Rank   Title
1The Godfather (1972) 9.1/10 (177722 votes)
2The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 9.1/10 (214057 votes)
3The Godfather: Part II (1974) 8.9/10 (101007 votes)
4The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 8.8/10 (161442 votes)
5Casablanca (1942) 8.8/10 (87107 votes)
6Schindler's List (1993) 8.8/10 (129463 votes)
7Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) 8.8/10 (48511 votes)
8Shichinin no samurai (1954) 8.7/10 (46796 votes)
9Pulp Fiction (1994) 8.7/10 (184127 votes)
10Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 8.7/10 (139216 votes)
11Star Wars (1977) 8.7/10 (175654 votes)
12One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 8.7/10 (93567 votes)
13Rear Window (1954) 8.7/10 (55257 votes)
14The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 8.7/10 (205240 votes)
1512 Angry Men (1957) 8.6/10 (41378 votes)
16Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 8.6/10 (120134 votes)
17The Usual Suspects (1995) 8.6/10 (136073 votes)
18Cidade de Deus (2002) 8.6/10 (50728 votes)
19Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 8.6/10 (83480 votes)
20The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 8.6/10 (161220 votes)
21Citizen Kane (1941) 8.6/10 (78031 votes)
22Psycho (1960) 8.6/10 (70278 votes)
23Goodfellas (1990) 8.6/10 (94331 votes)
24C'era una volta il West (1968) 8.6/10 (26947 votes)
25North by Northwest (1959) 8.6/10 (46852 votes)
26Memento (2000) 8.6/10 (124145 votes)
27The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 8.5/10 (118880 votes)
28Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 8.5/10 (40899 votes)
29Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 8.5/10 (84560 votes)
30Sunset Blvd. (1950) 8.5/10 (23156 votes)
31It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 8.5/10 (52750 votes)
32Fight Club (1999) 8.5/10 (159294 votes)
33American Beauty (1999) 8.5/10 (143147 votes)
34The Matrix (1999) 8.5/10 (188040 votes)
35Vertigo (1958) 8.4/10 (44842 votes)
36Taxi Driver (1976) 8.4/10 (65260 votes)
37Apocalypse Now (1979) 8.4/10 (86083 votes)
38Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 8.4/10 (84308 votes)
39Paths of Glory (1957) 8.4/10 (19999 votes)
40Se7en (1995) 8.4/10 (121142 votes)
41To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 8.4/10 (40937 votes)
42Untergang, Der (2004) 8.4/10 (26426 votes)
43Léon (1994) 8.4/10 (76907 votes)
44Chinatown (1974) 8.4/10 (35110 votes)
45American History X (1998) 8.4/10 (86841 votes)
46The Third Man (1949) 8.4/10 (24984 votes)
47The Pianist (2002) 8.4/10 (48630 votes)
48Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) 8.4/10 (39876 votes)
49Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 8.4/10 (81285 votes)
50The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 8.3/10 (14267 votes)
51Boot, Das (1981) 8.3/10 (37731 votes)
52Hotel Rwanda (2004) 8.3/10 (29244 votes)
53The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 8.3/10 (29369 votes)
54M (1931) 8.3/10 (17059 votes)
55L.A. Confidential (1997) 8.3/10 (88645 votes)
56The Maltese Falcon (1941) 8.3/10 (25672 votes)
57Requiem for a Dream (2000) 8.3/10 (72721 votes)
58Alien (1979) 8.3/10 (83539 votes)
59A Clockwork Orange (1971) 8.3/10 (88065 votes)
