IMDb Top 250 of 21 May 2023

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Rank changes (11)

Rank	Δ	Rating	Title	Votes
143.	▲ 1	8.2	Jurassic Park (1993)	1,012,505	IMDb
144.	▲ 1	8.2	A Beautiful Mind (2001)	949,338	IMDb
145.	▼ 2	8.1	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)	123,427	IMDb
202.	▲ 1	8.1	Dead Poets Society (1989)	508,806	IMDb
203.	▲ 1	8.1	Monsters, Inc. (2001)	930,658	IMDb
204.	▲ 1	8.1	The Seventh Seal (1957)	189,659	IMDb
205.	▼ 3	8.1	John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)	149,739	IMDb
229.	▲ 1	8.0	To Be or Not to Be (1942)	39,572	IMDb
230.	▼ 1	8.0	La haine (1995)	181,086	IMDb
243.	▲ 1	8.0	The 400 Blows (1959)	121,960	IMDb
244.	▼ 1	8.0	It Happened One Night (1934)	107,136	IMDb

Rank	Δ	Rating	Title	Votes
1.	–	9.2	The Shawshank Redemption (1994)	2,741,174	IMDb
2.	–	9.2	The Godfather (1972)	1,906,230	IMDb
3.	–	9.0	The Dark Knight (2008)	2,714,039	IMDb
4.	–	9.0	The Godfather Part II (1974)	1,299,093	IMDb
5.	–	9.0	12 Angry Men (1957)	811,436	IMDb
6.	–	8.9	Schindler's List (1993)	1,383,331	IMDb
7.	–	8.9	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)	1,884,571	IMDb
8.	–	8.8	Pulp Fiction (1994)	2,106,402	IMDb
9.	–	8.8	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)	1,913,333	IMDb
10.	–	8.8	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)	776,241	IMDb
11.	–	8.8	Forrest Gump (1994)	2,132,866	IMDb
12.	–	8.7	Fight Club (1999)	2,182,756	IMDb
13.	–	8.7	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)	1,701,144	IMDb
14.	–	8.7	Inception (2010)	2,409,209	IMDb
15.	–	8.7	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)	1,319,268	IMDb
16.	–	8.7	The Matrix (1999)	1,954,948	IMDb
17.	–	8.7	Goodfellas (1990)	1,189,663	IMDb
18.	–	8.6	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)	1,027,543	IMDb
19.	–	8.6	Se7en (1995)	1,694,869	IMDb
20.	–	8.6	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)	471,589	IMDb
21.	–	8.6	Seven Samurai (1954)	352,419	IMDb
22.	–	8.6	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)	1,465,488	IMDb
23.	–	8.6	Saving Private Ryan (1998)	1,421,452	IMDb
24.	–	8.6	City of God (2002)	770,024	IMDb
25.	–	8.6	Interstellar (2014)	1,905,532	IMDb
26.	–	8.6	Life Is Beautiful (1997)	710,211	IMDb
27.	–	8.6	The Green Mile (1999)	1,333,026	IMDb
28.	–	8.5	Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)	1,391,802	IMDb
29.	–	8.5	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)	1,121,578	IMDb
30.	–	8.5	Back to the Future (1985)	1,236,567	IMDb
31.	–	8.5	Spirited Away (2001)	788,173	IMDb
32.	–	8.5	The Pianist (2002)	854,610	IMDb
33.	–	8.5	Psycho (1960)	686,738	IMDb
34.	–	8.5	Parasite (2019)	851,888	IMDb
35.	–	8.5	Léon: The Professional (1994)	1,187,599	IMDb
36.	–	8.5	Gladiator (2000)	1,534,056	IMDb
37.	–	8.5	The Lion King (1994)	1,083,469	IMDb
38.	–	8.5	American History X (1998)	1,142,107	IMDb
