So over the past few months I have been carefully creating a system using the most popular movie rating systems available online, as well as general movie data, to determine the greatest movies of all time.
I started off by gathering ratings from IMDB (User/Critic Average), Rotten Tomatoes (Tomatometer, Critic Average, Audience Score, User Average), Metacritic (Critic Average, User Average) and Letterboxd (User Average). I was then able to determine a rating (out of 10) for each individual rating and therefore come up with an average rating for each site. Each site’s average rating was then weighted fairly so that no site’s ratings were favored above the rest.
The next step was to make sure that each film was treated fairly. Other top movie list’s like IMDb’s Top 250 removes films that have under a certain viewing number (25,000 I think), but rather than ruling out films that may have been overlooked by the general audience (especially older films), I opted to alter these films score by carefully deducting points depending on how many people have seen it, and therefore voted on it. I also thought it was needed to make sure that recent films (released within the past 36 months) were also not favored, as it usually takes 3 years for the average rating to settle down. So I also added a deduction to these films that fell under this rule.
This process took a lot of tweaking to get right, but I am more than happy with the final result. Hopefully you all are to.
NOTE: As I went over Reddit’s maximum character limit trying to show you the full 1001 movie list, I have opted to show you the first 250 movies.
You can find the full 1001 Movie list in the following online lists, as well as a list outlining the available films on NETFLIX (US):
iCheckMovies: 1001 Greatest Movies of All Time
Letterboxd: 1001 Greatest Movies of All Time
IMDb: 1001 Greatest Movies of All Time
Letterboxd: Available films on NETFLIX (US) Apparently 958/1001 (Not sure how reliable)
ANYWAY, without further ado, I present you the 250(of 1001) Greatest Movies of All Time:
Rank
Title
Year
Director
1
The Godfather
1972
Francis Ford Coppola
2
Seven Samurai
1954
Akira Kurosawa
3
The Godfather: Part II
1974
Francis Ford Coppola
4
Pulp Fiction
1994
Quentin Tarantino
5
12 Angry Men
1957
Sidney Lumet
6
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1966
Sergio Leone
7
The Shawshank Redemption
1994
Frank Darabont
8
Sunset Blvd.
1950
Billy Wilder
9
Schindler's List
1993
Steven Spielberg
10
Spirited Away
2001
Hayao Miyazaki
11
Modern Times
1936
Charlie Chaplin
12
City Lights
1931
Charles Chaplin
13
Goodfellas
1990
Martin Scorsese
14
M
1931
Fritz Lang
15
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964
Stanley Kubrick
16
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
Sergio Leone
17
Lawrence of Arabia
1962
David Lean
18
Rear Window
1954
Alfred Hitchcock
19
The Dark Knight
2008
Christopher Nolan
20
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
1980
Irvin Kershner
21
Casablanca
1942
Michael Curtiz
22
Apocalypse Now
1979
Francis Coppola
23
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975
Milos Forman
24
Rashomon
1950
Akira Kurosawa
25
Taxi Driver
1976
Martin Scorsese
26
A Separation
2011
Asghar Farhadi
27
The 400 Blows
1959
François Truffaut
28
The Third Man
1949
Carol Reed
29
Paths of Glory
1957
Stanley Kubrick
30
Bicycle Thieves
1948
Vittorio De Sica
31
Grave of the Fireflies
1988
Isao Takahata
32
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981
Steven Spielberg
33
Ikiru
1952
Akira Kurosawa
34
Citizen Kane
1941
Orson Welles
35
Persona
1966
Ingmar Bergman
36
Chinatown
1974
Roman Polanski
37
The Night of the Hunter
1955
Charles Laughton
38
Yojimbo
1961
Akira Kurosawa
39
Double Indemnity
1944
Billy Wilder
40
Psycho
1960
Alfred Hitchcock
41
Vertigo
1958
Alfred Hitchcock
42
Stalker
1979
Andrey Tarkovskiy
43
Singin' in the Rain
1952
Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
44
Metropolis
1927
Fritz Lang
45
All About Eve
1950
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
46
On the Waterfront
1954
Elia Kazan
47
Ran
1985
Akira Kurosawa
48
Fanny and Alexander
1982
Ingmar Bergman
49
City of God
2002
Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
50
It's a Wonderful Life
1946
Frank Capra
51
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
Peter Jackson
52
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002
Peter Jackson
53
Toy Story 3
2010
Lee Unkrich
54
North by Northwest
1959
Alfred Hitchcock
55
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
1977
George Lucas
56
The Seventh Seal
1957
Ingmar Bergman
57
The Lives of Others
2006
