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The IMDb Top 250 on 1st January, 2020IntroductionTo 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, 2020, with some data that ties it to previous years. Here are equivalent pages for 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 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. The Usual Suspects | The New Batch | The Departed KeyThis list is in ranking 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 2019 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2013, as well as 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 2019 is a new entry, even if it was in the list in a previous year. NotesThere's much worthy of note in this New Year's list, which changed more than usual during 2019. AveragesThe averages aren't surprising. The mean gradually gets newer at roughly one year per year and, no doubt, it will continue to do so because people keep on making new films. Last year it stayed at 1985 for a second year but it jumped back up to 1987 this year. The median ought to get newer too, but it does that less cleanly. It's been at 1993 for three years now but it jumps up to 1994 this year. The mode, the year most represented in the list, is the one value that doesn't have to get newer at all. Right now, it's 1995, for a seventh year running, and there are eight films from that year represented, just ahead of the seven each from 2014 and 2019. 1957 and 2014 drop down from seven to six, to sit alongside 2000, 2001 and 2009. Decade ChangeThe oldest film in the list remains Charlie Chaplin's The Kid, released in 1921, one of six films from the 1920s in this year's list. It's rare for an older decade to increase in representation, as both the 1920s and 1980s did last year and only the 2010s managed that this year. In fact, since 2013, there are very few examples of a decade earlier than the nostalgia point (currently the 1980s) increasing its representation in the list. The 1920s have done it three times and the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s only once each. The 1930s and 1940s have never increased over the last seven years. New EntriesAs with last year, the list of new entries continues to be fascinating. It used to include a combination of brand new English language films and classic foreign films, but that changed a few years ago. Nowadays, the new films are often foreign and the old ones are often English language films from anywhere in time. The highest new entry is Joker, at 26, one of seven 2019 films to make the list and arguably one of two blockbusters, the second being The Avengers: Endgame (the biggest hit of the year). Two others have been much talked about: Martin Scorsese's Netflix hit, The Irishman and the Korean movie, Parasite, which, at number 30, is the fifth highest foreign language film on the list. The other three are quieter hits: Ford v Ferrari, Marriage Story and the animated Klaus. New foreign films include five from India. Andadhun and Drishyam both appear for the first time, while three titles return to the list: Lagaan and Gangs of Wasseypur after four years out, and PK, which was at number 250 two years ago. Classic films joining the list for the first time, probably because they reached the requisite number of votes to be eligible, include Harakiri (1962), entering very high at number 33, The Red Shoes (1948), Ace in the Hole (1951) and White Heat (1949). The other classic is The Battle of Algiers, which spent three years in the list before dropping out in 2018. UpsAs always, more films dropped than rose, given that new entries inevitably bounce everything downwards. However, a surprising amount of films rose in the list. In 2019, only four films rose by double digit amounts. Two of those are among the thirteen films to do that this year: Jurassic Park and Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, both of which are rising for a third successive year. The largest improvement was easily Come and See, which rose 29 places. It entered the Top 250 in 2017 at number 181 and has risen every year since. Other consistent risers are Good Will Hunting, which hasn't dropped a place since I've been grabbing these lists; The Lion King and Inglourious Basterds, which haven't dropped in at least seven years; and Shutter Island, on its sixth successive rise. Downs and OutsThe amount of change over the last year means that the list of films that dropped out of the Top 250 is a large one including 22 of the lowest 28 from last year. That includes a host of films that have been in every list I've grabbed, including the one from 2004, some of the greatest and most loved of all time. Just