60Metropolis (1927) 8.3/10 (16938 votes)
61Rashômon (1950) 8.3/10 (16724 votes)
62Double Indemnity (1944) 8.3/10 (15979 votes)
63Reservoir Dogs (1992) 8.3/10 (94430 votes)
64The Shining (1980) 8.3/10 (70868 votes)
65Saving Private Ryan (1998) 8.3/10 (131377 votes)
66Sin City (2005) 8.3/10 (90442 votes)
67Singin' in the Rain (1952) 8.3/10 (27168 votes)
68The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 8.3/10 (18741 votes)
69Modern Times (1936) 8.3/10 (14592 votes)
70Raging Bull (1980) 8.3/10 (37629 votes)
71Aliens (1986) 8.3/10 (82714 votes)
72Rebecca (1940) 8.3/10 (15828 votes)
73Some Like It Hot (1959) 8.3/10 (33604 votes)
74The Great Escape (1963) 8.3/10 (27639 votes)
75All About Eve (1950) 8.3/10 (17384 votes)
76Million Dollar Baby (2004) 8.3/10 (50374 votes)
77Touch of Evil (1958) 8.2/10 (15605 votes)
78Vita è bella, La (1997) 8.2/10 (50359 votes)
792001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 8.2/10 (83118 votes)
80Amadeus (1984) 8.2/10 (48245 votes)
81The Sting (1973) 8.2/10 (31553 votes)
82Jaws (1975) 8.2/10 (63954 votes)
83Strangers on a Train (1951) 8.2/10 (14812 votes)
84Batman Begins (2005) 8.2/10 (93049 votes)
85On the Waterfront (1954) 8.2/10 (17976 votes)
86Forrest Gump (1994) 8.2/10 (124439 votes)
87Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 8.2/10 (15692 votes)
88Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) 8.2/10 (14256 votes)
89The Incredibles (2004) 8.2/10 (56667 votes)
90Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 8.2/10 (101890 votes)
91The Wizard of Oz (1939) 8.2/10 (50350 votes)
92Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) 8.2/10 (97089 votes)
93Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989) 8.2/10 (19444 votes)
94Braveheart (1995) 8.2/10 (119972 votes)
95The Apartment (1960) 8.2/10 (15388 votes)
96Blade Runner (1982) 8.2/10 (94088 votes)
97The Elephant Man (1980) 8.2/10 (23014 votes)
98City Lights (1931) 8.2/10 (10917 votes)
99High Noon (1952) 8.2/10 (16518 votes)
100Full Metal Jacket (1987) 8.2/10 (64978 votes)

Top 101 - 250

Rank   Title
101Notorious (1946) 8.2/10 (14539 votes)
102Donnie Darko (2001) 8.2/10 (85142 votes)
103The Big Sleep (1946) 8.2/10 (13610 votes)
104Crash (2004/I) 8.2/10 (66476 votes)
105Ran (1985) 8.2/10 (16739 votes)
106Fargo (1996) 8.2/10 (83549 votes)
107Finding Nemo (2003) 8.1/10 (63507 votes)
108The Great Dictator (1940) 8.1/10 (14968 votes)
109Mononoke-hime (1997) 8.1/10 (28411 votes)
110Salaire de la peur, Le (1953) 8.1/10 (4663 votes)
111Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 8.1/10 (110589 votes)
112Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 8.1/10 (28011 votes)
113Cool Hand Luke (1967) 8.1/10 (19287 votes)
114The Sixth Sense (1999) 8.1/10 (125313 votes)
115Oldboy (2003) 8.1/10 (27408 votes)
116Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) 8.1/10 (71219 votes)
117Annie Hall (1977) 8.1/10 (29351 votes)
118Unforgiven (1992) 8.1/10 (41605 votes)
119Ben-Hur (1959) 8.1/10 (27753 votes)
120Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 8.1/10 (80167 votes)
121Wo hu cang long (2000) 8.1/10 (64833 votes)
122Yojimbo (1961) 8.1/10 (13013 votes)
123Back to the Future (1985) 8.1/10 (91720 votes)
124Notti di Cabiria, Le (1957) 8.1/10 (3692 votes)