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
58
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003
Peter Jackson
59
Wild Strawberries
1957
Ingmar Bergman
60
Raging Bull
1980
Martin Scorsese
61
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948
John Huston
62
Alien
1979
Ridley Scott
63
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004
Michel Gondry
64
Three Colors: Red
1994
Krzysztof Kieslowski
65
The Apartment
1960
Billy Wilder
66
The Wages of Fear
1953
Henri-Georges Clouzot
67
The Silence of the Lambs
1991
Jonathan Demme
68
The Great Dictator
1940
Charles Chaplin
69
WALL·E
2008
Andrew Stanton
70
Toy Story
1995
John Lasseter
71
Whiplash
2014
Damien Chazelle
72
The Kid
1921
Charlie Chaplin
73
Das Boot
1981
Wolfgang Petersen
74
Back to the Future
1985
Robert Zemeckis
75
Pan's Labyrinth
2006
Guillermo del Toro
76
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968
Stanley Kubrick
77
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975
Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
78
Witness for the Prosecution
1957
Billy Wilder
79
8½
1963
Federico Fellini
80
Cinema Paradiso
1988
Giuseppe Tornatore
81
The General
1926
Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton
82
Tokyo Story
1953
Yasujirô Ozu
83
Aliens
1986
James Cameron
84
The Shining
1980
Stanley Kubrick
85
The Battle of Algiers
1966
Gillo Pontecorvo
86
Amadeus
1984
Milos Forman
87
The Gold Rush
1925
Charles Chaplin
88
Saving Private Ryan
1998
Steven Spielberg
89
Some Like It Hot
1959
Billy Wilder
90
It Happened One Night
1934
Frank Capra
91
Touch of Evil
1958
Orson Welles
92
My Neighbor Totoro
1988
Hayao Miyazaki
93
Annie Hall
1977
Woody Allen
94
L.A. Confidential
1997
Curtis Hanson
95
La Dolce Vita
1960
Federico Fellini
96
Paris, Texas
1984
Wim Wenders
97
Reservoir Dogs
1992
Quentin Tarantino
98
Fight Club
1999
David Fincher
99
Wings of Desire
1987
Wim Wenders
100
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
David Lean
101
Cool Hand Luke
1967
Stuart Rosenberg
102
In the Mood for Love
2000
Kar Wai Wong
103
Sunrise
1927
F.W. Murnau
104
Before Sunset
2004
Richard Linklater
105
Before Sunrise
1995
Richard Linklater
106
La Haine
1995
Mathieu Kassovitz
107
The Pianist
2002
Roman Polanski
108
Harakiri
1962
Masaki Kobayashi
109
Memento
2000
Christopher Nolan
110
Blade Runner
1982
Ridley Scott
111
Three Colors: Blue
1993
Krzysztof Kieslowski
112
Mad Max: Fury Road
2015
George Miller
113
The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928
Carl Th. Dreyer
114
Princess Mononoke
1997
Hayao Miyazaki
115
The Wizard of Oz
1939
Victor Fleming
116
Come and See
1985
E. Klimov
117
Unforgiven
1992
Clint Eastwood
118
Notorious
1946
Alfred Hitchcock
119
The Hunt
2012
Thomas Vinterberg
120
The Maltese Falcon
1941
John Huston
121
Up
2009
Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
122
The Conversation
1974
Francis Ford Coppola
123
Fargo
1996
Joel Coen
124
Brazil
1985
Terry Gilliam
125
Badlands
1973
Terrence Malick
126
Once Upon a Time in America
1984
Sergio Leone
127
Amelie
2001
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
128
A Clockwork Orange
1971
Stanley Kubrick
129
Network
1976
Sidney Lumet
130
12 Years a Slave
2013
Steve McQueen
131
Rebecca
1940
Alfred Hitchcock
132
Inception
2010
Christopher Nolan
133
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972
Werner Herzog
134
There Will Be Blood
2007
Paul Thomas Anderson
135
La strada
1954
Federico Fellini
136
Solaris
1972
Andrey Tarkovskiy
137
Strangers on a Train
1951
Alfred Hitchcock
138
The Wild Bunch
1969
Sam Peckinpah
139
Full Metal Jacket
1987
Stanley Kubrick
140
The Departed
2006
Martin Scorsese
141
The Sting
1973
George Roy Hill
142
The Manchurian Candidate
1962
John Frankenheimer
143
All the President's Men
1976
Alan J. Pakula
144
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962
Robert Mulligan
145
The Lion King
1994
Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
146
Festen
1998
Thomas Vinterberg
147
Andrei Rublev
1966
Andrey Tarkovskiy
148
The Usual Suspects
1995
Bryan Singer
149
Manhattan
1979
Woody Allen
150
Barry Lyndon
1975
Stanley Kubrick
151
The Best of Youth
2003
Marco Tullio Giordana
152
Do the Right Thing
1989
Spike Lee
153
The Philadelphia Story
1940
George Cukor
154
Let the Right One In
2008
Tomas Alfredson
155
The Hustler
1961
Robert Rossen
156
Django Unchained
2012
Quentin Tarantino
157
Diabolique
1955
H.G. Clouzot
158
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966
Mike Nichols
159
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring
2003
Ki-duk Kim
160
Before Midnight
2013
Richard Linklater
161
The Killing
1956
Stanley Kubrick
162
Mary and Max
2009
