IMDb Top 250 of 21 February 2009

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New entries (2)

Rank	Δ	Rating	Title	Votes
247.	★	8.0	Vals Im Bashir (2008)	6,026	IMDb
250.	★	8.0	Mou gaan dou (2002)	28,067	IMDb

Dropped out (2)

Last Rank		Title
249.	▼	Planet of the Apes (1968)	IMDb
250.	▼	Barry Lyndon (1975)	IMDb

Rank changes (34)

Rank	Δ	Rating	Title	Votes
97.	▲ 1	8.3	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)	27,190	IMDb
98.	▼ 1	8.3	Ladri di biciclette (1948)	20,578	IMDb
100.	▲ 1	8.3	Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)	28,771	IMDb
101.	▼ 1	8.3	On the Waterfront (1954)	32,880	IMDb
132.	▲ 1	8.2	Annie Hall (1977)	52,673	IMDb
133.	▼ 1	8.2	Witness for the Prosecution (1957)	13,769	IMDb
178.	▲ 1	8.1	Toy Story (1995)	112,967	IMDb
179.	▲ 1	8.1	Children of Men (2006)	123,013	IMDb
180.	▲ 2	8.1	Sleuth (1972)	13,330	IMDb
182.	▲ 1	8.1	The Hustler (1961)	20,529	IMDb
183.	▲ 1	8.1	The Terminator (1984)	139,889	IMDb
184.	▲ 1	8.1	Umberto D. (1952)	6,513	IMDb
185.	▲ 1	8.0	Sunrise (1927)	8,396	IMDb
186.	▲ 1	8.0	Twelve Monkeys (1995)	137,721	IMDb
187.	▲ 1	8.0	The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)	6,940	IMDb
188.	▲ 3	8.0	Låt den rätte komma in (2008)	13,774	IMDb
191.	▲ 1	8.0	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)	98,530	IMDb
192.	▲ 1	8.0	The Kid (1921)	9,669	IMDb
193.	▲ 1	8.0	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)	14,044	IMDb
194.	▲ 1	8.0	Duck Soup (1933)	21,681	IMDb
195.	▲ 2	8.0	The Conversation (1974)	25,720	IMDb
197.	▼ 19	8.0	Coraline (2009)	5,101	IMDb
205.	▲ 1	8.0	Crash (2004)	140,249	IMDb
206.	▼ 1	8.0	Dial M for Murder (1954)	22,691	IMDb
209.	▲ 1	8.0	Anatomy of a Murder (1959)	12,475	IMDb
210.	▼ 1	8.0	The Exorcist (1973)	83,098	IMDb
221.	▲ 1	8.0	La Strada (1954)	13,630	IMDb
222.	▼ 1	8.0	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)	14,952	IMDb
227.	▲ 1	8.0	Safety Last! (1923)	3,827	IMDb
228.	▼ 1	8.0	Sweet Smell of Success (1957)	6,851	IMDb
232.	▲ 1	8.0	Network (1976)	25,230	IMDb
233.	▲ 1	8.0	Big Fish (2003)	108,990	IMDb
234.	▼ 2	8.0	Changeling (2008)	22,244	IMDb
249.	▼ 2	8.0	Bride of Frankenstein (1935)	13,105	IMDb

