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The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about actors, films, television shows, television stars, video games and production crew personnel.
Owned by Amazon.com since 1998, the IMDb celebrated its fifteenth anniversary on October 17, 2005.
As of July 24, 2006 IMDb featured 832,370 titles and 2,158,286 people. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDb [Aug 2006]
How are titles formatted? How do you choose the year shown in the title?
We use the original title of a movie/show in its original language as it appears on screen in the opening credits. We also associate the year of first public screening with each title as an aid to recognizing and distinguishing similar titles. For TV titles this is the broadcast year of the first episode. For movie titles this year is either the year of general release or of a festival presentation if earlier (note that closed screenings for the crew or the media or test screenings of the unfinished product for marketing reasons do not count as public screenings). --http://www.imdb.com/help/search?domain=helpdesk_faq&index=1&file=titleformat [Oct 2004]Top 25 Imdb [Oct 2004]
Top 25 movies as voted by our users
For this top 250, only votes from regular voters are considered.
1. 9.0 Godfather, The (1972) 105,230
2. 9.0 Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) 78,793
3. 8.9 Shawshank Redemption, The (1994) 130,136
4. 8.8 Godfather: Part II, The (1974) 62,010
5. 8.8 Shichinin no samurai (1954) 26,974
6. 8.8 Schindler's List (1993) 86,911
7. 8.7 Casablanca (1942) 58,927
8. 8.7 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) 138,845
9. 8.7 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002) 96,755
10. 8.7 Star Wars (1977) 120,944
11. 8.7 Citizen Kane (1941) 54,664
12. 8.7 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 62,119
13. 8.7 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 93,087
14. 8.6 Pulp Fiction (1994) 115,283
15. 8.6 Rear Window (1954) 36,419
16. 8.6 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 56,083
17. 8.6 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 84,238
18. 8.6 Usual Suspects, The (1995) 92,791
19. 8.6 Memento (2000) 78,683
20. 8.6 Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) 24,594
21. 8.6 12 Angry Men (1957) 25,394
22. 8.5 North by Northwest (1959) 31,883
23. 8.5 Cidade de Deus (2002) 18,279
24. 8.5 Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 27,908
25. 8.5 Psycho (1960) 48,543
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