Top 250 films 01.08.2006

Rank	Title
1	The Godfather (1972) 9.1/10 (171699 votes)
2	The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 9.0/10 (206824 votes)
3	The Godfather: Part II (1974) 8.9/10 (97710 votes)
4	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 8.8/10 (155648 votes)
5	Casablanca (1942) 8.8/10 (84806 votes)
6	Schindler's List (1993) 8.8/10 (126163 votes)
7	Shichinin no samurai (1954) 8.8/10 (45233 votes)
8	Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) 8.7/10 (46429 votes)
9	Pulp Fiction (1994) 8.7/10 (178660 votes)
10	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 8.7/10 (135898 votes)
11	Star Wars (1977) 8.7/10 (171963 votes)
12	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 8.7/10 (90917 votes)
13	Rear Window (1954) 8.7/10 (53658 votes)
14	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 8.7/10 (200478 votes)
15	The Usual Suspects (1995) 8.6/10 (132672 votes)
16	12 Angry Men (1957) 8.6/10 (39937 votes)
17	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 8.6/10 (117394 votes)
18	Cidade de Deus (2002) 8.6/10 (48104 votes)
19	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 8.6/10 (81392 votes)
20	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 8.6/10 (156532 votes)
21	Citizen Kane (1941) 8.6/10 (76289 votes)
22	Psycho (1960) 8.6/10 (68456 votes)
23	Goodfellas (1990) 8.6/10 (91420 votes)
24	C'era una volta il West (1968) 8.6/10 (25864 votes)
25	Memento (2000) 8.6/10 (120601 votes)
26	North by Northwest (1959) 8.6/10 (45634 votes)
27	The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 8.5/10 (116067 votes)
28	Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 8.5/10 (39892 votes)
29	Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 8.5/10 (81785 votes)
30	It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 8.5/10 (51628 votes)
31	Sunset Blvd. (1950) 8.5/10 (22361 votes)
32	Fight Club (1999) 8.5/10 (154056 votes)
33	American Beauty (1999) 8.5/10 (139768 votes)
34	The Matrix (1999) 8.5/10 (183496 votes)
35	Vertigo (1958) 8.4/10 (43628 votes)
36	Taxi Driver (1976) 8.4/10 (63331 votes)
37	Apocalypse Now (1979) 8.4/10 (83590 votes)
38	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 8.4/10 (80355 votes)
39	Paths of Glory (1957) 8.4/10 (19422 votes)
40	Untergang, Der (2004) 8.4/10 (24885 votes)
41	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 8.4/10 (39705 votes)
42	Se7en (1995) 8.4/10 (117621 votes)
43	Léon (1994) 8.4/10 (74353 votes)
44	Chinatown (1974) 8.4/10 (34096 votes)
45	American History X (1998) 8.4/10 (83785 votes)
46	The Third Man (1949) 8.4/10 (24176 votes)
47	The Pianist (2002) 8.4/10 (46759 votes)
48	Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) 8.4/10 (38238 votes)
49	Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 8.3/10 (79188 votes)
50	Boot, Das (1981) 8.3/10 (36744 votes)
51	Hotel Rwanda (2004) 8.3/10 (27426 votes)
52	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 8.3/10 (13792 votes)
53	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 8.3/10 (28667 votes)
54	L.A. Confidential (1997) 8.3/10 (86523 votes)
55	Requiem for a Dream (2000) 8.3/10 (69735 votes)
56	The Maltese Falcon (1941) 8.3/10 (24941 votes)
57	M (1931) 8.3/10 (16373 votes)
58	Alien (1979) 8.3/10 (81325 votes)
59	A Clockwork Orange (1971) 8.3/10 (85561 votes)
