India, Feb. 27 -- Earlier this week, Letterboxd, the film cataloguing social platform, unveiled its list of 500 top films. The exhaustive list, curated by one of its patrons, features the highest-rated films on the platform, ranked by user ratings and popularity. However, as Indian users noted that only 9 films from the country made the cut, many felt disappointed that the world's largest film industry was underrepresented.

The Letterboxd's Top 500 Films list is included on the site's official lists section. Curated by patron Dave Vis, the list "ranks narrative feature films by average member rating," the platform states. Masaki Kobayashi's acclaimed Japanese film Harakiri tops the list, followed by the same director's The Human Conditio...