Top 1,000 Films of All Time (Calculated)

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SOURCE: https://letterboxd.com/prof_ratigan/list/top-1000-films-of-all-time-calculated/

There are many statistically-minded lists available. Generally, they are either based on averages or cumulative presence in lists. This list attempts to bring the two together, with a composite score that uses Letterboxd, IMDb, Metacritic, and Rotten Tomatoes scores as well as a quantification of the movies' presence on several lists (enumerated below). I would describe the results as a consensus opinion of the films someone "should" see. [You can also see the list of 5,000 films here.]
I started with a list of about 30k titles gleaned from many Letterboxd lists, IMDb data, and other sources and crunched the numbers. I limited composite scores to those above 500 IMDb votes. Votes were normalized against the maximum votes on that website to account for the differing traffic, so the Highest Voted movie would be a 1.00 and the lowest 0.01. I weighted the differing website rating according to my own sense of importance with Letterboxd about 10x Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic about half of IMDb. I also included weighting by year to account for the significant recency bias in online vote tallies. That weight was Votes x (1+((2000-Year)/100).
The way that I quantified movies on lists like Sight & Sound was to give those films a sort of fictional rating as if it were from IMDb. So, for instance, Vertigo, at #1 on Sight & Sound's Top 250 got 100, Citizen Kane got 99.96. Lists where there was no ranking all received 100. Sight and Sound, Palme D'or, and Oscar Winners received the greatest weight, which was about 10x a Oscar nomination outside Best Picture and about twice the Golden Bear or AFI Top 100.

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  1. 80 -10

    Shoah

    1985, in 18 top lists Check
  2. 464 -164

    Sátántangó

    1994 — a.k.a. Satantango, in 12 top lists Check
  3. 161 +72

    Voyna i mir

    1965 — a.k.a. War and Peace, in 8 top lists Check
  4. 640 -96

    La meglio gioventù

    2003 — a.k.a. The Best of Youth, in 12 top lists Check
  5. 100 -11

    Napoléon vu par Abel Gance

    1927 — a.k.a. Napoleon, in 24 top lists Check
  6. 453 +209

    Le chagrin et la pitié

    1969 — a.k.a. The Sorrow and the Pity, in 11 top lists Check
  7. 962 -93

    Il mio viaggio in Italia

    1999 — a.k.a. My Voyage to Italy, in 2 top lists Check
  8. 593 -62

    Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler

    1922 — a.k.a. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, in 14 top lists Check
  9. 40 -16

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  10. 223 +7

    Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian

    1991 — a.k.a. A Brighter Summer Day, in 19 top lists Check
  11. 423 +143

    O thiasos

    1975 — a.k.a. The Travelling Players, in 11 top lists Check
  12. 406 -64

    Once Upon a Time in America

    1984, in 19 top lists Check
  13. 20 -1

    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962, in 40 top lists Check
  14. 719 -45

    Century of Cinema: A Personal Journey with...

    1995, in 1 top list Check
  15. 347 +142

    The Ten Commandments

    1956, in 12 top lists Check
  16. 308 +123

    La maman et la putain

    1973 — a.k.a. The Mother and the Whore, in 14 top lists Check
  17. 164 -15

    Ben-Hur

    1959, in 22 top lists Check
  18. 324 +102

    Edvard Munch

    1974, in 9 top lists Check
  19. 151 +91

    Ningen no jôken

    1959 — a.k.a. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love, in 12 top lists Check
  20. 8 +2

    Shichinin no samurai

    1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check
  21. 621 new

    Killers of the Flower Moon

    2023, in 6 top lists
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  22. 83 +40

    Andrey Rublyov

    1966 — a.k.a. Andrei Rublev, in 29 top lists Check
  23. 10 +5

    The Godfather Part II

    1974, in 32 top lists Check
  24. 155 +227

    Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080...

    1975, in 12 top lists Check
  25. 465 +85

    Nybyggarna

    1972 — a.k.a. The New Land, in 5 top lists Check
  26. 940 new

    Giant

    1956, in 10 top lists Check
  27. 187 -46

    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    2003, in 29 top lists Check
  28. 827 -212

    Xia nü

    1971 — a.k.a. A Touch of Zen, in 15 top lists Check
  29. 415 +225

    Doctor Zhivago

    1965, in 17 top lists Check
  30. 344 -79

    Spartacus

    1960, in 19 top lists Check
  31. 54 +22

    Schindler's List

    1993, in 35 top lists Check
  32. 705 +26

    Titanic

    1997, in 25 top lists Check
  33. 392 +266

    Céline et Julie vont en bateau: Phantom Ladies...

    1974 — a.k.a. Celine and Julie Go Boating, in 11 top lists Check
  34. 837 new

    The Right Stuff

    1983, in 13 top lists Check
  35. 289 +218

    Gandhi

    1982, in 15 top lists Check
  36. 342 +256

    Utvandrarna

    1971 — a.k.a. The Emigrants, in 7 top lists Check
  37. 73 +44

    Ningen no jôken

    1961 — a.k.a. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer, in 12 top lists Check
  38. 51 -24

    Les enfants du paradis

    1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise, in 21 top lists Check
  39. 904 new

    The Green Mile

    1999, in 15 top lists Check
  40. 545 new

    JFK

    1991, in 13 top lists Check
  41. 71 +30

    Fanny och Alexander

    1982 — a.k.a. Fanny and Alexander, in 25 top lists Check
  42. 533 +158

    Magnolia

    1999, in 17 top lists Check
  43. 754 new

    Short Cuts

    1993, in 9 top lists Check
  44. 86 +1

    Il gattopardo

    1963 — a.k.a. The Leopard, in 18 top lists Check
  45. 314 +373

    L'albero degli zoccoli

    1978 — a.k.a. The Tree of Wooden Clogs, in 13 top lists Check
  46. 765 new

    Tess

    1979, in 5 top lists Check
  47. 169 +172

    Akahige

    1965 — a.k.a. Red Beard, in 10 top lists Check
  48. 60 +71

    Barry Lyndon

    1975, in 24 top lists Check
  49. 102 +135

    Woodstock

    1970, in 12 top lists Check
  50. 89 +140

    The Deer Hunter

    1978, in 26 top lists Check
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Last updated on Jan 27, 2024 by gokhan; source