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To help track the Change in the IMDb Top 250, I grab a static copy of that list each 1st January. Here's the list as it was on 1st January, 2016, with some data that ties it to previous years. Here are equivalent pages for 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2004.
Of course, the list changes all the time. Here's the current version of the IMDb Top 250 at the Internet Movie Database.
This list is in order and lists the title, year and director of each film, with a link to its IMDb page, along with its position (if applicable) in the list I grabbed on 1st January in 2015, 2014, 2013 and at some point in mid-2004. The last column highlights the change in position over the last twelve months. A film that wasn't in the list in 2015 is a new entry, even if it was in the list in a previous year.
# | Title | Year | Director | IMDb | '16 | '15 | '14 | '13 | '04 | Ch |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | Frank Darabont | IMDb | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | = |
2 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | IMDb | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | = |
3 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | IMDb | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | = |
4 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | IMDb | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 | = | |
5 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Sidney Lumet | IMDb | 5 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 21 | ↑2 |
6 | Schindler's List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | IMDb | 6 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 6 | ↑2 |
7 | Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | IMDb | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 16 | ↓2 |
8 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 1966 | Sergio Leone | IMDb | 8 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 20 | ↓2 |
9 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | Peter Jackson | IMDb | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 3 | = |
10 | Fight Club | 1999 | David Fincher | IMDb | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 41 | = |
11 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | Peter Jackson | IMDb | 11 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 9 | = |
12 | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner | IMDb | 12 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 13 | = |
13 | Forrest Gump | 1994 | Robert Zemeckis | IMDb | 13 | 14 | 15 | 19 | 115 | ↑1 |
14 | Inception | 2010 | Christopher Nolan | IMDb | 14 | 13 | 14 | 14 | ↓1 | |
15 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 | Milos Forman | IMDb | 15 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 12 | = |
16 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | Peter Jackson | IMDb | 16 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 8 | ↑1 |
17 | The Matrix | 1999 | Andy Wachowski Larry Wachowski |
IMDb | 17 | 19 | 20 | 18 | 34 | ↑2 |
18 | Goodfellas | 1990 | Martin Scorsese | IMDb | 18 | 18 | 16 | 15 | 29 | = |
19 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | IMDb | 19 | 20 | 17 | 16 | 10 | ↑1 |
20 | The Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa | IMDb | 20 | 21 | 18 | 17 | 5 | ↑1 |
21 | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles Kátia Lund |
IMDb | 21 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 23 | ↑1 |