Rank	Δ	Rating	Title	Votes
1.	–	9.1	The Shawshank Redemption (1994)	408,192	IMDb
2.	–	9.1	The Godfather (1972)	341,515	IMDb
3.	–	9.0	The Godfather: Part II (1974)	197,377	IMDb
4.	–	8.9	Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)	119,261	IMDb
5.	–	8.9	Pulp Fiction (1994)	336,297	IMDb
6.	–	8.9	The Dark Knight (2008)	347,221	IMDb
7.	–	8.8	Schindler's List (1993)	222,779	IMDb
8.	–	8.8	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)	170,735	IMDb
9.	–	8.8	12 Angry Men (1957)	86,000	IMDb
10.	–	8.8	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)	231,692	IMDb
11.	–	8.8	Casablanca (1942)	141,025	IMDb
12.	–	8.8	Star Wars (1977)	273,454	IMDb
13.	–	8.8	Shichinin no samurai (1954)	80,062	IMDb
14.	–	8.8	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)	296,919	IMDb
15.	–	8.7	Goodfellas (1990)	184,687	IMDb
16.	–	8.7	Rear Window (1954)	96,492	IMDb
17.	–	8.7	Cidade de Deus (2002)	126,460	IMDb
18.	–	8.7	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)	206,841	IMDb
19.	–	8.7	C'era una volta il West (1968)	56,874	IMDb
20.	–	8.7	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)	325,229	IMDb
21.	–	8.7	Fight Club (1999)	304,498	IMDb
22.	–	8.7	The Usual Suspects (1995)	223,419	IMDb
23.	–	8.7	Psycho (1960)	117,039	IMDb
24.	–	8.6	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)	200,581	IMDb
25.	–	8.6	Sunset Blvd. (1950)	42,769	IMDb
26.	–	8.6	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)	132,374	IMDb
27.	–	8.6	Memento (2000)	219,520	IMDb
28.	–	8.6	North by Northwest (1959)	76,872	IMDb
29.	–	8.6	The Matrix (1999)	313,232	IMDb
30.	–	8.6	Citizen Kane (1941)	118,524	IMDb
31.	–	8.6	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)	85,223	IMDb
32.	–	8.6	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)	271,414	IMDb
33.	–	8.6	Se7en (1995)	222,844	IMDb
34.	–	8.6	Slumdog Millionaire (2008)	67,750	IMDb
35.	–	8.6	Léon (1994)	156,111	IMDb
36.	–	8.5	Apocalypse Now (1979)	144,002	IMDb
37.	–	8.5	American Beauty (1999)	243,734	IMDb
38.	–	8.5	Taxi Driver (1976)	124,198	IMDb
39.	–	8.5	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)	66,771	IMDb
40.	–	8.5	WALL·E (2008)	118,767	IMDb
41.	–	8.5	American History X (1998)	177,483	IMDb
42.	–	8.5	Vertigo (1958)	74,872	IMDb
43.	–	8.5	Paths of Glory (1957)	35,669	IMDb
44.	–	8.5	Forrest Gump (1994)	237,627	IMDb
45.	–	8.5	Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)	146,092	IMDb
46.	–	8.5	M (1931)	31,833	IMDb
47.	–	8.5	Double Indemnity (1944)	29,141	IMDb
48.	–	8.5	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)	68,533	IMDb
49.	–	8.5	The Departed (2006)	204,591	IMDb
50.	–	8.5	Alien (1979)	146,261	IMDb
51.	–	8.5	A Clockwork Orange (1971)	157,688	IMDb
52.	–	8.5	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)	26,531	IMDb
53.	–	8.5	Das Leben der Anderen (2006)	51,921	IMDb
54.	–	8.5	The Third Man (1949)	41,763	IMDb
55.	–	8.4	The Shining (1980)	141,104	IMDb
56.	–	8.4	Chinatown (1974)	63,441	IMDb
57.	–	8.4	The Pianist (2002)	101,887	IMDb
58.	–	8.4	Saving Private Ryan (1998)	222,823	IMDb
59.	–	8.4	The Wrestler (2008)	32,448	IMDb
60.	–	8.4	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)	174,797	IMDb
61.	–	8.4	Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)	78,039	IMDb
