Letterboxd's Top 250 Movies (2026)

The Top 250 Movies on Letterboxd based on user ratings, 2026 edition. This quiz will be updated on the 5th of every month.
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Director
Movie
1
Masaki Kobayashi
Harakiri
2
Masaki Kobayashi
The Human Condition III, A Soldiers Prayer
3
Sidney Lumet
12 Angry Men
4
Elem Klimov
Come and See
5
Akira Kurosawa
Seven Samurai
6
Akira Kurosawa
High and Low
7
Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather Part II
8
Frank Darabont
The Shawshank Redemption
9
Masaki Kobayashi
The Human Condition I, No Greater Love
10
Fernando Meirelles
City of God
11
Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King
12
Steven Spielberg
Schindlers List
13
Edward Yang
Yi Yi
14
Bong Joon-Ho
Parasite
15
Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather
16
Akira Kurosawa
Ikiru
17
Akira Kurosawa
Ran
18
Sergio Leone
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
19
Giuseppe Tornatore
Cinema Paradiso
20
Jacques Becker
Le Trou
21
Mathieu Kassovitz
La Haine
22
Edward Yang
A Brighter Summer Day
23
Ingmar Bergman
Autumn Sonata
24
Christopher Nolan
The Dark Knight
25
Masaki Kobayashi
The Human Condition II, Road to Eternity
26
Isao Takahata
Grave of the Fireflies
27
Hideaki Anno Kazuya Tsurumaki
Neon Genesis Evangelion, The End of Evangelion
28
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Woman in the Dunes
29
Paul Thomas Anderson
There Will be Blood
30
Martin Scorsese
Goodfellas
31
Gillo Pontecorvo
The Battle of Algiers
32
Mikhail Kalatozov
The Cranes are Flying
33
Stanley Kubrick
Paths of Glory
34
Mikhail Kalatozov
I am Cuba
35
Hayao Miyazaki
Spirited Away
36
Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Rublev
37
Denis Villeneuve
Incendies
38
Christopher Nolan
Interstellar
39
Frank Capra
It's a Wonderful Life
40
Francis Ford Coppola
Apocalypse Now
41
Billy Wilder
The Apartment
42
Billy Wilder
Sunset Boulevard
43
Yasujiro Ozu
Tokyo Story
44
Larisa Shepitko
The Ascent
45
Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers
46
Carl Theodor Dreyer
The Passion of Joan of Arc
47
Kenji Mizoguchi
Sansho the Bailiff
48
Damien Chazelle
Whiplash
49
Ingmar Bergman
Fanny and Alexander
50
Celine Sciamma
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
51
Paul Schrader
Mishima, A Life in Four Chapters
52
Bong Joon-Ho
Memories of Murder
53
Abbas Kiarostami
Close-Up
54
Emeric Pressburger Michael Powell
The Red Shoes
55
Akira Kurosawa
Red Beard
56
Joaquim Dos Santos Justin K. Thompson Kemp Powers
Spiderman, Across the Spider-Verse
57
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Nobody Knows
58
Federico Fellini
Nights of Cabiria
59
Roman Polanski
The Pianist
60
Stanley Kubrick
Barry Lyndon
61
Roberto Benigni
Life is Beautiful
62
Billy Wilder
Witness for the Prosecution
63
Andrei Tarkovsky
Stalker
64
Irvin Kershner
The Empire Strikes Back
65
Spike Lee
Do the Right Thing
66
David Lean
Lawrence of Arabia
67
John Cassavetes
A Woman Under the Influence
68
Bob Persichetti Peter Ramsey Rodney Rothman
Spiderman into the Spider-Verse
69
Theo Angelopoulos
Eternity and a Day
70
Matt Johnson
Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie
71
Chen Kaige
Farewell my Concubine
72
Park Chan-Wook
The Handmaiden
73
Hayao Miyazaki
Princess Mononoke
74
Kaouther Ben Hania
The Voice of Hind Rajab
75
Sergio Leone
Once Upon a Time in the West
76
Sion Sono
Love Exposure
77
Ingmar Bergman
Persona
78
Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring
79
Bela Tarr
Satantango
80
Satoshi Kon
Perfect Blue
81
Peter Bogdanovich
Paper Moon
82
Ingmar Bergman
Scenes from a Marriage
83
Hu Bo
An Elephant Sitting Still
84
Wong Kar-Wai
In the Mood for Love
85
Denis Villeneuve
Dune: Part Two
86
Abbas Kiarostami
Where is the Friend's House?
