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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22 +9
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo
1966 — a.k.a. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, in 29 top lists Check -
59 -14
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948, in 25 top lists Check -
109 +50
The Wild Bunch
1969, in 25 top lists Check -
119 -29
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962, in 16 top lists Check -
122 +36
C'era una volta il West
1968 — a.k.a. Once Upon a Time in the West, in 29 top lists Check -
125 -31
The Searchers
1956, in 26 top lists Check -
129 -36
Rio Bravo
1959, in 20 top lists Check -
134 -35
Stagecoach
1939, in 21 top lists Check -
156 +106
Unforgiven
1992, in 24 top lists Check -
214 +215
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969, in 21 top lists Check -
230 -87
My Darling Clementine
1946, in 20 top lists Check -
261 -39
High Noon
1952, in 18 top lists Check -
268 -40
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943, in 14 top lists Check -
278 +10
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1971, in 20 top lists Check -
306 +130
Shane
1953, in 18 top lists Check -
320 -72
The Wind
1928, in 14 top lists Check -
407 +121
Per qualche dollaro in più
1965 — a.k.a. For a Few Dollars More, in 11 top lists Check -
408 -91
Johnny Guitar
1954, in 21 top lists Check -
419 -122
Tanpopo
1985 — a.k.a. Tampopo, in 10 top lists Check -
455 -153
The Gunfighter
1950, in 8 top lists Check -
465 +85
Nybyggarna
1972 — a.k.a. The New Land, in 5 top lists Check -
470 +432
Dances with Wolves
1990, in 17 top lists Check -
727 +156
Il grande silenzio
1968 — a.k.a. The Great Silence, in 8 top lists Check -
890 -386
Destry Rides Again
1939, in 7 top lists Check -
949 -1
Per un pugno di dollari
1964 — a.k.a. A Fistful of Dollars, in 9 top lists Check
Last updated on Jan 27, 2024 by gokhan; source