Curated Movie Lists
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IMDb's Top 250
The IMDb top 250 is probably the most well-known movie list in the world. It has earned this reputation through the fact that it has been composed by aggregating the votes of many normal moviegoers. In other words, this is a list by and for the people and not some elite movie-critics list.
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1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
The 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die list is actually a film reference book compiled by various critics worldwide and edited by Steven Jay Schneider. The list spans movies from as early as 1902 up to recent releases.
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Academy Award - Best Picture
The movies on this list have all been awarded a Best Picture Academy Award (also known as an Oscar). The winner is chosen by all members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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The Criterion Collection
Since 1984, the Criterion Collection, has been dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements for a wider and wider audience. The foundation of the collection is the work of such masters of cinema as Kurosawa, Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Hitchcock, and Kubrick. Each film is presented uncut, in its original aspect ratio, as its maker intended it to be seen.
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TSPDT's 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films
The 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films list serves as a companion to the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1,000 Greatest Films of all time list which, - by its nature - tends to have very few films from the 21st century in it. The 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films list attempts to highlight and honour this century's most critically revered films and act as a sort of 'resting bay' for many great films that are likely to be included in the 1,000 Greatest Films list sooner or later.
Jennifer Eiss's 500 Essential Cult Movies
From the book by Jennifer Eiss. The list is arranged by chapter. Each chapter starts with a top 10 (in alphabetical order), followed by the "best of the rest" (in alphabetical order). #1-83: Dramatic Situatons #84-133: Gripping Tales #134-165: Lights, Camera?! #166-228: Visionary Universes #229-280: Criminal Underworlds #281-360: Tales of Terror #361-432: Cult Humor #433-453: The Wild Wild West #454-502: Film Lab
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies
Through the collective judgment of 1,500 leaders from across the American film community - screenwriters, directors, actors, producers, cinematographers, editors, executives, film historians and critics -, AFI has identified 100 movies which set the standard and mark the excellence of the first century of American cinema. The first version of the list only contained films that were made in the first 100 years of American cinema (1896-1996). However, this list is the updated version.
366 Weird Movies
Celebrating the cinematically surreal, bizarre, cult, oddball, fantastique, strange, psychedelic, and the just plain WEIRD!
Academy Award - Best Picture Nominees
This list contains all movies that have been nominated for Best Picture in the Academy Awards.
Box Office Mojo's All Time Worldwide Box Office
The All-Time Worldwide Box office list includes the 1,000 most grossing movies at the box office during their theatrical runs. Only theatrical box office receipts (movie ticket sales) are included, video rentals, television rights and other revenues are thus ignored. The total may include theatrical re-release receipts. Figures are not adjusted for inflation.
Empire's The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time
The 500 movies in this list have been selected by a combination of 10,000 Empire readers, 50 critics and 150 of Hollywood's finest.
Quentin Tarantino's Coolest Movies of All Time
Tarantino's Coolest Movies of All Time from Wensley Clarkson's Tarantino - The Man, the Myths and His Movies book. * 1. Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks) * 2. Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese) * 3. Blow Out (1981, Brian De Palma) The rest of the list is not in order and not a definite list.
Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or
The Cannes Film Festival, founded in 1946, is one of the world's oldest film festivals. The private festival is held annually (usually in May) in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of France. Cannes is extremely important for critical and commercial interests and for European attempts to sell films on the basis of their artistic quality. Additionally, given massive media exposure, the non-public festival is attended by many movie stars and is a popular venue for film producers to launch their new films and attempt to sell their works to the distributors who come from all over the globe.
TSZDT's The 1,000 Greatest Horror Films
Horror has long been dismissed by critics and film scholars, often seen as vulgar or lacking depth. While films focusing on psychological tension and terror were praised, the bloody and grotesque side of the genre was frequently overlooked. Over time horror has gained more respect with films that terrify, shock, disturb, and entertain now earning both critical acclaim and popular success. Whether exploring supernatural and psychological fears, body horror, or social commentary, horror continues to provoke and captivate remaining as varied, divisive, and controversial as ever. Compiled using over 4,000 lists taken from various critics/polls/magazines/books/websites/forums/horror fans, They Shoot Zombies, Don't They? is intended to be the ultimate canonical top 1000 horror list. Spanning several decades, countries and sub-genres, and using lists from a wide range of people and publications, the resulting list is quite a diverse spread and representation of the best of horror.
Scott Tobias's The New Cult Canon
The idea behind The New Cult Canon is to take a fresh look at the new generation of cult movies that have sprung up in the last two decades, although some older movies are also included into the list. The list is authored by Scott Tobias. [From 2008 to 2013, starting with Donnie Darko and ending with The Rapture, I wrote a column for The A.V. Club called The New Cult Canon, my homage to Danny Peary?s three Cult Movies books, which were a huge influence on my moviegoing habits as a young cinephile. My idea was to pick up where Peary?s last book left off, in 1987, and explore ?The Classics, The Sleepers, The Weird and the Wonderful??films that have inspired mad obsession since. With The Reveal, I finally have the opportunity to bring it back.]
IMDb's 2010s Top 50
The best movies of the 2010s.
IMDb's 2000s Top 50
The 2000s continued with the trend of big blockbusters, which drew in massive amounts of money with the eager audience. The fantasy genre in particular flourished due to the success of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The fallen status of Superhero movies was also revived, in large part due to successful installments in the Batman and Spider-man series. Furthermore, computer-generated animations films became a force to be reckoned with, as they garnered much praise even from the critics.
iCheckMovies's Most Favorited
The most favorite movies on the iCheckMovies.com website, based on the movies' favorites/checks ratio. By looking at the ratio, unknown gems don't necessarily get overpowered by more well-known movies. For the exact formula, see the movies and lists section in the FAQ.
IMDb's 1990s Top 50
In the 90s, the belief was sustained that expensive, high-budget films with expensive special effects meant quality. However, the independently-distributed film movement was also proving that it could compete (both commercially and critically) with Hollywood's costly output. This decade also marked the advent of the home viewing of movies, in part made possible by the digital revolution that allowed movies to be greatly modified even after shooting.
IMDb's Animation Top 50
Animations are not a strictly-defined genre category, but rather a film technique, although they often contain genre-like elements. Also includes claymation (use of clay objects), anime (a style of animation with its roots in Japanese comic books, usually adult-oriented sci-fi and fantasy) or CGI (computer-generated animation). Animated films are often considered kids or family-oriented films, although they may be enjoyed by all ages.
Reddit Top 250
To reward the help iCheckMovies has received from the reddit.com community with testing our site, we have awarded reddit.com with their own top list. This list was compiled by having reddit.com users choose their favorite movies, of which the top 250 were compiled into this list.
TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films
The They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1,000 greatest films list is primarily compiled by using over 6000 individual critics' and filmmakers' best-films-of-all-time lists/ballots. The resulting list is very diverse and spans virtually all movie-producing decades and countries. Note: The list contains 1001 titles for the following reason: - Olympia is listed as 1 entry on TSPDT, but as 2 pages on iCM.
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
A list of movies which famous movie critic Roger Ebert considers to be the best movies of all-time. Ebert has written extensive reviews for each and every one of these movies.
Sight & Sound's The Greatest Films of All Time
The top films in the 2022 Sight and Sound Poll from the combined votes of 1639 critics and 480 directors. Contains films with 4 or more votes. In order by number of votes.
