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Top 250 movies as voted by our users For this top 250, only votes from regular voters are considered. Rank Rating Title Votes 1. 9.0 The Godfather (1972) 127,304 2. 9.0 The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 154,865 3. 8.9 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 109,305 4. 8.9 The Godfather: Part II (1974) 73,731 5. 8.8 Shichinin no samurai (1954) 33,545 6. 8.8 Schindler's List (1993) 100,293 7. 8.8 Casablanca (1942) 67,677 8. 8.7 Star Wars (1977) 141,247 9. 8.7 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 162,100 10. 8.7 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 109,383 11. 8.7 Pulp Fiction (1994) 137,493 12. 8.7 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 72,160 13. 8.7 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 119,044 14. 8.7 Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) 31,620 15. 8.7 Citizen Kane (1941) 62,592 16. 8.7 Rear Window (1954) 42,105 17. 8.6 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 18. 8.6 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 96,031 19. 8.6 The Usual Suspects (1995) 106,579 20. 8.6 Cidade de Deus (2002) 27,770 21. 8.6 12 Angry Men (1957) 30,269 22. 8.6 Memento (2000) 93,255 23. 8.6 C'era una volta il West (1968) 17,994 24. 8.6 North by Northwest (1959) 36,536 25. 8.5 Psycho (1960) 55,224 26. 8.5 Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 32,029 27. 8.5 It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 42,124 28. 8.5 Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 61,610 29. 8.5 Goodfellas (1990) 70,489 30. 8.5 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 94,270 31. 8.5 Sunset Blvd. (1950) 16,602 32. 8.5 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 49,828 33. 8.5 American Beauty (1999) 112,796 34. 8.4 The Matrix (1999) 147,808 35. 8.4 Apocalypse Now (1979) 66,583 36. 8.4 Vertigo (1958) 34,715 37. 8.4 Fight Club (1999) 116,049 38. 8.4 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 30,946 file:///D|/top%20250%20movies.txt (1 of 7) [4/22/2007 8:32:59 AM]

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Paths of Glory (1957) 14,867 The Pianist (2002) 31,892 The Third Man (1949) 18,868 Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) 25,527 Taxi Driver (1976) 49,350 Singin' in the Rain (1952) 21,065 Boot, Das (1981) 29,601 Double Indemnity (1944) 11,864 M (1931) 12,382 Se7en (1995) 91,061 Chinatown (1974) 26,421 Some Like It Hot (1959) 26,035 Rashômon (1950) 12,082 Requiem for a Dream (2000) 49,716 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 62,353 L.A. Confidential (1997) 71,179 All About Eve (1950) 13,370 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 23,001 Léon (1994) 54,845 The Maltese Falcon (1941) 19,892 American History X (1998) 61,719 Modern Times (1936) 10,635 Raging Bull (1980) 27,737 Alien (1979) 65,082 Saving Private Ryan (1998) 102,863 A Clockwork Orange (1971) 67,176 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) 68,196 The Sting (1973) 24,243 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 10,737 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 11,892 Vita è bella, La (1997) 38,899 The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 14,636 Amadeus (1984) 37,867 Reservoir Dogs (1992) 71,537 On the Waterfront (1954) 13,187 Batman Begins (2005) 22,367 Hotel Rwanda (2004) 10,511 The Wizard of Oz (1939) 39,368 City Lights (1931) 8,030 Ran (1985) 12,434 Million Dollar Baby (2004) 22,335 The Great Escape (1963) 20,785 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 66,440

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Touch of Evil (1958) 12,058 The Apartment (1960) 11,504 Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) 10,043 The Shining (1980) 52,508 Metropolis (1927) 12,338 Aliens (1986) 65,508 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) 46,925 The Great Dictator (1940) 10,835 The Incredibles (2004) 33,757 Jaws (1975) 48,353 Braveheart (1995) 94,800 High Noon (1952) 12,818 Strangers on a Train (1951) 10,943 Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989) 14,418 Annie Hall (1977) 22,096 Finding Nemo (2003) 43,850 Donnie Darko (2001) 54,694 Fargo (1996) 67,054 Untergang, Der (2004) 9,612 The General (1927) 6,824 Mononoke-hime (1997) 20,079 Oldboy (2003) 10,424 Blade Runner (1982) 76,542 Wo hu cang long (2000) 53,358 Ladri di biciclette (1948) 7,609 Yojimbo (1961) 9,355 The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 6,305 Forrest Gump (1994) 92,434 Full Metal Jacket (1987) 49,218 Rebecca (1940) 11,716 The Sixth Sense (1999) 99,363 The Big Sleep (1946) 10,256 Sin City (2005) 32,302 The Princess Bride (1987) 55,180 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 79,724 Before Sunset (2004) 9,717 Duck Soup (1933) 10,128 Notorious (1946) 10,909 It Happened One Night (1934) 8,105 Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 19,958 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 20,729 Crash (2004) 6,243 Patton (1970) 14,799

