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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38 +14
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968, in 45 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 -
180 -27
Rosemary's Baby
1968, in 21 top lists Check -
393 -53
Night of the Living Dead
1968, in 20 top lists Check -
474 +47
Sayat Nova
1969 — a.k.a. The Color of Pomegranates, in 12 top lists Check -
562 +1
Planet of the Apes
1968, in 16 top lists Check -
564 +273
The Lion in Winter
1968, in 4 top lists Check -
608 new
Oliver!
1968, in 7 top lists Check -
647 +274
If....
1968, in 18 top lists Check -
696 -30
Funny Girl
1968, in 7 top lists Check -
699 new
Skammen
1968 — a.k.a. Shame, in 7 top lists Check -
727 +156
Il grande silenzio
1968 — a.k.a. The Great Silence, in 8 top lists Check -
762 -207
Faces
1968, in 11 top lists Check -
780 +145
Salesman
1969, in 10 top lists Check -
866 +4
Memorias del subdesarrollo
1968 — a.k.a. Memories of Underdevelopment, in 11 top lists Check -
919 new
Kôshikei
1968 — a.k.a. Death by Hanging, in 8 top lists Check -
997 new
Yellow Submarine
1968, in 8 top lists Check
Last updated on Jan 27, 2024 by gokhan; source