IMDb Top 250 of 30 September 2008

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New entries (2)

Rank	Δ	Rating	Title	Votes
248.	★	7.9	Les Quatre cents coups (1959)	16,274	IMDb
250.	★	7.9	La Haine (1995)	20,255	IMDb

Dropped out (2)

Last Rank		Title
246.	▼	Planet of the Apes (1968)	IMDb
249.	▼	Hauru no ugoku shiro (2004)	IMDb

Rank changes (25)

Rank	Δ	Rating	Title	Votes
12.	▲ 1	8.8	Shichinin no samurai (1954)	75,334	IMDb
13.	▼ 1	8.8	Star Wars (1977)	259,773	IMDb
51.	▲ 1	8.4	Das Leben der Anderen (2006)	44,769	IMDb
52.	▼ 1	8.4	The Third Man (1949)	38,850	IMDb
95.	▲ 1	8.3	The Sting (1973)	49,887	IMDb
96.	▼ 1	8.3	There Will Be Blood (2007)	84,337	IMDb
116.	▲ 1	8.2	Cool Hand Luke (1967)	33,032	IMDb
117.	▼ 1	8.2	The Wizard of Oz (1939)	79,995	IMDb
129.	▲ 1	8.2	It Happened One Night (1934)	18,001	IMDb
130.	▼ 1	8.2	Smultronstället (1957)	14,917	IMDb
188.	▲ 1	8.0	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)	89,240	IMDb
189.	▼ 1	8.0	The Lady Vanishes (1938)	12,533	IMDb
193.	▲ 1	8.0	Hotaru no haka (1988)	23,401	IMDb
194.	▼ 1	8.0	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)	12,931	IMDb
205.	▲ 1	8.0	The Exorcist (1973)	76,878	IMDb
206.	▼ 1	8.0	Iron Man (2008)	101,604	IMDb
233.	▲ 1	8.0	La Strada (1954)	12,345	IMDb
234.	▼ 1	8.0	Mou gaan dou (2002)	25,593	IMDb
240.	▲ 1	7.9	Rocky (1976)	64,035	IMDb
241.	▼ 1	7.9	In Bruges (2008)	34,361	IMDb
243.	▲ 1	7.9	Great Expectations (1946)	6,542	IMDb
244.	▼ 1	7.9	Lola rennt (1998)	66,385	IMDb
245.	▲ 5	7.9	Ace in the Hole (1951)	4,695	IMDb
246.	▼ 1	7.9	Barry Lyndon (1975)	29,297	IMDb
249.	▼ 1	7.9	Shaun of the Dead (2004)	95,094	IMDb