125The Killing (1956) 8.1/10 (10027 votes)
126The Princess Bride (1987) 8.1/10 (69267 votes)
127Life of Brian (1979) 8.1/10 (44767 votes)
128The Green Mile (1999) 8.1/10 (83719 votes)
129V for Vendetta (2006) 8.0/10 (64566 votes)
130The Deer Hunter (1978) 8.0/10 (38707 votes)
131It Happened One Night (1934) 8.0/10 (10851 votes)
132The Graduate (1967) 8.0/10 (37764 votes)
133Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 8.0/10 (26977 votes)
134Platoon (1986) 8.0/10 (48158 votes)
135Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) 8.0/10 (5230 votes)
136Per qualche dollaro in più (1965) 8.0/10 (14192 votes)
137Ladri di biciclette (1948) 8.0/10 (10542 votes)
138Diaboliques, Les (1955) 8.0/10 (4928 votes)
139The African Queen (1951) 8.0/10 (17813 votes)
140Gladiator (2000) 8.0/10 (124485 votes)
141The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) 8.0/10 (10166 votes)
142Battaglia di Algeri, La (1966) 8.0/10 (3997 votes)
143Amores perros (2000) 8.0/10 (23289 votes)
144Toy Story 2 (1999) 8.0/10 (53944 votes)
145Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 8.0/10 (8451 votes)
146Brief Encounter (1945) 8.0/10 (4362 votes)
147Gandhi (1982) 8.0/10 (21427 votes)
148Lola rennt (1998) 8.0/10 (43250 votes)
149The Night of the Hunter (1955) 8.0/10 (10693 votes)
150The General (1927) 8.0/10 (9024 votes)
151Smultronstället (1957) 8.0/10 (8003 votes)
152Duck Soup (1933) 8.0/10 (13230 votes)
153The Conversation (1974) 8.0/10 (14170 votes)
154Harvey (1950) 8.0/10 (10573 votes)
1558½ (1963) 8.0/10 (11584 votes)
156Stand by Me (1986) 8.0/10 (41461 votes)
157Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) 8.0/10 (12143 votes)
158Cabinet des Dr. Caligari., Das (1920) 8.0/10 (5935 votes)
159Patton (1970) 8.0/10 (19301 votes)
160Die Hard (1988) 8.0/10 (77174 votes)
161Glory (1989) 8.0/10 (28024 votes)
162Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 8.0/10 (21900 votes)
163The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 8.0/10 (13777 votes)
164Belle et la bête, La (1946) 8.0/10 (3686 votes)
165Ying xiong (2002) 8.0/10 (38042 votes)
166Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) 7.9/10 (17438 votes)
167Spartacus (1960) 7.9/10 (22955 votes)
168Gone with the Wind (1939) 7.9/10 (38593 votes)
169Finding Neverland (2004) 7.9/10 (37691 votes)
170The Philadelphia Story (1940) 7.9/10 (13978 votes)
171Before Sunset (2004) 7.9/10 (18352 votes)
172Cinderella Man (2005) 7.9/10 (23532 votes)
173The Gold Rush (1925) 7.9/10 (8813 votes)
174A Christmas Story (1983) 7.9/10 (26521 votes)
175The Grapes of Wrath (1940) 7.9/10 (10606 votes)
176Toy Story (1995) 7.9/10 (60273 votes)
177Groundhog Day (1993) 7.9/10 (60488 votes)
178Trainspotting (1996) 7.9/10 (69710 votes)
179Mystic River (2003) 7.9/10 (45484 votes)
180Magnolia (1999) 7.9/10 (61751 votes)
181Walk the Line (2005) 7.9/10 (32917 votes)
182Tengoku to jigoku (1963) 7.9/10 (2960 votes)
183Out of the Past (1947) 7.9/10 (4052 votes)
184Shrek (2001) 7.9/10 (88170 votes)
185The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 7.9/10 (8250 votes)
186The Lady Vanishes (1938) 7.9/10 (6615 votes)
187Idi i smotri (1985) 7.9/10 (2209 votes)
188Big Fish (2003) 7.9/10 (52831 votes)
189The Exorcist (1973) 7.9/10 (46553 votes)