22 | Se7en | 1995 | David Fincher | IMDb | 22 | 23 | 22 | 23 | 55 | ↑1 |
23 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme | IMDb | 23 | 25 | 24 | 24 | 28 | ↑2 |
24 | The Usual Suspects | 1995 | Bryan Singer | IMDb | 24 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 18 | = |
25 | It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra | IMDb | 25 | 26 | 26 | 30 | 27 | ↑1 |
26 | Life is Beautiful | 1997 | Roberto Benigni | IMDb | 26 | 29 | 36 | 55 | 72 | ↑3 |
27 | Leon | 1994 | Luc Besson | IMDb | 27 | 28 | 28 | 31 | 64 | ↑1 |
28 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 1968 | Sergio Leone | IMDb | 28 | 27 | 23 | 22 | 32 | ↓1 |
29 | Interstellar | 2014 | Christopher Nolan | IMDb | 29 | 16 | ↓13 | |||
30 | Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | Steven Spielberg | IMDb | 30 | 34 | 34 | 39 | 58 | ↑4 |
31 | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki | IMDb | 31 | 36 | 38 | 43 | 43 | ↑5 |
32 | American History X | 1998 | Tony Kaye | IMDb | 32 | 32 | 32 | 34 | 61 | = |
33 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | IMDb | 33 | 30 | 27 | 25 | 7 | ↓3 |
34 | City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin | IMDb | 34 | 35 | 33 | 41 | 91 | ↑1 |
35 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | IMDb | 35 | 33 | 31 | 29 | 25 | ↓2 |
36 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 1981 | Steven Spielberg | IMDb | 36 | 31 | 29 | 27 | 17 | ↓5 |
37 | Rear Window | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | IMDb | 37 | 37 | 30 | 28 | 14 | = |
38 | The Intouchables | 2011 | Olivier Nakache Eric Toledano |
IMDb | 38 | 38 | 45 | 64 | = | |
39 | Modern Times | 1936 | Charles Chaplin | IMDb | 39 | 39 | 41 | 45 | 69 | = |
40 | The Green Mile | 1999 | Frank Darabont | IMDb | 40 | 42 | 48 | 65 | 132 | ↑2 |
41 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | James Cameron | IMDb | 41 | 40 | 39 | 36 | 110 | ↓1 |
42 | The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski | IMDb | 42 | 43 | 43 | 49 | 37 | ↑1 |
43 | Whiplash | 2014 | Damien Chazelle | IMDb | 43 | → | ||||
44 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | IMDb | 44 | 46 | 47 | 50 | ↑2 | |
45 | Back to the Future | 1985 | Robert Zemeckis | IMDb | 45 | 49 | 46 | 47 | 143 | ↑4 |
46 | Memento | 2000 | Christopher Nolan | IMDb | 46 | 41 | 37 | 33 | 19 | ↓5 |
47 | Gladiator | 2000 | Ridley Scott | IMDb | 47 | 48 | 49 | 63 | 168 | ↑1 |
48 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | IMDb | 48 | 45 | 40 | 35 | 36 | ↓3 |
49 | Dr Strangelove | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | IMDb | 49 | 47 | 42 | 37 | 15 | ↓2 |
50 | Sunset Boulevard | 1950 | Billy Wilder | IMDb | 50 | 44 | 35 | 32 | 31 | ↓6 |
51 | The Prestige | 2006 | Christopher Nolan | IMDb | 51 | 51 | 61 | 68 | = | |
52 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | 2015 | J J Abrams | IMDb | 52 | → | ||||
53 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott | IMDb | 53 | 50 | 44 | 40 | 60 | ↓3 |
54 | The Lion King | 1994 | Roger Allers Rob Minkoff |
IMDb | 54 | 54 | 69 | 79 | = | |
55 | The Great Dictator | 1940 | Charles Chaplin | IMDb | 55 | 52 | 59 | 69 | 97 | ↓3 |
56 | The Lives of Others | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | IMDb | 56 | 53 | 55 | 60 | ↓3 | |
57 | Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore | IMDb | 57 | 57 | 64 | 76 | 99 | = |
58 | Paths of Glory | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick | IMDb | 58 | 59 | 54 | 54 | 40 | ↑1 |
59 | The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick | IMDb | 59 | 58 | 51 | 46 | 89 | ↓1 |
