Letterboxd Top 250

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Letterboxd's Top 250 movies, based on the average weighted rating of all Letterboxd users. I removed all stand-up specials, concert films, documentaries, shorts, 'collection listings' and other 'rarities', so only feature length narrative movies are listed here.

To avoid any discussions about documentary or not, Letterboxd genre classifications are used to remove them.
My friend Jack Moulton made a list of Letterboxd Top 100 documentaries though, go check it out!

A few statistics...

The oldest movie on the list is Charlie Chaplin's The Kid, released in 1921. The most popular decades in the list are the 1950's and 1960's, both with 39 entries. A complete overview:
1920's - 7 entries
1930's - 5 entries
1940's - 17 entries
1950's - 39 entries
1960's - 39 entries
1970's - 31 entries
1980's - 27 entries
1990's - 33 entries
2000's - 25 entries
2010's - 27 entries

Akira Kurosawa and Ingmar Bergman seem to be Letterboxd's most popular directors, both having 8 entries in the list, of which 4 in top 100.
All popular directors:
8 entries - Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa
6 entries - Andrei Tarkovsky, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick
4 entries - Martin Scorsese, Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola, Masaki Kobayashi, Charlie Chaplin, Satyajit Ray, Steven Spielberg, Yasujiro Ozu

Fun fact:
Highest ranked movies in IMDb's top 250 that are absent in the Letterboxd list: Forrest Gump (12), The Matrix (19), The Usual Suspects (29), The Green Mile (31) and Interstellar (32).


Latest update:
June 27, 2019

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  1. 3 new

    Seppuku

    1962 — a.k.a. Hara-Kiri, in 16 top lists Check
  2. 4 new

    Shichinin no samurai

    1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check
  3. 8 new

    Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

    1980, in 25 top lists Check
  4. 14 new

    The Dark Knight

    2008, in 27 top lists Check
  5. 39 new

    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    2003, in 29 top lists Check
  6. 41 new

    Ran

    1985, in 25 top lists Check
  7. 66 new

    Shin seiki Evangelion Gekijô-ban: Air/Magokoro...

    1997 — a.k.a. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion, in 7 top lists Check
  8. 69 new

    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    2001, in 31 top lists Check
  9. 76 new

    Star Wars

    1977, in 40 top lists Check
  10. 98 new

    Raiders of the Lost Ark

    1981 — a.k.a. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, in 29 top lists Check
  11. 118 new

    Ai no mukidashi

    2008 — a.k.a. Love Exposure, in 3 top lists Check
  12. 149 new

    Mad Max: Fury Road

    2015, in 23 top lists Check
  13. 151 new

    Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    1991, in 27 top lists Check
  14. 186 new

    The General

    1926, in 33 top lists Check
  15. 187 new

    Saving Private Ryan

    1998, in 28 top lists Check
  16. 189 new

    Inception

    2010, in 21 top lists Check
  17. 194 new

    North by Northwest

    1959, in 30 top lists Check
  18. 205 new

    Avengers: Endgame

    2019, in 8 top lists Check
  19. 207 new

    The Iron Giant

    1999, in 13 top lists Check
  20. 214 new

    Aliens

    1986, in 24 top lists Check
  21. 219 new

    Die Hard

    1988, in 21 top lists Check
  22. 226 new

    Akira

    1988, in 22 top lists Check
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Last updated on Jul 1, 2019 by Juanco93; source