look at these dropouts for 2020: The Grapes of Wrath, The Maltese Falcon, Donnie Darko, Gandhi, Groundhog Day, The Wizard of Oz, Jaws, 8½ and, if we ignore its gap in 2018, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Quite a few others dropped a long way but survived the cull for now. The largest drop of a film that remains in the list was 52 places for Hitchcock's Rebecca, which is escalating a gradual slide that's been happening since my earliest grab. Most of the other large drops were for classic American films: 35 places for The General, 36 for The Third Man, 39 for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and 45 for It Happened One Night. The only other major faller was Spider Man: Into the Spiderverse, which dropped 35 places from 29 to 64. As always, though, one high new entry last year plummeted all the way out this year and that's Bohemian Rhapsody, which was at number 134 in 2019 and isn't anywhere to be found in 2020. More surprisingly, Alfonso Cuarón's much lauded Roma vanished after one year at number 184 and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans leapt out of the list after dropping slowly for three years. The Usual Suspects | The New Batch | The Departed The List |
# | Title | Year | Director | IMDb | '19 | '18 | '17 | '16 | '15 | '14 | '13 | '04 | Ch |
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1 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | Frank Darabont | IMDb | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | = |
2 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | IMDb | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | = |
3 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | IMDb | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | = |
4 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | IMDb | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 | = | |
5 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Sidney Lumet | IMDb | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 21 | = |
6 | Schindler’s List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | IMDb | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 6 | = |
7 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | Peter Jackson | IMDb | 7 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 3 | = |
8 | Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | IMDb | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 16 | = |
9 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 1966 | Sergio Leone | IMDb | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 20 | = |
10 | Fight Club | 1999 | David Fincher | IMDb | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 41 | = |
11 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | Peter Jackson | IMDb | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 9 | = |
12 | Forrest Gump | 1994 | Robert Zemeckis | IMDb | 12 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 19 | 115 | = |
13 | Inception | 2010 | Christopher Nolan | IMDb | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 14 | 14 | ↑1 | |
14 | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner | IMDb | 13 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 13 | ↓1 |
15 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | Peter Jackson | IMDb | 15 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 8 | = |
16 | The Matrix | 1999 | Andy & Larry Wachowski | IMDb | 18 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 19 | 20 | 18 | 34 | ↑2 |
17 | Goodfellas | 1990 | Martin Scorsese | IMDb | 17 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 16 | 15 | 29 | = |
18 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | 1975 | Milos Forman | IMDb | 16 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 12 | ↓2 |
19 | Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa | IMDb | 19 | 19 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 18 | 17 | 5 | = |
20 | Se7en | 1995 | David Fincher | IMDb | 21 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 23 | 22 | 23 | 55 | ↑1 |
21 | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund | IMDb | 20 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 23 | ↓1 |
22 | Life is Beautiful | 1997 | Roberto Benigni | IMDb | 25 | 25 | 26 | 26 | 29 | 36 | 55 | 72 | ↑3 |
23 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme | IMDb | 23 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 25 | 24 | 24 | 28 | = |
24 | It’s a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra | IMDb | 24 | 24 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 26 | 30 | 27 | = |
25 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | IMDb | 22 | 20 | 20 | 19 | 20 | 17 | 16 | 10 | ↓3 |