62.	–	8.4	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)	185,688	IMDb
63.	–	8.4	Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)	131,978	IMDb
64.	–	8.4	Requiem for a Dream (2000)	145,571	IMDb
65.	–	8.4	L.A. Confidential (1997)	139,897	IMDb
66.	–	8.4	Aliens (1986)	138,935	IMDb
67.	–	8.4	Das Boot (1981)	59,088	IMDb
68.	–	8.4	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)	48,801	IMDb
69.	–	8.4	El Laberinto del fauno (2006)	117,932	IMDb
70.	–	8.4	Reservoir Dogs (1992)	172,215	IMDb
71.	–	8.4	City Lights (1931)	20,657	IMDb
72.	–	8.4	Rashômon (1950)	30,908	IMDb
73.	–	8.4	The Maltese Falcon (1941)	42,720	IMDb
74.	–	8.4	Raging Bull (1980)	72,634	IMDb
75.	–	8.4	All About Eve (1950)	28,894	IMDb
76.	–	8.4	Modern Times (1936)	27,777	IMDb
77.	–	8.3	Der Untergang (2004)	62,205	IMDb
78.	–	8.3	Metropolis (1927)	31,234	IMDb
79.	–	8.3	Singin' in the Rain (1952)	45,454	IMDb
80.	–	8.3	Rebecca (1940)	28,403	IMDb
81.	–	8.3	Some Like It Hot (1959)	55,087	IMDb
82.	–	8.3	The Prestige (2006)	151,498	IMDb
83.	–	8.3	Gran Torino (2008)	36,821	IMDb
84.	–	8.3	Amadeus (1984)	79,713	IMDb
85.	–	8.3	La Vita è bella (1997)	86,706	IMDb
86.	–	8.3	The Elephant Man (1980)	45,844	IMDb
87.	–	8.3	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)	132,820	IMDb
88.	–	8.3	The Apartment (1960)	28,679	IMDb
89.	–	8.3	Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988)	35,802	IMDb
90.	–	8.3	The Great Escape (1963)	50,244	IMDb
91.	–	8.3	Sin City (2005)	205,662	IMDb
92.	–	8.3	Full Metal Jacket (1987)	121,468	IMDb
93.	–	8.3	Once Upon a Time in America (1984)	57,097	IMDb
94.	–	8.3	The Great Dictator (1940)	28,735	IMDb
95.	–	8.3	The Sting (1973)	53,956	IMDb
96.	–	8.3	Touch of Evil (1958)	26,454	IMDb
97.	▲ 1	8.3	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)	27,190	IMDb
98.	▼ 1	8.3	Ladri di biciclette (1948)	20,578	IMDb
99.	–	8.3	Hotel Rwanda (2004)	72,186	IMDb
100.	▲ 1	8.3	Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)	28,771	IMDb
101.	▼ 1	8.3	On the Waterfront (1954)	32,880	IMDb
102.	–	8.3	No Country for Old Men (2007)	151,302	IMDb
103.	–	8.3	Back to the Future (1985)	161,948	IMDb
104.	–	8.3	Braveheart (1995)	200,393	IMDb
105.	–	8.3	Batman Begins (2005)	220,952	IMDb
106.	–	8.3	Jaws (1975)	113,703	IMDb
107.	–	8.3	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)	144,750	IMDb
108.	–	8.3	Strangers on a Train (1951)	27,062	IMDb
109.	–	8.3	Blade Runner (1982)	154,639	IMDb
110.	–	8.3	Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)	178,051	IMDb
111.	–	8.3	The Manchurian Candidate (1962)	29,392	IMDb
112.	–	8.2	Unforgiven (1992)	77,162	IMDb
113.	–	8.2	The Green Mile (1999)	156,141	IMDb
114.	–	8.2	There Will Be Blood (2007)	97,541	IMDb
115.	–	8.2	Notorious (1946)	25,275	IMDb
116.	–	8.2	High Noon (1952)	27,931	IMDb
117.	–	8.2	The Big Sleep (1946)	23,645	IMDb
118.	–	8.2	Oldeuboi (2003)	71,210	IMDb
119.	–	8.2	Fargo (1996)	137,902	IMDb
120.	–	8.2	Gladiator (2000)	225,161	IMDb
121.	–	8.2	Cool Hand Luke (1967)	36,348	IMDb
122.	–	8.2	Per qualche dollaro in più (1965)	32,308	IMDb
123.	–	8.2	The Wizard of Oz (1939)	85,216	IMDb
124.	–	8.2	Die Hard (1988)	147,752	IMDb
125.	–	8.2	Mononoke-hime (1997)	52,067	IMDb
126.	–	8.2	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)	65,318	IMDb
127.	–	8.2	Donnie Darko (2001)	168,706	IMDb
