IMDb Top 250 of 20 October 2008

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New entries (2)

Rank	Δ	Rating	Title	Votes
247.	★	7.9	Harold and Maude (1971)	21,224	IMDb
250.	★	7.9	Ace in the Hole (1951)	4,833	IMDb

Dropped out (2)

Last Rank		Title
245.	▼	Tonari no Totoro (1988)	IMDb
250.	▼	Der Himmel über Berlin (1987)	IMDb

Rank changes (20)

Rank	Δ	Rating	Title	Votes
92.	▲ 1	8.3	Full Metal Jacket (1987)	113,705	IMDb
93.	▼ 1	8.3	The Apartment (1960)	26,500	IMDb
135.	▲ 1	8.2	Into the Wild (2007)	50,915	IMDb
136.	▼ 1	8.2	The General (1926)	14,698	IMDb
155.	▲ 1	8.1	Stand by Me (1986)	68,871	IMDb
156.	▼ 1	8.1	Dog Day Afternoon (1975)	42,783	IMDb
183.	▲ 1	8.0	Umberto D. (1952)	5,860	IMDb
184.	▼ 1	8.0	The Conversation (1974)	23,998	IMDb
190.	▲ 1	8.0	Hotaru no haka (1988)	23,718	IMDb
191.	▼ 1	8.0	La Belle et la bête (1946)	7,248	IMDb
217.	▲ 1	8.0	Anatomy of a Murder (1959)	11,360	IMDb
218.	▼ 1	8.0	Frankenstein (1931)	17,144	IMDb
221.	▲ 1	8.0	Bride of Frankenstein (1935)	12,056	IMDb
222.	▼ 1	8.0	The Philadelphia Story (1940)	21,619	IMDb
241.	▲ 1	8.0	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)	185,186	IMDb
242.	▼ 1	8.0	Great Expectations (1946)	6,679	IMDb
245.	▲ 1	7.9	The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)	54,817	IMDb
246.	▲ 1	7.9	Hauru no ugoku shiro (2004)	29,922	IMDb
248.	▲ 1	7.9	Planet of the Apes (1968)	42,148	IMDb
249.	▼ 1	7.9	The Searchers (1956)	23,860	IMDb

