From one movie lover to another, I hope you enjoy this week's video.

Presenting the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) Top 250 Movies Chart, as rated by regular IMDb voters, as of February 1, 2024.

You can view the list here: https://www.imdb.com/chart/top/

Image Credits:
The Movie Database
https://www.themoviedb.org/

My own score:
Heard of 213/250 (85%)
Watched 141/250 (56%)

Some facts about IMDb rankings From Wikipedia:
The IMDb Top 250 is a list of the top rated 250 films, based on ratings by the registered users of the website using the methods described. As of 5 September 2023, The Shawshank Redemption, directed by Frank Darabont, is No. 1 on the list, and has been since 2008. The "Top 250" rating is based on only the ratings of "regular voters". The number of votes a registered user would have to make to be considered as a user who votes regularly has been kept secret. IMDb has stated that to maintain the effectiveness of the Top 250 list they "deliberately do not disclose the criteria used for a person to be counted as a regular voter". In addition to other weightings, the Top 250 films are also based on a weighted rating formula referred to in actuarial science as a credibility formula. This label arises because a statistic is taken to be more credible the greater the number of individual pieces of information; in this case from eligible users who submit ratings. Although the current formula is not disclosed, IMDb originally used the following formula to calculate their weighted rating:

W = R * v + C * m / v + m

where:
W is the weighted rating;
R is the mean rating for the movie, from 1 to 10;
v is the number of votes for the movie;
m is the minimum votes required to be listed in the Top 250 (25,000 as of 2013); and
C is the mean vote across the whole report (7.0 as of 2013).
The variable W in this formula is equivalent to a Bayesian posterior mean (see Bayesian statistics).[citation needed]

The IMDb also has a Bottom 100 feature which is assembled through a similar process although only 10,000 votes must be received to qualify for the list.

The Top 250 list comprises a wide range of feature films, including major releases, cult films, independent films, critically acclaimed films, silent films, and nonEnglishlanguage films. Documentaries, short films and TV episodes are not currently included.

Since 2015, there has been a Top 250 list devoted to ranking television shows.