IMDb Top 250 of 14 May 2009

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New entries (1)

Rank	Δ	Rating	Title	Votes
250.	★	8.0	Barry Lyndon (1975)	33,005	IMDb

Dropped out (1)

Last Rank		Title
250.	▼	Bringing Up Baby (1938)	IMDb

Rank changes (23)

Rank	Δ	Rating	Title	Votes
56.	▲ 1	8.4	Chinatown (1974)	65,830	IMDb
57.	▼ 1	8.4	The Pianist (2002)	106,893	IMDb
59.	▲ 1	8.4	Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)	81,121	IMDb
60.	▼ 1	8.4	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)	192,653	IMDb
62.	▲ 1	8.4	City Lights (1931)	21,842	IMDb
63.	▲ 1	8.4	Aliens (1986)	143,105	IMDb
64.	▼ 2	8.4	Star Trek (2009)	38,054	IMDb
120.	▲ 1	8.2	The Big Sleep (1946)	24,464	IMDb
121.	▼ 1	8.2	Cool Hand Luke (1967)	37,804	IMDb
141.	▲ 1	8.2	Platoon (1986)	91,868	IMDb
142.	▼ 1	8.2	Into the Wild (2007)	67,950	IMDb
150.	▲ 1	8.1	Life of Brian (1979)	79,512	IMDb
151.	▼ 1	8.1	8½ (1963)	23,397	IMDb
208.	▲ 1	8.0	Le Scaphandre et le papillon (2007)	21,658	IMDb
209.	▼ 1	8.0	Ed Wood (1994)	61,856	IMDb
213.	▲ 1	8.0	La Strada (1954)	14,333	IMDb
214.	▼ 1	8.0	Rope (1948)	25,131	IMDb
216.	▲ 2	8.0	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)	15,699	IMDb
218.	▼ 2	8.0	Changeling (2008)	36,622	IMDb
227.	▲ 1	8.0	The Philadelphia Story (1940)	23,748	IMDb
228.	▼ 1	8.0	The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)	28,965	IMDb
248.	▲ 1	8.0	Les Quatre cents coups (1959)	19,234	IMDb
249.	▼ 1	8.0	Planet of the Apes (1968)	47,951	IMDb

