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 36 entries. A complete overview:
1920's - 4 entries
1930's - 4 entries
1940's - 14 entries
1950's - 33 entries
1960's - 33 entries
1970's - 25 entries
1980's - 27 entries
1990's - 36 entries
2000's - 30 entries
2010's - 31 entries
2020's - 11 entries
Akira Kurosawa seems to be Letterboxd's most popular director, with 7 entries in the list, of which 4 in the top 40. Next in line with 6 titles are Bergman and Tarkovsky.
All popular directors:
7 entries - Akira Kurosawa
6 entries - Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman
5 entries - Masaki Kobayashi, Stanley Kubrick, Billy Wilder
4 entries - Hayao Miyazaki, Martin Scorsese, Wong Kar-wai, Satyajit Ray
3 entries - Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino, Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Jackson, Abbas Kiarostami, Francis Ford Coppola, Sidney Lumet, Charlie Chaplin, Sergio Leone, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell, Federico Fellini, Hideaki Anno, Steven Spielberg
Fun fact:
Highest ranked movies in IMDb's top 250 that are absent in the Letterboxd list: Forrest Gump (11), The Matrix (16), The Green Mile (27), Léon: The Professional (35) and Gladiator (37).
Latest update:
January 30, 2023
Back in the list:
Eureka at #184
Gone, not forgotten:
The Man Who Sleeps
