Letterboxd Top 250

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Letterboxd's Top 250 movies, based on the average weighted rating of all Letterboxd users. I removed all stand-up specials, concert films, documentaries, shorts, 'collection listings' and other 'rarities', so only feature length narrative movies are listed here.

To avoid any discussions about documentary or not, Letterboxd genre classifications are used to remove them.
My friend Jack Moulton made a list of Letterboxd Top 100 documentaries though, go check it out!

A few statistics...

The oldest movie on the list is Charlie Chaplin's The Kid, released in 1921. The most popular decades in the list are the 1950's and 1960's, both with 39 entries. A complete overview:
1920's - 7 entries
1930's - 5 entries
1940's - 17 entries
1950's - 39 entries
1960's - 39 entries
1970's - 31 entries
1980's - 27 entries
1990's - 33 entries
2000's - 25 entries
2010's - 27 entries

Akira Kurosawa and Ingmar Bergman seem to be Letterboxd's most popular directors, both having 8 entries in the list, of which 4 in top 100.
All popular directors:
8 entries - Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa
6 entries - Andrei Tarkovsky, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick
4 entries - Martin Scorsese, Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola, Masaki Kobayashi, Charlie Chaplin, Satyajit Ray, Steven Spielberg, Yasujiro Ozu

Fun fact:
Highest ranked movies in IMDb's top 250 that are absent in the Letterboxd list: Forrest Gump (12), The Matrix (19), The Usual Suspects (29), The Green Mile (31) and Interstellar (32).


Latest update:
June 27, 2019

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  1. 83 new

    Fight Club

    1999, in 19 top lists Check
  2. 17 new

    Pulp Fiction

    1994, in 38 top lists Check
  3. 14 new

    The Dark Knight

    2008, in 27 top lists Check
  4. 12 new

    The Shawshank Redemption

    1994, in 24 top lists Check
  5. 189 new

    Inception

    2010, in 21 top lists Check
  6. 135 new

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    2004, in 28 top lists Check
  7. 142 new

    Inglourious Basterds

    2009, in 17 top lists Check
  8. 1 new

    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  9. 39 new

    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    2003, in 29 top lists Check
  10. 69 new

    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    2001, in 31 top lists Check
  11. 88 new

    Se7en

    1995, in 29 top lists Check
  12. 97 new

    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    2002, in 26 top lists Check
  13. 93 new

    Back to the Future

    1985, in 25 top lists Check
  14. 196 new

    The Big Lebowski

    1998, in 26 top lists Check
  15. 169 new

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  16. 76 new

    Star Wars

    1977, in 40 top lists Check
  17. 8 new

    Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

    1980, in 25 top lists Check
  18. 202 new

    Reservoir Dogs

    1992, in 26 top lists Check
  19. 46 new

    The Silence of the Lambs

    1991, in 36 top lists Check
  20. 47 new

    The Shining

    1980, in 28 top lists Check
  21. 10 new

    Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi

    2001 — a.k.a. Spirited Away, in 39 top lists Check
  22. 80 new

    The Lion King

    1994, in 24 top lists Check
  23. 217 new

    Léon

    1994 — a.k.a. Léon: The Professional, in 23 top lists Check
  24. 19 new

    Goodfellas

    1990, in 31 top lists Check
  25. 5 new

    12 Angry Men

    1957, in 30 top lists Check
  26. 65 new

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    1975, in 35 top lists Check
  27. 182 new

    The Departed

    2006, in 20 top lists Check
  28. 183 new

    El laberinto del fauno

    2006 — a.k.a. Pan's Labyrinth, in 33 top lists Check
  29. 2 new

    The Godfather Part II

    1974, in 32 top lists Check
  30. 16 new

    Schindler's List

    1993, in 35 top lists Check
  31. 31 new

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  32. 115 new

    Toy Story

    1995, in 25 top lists Check
  33. 87 new

    No Country for Old Men

    2007, in 23 top lists Check
  34. 70 new

    Taxi Driver

    1976, in 34 top lists Check
  35. 44 new

    Alien

    1979, in 30 top lists Check
  36. 98 new

    Raiders of the Lost Ark

    1981 — a.k.a. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, in 29 top lists Check
  37. 15 new

    Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo

    1966 — a.k.a. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, in 28 top lists Check
  38. 43 new

    Cidade de Deus

    2002 — a.k.a. City of God, in 22 top lists Check
  39. 117 new

    Fargo

    1996, in 27 top lists Check
  40. 187 new

    Saving Private Ryan

    1998, in 28 top lists Check
  41. 151 new

    Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    1991, in 27 top lists Check
  42. 32 new

    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 37 top lists Check
  43. 229 new

    Jurassic Park

    1993, in 23 top lists Check
  44. 37 new

    Psycho

    1960, in 39 top lists Check
  45. 86 new

    Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...

    1964, in 37 top lists Check
  46. 73 new

    Oldeuboi

    2003 — a.k.a. Oldboy, in 34 top lists Check
  47. 26 new

    There Will Be Blood

    2007, in 20 top lists Check
  48. 78 new

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  49. 131 new

    Children of Men

    2006, in 13 top lists Check
  50. 35 new

    Rear Window

    1954, in 31 top lists Check
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Last updated on Jul 1, 2019 by Juanco93; source