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Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films

Letterboxd's Top 250 movies, based on the average weighted rating of all Letterboxd s. 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 15,000 ratings to be eligible to enter the list.

As a sister to this list, we also have a Top 100 films with less than 15,000 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…

  • Sherlock Jr.

    79

  • Metropolis

    206

  • Napoleon

    232

  • The ion of Joan of Arc

    39

  • City Lights

    108

  • M

    146

  • Modern Times

    187

  • The Great Dictator

    122

  • To Be or Not to Be

    123

  • Casablanca

    180

  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    247

  • Double Indemnity

    197

  • Children of Paradise

    172

  • Brief Encounter

    120

  • A Matter of Life and Death

    209

  • The Best Years of Our Lives

    240

  • It's a Wonderful Life

    52

  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    157

  • Bicycle Thieves

    153

  • The Red Shoes

    58

  • The Third Man

    212

  • Late Spring

    109

  • Sunset Boulevard

    37

  • All About Eve

    92

  • Ace in the Hole

    188

  • Umberto D.

    214

  • Singin' in the Rain

    105

  • Ikiru

    16

  • Ugetsu

    199

  • The Wages of Fear

    103

  • Tokyo Story

    36

  • Sansho the Bailiff

    54

  • Seven Samurai

    4

  • Rear Window

    84

  • Ordet

    98

  • Rififi

    202

  • The Night of the Hunter

    192

  • Pather Panchali

    134

  • Aparajito

    216

  • A Man Escaped

    100

  • Throne of Blood

    176

  • The Seventh Seal

    111

  • 12 Angry Men

    2

  • Nights of Cabiria

    66

  • Sweet Smell of Success

    222

  • Wild Strawberries

    113

  • The Bridge on the River Kwai

    225

  • The Cranes Are Flying

    38

  • Paths of Glory

    31

  • Witness for the Prosecution

    73

  • Vertigo

    239

  • The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

    14

  • Some Like It Hot

    196

  • Apur Sansar

    95

  • The 400 Blows

    137

  • Anatomy of a Murder

    228

  • The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

    32

  • La Dolce Vita

    178

  • Le Trou

    21

  • The Apartment

    35

  • Psycho

    131

  • Rocco and His Brothers

    142

  • La Notte

    165

  • The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

    5

  • Yojimbo

    148

  • Judgment at Nuremberg

    138

  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

    177

  • Harakiri

    1

  • An Autumn Afternoon

    248

  • Il Soro

    227

  • Lawrence of Arabia

    75

  • 8½

    159

  • Winter Light

    215

  • High and Low

    6

  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    150

  • Woman in the Dunes

    28

  • Fail Safe

    246

  • I Am Cuba

    53

  • Kwaidan

    243

  • Red Beard

    74

  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    193

  • The Face of Another

    231

  • The Battle of Algiers

    47

  • Persona

    62

  • Andrei Rublev

    33

  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    20

  • The Young Girls of Rochefort

    128

  • Samurai Rebellion

    184

  • Le Samouraï

    241

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    181

  • Once Upon a Time in the West

    67

  • Z

    116

  • The Cremator

    175

  • Army of Shadows

    94

  • Funeral Parade of Roses

    127

  • Kes

    235

  • Solaris

    238

  • The Godfather

    12

  • Paper Moon

    89

  • Chinatown

    155