IMDb Top 250 of 26 September 2008

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New entries (1)

Rank	Δ	Rating	Title	Votes
249.	★	7.9	Rang De Basanti (2006)	8,003	IMDb

Dropped out (1)

Last Rank		Title
250.	▼	Les Quatre cents coups (1959)	IMDb

Rank changes (25)

Rank	Δ	Rating	Title	Votes
36.	▲ 1	8.5	Apocalypse Now (1979)	135,157	IMDb
37.	▼ 1	8.5	Léon (1994)	142,482	IMDb
82.	▲ 1	8.3	Some Like It Hot (1959)	51,282	IMDb
83.	▼ 1	8.3	Amadeus (1984)	74,430	IMDb
89.	▲ 1	8.3	On the Waterfront (1954)	30,443	IMDb
90.	▼ 1	8.3	Hotel Rwanda (2004)	65,132	IMDb
135.	▲ 1	8.2	The Sixth Sense (1999)	189,516	IMDb
136.	▼ 1	8.2	Million Dollar Baby (2004)	99,557	IMDb
190.	▲ 1	8.0	La Belle et la bête (1946)	7,141	IMDb
191.	▲ 1	8.0	Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)	134,768	IMDb
192.	▼ 2	8.0	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)	12,885	IMDb
199.	▲ 2	8.0	Little Miss Sunshine (2006)	106,781	IMDb
201.	▲ 1	8.0	The Lost Weekend (1945)	8,613	IMDb
202.	▼ 3	8.0	Le Scaphandre et le papillon (2007)	14,715	IMDb
213.	▲ 1	8.0	Sunrise (1927)	7,416	IMDb
214.	▼ 1	8.0	Rope (1948)	21,532	IMDb
219.	▲ 1	8.0	All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)	15,748	IMDb
220.	▼ 1	8.0	The Philadelphia Story (1940)	21,405	IMDb
236.	▲ 1	8.0	La Dolce vita (1960)	13,755	IMDb
237.	▼ 1	8.0	In Bruges (2008)	33,794	IMDb
244.	▲ 1	7.9	Great Expectations (1946)	6,511	IMDb
245.	▲ 1	7.9	Barry Lyndon (1975)	29,230	IMDb
246.	▲ 1	7.9	La Haine (1995)	20,176	IMDb
247.	▼ 3	7.9	Hauru no ugoku shiro (2004)	29,365	IMDb
250.	▼ 1	7.9	Shaun of the Dead (2004)	94,729	IMDb

