I decided to include miniseries and short films; as long as it's on Letterboxd I consider it to be fair game. Sorry about the custom posters. Please let me know if you notice anything missing. At the moment, a film would need 547k watches to make the list and overtake West Side Story.
List last fully updated: 7th March 2025
Stats last updated: 14th March 2025
Thanks to VictorvdB for creating the original list of the 500 most watched.
Click read more for a bunch of stats
For the all-time largest increases, see this list.
Films that gained the most spots in the last update: A Real Pain (+257), Conclave (+216), A Complete Unknown (+205), Babygirl (+124), Anora (+103), We…
I decided to include miniseries and short films; as long as it's on Letterboxd I consider it to be fair game. Sorry about the custom posters. Please let me know if you notice anything missing. At the moment, a film would need 547k watches to make the list and overtake West Side Story.
List last fully updated: 7th March 2025
Stats last updated: 14th March 2025
Thanks to VictorvdB for creating the original list of the 500 most watched.
Click read more for a bunch of stats
For the all-time largest increases, see this list.
Films that gained the most spots in the last update: A Real Pain (+257), Conclave (+216), A Complete Unknown (+205), Babygirl (+124), Anora (+103), We Live in Time (+69), Blink Twice (+66), The Wild Robot (+63), Heretic (+59), The Brutalist (+51), Emilia Pérez (+44), Companion (+41), It Ends with Us (+29), The Substance, Wicked (+25), Smile 2 (+24), Gladiator II (+22), Perfect Days (+19), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Bridget Jones's Diary (+18)
Films that lost the most spots in the last update: The Disaster Artist (-24), Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (-22), Minari (-17), Eighth Grade (-16), The Power of the Dog (-15), American Hustle (-14), The Green Knight, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (-13), Nomadland, Roma, Cloverfield, American Fiction, Gangs of New York (-12)
Stats:
Lowest rated film: The Kissing Booth (2018)
Highest rated film: 12 Angry Men (1957)
Oldest film: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Newest film: Mickey 17 (2025)
Shortest film: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023, 39 minutes)
Shortest film excluding shorts: Dumbo (1941, 64 minutes)
Longest film: Loki (2021, 615 minutes)
Longest film excluding TV shows: Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021, 242 minutes)
Most common year: 2023 (47 films)
Fastest entrance: Barbie (3 days after its first national release)
Best Picture winners: 34/97
Films in the Letterboxd Top 250: 81/250
Worldwide Box Office All-Time Top 100: 92/100
Pixar films: 26/28
Disney films: 40/63
Movies/shows in the MCU: 36/48
Closest films to making the list:
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: 539k
I'm Still Here: 537k
Chicago: 537k
Nerve: 536k
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery: 536k
The Hunt: 535k
Beau Is Afraid: 535k
Captain Fantastic: 533k
Emma.: 533k
Mickey 17: 533k
Black Adam: 532k
Sin City: 532k
Holes: 532k
The Gray Man: 531k
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story: 531k
Treasure Planet: 531k
Collateral: 530k
Spring Breakers: 527k
RoboCop: 526k
Ocean's Thirteen: 526k
Trending films that will probably make the list at some point:
Immaculate: 525k
Despicable Me 4: 514k
Woman of the Hour: 512k
Juror #2: 510k
Kinds of Kindness: 510k
Marmaduke (2022): 9.1k
Films by decade:
1930s: 2
1940s: 7
1950s: 9
1960s: 12
1970s: 23
1980s: 50
1990s: 107
2000s: 243
2010s: 357
2020s: 190
Films by genre:
Drama: 373
Comedy: 335
Adventure: 321
Action: 274
Thriller: 202
Science Fiction: 196
Family: 187
Fantasy: 183
Animation: 150
Romance: 147
Horror: 126
Crime: 123
Mystery: 92
History: 35
War: 27
Music: 26
Western: 4
TV Movie: 3
Documentary: 0
Most common directors:
Steven Spielberg: 18
Tim Burton: 12
Wes Anderson, Martin Scorsese: 11
Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott: 10
David Fincher, Quentin Tarantino: 9
Wilfred Jackson, Hayao Miyazaki: 8
Peter Jackson, Richard Linklater, Hamilton Luske, M. Night Shyamalan, Denis Villeneuve, Robert Zemeckis: 7
Paul Thomas Anderson, James Cameron, Chris Columbus, Clyde Geronimi, Stanley Kubrick, James Mangold, Bryan Singer, Zack Snyder, James Wan, Edgar Wright, David Yates: 6
Most common actors:
Stan Lee (37 films)
Samuel L. Jackson (31 films)
Mickie McGowan (27 films)
Bob Bergen (26 films)
Sherry Lynn, Frank Welker (25 films)
Jack Angel, Jess Harnell, Brad Pitt (24 films)
Willem Dafoe, John Ratzenberger (23 films)
Cate Blanchett (21 films)
Scarlett Johansson, Seth Rogen, J.K. Simmons (20 films)
Complete collections:
Star Wars (9 films)
Harry Potter (8 films)
X-Men (7 films)
The Hunger Games (5 films)
Indiana Jones (5 films)
