The IMDb Top 250

By: MUBI

The IMDb’s Big 250, as of 3 June 2011 (to be updated monthly).

• 01
  The Shawshank Redemption
  Frank Darabont
• 02
  The Godfather
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 03
  The Godfather: Part II
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 04
  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  Sergio Leone
• 05
  Pulp Fiction
  Quentin Tarantino
• 06
  Twelve Angry Men
  Sidney Lumet
• 07
  Schindler's List
  Steven Spielberg
• 08
  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  Miloš Forman
• 09
  Inception
  Christopher Nolan
• 10
  The Dark Knight
  Christopher Nolan
• 11
  Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
  Irvin Kershner
• 12
  The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  Peter Jackson
• 13
  Seven Samurai
  Akira Kurosawa
• 14
  Fight Club
  David Fincher
• 15
  Goodfellas
  Martin Scorsese
• 16
  Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
  George Lucas
• 17
  Casablanca
  Michael Curtiz
• 18
  The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  Peter Jackson
• 19
  City of God
  Fernando Meirelles
• 20
  Once Upon a Time in the West
  Sergio Leone
• 21
  Rear Window
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 22
  Raiders of the Lost Ark
  Steven Spielberg
• 23
  The Matrix
  Andy Wachowski
• 24
  Psycho
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 25
  The Usual Suspects
  Bryan Singer
• 26
  The Silence of the Lambs
  Jonathan Demme
• 27
  Seven
  David Fincher
• 28
  It's a Wonderful Life
  Frank Capra
• 29
  Memento
  Christopher Nolan
• 30
  The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  Peter Jackson
• 31
  Forrest Gump
  Robert Zemeckis
• 32
  Sunset Boulevard
  Billy Wilder
• 33
  Léon: The Professional
  Luc Besson
• 34
  Toy Story 3
  Lee Unkrich
• 35
  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  Stanley Kubrick
• 36
  Apocalypse Now
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 37
  Citizen Kane
  Orson Welles
• 38
  American History X
  Tony Kaye
• 39
  North by Northwest
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 40
  American Beauty
  Sam Mendes
• 41
  Taxi Driver
  Martin Scorsese
• 42
  Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  James Cameron
• 43
  Saving Private Ryan
  Steven Spielberg
• 44
  Alien
  Ridley Scott
• 45
  Vertigo
  Karel Kachyna
• 46
  Amélie
  Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• 47
  Spirited Away
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 48
  The Shining
  Stanley Kubrick
• 49
  Paths of Glory
  Stanley Kubrick
• 50
  WALL•E
  Andrew Stanton
• 51
  City Lights
  Charlie Chaplin
• 52
  The Pianist
  Roman Polanski
• 53
  Double Indemnity
  Billy Wilder
• 54
  M
  Fritz Lang
• 55
  Lawrence of Arabia
  David Lean
• 56
  The Lives of Others
  Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
• 57
  A Clockwork Orange
  Stanley Kubrick
• 58
  The Departed
  Martin Scorsese
• 59
  To Kill a Mockingbird
  Robert Mulligan
• 60
  Aliens
  James Cameron
• 61
  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  Michel Gondry
• 62
  Requiem for a Dream
  Darren Aronofsky
• 63
  Das Boot
  Wolfgang Petersen
• 64
  Modern Times
  Charlie Chaplin
• 65
  Reservoir Dogs
  Quentin Tarantino
• 66
  The Third Man
  Carol Reed
• 67
  L.A. Confidential
  Curtis Hanson
• 68
  Life Is Beautiful
  Roberto Benigni
• 69
  Chinatown
  Roman Polanski
• 70
  Back to the Future
  Robert Zemeckis
• 71
  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  John Huston
• 72
  The Prestige
  Christopher Nolan
• 73
  Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  Terry Gilliam
• 74
  Cinema Paradiso
  Giuseppe Tornatore
• 75
  Raging Bull
  Martin Scorsese
• 76
  The Green Mile
  Frank Darabont
• 77
  Pan's Labyrinth
  Guillermo del Toro