26 | Joker | 2019 | Todd Phillips | IMDb | → | ||||||||
27 | Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | Steven Spielberg | IMDb | 28 | 29 | 29 | 30 | 34 | 34 | 39 | 58 | ↑1 |
28 | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki | IMDb | 27 | 28 | 28 | 31 | 36 | 38 | 43 | 43 | ↓1 |
29 | The Green Mile | 1999 | Frank Darabont | IMDb | 31 | 34 | 37 | 40 | 42 | 48 | 65 | 132 | ↑2 |
30 | Parasite | 2019 | Bong Joon Ho | IMDb | → | ||||||||
31 | Interstellar | 2014 | Christopher Nolan | IMDb | 32 | 32 | 33 | 29 | 16 | ↑1 | |||
32 | Leon | 1994 | Luc Besson | IMDb | 30 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 28 | 28 | 31 | 64 | ↓2 |
33 | Harakiri | 1962 | Masaki Kobayashi | IMDb | → | ||||||||
34 | The Usual Suspects | 1995 | Bryan Singer | IMDb | 26 | 26 | 25 | 24 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 18 | ↓8 |
35 | The Lion King | 1994 | Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff | IMDb | 47 | 48 | 51 | 54 | 54 | 69 | 79 | ↑12 | |
36 | American History X | 1998 | Tony Kaye | IMDb | 34 | 31 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 34 | 61 | ↓2 |
37 | Back to the Future | 1985 | Robert Zemeckis | IMDb | 43 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 49 | 46 | 47 | 143 | ↑6 |
38 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | James Cameron | IMDb | 42 | 44 | 44 | 41 | 40 | 39 | 36 | 110 | ↑4 |
39 | The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski | IMDb | 39 | 40 | 42 | 42 | 43 | 43 | 49 | 37 | = |
40 | Modern Times | 1936 | Charles Chaplin | IMDb | 38 | 39 | 40 | 39 | 39 | 41 | 45 | 69 | ↓2 |
41 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | IMDb | 33 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 33 | 31 | 29 | 25 | ↓8 |
42 | Gladiator | 2000 | Ridley Scott | IMDb | 48 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 63 | 168 | ↑6 |
43 | The Intouchables | 2011 | Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano | IMDb | 40 | 38 | 39 | 38 | 38 | 45 | 64 | ↓3 | |
44 | City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin | IMDb | 35 | 37 | 36 | 34 | 35 | 33 | 41 | 91 | ↓9 |
45 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | IMDb | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 46 | 47 | 50 | ↓4 | |
46 | Whiplash | 2014 | Damien Chazelle | IMDb | 44 | 46 | 46 | 43 | ↓2 | ||||
47 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 1968 | Sergio Leone | IMDb | 36 | 33 | 30 | 28 | 27 | 23 | 22 | 32 | ↓11 |
48 | The Prestige | 2006 | Christopher Nolan | IMDb | 49 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 51 | 61 | 68 | ↑1 | |
49 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | IMDb | 37 | 36 | 34 | 33 | 30 | 27 | 25 | 7 | ↓12 |
50 | Grave of the Fireflies | 1988 | Isao Takahata | IMDb | 55 | 58 | 59 | 64 | 71 | 82 | 104 | 171 | ↑5 |
51 | Rear Window | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | IMDb | 45 | 43 | 41 | 37 | 37 | 30 | 28 | 14 | ↓6 |
52 | Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore | IMDb | 54 | 55 | 57 | 57 | 57 | 64 | 76 | 99 | ↑2 |
53 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott | IMDb | 52 | 52 | 52 | 53 | 50 | 44 | 40 | 60 | ↓1 |
54 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 1981 | Steven Spielberg | IMDb | 46 | 41 | 38 | 36 | 31 | 29 | 27 | 17 | ↓8 |
55 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | IMDb | 50 | 51 | 49 | 48 | 45 | 40 | 35 | 36 | ↓5 |
56 | Memento | 2000 | Christopher Nolan | IMDb | 51 | 50 | 48 | 46 | 41 | 37 | 33 | 19 | ↓5 |
57 | The Great Dictator | 1940 | Charles Chaplin | IMDb | 53 | 53 | 55 | 55 | 52 | 59 | 69 | 97 | ↓4 |
58 | The Lives of Others | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | IMDb | 58 | 57 | 56 | 56 | 53 | 55 | 60 | = | |
59 | The Avengers: Endgame | 2019 | Anthony & Joe Russo | IMDb | → | ||||||||
60 | Django Unchained | 2012 | Quentin Tarantino | IMDb | 62 | 60 | 60 | 60 | 56 | 53 | ↑2 | ||
61 | Avengers: Infinity War | 2018 | Anthony & Joe Russo | IMDb | 56 | ↓5 | |||||||
62 | The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick | IMDb | 61 | 61 | 61 | 59 | 58 | 51 | 46 | 89 | ↓1 |
63 | Paths of Glory | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick | IMDb | 60 | 59 | 58 | 58 | 59 | 54 | 54 | 40 | ↓3 |
64 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | 2018 | Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman | IMDb | 29 | ↓35 | |||||||
65 | WALL-E | 2008 | Andrew Stanton | IMDb | 63 | 62 | 62 | 62 | 61 | 60 | 59 | ↓2 | |
66 | Sunset Boulevard | 1950 | Billy Wilder | IMDb | 57 | 54 | 54 | 50 | 44 | 35 | 32 | 31 | ↓9 |
67 | Princess Mononoke | 1997 | Hayao Miyazaki | IMDb | 64 | 64 | 65 | 68 | 72 | 81 | 93 | 100 | ↓3 |
