These sites post best film list from users (that is, you).
Senses of Cinema Top Tens—This site collects top-ten lists from anyone who is a "film writer, filmmaker, film programmer or simply a serious film lover with a developed 'sense of cinema.'"
The Cinematheque The Top Ten Project—This site collects top-ten lists for the best films and for the best directors.
Your Movie Database (YMDB) Top Movie Lists—Users can post their top-20 film lists. The site analyzes each list and identifies other users with similar lists.
Top 100 Movie Lists Public's Top 100—Most of the lists on this site are top-100 film lists, but a few of the lists are longer or shorter.
Everyone's a Critic My Top 100—This site is similar to Your Movie Database, except that users can also rate films and create topfilm lists of any size instead of just top-20 film lists.
The following links are to lists derived from large sample (i.e., minimum of 500 respondents) polls of film fans. Some are ongoing polls and are updated frequently. Others have finished polling. These polls tend to favor the popular taste.
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) My Favourite Film—Viewers voted on the best films of all time in a popular list.
Amazon.co.uk Top 100 Movies of All Time—A popular/mainstream list derived from a poll of over 50,000 people.
BBC The Film 99 top 100—Viewers voted on the best films of all time in a strongly popular list that also leans mainstream.
Britmovie Viewers Top 100 British Films—An ongoing user poll of the best British films.
Channel Four Top Movie Lists—The British television network runs periodic fan polls. Some are of top films, and others are broader with most of the finalists being films. Specific lists include The 100 Greatest Films (a popular/mainstream list), The 100 Greatest Musicals, The 100 Greatest Scary Moments, The 100 Greatest Sexy Moments, The 100 Greatest Tearjerkers, The 100 Greatest War Films, The 100 Greatest Family Films, and The 50 Greatest Comedy Films. Another series selected the 50 Best British Films.
Daily Film Dose The Fanboy 100—The film review blog responded to the American Film Institute's 2007 list by inviting users to submit their votes using the AFI's ballot, resulting in a popular/mainstream list.
Empire Your 100 Greatest Movies Ever/100 Greatest Movies of All Time—Readers pick their favorite films in polls conducted in 1999 and in 2003. Both lists are very strongly popular lists and the 1999 list also leans mainstream. This link is from Tim Dirks's Greatest Films site.
Empire Ultimate Movie Poll—Empire readers pick their 50 favorite films in a strongly popular list that also leans mainstream. This link is from Tim Dirks's Greatest Films site.
Everyone's a Critic The Top 200—This site takes user ratings to create a balanced mainstream/popular list that also leans highbrow.
Flicks.co.nz New Zealand’s Favourite Movie Ever—A user poll selected the films most loved by New Zealanders in a strongly popular list.
FNAC/Le Monde Les Grands Films du Siecle [The Greatest Films of the Century]—A fan poll in France creates a highbrow leaning list. English speaking film fans should be able to figure out most of the titles. This link is from the Internet Archive.
Groovy Movie Coolest Films Ever—Users voted on the films that they considered to be the "coolest" in a popular list. This link is from the Internet Archive.
Groovy Movie Top 100 Poll—Users voted on the films that they considered to be the best rather than the "coolest" in a popular/mainstream list. This link is from the Internet Archive.
The Guardian Your most memorable film moments—The newspaper presented a popular list that leans mainstream based on a reader poll on the most memorable film moments of all time.
The Guardian The Big 50—A Guardian panel selected its top 50 adaptations of novels into films and presented a reader poll ranking these 50 films.
Internet Movie Database Top 250 films—Users of the internet's most important web site on film choose their top films in a popular/mainstream blend list.
Internet Movie Questionnaire Top 100 Movies—A user poll that creates a strongly popular list that leans mainstream. This link is from the Internet Archive.
Internettive Top 100—An ongoing poll that results in a strongly popular list.
InterSites 100 Greatest Films—The web site presents a strongly popular list that leans mainstream based on a user poll of the best films of all time.