Mark Cousins's The Story of Film: An Odyssey
"The Story of Film: An Odyssey, a 15-part series written and directed by award-winning film-maker Mark Cousins, is the story of international cinema told through the history of cinematic innovation. The series provides a worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made; an epic tale that starts in nickelodeons and ends as a multi-billion-dollar globalised digital industry." Note: "Motion Capture Mirrors Emotion (2009) dir. Jorge Ribas," a documentary about the making of Avatar, is missing because it does not appear to have an imdb page.
Rotten Tomatoes's 300 Best Movies of All Time
Welcome to the 300 highest-rated best movies of all time, as reviewed and selected by Tomatometer-approved critics and Rotten Tomatoes users. How did we select and rank the movies? First, every movie here is Certified Fresh. Then we applied our recommendation formula, which considers a movie?s Tomatometer rating with assistance from its Audience Score, illuminating beloved sentiment from both sides. Critics-certified, audience-approved! Other factors weighing into the recommendation formula: a movie?s number of critics reviews, the number of Audience Score votes, and its year of release. An editorial pass is reserved to finesse the final list, which included minimum thresholds for each of these data points. After this guide?s launch period, we?ll visit movies released in 2024, with frequent updates and refreshes from there. Newest movie added: Sinners
Harvard's Suggested Film Viewing: Narrative Films
This list is "an educational resource that offers guidance and encouragement as students seek to find points of orientation within the vast history of film and video." It is not a list of the best films of all time. Rather, it reflects a variety of criteria. The list is divided into 5 sections: I. II. III. IV. V.
TSPDT's 100 Essential Noir Films
To kick things off on their list of 1000 Essential noirs, TSPDT offered up the first 100 of the 1,000 films. These 100 films have been identified, according to their research, as the most mentioned/cited noir films of all-time. Call them the 100 most essential or quintessential, or whatever you like. They are, simply put, the 100 films that most often show up on film noir lists, in film noir festivals, and/or in film noir publications. We at Icheckmovies have made these most essential noirs a separate list which you can find here. The rest of the list can be found here
Empire's The 100 Best Films of World Cinema
A list of the best films not in the English language, according to Empire magazine. Documentaries were excluded.
Cahiers du Cin�ma's Annual Top 10 Lists
Cahiers du cin�ma is an influential French film magazine founded in 1951. The magazine has picked its top ten films of the year, most years. Top ten films were not picked in the years 1952-1954, 1969-1980, and in the year 2003. Rankings can be viewed in my source list URL, or via the link provided in the comments section. In some cases, films tie for a certain spot in the yearly top 10; for example, 2012's #4 spot is tied between three films (consequently, there is no #5 or #6). Some directors definitely appear to be heavily preferred by those responsible for selecting the list. This list does not include the special "best of 1990s" and "best of 2000s" decade lists, though most of those twenty films are included here. (The exceptions are David Lynch's TV show Twin Peaks on the 1990s list, and Gus Van Sant's Elephant, Abdellatif Kechiche's The Secret of the Grain, and Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds on the 2000s decade list.) Other anomalies: The TV show "24" tied for the #10 spot in 2002, along with Gus Van Sant's Gerry. Gerry also tied for #6 on the 2004 list. A TV episode "Travolta et moi" (dir. Patricia Mazuy) from the show "Tous les gar�ons et les filles de leur �ge..." was selected as #6 in 1994. Claire Denis' episode "US Go Home" from the same series rated #9 in 1994. Raul Ruiz's Les trois couronnes du matelot (Three Crowns of the Sailor) tied for #7 in 1983 and tied for #8 in 1982. 1968's #4 spot for Histoires extraordinaires is specifically for Federico Fellini's segment "Toby Damnit." 1965's #4 spot for Paris vu par... is specifically for the Jean Rouch episode. 1959's #3 spot was claimed by Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible. Since Part II was released in 1958, it is possible that the award was for Part II, but since my sources didn't specify a part and both parts may have been shown together, I have included Parts I & II in the list. Love it or hate it, here it is...
Jonathan Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
This list contains the favorite movies of movie critic Jonathan Rosenbaum who writes for the Chicago Reader. The movies span virtually every decade, and include many an obscure movie. #1 - #1012: original list #1013 - #1073: 2008 additions #1074 - #1133: 2016 additions
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese
"From one of the world's most acclaimed directors comes an absorbing and informative look at the evolution of American film and how the medium both shaped Scorsese's own artistic vision and influenced the whole of American culture. Hundreds of film stills, many in color, plus dialogue, quotations, and other sources add to and illustrate each chapter's overriding theme." List is of all works with cited clips, in order of first appearance. Part 1: 1-40 Part 2: 41-74 Part 3: 75-99 [Source is the film itself, the wikipedia page includes some films mentioned only in passing]
The Guardian's 1000 Films to See Before You Die
"Well over a century has passed since the Lumi�re brothers frightened the life out of Parisians with The Arrival of a Train at a Station, and well over a million titles have since been recorded - if the Internet Movie Database is anything to go by. Out of these million-plus movies, our team of experts has picked what we believe is the essential 1,000 - those that best sum up the dazzling achievement and variety of the movies."
Cahiers du Cin�ma's 100 Films for an Ideal Cinematheque
The top 100 most essential films of 78 French film directors, critics and industry executives. The list was compiled for and published in the French Cahiers du cin�ma film magazine.
FOK!'s Film Top 250
To reward the help iCheckMovies has received from the forum.fok.nl community with testing our site, we have awarded forum.fok.nl with their own top list. Each year, the forum.fok.nl users submit their list of favorite movies, of which the top 250 were compiled into this list.
Academy Award - Best International Feature Film Nominees
All nominees including the winners of the Honorary Award. Note: Un lugar en el mundo (1992) was declared ineligible and removed from the final ballot.
A.V. Club's The Best Movies of the 2000s
This list consists of the favorite movies of the 00's as chosen by five core A.V. Club film writers.
Doubling the Canon
Begun in 2007, Doubling the Canon is an annual project which aims to expand the Film Canon as crafted by the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They website. Originally it was a selection of 1000 movies to complement , now it is a list of 1000 which complements the 1,000 Greatest Films and the companions and . This project is compiled and voted on by cinephiles from around the globe every year, originally at Imdb's Classic Film Board and currently at , in the months after the posting of that year's TSPDT list.
MovieSense 101
The 101 top movies as chosen by the readers and editors of MovieSense.nl
Time Out's The 100 Best British Films
British cinema is as diverse and ever-shifting as the country itself. In 2024, it encompasses everything from David Lean?s historical epics to Ken Loach?s socialist missives, and Steve McQueen?s muscular biographical dramas to Joanna Hogg?s intimate mood pieces. Danny Boyle?s pitch-black comedy ?Trainspotting? is a quintessential British film ? but so too, in another way, is the Richard Curtis-penned romcom ?Four Weddings and a Funeral?. And more recent dazzling recent such as Charlotte Wells' aching coming-of-age tale ?Aftersun? and Molly Branning Walker's prickly, ambiguous ?How to Have Sex? are pushing the medium into bold, bracing new territory. In compiling this list of the best British movies of all-time, we surveyed a diverse array of actors, directors, writers, producers, critics and industry heavyweights, including Wes Anderson, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Sam Mendes, David Morrissey, Sally Hawkins, Thandiwe Newton and the late Terence Davies. Unsurprisingly, it?s a richly varied and fascinating collection of must-see movies. Written by Dave Calhoun, Tom Huddleston, David Jenkins, Derek Adams, Geoff Andrew, Adam Lee Davies, Paul Fairclough, Wally Hammond, Alim Kheraj, Matthew Singer & Phil de Semlyen Last Updated: Tuesday 15 October 2024
ICM Forum's 500<400
Every September, members of the vote for the top 500 films with fewer than 400 checks on iCM (at the time of voting). Films released in the current or previous year are ineligible.