39.	–	8.5	The Departed (2006)	1,354,272	IMDb
40.	–	8.5	Whiplash (2014)	902,198	IMDb
41.	–	8.5	The Prestige (2006)	1,362,539	IMDb
42.	–	8.5	The Usual Suspects (1995)	1,103,271	IMDb
43.	–	8.5	Casablanca (1942)	582,848	IMDb
44.	–	8.5	Grave of the Fireflies (1988)	286,744	IMDb
45.	–	8.5	Harakiri (1962)	60,786	IMDb
46.	–	8.5	The Intouchables (2011)	880,293	IMDb
47.	–	8.4	Modern Times (1936)	248,018	IMDb
48.	–	8.4	Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)	336,737	IMDb
49.	–	8.4	Cinema Paradiso (1988)	268,063	IMDb
50.	–	8.4	Rear Window (1954)	501,337	IMDb
51.	–	8.4	Alien (1979)	902,115	IMDb
52.	–	8.4	City Lights (1931)	188,361	IMDb
53.	–	8.4	Apocalypse Now (1979)	681,384	IMDb
54.	–	8.4	Memento (2000)	1,261,952	IMDb
55.	–	8.4	Django Unchained (2012)	1,596,747	IMDb
56.	–	8.4	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)	984,925	IMDb
57.	–	8.4	WALL·E (2008)	1,141,118	IMDb
58.	–	8.4	The Lives of Others (2006)	396,304	IMDb
59.	–	8.4	Sunset Blvd. (1950)	226,627	IMDb
60.	–	8.4	Paths of Glory (1957)	202,000	IMDb
61.	–	8.4	The Shining (1980)	1,047,511	IMDb
62.	–	8.4	The Great Dictator (1940)	228,449	IMDb
63.	–	8.4	Avengers: Infinity War (2018)	1,120,435	IMDb
64.	–	8.4	Witness for the Prosecution (1957)	129,334	IMDb
65.	–	8.3	Aliens (1986)	731,706	IMDb
66.	–	8.3	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)	561,776	IMDb
67.	–	8.3	American Beauty (1999)	1,172,567	IMDb
68.	–	8.3	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)	499,885	IMDb
69.	–	8.3	The Dark Knight Rises (2012)	1,739,252	IMDb
70.	–	8.3	Inglourious Basterds (2009)	1,489,364	IMDb
71.	–	8.3	Oldboy (2003)	595,334	IMDb
72.	–	8.3	Amadeus (1984)	409,302	IMDb
73.	–	8.3	Coco (2017)	532,468	IMDb
74.	–	8.3	Toy Story (1995)	1,016,471	IMDb
75.	–	8.3	Braveheart (1995)	1,054,702	IMDb
76.	–	8.3	Joker (2019)	1,350,690	IMDb
77.	–	8.3	Das Boot (1981)	255,413	IMDb
78.	–	8.3	Avengers: Endgame (2019)	1,176,889	IMDb
79.	–	8.3	Princess Mononoke (1997)	406,053	IMDb
80.	–	8.3	Good Will Hunting (1997)	1,001,993	IMDb
81.	–	8.3	Once Upon a Time in America (1984)	359,825	IMDb
82.	–	8.3	Your Name. (2016)	285,654	IMDb
83.	–	8.3	Singin' in the Rain (1952)	248,633	IMDb
84.	–	8.3	3 Idiots (2009)	410,296	IMDb
85.	–	8.3	Requiem for a Dream (2000)	860,597	IMDb
86.	–	8.3	High and Low (1963)	47,690	IMDb
87.	–	8.3	Toy Story 3 (2010)	853,846	IMDb
88.	–	8.3	Capernaum (2018)	94,981	IMDb
89.	–	8.3	Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)	1,076,131	IMDb
90.	–	8.3	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)	684,466	IMDb
91.	–	8.3	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)	1,030,059	IMDb
92.	–	8.3	Come and See (1985)	85,573	IMDb
93.	–	8.3	Reservoir Dogs (1992)	1,041,575	IMDb
94.	–	8.3	The Hunt (2012)	340,831	IMDb
95.	–	8.2	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)	300,745	IMDb
