I wonder if this might be the original source of that other list, too, but Ine linked to the iMDb top 250 film list, and you know I can’t resist…
Those I’ve seen in bold.
1. The Godfather (1972)
2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
4. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
5. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
6. Schindler’s List (1993)
7. Casablanca (1942)
8. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
9. Shichinin no samurai (The Seven Samurais) (1954)
10. Star Wars (1977)
11. Citizen Kane (1941)
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
13. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
14. Rear Window (1954)
15. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
16. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
17. Memento (2000)
18. The Usual Suspects (1995)
19. Pulp Fiction (1994)
20. North by Northwest (1959)
21. Le Fabuleux destin d’Am?lie Poulain (2001)
22. 12 Angry Men (1957)
23. Psycho (1960) *
24. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
25. Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly) (1966)
26. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
27. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
28. Goodfellas (1990)
29. American Beauty (1999)
30. Vertigo (1958)
31. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
32. The Matrix (1999)
33. The Pianist (2002)
34. Apocalypse Now (1979)
35. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
36. Some Like It Hot (1959)
37. Taxi Driver (1976)
38. C’era una volta il West (Once Upon A Time In The West) (1968)
39. The Third Man (1949)
40. Paths of Glory (1957)
41. Fight Club (1999)
42. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
43. Das Boot (1981)
44. Double Indemnity (1944)
45. L.A. Confidential (1997)
46. Chinatown (1974)
47. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
48. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
49. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
50. M (1931)
51. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
52. All About Eve (1950)
53. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
54. Se7en (1995) *
55. Saving Private Ryan (1998) *
56. Cidade de Deus (City of God) (2002)
57. Raging Bull (1980)
58. Rash?mon (1950)
59. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
60. The Sting (1973)
61. Alien (1979) *
62. American History X (1998)
63. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
64. L?on (1994)
65. La Vita ? bella (1997)
66. Touch of Evil (1958)
67. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
68. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
69. Wo hu cang long (2000)
70. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
71. The Great Escape (1963)
72. A Clockwork Orange (1971) *
73. Reservoir Dogs (1992) *
74. Amadeus (1984)
75. Annie Hall (1977)
76. Jaws (1975) *
77. Ran (1985)
78. Modern Times (1936)
79. On the Waterfront (1954)
80. Braveheart (1995)
81. High Noon (1952)
82. The Apartment (1960)
83. Fargo (1996)
84. The Sixth Sense (1999)
85. Aliens (1986) *
86. The Shining (1980) *
87. Strangers on a Train (1951)
88. Blade Runner (1982)
89. Metropolis (1927)
90. Duck Soup (1933)
91. Donnie Darko (2001)
92. Finding Nemo (2003)
93. The General (1927)
94. Toy Story 2 (1999)
95. The Princess Bride (1987)
96. City Lights (1931)
97. Lola rennt (1998)
98. The Great Dictator (1940)
99. Notorious (1946)
100. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
101. Det Sjunde inseglet (1957)
102. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
103. Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989)
104. Rebecca (1940)
105. Mononoke-hime (1997)
106. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
107. The Big Sleep (1946)
108. The Graduate (1967) *
109. Manhattan (1979)
110. It Happened One Night (1934)
111. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
112. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) *
113. The Deer Hunter (1978)
114. Patton (1970)
115. The Searchers (1956)
116. Glory (1989)
117. Yojimbo (1961)
118. Ladri di biciclette (1948)
119. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
120. The African Queen (1951)
121. Forrest Gump (1994)
122. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
123. Ben-Hur (1959)
124. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
125. The Green Mile (1999)
126. Shrek (2001)
127. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
128. Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
129. Habla con ella (2002)
130. Unforgiven (1992)
131. Stalag 17 (1953)
132. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
133. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
134. Gone with the Wind (1939)
135. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
136. The Wild Bunch (1969)
137. The Straight Story (1999)
138. A Christmas Story (1983)
139. The Elephant Man (1980)
140. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
141. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
142. Platoon (1986)
143. The Hustler (1961)
144. Back to the Future (1985)
145. Young Frankenstein (1974)
146. His Girl Friday (1940)
147. Die Hard (1988)
148. Monsters Inc. (2001)
149. Amores perros (2000)
150. La Grande illusion (1937)
151. Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
152. The Gold Rush (1925)
153. Spartacus (1960)
154. Almost Famous (2000)
155. The Conversation (1974)
156. Charade (1963)
157. Life of Brian (1979)
158. Gladiator (2000)
159. Festen (1998)
160. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
161. Smultronst?llet (1957)
162. Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925)
163. Being John Malkovich (1999)
164. Magnolia (1999)
165. Sling Blade (1996) *
166. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
167. Toy Story (1995)
168. The Insider (1999)
169. Roman Holiday (1953)
170. A Night at the Opera (1935)
171. Brazil (1985)
172. Mulholland Drive (2001)
173. Lost in Translation (2003)
174. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
175. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
176. All the President’s Men (1976)
177. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
178. Les Quatre cents coups (1959)
179. The Exorcist (1973) *
180. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
181. To Be or Not to Be (1942)
182. The Killing (1956)
183. Mystic River (2003)
184. Ed Wood (1994)
185. The Terminator (1984) *
186. Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994)
187. Stand by Me (1986)
188. Adaptation (2002)
189. Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
190. Twelve Monkeys (1995)
191. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
192. Harvey (1950)
193. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
194. The Right Stuff (1983)
195. Gandhi (1982)
196. Trainspotting (1996)
197. Ying xiong (2002)
198. Miller’s Crossing (1990)
199. Network (1976)
200. The Lion in Winter (1968)
201. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
202. Minority Report (2002) *
203. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
204. Groundhog Day (1993)
205. Rain Man (1988)
206. The Others (2001) *
207. Laura (1944)
208. 8? (1963)
209. King Kong (1933)
210. Stagecoach (1939)
211. Snatch (2000)
212. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
213. The 39 Steps (1935)
214. Traffic (2000)
215. Hotaru no haka (1988)
216. The Untouchables (1987)
217. Whale Rider (2002)
218. La Strada (1954)
219. La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (1928)
220. Rio Bravo (1959)
221. Henry V (1989)
222. The Big Lebowski (1998)
223. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
224. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
225. The Thin Man (1934)
226. Todo sobre mi madre (1999)
227. Die xue shuang xiong (1989)
228. Planet of the Apes (1968)
229. Fantasia (1940)
230. Good Will Hunting (1997)
231. Being There (1979)
232. Clerks (1994)
233. A Beautiful Mind (2001) *
234. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
235. Red River (1948)
236. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
237. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
238. M*A*S*H (1970)
239. The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
240. Road to Perdition (2002)
241. X2 (2003)
242. The Quiet Man (1952)
243. Sleuth (1972)
244. JFK (1991)
245. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
246. Heat (1995)
247. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
248. The Birds (1963)
249. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) *
250. The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
* are films I – for one reason or another – have no intention of ever watching