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I checked this list and I can only come up with 60 movies I do not own. How do you fare.
Bob
Top 250 movies as voted by our users on http://www.imdb.com
1 Godfather, The (1972) 9.0/10 (82330 votes)
2 Shawshank Redemption, The (1994) 8.9/10 (103647 votes)
3 Godfather: Part II, The (1974) 8.8/10 (47703 votes)
4 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002) 8.8/10 (62273 votes)
5 Schindler`s List (1993) 8.7/10 (71442 votes)
6 Casablanca (1942) 8.7/10 (48336 votes)
7 Shichinin no samurai (1954) 8.7/10 (20050 votes)
8 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) 8.7/10 (108170 votes)
9 Citizen Kane (1941) 8.7/10 (45319 votes)
10 Star Wars (1977) 8.7/10 (102748 votes)
11 One Flew Over the Cuckoo`s Nest (1975) 8.6/10 (50681 votes)
12 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 8.6/10 (46015 votes)
13 Rear Window (1954) 8.6/10 (29567 votes)
14 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 8.6/10 (79115 votes)
15 Memento (2000) 8.6/10 (61170 votes)
16 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 8.6/10 (69588 votes)
17 Usual Suspects, The (1995) 8.6/10 (76789 votes)
18 Pulp Fiction (1994) 8.6/10 (92621 votes)
19 North by Northwest (1959) 8.5/10 (26345 votes)
20 Fabuleux destin d`Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 8.5/10 (37836 votes)
21 Psycho (1960) 8.5/10 (40199 votes)
22 12 Angry Men (1957) 8.5/10 (20073 votes)
23 Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 8.5/10 (22633 votes)
24 Silence of the Lambs, The (1991) 8.5/10 (68828 votes)
25 Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) 8.5/10 (17860 votes)
26 It`s a Wonderful Life (1946) 8.5/10 (30738 votes)
27 Goodfellas (1990) 8.5/10 (47843 votes)
28 American Beauty (1999) 8.4/10 (81537 votes)
29 Sunset Blvd. (1950) 8.4/10 (11018 votes)
30 Vertigo (1958) 8.4/10 (25074 votes)
31 Pianist, The (2002) 8.4/10 (14806 votes)
32 Apocalypse Now (1979) 8.4/10 (46390 votes)
33 Matrix, The (1999) 8.4/10 (105558 votes)
34 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 8.4/10 (21686 votes)
35 Some Like It Hot (1959) 8.3/10 (18042 votes)
36 Taxi Driver (1976) 8.3/10 (33525 votes)
37 Third Man, The (1949) 8.3/10 (13335 votes)
38 Paths of Glory (1957) 8.3/10 (10006 votes)
39 Fight Club (1999) 8.3/10 (75286 votes)
40 C`era una volta il West (1968) 8.3/10 (9133 votes)
41 Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) 8.3/10 (11403 votes)
42 Boot, Das (1981) 8.3/10 (20964 votes)
43 Double Indemnity (1944) 8.3/10 (8381 votes)
44 L.A. Confidential (1997) 8.3/10 (52871 votes)
45 Chinatown (1974) 8.3/10 (18462 votes)
46 Requiem for a Dream (2000) 8.3/10 (28611 votes)
47 Singin` in the Rain (1952) 8.3/10 (14937 votes)
48 Maltese Falcon, The (1941) 8.3/10 (14700 votes)
49 All About Eve (1950) 8.3/10 (9533 votes)
50 M (1931) 8.3/10 (8288 votes)
51 Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957) 8.3/10 (16479 votes)
52 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 8.3/10 (43855 votes)
53 Se7en (1995) 8.3/10 (62244 votes)
54 Saving Private Ryan (1998) 8.2/10 (74482 votes)
55 Cidade de Deus (2002) 8.2/10 (6887 votes)
56 Raging Bull (1980) 8.2/10 (18609 votes)
57 Wizard of Oz, The (1939) 8.2/10 (28440 votes)
58 Rashômon (1950) 8.2/10 (7723 votes)
59 Sting, The (1973) 8.2/10 (17445 votes)
60 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 8.2/10 (8448 votes)
61 American History X (1998) 8.2/10 (39355 votes)
62 Alien (1979) 8.2/10 (45793 votes)
63 Vita è bella, La (1997) 8.2/10 (28238 votes)