Jackpot Hollywood Fabulous 50 Favorite Flicks—Presents the results of an online poll in a popular list. This link is from the Internet Archive.
L.A. Daily News Greatest Films—A readers poll using the 400 nominees for the AFI's 100 Years… 100 Movies list results in a very strongly mainstream list. This link is from Tim Dirks's Greatest Films site.
Landmark Theatres Favorite Foreign Film Poll—Customers of Landmark Theatres and Borders Books voted for their favorite "foreign" films in a highbrow leaning list. Of course, the films were foreign only to those in English-speaking nations.
Magical Movies—A popular leaning list of users' top three most inspiring films in a popular leaning list. It is the least highbrow list analyzed by this site. This link comes from the Internet Archive.
Mr. Showbiz Centurama—Users pick the top films of the past century in a mainstream/popular blend list. This link comes from the Internet Archive.
Mr. Showbiz Readers' 100 Best Movies of All Time—Uses of the web site voted on their top films in a strongly popular/mainstream list. This link comes from the Internet Archive.
Sisqua.com 100 Greatest Movies of All Time—A fan poll results in a very strongly popular list. This link is from BRmovie.com.
Sky Premier channel Top 100 Films—The results of a fan poll lead to a strongly popular list that leans mainstream. This link is from the BBC's website.
StumbleUpon Top Movies—A strongly popular list of the films that members most often list as favorites.
Time Out Readers' Top 100 Films—A poll of the film magazine's readers resulted in a list that leans toward the popular, highbrow, and mainstream tastes. This link is from Tim Dirks's Greatest Films site.
Your Movie Database (YMDB)—A compilation of users' top-20 film lists that results in a popular/highbrow list.
The links below are to polls of film scholars, critics, and filmmakers. With the exception of the American Film Institute polls, the number of people participating in these polls is usually much smaller than the number participating in the polls of film fans. Most polls are composites of top-10 lists submitted by respondents, although the American Film Institute polls use a ballot.
Alliance of Women Film Journalists Top 100 Films List—The AFWJ selected its top-100 film list in response to the fact that the nominees for the American Film Institute's 2007 list included very few films directed by women.
American Film Institute 100 Years… 100 Movies—This is arguably the most familiar list of top films. It is one of the most strongly mainstream lists analyzed by this site. Several of the links on this page are to lists inspired by or in response to this list. This link is from Tim Dirks's Greatest Films site, which also contains a list of nominees.
American Film Institute 100 Years… 100 Laughs—The AFI lists top American comedies. This link is from Tim Dirks's Greatest Films site, which also contains a list of nominees.
American Film Institute 100 Years… 100 Thrills—The AFI presents the top American thrillers in a list that leans toward the popular taste. The list has a very loose definition of "thriller" that includes Casablanca (1942) and The Godfather (1972). This link is from Tim Dirks's Greatest Films site, which also contains a list of nominees.
American Film Institute 100 Years… 100 Passions—The AFI presents top American romantic films in a mainstream leaning list. This link is from Tim Dirks's Greatest Films site, which also contains a list of nominees.
American Film Institute 100 Years… 100 Cheers—The AFI presents the most inspiring films in another list that leans mainstream. This link is from Tim Dirks's Greatest Films site, which also contains a list of nominees.
American Film Institute The Greatest Movie Musicals of All Time—The AFI selected a smaller list of the best musicals. This link is from Tim Dirks's Greatest Films site.
American Film Institute 100 Years… 100 Movies - 10th Anniversary Edition—The AFI decided to update its list of the best American films of all time. It resulted in a very strongly mainstream list. This link is from USA Today. Tim Dirks's Greatest Films site has a list of nominees.
British Film Institute Favorite British Films of the 20th Century—The BFI does for British films what the AFI did for American films.
British Film Institute Watch This! Top fifty films for children up to the age of 14—The BFI conducted a debate of the most important films for children to see. Another page contains a top-ten list and a description of the event.