60 | Django Unchained | 2012 | Quentin Tarantino | IMDb | 60 | 56 | 53 | ↓4 | ||
61 | The Dark Knight Rises | 2012 | Christopher Nolan | IMDb | 61 | 55 | 50 | 38 | ↓6 | |
62 | WALL-E | 2008 | Andrew Stanton | IMDb | 62 | 61 | 60 | 59 | ↓1 | |
63 | American Beauty | 1999 | Sam Mendes | IMDb | 63 | 60 | 57 | 51 | 30 | ↓3 |
64 | Grave of the Fireflies | 1988 | Isao Takahata | IMDb | 64 | 71 | 82 | 104 | 171 | ↑7 |
65 | Aliens | 1986 | James Cameron | IMDb | 65 | 63 | 62 | 58 | 87 | ↓2 |
66 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles | IMDb | 66 | 64 | 56 | 44 | 11 | ↓2 |
67 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | IMDb | 67 | 62 | 52 | 42 | 22 | ↓5 |
68 | Princess Mononoke | 1997 | Hayao Miyazaki | IMDb | 68 | 72 | 81 | 93 | 100 | ↑4 |
69 | Oldboy | 2003 | Chan-wook Park | IMDb | 69 | 70 | 76 | 85 | ↑1 | |
70 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | IMDb | 70 | 66 | 63 | 48 | 33 | ↓4 |
71 | Das Boot | 1981 | Wolfgang Peterson | IMDb | 71 | 69 | 71 | 71 | 46 | ↓2 |
72 | Once Upon a Time in America | 1984 | Sergio Leone | IMDb | 72 | 74 | 77 | 77 | 124 | ↑2 |
73 | Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand | IMDb | 73 | 73 | 78 | 81 | 131 | = |
74 | M | 1931 | Fritz Lang | IMDb | 74 | 67 | 58 | 52 | 50 | ↓7 |
75 | Amelie | 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | IMDb | 75 | 65 | 65 | 62 | 26 | ↓10 |
76 | Witness for the Prosecution | 1957 | Billy Wilder | IMDb | 76 | 83 | 83 | 102 | 164 | ↑7 |
77 | Reservoir Dogs | 1992 | Quentin Tarantino | IMDb | 77 | 77 | 74 | 70 | 71 | = |
78 | Braveheart | 1995 | Mel Gibson | IMDb | 78 | 79 | 79 | 83 | 85 | ↑1 |
79 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | IMDb | 79 | 75 | 70 | 61 | 74 | ↓4 |
80 | Toy Story 3 | 2010 | Lee Unkrich | IMDb | 80 | 68 | 66 | 56 | ↓12 | |
81 | Requiem for a Dream | 2000 | Darren Aronofsky | IMDb | 81 | 80 | 75 | 73 | 51 | ↓1 |
82 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese | IMDb | 82 | 76 | 68 | 53 | 42 | ↓6 |
83 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | IMDb | 83 | 78 | 67 | 57 | 45 | ↓5 |
84 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Robert Mulligan | IMDb | 84 | 81 | 72 | 67 | 35 | ↓3 |
85 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | IMDb | 85 | 82 | 73 | 66 | 24 | ↓3 |
86 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | Michel Gondry | IMDb | 86 | 84 | 80 | 75 | 38 | ↓2 |
87 | Full Metal Jacket | 1987 | Stanley Kubrick | IMDb | 87 | 85 | 85 | 82 | 102 | ↓2 |
88 | Amadeus | 1984 | Milos Forman | IMDb | 88 | 89 | 92 | 88 | 79 | ↑1 |
89 | The Sting | 1973 | George Roy Hill | IMDb | 89 | 87 | 90 | 98 | 67 | ↓2 |
90 | Singin' in the Rain | 1952 | Gene Kelly Stanley Donen |
IMDb | 90 | 86 | 86 | 86 | 47 | ↓4 |
91 | The Bicycle Thief | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica | IMDb | 91 | 88 | 84 | 91 | 104 | ↓3 |
92 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | IMDb | 92 | 98 | 103 | 92 | 73 | ↑6 |
93 | Snatch | 2000 | Guy Ritchie | IMDb | 93 | 91 | 104 | 112 | 221 | ↓2 |
94 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 | Terry Gilliam Terry Jones |
IMDb | 94 | 90 | 95 | 84 | 56 | ↓4 |
95 | Inside Out | 2015 | Pete Docter | IMDb | 95 | → | ||||
96 | The Kid | 1921 | Charles Chaplin | IMDb | 96 | 99 | 110 | 128 | ↑3 | |
97 | Toy Story | 1995 | John Lasseter | IMDb | 97 | 107 | 113 | 118 | 177 | ↑10 |
98 | LA Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson | IMDb | 98 | 94 | 93 | 80 | 49 | ↓4 |