96.	–	8.2	Citizen Kane (1941)	450,213	IMDb
97.	–	8.2	M (1931)	161,534	IMDb
98.	–	8.2	Ikiru (1952)	81,669	IMDb
99.	–	8.2	North by Northwest (1959)	334,239	IMDb
100.	–	8.2	The Apartment (1960)	186,376	IMDb
101.	–	8.2	Vertigo (1958)	410,476	IMDb
102.	–	8.2	Amélie (2001)	768,993	IMDb
103.	–	8.2	Double Indemnity (1944)	160,663	IMDb
104.	–	8.2	A Clockwork Orange (1971)	846,906	IMDb
105.	–	8.2	Full Metal Jacket (1987)	757,765	IMDb
106.	–	8.2	Scarface (1983)	864,678	IMDb
107.	–	8.2	Incendies (2010)	183,603	IMDb
108.	–	8.2	Heat (1995)	674,011	IMDb
109.	–	8.2	Hamilton (2020)	101,055	IMDb
110.	–	8.2	Up (2009)	1,067,766	IMDb
111.	–	8.2	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)	321,919	IMDb
112.	–	8.2	The Sting (1973)	269,273	IMDb
113.	–	8.2	A Separation (2011)	249,259	IMDb
114.	–	8.2	Metropolis (1927)	178,102	IMDb
115.	–	8.2	Die Hard (1988)	900,427	IMDb
116.	–	8.2	L.A. Confidential (1997)	592,618	IMDb
117.	–	8.2	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)	770,094	IMDb
118.	–	8.2	Taxi Driver (1976)	862,284	IMDb
119.	–	8.2	Snatch (2000)	873,012	IMDb
120.	–	8.2	Bicycle Thieves (1948)	167,379	IMDb
121.	–	8.2	Like Stars on Earth (2007)	197,752	IMDb
122.	–	8.2	1917 (2019)	619,317	IMDb
123.	–	8.2	Top Gun: Maverick (2022)	585,022	IMDb
124.	–	8.2	Downfall (2004)	362,029	IMDb
125.	–	8.2	Dangal (2016)	197,007	IMDb
126.	–	8.2	For a Few Dollars More (1965)	262,501	IMDb
127.	–	8.2	Batman Begins (2005)	1,501,221	IMDb
128.	–	8.2	The Kid (1921)	129,152	IMDb
129.	–	8.2	Some Like It Hot (1959)	272,847	IMDb
130.	–	8.2	The Father (2020)	167,881	IMDb
131.	–	8.2	All About Eve (1950)	133,926	IMDb
132.	–	8.2	The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)	1,459,956	IMDb
133.	–	8.2	Green Book (2018)	517,761	IMDb
134.	–	8.2	Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)	79,834	IMDb
135.	–	8.2	Ran (1985)	128,943	IMDb
136.	–	8.2	Casino (1995)	533,875	IMDb
137.	–	8.2	The Truman Show (1998)	1,115,057	IMDb
138.	–	8.2	There Will Be Blood (2007)	601,535	IMDb
139.	–	8.2	Pan's Labyrinth (2006)	680,332	IMDb
140.	–	8.2	Unforgiven (1992)	420,419	IMDb
141.	–	8.2	Shutter Island (2010)	1,358,198	IMDb
142.	–	8.2	The Sixth Sense (1999)	1,010,014	IMDb
143.	▲ 1	8.2	Jurassic Park (1993)	1,012,505	IMDb
144.	▲ 1	8.2	A Beautiful Mind (2001)	949,338	IMDb
145.	▼ 2	8.1	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)	123,427	IMDb
146.	–	8.1	Yojimbo (1961)	125,732	IMDb
147.	–	8.1	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)	127,776	IMDb
148.	–	8.1	Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)	551,290	IMDb
149.	–	8.1	No Country for Old Men (2007)	1,000,047	IMDb
150.	–	8.1	Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)	1,139,340	IMDb
151.	–	8.1	The Great Escape (1963)	249,259	IMDb
152.	–	8.1	Rashomon (1950)	172,537	IMDb
153.	–	8.1	The Thing (1982)	437,903	IMDb