• 78
  Once Upon a Time in America
  Sergio Leone
• 79
  Rashômon
  Akira Kurosawa
• 80
  Singin' in the Rain
  Stanley Donen
• 81
  Some Like It Hot
  Billy Wilder
• 82
  Amadeus
  Miloš Forman
• 83
  The Bridge on the River Kwai
  David Lean
• 84
  All About Eve
  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• 85
  Bicycle Thieves
  Vittorio De Sica
• 86
  The Great Dictator
  Charlie Chaplin
• 87
  Full Metal Jacket
  Stanley Kubrick
• 88
  2001: A Space Odyssey
  Stanley Kubrick
• 89
  Braveheart
  Mel Gibson
• 90
  Black Swan
  Darren Aronofsky
• 91
  The Apartment
  Billy Wilder
• 92
  Inglourious Basterds
  Quentin Tarantino
• 93
  Gladiator
  Ridley Scott
• 94
  Metropolis
  Fritz Lang
• 95
  Downfall
  Oliver Hirschbiegel
• 96
  Oldboy
  Park Chan-wook
• 97
  Unforgiven
  Clint Eastwood
• 98
  Up
  Pete Docter
• 99
  The Sting
  George Roy Hill
• 100
  Gran Torino
  Clint Eastwood
• 101
  The Elephant Man
  David Lynch
• 102
  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  Frank Capra
• 103
  The Maltese Falcon
  John Huston
• 104
  Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
  Richard Marquand
• 105
  On the Waterfront
  Elia Kazan
• 106
  Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  Steven Spielberg
• 107
  Rebecca
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 108
  Princess Mononoke
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 109
  Sin City
  Frank Miller
• 110
  Die Hard
  John McTiernan
• 111
  The Great Escape
  John Sturges
• 112
  The Seventh Seal
  Ingmar Bergman
• 113
  Batman Begins
  Christopher Nolan
• 114
  The King's Speech
  Tom Hooper
• 115
  The General
  Buster Keaton
• 116
  Blade Runner
  Ridley Scott
• 117
  Fargo
  Joel Coen
• 118
  Heat
  Michael Mann
• 119
  Jaws
  Steven Spielberg
• 120
  Hotel Rwanda
  Terry George
• 121
  For a Few Dollars More
  Sergio Leone
• 122
  Yojimbo
  Akira Kurosawa
• 123
  No Country for Old Men
  Ethan Coen
• 124
  Grave of the Fireflies
  Isao Takahata
• 125
  Touch of Evil
  Orson Welles
• 126
  Ran
  Akira Kurosawa
• 127
  Witness for the Prosecution
  Billy Wilder
• 128
  The Wizard of Oz
  Victor Fleming
• 129
  Snatch.
  Guy Ritchie
• 130
  Wild Strawberries
  Ingmar Bergman
• 131
  Slumdog Millionaire
  Danny Boyle
• 132
  The Lion King
  Roger Allers
• 133
  The Deer Hunter
  Michael Cimino
• 134
  The Sixth Sense
  M. Night Shyamalan
• 135
  The Big Lebowski
  Joel Coen
• 136
  Annie Hall
  Woody Allen
• 137
  Cool Hand Luke
  Stuart Rosenberg
• 138
  Strangers on a Train
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 139
  Donnie Darko
  Richard Kelly
• 140
  It Happened One Night
  Frank Capra
• 141
  Kill Bill: Vol. 1
  Quentin Tarantino
• 142
  High Noon
  Fred Zinnemann
• 143
  Toy Story
  John Lasseter
• 144
  Platoon
  Oliver Stone
• 145
  Into the Wild
  Sean Penn
• 146
  District 9
  Neill Blomkamp
• 147
  There Will Be Blood
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 148
  Million Dollar Baby
  Clint Eastwood
• 149
  The Gold Rush
  Charlie Chaplin
• 150
  Notorious
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 151
  Scarface
  Brian De Palma
• 152
  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  George Roy Hill
• 153
  Trainspotting
  Danny Boyle
• 154
  Gone with the Wind
  Victor Fleming
• 155
  Sunrise
  F.W. Murnau
• 156
  The Grapes of Wrath
  John Ford
• 157
  Groundhog Day
  Harold Ramis
• 158
  The Kid
  Charlie Chaplin
• 159
  Ben-Hur
  William Wyler
• 160
  Amores perros
  Alejandro González Iñárritu
• 161
  Ikiru
  Akira Kurosawa
• 162
  The Big Sleep
  Howard Hawks
• 163
  The Manchurian Candidate
  John Frankenheimer
• 164
  The Graduate
  Mike Nichols
• 165
  The Wages of Fear
  Henri-Georges Clouzot
• 166
  Monty Python's Life of Brian
  Terry Jones
• 167
  Finding Nemo
  Andrew Stanton
