IMDb's "Top 250"

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Top 250 movies as voted by IMDB users

For this top 250, only votes from regular voters are considered.

http://imdb.com/chart/top

For Archived Lists from January 1st of each year:

2001: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/68693

2002: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/68692

2003: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/68672

2004: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/68297

2005: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/68131

2006: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/67184

2007: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/67192

2008: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/67199

2009: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/67202

2010: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/69422

2011: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/87118

2012: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/103134

Current: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/6587

Modern: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/84660

Bubbling Under: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/85378

(last update: January 29th, 2012)

Added: Beauty and the Beast, In the Mood for Love

Deleted: Kill Bill, Volume 2

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  1. 1.
    The Shawshank Redemption
    by Frank Darabont

  2. 2.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  3. 3.
    The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  4. 4.
    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
    by Sergio Leone

  5. 5.
    Pulp Fiction (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Quentin Tarantino

  6. 6.
    12 Angry Men
    by Sidney Lumet

  7. 7.
    Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  8. 8.
    The Dark Knight
    by Christopher Nolan

  9. 9.

  10. 11.

  11. 12.
    Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by David Fincher

  12. 13.
    Inception
    by Christopher Nolan

  13. 16.
    GoodFellas
    by Martin Scorsese

  14. 17.
    Star Wars, Episode IV- A New Hope (Widescreen Edition)
    by George Lucas

  15. 18.
    City of God
    by Fernando Meirelles

  16. 19.
    Casablanca (Snap Case)
    by Michael Curtiz

  17. 20.
    The Matrix

  18. 22.
    Rear Window (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  19. 23.

  20. 24.
    The Silence Of The Lambs (Widescreen Special Edition)
    by Jonathan Demme

  21. 25.
    The Usual Suspects (Special Edition)
    by Bryan Singer

  22. 26.
    Seven (New Line Platinum Series)
    by David Fincher

  23. 27.
    Psycho (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  24. 30.
    It's a Wonderful Life
    by Frank Capra

  25. 31.
    Leon - The Professional (Uncut International Version)
    by Luc Besson

  26. 32.
    Memento
    by Christopher Nolan

  27. 33.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

  28. 35.
    Apocalypse Now
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  29. 36.
    American History X
    by Tony Kaye

  30. 37.
    North by Northwest
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  31. 38.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles

  32. 39.
    Terminator 2: Judgment Day

  33. 40.
    American Beauty (Widescreen Edition)
    by Sam Mendes

  34. 41.
    Saving Private Ryan (Single-Disc Special Limited Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  35. 42.
    Toy Story 3
    by Lee Unkrich

  36. 43.
    Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese

  37. 44.
    Alien (The Director's Cut)
    by Ridley Scott

  38. 45.
    Spirited Away
    by Hayao Miyazaki

  39. 46.

  40. 47.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  41. 48.
    The Shining
    by Stanley Kubrick

  42. 49.
    Paths of Glory
    by Stanley Kubrick

  43. 50.
    M (The Criterion Collection)
    by Fritz Lang

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Comments

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Untitled — 2 weeks ago

Drive is on here twice.


Untitled — 5 weeks ago

Needs to be updated, I see Drive isn’t on here…I’d do it myself, but I’m headed to bed…
EDIT- Someone updated it. Danke.


Untitled — 5 weeks ago

I’m 75 percent done! My goal is to finish this list before my my 20th birthday.


Updated December 30th 2011 — 6 weeks ago

Added:

- Harakiri

- NausicaƤ of the Valley of the Wind

Removed:

- Sleuth

- Grand Illusion

I also replaced “Elite Squad” with it’s sequel “Elite Squad: The Enemy Within” and reordered everything to match IMDB’s current listings.

This was my first time updating this list after using it for a long time. I never realized how much work it takes, thus I must thank everyone who has put in the hard work updating this over the years. Thank you.


UPDATED 12/16/11 — 8 weeks ago

Added:

- Hugo

- Nosferatu

- Three Colours: Red

Deleted:

- Children of Men :-(

- Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring

- Patton


Updated 11/2/11 — 14 weeks ago

Added: Beauty and the Beast (1991)

Removed: Castle in the Sky


Updated 10/10/11 — 17 weeks ago

Removed:

His Girl Friday (bummer)

Anatomy of a Murder (real bummer)

Before Sunrise

Added:

Tropa de Elite 2 (Elite Squad: The Enemy Within)

Castle in the Sky

NausicaƤ of the Valley of the Wind

And of course the full list updated in order.


Update — 19 weeks ago

Added:

  1. Drive
  2. Nader and Simin, a Separation
  3. A Beautiful Mind
  4. Stalker
  5. Anatomy of a Murder

Removed:

  1. Letters from Iwo Jima
  2. Duck Soup
  3. Grand Illusion
  4. Harvey
  5. Arsenic and Old Lace

Updated! — 28 weeks ago

As of July 27, 2011

Added-

Harry Potter & DH PT II

Tokyo Story

Removed-

Anatomy of a Murder

Beauty and the Beast :(


Update Complete — 49 weeks ago

Added: The King’s Speech

Rope

The Figher

Monsters Inc

Castle in the Sky

Removed:

Kick-Ass

A Christmas Story

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…And Spring

Bringing Up Baby



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