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 5,000 ratings to be eligible to enter the list.
As a sister to this list, we also have a Top 50 films with less than 5,000 ratings, so be sure to check out the more obscure gems there!
My friend Jack Moulton made a list of Letterboxd Top 250 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 5,000 ratings to be eligible to enter the list.
As a sister to this list, we also have a Top 50 films with less than 5,000 ratings, so be sure to check out the more obscure gems there!
My friend Jack Moulton made a list of Letterboxd Top 250 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 decades in the list are the 1960's and 1990's with 37 entries. A complete overview:
1920's - 5 entries
1930's - 4 entries
1940's - 15 entries
1950's - 36 entries
1960's - 37 entries
1970's - 28 entries
1980's - 27 entries
1990's - 37 entries
2000's - 28 entries
2010's - 28 entries
2020's - 5 entries
Akira Kurosawa seems to be Letterboxd's most popular director, with 9 entries in the list, of which 4 in the top 40. Next in line with 7 titles is Ingmar Bergman.
All popular directors:
9 entries - Akira Kurosawa
7 entries - Ingmar Bergman
6 entries - Andrei Tarkovsky
5 entries - Yasujiro Ozu, Masaki Kobayashi, Stanley Kubrick
4 entries - Hayao Miyazaki, Martin Scorsese, Wong Kar-wai, Satyajit Ray, Billy Wilder
3 entries - Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino, Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Jackson, Roman Polanski, Abbas Kiarostami, Francis Ford Coppola, Sidney Lumet, Charlie Chaplin, Sergio Leone, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell, Federico Fellini, Hideaki Anno
Fun fact:
Highest ranked movies in IMDb's top 250 that are absent in the Letterboxd list: Forrest Gump (11), The Green Mile (26), Léon: The Professional (34), Gladiator (37) and American History X (38).
Latest update:
May 16, 2022
Back in the list:
The Man Who Sleeps at #250
Gone, not forgotten:
La Belle Noiseuse