Adam Elliot
163
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007
Julian Schnabel
164
The Deer Hunter
1978
Michael Cimino
165
Dog Day Afternoon
1975
Sidney Lumet
166
The Big Sleep
1946
Howard Hawks
167
Die Hard
1988
John McTiernan
168
A Prophet
2009
Jacques Audiard
169
Se7en
1995
David Fincher
170
The Nights of Cabiria
1957
Federico Fellini
171
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991
James Cameron
172
La Grande Illusion
1937
Jean Renoir
173
Incendies
2010
Denis Villeneuve
174
No Country for Old Men
2007
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
175
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
John Ford
176
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
Frank Capra
177
American Beauty
1999
Sam Mendes
178
This Is Spinal Tap
1984
Rob Reiner
179
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
William Wyler
180
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
John Ford
181
The Princess Bride
1987
Rob Reiner
182
The Mirror
1975
Andrey Tarkovskiy
183
The Searchers
1956
John Ford
184
Oldboy
2003
Chan-wook Park
185
Anatomy of a Murder
1959
Otto Preminger
186
The Secret in Their Eyes
2009
Juan José Campanella
187
Boyhood
2014
Richard Linklater
188
Finding Nemo
2003
Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
189
Memories of Murder
2003
Joon-ho Bong
190
Roman Holiday
1953
William Wyler
191
A Man Escaped
1956
Robert Bresson
192
Breathless
1960
Jean-Luc Godard
193
Days of Heaven
1978
Terrence Malick
194
Persepolis
2007
Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
195
Short Term 12
2013
Destin Daniel Cretton
196
The French Connection
1971
William Friedkin
197
The Great Escape
1963
John Sturges
198
Jaws
1975
Steven Spielberg
199
Rosemary's Baby
1968
Roman Polanski
200
The Social Network
2010
David Fincher
201
Children of Paradise
1945
Marcel Carné
202
The Man with No Name 2: For a Few Dollars More
1965
Sergio Leone
203
Gone with the Wind
1939
Victor Fleming
204
Le Samouraï
1967
Jean-Pierre Melville
205
Downfall
2004
Oliver Hirschbiegel
206
The Army of Shadows
1969
Jean-Pierre Melville
207
The King's Speech
2010
Tom Hooper
208
High Noon
1952
Fred Zinnemann
209
Life of Brian
1979
Terry Jones
210
Throne of Blood
1957
Akira Kurosawa
211
Patton: A Salute to a Rebel
1970
Franklin J. Schaffner
212
The Red Shoes
1948
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
213
The Last Picture Show
1971
Peter Bogdanovich
214
Life Is Beautiful
1997
Roberto Benigni
215
His Girl Friday
1940
Howard Hawks
216
High and Low
1963
Akira Kurosawa
217
Ugetsu
1953
Kenji Mizoguchi
218
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949
Robert Hamer
219
Ratatouille
2007
Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava
220
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
Woody Allen
221
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920
Robert Wiene
222
Trainspotting
1996
Danny Boyle
223
The Straight Story
1999
David Lynch
224
The Artist
2011
Michel Hazanavicius
225
How to Train Your Dragon
2010
Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
226
The Elephant Man
1980
David Lynch
227
Young Frankenstein
1974
Mel Brooks
228
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951
Elia Kazan
229
Rio Bravo
1959
Howard Hawks
230
Being There
1979
Hal Ashby
231
4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days
2007
Cristian Mungiu
232
Duck Soup
1933
Leo McCarey
233
The Hole
1960
Jacques Becker
234
Blue Velvet
1986
David Lynch
235
Chungking Express
1994
Kar Wai Wong
236
Shadow of a Doubt
1943
Alfred Hitchcock
237
Good Will Hunting
1997
Gus Van Sant
238
All About My Mother
1999
Pedro Almodóvar
239
Talk to Her
2002
Pedro Almodóvar
240
Infernal Affairs
2002
Andrew Lau, Alan Mak
241
Amour
2012
Michael Haneke
242
Her
2013
Spike Jonze
243
Once
2006
John Carney
244
The Rules of the Game
1939
Jean Renoir
245
Rififi
1955
Jules Dassin
246
American History X
1998
Tony Kaye
247
To Be or Not to Be
1942
Ernst Lubitsch
248
Inglourious Basterds
2009
Quentin Tarantino
249
Amores perros
2000
Alejandro González Iñárritu
250
Heat
1995
Michael Mann
I apologies for not having links for each film available above, but with Reddit's character limit it won't allow me to.
EDIT: For those who would like to see just the Top 250 I have made additional lists to make your checking off process easier.
iCheckMovies: 250 Greatest Movies of All Time
Letterboxd: 250 Greatest Movies of All Time
I will also add some interesting findings into the comments below, like Top Directors and Genre Info, so be on the lookout.
Any questions or advice, please feel free to comment. Cheers!
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