Cinemarati 100 A Few of Our Favorite Movies—The results of a collection of Top-100 film lists from online critics is a popular list with mainstream leanings. This link is from the Internet Archive.
Cinemascope Best Films Of The 1990's—The magazine polled 150 critics, scholars, filmmakers etc. for the best films of the 1990s. This link is from the Best of Movies site.
Film Comment Top 150 Unreleased Foreign Language Films of the Nineties —In 1997. the magazine polled approximately 80 critics and film scholars for the best films of the 1990s that were never released in the United States.
John Kobal Poll—The result of a poll of various critics and filmmakers. This link is from the Combustible Celluloid site.
El Mundo Las 100 Mejores Películas [The 100 Best Films]—The newspaper polled 100 international critics. The result is a strongly highbrow list. [Scroll approximately 2/3 to 3/4 of the way down the page].
Online Film Critics Society Top 100 Sci-Fi Films of all Time—In 2002, members voted on the best science-fiction feature films in a popular leaning list.
Online Film Critics Society Top 100 Animated Features of all Time—In 2003, members voted on the best animated feature films. As one might predict, the final list is heavy on Disney and anime films.
Positif—A poll of critics' top-10 lists. There is also a collection of the top-10 lists used to make up the list. These links are from Eric C. Johnson's site.
Rotten Tomatoes Best of Rotten Tomatoes—The site lists films that have unanimous positive reviews from the critics that it surveys.
San Francisco State University Films Anyone Serious About Cinema Should See—A faculty poll created a highbrow list of films that should be seen by film students.
Sight and Sound—Every 10 years, the British film magazine asks critics and directors for their top-10 film lists. Another site includes a list of all films getting 3 or more votes on the 1992 poll. These links are from CinePad and Eric C. Johnson's site.
Sight and Sound 2002 Poll—Ten years later, the magazine once again polled critics and directors resulting in the most strongly highbrow list analyzed by this site.
Time Out Centenary Top 100 Films—The London magazine polled filmmakers and critics to create this list. This link is from Tim Dirks's Greatest Films site.
Village Voice 100 Best Films of the 20th Century—The newspaper polled critics on the best film of the century. The result is a highbrow list. This link is from Tim Dirk's Greatest Films site.
Writers Guild of America 101 Greatest Screenplays—Guild members voted on the best of over 1,400 nominated screenplays to create a strongly mainstream list that also leans to the popular taste.
All of these lists represent the personal opinion of a single, identified film scholar or critic.
The Advertiser The Best 100 Films of All Time—Critic Stan James picks his top 100 films in a strongly mainstream list. This link is from Discover Kate.
Nick Burns Film List—A film professor makes his recommendations on films to see in a list that leans highbrow.
Charles Champlin 100 Best American Sound Films—At the request of the library at the California State University at Los Angeles, the former Los Angeles Times writer presents his mainstream list of best films.
Chicago Reader Alternate 100—Critic Jonathan Rosenbaum responded to the AFI's 100 Years… 100 Movies list by picking 100 American films not on the original list.
Chicago Tribune 100 Best Films of the Century—Critic Michael Wilmington picks his top 100 films (really 128) in a highbrow list. This link is from the Internet Archive.
Cincinnati Enquirer—Critic Margaret A. McGurk presents her ballot for the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies poll in a strongly mainstream list.
360 Classic Feature Film Project—David Meeker of the British Film Institute collected 360 (really 363) classic films in a highbrow list. This link is from Alex Fung's page.
Combustible Celluloid Combustible Celluloid's 100 Great Movies—Critic Jeffrey M. Anderson selects his top films in a highbrow leaning list.
Robert Crouse The 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen—A list of 100 great films, many of which are obscure. The book includes a disproportionate number of documentaries and Canadian films, and 40% of the films were released between 1999 and 2002. This link is from the Best of Movies site.
