Letterboxd's Top 250 Movies (2024)

The Top 250 Movies on Letterboxd based on user ratings, 2024 edition. I'll do my best to update this list.
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Director
Movie
1
Masaki Kobayashi
Harakiri
2
Elem Klimov
Come and See
3
Sidney Lumet
12 Angry Men
4
Akira Kurosawa
Seven Samurai
5
Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather Part II
6
Akira Kurosawa
High and Low
7
Bong Joon-Ho
Parasite
8
Masaki Kobayashi
The Human Condition III, A Soldiers Prayer
9
Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather
10
Frank Darabont
The Shawshank Redemption
11
Edward Yang
Yi Yi
12
Fernando Meirelles
City of God
13
Steven Spielberg
Schindlers List
14
Akira Kurosawa
Ikiru
15
Mathieu Kassovitz
La Haine
16
Akira Kurosawa
Ran
17
Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King
18
Edward Yang
A Brighter Summer Day
19
Sergio Leone
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
20
Masaki Kobayashi
The Human Condition I, No Greater Love
21
Denis Villeneuve
Dune: Part Two
22
Martin Scorsese
Goodfellas
23
Christopher Nolan
The Dark Knight
24
Hideaki Anno
Kazuya Tsurumaki
Neon Genesis Evangelion, The End of Evangelion
25
Joaquim Dos Santos
Justin K. Thompson
Kemp Powers
Spiderman, Across the Spider-Verse
26
Hayao Miyazaki
Spirited Away
27
Paul Thomas Anderson
There Will be Blood
28
Ingmar Bergman
Autumn Sonata
29
Isao Takahata
Grave of the Fireflies
30
Stanley Kubrick
Paths of Glory
31
Giuseppe Tornatore
Cinema Paradiso
32
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Woman in the Dunes
33
Jacques Becker
Le Trou
34
Francis Ford Coppola
Apocalypse Now
35
Billy Wilder
Sunset Boulevard
36
Celine Sciamma
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
37
Yasujiro Ozu
Tokyo Story
38
Billy Wilder
The Apartment
39
Carl Theodor Dreyer
The Passion of Joan of Arc
40
Damien Chazelle
Whiplash
41
Andrei Tarkovsky
Stalker
42
Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Rublev
43
Bob Persichetti
Peter Ramsey
Rodney Rothman
Spiderman into the Spider-Verse
44
Paul Schrader
Mishima, A Life in Four Chapters
45
Abbas Kiarostami
Close-Up
46
Ingmar Bergman
Persona
47
Bong Joon-Ho
Memories of Murder
48
Park Chan-Wook
The Handmaiden
49
Ingmar Bergman
Fanny and Alexander
50
Masaki Kobayashi
The Human Condition II, Road to Eternity
51
Irvin Kershner
The Empire Strikes Back
52
Wong Kar-Wai
In the Mood for Love
53
Denis Villeneuve
Incendies
54
Mikhail Kalatozov
The Cranes are Flying
55
Spike Lee
Do the Right Thing
56
Satoshi Kon
Perfect Blue
57
Wim Wenders
Paris, Texas
58
Stanley Kubrick
Barry Lyndon
59
Park Chan-Wook
Oldboy
60
Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers
61
John Cassavetes
A Woman Under the Influence
62
Frank Capra
It's a Wonderful Life
63
Gillo Pontecorvo
The Battle of Algiers
64
Sergio Leone
Once Upon a Time in the West
65
Emeric Pressburger
Michael Powell
The Red Shoes
66
Kenji Mizoguchi
Sansho the Bailiff
67
Don Hertzfeldt
It's Such a Beautiful Day
68
Larisa Shepitko
The Ascent
69
Alfred Hitchcock
Rear Window
70
Hayao Miyazaki
Princess Mononoke
71
Buster Keaton
Sherlock, Jr.