68 | Dr. Strangelove | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | IMDb | 59 | 56 | 53 | 49 | 47 | 42 | 37 | 15 | ↓9 |
69 | Oldboy | 2003 | Chan-wook Park | IMDb | 68 | 66 | 67 | 69 | 70 | 76 | 85 | ↓1 | |
70 | Witness for the Prosecution | 1957 | Billy Wilder | IMDb | 65 | 67 | 71 | 76 | 83 | 83 | 102 | 164 | ↓5 |
71 | The Dark Knight Rises | 2012 | Christopher Nolan | IMDb | 67 | 65 | 63 | 61 | 55 | 50 | 38 | ↓4 | |
72 | Once Upon a Time in America | 1984 | Sergio Leone | IMDb | 70 | 69 | 68 | 72 | 74 | 77 | 77 | 124 | ↓2 |
73 | Aliens | 1986 | James Cameron | IMDb | 69 | 68 | 66 | 65 | 63 | 62 | 58 | 87 | ↓4 |
74 | Your Name | 2016 | Makoto Shinkai | IMDb | 80 | 79 | ↑6 | ||||||
75 | American Beauty | 1999 | Sam Mendes | IMDb | 66 | 63 | 64 | 63 | 60 | 57 | 51 | 30 | ↓9 |
76 | Coco | 2017 | Lee Unkrich & Adrian Molina | IMDb | 71 | 30 | ↓5 | ||||||
77 | Braveheart | 1995 | Mel Gibson | IMDb | 74 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 79 | 83 | 85 | ↓3 |
78 | Das Boot | 1981 | Wolfgang Peterson | IMDb | 72 | 70 | 70 | 71 | 69 | 71 | 71 | 46 | ↓6 |
79 | 3 Idiots | 2009 | Rajkumar Hirani | IMDb | 87 | 94 | 103 | 114 | 120 | 158 | 240 | ↑8 | |
80 | Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand | IMDb | 78 | 75 | 74 | 73 | 73 | 78 | 81 | 131 | ↓2 |
81 | Like Stars on Earth | 2007 | Aamir Khan | IMDb | 84 | 82 | 84 | 111 | 148 | ↑3 | |||
82 | Toy Story | 1995 | John Lasseter | IMDb | 91 | 95 | 95 | 97 | 107 | 113 | 118 | 177 | ↑9 |
83 | Amadeus | 1984 | Milos Forman | IMDb | 81 | 86 | 89 | 88 | 89 | 92 | 88 | 79 | ↓2 |
84 | Reservoir Dogs | 1992 | Quentin Tarantino | IMDb | 77 | 77 | 76 | 77 | 77 | 74 | 70 | 71 | ↓7 |
85 | Inglourious Basterds | 2009 | Quentin Tarantino | IMDb | 95 | 98 | 98 | 100 | 101 | 109 | 113 | ↑10 | |
86 | Good Will Hunting | 1997 | Gus Van Sant | IMDb | 101 | 103 | 110 | 119 | 127 | 140 | 157 | 248 | ↑15 |
87 | M | 1931 | Fritz Lang | IMDb | 79 | 78 | 75 | 74 | 67 | 58 | 52 | 50 | ↓8 |
88 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | IMDb | 89 | 93 | 93 | 92 | 98 | 103 | 92 | 73 | ↑1 |
89 | Requiem for a Dream | 2000 | Darren Aronofsky | IMDb | 82 | 80 | 79 | 81 | 80 | 75 | 73 | 51 | ↓7 |
90 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | IMDb | 75 | 73 | 73 | 70 | 66 | 63 | 48 | 33 | ↓15 |
91 | Dangal | 2016 | Nitesh Tiwari | IMDb | 83 | 71 | ↓8 | ||||||
92 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | Michel Gondry | IMDb | 86 | 88 | 86 | 86 | 84 | 80 | 75 | 38 | ↓6 |
93 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles | IMDb | 73 | 72 | 69 | 66 | 64 | 56 | 44 | 11 | ↓20 |
94 | The Hunt | 2012 | Thomas Vinterberg | IMDb | 103 | 104 | 107 | 116 | 125 | 132 | ↑9 | ||
95 | Full Metal Jacket | 1987 | Stanley Kubrick | IMDb | 96 | 91 | 90 | 87 | 85 | 85 | 82 | 102 | ↑1 |
96 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | IMDb | 76 | 74 | 72 | 67 | 62 | 52 | 42 | 22 | ↓20 |
97 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | IMDb | 88 | 84 | 80 | 79 | 75 | 70 | 61 | 74 | ↓9 |
98 | Snatch | 2000 | Guy Ritchie | IMDb | 104 | 101 | 97 | 93 | 91 | 104 | 112 | 221 | ↑6 |
99 | The Kid | 1921 | Charles Chaplin | IMDb | 99 | 100 | 99 | 96 | 99 | 110 | 128 | = | |
100 | The Bicycle Thief | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica | IMDb | 98 | 99 | 94 | 91 | 88 | 84 | 91 | 104 | ↓2 |
101 | Amelie | 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | IMDb | 90 | 83 | 78 | 75 | 65 | 65 | 62 | 26 | ↓11 |
102 | Scarface | 1983 | Brian De Palma | IMDb | 105 | 106 | 104 | 108 | 113 | 121 | 129 | ↑3 | |
103 | Singin’ in the Rain | 1952 | Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen | IMDb | 94 | 92 | 96 | 90 | 86 | 86 | 86 | 47 | ↓9 |
104 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese | IMDb | 93 | 89 | 81 | 82 | 76 | 68 | 53 | 42 | ↓11 |
105 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | IMDb | 85 | 85 | 82 | 85 | 82 | 73 | 66 | 24 | ↓20 |
106 | Toy Story 3 | 2010 | Lee Unkrich | IMDb | 102 | 97 | 88 | 80 | 68 | 66 | 56 | ↓4 | |
107 | The Sting | 1973 | George Roy Hill | IMDb | 100 | 96 | 92 | 89 | 87 | 90 | 98 | 67 | ↓7 |
108 | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang | IMDb | 110 | 109 | 111 | 106 | 109 | 98 | 89 | 86 | ↑2 |
109 | For a Few Dollars More | 1965 | Sergio Leone | IMDb | 107 | 105 | 102 | 99 | 95 | 108 | 111 | ↓2 | |
110 | Capernaum | 2018 | Nadine Labaki | IMDb | → | ||||||||
111 | A Separation | 2011 | Asghar Farhadi | IMDb | 111 | 110 | 109 | 105 | 105 | 101 | 105 | = | |
112 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | IMDb | 92 | 87 | 83 | 83 | 78 | 67 | 57 | 45 | ↓20 |
