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I'd originally started out to create a list of all the movies I'd ever seen, but, predictably, the longer the list grew, the more tedious and relatively meaningless it became. Instead, then, is a list of the top 250 movies from IMDB, more or less, with indications of which I've seen.
Since IMDB's rankings change frequently, I update the list only every once in a while, still keeping items on my list even if they drop off of IMDB's. Additionally, near the bottom I've added any movies on AFI's Greatest 100 American Films which weren't included on the IMDB top 250.
 | 1. | The Godfather (1972) | |
 | 2. | Inception (2010) | |
| 3. | Shawshank Redemption (1994) | |
| 4. | The Godfather: Part II (1974) | |
| 5. | Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) | |
| 6. | Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) | |
| 7. | Schindler's List (1993) | |
| 8. | Casablanca (1942) | |
| 9. | Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) | |
| 10. | Seven Samurai (1954) | |
| 11. | Star Wars (1977) | |
| 12. | The Dark Knight (2008) | |
| 13. | Citizen Kane (1941) | |
| 14. | No Country for Old Men (2007) | |
| 15. | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) | |
| 16. | Memento (2000) | |
| 17. | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) | |
| 18. | Rear Window (1954) | |
| 19. | Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980) | |
| 20. | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) | |
| 21. | The Usual Suspects (1995) | |
| 22. | Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001) | |
| 23. | Pulp Fiction (1994) | |
| 24. | City of God (2002) | |
| 25. | North by Northwest (1959) | |
| 26. | Psycho (1960) | |
| 27. | Silence of the Lambs (1991) | |
| 28. | 12 Angry Men (1957) | |
| 29. | Up (2009) | |
| 30. | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | |
| 31. | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) | |
| 32. | The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) | |
| 33. | American Beauty (1999) | |
| 34. | Goodfellas (1990) | |
| 35. | District 9 (2009) | |
| 36. | Vertigo (1958) | |
| 37. | Sunset Blvd. (1950) | |
| 38. | Apocalypse Now (1979) | |
| 39. | Some Like It Hot (1959) | |
| 40. | To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) | |
| 41. | Matrix (1999) | |
| 42. | Taxi Driver (1976) | |
| 43. | The Pianist (2002) | |
| 44. | Third Man (1949) | |
| 45. | Paths of Glory (1957) | |
| 46. | WALL-E (2008) | |
| 47. | Das Boot (1981) | |
| 48. | Fight Club (1999) | |
| 49. | L.A. Confidential (1997) | |
| 50. | WALL-E (2008) | |
| 51. | Chinatown (1974) | |
| 52. | Double Indemnity (1944) | |
| 53. | Pan's Labyrinth (2006) | |
| 54. | Hotel Rwanda (2004) | |
| 55. | Requiem for a Dream (2000) | |
| 56. | The Maltese Falcon (1941) | |
| 57. | The Departed (2006) | |
| 58. | Singin' in the Rain (1952) | |
| 59. | Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) | |
| 60. | Saving Private Ryan (1998) | |
| 61. | All About Eve (1950) | |
| 62. | M (1931) | |
| 63. | Raging Bull (1980) | |
| 64. | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | |
| 65. | Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000) | |
| 66. | Se7en (1995) | |
| 67. | Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) | |
| 68. | Avatar (2009) | |
| 69. | Wizard of Oz (1939) | |
| 70. | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | |
| 71. | Life is Beautiful (1997) | |
| 72. | Spirited Away (2001) | |
| 73. | American History X (1998) | |
| 74. | The Sting (1973) | |
| 75. | Touch of Evil (1958) | |
| 76. | Million Dollar Baby (2004) | |
| 77. | Manchurian Candidate (1962) | |