• 168
  The Secret in Their Eyes
  Juan José Campanella
• 169
  The Terminator
  James Cameron
• 170
  Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
  Guy Ritchie
• 171
  The Best Years of Our Lives
  William Wyler
• 172
  The Wrestler
  Darren Aronofsky
• 173
  Casino
  Martin Scorsese
• 174
  The Thing
  John Carpenter
• 175
  The Bourne Ultimatum
  Paul Greengrass
• 176
  Stand by Me
  Rob Reiner
• 177
  Avatar
  James Cameron
• 178
  12 Monkeys
  Terry Gilliam
• 179
  How to Train Your Dragon
  Dean DeBlois
• 180
  Dog Day Afternoon
  Sidney Lumet
• 181
  V for Vendetta
  James McTeigue
• 182
  Diabolique
  Henri-Georges Clouzot
• 183
  Gandhi
  Richard Attenborough
• 184
  My Neighbor Totoro
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 185
  Ratatouille
  Brad Bird
• 186
  Judgment at Nuremberg
  Stanley Kramer
• 187
  8½
  Federico Fellini
• 188
  The Night of the Hunter
  Charles Laughton
• 189
  Good Will Hunting
  Gus Van Sant
• 190
  The Princess Bride
  Rob Reiner
• 191
  Network
  Sidney Lumet
• 192
  The Battle of Algiers
  Gillo Pontecorvo
• 193
  The 400 Blows
  François Truffaut
• 194
  The Killing
  Stanley Kubrick
• 195
  Star Trek
  J.J. Abrams
• 196
  The Hustler
  Robert Rossen
• 197
  La strada
  Federico Fellini
• 198
  The Social Network
  David Fincher
• 199
  Mary and Max
  Adam Elliot
• 200
  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  Mike Nichols
• 201
  Dial M for Murder
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 202
  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  Julian Schnabel
• 203
  Persona
  Ingmar Bergman
• 204
  The Exorcist
  William Friedkin
• 205
  The Incredibles
  Brad Bird
• 206
  A Streetcar Named Desire
  Elia Kazan
• 207
  The Wild Bunch
  Sam Peckinpah
• 208
  Stalag 17
  Billy Wilder
• 209
  In Bruges
  Martin McDonagh
• 210
  The Passion of Joan of Arc
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 211
  Fanny and Alexander — The Television Version
  Ingmar Bergman
• 212
  All Quiet on the Western Front
  Lewis Milestone
• 213
  Kind Hearts and Coronets
  Robert Hamer
• 214
  Rocky
  John G. Avildsen
• 215
  Let the Right One In
  Tomas Alfredson
• 216
  Ed Wood
  Tim Burton
• 217
  Barry Lyndon
  Stanley Kubrick
• 218
  Mystic River
  Clint Eastwood
• 219
  Big Fish
  Tim Burton
• 220
  The Truman Show
  Peter Weir
• 221
  Magnolia
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 222
  Children of Men
  Alfonso Cuarón
• 223
  Nights of Cabiria
  Federico Fellini
• 224
  Rosemary's Baby
  Roman Polanski
• 225
  Manhattan
  Woody Allen
• 226
  The Celebration
  Thomas Vinterberg
• 227
  Infernal Affairs
  Andrew Lau Wai-keung
• 228
  Howl's Moving Castle
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 229
  Sherlock Jr.
  Buster Keaton
• 230
  Roman Holiday
  William Wyler
• 231
  Kill Bill: Vol. 2
  Quentin Tarantino
• 232
  Patton
  Franklin J. Schaffner
• 233
  Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  Gore Verbinski
• 234
  Rope
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 235
  Sleuth
  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• 236
  The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  John Ford
• 237
  Duck Soup
  Leo McCarey
• 238
  Letters from Iwo Jima
  Clint Eastwood
• 239
  His Girl Friday
  Howard Hawks
• 240
  Harvey
  Henry Koster
• 241
  Arsenic and Old Lace
  Frank Capra
• 242
  Monsters, Inc.
  Pete Docter
• 243
  Three Colors: Red
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 244
  Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
  Kim Ki-duk
• 245
  Shutter Island
  Martin Scorsese
• 246
  Rain Man
  Barry Levinson
• 247
  Anatomy of a Murder
  Otto Preminger
• 248
  Beauty and the Beast
  Gary Trousdale
• 249
  The Philadelphia Story
  George Cukor
• 250
  Grand Illusion
  Jean Renoir