Rank	Δ	Rating	Title	Votes
1.	–	9.1	The Shawshank Redemption (1994)	377,157	IMDb
2.	–	9.1	The Godfather (1972)	320,977	IMDb
3.	–	9.0	The Dark Knight (2008)	283,647	IMDb
4.	–	9.0	The Godfather: Part II (1974)	182,147	IMDb
5.	–	8.9	Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)	107,546	IMDb
6.	–	8.9	Pulp Fiction (1994)	314,276	IMDb
7.	–	8.8	Schindler's List (1993)	207,991	IMDb
8.	–	8.8	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)	158,457	IMDb
9.	–	8.8	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)	218,844	IMDb
10.	–	8.8	12 Angry Men (1957)	77,506	IMDb
11.	–	8.8	Casablanca (1942)	133,015	IMDb
12.	▲ 1	8.8	Shichinin no samurai (1954)	75,334	IMDb
13.	▼ 1	8.8	Star Wars (1977)	259,773	IMDb
14.	–	8.8	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)	278,479	IMDb
15.	–	8.7	Goodfellas (1990)	171,679	IMDb
16.	–	8.7	Rear Window (1954)	89,859	IMDb
17.	–	8.7	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)	195,256	IMDb
18.	–	8.7	Cidade de Deus (2002)	113,519	IMDb
19.	–	8.7	C'era una volta il West (1968)	52,102	IMDb
20.	–	8.7	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)	307,769	IMDb
21.	–	8.7	The Usual Suspects (1995)	210,417	IMDb
22.	–	8.7	Psycho (1960)	109,594	IMDb
23.	–	8.7	Fight Club (1999)	281,274	IMDb
24.	–	8.6	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)	187,542	IMDb
25.	–	8.6	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)	125,175	IMDb
26.	–	8.6	North by Northwest (1959)	71,955	IMDb
27.	–	8.6	Memento (2000)	203,950	IMDb
28.	–	8.6	Sunset Blvd. (1950)	39,125	IMDb
29.	–	8.6	WALL·E (2008)	75,475	IMDb
30.	–	8.6	Citizen Kane (1941)	112,395	IMDb
31.	–	8.6	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)	255,789	IMDb
32.	–	8.6	The Matrix (1999)	294,066	IMDb
33.	–	8.6	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)	79,272	IMDb
34.	–	8.6	Se7en (1995)	206,181	IMDb
35.	–	8.5	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)	62,950	IMDb
36.	–	8.5	Léon (1994)	142,790	IMDb
37.	–	8.5	Apocalypse Now (1979)	135,390	IMDb
38.	–	8.5	Taxi Driver (1976)	115,158	IMDb
39.	–	8.5	American Beauty (1999)	228,591	IMDb
40.	–	8.5	American History X (1998)	163,284	IMDb
41.	–	8.5	Vertigo (1958)	70,136	IMDb
42.	–	8.5	Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)	136,335	IMDb
43.	–	8.5	Paths of Glory (1957)	32,963	IMDb
44.	–	8.5	M (1931)	29,317	IMDb
45.	–	8.5	The Departed (2006)	186,215	IMDb
46.	–	8.5	Forrest Gump (1994)	218,649	IMDb
47.	–	8.4	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)	64,089	IMDb
48.	–	8.4	A Clockwork Orange (1971)	147,106	IMDb
49.	–	8.4	Alien (1979)	136,525	IMDb
50.	–	8.4	Chinatown (1974)	58,837	IMDb
51.	▲ 1	8.4	Das Leben der Anderen (2006)	44,769	IMDb
52.	▼ 1	8.4	The Third Man (1949)	38,850	IMDb
53.	–	8.4	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)	24,569	IMDb
54.	–	8.4	Double Indemnity (1944)	26,712	IMDb
55.	–	8.4	The Shining (1980)	129,755	IMDb
56.	–	8.4	The Pianist (2002)	92,544	IMDb
57.	–	8.4	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)	160,520	IMDb
58.	–	8.4	Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)	72,138	IMDb
59.	–	8.4	Saving Private Ryan (1998)	208,750	IMDb
60.	–	8.4	El Laberinto del fauno (2006)	107,085	IMDb
61.	–	8.4	Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)	124,775	IMDb