| 78. | Slumdog Millionaire (2008) | |
| 79. | Alien (1979) | |
| 80. | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) | |
| 81. | Léon (1994) | |
| 82. | Ratatouille (2007) | |
| 83. | Rashomon (1950) | |
| 84. | Annie Hall (1977) | |
| 85. | Great Escape (1963) | |
| 86. | Gran Torino (2008) | |
| 87. | Clockwork Orange (1971) | |
| 88. | Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) | |
| 89. | Crash (2004) | |
| 90. | Sixth Sense (1999) | |
| 91. | Reservoir Dogs (1992) | |
| 92. | Jaws (1975) | |
| 93. | Das Lebender Anderen (2006) | |
| 94. | Amadeus (1984) | |
| 95. | Braveheart (1995) | |
| 96. | On the Waterfront (1954) | |
| 97. | Ran (1985) | |
| 98. | Fargo (1996) | |
| 99. | Blade Runner (1982) | |
| 100. | Kill Bill: Vol 2 (2004) | |
| 101. | High Noon (1952) | |
| 102. | Apartment (1960) | |
| 103. | Toy Story 2 (1999) | |
| 104. | Aliens (1986) | |
| 105. | Superbad (2007) | |
| 106. | Modern Times (1936) | |
| 107. | Strangers on a Train (1951) | |
| 108. | (500) Days of Summer (2009) | |
| 109. | Star Trek (2009) | |
| 110. | Inglourious Basterds (2009) | |
| 111. | Shining (1980) | |
| 112. | Duck Soup (1933) | |
| 113. | Donnie Darko (2001) | |
| 114. | Princess Bride (1987) | |
| 115. | Oldboy (2003) | |
| 116. | Lola rennt (1998) | |
| 117. | Grindhouse (2007) | |
| 118. | Sin City (2005) | |
| 119. | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) | |
| 120. | City Lights (1931) | |
| 121. | General (1927) | |
| 122. | Searchers (1956) | |
| 123. | Metropolis (1927) | |
| 124. | Full Metal Jacket (1987) | |
| 125. | Notorious (1946) | |
| 126. | The Wrestler (2008) | |
| 127. | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) | |
| 128. | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) | |
| 129. | The Incredibles (2004) | |
| 130. | There Will Be Blood (2007) | |
| 131. | Manhattan (1979) | |
| 132. | Graduate (1967) | |
| 133. | Big Sleep (1946) | |
| 134. | Rebecca (1940) | |
| 135. | Seventh Seal (1957) | |
| 136. | Deer Hunter (1978) | |
| 137. | Batman Begins (2005) | |
| 138. | Glory (1989) | |
| 139. | Serenity (2005) | |
| 140. | Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988) | |
| 141. | Bicycle Thief (1948) | |
| 142. | Shrek (2001) | |
| 143. | Into the Wild (2007) | |
| 144. | For a Few Dollars More (1967) | |
| 145. | African Queen (1951) | |
| 146. | Dogville (2003) | |
| 147. | Best Years of Our Lives (1946) | |
| 148. | Great Dictator (1940) | |
| 149. | Patton (1970) | |
| 150. | The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) | |
| 151. | Green Mile (1999) | |
| 152. | It Happened One Night (1934) | |
| 153. | Philadelphia Story (1940) | |
| 154. | Ben-Hur (1959) | |
| 155. | Juno (2007) | |
| 156. | The Lady Vanishes (1938) | |
| 157. | Before Sunset (2004) | |
| 158. | Bringing Up Baby (1938) | |
| 159. | Straight Story (1999) | |
| 160. | Cool Hand Luke (1967) | |
| 161. | Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) | |
| 162. | Yojimbo (1961) | |
| 163. | Mononoke Hime (1997) | |
| 164. | Grapes of Wrath (1940) | |
| 165. | Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983) | |
| 166. | Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) | |
| 167. | Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) | |
| 168. | Forrest Gump (1994) | |
| 169. | Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | |
| 170. | Wild Bunch (1969) | |
| 171. | The Prestige (2006) | |
| 172. | Night of the Hunter (1955) | |
| 173. | Unforgiven (1992) | |
| 174. | Finding Nemo (2003) | |
| 175. | A Christmas Story (1983) | |
| 176. | Almost Famous (2000) | |
| 177. | Young Frankenstein (1974) | |
| 178. | Children of Men (2006) | |
