Letterboxd's Top 250 movies, based on the average weighted rating of all Letterboxd users. I removed all stand-up specials, stage plays, concert films, documentaries, shorts, 'collection listings' and other 'rarities', so only feature length narrative movies are listed here. Films should have a minimum of 2,500 ratings to be eligible to enter the list.
As a sister to this list, we also have a Top 50 films with less than 2,500 ratings, so be sure to check out the more obscure gems there!
My friend Jack Moulton made a list of Letterboxd Top 100 documentaries, go check it out!
And last but not least there is a companion piece to this list with all films that were once part of…
Letterboxd's Top 250 movies, based on the average weighted rating of all Letterboxd users. I removed all stand-up specials, stage plays, concert films, documentaries, shorts, 'collection listings' and other 'rarities', so only feature length narrative movies are listed here. Films should have a minimum of 2,500 ratings to be eligible to enter the list.
As a sister to this list, we also have a Top 50 films with less than 2,500 ratings, so be sure to check out the more obscure gems there!
My friend Jack Moulton made a list of Letterboxd Top 100 documentaries, go check it out!
And last but not least there is a companion piece to this list with all films that were once part of the Top 250.
A few statistics...
The oldest movie on the list is Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr., released in 1924. The most popular decade in the list is the 1960's with 41 entries. A complete overview:
1920's - 5 entries
1930's - 5 entries
1940's - 15 entries
1950's - 39 entries
1960's - 41 entries
1970's - 27 entries
1980's - 28 entries
1990's - 34 entries
2000's - 29 entries
2010's - 26 entries
2020's - 1 entry
Akira Kurosawa seems to be Letterboxd's most popular director, with 8 entries in the list, of which 4 in top 100. Next in line with 7 titles is Ingmar Bergman.
All popular directors:
8 entries - Akira Kurosawa
7 entries - Ingmar Bergman
6 entries - Andrei Tarkovsky, Stanley Kubrick, Billy Wilder
5 entries - Yasujiro Ozu, Masaki Kobayashi
4 entries - Hayao Miyazaki, Satyajit Ray, Abbas Kiarostami, Martin Scorsese
Fun fact:
Highest ranked movies in IMDb's top 250 that are absent in the Letterboxd list: Forrest Gump (12), The Matrix (16), The Green Mile (28), Interstellar (29) and The Usual Suspects (33).
Latest update:
June 21, 2021
Back in the list:
Winter Sleep at #249
Gone, not forgotten:
The Face of Another
