This is a list of the 120 highest-ranked films on Letterboxd in the decade of the 1900s, within certain qualifications, as of 6 February 2025.

To avoid listing lots of films with relatively high scores on the basis of only a handful of ratings (and there are many of these, some of which turn out to be lost films!), I've set a threshold of at least 500 ratings before considering a film. The current threshold for the overall Letterboxd Top 250 is 15,000 ratings but that would exclude all but two titles from this time period.

There are 120 titles because I figure that the world's film industry should be able to manage at least one really great film per month on average. I've not applied a minimum running time nor content requirements: few films from this decade approach feature-length and I wanted to reflect their diversity.

My personal recommendations of 150 pre-1920s films are here: boxd.it/1n3mU

This is one of a series of work-in-progress decade by decade lists along similar lines. See letterboxd.com/desdemoor/tag/highest-rated-by-decade/lists/

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Pedant's corner: I personally believe the 20th century began on 1 January 1901, but sadly most of the rest of the world seems to disagree with me, including Letterboxd. So to make life easier, all the films listed were released between 1900 and 1909 inclusive.

List first posted 22 March 2021.