62.	–	8.4	Requiem for a Dream (2000)	133,499	IMDb
63.	–	8.4	L.A. Confidential (1997)	131,765	IMDb
64.	–	8.4	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)	45,611	IMDb
65.	–	8.4	Aliens (1986)	130,564	IMDb
66.	–	8.4	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)	172,681	IMDb
67.	–	8.4	Das Boot (1981)	55,775	IMDb
68.	–	8.4	Reservoir Dogs (1992)	160,753	IMDb
69.	–	8.4	Rashômon (1950)	28,623	IMDb
70.	–	8.4	The Maltese Falcon (1941)	39,927	IMDb
71.	–	8.4	Raging Bull (1980)	67,446	IMDb
72.	–	8.4	Metropolis (1927)	28,896	IMDb
73.	–	8.4	Der Untergang (2004)	56,039	IMDb
74.	–	8.3	City Lights (1931)	18,768	IMDb
75.	–	8.3	Modern Times (1936)	25,418	IMDb
76.	–	8.3	Rebecca (1940)	26,181	IMDb
77.	–	8.3	All About Eve (1950)	26,905	IMDb
78.	–	8.3	Singin' in the Rain (1952)	42,312	IMDb
79.	–	8.3	No Country for Old Men (2007)	132,771	IMDb
80.	–	8.3	The Prestige (2006)	135,427	IMDb
81.	–	8.3	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)	125,003	IMDb
82.	–	8.3	Some Like It Hot (1959)	51,380	IMDb
83.	–	8.3	Amadeus (1984)	74,574	IMDb
84.	–	8.3	La Vita è bella (1997)	80,261	IMDb
85.	–	8.3	Sin City (2005)	189,291	IMDb
86.	–	8.3	The Elephant Man (1980)	42,114	IMDb
87.	–	8.3	The Great Escape (1963)	46,477	IMDb
88.	–	8.3	Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)	26,405	IMDb
89.	–	8.3	Hotel Rwanda (2004)	65,288	IMDb
90.	–	8.3	On the Waterfront (1954)	30,517	IMDb
91.	–	8.3	Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988)	33,038	IMDb
92.	–	8.3	Full Metal Jacket (1987)	112,540	IMDb
93.	–	8.3	The Apartment (1960)	26,171	IMDb
94.	–	8.3	Touch of Evil (1958)	24,317	IMDb
95.	▲ 1	8.3	The Sting (1973)	49,887	IMDb
96.	▼ 1	8.3	There Will Be Blood (2007)	84,337	IMDb
97.	–	8.3	Once Upon a Time in America (1984)	52,524	IMDb
98.	–	8.3	Batman Begins (2005)	203,613	IMDb
99.	–	8.3	The Great Dictator (1940)	26,301	IMDb
100.	–	8.3	Jaws (1975)	106,275	IMDb
101.	–	8.3	Braveheart (1995)	188,484	IMDb
102.	–	8.3	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)	25,137	IMDb
103.	–	8.3	Blade Runner (1982)	145,610	IMDb
104.	–	8.3	Back to the Future (1985)	150,615	IMDb
105.	–	8.3	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)	135,923	IMDb
106.	–	8.3	Strangers on a Train (1951)	24,773	IMDb
107.	–	8.3	Ladri di biciclette (1948)	18,640	IMDb
108.	–	8.2	The Manchurian Candidate (1962)	27,734	IMDb
109.	–	8.2	Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)	168,557	IMDb
110.	–	8.2	High Noon (1952)	25,930	IMDb
111.	–	8.2	Notorious (1946)	23,354	IMDb
112.	–	8.2	Unforgiven (1992)	70,905	IMDb
113.	–	8.2	The Big Sleep (1946)	21,871	IMDb
114.	–	8.2	Oldeuboi (2003)	63,584	IMDb
115.	–	8.2	Fargo (1996)	128,644	IMDb
116.	▲ 1	8.2	Cool Hand Luke (1967)	33,032	IMDb
117.	▼ 1	8.2	The Wizard of Oz (1939)	79,995	IMDb
118.	–	8.2	The Green Mile (1999)	144,291	IMDb
119.	–	8.2	Per qualche dollaro in più (1965)	29,207	IMDb
120.	–	8.2	Yôjinbô (1961)	21,620	IMDb
121.	–	8.2	Ran (1985)	26,286	IMDb
122.	–	8.2	Mononoke-hime (1997)	48,233	IMDb
123.	–	8.2	Gladiator (2000)	209,674	IMDb
124.	–	8.2	Die Hard (1988)	137,525	IMDb
125.	–	8.2	Donnie Darko (2001)	156,014	IMDb
126.	–	8.2	Le Salaire de la peur (1953)	9,727	IMDb
127.	–	8.2	Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)	174,129	IMDb
