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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, 2015, with some data that ties it to previous years. Here are equivalent pages for 2016, 2014, 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.
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 2014, 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 2014 is a new entry, even if it was in the list in a previous year.
# | Title | Year | Director | IMDb | '15 | '14 | '13 | '04 | Ch |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | Frank Darabont | IMDb | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | = |
2 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | IMDb | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | = |
3 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | IMDb | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | = |
4 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | IMDb | 4 | 6 | 7 | ↑2 | |
5 | Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | IMDb | 5 | 4 | 4 | 16 | ↓1 |
6 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 1966 | Sergio Leone | IMDb | 6 | 5 | 5 | 20 | ↓1 |
7 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Sidney Lumet | IMDb | 7 | 7 | 6 | 21 | = |
8 | Schindler's List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | IMDb | 8 | 8 | 8 | 6 | = |
9 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | Peter Jackson | IMDb | 9 | 9 | 9 | 3 | = |
10 | Fight Club | 1999 | David Fincher | IMDb | 10 | 10 | 10 | 41 | = |
11 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | Peter Jackson | IMDb | 11 | 11 | 13 | 9 | = |
12 | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner | IMDb | 12 | 12 | 11 | 13 | = |
13 | Inception | 2010 | Christopher Nolan | IMDb | 13 | 14 | 14 | ↑1 | |
14 | Forrest Gump | 1994 | Robert Zemeckis | IMDb | 14 | 15 | 19 | 115 | ↑1 |
15 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 | Milos Forman | IMDb | 15 | 13 | 12 | 12 | ↓2 |
16 | Interstellar | 2014 | Christopher Nolan | IMDb | 16 | → | |||
17 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | Peter Jackson | IMDb | 17 | 19 | 21 | 8 | ↑2 |
18 | Goodfellas | 1990 | Martin Scorsese | IMDb | 18 | 16 | 15 | 29 | ↓2 |
19 | The Matrix | 1999 | Andy Wachowski Larry Wachowski |
IMDb | 19 | 20 | 18 | 34 | ↑1 |
20 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | IMDb | 20 | 17 | 16 | 10 | ↓3 |
21 | The Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa | IMDb | 21 | 18 | 17 | 5 | ↓3 |
22 | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles Kátia Lund |
IMDb | 22 | 21 | 20 | 23 | ↓1 |
23 | Se7en | 1995 | David Fincher | IMDb | 23 | 22 | 23 | 55 | ↓1 |
24 | The Usual Suspects | 1995 | Bryan Singer | IMDb | 24 | 25 | 26 | 18 | ↑1 |
25 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme | IMDb | 25 | 24 | 24 | 28 | ↓1 |
26 | It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra | IMDb | 26 | 26 | 30 | 27 | = |
27 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 1968 | Sergio Leone | IMDb | 27 | 23 | 22 | 32 | ↓4 |
28 | Leon | 1994 | Luc Besson | IMDb | 28 | 28 | 31 | 64 | = |
29 | Life is Beautiful | 1997 | Roberto Benigni | IMDb | 29 | 36 | 55 | 72 | ↑7 |