Rank	Δ	Rating	Title	Votes
1.	–	9.1	The Shawshank Redemption (1994)	376,311	IMDb
2.	–	9.1	The Godfather (1972)	320,372	IMDb
3.	–	9.0	The Dark Knight (2008)	281,738	IMDb
4.	–	9.0	The Godfather: Part II (1974)	181,764	IMDb
5.	–	8.9	Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)	107,278	IMDb
6.	–	8.9	Pulp Fiction (1994)	313,755	IMDb
7.	–	8.8	Schindler's List (1993)	207,637	IMDb
8.	–	8.8	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)	158,158	IMDb
9.	–	8.8	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)	218,500	IMDb
10.	–	8.8	12 Angry Men (1957)	77,306	IMDb
11.	–	8.8	Casablanca (1942)	132,801	IMDb
12.	–	8.8	Star Wars (1977)	259,335	IMDb
13.	–	8.8	Shichinin no samurai (1954)	75,218	IMDb
14.	–	8.8	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)	278,002	IMDb
15.	–	8.7	Goodfellas (1990)	171,360	IMDb
16.	–	8.7	Rear Window (1954)	89,671	IMDb
17.	–	8.7	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)	194,969	IMDb
18.	–	8.7	Cidade de Deus (2002)	113,184	IMDb
19.	–	8.7	C'era una volta il West (1968)	51,979	IMDb
20.	–	8.7	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)	307,314	IMDb
21.	–	8.7	The Usual Suspects (1995)	210,055	IMDb
22.	–	8.7	Psycho (1960)	109,423	IMDb
23.	–	8.7	Fight Club (1999)	280,685	IMDb
24.	–	8.6	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)	187,240	IMDb
25.	–	8.6	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)	124,987	IMDb
26.	–	8.6	North by Northwest (1959)	71,852	IMDb
27.	–	8.6	Memento (2000)	203,589	IMDb
28.	–	8.6	Sunset Blvd. (1950)	39,053	IMDb
29.	–	8.6	Citizen Kane (1941)	112,235	IMDb
30.	–	8.6	WALL·E (2008)	74,081	IMDb
31.	–	8.6	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)	255,385	IMDb
32.	–	8.6	The Matrix (1999)	293,602	IMDb
33.	–	8.6	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)	79,166	IMDb
34.	–	8.6	Se7en (1995)	205,791	IMDb
35.	–	8.5	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)	62,845	IMDb
36.	▲ 1	8.5	Apocalypse Now (1979)	135,157	IMDb
37.	▼ 1	8.5	Léon (1994)	142,482	IMDb
38.	–	8.5	Taxi Driver (1976)	114,925	IMDb
39.	–	8.5	American Beauty (1999)	228,221	IMDb
40.	–	8.5	American History X (1998)	162,968	IMDb
41.	–	8.5	Vertigo (1958)	70,023	IMDb
42.	–	8.5	Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)	136,078	IMDb
43.	–	8.5	Paths of Glory (1957)	32,911	IMDb
44.	–	8.5	M (1931)	29,246	IMDb
45.	–	8.5	The Departed (2006)	185,758	IMDb
46.	–	8.5	Forrest Gump (1994)	218,226	IMDb
47.	–	8.4	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)	63,964	IMDb
48.	–	8.4	A Clockwork Orange (1971)	146,737	IMDb
49.	–	8.4	Alien (1979)	136,285	IMDb
50.	–	8.4	Chinatown (1974)	58,730	IMDb
51.	–	8.4	The Third Man (1949)	38,784	IMDb
52.	–	8.4	Das Leben der Anderen (2006)	44,492	IMDb
53.	–	8.4	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)	24,506	IMDb
54.	–	8.4	Double Indemnity (1944)	26,651	IMDb
55.	–	8.4	The Shining (1980)	129,479	IMDb
56.	–	8.4	The Pianist (2002)	92,322	IMDb
57.	–	8.4	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)	160,131	IMDb
58.	–	8.4	Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)	71,952	IMDb
59.	–	8.4	Saving Private Ryan (1998)	208,414	IMDb
60.	–	8.4	El Laberinto del fauno (2006)	106,643	IMDb
61.	–	8.4	Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)	124,618	IMDb
