IMDb Top 250 of 22 January 2009

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New entries (1)

Rank	Δ	Rating	Title	Votes
249.	★	8.0	Ace in the Hole (1951)	5,482	IMDb

Dropped out (1)

Last Rank		Title
250.	▼	Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994)	IMDb

Rank changes (27)

Rank	Δ	Rating	Title	Votes
47.	▲ 1	8.5	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)	67,548	IMDb
48.	▼ 1	8.5	Double Indemnity (1944)	28,545	IMDb
82.	▲ 1	8.3	The Prestige (2006)	147,735	IMDb
83.	▼ 1	8.3	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)	39,026	IMDb
88.	▲ 2	8.3	Gran Torino (2008)	22,679	IMDb
89.	▼ 1	8.3	The Apartment (1960)	28,043	IMDb
90.	▼ 1	8.3	Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988)	35,147	IMDb
91.	▲ 1	8.3	The Great Escape (1963)	49,373	IMDb
92.	▼ 1	8.3	Sin City (2005)	202,005	IMDb
95.	▲ 2	8.3	The Sting (1973)	53,131	IMDb
97.	▼ 2	8.3	No Country for Old Men (2007)	147,320	IMDb
115.	▲ 1	8.2	Notorious (1946)	24,837	IMDb
116.	▼ 1	8.2	High Noon (1952)	27,490	IMDb
133.	▲ 1	8.2	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)	9,861	IMDb
134.	▼ 1	8.2	Le Salaire de la peur (1953)	10,525	IMDb
182.	▲ 2	8.1	Milk (2008)	10,311	IMDb
183.	▼ 1	8.1	The Terminator (1984)	137,584	IMDb
184.	▼ 1	8.1	The Hustler (1961)	20,130	IMDb
202.	▲ 1	8.0	King Kong (1933)	30,815	IMDb
203.	▼ 1	8.0	Crash (2004)	137,918	IMDb
225.	▲ 1	8.0	Magnolia (1999)	101,106	IMDb
226.	▼ 1	8.0	La Belle et la bête (1946)	7,726	IMDb
229.	▲ 1	8.0	Spartacus (1960)	40,248	IMDb
230.	▼ 1	8.0	Sweet Smell of Success (1957)	6,621	IMDb
246.	▲ 1	8.0	Planet of the Apes (1968)	45,037	IMDb
247.	▼ 1	8.0	A Christmas Story (1983)	46,625	IMDb
250.	▼ 1	8.0	Mou gaan dou (2002)	27,475	IMDb