154.	–	8.1	Finding Nemo (2003)	1,065,079	IMDb
155.	–	8.1	Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)	794,075	IMDb
156.	–	8.1	The Elephant Man (1980)	247,542	IMDb
157.	–	8.1	Chinatown (1974)	334,319	IMDb
158.	–	8.1	V for Vendetta (2005)	1,139,717	IMDb
159.	–	8.1	Raging Bull (1980)	362,675	IMDb
160.	–	8.1	Gone with the Wind (1939)	322,115	IMDb
161.	–	8.1	Dial M for Murder (1954)	180,348	IMDb
162.	–	8.1	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)	594,515	IMDb
163.	–	8.1	Inside Out (2015)	734,971	IMDb
164.	–	8.1	Howl's Moving Castle (2004)	410,883	IMDb
165.	–	8.1	The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)	213,920	IMDb
166.	–	8.1	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)	525,202	IMDb
167.	–	8.1	Trainspotting (1996)	700,425	IMDb
168.	–	8.1	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)	225,430	IMDb
169.	–	8.1	Prisoners (2013)	744,141	IMDb
170.	–	8.1	Fargo (1996)	691,988	IMDb
171.	–	8.1	Warrior (2011)	481,383	IMDb
172.	–	8.1	Gran Torino (2008)	788,846	IMDb
173.	–	8.1	Catch Me If You Can (2002)	1,019,103	IMDb
174.	–	8.1	My Neighbor Totoro (1988)	351,931	IMDb
175.	–	8.1	Million Dollar Baby (2004)	699,358	IMDb
176.	–	8.1	Children of Heaven (1997)	76,606	IMDb
177.	–	8.1	Blade Runner (1982)	786,920	IMDb
178.	–	8.1	The Gold Rush (1925)	113,770	IMDb
179.	–	8.1	Klaus (2019)	165,767	IMDb
180.	–	8.1	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)	899,145	IMDb
181.	–	8.1	Before Sunrise (1995)	319,863	IMDb
182.	–	8.1	12 Years a Slave (2013)	715,005	IMDb
183.	–	8.1	Ben-Hur (1959)	244,931	IMDb
184.	–	8.1	The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)	837,056	IMDb
185.	–	8.1	On the Waterfront (1954)	158,359	IMDb
186.	–	8.1	Gone Girl (2014)	1,007,243	IMDb
187.	–	8.1	The General (1926)	93,755	IMDb
188.	–	8.1	Barry Lyndon (1975)	173,503	IMDb
189.	–	8.1	Wild Strawberries (1957)	109,882	IMDb
190.	–	8.1	In the Name of the Father (1993)	179,668	IMDb
191.	–	8.1	The Deer Hunter (1978)	346,369	IMDb
192.	–	8.1	Hacksaw Ridge (2016)	548,372	IMDb
193.	–	8.1	The Third Man (1949)	175,215	IMDb
194.	–	8.1	The Wages of Fear (1953)	63,099	IMDb
195.	–	8.1	Memories of Murder (2003)	195,266	IMDb
196.	–	8.1	Sherlock Jr. (1924)	52,318	IMDb
197.	–	8.1	Wild Tales (2014)	204,923	IMDb
198.	–	8.1	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)	117,509	IMDb
199.	–	8.1	Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)	1,028,478	IMDb
200.	–	8.1	Mary and Max (2009)	180,632	IMDb
201.	–	8.1	How to Train Your Dragon (2010)	760,058	IMDb
202.	▲ 1	8.1	Dead Poets Society (1989)	508,806	IMDb
203.	▲ 1	8.1	Monsters, Inc. (2001)	930,658	IMDb
204.	▲ 1	8.1	The Seventh Seal (1957)	189,659	IMDb
205.	▼ 3	8.1	John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)	149,739	IMDb
206.	–	8.1	Jaws (1975)	622,808	IMDb
207.	–	8.1	Room (2015)	431,194	IMDb
208.	–	8.1	The Big Lebowski (1998)	826,214	IMDb
