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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
301
 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam 4 68
302
 Black Girl 1966 Ousmane Sembène 2 67
303
 American History X 1998 Tony Kaye 2 67
304
 Possession 1981 Andrzej Żuławski 3 67
305
 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 3 66
306
 The Truman Show 1998 Peter Weir 3 66
307
 Farewell My Concubine 1993 Chen Kaige 2 66
308
 The Handmaiden 2016 Park Chan-wook 3 65
309
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1965 Pier Paolo Pasolini 2 65
310
 Swing Girls 2004 Shinobu Yaguchi 2 65
311
 Ace in the Hole 1951 Billy Wilder 3 65
312
 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls 2 65
313
 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 3 65
314
 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 3 65
315
 Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc 2025 Tatsuya Yoshihara 3 65
316
 Howl's Moving Castle 2004 Hayao Miyazaki 2 64
317
 The King of Comedy 1982 Martin Scorsese 3 64
318
 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 3 64
319
 Viridiana 1962 Luis Buñuel 2 64
320
 Kes 1970 Ken Loach 3 64
321
 Get Out 2017 Jordan Peele 2 64
322
 Vampyr 1932 Carl Theodor Dreyer 2 63
323
 Goodbye, Dragon Inn 2003 Tsai Ming-liang 2 63
324
 Nostalgia 1983 Andrei Tarkovsky 3 63
325
 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 2 63
326
 The Life of Oharu 1952 Kenji Mizoguchi 2 63
327
 Landscape in the Mist 1988 Theo Angelopoulos 3 63
328
 Life, and Nothing More… 1992 Abbas Kiarostami 3 63
329
 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 3 63
330
 Un Chien Andalou 1929 Luis Buñuel 2 63
331
 The Intouchables 2011 Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache 2 63
332
 Your Name. 2016 Makoto Shinkai 2 62
333
 Prisoners 2013 Denis Villeneuve 2 62
334
 L'Argent 1983 Robert Bresson 2 62
335
 Rome, Open City 1945 Roberto Rossellini 3 62
336
 Dead Poets Society 1989 Peter Weir 3 62
337
 Mad Max: Fury Road 2015 George Miller 5 62
338
 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese 4 62
339
 All About My Mother 1999 Pedro Almodóvar 3 61
340
 L'Eclisse 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni 2 61
341
 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray 4 61
342
 Day of Wrath 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer 2 61
343
 Winter Light 1963 Ingmar Bergman 3 61
344
 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 4 61
345
 The Kid 1921 Charlie Chaplin 3 61
346
 Edvard Munch 1974 Peter Watkins 2 61
347
 Léon: The Professional 1994 Luc Besson 2 61
348
 Secrets & Lies 1996 Mike Leigh 3 60
349
 Il Sorpasso 1962 Dino Risi 3 60
350
 Nosferatu 1922 F. W. Murnau 2 60
351
 We All Loved Each Other So Much 1974 Ettore Scola 3 60
352
 A City of Sadness 1989 Hou Hsiao-hsien 2 60
353
 Capernaum 2018 Nadine Labaki 2 59
354
 Black Narcissus 1947 Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell 2 59
355
 Project Hail Mary 2026 Phil Lord, Christopher Miller 2 58
356
 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras 3 58
357
 Mary and Max 2009 Adam Elliot 3 58
358
 Happy Together 1997 Wong Kar-Wai 4 58
359
 La Ciénaga 2001 Lucrecia Martel 2 58
360
 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages 1916 D.W. Griffith 2 58
361
 Amélie 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 3 57
362
 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock 2 57
363
 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 3 57
364
 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 3 57
365
 All That Heaven Allows 1955 Douglas Sirk 2 56
366
 The River 1951 Jean Renoir 2 56
367
 The Father 2020 Florian Zeller 2 56
368
 The Turin Horse 2011 Béla Tarr 3 56
369
 I Swear 2025 Kirk Jones 2 56
370
 Night and Fog 1956 Alain Resnais 2 55
371
 Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie 2026 Matt Johnson 2 55
372
 The Green Ray 1986 Éric Rohmer 4 55
373
 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene 2 55
374
 India Song 1975 Marguerite Duras 2 55
375
 Monster 2023 Hirokazu Kore-eda 2 55
376
 The Tree of Life 2011 Terrence Malick 2 55
377
 Koyaanisqatsi 1983 Godfrey Reggio 2 55
378
 Red Desert 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni 2 54
379
 Memories of Underdevelopment 1968 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 2 54
380
 Children of Men 2006 Alfonso Cuarón 2 54
381
 The Cremator 1969 Juraj Herz 2 54
382
 Paisan 1946 Roberto Rossellini 2 54
383
 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 2 54
384
 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 3 54
385
 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Stanley Kubrick 2 53
386
 The Devils 1971 Ken Russell 3 53
387
 The Tale of The Princess Kaguya 2013 Isao Takahata 2 53
388
 The Shop Around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 3 53
389
 A Special Day 1977 Ettore Scola 2 53
390
 Still Walking 2008 Hirokazu Kore-eda 2 53
391
 Dogville 2003 Lars von Trier 3 52
392
 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 4 52
393
 Wavelength 1967 Michael Snow 2 52
394
 Hoop Dreams 1994 Steve James 2 52
395
 Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009 Wes Anderson 2 52
396
 F for Fake 1973 Orson Welles, François Reichenbach 2 52
397
 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 2 52
398
 12th Fail 2023 Vidhu Vinod Chopra 2 52
399
 The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014 Wes Anderson 3 51
400
 Perfect Days 2023 Wim Wenders 2 51