Rank	Δ	Rating	Title	Votes
1.	–	9.1	The Shawshank Redemption (1994)	400,879	IMDb
2.	–	9.1	The Godfather (1972)	336,709	IMDb
3.	–	9.0	The Godfather: Part II (1974)	193,983	IMDb
4.	–	8.9	Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)	116,319	IMDb
5.	–	8.9	The Dark Knight (2008)	335,156	IMDb
6.	–	8.9	Pulp Fiction (1994)	331,072	IMDb
7.	–	8.8	Schindler's List (1993)	219,103	IMDb
8.	–	8.8	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)	167,720	IMDb
9.	–	8.8	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)	228,778	IMDb
10.	–	8.8	12 Angry Men (1957)	83,975	IMDb
11.	–	8.8	Casablanca (1942)	139,053	IMDb
12.	–	8.8	Star Wars (1977)	270,347	IMDb
13.	–	8.8	Shichinin no samurai (1954)	78,945	IMDb
14.	–	8.8	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)	292,568	IMDb
15.	–	8.7	Goodfellas (1990)	181,653	IMDb
16.	–	8.7	Rear Window (1954)	94,900	IMDb
17.	–	8.7	Cidade de Deus (2002)	123,302	IMDb
18.	–	8.7	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)	204,288	IMDb
19.	–	8.7	C'era una volta il West (1968)	55,731	IMDb
20.	–	8.7	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)	321,130	IMDb
21.	–	8.7	The Usual Suspects (1995)	220,492	IMDb
22.	–	8.7	Fight Club (1999)	298,913	IMDb
23.	–	8.7	Psycho (1960)	115,311	IMDb
24.	–	8.6	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)	197,486	IMDb
25.	–	8.6	Sunset Blvd. (1950)	41,931	IMDb
26.	–	8.6	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)	130,583	IMDb
27.	–	8.6	Memento (2000)	215,811	IMDb
28.	–	8.6	North by Northwest (1959)	75,722	IMDb
29.	–	8.6	Citizen Kane (1941)	117,063	IMDb
30.	–	8.6	The Matrix (1999)	308,792	IMDb
31.	–	8.6	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)	84,230	IMDb
32.	–	8.6	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)	267,812	IMDb
33.	–	8.6	Se7en (1995)	218,863	IMDb
34.	–	8.5	Slumdog Millionaire (2008)	36,137	IMDb
35.	–	8.5	Léon (1994)	152,878	IMDb
36.	–	8.5	Apocalypse Now (1979)	141,867	IMDb
37.	–	8.5	WALL·E (2008)	111,262	IMDb
38.	–	8.5	Taxi Driver (1976)	121,968	IMDb
39.	–	8.5	American Beauty (1999)	240,129	IMDb
40.	–	8.5	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)	65,831	IMDb
41.	–	8.5	American History X (1998)	174,109	IMDb
42.	–	8.5	Vertigo (1958)	73,816	IMDb
43.	–	8.5	Paths of Glory (1957)	35,108	IMDb
44.	–	8.5	Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)	143,734	IMDb
45.	–	8.5	M (1931)	31,249	IMDb
46.	–	8.5	Forrest Gump (1994)	233,020	IMDb
47.	▲ 1	8.5	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)	67,548	IMDb
48.	▼ 1	8.5	Double Indemnity (1944)	28,545	IMDb
49.	–	8.5	The Departed (2006)	200,359	IMDb
50.	–	8.5	Alien (1979)	144,103	IMDb
51.	–	8.5	A Clockwork Orange (1971)	155,173	IMDb
52.	–	8.5	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)	26,087	IMDb
53.	–	8.4	The Third Man (1949)	41,096	IMDb
54.	–	8.4	Das Leben der Anderen (2006)	50,344	IMDb
55.	–	8.4	The Shining (1980)	138,548	IMDb
56.	–	8.4	Chinatown (1974)	62,382	IMDb
57.	–	8.4	The Pianist (2002)	99,576	IMDb
58.	–	8.4	The Wrestler (2008)	17,285	IMDb
59.	–	8.4	Saving Private Ryan (1998)	219,580	IMDb
60.	–	8.4	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)	171,260	IMDb
61.	–	8.4	Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)	76,632	IMDb
62.	–	8.4	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)	182,662	IMDb