Rank	Δ	Rating	Title	Votes
1.	–	9.1	The Shawshank Redemption (1994)	380,927	IMDb
2.	–	9.1	The Godfather (1972)	323,644	IMDb
3.	–	9.0	The Godfather: Part II (1974)	184,238	IMDb
4.	–	9.0	The Dark Knight (2008)	291,048	IMDb
5.	–	8.9	Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)	108,920	IMDb
6.	–	8.9	Pulp Fiction (1994)	316,860	IMDb
7.	–	8.8	Schindler's List (1993)	209,704	IMDb
8.	–	8.8	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)	159,910	IMDb
9.	–	8.8	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)	220,473	IMDb
10.	–	8.8	12 Angry Men (1957)	78,526	IMDb
11.	–	8.8	Casablanca (1942)	133,935	IMDb
12.	–	8.8	Star Wars (1977)	261,563	IMDb
13.	–	8.8	Shichinin no samurai (1954)	75,924	IMDb
14.	–	8.8	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)	280,581	IMDb
15.	–	8.7	Goodfellas (1990)	173,280	IMDb
16.	–	8.7	Rear Window (1954)	90,653	IMDb
17.	–	8.7	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)	196,907	IMDb
18.	–	8.7	Cidade de Deus (2002)	115,092	IMDb
19.	–	8.7	C'era una volta il West (1968)	52,690	IMDb
20.	–	8.7	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)	309,798	IMDb
21.	–	8.7	The Usual Suspects (1995)	212,010	IMDb
22.	–	8.7	Psycho (1960)	110,497	IMDb
23.	–	8.7	Fight Club (1999)	283,856	IMDb
24.	–	8.6	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)	189,166	IMDb
25.	–	8.6	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)	126,059	IMDb
26.	–	8.6	North by Northwest (1959)	72,539	IMDb
27.	–	8.6	Memento (2000)	205,778	IMDb
28.	–	8.6	Sunset Blvd. (1950)	39,553	IMDb
29.	–	8.6	Citizen Kane (1941)	113,129	IMDb
30.	–	8.6	The Matrix (1999)	296,454	IMDb
31.	–	8.6	WALL·E (2008)	80,385	IMDb
32.	–	8.6	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)	257,577	IMDb
33.	–	8.6	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)	79,776	IMDb
34.	–	8.6	Se7en (1995)	208,113	IMDb
35.	–	8.5	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)	63,387	IMDb
36.	–	8.5	Apocalypse Now (1979)	136,393	IMDb
37.	–	8.5	Léon (1994)	144,304	IMDb
38.	–	8.5	Taxi Driver (1976)	116,256	IMDb
39.	–	8.5	American Beauty (1999)	230,304	IMDb
40.	–	8.5	American History X (1998)	165,099	IMDb
41.	–	8.5	Vertigo (1958)	70,749	IMDb
42.	–	8.5	Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)	137,501	IMDb
43.	–	8.5	Paths of Glory (1957)	33,281	IMDb
44.	–	8.5	M (1931)	29,632	IMDb
45.	–	8.5	The Departed (2006)	188,533	IMDb
46.	–	8.5	Forrest Gump (1994)	220,951	IMDb
47.	–	8.5	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)	64,607	IMDb
48.	–	8.4	A Clockwork Orange (1971)	148,401	IMDb
49.	–	8.4	Alien (1979)	137,704	IMDb
50.	–	8.4	Chinatown (1974)	59,428	IMDb
51.	–	8.4	The Third Man (1949)	39,208	IMDb
52.	–	8.4	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)	24,814	IMDb
53.	–	8.4	Das Leben der Anderen (2006)	45,853	IMDb
54.	–	8.4	Double Indemnity (1944)	26,985	IMDb
55.	–	8.4	The Shining (1980)	131,170	IMDb
56.	–	8.4	The Pianist (2002)	93,609	IMDb
57.	–	8.4	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)	162,241	IMDb
58.	–	8.4	Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)	72,862	IMDb
59.	–	8.4	Saving Private Ryan (1998)	210,370	IMDb
60.	–	8.4	Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)	125,628	IMDb
61.	–	8.4	El Laberinto del fauno (2006)	108,526	IMDb
62.	–	8.4	Requiem for a Dream (2000)	134,925	IMDb
63.	–	8.4	L.A. Confidential (1997)	132,849	IMDb
