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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
101
 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 4 146
102
 Beau Travail 2000 Claire Denis 3 146
103
 A Man Escaped 1956 Robert Bresson 4 145
104
 The Ascent 1977 Larisa Shepitko 4 143
105
 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 4 142
106
 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 5 141
107
 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 5 141
108
 Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi 4 138
109
 Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders 4 138
110
 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 4 137
111
 Cléo from 5 to 7 1962 Agnès Varda 4 136
112
 Whiplash 2014 Damien Chazelle 3 135
113
 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 4 134
114
 Interstellar 2014 Christopher Nolan 2 134
115
 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid 3 134
116
 The Human Condition I: No Greater Love 1959 Masaki Kobayashi 2 134
117
 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 5 133
118
 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 4 131
119
 A Separation 2011 Asghar Farhadi 4 131
120
 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 2 131
121
 L'Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo 2 130
122
 All About Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 5 129
123
 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 5 129
124
 Au Hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson 2 129
125
 Oldboy 2003 Park Chan-wook 4 128
126
 I Am Cuba 1964 Mikhail Kalatozov 3 128
127
 La Haine 1995 Mathieu Kassovitz 4 128
128
 The Great Dictator 1940 Charlie Chaplin 4 127
129
 Le Trou 1960 Jacques Becker 3 127
130
 Chungking Express 1994 Wong Kar-Wai 4 127
131
 No Country for Old Men 2007 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen 4 127
132
 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023 Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, Joaquim Dos Santos 3 125
133
 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 4 125
134
 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry 4 124
135
 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 3 124
136
 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 4 124
137
 Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei Eisenstein 2 123
138
 The Cranes Are Flying 1957 Mikhail Kalatozov 3 122
139
 Memories of Murder 2003 Bong Joon Ho 4 122
140
 Sans Soleil 1983 Chris Marker 3 121
141
 Nights of Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini 3 120
142
 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton 5 120
143
 My Neighbor Totoro 1988 Hayao Miyazaki 5 120
144
 Life Is Beautiful 1997 Roberto Benigni 2 118
145
 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 5 118
146
 Amadeus 1984 Miloš Forman 4 118
147
 La Jetée 1962 Chris Marker 3 117
148
 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 Billy Wilder 3 116
149
 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018 Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman 3 115
150
 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 4 115
151
 The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski 3 113
152
 A Matter of Life and Death 1946 Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell 4 111
153
 Contempt 1963 Jean-Luc Godard 2 110
154
 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 4 110
155
 Werckmeister Harmonies 2001 Béla Tarr 4 109
156
 Love Exposure 2008 Sion Sono 2 109
157
 WALL·E 2008 Andrew Stanton 4 109
158
 Decalogue V 1989 Krzysztof Kieślowski 2 108
159
 Aguirre, the Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog 3 107
160
 Where Is The Friend's House? 1987 Abbas Kiarostami 4 107
161
 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen 3 107
162
 Inglourious Basterds 2009 Quentin Tarantino 4 107
163
 Daisies 1966 Věra Chytilová 2 107
164
 L'Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 2 107
165
 The Mother and the Whore 1973 Jean Eustache 3 107
166
 The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch 4 106
167
 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 3 106
168
 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 4 106
169
 Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1990 Jean-Luc Godard 3 106
170
 The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity 1959 Masaki Kobayashi 2 105
171
 Autumn Sonata 1978 Ingmar Bergman 2 105
172
 Céline and Julie Go Boating 1974 Jacques Rivette 4 105
173
 It's Such a Beautiful Day 2012 Don Hertzfeldt 2 104
174
 The World of Apu 1959 Satyajit Ray 3 103
175
 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 4 103
176
 Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 4 103
177
 Scenes from a Marriage 1974 Ingmar Bergman 3 103
178
 The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 Víctor Erice 4 103
179
 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg 5 102
180
 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 3 102
181
 Inception 2010 Christopher Nolan 2 101
182
 The Green Mile 1999 Frank Darabont 2 101
183
 Perfect Blue 1998 Satoshi Kon 2 101
184
 The Odyssey 2026 Christopher Nolan 2 100
185
 Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks 2004 Wang Bing 3 100
186
 Incendies 2010 Denis Villeneuve 2 99
187
 The Young and the Damned 1950 Luis Buñuel 4 99
188
 Army of Shadows 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville 4 99
189
 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 3 98
190
 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 4 98
191
 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese 2 98
192
 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 3 97
193
 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 2 97
194
 Journey to Italy 1954 Roberto Rossellini 2 97
195
 Killer of Sheep 1978 Charles Burnett 2 97
196
 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 3 97
197
 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks 3 96
198
 Three Colors: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieślowski 3 96
199
 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen 4 95
200
 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 4 95