63.	–	8.4	Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)	130,168	IMDb
64.	–	8.4	L.A. Confidential (1997)	138,118	IMDb
65.	–	8.4	Aliens (1986)	137,067	IMDb
66.	–	8.4	Requiem for a Dream (2000)	142,706	IMDb
67.	–	8.4	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)	48,048	IMDb
68.	–	8.4	Das Boot (1981)	58,303	IMDb
69.	–	8.4	El Laberinto del fauno (2006)	115,517	IMDb
70.	–	8.4	Reservoir Dogs (1992)	169,577	IMDb
71.	–	8.4	City Lights (1931)	20,198	IMDb
72.	–	8.4	The Maltese Falcon (1941)	42,067	IMDb
73.	–	8.4	Rashômon (1950)	30,354	IMDb
74.	–	8.4	Raging Bull (1980)	71,380	IMDb
75.	–	8.4	All About Eve (1950)	28,382	IMDb
76.	–	8.4	Metropolis (1927)	30,715	IMDb
77.	–	8.3	Der Untergang (2004)	60,666	IMDb
78.	–	8.3	Modern Times (1936)	27,208	IMDb
79.	–	8.3	Singin' in the Rain (1952)	44,740	IMDb
80.	–	8.3	Rebecca (1940)	27,884	IMDb
81.	–	8.3	Some Like It Hot (1959)	54,184	IMDb
82.	▲ 1	8.3	The Prestige (2006)	147,735	IMDb
83.	▼ 1	8.3	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)	39,026	IMDb
84.	–	8.3	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)	131,009	IMDb
85.	–	8.3	Amadeus (1984)	78,413	IMDb
86.	–	8.3	The Elephant Man (1980)	44,974	IMDb
87.	–	8.3	La Vita è bella (1997)	85,104	IMDb
88.	▲ 2	8.3	Gran Torino (2008)	22,679	IMDb
89.	▼ 1	8.3	The Apartment (1960)	28,043	IMDb
90.	▼ 1	8.3	Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988)	35,147	IMDb
91.	▲ 1	8.3	The Great Escape (1963)	49,373	IMDb
92.	▼ 1	8.3	Sin City (2005)	202,005	IMDb
93.	–	8.3	Full Metal Jacket (1987)	119,356	IMDb
94.	–	8.3	Touch of Evil (1958)	26,001	IMDb
95.	▲ 2	8.3	The Sting (1973)	53,131	IMDb
96.	–	8.3	Once Upon a Time in America (1984)	56,017	IMDb
97.	▼ 2	8.3	No Country for Old Men (2007)	147,320	IMDb
98.	–	8.3	The Great Dictator (1940)	28,143	IMDb
99.	–	8.3	Hotel Rwanda (2004)	70,456	IMDb
100.	–	8.3	Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)	28,214	IMDb
101.	–	8.3	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)	26,757	IMDb
102.	–	8.3	On the Waterfront (1954)	32,334	IMDb
103.	–	8.3	Back to the Future (1985)	159,249	IMDb
104.	–	8.3	Batman Begins (2005)	217,240	IMDb
105.	–	8.3	Braveheart (1995)	197,619	IMDb
106.	–	8.3	Ladri di biciclette (1948)	20,112	IMDb
107.	–	8.3	Jaws (1975)	111,989	IMDb
108.	–	8.3	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)	142,915	IMDb
109.	–	8.3	Strangers on a Train (1951)	26,550	IMDb
110.	–	8.3	Blade Runner (1982)	152,656	IMDb
111.	–	8.3	Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)	175,935	IMDb
112.	–	8.3	The Manchurian Candidate (1962)	29,019	IMDb
113.	–	8.2	There Will Be Blood (2007)	94,607	IMDb
114.	–	8.2	Unforgiven (1992)	75,602	IMDb
115.	▲ 1	8.2	Notorious (1946)	24,837	IMDb
116.	▼ 1	8.2	High Noon (1952)	27,490	IMDb
117.	–	8.2	The Green Mile (1999)	153,296	IMDb
118.	–	8.2	The Big Sleep (1946)	23,270	IMDb
119.	–	8.2	Fargo (1996)	135,921	IMDb
120.	–	8.2	Oldeuboi (2003)	69,409	IMDb
121.	–	8.2	Cool Hand Luke (1967)	35,709	IMDb
122.	–	8.2	Gladiator (2000)	221,499	IMDb
123.	–	8.2	Per qualche dollaro in più (1965)	31,518	IMDb
124.	–	8.2	The Wizard of Oz (1939)	84,045	IMDb
125.	–	8.2	Die Hard (1988)	145,483	IMDb
126.	–	8.2	Mononoke-hime (1997)	51,183	IMDb
127.	–	8.2	Yôjinbô (1961)	23,019	IMDb
128.	–	8.2	Donnie Darko (2001)	165,723	IMDb
