Best movies not in IMDb top 250

[Erik Lensherr]

List your favorite movies that are not in IMDb's top 250.

This is the IMDb top 250: IMDb Top Rated Movies

My favorites:

Dark City (So underrated movie)



Infernal Affairs (better than Martin Scorsese's Remake in my opinion)



Banlieue 13 ("true" action by real human instead of CGI gimmicks or fake stunts. This movie aged like a fine wine)



The Terminator (I can’t believe it’s not on the 250 list )



Training Day (Denzel Washington at his best)

 

[childeroland]

A Brighter Summer Day -- immersive crime film/drama about youths and families caught in traumatic post-war change. Tragic and beautifully acted.

Millennium Mambo -- magical coming-of-age during the start of the millennium with my favorite opening sequence in cinema

 

[LoganPool]

In no particular order:

Looper
Any John Wick movie
Cast Away
Now You See Me
Real Steal
Terminator

 

[Persona]

Offret
Mirror
Nostalghia
Solyaris
Ivan's Childhood
Ordet
Pickpocket
Au Hasard Balthazar
Diary of a Country Priest
First Reformed
Silence
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Fallen Angels
Chungking Express
Days of Being Wild
Heavenly Creatures
Dead Alive
My Night at Maud's
Claire's Knee
Audition
Videodrome
The Fly
eXistenZ
Shivers
Dead Ringers
Near Dark
35 Shots of Rum
The Intruder (Denis)
The Colour of Paradise
I'm Not Scared
Zombi 2
The Tenant
Playtime
Shame (Bergman)
Winter Light
Porco Rosso
Paprika
Il Posto
Nights of Cabiria
8 1/2
The Apu Trilogy
The Three Colors
The Double Life of Veronique
Drive
The Conversation
Sorcerer
Night Moves
Burning
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
Let the Right One In
Jules et Jim
Sunrise (Murnau)
The Straight Story
Blue Velvet
The Conformist
L'Atalante
Contempt
My Life to Live
Belle de Jour
The Werckmeister Harmonies
Cache
The Trial
The Insider
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
The Grand Illusion
Blood Simple
Ugetsu
Under the Skin
Her
Little Odessa
Woman in the Dunes
Holy Motors
The Tree of Life

I could keep going but I guess I'll stop.

Clearly the Nolan fanboys have a strong presence on IMDB (TDKR at #71... seriously?). Fincher fans, too. And I like those directors at the same time that their fans don't seem to support some of their best movies (Dunkirk and Zodiac, respectively) as much.

But I dunno, it's a weird list. Like, I love Winter Sleep, but not sure how it squeaked on here over some other foreign films--like 8 1/2 or Aguirre or Ceylan's own Anatolia, for instance. Just very strange what made it in and what didn't and how everything is ranked. But I guess that's to be expected from a user rankings list.

 

[Boom]

Annihilation
Ex Machina
First Reformed
Hereditary
The Lighthouse
Midsommar
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The Witch

 

[DarkKnight88]

But I dunno, it's a weird list. Like, I love Winter Sleep, but not sure how it squeaked on here over some other foreign films--like 8 1/2 or Aguirre or Ceylan's own Anatolia, for instance. Just very strange what made it in and what didn't and how everything is ranked. But I guess that's to be expected from a user rankings list.

It’s obviously impossible to ever find an accurate list to suit every taste. But out of every film ranking system online, I do find it to be more or less the best for searching something of quality over say Rotten Tomatoes. They can be on polar ends sometimes, but IMDb usually trumps it in terms of actual quality or relevancy *most* of the time.