62.	–	8.4	Requiem for a Dream (2000)	133,217	IMDb
63.	–	8.4	L.A. Confidential (1997)	131,491	IMDb
64.	–	8.4	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)	45,528	IMDb
65.	–	8.4	Aliens (1986)	130,360	IMDb
66.	–	8.4	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)	172,338	IMDb
67.	–	8.4	Das Boot (1981)	55,663	IMDb
68.	–	8.4	Reservoir Dogs (1992)	160,443	IMDb
69.	–	8.4	Rashômon (1950)	28,545	IMDb
70.	–	8.4	The Maltese Falcon (1941)	39,828	IMDb
71.	–	8.4	Raging Bull (1980)	67,316	IMDb
72.	–	8.4	Metropolis (1927)	28,829	IMDb
73.	–	8.4	Der Untergang (2004)	55,894	IMDb
74.	–	8.3	City Lights (1931)	18,719	IMDb
75.	–	8.3	Modern Times (1936)	25,356	IMDb
76.	–	8.3	Rebecca (1940)	26,099	IMDb
77.	–	8.3	All About Eve (1950)	26,856	IMDb
78.	–	8.3	Singin' in the Rain (1952)	42,222	IMDb
79.	–	8.3	No Country for Old Men (2007)	132,271	IMDb
80.	–	8.3	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)	124,808	IMDb
81.	–	8.3	The Prestige (2006)	135,029	IMDb
82.	▲ 1	8.3	Some Like It Hot (1959)	51,282	IMDb
83.	▼ 1	8.3	Amadeus (1984)	74,430	IMDb
84.	–	8.3	La Vita è bella (1997)	80,108	IMDb
85.	–	8.3	Sin City (2005)	188,902	IMDb
86.	–	8.3	The Elephant Man (1980)	42,009	IMDb
87.	–	8.3	The Great Escape (1963)	46,359	IMDb
88.	–	8.3	Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)	26,334	IMDb
89.	▲ 1	8.3	On the Waterfront (1954)	30,443	IMDb
90.	▼ 1	8.3	Hotel Rwanda (2004)	65,132	IMDb
91.	–	8.3	Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988)	32,964	IMDb
92.	–	8.3	Full Metal Jacket (1987)	112,301	IMDb
93.	–	8.3	Touch of Evil (1958)	24,267	IMDb
94.	–	8.3	The Apartment (1960)	26,095	IMDb
95.	–	8.3	There Will Be Blood (2007)	83,897	IMDb
96.	–	8.3	The Sting (1973)	49,576	IMDb
97.	–	8.3	Once Upon a Time in America (1984)	52,392	IMDb
98.	–	8.3	Batman Begins (2005)	203,140	IMDb
99.	–	8.3	The Great Dictator (1940)	26,242	IMDb
100.	–	8.3	Jaws (1975)	106,104	IMDb
101.	–	8.3	Braveheart (1995)	188,158	IMDb
102.	–	8.3	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)	25,092	IMDb
103.	–	8.3	Blade Runner (1982)	145,375	IMDb
104.	–	8.3	Back to the Future (1985)	150,357	IMDb
105.	–	8.3	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)	135,704	IMDb
106.	–	8.3	Strangers on a Train (1951)	24,705	IMDb
107.	–	8.3	Ladri di biciclette (1948)	18,586	IMDb
108.	–	8.3	The Manchurian Candidate (1962)	27,693	IMDb
109.	–	8.2	Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)	168,300	IMDb
110.	–	8.2	High Noon (1952)	25,886	IMDb
111.	–	8.2	Notorious (1946)	23,310	IMDb
112.	–	8.2	Unforgiven (1992)	70,732	IMDb
113.	–	8.2	The Big Sleep (1946)	21,815	IMDb
114.	–	8.2	Oldeuboi (2003)	63,390	IMDb
115.	–	8.2	Fargo (1996)	128,426	IMDb
116.	–	8.2	The Wizard of Oz (1939)	79,839	IMDb
117.	–	8.2	The Green Mile (1999)	143,987	IMDb
118.	–	8.2	Cool Hand Luke (1967)	32,680	IMDb
119.	–	8.2	Per qualche dollaro in più (1965)	29,138	IMDb
120.	–	8.2	Yôjinbô (1961)	21,580	IMDb
121.	–	8.2	Ran (1985)	26,225	IMDb
122.	–	8.2	Mononoke-hime (1997)	48,131	IMDb
123.	–	8.2	Gladiator (2000)	209,290	IMDb
124.	–	8.2	Die Hard (1988)	137,287	IMDb
125.	–	8.2	Donnie Darko (2001)	155,706	IMDb
126.	–	8.2	Le Salaire de la peur (1953)	9,704	IMDb
127.	–	8.2	Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)	173,760	IMDb
128.	–	8.2	Annie Hall (1977)	48,533	IMDb
