IMDB’s Top 250

I’ve referenced the IMDb Top 250 before but realized I had never really discussed it fully here on the blog. This list isn’t permanent like some others I’ve talked about before (here and here). Instead, this one fluctuates as members on IMDb vote on their favorite movies. Plus, it’s pretty dude heavy (as evidenced by the number of Westerns and super hero movies). My original goal for the year was to see 100 of the movies from the 1,001 film list but sometime over the year, I kinda put my focus on this. Even when I finish this list, there will always be other films to see as others make their way off and on the list.

The list below is from July 26, 2012 (note how high The Dark Knight Rises is) and of these 250, I’ve seen 191 (the ones I haven’t seen are in red). As of my Second Quarter Report, I had seen 182. How many have you seen?

1.       The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

2.       The Godfather (1972)

3.       The Godfather: Part II (1974)

4.       Pulp Fiction (1994)

5.       The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

6.       12 Angry Men (1957)

7.       Schindler’s List (1993)

8.       The Dark Knight (2008)

9.       The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

10.      The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

11.      Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

12.      Fight Club (1999)

13.      One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

14.      The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

15.      Inception (2010)

16.      Goodfellas (1990)

17.      Star Wars (1977)

18.      Seven Samurai (1954)

19.      The Matrix (1999)

20.      City of God (2002)

21.      Forrest Gump (1994)

22.      Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

23.      Casablanca (1942)

24.      The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

25.      The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

26.      Se7en (1995)

27.      Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

28.      The Usual Suspects (1995)

29.      Rear Window (1954)

30.      Psycho (1960)

31.      It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

32.      Léon: The Professional (1994)

33.      Sunset Blvd. (1950)

34.      Memento (2000)

35.      Apocalypse Now (1979)

36.      American History X (1998)

37.      Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

38.      Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

39.      Saving Private Ryan (1998)

40.     North by Northwest (1959)

41.      Alien (1979)

42.     City Lights (1931)

43.     Citizen Kane (1941)

44.     Spirited Away (2001)

45.     The Shining (1980)

46.     American Beauty (1999)

47.     Taxi Driver (1976)

48.     Toy Story 3 (2010)

49.     Vertigo (1958)

50.     Modern Times (1936)

51.      The Avengers (2012)

52.     The Pianist (2002)

53.      The Departed (2006)

54.     M (1931)

55.     Paths of Glory (1957)

56.     Double Indemnity (1944)

57.      Back to the Future (1985)

58.      Aliens (1986)

59.      WALL·E (2008)

60.     Life Is Beautiful (1997)

61.      The Lives of Others (2006)

62.     A Clockwork Orange (1971)

63.     Amélie (2001)

64.     To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

65.     Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

66.     Reservoir Dogs (1992)

67.     Gladiator (2000)

68.     The Prestige (2006)

69.     The Green Mile (1999)

70.     The Great Dictator (1940)

71.      Requiem for a Dream (2000)

72.      The Third Man (1949)

73.     Das Boot (1981)

74.     Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

75.     The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

76.     Chinatown (1974)

77.     L.A. Confidential (1997)

78.     Cinema Paradiso (1988)

79.     Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

80.    Full Metal Jacket (1987)

81.     Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

82.     The Intouchables (2011)

83.     Some Like It Hot (1959)

84.     Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)

