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Seen: 233 (93.2%)
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Unseen: 17 (6.8%)

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Internet Movie Database Top 250 Movies (Current as of 1/7/09)

1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. The Godfather, Part II (1974)
4. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
5. The Dark Knight (2008)
6. Pulp Fiction (1994)
7. Schindler's List (1993)
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
9. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
10. 12 Angry Men (1957)
11. Casablanca (1942)
12. Star Wars (1977)
13. The Seven Samurai (1954)
14. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
15. Goodfellas (1990)
16. Rear Window (1954)
17. City of God (2002)
18. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
19. Once Upon a Time In the West (1968)
20. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
21. The Usual Suspects (1995)
22. Fight Club (1999)
23. Psycho (1960)
24. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
25. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
26. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
27. Memento (2000)
28. North By Northwest (1959)
29. Citizen Kane (1941)
30. The Matrix (1999)
31. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
32. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
33. Seven (1995)
34. WALL*E (2008)
35. The Professional (1994)
36. Apocalypse Now (1979)
37. Taxi Driver (1976)
38. American Beauty (1999)
39. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
40. American History X (1998)
41. Vertigo (1958)
42. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
43. Paths of Glory (1957)
44. Amelie (2001)
45. M (1931)
46. Forrest Gump (1994)
47. The Departed (2006)
48. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
49. Double Indemnity (1944)
50. Alien (1979)
51. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
52. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
53. The Lives of Others (2006)
54. The Third Man (1949)
55. Chinatown (1974)
56. The Shining (1980)
57. The Pianist (2002)
58. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
59. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
60. Spirited Away (2001)
61. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
62. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
63. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
64. L.A. Confidential (1997)
65. Aliens (1986)
66. The Wrestler (2008)
67. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
68. Requiem For a Dream (2000)
69. The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957)
70. Das Boot (1981)
71. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
72. City Lights (1931)
73. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
74. Rashomon (1950)
75. Raging Bull (1980)
76. All About Eve (1950)
77. Metropolis (1927)
78. Downfall (2004)
79. Modern Times (1936)
80. Rebecca (1940)
81. Singin' In the Rain (1952)
82. Some Like It Hot (1959)
83. Amadeus (1984)
84. The Prestige (2006)
85. The Elephant Man (1980)
86. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
87. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
88. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
89. Sin City (2005)
90. The Apartment (1960)
91. The Great Escape (1963)
92. No Country For Old Men (2007)
93. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
94. The Sting (1973)
95. Touch of Evil (1958)
96. Once Upon a Time In America (1984)
97. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
98. The Seventh Seal (1957)
99. The Great Dictator (1940)
100. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
101. On the Waterfront (1954)
102. Batman Begins (2005)
103. Braveheart (1995)
104. Back To the Future (1985)
105. Jaws (1975)
106. The Bicycle Thief (1948)
107. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
108. Blade Runner (1982)
109. Strangers On a Train (1951)
110. Return of the Jedi (1983)
111. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
112. There Will Be Blood (2007)
113. Unforgiven (1992)
114. Notorious (1946)
115. High Noon (1952)
116. The Green Mile (1999)
117. The Big Sleep (1946)
118. Fargo (1996)
119. Oldboy (2003)
120. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
121. Gladiator (2000)
122. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
123. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
124. Die Hard (1988)
125. Princess Mononoke (1997)
126. Donnie Darko (2001)
127. Yojimbo (1961)
128. Ran (1985)
129. The General (1927)
130. Annie Hall (1977)
131. Wild Strawberries (1957)
132. The Wages of Fear (1953)
133. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
134. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
135. It Happened One Night (1934)
136. Heat (1995)
137. Witness For the Prosecution (1957)
138. The Sixth Sense (1999)
139. The Deer Hunter (1978)
140. Ben-Hur (1959)
141. Platoon (1986)
142. Into the Wild (2007)
143. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
144. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
145. Nights of Cabiria (1957)
146. Life of Brian (1979)
147. Judgment At Nuremberg (1961)
148. Diabolique (1955)
149. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
150. Ratatouille (2007)
151. 8 1/2 (1963)
152. The Big Lebowski (1998)
153. Gran Torino (2008)
154. The Killing (1956)
155. Finding Nemo (2003)
156. Amores Perros (2000)
157. The Graduate (1967)
158. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
159. Brief Encounter (1945)
160. Stand By Me (1986)
161. Snatch. (2000)
162. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
163. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
164. The Wild Bunch (1969)
165. Gandhi (1982)
166. The Gold Rush (1925)
167. V For Vendetta (2006)
168. Gone With the Wind (1939)
169. The Incredibles (2004)
170. The Princess Bride (1987)
171. Trainspotting (1996)
172. The Thing (1982)
173. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
174. Scarface (1983)
175. Milk (2008)
176. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
177. The Lion King (1994)
178. Harvey (1950)
179. Groundhog Day (1993)
180. Children of Men (2006)
181. Toy Story (1995)
182. Sleuth (1972)
183. The Terminator (1984)
184. The Hustler (1961)
185. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
186. Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)
187. The African Queen (1951)
188. Twelve Monkeys (1995)
189. Umberto D (1952)
190. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
191. The Conversation (1974)
192. Duck Soup (1933)
193. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
194. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
195. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
196. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
197. Crash (2005)
198. Stalag 17 (1953)
199. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
200. Let the Right One In (2008)
201. Casino (1995)
202. King Kong (1933)
203. The Kid (1921)
204. Ed Wood (1994)
205. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
206. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
207. Dial M For Murder (1954)
208. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
209. The Exorcist (1973)
210. The Lost Weekend (1945)
211. All Quiet On the Western Front (1930)
212. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
213. Rope (1948)
214. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
215. Patton (1970)
216. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
217. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
218. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
219. Glory (1989)
220. Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
221. Nosferatu (1922)
222. Beauty and the Beast (1946)
223. Frankenstein (1931)
224. Magnolia (1999)
225. His Girl Friday (1940)
226. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
227. In Bruges (2008)
228. Spartacus (1960)
229. Big Fish (2003)
230. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
231. La Strada (1954)
232. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
233. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
234. Network (1976)
235. Manhattan (1979)
236. Roman Holiday (1953)
237. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
238. Mystic River (2003)
239. Safety Last (1923)
240. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
241. Great Expectations (1946)
242. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
243. A Christmas Story (1983)
244. Rocky (1976)
245. La Dolce Vita (1960)
246. Planet of the Apes (1968)
247. The 400 Blows (1959)
248. Laura (1944)
249. Harold and Maude (1971)
250. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)