99 | For a Few Dollars More | 1965 | Sergio Leone | IMDb | 99 | 95 | 108 | 111 | ↓4 | |
100 | Inglourious Basterds | 2009 | Quentin Tarantino | IMDb | 100 | 101 | 109 | 113 | ↑1 | |
101 | Rashomon | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa | IMDb | 101 | 92 | 91 | 90 | 57 | ↓9 |
102 | The Apartment | 1960 | Billy Wilder | IMDb | 102 | 97 | 96 | 96 | 81 | ↓5 |
103 | All About Eve | 1950 | Joseph L Mankiewicz | IMDb | 103 | 96 | 88 | 95 | 54 | ↓7 |
104 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | 1989 | Steven Spielberg | IMDb | 104 | 103 | 100 | 97 | 141 | ↓1 |
105 | A Separation | 2011 | Asghar Farhadi | IMDb | 105 | 105 | 101 | 105 | = | |
106 | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang | IMDb | 106 | 109 | 98 | 89 | 86 | ↑3 |
107 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | John Huston | IMDb | 107 | 102 | 87 | 74 | 68 | ↓5 |
108 | Scarface | 1983 | Brian De Palma | IMDb | 108 | 113 | 121 | 129 | ↑5 | |
109 | Yojimbo | 1961 | Akira Kurosawa | IMDb | 109 | 106 | 102 | 109 | 107 | ↓3 |
110 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder | IMDb | 110 | 100 | 97 | 87 | 44 | ↓10 |
111 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan | IMDb | 111 | 108 | 107 | 103 | ↓3 | |
112 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed | IMDb | 112 | 104 | 89 | 72 | 39 | ↓8 |
113 | Unforgiven | 1992 | Clint Eastwood | IMDb | 113 | 110 | 105 | 94 | 127 | ↓3 |
114 | 3 Idiots | 2009 | Rajkumar Hirani | IMDb | 114 | 120 | 158 | 240 | ↑6 | |
115 | Up | 2009 | Pete Docter | IMDb | 115 | 115 | 118 | 114 | = | |
116 | The Hunt | 2012 | Thomas Vinterberg | IMDb | 116 | 125 | 132 | ↑9 | ||
117 | Raging Bull | 1957 | Martin Scorsese | IMDb | 117 | 112 | 106 | 99 | 59 | ↓5 |
118 | Downfall | 2004 | Oliver Hirschbiegel | IMDb | 118 | 117 | 116 | 107 | ↓1 | |
119 | Good Will Hunting | 1997 | Gus Van Sant | IMDb | 119 | 127 | 140 | 157 | 248 | ↑8 |
120 | Die Hard | 1988 | John McTiernan | IMDb | 120 | 119 | 111 | 101 | 156 | ↓1 |
121 | The Great Escape | 1963 | John Sturges | IMDb | 121 | 118 | 119 | 110 | 77 | ↓3 |
122 | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski | IMDb | 122 | 116 | 99 | 78 | 48 | ↓6 |
123 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann | IMDb | 123 | 124 | 122 | 119 | 245 | ↑1 |
124 | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | 1927 | F W Murnau | IMDb | 124 | 225 | → | |||
125 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan | IMDb | 125 | 121 | 115 | 115 | 78 | ↓4 |
126 | Pan's Labyrinth | 2006 | Guillermo Del Toro | IMDb | 126 | 123 | 117 | 106 | ↓3 | |
127 | Mr Smith Goes to Washington | 1939 | Frank Capra | IMDb | 127 | 122 | 112 | 108 | 66 | ↓5 |
128 | My Neighbor Totoro | 1988 | Hayao Miyazaki | IMDb | 128 | 128 | 141 | 165 | = | |
129 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | David Lean | IMDb | 129 | 126 | 114 | 100 | 52 | ↓3 |
130 | The Gold Rush | 1925 | Charles Chaplin | IMDb | 130 | 131 | 130 | 137 | 151 | ↑1 |
131 | Ikiru | 1952 | Akira Kurosawa | IMDb | 131 | 132 | 120 | 193 | ↑1 | |
132 | Ran | 1985 | Akira Kurosawa | IMDb | 132 | 135 | 127 | 133 | 76 | ↑3 |
133 | The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | IMDb | 133 | 129 | 124 | 117 | 95 | ↓4 |
134 | Blade Runner | 1982 | Ridley Scott | IMDb | 134 | 136 | 128 | 124 | 94 | ↑2 |
135 | The Secret in Their Eyes | 2009 | Juan José Campanella | IMDb | 135 | 139 | 143 | 155 | ↑4 | |
136 | Sholay | 1975 | Ramesh Sippy | IMDb | 136 | → | ||||
137 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | 1998 | Guy Ritchie | IMDb | 137 | 138 | 137 | 142 | 224 | ↑1 |
