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. 1 new

    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  2. 2 new

    The Godfather Part II

    1974, in 32 top lists Check
  3. 9 new

    Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian

    1991 — a.k.a. A Brighter Summer Day, in 19 top lists Check
  4. 12 new

    The Shawshank Redemption

    1994, in 24 top lists Check
  5. 13 new

    Tengoku to jigoku

    1963 — a.k.a. High and Low, in 16 top lists Check
  6. 14 new

    The Dark Knight

    2008, in 27 top lists Check
  7. 17 new

    Pulp Fiction

    1994, in 38 top lists Check
  8. 19 new

    Goodfellas

    1990, in 31 top lists Check
  9. 43 new

    Cidade de Deus

    2002 — a.k.a. City of God, in 22 top lists Check
  10. 46 new

    The Silence of the Lambs

    1991, in 36 top lists Check
  11. 50 new

    Le trou

    1960 — a.k.a. Le Trou, in 15 top lists Check
  12. 58 new

    M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

    1931 — a.k.a. M, in 35 top lists Check
  13. 70 new

    Taxi Driver

    1976, in 34 top lists Check
  14. 85 new

    Les quatre cents coups

    1959 — a.k.a. The 400 Blows, in 26 top lists Check
  15. 87 new

    No Country for Old Men

    2007, in 23 top lists Check
  16. 96 new

    Do the Right Thing

    1989, in 25 top lists Check
  17. 102 new

    The Night of the Hunter

    1955, in 34 top lists Check
  18. 117 new

    Fargo

    1996, in 27 top lists Check
  19. 119 new

    Salinui chueok

    2003 — a.k.a. Memories of Murder, in 17 top lists Check
  20. 124 new

    La haine

    1995 — a.k.a. La Haine, in 15 top lists Check
  21. 140 new

    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
  22. 141 new

    Rashômon

    1950 — a.k.a. Rashomon, in 34 top lists Check
  23. 146 new

    Le samouraï

    1967 — a.k.a. Le Samouraï, in 20 top lists Check
  24. 160 new

    Once Upon a Time in America

    1984, in 19 top lists Check
  25. 162 new

    Du rififi chez les hommes

    1955 — a.k.a. Rififi, in 18 top lists Check
  26. 164 new

    Rocco e i suoi fratelli

    1960 — a.k.a. Rocco and His Brothers, in 19 top lists Check
  27. 169 new

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  28. 182 new

    The Departed

    2006, in 20 top lists Check
  29. 194 new

    North by Northwest

    1959, in 30 top lists Check
  30. 196 new

    The Big Lebowski

    1998, in 26 top lists Check
  31. 198 new

    Paper Moon

    1973, in 7 top lists Check
  32. 199 new

    Dog Day Afternoon

    1975, in 23 top lists Check
  33. 202 new

    Reservoir Dogs

    1992, in 26 top lists Check
  34. 217 new

    Léon

    1994 — a.k.a. Léon: The Professional, in 23 top lists Check
  35. 218 new

    Z

    1969, in 17 top lists Check
  36. 225 new

    Los olvidados

    1950 — a.k.a. The Young and the Damned, in 25 top lists Check
  37. 228 new

    On the Waterfront

    1954, in 32 top lists Check
  38. 231 new

    Witness for the Prosecution

    1957, in 12 top lists Check
  39. 234 new

    Some Like It Hot

    1959, in 35 top lists Check
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Last updated on Jul 1, 2019 by Juanco93; source