60	Metropolis (1927) 8.3/10 (16329 votes)
61	Reservoir Dogs (1992) 8.3/10 (91613 votes)
62	Sin City (2005) 8.3/10 (85991 votes)
63	Rashômon (1950) 8.3/10 (16135 votes)
64	Saving Private Ryan (1998) 8.3/10 (127972 votes)
65	The Shining (1980) 8.3/10 (68605 votes)
66	Singin' in the Rain (1952) 8.3/10 (26460 votes)
67	Double Indemnity (1944) 8.3/10 (15377 votes)
68	Modern Times (1936) 8.3/10 (14086 votes)
69	The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 8.3/10 (18247 votes)
70	Raging Bull (1980) 8.3/10 (36458 votes)
71	Million Dollar Baby (2004) 8.3/10 (48114 votes)
72	Some Like It Hot (1959) 8.3/10 (32717 votes)
73	All About Eve (1950) 8.3/10 (16864 votes)
74	Aliens (1986) 8.3/10 (80659 votes)
75	The Great Escape (1963) 8.2/10 (26804 votes)
76	Rebecca (1940) 8.2/10 (15245 votes)
77	Vita è bella, La (1997) 8.2/10 (49011 votes)
78	Touch of Evil (1958) 8.2/10 (15214 votes)
79	Amadeus (1984) 8.2/10 (47058 votes)
80	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 8.2/10 (81044 votes)
81	Batman Begins (2005) 8.2/10 (88853 votes)
82	The Sting (1973) 8.2/10 (30576 votes)
83	Jaws (1975) 8.2/10 (62168 votes)
84	Strangers on a Train (1951) 8.2/10 (14320 votes)
85	On the Waterfront (1954) 8.2/10 (17400 votes)
86	The Incredibles (2004) 8.2/10 (54358 votes)
87	Forrest Gump (1994) 8.2/10 (120813 votes)
88	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 8.2/10 (15168 votes)
89	Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) 8.2/10 (93697 votes)
90	The Wizard of Oz (1939) 8.2/10 (49194 votes)
91	The Apartment (1960) 8.2/10 (14912 votes)
92	Braveheart (1995) 8.2/10 (117090 votes)
93	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 8.2/10 (99202 votes)
94	Crash (2004/I) 8.2/10 (62451 votes)
95	City Lights (1931) 8.2/10 (10563 votes)
96	Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) 8.2/10 (13691 votes)
97	Blade Runner (1982) 8.2/10 (92066 votes)
98	Ran (1985) 8.2/10 (16257 votes)
99	Donnie Darko (2001) 8.2/10 (81442 votes)
100	Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989) 8.2/10 (18844 votes)

Top 101 - 250

Rank	Title
101	High Noon (1952) 8.2/10 (16051 votes)
102	Full Metal Jacket (1987) 8.2/10 (63170 votes)
103	The Elephant Man (1980) 8.2/10 (22205 votes)
104	The Big Sleep (1946) 8.2/10 (13204 votes)
105	Notorious (1946) 8.2/10 (14074 votes)
106	Fargo (1996) 8.2/10 (81748 votes)
107	Finding Nemo (2003) 8.1/10 (61262 votes)
108	The Great Dictator (1940) 8.1/10 (14481 votes)
109	Mononoke-hime (1997) 8.1/10 (27340 votes)
110	Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 8.1/10 (108046 votes)
111	Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 8.1/10 (27041 votes)
112	Cool Hand Luke (1967) 8.1/10 (18692 votes)
113	Salaire de la peur, Le (1953) 8.1/10 (4419 votes)
114	The Sixth Sense (1999) 8.1/10 (122192 votes)
115	Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) 8.1/10 (68437 votes)
116	Annie Hall (1977) 8.1/10 (28467 votes)
117	Wo hu cang long (2000) 8.1/10 (63581 votes)
118	Oldboy (2003) 8.1/10 (25592 votes)
119	Unforgiven (1992) 8.1/10 (40509 votes)
120	Ben-Hur (1959) 8.1/10 (27087 votes)
121	The Princess Bride (1987) 8.1/10 (67689 votes)
122	Yojimbo (1961) 8.1/10 (12552 votes)
123	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 8.1/10 (78325 votes)