209.	–	8.1	Tokyo Story (1953)	64,007	IMDb
210.	–	8.1	Ford v Ferrari (2019)	417,021	IMDb
211.	–	8.1	The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)	57,200	IMDb
212.	–	8.0	Hotel Rwanda (2004)	361,595	IMDb
213.	–	8.0	Rocky (1976)	597,424	IMDb
214.	–	8.0	Ratatouille (2007)	764,602	IMDb
215.	–	8.0	Platoon (1986)	422,872	IMDb
216.	–	8.0	Logan (2017)	786,088	IMDb
217.	–	8.0	Spotlight (2015)	481,607	IMDb
218.	–	8.0	The Terminator (1984)	884,249	IMDb
219.	–	8.0	Stand by Me (1986)	416,770	IMDb
220.	–	8.0	Rush (2013)	490,505	IMDb
221.	–	8.0	Network (1976)	163,315	IMDb
222.	–	8.0	Before Sunset (2004)	273,457	IMDb
223.	–	8.0	The Wizard of Oz (1939)	409,894	IMDb
224.	–	8.0	Into the Wild (2007)	634,489	IMDb
225.	–	8.0	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)	67,003	IMDb
226.	–	8.0	The Exorcist (1973)	420,593	IMDb
227.	–	8.0	Groundhog Day (1993)	649,697	IMDb
228.	–	8.0	The Incredibles (2004)	760,003	IMDb
229.	▲ 1	8.0	To Be or Not to Be (1942)	39,572	IMDb
230.	▼ 1	8.0	La haine (1995)	181,086	IMDb
231.	–	8.0	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)	1,152,040	IMDb
232.	–	8.0	Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009)	294,426	IMDb
233.	–	8.0	The Grapes of Wrath (1940)	96,033	IMDb
234.	–	8.0	The Battle of Algiers (1966)	62,335	IMDb
235.	–	8.0	Pather Panchali (1955)	34,934	IMDb
236.	–	8.0	Jai Bhim (2021)	206,542	IMDb
237.	–	8.0	Amores Perros (2000)	245,161	IMDb
238.	–	8.0	My Father and My Son (2005)	88,121	IMDb
239.	–	8.0	Rebecca (1940)	140,657	IMDb
240.	–	8.0	The Handmaiden (2016)	156,586	IMDb
241.	–	8.0	Cool Hand Luke (1967)	181,490	IMDb
242.	–	8.0	The Sound of Music (1965)	244,240	IMDb
243.	▲ 1	8.0	The 400 Blows (1959)	121,960	IMDb
244.	▼ 1	8.0	It Happened One Night (1934)	107,136	IMDb
245.	–	8.0	Persona (1966)	123,429	IMDb
246.	–	8.0	Life of Brian (1979)	408,447	IMDb
247.	–	8.0	The Iron Giant (1999)	208,516	IMDb
248.	–	8.0	The Help (2011)	471,828	IMDb
249.	–	8.0	Aladdin (1992)	435,736	IMDb
250.	–	8.0	Dances with Wolves (1990)	276,050	IMDb

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New entries	0
Changes	11

2020-2029	7
2010-2019	43
2000-2009	48
1990-1999	42
1980-1989	26

1970-1979	18
1960-1969	18
1950-1959	23
1940-1949	12
1930-1939	7
1920-1929	6

Christopher Nolan	7
Steven Spielberg	7
Martin Scorsese	7
Stanley Kubrick	7
Akira Kurosawa	6

Quentin Tarantino	5
Alfred Hitchcock	5
Charlie Chaplin	5
Billy Wilder	5
Sergio Leone	4

2023	2
2022	1
2021	2
2020	2
2019	6

2018	4
2017	3
2016	4
2015	4
2014	5
2013	4
2012	3
2011	5
2010	5
2009	6
2008	3
2007	5
2006	4
2005	3
2004	7
2003	6
2002	4
2001	5
2000	5
1999	6
1998	5
1997	5
1996	2
1995	8
1994	5
1993	4
1992	3
1991	2
1990	2
1989	2
1988	4
1987	1
1986	3
1985	3
1984	3
1983	2
1982	2
1981	2
1980	4
1979	3

drama	178
action	69
thriller	60
adventure	55
crime	50

Color	176
Black & White	55