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. 4 new

    Shichinin no samurai

    1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check
  2. 8 new

    Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

    1980, in 25 top lists Check
  3. 10 new

    Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi

    2001 — a.k.a. Spirited Away, in 39 top lists Check
  4. 29 new

    O Auto da Compadecida

    2000 — a.k.a. A Dog's Will, in 1 top list Check
  5. 39 new

    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    2003, in 29 top lists Check
  6. 55 new

    Mononoke-hime

    1997 — a.k.a. Princess Mononoke, in 18 top lists Check
  7. 60 new

    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962, in 40 top lists Check
  8. 69 new

    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    2001, in 31 top lists Check
  9. 76 new

    Star Wars

    1977, in 40 top lists Check
  10. 80 new

    The Lion King

    1994, in 24 top lists Check
  11. 91 new

    Barry Lyndon

    1975, in 24 top lists Check
  12. 93 new

    Back to the Future

    1985, in 25 top lists Check
  13. 97 new

    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    2002, in 26 top lists Check
  14. 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
  15. 114 new

    Le salaire de la peur

    1953 — a.k.a. The Wages of Fear, in 29 top lists Check
  16. 115 new

    Toy Story

    1995, in 25 top lists Check
  17. 142 new

    Inglourious Basterds

    2009, in 17 top lists Check
  18. 149 new

    Mad Max: Fury Road

    2015, in 23 top lists Check
  19. 167 new

    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    1948, in 25 top lists Check
  20. 186 new

    The General

    1926, in 34 top lists Check
  21. 189 new

    Inception

    2010, in 21 top lists Check
  22. 194 new

    North by Northwest

    1959, in 30 top lists Check
  23. 207 new

    The Iron Giant

    1999, in 14 top lists Check
  24. 214 new

    Aliens

    1986, in 24 top lists Check
  25. 223 new

    The Grand Budapest Hotel

    2014, in 17 top lists Check
  26. 229 new

    Jurassic Park

    1993, in 23 top lists Check
  27. 234 new

    Some Like It Hot

    1959, in 35 top lists Check
  28. 238 new

    Das Boot

    1981 — a.k.a. The Boat, in 15 top lists Check
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Last updated on Jul 1, 2019 by Juanco93; source