Bosley Crowther The 50 Best Films of All Time—The former New York Times critic chose his 50 best films in 1967. This link is from the Internet Archive.
Roger Ebert 100 great movie moments—The Chicago Sun Times critic 100 memorable moments in film.
Roger Ebert The Great Movies—A highbrow list with mainstream leanings of the Chicago Sun-Times critic's biweekly column. His (nonidentical) top ten lists can be found at his site and at Sight & Sound.
Jim Emerson 101 Movies You Must See Before You Die—The editor of Roger Ebert's web page created a mainstream/highbrow list of the films that he believes everyone should see before it is too late. The Webmaster does not know what to make of the fact that he can die after seeing only ten more films.
Philip French The Top 50—the film critic from The Observer selected his top films made since 1960.
Los Angeles Times 129 DVDs You Must Own—Film critic Peter Rainer selected a highbrow list of his favorite 129 films that are available on DVD. He favors films directed by Satyajit Ray and Preston Sturges. This link is from the Best of Movies site.
Derek Malcolm Century of Film—The critic from The Guardian presents his favorite film from each of 100 directors in a highbrow leaning list. The author's top-10 list is at Sight and Sound, which includes films not on the longer list. This link is from Combustible Celluloid.
Leonard Maltin 100 Must-See Films of the 20th Century—The critic presents a mainstream top-100 film list with highbrow leanings. This link is from Tim Dirks's Greatest Films site. Maltin also presents a top-10 list at Entertainment Scene, which contains a film not on his top-100 list. This second list is from the Internet Archive.
Bill Mousoulis Top 50 films of all time—An Australian filmmaker presents two top-50 lists, one with a limit of one film per director and one without that limit.
National Review Your 100 Best Conservative Movies—The conservative magazine uses reader feedback to amend its list of top films that celebrate war, Christianity, and Michael Curtiz. This link is from The Internet Archive.
The New York Times Essential Library 100 Recommended Children's Movies—Critic Peter Nichols selected 100 films appropriate for family viewing in a mainstream leaning list. This link is from Tim Dirks's Greatest Films site.
Barry Norman Top 100 Films—The film critic picks his top 100 films of all time in a mainstream/highbrow list. This link is at Videodog. Norman's top-10 list is at Sight and Sound.
O Magazine 50 Greatest Chick Flicks—Critic Karen Durbin chose her top-50 (only 49 are listed) female empowerment films. This link is from Tim Dirks's Greatest Films site.
Ottawa Citizen My favorite 100 films of the century—Critic Jay Stone picked his 100 favorite films in a mainstream list, even if he did not remember all of the titles.
El País Semanal—Critic Antonio Albert presented his top-ten films in each of ten genres. [Scroll approximately 40% of the way down the page.]
Otto Penzler 101 Greatest Films of Mystery & Suspense—The author chooses the top mystery and suspense films, broadly defined. This link is from the Best of Movies site.
Gerald Peary 100 Films for Film Literacy—The film critic presents a highbrow list of important films.
Reader's Digest The 100+ Funniest Films—Stefan Kanfer composed his list of the greatest comedies.
Reel Views Berardinelli's All-Time Top 100—Online critic James Berardinelli presents his top films in a popular/mainstream leaning list.
Jonathan Rosenbaum 1000 Essential Films—The Chicago Reader film critic selected his top 1,000 favorite films in a highbrow leaning list.
Charles Tashiro—The film professor picks some of his top films in a highbrow list. This link is from the Internet Archive.
Toledo Blade Our Top 100 American Films—Christopher Borrelli responded to the American Film Institute's 2007 list with a mainstream leaning list of his own.
John Walker Halliwell's best movies—The editor for Halliwell's Film, Video And DVD Guide presents his top 1,000 films in a highbrow list that also leans mainstream. This link of the top 700 or so films is from the Lists of Bests site.
Wormwood Some Greats—Film professor Larry Foster selects some films that he considers to be great in a highbrow list with mainstream leanings.
