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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
201
 Wanda 1970 Barbara Loden 2 95
202
 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 3 95
203
 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 3 95
204
 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 5 94
205
 Moonlight 2016 Barry Jenkins 3 94
206
 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper 3 94
207
 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 3 93
208
 Napoleon 1927 Abel Gance 3 93
209
 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 David Lynch 4 93
210
 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean 4 93
211
 An Elephant Sitting Still 2018 Hu Bo 2 93
212
 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen 3 93
213
 Taste of Cherry 1997 Abbas Kiarostami 4 93
214
 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Luchino Visconti 3 93
215
 Dune: Part Two 2024 Denis Villeneuve 2 92
216
 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 3 91
217
 Django Unchained 2012 Quentin Tarantino 2 91
218
 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 4 91
219
 The Lives of Others 2006 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 3 91
220
 The Celebration 1998 Thomas Vinterberg 3 91
221
 The Conformist 1971 Bernardo Bertolucci 3 90
222
 The Prestige 2006 Christopher Nolan 2 90
223
 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 4 90
224
 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse 3 90
225
 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 4 89
226
 Good Will Hunting 1997 Gus Van Sant 2 89
227
 News from Home 1977 Chantal Akerman 2 88
228
 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais 3 87
229
 The Colour of Pomegranates 1969 Sergei Parajanov 3 87
230
 Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa 3 86
231
 The Earrings of Madame de... 1953 Max Ophüls 2 85
232
 Paper Moon 1973 Peter Bogdanovich 3 85
233
 La Notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 3 85
234
 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim 3 85
235
 Imitation of Life 1959 Douglas Sirk 2 85
236
 Touki Bouki 1973 Djibril Diop Mambéty 2 84
237
 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 3 84
238
 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985 Paul Schrader 2 84
239
 Tropical Malady 2004 Apichatpong Weerasethakul 3 84
240
 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick 4 84
241
 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 4 83
242
 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Zhang Yimou 3 83
243
 The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967 Jacques Demy 4 83
244
 The Gold Rush 1925 Charlie Chaplin 4 83
245
 The Gleaners and I 2000 Agnès Varda 2 83
246
 The Sacrifice 1986 Andrei Tarkovsky 3 82
247
 Akira 1988 Katsuhiro Otomo 3 82
248
 Daughters of the Dust 1991 Julie Dash 2 81
249
 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 3 81
250
 Eraserhead 1977 David Lynch 2 81
251
 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa 3 80
252
 The Lion King 1994 Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff 2 79
253
 Underground 1995 Emir Kusturica 3 79
254
 Love Streams 1984 John Cassavetes 4 79
255
 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 2 79
256
 Before Sunset 2004 Richard Linklater 4 78
257
 Opening Night 1977 John Cassavetes 3 78
258
 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 4 78
259
 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 2 78
260
 For a Few Dollars More 1965 Sergio Leone 3 78
261
 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 4 77
262
 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 2 77
263
 An Autumn Afternoon 1962 Yasujirō Ozu 4 77
264
 Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson 2 77
265
 As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 2000 Jonas Mekas 3 77
266
 Gertrud 1964 Carl Theodor Dreyer 2 77
267
 Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini 2 76
268
 Cure 1997 Kiyoshi Kurosawa 3 76
269
 Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica 3 76
270
 Cries and Whispers 1972 Ingmar Bergman 4 76
271
 Paris Is Burning 1991 Jennie Livingston 3 76
272
 The Exterminating Angel 1962 Luis Buñuel 4 75
273
 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy 3 75
274
 Before Sunrise 1995 Richard Linklater 4 75
275
 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 3 74
276
 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 3 74
277
 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 3 74
278
 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 4 73
279
 La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini 3 73
280
 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 2 72
281
 Funeral Parade of Roses 1969 Toshio Matsumoto 3 72
282
 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 4 72
283
 Partie de campagne 1936 Jean Renoir 2 72
284
 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 2 72
285
 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 2 71
286
 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Stanley Kramer 3 71
287
 The Hunt 2012 Thomas Vinterberg 3 71
288
 Vagabond 1985 Agnès Varda 2 71
289
 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 3 71
290
 Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959 Alain Resnais 3 70
291
 Out 1 1990 Jacques Rivette 3 70
292
 Dersu Uzala 1975 Akira Kurosawa 3 70
293
 Le Samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville 3 70
294
 Nobody Knows 2004 Hirokazu Kore-eda 2 70
295
 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Howard Hawks 2 69
296
 The Act of Killing 2012 Joshua Oppenheimer 2 69
297
 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 3 68
298
 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 2 68
299
 The House Is Black 1963 Forugh Farrokhzad 2 68
300
 Vivre Sa Vie 1962 Jean-Luc Godard 2 68