The 250 (of 1001) Greatest Movies Of All Time : Reddit

"So over the past few months I have been carefully creating a system using the most popular movie rating systems available online, as well as general movie data, to determine the greatest movies of all time."

I started off by gathering ratings from IMDB (User/Critic Average), Rotten Tomatoes (Tomatometer, Critic Average, Audience Score, User Average), Metacritic (Critic Average, User Average) and Letterboxd (User Average). I was then able to determine a rating (out of 10) for each individual rating and therefore come up with an average rating for each site. Each site’s average rating was then weighted fairly so that no site’s ratings were favored above the rest.
The next step was to make sure that each film was treated fairly. Other top movie list’s like IMDb’s Top 250 removes films that have under a certain viewing number (25,000 I think), but rather than ruling out films that may have been overlooked by the general audience (especially older films), I opted to alter these films score by carefully deducting points depending on how many people have seen it, and therefore voted on it. I also thought it was needed to make sure that recent films (released within the past 36 months) were also not favored, as it usually takes 3 years for the average rating to settle down. So I also added a deduction to these films that fell under this rule.

This process took a lot of tweaking to get right, but I am more than happy with the final result. Hopefully you all are to. 

You can find the full 1001 Movie list in the following online lists, as well as a list outlining the available films on NETFLIX (US): 

iCheckMovies: 1001 Greatest Movies of All Time
Letterboxd: 1001 Greatest Movies of All Time
IMDb: 1001 Greatest Movies of All Time
Letterboxd: Available films on NETFLIX (US) 

