# Top 50 Movies All Time - IMDB.com
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**Created:** [October 26, 2005, 12:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/top-50-movies-all-time-imdb-com/3853 "2005-10-26T12:49:38Z")
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### Author:  [@JaysGreenLX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JaysGreenLX)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2005, 12:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/top-50-movies-all-time-imdb-com/3853/1 "2005-10-26T12:49:38Z")
The list is 250 movies long but here is the top 50.
I have seen 25 of them…how many have you seen?
1. 9.0 The Godfather (1972) 139,610
2. 9.0 The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 168,980
3. 8.9 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 123,108
4. 8.9 The Godfather: Part II (1974) 80,305
5. 8.8 Schindler’s List (1993) 107,587
6. 8.8 Shichinin no samurai (1954) 37,030
7. 8.7 Casablanca (1942) 72,614
8. 8.7 Star Wars (1977) 150,701
9. 8.7 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 117,345
10. 8.7 Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) 36,093
11. 8.7 Pulp Fiction (1994) 149,859
12. 8.7 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) 77,407
13. 8.7 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 173,265
14. 8.7 Rear Window (1954) 45,377
15. 8.7 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 129,927
16. 8.6 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 69,973
17. 8.6 Citizen Kane (1941) 66,687
18. 8.6 The Usual Suspects (1995) 113,926
19. 8.6 Cidade de Deus (2002) 33,439
20. 8.6 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 102,342
21. 8.6 12 Angry Men (1957) 32,929
22. 8.6 Memento (2000) 101,518
23. 8.6 C’era una volta il West (1968) 20,304
24. 8.6 North by Northwest (1959) 39,062
25. 8.5 Psycho (1960) 59,030
26. 8.5 Goodfellas (1990) 76,397
27. 8.5 Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 34,270
28. 8.5 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 100,434
29. 8.5 Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 67,332
30. 8.5 It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) 44,653
31. 8.5 Sunset Blvd. (1950) 18,195
32. 8.5 American Beauty (1999) 120,651
33. 8.5 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 59,312
34. 8.5 The Matrix (1999) 157,955
35. 8.4 Fight Club (1999) 126,901
36. 8.4 Vertigo (1958) 37,208
37. 8.4 Apocalypse Now (1979) 71,481
38. 8.4 The Pianist (2002) 35,982
39. 8.4 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 33,266
40. 8.4 Taxi Driver (1976) 53,316
41. 8.4 Paths of Glory (1957) 16,208
42. 8.4 Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) 29,178
43. 8.4 Se7en (1995) 98,688
44. 8.4 The Third Man (1949) 20,347
45. 8.4 Hotel Rwanda (2004) 15,703
46. 8.3 Boot, Das (1981) 31,776
47. 8.3 Léon (1994) 59,945
48. 8.3 Chinatown (1974) 28,615
49. 8.3 Requiem for a Dream (2000) 55,348
50. 8.3 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 67,253
Some foreign names translated:
quote:
Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il = **The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly**
Cidade de Deus = **City of God**
C’era una volta il West = **Once Upon a Time in the West**
Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain, Le = **Amelie**
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi = **Spirited Away**
Where the list comes from:
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The formula for calculating the Top Rated 250 Titles gives a true Bayesian estimate:
weighted rank (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C where: R = average for the movie (mean) = (Rating) v = number of votes for the movie = (votes) m = minimum votes required to be listed in the Top 250 (currently 1300) C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 6.8)
for the Top 250, only votes from regular voters are considered.
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### Author:  [@SpenceSpeed](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SpenceSpeed)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2005, 3:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/top-50-movies-all-time-imdb-com/3853/2 "2005-10-26T15:06:17Z")
My number one movie would have been…Blazing Saddles!:lol: Thats some funny shit right there. Number two pick…Aliens…James Cameron flicks are good except…maybe (Titanic) WTF was he thinking?
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### Author:  [@Fetter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fetter)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2005, 3:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/top-50-movies-all-time-imdb-com/3853/3 "2005-10-26T15:17:30Z")
I’ve only seen 10 of those.
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### Author:  [@Jon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jon)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2005, 3:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/top-50-movies-all-time-imdb-com/3853/4 "2005-10-26T15:25:32Z")
19
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### Author:  [@SpenceSpeed](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SpenceSpeed)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2005, 3:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/top-50-movies-all-time-imdb-com/3853/5 "2005-10-26T15:34:21Z")
I’ve seen 47 out of the 50. I have a collection of 731 DVD’s, 52 laser discs, and 206 vcr tapes, not counting what I just rent and watch. Ask Firehawk853 if you don’t believe me. Been collecting movies for about 12 years now. Don’t know why, because I only watch each movie once or twice. Just a hobby.
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### Author:  [@Fetter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fetter)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2005, 3:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/top-50-movies-all-time-imdb-com/3853/6 "2005-10-26T15:35:08Z")
That’s a crazy collection. I don’t get to watch to many movies… that’s why my number was so low.
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### Author:  [@SpenceSpeed](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SpenceSpeed)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/top-50-movies-all-time-imdb-com/3853/7 "2005-10-26T15:40:51Z")
I work with Firehawk853. Part of our job is to listen to audio all day and debug hardware and software problems. Why not watch movies with audio while you are trying to find bugs with hardware and software. Sounds fun, but its not always a party. Thats how I have gotten such a large collection and seen so many movies.
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### Author:  [@SubaruDan](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SubaruDan)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2005, 3:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/top-50-movies-all-time-imdb-com/3853/8 "2005-10-26T15:50:44Z")
seen 23 of em
I think shawshank redemption is a really good movie, but for some reason Im really surprised that its so high on that list
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### Author:  [@SpenceSpeed](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SpenceSpeed)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2005, 4:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/top-50-movies-all-time-imdb-com/3853/9 "2005-10-26T16:11:56Z")
> [@SubaruDan](#):
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> I think shawshank redemption is a really good movie, but for some reason Im really surprised that its so high on that list
I agree…and I’m also surprised The Green Mile is not in the top 50 (Tom Hanks). That was a very good movie. Hey, If Shawshank made it why not the green mile. My opinion.
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### Author:  [@mike125k](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mike125k)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/top-50-movies-all-time-imdb-com/3853/10 "2005-10-26T16:14:32Z")
im suprised momento is #22. it was a good movie. but i wouldnt say #22 good.
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### Author:  [@SpenceSpeed](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SpenceSpeed)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2005, 4:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/top-50-movies-all-time-imdb-com/3853/11 "2005-10-26T16:25:50Z")
The problem with where they get their numbers from is that the people that they poll have not seen all 250 movies. They just get asked what their favorite movie is. If I ask 100,000 people what their fav movie is, this is the result I would get. The numbers get skewed because not everyone has seen all of the movies and can then pick which is their favorite. That is where the numbers get F\*\*ked up. If 51% of the people they polled only saw the movies that made it into the top 25 then automatically those are the top 25 movies. Or maybe the numbers are slightly different but you know where I’m coming from…Too many of these right now:beer2: but they taste good.