64.	–	8.4	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)	174,324	IMDb
65.	–	8.4	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)	46,018	IMDb
66.	–	8.4	Aliens (1986)	131,581	IMDb
67.	–	8.4	Das Boot (1981)	56,204	IMDb
68.	–	8.4	Reservoir Dogs (1992)	162,142	IMDb
69.	–	8.4	Rashômon (1950)	28,929	IMDb
70.	–	8.4	The Maltese Falcon (1941)	40,302	IMDb
71.	–	8.4	Raging Bull (1980)	68,118	IMDb
72.	–	8.4	Metropolis (1927)	29,200	IMDb
73.	–	8.4	City Lights (1931)	19,008	IMDb
74.	–	8.4	Der Untergang (2004)	56,847	IMDb
75.	–	8.3	Modern Times (1936)	25,727	IMDb
76.	–	8.3	All About Eve (1950)	27,148	IMDb
77.	–	8.3	Rebecca (1940)	26,488	IMDb
78.	–	8.3	Singin' in the Rain (1952)	42,713	IMDb
79.	–	8.3	Some Like It Hot (1959)	51,856	IMDb
80.	–	8.3	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)	125,941	IMDb
81.	–	8.3	Amadeus (1984)	75,181	IMDb
82.	–	8.3	The Prestige (2006)	137,375	IMDb
83.	–	8.3	No Country for Old Men (2007)	135,291	IMDb
84.	–	8.3	La Vita è bella (1997)	81,014	IMDb
85.	–	8.3	The Elephant Man (1980)	42,577	IMDb
86.	–	8.3	Sin City (2005)	191,229	IMDb
87.	–	8.3	The Great Escape (1963)	47,010	IMDb
88.	–	8.3	Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988)	33,408	IMDb
89.	–	8.3	Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)	26,719	IMDb
90.	–	8.3	Hotel Rwanda (2004)	66,087	IMDb
91.	–	8.3	On the Waterfront (1954)	30,843	IMDb
92.	▲ 1	8.3	Full Metal Jacket (1987)	113,705	IMDb
93.	▼ 1	8.3	The Apartment (1960)	26,500	IMDb
94.	–	8.3	The Sting (1973)	50,589	IMDb
95.	–	8.3	Touch of Evil (1958)	24,628	IMDb
96.	–	8.3	Once Upon a Time in America (1984)	53,152	IMDb
97.	–	8.3	Batman Begins (2005)	205,715	IMDb
98.	–	8.3	The Great Dictator (1940)	26,628	IMDb
99.	–	8.3	There Will Be Blood (2007)	86,041	IMDb
100.	–	8.3	Jaws (1975)	107,222	IMDb
101.	–	8.3	Braveheart (1995)	189,916	IMDb
102.	–	8.3	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)	25,397	IMDb
103.	–	8.3	Back to the Future (1985)	151,970	IMDb
104.	–	8.3	Blade Runner (1982)	146,779	IMDb
105.	–	8.3	Ladri di biciclette (1948)	18,912	IMDb
106.	–	8.3	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)	137,254	IMDb
107.	–	8.3	Strangers on a Train (1951)	25,081	IMDb
108.	–	8.3	The Manchurian Candidate (1962)	27,976	IMDb
109.	–	8.2	Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)	169,792	IMDb
110.	–	8.2	Notorious (1946)	23,575	IMDb
111.	–	8.2	High Noon (1952)	26,227	IMDb
112.	–	8.2	Unforgiven (1992)	71,601	IMDb
113.	–	8.2	The Big Sleep (1946)	22,110	IMDb
114.	–	8.2	Fargo (1996)	129,791	IMDb
115.	–	8.2	Oldeuboi (2003)	64,423	IMDb
116.	–	8.2	Cool Hand Luke (1967)	33,788	IMDb
117.	–	8.2	The Green Mile (1999)	145,618	IMDb
118.	–	8.2	The Wizard of Oz (1939)	80,640	IMDb
119.	–	8.2	Per qualche dollaro in più (1965)	29,598	IMDb
120.	–	8.2	Yôjinbô (1961)	21,878	IMDb
121.	–	8.2	Gladiator (2000)	211,512	IMDb
122.	–	8.2	Ran (1985)	26,536	IMDb
123.	–	8.2	Mononoke-hime (1997)	48,757	IMDb
124.	–	8.2	Die Hard (1988)	138,738	IMDb
125.	–	8.2	Donnie Darko (2001)	157,524	IMDb
126.	–	8.2	Le Salaire de la peur (1953)	9,880	IMDb
127.	–	8.2	Annie Hall (1977)	49,119	IMDb
128.	–	8.2	Smultronstället (1957)	15,115	IMDb
129.	–	8.2	Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)	175,729	IMDb
130.	–	8.2	It Happened One Night (1934)	18,185	IMDb
131.	–	8.2	The Deer Hunter (1978)	66,685	IMDb
132.	–	8.2	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)	9,269	IMDb