Academy Award - Best International Feature Film
The movies on this list have all been awarded a Best Foreign Picture Academy Award (also known as an Oscar). Although the director is the one that receives the award, credit is also awarded to the country in which the movies was produced. As a continent, Europe has dominated this category over the other continents, being responsible for over two third of the winners.
Eureka!'s The Masters of Cinema Series
The Masters of Cinema Series is a specially curated DVD collection of classic and world cinema using the finest available materials for home viewing. An ongoing collaboration between mastersofcinema.org and Eureka Entertainment, the MoC Series started in early 2004 and has so far included award-winning DVD editions of films by Carl Th. Dreyer, F. W. Murnau, Jean Renoir, Akira Kurosawa, John Ford, Masaki Kobayashi, Roberto Rossellini, Kaneto Shindo, Nicholas Ray, Satyajit Ray, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Peter Watkins, Sadao Yamanaka, Rene Laloux, Fritz Lang, Shohei Imamura, Vittorio De Sica and many more. MoC Series releases all come with extensive booklets, and where applicable, a host of extra features.
The New York Times's Book of Movies
This list is drawn from "The New York Times Book of Movies: The Essential 1,000 Films to See", published in 2019. It contains a selection of 1000 reviews that have been printed in The New York Times. The majority of movies in this book are among the "10 Best Films" chosen by New York Times critics at the end of each year.
Arts & Faith's Top 100 Films
The Arts & Faith's Top 100 Films (previously known as the 100 most spiritually significant films) list has been selected by the members, which is dedicated to the combination of art and faith. The 2020 update added a new restriction of one film per director, but other films that would have made the list without that restriction can be seen in the subtitle for each main entry in the source. The 2025 update switched from a poll of users on the message board to a curated list from jurors. The one-film-per-director restriction was removed, and two trilogies were selected, bringing the total number of films to 104.
Box Office Mojo's All Time Adjusted Box Office
This list presents the all time box office top grossing movies, but adjusted for ticket price inflation. Inflation-adjustment is mostly done by multiplying estimated admissions by the latest average ticket price. Where admissions are unavailable, adjustment is based on the average ticket price for when each movie was released (taking in to account re-releases where applicable).
FilmTotaal Forum's Top 100
To reward the help iCheckMovies has received from the filmtotaal.nl community with testing our site, we have awarded filmtotaal.nl with their own top list. Each year, the filmtotaal.nl users submit their list of favorite movies, of which the top 100 were compiled into this list. Note (2017-02-16): Due to a decreasing active base, the list has been reverted to the version of 2009.
Silent Era's The Top 300 Silent Era Films
The top 300 best silent era films are based on the votes on the silentera.com website. The list is not limited to features exclusively. True silent films (like City Lights) not made in the default silent cinema timeline (1891-1929) are also accepted. Films receiving votes must still exist somewhere and in some viewable form. We limit the list to films that were produced to be silent films exclusively (synchronized music tracks are acceptible, but part-talkies and talkies that have only survived as silents are out).
BFI's 100 Animated Feature Films
This list is from Andrew Osmond's book (2011). "Andrew Osmond provides an entertaining and illuminating guide to the endlessly diverse styles, cultures, and visions of the genre, with entires on 100 of the most interesting and important animated films from around the world, from the 1920s to the present day."
The Times's 100 Best French Films
The 100 best French Films as chosen by The Times(UK), chosen in groups of ten films: Modern Classics, Modern Cults, Dramas, Romances, Thrillers, Comedies, Nouvelle Vague, Landmarks, Shorts, and Icons.
Badmovies.org's Best B-Movies
A list of B-movies reviewed and rated 3/4 or higher by Badmovies.org, "A website to the detriment of good film." "The goal of any movie is to entertain. This might sound strange, but who cares if a movie is poorly acted and filled with ridiculous special effects? What matters is if the movie keeps you entertained. The site's whole reason for being is to celebrate the quirky films that I find so enjoyable."
Leonard Maltin's 100 Must-See Films of the 20th Century
A list of the 100 20th century films as chosen by the film critic Leonard Maltin. This list appears in Maltin's book titled Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 2000 (Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide).
Kinema Junpo's Top 200 Japanese Films
The top 200 Japanese movies of all time as chosen by the Kinema Junpo magazine.
Library of Congress's National Film Registry
The National Film Registry is the United States National Film Preservation Board's selection of films for preservation in the Library of Congress. The Board was established in 1988. Each year, 25 "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant films" are preserved, to increase awareness for its preservation. To be eligible for inclusion, a film must be at least ten years old but it is not required to be feature-length, nor is it required to have been theatrically released.
Time Out's 1000 Films to Change Your Life
"Over 1,000 films are listed in this visually arresting, full-color celebration of the silver screen. Film personalities, including actors, directors, cinematographers, and animators, write about their favorite films from a variety of angles. Martin Scorsese, Nicole Kidman, and Nick Hornby are among those who weigh in. Writers are matched to suitable (or sometimes surprising) themes and genres within the wider subject of how films can alter the course of a life. Movie stills and posters, trivia, and top-ten lists make this a book that can be dipped into or read from cover to cover. Great screen moments ? endings, beginnings, kisses, death scenes ? are given special spreads. The eclectic approach speaks to fans of big Hollywood blockbusters and factoid-reciting film geeks alike."
Emma Beare's 501 Must-See Movies
This list is compiled from a collection of movie reviews in the 501 Must See Movies book. The movies have been split up into 10 genres, each with 50 movies (except for the last, which has 51): Action/Adventure & Epic, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Musical, Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Mystery/Thriller, War and Western.
Academy Award - Best Cinematography
This list contains all movies that have won the Best Cinematography prize in the Academy Awards.
OFCS's Top 100 Animated Features of All Time
138 reviewers of the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS), the international association of the leading Internet-based cinema journalists, selected the Top 100 Animated Features of All Time. The lsit was compiled from a reminder list of more than 350 feature films (not including animated short films), spanning the years from the 1926 silent film The Adventures of Prince Achmed to recent release Treasure Planet.
Spike Lee's Essential List of Films for Filmmakers
This is the list that Spike Lee distributes to his graduate students at NYU every year. Spike says: "I've Been A Professor At The NYU Graduate Film For The Past 15 Years.The 1st Day Of Every Class I Hand Out My List Of Films That I Feel You Must See If You Want To Make Films. Please Look At This List And See What You Might Have Missed. As I Tell My Students If You Want Your Film "Game" To Be Tight You Must Have Seen Great Movies, World Cinema, It Just Can't Be Hollywood Films. Educate Yourself. Learn. Grow. Evolve. Make Great Films. Peace, Onward And Upward, Spike Lee."
AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills
Through the collective judgment of 1,500 leaders from across the American film community - screenwriters, directors, actors, producers, cinematographers, editors, executives, film historians and critics -, AFI has identified 100 movies that are considered the most thrilling. Thrills encompass many genres, including courtroom dramas, disasters, epics, horror, musicals, film-noir, sci-fi, sports , suspense, war and westerns.
David Thomson's Have You Seen?
A personal introduction to 1000 movies by the provocative contemporary film critic and historian David Thomson.
Taschen's 100 All-Time Favorite Movies
This list contains the 100 finest examples of 20th century filmmaking, according to Taschen. From horror to romance, noir to slapstick, adventure to tragedy, epic to musical, western to new wave, all genres are represented in this wide-ranging compendium.
