Letterboxd's Top 250 movies, based on the average weighted rating of all Letterboxd users. I removed all stand-up specials, stage plays, concert films, documentaries, shorts, 'collection listings' and other 'rarities', so only feature length narrative movies are listed here. Films should have a minimum of 5,000 ratings to be eligible to enter the list.
As a sister to this list, we also have a Top 50 films with less than 5,000 ratings, so be sure to check out the more obscure gems there!
My friend Jack Moulton made a list of Letterboxd Top 250 documentaries, go check it out!
And last but not least there is a companion piece to this list with all films that were once part of…
Letterboxd's Top 250 movies, based on the average weighted rating of all Letterboxd users. I removed all stand-up specials, stage plays, concert films, documentaries, shorts, 'collection listings' and other 'rarities', so only feature length narrative movies are listed here. Films should have a minimum of 5,000 ratings to be eligible to enter the list.
As a sister to this list, we also have a Top 50 films with less than 5,000 ratings, so be sure to check out the more obscure gems there!
My friend Jack Moulton made a list of Letterboxd Top 250 documentaries, go check it out!
And last but not least there is a companion piece to this list with all films that were once part of the Top 250.
A few statistics...
The oldest movie on the list is Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr., released in 1924. The most popular decade in the list is the 1990's with 42 entries. A complete overview:
1920's - 5 entries
1930's - 4 entries
1940's - 15 entries
1950's - 35 entries
1960's - 37 entries
1970's - 22 entries
1980's - 27 entries
1990's - 42 entries
2000's - 33 entries
2010's - 21 entries
2020's - 9 entries
Akira Kurosawa seems to be Letterboxd's most popular director, with 8 entries in the list, of which 4 in the top 20. Next in line with 7 titles is Bergman.
All popular directors:
8 entries - Akira Kurosawa
7 entries - Ingmar Bergman
6 entries - Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky
5 entries - Masaki Kobayashi
4 entries - Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, Wong Kar-wai, Satyajit Ray, Abbas Kiarostami
3 entries - Quentin Tarantino, Peter Jackson, Francis Ford Coppola, Charlie Chaplin, Sergio Leone, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell, Federico Fellini, Hideaki Anno, Sidney Lumet, Paul Thomas Anderson, David Lean, Yasujirō Ozu, Hayao Miyazaki, Alfred Hitchcock
Fun fact:
Highest ranked movies in IMDb's top 250 that are absent in the Letterboxd list: Forrest Gump (11), Inception (14), The Matrix (16), Gladiator (37) and Léon: The Professional (39).
Latest update: September 18, 2023
Back in the list:
The Fifth Seal at #145, breaking the 5,000 ratings barrier
Gone, not forgotten:
Kizumonogatari Part 3: Reiketsu
