op 250 movies as voted by our users

For this top 250, only votes from regular voters are considered.
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Rank
Rating Title Votes
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 654,101
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The Godfather (1972)
495,395
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The Godfather: Part II (1974) 306,698
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) 205,655
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Pulp Fiction (1994)
515,424
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12 Angry Men (1957)
157,088
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Schindler's List (1993) 342,479
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 270,222
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The Dark Knight (2008) 588,198
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
453,012
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 335,331
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Inception (2010)
428,847
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Seven Samurai (1954)
115,741
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Fight Club (1999)
485,781
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Goodfellas (1990)
286,049
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Star Wars (1977)
379,925
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
474,655
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City of God (2002)
211,735
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Casablanca (1942)
196,591
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Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
94,424
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The Matrix (1999)
472,516
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Rear Window (1954)
143,526
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 290,222
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The Usual Suspects (1995)
321,043
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The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 310,155
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Psycho (1960) 175,965
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Se7en (1995)
360,018
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Forrest Gump (1994)
394,658
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
122,452
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
404,760
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Memento (2000) 343,455
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Sunset Blvd. (1950)
67,010
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Leon: The Professional (1994) 260,538
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the
Bomb (1964)
180,492
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Apocalypse Now (1979) 207,398
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American History X (1998)
288,178
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North by Northwest (1959)
110,100
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Citizen Kane (1941)
159,604
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Toy Story 3 (2010)
161,229
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American Beauty (1999) 354,851
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
296,016
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Saving Private Ryan (1998)
335,724
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Taxi Driver (1976)
197,842
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Alien (1979)
219,949
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Spirited Away (2001)
134,805
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Vertigo (1958) 109,674
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City Lights (1931)
37,041
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The Shining (1980)
225,798
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Amlie (2001) 227,678
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Paths of Glory (1957) 54,683
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The Pianist (2002)
173,230
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M (1931)
48,331
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WALLE (2008) 245,239

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Double Indemnity (1944) 45,442

The Lives of Others (2006)
98,683
The Departed (2006)
333,820
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
92,609
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
236,200
Aliens (1986) 203,797
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
97,576
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
233,088
Modern Times (1936)
46,144
Das Boot (1981) 82,334
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
274,801
Life Is Beautiful (1997)
139,789
Reservoir Dogs (1992) 260,243
Back to the Future (1985)
259,027
The Third Man (1949)
59,342
L.A. Confidential (1997)
195,430
Chinatown (1974)
94,870
The Prestige (2006)
276,721
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 39,549
Cinema Paradiso (1988) 57,232
The Green Mile (1999) 259,679
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974) 182,574
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
90,332
Raging Bull (1980)
108,799
Rashomon (1950) 48,080
The Great Dictator (1940)
47,057
Amadeus (1984) 118,128
Some Like It Hot (1959) 80,779
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
66,286
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
189,851
All About Eve (1950)
41,161
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) 196,942
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
70,191
Bicycle Thieves (1948) 35,282
Gladiator (2000)
354,954
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
190,891
Braveheart (1995)
297,135
Metropolis (1927)
49,382
The Apartment (1960)
44,926
Oldboy (2003) 127,319
Downfall (2004) 104,677
Unforgiven (1992)
123,415
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
262,374
The Sting (1973)
79,529
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
255,079
The Elephant Man (1980) 72,329
Gran Torino (2008)
184,576
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
39,292
Up (2009)
176,029
Princess Mononoke (1997)
82,272
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
207,248
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
60,004
On the Waterfront (1954)
49,049
Die Hard (1988) 228,060
Rebecca (1940) 41,873
The Great Escape (1963) 74,666
The Seventh Seal (1957) 47,015
Sin City (2005) 308,866
Batman Begins (2005)
335,549
Black Swan (2010)
174,201

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Grave of the Fireflies (1988) 45,298