190King Kong (1933) 7.9/10 (17111 votes)
191The Hustler (1961) 7.9/10 (11268 votes)
192The Wild Bunch (1969) 7.9/10 (14450 votes)
193The Big Lebowski (1998) 7.9/10 (71183 votes)
194Du rififi chez les hommes (1955) 7.9/10 (2661 votes)
195Twelve Monkeys (1995) 7.9/10 (81454 votes)
196Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) 7.9/10 (5170 votes)
197Quatre cents coups, Les (1959) 7.9/10 (9343 votes)
198Ed Wood (1994) 7.9/10 (32244 votes)
199Kumonosu jô (1957) 7.9/10 (5285 votes)
200Heat (1995) 7.9/10 (62401 votes)
201Stalag 17 (1953) 7.9/10 (9674 votes)
202Sleuth (1972) 7.9/10 (6378 votes)
203In the Heat of the Night (1967) 7.9/10 (9768 votes)
204The Terminator (1984) 7.9/10 (78401 votes)
205Little Miss Sunshine (2006) 7.9/10 (12532 votes)
206Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 7.9/10 (6883 votes)
207Anatomy of a Murder (1959) 7.9/10 (5630 votes)
208Snatch. (2000) 7.9/10 (65624 votes)
209Hotaru no haka (1988) 7.9/10 (11967 votes)
210Hable con ella (2002) 7.9/10 (18779 votes)
211The Straight Story (1999) 7.9/10 (20115 votes)
212Young Frankenstein (1974) 7.9/10 (29585 votes)
213Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 7.9/10 (7117 votes)
214Manhattan (1979) 7.9/10 (16795 votes)
215Umberto D. (1952) 7.9/10 (2286 votes)
216Sling Blade (1996) 7.9/10 (26054 votes)
217Sweet Smell of Success (1957) 7.9/10 (3448 votes)
218Himmel über Berlin, Der (1987) 7.9/10 (9707 votes)
219Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 7.9/10 (17344 votes)
220The Lost Weekend (1945) 7.9/10 (4154 votes)
221Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 7.9/10 (14973 votes)
222The Thing (1982) 7.9/10 (26734 votes)
223Monsters, Inc. (2001) 7.9/10 (53790 votes)
224Inherit the Wind (1960) 7.9/10 (5171 votes)
225Roman Holiday (1953) 7.9/10 (13165 votes)
226Ikiru (1952) 7.9/10 (6609 votes)
227Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) 7.9/10 (49016 votes)
228Sherlock Jr. (1924) 7.9/10 (2583 votes)
229Rosemary's Baby (1968) 7.9/10 (18245 votes)
230Frankenstein (1931) 7.9/10 (9358 votes)
231All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 7.9/10 (9561 votes)
232Haine, La (1995) 7.9/10 (9104 votes)
233Bringing Up Baby (1938) 7.9/10 (12386 votes)
234The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 7.9/10 (9966 votes)
235Central do Brasil (1998) 7.9/10 (11180 votes)
236Scarface (1983) 7.9/10 (48937 votes)
237A Man for All Seasons (1966) 7.9/10 (6096 votes)
238No Man's Land (2001) 7.9/10 (10387 votes)
239The Searchers (1956) 7.9/10 (13874 votes)
240Brazil (1985) 7.9/10 (40433 votes)
241Doctor Zhivago (1965) 7.9/10 (14118 votes)
242Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 7.9/10 (99774 votes)
243Festen (1998) 7.8/10 (16047 votes)
244Harold and Maude (1971) 7.8/10 (12727 votes)
245A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) 7.8/10 (13702 votes)
246Ángel exterminador, El (1962) 7.8/10 (2658 votes)
247Planet of the Apes (1968) 7.8/10 (27160 votes)
248The Man Who Would Be King (1975) 7.8/10 (10808 votes)
249His Girl Friday (1940) 7.8/10 (9390 votes)
250All the President's Men (1976) 7.8/10 (17505 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 6.7)
for the Top 250, only votes from regular voters are considered.