138 | Wild Strawberries | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | IMDb | 138 | 134 | 125 | 126 | 138 | ↓4 |
139 | The General | 1926 | Buster Keaton Clyde Bruckman |
IMDb | 139 | 137 | 123 | 120 | 93 | ↓2 |
140 | The Elephant Man | 1980 | David Lynch | IMDb | 140 | 133 | 126 | 116 | 130 | ↓7 |
141 | Casino | 1995 | Martin Scorsese | IMDb | 141 | 141 | 144 | 150 | = | |
142 | Howl's Moving Castle | 2004 | Hayao Miyazaki | IMDb | 142 | 146 | 168 | 189 | ↑4 | |
143 | Warrior | 2011 | Gavin O'Connor | IMDb | 143 | 143 | 146 | 153 | = | |
144 | The Wolf of Wall Street | 2013 | Martin Scorsese | IMDb | 144 | 130 | ↓14 | |||
145 | V for Vendetta | 2005 | James McTeigue | IMDb | 145 | 145 | 152 | 164 | = | |
146 | Gran Torino | 2008 | Clint Eastwood | IMDb | 146 | 140 | 131 | 125 | ↓6 | |
147 | Judgment at Nuremberg | 1961 | Stanley Kramer | IMDb | 147 | 153 | 145 | 250 | ↑6 | |
148 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen | IMDb | 148 | 142 | 133 | 131 | 222 | ↓6 |
149 | A Beautiful Mind | 2001 | Ron Howard | IMDb | 149 | 160 | 182 | 199 | ↑11 | |
150 | Rebecca | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | IMDb | 150 | 144 | 129 | 123 | 105 | ↓6 |
151 | The Deer Hunter | 1978 | Michael Cimino | IMDb | 151 | 147 | 139 | 134 | 117 | ↓4 |
152 | Mad Max: Fury Road | 2015 | George Miller | IMDb | 152 | → | ||||
153 | How to Train Your Dragon | 2010 | Dean DeBlois Chris Sanders |
IMDb | 153 | 151 | 165 | 166 | ↓2 | |
154 | Cool Hand Luke | 1967 | Stuart Rosenberg | IMDb | 154 | 150 | 138 | 135 | 121 | ↓4 |
155 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | IMDb | 155 | 157 | 151 | 158 | 148 | ↑2 |
156 | Fargo | 1996 | Joel Coen | IMDb | 156 | 152 | 136 | 127 | 88 | ↓4 |
157 | Trainspotting | 1996 | Danny Boyle | IMDb | 157 | 154 | 149 | 151 | 203 | ↓3 |
158 | Dial M for Murder | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | IMDb | 158 | 162 | 166 | 167 | ↑4 | |
159 | Incendies | 2010 | Denis Villeneuve | IMDb | 159 | 174 | 202 | 226 | ↑15 | |
160 | The Sixth Sense | 1999 | M Night Shyamalan | IMDb | 160 | 163 | 153 | 143 | 96 | ↑3 |
161 | Into the Wild | 2007 | Sean Penn | IMDb | 161 | 158 | 161 | 161 | ↓3 | |
162 | It Happened One Night | 1934 | Frank Capra | IMDb | 162 | 149 | 135 | 140 | 113 | ↓13 |
163 | Finding Nemo | 2003 | Andrew Stanton | IMDb | 163 | 167 | 170 | 163 | 75 | ↑4 |
164 | Gone Girl | 2014 | David Fincher | IMDb | 164 | 114 | ↓50 | |||
165 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | Joel Coen Ethan Coen |
IMDb | 165 | 168 | 160 | 139 | ↑3 | |
166 | The Thing | 1982 | John Carpenter | IMDb | 166 | 165 | 164 | 147 | ↓1 | |
167 | Mary and Max | 2009 | Adam Elliot | IMDb | 167 | 169 | 175 | 183 | ↑2 | |
168 | Rush | 2013 | Ron Howard | IMDb | 168 | 156 | 142 | ↓12 | ||
169 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston | IMDb | 169 | 159 | 134 | 121 | 53 | ↓10 |
170 | Kill Bill: Vol 1 | 2003 | Quentin Tarantino | IMDb | 170 | 171 | 163 | 152 | 63 | ↑1 |
171 | Life of Brian | 1979 | Terry Jones | IMDb | 171 | 173 | 174 | 162 | 159 | ↑2 |
172 | Hotel Rwanda | 2004 | Terry George | IMDb | 172 | 164 | 155 | 146 | ↓8 | |
173 | The Wages of Fear | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | IMDb | 173 | 161 | ↓12 | |||
174 | Platoon | 1986 | Oliver Stone | IMDb | 174 | 172 | 162 | 144 | 147 | ↓2 |
175 | There Will Be Blood | 2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson | IMDb | 175 | 184 | 185 | 173 | ↑9 | |