129.	–	8.2	It Happened One Night (1934)	17,951	IMDb
130.	–	8.2	Smultronstället (1957)	14,882	IMDb
131.	–	8.2	The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)	99,406	IMDb
132.	–	8.2	Into the Wild (2007)	49,043	IMDb
133.	–	8.2	The Deer Hunter (1978)	65,893	IMDb
134.	–	8.2	The General (1926)	14,468	IMDb
135.	▲ 1	8.2	The Sixth Sense (1999)	189,516	IMDb
136.	▼ 1	8.2	Million Dollar Baby (2004)	99,557	IMDb
137.	–	8.2	Ben-Hur (1959)	44,362	IMDb
138.	–	8.2	Le Notti di Cabiria (1957)	7,512	IMDb
139.	–	8.2	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)	9,122	IMDb
140.	–	8.1	Platoon (1986)	82,502	IMDb
141.	–	8.1	Heat (1995)	107,580	IMDb
142.	–	8.1	Ratatouille (2007)	86,674	IMDb
143.	–	8.1	Life of Brian (1979)	71,934	IMDb
144.	–	8.1	Les Diaboliques (1955)	9,697	IMDb
145.	–	8.1	The Killing (1956)	17,670	IMDb
146.	–	8.1	Amores perros (2000)	44,361	IMDb
147.	–	8.1	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)	42,995	IMDb
148.	–	8.1	Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)	9,706	IMDb
149.	–	8.1	Witness for the Prosecution (1957)	12,367	IMDb
150.	–	8.1	Finding Nemo (2003)	118,905	IMDb
151.	–	8.1	8½ (1963)	20,435	IMDb
152.	–	8.1	The Big Lebowski (1998)	129,553	IMDb
153.	–	8.1	Brief Encounter (1945)	9,128	IMDb
154.	–	8.1	The Graduate (1967)	59,150	IMDb
155.	–	8.1	La Battaglia di Algeri (1966)	9,271	IMDb
156.	–	8.1	The Wild Bunch (1969)	23,345	IMDb
157.	–	8.1	V for Vendetta (2005)	158,557	IMDb
158.	–	8.1	Dog Day Afternoon (1975)	42,133	IMDb
159.	–	8.1	Stand by Me (1986)	68,123	IMDb
160.	–	8.1	The Night of the Hunter (1955)	18,031	IMDb
161.	–	8.1	Snatch. (2000)	121,913	IMDb
162.	–	8.1	The Incredibles (2004)	115,976	IMDb
163.	–	8.1	The Princess Bride (1987)	101,522	IMDb
164.	–	8.1	Gandhi (1982)	36,883	IMDb
165.	–	8.1	The Grapes of Wrath (1940)	17,134	IMDb
166.	–	8.1	Children of Men (2006)	111,299	IMDb
167.	–	8.1	Trainspotting (1996)	112,645	IMDb
168.	–	8.1	Gone with the Wind (1939)	59,352	IMDb
169.	–	8.1	Shadow of a Doubt (1943)	14,779	IMDb
170.	–	8.1	The Gold Rush (1925)	14,820	IMDb
171.	–	8.1	Harvey (1950)	17,259	IMDb
172.	–	8.1	Scarface (1983)	108,739	IMDb
173.	–	8.1	The Thing (1982)	53,507	IMDb
174.	–	8.1	Groundhog Day (1993)	99,891	IMDb
175.	–	8.1	Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)	36,471	IMDb
176.	–	8.0	Toy Story (1995)	104,098	IMDb
177.	–	8.0	The Lion King (1994)	93,503	IMDb
178.	–	8.0	Sleuth (1972)	11,989	IMDb
179.	–	8.0	The African Queen (1951)	26,593	IMDb
180.	–	8.0	The Terminator (1984)	129,595	IMDb
181.	–	8.0	Crash (2004)	129,704	IMDb
182.	–	8.0	The Conversation (1974)	23,646	IMDb
183.	–	8.0	Twelve Monkeys (1995)	128,096	IMDb
184.	–	8.0	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)	16,972	IMDb
185.	–	8.0	The Hustler (1961)	18,504	IMDb
186.	–	8.0	Duck Soup (1933)	20,058	IMDb
187.	–	8.0	The Lady Vanishes (1938)	12,496	IMDb
188.	–	8.0	The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)	6,252	IMDb
189.	–	8.0	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)	89,029	IMDb
190.	▲ 1	8.0	La Belle et la bête (1946)	7,141	IMDb
191.	▲ 1	8.0	Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)	134,768	IMDb
192.	▼ 2	8.0	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)	12,885	IMDb
193.	–	8.0	Hotaru no haka (1988)	23,319	IMDb