Stanley Kubrick, Cinephile
A list of Stanley Kubrick's favorite films, from the article "Stanley Kubrick, cinephile" written by Nick Wrigley and published on the website of the British Film Institute. In order to create the most complete and definitive list possible, Wrigley compiled all known statements and lists made by the director himself. He then interviewed Kubrick's long-time assistant and producer, Jan Harlan. It should be noted that this is an ongoing effort - if additional reliable sources identifying specific films (rather than just filmmakers) are found, they'll be added to the master list on the BFI site. (Updated with latest list revision 2/4/2014)
Halliwell's Top 1000: The Ultimate Movie Countdown
"Trading on its impeccable reputation, Halliwell?s now presents it?s Top 1,000 favorite films. Starting at number 1,000, each entry includes a plot summary, cast and crew, awards, key critical comments, DVD and soundtrack availability, and a wealth of other interesting details. To supplement the countdown, there is commentary from film stars, show business personalities, well-known critics, and the movers and shakers in the film industry, each naming their favorite films or weighing in on Halliwell?s selection. Illustrated throughout with classic and modern film stills and posters, this is a book that every cinema fan will want to own. John Walker is one of Britain?s leading film critics." The list has 43 extra films, because trilogies, or series, are counted as one entry (The Godfather, The Apu Trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, Antoine Doinel, Laurel and Hardy shorts, etc...)
UNESCO's Memory of the World
In 1995, to celebrate the centenary of cinema, UNESCO worked together with film archives from 49 countries to "compile and publish a list of approximately 15 films each country considers to be representative of its most significant national cinematic heritage." UNESCO suggested that they consider historical importance and cultural/artistic value, but each film archive was allowed to define its own criteria to determine which films were important. The films of each country are listed in the order of the source-pdf. These countries are included. Angola, Australia, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Ivory Coast, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, Germany, Greece, The Holy See, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lebanon, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, South Korea, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Macedonia, Ukraine, United States of America, Venezuela, Yugoslavia These films or collections on the source-pdf are not included in this list, because they are not on IMDb: Canada: - A Selection of OMPB Films Produced between the two World Wars - A Selection of Film Produced by the Government of Canada before the Creation of the National Film Board - Royal Welcome, 8 unknown titles from the Canadian Cameo Series - 4 unknown reels from "Shorts Produced at the London Headquarters of the Canadian Army during the last War" - Animated Films of the National Film Board Ecuador: - part of Obra Filmica Documental Miguel A. Alvarez (35 shorts are included so far) - Obra Filmica Documental Karl Gartelman Kazakhstan: - Two Days in Spring - Baiterek
Golden Globe Award - Best Motion Picture
Since their first ceremony in 1944, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has bestowed their Golden Globe Awards to their choices for the best in motion pictures.
AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs
Through the collective judgment of 1,500 leaders from across the American film community - screenwriters, directors, actors, producers, cinematographers, editors, executives, film historians and critics -, AFI has identified 100 movies that are considered the funniest. A wide array of funny films ? from slapstick comedy to romantic comedy; from satire and black comedy to musical comedy; from comedy of manners to comedy of errors ? were nominated for this distinction.
The Criterion Collection's Eclipse Series
Eclipse from the Criterion Collection is a brand for a line of DVD film series released by the Criterion Collection. It debuted on March 27, 2007. The brand was created to produce budget-priced, high-quality DVD editions of hard-to-find films. The DVDs are released in boxed sets that typically contain between two to seven films across and focus on a specific film director. Future sets will also focus on themes. Typically, they are released monthly. In order to keep prices low, the films do not receive the same degree of remastering nor any of the special features that have became associated with Criterion Collection titles.
BBC's The 21st Century's 100 Greatest Films
For our poll to determine the 100 greatest American films, we surveyed 62 film critics from around the world. This time, we received responses from 177 ? from every continent except Antarctica. Some are newspaper or magazine reviewers, others write primarily for websites; academics and cinema curators are well-represented too. For the purposes of this poll we have decided that a list of the greatest films of the 21st Century should include the year 2000, even though we recognise that there was no ?Year Zero? and that 2001 is mathematically the start of the century. Not only did we all celebrate the turn of the millennium on 31 December 1999, but the year 2000 was a landmark in global cinema, and, in particular, saw the emergence of new classics from Asia like nothing we had ever seen before.
BFI's 100 Documentary Films
"100 Documentary Films is the first book to offer concise and authoritative individual critical commentaries on some of the key documentary films - from the Lumi�re brothers and the beginnings of cinema through to recent films such as Bowling for Columbine and When the Levees Broke - and is global in perspective. Many different types of documentary are discussed, as well as films by major documentary directors, including Robert Flaherty, Humphrey Jennings, Jean Rouch, Dziga Vertov, Errol Morris, Nick Broomfield and Michael Moore. Each entry provides concise critical analysis, while frequent cross reference to other films featured helps to place films in their historical and aesthetic contexts."
BFI's Top 100 British Films
The best 100 British films were chosen by 1,000 people from the UK's film industry, including producers, directors, writers, actors, technicians, academics, exhibitors, distributors, executives and critics. The final selection spans seven decades and accommodates the work of 70 film directors. Unsurprisingly, literary adaptations feature strongly - ranging from Shakespeare and Dickens to Roddy Doyle and Irvine Welsh - and the highbrow mixes easily with the low.
AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions
Through the collective judgment of 1,500 leaders from across the American film community - screenwriters, directors, actors, producers, cinematographers, editors, executives, film historians and critics -, AFI has identified 100 movies that are considered the most passionate.
Sight & Sound's The Greatest Documentaries of All Time
In 2014, Sight & Sound polled 340 documentary critics, curators, academics and filmmakers asking for top 10 documentary lists. Over 1000 films got votes, from years as early as 1892 to as recent as 2013. This list is the combined critics and filmmakers list of all films that received 3 or more votes. You can find the films receiving just one or two votes:
BFI's 100 European Horror Films
Part of the BFI Screen Gudes series, this book provides thoughtful analysis on one hundred European horror films from the silent era to the present day. This list is for those using the BFI publication as a viewing guide.
Grindhouse Cinema Database's Top Grindhouse Classics
This list has been compiled by aggregating the movies in three different lists: , and . The movies in this list all belong to classic international exploitatation/cult cinema movies.
AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers
Through the collective judgment of 1,500 leaders from across the American film community - screenwriters, directors, actors, producers, cinematographers, editors, executives, film historians and critics -, AFI has identified 100 movies that inspire us, encourage us to make a difference and send us from the theatre with a greater sense of possibility and hope for the future.
BAFTA Award - Best Film
The Best Film as chosen by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts charity.
BFI's 100 Science Fiction Films
"Since its explosion in the 1950s, science fiction has become one of the most popular film genres, with numerous dedicated fan conventions, academic conferences, websites, magazines, journals, book clubs, memorabilia and collectibles. Once relegated to B budget status, today's science fiction films are often blockbuster productions, featuring major stars. Despite its high profile, science fiction is notoriously difficult to define. In his introduction to 100 Science Fiction Films, Barry Keith Grant explains the genre's complexities, while also providing an overview of its history, suggesting that the cinema is an ideal medium for conveying the 'sense of wonder' that critics have argued is central to the genre. From Georges Melies's Le Voyage dans la lune (1902), to the blockbusters of the 1970s that dramatically changed Hollywood, to the major releases of the past few years, the films featured in this book represent a range of periods, countries and types (including alien invasion, space travel, time travel, apocalypse, monsters and anime), and cover the key directors and writers. 100 Science Fiction Films provides a lively and illuminating guide to the genre from the beginning of film history to the present, taking the reader on a comprehensive tour through the rich and varied alternate universe of sci-fi cinema."
