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. 8 new

    Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

    1980, in 25 top lists Check
  2. 39 new

    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    2003, in 29 top lists Check
  3. 49 new

    Ordet

    1955, in 21 top lists Check
  4. 55 new

    Mononoke-hime

    1997 — a.k.a. Princess Mononoke, in 18 top lists Check
  5. 69 new

    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    2001, in 31 top lists Check
  6. 71 new

    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
  7. 76 new

    Star Wars

    1977, in 40 top lists Check
  8. 77 new

    Sherlock Jr.

    1924, in 24 top lists Check
  9. 81 new

    Det sjunde inseglet

    1957 — a.k.a. The Seventh Seal, in 25 top lists Check
  10. 84 new

    1963, in 35 top lists Check
  11. 97 new

    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    2002, in 26 top lists Check
  12. 150 new

    A Matter of Life and Death

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
  13. 152 new

    Tonari no Totoro

    1988 — a.k.a. My Neighbor Totoro, in 23 top lists Check
  14. 183 new

    El laberinto del fauno

    2006 — a.k.a. Pan's Labyrinth, in 33 top lists Check
  15. 190 new

    Der Himmel über Berlin

    1987 — a.k.a. Wings of Desire, in 21 top lists Check
  16. 191 new

    Céline et Julie vont en bateau: Phantom Ladies...

    1974 — a.k.a. Celine and Julie Go Boating, in 11 top lists Check
  17. 242 new

    El ángel exterminador

    1962 — a.k.a. The Exterminating Angel, in 19 top lists Check
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Last updated on Jul 1, 2019 by Juanco93; source