113 | Ikiru | 1952 | Akira Kurosawa | IMDb | 124 | 128 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 120 | 193 | ↑11 | |
114 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Robert Mulligan | IMDb | 97 | 90 | 85 | 84 | 81 | 72 | 67 | 35 | ↓17 |
115 | The Apartment | 1960 | Billy Wilder | IMDb | 109 | 108 | 106 | 102 | 97 | 96 | 96 | 81 | ↓6 |
116 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | 1989 | Steven Spielberg | IMDb | 112 | 112 | 108 | 104 | 103 | 100 | 97 | 141 | ↓4 |
117 | Up | 2009 | Pete Docter | IMDb | 114 | 115 | 118 | 115 | 115 | 118 | 114 | ↓3 | |
118 | Incendies | 2010 | Denis Villeneuve | IMDb | 125 | 131 | 148 | 159 | 174 | 202 | 226 | ↑7 | |
119 | L.A. Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson | IMDb | 108 | 107 | 101 | 98 | 94 | 93 | 80 | 49 | ↓11 |
120 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 | Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones | IMDb | 106 | 102 | 100 | 94 | 90 | 95 | 84 | 56 | ↓14 |
121 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann | IMDb | 123 | 123 | 126 | 123 | 124 | 122 | 119 | 245 | ↑2 |
122 | Rashomon | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa | IMDb | 113 | 111 | 105 | 101 | 92 | 91 | 90 | 57 | ↓9 |
123 | Die Hard | 1988 | John McTiernan | IMDb | 121 | 122 | 123 | 120 | 119 | 111 | 101 | 156 | ↓2 |
124 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan | IMDb | 116 | 116 | 115 | 111 | 108 | 107 | 103 | ↓8 | |
125 | Yojimbo | 1961 | Akira Kurosawa | IMDb | 117 | 113 | 113 | 109 | 106 | 102 | 109 | 107 | ↓8 |
126 | Unforgiven | 1992 | Clint Eastwood | IMDb | 119 | 120 | 119 | 113 | 110 | 105 | 94 | 127 | ↓7 |
127 | Green Book | 2018 | Peter Farrelly | IMDb | → | ||||||||
128 | Downfall | 2004 | Oliver Hirschbiegel | IMDb | 120 | 121 | 120 | 118 | 117 | 116 | 107 | ↓8 | |
129 | Children of Heaven | 1997 | Majid Majidi | IMDb | 128 | 127 | 124 | ↓1 | |||||
130 | Ford v Ferrari | 2019 | James Mangold | IMDb | → | ||||||||
131 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder | IMDb | 118 | 118 | 116 | 110 | 100 | 97 | 87 | 44 | ↓13 |
132 | Howl’s Moving Castle | 2004 | Hayao Miyazaki | IMDb | 135 | 137 | 141 | 142 | 146 | 168 | 189 | ↑3 | |
133 | The Great Escape | 1963 | John Sturges | IMDb | 127 | 126 | 125 | 121 | 118 | 119 | 110 | 77 | ↓6 |
134 | My Neighbor Totoro | 1988 | Hayao Miyazaki | IMDb | 133 | 132 | 131 | 128 | 128 | 141 | 165 | ↓1 | |
135 | Ran | 1985 | Akira Kurosawa | IMDb | 136 | 133 | 134 | 132 | 135 | 127 | 133 | 76 | ↑1 |
136 | A Beautiful Mind | 2001 | Ron Howard | IMDb | 141 | 145 | 147 | 149 | 160 | 182 | 199 | ↑5 | |
137 | All About Eve | 1950 | Joseph L Mankiewicz | IMDb | 115 | 114 | 114 | 103 | 96 | 88 | 95 | 54 | ↓22 |
138 | Casino | 1995 | Martin Scorsese | IMDb | 143 | 146 | 145 | 141 | 141 | 144 | 150 | ↑5 | |
139 | Come and See | 1985 | Elem Klimov | IMDb | 168 | 171 | 181 | ↑29 | |||||
140 | Pan’s Labyrinth | 2006 | Guillermo Del Toro | IMDb | 129 | 130 | 129 | 126 | 123 | 117 | 106 | ↓11 | |
141 | Raging Bull | 1980 | Martin Scorsese | IMDb | 126 | 124 | 121 | 117 | 112 | 106 | 99 | 59 | ↓15 |
142 | The Secret in Their Eyes | 2009 | Juan José Campanella | IMDb | 138 | 136 | 136 | 135 | 139 | 143 | 155 | ↓4 | |
143 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | 1998 | Guy Ritchie | IMDb | 142 | 143 | 142 | 137 | 138 | 137 | 142 | 224 | ↓1 |
144 | The Wolf of Wall Street | 2013 | Martin Scorsese | IMDb | 149 | 150 | 154 | 144 | 130 | ↑5 | |||
145 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | John Huston | IMDb | 122 | 119 | 117 | 107 | 102 | 87 | 74 | 68 | ↓23 |
146 | Judgment at Nuremberg | 1961 | Stanley Kramer | IMDb | 137 | 134 | 146 | 147 | 153 | 145 | 250 | ↓9 | |
147 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | 2017 | Martin McDonagh | IMDb | 144 | ↓3 | |||||||
148 | My Father and My Son | 2005 | Çagan Irmak | IMDb | 130 | 117 | 87 | ↓18 | |||||
149 | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski | IMDb | 131 | 129 | 127 | 122 | 116 | 99 | 78 | 48 | ↓18 |
150 | The Gold Rush | 1925 | Charles Chaplin | IMDb | 139 | 135 | 135 | 130 | 131 | 130 | 137 | 151 | ↓11 |
151 | There Will Be Blood | 2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson | IMDb | 160 | 166 | 182 | 175 | 184 | 185 | 173 | ↑9 | |
152 | Dial M for Murder | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | IMDb | 155 | 154 | 162 | 158 | 162 | 166 | 167 | ↑3 | |
153 | V for Vendetta | 2005 | James McTeigue | IMDb | 152 | 149 | 153 | 145 | 145 | 152 | 164 | ↓1 | |
154 | Inside Out | 2015 | Pete Docter & Ronnie del Carmen | IMDb | 147 | 138 | 128 | 95 | ↓7 | ||||
155 | The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | IMDb | 146 | 141 | 140 | 133 | 129 | 124 | 117 | 95 | ↓9 |