64 Touch of Evil (1958) 8.2/10 (8709 votes)
65 Léon (1994) 8.2/10 (35127 votes)
66 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 8.2/10 (49526 votes)
67 Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) 8.2/10 (9606 votes)
68 Wo hu cang long (2000) 8.2/10 (39665 votes)
69 Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948) 8.2/10 (7505 votes)
70 Clockwork Orange, A (1971) 8.2/10 (47261 votes)
71 Great Escape, The (1963) 8.2/10 (13931 votes)
72 Reservoir Dogs (1992) 8.2/10 (47173 votes)
73 Annie Hall (1977) 8.2/10 (15251 votes)
74 Ran (1985) 8.2/10 (8186 votes)
75 Amadeus (1984) 8.2/10 (27511 votes)
76 Jaws (1975) 8.2/10 (34424 votes)
77 On the Waterfront (1954) 8.2/10 (8742 votes)
78 Modern Times (1936) 8.1/10 (6922 votes)
79 High Noon (1952) 8.1/10 (8864 votes)
80 Braveheart (1995) 8.1/10 (68508 votes)
81 Apartment, The (1960) 8.1/10 (7896 votes)
82 Sixth Sense, The (1999) 8.1/10 (70875 votes)
83 Fargo (1996) 8.1/10 (49494 votes)
84 Shining, The (1980) 8.1/10 (35608 votes)
85 Blade Runner (1982) 8.1/10 (57888 votes)
86 Aliens (1986) 8.1/10 (47946 votes)
87 Strangers on a Train (1951) 8.1/10 (7350 votes)
88 Duck Soup (1933) 8.1/10 (7199 votes)
89 Metropolis (1927) 8.1/10 (8197 votes)
90 Donnie Darko (2001) 8.1/10 (23090 votes)
91 Finding Nemo (2003) 8.1/10 (14998 votes)
92 Toy Story 2 (1999) 8.1/10 (29183 votes)
93 General, The (1927) 8.1/10 (4786 votes)
94 Princess Bride, The (1987) 8.1/10 (41132 votes)
95 City Lights (1931) 8.1/10 (5347 votes)
96 Lola rennt (1998) 8.1/10 (23130 votes)
97 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) 8.0/10 (20187 votes)
98 Notorious (1946) 8.0/10 (7405 votes)
99 Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) 8.0/10 (6290 votes)
100 Full Metal Jacket (1987) 8.0/10 (33653 votes)
Top 101 - 250
101 Great Dictator, The (1940) 8.0/10 (6631 votes)
102 Rebecca (1940) 8.0/10 (8063 votes)
103 Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989) 8.0/10 (10118 votes)
104 Big Sleep, The (1946) 8.0/10 (7283 votes)
105 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 8.0/10 (14796 votes)
106 Graduate, The (1967) 8.0/10 (20234 votes)
107 Mononoke-hime (1997) 8.0/10 (12401 votes)
108 Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946) 8.0/10 (4396 votes)
109 Manhattan (1979) 8.0/10 (9143 votes)
110 Searchers, The (1956) 8.0/10 (7425 votes)
111 Deer Hunter, The (1978) 8.0/10 (19948 votes)
112 Patton (1970) 8.0/10 (10261 votes)
113 Glory (1989) 8.0/10 (16422 votes)
114 It Happened One Night (1934) 8.0/10 (5536 votes)
115 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 8.0/10 (57320 votes)
116 Ladri di biciclette (1948) 8.0/10 (5098 votes)
117 African Queen, The (1951) 8.0/10 (10580 votes)
118 Philadelphia Story, The (1940) 8.0/10 (7771 votes)
119 Yojimbo (1961) 8.0/10 (5615 votes)
120 Bringing Up Baby (1938) 8.0/10 (6616 votes)
121 Ben-Hur (1959) 8.0/10 (15375 votes)
122 Cool Hand Luke (1967) 8.0/10 (10347 votes)
123 Forrest Gump (1994) 8.0/10 (64246 votes)
124 Shrek (2001) 8.0/10 (41577 votes)
125 Green Mile, The (1999) 8.0/10 (40820 votes)
126 Hable con ella (2002) 8.0/10 (7124 votes)
127 Unforgiven (1992) 8.0/10 (22056 votes)
128 Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 8.0/10 (12038 votes)
129 Grapes of Wrath, The (1940) 8.0/10 (5596 votes)
130 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 8.0/10 (61786 votes)
131 Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 7.9/10 (8275 votes)
132 Gone with the Wind (1939) 7.9/10 (21268 votes)
133 Stalag 17 (1953) 7.9/10 (4953 votes)
134 Wild Bunch, The (1969) 7.9/10 (7854 votes)