124	Back to the Future (1985) 8.1/10 (89155 votes)
125	The Killing (1956) 8.1/10 (9698 votes)
126	Notti di Cabiria, Le (1957) 8.1/10 (3521 votes)
127	Life of Brian (1979) 8.1/10 (43537 votes)
128	The Green Mile (1999) 8.0/10 (81035 votes)
129	The Deer Hunter (1978) 8.0/10 (37595 votes)
130	It Happened One Night (1934) 8.0/10 (10524 votes)
131	The Graduate (1967) 8.0/10 (35879 votes)
132	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 8.0/10 (26170 votes)
133	Ladri di biciclette (1948) 8.0/10 (10214 votes)
134	Platoon (1986) 8.0/10 (46788 votes)
135	Toy Story 2 (1999) 8.0/10 (52630 votes)
136	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) 8.0/10 (5036 votes)
137	The African Queen (1951) 8.0/10 (17330 votes)
138	Gladiator (2000) 8.0/10 (121094 votes)
139	Per qualche dollaro in più (1965) 8.0/10 (13609 votes)
140	The General (1927) 8.0/10 (8771 votes)
141	Amores perros (2000) 8.0/10 (22394 votes)
142	Lola rennt (1998) 8.0/10 (42047 votes)
143	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) 8.0/10 (9859 votes)
144	Brief Encounter (1945) 8.0/10 (4160 votes)
145	Diaboliques, Les (1955) 8.0/10 (4718 votes)
146	Duck Soup (1933) 8.0/10 (12863 votes)
147	Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 8.0/10 (8115 votes)
148	Gandhi (1982) 8.0/10 (20802 votes)
149	The Night of the Hunter (1955) 8.0/10 (10283 votes)
150	V for Vendetta (2005) 8.0/10 (51703 votes)
151	The Conversation (1974) 8.0/10 (13730 votes)
152	Glory (1989) 8.0/10 (27463 votes)
153	Battaglia di Algeri, La (1966) 8.0/10 (3783 votes)
154	Patton (1970) 8.0/10 (18773 votes)
155	Harvey (1950) 8.0/10 (10279 votes)
156	8½ (1963) 8.0/10 (11194 votes)
157	Smultronstället (1957) 8.0/10 (7640 votes)
158	Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) 8.0/10 (11745 votes)
159	Stand by Me (1986) 8.0/10 (40304 votes)
160	Die Hard (1988) 8.0/10 (75237 votes)
161	Cabinet des Dr. Caligari., Das (1920) 8.0/10 (5605 votes)
162	The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 8.0/10 (13361 votes)
163	Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 8.0/10 (21053 votes)
164	Ying xiong (2002) 8.0/10 (36660 votes)
165	The Philadelphia Story (1940) 8.0/10 (13615 votes)
166	Belle et la bête, La (1946) 8.0/10 (3471 votes)
167	Finding Neverland (2004) 7.9/10 (35869 votes)
168	Cinderella Man (2005) 7.9/10 (22158 votes)
169	Gone with the Wind (1939) 7.9/10 (37591 votes)
170	A Christmas Story (1983) 7.9/10 (25962 votes)
171	Spartacus (1960) 7.9/10 (22333 votes)
172	The Gold Rush (1925) 7.9/10 (8558 votes)
173	Before Sunset (2004) 7.9/10 (17415 votes)
174	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 7.9/10 (8031 votes)
175	Tengoku to jigoku (1963) 7.9/10 (2811 votes)
176	The Grapes of Wrath (1940) 7.9/10 (10314 votes)
177	Mystic River (2003) 7.9/10 (43883 votes)
178	Toy Story (1995) 7.9/10 (58822 votes)
179	Shrek (2001) 7.9/10 (85858 votes)
180	Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) 7.9/10 (16117 votes)
181	Magnolia (1999) 7.9/10 (60104 votes)
182	Groundhog Day (1993) 7.9/10 (58795 votes)
183	Trainspotting (1996) 7.9/10 (67609 votes)
184	Big Fish (2003) 7.9/10 (50652 votes)
185	The Hustler (1961) 7.9/10 (10910 votes)
186	Out of the Past (1947) 7.9/10 (3874 votes)
187	The Exorcist (1973) 7.9/10 (45341 votes)
188	Quatre cents coups, Les (1959) 7.9/10 (9011 votes)