176 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill | IMDb | 176 | 170 | 154 | 148 | 112 | ↓6 |
177 | Network | 1976 | Sidney Lumet | IMDb | 177 | 176 | 172 | 170 | 217 | ↓1 |
178 | The Martian | 2015 | Ridley Scott | IMDb | 178 | → | ||||
179 | The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut | IMDb | 179 | 187 | 179 | 184 | 160 | ↑8 |
180 | Stand by Me | 1986 | Rob Reiner | IMDb | 180 | 183 | 184 | 175 | 196 | ↑3 |
181 | Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman | IMDb | 181 | 193 | 190 | 185 | 235 | ↑12 |
182 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles | IMDb | 182 | 177 | 150 | 132 | 70 | ↓5 |
183 | The Revenant | 2015 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | IMDb | 183 | → | ||||
184 | 12 Years a Slave | 2013 | Steve McQueen | IMDb | 184 | 175 | ↓9 | |||
185 | The Princess Bride | 1987 | Rob Reiner | IMDb | 185 | 181 | 188 | 191 | 101 | ↓4 |
186 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | 2014 | Wes Anderson | IMDb | 186 | 182 | ↓4 | |||
187 | In the Name of the Father | 1993 | Jim Sheridan | IMDb | 187 | 188 | 200 | 221 | ↑1 | |
188 | Amores Perros | 2000 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | IMDb | 188 | 186 | 180 | 181 | 139 | ↓2 |
189 | Million Dollar Baby | 2004 | Clint Eastwood | IMDb | 189 | 190 | 183 | 172 | ↑1 | |
190 | Annie Hall | 1977 | Woody Allen | IMDb | 190 | 178 | 157 | 154 | 80 | ↓12 |
191 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler | IMDb | 191 | 185 | 186 | 169 | 129 | ↓6 |
192 | Shutter Island | 2010 | Martin Scorsese | IMDb | 192 | 209 | 240 | 234 | ↑17 | |
193 | The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | John Ford | IMDb | 193 | 189 | 167 | 159 | 136 | ↓4 |
194 | Wild Tales | 2014 | Damián Szifrón | IMDb | 194 | → | ||||
195 | Hachi: A Dog's Tale | 2009 | Lasse Hallström | IMDb | 195 | 192 | 213 | ↓3 | ||
196 | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | 1984 | Hayao Miyazaki | IMDb | 196 | 197 | 210 | ↑1 | ||
197 | Les diaboliques | 1955 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | IMDb | 197 | 179 | 147 | ↓18 | ||
198 | Stalker | 1979 | Andrey Tarkovskiy | IMDb | 198 | 206 | 217 | 213 | ↑8 | |
199 | Jurassic Park | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | IMDb | 199 | 237 | 250 | 245 | ↑38 | |
200 | Gandhi | 1982 | Richard Attenborough | IMDb | 200 | 199 | 192 | 187 | 192 | ↓1 |
201 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming | IMDb | 201 | 191 | 173 | 149 | 62 | ↓10 |
202 | The Bourne Ultimatum | 2007 | Paul Greengrass | IMDb | 202 | 198 | 193 | 182 | ↓4 | |
203 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | William Wyler | IMDb | 203 | 194 | 171 | 106 | ↓9 | |
204 | Sin City | 2005 | Robert Rodriguez Quentin Tarantino Frank Miller |
IMDb | 204 | 180 | 159 | 136 | ↓24 | |
205 | Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly | IMDb | 205 | 201 | 191 | 176 | 92 | ↓4 |
206 | 8½ | 1963 | Federico Fellini | IMDb | 206 | 200 | 197 | 192 | 212 | ↓6 |
207 | Before Sunrise | 1995 | Richard Linklater | IMDb | 207 | 215 | 231 | ↑8 | ||
208 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock | IMDb | 208 | 202 | 177 | 138 | 90 | ↓6 |
209 | Twelve Monkeys | 1995 | Terry Gilliam | IMDb | 209 | 208 | 195 | 180 | 199 | ↓1 |
210 | The Terminator | 1984 | James Cameron | IMDb | 210 | 213 | 196 | 171 | 202 | ↑3 |
211 | The Truman Show | 1998 | Peter Weir | IMDb | 211 | 232 | 239 | 215 | ↑21 | |
212 | Groundhog Day | 1993 | Harold Ramis | IMDb | 212 | 216 | 201 | 178 | 204 | ↑4 |
213 | Monsters, Inc | 2001 | Pete Docter David Silverman |
