Letterboxd's Top 250 movies, based on the average weighted rating of all Letterboxd users. I removed all stand-up specials, stage plays, concert films, documentaries, shorts, 'collection listings' and other 'rarities', so only feature length narrative movies are listed here. Films should have a minimum of 5,000 ratings to be eligible to enter the list.
As a sister to this list, we also have a Top 50 films with less than 5,000 ratings, so be sure to check out the more obscure gems there!
My friend Jack Moulton made a list of Letterboxd Top 250 documentaries, go check it out!
And last but not least there is a companion piece to this list with all films that were once part of…
Letterboxd's Top 250 movies, based on the average weighted rating of all Letterboxd users. I removed all stand-up specials, stage plays, concert films, documentaries, shorts, 'collection listings' and other 'rarities', so only feature length narrative movies are listed here. Films should have a minimum of 5,000 ratings to be eligible to enter the list.
As a sister to this list, we also have a Top 50 films with less than 5,000 ratings, so be sure to check out the more obscure gems there!
My friend Jack Moulton made a list of Letterboxd Top 250 documentaries, go check it out!
And last but not least there is a companion piece to this list with all films that were once part of the Top 250.
A few statistics...
The oldest movie on the list is Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr., released in 1924. The most popular decade in the list is the 1990's with 38 entries. A complete overview:
1920's - 5 entries
1930's - 4 entries
1940's - 15 entries
1950's - 37 entries
1960's - 35 entries
1970's - 28 entries
1980's - 27 entries
1990's - 38 entries
2000's - 28 entries
2010's - 28 entries
2020's - 5 entries
Akira Kurosawa seems to be Letterboxd's most popular director, with 9 entries in the list, of which 4 in the top 40. Next in line with 7 titles is Ingmar Bergman.
All popular directors:
9 entries - Akira Kurosawa
7 entries - Ingmar Bergman
6 entries - Andrei Tarkovsky
5 entries - Yasujiro Ozu, Masaki Kobayashi, Stanley Kubrick, Billy Wilder
4 entries - Hayao Miyazaki, Martin Scorsese, Wong Kar-wai, Satyajit Ray
3 entries - Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino, Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Jackson, Roman Polanski, Abbas Kiarostami, Francis Ford Coppola, Sidney Lumet, Charlie Chaplin, Sergio Leone, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell, Federico Fellini, Hideaki Anno
Fun fact:
Highest ranked movies in IMDb's top 250 that are absent in the Letterboxd list: Forrest Gump (11), The Green Mile (26), Léon: The Professional (34), Gladiator (37) and American History X (38).
Latest update:
May 23, 2022
New or back in the list:
The Truman Show at #246
Ace in the Hole at #250
Gone, not forgotten:
Rosemary's Baby
Le Samouraï