156 | Warrior | 2011 | Gavin O’Connor | IMDb | 153 | 153 | 152 | 143 | 143 | 146 | 153 | ↓3 | |
157 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | Joel & Ethan Coen | IMDb | 158 | 161 | 175 | 165 | 168 | 160 | 139 | ↑1 | |
158 | Trainspotting | 1996 | Danny Boyle | IMDb | 159 | 155 | 163 | 157 | 154 | 149 | 151 | 203 | ↑1 |
159 | The Elephant Man | 1980 | David Lynch | IMDb | 148 | 148 | 151 | 140 | 133 | 126 | 116 | 130 | ↓11 |
160 | Room | 2015 | Lenny Abrahamson | IMDb | 150 | 142 | 133 | ↓10 | |||||
161 | Shutter Island | 2010 | Martin Scorsese | IMDb | 171 | 180 | 189 | 192 | 209 | 240 | 234 | ↑10 | |
162 | The Sixth Sense | 1999 | M Night Shyamalan | IMDb | 161 | 159 | 171 | 160 | 163 | 153 | 143 | 96 | ↓1 |
163 | Marriage Story | 2019 | Noah Baumbach | IMDb | → | ||||||||
164 | The Thing | 1982 | John Carpenter | IMDb | 163 | 163 | 174 | 166 | 165 | 164 | 147 | ↓1 | |
165 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | IMDb | 162 | 157 | 166 | 155 | 157 | 151 | 158 | 148 | ↓3 |
166 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | David Lean | IMDb | 140 | 139 | 137 | 129 | 126 | 114 | 100 | 52 | ↓26 |
167 | Blade Runner | 1982 | Ridley Scott | IMDb | 154 | 147 | 139 | 134 | 136 | 128 | 124 | 94 | ↓13 |
168 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed | IMDb | 132 | 125 | 122 | 112 | 104 | 89 | 72 | 39 | ↓36 |
169 | Jurassic Park | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | IMDb | 182 | 199 | 209 | 199 | 237 | 250 | 245 | ↑13 | |
170 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan | IMDb | 145 | 140 | 132 | 125 | 121 | 115 | 115 | 78 | ↓25 |
171 | Finding Nemo | 2003 | Andrew Stanton | IMDb | 167 | 164 | 170 | 163 | 167 | 170 | 163 | 75 | ↓4 |
172 | Wild Strawberries | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | IMDb | 156 | 151 | 149 | 138 | 134 | 125 | 126 | 138 | ↓16 |
173 | Andhadhun | 2018 | Siram Raghavan | IMDb | → | ||||||||
174 | Fargo | 1996 | Joel Coen | IMDb | 164 | 160 | 167 | 156 | 152 | 136 | 127 | 88 | ↓10 |
175 | Gran Torino | 2008 | Clint Eastwood | IMDb | 165 | 156 | 159 | 146 | 140 | 131 | 125 | ↓10 | |
176 | Klaus | 2019 | Sergio Pablos & Carlos Martinez López | IMDb | → | ||||||||
177 | Kill Bill: Vol 1 | 2003 | Quentin Tarantino | IMDb | 172 | 173 | 178 | 170 | 171 | 163 | 152 | 63 | ↓5 |
178 | The Bandit | 1996 | Yavuz Turgul | IMDb | 192 | 168 | 143 | ↑14 | |||||
179 | The Deer Hunter | 1978 | Michael Cimino | IMDb | 166 | 158 | 164 | 151 | 147 | 139 | 134 | 117 | ↓13 |
180 | Tokyo Story | 1953 | Yasujiro Ozu | IMDb | 175 | 167 | 165 | ↓5 | |||||
181 | The Truman Show | 1998 | Peter Weir | IMDb | 187 | 207 | 214 | 211 | 232 | 239 | 215 | ↑6 | |
182 | Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky | IMDb | 194 | 206 | 213 | 198 | 206 | 217 | 213 | ↑12 | |
183 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen | IMDb | 170 | 165 | 161 | 148 | 142 | 133 | 131 | 222 | ↓13 |
184 | Wild Tales | 2014 | Damián Szifron | IMDb | 181 | 185 | 197 | 194 | ↓3 | ||||
185 | Mary and Max | 2009 | Adam Elliot | IMDb | 176 | 178 | 179 | 167 | 169 | 175 | 183 | ↓9 | |
186 | In the Name of the Father | 1993 | Jim Sheridan | IMDb | 186 | 191 | 195 | 187 | 188 | 200 | 221 | = | |
187 | Gone Girl | 2014 | David Fincher | IMDb | 178 | 179 | 180 | 164 | 114 | ↓9 | |||
188 | Hacksaw Ridge | 2016 | Mel Gibson | IMDb | 177 | 174 | 91 | ↓11 | |||||
189 | Memories of Murder | 2003 | Joon-ho Bong | IMDb | 196 | 201 | 211 | 216 | 227 | 218 | ↑7 | ||
190 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1939 | Frank Capra | IMDb | 151 | 144 | 138 | 127 | 122 | 112 | 108 | 66 | ↓39 |
191 | How to Train Your Dragon | 2010 | Dean DeBlois & Chris Sanders | IMDb | 179 | 175 | 176 | 153 | 151 | 165 | 166 | ↓12 | |
192 | The General | 1926 | Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman | IMDb | 157 | 152 | 150 | 139 | 137 | 123 | 120 | 93 | ↓35 |
193 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | 2014 | Wes Anderson | IMDb | 189 | 195 | 203 | 186 | 182 | ↓4 | |||
194 | Sherlock, Jr. | 1924 | Buster Keaton | IMDb | 169 | ↓25 | |||||||
195 | Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman | IMDb | 195 | 198 | 206 | 181 | 193 | 190 | 185 | 235 | = |
196 | Before Sunrise | 1995 | Richard Linklater | IMDb | 205 | 212 | 219 | 207 | 215 | 231 | ↑9 | ||
197 | Catch Me if You Can | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | IMDb | 215 | 220 | 236 | 245 | ↑18 | ||||
198 | Prisoners | 2013 | Denis Villeneuve | IMDb | 208 | 216 | 233 | 232 | 246 | 234 | ↑10 | ||
199 | Cool Hand Luke | 1967 | Stuart Rosenberg | IMDb | 173 | 170 | 172 | 154 | 150 | 138 | 135 | 121 | ↓26 |