30 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | IMDb | 30 | 27 | 25 | 7 | ↓3 |
31 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 1981 | Steven Spielberg | IMDb | 31 | 29 | 27 | 17 | ↓2 |
32 | American History X | 1998 | Tony Kaye | IMDb | 32 | 32 | 34 | 61 | = |
33 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | IMDb | 33 | 31 | 29 | 25 | ↓2 |
34 | Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | Steven Spielberg | IMDb | 34 | 34 | 39 | 58 | = |
35 | City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin | IMDb | 35 | 33 | 41 | 91 | ↓2 |
36 | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki | IMDb | 36 | 38 | 43 | 43 | ↑2 |
37 | Rear Window | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | IMDb | 37 | 30 | 28 | 14 | ↓7 |
38 | The Intouchables | 2011 | Olivier Nakache Eric Toledano |
IMDb | 38 | 45 | 64 | ↑7 | |
39 | Modern Times | 1936 | Charles Chaplin | IMDb | 39 | 41 | 45 | 69 | ↑2 |
40 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | James Cameron | IMDb | 40 | 39 | 36 | 110 | ↓1 |
41 | Memento | 2000 | Christopher Nolan | IMDb | 41 | 37 | 33 | 19 | ↓4 |
42 | The Green Mile | 1999 | Frank Darabont | IMDb | 42 | 48 | 65 | 132 | ↑6 |
43 | The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski | IMDb | 43 | 43 | 49 | 37 | = |
44 | Sunset Boulevard | 1950 | Billy Wilder | IMDb | 44 | 35 | 32 | 31 | ↓9 |
45 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | IMDb | 45 | 40 | 35 | 36 | ↓5 |
46 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | IMDb | 46 | 47 | 50 | ↑1 | |
47 | Dr Strangelove | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | IMDb | 47 | 42 | 37 | 15 | ↓5 |
48 | Gladiator | 2000 | Ridley Scott | IMDb | 48 | 49 | 63 | 168 | ↑1 |
49 | Back to the Future | 1985 | Robert Zemeckis | IMDb | 49 | 46 | 47 | 143 | ↓3 |
50 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott | IMDb | 50 | 44 | 40 | 60 | ↓6 |
51 | The Prestige | 2006 | Christopher Nolan | IMDb | 51 | 61 | 68 | ↑10 | |
52 | The Great Dictator | 1940 | Charles Chaplin | IMDb | 52 | 59 | 69 | 97 | ↑7 |
53 | The Lives of Others | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | IMDb | 53 | 55 | 60 | ↑2 | |
54 | The Lion King | 1994 | Roger Allers Rob Minkoff |
IMDb | 54 | 69 | 79 | ↑15 | |
55 | The Dark Knight Rises | 2012 | Christopher Nolan | IMDb | 55 | 50 | 38 | ↓5 | |
56 | Django Unchained | 2012 | Quentin Tarantino | IMDb | 56 | 53 | ↓3 | ||
57 | Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore | IMDb | 57 | 64 | 76 | 99 | ↑7 |
58 | The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick | IMDb | 58 | 51 | 46 | 89 | ↓7 |
59 | Paths of Glory | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick | IMDb | 59 | 54 | 54 | 40 | ↓5 |
60 | American Beauty | 1999 | Sam Mendes | IMDb | 60 | 57 | 51 | 30 | ↓3 |
61 | WALL-E | 2008 | Andrew Stanton | IMDb | 61 | 60 | 59 | ↓1 | |
62 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | IMDb | 62 | 52 | 42 | 22 | ↓10 |
63 | Aliens | 1986 | James Cameron | IMDb | 63 | 62 | 58 | 87 | ↓1 |
64 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles | IMDb | 64 | 56 | 44 | 11 | ↓8 |
65 | Amelie | 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | IMDb | 65 | 65 | 62 | 26 | = |