87
Buster Keaton
Sherlock, Jr.
88
Gus Van Sant
Good Will Hunting
89
Wim Wenders
Paris, Texas
90
Shinobu Yaguchi
Swing Girls
91
Asghar Farhadi
A Separation
92
Satyajit Ray
Apur Sansar
93
Park Chan-Wook
Oldboy
94
David Fincher
Se7en
95
Milos Forman
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
96
Theo Angelopoulos
Landscape in the Mist
97
Alfred Hitchcock
Rear Window
98
Don Hertzfeldt
It's Such a Beautiful Day
99
Quentin Tarantino
Inglourious Basterds
100
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
All About Eve
101
Jean-Pierre Melville
Army of Shadows
102
Costa-Gavras
Z
103
Henri-Georges Clouzot
The Wages of Fear
104
Hayao Miyazaki
Howl's Moving Castle
105
Walter Salles
Central Station
106
Tatsuya Yoshihara
Chainsaw Man, The Movie: Reze Arc
107
Milos Forman
Amadeus
108
Stanley Kramer
Judgement at Nuremberg
109
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Ordet
110
John Carpenter
The Thing
111
Robert Bresson
A Man Escaped
112
Pat Boonnitipat
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
113
Stanley Donen Gene Kelly
Singin' in the Rain
114
Zhang Yimou
Raise the Red Lantern
115
Peter Weir
Dead Poets Society
116
Bob Fosse
All that Jazz
117
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Still Walking
118
Ettore Scola
A Special Day
119
Walter Salles
I'm Still Here
120
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Three Colours, Red
121
Jonathan Demme
The Silence of the Lambs
122
Martin Scorsese
The Departed
123
Yasujiro Ozu
Late Spring
124
Ernst Lubitsch
To Be or Not to Be
124
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Monster
126
Ingmar Bergman
Wild Strawberries
127
Charlie Chaplin
City Lights
128
Ingmar Bergman
The Seventh Seal
129
Toshio Matsumoto
Funeral Parade of Roses
130
Charlie Chaplin
The Great Dictator
131
Quentin Tarantino
Django Unchained
132
Wolfgang Peterson
Das Boot
133
Denis Villeneuve
Prisoners
134
David Lean
Brief Encounter
135
Abbas Kiarostami
Taste of Cherry
136
David Lynch
Twin Peaks, Fire Walk with me
137
Andrei Tarkovsky
Mirror
138
Luchino Visconti
Rocco and his Brothers
139
Satyajit Ray
Pather Panchali
140
Jacques Demy
The Young Girls of Rochefort
141
Thomas Vinterberg
The Celebration
142
Richard Linklater
Before Sunset
143
Xavier Dolan
Mommy
144
Emir Kusturica
Underground
145
Juzo Itami
Tampopo
146
Joel & Ethan Coen
No Country for Old Men
147
Alfred Hitchcock
Psycho
148
Wim Wenders
Perfect Days
149
Bela Tarr
Werckmeister Harmonies
150
Wim Wenders
Wings of Desire
151
Sidney Lumet
Dog Day Afternoon
152
Greg Kwedar
Sing Sing
153
Hirokazu Kore-edu
Shoplifters
154
Francois Truffaut
The 400 Blows
155
Richard Linklater
Before Sunrise
157
Michael Mann
Heat
156
Stanley Kubrick
Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
158
Alfonso Cuaron
Children of Men
159
Akira Kurosawa
Yojimbo
160
Roman Polanski
Chinatown
161
Wes Anderson
Fantastic Mr. Fox
162
Juraj Herz
The Cremator
163
David Lynch
The Elephant Man
164
John Cassavetes
Opening Night
165
John Huston
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
166
Akira Kurosawa
Dersu Uzala
167
Fritz Lang
M
168
Marcel Carne
Children of Paradise
169
Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck
The Lives of Others
170
Andrei Tarkovsky
The Sacrifice
171
Yukihiro Miyamoto
