2023 UPDATE: Another apology is due from myself to this community as I have let this sit idle for far too long (again). I'm back on Letterboxd now and have updated this list for 2023.
As I mentioned in 2020, the growth of this site required me raise the minimum view count from 2k to 4k. I think we need to bump that again, so I'm now setting a minimum view count of 15k for feature films to be eligible to make this list in order to prevent it from becoming too bloated.
The same rules apply regarding film length (40 mins or above), and documentaries, concert films, and TV shows remain excluded. The film still requires a 4.0 rating,…
2023 UPDATE: Another apology is due from myself to this community as I have let this sit idle for far too long (again). I'm back on Letterboxd now and have updated this list for 2023.
As I mentioned in 2020, the growth of this site required me raise the minimum view count from 2k to 4k. I think we need to bump that again, so I'm now setting a minimum view count of 15k for feature films to be eligible to make this list in order to prevent it from becoming too bloated.
The same rules apply regarding film length (40 mins or above), and documentaries, concert films, and TV shows remain excluded. The film still requires a 4.0 rating, which included movies rated 3.95 and above if Letterboxd rounds this number up to 4.00.
2020 UPDATE: I'm sorry to have left this sit idle for so long! Given that I've not updated this for well over 3 years, I'm going to be going through the original process of cataloging all of these movies and make sure this list is as accurate and as up-to-date as possible. Whilst I'm doing this the list will be heavily edited down and up again as I start from scratch again. I'll be deleting and re-adding movies decade-by-decade.
I've decided to make a few changes, which will be reflected in the revised list:
* TV shows and comedy specials have now been excluded from the list, as have short films (40 mins or less, as per the Academy's guidelines).
* I've also decided to omit documentaries as some can be multi-episode affairs and I wanted to keep this list relatively streamlined.
* I have upped the minimum viewing requirement from 2k to 4k, to reflect the large increase in Letterboxd's userbase since the day I started this list. It is supposed to be the Community's Favourites, after all.
Decade-by-decade breakdown, with changes in numbers from last update at the end of 2016:
1920s: 17 (no change)
1930s 19 (up 1)
1940s: 39 (no change)
1950s 70 (up 9)
1960s: 93 (up 22)
1970s: 79 (up 13)
1980s 72 (up 16)
1990s 89 (up 13)
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ORIGINAL POST
This is what happens when your car breaks down on a Sunday morning and you have nothing else to do for the rest of the day.
The following is a comprehensive list of every film currently holding an average rating of at least 4.0 (out of 5) on Letterboxd that has also been viewed by at least 2000 members of the site. I've gone through each decade and added all films that apply to this list. If this gets enough interest and/ or I can be bothered, I will seek to update it on a semi-regular basis.
You can see the breakdown of the films in terms of the decades in which they were released below.
1920s: 17
1930s: 18
1940s: 39
1950s: 61
1960s: 71
1970s: 66
1980s: 56
1990s: 76
2000s: 74
2010s: 53