66 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | IMDb | 66 | 63 | 48 | 33 | ↓3 |
67 | M | 1931 | Fritz Lang | IMDb | 67 | 58 | 52 | 50 | ↓9 |
68 | Toy Story 3 | 2010 | Lee Unkrich | IMDb | 68 | 66 | 56 | ↓2 | |
69 | Das Boot | 1981 | Wolfgang Peterson | IMDb | 69 | 71 | 71 | 46 | ↑2 |
70 | Oldboy | 2003 | Chan-wook Park | IMDb | 70 | 76 | 85 | ↑6 | |
71 | Grave of the Fireflies | 1988 | Isao Takahata | IMDb | 71 | 82 | 104 | 171 | ↑11 |
72 | Princess Mononoke | 1997 | Hayao Miyazaki | IMDb | 72 | 81 | 93 | 100 | ↑9 |
73 | Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand | IMDb | 73 | 78 | 81 | 131 | ↑5 |
74 | Once Upon a Time in America | 1984 | Sergio Leone | IMDb | 74 | 77 | 77 | 124 | ↑3 |
75 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | IMDb | 75 | 70 | 61 | 74 | ↓5 |
76 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese | IMDb | 76 | 68 | 53 | 42 | ↓8 |
77 | Reservoir Dogs | 1992 | Quentin Tarantino | IMDb | 77 | 74 | 70 | 71 | ↓3 |
78 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | IMDb | 78 | 67 | 57 | 45 | ↓11 |
79 | Braveheart | 1995 | Mel Gibson | IMDb | 79 | 79 | 83 | 85 | = |
80 | Requiem for a Dream | 2000 | Darren Aronofsky | IMDb | 80 | 75 | 73 | 51 | ↓5 |
81 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Robert Mulligan | IMDb | 81 | 72 | 67 | 35 | ↓9 |
82 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | IMDb | 82 | 73 | 66 | 24 | ↓9 |
83 | Witness for the Prosecution | 1957 | Billy Wilder | IMDb | 83 | 83 | 102 | 164 | = |
84 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | Michel Gondry | IMDb | 84 | 80 | 75 | 38 | ↓4 |
85 | Full Metal Jacket | 1987 | Stanley Kubrick | IMDb | 85 | 85 | 82 | 102 | = |
86 | Singin' in the Rain | 1952 | Gene Kelly Stanley Donen |
IMDb | 86 | 86 | 86 | 47 | = |
87 | The Sting | 1973 | George Roy Hill | IMDb | 87 | 90 | 98 | 67 | ↑3 |
88 | The Bicycle Thief | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica | IMDb | 88 | 84 | 91 | 104 | ↓4 |
89 | Amadeus | 1984 | Milos Forman | IMDb | 89 | 92 | 88 | 79 | ↑3 |
90 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 | Terry Gilliam Terry Jones |
IMDb | 90 | 95 | 84 | 56 | ↑5 |
91 | Snatch | 2000 | Guy Ritchie | IMDb | 91 | 104 | 112 | 221 | ↑13 |
92 | Rashomon | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa | IMDb | 92 | 91 | 90 | 57 | ↓1 |
93 | Boyhood | 2014 | Richard Linklater | IMDb | 93 | → | |||
94 | LA Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson | IMDb | 94 | 93 | 80 | 49 | ↓1 |
95 | For a Few Dollars More | 1965 | Sergio Leone | IMDb | 95 | 108 | 111 | ↑13 | |
96 | All About Eve | 1950 | Joseph L Mankiewicz | IMDb | 96 | 88 | 95 | 54 | ↓8 |
97 | The Apartment | 1960 | Billy Wilder | IMDb | 97 | 96 | 96 | 81 | ↓1 |
98 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | IMDb | 98 | 103 | 92 | 73 | ↑5 |
99 | The Kid | 1921 | Charles Chaplin | IMDb | 99 | 110 | 128 | ↑11 | |
100 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder | IMDb | 100 | 97 | 87 | 44 | ↓3 |
101 | Inglourious Basterds | 2009 | Quentin Tarantino | IMDb | 101 | 109 | 113 | ↑8 | |
102 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | John Huston | IMDb | 102 | 87 | 74 | 68 | ↓15 |
103 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | 1989 | Steven Spielberg | IMDb | 103 | 100 | 97 | 141 | ↓3 |