128.	–	8.2	Annie Hall (1977)	48,644	IMDb
129.	▲ 1	8.2	It Happened One Night (1934)	18,001	IMDb
130.	▼ 1	8.2	Smultronstället (1957)	14,917	IMDb
131.	–	8.2	The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)	99,748	IMDb
132.	–	8.2	The Deer Hunter (1978)	66,036	IMDb
133.	–	8.2	Into the Wild (2007)	49,408	IMDb
134.	–	8.2	The Sixth Sense (1999)	189,789	IMDb
135.	–	8.2	Million Dollar Baby (2004)	99,770	IMDb
136.	–	8.2	Ben-Hur (1959)	44,444	IMDb
137.	–	8.2	The General (1926)	14,505	IMDb
138.	–	8.2	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)	9,150	IMDb
139.	–	8.1	Platoon (1986)	82,669	IMDb
140.	–	8.1	Le Notti di Cabiria (1957)	7,527	IMDb
141.	–	8.1	Heat (1995)	107,850	IMDb
142.	–	8.1	Ratatouille (2007)	87,009	IMDb
143.	–	8.1	Life of Brian (1979)	72,059	IMDb
144.	–	8.1	Les Diaboliques (1955)	9,726	IMDb
145.	–	8.1	The Killing (1956)	17,710	IMDb
146.	–	8.1	Amores perros (2000)	44,461	IMDb
147.	–	8.1	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)	43,313	IMDb
148.	–	8.1	Witness for the Prosecution (1957)	12,404	IMDb
149.	–	8.1	Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)	9,737	IMDb
150.	–	8.1	Finding Nemo (2003)	119,189	IMDb
151.	–	8.1	8½ (1963)	20,489	IMDb
152.	–	8.1	The Big Lebowski (1998)	129,842	IMDb
153.	–	8.1	Brief Encounter (1945)	9,152	IMDb
154.	–	8.1	The Graduate (1967)	59,251	IMDb
155.	–	8.1	La Battaglia di Algeri (1966)	9,293	IMDb
156.	–	8.1	The Wild Bunch (1969)	23,397	IMDb
157.	–	8.1	V for Vendetta (2005)	158,965	IMDb
158.	–	8.1	Stand by Me (1986)	68,251	IMDb
159.	–	8.1	Dog Day Afternoon (1975)	42,233	IMDb
160.	–	8.1	The Night of the Hunter (1955)	18,081	IMDb
161.	–	8.1	Snatch. (2000)	122,240	IMDb
162.	–	8.1	The Incredibles (2004)	116,243	IMDb
163.	–	8.1	The Princess Bride (1987)	101,669	IMDb
164.	–	8.1	Gandhi (1982)	36,964	IMDb
165.	–	8.1	The Grapes of Wrath (1940)	17,161	IMDb
166.	–	8.1	Children of Men (2006)	111,582	IMDb
167.	–	8.1	Trainspotting (1996)	112,832	IMDb
168.	–	8.1	Shadow of a Doubt (1943)	14,816	IMDb
169.	–	8.1	Gone with the Wind (1939)	59,449	IMDb
170.	–	8.1	The Gold Rush (1925)	14,861	IMDb
171.	–	8.1	Harvey (1950)	17,300	IMDb
172.	–	8.1	Scarface (1983)	109,017	IMDb
173.	–	8.1	The Thing (1982)	53,669	IMDb
174.	–	8.1	Groundhog Day (1993)	100,076	IMDb
175.	–	8.1	Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)	36,599	IMDb
176.	–	8.1	Toy Story (1995)	104,333	IMDb
177.	–	8.0	The Lion King (1994)	93,726	IMDb
178.	–	8.0	Sleuth (1972)	12,027	IMDb
179.	–	8.0	The African Queen (1951)	26,647	IMDb
180.	–	8.0	The Terminator (1984)	129,862	IMDb
181.	–	8.0	Crash (2004)	129,951	IMDb
182.	–	8.0	The Conversation (1974)	23,694	IMDb
183.	–	8.0	Twelve Monkeys (1995)	128,340	IMDb
184.	–	8.0	The Hustler (1961)	18,665	IMDb
185.	–	8.0	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)	17,005	IMDb
186.	–	8.0	Duck Soup (1933)	20,149	IMDb
187.	–	8.0	The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)	6,271	IMDb
188.	▲ 1	8.0	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)	89,240	IMDb
189.	▼ 1	8.0	The Lady Vanishes (1938)	12,533	IMDb
190.	–	8.0	Umberto D. (1952)	5,762	IMDb
191.	–	8.0	La Belle et la bête (1946)	7,161	IMDb
192.	–	8.0	Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)	135,082	IMDb
193.	▲ 1	8.0	Hotaru no haka (1988)	23,401	IMDb
