2005 IMDB Top 250 movies (list on 5/31/2005)

  1. 1. The Godfather (1972; Francis Ford Coppola)
  2. 2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994; Frank Darabont)
  3. 3. The Godfather: Part II (1974; Francis Ford Coppola)
  4. 4. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003; Peter Jackson)
  5. 5. The Good, the bad, and the ugly [Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo] (1966; Sergio Leone)
  6. 6. Casablanca (1942; Michael Curtiz)
  7. 7. Schindler's List (1993; Steven Spielberg)
  8. 8. Pulp Fiction (1994; Quentin Tarantino)
  9. 9. Seven Samurai [Shichinin no samurai] (1954; Akira Kurosoawa)
  10. 10. Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980; Irvin Kershner)
  11. 11. Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (1977; George Lucas)
  12. 12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975; Milos Forman)
  13. 13. Rear Window (1954; Alfred Hitchcock)
  14. 14. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001; Peter Jackson)
  15. 15. 12 Angry Men (1957; Sidney Lumet)
  16. 16. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981; Steven Speilberg)
  17. 17. The Usual Suspects (1995; Bryan Singer)
  18. 18. City of God [Cidade de Deus] (2002; Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund)
  19. 19. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964; Stanley Kubrick)
  20. 20. Goodfellas (1990; Martin Scorcese)
  21. 21. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002; Peter Jackson)
  22. 22. Psycho (1960; Alfred Hitchcock)
  23. 23. Citizen Kane (1941; Orson Welles)
  24. 24. Once Upon a Time in the West [C'era una volta il West] (1968; Sergio Leone)
  25. 25. North By Northwest (1959; Alfred Hitchcock)
  26. 26. Memento (2000; Christopher Nolan)
  27. 27. The Silence of the Lambs (1991; Jonathan Demme)
  28. 28. Lawrence of Arabia (1962; David Lean)
  29. 29. It's a Wonderful Life (1946; Frank Capra)
  30. 30. Sunset Blvd. (1950; Billy Wilder)
  31. 31. Amelie [Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain] (2001; JeanPierre Jeunet)
  32. 32. Fight Club (1999; David Fincher)
  33. 33. American Beauty (1999; Sam Mendes)
  34. 34. The Matrix (1999; Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski)
  35. 35. Vertigo (1958; Alfred Hitchcock)
  36. 36. Apocalypse Now (1979; Francis Ford Coppola)
  37. 37. Taxi Driver (1976; Martin Scorcese)
  38. 38. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004; Michel Gondry)
  39. 39. Se7en (1995; David Fincher)
  40. 40. Paths of Glory (1957; Stanley Kubrick)
  41. 41. Léon: The Professional [Léon] (1994; Luc Besson)
  42. 42. Chinatown (1974; Roman Polanski)
  43. 43. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962; Robert Mulligan)
  44. 44. American History X (1998; Tony Kaye)
  45. 45. The Third Man (1949; Carol Reed)
  46. 46. Downfall [Der Untergang] (2004; Oliver Hirschbiegel)
  47. 47. The Pianist (2002; Roman Polanski)
  48. 48. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975; Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones)
  49. 49. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948; John Houston)
  50. 50. M (1931; Fritz Lang)
  51. 51. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957; David Lean)
  52. 52. Spirited Away [Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi] (2001; Hayao Miyazaki)
  53. 53. Das Boot (1981; Wolfgang Petersen)
  54. 54. Alien (1979; Ridley Scott)
  55. 55. L.A. Confidential (1997; Curtis Hanson)
  56. 56. A Clockwork Orange (1971; Stanley Kubrick)
  57. 57. The Maltese Falcon (1941; John Huston)
  58. 58. Requiem for a Dream (2000; Darren Aronofsky)
  59. 59. Hotel Rwanda (2004; Terry George)
  60. 60. The Shining (1980; Stanley Kubrick)
  61. 61. Double Indemnity (1944; Billy Wilder)
