
92	The Wizard of Oz (1939) 8.2/10 (46467 votes)
93	Braveheart (1995) 8.2/10 (110616 votes)
94	Batman Begins (2005) 8.2/10 (78426 votes)
95	Ran (1985) 8.2/10 (15177 votes)
96	Forrest Gump (1994) 8.2/10 (112214 votes)
97	Donnie Darko (2001) 8.2/10 (73656 votes)
98	Blade Runner (1982) 8.2/10 (87829 votes)
99	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 8.2/10 (93671 votes)
100	Fargo (1996) 8.2/10 (77631 votes)

Top 101 - 250

Rank	Title
101	Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) 8.2/10 (12685 votes)
102	Finding Nemo (2003) 8.2/10 (56213 votes)
103	The Great Dictator (1940) 8.2/10 (13498 votes)
104	Mononoke-hime (1997) 8.1/10 (25222 votes)
105	Full Metal Jacket (1987) 8.1/10 (59254 votes)
106	Notorious (1946) 8.1/10 (13154 votes)
107	High Noon (1952) 8.1/10 (15124 votes)
108	The Big Sleep (1946) 8.1/10 (12345 votes)
109	The Elephant Man (1980) 8.1/10 (20706 votes)
110	Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) 8.1/10 (62809 votes)
111	Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 8.1/10 (102357 votes)
112	Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 8.1/10 (25116 votes)
113	Wo hu cang long (2000) 8.1/10 (60907 votes)
114	Cool Hand Luke (1967) 8.1/10 (17486 votes)
115	The Sixth Sense (1999) 8.1/10 (115449 votes)
116	Annie Hall (1977) 8.1/10 (26598 votes)
117	Oldboy (2003) 8.1/10 (21510 votes)
118	Yojimbo (1961) 8.1/10 (11707 votes)
119	Salaire de la peur, Le (1953) 8.1/10 (3933 votes)
120	The Princess Bride (1987) 8.1/10 (63669 votes)
121	Ben-Hur (1959) 8.1/10 (25481 votes)
122	Unforgiven (1992) 8.1/10 (38059 votes)
123	Ladri di biciclette (1948) 8.1/10 (9520 votes)
124	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 8.0/10 (73997 votes)
125	It Happened One Night (1934) 8.0/10 (9870 votes)
126	Life of Brian (1979) 8.0/10 (40916 votes)
127	Back to the Future (1985) 8.0/10 (83635 votes)
128	The Green Mile (1999) 8.0/10 (75619 votes)
129	The Deer Hunter (1978) 8.0/10 (35210 votes)
130	The General (1927) 8.0/10 (8216 votes)
131	The Killing (1956) 8.0/10 (8931 votes)
132	The Graduate (1967) 8.0/10 (33704 votes)
133	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 8.0/10 (24527 votes)
134	Toy Story 2 (1999) 8.0/10 (49405 votes)
135	Amores perros (2000) 8.0/10 (20562 votes)
136	Lola rennt (1998) 8.0/10 (39812 votes)
137	Platoon (1986) 8.0/10 (43687 votes)
138	Notti di Cabiria, Le (1957) 8.0/10 (3133 votes)
139	The African Queen (1951) 8.0/10 (16368 votes)
140	Duck Soup (1933) 8.0/10 (12094 votes)
141	Before Sunset (2004) 8.0/10 (15323 votes)
142	Gladiator (2000) 8.0/10 (113887 votes)
143	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) 8.0/10 (4622 votes)
144	Ying xiong (2002) 8.0/10 (33905 votes)
145	Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 8.0/10 (7513 votes)
146	Glory (1989) 8.0/10 (26033 votes)
147	Per qualche dollaro in più (1965) 8.0/10 (12397 votes)
148	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) 8.0/10 (9211 votes)
149	Smultronstället (1957) 8.0/10 (7067 votes)
150	The Night of the Hunter (1955) 8.0/10 (9586 votes)
151	Patton (1970) 8.0/10 (17585 votes)
152	The Philadelphia Story (1940) 8.0/10 (12829 votes)
153	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 8.0/10 (7626 votes)
154	Gandhi (1982) 8.0/10 (19438 votes)
155	Finding Neverland (2004) 8.0/10 (32000 votes)
156	The Gold Rush (1925) 8.0/10 (8010 votes)
157	The Conversation (1974) 8.0/10 (12748 votes)
158	Die Hard (1988) 8.0/10 (71021 votes)
159	Diaboliques, Les (1955) 8.0/10 (4226 votes)
160	A Christmas Story (1983) 8.0/10 (24646 votes)
161	Brief Encounter (1945) 7.9/10 (3762 votes)
162	Stand by Me (1986) 7.9/10 (37743 votes)
163	Harvey (1950) 7.9/10 (9629 votes)
164	Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) 7.9/10 (10912 votes)
165	The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 7.9/10 (12452 votes)
166	Gone with the Wind (1939) 7.9/10 (35246 votes)
167	8½ (1963) 7.9/10 (10352 votes)
168	Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 7.9/10 (19240 votes)
169	Mystic River (2003) 7.9/10 (40588 votes)
170	Shrek (2001) 7.9/10 (80585 votes)
171	Kumonosu jô (1957) 7.9/10 (4525 votes)
