netflix and the imdb top 250
We wanted to know which of the IMDB Top 250 movies were available streaming on Netflix. Unable to find any sources online and unwilling to resort to manual searches, we built this page as a utility. Here it is for your benefit--free! This page works by scraping IMDB's Top 250 list and then querying each entry against Netflix's public API.
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Movies available for instant streaming are in bold. Movies unavailable are plaintext. Currently 58/250 films are available for free instant streaming.
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The List (Updated 9/14/11)
#1 The Shawshank Redemption#2 The Godfather
#3 The Godfather: Part II
#4 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
#5 Pulp Fiction
#6 12 Angry Men
#7 Schindler's List
#8 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
#9 The Dark Knight
#10 Inception
#11 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
#12 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
#13 Seven Samurai
#14 Fight Club
#15 Goodfellas
#16 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
#17 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
#18 City of God
#19 Casablanca
#20 Once Upon a Time in the West
#21 The Matrix
#22 Rear Window
#23 Raiders of the Lost Ark
#24 The Usual Suspects
#25 The Silence of the Lambs
#26 Psycho
#27 Se7en
#28 It's a Wonderful Life
#29 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
#30 Forrest Gump
#31 Memento
#32 Sunset Blvd.
#33 Leon: The Professional
#34 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
#35 Apocalypse Now
#36 American History X
#37 Toy Story 3
#38 Citizen Kane
#39 North by Northwest
#40 American Beauty
#41 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
#42 Taxi Driver
#43 Saving Private Ryan
#44 Alien
#45 Vertigo
#46 Spirited Away
#47 Amélie
#48 The Shining
#49 City Lights
#50 Paths of Glory
#51 The Pianist
#52 WALL·E
#53 M
#54 Double Indemnity
#55 The Lives of Others
#56 The Departed
#57 Lawrence of Arabia
#58 A Clockwork Orange
#59 To Kill a Mockingbird
#60 Aliens
#61 Requiem for a Dream
#62 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
#63 Das Boot
#64 Modern Times
#65 Life Is Beautiful
#66 Reservoir Dogs
#67 The Third Man
#68 Back to the Future
#69 L.A. Confidential
#70 Chinatown
#71 The Prestige
#72 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
#73 Cinema Paradiso
#74 The Green Mile
#75 Monty Python and the Holy Grail
#76 Once Upon a Time in America
#77 Raging Bull
#78 Rashomon
#79 Some Like It Hot
#80 Amadeus
#81 Singin' in the Rain
#82 All About Eve
#83 The Great Dictator
#84 Full Metal Jacket
#85 Pan's Labyrinth
#86 The Bridge on the River Kwai
#87 Bicycle Thieves
#88 Gladiator
#89 2001: A Space Odyssey
#90 Braveheart
#91 The Apartment
#92 Metropolis
#93 Oldboy
#94 Downfall
#95 Inglourious Basterds
#96 Unforgiven
#97 The Sting
#98 Gran Torino
#99 The Elephant Man
#100 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
#101 Up
#102 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
#103 The Maltese Falcon
#104 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
#105 Princess Mononoke
#106 On the Waterfront
#107 Rebecca
#108 Die Hard
#109 The Great Escape
#110 The Seventh Seal
#111 Sin City
#112 Black Swan
#113 Batman Begins
#114 Grave of the Fireflies
#115 Yojimbo
#116 Heat
#117 The General
#118 Fargo
#119 Blade Runner
#120 For a Few Dollars More
#121 The King's Speech
#122 Witness for the Prosecution
#123 Hotel Rwanda
#124 Snatch.
#125 Jaws
#126 Ran
#127 The Lion King
#128 No Country for Old Men
#129 Touch of Evil
#130 Wild Strawberries
#131 The Wizard of Oz
#132 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
#133 The Big Lebowski
#134 The Deer Hunter
#135 The Sixth Sense
#136 Toy Story
#137 Cool Hand Luke
#138 Slumdog Millionaire
#139 Annie Hall
#140 Strangers on a Train
#141 It Happened One Night
#142 Kill Bill: Vol. 1
#143 Donnie Darko
#144 Platoon
#145 High Noon
#146 Into the Wild
#147 Scarface
#148 Trainspotting
#149 The Gold Rush
#150 Million Dollar Baby
#151 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
#152 Ikiru
#153 There Will Be Blood
#154 Gone with the Wind
#155 Notorious
#156 The Kid
#157 The Grapes of Wrath
#158 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
#159 The Wages of Fear
#160 District 9
#161 The Secret in Their Eyes
#162 Amores Perros
#163 Groundhog Day
#164 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
#165 Ben-Hur
#166 Life of Brian
#167 The Graduate
#168 The Big Sleep
#169 Casino
#170 Finding Nemo
#171 The Terminator
#172 The Thing
#173 The Best Years of Our Lives
#174 The Manchurian Candidate
#175 Stand by Me
#176 Diabolique
#177 The Bourne Ultimatum
#178 Dog Day Afternoon
#179 V for Vendetta
#180 Twelve Monkeys
#181 How to Train Your Dragon
#182 The Wrestler
#183 My Neighbor Totoro
#184 Gandhi
#185 Judgment at Nuremberg
#186 Good Will Hunting
#187 Network
#188 The Night of the Hunter
#189 Avatar
#190 Ratatouille
#191 8½
#192 The 400 Blows
#193 The Battle of Algiers
#194 The Princess Bride
#195 Mary and Max
#196 The Killing
#197 The Hustler
#198 Dial M for Murder
#199 Star Trek
#200 La Strada
#201 Persona
#202 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
#203 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
#204 The Exorcist
#205 The Wild Bunch
#206 Stalag 17
#207 A Streetcar Named Desire
#208 Barry Lyndon
#209 Kind Hearts and Coronets
#210 Fanny and Alexander
#211 The Passion of Joan of Arc
#212 The Incredibles
#213 The Social Network
#214 Rocky
#215 In Bruges
#216 All Quiet on the Western Front
#217 The Truman Show
#218 Mystic River
#219 Sherlock Jr.
#220 Let the Right One In
#221 Howl's Moving Castle
#222 Magnolia
#223 Rosemary's Baby
#224 Big Fish
#225 Nights of Cabiria
#226 Infernal Affairs
#227 Ed Wood
#228 Manhattan
#229 Roman Holiday
#230 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
#231 The Celebration
#232 A Separation
#233 Children of Men
#234 Rope
#235 Kill Bill: Vol. 2
#236 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
#237 Patton
#238 Sleuth
#239 Shutter Island
#240 Ip Man
#241 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
#242 A Beautiful Mind
#243 Monsters, Inc.
#244 Rain Man
#245 Anatomy of a Murder
#246 His Girl Friday
#247 Stalker
#248 Grand Illusion
#249 Tokyo Story
#250 Harvey