72
Roman Polanski
The Pianist
73
Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring
74
Bela Tarr
Satantango
75
Federico Fellini
Nights of Cabiria
76
Sion Sono
Love Exposure
77
Asghar Farhadi
A Separation
78
Milos Forman
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
79
Ingmar Bergman
Scenes from a Marriage
80
David Lean
Lawrence of Arabia
81
Mikhail Kalatozov
I am Cuba
82
Theo Angelopoulos
Eternity and a Day
83
John Carpenter
The Thing
84
Richard Linklater
Before Sunset
85
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Nobody Knows
86
Ingmar Bergman
The Seventh Seal
87
Abbas Kiarostami
Where is my Friends's House?
88
Robert Bresson
A Man Escaped
89
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Three Colours, Red
90
Christopher Nolan
Interstellar
91
Quentin Tarantino
Inglourious Basterds
92
Andrei Tarkovsky
Mirror
93
Charlie Chaplin
City Lights
94
Billy Wilder
Witness for the Prosecution
95
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
All About Eve
96
Roberto Benigni
Life is Beautiful
97
Richard Linklater
Before Sunrise
98
Ingmar Bergman
Wild Strawberries
99
Jonathan Demme
The Silence of the Lambs
100
Jean-Pierre Melville
Army of Shadows
101
Joel and Ethan Coen
No Country for Old Men
102
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Ordet
103
Hu Bo
An Elephant Sitting Still
104
David Fincher
Se7en
105
Peter Bogdanovich
Paper Moon
106
Yasujiro Ozu
Late Spring
107
Theo Angelopoulos
Landscape in the Mist
108
Akira Kurosawa
Red Beard
109
Stanley Donen
Gene Kelly
Singin' in the Rain
110
Alfred Hitchcock
Psycho
111
Satyajit Ray
Apur Sansar
112
Hayao Miyazaki
Howl's Moving Castle
113
Fritz Lang
M
114
Milos Forman
Amadeus
115
Henri-Georges Clouzot
The Wages of Fear
116
Francois Truffaut
The 400 Blows
117
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Still Walking
118
Xavier Dolan
Mommy
119
Abbas Kiarostami
Taste of Cherry
120
Bob Fosse
All that Jazz
121
Charlie Chaplin
The Great Dictator
122
Daniel Scheinert
Daniel Kwan
Everything Everywhere All at Once
123
Sidney Lumet
Dog Day Afternoon
124
David Lean
Brief Encounter
125
Bela Tarr
Werckmeister Harmonies
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Director
Movie
126
Vittorio De Sica
Bicycle Thieves
127
Akira Kurosawa
Yojimbo
128
Stanley Kubrick
Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
129
Wim Wenders
Wings of Desire
130
Martin Scorsese
The Departed
131
Andrei Tarkovsky
The Sacrifice
132
Federico Fellini
8 1/2
133
Alfonso Cuaron
Children of Men
134
Stanley Kubrick
2001, A Space Odyssey
135
Jacques Demy
The Young Girls of Rochefort
136
Juzo Itami
Tampopo
137
Satyajit Ray
Pather Panchali
138
Wong Kar-Wai
Chungking Express
139
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Monster
140
Ernst Lubitsch
To Be or Not to Be
141
Toshio Matsumoto
Funeral Parade of Roses
142
Hirokazu Kore-edu
Shoplifters
143
Gus Van Sant
Good Will Hunting
144
Costa-Gavras
Z
145
Sergey Bondarchuk
War and Peace
146
Roman Polanski
Chinatown
147
Thomas Vinterburg
The Hunt
148
Florian Zeller
The Father
149
Zoltan Fabri
The Fifth Seal
150
Denis Villeneuve
Prisoners
151
Zhang Yimou
Raise the Red Lantern
152
Chen Kaige
Farewell my Concubine
153
Wolfgang Peterson
Das Boot
154
James Cameron
Terminator 2, Judgement Day
155
John Huston
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
156
Theo Angelopoulos
The Weeping Meadow
157
Thomas Vinterberg
The Celebration
158
Federico Fellini
La Dolce Vita
159
Luchino Visconti
Rocco and his Brothers
160
Ridley Scott
Alien
161
Michael Curtiz
Casablanca
162
Charlie Chaplin
Modern Times
163
Marco Tullio Giordana
The Best of Youth
164
Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck
The Lives of Others
165
Katsuhiro Otomo
Akira
166
David Fincher
