Top 1,000 Films of All Time (Calculated)
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SOURCE: https://letterboxd.com/prof_ratigan/list/top-1000-films-of-all-time-calculated/
There are many statistically-minded lists available. Generally, they are either based on averages or cumulative presence in lists. This list attempts to bring the two together, with a composite score that uses Letterboxd, IMDb, Metacritic, and Rotten Tomatoes scores as well as a quantification of the movies' presence on several lists (enumerated below). I would describe the results as a consensus opinion of the films someone "should" see. [You can also see the list of 5,000 films here.]
I started with a list of about 30k titles gleaned from many Letterboxd lists, IMDb data, and other sources and crunched the numbers. I limited composite scores to those above 500 IMDb votes. Votes were normalized against the maximum votes on that website to account for the differing traffic, so the Highest Voted movie would be a 1.00 and the lowest 0.01. I weighted the differing website rating according to my own sense of importance with Letterboxd about 10x Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic about half of IMDb. I also included weighting by year to account for the significant recency bias in online vote tallies. That weight was Votes x (1+((2000-Year)/100).
The way that I quantified movies on lists like Sight & Sound was to give those films a sort of fictional rating as if it were from IMDb. So, for instance, Vertigo, at #1 on Sight & Sound's Top 250 got 100, Citizen Kane got 99.96. Lists where there was no ranking all received 100. Sight and Sound, Palme D'or, and Oscar Winners received the greatest weight, which was about 10x a Oscar nomination outside Best Picture and about twice the Golden Bear or AFI Top 100.
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73 +44
Ningen no jôken
1961 — a.k.a. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer, in 12 top lists Check -
78 -4
Yôjinbô
1961 — a.k.a. Yojimbo, in 19 top lists Check -
87 +10
The Hustler
1961, in 15 top lists Check -
93 +19
Viridiana
1961, in 24 top lists Check -
105 +64
West Side Story
1961, in 22 top lists Check -
191 +24
L'année dernière à Marienbad
1961 — a.k.a. Last Year at Marienbad, in 23 top lists Check -
192 +160
La notte
1961 — a.k.a. The Night, in 13 top lists Check -
196 +57
Såsom i en spegel
1961 — a.k.a. Through a Glass Darkly, in 9 top lists Check -
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The Innocents
1961, in 12 top lists Check -
311 +180
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961, in 8 top lists Check -
348 +96
Il posto
1961, in 6 top lists Check -
468 -51
A Raisin in the Sun
1961, in 3 top lists Check -
479 -44
Victim
1961, in 7 top lists Check -
540 +34
Divorzio all'italiana
1961 — a.k.a. Divorce Italian Style, in 7 top lists Check -
599 +275
Kohayagawa-ke no aki
1961 — a.k.a. The End of Summer, in 2 top lists Check -
632 new
Splendor in the Grass
1961, in 7 top lists Check -
697 +30
Léon Morin, prêtre
1961 — a.k.a. Léon Morin, Priest, in 3 top lists Check -
728 +108
One, Two, Three
1961, in 5 top lists Check -
763 -202
Plácido
1961 — a.k.a. Placido, in 5 top lists Check -
810 new
Chronique d'un été (Paris 1960)
1961 — a.k.a. Chronicle of a Summer, in 8 top lists Check -
821 -92
Breakfast at Tiffany's
1961, in 9 top lists Check -
895 new
Lola
1961, in 10 top lists Check
Last updated on Jan 27, 2024 by gokhan; source