85.     Braveheart (1995)

86.     Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

87.     Oldboy (2003)

88.     The Lion King (1994)

89.     Amadeus (1984)

90.     Rashomon (1950)

91.      Bicycle Thieves (1948)

92.     Metropolis (1927)

93.     Raging Bull (1980)

94.     All About Eve (1950)

95.     Unforgiven (1992)

96.     The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

97.     The Apartment (1960)

98.     2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

99.     The Sting (1973)

100.   Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

101.    Princess Mononoke (1997)

102.   A Separation (2011)

103.   Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

104.   Die Hard (1988)

105.   Downfall (2004)

106.   Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

107.   Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

108.   Inglourious Basterds (2009)

109.   The Great Escape (1963)

110.    Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

111.    Batman Begins (2005)

112.    The Elephant Man (1980)

113.    Up (2009)

114.    For a Few Dollars More (1965)

115.    On the Waterfront (1954)

116.    Snatch. (2000)

117.    Yojimbo (1961)

118.    The Seventh Seal (1957)

119.    The Maltese Falcon (1941)

120.    Gran Torino (2008)

121.    Heat (1995)

122.    Rebecca (1940)

123.    The General (1926)

124.    Toy Story (1995)

125.    Blade Runner (1982)

126.    Wild Strawberries (1957)

127.    Fargo (1996)

128.    Touch of Evil (1958)

129.    The Big Lebowski (1998)

130.    The Kid (1921)

131.    Ran (1985)

132.    Sin City (2005)

133.    Cool Hand Luke (1967)

134.    Scarface (1983)

135.    The Deer Hunter (1978)

136.   Strangers on a Train (1951)

137.    Jaws (1975)

138.   No Country for Old Men (2007)

139.   The Gold Rush (1925)

140.   Hotel Rwanda (2004)

141.    It Happened One Night (1934)

142.    High Noon (1952)

143.    The Sixth Sense (1999)

144.    Platoon (1986)

145.    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

146.    The Wizard of Oz (1939)

147.    Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

148.    The Thing (1982)

149.    Notorious (1946)

150.    The King’s Speech (2010)

151.    Annie Hall (1977)

152.    Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

153.    Trainspotting (1996)

154.    Casino (1995)

155.    Black Swan (2010)

156.    The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)

157.    Warrior (2011)

158.    The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

159.    Gone with the Wind (1939)

160.    Into the Wild (2007)

161.    Life of Brian (1979)

162.    The Big Sleep (1946)

163.    Good Will Hunting (1997)

164.    Donnie Darko (2001)

165.    Network (1976)

166.    Ben-Hur (1959)

167.    The Artist (2011)

168.    Finding Nemo (2003)

169.    The Terminator (1984)

170.    How to Train Your Dragon (2010)

171.    The Night of the Hunter (1955)

172.    V for Vendetta (2005)

173.    Million Dollar Baby (2004)

174.    Stand by Me (1986)

175.    There Will Be Blood (2007)

176.    Groundhog Day (1993)

177.    My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

178.    Dial M for Murder (1954)

179.    Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

180.    Amores Perros (2000)

181.    Twelve Monkeys (1995)

182.    The Graduate (1967)

183.    The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)

184.    Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

185.    Gandhi (1982)

186.    Mary and Max (2009)

187.    The 400 Blows (1959)

188.    The Killing (1956)

189.    Persona (1966)

190.    8½ (1963)

191.    The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

192.    The Princess Bride (1987)

193.    Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

194.    La Strada (1954)

195.    The Hustler (1961)

196.    Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

197.    District 9 (2009)

198.    Stalag 17 (1953)

199.    The Wild Bunch (1969)

200.    Rocky (1976)

201.    The Exorcist (1973)

202.    Barry Lyndon (1975)

203.    Rope (1948)

204.    A Beautiful Mind (2001)

205.    Stalker (1979)

206.   Ratatouille (2007)

207.    The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

208.    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

209.    A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

210.    The Wrestler (2008)

211.    Roman Holiday (1953)

212.    Infernal Affairs (2002)

213.    The Truman Show (1998)

214.    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

215.    Star Trek (2009)

216.    Ip Man (2008)

217.    Harvey (1950)

218.    Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

219.    Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

220.    Beauty and the Beast (1991)

221.    Bringing Up Baby (1938)

222.    A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

223.    Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

224.    All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

225.    In the Name of the Father (1993)

226.    Monsters, Inc. (2001)

227.    Nosferatu (1922)

228.    Manhattan (1979)

229.    Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring (2003)

230.    Mystic River (2003)

231.    Rain Man (1988)

232.    Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

233.    Let the Right One In (2008)

234.    La Haine (1995)

235.    La Dolce Vita (1960)

236.    Shutter Island (2010)

237.    Big Fish (2003)

238.    In the Heat of the Night (1967)

239.    Ed Wood (1994)

240.    Rio Bravo (1959)

241.    Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

242.    The Searchers (1956)

243.    His Girl Friday (1940)

244.    King Kong (1933)

245.    The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

246.    The Philadelphia Story (1940)

247.    The Untouchables (1987)

248.    Patton (1970)

249.    Papillon (1973)

250.    Duck Soup (1933)