| 179. | Gone with the Wind (1939) | |
| 180. | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | |
| 181. | Stalag 17 (1953) | |
| 182. | Hustler (1961) | |
| 183. | All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) | |
| 184. | Being John Malkovich (1999) | |
| 185. | Conversation (1974) | |
| 186. | Mulholland Dr. (2001) | |
| 187. | Festen (1998) | |
| 188. | Insider (1999) | |
| 189. | His Girl Friday (1940) | |
| 190. | Elephant Man (1980) | |
| 191. | Hable con ella (2002) | |
| 192. | Grande illusion, La (1937) | |
| 193. | Platoon (1986) | |
| 194. | Die Hard (1988) | |
| 195. | Once Upon a Time in America (1984) | |
| 196. | Gladiator (2000) | |
| 197. | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) | |
| 198. | Spartacus (1960) | |
| 199. | Back to the Future (1985) | |
| 200. | Magnolia (1999) | |
| 201. | The Thing (1982) | |
| 202. | Out of the Past (1947) | |
| 203. | The Hangover (2009) | |
| 204. | High and Low (1963) | |
| 205. | Anatomy of a Murder (1959) | |
| 206. | Little Miss Sunshine (2006) | |
| 207. | Cinderella Man (2005) | |
| 208. | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) | |
| 209. | Gold Rush (1925) | |
| 210. | Sling Blade (1996) | |
| 211. | Battleship Potemkin (1925) | |
| 212. | V for Vendetta (2005) | |
| 213. | Charade (1963) | |
| 214. | Toy Story (1995) | |
| 215. | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) | |
| 216. | Brazil (1985) | |
| 217. | Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) | |
| 218. | Shutter Island (2010) | |
| 219. | Garden State (2004) | |
| 220. | Streetcar Named Desire (1951) | |
| 221. | Life of Brian (1979) | |
| 222. | Night at the Opera (1935) | |
| 223. | Amores perros (2000) | |
| 224. | Exorcist (1973) | |
| 225. | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) | |
| 226. | Witness for the Prosecution (1957) | |
| 227. | All the President's Men (1976) | |
| 228. | Others (2001) | |
| 229. | In Bruges (2008) | |
| 230. | Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) | |
| 231. | Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) | |
| 232. | Traffic (2000) | |
| 233. | Stand by Me (1986) | |
| 234. | Hero (2002) | |
| 235. | Right Stuff (1983) | |
| 236. | Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994) | |
| 237. | Twelve Monkeys (1995) | |
| 238. | Changeling (2008) | |
| 239. | Rififi (1955) | |
| 240. | Dog Day Afternoon (1975) | |
| 241. | Roman Holiday (1953) | |
| 242. | Moon (2009) | |
| 243. | Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | |
| 244. | Hot Fuzz (2007) | |
| 245. | Minority Report (2002) | |
| 246. | Midnight Cowboy (1969) | |
| 247. | Killing (1956) | |
| 248. | 400 Blows (1959) | |
| 249. | Terminator (1984) | |
| 250. | Shadow of a Doubt (1943) | |
| 251. | Harvey (1950) | |
| 252. | Wild Strawberries (1957) | |
| 253. | Ed Wood (1994) | |
| 254. | Lion in Winter (1968) | |
| 255. | Gandhi (1982) | |
| 256. | Bonnie and Clyde (1967) | |
| 257. | Todo sobre mi madre (1999) | |
| 258. | Zombieland (2009) | |
| 259. | Trainspotting (1996) | |
| 260. | Network (1976) | |
| 261. | This Is Spinal Tap (1984) | |
| 262. | Finding Neverland (2004) | |
| 263. | Rain Man (1988) | |
| 264. | To Be or Not to Be (1942) | |
| 265. | Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) | |
| 266. | Henry V (1989) | |
| 267. | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) | |
| 268. | Throne of Blood (1957) | |
| 269. | The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) | |
| 270. | United 93 (2006) | |
| 271. | Umberto D. (1952) | |
| 272. | In Cold Blood (1967) | |
| 273. | Angel exterminador (1962) | |
| 274. | Solyaris (1972) | |
