Top 250 films 01.05.2006

Rank	Title
1	The Godfather (1972) 9.1/10 (162458 votes)
2	The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 9.0/10 (195839 votes)
3	The Godfather: Part II (1974) 8.9/10 (92797 votes)
4	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 8.8/10 (146986 votes)
5	Shichinin no samurai (1954) 8.8/10 (43026 votes)
6	Casablanca (1942) 8.8/10 (81319 votes)
7	Schindler's List (1993) 8.8/10 (120841 votes)
8	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 8.7/10 (130407 votes)
9	Pulp Fiction (1994) 8.7/10 (170594 votes)
10	Star Wars (1977) 8.7/10 (166008 votes)
11	Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) 8.7/10 (43314 votes)
12	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 8.7/10 (86882 votes)
13	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 8.7/10 (192972 votes)
14	Rear Window (1954) 8.7/10 (51141 votes)
15	The Usual Suspects (1995) 8.6/10 (127148 votes)
16	Cidade de Deus (2002) 8.6/10 (44096 votes)
17	12 Angry Men (1957) 8.6/10 (37803 votes)
18	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 8.6/10 (113066 votes)
19	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 8.6/10 (149222 votes)
20	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 8.6/10 (78081 votes)
21	Citizen Kane (1941) 8.6/10 (73600 votes)
22	Psycho (1960) 8.6/10 (65660 votes)
23	Goodfellas (1990) 8.6/10 (87174 votes)
24	Memento (2000) 8.6/10 (115180 votes)
25	North by Northwest (1959) 8.6/10 (43706 votes)
26	C'era una volta il West (1968) 8.5/10 (24405 votes)
27	The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 8.5/10 (111657 votes)
28	Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 8.5/10 (38273 votes)
29	Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 8.5/10 (77454 votes)
30	It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 8.5/10 (49789 votes)
31	Sunset Blvd. (1950) 8.5/10 (21058 votes)
32	American Beauty (1999) 8.5/10 (134305 votes)
33	Fight Club (1999) 8.5/10 (146242 votes)
34	The Matrix (1999) 8.4/10 (176240 votes)
35	Vertigo (1958) 8.4/10 (41677 votes)
36	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 8.4/10 (74643 votes)
37	Taxi Driver (1976) 8.4/10 (60477 votes)
38	Apocalypse Now (1979) 8.4/10 (80096 votes)
39	Paths of Glory (1957) 8.4/10 (18491 votes)
40	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 8.4/10 (37670 votes)
41	Se7en (1995) 8.4/10 (112370 votes)
42	Untergang, Der (2004) 8.4/10 (22418 votes)
43	The Pianist (2002) 8.4/10 (43862 votes)
44	Chinatown (1974) 8.4/10 (32467 votes)
45	Léon (1994) 8.4/10 (70291 votes)
46	Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) 8.4/10 (35709 votes)
47	American History X (1998) 8.4/10 (79161 votes)
48	The Third Man (1949) 8.4/10 (23083 votes)
49	Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 8.3/10 (75722 votes)
50	Hotel Rwanda (2004) 8.3/10 (24312 votes)
51	Boot, Das (1981) 8.3/10 (35388 votes)
52	Requiem for a Dream (2000) 8.3/10 (65570 votes)
53	The Maltese Falcon (1941) 8.3/10 (23925 votes)
54	L.A. Confidential (1997) 8.3/10 (83270 votes)
55	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 8.3/10 (27486 votes)
56	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 8.3/10 (13186 votes)
57	Alien (1979) 8.3/10 (78079 votes)
58	Sin City (2005) 8.3/10 (79010 votes)
59	A Clockwork Orange (1971) 8.3/10 (81803 votes)