IMDb | 213 | 223 | 226 | 222 | 161 | ↑10 |
214 | Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg | IMDb | 214 | 205 | 181 | 141 | 82 | ↓9 |
215 | Rocky | 1976 | John G Avildsen | IMDb | 215 | 220 | 212 | 201 | ↑5 | |
216 | Memories of Murder | 2003 | Joon-ho Bong | IMDb | 216 | 227 | 218 | ↑11 | ||
217 | The Battle of Algiers | 1965 | Gillo Pontecorvo | IMDb | 217 | 218 | ↑1 | |||
218 | Infernal Affairs | 2002 | Wai-keung Lau Alan Mak |
IMDb | 218 | 204 | 203 | 212 | ↓14 | |
219 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | 2011 | David Yates | IMDb | 219 | 217 | 227 | 220 | ↓2 | |
220 | The Avengers | 2012 | Joss Whedon | IMDb | 220 | 195 | 176 | 130 | ↓25 | |
221 | Dog Day Afternoon | 1975 | Sidney Lumet | IMDb | 221 | 222 | 204 | 179 | 198 | ↑1 |
222 | Barry Lyndon | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick | IMDb | 222 | 229 | 214 | 209 | ↑7 | |
223 | Fanny and Alexander | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman | IMDb | 223 | 214 | 194 | 236 | ↓9 | |
224 | La haine | 1995 | Mathieu Kassovitz | IMDb | 224 | 224 | 224 | 230 | = | |
225 | Guardians of the Galaxy | 2014 | James Gunn | IMDb | 225 | 155 | ↓70 | |||
226 | Throne of Blood | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa | IMDb | 226 | → | ||||
227 | The Imitation Game | 2014 | Morten Tyldum | IMDb | 227 | → | ||||
228 | The King's Speech | 2010 | Tom Hooper | IMDb | 228 | 212 | 189 | 160 | ↓16 | |
229 | Ip Man | 2008 | Wilson Yip | IMDb | 229 | 219 | 220 | 217 | ↓10 | |
230 | A Fistful of Dollars | 1964 | Sergio Leone | IMDb | 230 | 230 | 241 | 223 | = | |
231 | High Noon | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann | IMDb | 231 | 207 | 178 | 145 | 84 | ↓24 |
232 | Prisoners | 2013 | Denis Villeneuve | IMDb | 232 | 246 | 234 | ↑14 | ||
233 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | 2003 | Gore Verbinski | IMDb | 233 | 228 | 225 | 216 | 188 | ↓5 |
234 | Castle in the Sky | 1986 | Hayao Miyazaki | IMDb | 234 | 231 | 230 | 244 | ↓3 | |
235 | The Help | 2011 | Tate Taylor | IMDb | 235 | 234 | 248 | ↓1 | ||
236 | Roman Holiday | 1953 | William Wyler | IMDb | 236 | 235 | 219 | 214 | 169 | ↓1 |
237 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | IMDb | 237 | 211 | 187 | 156 | 103 | ↓26 |
238 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 1966 | Mike Nichols | IMDb | 238 | 226 | 206 | 196 | 190 | ↓12 |
239 | Papillon | 1973 | Franklin J Schaffner | IMDb | 239 | 243 | 242 | ↑4 | ||
240 | Beauty and the Beast | 1991 | Gary Trousdale Kirk Wise |
IMDb | 240 | 241 | 227 | 243 | ↑1 | |
241 | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring | 2003 | Ki-Duk Kim | IMDb | 241 | 235 | → | |||
242 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton | IMDb | 242 | 221 | 198 | 174 | 142 | ↓21 |
243 | Anatomy of a Murder | 1959 | Otto Preminger | IMDb | 243 | 236 | 203 | → | ||
244 | Before Sunset | 2004 | Richard Linklater | IMDb | 244 | 249 | ↑5 | |||
245 | Catch Me if You Can | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | IMDb | 245 | → | ||||
246 | Three Colours: Red | 1994 | Krystof Krystofski | IMDb | 246 | 247 | 237 | 184 | ↑1 | |
247 | The Killing | 1956 | Stanley Kubrick | IMDb | 247 | 208 | 188 | 178 | → | |
248 | La strada | 1954 | Federico Fellini | IMDb | 248 | 225 | 205 | 198 | 209 | ↓23 |
249 | The Graduate | 1967 | Mike Nichols | IMDb | 249 | 236 | 207 | 186 | 116 | ↓13 |
250 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | Elia Kazan | IMDb | 250 | 224 | 176 | → |
The mean is 1983, the median 1988 and the mode 1995.