Pirates of the Caribbean (5 films)
Twilight (5 films)
The Matrix (4 films)
Planet of the Apes (Reboot) (4 films)
Thor (4 films)
Ant-Man (3 films)
Back to the Future (3 films)
Before... (3 films)
Cars (3 films)
The Dark Knight (3 films)
Deadpool (3 films)
Guardians of the Galaxy (3 films)
The Hangover (3 films)
High School Musical (3 films)
The Hobbit (3 films)
How to Train Your Dragon (3 films)
Iron Man (3 films)
The Lord of the Rings (3 films)
Madagascar (3 films)
The Maze Runner (3 films)
Men In Black (3 films)
Spider-Man (3 films)
The Wolverine (3 films)
X (3 films)
The Amazing Spider-Man (2 films)
Beetlejuice (2 films)
Black Panther (2 films)
Blade Runner (2 films)
Borat Moviefilms (2 films)
Doctor Strange (2 films)
Gladiator (2 films)
Grown Ups (2 films)
Jump Street (2 films)
Fantastic Four (2 films)
Finding Nemo (2 films)
Inside Out (2 films)
Mamma Mia! (2 films)
Man of Steel (2 films)
Minions (2 films)
Monsters, Inc. (2 films)
It (2 films)
Joker (2 films)
Kill Bill (2 films)
Prometheus (2 films)
Puss in Boots (2 films)
A Quiet Place (2 films)
The Shining (2 films)
Smile (2 films)
Suicide Squad (2 films)
Twister (2 films)
Wreck-It Ralph (2 films)
Wonder Woman (2 films)
Zombieland (2 films)
Films that used to be on the list:
The Father (2020)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
The Spectacular Now (2013)
Star Trek Beyond (2016)
The Mist (2007)
Blade (1998)
West Side Story (1961)
Face/Off (1997)
Elysium (2013)
Adaptation. (2002)
The Danish Girl (2013)
Mystic River (2003)
Searching (2018)
Sing Street (2016)
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
The Tree of Life (2011)
North by Northwest (1959)
Vice (2015)
Steve Jobs (2018)
Hulk (2003)
Armageddon (1998)
Babe (1995)
Big Daddy (1999)
Logan Lucky (2017)
Robin Hood (1973)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
You Were Never Really Here (2017)
The Neon Demon (2016)
The Room (2003)
Straight Outta Compton (2015)
Atomic Blonde (2017)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Hail, Caesar! (2016)
Persona (1966)
Melancholia (2011)
Seven Samurai (1954)
First Man (2018)
Source Code (2011)
50/50 (2011)
Into the Woods (2013)
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
Blood Diamond (2006)
Sixteen Candles (1984)
A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
Knocked Up (2007)
A Ghost Story (2017)
Titane (2021)
Kubo and the Two Strings (2018)
Hell or High Water (2016)
The Machinist (2004)
Total Recall (1990)
CODA (2021)
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
The Big Sick (2017)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
101 Dalmatians (1996)
Wedding Crashers (2005)
The Muppets (2011)
Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
Moon (2015)
The Mummy Returns (2001)
The Good Dinosaur (2015)
Kick-Ass 2 (2013)
Green Room (2015)
Crimson Peak (2015)
The Farewell (2018)
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Casper (1995)
Fast & Furious (2009)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
Hustlers (2019)
Annie Hall (1977)
Green Lantern (2011)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
The Aviator (2004)
Panic Room (2002)
Climax (2018)
Hellboy (2004)
Warm Bodies (2013)
Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
Evil Dead II (1987)
Constantine (2005)
Under the Skin (2013)
Batman Forever (1995)
The Lovely Bones (2009)
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
Chef (2014)
Dark Shadows (2012)
The Other Guys (2010)
The King (2019)
Nightmare Alley (2021)
Death on the Nile (2022)
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
Contagion (2011)
Lion (2016)
A Simple Favor (2018)
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)
True Grit (2010)
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
The Godfather: Part III (1990)
Batman & Robin (1997)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Captain Phillips (2013)
The Master (2012)
I Care a Lot (2020)
Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)
Holes (2003)
Horrible Bosses (2011)
Super 8 (2011)
Spencer (2021)
Big (1988)
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Anastasia (1997)
Swiss Army Man (2016)
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)
Treasure Planet (2002)
Malignant (2021)
Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
Raw (2016)
Moon Knight (2022)
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
Death Proof (2007)
Ghostbusters (2016)
RoboCop (1987)
Poltergeist (1982)
Ad Astra (2019)
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (2004)
The Gray Man (2022)
Collateral (2004)
Spring Breakers (2012)
Black Adam (2022)
Emma. (2020)
Captain Fantastic (2016)
Sin City (2005)
The Hunt (2012)
Beau Is Afraid (2023)
Nerve (2016)
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Chicago (2002)
The Cat in the Hat (2003)
Pineapple Express (2008)
Lie of Brian (1979)