60	M (1931) 8.3/10 (15575 votes)
61	Rashômon (1950) 8.3/10 (15288 votes)
62	Million Dollar Baby (2004) 8.3/10 (44455 votes)
63	Modern Times (1936) 8.3/10 (13406 votes)
64	Reservoir Dogs (1992) 8.3/10 (87618 votes)
65	Saving Private Ryan (1998) 8.3/10 (122770 votes)
66	Metropolis (1927) 8.3/10 (15488 votes)
67	Singin' in the Rain (1952) 8.3/10 (25375 votes)
68	The Shining (1980) 8.3/10 (65239 votes)
69	Raging Bull (1980) 8.3/10 (34735 votes)
70	The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 8.3/10 (17494 votes)
71	All About Eve (1950) 8.3/10 (16150 votes)
72	Some Like It Hot (1959) 8.3/10 (31308 votes)
73	Double Indemnity (1944) 8.3/10 (14669 votes)
74	Vita è bella, La (1997) 8.2/10 (46986 votes)
75	Aliens (1986) 8.2/10 (77549 votes)
76	Rebecca (1940) 8.2/10 (14568 votes)
77	The Great Escape (1963) 8.2/10 (25569 votes)
78	Touch of Evil (1958) 8.2/10 (14627 votes)
79	Amadeus (1984) 8.2/10 (45205 votes)
80	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 8.2/10 (78130 votes)
81	The Sting (1973) 8.2/10 (29238 votes)
82	The Incredibles (2004) 8.2/10 (50421 votes)
83	On the Waterfront (1954) 8.2/10 (16498 votes)
84	Crash (2004) 8.2/10 (54820 votes)
85	Jaws (1975) 8.2/10 (59126 votes)
86	Strangers on a Train (1951) 8.2/10 (13629 votes)
87	Batman Begins (2005) 8.2/10 (80863 votes)
88	Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) 8.2/10 (88828 votes)
89	City Lights (1931) 8.2/10 (10020 votes)
90	The Apartment (1960) 8.2/10 (14214 votes)
91	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 8.2/10 (14421 votes)
92	The Wizard of Oz (1939) 8.2/10 (47241 votes)
93	Braveheart (1995) 8.2/10 (112465 votes)
94	Forrest Gump (1994) 8.2/10 (114545 votes)
95	Donnie Darko (2001) 8.2/10 (75667 votes)
96	Blade Runner (1982) 8.2/10 (88976 votes)
97	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 8.2/10 (95240 votes)
98	Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989) 8.2/10 (17919 votes)
99	Ran (1985) 8.2/10 (15561 votes)
100	Finding Nemo (2003) 8.2/10 (57591 votes)

Top 101 - 250

Rank	Title
101	Fargo (1996) 8.1/10 (78722 votes)
102	Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) 8.1/10 (12969 votes)
103	Full Metal Jacket (1987) 8.1/10 (60336 votes)
104	The Great Dictator (1940) 8.1/10 (13772 votes)
105	High Noon (1952) 8.1/10 (15414 votes)
106	Notorious (1946) 8.1/10 (13429 votes)
107	The Big Sleep (1946) 8.1/10 (12568 votes)
108	The Elephant Man (1980) 8.1/10 (21143 votes)
109	Mononoke-hime (1997) 8.1/10 (25890 votes)
110	Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 8.1/10 (103894 votes)
111	Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) 8.1/10 (64423 votes)
112	Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 8.1/10 (25676 votes)
113	Cool Hand Luke (1967) 8.1/10 (17798 votes)
114	The Sixth Sense (1999) 8.1/10 (117275 votes)
115	Wo hu cang long (2000) 8.1/10 (61673 votes)
116	Oldboy (2003) 8.1/10 (22578 votes)
117	Annie Hall (1977) 8.1/10 (27090 votes)
118	Salaire de la peur, Le (1953) 8.1/10 (4091 votes)
119	Yojimbo (1961) 8.1/10 (11969 votes)
120	The Princess Bride (1987) 8.1/10 (64640 votes)
121	Ben-Hur (1959) 8.1/10 (26007 votes)
122	Unforgiven (1992) 8.1/10 (38710 votes)
123	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 8.1/10 (75257 votes)