| 275. | Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) | |
| 276. | Miller's Crossing (1990) | |
| 277. | Come and See (1985) | |
| 278. | Laura (1944) | |
| 279. | Stagecoach (1939) | |
| 280. | Harold and Maude (1971) | |
| 281. | Snatch. (2000) | |
| 282. | Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005) | |
| 283. | Beautiful Mind (2001) | |
| 284. | Groundhog Day (1993) | |
| 285. | Walk the Line (2005) | |
| 286. | The Hidden Fortress (1958) | |
| 287. | V for Vendetta (2005) | |
| 288. | Lost in Translation (2003) | |
| 289. | Mystic River (2003) | |
| 290. | 39 Steps (1935) | |
| 291. | The Killer (1989) | |
| 292. | Strada, La (1954) | |
| 293. | Untouchables (1987) | |
| 294. | King Kong (1933) | |
| 295. | Iron Giant (1999) | |
| 296. | MASH (1970) | |
| 297. | Fantasia (1940) | |
| 298. | 8 1/2 (1963) | |
| 299. | Good Will Hunting (1997) | |
| 300. | Garden State (2004) | |
| 301. | Beauty and the Beast (1991) | |
| 302. | Being There (1979) | |
| 303. | Clerks. (1994) | |
| 304. | Big Fish (2003) | |
| 305. | Planet of the Apes (1968) | |
| 306. | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) | |
| 307. | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | |
| 308. | Rio Bravo (1959) | |
| 309. | Quiet Man (1952) | |
| 310. | In the Heat of the Night (1967) | |
| 311. | Brokeback Mountain (2005) | |
| 312. | Moulin Rouge! (2001) | |
| 313. | Deliverance (1972) | |
| 314. | Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) | |
| 315. | Red River (1948) | |
| 316. | Road to Perdition (2002) | |
| 317. | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) | |
| 318. | Mou Gaan Dou (2002) | |
| 319. | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) | |
| 320. | 21 Grams (2003) | |
| 321. | Thin Man (1934) | |
| 322. | Barry Lyndon (1975) | |
| 323. | In the Mood for Love (2000) | |
| 324. | The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) | |
| 325. | Ghost World (2001) | |
| 326. | Man Who Would Be King (1975) | |
| 327. | Jean de Florette (1986) | |
| 328. | X2 (2003) | |
| 329. | The Big Lebowski (1998) | |
| 330. | Man Who Wasn't There (2001) | |
| 331. | Birds (1963) | |
| 332. | From Here to Eternity (1953) | |
| 333. | Sweet Hereafter (1997) | |
| 334. | Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) | |
| 335. | You Can Count on Me (2000) | |
| 336. | French Connection (1971) | |
| 337. | Man for All Seasons (1966) | |
| 338. | Player (1992) | |
| 339. | Killing Fields (1984) | |
| 340. | Heat (1995) | |
| 341. | Sleuth (1972) | |
| 342. | JFK (1991) | |
| 343. | Punch-Drunk Love (2002) | |
| 344. | Doctor Zhivago (1965) | |
| 345. | The Birth of a Nation (1915) | |
| 346. | Tootsie (1982) | |
| 347. | An American in Paris (1951) | |
| 348. | Shane (1953) | |
| 349. | Wuthering Heights (1939) | |
| 350. | Dances With Wolves (1990) | |
| 351. | American Graffiti (1973) | |
| 352. | Rocky (1976) | |
| 353. | Giant (1956) | |
| 354. | My Fair Lady (1964) | |
| 355. | Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) | |
| 356. | Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) | |
| 357. | Frankenstein (1931) | |
| 358. | Easy Rider (1967) | |
| 359. | A Place in the Sun (1951) | |
| 360. | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) | |
| 361. | Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) | |
| 362. | Trois Couleurs: Bleu (1993) | |
| 363. | Trois Couleurs: Blanc (1994) | |
| 364. | The English Patient (1996) | |
| 365. | Manon des Sources (1986) | |
| 366. | 3 Women (1977) | |
| 367. | Stray Dog (1949) | |
| 368. | Let the Right One In (2008) | |
| 369. | A Fistful of Dollars (1964) | |
| 370. | Babette's Feast (1987) |