Some of these lists result from collaborations between critics at a particular media outlet. Other lists are of unspecified origin but are presented by the media outlet.
Asia Weekly Magazine 100 Strongest Chinese Films of the 20th Century—The magazine picked its top 100 Chinese films. This link is from A Chinese Cinema Page.
BBC Top 100 Movie List—The BBC's highbrow leaning list as posted on Aaron and Mark Caldwell's site.
Biography 100 Unforgettable Movies—The magazine associated with A&E's popular series presented lists of ten unforgettable films for each of ten different genres. These lists add up to a popular leaning list. Apparently, the memory span of the list's creators is less than 25 years, because no film on the list was made before 1979. This link is from The Best of Movies site.
Blender 100 Greatest Rock & Roll Movies Of All Time—The magazine picked film exemplifying its preferred genre of music. This link comes from the Best of Movies site.
Bravo 100 Scariest Movie Moments—The cable television channel selected its scariest moments in horror films.
Bravo 100 Funniest Movie Moments—The cable television special listed the 100 funniest movie moments selected by people who have never heard of Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Laurel & Hardy, the Marx Brothers, Bringing Up Baby, Some Like It Hot, or any film made before 1964 or in any language other than English. This link is from the UK version of yahoo.com.
Blender Magazine 100 Greatest Rock & Roll Movies of All Time—The best films for fans of a particular style of popular music. This link is from the Best of Movies site.
Cahiers du Cinema 100 films pour une Vidéothèque idéale [100 Films for an Ideal Video Library]—The noted French film magazine selects the 100 most important video releases as of December 1993. This link comes from the Internet Archive.
Chicago Film Critics Association 100 Scariest Movies of All Time—The CFCA chose its top horror films of all time. This link is from the Internet Archive.
Chicago Film Critics Association 50 Top Holiday Films of All Time—The CFCA selected the best films dealing mostly with Christmas, although Thanksgiving, New Years Day, and Hanukkah films also make appearances.
Cinescape Top 100 Sci-Fi, Horror & Fantasy Films—Critics from the science-fiction magazine voted on the best genre films of all time in a popular leaning list.
Empire 5 Star Reviews—The web site for the film magazine presents every film that has received a five-star rating in a highbrow list that leans popular.
Empire The 50 Greatest Independent Films—The British film magazine lists its top 50 films allegedly made outside the studio system. This link is from the Internet Archive
Empire Masterpieces—In most issues since 2003, the British film magazine has included an essay on a film that it considers to be a "masterpiece." This link is from Lists of Bests.
Entertainment Weekly The 100 Greatest Movies of All Time—The magazine picks the greatest films in a strongly mainstream list that is also highbrow. This link is from from Tim Dirks's Greatest Films site.
Entertainment Weekly Top 50 Cult Movies—The magazine presented its list of the best films adored by a few film fans and unknown to the rest. This link is from the Lists of Bests.
Entertainment Weekly Top 100 Movie Moments—Although it was not designed to be a top film list, it does contain a mainstream list that also leans popular. This link is from the Internet Archive.
Entertainment Weekly Top 100 Science Fiction Movies/Shows/Books/Radio—The magazine presented its list of the best science-fiction. Most of the items on the list are films, but a significant minority of items comes from other media sources. This link is from the Best of Movies site.
Entertainment Weekly The 50 Best High School Movies—The magazine presented its list of the best films focusing on students between 14 and 18 years old.
Entertainment Weekly Best Tearjerkers Ever—The magazine updated a list from 2003 of the films most likely to make viewers cry.
FIAF Centenary List—A highbrow list from the film publication. This link is from Aaron and Mark Caldwell's site.
Film Review Centenary Lists—A mainstream list with highbrow leanings from the film magazine. This link is from Aaron and Mark Caldwell's site.