133.	–	8.2	The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)	101,288	IMDb
134.	–	8.2	The Sixth Sense (1999)	191,191	IMDb
135.	▲ 1	8.2	Into the Wild (2007)	50,915	IMDb
136.	▼ 1	8.2	The General (1926)	14,698	IMDb
137.	–	8.2	Heat (1995)	109,015	IMDb
138.	–	8.2	Platoon (1986)	83,480	IMDb
139.	–	8.2	Ben-Hur (1959)	44,819	IMDb
140.	–	8.2	Million Dollar Baby (2004)	100,741	IMDb
141.	–	8.2	Le Notti di Cabiria (1957)	7,629	IMDb
142.	–	8.1	Ratatouille (2007)	88,408	IMDb
143.	–	8.1	Life of Brian (1979)	72,634	IMDb
144.	–	8.1	Witness for the Prosecution (1957)	12,572	IMDb
145.	–	8.1	Les Diaboliques (1955)	9,864	IMDb
146.	–	8.1	The Killing (1956)	17,939	IMDb
147.	–	8.1	Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)	9,860	IMDb
148.	–	8.1	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)	43,926	IMDb
149.	–	8.1	Amores perros (2000)	45,013	IMDb
150.	–	8.1	8½ (1963)	20,749	IMDb
151.	–	8.1	The Big Lebowski (1998)	131,360	IMDb
152.	–	8.1	Finding Nemo (2003)	120,460	IMDb
153.	–	8.1	Brief Encounter (1945)	9,300	IMDb
154.	–	8.1	The Graduate (1967)	59,783	IMDb
155.	▲ 1	8.1	Stand by Me (1986)	68,871	IMDb
156.	▼ 1	8.1	Dog Day Afternoon (1975)	42,783	IMDb
157.	–	8.1	The Night of the Hunter (1955)	18,320	IMDb
158.	–	8.1	The Wild Bunch (1969)	23,640	IMDb
159.	–	8.1	V for Vendetta (2005)	160,738	IMDb
160.	–	8.1	Snatch. (2000)	123,678	IMDb
161.	–	8.1	La Battaglia di Algeri (1966)	9,421	IMDb
162.	–	8.1	Gandhi (1982)	37,377	IMDb
163.	–	8.1	The Incredibles (2004)	117,405	IMDb
164.	–	8.1	The Grapes of Wrath (1940)	17,342	IMDb
165.	–	8.1	The Princess Bride (1987)	102,303	IMDb
166.	–	8.1	Trainspotting (1996)	113,854	IMDb
167.	–	8.1	Children of Men (2006)	113,034	IMDb
168.	–	8.1	Gone with the Wind (1939)	59,931	IMDb
169.	–	8.1	The Gold Rush (1925)	15,057	IMDb
170.	–	8.1	The Thing (1982)	54,611	IMDb
171.	–	8.1	Shadow of a Doubt (1943)	15,026	IMDb
172.	–	8.1	Scarface (1983)	110,379	IMDb
173.	–	8.1	Harvey (1950)	17,522	IMDb
174.	–	8.1	Groundhog Day (1993)	101,000	IMDb
175.	–	8.1	Toy Story (1995)	105,335	IMDb
176.	–	8.1	Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)	37,181	IMDb
177.	–	8.0	The Lion King (1994)	94,890	IMDb
178.	–	8.0	Sleuth (1972)	12,201	IMDb
179.	–	8.0	The Terminator (1984)	131,244	IMDb
180.	–	8.0	The African Queen (1951)	26,881	IMDb
181.	–	8.0	The Hustler (1961)	19,002	IMDb
182.	–	8.0	Twelve Monkeys (1995)	129,574	IMDb
183.	▲ 1	8.0	Umberto D. (1952)	5,860	IMDb
184.	▼ 1	8.0	The Conversation (1974)	23,998	IMDb
185.	–	8.0	Crash (2004)	131,186	IMDb
186.	–	8.0	Duck Soup (1933)	20,370	IMDb
187.	–	8.0	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)	17,217	IMDb
188.	–	8.0	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)	90,317	IMDb
189.	–	8.0	The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)	6,361	IMDb
190.	▲ 1	8.0	Hotaru no haka (1988)	23,718	IMDb
191.	▼ 1	8.0	La Belle et la bête (1946)	7,248	IMDb
192.	–	8.0	King Kong (1933)	29,369	IMDb
193.	–	8.0	Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)	136,382	IMDb
194.	–	8.0	The Lady Vanishes (1938)	12,706	IMDb
195.	–	8.0	Ed Wood (1994)	55,878	IMDb
196.	–	8.0	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)	13,099	IMDb
197.	–	8.0	Wo hu cang long (2000)	90,071	IMDb
198.	–	8.0	Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)	21,406	IMDb
199.	–	8.0	Casino (1995)	78,898	IMDb