Harvard's Suggested Film Viewing: Non-Fiction Films
This list is "an educational resource that offers guidance and encouragement as students seek to find points of orientation within the vast history of film and video." It is not a list of the best films of all time. Rather, it reflects a variety of criteria. The list is divided into 5 sections: I. II. III. IV. V.
Fran�ois Truffaut's The Films in My Life
"The Films in My Life (Les Films de ma Vie) is Truffaut?s own selection of more than one hundred essays that range widely over the history of film and pay tribute to Truffaut?s particular heroes, among them Hitchcock, Welles, Chaplin, Renoir, Cocteau, Bergman, and Bu�uel."
Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in the state of Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the U.S. Held in January, the festival is the premier showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers. The festival comprises competitive sections for American and international dramatic and documentary films, both feature-length films and short films, and a group of non-competitive showcase sections.
Paste's The 100 Best Anime Movies of All Time
Establishing the best anime movies can be tricky. After all, despite now being one of the most ubiquitous cultural properties of the 21st century, anime, thanks to over a century?s worth of the medium?s evolution and reinvention, is especially difficult to define. From the five-minute shorts of Oten Shimokawa in 1917, to the feature-length animations produced during World War II, to the pioneering production cycles of Tezuka in the ?60s and the auteurist innovations of the likes of Miyazaki and many others towards the latter half of the last century, anime has morphed through countless phases. Amateur efforts, nationalist propaganda fodder, niche cultural export turned eventual global phenomenon: Each iteration conforms to the shape of the times in which it was produced. Television expanded the medium during the 1960s, birthing many of the essential genres and subgenres that we know today and forming the impetus for the anime industry?s inextricable relationship to advertising and merchandising from the 1970s onward. The arrival of home video catapulted anime to its commercial and aesthetic apex, fanning outward from island nation of Nippon to the far shores of North America and back, before again being revolutionized by the unprecedented accessibility of the world wide web throughout the ?90s and early aughts. Anime film owes much to the evolving means of production and distribution throughout the late 20th century, the breadth and audacity of the medium?s content widening and contracting along with its running time to cater to the emerging palettes of audiences both new and old, at home and abroad. But where does one begin to tackle the aesthetic and historical precedent that anime film has left on pop culture and global entertainment in the last century? This list is an attempt to do just that: to create a primer of 100 of the most influential and essential films that Japanese animation has produced, and to offer a thorough aesthetic, technical and historical breakdown of why these film matter. With that aim in mind, Paste is proud to enlist the curatorial talents of Jason DeMarco, on-air creative director of Adult Swim and co-creator of Toonami, whose unique role in anime?s emerging popularity in the West has helped to hone this list. Given the shared evolution between anime film and television and the aforementioned significance of the home video revolution, this list includes not only traditional features but also original video animations made for home video (OVAs) and anthology films? with the stipulation of each entry having at some point premiered in theaters. It is our hope that in creating this list we have created an entry point for both the expert and the layperson to trace the rich history of anime?s legacy on both film and popular culture, and to offer newcomers a comprehensive guide through to learn, rediscover, and explore the fullness that the genre of Japanese animation has to offer now and into the future. Originally published in January 2017. Last updated October 23, 2023.
Jerry Beck's The 50 Greatest Cartoons
The 50 greatest cartoons of all time, from a poll of 1,000 animation professionals conducted by author/film historian Jerry Beck for the 1994 book "The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals".
TSPDT's 1,000 Noir Films
TSPDT has built a list of 1000 Noir films to expand on its previous 250 Quintessential Noirs. Following the , a further 900 noir films (or films with prominent noir elements) have been added (in a fairly random manner). This list contains the full 1000 films which are the 1,000 most cited noir films (according to TSPDT's research). Please note that this list has not been and will not be ranked.
Kinemathekverbund's The 100 Most Important German Films
In the year of cinematography?s centennial anniversary 1995, the Deutscher Kinematheksverbund conducted a survey in search of the 100 German films that were considered the most important. In the first poll 324 film historians, film journalists, film makers and movie owners decided about places 1 to 75, a second poll with 228 votes determinded the places 76 to 100.
TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films: 1001-2500
Since the 2015 TSPDT has released a companion to their greatest 1000 films, consisting of the films ranked 1001-2500. This list contains the most recent version of this list, with all the previous lists in the history. Note: The list contains 1507 titles for the following reasons: - Fant�mas is listed as 1 entry on TSPDT, but as 5 pages on iCM. - Scenes From Under Childhood is listed as 1 entry on TSPDT, but as 4 pages on iCM.
Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prix
The Grand Prix is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. It is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d'Or.
Venice Film Festival - Golden Lion
The Venice Film Festival is the oldest film festival in the world. Founded 1932, the festival has since taken place every year in Venice, Italy. It is part of the Venice Biennale, a major biennial exhibition and festival for contemporary art. The festival's Leone d'Oro (Golden Lion) prize is awarded to the best film screened at the festival.
Time Out's The 100 Best French Films
The 100 best French films according to a diversified professional jury, published in Timeout France. last updated January 24, 2025.
BFI Flare's The Best LGBTQ+ Films of All Time
In celebration of their 30th anniversary, in 2016, the London LGBT Film Festival BFI Flare conducted a poll of over 100 programmers, critics and filmmakers asking for a top 10 list of the best LGBT films. Contains all films with at least 3 votes.
Tom Vick's Asian Cinema: A Field Guide
Asian Cinema: A Field Guide (2007) by Tom Vick is a book about the history of cinema in various regions throughout Asia. This is a list of films mentioned in the book. [b]Part One: The Old Guard[/b] China: Tradition and Resistance (#1-76) Japan: Cinema of Extremes (77-268) India: All That and then Some (269-358) [b]Part Two: Postwar Booms[/b] Hong Kong: The Fine Art of Popular Cinema (359-453) Korea: Rising from the Ashes of History (454-578) [b]Part Three: Recent Arrivals[/b] Iran: A Continuing Conversation (579-637) Taiwan: The Little Island that Could (638-682) [b]Part Four: New Players[/b] [b]South and Southeast Asia: Coming Into Focus[/b] Bangladesh (683 & 684), Bhutan (685 & 686), Cambodia (687-689), Indonesia (690-696), Malaysia and Singapore (697-711), Nepal (712 & 713), Pakistan (714), The Philippines (715-739), Sri Lanka (740-744), Thailand (745-774), Tibet (775-780), Vietnam (781-792) [b]Central Asia and the Middle East: Global Intersections[/b] The Former Soviet Republics, Afghanistan, and Mongolia (793-808), The Middle East (809?841), Turkey (842-852) [b]Part Five: Where to Go from Here[/b] (List of websites and books) See the description for a list of films missing from IMDb.
Marshall Julius's Action! The Action Movie A-Z
The "250 key movies" rated and reviewed in the book [i]Action! The Action Movie A-Z[/i] (1997) by Marshall Julius. Author's ratings: 1-14 *****, 15-22 ****�, 23-51 ****, 52-92: ***�, 93-140: ***, 141-182: **�, 183-211 **, 212-226 *�, 227-244 *, 245-250 � "Vengeful cops and car chases, lunatic villains and martial arts masters, male-bonding, gun fights and super secret agents, swords and sorcerers, wartime Nazi-bashing, boys' own adventures, casual destruction and general death-defiance... this is what we want to see, and if you feel the same way, "Action!" is for you, a fan's guide to the wackiest genre of 'em all, with 250 key movies rated and reviewed" -Introduction
Berlin International Film Festival - Golden Bear
Up to 400 films are shown every year as part of the Berlinale's public programme, the vast majority of which are world or European premieres. Films of every genre, length and format can be submitted for consideration. The Golden Bear (German Goldener B�r) is the highest prize awarded for the best film shown during this festival. The first festival had a Golden Bear winner for each category:
101 War Movies You Must See Before You Die
Steven Jay Schneider's 101 War Movies You Must See Before You Die The horror and the heroism of war has long been a staple of cinema and the background for many different story genres, from anti-war comedies such as M*A*S*H to the heroic feats of combat troops and fighter pilots played by the likes of John Wayne and other screen favorites. Here are the 101 most memorable war films ever produced.