Film: The Critic's Choice 150 Masterpieces of World Cinema—The authors of this book divided filmdom into ten categories, usually by era and/or continent. For each category, one or two critics pick 15 top films. The picks are combined to form a list with a curious love of vampire films. This link is from the Best of Movies site.
Film4 50 Horror Movies To See Before They Kill You—The British film channel's critics selected their favorite horror films.
Film4 50 Science Fiction Films To See Before You Die—The British film channel's critics selected their favorite science-fiction films in a popular leaning list.
Film4 50 Sports Movies To See Before You Die—The British film channel's critics selected their favorite sports films.
Film4 Five Star Movies—The British film channel's top-rated films forms a popular list.
Guinness Book of Film The Top 100—The film guide picks its top five films in each of 20 categories in a rare popular leaning list from a video guide. This link is from Tim Dirks's Greatest Films site.
IFC The 50 Greatest Sex Scenes in Cinema—The cable channel selected 50 films with interesting scenes.
Maxim 100 Greatest Guy Movies Ever—The magazine identifies the best films aimed at slightly less than half of the potential audience. This link is from Tim Dirks's Greatest Films site.
Maxim The 300 Movies You Must See Before You Die!—The magazine selected various must-see films in a variety of genres from action to nudity (consider the source).
Men's Journal 50 Best Guy Films Ever—Another magazine identifies the best films aimed at slightly less than half of the potential audience. These films promise "big guns, fast cars, dumb jokes, and huge explosions."
Movie Insider 100 Movies That Deserve More Love—The magazine presents some of its favorite overlooked and underrated films. This link is from the Lists of Bests site.
Movieline 100 Best Movies Ever Made—Critics Virginia Campbell and Edward Margulies choose their 100 best English-language films.
Movieline 100 Greatest Foreign Films—Critics Michael Atkinson, Stephen Rebello, David Thomson choose their 100 best non English-language films in a highbrow list. This is the least mainstream list referenced on this site.
Mr. Showbiz 100 Best Movies of All Time—Critics at the now defunct web site pick their top 100 films in a strongly mainstream list. This link comes from the Internet Archive.
National Review The 100 Best Conservative Movies—The magazine selected the best films that fit its ideological viewpoint. This link is from LookSmart's find article service.
New York Times The 1,000 Best Movies Ever Made—The newspaper's critics pick their top 1,000 (approximately) films of the sound era in a mainstream/highbrow leaning list.
The Observer 50 Lost Movie Classics—A panel of film writers and British filmmakers selected their favorite overlooked films.
The Observer The 50 greatest film soundtracks—A "star-studded panel of big screen connoisseurs" selected the top soundtracks.
Premiere 100 Most Daring Movies Ever Made—The film magazine picks a highbrow leaning list of films that were good despite the filmmakers' desire to be different. This link is from Tim Dirks's Greatest Films site.
Premiere The 100 Greatest Movie Characters—The film magazine picks memorable characters that largely come from great films in a mainstream list that also leans popular.
Premiere The Best Action DVDs—The film magazine picks its favorite film in this genre.
Premiere The 50 Greatest Comedies of All Time—The film magazine picks the best comedies.
Rolling Stone 100 Maverick Movies of the Last 100 Years—The magazine, in its End of the Millenium issue (published one year before the real end of the millenium), presented films that best exemplified the rock 'n' roll spirit in a mainstream/highbrow leaning list. This link is from Tim Dirks's Greatest Films site.
San Francisco Bay Guardian All Century Mix—Critics for the alternative newspaper pick the best films of the last century. This link is from Combustible Celluloid.
San Francisco Chronicle Vintage Video—Critics Mick LaSalle and Edward Guthmann pick some films of interest. This link is from Tim Dirks's Greatest Films site.
Slant Magazine 100 Essential Films—The online magazine selects great films with an emphasis on films that are generally overlooked by other lists.
Sports Illustrated The Greatest Sports Movies—The sports magazine tries film criticism and picks the best films about baseball, boxing, horse racing etc. This link is from the Lists of Bests site.
