IMDB Top 250 films

This is a list of the top 250 films as voted for by visitors to the IMDB, and it’s one of my sad ambitions in life to watch all of them, although since I stopped working night shifts I don’t really get to watch that many films any more.

My script pre-dates the IMDB’s own method of tracking which films in the Top 250 I have seen by several years, but hasn’t been developed in a while. I have a PHP script running daily which parses the top 250 page on IMDB and stores the details in a MySQL database. The top 250 changes all the time so I have to keep track of many films which are no longer listed, just in case they re-appear.

So far I have seen 121 of the top 250 films. The films that I have seen are displayed in bold text.

  1. The Shawshank Redemption
  2. The Godfather
  3. The Godfather: Part II
  4. Pulp Fiction
  5. Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il
  6. 12 Angry Men
  7. Schindler's List
  8. The Dark Knight
  9. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  10. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  11. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
  12. Fight Club
  13. Inception
  14. Shichinin no samurai
  15. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  16. Goodfellas
  17. Star Wars
  18. Cidade de Deus
  19. Casablanca
  20. The Matrix
  21. C'era una volta il West
  22. Rear Window
  23. Raiders of the Lost Ark
  24. The Usual Suspects
  25. The Silence of the Lambs
  26. Se7en
  27. Psycho
  28. Forrest Gump
  29. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  30. It's a Wonderful Life
  31. Léon
  32. Memento
  33. Sunset Blvd.
  34. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  35. Apocalypse Now
  36. American History X
  37. North by Northwest
  38. Citizen Kane
  39. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  40. Saving Private Ryan
  41. American Beauty
  42. Toy Story 3
  43. Taxi Driver
  44. Alien
  45. City Lights
  46. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
  47. Vertigo
  48. The Shining
  49. Paths of Glory
  50. M
  51. Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le
  52. The Pianist
  53. The Departed
  54. WALL·E
  55. Double Indemnity
  56. Leben der Anderen, Das
  57. Modern Times
  58. A Clockwork Orange
  59. Aliens
  60. Lawrence of Arabia
  61. To Kill a Mockingbird
  62. Vita è bella, La
  63. Back to the Future
  64. Boot, Das
  65. Requiem for a Dream
  66. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  67. Reservoir Dogs
  68. The Third Man
  69. The Prestige
  70. A Separation
  71. L.A. Confidential
  72. Chinatown
  73. The Green Mile
  74. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  75. Nuovo cinema Paradiso
  76. The Great Dictator
  77. Gladiator
  78. Once Upon a Time in America
  79. Rashômon
  80. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  81. Full Metal Jacket
  82. Amadeus
  83. Some Like It Hot
  84. Ladri di biciclette
  85. Raging Bull
  86. Singin' in the Rain
  87. All About Eve
  88. Braveheart
  89. The Bridge on the River Kwai
  90. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  91. Metropolis
  92. Oldboy
  93. Laberinto del Fauno, El
  94. The Apartment
  95. Unforgiven
  96. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
  97. The Sting
  98. Untergang, Der
  99. Mononoke-hime
  100. Inglourious Basterds
  101. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  102. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  103. The Elephant Man
  104. On the Waterfront
  105. Up
  106. The Lion King
  107. Die Hard
  108. Sjunde inseglet, Det
  109. Hotaru no haka
  110. The Maltese Falcon
  111. Gran Torino
  112. The Great Escape
  113. Rebecca
  114. Yojimbo
  115. Batman Begins
  116. Per qualche dollaro in più
  117. Witness for the Prosecution
  118. The General
  119. Heat
  120. Snatch.
  121. Fargo
  122. Sin City
  123. Blade Runner
  124. Ran
  125. Smultronstället
  126. The Artist
  127. Touch of Evil
  128. Toy Story
  129. Hotel Rwanda
  130. Black Swan
  131. Jaws
  132. No Country for Old Men
  133. The Big Lebowski
  134. The King's Speech
  135. The Deer Hunter
  136. Cool Hand Luke
  137. The Wizard of Oz
  138. The Sixth Sense
  139. It Happened One Night
  140. Ikiru
  141. Strangers on a Train
  142. Scarface
  143. Annie Hall
  144. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
  145. Warrior
  146. High Noon
  147. Platoon
  148. The Kid
  149. Salaire de la peur, Le
  150. The Gold Rush
  151. Trainspotting
  152. Into the Wild
  153. Donnie Darko
  154. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  155. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
  156. Slumdog Millionaire
  157. Notorious
  158. The Grapes of Wrath
  159. El secreto de sus ojos
  160. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
  161. Gone with the Wind
  162. Million Dollar Baby
  163. The Thing
  164. There Will Be Blood
  165. Casino
  166. Amores perros
  167. Life of Brian
  168. Groundhog Day
  169. Ben-Hur
  170. Diaboliques, Les
  171. Finding Nemo
  172. Tonari no Totoro
  173. The Big Sleep
  174. The Best Years of Our Lives
  175. The Terminator
  176. How to Train Your Dragon
  177. The Graduate
  178. V for Vendetta
  179. Stand by Me
  180. Twelve Monkeys
  181. Dog Day Afternoon
  182. The Bourne Ultimatum
  183. Good Will Hunting
  184. The Manchurian Candidate
  185. District 9
  186. Judgment at Nuremberg
  187. Network
  188. Gandhi
  189. The Night of the Hunter
  190. Quatre cents coups, Les
  191. Mary and Max
  192. Battaglia di Algeri, La
  193. Persona
  194. Dial M for Murder
  195. The Princess Bride
  196. The Killing
  197. Hugo
  198. The Wrestler
  199. Ratatouille
  200. The Hustler
  201. Strada, La
  202. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  203. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
  204. The Passion of Joan of Arc
  205. Fanny och Alexander
  206. The Exorcist
  207. Hauru no ugoku shiro
  208. Scaphandre et le papillon, Le
  209. Seppuku
  210. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  211. The Wild Bunch
  212. Sherlock Jr.
  213. Stalag 17
  214. A Streetcar Named Desire
  215. Star Trek
  216. Barry Lyndon
  217. Rocky
  218. Kind Hearts and Coronets
  219. All Quiet on the Western Front
  220. Avatar
  221. Notti di Cabiria, Le
  222. The Truman Show
  223. Drive
  224. Mou gaan dou
  225. Festen
  226. A Beautiful Mind
  227. Roman Holiday
  228. Rosemary's Baby
  229. Låt den rätte komma in
  230. Mystic River
  231. Rope
  232. Ip Man
  233. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  234. Elite Squad 2
  235. Tokyo Story
  236. Magnolia
  237. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  238. Manhattan
  239. Big Fish
  240. The Incredibles
  241. In Bruges
  242. Stalker
  243. Beauty and the Beast
  244. Trois couleurs: Rouge
  245. Monsters, Inc.
  246. Ed Wood
  247. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
  248. Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
  249. Shutter Island

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