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.
- The Shawshank Redemption
- The Godfather
- The Godfather: Part II
- Pulp Fiction
- Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il
- 12 Angry Men
- Schindler's List
- The Dark Knight
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
- Fight Club
- Shichinin no samurai
- Inception
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Goodfellas
- Star Wars
- Cidade de Deus
- Casablanca
- The Matrix
- C'era una volta il West
- Rear Window
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- The Silence of the Lambs
- The Usual Suspects
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- Se7en
- Forrest Gump
- Psycho
- It's a Wonderful Life
- Léon
- Avengers Assemble
- Sunset Blvd.
- Memento
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Apocalypse Now
- American History X
- North by Northwest
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Citizen Kane
- Saving Private Ryan
- Alien
- City Lights
- American Beauty
- Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
- Toy Story 3
- Taxi Driver
- The Shining
- Vertigo
- M
- Paths of Glory
- The Pianist
- Modern Times
- The Departed
- Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le
- Double Indemnity
- WALL·E
- Leben der Anderen, Das
- Aliens
- A Clockwork Orange
- Vita è bella, La
- Back to the Future
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Boot, Das
- Requiem for a Dream
- Reservoir Dogs
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- The Third Man
- A Separation
- The Prestige
- The Green Mile
- Nuovo cinema Paradiso
- Chinatown
- The Great Dictator
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- L.A. Confidential
- Gladiator
- Once Upon a Time in America
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Rashômon
- Full Metal Jacket
- Ladri di biciclette
- Singin' in the Rain
- Some Like It Hot
- Amadeus
- All About Eve
- Raging Bull
- Metropolis
- Braveheart
- Oldboy
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
- The Apartment
- Untouchable
- Unforgiven
- Laberinto del Fauno, El
- Mononoke-hime
- The Sting
- Untergang, Der
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- The Lion King
- Inglourious Basterds
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Die Hard
- Hotaru no haka
- Sjunde inseglet, Det
- Up
- On the Waterfront
- The Elephant Man
- Yojimbo
- The Maltese Falcon
- The Great Escape
- Gran Torino
- Batman Begins
- Rebecca
- Witness for the Prosecution
- Snatch.
- Per qualche dollaro in più
- The General
- Heat
- Blade Runner
- Fargo
- Smultronstället
- Ran
- Sin City
- Toy Story
- Touch of Evil
- The Big Lebowski
- The Deer Hunter
- Jaws
- Ikiru
- No Country for Old Men
- Hotel Rwanda
- Cool Hand Luke
- It Happened One Night
- Scarface
- The Wizard of Oz
- The Sixth Sense
- The King's Speech
- The Artist
- Strangers on a Train
- The Kid
- Black Swan
- Salaire de la peur, Le
- Kill Bill: Vol. 1
- Annie Hall
- The Gold Rush
- High Noon
- Platoon
- Warrior
- Trainspotting
- Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
- Into the Wild
- The Grapes of Wrath
- El secreto de sus ojos
- Donnie Darko
- The Thing
- Notorious
- Gone with the Wind
- Casino
- Million Dollar Baby
- Diaboliques, Les
- There Will Be Blood
- Life of Brian
- Tonari no Totoro
- Amores perros
- Finding Nemo
- Ben-Hur
- How to Train Your Dragon
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Groundhog Day
- The Terminator
- The Big Sleep
- V for Vendetta
- Good Will Hunting
- The Best Years of Our Lives
- Stand by Me
- Judgment at Nuremberg
- Dog Day Afternoon
- The Graduate
- Twelve Monkeys
- Network
- The Bourne Ultimatum
- The Manchurian Candidate
- The Night of the Hunter
- Seppuku
- Quatre cents coups, Les
- Mary and Max
- Gandhi
- District 9
- Dial M for Murder
- Persona
- Battaglia di Algeri, La
- The Princess Bride
- The Killing
- 8½
- Strada, La
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- The Hustler
- The Passion of Joan of Arc
- Hauru no ugoku shiro
- Sherlock Jr.
- Ratatouille
- The Wrestler
- The Exorcist
- Fanny och Alexander
- The Wild Bunch
- Scaphandre et le papillon, Le
- Kind Hearts and Coronets
- Rocky
- Stalag 17
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- Barry Lyndon
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- Notti di Cabiria, Le
- Star Trek
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- A Beautiful Mind
- The Truman Show
- Ip Man
- Tokyo Story
- Idi i smotri
- Rope
- Mou gaan dou
- Roman Holiday
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
- Tengoku to jigoku
- Stalker
- Rosemary's Baby
- Mystic River
- Festen
- Låt den rätte komma in
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- Beauty and the Beast
- Monsters, Inc.
- Anatomy of a Murder
- Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
- Manhattan
- Magnolia
- Samouraï, Le
- Kumonosu jô
- Haine, La
- Big Fish
- Shutter Island
- Fa yeung nin wa