Yojimbo (1961) 35,159
Heat (1995)
179,344
The Lion King (1994)
195,723
For a Few Dollars More (1965) 57,711
The General (1926)
24,419
Blade Runner (1982)
219,558
Fargo (1996)
195,098
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
22,453
Snatch. (2000) 223,900
The King's Speech (2010)
120,795
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
114,699
Jaws (1975)
169,837
Ran (1985)
40,429
Drive (2011)
37,228
Wild Strawberries (1957)
26,836
No Country for Old Men (2007) 250,765
Touch of Evil (1958)
38,454
The Wizard of Oz (1939) 125,205
The Big Lebowski (1998) 222,075
The Deer Hunter (1978) 106,625
Toy Story (1995)
202,787
The Sixth Sense (1999) 293,973
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
106,628
Cool Hand Luke (1967) 55,257
Annie Hall (1977)
79,449
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
236,740
Strangers on a Train (1951)
41,907
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
287,393
It Happened One Night (1934)
30,194
Platoon (1986) 133,115
High Noon (1952)
40,558
Donnie Darko (2001)
259,562
Scarface (1983) 194,945
Into the Wild (2007)
142,588
Ikiru (1952)
19,770
Trainspotting (1996)
186,371
The Gold Rush (1925)
26,474
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
69,403
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
182,144
Gone with the Wind (1939)
96,574
Notorious (1946)
37,071
There Will Be Blood (2007)
161,772
The Kid (1921) 19,723
The Wages of Fear (1953)
17,512
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
28,319
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
14,271
The Secret in Their Eyes (2009) 37,261
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
161,161
Amores Perros (2000)
75,746
Groundhog Day (1993)
172,483
District 9 (2009)
214,432
Ben-Hur (1959) 70,831
Life of Brian (1979)
116,072
Casino (1995) 136,378
The Graduate (1967)
94,858
The Thing (1982)
102,791
Finding Nemo (2003)
219,343
The Big Sleep (1946)
33,806
The Terminator (1984) 224,368

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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

20,411
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 39,764
Stand by Me (1986)
110,746
Diabolique (1955)
18,666
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
190,464
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
74,783
Twelve Monkeys (1995) 206,402
V for Vendetta (2006) 290,688
How to Train Your Dragon (2010) 98,781
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
43,246
The Wrestler (2008)
127,173
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
17,847
Gandhi (1982) 63,931
Good Will Hunting (1997)
193,058
A Separation (2011)
15,186
Network (1976) 43,555
The Night of the Hunter (1955) 31,117
8 (1963)
36,208
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
17,318
Ratatouille (2007)
175,892
The 400 Blows (1959)
29,645
Mary and Max (2009)
28,836
Avatar (2009) 362,062
The Princess Bride (1987)
143,262
The Killing (1956)
30,271
Dial M for Murder (1954)
38,092
The Hustler (1961)
30,413
Persona (1966) 21,544
La Strada (1954)
21,669
Star Trek (2009)
182,503
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) 24,948
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
41,303
The Exorcist (1973)
132,473
The Wild Bunch (1969) 36,977
Stalag 17 (1953)
24,034
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) 40,716
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
18,066
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
13,780
Barry Lyndon (1975)
47,560
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) 15,875
Rocky (1976)
129,060
The Truman Show (1998) 208,143
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 25,967
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
62,208
The Incredibles (2004) 203,591
In Bruges (2008)
132,416
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
10,216
Mystic River (2003)
150,893
The Social Network (2010)
157,474
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
14,306
Let the Right One In (2008)
83,157
Rosemary's Baby (1968) 65,179
Magnolia (1999) 140,098
Big Fish (2003) 175,230
Infernal Affairs (2002) 43,159
Ed Wood (1994) 87,751
Roman Holiday (1953)
38,748
Manhattan (1979)
47,119
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The Celebration (1998) 32,163

Rope (1948)
39,765
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 27,187
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
228,699
Children of Men (2006) 194,893
Ip Man (2008) 30,185
Shutter Island (2010) 196,205
Patton (1970) 46,469
Sleuth (1972) 21,575
Stalker (1979) 26,498
A Beautiful Mind (2001) 169,409
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010)
11,901
Tokyo Story (1953)
10,459
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003)
24,675
Rain Man (1988) 139,804
Monsters, Inc. (2001) 160,993
Nausica of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
27,605
Castle in the Sky (1986)
28,126

The formula for calculating the Top Rated 250 Titles gives a true Bayesian estim
ate:
weighted rating (WR) = (v (v+m)) R + (m (v+m)) C
where:
R
v
m
C

=
=
=
=

average for the movie (mean) = (Rating)

number of votes for the movie = (votes)
minimum votes required to be listed in the Top 250 (currently 3000)
the mean vote across the whole report (currently 6.9)

for the Top 250, only votes from regular voters are considered.
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