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. 241 new

    The Kid

    1921, in 17 top lists Check
  2. 77 new

    Sherlock Jr.

    1924, in 24 top lists Check
  3. 186 new

    The General

    1926, in 33 top lists Check
  4. 148 new

    Metropolis

    1927, in 36 top lists Check
  5. 138 new

    Napoléon vu par Abel Gance

    1927 — a.k.a. Napoleon, in 24 top lists Check
  6. 110 new

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
  7. 18 new

    La passion de Jeanne d'Arc

    1928 — a.k.a. The Passion of Joan of Arc, in 27 top lists Check
  8. 53 new

    City Lights

    1931, in 34 top lists Check
  9. 58 new

    M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

    1931 — a.k.a. M, in 35 top lists Check
  10. 95 new

    Modern Times

    1936, in 30 top lists Check
  11. 193 new

    La grande illusion

    1937 — a.k.a. The Grand Illusion, in 30 top lists Check
  12. 161 new

    Make Way for Tomorrow

    1937, in 16 top lists Check
  13. 128 new

    The Great Dictator

    1940, in 25 top lists Check
  14. 89 new

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  15. 78 new

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  16. 165 new

    To Be or Not to Be

    1942, in 24 top lists Check
  17. 104 new

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    1943, in 16 top lists Check
  18. 140 new

    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
  19. 127 new

    Brief Encounter

    1945, in 22 top lists Check
  20. 109 new

    Les enfants du paradis

    1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise, in 21 top lists Check
  21. 71 new

    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
  22. 150 new

    A Matter of Life and Death

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
  23. 94 new

    Ladri di biciclette

    1948 — a.k.a. Bicycle Thieves, in 36 top lists Check
  24. 54 new

    The Red Shoes

    1948, in 27 top lists Check
  25. 167 new

    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    1948, in 25 top lists Check
  26. 72 new

    Banshun

    1949 — a.k.a. Late Spring, in 16 top lists Check
  27. 122 new

    The Third Man

    1949, in 37 top lists Check
  28. 112 new

    All About Eve

    1950, in 25 top lists Check
  29. 197 new

    In a Lonely Place

    1950, in 19 top lists Check
  30. 225 new

    Los olvidados

    1950 — a.k.a. The Young and the Damned, in 25 top lists Check
  31. 141 new

    Rashômon

    1950 — a.k.a. Rashomon, in 34 top lists Check
  32. 24 new

    Sunset Blvd.

    1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check
  33. 185 new

    Ace in the Hole

    1951, in 21 top lists Check
  34. 177 new

    Bakushû

    1951 — a.k.a. Early Summer, in 9 top lists Check
  35. 22 new

    Ikiru

    1952, in 25 top lists Check
  36. 67 new

    Singin' in the Rain

    1952, in 37 top lists Check
  37. 201 new

    Umberto D.

    1952, in 16 top lists Check
  38. 114 new

    Le salaire de la peur

    1953 — a.k.a. The Wages of Fear, in 29 top lists Check
  39. 28 new

    Tôkyô monogatari

    1953 — a.k.a. Tokyo Story, in 27 top lists Check
  40. 143 new

    Ugetsu monogatari

    1953 — a.k.a. Ugetsu, in 25 top lists Check
  41. 228 new

    On the Waterfront

    1954, in 32 top lists Check
  42. 35 new

    Rear Window

    1954, in 31 top lists Check
  43. 52 new

    Sanshô dayû

    1954 — a.k.a. Sansho the Bailiff, in 21 top lists Check
  44. 4 new

    Shichinin no samurai

    1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check
  45. 162 new

    Du rififi chez les hommes

    1955 — a.k.a. Rififi, in 18 top lists Check
  46. 102 new

    The Night of the Hunter

    1955, in 34 top lists Check
  47. 49 new

    Ordet

    1955, in 21 top lists Check
  48. 68 new

    Pather Panchali

    1955, in 21 top lists Check
  49. 171 new

    Aparajito

    1956 — a.k.a. The Unvanquished, in 15 top lists Check
  50. 92 new

    Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent...

    1956 — a.k.a. A Man Escaped, in 20 top lists Check
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Last updated on Jul 1, 2019 by Juanco93; source