250 List after the jump

Rank	Title	Year	Director
1	The Godfather	1972	Francis Ford Coppola
2	Seven Samurai	1954	Akira Kurosawa
3	The Godfather: Part II	1974	Francis Ford Coppola
4	Pulp Fiction	1994	Quentin Tarantino
5	12 Angry Men	1957	Sidney Lumet
6	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	1966	Sergio Leone
7	The Shawshank Redemption	1994	Frank Darabont
8	Sunset Blvd.	1950	Billy Wilder
9	Schindler's List	1993	Steven Spielberg
10	Spirited Away	2001	Hayao Miyazaki
11	Modern Times	1936	Charlie Chaplin
12	City Lights	1931	Charles Chaplin
13	Goodfellas	1990	Martin Scorsese
14	M	1931	Fritz Lang
15	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	1964	Stanley Kubrick
16	Once Upon a Time in the West	1968	Sergio Leone
17	Lawrence of Arabia	1962	David Lean
18	Rear Window	1954	Alfred Hitchcock
19	The Dark Knight	2008	Christopher Nolan
20	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back	1980	Irvin Kershner
21	Casablanca	1942	Michael Curtiz
22	Apocalypse Now	1979	Francis Coppola
23	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	1975	Milos Forman
24	Rashomon	1950	Akira Kurosawa
25	Taxi Driver	1976	Martin Scorsese
26	A Separation	2011	Asghar Farhadi
27	The 400 Blows	1959	François Truffaut
28	The Third Man	1949	Carol Reed
29	Paths of Glory	1957	Stanley Kubrick
30	Bicycle Thieves	1948	Vittorio De Sica
31	Grave of the Fireflies	1988	Isao Takahata
32	Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981	Steven Spielberg
33	Ikiru	1952	Akira Kurosawa
34	Citizen Kane	1941	Orson Welles
35	Persona	1966	Ingmar Bergman
36	Chinatown	1974	Roman Polanski
37	The Night of the Hunter	1955	Charles Laughton
38	Yojimbo	1961	Akira Kurosawa
39	Double Indemnity	1944	Billy Wilder
40	Psycho	1960	Alfred Hitchcock
41	Vertigo	1958	Alfred Hitchcock
42	Stalker	1979	Andrey Tarkovskiy
43	Singin' in the Rain	1952	Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
44	Metropolis	1927	Fritz Lang
45	All About Eve	1950	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
46	On the Waterfront	1954	Elia Kazan
47	Ran	1985	Akira Kurosawa
48	Fanny and Alexander	1982	Ingmar Bergman
49	City of God	2002	Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
50	It's a Wonderful Life	1946	Frank Capra
51	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	2001	Peter Jackson
52	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	2002	Peter Jackson
53	Toy Story 3	2010	Lee Unkrich
54	North by Northwest	1959	Alfred Hitchcock
55	Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope	1977	George Lucas
56	The Seventh Seal	1957	Ingmar Bergman
57	The Lives of Others	2006	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
58	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	2003	Peter Jackson
59	Wild Strawberries	1957	Ingmar Bergman
60	Raging Bull	1980	Martin Scorsese
61	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	1948	John Huston
62	Alien	1979	Ridley Scott
63	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	2004	Michel Gondry
64	Three Colors: Red	1994	Krzysztof Kieslowski
65	The Apartment	1960	Billy Wilder
66	The Wages of Fear	1953	Henri-Georges Clouzot
67	The Silence of the Lambs	1991	Jonathan Demme
68	The Great Dictator	1940	Charles Chaplin
69	WALL·E	2008	Andrew Stanton
70	Toy Story	1995	John Lasseter
71	Whiplash	2014	Damien Chazelle
72	The Kid	1921	Charlie Chaplin
73	Das Boot	1981	Wolfgang Petersen
74	Back to the Future	1985	Robert Zemeckis
75	Pan's Labyrinth	2006	Guillermo del Toro
76	2001: A Space Odyssey	1968	Stanley Kubrick
77	Monty Python and the Holy Grail	1975	Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
78	Witness for the Prosecution	1957	Billy Wilder
79	8½	1963	Federico Fellini
80	Cinema Paradiso	1988	Giuseppe Tornatore
81	The General	1926	Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton
82	Tokyo Story	1953	Yasujirô Ozu
83	Aliens	1986	James Cameron
84	The Shining	1980	Stanley Kubrick
85	The Battle of Algiers	1966	Gillo Pontecorvo
86	Amadeus	1984	Milos Forman
87	The Gold Rush	1925	Charles Chaplin
88	Saving Private Ryan	1998	Steven Spielberg
89	Some Like It Hot	1959	Billy Wilder
90	It Happened One Night	1934	Frank Capra
91	Touch of Evil	1958	Orson Welles
92	My Neighbor Totoro	1988	Hayao Miyazaki
93	Annie Hall	1977	Woody Allen
94	L.A. Confidential	1997	Curtis Hanson
95	La Dolce Vita	1960	Federico Fellini
96	Paris, Texas	1984	Wim Wenders
97	Reservoir Dogs	1992	Quentin Tarantino
98	Fight Club	1999	David Fincher
99	Wings of Desire	1987	Wim Wenders
100	The Bridge on the River Kwai	1957	David Lean
101	Cool Hand Luke	1967	Stuart Rosenberg
102	In the Mood for Love	2000	Kar Wai Wong
103	Sunrise	1927	F.W. Murnau
104	Before Sunset	2004	Richard Linklater
105	Before Sunrise	1995	Richard Linklater
106	La Haine	1995	Mathieu Kassovitz
107	The Pianist	2002	Roman Polanski
108	Harakiri	1962	Masaki Kobayashi
109	Memento	2000	Christopher Nolan
110	Blade Runner	1982	Ridley Scott
111	Three Colors: Blue	1993	Krzysztof Kieslowski
112	Mad Max: Fury Road	2015	George Miller
113	The Passion of Joan of Arc	1928	Carl Th. Dreyer
114	Princess Mononoke	1997	Hayao Miyazaki
115	The Wizard of Oz	1939	Victor Fleming
116	Come and See	1985	E. Klimov
117	Unforgiven	1992	Clint Eastwood
118	Notorious	1946	Alfred Hitchcock
119	The Hunt	2012	Thomas Vinterberg
120	The Maltese Falcon	1941	John Huston
121	Up	2009	Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
122	The Conversation	1974	Francis Ford Coppola
123	Fargo	1996	Joel Coen
124	Brazil	1985	Terry Gilliam
125	Badlands	1973	Terrence Malick
126	Once Upon a Time in America	1984	Sergio Leone