Stuff 50 Most Dangerous/Forgotten Movies—The men's magazine picks films that it believes its readers would choose to watch if they did not have to worry about what their female partners would want to watch. This link comes from the Best of Movies site.
Telecine 100 Great Movies—The Brazilian television channel picked some of its top films in the least popular list referenced on this site. Most of the text is in Portuguese, but the film titles are in their original language. This is the least popular list analyzed by this site. This link is from the Internet Archive.
Time Magazine All Time 100 Movies—Critics Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel chose their top 100 films of all time in a highbrow leaning list.
The Times Fifty feelgood films revealed—Just in time for Christmas 2004, the London newspaper picked top uplifting films and episodes of television programs.
Total Film 50 Movies That Shook The World—The film magazine picks 50 of the most important films ever made. This link is from the Best of Movies site.
Total Film The 50 Greatest Horror Movies Of All Time—The film magazine selects the best horror films.
Total Film The 50 Greatest British Movies... Ever—The film magazine picks 49 top British films with an eye to diversity. For example, the list includes films in which Michael Caine does not star. Readers elected the 50th film. This link is from the Best of Movies site.
Total Film The 100 Greatest Directors Ever—The film magazine picked its top 100 directors and nominated a "perfect picture" for each one, which make up a highbrow/popular leaning list. A separate page contains directors #51 through #100.
TV Guide 50 Greatest Movies on TV and Video—The television magazine chooses the top 50 films in a mainstream list, with an emphasis on how the film looks on a small screen. This link is from Tim Dirks's Greatest Films site.
Vanity Fair 50 Greatest Films—The magazine presents its idea of the best films of all time in a mainstream list. This link is from Tim Dirks's Greatest Films site.
Video Detective Top 100 Films of All Time—The video guide picks its top 100 films of all time in a very strongly mainstream list. This link is from Tim Dirks's Greatest Films site.
The links below are to lists formed by taking data from several different sources. Some are like this site in that they combine lists of top films. Other take into account data such as awards and ratings.
BestOnly.com "List to End All Lists" Top 100 of All Time—A very strongly mainstream list derived from other lists on their site. This link is from the Internet Archive.
Cinepad 100 Most Acclaimed Movies of All Time—A strongly mainstream list derived mostly from polls and critics awards.
Desert Island Films—A mainstream/highbrow list compiled from video guide ratings, awards won, and Internet Movie Database scores. This link is from the Internet Archive.
Films101 Top Films—The site combines various awards and ratings to create a highbrow list with mainstream leanings of the best films that makes the master list on the Phi-Phenomenon look short.
Paul Hsieh Fixed IMDb rankings—Allegedly what the IMDb's Top 250 Films would look like if all votes were calculated according to the formula that the IMDb presents. The result is a popular list.
Gaurang Khetan Essential Movies—A compilation of various best film lists that leans toward all the mainstream, popular, and highbrow tastes.
Moovee Moovee The 100 Best Movies of All Time—A composite of film ratings from 39 critics results in a mainstream list that also leans highbrow.
Obsessed about Movies The Top 100 Movies of All Time Based on Critics' Polls—A compilation of a few highbrow polls results in (gasp!) a very strongly highbrow list.
Obsessed about Movies The Top 100 American Movies—This time, a compilation of a few mainstream polls results in (another gasp!) a very strongly maisntream list. In fact, this is the most strongly mainstream list referenced on this site.
Patrickhat Composite list of best films—The list is a count of the number of times that a film appeared on a list linked on Aaron and Mark Caldwell's site along with a few other lists. The result is a balanced mainstream/highbrow list with popular leanings. It is also the list that most resembles the master list on this site.
They Shoot Pictures The 1,000 Greatest Films—This site presents a list of the top films of all time derived from top-10 lists created by critics and other film experts. It is very strongly highbrow and also leans mainstream.