200 | 12 Years a Slave | 2013 | Steve McQueen | IMDb | 199 | 202 | 201 | 184 | 175 | ↓1 | |||
201 | Into the Wild | 2007 | Sean Penn | IMDb | 183 | 182 | 177 | 161 | 158 | 161 | 161 | ↓18 | |
202 | The Wages of Fear | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | IMDb | 203 | 192 | 191 | 173 | 161 | ↑1 | |||
203 | Network | 1976 | Sidney Lumet | IMDb | 193 | 190 | 190 | 177 | 176 | 172 | 170 | 217 | ↓10 |
204 | Stand by Me | 1986 | Rob Reiner | IMDb | 190 | 193 | 194 | 180 | 183 | 184 | 175 | 196 | ↓14 |
205 | Life of Brian | 1979 | Terry Jones | IMDb | 185 | 183 | 184 | 171 | 173 | 174 | 162 | 159 | ↓20 |
206 | Mad Max: Fury Road | 2015 | George Miller | IMDb | 206 | 204 | 199 | 152 | = | ||||
207 | Platoon | 1986 | Oliver Stone | IMDb | 191 | 187 | 187 | 174 | 172 | 162 | 144 | 147 | ↓16 |
208 | Barry Lyndon | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick | IMDb | 220 | 228 | 239 | 222 | 229 | 214 | 209 | ↑12 | |
209 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1928 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | IMDb | 202 | 181 | 157 | 205 | ↓7 | ||||
210 | Million Dollar Baby | 2004 | Clint Eastwood | IMDb | 200 | 203 | 205 | 189 | 190 | 183 | 172 | ↓10 | |
211 | Hachi: A Dog's Tale | 2009 | Lasse Hallström | IMDb | 209 | 211 | 210 | 195 | 192 | 213 | ↓2 | ||
212 | Rush | 2013 | Ron Howard | IMDb | 201 | 194 | 185 | 168 | 156 | 142 | ↓11 | ||
213 | The Irishman | 2019 | Martin Scorsese | IMDb | → | ||||||||
214 | Logan | 2017 | James Mangold | IMDb | 211 | 188 | ↓3 | ||||||
215 | Rang de Basanti | 2006 | Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra | IMDb | 213 | 176 | 160 | 148 | 156 | ↓2 | |||
216 | Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky | IMDb | 204 | 169 | ↓12 | ||||||
217 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler | IMDb | 197 | 196 | 202 | 191 | 185 | 186 | 169 | 129 | ↓20 |
218 | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | 1984 | Hayao Miyazaki | IMDb | 216 | 213 | 212 | 196 | 197 | 210 | ↓2 | ||
219 | The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut | IMDb | 207 | 200 | 198 | 179 | 187 | 179 | 184 | 160 | ↓12 |
220 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | 2011 | David Yates | IMDb | 217 | 218 | 224 | 219 | 217 | 227 | 220 | ↓3 | |
221 | Hotel Rwanda | 2004 | Terry George | IMDb | 198 | 189 | 186 | 172 | 164 | 155 | 146 | ↓23 | |
222 | Amores Perros | 2000 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | IMDb | 212 | 208 | 207 | 188 | 186 | 180 | 181 | 139 | ↓10 |
223 | Dead Poets Society | 1989 | Peter Weir | IMDb | 224 | 243 | ↑1 | ||||||
224 | Spotlight | 2015 | Tom McCarthy | IMDb | 210 | 205 | 193 | ↓14 | |||||
225 | The Red Shoes | 1948 | Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger | IMDb | → | ||||||||
226 | Rebecca | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | IMDb | 174 | 172 | 173 | 150 | 144 | 129 | 123 | 105 | ↓52 |
227 | Rocky | 1976 | John G Avildsen | IMDb | 219 | 221 | 222 | 215 | 220 | 212 | 201 | ↓8 | |
228 | Ace in the Hole | 1951 | Billy Wilder | IMDb | → | ||||||||
229 | The Handmaiden | 2016 | Chan-wook Park | IMDb | 240 | 248 | ↑11 | ||||||
230 | White Heat | 1949 | Raoul Walsh | IMDb | → | ||||||||
231 | Monsters, Inc | 2001 | Pete Docter & David Silverman | IMDb | 221 | 224 | 228 | 213 | 223 | 226 | 222 | 161 | ↓10 |
232 | Drishyam | 2013 | Jeethu Joseph | IMDb | → | ||||||||
233 | It Happened One Night | 1934 | Frank Capra | IMDb | 188 | 184 | 183 | 162 | 149 | 135 | 140 | 113 | ↓45 |
234 | La haine | 1995 | Mathieu Kassovitz | IMDb | 229 | 234 | 238 | 224 | 224 | 224 | 230 | ↓5 | |
235 | Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India | 2001 | Ashutosh Gowariker | IMDb | 210 | 215 | → | ||||||
236 | Gangs of Wasseypur | 2012 | Anurag Kashyap | IMDb | 196 | → | |||||||
237 | The Princess Bride | 1987 | Rob Reiner | IMDb | 214 | 214 | 208 | 185 | 181 | 188 | 191 | 101 | ↓23 |
238 | Before Sunset | 2004 | Richard Linklater | IMDb | 238 | 244 | 249 | = | |||||
239 | The Help | 2011 | Tate Taylor | IMDb | 235 | 242 | 248 | 235 | 234 | 248 | ↓4 | ||
240 | In the Mood for Love | 2000 | Wong Kar Wai | IMDb | 236 | 241 | 242 | 238 | ↓4 | ||||
241 | PK | 2014 | Tate Taylor | IMDb | 0 | 250 | → | ||||||
242 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill | IMDb | 218 | 209 | 196 | 176 | 170 | 154 | 148 | 112 | ↓24 |
243 | The Terminator | 1984 | James Cameron | IMDb | 226 | 229 | 232 | 210 | 213 | 196 | 171 | 202 | ↓17 |
244 | Akira | 1988 | Katsuhiro Otomo | IMDb | → | ||||||||
245 | Paris, Texas | 1984 | Wim Wenders | IMDb | 242 | 244 | 250 | ↓3 | |||||
246 | Aladdin | 1992 | Ron Clements & John Musker | IMDb | → | ||||||||