Sight & Sound's 75 Hidden Gems
As part of the Sight & Sound magazine's 75th anniversary, the editors asked 75 critics from around the world to select a single film that is "unduly obscure and worthy of greater eminence."
European Film Award - Best Film
The European Film Awards are presented annually by the European Film Academy to recognize excellence in European cinematic achievements. The awards are given in over ten categories of which the most important is the Film of the year. They are restricted to European cinema and European producers, directors, and actors. The awards were originally called the Felix Awards but the name was changed to the European Film Awards.
Golden Foundation of Czech and Slovak Cinema
A poll conducted by more than 100 Czech film experts to determine the best and most important works of Czech and Slovak cinema.
Tim Dirks's 100+ Most Controversial Films of All-Time
Films always have the ability to anger us, divide us, shock us, disgust us, and more. Usually, films that inspire controversy, outright boycotting, picketing, banning, censorship, or protest have graphic sex, violence, homosexuality, religious, political or race-related themes and content. They usually push the envelope regarding what can be filmed and displayed on the screen, and are considered taboo, "immoral" or "obscene" due to language, drug use, violence and sensuality/nudity or other incendiary elements. Inevitably, controversy helps to publicize these films and fuel the box-office receipts. #14 is for the segment "Il Miracolo".
The Spaghetti Western Database's Essential Top 50 Films
The top 50 best Spaghetti Westerns list has been compiled from 200 user-supplied top 20 lists at the spaghetti-western.net website. Last Updated: January 28, 2025.
Anthology Film Archives's Essential Cinema
A very special series of films screened on a repertory basis, the Essential Cinema Repertory collection consists of programs of shorts and hundreds of features assembled in 1970-75 by Anthology?s Film Selection Committee ? James Broughton, Ken Kelman, Peter Kubelka, P. Adams Sitney, and Jonas Mekas. It was an ambitious attempt to define the art of cinema. The project was never completed but even in its unfinished state the series provides an uncompromising critical overview of cinema?s history. The titles are still being screened under the brand of "Essential Cinema". Now and then additional titles are added to the collection.
Empire's The Greatest Movie Sequels
This list contains the greatest movie sequels as selected by the Empire Online website. Following the official definition of what a sequel is, it also includes movies that are not a second installment in a series.
BFI's 100 Film Musicals
"?From the coming of sound to the 1960s, the musical was central to Hollywood production. Exhibiting ? often in spectacular fashion ? the remarkable resources of the Hollywood studios, musicals came to epitomise the very idea of 'light entertainment'. Films like Top Hat and 42nd Street, Meet Me in St. Louis and On the Town, Singin' in the Rain and Oklahoma!, West Side Story and The Sound of Music were hugely popular, yet were commonly regarded by cultural commentators as trivial and escapist. It was the 1970s before serious study of the Hollywood musical began to change critical attitudes and foster an interest in musical films produced in other cultures. Hollywood musicals have become less common, but the genre persists and both academic interest in and fond nostalgia for the musical shows no signs of abating. 100 Film Musicals provides a stimulating overview of the genre's development, its major themes and the critical debates it has provoked. While centred on the dominant Hollywood tradition, 100 Film Musicals includes films from countries that often tried to emulate the Hollywood style, like Britain and Germany, as well as from very different cultures like India, Egypt and Japan. Jim Hillier and Douglas Pye also discuss post-1960s films from many different sources which adapt and reflect on the conventions of the genre, including recent examples such as Moulin Rouge! and High School Musical, demonstrating that the genre is still very much alive."
Golden Horse's 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films
In a 2010 survey, the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival asked 122 film professionals to vote for the 100 greatest Chinese-language films. Most of the voters were from Taiwan, but film professionals from Hong Kong and China and Chinese cinema experts from other countries participated as well. You can see the individual ballots on the .
National Board of Review Award - Best Film
The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures was founded in 1909 with the purpose of endorsing films of merit and champion the new. Every year since 1932 they have given an award to the film they deem the best of the year.
Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej's 100 Years of Polish Film
The Polish Film Institute created this list for the 100th anniversary of Polish cinema. The films were selected by Polish critics Rafa? Marsza?ek and Andrzej Bukowiecki using the following criteria: "their acknowledged artistic value, national and international awards granted, the influence exerted within a certain film trend, and finally the attendance records indicating the interest aroused among the cinema goers."
BFI's 100 American Independent Films
The top 100 American independent films as selected by Jason Wood, author of BFI Screen Guides' "100 American Independent Films."
LoveHKFilm.com's The Best Hong Kong Films Ever
In 2012, LoveHKFilm.com asked its readers to vote for the best Hong Kong films ever. 166 people participated - mostly normal fans, but also some film fest personnel and producers. This was LoveHKFilm.com's final poll, following three decade polls (, , ).
Wei Jun Zi's 100 Classic Martial Arts Films
The best martial arts films, selected by critic Wei Jun Zi and published on Sohu.com in 2008.
Scott Hocking's 100 Greatest Films of Australian Cinema
From the book by Scott Hocking. From indigenous issues and rites of passage, to sexual repression, mateship, larrikins and more, Australian films provide a cultural snapshot of our sunburnt country, as seen through the lenses of some of the world?s finest filmmakers.
TSPDT's Ain't Nobody's Blues but My Own
As a counterpart to the fairly mainstream TSPDT top 1000 list, the Ain't Nobody's Blues But My Own list has been created. The movies on this list had as its solely criterium: they must be mentioned at most once in a top list. 250 film critics/film makers got to choose exactly one of the aforementioned movies. The list hadn't been on the website of TSPDT for several years and hadn't been updated for many years as well. In January 2019 the owner of the site sent us a new update. It's not listed on his website, but you can view the spreadsheet . The list contains 253 titles instead of 250, because the vote for Buddha's Palm consists of four parts.
TIFF's Top Canadian Films
In 2015 TIFF organized its decennial poll of Critics, Programmers, Academics and Film Professionals asking 220 of them to name the top Canadian Films of all time. 399 films received votes, this list comprises the 134 films which received at least 3 votes.
Butler's Fantasy Cinema: Impossible Worlds on Screen
From the Short Cuts book . [quote]Often dismissed as simple escapist tales of sword and sorcery, fantasy is one of the fundamental impulses in filmmaking, a source of some of the most vivid and memorable films ever made that reaches far beyond the confines of a single genre. As well as some of the major genres, stylistic approaches and exponents of cinematic fantasy - from Georges Me?lie??s, Walt Disney, and Andrei Tarkovsky to contemporary fantasists such as Terry Gilliam and Peter Jackson - this volume focuses on fantasy's social function with case studies including The Thief of Baghdad (1924), Excalibur (1981), the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-03), and Bruce Almighty (2003). Taking in the popular and the experimental, subversive desires and reactionary dreams, this book is an accessible introduction to one of the vital energies in cinema. The Short Cuts series is a comprehensive list of introductory texts covering the full spectrum of Film Studies, specifically designed for building an individually-styled library for all students and enthusiasts of cinema and popular culture.[/quote] Three films are considered lost: - La cigale et la fourmi (1897) - La caverne maudite (1898) - Le petit chaperon rouge (1901)
Cien a�os sin soledad: Greatest Latin American Films
All the films that received two or more votes in a poll of 36 critics and film specialists from 11 different countries - as listed in the book "Cien a�os sin soledad: Las mejores peliculas Latinoamericanas de todos los tiempos" compiled by Carlos Galiano and Rufo Caballero. Vote breakdown: #1 received 30 votes #2 - 22 votes #3-5 - 21 #6-8 - 17 #9 - 16 #10 - 14 #11 - 13 #12 - 12 #13 - 11 #14-16 - 10 #17-18 - 9 #19-29 - 8 #30-33 - 7 #34-41 - 6 #42-46 - 5 #47-57 - 4 #58-69 - 3 #70-107 - 2
Roy Menarini's Il Grande Cinema Italiano
250 films from throughout Italy's history, 1905-2011. From the book by Roy Menarini.
