Top 1,000 Films of All Time (Calculated)
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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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The Godfather
1972, in 42 top lists Check -
10 +5
The Godfather Part II
1974, in 32 top lists Check -
23 -2
M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
1931 — a.k.a. M, in 35 top lists Check -
28 +133
Tengoku to jigoku
1963 — a.k.a. High and Low, in 16 top lists Check -
30 -13
Double Indemnity
1944, in 37 top lists Check -
32 -2
Rashômon
1950 — a.k.a. Rashomon, in 34 top lists Check -
36 +17
Taxi Driver
1976, in 34 top lists Check -
41 -8
Some Like It Hot
1959, in 35 top lists Check -
49 +1
On the Waterfront
1954, in 32 top lists Check -
53 -21
North by Northwest
1959, in 30 top lists Check -
67 +35
Goodfellas
1990, in 31 top lists Check -
70 -10
Les quatre cents coups
1959 — a.k.a. The 400 Blows, in 26 top lists Check -
75 -11
The Night of the Hunter
1955, in 34 top lists Check -
77 -12
Touch of Evil
1958, in 30 top lists Check -
81 -33
The Maltese Falcon
1941, in 26 top lists Check -
95 +100
Dog Day Afternoon
1975, in 23 top lists Check -
98 +133
Z
1969, in 17 top lists Check -
99 +26
The Shawshank Redemption
1994, in 24 top lists Check -
105 +64
West Side Story
1961, in 22 top lists Check -
108 +49
The Silence of the Lambs
1991, in 36 top lists Check -
115 +102
The Sting
1973, in 17 top lists Check -
116 +34
A Clockwork Orange
1971, in 37 top lists Check -
123 +7
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962, in 18 top lists Check -
136 -23
Pulp Fiction
1994, in 38 top lists Check -
138 -30
Anatomy of a Murder
1959, in 13 top lists Check -
149 +71
The French Connection
1971, in 23 top lists Check -
152 -16
Trouble in Paradise
1932, in 17 top lists Check -
157 -73
The Thin Man
1934, in 14 top lists Check -
159 +22
Rocco e i suoi fratelli
1960 — a.k.a. Rocco and His Brothers, in 19 top lists Check -
175 +38
Le trou
1960 — a.k.a. Le Trou, in 15 top lists Check -
177 +124
Le samouraï
1967 — a.k.a. Le Samouraï, in 20 top lists Check -
181 -47
Los olvidados
1950 — a.k.a. The Young and the Damned, in 25 top lists Check -
182 +28
Witness for the Prosecution
1957, in 11 top lists Check -
199 -52
Du rififi chez les hommes
1955 — a.k.a. Rififi, in 18 top lists Check -
213 -14
À bout de souffle
1960 — a.k.a. Breathless, in 29 top lists Check -
214 +215
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969, in 21 top lists Check -
215 -44
The Big Sleep
1946, in 22 top lists Check -
216 -30
Do the Right Thing
1989, in 25 top lists Check -
223 +7
Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian
1991 — a.k.a. A Brighter Summer Day, in 19 top lists Check -
233 -77
Strangers on a Train
1951, in 17 top lists Check -
250 -7
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949, in 21 top lists Check -
252 +154
In the Heat of the Night
1967, in 17 top lists Check -
265 +151
Dial M for Murder
1954, in 9 top lists Check -
266 -58
Badlands
1973, in 23 top lists Check -
277 -61
The Killing
1956, in 15 top lists Check -
286 -132
Laura
1944, in 21 top lists Check -
294 -96
Mildred Pierce
1945, in 17 top lists Check -
300 +90
White Heat
1949, in 15 top lists Check -
302 +37
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1932, in 14 top lists Check -
304 +40
Le cercle rouge
1970 — a.k.a. The Red Circle, in 11 top lists Check
Last updated on Jan 27, 2024 by gokhan; source