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Total: 250  
Seen: 93 (37.2%)
See Again: 11 (4.4%)
Unseen: 146 (58.4%)

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Internet Movie Database Top 250 Movies (Current as of 1/09/08)

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
3. The Godfather, Part II (1974)
4. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
5. Pulp Fiction (1994)
6. Schindler's List (1993)
7. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
9. Casablanca (1942)
10. The Seven Samurai (1954)
11. Star Wars (1977)
12. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
13. 12 Angry Men (1957)
14. Rear Window (1954)
15. Goodfellas (1990)
16. City of God (2002)
17. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
18. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
19. Once Upon a Time In the West (1968)
20. The Usual Suspects (1995)
21. Psycho (1960)
22. No Country For Old Men (2007)
23. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
24. Citizen Kane (1941)
25. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
26. North By Northwest (1959)
27. Fight Club (1999)
28. Memento (2000)
29. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
30. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
31. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
32. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
33. The Matrix (1999)
34. Apocalypse Now (1979)
35. Taxi Driver (1976)
36. Seven (1995)
37. American Beauty (1999)
38. Vertigo (1958)
39. The Professional (1994)
40. Amelie (2001)
41. There Will Be Blood (2007)
42. The Departed (2006)
43. American History X (1998)
44. Paths of Glory (1957)
45. M (1931)
46. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
47. The Third Man (1949)
48. Chinatown (1974)
49. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
50. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
51. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
52. Alien (1979)
53. The Lives of Others (2006)
54. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
55. Spirited Away (2001)
56. The Pianist (2002)
57. Double Indemnity (1944)
58. The Shining (1980)
59. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
60. The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957)
61. Das Boot (1981)
62. L.A. Confidential (1997)
63. Downfall (2004)
64. Requiem For a Dream (2000)
65. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
66. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
67. Forrest Gump (1994)
68. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
69. Metropolis (1927)
70. Aliens (1986)
71. Raging Bull (1980)
72. Rashomon (1950)
73. Modern Times (1936)
74. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
75. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
76. Sin City (2005)
77. Singin' In the Rain (1952)
78. The Seventh Seal (1957)
79. Rebecca (1940)
80. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
81. Some Like It Hot (1959)
82. All About Eve (1950)
83. The Great Escape (1963)
84. Touch of Evil (1958)
85. Amadeus (1984)
86. On the Waterfront (1954)
87. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
88. The Prestige (2006)
89. City Lights (1931)
90. The Elephant Man (1980)
91. Jaws (1975)
92. The Sting (1973)
93. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
94. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
95. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
96. Strangers On a Train (1951)
97. Once Upon a Time In America (1984)
98. Braveheart (1995)
99. The Apartment (1960)
100. The Great Dictator (1940)
101. Blade Runner (1982)
102. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
103. Batman Begins (2005)
104. The Wages of Fear (1953)
105. Ratatouille (2007)
106. The Big Sleep (1946)
107. High Noon (1952)
108. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
109. Ran (1985)
110. Notorious (1946)
111. Return of the Jedi (1983)
112. Oldboy (2003)
113. The Bicycle Thief (1948)
114. Fargo (1996)
115. Back To the Future (1985)
116. Unforgiven (1992)
117. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
118. Donnie Darko (2001)
119. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
120. Princess Mononoke (1997)
121. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
122. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
123. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
124. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
125. Yojimbo (1961)
126. Nights of Cabiria (1957)
127. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
128. The Green Mile (1999)
129. Annie Hall (1977)
130. Gladiator (2000)
131. Ben-Hur (1959)
132. Juno (2007)
133. Die Hard (1988)
134. The Deer Hunter (1978)
135. The Sixth Sense (1999)
136. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
137. The Killing (1956)
138. It Happened One Night (1934)
139. The General (1927)
140. The Incredibles (2004)
141. Life of Brian (1979)
142. Platoon (1986)
143. Finding Nemo (2003)
144. Diabolique (1955)
145. V For Vendetta (2006)
146. Children of Men (2006)
147. Amores Perros (2000)
148. Wild Strawberries (1957)
149. The Wild Bunch (1969)
150. 8 1/2 (1963)
151. The Princess Bride (1987)
152. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
153. The Graduate (1967)
154. Crash (2005)
155. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
156. Brief Encounter (1945)
157. Judgment At Nuremberg (1961)
158. American Gangster (2007)
159. Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)
160. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
161. Heat (1995)
162. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
163. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
164. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
165. Stand By Me (1986)
166. Gandhi (1982)
167. The Big Lebowski (1998)
168. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
169. Beauty and the Beast (1946)
170. The African Queen (1951)
171. Harvey (1950)
172. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
173. Grindhouse (2007)
174. Witness For the Prosecution (1957)
175. Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
176. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
177. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
178. Gone With the Wind (1939)
179. The Conversation (1974)
180. Trainspotting (1996)
181. The Thing (1982)
182. Snatch. (2000)
183. Nosferatu (1922)
184. Duck Soup (1933)
185. Patton (1970)
186. Groundhog Day (1993)
187. Stalker (1979)
188. The Gold Rush (1925)
189. Toy Story (1995)
190. Umberto D (1952)
191. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
192. Scarface (1983)
193. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
194. 3:10 To Yuma (2007)
195. Twelve Monkeys (1995)
196. The Hustler (1961)
197. Sleuth (1972)
198. Glory (1989)
199. King Kong (1933)
200. The Terminator (1984)
201. Ed Wood (1994)
202. Rififi (1955)
203. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
204. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
205. Spartacus (1960)
206. The Exorcist (1973)
207. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
208. Run Lola Run (1998)
209. All Quiet On the Western Front (1930)
210. Come and See (1985)
211. Hot Fuzz (2007)
212. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
213. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
214. Stalag 17 (1953)
215. Out of the Past (1947)
216. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
217. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
218. The Lost Weekend (1945)
219. A Christmas Story (1983)
220. Toy Story 2 (1999)
221. The Lion King (1994)
222. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
223. Frankenstein (1931)
224. Magnolia (1999)
225. Big Fish (2003)
226. Harakiri (1962)
227. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
228. Mystic River (2003)
229. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
230. Ikiru (1952)
231. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
232. Young Frankenstein (1974)
233. High and Low (1963)
234. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
235. Infernal Affairs (2002)
236. Atonement (2007)
237. The Searchers (1956)
238. Casino (1995)
239. Hero (2002)
240. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
241. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
242. La Haine (1995)
243. Dial M For Murder (1954)
244. His Girl Friday (1940)
245. Manhattan (1979)
246. Roman Holiday (1953)
247. Harold and Maude (1971)
248. Le Samourai (1967)
249. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
250. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