128.	–	8.2	Yôjinbô (1961)	23,412	IMDb
129.	–	8.2	The General (1926)	15,831	IMDb
130.	–	8.2	Ran (1985)	28,203	IMDb
131.	–	8.2	Smultronstället (1957)	16,370	IMDb
132.	▲ 1	8.2	Annie Hall (1977)	52,673	IMDb
133.	▼ 1	8.2	Witness for the Prosecution (1957)	13,769	IMDb
134.	–	8.2	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)	10,065	IMDb
135.	–	8.2	It Happened One Night (1934)	19,609	IMDb
136.	–	8.2	Heat (1995)	116,637	IMDb
137.	–	8.2	Le Salaire de la peur (1953)	10,721	IMDb
138.	–	8.2	Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)	186,986	IMDb
139.	–	8.2	The Deer Hunter (1978)	71,245	IMDb
140.	–	8.2	The Sixth Sense (1999)	201,129	IMDb
141.	–	8.2	Into the Wild (2007)	62,046	IMDb
142.	–	8.2	Ben-Hur (1959)	47,603	IMDb
143.	–	8.2	Platoon (1986)	88,773	IMDb
144.	–	8.2	Million Dollar Baby (2004)	109,280	IMDb
145.	–	8.2	The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)	111,710	IMDb
146.	–	8.1	Le Notti di Cabiria (1957)	8,267	IMDb
147.	–	8.1	Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)	10,729	IMDb
148.	–	8.1	Life of Brian (1979)	77,034	IMDb
149.	–	8.1	Les Diaboliques (1955)	10,780	IMDb
150.	–	8.1	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)	46,969	IMDb
151.	–	8.1	8½ (1963)	22,407	IMDb
152.	–	8.1	The Big Lebowski (1998)	141,466	IMDb
153.	–	8.1	Ratatouille (2007)	98,676	IMDb
154.	–	8.1	The Grapes of Wrath (1940)	18,618	IMDb
155.	–	8.1	Amores perros (2000)	48,507	IMDb
156.	–	8.1	Snatch. (2000)	134,549	IMDb
157.	–	8.1	The Killing (1956)	19,517	IMDb
158.	–	8.1	The Graduate (1967)	63,182	IMDb
159.	–	8.1	Finding Nemo (2003)	129,783	IMDb
160.	–	8.1	The Night of the Hunter (1955)	19,727	IMDb
161.	–	8.1	Brief Encounter (1945)	10,157	IMDb
162.	–	8.1	Stand by Me (1986)	73,081	IMDb
163.	–	8.1	Dog Day Afternoon (1975)	46,264	IMDb
164.	–	8.1	The Gold Rush (1925)	16,314	IMDb
165.	–	8.1	Gandhi (1982)	40,156	IMDb
166.	–	8.1	The Wild Bunch (1969)	25,111	IMDb
167.	–	8.1	Gone with the Wind (1939)	63,427	IMDb
168.	–	8.1	Trainspotting (1996)	122,172	IMDb
169.	–	8.1	V for Vendetta (2005)	173,699	IMDb
170.	–	8.1	Scarface (1983)	119,610	IMDb
171.	–	8.1	The Princess Bride (1987)	106,892	IMDb
172.	–	8.1	The Lion King (1994)	103,363	IMDb
173.	–	8.1	The Thing (1982)	59,784	IMDb
174.	–	8.1	The Incredibles (2004)	126,322	IMDb
175.	–	8.1	Groundhog Day (1993)	108,085	IMDb
176.	–	8.1	Shadow of a Doubt (1943)	16,494	IMDb
177.	–	8.1	Harvey (1950)	18,785	IMDb
178.	▲ 1	8.1	Toy Story (1995)	112,967	IMDb
179.	▲ 1	8.1	Children of Men (2006)	123,013	IMDb
180.	▲ 2	8.1	Sleuth (1972)	13,330	IMDb
181.	–	8.1	La Battaglia di Algeri (1966)	10,285	IMDb
182.	▲ 1	8.1	The Hustler (1961)	20,529	IMDb
183.	▲ 1	8.1	The Terminator (1984)	139,889	IMDb
184.	▲ 1	8.1	Umberto D. (1952)	6,513	IMDb
185.	▲ 1	8.0	Sunrise (1927)	8,396	IMDb
186.	▲ 1	8.0	Twelve Monkeys (1995)	137,721	IMDb
187.	▲ 1	8.0	The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)	6,940	IMDb
188.	▲ 3	8.0	Låt den rätte komma in (2008)	13,774	IMDb
189.	–	8.0	The African Queen (1951)	28,315	IMDb
190.	–	8.0	Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)	41,711	IMDb
191.	▲ 1	8.0	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)	98,530	IMDb
192.	▲ 1	8.0	The Kid (1921)	9,669	IMDb
