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I've been getting into watching movies recently, but there are so many "Top Movies" lists out there that it's hard to know what to follow.

Movies probably have the most interesting "ranking" scene I've seen, as the rankings created by movie critics (e.g. Sight and Sound) are dramtically different from the rankings you'd see from cinephiles (letterboxd) or casual watchers (imdb).

This is my attempt at creating a single list that aggregates the entire range of perspectives and rankings into one place. (although finding a balance is hard)

This list doesn't necessarily reflect what the "best" films are (that's extremely subjective), but rather what films are most likely to be well-recieved in spite of any one person's relationship with movies.

My own ranking and opinion has no sway over this list. But you can see what I'd call my favorites here.

the movies i've watched have

I'll be re-doing this soon, this is my old top movies list.

Xeno's Aggregate Top Movies of All Time

Rank Title Year Director Sources Score
1
 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 5 335
2
 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 5 311
3
 The Godfather Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 5 288
4
 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 5 284
5
 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 5 274
6
 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujirō Ozu 5 258
7
 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 5 254
8
 Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov 5 252
9
 GoodFellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 5 249
10
 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 5 247
11
 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet 4 244
12
 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 5 244
13
 Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki 5 237
14
 Parasite 2019 Bong Joon Ho 5 237
15
 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 5 236
16
 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer 5 231
17
 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen 5 231
18
 Harakiri 1962 Masaki Kobayashi 4 229
19
 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 5 227
20
 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 4 227
21
 Mulholland Drive 2001 David Lynch 4 224
22
 Sunset Boulevard 1950 Billy Wilder 5 224
23
 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 5 223
24
 City Lights 1931 Charlie Chaplin 5 218
25
 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 5 218
26
 In the Mood for Love 2000 Wong Kar-Wai 4 217
27
 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 4 217
28
 Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1976 Chantal Akerman 4 212
29
 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky 4 212
30
 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky 4 212
31
 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 4 210
32
 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 5 207
33
 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 5 206
34
 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 5 205
35
 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 5 204
36
 City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles 4 204
37
 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 4 201
38
 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 4 200
39
 Close-Up 1990 Abbas Kiarostami 4 200
40
 Yi Yi 2000 Edward Yang 4 198
41
 Bicycle Thieves 1948 Vittorio De Sica 5 198
42
 There Will Be Blood 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson 5 198
43
 8½ 1963 Federico Fellini 4 198
44
 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 5 197
45
 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927 F. W. Murnau 4 195
46
 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 5 194
47
 Casablanca 1943 Michael Curtiz 5 194
48
 Mirror 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky 4 193
49
 M 1931 Fritz Lang 5 192
50
 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 4 192
51
 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 4 192
52
 A Brighter Summer Day 1991 Edward Yang 4 192
53
 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Miloš Forman 4 191
54
 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 5 189
55
 Modern Times 1936 Charlie Chaplin 5 188
56
 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 4 187
57
 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 5 185
58
 Late Spring 1949 Yasujirō Ozu 4 184
59
 Grave of the Fireflies 1988 Isao Takahata 5 182
60
 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 5 181
61
 Man with a Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov 3 179
62
 Satantango 1994 Béla Tarr 4 178
63
 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan 4 177
64
 Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer 4 177
65
 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 5 173
66
 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter 5 172
67
 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 5 171
68
 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 4 170
69
 Rashomon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 5 170
70
 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 4 169
71
 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi 4 169
72
 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman 4 168
73
 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 4 168
74
 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 3 168
75
 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 4 168
76
 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 5 167
77
 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 4 167
78
 Sherlock Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 5 167
79
 A Woman Under the Influence 1974 John Cassavetes 4 167
80
 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 4 166
81
 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 5 166
82
 Woman in the Dunes 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara 4 164
83
 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 4 164
84
 Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019 Céline Sciamma 4 163
85
 The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer 1961 Masaki Kobayashi 2 160
86
 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 4 160
87
 PlayTime 1967 Jacques Tati 4 158
88
 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman 5 157
89
 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 4 157
90
 Princess Mononoke 1997 Hayao Miyazaki 4 154
91
 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman 5 154
92
 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 2 153
93
 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 5 153
94
 Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann 3 151
95
 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore 3 151
96
 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 3 150
97
 The Matrix 1999 Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski 5 148
98
 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 5 148
99
 Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion 1997 Kazuya Tsurumaki, Hideaki Anno 2 148
100
 Se7en 1995 David Fincher 4 146