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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116 +34
A Clockwork Orange
1971, in 37 top lists Check -
149 +71
The French Connection
1971, in 23 top lists Check -
174 +18
The Last Picture Show
1971, in 21 top lists Check -
278 +10
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1971, in 20 top lists Check -
342 +256
Utvandrarna
1971 — a.k.a. The Emigrants, in 7 top lists Check -
483 +94
Walkabout
1971, in 13 top lists Check -
594 +107
Wake in Fright
1971, in 7 top lists Check -
618 new
Fiddler on the Roof
1971, in 9 top lists Check -
620 new
Shura
1971 — a.k.a. Demons, in 4 top lists Check -
774 -91
Dirty Harry
1971, in 17 top lists Check -
788 +61
La classe operaia va in paradiso
1971 — a.k.a. Lulu the Tool, in 2 top lists Check -
827 -212
Xia nü
1971 — a.k.a. A Touch of Zen, in 15 top lists Check -
902 -226
Two-Lane Blacktop
1971, in 13 top lists Check -
906 new
Dzhentlmeny udachi
1971 — a.k.a. Gentlemen of Fortune, in 1 top list Check -
934 new
Punishment Park
1971, in 5 top lists Check -
939 new
Harold and Maude
1971, in 22 top lists Check
Last updated on Jan 27, 2024 by gokhan; source