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The Graduate (1967) 28,391 Smultronstället (1957) 5,412 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 87,363 Unforgiven (1992) 31,736 Cool Hand Luke (1967) 14,569 The Deer Hunter (1978) 29,110 The Elephant Man (1980) 16,896 Lola rennt (1998) 33,677 The Philadelphia Story (1940) 10,777 Back to the Future (1985) 70,615 Amores perros (2000) 15,750 Glory (1989) 22,428 Toy Story 2 (1999) 42,012 Ben-Hur (1959) 21,574 The Green Mile (1999) 62,083 The Gold Rush (1925) 6,617 Manhattan (1979) 12,741 Ying xiong (2002) 25,613 Bringing Up Baby (1938) 9,502 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 63,398 Stalag 17 (1953) 7,351 The Grapes of Wrath (1940) 8,067 Platoon (1986) 36,306 A Christmas Story (1983) 20,248 The African Queen (1951) 14,061 The Wild Bunch (1969) 10,834 Gone with the Wind (1939) 29,557 The Searchers (1956) 10,482 Quatre cents coups, Les (1959) 6,715 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 7,055 Ikiru (1952) 4,321 The Hustler (1961) 8,479 Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 11,633 The Night of the Hunter (1955) 7,788 Life of Brian (1979) 34,237 Finding Neverland (2004) 20,020 Hable con ella (2002) 13,157 The Straight Story (1999) 15,059 Mystic River (2003) 30,527 Die Hard (1988) 60,423 Shrek (2001) 67,164 Big Fish (2003) 33,400 Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 5,242

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Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925) 6,227 Grande illusion, La (1937) 5,158 His Girl Friday (1940) 6,874 Roman Holiday (1953) 9,731 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 7,485 Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, La (1928) 3,603 Young Frankenstein (1974) 22,863 The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) 7,582 Hotaru no haka (1988) 7,253 Gladiator (2000) 95,256 Festen (1998) 12,355 Ed Wood (1994) 23,345 Monsters, Inc. (2001) 40,017 Charade (1963) 9,362 The Killing (1956) 7,245 Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994) 10,680 Magnolia (1999) 47,315 A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) 9,890 Sling Blade (1996) 20,871 Spartacus (1960) 17,609 The Conversation (1974) 10,560 The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 10,397 All the President's Men (1976) 13,107 Strada, La (1954) 5,164 A Night at the Opera (1935) 6,154 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) 2,742 Groundhog Day (1993) 46,162 Sideways (2004) 19,676 Brazil (1985) 31,504 To Be or Not to Be (1942) 3,719 8½ (1963) 8,261 Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) 8,701 Gandhi (1982) 16,307 Lost in Translation (2003) 44,558 Trainspotting (1996) 53,398 Harvey (1950) 8,080 Twelve Monkeys (1995) 63,892 Toy Story (1995) 47,150 Stand by Me (1986) 31,670 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) 7,232 Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 5,905 The Insider (1999) 29,543 Almost Famous (2000) 39,748

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Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 15,461 The Lion in Winter (1968) 6,011 Laura (1944) 4,793 Mar adentro (2004/I) 4,402 In America (2002) 8,806 Garden State (2004) 26,568 Fanny och Alexander (1982) 4,522 The Terminator (1984) 61,379 The Exorcist (1973) 35,178 The Big Lebowski (1998) 51,887 Per qualche dollaro in più (1965) 9,295 Persona (1966) 3,836 This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 21,215 Mulholland Dr. (2001) 36,756 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 63,421 Network (1976) 9,762 The Station Agent (2003) 7,542 Miller's Crossing (1990) 15,044 Spider-Man 2 (2004) 42,836 21 Grams (2003) 23,139 Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) 3,489 Snatch. (2000) 46,514 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) 35,565 Rain Man (1988) 43,766 Dogville (2003) 15,312 Being John Malkovich (1999) 56,519 Heat (1995) 46,110 The 39 Steps (1935) 8,171 Being There (1979) 10,808 Battaglia di Algeri, La (1965) 2,217 The Thin Man (1934) 4,921 The Right Stuff (1983) 13,202 Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) 3,618 Midnight Cowboy (1969) 13,503 Diarios de motocicleta (2004) 9,663 King Kong (1933) 10,644 Barry Lyndon (1975) 12,735 Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 13,071 Meglio gioventù, La (2003) 1,442 Rio Bravo (1959) 7,475

The formula for calculating the Top Rated 250 Titles gives a true Bayesian estimate:

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weighted rank (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C where: R = average for the movie (mean) = (Rating) v = number of votes for the movie = (votes) m = minimum votes required to be listed in the Top 250 (currently 1250) C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 6.8) for the Top 250, only votes from regular voters are considered.

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