Rank	Δ	Rating	Title	Votes
1.	–	9.1	The Shawshank Redemption (1994)	423,163	IMDb
2.	–	9.1	The Godfather (1972)	351,157	IMDb
3.	–	9.0	The Godfather: Part II (1974)	204,075	IMDb
4.	–	8.9	Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)	124,924	IMDb
5.	–	8.9	Pulp Fiction (1994)	347,577	IMDb
6.	–	8.9	The Dark Knight (2008)	366,779	IMDb
7.	–	8.9	Schindler's List (1993)	230,845	IMDb
8.	–	8.8	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)	177,127	IMDb
9.	–	8.8	12 Angry Men (1957)	90,312	IMDb
10.	–	8.8	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)	238,379	IMDb
11.	–	8.8	Casablanca (1942)	144,869	IMDb
12.	–	8.8	Star Wars (1977)	280,323	IMDb
13.	–	8.8	Shichinin no samurai (1954)	82,440	IMDb
14.	–	8.8	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)	305,847	IMDb
15.	–	8.7	Goodfellas (1990)	190,906	IMDb
16.	–	8.7	Rear Window (1954)	99,812	IMDb
17.	–	8.7	Cidade de Deus (2002)	133,101	IMDb
18.	–	8.7	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)	211,922	IMDb
19.	–	8.7	C'era una volta il West (1968)	59,219	IMDb
20.	–	8.7	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)	333,696	IMDb
21.	–	8.7	Fight Club (1999)	315,105	IMDb
22.	–	8.7	The Usual Suspects (1995)	229,520	IMDb
23.	–	8.7	Psycho (1960)	120,595	IMDb
24.	–	8.6	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)	207,037	IMDb
25.	–	8.6	Sunset Blvd. (1950)	44,701	IMDb
26.	–	8.6	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)	135,791	IMDb
27.	–	8.6	Memento (2000)	226,989	IMDb
28.	–	8.6	The Matrix (1999)	322,970	IMDb
29.	–	8.6	North by Northwest (1959)	79,212	IMDb
30.	–	8.6	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)	87,283	IMDb
31.	–	8.6	Citizen Kane (1941)	121,517	IMDb
32.	–	8.6	Se7en (1995)	230,496	IMDb
33.	–	8.6	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)	278,994	IMDb
34.	–	8.6	Léon (1994)	162,102	IMDb
35.	–	8.6	Apocalypse Now (1979)	148,412	IMDb
36.	–	8.5	American Beauty (1999)	251,222	IMDb
37.	–	8.5	Taxi Driver (1976)	128,872	IMDb
38.	–	8.5	American History X (1998)	184,482	IMDb
39.	–	8.5	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)	68,734	IMDb
40.	–	8.5	Vertigo (1958)	77,392	IMDb
41.	–	8.5	WALL·E (2008)	129,896	IMDb
42.	–	8.5	Forrest Gump (1994)	246,750	IMDb
43.	–	8.5	Paths of Glory (1957)	37,154	IMDb
44.	–	8.5	Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)	150,422	IMDb
45.	–	8.5	M (1931)	33,103	IMDb
46.	–	8.5	Double Indemnity (1944)	30,534	IMDb
47.	–	8.5	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)	70,923	IMDb
48.	–	8.5	Alien (1979)	150,886	IMDb
49.	–	8.5	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)	27,543	IMDb
50.	–	8.5	A Clockwork Orange (1971)	163,037	IMDb
51.	–	8.5	The Departed (2006)	213,381	IMDb
52.	–	8.5	The Shining (1980)	146,561	IMDb
53.	–	8.5	Das Leben der Anderen (2006)	55,237	IMDb
54.	–	8.5	The Third Man (1949)	43,228	IMDb
55.	–	8.4	Saving Private Ryan (1998)	230,023	IMDb
56.	▲ 1	8.4	Chinatown (1974)	65,830	IMDb
57.	▼ 1	8.4	The Pianist (2002)	106,893	IMDb
58.	–	8.4	Slumdog Millionaire (2008)	119,140	IMDb
59.	▲ 1	8.4	Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)	81,121	IMDb
60.	▼ 1	8.4	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)	192,653	IMDb
61.	–	8.4	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)	181,768	IMDb