TopTenReviews Top of All Time—The review site combined reviews of films to create a list of the best reviewed films of all time.
Academy Award Best Picture—Probably the most coveted award in film. The list of winners falls in the mainstream taste. This link is from DigitalDreamDoor. This link is from All the Oscars.
Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film—The Academy recognizes that not every film is in English. This link is from All the Oscars.
American Screenwriters Association Best 100 Feature Film Screenplays of All Time—A panel of screenwriters, and other film industry professionals selected the best screenplays of all time in a very strongly mainstream list.
Committee for the Commemoration of the Centennial of Cinema in Portugal 100 Classics—A handful of Portuguese film scholars come up with a highbrow list. This link is from Lists of Bests.
Forum Cinema 50 Greatest Films—The Northampton, England film theater had weekly showings of its top 50 films that formed a list that leans popular. This link is from the BBC.
Greatest Films 100 Greatest Films—Tim Dirks's site is arguably the best of the greatest film sites on the internet, at least as far as English-language films are concerned. It includes a very strongly mainstream list of top films.
Harvard Visual and Environmental Studies Faculty Films and Videos to See—The faculty selected a highbrow list of films that undergraduates should see if they are interested in film and video. This link is from the Internet Archive.
Jackpot Hollywood Top 100 Vintage Classic Hollywood Films—Presents a mainstream list of the top American films from 1930-1959 with a special love of films adapted from Ernest Hemingway novels. This link is from the Internet Archive.
Jackpot Hollywood Top 100 Magnificent Movies of the Modern Era—A mainstream list that also leans popular, this time of films from 1960-1999. This link is from the Internet Archive.
Mediafilm Les 73 chefs-d'oeuvre du cinéma [73 masterpieces of the cinema]—A French film site presents a strongly highbrow list of top films. Another page presents a longer list. Both of these links are from the Internet Archive.
Montreal Film Festival Les 100 Meilleurs Films [100 Best Films]—Results from a poll taken at the Montreal Film Festival. This link is from the Académie de Nice. English language readers should have no problem with this page.
National Film Preservation Board National Film Registry—The Board chooses 25 American films per year for the National Film Registry. The end result is a mainstream list.
National Film Review Top 70 of the Last Century—The organization's top films form a very strongly mainstream list. For some reason, only 67 films are listed. This link comes from Aaron and Mark Caldwell's site.
National Society of Film Critics 100 Essential Films—The National Society of Film Critics picks its top 100 film list in a highbrow list with mainstream leanings. This link is from Tim Dirks's Greatest Films site.
Pope John Paul II Vatican Movie List—The Vatican picks films that it believes Catholics should see. This link is from Cinepad.
PopMatters The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own—PopMatters selects 50 essential DVDs ranging from classic films to obscure B movies.
Qualitas Pro 100 Best Movies of All Time—A French website presents its top films of all time in a highbrow list. Curiously, there are only 91 films on the list, counting The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) and The Seven Samurai (1954) twice each. This link is from the Internet Archive.
Reel.com 20th Century's 25 Best—The web site chooses its top-25 action, animated, classic, comedy, cult, documentary, drama, erotic, foreign, independent, musical, romance, science-fiction, suspense, war, and western films.
Reel.com Top 100 Scary Movies—The web site decided not to stop at 25 and presented its top 100 horror films.
San Francisco State University List of Core Films for Incoming Graduate Students—The faculty list the films that they believe that all graduate students in films should have seen already in a highbrow leaning list. This list particularly emphasizes short documentary films. This link is from the Internet Archive.
University of Delaware Library 101 of the Greatest Films—The library chooses its top films.
Washington State University Library Classic Films—The university library chooses a mainstream list with highbrow leanings.
Wikipedia Film articles by importance—Users of the online encyclopedia sorted film articles by importance including Top importance articles and high importance film articles. When the webmaster last checked, the top importance articles were heavy on Iranian films and the high importance articles were heavy on films by Shohei Imamura.