193.	▲ 1	8.0	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)	14,044	IMDb
194.	▲ 1	8.0	Duck Soup (1933)	21,681	IMDb
195.	▲ 2	8.0	The Conversation (1974)	25,720	IMDb
196.	–	8.0	Stalag 17 (1953)	16,877	IMDb
197.	▼ 19	8.0	Coraline (2009)	5,101	IMDb
198.	–	8.0	The Lady Vanishes (1938)	13,940	IMDb
199.	–	8.0	Hotaru no haka (1988)	25,965	IMDb
200.	–	8.0	Casino (1995)	85,232	IMDb
201.	–	8.0	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)	18,596	IMDb
202.	–	8.0	Le Scaphandre et le papillon (2007)	19,686	IMDb
203.	–	8.0	King Kong (1933)	31,366	IMDb
204.	–	8.0	In Bruges (2008)	56,688	IMDb
205.	▲ 1	8.0	Crash (2004)	140,249	IMDb
206.	▼ 1	8.0	Dial M for Murder (1954)	22,691	IMDb
207.	–	8.0	Ed Wood (1994)	59,586	IMDb
208.	–	8.0	All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)	17,099	IMDb
209.	▲ 1	8.0	Anatomy of a Murder (1959)	12,475	IMDb
210.	▼ 1	8.0	The Exorcist (1973)	83,098	IMDb
211.	–	8.0	The Lost Weekend (1945)	9,541	IMDb
212.	–	8.0	The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)	27,452	IMDb
213.	–	8.0	A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)	26,540	IMDb
214.	–	8.0	Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)	145,562	IMDb
215.	–	8.0	Rope (1948)	23,980	IMDb
216.	–	8.0	Bonnie and Clyde (1967)	32,535	IMDb
217.	–	8.0	Patton (1970)	32,373	IMDb
218.	–	8.0	Rosemary's Baby (1968)	38,817	IMDb
219.	–	8.0	Wo hu cang long (2000)	93,739	IMDb
220.	–	8.0	His Girl Friday (1940)	16,589	IMDb
221.	▲ 1	8.0	La Strada (1954)	13,630	IMDb
222.	▼ 1	8.0	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)	14,952	IMDb
223.	–	8.0	Glory (1989)	47,228	IMDb
224.	–	8.0	Frankenstein (1931)	18,607	IMDb
225.	–	8.0	Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)	23,328	IMDb
226.	–	8.0	Little Miss Sunshine (2006)	117,872	IMDb
227.	▲ 1	8.0	Safety Last! (1923)	3,827	IMDb
228.	▼ 1	8.0	Sweet Smell of Success (1957)	6,851	IMDb
229.	–	8.0	Magnolia (1999)	102,544	IMDb
230.	–	8.0	The Philadelphia Story (1940)	22,902	IMDb
231.	–	8.0	Manhattan (1979)	30,773	IMDb
232.	▲ 1	8.0	Network (1976)	25,230	IMDb
233.	▲ 1	8.0	Big Fish (2003)	108,990	IMDb
234.	▼ 2	8.0	Changeling (2008)	22,244	IMDb
235.	–	8.0	Roman Holiday (1953)	24,627	IMDb
236.	–	8.0	Spartacus (1960)	40,909	IMDb
237.	–	8.0	Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)	24,503	IMDb
238.	–	8.0	Mystic River (2003)	91,923	IMDb
239.	–	8.0	In the Heat of the Night (1967)	18,350	IMDb
240.	–	8.0	La Belle et la bête (1946)	7,913	IMDb
241.	–	8.0	Great Expectations (1946)	7,653	IMDb
242.	–	8.0	La Dolce vita (1960)	15,519	IMDb
243.	–	8.0	Rocky (1976)	72,079	IMDb
244.	–	8.0	Laura (1944)	11,157	IMDb
245.	–	8.0	Frost/Nixon (2008)	13,870	IMDb
246.	–	8.0	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)	19,097	IMDb
247.	★	8.0	Vals Im Bashir (2008)	6,026	IMDb
248.	–	8.0	Harold and Maude (1971)	22,945	IMDb
249.	▼ 2	8.0	Bride of Frankenstein (1935)	13,105	IMDb
250.	★	8.0	Mou gaan dou (2002)	28,067	IMDb

Comparing	21 Feb '09
with	20 Feb '09

New entries	2
Changes	34

1950-1959	36
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

2009	1
2008	11
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	2
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	3
1967	4
1966	3
1965	1

drama	117
thriller	48
action	48
crime	40
adventure	34

Color	108
Black & White	45