The OTHER IMDB Top 250

The Internet Movie Database Top 250 movie list gets a lot of attention. For immature, burgeoning cinephiles, the list is often a starting resource for discovering popular and well regarded films. For many “serious” film buffs the list is an insulting reflection of a popular mentality that gives undue extra credit to commercialized, recently released, English language films over the acknowledgement of the broader scope of global cinema history.

For those of you who like lists and are interested in what films other film watchers are rating highly as a source for new films to watch, but don’t like some of the...