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Essential Letterboxd Films

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After some at-home data analysis, the combined factors of the most popular films on Letterboxd have distilled the massive group to a select few. After weighing as much readily available data as possible, these appear to be the stand-out films!

The results are not terribly shocking, but this will be a chance to look at the work of the entire Letterboxd community. Not fitting perfectly on either highest-rated or most popular films lists, my judgement is that this comprises the most significant recommended films to the Letterboxd…

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  • Parasite

    1

  • The Godfather

    2

  • The Dark Knight

    3

  • The Shawshank Redemption

    4

  • Spirited Away

    5

  • Whiplash

    6

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    7

  • Dune: Part Two

    8

  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

    9

  • GoodFellas

    10

  • Interstellar

    11

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    12

  • 12 Angry Men

    13

  • Schindler's List

    14

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    15

  • The Godfather Part II

    16

  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire

    17

  • Inglourious Basterds

    18

  • The Empire Strikes Back

    19

  • The Silence of the Lambs

    20

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    21

  • Se7en

    22

  • There Will Be Blood

    23

  • Oldboy

    24

  • Howl's Moving Castle

    25

  • City of God

    26

  • Good Will Hunting

    27

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    28

  • Apocalypse Now

    29

  • Perfect Blue

    30

  • Princess Mononoke

    31

  • La Haine

    32

  • No Country for Old Men

    33

  • Fight Club

    34

  • Django Unchained

    35

  • Dead Poets Society

    36

  • Before Sunrise

    37

  • Grave of the Fireflies

    38

  • Fantastic Mr. Fox

    39

  • In the Mood for Love

    40

  • The Thing

    41

  • The Handmaiden

    42

  • Pulp Fiction

    43

  • Prisoners

    44

  • The Pianist

    45

  • Psycho

    46

  • Come and See

    47

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    48

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    49

  • The Departed

    50

  • Memories of Murder

    51

  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    52

  • The Grand Budapest Hotel

    53

  • Alien

    54

  • The Shining

    55

  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    56

  • Seven Samurai

    57

  • The Truman Show

    58

  • Paris, Texas

    59

  • Rear Window

    60

  • Oppenheimer

    61

  • Before Sunset

    62

  • Aftersun

    63

  • Ratatouille

    64

  • The Prestige

    65

  • Inception

    66

  • The Holdovers

    67

  • It's a Wonderful Life

    68

  • Cinema Paradiso

    69

  • Persona

    70

  • Mulholland Drive

    71

  • WALL·E

    72

  • Kill Bill: Vol. 1

    73

  • Do the Right Thing

    74

  • Chungking Express

    75

  • Back to the Future

    76

  • Chernobyl

    77

  • Normal People

    78

  • The Lion King

    79

  • Stalker

    80

  • Saving Private Ryan

    81

  • Heat

    82

  • Children of Men

    83

  • Casablanca

    84

  • Moonlight

    85

  • Perfect Days

    86

  • Singin' in the Rain

    87

  • Akira

    88

  • Mad Max: Fury Road

    89

  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    90

  • Incendies

    91

  • Life Is Beautiful

    92

  • Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

    93

  • Vertigo

    94

  • Your Name.

    95

  • Little Miss Sunshine

    96

  • My Neighbor Totoro

    97

  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    98

  • Coraline

    99

  • Fargo

    100

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