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part III: Rebellion
172
Florian Zeller
The Father
173
Vittorio De Sica
Bicycle Thieves
174
James Cameron
Terminator 2, Judgement Day
175
Michelangelo Antonioni
La Notte
176
Mike Leigh
Secrets and Lies
177
Hideaki Anno
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
178
John Ford
The Man who Shot Liberty Valance
179
Thomas Vinterburg
The Hunt
180
Spike Lee
Malcolm X
181
Michel Ocelot
Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest
182
Andrei Tarkovsky
Nostalgia
183
Katsuhiro Otomo
Akira
184
Ettore Scola
We all Loved each so much
185
Wong Kar-Wai
Chungking Express
186
Abbas Kiarostami
Life and Nothing More
187
Frank Darabont
The Green Mile
188
Brad Bird
The Iron Giant
189
Christopher Nolan
The Prestige
190
Michael Curtiz
Casablanca
191
Federico Fellini
8 1/2
192
Billy Wilder
Ace in the Hole
193
Sidney Lumet
Fail Safe
194
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cure
195
Billy Wilder
Some Like it Hot
196
Akira Kurosawa
Throne of Blood
197
David Fincher
Fight Club
198
Kiyotaka Oshiyama
Look Back
199
Mike Nichols
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
200
Hideaki Anno
Ritual
201
Tomm Moore
Song of the Sea
202
Federico Fellini
La Dolce Vita
203
Jules Dassin
Rififi
204
Adam Elliot
Mary and Max
205
Chantal Akerman
Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
206
William Friedkin
Sorcerer
207
Kazuhisa Takenouchi Leji Matsumoto Hirotoshi Rissen Daisuke Nishio
Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem
208
Kenji Mizoguchi
Ugetsu
209
Emeric Pressburger Michael Powell
A Matter of Life and Death
210
Sidney Lumet
Network
211
Satyajit Ray
Aparajito
212
David Lynch
Mulholland Drive
213
Isao Takahata
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
214
Charlie Chaplin
Modern Times
215
Charles Laughton
The Night of the Hunter
216
Vittorio De Sica
Umberto D.
217
Billy Wilder
Double Indemnity
218
Kirk Jones
I Swear
219
Dino Risi
Il Sorpasso
220
Stanley Kubrick
2001, A Space Odyssey
221
Ridley Scott
Alien
222
Hiroshi Teshigahara
The Face of Another
223
Alexander Payne
The Holdovers
224
Steven Spielberg
Saving Private Ryan
225
Ingmar Bergman
Winter Light
226
Daniel Scheinert Daniel Kwan
Everything Everywhere All at Once
227
Ken Loach
Kes
228
Takehiko Inoue
The First Slam Dunk
229
Satoshi Kon
Tokyo Godfathers
230
Fritz Lang
Metropolis
231
William Wyler
The Best Years of Our Lives
232
David Lean
The Bridge on the River Kwai
233
Otto Preminger
Anatomy of a Murder
234
Wes Anderson
The Grand Budapest Hotel
235
Dean Fleischer Camp
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
236
Alexander Mackendrick
Sweet Smell of Success
237
Cristian Mungiu
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
238
Jasmila Zbanic
Quo Vadis, Aida?
239
Michael Gondry
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
240
Quentin Tarantino
Pulp Fiction
241
Marcell Jankovics
Son of the White Mare
242
Carol Reed
The Third Man
243
Masaki Kobayashi
Kwaidan
244
Roberto Gavaldon
Macario
245
Tarsem Singh
The Fall
246
Juan Jose Campanella
The Secret in Their Eyes
247
Robert Wise
The Sound of Music
248
Lee Chang-dong
Poetry
249
Sergio Leone
For a Few Dollars More
250
Martin Scorsese
The King of Comedy
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