62.	▲ 1	8.4	City Lights (1931)	21,842	IMDb
63.	▲ 1	8.4	Aliens (1986)	143,105	IMDb
64.	▼ 2	8.4	Star Trek (2009)	38,054	IMDb
65.	–	8.4	Requiem for a Dream (2000)	151,483	IMDb
66.	–	8.4	L.A. Confidential (1997)	143,798	IMDb
67.	–	8.4	Das Boot (1981)	60,761	IMDb
68.	–	8.4	Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)	135,456	IMDb
69.	–	8.4	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)	50,404	IMDb
70.	–	8.4	Reservoir Dogs (1992)	178,002	IMDb
71.	–	8.4	El Laberinto del fauno (2006)	122,921	IMDb
72.	–	8.4	Raging Bull (1980)	75,621	IMDb
73.	–	8.4	Rashômon (1950)	32,223	IMDb
74.	–	8.4	The Maltese Falcon (1941)	44,140	IMDb
75.	–	8.4	All About Eve (1950)	29,935	IMDb
76.	–	8.4	Modern Times (1936)	29,031	IMDb
77.	–	8.4	Gran Torino (2008)	61,209	IMDb
78.	–	8.4	Singin' in the Rain (1952)	46,980	IMDb
79.	–	8.3	Rebecca (1940)	29,595	IMDb
80.	–	8.3	Der Untergang (2004)	65,463	IMDb
81.	–	8.3	Metropolis (1927)	32,489	IMDb
82.	–	8.3	Some Like It Hot (1959)	56,879	IMDb
83.	–	8.3	The Prestige (2006)	159,525	IMDb
84.	–	8.3	Amadeus (1984)	82,464	IMDb
85.	–	8.3	The Elephant Man (1980)	47,775	IMDb
86.	–	8.3	The Apartment (1960)	29,860	IMDb
87.	–	8.3	La Vita è bella (1997)	89,684	IMDb
88.	–	8.3	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)	136,967	IMDb
89.	–	8.3	Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988)	37,199	IMDb
90.	–	8.3	The Wrestler (2008)	53,543	IMDb
91.	–	8.3	The Great Dictator (1940)	30,067	IMDb
92.	–	8.3	Once Upon a Time in America (1984)	59,268	IMDb
93.	–	8.3	The Great Escape (1963)	52,117	IMDb
94.	–	8.3	Full Metal Jacket (1987)	126,070	IMDb
95.	–	8.3	Sin City (2005)	214,121	IMDb
96.	–	8.3	The Sting (1973)	55,683	IMDb
97.	–	8.3	Touch of Evil (1958)	27,523	IMDb
98.	–	8.3	Ladri di biciclette (1948)	21,724	IMDb
99.	–	8.3	Back to the Future (1985)	167,730	IMDb
100.	–	8.3	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)	28,246	IMDb
101.	–	8.3	On the Waterfront (1954)	34,373	IMDb
102.	–	8.3	Braveheart (1995)	206,147	IMDb
103.	–	8.3	Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)	30,028	IMDb
104.	–	8.3	Hotel Rwanda (2004)	75,316	IMDb
105.	–	8.3	Batman Begins (2005)	228,228	IMDb
106.	–	8.3	No Country for Old Men (2007)	159,567	IMDb
107.	–	8.3	Jaws (1975)	117,195	IMDb
108.	–	8.3	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)	148,680	IMDb
109.	–	8.3	Strangers on a Train (1951)	28,203	IMDb
110.	–	8.3	Blade Runner (1982)	159,206	IMDb
111.	–	8.3	Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)	182,787	IMDb
112.	–	8.3	The Green Mile (1999)	161,991	IMDb
113.	–	8.3	Unforgiven (1992)	80,515	IMDb
114.	–	8.2	The Manchurian Candidate (1962)	30,344	IMDb
115.	–	8.2	Notorious (1946)	26,263	IMDb
116.	–	8.2	Gladiator (2000)	232,923	IMDb
117.	–	8.2	High Noon (1952)	28,946	IMDb
118.	–	8.2	Per qualche dollaro in più (1965)	33,899	IMDb
119.	–	8.2	Oldeuboi (2003)	74,886	IMDb
120.	▲ 1	8.2	The Big Sleep (1946)	24,464	IMDb
121.	▼ 1	8.2	Cool Hand Luke (1967)	37,804	IMDb
122.	–	8.2	Fargo (1996)	142,033	IMDb
123.	–	8.2	Die Hard (1988)	152,621	IMDb
124.	–	8.2	The Wizard of Oz (1939)	87,797	IMDb
125.	–	8.2	There Will Be Blood (2007)	103,619	IMDb
126.	–	8.2	Mononoke-hime (1997)	54,186	IMDb
127.	–	8.2	The General (1926)	16,496	IMDb
128.	–	8.2	Witness for the Prosecution (1957)	14,474	IMDb
