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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108 +49
The Silence of the Lambs
1991, in 36 top lists Check -
223 +7
Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian
1991 — a.k.a. A Brighter Summer Day, in 19 top lists Check -
301 +132
Da hong denglong gaogao gua
1991 — a.k.a. Raise the Red Lantern, in 21 top lists Check -
338 +135
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991, in 27 top lists Check -
491 +218
La double vie de Véronique
1991 — a.k.a. The Double Life of Véronique, in 12 top lists Check -
539 +62
Thelma & Louise
1991, in 13 top lists Check -
545 new
JFK
1991, in 13 top lists Check -
548 -129
Beauty and the Beast
1991, in 20 top lists Check -
664 +278
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991, in 2 top lists Check -
833 new
Barton Fink
1991, in 8 top lists Check -
932 new
Kit Kat
1991, in 1 top list Check -
946 new
Les amants du Pont-Neuf
1991 — a.k.a. The Lovers on the Bridge, in 11 top lists Check -
954 new
Boyz n the Hood
1991, in 9 top lists Check -
974 new
Thalapathi
1991, in 0 top lists Check
Last updated on Jan 27, 2024 by gokhan; source