104 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed | IMDb | 104 | 89 | 72 | 39 | ↓15 |
105 | A Separation | 2011 | Asghar Farhadi | IMDb | 105 | 101 | 105 | ↓4 | |
106 | Yojimbo | 1961 | Akira Kurosawa | IMDb | 106 | 102 | 109 | 107 | ↓4 |
107 | Toy Story | 1995 | John Lasseter | IMDb | 107 | 113 | 118 | 177 | ↑6 |
108 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan | IMDb | 108 | 107 | 103 | ↓1 | |
109 | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang | IMDb | 109 | 98 | 89 | 86 | ↓11 |
110 | Unforgiven | 1992 | Clint Eastwood | IMDb | 110 | 105 | 94 | 127 | ↓5 |
111 | Like Stars on Earth | 2007 | Aamir Khan | IMDb | 111 | 148 | ↑37 | ||
112 | Raging Bull | 1957 | Martin Scorsese | IMDb | 112 | 106 | 99 | 59 | ↓6 |
113 | Scarface | 1983 | Brian De Palma | IMDb | 113 | 121 | 129 | ↑8 | |
114 | Gone Girl | 2014 | David Fincher | IMDb | 114 | → | |||
115 | Up | 2009 | Pete Docter | IMDb | 115 | 118 | 114 | ↑3 | |
116 | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski | IMDb | 116 | 99 | 78 | 48 | ↓17 |
117 | Downfall | 2004 | Oliver Hirschbiegel | IMDb | 117 | 116 | 107 | ↓1 | |
118 | The Great Escape | 1963 | John Sturges | IMDb | 118 | 119 | 110 | 77 | ↑1 |
119 | Die Hard | 1988 | John McTiernan | IMDb | 119 | 111 | 101 | 156 | ↓8 |
120 | 3 Idiots | 2009 | Rajkumar Hirani | IMDb | 120 | 158 | 240 | ↑38 | |
121 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan | IMDb | 121 | 115 | 115 | 78 | ↓6 |
122 | Mr Smith Goes to Washington | 1939 | Frank Capra | IMDb | 122 | 112 | 108 | 66 | ↓10 |
123 | Pan's Labyrinth | 2006 | Guillermo Del Toro | IMDb | 123 | 117 | 106 | ↓6 | |
124 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann | IMDb | 124 | 122 | 119 | 245 | ↓2 |
125 | The Hunt | 2012 | Thomas Vinterberg | IMDb | 125 | 132 | ↑7 | ||
126 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | David Lean | IMDb | 126 | 114 | 100 | 52 | ↓12 |
127 | Good Will Hunting | 1997 | Gus Van Sant | IMDb | 127 | 140 | 157 | 248 | ↑13 |
128 | My Neighbor Totoro | 1988 | Hayao Miyazaki | IMDb | 128 | 141 | 165 | ↑13 | |
129 | The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | IMDb | 129 | 124 | 117 | 95 | ↓5 |
130 | The Wolf of Wall Street | 2013 | Martin Scorsese | IMDb | 130 | → | |||
131 | The Gold Rush | 1925 | Charles Chaplin | IMDb | 131 | 130 | 137 | 151 | ↓1 |
132 | Ikiru | 1952 | Akira Kurosawa | IMDb | 132 | 120 | 193 | ↓12 | |
133 | The Elephant Man | 1980 | David Lynch | IMDb | 133 | 126 | 116 | 130 | ↓7 |
134 | Wild Strawberries | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | IMDb | 134 | 125 | 126 | 138 | ↓9 |
135 | Ran | 1985 | Akira Kurosawa | IMDb | 135 | 127 | 133 | 76 | ↓8 |
136 | Blade Runner | 1982 | Ridley Scott | IMDb | 136 | 128 | 124 | 94 | ↓8 |
137 | The General | 1926 | Buster Keaton Clyde Bruckman |
IMDb | 137 | 123 | 120 | 93 | ↓14 |
138 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | 1998 | Guy Ritchie | IMDb | 138 | 137 | 142 | 224 | ↓1 |
139 | The Secret in Their Eyes | 2009 | Juan José Campanella | IMDb | 139 | 143 | 155 | ↑4 | |
140 | Gran Torino | 2008 | Clint Eastwood | IMDb | 140 | 131 | 125 | ↓9 | |
141 | Casino | 1995 | Martin Scorsese | IMDb | 141 | 144 | 150 | ↑3 | |