129.	–	8.2	Donnie Darko (2001)	175,297	IMDb
130.	–	8.2	Yôjinbô (1961)	24,353	IMDb
131.	–	8.2	Smultronstället (1957)	17,112	IMDb
132.	–	8.2	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)	10,636	IMDb
133.	–	8.2	It Happened One Night (1934)	20,654	IMDb
134.	–	8.2	Ran (1985)	29,287	IMDb
135.	–	8.2	Heat (1995)	120,805	IMDb
136.	–	8.2	Annie Hall (1977)	54,783	IMDb
137.	–	8.2	The Deer Hunter (1978)	73,862	IMDb
138.	–	8.2	Ben-Hur (1959)	49,480	IMDb
139.	–	8.2	The Sixth Sense (1999)	206,565	IMDb
140.	–	8.2	Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)	193,186	IMDb
141.	▲ 1	8.2	Platoon (1986)	91,868	IMDb
142.	▼ 1	8.2	Into the Wild (2007)	67,950	IMDb
143.	–	8.2	Le Salaire de la peur (1953)	11,221	IMDb
144.	–	8.2	Le Notti di Cabiria (1957)	8,690	IMDb
145.	–	8.2	Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)	11,313	IMDb
146.	–	8.2	Les Diaboliques (1955)	11,351	IMDb
147.	–	8.2	Million Dollar Baby (2004)	114,462	IMDb
148.	–	8.1	The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)	116,774	IMDb
149.	–	8.1	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)	48,727	IMDb
150.	▲ 1	8.1	Life of Brian (1979)	79,512	IMDb
151.	▼ 1	8.1	8½ (1963)	23,397	IMDb
152.	–	8.1	Sherlock Jr. (1924)	5,361	IMDb
153.	–	8.1	The Big Lebowski (1998)	146,449	IMDb
154.	–	8.1	The Grapes of Wrath (1940)	19,403	IMDb
155.	–	8.1	Snatch. (2000)	140,326	IMDb
156.	–	8.1	The Killing (1956)	20,407	IMDb
157.	–	8.1	The Graduate (1967)	65,440	IMDb
158.	–	8.1	The Night of the Hunter (1955)	20,741	IMDb
159.	–	8.1	Ratatouille (2007)	103,819	IMDb
160.	–	8.1	The Gold Rush (1925)	17,157	IMDb
161.	–	8.1	Finding Nemo (2003)	134,878	IMDb
162.	–	8.1	Stand by Me (1986)	75,747	IMDb
163.	–	8.1	Amores perros (2000)	50,572	IMDb
164.	–	8.1	Dog Day Afternoon (1975)	48,598	IMDb
165.	–	8.1	Gandhi (1982)	42,018	IMDb
166.	–	8.1	Brief Encounter (1945)	10,672	IMDb
167.	–	8.1	Gone with the Wind (1939)	65,704	IMDb
168.	–	8.1	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)	87,174	IMDb
169.	–	8.1	Trainspotting (1996)	127,050	IMDb
170.	–	8.1	The Lion King (1994)	108,114	IMDb
171.	–	8.1	The Wild Bunch (1969)	26,085	IMDb
172.	–	8.1	Scarface (1983)	124,646	IMDb
173.	–	8.1	The Thing (1982)	62,426	IMDb
174.	–	8.1	V for Vendetta (2005)	181,536	IMDb
175.	–	8.1	Groundhog Day (1993)	111,912	IMDb
176.	–	8.1	Sunrise (1927)	8,912	IMDb
177.	–	8.1	The Princess Bride (1987)	109,615	IMDb
178.	–	8.1	Sleuth (1972)	14,054	IMDb
179.	–	8.1	Harvey (1950)	19,537	IMDb
180.	–	8.1	Shadow of a Doubt (1943)	17,377	IMDb
181.	–	8.1	Toy Story (1995)	117,290	IMDb
182.	–	8.1	The Incredibles (2004)	131,160	IMDb
183.	–	8.1	The Hustler (1961)	21,386	IMDb
184.	–	8.1	Umberto D. (1952)	6,908	IMDb
185.	–	8.1	The Terminator (1984)	145,392	IMDb
186.	–	8.1	The Kid (1921)	10,380	IMDb
187.	–	8.1	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)	14,691	IMDb
188.	–	8.1	Children of Men (2006)	128,544	IMDb
189.	–	8.1	Twelve Monkeys (1995)	142,348	IMDb
190.	–	8.1	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)	102,767	IMDb
191.	–	8.1	La Battaglia di Algeri (1966)	10,832	IMDb
192.	–	8.1	Låt den rätte komma in (2008)	25,583	IMDb
193.	–	8.0	The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)	7,342	IMDb
194.	–	8.0	Duck Soup (1933)	22,506	IMDb
195.	–	8.0	The African Queen (1951)	29,171	IMDb
196.	–	8.0	Stalag 17 (1953)	17,538	IMDb