  62. 62. Metropolis (1927; Fritz Lang)
  63. 63. Reservoir Dogs (1992; Quentin Tarantino)
  64. 64. Saving Private Ryan (1998; Steven Speilberg)
  65. 65. Rashomon (1950; Akira Kurosawa)
  66. 66. Singin' in the Rain (1952; Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)
  67. 67. Sin City (2005; Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino)
  68. 68. Raging Bull (1980; Martin Scorcese)
  69. 69. Modern Times (1936; Charles Chaplin)
  70. 70. Aliens (1986; James Cameron)
  71. 71. The Manchurian Candidate (1962; John Frankenheimer)
  72. 72. Rebecca (1940; Alfred Hitchcock)
  73. 73. Some Like It Hot (1959; Billy Wilder)
  74. 74. The Great Escape (1963; John Sturges)
  75. 75. All About Eve (1950; Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  76. 76. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968; Stanley Kubrick)
  77. 77. Touch Of Evil (1958; Orson Welles)
  78. 78. Million Dollar Baby (2004; Clint Eastwood)
  79. 79. Amadeus (1984; Milos Forman)
  80. 80. The Departed (2006; Martin Scorcese)
  81. 81. Life Is Beautiful [La Vita è bella] (1997; Roberto Benigni)
  82. 82. The Seventh Seal [Det sjunde inseglet] (1957; Ingmar Bergman)
  83. 83. Forrest Gump (1994; Robert Zemeckis)
  84. 84. Jaws (1975; Steven Speilberg)
  85. 85. The Sting (1973; George Roy Hill)
  86. 86. Strangers on a Train (1951; Alfred Hitchcock)
  87. 87. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991; James Cameron)
  88. 88. Batman Begins (2005; Christopher Nolan)
  89. 89. On the Waterfront (1954; Elia Kazan)
  90. 90. Braveheart (1995; Mel Gibson)
  91. 91. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939; Frank Capra)
  92. 92. The Wizard of Oz [1939; Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, King Vidor)
  93. 93. Kill Bill, Vol.1 (2003; Quentin Tarantino)
  94. 94. Full Metal Jacket (1987; Stanley Kubrick)
  95. 95. The Elephant Man (1980; David Lynch)
  96. 96. Blade Runner (1982; Ridley Scott)
  97. 97. The Apartment (1960; Billy Wilder)
  98. 98. The Incredibles (2004; Brad Bird)
  99. 99. City Lights (1931; Charles Chaplin)
  100. 100. High Noon (1952; Fred Zinnemann)
  101. 101. The Big Sleep (1946; Howard Hawks)
  102. 102. Cinema Paradiso [Nuovo cinema Paradiso] (1988; Giuseppe Tornatore)
  103. 103. Notorious (1946; Alfred Hitchcock)
  104. 104. Donnie Darko (2001; Richard Kelly)
  105. 105. Fargo (1996; Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
  106. 106. Ran (1985; Akira Kurosawa)
  107. 107. Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983; Richard Marquand)
  108. 108. Crash (2004; Paul Haggis)
  109. 109. The Great Dictator (1940; Charles Chaplin)
  110. 110. Finding Nemo (2003; Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich)
  111. 111. Once Upon a Time in America (1984; Sergio Leone)
  112. 112. Cool Hand Luke (1967; Stuart Rosenberg)
  113. 113. Princess Mononoke [Mononoke-hime] (1997; Hayao Miyazaki)
  114. 114. The Sixth Sense (1999; M Night Shalyman)
  115. 115. V for Vendetta (2005; James McTeigue)
  116. 116. Unforgiven (1992; Clint Eastwood)
  117. 117. Wages of Fear [Le Salaire de la peur] (1953; Henri-Georges Clouzot)
  118. 118. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989; Steven Speilberg)
  119. 119. Ben-Hur (1959; William Wyler)
  120. 120. Oldboy [Oldeuboi] (2003; Chan-wook Park)
  121. 121. Back to the Future (1985; Robert Zemeckis)
  122. 122. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004; Quentin Tarantino)
  123. 123. Annie Hall (1977; Woody Allen)
  124. 124. Pan's Labyrinth [El Laberinto del fauno] (2006; Guillermo del Toro)
  125. 125. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon [Wo hu cang long] (2000; Ang Lee)
  126. 126. Yojimbo [Yôjinbô] (1961; Akira Kurosawa)
