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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…

There are 24 films in this list released in the 1980s.

  • Come and See

    3

  • Ran

    17

  • Cinema Paradiso

    22

  • Grave of the Fireflies

    25

  • Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

    43

  • Fanny and Alexander

    44

  • The Empire Strikes Back

    57

  • Do the Right Thing

    59

  • Paris, Texas

    71

  • Where Is the Friend's House?

    86

  • Landscape in the Mist

    91

  • The Thing

    93

  • Amadeus

    110

  • Tampopo

    135

  • Das Boot

    139

  • Dead Poets Society

    140

  • Wings of Desire

    141

  • The Sacrifice

    156

  • Akira

    170

  • Nostalgia

    171

  • The Elephant Man

    174

  • The King of Comedy

    230

  • Raging Bull

    236

  • The Shining

    244