124	Back to the Future (1985) 8.0/10 (85237 votes)
125	Life of Brian (1979) 8.0/10 (41666 votes)
126	It Happened One Night (1934) 8.0/10 (10045 votes)
127	Ladri di biciclette (1948) 8.0/10 (9723 votes)
128	The Green Mile (1999) 8.0/10 (77140 votes)
129	The Deer Hunter (1978) 8.0/10 (35842 votes)
130	The Killing (1956) 8.0/10 (9132 votes)
131	The Graduate (1967) 8.0/10 (34306 votes)
132	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 8.0/10 (24953 votes)
133	Notti di Cabiria, Le (1957) 8.0/10 (3234 votes)
134	Toy Story 2 (1999) 8.0/10 (50404 votes)
135	The General (1927) 8.0/10 (8374 votes)
136	Amores perros (2000) 8.0/10 (21116 votes)
137	Platoon (1986) 8.0/10 (44541 votes)
138	Lola rennt (1998) 8.0/10 (40473 votes)
139	The African Queen (1951) 8.0/10 (16691 votes)
140	Duck Soup (1933) 8.0/10 (12348 votes)
141	Gladiator (2000) 8.0/10 (115918 votes)
142	Per qualche dollaro in più (1965) 8.0/10 (12735 votes)
143	Smultronstället (1957) 8.0/10 (7225 votes)
144	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) 8.0/10 (4751 votes)
145	Brief Encounter (1945) 8.0/10 (3878 votes)
146	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) 8.0/10 (9409 votes)
147	Glory (1989) 8.0/10 (26423 votes)
148	Gandhi (1982) 8.0/10 (19844 votes)
149	The Night of the Hunter (1955) 8.0/10 (9818 votes)
150	Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 8.0/10 (7674 votes)
151	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 8.0/10 (7730 votes)
152	Patton (1970) 8.0/10 (17891 votes)
153	Ying xiong (2002) 8.0/10 (34699 votes)
154	The Gold Rush (1925) 8.0/10 (8175 votes)
155	Before Sunset (2004) 8.0/10 (15887 votes)
156	The Conversation (1974) 8.0/10 (12982 votes)
157	Finding Neverland (2004) 8.0/10 (32996 votes)
158	Die Hard (1988) 8.0/10 (72205 votes)
159	The Philadelphia Story (1940) 8.0/10 (13046 votes)
160	Diaboliques, Les (1955) 8.0/10 (4352 votes)
161	Stand by Me (1986) 8.0/10 (38449 votes)
162	Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) 7.9/10 (11156 votes)
163	Harvey (1950) 7.9/10 (9787 votes)
164	A Christmas Story (1983) 7.9/10 (25024 votes)
165	8½ (1963) 7.9/10 (10615 votes)
166	The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 7.9/10 (12680 votes)
167	Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 7.9/10 (19763 votes)
168	Cabinet des Dr. Caligari., Das (1920) 7.9/10 (5220 votes)
169	Gone with the Wind (1939) 7.9/10 (35945 votes)
170	Cinderella Man (2005) 7.9/10 (19356 votes)
171	The Grapes of Wrath (1940) 7.9/10 (9837 votes)
172	Spartacus (1960) 7.9/10 (21440 votes)
173	Mystic River (2003) 7.9/10 (41523 votes)
174	Belle et la bête, La (1946) 7.9/10 (3239 votes)
175	Shrek (2001) 7.9/10 (82183 votes)
176	Big Fish (2003) 7.9/10 (47333 votes)
177	Magnolia (1999) 7.9/10 (57610 votes)
178	Toy Story (1995) 7.9/10 (56287 votes)
179	Groundhog Day (1993) 7.9/10 (56238 votes)
180	The Hustler (1961) 7.9/10 (10420 votes)
181	Trainspotting (1996) 7.9/10 (64733 votes)
182	Hable con ella (2002) 7.9/10 (17008 votes)
183	The Wild Bunch (1969) 7.9/10 (13258 votes)
184	The Exorcist (1973) 7.9/10 (43332 votes)
185	The Straight Story (1999) 7.9/10 (18635 votes)
186	The Lady Vanishes (1938) 7.9/10 (5972 votes)
187	Tengoku to jigoku (1963) 7.9/10 (2587 votes)
188	Twelve Monkeys (1995) 7.9/10 (76143 votes)
189	Ed Wood (1994) 7.9/10 (29731 votes)