194.	▼ 1	8.0	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)	12,931	IMDb
195.	–	8.0	King Kong (1933)	29,049	IMDb
196.	–	8.0	Ed Wood (1994)	55,307	IMDb
197.	–	8.0	Wo hu cang long (2000)	89,524	IMDb
198.	–	8.0	Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)	21,096	IMDb
199.	–	8.0	Le Scaphandre et le papillon (2007)	14,840	IMDb
200.	–	8.0	Little Miss Sunshine (2006)	107,071	IMDb
201.	–	8.0	Patton (1970)	30,227	IMDb
202.	–	8.0	Stalag 17 (1953)	15,566	IMDb
203.	–	8.0	The Lost Weekend (1945)	8,643	IMDb
204.	–	8.0	The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)	22,656	IMDb
205.	▲ 1	8.0	The Exorcist (1973)	76,878	IMDb
206.	▼ 1	8.0	Iron Man (2008)	101,604	IMDb
207.	–	8.0	Casino (1995)	77,978	IMDb
208.	–	8.0	The Kid (1921)	8,448	IMDb
209.	–	8.0	Glory (1989)	44,448	IMDb
210.	–	8.0	Frankenstein (1931)	16,916	IMDb
211.	–	8.0	Dial M for Murder (1954)	20,586	IMDb
212.	–	8.0	Sunrise (1927)	7,441	IMDb
213.	–	8.0	Bonnie and Clyde (1967)	29,941	IMDb
214.	–	8.0	Rope (1948)	21,591	IMDb
215.	–	8.0	Magnolia (1999)	96,228	IMDb
216.	–	8.0	Anatomy of a Murder (1959)	11,195	IMDb
217.	–	8.0	All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)	15,790	IMDb
218.	–	8.0	Rosemary's Baby (1968)	34,978	IMDb
219.	–	8.0	A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)	24,373	IMDb
220.	–	8.0	Spartacus (1960)	38,055	IMDb
221.	–	8.0	Bride of Frankenstein (1935)	11,892	IMDb
222.	–	8.0	The Philadelphia Story (1940)	21,453	IMDb
223.	–	8.0	Big Fish (2003)	99,932	IMDb
224.	–	8.0	Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920)	12,354	IMDb
225.	–	8.0	In the Heat of the Night (1967)	16,699	IMDb
226.	–	8.0	Roman Holiday (1953)	22,586	IMDb
227.	–	8.0	Manhattan (1979)	28,215	IMDb
228.	–	8.0	Network (1976)	22,650	IMDb
229.	–	8.0	His Girl Friday (1940)	15,276	IMDb
230.	–	8.0	Mystic River (2003)	83,891	IMDb
231.	–	8.0	Stalker (1979)	14,507	IMDb
232.	–	8.0	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)	17,627	IMDb
233.	▲ 1	8.0	La Strada (1954)	12,345	IMDb
234.	▼ 1	8.0	Mou gaan dou (2002)	25,593	IMDb
235.	–	8.0	Young Frankenstein (1974)	47,406	IMDb
236.	–	8.0	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)	13,463	IMDb
237.	–	8.0	Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)	22,819	IMDb
238.	–	8.0	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)	183,668	IMDb
239.	–	8.0	The Searchers (1956)	23,540	IMDb
240.	▲ 1	7.9	Rocky (1976)	64,035	IMDb
241.	▼ 1	7.9	In Bruges (2008)	34,361	IMDb
242.	–	7.9	La Dolce vita (1960)	13,793	IMDb
243.	▲ 1	7.9	Great Expectations (1946)	6,542	IMDb
244.	▼ 1	7.9	Lola rennt (1998)	66,385	IMDb
245.	▲ 5	7.9	Ace in the Hole (1951)	4,695	IMDb
246.	▼ 1	7.9	Barry Lyndon (1975)	29,297	IMDb
247.	–	7.9	Tonari no Totoro (1988)	18,749	IMDb
248.	★	7.9	Les Quatre cents coups (1959)	16,274	IMDb
249.	▼ 1	7.9	Shaun of the Dead (2004)	95,094	IMDb
250.	★	7.9	La Haine (1995)	20,255	IMDb

Comparing	30 Sep '08
with	29 Sep '08

New entries	2
Changes	25

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
France	10
Germany	9

2008	4
2007	6
2006	7
2005	3
2004	8

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	4
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	3
1967	4
1966	3
1965	1
1964	1

drama	118
action	49
thriller	48
crime	40
adventure	36

Color	110
Black & White	46