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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...…

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

  • The Godfather

    2

  • The Godfather Part II

    4

  • 12 Angry Men

    5

  • Schindler's List

    7

  • Pulp Fiction

    8

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

    9

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    12

  • Fight Club

    13

  • Se7en

    20

  • It's a Wonderful Life

    21

  • Seven Samurai

    23

  • City of God

    25

  • Star Wars

    29

  • Back to the Future

    30

  • Psycho

    35

  • Grave of the Fireflies

    37

  • Harakiri

    40

  • The Usual Suspects

    46

  • Alien

    49

  • Rear Window

    51

  • Apocalypse Now

    55

  • Memento

    58

  • Paths of Glory

    65

  • The Shining

    66

  • Inglourious Basterds

    69

  • High and Low

    82

  • Singin' in the Rain

    89

  • Come and See

    90

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    96

  • North by Northwest

    106

  • M

    108

  • Citizen Kane

    109

  • Vertigo

    111

  • Amélie

    112

  • Die Hard

    116

  • The Sting

    118

  • Metropolis

    121

  • Jurassic Park

    141

  • There Will Be Blood

    142

  • No Country for Old Men

    147

  • Pan's Labyrinth

    149

  • Kill Bill: Vol. 1

    151

  • Fargo

    176

  • My Neighbor Totoro

    183

  • Monsters, Inc.

    196

  • Jaws

    202

  • The General

    206

  • Tokyo Story

    214

  • The Big Lebowski

    216

  • Before Sunset

    227

  • The ion of Joan of Arc

    231

  • Network

    238

  • The Shawshank Redemption

    1

  • The Dark Knight

    3

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

    6

  • Forrest Gump

    11

  • The Empire Strikes Back

    15

  • The Matrix

    16

  • GoodFellas

    17

  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    19

  • The Silence of the Lambs

    22

  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    28

  • Spirited Away

    31

  • The Departed

    38

  • Whiplash

    39

  • The Prestige

    41

  • Léon: The Professional

    43

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    44

  • Modern Times

    50

  • WALL·E

    56

  • Dune: Part Two

    57

  • Raiders of the Lost Ark

    59

  • The Lives of Others

    60

  • Avengers: Infinity War

    61

  • Sunset Boulevard

    62

  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

    63

  • Aliens

    70

  • Toy Story

    74

  • Das Boot

    79

  • American Beauty

    81

  • Your Name.

    84

  • Once Upon a Time in America

    87

  • Requiem for a Dream

    91

  • Return of the Jedi

    92

  • Toy Story 3

    93

  • Ikiru

    95

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    97

  • Incendies

    98

  • Reservoir Dogs

    99

  • The Apartment

    100

  • Lawrence of Arabia

    101

  • Double Indemnity

    104

  • Full Metal Jacket

    110

  • A Separation

    113

  • Oppenheimer

    120

  • Snatch

    122

  • Taxi Driver

    130

  • Batman Begins

    132

  • Some Like It Hot

    136

  • The Kid

    138