User:Samuel Wiki/Popular films

This is a personal list. It list serves as an alternative to the WikiProject Films list of Core films and popular pages list. As with those lists, the purpose of this list is to suggest film articles for editors to work on. While the Core list is based on critical reception and the Popular pages list is based on page views, this list is based on popularity with the general audience. This list is based on the number of votes on the Internet Movie Database. The top 120 films are listed here. All films have at least 120,000 votes. The rationale is that the number of votes (ie. the number of people that voted) would somewhat reflect the number of people that view the film's Wikipedia article. Some of them may not be the greatest or most important films, but they are all films that have been seen by a very large number of people. Hence, they all deserve good articles.

In terms of this list, the articles which need the most work are those which are below GA class (ie. Start, C and B class). In my opinion, priority should be given to them and in particular those which are also Core articles and those with the highest number of votes.

The status of the articles and all other information was retrieved on December 18, 2009. Some information may have changed.

• The assessment class of the articles was updated on October 5, 2010 and January 26, 2013.

• No. - Article numbering is for counting purposes only and does not reflect any ranking within this list.
• Title - The title of the film.
• Year - The year the film premiered in, according to IMDb. May be different to the year on Wikipedia because we use a different convention (ie. year of first public release).
• Votes - Number of votes the film has received on IMDb.
• Class - The WikiProject Film class of the article.
• Core - Articles with stars are Core articles.