BFI's 100 Westerns
"Addresses the perennial appeal of the Western, exploring its 19th century popular culture, and its relationship to the economic structure of Hollywood. This work considers the defining features of the Western and traces its main cycles, from the epic Westerns of the 1920s and singing cowboys of the 1930s to the Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s."
Galloway's Samurai Film Handbook & Companion
This list combines 2 books by Patrick Galloway: #1-51: (2005) #52-91: (2009) "Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves provides essential background on the samurai warrior in Japanese culture to help explain what makes these tales of loyalty, revenge and explosive swordsmanship so watchable. It covers top directors and stars and has over 50 original reviews of a wide variety of films, from classics like Samurai Trilogy and Yojimbo to influential films like Lady Snowblood, plus newly released hits like Takeshi Kitano?s Zatoichi." "Warring Clans, Flashing Blades picks up where Galloway?s fan-favorite Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves left off, delving deeper into the samurai film and its spin-off genres?yakuza, ninja, and matatabi."
FLM's Best Swedish Films of All Time
In 2012, FLM asked 50 film critics and academics to vote for the best Swedish films of all time. The original list was a top 25. In 2022 FLM ran a new poll with 72 participants, again producing a top 25. This list contains all films with at least 2 votes. Votes for Utvandrarna/Nybyggarna and Jag �r nyfiken - gul/bl� were combined.
Film Magazine's Best Iranian Films
In 2009, Film magazine asked 92 Iranian critics to vote for the best Iranian films. The original list was a top 20. This list includes all films that received at least 2 votes. The ballots are available on (click the 4 links at the bottom). In 2008, Film magazine made a list of the .
A.V. Club's The Best Movies of the 2010s
The A.V. Club’s staff pick of the best films of the 2010s, from mainstream hits to indie and international highlights.
Geoff King's Film Comedy
All the comedies mentioned in the filmography of the book "Film Comedy" by Geoff King, published in 2002. "From slapstick to satire and subtle innuendo. From the grotesque to the carefully mannered. From madcap anarchy to the darkly deadpan. Film comedy comes in a wide range of forms. For as long as film has existed as an entertainment medium, so has film comedy. ... Comedy was one of the most popular formats in the early years of cinema and has remained so ever since." (from the introduction to the book)
Cinema Tropical's Best Latin American Films 2000-2009
This list a list of the Top Latin American Films of the Decade (2000-2009), is based on a survey of distinguished critics, scholars and film professionals based in the New York City area. The list has been compiled by Cinema Tropical.
BBC's The 100 Greatest Films Directed by Women
From a critic poll published in November 2019. Olympia is one entry.
Russian Guild of Film Critics's Best Russian Films
This list is a combination of two lists: the best Russian films of and . There immediately was a grave discussion on [what films should be considered Russian and what not. The resulting list has been chosen by the Russian Guild of Film Critics.
Sharon A. Russell's Guide to African Cinema
Films featured in Sharon A. Russell's book Guide to African Cinema, in alphabetical order. Thanks to PeacefulAnarchy for finding the book and adding it to the IMDb.
Slate's The Black Film Canon
Seven years ago?when #OscarsSoWhite was a hot topic and Obama was still president?Slate published the Black Film Canon, a list of 50 of the best and most culturally significant films by Black directors. Critics, scholars, and the filmmakers themselves, including Ava DuVernay, Robert Townsend, and Gina Prince-Bythewood, weighed in with their picks. The result was a collection of films spanning almost 100 years, several continents, and a wide range of genres and styles: from Oscar Micheaux?s silent-era classic Within Our Gates to Djibril Diop Mamb�ty?s freewheeling road-trip movie Touki Bouki to F. Gary Gray?s iconic comedy Friday. And then, just months after the Black Film Canon came out, Barry Jenkins? Moonlight made history with a Best Picture Oscar win and Jordan Peele?s Get Out spawned a new cultural lexicon while reigniting the long-neglected Black horror genre. Just a year after that, Black Panther became an unprecedented box-office juggernaut. Since then, many other Black filmmakers, both seasoned and on the come up, have seized on an increasing number of opportunities to tell stories in bold ways: creators like Janicza Bravo, Boots Riley, and Garrett Bradley. Some adjudicators of cinematic prestige?like the once-a-decade Sight and Sound critics? poll and the Criterion Collection?have finally come around to acknowledging important Black filmmakers after decades of all but ignoring them. Simply put, we?re now living in a different world for Black film. Yet, as ever, barriers remain. This year?s Oscars saw yet another nominations controversy. The forces that have worked to sideline Black filmmakers have not disappeared. Even as the landscape has shifted, there?s more power than ever in understanding the films that brought us to this moment and the new ones taking us into the future. So it seems only fitting to revisit the Black Film Canon and update it to reflect the rush of great movies that have arrived since 2016, as well as reconsider the films made before 2016 that we missed the first time around. This time, in partnership with NPR, Slate polled a group of experts?a mix of industry and critical authorities from our previous list, as well as some newcomers?and we?re thrilled to present the results in our New Black Film Canon. Use it as an opportunity to appreciate the breadth of artistry Black filmmakers have brought to the movies?and as an unbeatable viewing list deep with surprising treasures. The project excludes movies about black people but directed by non-blacks (A Raisin in the Sun, Coming to America). It is also not a poll: it?s an unranked list presented chronologically.
Goya Award - Best Spanish Film
The , known in Spanish as los Premios Goya, are Spain's main national film awards, considered by many people from Spain and world to be the Spanish equivalent to the Academy Awards from the United States.
Time Out's The 101 Most Romantic Films
Romance may be dead in the real world, but in cinema, it?ll live forever. Love is simply too elemental of an emotion for filmmakers to ever abandon. If you live on earth, you?ve experienced it. Even if you?ve never, say, robbed a bank with your loved one or stood by your sweetheart as they transformed into a hideous monster, the best romantic films make you understand and sympathise with the decisions of those under love?s spell ? because one way or another, we?ve all been there. There are so many movies about love in all its complications that ranking the greatest of them is a manor challenge. To help us curate this list, we chatted to more than 100 filmmakers, actors and writers, from The Notebook author Nicholas Sparks to Notting Hill director Richard Curtis to our own Time Out scribes. We even got Miss Piggy to chime in. Whether you prefer comedies or dramas, horror or sci-fi, we?re sure you?ll find the following list of the 101 greatest romantic movies ever speaks to your own heart as well. Written by Cath Clarke, Dave Calhoun, Tom Huddleston, Catherine Bray, Trevor Johnston, Andy P Kryza, Guy Lodge, Phil de Semlyen, Alim Kheraj & Matthew Singer Last Updated: January 18, 2024
Caim�n's Top Spanish Films
This is a list compiled as a result of a poll by Caim�n Cuadernos de Cinema magazine, which is the Spanish branch of Cahiers du Cin�ma. 350 experts were consulted: journalists, film critics, historians, professors, intellectuals, festival managers... People involved in the creative process were left out. According to the magazine, this way provides an external approach, a more objective one.