172	Spartacus (1960) 7.9/10 (21014 votes)
173	The Grapes of Wrath (1940) 7.9/10 (9635 votes)
174	Belle et la bête, La (1946) 7.9/10 (3150 votes)
175	Magnolia (1999) 7.9/10 (56631 votes)
176	Big Fish (2003) 7.9/10 (46156 votes)
177	The Hustler (1961) 7.9/10 (10252 votes)
178	Cabinet des Dr. Caligari., Das (1920) 7.9/10 (5056 votes)
179	Toy Story (1995) 7.9/10 (55260 votes)
180	Groundhog Day (1993) 7.9/10 (55293 votes)
181	The Wild Bunch (1969) 7.9/10 (12965 votes)
182	Trainspotting (1996) 7.9/10 (63692 votes)
183	Hable con ella (2002) 7.9/10 (16652 votes)
184	Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 7.9/10 (6390 votes)
185	Manhattan (1979) 7.9/10 (15290 votes)
186	The Straight Story (1999) 7.9/10 (18289 votes)
187	Stalag 17 (1953) 7.9/10 (8750 votes)
188	Cinderella Man (2005) 7.9/10 (18323 votes)
189	The Exorcist (1973) 7.9/10 (42508 votes)
190	Ed Wood (1994) 7.9/10 (29162 votes)
191	Twelve Monkeys (1995) 7.9/10 (75086 votes)
192	Festen (1998) 7.9/10 (14734 votes)
193	Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 7.9/10 (13795 votes)
194	The Lady Vanishes (1938) 7.9/10 (5807 votes)
195	The Big Lebowski (1998) 7.9/10 (63937 votes)
196	Monsters, Inc. (2001) 7.9/10 (48557 votes)
197	Bringing Up Baby (1938) 7.9/10 (11328 votes)
198	Battaglia di Algeri, La (1966) 7.9/10 (3321 votes)
199	Young Frankenstein (1974) 7.9/10 (27116 votes)
200	Sling Blade (1996) 7.9/10 (24145 votes)
201	Quatre cents coups, Les (1959) 7.9/10 (8339 votes)
202	Out of the Past (1947) 7.9/10 (3475 votes)
203	The Terminator (1984) 7.9/10 (72218 votes)
204	King Kong (1933) 7.9/10 (15326 votes)
205	His Girl Friday (1940) 7.9/10 (8446 votes)
206	Roman Holiday (1953) 7.9/10 (11933 votes)
207	Snatch. (2000) 7.9/10 (58577 votes)
208	Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 7.9/10 (6151 votes)
209	All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 7.9/10 (8638 votes)
210	Brazil (1985) 7.9/10 (37105 votes)
211	Heat (1995) 7.9/10 (55865 votes)
212	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 7.9/10 (8991 votes)
213	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) 7.9/10 (43971 votes)
214	The Searchers (1956) 7.9/10 (12539 votes)
215	Anatomy of a Murder (1959) 7.9/10 (4871 votes)
216	Sleuth (1972) 7.9/10 (5789 votes)
217	In the Heat of the Night (1967) 7.9/10 (8720 votes)
218	Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) 7.9/10 (12743 votes)
219	Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 7.8/10 (15741 votes)
220	V for Vendetta (2005) 7.8/10 (24614 votes)
221	Almost Famous (2000) 7.8/10 (47786 votes)
222	Inherit the Wind (1960) 7.8/10 (4574 votes)
223	Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) 7.8/10 (84617 votes)
224	Hotaru no haka (1988) 7.8/10 (9946 votes)
225	Rosemary's Baby (1968) 7.8/10 (16011 votes)
226	Sweet Smell of Success (1957) 7.8/10 (3032 votes)
227	The Insider (1999) 7.8/10 (34681 votes)
228	Ikiru (1952) 7.8/10 (5733 votes)
229	No Man's Land (2001) 7.8/10 (8962 votes)
230	Scarface (1983) 7.8/10 (41982 votes)
231	Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) 7.8/10 (4464 votes)
232	Charade (1963) 7.8/10 (11407 votes)
233	Frankenstein (1931) 7.8/10 (8143 votes)
234	A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) 7.8/10 (12072 votes)
235	Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994) 7.8/10 (12701 votes)
236	All the President's Men (1976) 7.8/10 (15693 votes)
237	The Thing (1982) 7.8/10 (23355 votes)
238	Doctor Zhivago (1965) 7.8/10 (12661 votes)
239	Lost in Translation (2003) 7.8/10 (59103 votes)
240	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 7.8/10 (82560 votes)
241	Sideways (2004) 7.8/10 (31589 votes)
242	Mulholland Dr. (2001) 7.8/10 (45820 votes)
243	Planet of the Apes (1968) 7.8/10 (24609 votes)
244	À bout de souffle (1960) 7.8/10 (6666 votes)
245	Tengoku to jigoku (1963) 7.8/10 (2424 votes)
246	The Lost Weekend (1945) 7.8/10 (3532 votes)
247	Rain Man (1988) 7.8/10 (51905 votes)
248	A Man for All Seasons (1966) 7.8/10 (5363 votes)
249	Grande illusion, La (1937) 7.8/10 (6324 votes)
250	The Man Who Would Be King (1975) 7.8/10 (9604 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.