IMDb Top 250

#14. 101 things in 1001 days: Watch all of IMDb’s Top 250 Movies

• Movies I still need to see are in red.
• Movies I have seen are in blue.
• Movies I saw during the challenge have a check mark (√).

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IMDb Top 250 (in April, 2011)

1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

2. The Godfather (1972) (Love!)

3. The Godfather: Part II (1974) (Love!)

4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

5. Pulp Fiction (1994) (Love!)

6. Schindler’s List (1993)

7. 12 Angry Men (1957)

8. Inception (2010) (Love!)

9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) (Love!)

10. The Dark Knight (2008)

11. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

12. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

13. Seven Samurai (1954)

14. Fight Club (1999) (Love!)

15. Goodfellas (1990) (Love!)

16. Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)

17. Casablanca (1942)

18. City of God (2002) √

19. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

20. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) √

21. Rear Window (1954)

22. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

23. The Matrix (1999)

24. Psycho (1960)

25. The Usual Suspects (1995) (Love!)

26. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) (Love!)

27. Se7en (1995)

28. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

29. Memento (2000) (Love!)

30. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

31. Sunset Blvd. (1950)

32. Toy Story 3 (2010)

33. Forrest Gump (1994)

34. Leon: The Professional (1994)

35. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

36. Apocalypse Now (1979) (Love!)

37. Citizen Kane (1941)

38. American History X (1998)

39. North by Northwest (1959) (Love!)

40. American Beauty (1999) (Love!)

41. Taxi Driver (1976) (Love!)

42. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

43. Saving Private Ryan (1998) (Love!)

44. Alien (1979)

45. Vertigo (1958)

46. Amélie (2001) (Love!)

47. Spirited Away (2001)

48. The Shining (1980) (Love!)

49. WALL·E (2008)

50. Paths of Glory (1957) √

51. The Pianist (2002)

52. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

53. Double Indemnity (1944)

54. City Lights (1931)

55. A Clockwork Orange (1971) (Love!)

56. M (1931)

57. The Lives of Others (2006)

58. The Departed (2006)

59. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) (Love!)

60. Aliens (1986)

61. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

62. Requiem for a Dream (2000) (Love!)

63. Das Boot (1981) √

64. Reservoir Dogs (1992) (Love!)

65. The Third Man (1949) √

66. L.A. Confidential (1997)

67. Modern Times (1936)

68. Chinatown (1974)

69. Life is Beautiful (1997)

70. Black Swan (2010)

71. Back to the Future (1985)

72. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) √

73. The Prestige (2006) √

74. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

75. Raging Bull (1980)

76. Cinema Paradiso (1988)

77. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

78. Singin’ in the Rain (1952) (Love!)

79. Rashomon (1950)

80. Some Like It Hot (1959)

81. The Green Mile (1999)

82. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

83. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

84. Amadeus (1984) (Love!)

85. All About Eve (1950) √

86. The Great Dictator (1940) √

87. Bicycle Thieves (1948)

88. Full Metal Jacket (1987)

89. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

90. Braveheart (1995)

91. Inglourious Basterds (2009)

92. The Apartment (1960)

93. Downfall (2004) √

94. Metropolis (1927)

95. Gladiator (2000)

96. Up (2009)

97. Gran Torino (2008)

98. The Sting (1973)

99. Unforgiven (1992)

100. Oldboy (2003)

101. The Elephant Man (1980)

102. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) √

103. The Maltese Falcon (1941)

104. The King’s Speech (2010) √

105. On the Waterfront (1954)

106. Rebecca (1940) √

107. Sin City (2005)

108. Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)

109. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

110. Die Hard (1988)

111. The Great Escape (1963)

112. Princess Mononoke (1997)

113. Batman Begins (2005)

114. The Seventh Seal (1957)

115. Jaws (1975) (Love!)

116. Blade Runner (1982) (Love!)

117. Hotel Rwanda (2004)

118. Fargo (1996) (Love!)

119. The General (1926)

120. Heat (1995)

121. No Country for Old Men (2007)

122. For a Few Dollars More (1965)

123. Yojimbo (1961)

124. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

125. Touch of Evil (1958) √

126. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

127. Ran (1985)

128. Grave of the Fireflies (1988) √

129. Witness for the Prosecution (1957) √

130. Wild Strawberries (1957)

131. Snatch. (2000)

132. The Sixth Sense (1999)

133. The Deer Hunter (1978) (Love!)

134. The Big Lebowski (1998)

135. Annie Hall (1977) (Love!)

136. The Lion King (1994)

137. Cool Hand Luke (1967) (Love!)

138. Strangers on a Train (1951)

139. Donnie Darko (2001)

140. It Happened One Night (1934)

141. High Noon (1952)

142. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

143. A Separation (2011)

144. District 9 (2009)

145. Platoon (1986)

146. Toy Story (1995)

147. Into the Wild (2007)

148. There Will Be Blood (2007)

149. Million Dollar Baby (2004)

150. Notorious (1946) (Love!)

151. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) (Love!)

152. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

153. Gone with the Wind (1939)

154. Trainspotting (1996) (Love!)

155. Scarface (1983)

156. The Gold Rush (1925) √

157. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) √

158. Groundhog Day (1993)

159. Ben-Hur (1959) √

160. The Big Sleep (1946)

161. Avatar (2009) (Love!)

162. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

163. Amores Perros (2000)

164. The Graduate (1967)

165. The Wrestler (2008)

166. Life of Brian (1979)

167. The Kid (1921) √

168. Ikiru (1952) √

169. Finding Nemo (2003)

170. The Terminator (1984)

171. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)

172. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

173. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) √  

174. The Wages of Fear (1953) √

175. The Secret in Their Eyes (2009) √

176. Casino (1995)

177. Stand by Me (1986)

178. The Thing (1982) √

179. Twelve Monkeys (1995)

180. V for Vendetta (2006)

181. How to Train Your Dragon (2010)   √

182. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

183. Diabolique (1955)

184. Gandhi (1982)

185. Ratatouille (2007)

186. My Neighbor Totoro (1988) √

187. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)  √

188. The Social Network (2010)

189. 8½ (1963)

190. The Night of the Hunter (1955) √

191. The Princess Bride (1987)

192. Star Trek (2009)

193. Good Will Hunting (1997)

194. The Hustler (1961)

195. The Killing (1956)  √

196. Network (1976)

197. The 400 Blows (1959)

198. La Strada (1954)

199. The Battle of Algiers (1966)

200. The Incredibles (2004)

201. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) (Love!)

202. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)  √

203. The Exorcist (1973)

204. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) (Love!)

205. In Bruges (2008)

206. The Wild Bunch (1969)

207. Dial M for Murder (1954)   √

208. Stalag 17 (1953) √

209. Persona (1966) √

210. Mary and Max (2009)   √

211. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

212. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

213. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)   √

214. Fanny and Alexander (1982)

215. Rocky (1976)

216. Children of Men (2006)

217. Let the Right One In (2008)   √

218. Ed Wood (1994)

219. Big Fish (2003)

220. Magnolia (1999) (Love!)

221. Barry Lyndon (1975)

222. Mystic River (2003)

223. Manhattan (1979)

224. The Truman Show (1998)

225. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

226. Patton (1970)

227. The Celebration (1998) √

228. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)

229. Roman Holiday (1953)

230. Infernal Affairs (2002) √

231. Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

232. His Girl Friday (1940)

233. Nights of Cabiria (1957)  √

234. Sherlock Jr. (1924)  √

235. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

236. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

237. Duck Soup (1933)

238. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

239. The Philadelphia Story (1940)

240. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

241. Harvey (1950) √

242. Sleuth (1972)

243. Rope (1948)

244. Three Colors: Red (1994)

245. Monsters, Inc. (2001)

246. Beauty and the Beast (1991)

247. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring (2003) √

248. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

249. In the Mood for Love (2000) √

250. King Kong (1933) √

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“strip” by Miemo Penttinen