127	Amelie	2001	Jean-Pierre Jeunet
128	A Clockwork Orange	1971	Stanley Kubrick
129	Network	1976	Sidney Lumet
130	12 Years a Slave	2013	Steve McQueen
131	Rebecca	1940	Alfred Hitchcock
132	Inception	2010	Christopher Nolan
133	Aguirre, the Wrath of God	1972	Werner Herzog
134	There Will Be Blood	2007	Paul Thomas Anderson
135	La strada	1954	Federico Fellini
136	Solaris	1972	Andrey Tarkovskiy
137	Strangers on a Train	1951	Alfred Hitchcock
138	The Wild Bunch	1969	Sam Peckinpah
139	Full Metal Jacket	1987	Stanley Kubrick
140	The Departed	2006	Martin Scorsese
141	The Sting	1973	George Roy Hill
142	The Manchurian Candidate	1962	John Frankenheimer
143	All the President's Men	1976	Alan J. Pakula
144	To Kill a Mockingbird	1962	Robert Mulligan
145	The Lion King	1994	Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
146	Festen	1998	Thomas Vinterberg
147	Andrei Rublev	1966	Andrey Tarkovskiy
148	The Usual Suspects	1995	Bryan Singer
149	Manhattan	1979	Woody Allen
150	Barry Lyndon	1975	Stanley Kubrick
151	The Best of Youth	2003	Marco Tullio Giordana
152	Do the Right Thing	1989	Spike Lee
153	The Philadelphia Story	1940	George Cukor
154	Let the Right One In	2008	Tomas Alfredson
155	The Hustler	1961	Robert Rossen
156	Django Unchained	2012	Quentin Tarantino
157	Diabolique	1955	H.G. Clouzot
158	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	1966	Mike Nichols
159	Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring	2003	Ki-duk Kim
160	Before Midnight	2013	Richard Linklater
161	The Killing	1956	Stanley Kubrick
162	Mary and Max	2009	Adam Elliot
163	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	2007	Julian Schnabel
164	The Deer Hunter	1978	Michael Cimino
165	Dog Day Afternoon	1975	Sidney Lumet
166	The Big Sleep	1946	Howard Hawks
167	Die Hard	1988	John McTiernan
168	A Prophet	2009	Jacques Audiard
169	Se7en	1995	David Fincher
170	The Nights of Cabiria	1957	Federico Fellini
171	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	1991	James Cameron
172	La Grande Illusion	1937	Jean Renoir
173	Incendies	2010	Denis Villeneuve
174	No Country for Old Men	2007	Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
175	The Grapes of Wrath	1940	John Ford
176	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	1939	Frank Capra
177	American Beauty	1999	Sam Mendes
178	This Is Spinal Tap	1984	Rob Reiner
179	The Best Years of Our Lives	1946	William Wyler
180	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	1962	John Ford
181	The Princess Bride	1987	Rob Reiner
182	The Mirror	1975	Andrey Tarkovskiy
183	The Searchers	1956	John Ford
184	Oldboy	2003	Chan-wook Park
185	Anatomy of a Murder	1959	Otto Preminger
186	The Secret in Their Eyes	2009	Juan José Campanella
187	Boyhood	2014	Richard Linklater
188	Finding Nemo	2003	Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
189	Memories of Murder	2003	Joon-ho Bong
190	Roman Holiday	1953	William Wyler
191	A Man Escaped	1956	Robert Bresson
192	Breathless	1960	Jean-Luc Godard
193	Days of Heaven	1978	Terrence Malick
194	Persepolis	2007	Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
195	Short Term 12	2013	Destin Daniel Cretton
196	The French Connection	1971	William Friedkin
197	The Great Escape	1963	John Sturges
198	Jaws	1975	Steven Spielberg
199	Rosemary's Baby	1968	Roman Polanski
200	The Social Network	2010	David Fincher
201	Children of Paradise	1945	Marcel Carné
202	The Man with No Name 2: For a Few Dollars More	1965	Sergio Leone
203	Gone with the Wind	1939	Victor Fleming
204	Le Samouraï	1967	Jean-Pierre Melville
205	Downfall	2004	Oliver Hirschbiegel
206	The Army of Shadows	1969	Jean-Pierre Melville
207	The King's Speech	2010	Tom Hooper
208	High Noon	1952	Fred Zinnemann
209	Life of Brian	1979	Terry Jones
210	Throne of Blood	1957	Akira Kurosawa
211	Patton: A Salute to a Rebel	1970	Franklin J. Schaffner
212	The Red Shoes	1948	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
213	The Last Picture Show	1971	Peter Bogdanovich
214	Life Is Beautiful	1997	Roberto Benigni
215	His Girl Friday	1940	Howard Hawks
216	High and Low	1963	Akira Kurosawa
217	Ugetsu	1953	Kenji Mizoguchi
218	Kind Hearts and Coronets	1949	Robert Hamer
219	Ratatouille	2007	Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava
220	Hannah and Her Sisters	1986	Woody Allen
221	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari	1920	Robert Wiene
222	Trainspotting	1996	Danny Boyle
223	The Straight Story	1999	David Lynch
224	The Artist	2011	Michel Hazanavicius
225	How to Train Your Dragon	2010	Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
226	The Elephant Man	1980	David Lynch
227	Young Frankenstein	1974	Mel Brooks
228	A Streetcar Named Desire	1951	Elia Kazan
229	Rio Bravo	1959	Howard Hawks
230	Being There	1979	Hal Ashby
231	4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days	2007	Cristian Mungiu
232	Duck Soup	1933	Leo McCarey
233	The Hole	1960	Jacques Becker
234	Blue Velvet	1986	David Lynch
235	Chungking Express	1994	Kar Wai Wong
236	Shadow of a Doubt	1943	Alfred Hitchcock
237	Good Will Hunting	1997	Gus Van Sant
238	All About My Mother	1999	Pedro Almodóvar
239	Talk to Her	2002	Pedro Almodóvar
240	Infernal Affairs	2002	Andrew Lau, Alan Mak
241	Amour	2012	Michael Haneke
242	Her	2013	Spike Jonze
243	Once	2006	John Carney
244	The Rules of the Game	1939	Jean Renoir
245	Rififi	1955	Jules Dassin
246	American History X	1998	Tony Kaye
247	To Be or Not to Be	1942	Ernst Lubitsch
248	Inglourious Basterds	2009	Quentin Tarantino
249	Amores perros	2000	Alejandro González Iñárritu
250	Heat	1995	Michael Mann