Fight Club
167
Quentin Tarantino
Django Unchained
168
Michael Mann
Heat
169
Charles Laughton
The Night of the Hunter
170
Wes Anderson
Fantastic Mr. Fox
171
Ettore Scola
A Special Day
172
Akira Kurosawa
Throne of Blood
173
Quentin Tarantino
Pulp Fiction
174
Carol Reed
The Third Man
175
Sidney Lumet
Network
176
Andrei Tarkovsky
Nostalgia
177
Billy Wilder
Double Indemnity
178
Michelangelo Antonioni
La Notte
179
Chantal Akerman
Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
180
Wim Wenders
Perfect Days
181
Fritz Lang
Metropolis
182
Hideaki Anno
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
183
Jean-Pierre Melville
Le Samourai
184
Peter Weir
Dead Poets Society
185
Kenji Mizoguchi
Ugetsu
186
John Cassavetes
Opening Night
187
Martin Scorsese
Raging Bull
188
Marcel Carne
Children of Paradise
189
Billy Wilder
Ace in the Hole
190
Emir Kusturica
Underground
191
Michael Gondry
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
192
Stanley Kramer
Judgement at Nuremberg
193
Andrei Tarkovsky
Solaris
194
Wes Anderson
The Grand Budapest Hotel
195
David Lynch
Mulholland Drive
196
Stanley Kubrick
The Shining
197
Jules Dassin
Rififi
198
Billy Wilder
Some Like it Hot
199
John Ford
The Man who Shot Liberty Valance
200
Mike Nichols
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
201
Alfred Hitchcock
Vertigo
202
Brad Bird
The Iron Giant
203
Juraj Herz
The Cremator
204
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cure
205
Charlotte Wells
Aftersun
206
Shinji Aoyama
Eureka
207
William Friedkin
Sorcerer
208
Martin Scorsese
The King of Comedy
209
Walter Salles
Central Station
210
Isao Takahata
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
211
Christopher Nolan
Oppenheimer
212
Masaki Kobayashi
Samurai Rebellion
213
Alexander Mackendrick
Sweet Smell of Success
214
Abbas Kiarostami
Life and Nothing More
215
Ingmar Bergman
Winter Light
216
Vittorio De Sica
Umberto D.
217
Dean Fleischer Camp
Marcell the Shell with Shoes On
218
Steven Spielberg
Saving Private Ryan
219
Akira Kurosawa
Rashomon
220
David Lynch
The Elephant Man
221
Emeric Pressburger
Michael Powell
A Matter of Life and Death
222
Christopher Nolan
The Prestige
223
Mike Leigh
Secrets and Lies
224
Abel Gance
Napoleon
225
Hideaki Anno
Ritual
226
Akira Kurosawa
Dersu Uzala
227
David Lean
The Bridge on the River Kwai
228
Adam Elliot
Mary and Max
229
Alexander Payne
The Holdovers
230
Cristian Mungiu
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
231
Satoshi Kon
Millennium Actress
232
Paul Thomas Anderson
Magnolia
233
Leo McCarey
Make Way for Tomorrow
234
Wong Kar-wai
Happy Together
235
Satyajit Ray
Aparajito
236
Michael Haneke
Amour
237
Paul Thomas Anderson
Boogie Nights
238
Frank Darabont
The Green Mile
239
Roger Allers
Rob Minkoff
The Lion King
240
Otto Preminger
Anatomy of a Murder
241
Yasuhiro Takemoto
Tatsuya Ishihara
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
242
Joel and Ethan Coen
Fargo
243
Makoto Shinkai
Your Name
244
Emeric Pressburger
Michael Powell
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
245
Hiroshi Teshigahara
The Face of Another
246
Sergio Leone
Once Upon a Time in America
247
Yasujiro Ozu
An Autumn Afternoon
248
Orson Welles
Citizen Kane
249
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Happy Hour
250
Peter Weir
The Truman Show
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Level 69
Feb 1, 2023
As someone who created a Letterboxd themed quiz as one of my first quizzes, I was happy to find such a well made quiz regarding this subject. Personally I could use a bit more time and there is a small typo in Jonathan Demme's name.
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Level 35
Feb 1, 2023
Thankyou so much! Those two things are fixed for you.