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IMDb Top 250

IMDB's top 250 list: loved by some, hated by others. Of course you can argue about the order of movies and the presence or absence of certain titles. Fact remains that it holds a great deal of the most appreciated films of all time and the overall quality is pretty high.

I tried to complete the list once, but choked near the end... ;-) I will keep updating weekly though and one day I will finish the last few missing films.

Feel free to comment your % or must sees from this list!
And for the people who find 250 entries a bit lacking, here's a list with every movie that was once in IMDB's Top 250.

A few statistics...…

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There are 244 films (excluding Westerns) in this list.

  • Gone with the Wind

    163

  • Once Upon a Time in America

    87

  • Lawrence of Arabia

    101

  • Ben-Hur

    181

  • Seven Samurai

    23

  • The Godfather Part II

    4

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    6

  • Schindler's List

    7

  • Judgment at Nuremberg

    135

  • The Green Mile

    26

  • Barry Lyndon

    184

  • The Deer Hunter

    205

  • Avengers: Endgame

    75

  • Oppenheimer

    120

  • The Wolf of Wall Street

    128

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    9

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    12

  • Casino

    144

  • Braveheart

    80

  • The Godfather

    2

  • The Sound of Music

    229

  • The Great Escape

    158

  • 3 Idiots

    85

  • The Best Years of Our Lives

    226

  • Scarface

    103

  • Heat

    105

  • Interstellar

    18

  • Saving Private Ryan

    24

  • Dune: Part Two

    57

  • The Dark Knight Rises

    71

  • Jai Bhim

    223

  • Like Stars on Earth

    114

  • Dangal

    127

  • The Bridge on the River Kwai

    171

  • Amadeus

    73

  • Hamilton

    129

  • Ran

    145

  • Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 1

    248

  • There Will Be Blood

    142

  • Gladiator

    33

  • Cinema Paradiso

    47

  • Downfall

    126

  • Pulp Fiction

    8

  • Amores Perros

    249

  • Inglourious Basterds

    69

  • Metropolis

    121

  • Prisoners

    154

  • Ford v Ferrari

    204

  • The Wages of Fear

    207

  • The Dark Knight

    3

  • The Departed

    38

  • The Pianist

    32

  • Das Boot

    79

  • Avengers: Infinity War

    61

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    97

  • Gone Girl

    194

  • Inception

    14

  • Spider-Man: No Way Home

    186

  • Into the Wild

    245

  • Apocalypse Now

    55

  • 12th Fail

    68

  • The Help

    247

  • GoodFellas

    17

  • The Handmaiden

    240

  • The Shining

    66

  • Ikiru

    95

  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

    218

  • The Shawshank Redemption

    1

  • Forrest Gump

    11

  • High and Low

    82

  • Come and See

    90

  • Catch Me If You Can

    172

  • Maharaja

    219

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    44

  • Batman Begins

    132

  • Warrior

    177

  • Fight Club

    13

  • All About Eve

    140

  • Hacksaw Ridge

    189

  • L.A. Confidential

    124

  • Shutter Island

    137

  • I'm Still Here

    236

  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    28

  • The Lives of Others

    60

  • Aliens

    70

  • A Clockwork Orange

    117

  • Logan

    211

  • Tokyo Story

    214

  • The Matrix

    16

  • North by Northwest

    106

  • Harakiri

    40

  • A Beautiful Mind

    152

  • Princess Mononoke

    83

  • 12 Years a Slave

    188

  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    19

  • Parasite

    34

  • In the Name of the Father

    197

  • Return of the Jedi

    92

  • Die Hard

    116

  • V for Vendetta

    168