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 1950's with 40 entries. A complete overview:
1920's - 6 entries
1930's - 5 entries
1940's - 16 entries
1950's - 40 entries
1960's - 38 entries
1970's - 31 entries
1980's - 27 entries
1990's - 36 entries
2000's - 28 entries
2010's - 23 entries
Ingmar Bergman seems to be Letterboxd's most popular director, with 8 entries in the list, of which 5 in top 100. He shares the top position with Akira Kurosawa.
All popular directors:
8 entries - Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman
6 entries - Andrei Tarkovsky, Stanley Kubrick, Billy Wilder
5 entries - Yasujiro Ozu, Martin Scorsese, Masaki Kobayashi
4 entries - Alfred Hitchcock, Hayao Miyazaki, Quentin Tarantino
Fun fact:
Highest ranked movies in IMDb's top 250 that are absent in the Letterboxd list: Forrest Gump (12), Hamilton (26), The Green Mile (29), Interstellar (31) and The Usual Suspects (33).
Latest update:
August 5, 2020
