The IMDb Top 250 on 1st January, 2014

Introduction

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, 2014, with some data that ties it to previous years. Here are equivalent pages for 2016, 2015, 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.

Key

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 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.

The List

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

Basic Data

The mean is 1982, the median 1988 and the mode 1995.

69 films moved up the list, while 136 moved down and 17 remained in the same spot. There were 28 new entries. The average variance was 10.83.

Breakdown by Decade

Here's how the films break down by decade, with comparative data to 2013 and 2004:

Decade	2014	2013	2004
1920s	4	6	7
1930s	7	9	18
1940s	15	16	24
1950s	31	31	33
1960s	23	24	28
1970s	21	24	25
1980s	29	28	32
1990s	42	39	44
2000s	55	55	39
2010s	23	18	0

New for 2014

Here are all the films that entered the IMDb Top 250 since 1st January, 2013 that were still there on 1st January, 2014. They're sorted by position.

#	Title	Year	Director	IMDb	'14	'13	'04	Ch
53	Django Unchained	2012	Quentin Tarantino	IMDb	53			→
94	Gravity	2013	Alfonso Cuarón	IMDb	94			→
120	Ikiru	1952	Akira Kurosawa	IMDb	120		193	→
132	The Hunt	2012	Thomas Vinterberg	IMDb	132			→
142	Rush	2013	Ron Howard	IMDb	142			→
145	Judgment at Nuremberg	1961	Stanley Kramer	IMDb	145		250	→
147	Les diaboliques	1955	Henri-Georges Clouzot	IMDb	147			→
148	Like Stars on Earth	2007	Aamir Khan	IMDb	148			→
156	Paint It Yellow	2006	Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra	IMDb	156			→
169	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	2013	Peter Jackson	IMDb	169			→
171	The Best Years of Our Lives	1946	William Wyler	IMDb	171		106	→
194	Fanny and Alexander	1982	Ingmar Bergman	IMDb	194		236	→
210	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind	1984	Hayao Miyazaki	IMDb	210			→
213	Hachi: A Dog's Tale	2009	Lasse Hallström	IMDb	213			→
215	Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India	2001	Ashutosh Gowariker	IMDb	215			→
218	Memories of Murder	2003	Joon-ho Bong	IMDb	218			→
221	The Celebration	1998	Thomas Vinterberg	IMDb	221		167	→
228	Before Midnight	2013	Richard Linklater	IMDb	228			→
229	A Christmas Story	1983	Bob Clark	IMDb	229		146	→
231	Before Sunrise	1995	Richard Linklater	IMDb	231			→
232	Underground	1995	Emir Kusturica	IMDb	232			→
234	Prisoners	2013	Denis Villeneuve	IMDb	234			→
237	Three Colours: Red	1994	Krystof Krystofski	IMDb	237		184	→
238	In the Mood for Love	2000	Wong Kar Wai	IMDb	238			→
245	La dolce vita	1960	Federico Fellini	IMDb	245			→
247	Elite Squad: The Enemy Within	2010	José Padilha	IMDb	247			→
248	The Help	2011	Tate Taylor	IMDb	248			→
249	Departures	2008	Yojiro Takita	IMDb	249			→

Gone by 2014

Here are all the films that were in the IMDb Top 250 on 1st January, 2013 but had dropped out by 1st January, 2014. They're sorted by the number of positions they dropped.

#	Title	Year	Director	IMDb	'14	'13	'04	Ch
	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	2012	Peter Jackson	IMDb		122		←
	The Artist	2011	Michel Hazanavicius	IMDb		193		←
	Argo	2012	Ben Affleck	IMDb		195		←
	The Wild Bunch	1969	Sam Peckinpah	IMDb		202	149	←
	Sleuth	1972	Joseph L Mankiewicz	IMDb		206	249	←
	District 9	2009	Neill Blomkamp	IMDb		210		←
	The Perks of Being a Wallflower	2012	Stephen Chbosky	IMDb		211		←
	Ratatouille	2007	Brad Bird	IMDb		218		←
	A Streetcar Named Desire	1951	Elia Kazan	IMDb		224	176	←
	Beauty and the Beast	1991	Gary Trousdale Kirk Wise	IMDb		227	243	←
	Rosemary's Baby	1968	Roman Polanski	IMDb		228		←
	Harvey	1950	Henry Koster	IMDb		229	194	←
	All Quiet on the Western Front	1930	Lewis Milestone	IMDb		231	152	←
	The Wrestler	2008	Darren Aronofsky	IMDb		232		←
	Rain Man	1988	Barry Levinson	IMDb		233	214	←
	Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring	2003	Ki-duk Kim	IMDb		235		←
	Nosferatu	1922	F W Murnau	IMDb		236	191	←
	Manhattan	1979	Woody Allen	IMDb		237	120	←
	Mystic River	2003	Clint Eastwood	IMDb		238	125	←
	Battleship Potemkin	1925	Sergei Eisenstein	IMDb		239	157	←
	Big Fish	2003	Tim Burton	IMDb		241	186	←
	Papillon	1973	Franklin J Schaffner	IMDb		242		←
	Shadow of a Doubt	1943	Alfred Hitchcock	IMDb		243	189	←
	Bringing Up Baby	1938	Howard Hawks	IMDb		246	133	←
	The Untouchables	1987	Brian De Palma	IMDb		247	230	←
	In the Heat of the Night	1967	Norman Jewison	IMDb		248	229	←
	Let the Right One In	2008	Tomas Alfredson	IMDb		249		←
	Arsenic and Old Lace	1944	Frank Capra	IMDb		250	144	←