142 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen | IMDb | 142 | 133 | 131 | 222 | ↓9 |
143 | Warrior | 2011 | Gavin O'Connor | IMDb | 143 | 146 | 153 | ↑3 | |
144 | Rebecca | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | IMDb | 144 | 129 | 123 | 105 | ↓15 |
145 | V for Vendetta | 2005 | James McTeigue | IMDb | 145 | 152 | 164 | ↑7 | |
146 | Howl's Moving Castle | 2004 | Hayao Miyazaki | IMDb | 146 | 168 | 189 | ↑22 | |
147 | The Deer Hunter | 1978 | Michael Cimino | IMDb | 147 | 139 | 134 | 117 | ↓8 |
148 | Paint It Yellow | 2006 | Rakesh Omprakash Mehra | IMDb | 148 | 156 | ↑8 | ||
149 | It Happened One Night | 1934 | Frank Capra | IMDb | 149 | 135 | 140 | 113 | ↓14 |
150 | Cool Hand Luke | 1967 | Stuart Rosenberg | IMDb | 150 | 138 | 135 | 121 | ↓12 |
151 | How to Train Your Dragon | 2010 | Dean DeBlois Chris Sanders |
IMDb | 151 | 165 | 166 | ↑14 | |
152 | Fargo | 1996 | Joel Coen | IMDb | 152 | 136 | 127 | 88 | ↓16 |
153 | Judgment at Nuremberg | 1961 | Stanley Kramer | IMDb | 153 | 145 | 250 | ↓8 | |
154 | Trainspotting | 1996 | Danny Boyle | IMDb | 154 | 149 | 151 | 203 | ↓5 |
155 | Guardians of the Galaxy | 2014 | James Gunn | IMDb | 155 | → | |||
156 | Rush | 2013 | Ron Howard | IMDb | 156 | 142 | ↓14 | ||
157 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | IMDb | 157 | 151 | 158 | 148 | ↓6 |
158 | Into the Wild | 2007 | Sean Penn | IMDb | 158 | 161 | 161 | ↑3 | |
159 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston | IMDb | 159 | 134 | 121 | 53 | ↓25 |
160 | A Beautiful Mind | 2001 | Ron Howard | IMDb | 160 | 182 | 199 | ↑22 | |
161 | The Wages of Fear | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | IMDb | 161 | → | |||
162 | Dial M for Murder | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | IMDb | 162 | 166 | 167 | ↑4 | |
163 | The Sixth Sense | 1999 | M Night Shyamalan | IMDb | 163 | 153 | 143 | 96 | ↓10 |
164 | Hotel Rwanda | 2004 | Terry George | IMDb | 164 | 155 | 146 | ↓9 | |
165 | The Thing | 1982 | John Carpenter | IMDb | 165 | 164 | 147 | ↓1 | |
166 | Do Your Thing | 2001 | Farhan Akhtar | IMDb | 166 | → | |||
167 | Finding Nemo | 2003 | Andrew Stanton | IMDb | 167 | 170 | 163 | 75 | ↑3 |
168 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | Joel Coen Ethan Coen |
IMDb | 168 | 160 | 139 | ↓8 | |
169 | Mary and Max | 2009 | Adam Elliot | IMDb | 169 | 175 | 183 | ↑6 | |
170 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill | IMDb | 170 | 154 | 148 | 112 | ↓16 |
171 | Kill Bill: Vol 1 | 2003 | Quentin Tarantino | IMDb | 171 | 163 | 152 | 63 | ↓8 |
172 | Platoon | 1986 | Oliver Stone | IMDb | 172 | 162 | 144 | 147 | ↓10 |
173 | Life of Brian | 1979 | Terry Jones | IMDb | 173 | 174 | 162 | 159 | ↑1 |
174 | Incendies | 2010 | Denis Villeneuve | IMDb | 174 | 202 | 226 | ↑28 | |
175 | 12 Years a Slave | 2013 | Steve McQueen | IMDb | 175 | → | |||
176 | Network | 1976 | Sidney Lumet | IMDb | 176 | 172 | 170 | 217 | ↓4 |
177 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles | IMDb | 177 | 150 | 132 | 70 | ↓27 |
178 | Annie Hall | 1977 | Woody Allen | IMDb | 178 | 157 | 154 | 80 | ↓21 |
179 | Les diaboliques | 1955 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | IMDb | 179 | 147 | ↓32 | ||