82 films moved up the list, while 124 moved down and 28 remained in the same spot. There were 16 new entries. The average variance was 5.95.
Here's how the films break down by decade, with comparative data to 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2004:
Decade | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2004 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1920s | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 |
1930s | 7 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 18 |
1940s | 13 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 24 |
1950s | 33 | 30 | 31 | 31 | 33 |
1960s | 20 | 21 | 23 | 24 | 28 |
1970s | 22 | 21 | 21 | 24 | 25 |
1980s | 28 | 29 | 29 | 28 | 32 |
1990s | 41 | 43 | 42 | 39 | 44 |
2000s | 51 | 54 | 55 | 55 | 39 |
2010s | 30 | 26 | 23 | 18 | 0 |
Here are all the films that entered the IMDb Top 250 since 1st January, 2015 that were still there on 1st January, 2016. They're sorted by position.
# | Title | Year | Director | IMDb | '16 | '15 | '14 | '13 | '04 | Ch |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
43 | Whiplash | 2014 | Damien Chazelle | IMDb | 43 | → | ||||
52 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | 2015 | J J Abrams | IMDb | 52 | → | ||||
95 | Inside Out | 2015 | Pete Docter | IMDb | 95 | → | ||||
124 | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | 1927 | F W Murnau | IMDb | 124 | 225 | → | |||
136 | Sholay | 1975 | Ramesh Sippy | IMDb | 136 | → | ||||
152 | Mad Max: Fury Road | 2015 | George Miller | IMDb | 152 | → | ||||
178 | The Martian | 2015 | Ridley Scott | IMDb | 178 | → | ||||
183 | The Revenant | 2015 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | IMDb | 183 | → | ||||
194 | Wild Tales | 2014 | Damián Szifrón | IMDb | 194 | → | ||||
226 | Throne of Blood | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa | IMDb | 226 | → | ||||
227 | The Imitation Game | 2014 | Morten Tyldum | IMDb | 227 | → | ||||
241 | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring | 2003 | Ki-Duk Kim | IMDb | 241 | 235 | → | |||
243 | Anatomy of a Murder | 1959 | Otto Preminger | IMDb | 243 | 236 | 203 | → | ||
245 | Catch Me if You Can | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | IMDb | 245 | → | ||||
247 | The Killing | 1956 | Stanley Kubrick | IMDb | 247 | 208 | 188 | 178 | → | |
250 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | Elia Kazan | IMDb | 250 | 224 | 176 | → |
Here are all the films that were in the IMDb Top 250 on 1st January, 2015 but had dropped out by 1st January, 2016. They're sorted by the number of positions they dropped.
# | Title | Year | Director | IMDb | '16 | '15 | '14 | '13 | '04 | Ch |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Boyhood | 2014 | Richard Linklater | IMDb | 93 | ← | |||||
Like Stars on Earth | 2007 | Aamir Khan | IMDb | 111 | 148 | ← | ||||
Paint It Yellow | 2006 | Rakesh Omprakash Mehra | IMDb | 148 | 156 | ← | ||||
Do Your Thing | 2001 | Farhan Akhtar | IMDb | 166 | ← | |||||
Gangs of Wasseypur | 2012 | Anurag Kashyap | IMDb | 196 | ← | |||||
X-Men: Days of Future Past | 2014 | Bryan Singer | IMDb | 203 | ← | |||||
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India | 2001 | Ashutosh Gowariker | IMDb | 210 | 215 | ← | ||||
The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | IMDb | 233 | 199 | 168 | 108 | ← | ||
The Hustler | 1961 | Robert Rossen | IMDb | 238 | 209 | 197 | 150 | ← | ||
Swades: We, the People | 2004 | Ashutosh Gowariker | IMDb | 239 | ← | |||||
The Celebration | 1998 | Thomas Vinterberg | IMDb | 240 | 221 | 167 | ← | |||
In the Mood for Love | 2000 | Wong Kar Wai | IMDb | 242 | 238 | ← | ||||
Stalag 17 | 1953 | Billy Wilder | IMDb | 244 | 211 | 204 | 134 | ← | ||
Rope | 1948 | Alfred Hitchcock | IMDb | 245 | 235 | 207 | ← | |||
Underground | 1995 | Emir Kusturica | IMDb | 248 | 232 | ← | ||||
Paris, Texas | 1984 | Wim Wenders | IMDb | 250 | ← |
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