194.	–	8.0	Umberto D. (1952)	5,742	IMDb
195.	–	8.0	Ed Wood (1994)	55,193	IMDb
196.	–	8.0	King Kong (1933)	28,985	IMDb
197.	–	8.0	Wo hu cang long (2000)	89,407	IMDb
198.	–	8.0	Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)	21,041	IMDb
199.	▲ 2	8.0	Little Miss Sunshine (2006)	106,781	IMDb
200.	–	8.0	Iron Man (2008)	100,281	IMDb
201.	▲ 1	8.0	The Lost Weekend (1945)	8,613	IMDb
202.	▼ 3	8.0	Le Scaphandre et le papillon (2007)	14,715	IMDb
203.	–	8.0	Stalag 17 (1953)	15,541	IMDb
204.	–	8.0	Patton (1970)	30,175	IMDb
205.	–	8.0	The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)	22,611	IMDb
206.	–	8.0	The Exorcist (1973)	76,722	IMDb
207.	–	8.0	Casino (1995)	77,793	IMDb
208.	–	8.0	Glory (1989)	44,378	IMDb
209.	–	8.0	Frankenstein (1931)	16,869	IMDb
210.	–	8.0	The Kid (1921)	8,421	IMDb
211.	–	8.0	Dial M for Murder (1954)	20,530	IMDb
212.	–	8.0	Anatomy of a Murder (1959)	11,151	IMDb
213.	▲ 1	8.0	Sunrise (1927)	7,416	IMDb
214.	▼ 1	8.0	Rope (1948)	21,532	IMDb
215.	–	8.0	Bonnie and Clyde (1967)	29,876	IMDb
216.	–	8.0	Magnolia (1999)	96,061	IMDb
217.	–	8.0	Spartacus (1960)	37,980	IMDb
218.	–	8.0	Rosemary's Baby (1968)	34,884	IMDb
219.	▲ 1	8.0	All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)	15,748	IMDb
220.	▼ 1	8.0	The Philadelphia Story (1940)	21,405	IMDb
221.	–	8.0	A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)	24,310	IMDb
222.	–	8.0	Bride of Frankenstein (1935)	11,871	IMDb
223.	–	8.0	Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920)	12,307	IMDb
224.	–	8.0	Big Fish (2003)	99,707	IMDb
225.	–	8.0	In the Heat of the Night (1967)	16,647	IMDb
226.	–	8.0	Roman Holiday (1953)	22,538	IMDb
227.	–	8.0	Manhattan (1979)	28,151	IMDb
228.	–	8.0	His Girl Friday (1940)	15,238	IMDb
229.	–	8.0	Mystic River (2003)	83,708	IMDb
230.	–	8.0	Network (1976)	22,580	IMDb
231.	–	8.0	Stalker (1979)	14,451	IMDb
232.	–	8.0	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)	17,583	IMDb
233.	–	8.0	La Strada (1954)	12,307	IMDb
234.	–	8.0	Mou gaan dou (2002)	25,536	IMDb
235.	–	8.0	Young Frankenstein (1974)	47,319	IMDb
236.	▲ 1	8.0	La Dolce vita (1960)	13,755	IMDb
237.	▼ 1	8.0	In Bruges (2008)	33,794	IMDb
238.	–	8.0	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)	183,350	IMDb
239.	–	8.0	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)	13,414	IMDb
240.	–	8.0	The Searchers (1956)	23,487	IMDb
241.	–	8.0	Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)	22,772	IMDb
242.	–	7.9	Rocky (1976)	63,846	IMDb
243.	–	7.9	Lola rennt (1998)	66,236	IMDb
244.	▲ 1	7.9	Great Expectations (1946)	6,511	IMDb
245.	▲ 1	7.9	Barry Lyndon (1975)	29,230	IMDb
246.	▲ 1	7.9	La Haine (1995)	20,176	IMDb
247.	▼ 3	7.9	Hauru no ugoku shiro (2004)	29,365	IMDb
248.	–	7.9	Planet of the Apes (1968)	41,615	IMDb
249.	★	7.9	Rang De Basanti (2006)	8,003	IMDb
250.	▼ 1	7.9	Shaun of the Dead (2004)	94,729	IMDb

Comparing	26 Sep '08
with	25 Sep '08

New entries	1
Changes	25

1950-1959	36
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
France	10
Germany	9

2008	4
2007	6
2006	8
2005	3
2004	9

2003	7
2002	4
2001	4
2000	6
1999	6
1998	5
1997	3
1996	2
1995	8
1994	6
1993	2
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	1
1970	1
1969	2
1968	4
1967	4
1966	3
1965	1
1964	1

drama	119
action	49
thriller	48
crime	40
adventure	37

Color	110
Black & White	46