189	The Wild Bunch (1969) 7.9/10 (13994 votes)
190	The Lady Vanishes (1938) 7.9/10 (6334 votes)
191	The Big Lebowski (1998) 7.9/10 (68777 votes)
192	King Kong (1933) 7.9/10 (16601 votes)
193	Twelve Monkeys (1995) 7.9/10 (79256 votes)
194	Ed Wood (1994) 7.9/10 (31178 votes)
195	Walk the Line (2005) 7.9/10 (30455 votes)
196	The Straight Story (1999) 7.9/10 (19477 votes)
197	Kumonosu jô (1957) 7.9/10 (5052 votes)
198	Hable con ella (2002) 7.9/10 (17981 votes)
199	Anatomy of a Murder (1959) 7.9/10 (5362 votes)
200	Manhattan (1979) 7.9/10 (16296 votes)
201	Stalag 17 (1953) 7.9/10 (9366 votes)
202	Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) 7.9/10 (4970 votes)
203	Heat (1995) 7.9/10 (60067 votes)
204	The Terminator (1984) 7.9/10 (76398 votes)
205	Young Frankenstein (1974) 7.9/10 (28819 votes)
206	Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 7.9/10 (6643 votes)
207	Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 7.9/10 (14524 votes)
208	In the Heat of the Night (1967) 7.9/10 (9409 votes)
209	Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 7.9/10 (6886 votes)
210	Snatch. (2000) 7.9/10 (63289 votes)
211	Du rififi chez les hommes (1955) 7.9/10 (2502 votes)
212	Sleuth (1972) 7.9/10 (6172 votes)
213	Sling Blade (1996) 7.9/10 (25485 votes)
214	Monsters, Inc. (2001) 7.9/10 (52250 votes)
215	Inherit the Wind (1960) 7.9/10 (4985 votes)
216	All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 7.9/10 (9263 votes)
217	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 7.9/10 (9652 votes)
218	Sweet Smell of Success (1957) 7.9/10 (3308 votes)
219	Roman Holiday (1953) 7.9/10 (12794 votes)
220	Bringing Up Baby (1938) 7.9/10 (12037 votes)
221	Festen (1998) 7.9/10 (15586 votes)
222	Himmel über Berlin, Der (1987) 7.9/10 (9387 votes)
223	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) 7.9/10 (47374 votes)
224	Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 7.9/10 (16857 votes)
225	The Lost Weekend (1945) 7.9/10 (3976 votes)
226	Rosemary's Baby (1968) 7.9/10 (17553 votes)
227	The Thing (1982) 7.9/10 (25578 votes)
228	The Searchers (1956) 7.9/10 (13405 votes)
229	His Girl Friday (1940) 7.9/10 (9072 votes)
230	Brazil (1985) 7.9/10 (39263 votes)
231	Scarface (1983) 7.9/10 (46640 votes)
232	No Man's Land (2001) 7.9/10 (9919 votes)
233	Umberto D. (1952) 7.9/10 (2109 votes)
234	Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) 7.9/10 (92126 votes)
235	Hotaru no haka (1988) 7.9/10 (11303 votes)
236	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 7.8/10 (94660 votes)
237	Frankenstein (1931) 7.8/10 (8899 votes)
238	Haine, La (1995) 7.8/10 (8589 votes)
239	Doctor Zhivago (1965) 7.8/10 (13670 votes)
240	Ikiru (1952) 7.8/10 (6352 votes)
241	Central do Brasil (1998) 7.8/10 (10868 votes)
242	A Man for All Seasons (1966) 7.8/10 (5862 votes)
243	A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) 7.8/10 (13206 votes)
244	Harold and Maude (1971) 7.8/10 (12093 votes)
245	Almost Famous (2000) 7.8/10 (50995 votes)
246	Charade (1963) 7.8/10 (12256 votes)
247	Planet of the Apes (1968) 7.8/10 (26320 votes)
248	The Insider (1999) 7.8/10 (36873 votes)
249	All the President's Men (1976) 7.8/10 (16933 votes)
250	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) 7.8/10 (3712 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.