247 | The Battle of Algiers | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo | IMDb | 247 | 217 | 218 | → | |||||
248 | Guardians of the Galaxy | 2014 | James Gunn | IMDb | 245 | 225 | 155 | ↓3 | |||||
249 | Castle in the Sky | 1986 | Hayao Miyazaki | IMDb | 241 | 247 | 234 | 231 | 230 | 244 | ↓8 | ||
250 | Infernal Affairs | 2002 | Wai-keung Lau & Alan Mak | IMDb | 0 | 239 | 242 | 218 | 204 | 203 | 212 | → |
The New BatchThe following films were not part of the IMDb Top 250 on 1st January, 2019, but had entered (or re-entered) it by 1st January, 2020: |
# | Title | Year | Director | IMDb | '19 | '18 | '17 | '16 | '15 | '14 | '13 | '04 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
26 | Joker | 2019 | Todd Phillips | IMDb | ||||||||
30 | Parasite | 2019 | Bong Joon Ho | IMDb | ||||||||
33 | Harakiri | 1962 | Masaki Kobayashi | IMDb | ||||||||
59 | The Avengers: Endgame | 2019 | Anthony & Joe Russo | IMDb | ||||||||
110 | Capernaum | 2018 | Nadine Labaki | IMDb | ||||||||
127 | Green Book | 2018 | Peter Farrelly | IMDb | ||||||||
130 | Ford v Ferrari | 2019 | James Mangold | IMDb | ||||||||
163 | Marriage Story | 2019 | Noah Baumbach | IMDb | ||||||||
173 | Andhadhun | 2018 | Siram Raghavan | IMDb | ||||||||
176 | Klaus | 2019 | Sergio Pablos & Carlos Martinez López | IMDb | ||||||||
213 | The Irishman | 2019 | Martin Scorsese | IMDb | ||||||||
225 | The Red Shoes | 1948 | Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger | IMDb | ||||||||
228 | Ace in the Hole | 1951 | John G Avildsen | IMDb | ||||||||
230 | White Heat | 1949 | Raoul Walsh | IMDb | ||||||||
232 | Drishyam | 2013 | Jeethu Joseph | IMDb | ||||||||
235 | Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India | 2001 | Ashutosh Gowariker | IMDb | 210 | 215 | ||||||
236 | Gangs of Wasseypur | 2012 | Anurag Kashyap | IMDb | 196 | |||||||
241 | PK | 2014 | Tate Taylor | IMDb | 250 | |||||||
244 | Akira | 1988 | Katsuhiro Otomo | IMDb | ||||||||
246 | Aladdin | 1992 | Ron Clements & John Musker | IMDb | ||||||||
247 | The Battle of Algiers | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo | IMDb | 247 | 217 | 218 | |||||
250 | Infernal Affairs | 2002 | Wai-keung Lau & Alan Mak | IMDb | 239 | 242 | 218 | 204 | 203 | 212 |
The DepartedThe following films were part of the IMDb Top 250 on 1st January, 2018, but had dropped out of it by 1st January, 2019: |
# | Title | Year | Director | IMDb | '19 | '18 | '17 | '16 | '15 | '14 | '13 | '04 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bohemian Rhapsody | 2018 | Bryan Singer | IMDb | 134 | ||||||||
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | 1927 | F. W. Murnau | IMDb | 180 | 162 | 156 | 124 | 225 | ||||
Roma | 2018 | Alfonso Cuarón | IMDb | 184 | ||||||||
The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | John Ford | IMDb | 222 | 222 | 215 | 193 | 189 | 167 | 159 | 136 | |
The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston | IMDb | 223 | 215 | 200 | 169 | 159 | 134 | 121 | 53 | |
Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly | IMDb | 225 | 227 | 226 | 205 | 201 | 191 | 176 | 92 | |
Gandhi | 1982 | Richard Attenborough | IMDb | 227 | 226 | 221 | 200 | 199 | 192 | 187 | 192 | |
Les diaboliques | 1955 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | IMDb | 228 | 223 | 225 | 197 | 179 | 147 | |||
Groundhog Day | 1993 | Harold Ramis | IMDb | 230 | 231 | 234 | 212 | 216 | 201 | 178 | 204 | |
The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming | IMDb | 231 | 233 | 231 | 201 | 191 | 173 | 149 | 62 | |
Sanjuro | 1962 | Akira Kurosawa | IMDb | 232 | ||||||||
Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg | IMDb | 233 | 236 | 237 | 214 | 205 | 181 | 141 | 82 | |
Nights of Cabiria | 1957 | Federico Fellini | IMDb | 234 | 217 | 192 | ||||||
Tangerines | 2013 | Zaza Urashadze | IMDb | 237 | ||||||||
Paper Moon | 1973 | Peter Bogdanovich | IMDb | 239 | 219 | |||||||
The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | William Wyler | IMDb | 243 | 237 | 241 | 203 | 194 | 171 | 106 | ||
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | 2003 | Gore Verbinski | IMDb | 244 | 250 | 233 | 228 | 225 | 216 | 188 | ||
8½ | 1963 | Federico Fellini | IMDb | 246 | 235 | 229 | 206 | 200 | 197 | 192 | 212 | |
The Sight | 2015 | Nishikant Kamat | IMDb | 247 | 204 | |||||||
Winter Sleep | 2014 | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | IMDb | 248 | ||||||||
Fanny and Alexander | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman | IMDb | 249 | 223 | 214 | 194 | 236 | ||||
Beauty and the Beast | 1991 | Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise | IMDb | 250 | 245 | 240 | 241 | 227 | 243 |