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 2,500 ratings to be eligible to enter the list.
As a sister to this list, we also have a Top 50 films with less than 2,500 ratings, so be sure to check out the more obscure gems there!
My friend Jack Moulton made a list of Letterboxd Top 100 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 2,500 ratings to be eligible to enter the list.
As a sister to this list, we also have a Top 50 films with less than 2,500 ratings, so be sure to check out the more obscure gems there!
My friend Jack Moulton made a list of Letterboxd Top 100 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 are the 1950's and 1960's with 40 entries. A complete overview:
1920's - 5 entries
1930's - 5 entries
1940's - 16 entries
1950's - 40 entries
1960's - 40 entries
1970's - 28 entries
1980's - 27 entries
1990's - 33 entries
2000's - 30 entries
2010's - 25 entries
2020's - 1 entry
Akira Kurosawa seems to be Letterboxd's most popular director, with 8 entries in the list, of which 4 in top 100. Next in line with 7 titles is Ingmar Bergman.
All popular directors:
8 entries - Akira Kurosawa
7 entries - Ingmar Bergman
6 entries - Andrei Tarkovsky, Stanley Kubrick, Billy Wilder
5 entries - Yasujiro Ozu, Masaki Kobayashi, Martin Scorsese
4 entries - Alfred Hitchcock, Hayao Miyazaki, Satyajit Ray, Abbas Kiarostami
Fun fact:
Highest ranked movies in IMDb's top 250 that are absent in the Letterboxd list: Forrest Gump (12), The Matrix (16), The Green Mile (27), Interstellar (29) and The Usual Suspects (33).
Latest update:
March 1st, 2021
No new entries!