197.	–	8.0	Hotaru no haka (1988)	27,319	IMDb
198.	–	8.0	The Lady Vanishes (1938)	14,669	IMDb
199.	–	8.0	Casino (1995)	88,777	IMDb
200.	–	8.0	Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)	44,180	IMDb
201.	–	8.0	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)	19,472	IMDb
202.	–	8.0	Dial M for Murder (1954)	23,778	IMDb
203.	–	8.0	The Conversation (1974)	27,011	IMDb
204.	–	8.0	In Bruges (2008)	66,410	IMDb
205.	–	8.0	Anatomy of a Murder (1959)	13,165	IMDb
206.	–	8.0	King Kong (1933)	32,568	IMDb
207.	–	8.0	A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)	27,670	IMDb
208.	▲ 1	8.0	Le Scaphandre et le papillon (2007)	21,658	IMDb
209.	▼ 1	8.0	Ed Wood (1994)	61,856	IMDb
210.	–	8.0	The Exorcist (1973)	85,919	IMDb
211.	–	8.0	The Lost Weekend (1945)	9,998	IMDb
212.	–	8.0	All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)	17,756	IMDb
213.	▲ 1	8.0	La Strada (1954)	14,333	IMDb
214.	▼ 1	8.0	Rope (1948)	25,131	IMDb
215.	–	8.0	Bonnie and Clyde (1967)	33,955	IMDb
216.	▲ 2	8.0	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)	15,699	IMDb
217.	–	8.0	Rosemary's Baby (1968)	40,578	IMDb
218.	▼ 2	8.0	Changeling (2008)	36,622	IMDb
219.	–	8.0	Crash (2004)	145,219	IMDb
220.	–	8.0	His Girl Friday (1940)	17,355	IMDb
221.	–	8.0	Safety Last! (1923)	4,244	IMDb
222.	–	8.0	Sweet Smell of Success (1957)	7,274	IMDb
223.	–	8.0	Frankenstein (1931)	19,486	IMDb
224.	–	8.0	Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)	150,763	IMDb
225.	–	8.0	Network (1976)	26,666	IMDb
226.	–	8.0	Patton (1970)	33,617	IMDb
227.	▲ 1	8.0	The Philadelphia Story (1940)	23,748	IMDb
228.	▼ 1	8.0	The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)	28,965	IMDb
229.	–	8.0	Manhattan (1979)	32,022	IMDb
230.	–	8.0	Wo hu cang long (2000)	95,949	IMDb
231.	–	8.0	Magnolia (1999)	105,540	IMDb
232.	–	8.0	Big Fish (2003)	113,719	IMDb
233.	–	8.0	Glory (1989)	48,735	IMDb
234.	–	8.0	Little Miss Sunshine (2006)	123,461	IMDb
235.	–	8.0	Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)	24,581	IMDb
236.	–	8.0	Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)	25,353	IMDb
237.	–	8.0	Great Expectations (1946)	8,170	IMDb
238.	–	8.0	Mystic River (2003)	96,457	IMDb
239.	–	8.0	Roman Holiday (1953)	25,822	IMDb
240.	–	8.0	Spartacus (1960)	42,463	IMDb
241.	–	8.0	In the Heat of the Night (1967)	19,274	IMDb
242.	–	8.0	La Dolce vita (1960)	16,403	IMDb
243.	–	8.0	Laura (1944)	11,818	IMDb
244.	–	8.0	Rocky (1976)	75,853	IMDb
245.	–	8.0	Harold and Maude (1971)	24,058	IMDb
246.	–	8.0	Good Will Hunting (1997)	123,852	IMDb
247.	–	8.0	My Man Godfrey (1936)	6,373	IMDb
248.	▲ 1	8.0	Les Quatre cents coups (1959)	19,234	IMDb
249.	▼ 1	8.0	Planet of the Apes (1968)	47,951	IMDb
250.	★	8.0	Barry Lyndon (1975)	33,005	IMDb

Comparing	14 May '09
with	13 May '09

New entries	1
Changes	23

1950-1959	37
1940-1949	25
1930-1939	14
1920-1929	8

Stanley Kubrick	7
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	127
United Kingdom	24
Italy	12
Germany	10
France	9

2009	1
2008	9
2007	6
2006	7
2005	3

2004	7
2003	6
2002	3
2001	4
2000	6
1999	6
1998	4
1997	4
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	5
1974	3
1973	2
1972	2
1971	2
1970	1
1969	2
1968	4
1967	4
1966	3
1965	1

drama	119
action	49
thriller	48
crime	40
adventure	35

Color	110
Black & White	46