The 102 best movies of all time, according to reddit
I often find myself wondering what movie to watch, and usually in the moment I just click on whatever is on the homepage of Netflix or pick a film that I've already watched a bunch of times. So in an attempt to expand my horizons, I decided to compile a list of movies based on the number of times they were recommended on the r/movies subreddit.
More specifically, I did a Google search for "best movies reddit", opened the first 7 links, found the 32 most upvoted comments, and added them to a list. I then normalised the movie names to correct for naming inconsistencies and created a small script to count and then sort the movies by frequency. Once this was done, I had a list of 344 movies, which I then trimmed down to 102 by just keeping the films with more than 2 recommendations.
You can probably tell, but this is a pretty basic way of compiling a list, and there is room for error, so I don't claim in any way that this list is totally accurate, but it's a good starting place.
I have already watched some of these films, and as I watch more I will mark them off, with the goal of watching them all, albeit without committing to a particular time frame.
So without further ado, here's the list of movies, sorted by number of recommendations:
- Goodfellas (8)
- Taxi Driver (8) - watched
- Pulp Fiction (7) - watched
- 12 Angry Men (6)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (6) - watched
- A Clockwork Orange (6)
- Mulholland Drive (6)
- City Of God (5)
- Fargo (5)
- Fight Club (5) - watched
- Inception (5) - watched
- The Big Lebowski (5) - watched
- The Godfather (5) - watched
- Whiplash (5)
- Blade Runner (4) - watched
- Casablanca (4)
- High And Low (4)
- Lawrence Of Arabia (4) - watched
- Mad Max Fury Road (4)
- Star Wars: A New Hope (4) - watched
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (4) - watched
- The Dark Knight (4) - watched
- The Departed (4)
- The Good The Bad And The Ugly (4)
- The Long Goodbye (4)
- The Shining (4)
- The Thing (4)
- Alien (3) - watched
- Amadeus (3)
- Apocalypse Now (3)
- Citizen Kane (3)
- Die Hard (3) - watched
- Django Unchained (3) - watched
- Dr Strangelove (3)
- Good Will Hunting (3)
- Heat (3) - watched
- Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (3) - watched
- Interstellar (3) - watched
- La Jetee (3)
- Magnolia (3)
- Memento (3)
- No Country For Old Men (3)
- Parasite (3)
- Indiana Jones and Raiders Of The Lost Ark (3) - watched
- Requiem For A Dream (3)
- Scream (3) - watched
- Se7en (3)
- Shutter Island (3)
- Tampopo (3)
- The Lives Of Others (3)
- The Silence Of The Lambs (3)
- The Truman Show (3) - watched
- 12 Years A Slave (2)
- 1917 (2) - watched
- American Beauty (2)
- American History (2)
- American Psycho (2)
- Birdman (2)
- Blade Runner 2049 (2) - watched
- Blue Velvet (2)
- Cinema Paradiso (2)
- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2)
- Do The Right Thing (2)
- Fearless (2)
- Full Metal Jacket (2)
- Gladiator (2) - watched
- Hot Fuzz (2) - watched
- In Bruges (2) - watched
- Inglourious Basterds (2) - watched
- La Confidential (2)
- La Haine (2)
- Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (2) - watched
- Matrix (2) - watched
- Mirror (2)
- Monty Python And The Holy Grail (2) - watched
- Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind (2) - watched
- Oldboy (2)
- Possession (2)
- Psycho (2) watched
- Rocky (2)
- Saving Private Ryan (2) watched
- Scarface (2)
- Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (2)
- Serpico (2)
- Spirited Away (2) - watched
- Superbad (2)
- Suspiria (2)
- The Fly (2)
- The Graduate (2)
- The Green Mile (2)
- The Incredibles (2) - watched
- The Iron Giant (2)
- The Motorcycle Diaries (2)
- The Royal Tenenbaums (2)
- The Shawshank Redemption (2) - watched
- The Third Man (2)
- The Usual Suspects (2)
- The Young Girls Of Rachefort (2)
- Three Colors Blue (2)
- Trainspotting (2)
- Tropic Thunder (2)
- Vertigo (2)