180 | Sin City | 2005 | Robert Rodriguez Quentin Tarantino Frank Miller |
IMDb | 180 | 159 | 136 | ↓21 | |
181 | The Princess Bride | 1987 | Rob Reiner | IMDb | 181 | 188 | 191 | 101 | ↑7 |
182 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | 2014 | Wes Anderson | IMDb | 182 | → | |||
183 | Stand by Me | 1986 | Rob Reiner | IMDb | 183 | 184 | 175 | 196 | ↑1 |
184 | There Will Be Blood | 2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson | IMDb | 184 | 185 | 173 | ↑1 | |
185 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler | IMDb | 185 | 186 | 169 | 129 | ↑1 |
186 | Amores Perros | 2000 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | IMDb | 186 | 180 | 181 | 139 | ↓6 |
187 | The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut | IMDb | 187 | 179 | 184 | 160 | ↓8 |
188 | In the Name of the Father | 1993 | Jim Sheridan | IMDb | 188 | 200 | 221 | ↑12 | |
189 | The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | John Ford | IMDb | 189 | 167 | 159 | 136 | ↓22 |
190 | Million Dollar Baby | 2004 | Clint Eastwood | IMDb | 190 | 183 | 172 | ↓7 | |
191 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming | IMDb | 191 | 173 | 149 | 62 | ↓18 |
192 | Hachi: A Dog's Tale | 2009 | Lasse Hallström | IMDb | 192 | 213 | ↑21 | ||
193 | Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman | IMDb | 193 | 190 | 185 | 235 | ↓3 |
194 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | William Wyler | IMDb | 194 | 171 | 106 | ↓23 | |
195 | The Avengers | 2012 | Joss Whedon | IMDb | 195 | 176 | 130 | ↓19 | |
196 | Gangs of Wasseypur | 2012 | Anurag Kashyap | IMDb | 196 | → | |||
197 | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | 1984 | Hayao Miyazaki | IMDb | 197 | 210 | ↑13 | ||
198 | The Bourne Ultimatum | 2007 | Paul Greengrass | IMDb | 198 | 193 | 182 | ↓5 | |
199 | Gandhi | 1982 | Richard Attenborough | IMDb | 199 | 192 | 187 | 192 | ↓7 |
200 | 8½ | 1963 | Federico Fellini | IMDb | 200 | 197 | 192 | 212 | ↓3 |
201 | Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly | IMDb | 201 | 191 | 176 | 92 | ↓10 |
202 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock | IMDb | 202 | 177 | 138 | 90 | ↓25 |
203 | X-Men: Days of Future Past | 2014 | Bryan Singer | IMDb | 203 | → | |||
204 | Infernal Affairs | 2002 | Wai-keung Lau Alan Mak |
IMDb | 204 | 203 | 212 | ↓1 | |
205 | Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg | IMDb | 205 | 181 | 141 | 82 | ↓24 |
206 | Stalker | 1979 | Andrey Tarkovskiy | IMDb | 206 | 217 | 213 | ↑11 | |
207 | High Noon | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann | IMDb | 207 | 178 | 145 | 84 | ↓29 |
208 | Twelve Monkeys | 1995 | Terry Gilliam | IMDb | 208 | 195 | 180 | 199 | ↓13 |
209 | Shutter Island | 2010 | Martin Scorsese | IMDb | 209 | 240 | 234 | ↑31 | |
210 | Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India | 2001 | Ashutosh Gowariker | IMDb | 210 | 215 | ↑5 | ||
211 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | IMDb | 211 | 187 | 156 | 103 | ↓24 |
212 | The King's Speech | 2010 | Tom Hooper | IMDb | 212 | 189 | 160 | ↓23 | |
213 | The Terminator | 1984 | James Cameron | IMDb | 213 | 196 | 171 | 202 | ↓17 |
214 | Fanny and Alexander | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman | IMDb | 214 | 194 | 236 | ↓20 | |