No.	Title	Year	Votes	2009	2010	2013	Core
1	2001: A Space Odyssey	1968	147087	B	B	GA	Core
2	300	2006	218403	FA	FA	FA
3	A Clockwork Orange	1971	175812	C	C	C	Core
4	Alien	1979	163035	GA	GA	GA
5	Aliens	1986	154130	GA	GA	GA
6	American Beauty	1999	268181	B	FA	FA
7	American History X	1998	200945	Start	Start	Start
8	Apocalypse Now	1979	158898	Start	C	C	Core
9	Back to the Future	1985	181293	GA	GA	GA
10	Batman Begins	2005	244978	GA	GA	GA
11	Big Fish	2003	126945	GA	GA	GA
12	Blade Runner	1982	170930	FA	FA	FA	Core
13	Braveheart	1995	219730	Start	C	C
14	Casablanca	1942	154337	FA	FA	FA	Core
15	Casino Royale	2006	159655	FA	FA	FA
16	Catch Me If You Can	2002	123217	GA	GA	GA
17	Children of Men	2006	141243	GA	GA	GA
18	City of God	2002	147197	Start	Start	C
19	Citizen Kane	1941	128557	B	B	B	Core
20	Cloverfield	2008	125561	B	B	B
21	Crash	2004	156211	C	C	C
22	Die Hard	1988	164434	Start	Start	Start
23	Donnie Darko	2001	190557	Start	Start	Start
24	Dr. Strangelove	1964	144595	B	C	C	Core
25	Pan's Labyrinth	2006	135021	GA	GA	C
26	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	2004	197483	Start	C	C
27	Fargo	1996	151996	B	C	C
28	Fight Club	1999	341682	FA	FA	FA
29	Finding Nemo	2003	147187	C	C	C
30	Forrest Gump	1994	267725	GA	GA	GA
31	Full Metal Jacket	1987	136820	Start	B	B	Core
32	Gladiator	2000	250825	GA	GA	GA
33	Good Will Hunting	1997	135133	C	C	C
34	Goodfellas	1990	206112	B	B	B	Core
35	Groundhog Day	1993	121586	C	C	C
36	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	2001	121804	GA	GA	GA
37	Heat	1995	131213	Start	C	C
38	I Am Legend	2007	140301	GA	GA	GA
39	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	1966	138848	B	C	C	Core
40	Independence Day	1996	138901	GA	GA	GA
41	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	2008	124771	GA	GA	GA
42	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	1989	158143	GA	GA	GA
43	Iron Man	2008	150726	GA	GA	GA
44	Jaws	1975	125809	FA	GA	FA	Core
45	Juno	2007	136491	GA	GA	GA
46	Jurassic Park	1993	139881	FA	FA	FA
47	Kill Bill Volume 1	2003	209231	B	B	B
48	Kill Bill Volume 2	2004	164393	B	B	C
49	King Kong	2005	123585	GA	GA	GA	Core
50	L.A. Confidential	1997	152763	B	B	B
51	Amélie	2001	162780	Start	C	C
52	Little Miss Sunshine	2006	135861	FA	FA	FA
53	Live Free or Die Hard	2007	120096	GA	GA	GA
54	Lost in Translation	2003	121727	Start	C	C
55	Léon: The Professional	1994	177577	Start	Start	Start
56	Memento	2000	243984	GA	GA	GA
57	Million Dollar Baby	2004	125403	B	B	B
58	Minority Report	2002	124986	GA	GA	GA
59	Monty Python and the Holy Grail	1975	143944	Start	Start	Start
60	No Country for Old Men	2007	176175	GA	GA	C
61	Ocean's Eleven	2001	128061	Start	Start	Start
62	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	1975	191555	Start	C	C	Core
63	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End	2007	121006	GA	GA	GA
64	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	2006	138154	GA	GA	GA
65	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	2003	211025	GA	GA	GA
66	Psycho	1960	130013	GA	GA	GA	Core
67	Pulp Fiction	1994	375718	B	B	B	Core
68	Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981	224450	GA	GA	GA	Core
69	Requiem for a Dream	2000	165511	Start	C	C
70	Reservoir Dogs	1992	193026	GA	GA	GA
71	Saving Private Ryan	1998	246671	GA	GA	GA	Core
72	Scarface	1983	136292	B	B	B
73	Schindler's List	1993	248845	B	B	B	Core
74	Se7en	1995	249275	Start	C	C
75	Shrek	2001	153232	Start	C	C
76	Sin City	2005	231782	C	C	C
77	Slumdog Millionaire	2008	148180	B	B	B
78	Snatch	2000	154138	Start	C	C
79	Spider-Man	2002	156647	GA	GA	GA
80	Spider-Man 2	2004	131977	C	C	B
81	Spider-Man 3	2007	131809	GA	GA	GA
82	Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope	1977	296948	FA	FA	B	Core
83	Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace	1999	183060	GA	GA	GA
84	Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones	2002	149760	GA	GA	GA
85	Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith	2005	169507	GA	GA	GA
86	Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back	1980	253740	FA	B	B
87	Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi	1983	194350	GA	GA	GA
88	Superbad	2007	122084	Start	Start	Start
89	Taxi Driver	1976	139782	B	B	B	Core
90	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	1991	213117	C	C	GA
91	The Big Lebowski	1998	159238	GA	GA	GA
92	The Bourne Ultimatum	2007	128769	B	B	B
93	The Dark Knight	2008	407375	GA	GA	GA
94	The Departed	2006	233129	B	C	C
95	The Fifth Element	1997	121577	Start	C	C
96	The Godfather	1972	374492	Start	C	C	Core
97	The Godfather Part II	1974	219928	Start	C	C	Core
98	The Green Mile	1999	176734	Start	Start	Start
99	The Incredibles	2004	142746	Start	C	C
100	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	2001	354208	B	B	B	Core
101	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	2003	327869	C	C	C	Core
102	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	2002	297251	B	B	B	Core
103	The Matrix	1999	345860	B	B	B
104	The Matrix Reloaded	2003	137600	Start	C	C
105	The Prestige	2006	177266	GA	GA	GA
106	The Shawshank Redemption	1994	459723	Start	C	C
107	The Shining	1980	159863	Start	C	B	Core
108	The Silence of the Lambs	1991	222081	Start	C	C
109	The Sixth Sense	1999	219166	Start	Start	Start
110	The Terminator	1984	161677	Start	C	GA
111	The Truman Show	1998	137325	GA	GA	GA
112	The Usual Suspects	1995	244565	GA	GA	GA
113	Titanic	1997	217221	GA	GA	GA
114	Toy Story	1995	130208	GA	GA	GA
115	Trainspotting	1996	136985	Start	B	B
116	Transformers	2007	182060	FA	FA	FA
117	12 Monkeys	1995	154002	GA	GA	GA
118	V for Vendetta	2005	199510	FA	C	GA
119	WALL-E	2008	153827	GA	GA	GA
120	War of the Worlds	2005	122933	B	GA	GA

	2009	2010	2013
FA	12 – 10%	10 – 8%	10 – 8%
GA	44 – 37%	46 – 38%	47 – 39%
B	23 – 19%	20 – 17%	21 – 18%
C	9 – 8%	34 – 28%	33 – 28%
Start	32 – 27%	10 – 8%	9 – 8%