135 Straight Story, The (1999) 7.9/10 (10043 votes)
136 Night of the Hunter, The (1955) 7.9/10 (5295 votes)
137 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 7.9/10 (4768 votes)
138 Elephant Man, The (1980) 7.9/10 (11471 votes)
139 Christmas Story, A (1983) 7.9/10 (14173 votes)
140 Hustler, The (1961) 7.9/10 (5887 votes)
141 Young Frankenstein (1974) 7.9/10 (16062 votes)
142 Platoon (1986) 7.9/10 (24788 votes)
143 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 7.9/10 (44915 votes)
144 Back to the Future (1985) 7.9/10 (50192 votes)
145 His Girl Friday (1940) 7.9/10 (4683 votes)
146 Die Hard (1988) 7.9/10 (43590 votes)
147 Grande illusion, La (1937) 7.9/10 (3594 votes)
148 Monsters, Inc. (2001) 7.9/10 (24893 votes)
149 Amores perros (2000) 7.9/10 (8511 votes)
150 Almost Famous (2000) 7.9/10 (26996 votes)
151 Conversation, The (1974) 7.9/10 (7119 votes)
152 Gold Rush, The (1925) 7.9/10 (4423 votes)
153 Spartacus (1960) 7.9/10 (12033 votes)
154 Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938) 7.9/10 (4951 votes)
155 Festen (1998) 7.9/10 (8663 votes)
156 Charade (1963) 7.9/10 (6190 votes)
157 Life of Brian (1979) 7.9/10 (23789 votes)
158 Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925) 7.9/10 (3957 votes)
159 Gladiator (2000) 7.9/10 (66828 votes)
160 Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962) 7.9/10 (5070 votes)
161 Being John Malkovich (1999) 7.9/10 (39038 votes)
162 Mulholland Dr. (2001) 7.9/10 (22252 votes)
163 Magnolia (1999) 7.9/10 (32124 votes)
164 Insider, The (1999) 7.9/10 (20662 votes)
165 Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 7.9/10 (3580 votes)
166 Smultronstället (1957) 7.9/10 (3264 votes)
167 Sling Blade (1996) 7.9/10 (15743 votes)
168 Toy Story (1995) 7.9/10 (33967 votes)
169 Brazil (1985) 7.9/10 (22974 votes)
170 Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951) 7.8/10 (6749 votes)
171 Roman Holiday (1953) 7.8/10 (6604 votes)
172 Night at the Opera, A (1935) 7.8/10 (4267 votes)
173 Who`s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) 7.8/10 (5177 votes)
174 Exorcist, The (1973) 7.8/10 (23658 votes)
175 All the President`s Men (1976) 7.8/10 (9306 votes)
176 Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951) 7.8/10 (7409 votes)
177 Quatre cents coups, Les (1959) 7.8/10 (4238 votes)
178 Adaptation. (2002) 7.8/10 (12820 votes)
179 Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 7.8/10 (3737 votes)
180 Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994) 7.8/10 (7586 votes)
181 Killing, The (1956) 7.8/10 (4596 votes)
182 To Be or Not to Be (1942) 7.8/10 (2459 votes)
183 Ed Wood (1994) 7.8/10 (14872 votes)
184 Terminator, The (1984) 7.8/10 (43688 votes)
185 Stand by Me (1986) 7.8/10 (22474 votes)
186 Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 7.8/10 (10081 votes)
187 Twelve Monkeys (1995) 7.8/10 (46498 votes)
188 Lost in Translation (2003) 7.8/10 (4918 votes)
189 Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) 7.8/10 (5521 votes)
190 Harvey (1950) 7.8/10 (5576 votes)
191 This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 7.8/10 (14071 votes)
192 Right Stuff, The (1983) 7.8/10 (9917 votes)
193 Lion in Winter, The (1968) 7.8/10 (4177 votes)
194 Network (1976) 7.8/10 (6659 votes)
195 Minority Report (2002) 7.8/10 (33425 votes)
196 Midnight Cowboy (1969) 7.8/10 (9368 votes)
197 Trainspotting (1996) 7.8/10 (37824 votes)
198 Others, The (2001) 7.8/10 (24571 votes)
199 Gandhi (1982) 7.8/10 (11479 votes)
200 Miller`s Crossing (1990) 7.8/10 (9768 votes)