215 | Before Sunrise | 1995 | Richard Linklater | IMDb | 215 | 231 | ↑16 | ||
216 | Groundhog Day | 1993 | Harold Ramis | IMDb | 216 | 201 | 178 | 204 | ↓15 |
217 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | 2011 | David Yates | IMDb | 217 | 227 | 220 | ↑10 | |
218 | The Battle of Algiers | 1965 | Gillo Pontecorvo | IMDb | 218 | → | |||
219 | Ip Man | 2008 | Wilson Yip | IMDb | 219 | 220 | 217 | ↑1 | |
220 | Rocky | 1976 | John G Avildsen | IMDb | 220 | 212 | 201 | ↓8 | |
221 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton | IMDb | 221 | 198 | 174 | 142 | ↓23 |
222 | Dog Day Afternoon | 1975 | Sidney Lumet | IMDb | 222 | 204 | 179 | 198 | ↓18 |
223 | Monsters, Inc | 2001 | Pete Docter David Silverman |
IMDb | 223 | 226 | 222 | 161 | ↑3 |
224 | La haine | 1995 | Mathieu Kassovitz | IMDb | 224 | 224 | 230 | = | |
225 | La strada | 1954 | Federico Fellini | IMDb | 225 | 205 | 198 | 209 | ↓20 |
226 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 1966 | Mike Nichols | IMDb | 226 | 206 | 196 | 190 | ↓20 |
227 | Memories of Murder | 2003 | Joon-ho Bong | IMDb | 227 | 218 | ↓9 | ||
228 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | 2003 | Gore Verbinski | IMDb | 228 | 225 | 216 | 188 | ↓3 |
229 | Barry Lyndon | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick | IMDb | 229 | 214 | 209 | ↓15 | |
230 | A Fistful of Dollars | 1964 | Sergio Leone | IMDb | 230 | 241 | 223 | ↑11 | |
231 | Castle in the Sky | 1986 | Hayao Miyazaki | IMDb | 231 | 230 | 244 | ↓1 | |
232 | The Truman Show | 1998 | Peter Weir | IMDb | 232 | 239 | 215 | ↑7 | |
233 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | IMDb | 233 | 199 | 168 | 108 | ↓34 |
234 | The Help | 2011 | Tate Taylor | IMDb | 234 | 248 | ↑14 | ||
235 | Roman Holiday | 1953 | William Wyler | IMDb | 235 | 219 | 214 | 169 | ↓16 |
236 | The Graduate | 1967 | Mike Nichols | IMDb | 236 | 207 | 186 | 116 | ↓29 |
237 | Jurassic Park | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | IMDb | 237 | 250 | 245 | ↑13 | |
238 | The Hustler | 1961 | Robert Rossen | IMDb | 238 | 209 | 197 | 150 | ↓29 |
239 | Swades: We, the People | 2004 | Ashutosh Gowariker | IMDb | 239 | → | |||
240 | The Celebration | 1998 | Thomas Vinterberg | IMDb | 240 | 221 | 167 | ↓19 | |
241 | Beauty and the Beast | 1991 | Gary Trousdale Kirk Wise |
IMDb | 241 | 227 | 243 | → | |
242 | In the Mood for Love | 2000 | Wong Kar Wai | IMDb | 242 | 238 | ↓4 | ||
243 | Papillon | 1973 | Franklin J Schaffner | IMDb | 243 | 242 | → | ||
244 | Stalag 17 | 1953 | Billy Wilder | IMDb | 244 | 211 | 204 | 134 | ↓33 |
245 | Rope | 1948 | Alfred Hitchcock | IMDb | 245 | 235 | 207 | ↓10 | |
246 | Prisoners | 2013 | Denis Villeneuve | IMDb | 246 | 234 | ↓12 | ||
247 | Three Colours: Red | 1994 | Krystof Krystofski | IMDb | 247 | 237 | 184 | ↓10 | |
248 | Underground | 1995 | Emir Kusturica | IMDb | 248 | 232 | ↓16 | ||
249 | Before Sunset | 2004 | Richard Linklater | IMDb | 249 | → | |||
250 | Paris, Texas | 1984 | Wim Wenders | IMDb | 250 | → |
The mean is 1983, the median 1988 and the mode 1995.
73 films moved up the list, while 140 moved down and 20 remained in the same spot. There were 17 new entries. The average variance was 9.16.
