IMDB Top 250 (as of July 15th, 2012) (old list, see comments)

Submitted by CHOICE COD on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 14:38
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  1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  2. The Godfather (1972)
  3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
  4. Pulp Fiction (1994)
  5. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
  6. 12 Angry Men (1957)
  7. Schindler's List (1993)
  8. The Dark Knight (2008)
  9. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
  10. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
  11. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
  12. Fight Club (1999)
  13. Seven Samurai (1954)
  14. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  15. Inception (2010)
  16. Goodfellas (1990)
  17. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
  18. City of God (2002)
  19. The Matrix (1999)
  20. Casablanca (1942)
  21. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
  22. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
  23. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  24. Forrest Gump (1994)
  25. Rear Window (1954)
  26. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  27. Se7en (1995)
  28. The Usual Suspects (1995)
  29. Psycho (1960)
  30. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
  31. Leon: The Professional (1994)
  32. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
  33. Memento (2000)
  34. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  35. Apocalypse Now (1979)
  36. American History X (1998)
  37. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
  38. North by Northwest (1959)
  39. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  40. Citizen Kane (1941)
  41. Alien (1979)
  42. City Lights (1931)
  43. Spirited Away (2001)
  44. The Avengers (2012)
  45. American Beauty (1999)
  46. Toy Story 3 (2010)
  47. Taxi Driver (1976)
  48. The Shining (1980)
  49. Vertigo (1958)
  50. M (1931)
  51. Paths of Glory (1957)
  52. Modern Times (1936)
  53. The Pianist (2002)
  54. The Departed (2006)
  55. Amélie (2001)
  56. Double Indemnity (1944)
  57. WALL·E (2008)
  58. The Lives of Others (2006)
  59. Aliens (1986)
  60. Back to the Future (1985)
  61. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  62. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
  63. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
  64. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  65. Das Boot (1981)
  66. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
  67. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
  68. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
  69. The Third Man (1949)
  70. The Prestige (2006)
  71. The Green Mile (1999)
  72. The Intouchables (2011)
  73. The Great Dictator (1940)
  74. Gladiator (2000)
  75. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
  76. A Separation (2011)
  77. Chinatown (1974)
  78. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  79. L.A. Confidential (1997)
  80. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
  81. Rashomon (1950)
  82. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
  83. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  84. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
  85. Some Like It Hot (1959)
  86. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
  87. Amadeus (1984)
  88. All About Eve (1950)
  89. Metropolis (1927)
  90. Braveheart (1995)
  91. Raging Bull (1980)
  92. Oldboy (2003)
  93. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
  94. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  95. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  96. The Apartment (1960)
  97. Princess Mononoke (1997)
  98. Unforgiven (1992)
  99. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
  100. The Sting (1973)
  101. The Lion King (1994)
  102. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
  103. Downfall (2004)
  104. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
  105. Die Hard (1988)
  106. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
  107. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
  108. Up (2009)
  109. On the Waterfront (1954)
  110. The Seventh Seal (1957)
  111. Yojimbo (1961)
  112. The Elephant Man (1980)
  113. The Great Escape (1963)
  114. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  115. Batman Begins (2005)
  116. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
  117. Gran Torino (2008)
  118. Rebecca (1940)
  119. Snatch. (2000)
  120. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
  121. The General (1926)
  122. Heat (1995)
  123. Blade Runner (1982)
  124. Fargo (1996)
  125. Ran (1985)
  126. Toy Story (1995)
  127. Wild Strawberries (1957)
  128. Sin City (2005)
  129. Touch of Evil (1958)
  130. The Big Lebowski (1998)
  131. Ikiru (1952)
  132. The Deer Hunter (1978)
  133. Jaws (1975)
  134. No Country for Old Men (2007)
  135. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
  136. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
  137. Scarface (1983)
  138. It Happened One Night (1934)
  139. The Wages of Fear (1953)
  140. The Kid (1921)
  141. Strangers on a Train (1951)
  142. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  143. The Sixth Sense (1999)
  144. The King's Speech (2010)
  145. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
  146. Annie Hall (1977)
  147. The Gold Rush (1925)
  148. Platoon (1986)
  149. Black Swan (2010)
  150. High Noon (1952)
  151. Warrior (2011)
  152. Trainspotting (1996)
  153. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
  154. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
  155. The Artist (2011)
  156. Into the Wild (2007)
  157. The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
  158. The Thing (1982)
  159. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
  160. Sunrise (1927)
  161. Gone with the Wind (1939)
  162. Notorious (1946)
  163. Donnie Darko (2001)
  164. Casino (1995)
  165. Diabolique (1955)
  166. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
  167. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
  168. Life of Brian (1979)
  169. There Will Be Blood (2007)
  170. How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
  171. Finding Nemo (2003)
  172. Amores Perros (2000)
  173. Ben-Hur (1959)
  174. V for Vendetta (2006)
  175. Good Will Hunting (1997)
  176. The Terminator (1984)
  177. Groundhog Day (1993)
  178. Harakiri (1962)
  179. The Big Sleep (1946)
  180. Stand by Me (1986)
  181. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
  182. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  183. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
  184. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
  185. Twelve Monkeys (1995)
  186. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
  187. Network (1976)
  188. The Graduate (1967)
  189. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
  190. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
  191. Mary and Max (2009)
  192. The 400 Blows (1959)
  193. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
  194. Dial M for Murder (1954)
  195. Gandhi (1982)
  196. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
  197. Persona (1966)
  198. The Princess Bride (1987)
  199. District 9 (2009)
  200. The Killing (1956)
  201. 8½ (1963)
  202. Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
  203. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
  204. La Strada (1954)
  205. Sherlock Jr. (1924)
  206. The Hustler (1961)
  207. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
  208. Ratatouille (2007)
  209. The Exorcist (1973)
  210. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
  211. The Wild Bunch (1969)
  212. The Wrestler (2008)
  213. Rocky (1976)
  214. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
  215. Barry Lyndon (1975)
  216. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
  217. Stalag 17 (1953)
  218. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
  219. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
  220. Nights of Cabiria (1957)
  221. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  222. Star Trek (2009)
  223. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
  224. High and Low (1963)
  225. Ip Man (2008)
  226. Rope (1948)
  227. The Truman Show (1998)
  228. Stalker (1979)
  229. Roman Holiday (1953)
  230. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
  231. Tokyo Story (1953)
  232. Infernal Affairs (2002)
  233. Come and See (1985)
  234. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
  235. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
  236. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
  237. Monsters, Inc. (2001)
  238. Mystic River (2003)
  239. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
  240. Let the Right One In (2008)
  241. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
  242. Throne of Blood (1957)
  243. The Celebration (1998)
  244. Nosferatu (1922)
  245. Shutter Island (2010)
  246. Castle in the Sky (1986)
  247. Manhattan (1979)
  248. Le Samouraï (1967)
  249. Like Stars on Earth (2007)
  250. Memories of Murder (2003)
Author Comments: 

This is the IMDB Top 250 list as it was before the criteria for eligibility was changed from a minimum of 6,000 user votes to 25,000. I'll be keeping this list available because of the significant differences between the old and new lists. I will be keeping an updated version of the current list here.