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Short answer, because top 250 IMDB is based on user ratings and not in any other real factor than that. It's not based on history, level of art nor importance.

Long answer: According to its rating, film XYZ should be in the Top 250 list but it's missing. Why? As documented on the Top 250 Chart page, only votes from regular IMDb voters are considered when generating the Top 250 out of the full voting database. This explains any difference between the vote averages reported in the top 250 and those on the individual movie pages, as well as why movies, whose averages make them seem as though they should appear on the list, do not. To maintain the effectiveness of the top 250 list, we deliberately do not and will not disclose the criteria used for a person to be counted as a regular voter. Please be aware that the list only includes theatrical features: shorts, TV movies, miniseries and documentaries are not included in the Top 250 chart.

As on IMDb Top 250 : The formula for calculating the Top Rated 250 Titles gives a true Bayesian estimate: weighted rating (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C Where:

R = average for the movie (mean) = (Rating) v = number of votes for the movie = (votes) m = minimum votes required to be listed in the Top 250 (currently 25000) C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 7.0) For the Top 250, only votes from regular voters are considered.

Since IMDb doesn't disclose who are regular voters, we can't really know what is the exact criteria.

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The Cainet of Dr caligar is based on a screenplay by German author Hans Janowitz (1890-1954) and Austrian screenwriter Carl Mayer (1894-1944). The idea for The Cabinet of Dr Caligari came at a fair where they saw a sideshow in which a man did feats of strength and forecast the future while supposedly in a hypnotic trance. To this, they added Janowitz's memory of glimpsing a stranger disappearing into the shadows after mysteriously emerging from the bushes in a park. The next morning, a woman's body was found there.

No. The name "Caligari" came from a fictional officer named Caligari in a book Mayer had read.

White Zombie (1932) is generally credited with being the first zombie movie. However, some viewers of The Cabinet of Dr Caligari have argued that Cesare (Conrad Veidt) might actually qualify as a zombie because of his lack of physical or mental control over his body. Those who argue against it point out that Cesare was a somnabulist (sleepwalker), not a corpse reanimated by supernatural means. They further point out that the word "zombie" did not exist outside of Haiti until 1929. Therefore, they feel that White Zombie is the first zombie film in name, definition, and action of character. Those who argue for it counter that a zombie doesn't necessarily have to be a reanimated corpse. They point out that, in some Haitian practices, "zombie drugs" are fed to an individual, causing him to fall into a deathlike state during which his will is subject to that of his bokor (Voodoo sorcerer). For more information on this type of zombie state, see here.

A term often applied to The Cabinet of Dr Caligari to describe its movie genre is "Expressionism". Basically, expressionism merely refers to the artistic distortion of reality, almost like a waking dream or nightmare, usually with a serious, angst-laden quality to it. With respect to the cinema arts, the term is most often applied to certain German films from the early 20th century. There is considerable debate as to which films, including this one, can be called Expressionist or whether there was ever an actual Expressionist movement in filmdom in the first place.

Viewers who have seen The Cabinet of Dr Caligari generally agree that the early German films most like it include many of the movies by German director Fritz Lang (1890-1976). Try Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922), Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924), Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924), Metropolis (1927), M (1931), and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933). Also strongly recommended are F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922), The Burning Soil (1922), Faust (1926), and Sunrise (1927). Also of note are The Golem (1914), Pandora's Box (1929), Waxworks (1924), and Vampyr (1932). Not German, but creepy nevertheless is the Danish Häxan (1922).