Here's how the films break down by decade, with comparative data to 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2004:
Decade | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2004 |
---|---|---|---|---|
1920s | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 |
1930s | 7 | 7 | 9 | 18 |
1940s | 15 | 15 | 16 | 24 |
1950s | 30 | 31 | 31 | 33 |
1960s | 21 | 23 | 24 | 28 |
1970s | 21 | 21 | 24 | 25 |
1980s | 29 | 29 | 28 | 32 |
1990s | 43 | 42 | 39 | 44 |
2000s | 54 | 55 | 55 | 39 |
2010s | 26 | 23 | 18 | 0 |
Here are all the films that entered the IMDb Top 250 since 1st January, 2014 that were still there on 1st January, 2015. They're sorted by position.
# | Title | Year | Director | IMDb | '15 | '14 | '13 | '04 | Ch |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
16 | Interstellar | 2014 | Christopher Nolan | IMDb | 16 | → | |||
93 | Boyhood | 2014 | Richard Linklater | IMDb | 93 | → | |||
114 | Gone Girl | 2014 | David Fincher | IMDb | 114 | → | |||
130 | The Wolf of Wall Street | 2013 | Martin Scorsese | IMDb | 130 | → | |||
155 | Guardians of the Galaxy | 2014 | James Gunn | IMDb | 155 | → | |||
161 | The Wages of Fear | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | IMDb | 161 | → | |||
166 | Do Your Thing | 2001 | Farhan Akhtar | IMDb | 166 | → | |||
175 | 12 Years a Slave | 2013 | Steve McQueen | IMDb | 175 | → | |||
182 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | 2014 | Wes Anderson | IMDb | 182 | → | |||
196 | Gangs of Wasseypur | 2012 | Anurag Kashyap | IMDb | 196 | → | |||
203 | X-Men: Days of Future Past | 2014 | Bryan Singer | IMDb | 203 | → | |||
218 | The Battle of Algiers | 1965 | Gillo Pontecorvo | IMDb | 218 | → | |||
239 | Swades: We, the People | 2004 | Ashutosh Gowariker | IMDb | 239 | → | |||
241 | Beauty and the Beast | 1991 | Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise | IMDb | 241 | 227 | 243 | → | |
243 | Papillon | 1973 | Franklin J Schaffner | IMDb | 243 | 242 | → | ||
249 | Before Sunset | 2004 | Richard Linklater | IMDb | 249 | → | |||
250 | Paris, Texas | 1984 | Wim Wenders | IMDb | 250 | → |
Here are all the films that were in the IMDb Top 250 on 1st January, 2014 but had dropped out by 1st January, 2015. They're sorted by the number of positions they dropped.
# | Title | Year | Director | IMDb | '15 | '14 | '13 | '04 | Ch |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gravity | 2013 | Alfonso Cuarón | IMDb | 94 | ← | ||||
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | 2013 | Peter Jackson | IMDb | 169 | ← | ||||
The Killing | 1956 | Stanley Kubrick | IMDb | 208 | 188 | 178 | ← | ||
Black Swan | 2010 | Darren Aronofsky | IMDb | 216 | 177 | ← | |||
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 1962 | John Ford | IMDb | 222 | 208 | 165 | ← | ||
Slumdog Millionaire | 2008 | Danny Boyle | IMDb | 223 | 194 | ← | |||
Before Midnight | 2013 | Richard Linklater | IMDb | 228 | ← | ||||
A Christmas Story | 1983 | Bob Clark | IMDb | 229 | 146 | ← | |||
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | 2007 | Julian Schnabel | IMDb | 233 | 219 | ← | |||
Anatomy of a Murder | 1959 | Otto Preminger | IMDb | 236 | 203 | ← | |||
The Manchurian Candidate | 1962 | John Frankenheimer | IMDb | 242 | 200 | 65 | ← | ||
The Exorcist | 1973 | William Friedkin | IMDb | 243 | 205 | 197 | ← | ||
Life of Pi | 2012 | Ang Lee | IMDb | 244 | 190 | ← | |||
La dolce vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini | IMDb | 245 | ← | ||||
Star Trek | 2009 | J J Abrams | IMDb | 246 | 225 | ← | |||
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within | 2010 | José Padilha | IMDb | 247 | ← | ||||
Departures | 2008 | Yojiro Takita | IMDb | 249 | ← |
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