129.	–	8.2	Ran (1985)	27,767	IMDb
130.	–	8.2	The General (1926)	15,537	IMDb
131.	–	8.2	Annie Hall (1977)	51,684	IMDb
132.	–	8.2	Smultronstället (1957)	16,029	IMDb
133.	▲ 1	8.2	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)	9,861	IMDb
134.	▼ 1	8.2	Le Salaire de la peur (1953)	10,525	IMDb
135.	–	8.2	It Happened One Night (1934)	19,225	IMDb
136.	–	8.2	Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)	184,098	IMDb
137.	–	8.2	Heat (1995)	114,703	IMDb
138.	–	8.2	Witness for the Prosecution (1957)	13,387	IMDb
139.	–	8.2	The Deer Hunter (1978)	70,032	IMDb
140.	–	8.2	The Sixth Sense (1999)	198,558	IMDb
141.	–	8.2	Ben-Hur (1959)	46,877	IMDb
142.	–	8.2	Platoon (1986)	87,314	IMDb
143.	–	8.2	Into the Wild (2007)	59,164	IMDb
144.	–	8.2	Million Dollar Baby (2004)	106,799	IMDb
145.	–	8.1	The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)	109,039	IMDb
146.	–	8.1	Le Notti di Cabiria (1957)	8,097	IMDb
147.	–	8.1	Life of Brian (1979)	75,830	IMDb
148.	–	8.1	Les Diaboliques (1955)	10,542	IMDb
149.	–	8.1	Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)	10,507	IMDb
150.	–	8.1	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)	46,143	IMDb
151.	–	8.1	Ratatouille (2007)	96,171	IMDb
152.	–	8.1	8½ (1963)	21,957	IMDb
153.	–	8.1	The Big Lebowski (1998)	139,001	IMDb
154.	–	8.1	The Killing (1956)	19,108	IMDb
155.	–	8.1	Amores perros (2000)	47,518	IMDb
156.	–	8.1	Finding Nemo (2003)	127,313	IMDb
157.	–	8.1	The Grapes of Wrath (1940)	18,270	IMDb
158.	–	8.1	Brief Encounter (1945)	9,936	IMDb
159.	–	8.1	The Graduate (1967)	62,298	IMDb
160.	–	8.1	The Night of the Hunter (1955)	19,347	IMDb
161.	–	8.1	Snatch. (2000)	131,614	IMDb
162.	–	8.1	Stand by Me (1986)	71,896	IMDb
163.	–	8.1	Dog Day Afternoon (1975)	45,293	IMDb
164.	–	8.1	The Wild Bunch (1969)	24,736	IMDb
165.	–	8.1	Gandhi (1982)	39,349	IMDb
166.	–	8.1	The Gold Rush (1925)	15,952	IMDb
167.	–	8.1	V for Vendetta (2005)	170,374	IMDb
168.	–	8.1	Gone with the Wind (1939)	62,363	IMDb
169.	–	8.1	Trainspotting (1996)	119,732	IMDb
170.	–	8.1	The Princess Bride (1987)	105,672	IMDb
171.	–	8.1	The Incredibles (2004)	124,124	IMDb
172.	–	8.1	Shadow of a Doubt (1943)	16,078	IMDb
173.	–	8.1	Scarface (1983)	117,169	IMDb
174.	–	8.1	The Thing (1982)	58,415	IMDb
175.	–	8.1	The Lion King (1994)	101,065	IMDb
176.	–	8.1	La Battaglia di Algeri (1966)	10,069	IMDb
177.	–	8.1	Harvey (1950)	18,501	IMDb
178.	–	8.1	Groundhog Day (1993)	105,832	IMDb
179.	–	8.1	Children of Men (2006)	120,411	IMDb
180.	–	8.1	Toy Story (1995)	111,008	IMDb
181.	–	8.1	Sleuth (1972)	13,041	IMDb
182.	▲ 2	8.1	Milk (2008)	10,311	IMDb
183.	▼ 1	8.1	The Terminator (1984)	137,584	IMDb
184.	▼ 1	8.1	The Hustler (1961)	20,130	IMDb
185.	–	8.0	The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)	6,782	IMDb
186.	–	8.0	Umberto D. (1952)	6,333	IMDb
187.	–	8.0	Twelve Monkeys (1995)	135,513	IMDb
188.	–	8.0	The African Queen (1951)	27,934	IMDb
189.	–	8.0	Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)	40,472	IMDb
190.	–	8.0	Sunrise (1927)	8,180	IMDb
191.	–	8.0	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)	13,779	IMDb
192.	–	8.0	Duck Soup (1933)	21,324	IMDb
193.	–	8.0	The Conversation (1974)	25,243	IMDb
194.	–	8.0	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)	96,354	IMDb
195.	–	8.0	Låt den rätte komma in (2008)	11,225	IMDb