  127. 127. The Killing (1956; Stanley Kubrick)
  128. 128. The Green Mile (1999; Frank Darabont)
  129. 129. Life of Brian (1979; Terry Jones)
  130. 130. The Princess Bride (1987; Rob Reiner)
  131. 131. The Deer Hunter (1978; Michael Cimino)
  132. 132. Platoon (1986; Oliver Stone)
  133. 133. The Graduate (1967; Mike Nichols)
  134. 134. It Happened One Night (1934; Frank Capra)
  135. 135. A Fistful of Dollars [Per un pugno di dollari] (1964; Sergio Leone)
  136. 136. Gladiator (2000; Ridley Scott)
  137. 137. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969; George Roy Hill)
  138. 138. Nights of Cabiria [Le Notti di Cabiria](1957; Federico Fellini)
  139. 139. Gandhi (1982; Richard Attenboroug)
  140. 140. The African Queen (1951; John Houston)
  141. 141. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949; Robert Hamer)
  142. 142. Bicycle Thieves [Ladri di biciclette] (1948; Vittorio De Sica)
  143. 143. Amores perros (2000; Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  144. 144. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938; Michael Curtiz, William Keighley)
  145. 145. The Battle of Algiers [La battaglia di Algeri] (1965; Gillo Pontecorvo)
  146. 146. Les Diaboliques (1955; Henri-Georges Clouzot)
  147. 147. Toy Story 2 (1999; John Lasseter, Ash Brannon, Lee Unkrich)
  148. 148. 8½ (1963; Federico Fellini)
  149. 149. Shadow of a Doubt (1943; Alfred Hitchcock)
  150. 150. Brief Encounter (1945; David Lean)
  151. 151. Stand by Me (1986; Rob Reiner)
  152. 152. Run Lola Run [Lola rennt] (1998; Tom Tykwer)
  153. 153. The Night of the Hunter (1955; Charles Laughton, Robert Mitchum)
  154. 154. The Wild Bunch (1969; Sam Peckinpah)
  155. 155. Die Hard (1988; John McTiernan)
  156. 156. The General (1926; Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton)
  157. 157. Harvey (1950; Henry Koster)
  158. 158. The Conversation (1974; Francis Ford Coppola)
  159. 159. Dog Day Afternoon (1975; Sidney Lumet)
  160. 160. Wild Strawberries [Smultronstället] (1957; Ingmar Bergman)
  161. 161. Patton (1970; Franklin J. Schaffner)
  162. 162. Duck Soup (1933; Leo McCarey)
  163. 163. Nosferatu [Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens] (1922; FW Murnau)
  164. 164. Glory (1989; Edward Zwick)
  165. 165. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951; Robert Wise)
  166. 166. Gone with the Wind (1939; Victor Flemming, George Cukor, Sam Wood)
  167. 167. Children of Men (2006; Alfonso Cuarón)
  168. 168. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari [Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari] (1920; Robert Wiene)
  169. 169. Groundhog Day (1993; Harold Ramis)
  170. 170. Spartacus (1960; Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Mann)
  171. 171. Hero [Yīng xióng] (2002; Yimou Zhang)
  172. 172. The Gold Rush (1925; Charles Chaplin)
  173. 173. Finding Neverland (2004; Marc Forster)
  174. 174. Trainspotting (1996; Danny Boyle)
  175. 175. Toy Story (1995; John Lasseter)
  176. 176. The Exorcist (1973; William Friedkin)
  177. 177. Magnolia (1999; Paul Thomas Anderson)
  178. 178. The Grapes of Wrath (1940; John Ford)
  179. 179. A Christmas Story (1983; Bob Clark)
  180. 180. Heat (1995; Michael Mann)
  181. 181. The Philadelphia Story (1940; George Cukor)
  182. 182. The Big Lebowski (1998; Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
  183. 183. Mystic River (2003; Clint Eastwood)
  184. 184. Beauty and the Beast [La belle et la bête] (1946; Jean Cocteau, René Clément)
  185. 185. Twelve Monkeys (1995; Terry Gilliam)
  186. 186. Shrek (2001; Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson)
  187. 187. King Kong (1933; Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack)
  188. 188. Cinderella Man (2005; Ron Howard)
