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. 9 new

    Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian

    1991 — a.k.a. A Brighter Summer Day, in 19 top lists Check
  2. 23 new

    Yi yi

    2000 — a.k.a. Yi Yi: A One and a Two..., in 19 top lists Check
  3. 24 new

    Sunset Blvd.

    1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check
  4. 34 new

    Fa yeung nin wah

    2000 — a.k.a. In the Mood for Love, in 30 top lists Check
  5. 53 new

    City Lights

    1931, in 34 top lists Check
  6. 54 new

    The Red Shoes

    1948, in 27 top lists Check
  7. 56 new

    The Apartment

    1960, in 28 top lists Check
  8. 63 new

    Ah-ga-ssi

    2016 — a.k.a. The Handmaiden, in 13 top lists Check
  9. 67 new

    Singin' in the Rain

    1952, in 37 top lists Check
  10. 75 new

    Before Sunrise

    1995, in 14 top lists Check
  11. 78 new

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  12. 79 new

    Before Sunset

    2004, in 18 top lists Check
  13. 104 new

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    1943, in 16 top lists Check
  14. 106 new

    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
  15. 107 new

    Chung Hing sam lam

    1994 — a.k.a. Chungking Express, in 19 top lists Check
  16. 109 new

    Les enfants du paradis

    1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise, in 21 top lists Check
  17. 110 new

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
  18. 120 new

    Smultronstället

    1957 — a.k.a. Wild Strawberries, in 23 top lists Check
  19. 123 new

    Trois couleurs: Rouge

    1994 — a.k.a. Three Colors: Red, in 20 top lists Check
  20. 127 new

    Brief Encounter

    1945, in 22 top lists Check
  21. 129 new

    Letyat zhuravli

    1957 — a.k.a. The Cranes Are Flying, in 17 top lists Check
  22. 135 new

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    2004, in 28 top lists Check
  23. 150 new

    A Matter of Life and Death

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
  24. 161 new

    Make Way for Tomorrow

    1937, in 16 top lists Check
  25. 168 new

    Marketa Lazarová

    1967, in 9 top lists Check
  26. 180 new

    La meglio gioventù

    2003 — a.k.a. The Best of Youth, in 12 top lists Check
  27. 190 new

    Der Himmel über Berlin

    1987 — a.k.a. Wings of Desire, in 21 top lists Check
  28. 216 new

    La maman et la putain

    1973 — a.k.a. The Mother and the Whore, in 14 top lists Check
  29. 228 new

    On the Waterfront

    1954, in 32 top lists Check
  30. 236 new

    Kit Kat

    1991, in 1 top list Check
  31. 243 new

    La vita è bella

    1997 — a.k.a. Life Is Beautiful, in 22 top lists Check
  32. 245 new

    Before Midnight

    2013, in 6 top lists Check
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Last updated on Jul 1, 2019 by Juanco93; source