196.	–	8.0	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)	18,252	IMDb
197.	–	8.0	The Lady Vanishes (1938)	13,622	IMDb
198.	–	8.0	Stalag 17 (1953)	16,580	IMDb
199.	–	8.0	Le Scaphandre et le papillon (2007)	18,617	IMDb
200.	–	8.0	The Kid (1921)	9,363	IMDb
201.	–	8.0	Casino (1995)	83,575	IMDb
202.	▲ 1	8.0	King Kong (1933)	30,815	IMDb
203.	▼ 1	8.0	Crash (2004)	137,918	IMDb
204.	–	8.0	Ed Wood (1994)	58,659	IMDb
205.	–	8.0	Hotaru no haka (1988)	25,406	IMDb
206.	–	8.0	Dial M for Murder (1954)	22,214	IMDb
207.	–	8.0	The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)	26,664	IMDb
208.	–	8.0	The Lost Weekend (1945)	9,330	IMDb
209.	–	8.0	The Exorcist (1973)	81,713	IMDb
210.	–	8.0	All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)	16,792	IMDb
211.	–	8.0	Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)	143,192	IMDb
212.	–	8.0	Anatomy of a Murder (1959)	12,156	IMDb
213.	–	8.0	A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)	26,032	IMDb
214.	–	8.0	Rope (1948)	23,458	IMDb
215.	–	8.0	Bonnie and Clyde (1967)	31,887	IMDb
216.	–	8.0	Patton (1970)	31,848	IMDb
217.	–	8.0	Rosemary's Baby (1968)	37,942	IMDb
218.	–	8.0	Wo hu cang long (2000)	92,782	IMDb
219.	–	8.0	In Bruges (2008)	51,152	IMDb
220.	–	8.0	Glory (1989)	46,563	IMDb
221.	–	8.0	Little Miss Sunshine (2006)	115,284	IMDb
222.	–	8.0	Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)	22,803	IMDb
223.	–	8.0	Frankenstein (1931)	18,251	IMDb
224.	–	8.0	His Girl Friday (1940)	16,302	IMDb
225.	▲ 1	8.0	Magnolia (1999)	101,106	IMDb
226.	▼ 1	8.0	La Belle et la bête (1946)	7,726	IMDb
227.	–	8.0	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)	14,629	IMDb
228.	–	8.0	La Strada (1954)	13,337	IMDb
229.	▲ 1	8.0	Spartacus (1960)	40,248	IMDb
230.	▼ 1	8.0	Sweet Smell of Success (1957)	6,621	IMDb
231.	–	8.0	The Philadelphia Story (1940)	22,533	IMDb
232.	–	8.0	Safety Last! (1923)	3,653	IMDb
233.	–	8.0	In the Heat of the Night (1967)	17,963	IMDb
234.	–	8.0	Manhattan (1979)	30,165	IMDb
235.	–	8.0	Network (1976)	24,526	IMDb
236.	–	8.0	Big Fish (2003)	106,796	IMDb
237.	–	8.0	Roman Holiday (1953)	24,069	IMDb
238.	–	8.0	Mystic River (2003)	89,852	IMDb
239.	–	8.0	Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)	24,122	IMDb
240.	–	8.0	Bride of Frankenstein (1935)	12,813	IMDb
241.	–	8.0	Great Expectations (1946)	7,454	IMDb
242.	–	8.0	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)	18,737	IMDb
243.	–	8.0	Rocky (1976)	70,223	IMDb
244.	–	8.0	La Dolce vita (1960)	15,098	IMDb
245.	–	8.0	Laura (1944)	10,814	IMDb
246.	▲ 1	8.0	Planet of the Apes (1968)	45,037	IMDb
247.	▼ 1	8.0	A Christmas Story (1983)	46,625	IMDb
248.	–	8.0	Harold and Maude (1971)	22,414	IMDb
249.	★	8.0	Ace in the Hole (1951)	5,482	IMDb
250.	▼ 1	8.0	Mou gaan dou (2002)	27,475	IMDb

Comparing	22 Jan '09
with	21 Jan '09

New entries	1
Changes	27

1950-1959	37
1940-1949	26
1930-1939	14
1920-1929	7

Stanley Kubrick	6
Steven Spielberg	5
Martin Scorsese	5
Alfred Hitchcock	5
Billy Wilder	5

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

United States	124
United Kingdom	23
Italy	12
Germany	10
France	9

2008	9
2007	6
2006	7
2005	3
2004	7

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

drama	117
thriller	48
action	48
crime	40
adventure	34

Color	108
Black & White	45