190	Manhattan (1979) 7.9/10 (15573 votes)
191	Kumonosu jô (1957) 7.9/10 (4691 votes)
192	Battaglia di Algeri, La (1966) 7.9/10 (3453 votes)
193	V for Vendetta (2005) 7.9/10 (37924 votes)
194	Stalag 17 (1953) 7.9/10 (8947 votes)
195	The Big Lebowski (1998) 7.9/10 (65180 votes)
196	Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 7.9/10 (6536 votes)
197	Bringing Up Baby (1938) 7.9/10 (11509 votes)
198	Monsters, Inc. (2001) 7.9/10 (49624 votes)
199	King Kong (1933) 7.9/10 (15756 votes)
200	Out of the Past (1947) 7.9/10 (3571 votes)
201	Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 7.9/10 (14013 votes)
202	Sling Blade (1996) 7.9/10 (24511 votes)
203	Quatre cents coups, Les (1959) 7.9/10 (8520 votes)
204	Young Frankenstein (1974) 7.9/10 (27578 votes)
205	The Terminator (1984) 7.9/10 (73384 votes)
206	Festen (1998) 7.9/10 (14997 votes)
207	Roman Holiday (1953) 7.9/10 (12152 votes)
208	Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 7.9/10 (6295 votes)
209	Heat (1995) 7.9/10 (57038 votes)
210	Snatch. (2000) 7.9/10 (59879 votes)
211	Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) 7.9/10 (13980 votes)
212	Anatomy of a Murder (1959) 7.9/10 (5012 votes)
213	Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) 7.9/10 (86538 votes)
214	Brazil (1985) 7.9/10 (37685 votes)
215	His Girl Friday (1940) 7.9/10 (8637 votes)
216	Hotaru no haka (1988) 7.9/10 (10307 votes)
217	Inherit the Wind (1960) 7.9/10 (4706 votes)
218	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) 7.9/10 (44869 votes)
219	The Searchers (1956) 7.9/10 (12747 votes)
220	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 7.9/10 (9197 votes)
221	Sleuth (1972) 7.9/10 (5894 votes)
222	In the Heat of the Night (1967) 7.9/10 (8907 votes)
223	All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 7.9/10 (8830 votes)
224	Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 7.9/10 (16037 votes)
225	Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) 7.8/10 (4629 votes)
226	Rosemary's Baby (1968) 7.8/10 (16419 votes)
227	Himmel über Berlin, Der (1987) 7.8/10 (8873 votes)
228	Scarface (1983) 7.8/10 (43284 votes)
229	Ikiru (1952) 7.8/10 (5871 votes)
230	Almost Famous (2000) 7.8/10 (48664 votes)
231	Sweet Smell of Success (1957) 7.8/10 (3109 votes)
232	Frankenstein (1931) 7.8/10 (8337 votes)
233	No Man's Land (2001) 7.8/10 (9207 votes)
234	Charade (1963) 7.8/10 (11662 votes)
235	The Insider (1999) 7.8/10 (35266 votes)
236	The Thing (1982) 7.8/10 (23980 votes)
237	All the President's Men (1976) 7.8/10 (16026 votes)
238	Doctor Zhivago (1965) 7.8/10 (12974 votes)
239	Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994) 7.8/10 (12934 votes)
240	A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) 7.8/10 (12377 votes)
241	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 7.8/10 (84720 votes)
242	Planet of the Apes (1968) 7.8/10 (25112 votes)
243	Mulholland Dr. (2001) 7.8/10 (46823 votes)
244	Lost in Translation (2003) 7.8/10 (60644 votes)
245	Sideways (2004) 7.8/10 (32618 votes)
246	À bout de souffle (1960) 7.8/10 (6924 votes)
247	Central do Brasil (1998) 7.8/10 (10439 votes)
248	The Lost Weekend (1945) 7.8/10 (3674 votes)
249	Walk the Line (2005) 7.8/10 (25090 votes)
250	A Man for All Seasons (1966) 7.8/10 (5529 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.