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