200.	–	8.0	Le Scaphandre et le papillon (2007)	15,476	IMDb
201.	–	8.0	Little Miss Sunshine (2006)	108,394	IMDb
202.	–	8.0	Patton (1970)	30,495	IMDb
203.	–	8.0	The Kid (1921)	8,602	IMDb
204.	–	8.0	The Exorcist (1973)	77,638	IMDb
205.	–	8.0	Stalag 17 (1953)	15,734	IMDb
206.	–	8.0	The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)	22,941	IMDb
207.	–	8.0	Dial M for Murder (1954)	20,863	IMDb
208.	–	8.0	Glory (1989)	44,818	IMDb
209.	–	8.0	Sunrise (1927)	7,551	IMDb
210.	–	8.0	The Lost Weekend (1945)	8,760	IMDb
211.	–	8.0	Bonnie and Clyde (1967)	30,309	IMDb
212.	–	8.0	A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)	24,640	IMDb
213.	–	8.0	All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)	15,959	IMDb
214.	–	8.0	Magnolia (1999)	97,132	IMDb
215.	–	8.0	Rope (1948)	21,911	IMDb
216.	–	8.0	Rosemary's Baby (1968)	35,482	IMDb
217.	▲ 1	8.0	Anatomy of a Murder (1959)	11,360	IMDb
218.	▼ 1	8.0	Frankenstein (1931)	17,144	IMDb
219.	–	8.0	Spartacus (1960)	38,417	IMDb
220.	–	8.0	Iron Man (2008)	109,099	IMDb
221.	▲ 1	8.0	Bride of Frankenstein (1935)	12,056	IMDb
222.	▼ 1	8.0	The Philadelphia Story (1940)	21,619	IMDb
223.	–	8.0	In the Heat of the Night (1967)	16,932	IMDb
224.	–	8.0	Big Fish (2003)	101,050	IMDb
225.	–	8.0	Manhattan (1979)	28,572	IMDb
226.	–	8.0	His Girl Friday (1940)	15,459	IMDb
227.	–	8.0	Roman Holiday (1953)	22,820	IMDb
228.	–	8.0	Network (1976)	22,961	IMDb
229.	–	8.0	Mystic River (2003)	84,767	IMDb
230.	–	8.0	Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920)	12,579	IMDb
231.	–	8.0	La Strada (1954)	12,512	IMDb
232.	–	8.0	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)	17,821	IMDb
233.	–	8.0	Mou gaan dou (2002)	25,930	IMDb
234.	–	8.0	Stalker (1979)	14,778	IMDb
235.	–	8.0	In Bruges (2008)	36,917	IMDb
236.	–	8.0	Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)	23,048	IMDb
237.	–	8.0	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)	13,703	IMDb
238.	–	8.0	Rocky (1976)	65,020	IMDb
239.	–	8.0	Young Frankenstein (1974)	47,921	IMDb
240.	–	8.0	La Dolce vita (1960)	14,026	IMDb
241.	▲ 1	8.0	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)	185,186	IMDb
242.	▼ 1	8.0	Great Expectations (1946)	6,679	IMDb
243.	–	7.9	Sweet Smell of Success (1957)	6,098	IMDb
244.	–	7.9	Barry Lyndon (1975)	29,649	IMDb
245.	▲ 1	7.9	The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)	54,817	IMDb
246.	▲ 1	7.9	Hauru no ugoku shiro (2004)	29,922	IMDb
247.	★	7.9	Harold and Maude (1971)	21,224	IMDb
248.	▲ 1	7.9	Planet of the Apes (1968)	42,148	IMDb
249.	▼ 1	7.9	The Searchers (1956)	23,860	IMDb
250.	★	7.9	Ace in the Hole (1951)	4,833	IMDb

Comparing	20 Oct '08
with	19 Oct '08

New entries	2
Changes	20

1950-1959	38
1940-1949	25
1930-1939	14
1920-1929	7

Stanley Kubrick	7
Steven Spielberg	5
Martin Scorsese	5
Alfred Hitchcock	5
Billy Wilder	5

Charlie Chaplin	5
Christopher Nolan	4
Sergio Leone	4
Akira Kurosawa	4
Francis Ford Coppola	3

United States	125
United Kingdom	24
Italy	12
Germany	9
Japan	9

2008	4
2007	6
2006	7
2005	3
2004	8

2003	7
2002	4
2001	4
2000	6
1999	6
1998	4
1997	3
1996	2
1995	7
1994	6
1993	3
1992	2
1991	2
1990	1
1989	2
1988	3
1987	2
1986	3
1985	2
1984	3
1983	2
1982	3
1981	2
1980	4
1979	5
1978	1
1977	2
1976	3
1975	5
1974	4
1973	2
1972	2
1971	2
1970	1
1969	2
1968	4
1967	4
1966	3
1965	1
1964	1

drama	118
action	49
thriller	48
crime	39
adventure	37

Color	110
Black & White	45