Movie that fell off the list from 06/19/07: #163 Knocked Up, #184 Zodiac, #190 Casino Royale, #207 Finding Neverland, #212 Shrek, #213 Before Sunset, #216 Cinderella Man, #228 300, #234 Throne of Blood, #236 Arsenic and Old Lace, #238 In Cold Blood, #241 Sling Blade, #242 Talk To Her, #245 Solyaris, #247 Walk the Line, #248 Howl's Moving Castle

 

Movie that fell off the list from 11/15/05: #173 The Celebration, #175 His Girl Friday, #181 The Sea Inside, #183 The Four Hundred Blows , #187 Charade, #190 Monsters, Inc., #191 The Passion of Joan of Arc, #192 Sideways, #196 Serenity, #197 Brazil, #199 A Streetcar Named Desire, #202 All the President's Men, #204 Battleship Potemkin, #205 Red, #206 The Road, #207 Grand Illusion, #210 A Night At the Opera, #211 Almost Famous, #214 Lost in Translation, #215 The Insider, #217 Laura, #221 In America, #222 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, #226 Network, #227 Mulholland Drive, #228 This is Spinal Tap, #230 Rain Man, #232 21 Grams, #233 Station Agent, #234 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, #235 Being There, #236 Barry Lyndon, #237 Miller's Crossing, #240 Garden State, #241 Being John Malkovich, #243 The Lion In Winter, #246 Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring, #247. Fanny and Alexander, #248 White Heat, #249 Persona

 

Movie that fell off the list from 8/26/05: #205 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), #213 To Be Or Not To Be (1942), #230 The Battle of Algiers (1965), #238 The Brotherhood of War (2004), #241 Spiderman 2 (2004), #242 Cinderella Man (2005), #243 The Thin Man (1934), #245 My Neighbor Totoro (1988), #246 The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), #247 Dogville (2003).

 

New Movies that made the list since 06/19/07: #22 No Country for Old Men. #41 There Will Be Blood, #105 Ratatouille, #117 Bourne Ultimatum, #132 Juno, #152 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, #158 American Gangster, #194 3:10 to Yuma, #229 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, #236 Atonement, #237 The Searchers, #240 Aguirre: The Wrath of God, #241 A Streetcar Named Desire, #244 His Girl Friday, #247 Harold and Maude, #248 The Godson

 

New Movies that made the list since 11/15/05: #35 The Departed, #41 Pan's Labyrinth, #72 The Lives of Others, #74 Grindhouse, #115 Hot Fuzz, #122 Children of Men, #128 V for Vendetta, #130 Letters from Iwo Jima, #140 Nights of Cabiria, #145 Little Miss Sunshine, #163 Knocked Up, #184 Zodiac, #188 Stalker, #190 Casino Royale, #193 Beauty and the Beast, #211 Sleuth, #214 Out of the Past, #216 Cinderella Man, #217 Frankenstein, #221 Harakiri, #222 Rififi, #224 Infernal Affairs, #225 Rosemary's Baby, #226 The Lion King, #227 Anatomy of a Murder, #228 300, #229 The Ox-Bow Incident, #232 Shaun of the Dead, #233 Uberto D, #237 The Lost Weekend, #238 In Cold Blood, #239 La Haine, #244 Dial M For Murder, #245 Solyaris, #246 Come and See, #247 Walk the Line, #248 Howl's Moving Castle, #249 Casino, #250 High and Low

 

New Movies that made the list since 8/26/05: #196 Serenity (2005), #220 The Wages of Fear (1953), #224 Throne of Blood (1957), #229 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), #234 2005 Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005), #238 Bride of Frankenstein (1935), #242 King Kong (1933), #245 Bonnie and Clyde (1967), #248 White Heat (1949), #250 The Thing (1982).