  189. 189. Big Fish (2003; Tim Burton)
  190. 190. Before Sunset (2004; Richard Linklater)
  191. 191. Ed Wood (1994; Tim Burton)
  192. 192. The Hustler (1961; Robert Rossen)
  193. 193. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961; Stanley Kramer)
  194. 194. The Terminator (1984; James Cameron)
  195. 195. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946; William Wyler)
  196. 196. Snatch (2000; Guy Ritchie)
  197. 197. The Lady Vanishes (1938; Alfred Hitchcock)
  198. 198. The Prestige (2006; Christopher Nolan)
  199. 199. Bride of Frankenstein (1935; James Whale)
  200. 200. Walk the Line (2005; James Mangold)
  201. 201. Grave of the Fireflies [Hotaru no haka] (1988; Isao Takahata)
  202. 202. Out of the Past (1947; Jacques Tourneur)
  203. 203. Wallace & Gromit In The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (2005; Steve Box, Nick Park)
  204. 204. In the Heat of the Night (1967; Norman Jewison)
  205. 205. Stalag 17 (1953; Billy Wilder)
  206. 206. Sleuth (1972; Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  207. 207. Witness for the Prosecution (1957; Billy Wilder)
  208. 208. Bonnie and Clyde (1967; Arthur Penn)
  209. 209. The Thing (1982; John Carpenter)
  210. 210. Young Frankenstein (1974; Mel Brooks)
  211. 211. Talk to Her [Hable con ella] (2002; Pedro Almodóvar)
  212. 212. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998; Guy Ritchie)
  213. 213. Rosemary's Baby (1968; Roman Polanski)
  214. 214. Manhattan (1979; Woody Allen)
  215. 215. Frankenstein (1931; James Whale)
  216. 216. Scarface (1983; Brian De Palma)
  217. 217. Sling Blade (1996; Billy Bob Thornton)
  218. 218. The Straight Story (1999; David Lynch)
  219. 219. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944; Frank Capra)
  220. 220. High and Low [Tengoku to jigoku] (1963; Akira Kurosawa)
  221. 221. Little Miss Sunshine (2006; Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris)
  222. 222. Anatomy of a Murder (1959; Otto Preminger)
  223. 223. Rififi [Du rififi chez les hommes] (1954; Jules Dassin)
  224. 224. Monsters, Inc (2001; Pete Docter, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich)
  225. 225. Throne of Blood [Kumonosu-jô]] (1957; Akira Kurosawa)
  226. 226. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003; Gore Verbinski)
  227. 227. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930; Lewis Milestone)
  228. 228. The 400 Blows [Les quatre cents coups] (1959; Francois Truffaut)
  229. 229. Roman Holiday (1953; William Wyler)
  230. 230. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962; John Ford)
  231. 231. Doctor Zhivago (1965; David Lean)
  232. 232. The Lost Weekend (1945; Billy Wilder)
  233. 233. Bringing Up Baby (1938; Howard Hawks)
  234. 234. The Searchers (1956; John Ford)
  235. 235. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951; Elia Kazan)
  236. 236. The Planet of the Apes (1968; Franklin J. Schaffner)
  237. 237. United 93 (2006; Paul Greengrass)
  238. 238. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943; William A. Wellman)
  239. 239. La Haine (1995; Mathieu Kassovitz)
  240. 240. Brazil (1985; Terry Gilliam)
  241. 241. Inherit the Wind (1960; Stanley Kramer)
  242. 242. Come and See [Idi I Smotri] (Elem Klimov; 1985)
  243. 243. Howl's Moving Castle [Hauru No Ugoku Shiro] (2004; Hayao Miyazaki)
  244. 244. Great Expectations (1946; David Lean)
  245. 245. Sweet Smell of Success (1957; Alexander Mackendrick)
  246. 246. Infernal Affairs [Mou gaan dou] (2004; Wai-keung Lau, Alan Mak)
  247. 247. Umberto D (1952; Vittorio De Sica)
  248. 248. To Have and Have Not (1944; Howard Hawks)
  249. 249. Dial M for Murder (1954; Alfred Hitchcock)
  250. 250. In Cold Blood (1967; Richard Brooks)