201 Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 7.8/10 (8990 votes)
202 Laura (1944) 7.8/10 (3344 votes)
203 Rain Man (1988) 7.8/10 (31400 votes)
204 Groundhog Day (1993) 7.8/10 (31153 votes)
205 Stagecoach (1939) 7.8/10 (3953 votes)
206 8½ (1963) 7.8/10 (5456 votes)
207 Mystic River (2003) 7.8/10 (5277 votes)
208 Traffic (2000) 7.8/10 (30957 votes)
209 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) 7.8/10 (23006 votes)
210 Snatch. (2000) 7.8/10 (28567 votes)
211 Ying xiong (2002) 7.8/10 (4675 votes)
212 39 Steps, The (1935) 7.8/10 (5400 votes)
213 King Kong (1933) 7.8/10 (7156 votes)
214 Hotaru no haka (1988) 7.8/10 (3714 votes)
215 Whale Rider (2002) 7.8/10 (3392 votes)
216 Strada, La (1954) 7.8/10 (3328 votes)
217 Untouchables, The (1987) 7.7/10 (22219 votes)
218 Henry V (1989) 7.7/10 (6652 votes)
219 Rio Bravo (1959) 7.7/10 (5087 votes)
220 Todo sobre mi madre (1999) 7.7/10 (9420 votes)
221 Passion de Jeanne d`Arc, La (1928) 7.7/10 (2088 votes)
222 Big Lebowski, The (1998) 7.7/10 (33110 votes)
223 In the Heat of the Night (1967) 7.7/10 (4614 votes)
224 Beauty and the Beast (1991) 7.7/10 (18290 votes)
225 Die xue shuang xiong (1989) 7.7/10 (6487 votes)
226 Thin Man, The (1934) 7.7/10 (3305 votes)
227 Fantasia (1940) 7.7/10 (11412 votes)
228 Planet of the Apes (1968) 7.7/10 (14605 votes)
229 Being There (1979) 7.7/10 (7699 votes)
230 Good Will Hunting (1997) 7.7/10 (46450 votes)
231 Red River (1948) 7.7/10 (2592 votes)
232 Beautiful Mind, A (2001) 7.7/10 (29097 votes)
233 Clerks. (1994) 7.7/10 (29977 votes)
234 Quiet Man, The (1952) 7.7/10 (5306 votes)
235 Road to Perdition (2002) 7.7/10 (19921 votes)
236 MASH (1970) 7.7/10 (11612 votes)
237 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) 7.7/10 (33149 votes)
238 Sleuth (1972) 7.7/10 (3438 votes)
239 Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 7.7/10 (2905 votes)
240 Man Who Would Be King, The (1975) 7.7/10 (6120 votes)
241 O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) 7.7/10 (27272 votes)
242 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 7.7/10 (26858 votes)
243 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 7.7/10 (10486 votes)
244 JFK (1991) 7.7/10 (19806 votes)
245 Sweet Hereafter, The (1997) 7.7/10 (7666 votes)
246 Man for All Seasons, A (1966) 7.7/10 (3341 votes)
247 Birds, The (1963) 7.7/10 (14800 votes)
248 From Here to Eternity (1953) 7.7/10 (4463 votes)
249 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 7.7/10 (20360 votes)
250 Deliverance (1972) 7.7/10 (10864 votes)
I only have 31/250 (!)
J Mark Oates
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56 out of 250, but some of the films on that list are s***e. I have many others that are loads better ;)
only 87, but chris is right there is a lot of $h1t on this list!!!
"I`m going to live forever, or die trying"...
Got 80 of these on DVD, but quite a few more still on vid, and quite a few more recorded onto vid from TV, so I`m not doing badly I suppose :-).
My collection
Some of them are not available on DVD either.... like Kill Bill and Mystic River.
Expect the worst and you won`t be disappointed!
Mark snap! i have 31 of them as well
You say pyscho like its a bad thing
oh dear i only have 14 of em..!!!
But seeing as most of are pants i guess my collection is really great then..!! ;)
I do own about 130 dvd`s by the way , i am not sad and only own 14. and the list is growing...
If you play with Feathers you get your Bum Tickled.!
Have 81 but some are taped from the TV
61 of them
Beware the wine merchant he comes bearing Halibut