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IMDb Top 250

IMDB's top 250 list: loved by some, hated by others. Of course you can argue about the order of movies and the presence or absence of certain titles. Fact remains that it holds a great deal of the most appreciated films of all time and the overall quality is pretty high.

I tried to complete the list once, but choked near the end... ;-) I will keep updating weekly though and one day I will finish the last few missing films.

Feel free to comment your % or must sees from this list!
And for the people who find 250 entries a bit lacking, here's a list with every movie that was once in IMDB's Top 250.

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  • The Shawshank Redemption

    1

  • The Godfather

    2

  • The Dark Knight

    3

  • The Godfather: Part II

    4

  • 12 Angry Men

    5

  • Schindler's List

    6

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    7

  • Pulp Fiction

    8

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    9

  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    10

  • Forrest Gump

    11

  • Fight Club

    12

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    13

  • Inception

    14

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    15

  • The Empire Strikes Back

    16

  • The Matrix

    17

  • GoodFellas

    18

  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    19

  • Se7en

    20

  • It's a Wonderful Life

    21

  • Seven Samurai

    22

  • The Silence of the Lambs

    23

  • Saving Private Ryan

    24

  • City of God

    25

  • Interstellar

    26

  • Life Is Beautiful

    27

  • The Green Mile

    28

  • Star Wars

    29

  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    30

  • Back to the Future

    31

  • Spirited Away

    32

  • The Pianist

    33

  • Psycho

    34

  • Parasite

    35

  • Léon: The Professional

    36

  • Gladiator

    37

  • The Lion King

    38

  • American History X

    39

  • The Departed

    40

  • Whiplash

    41

  • The Prestige

    42

  • The Usual Suspects

    43

  • Casablanca

    44

  • Grave of the Fireflies

    45

  • Harakiri

    46

  • The Intouchables

    47

  • Modern Times

    48

  • Once Upon a Time in the West

    49

  • Cinema Paradiso

    50

  • Rear Window

    51

  • Alien

    52

  • City Lights

    53

  • Apocalypse Now

    54

  • Memento

    55

  • Django Unchained

    56

  • Raiders of the Lost Ark

    57

  • WALL·E

    58

  • The Lives of Others

    59

  • Sunset Boulevard

    60

  • Paths of Glory

    61

  • The Shining

    62

  • Avengers: Infinity War

    63

  • The Great Dictator

    64

  • Witness for the Prosecution

    65

  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

    66

  • Aliens

    67

  • American Beauty

    68

  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    69

  • The Dark Knight Rises

    70

  • Inglourious Basterds

    71

  • Oldboy

    72

  • Amadeus

    73

  • Coco

    74

  • Toy Story

    75

  • Braveheart

    76

  • Das Boot

    77

  • Joker

    78

  • Avengers: Endgame

    79

  • Princess Mononoke

    80

  • Good Will Hunting

    81

  • Once Upon a Time in America

    82

  • Your Name.

    83

  • 3 Idiots

    84

  • Singin' in the Rain

    85

  • High and Low

    86

  • Requiem for a Dream

    87

  • Toy Story 3

    88

  • Capernaum

    89

  • Return of the Jedi

    90

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    91

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    92

  • Come and See

    93

  • The Hunt

    94

  • Reservoir Dogs

    95

  • Lawrence of Arabia

    96

  • Citizen Kane

    97

  • M

    98

  • Ikiru

    99

  • North by Northwest

    100