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IMDb Top 250

IMDB's top 250 list: loved by some, hated by others. Of course you can argue about the order of movies and the presence or absence of certain titles. Fact remains that it holds a great deal of the most appreciated films of all time and the overall quality is pretty high.

I tried to complete the list once, but choked near the end... ;-) I will keep updating weekly though and one day I will finish the last few missing films.

Feel free to comment your % or must sees from this list!
And for the people who find 250 entries a bit lacking, here's a list with every movie that was once in IMDB's Top 250.

A few statistics...…

There are 40 films in this list released in the 1990s.

  • The Shawshank Redemption

    1

  • Schindler's List

    7

  • Pulp Fiction

    8

  • Forrest Gump

    11

  • Fight Club

    13

  • The Matrix

    16

  • GoodFellas

    17

  • Se7en

    20

  • The Silence of the Lambs

    22

  • Saving Private Ryan

    24

  • The Green Mile

    26

  • Life Is Beautiful

    27

  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    28

  • The Lion King

    36

  • American History X

    42

  • Léon: The Professional

    43

  • The Usual Suspects

    46

  • Toy Story

    74

  • Good Will Hunting

    76

  • Braveheart

    80

  • American Beauty

    81

  • Princess Mononoke

    82

  • Reservoir Dogs

    100

  • Heat

    105

  • L.A. Confidential

    124

  • The Truman Show

    133

  • Jurassic Park

    141

  • The Sixth Sense

    143

  • Casino

    144

  • Unforgiven

    150

  • Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

    167

  • Trainspotting

    173

  • Fargo

    176

  • Children of Heaven

    187

  • Before Sunrise

    190

  • In the Name of the Father

    197

  • The Big Lebowski

    216

  • La Haine

    222

  • The Iron Giant

    239

  • Groundhog Day

    246