KOFA's 100 Korean Films
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Korean Film Archive (KOFA), we are delighted to announce the '100 Korean Films.' This list, compiled by 240 experts including film researchers, critics, filmmakers, and industry professionals, is the third edition, following the 2006 and 2014 surveys. These editions allow us to trace the evolution of Korean cinema over the years. Particularly, they provide insights into the perspectives of film industry professionals who are at the forefront of advancing Korean cinema. A comprehensive survey was conducted for a three-month period from June 1 to August 31, 2023, encompassing a total of 100 Korean feature films. These films, spanning various genres such as fiction, documentary, animation, and experimental, were released through theaters, online platforms, and film festivals. The scope of the survey ranges from Turning Point of the Youngsters (dir. Ahn Jong-hwa, 1934) ? the oldest surviving Korean fictional film ? to those released up until December 31, 2022. To ensure that the survey results accurately reflect the perspectives of both viewers and industry professionals(makers), we are publishing two separate top 10 lists. The first list is compiled by 171 individuals who primarily 'watch' films, including researchers, critics, and film festival programmers. The second list is selected by those who 'make' films, encompassing directors, cinematographers, producers, as well as distribution and theater staff. We hope that this list of 100 Korean Films will serve as a valuable resource for Korean film enthusiasts, offering insights into the evolving trends in Korean cinema and reflecting the dynamic changes in the film industry of Korean society. Finally, 100 masterpieces were selected. We announce the top 10 lists and release other films in chronological order. - - - - - In 2013, the Korean Film Archive asked 62 film scholars, professors, critics and curators to vote for the top 100 Korean films. The top 12 is ranked and the rest is in chronological order. 3 films tied for 1st place. KOFA previously made a list of the .
Outlook India's Best Bollywood Films
In May 2003, Outlook India magazine asked 25 leading Indian film directors to draw up their personal lists of the 10 best Hindi films of independent India. This list is the result of that query.
P�blico's Top Portuguese Films to Show in Schools
10 important Portuguese personalities chose their top 10 Portuguese films to be shown in schools. Among them were directors, poets, writers, a philosopher, an art curator, an architect and a film critic. The lists were published by the newspaper P�blico in April 2012. Here are all films nominated from Portugal, ordered by number of nominations (and alphabetically). 1 = 8 votes; 2 and 3 = 6 votes; 4 and 5 = 4 votes; 6-10 = 3 votes; 11-18 = 2 votes; 19-58 = 1 vote.
C�sar Award - Best French Film
The C�sar Award is the national film award of France, first given out in 1975. The nominations are selected by the members of the Acad�mie des Arts et Techniques du Cin�ma. The name of the award comes from the sculptor C�sar Baldaccini. They are considered to be the French equivalent of the American Academy Awards.
BIFF's Asian Cinema 100
In 2015, the late Kim Jiseok, the former Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) program director, planned the Asian Cinema 100 for the 20th BIFF edition. For the program, he requested film professionals around the world to recommend 10 of the best Asian films for inclusion in the top 100 list; a list which would be updated every five years. BIFF prepared the first update in 2020 that reflected the opinions of 140 film professionals throughout the world. 2025 Update: Asian Cinema 100 is a representative initiative that revisits the history of Asian cinema and systematically highlights its cinematic legacy. Based on surveys conducted with filmmakers, critics, and scholars worldwide, it offers a broad perspective on the aesthetics and historical development of Asian cinema. In this year?s survey, 161 participants from 34 countries?including directors, producers, actors, critics, researchers, and film festival programmers?took part, resulting in the selection of 118 films (including tied titles). Note: one entry is for 7 films in the "Narita Series"
Bodil Award - Best Danish Film
All the films that have won the Danish Bodil Award for Best Danish Film. The Bodil award, established in 1948, is the oldest Danish film award. The awards is named after two prominent women in Danish film, Bodil Ipsen and Bodil Kjer.
Time Out's The 101 Best Action Movies Ever Made
Everyone loves a good action movie, even if some won?t admit it. Film school snobs may pretend to turn up their noses, but no matter how cultured you?d like to think you are, there?s a part of your lizard brain that loves explosions and shootouts and badass one-liners ? and it needs to be satisfied. But action flicks needn?t be dumb, loud or graphic to succeed. Some find beauty in orchestrated violence. Others might crane-kick you right in the heart. Some even have ? gasp! ? character development. And so, to help put together this definitive list of the greatest action movies ever made, we reached out to some of the people who understand the action genre better than anyone, from Die Hard director John McTiernan to Machete himself, Danny Trejo. Pull the pin, light the fuse and batten down the hatches ? these are the most pulse-pounding, edge-of-your-seat thrill rides ever put to film. Written by Eddy Frankel, Eddy Frankel, Yu An Su, Joshua Rothkopf, Trevor Johnston, Ashley Clark, Grady Hendrix, Tom Huddleston, Keith Uhlich, Dave Calhoun, Phil de Semlyen, Dave Calhoun and Matthew Singer The list has 102 titles because Kill Bill was counted as one entry. Last Updated: Friday 13 September 2024 Modnote about list order: When Timeout changed the web formatting of the list from its previous pagination the ordering of each group of 10 got reversed, so we kept the list in it's original correct ordering. However, since then, subsequent updates have used the new order consistently, so we've followed suit in order to match the source.
DIFF's The 100 Greatest Arab Films
In 2013, the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) invited 475 film critics, writers, novelists, academics, and other arts professionals to select the 10 most important films in the history of Arab cinema. They compiled the results into a top 100, which they published in a book, "Cinema of Passion." The book includes analysis of each film in both English and Arabic, written by 20 film critics. All of the films on this list received at least 9 votes. The most-represented countries are Egypt, Morocco, Syria, Algeria, and Tunisia. See for the vote counts, top directors, and top films for each country.
H�rriyet's The 100 Best Movies of Turkish Cinema
In 2017, Hurriyet asked 100 directors, actors, produces, and film writers to vote for the 100 best Turkish films. See for the ballots. There are 102 titles because Gelin/Dugun/Diyet are listed as 1 entry.
Paste's The 100 Best Romantic Comedies of All Time
As a genre, the romantic comedy has had pretty sharply defined highs (the 1940s and 1980s) and lows (1990s-2000s) based on viewer appetite and studio competence, but thanks to this thing we call ?the human condition,? hope-laden fables showing how two people can, indeed, find and cherish one another despite all obstacles will never stay out of fashion long?no matter how soulless and cynical the industry. Whether because we are young and na�ve, not-so-young and searching, or old and grumpy with a soft spot (or wistful memory), there?s always an appetite for fascinating meet-cutes, resolved comedies of errors and melted gruff exteriors. So no matter your particular poison when it comes to scripted takes on love and relationships, let Paste?s list of the 100 Best Romantic Comedies of All Time provide you just what the doctor ordered. List published April 2013. Updated and expanded in October 2018, updated Feb 2022.
David di Donatello - Best Italian Film
The David di Donatello is an award presented every year by the Academy of Italian Cinema (ACI). This is a list of all the movies that have won the "Best Film" award so far, which is given only to Italian movies since 1970. The list is in chronological order.
Guldbagge Award - Best Swedish Film
The Guldbagge Award is an official Swedish film award awarded annually since 1964 by the Swedish Film Institute. The award name could roughly be translated into Golden Beetle or Golden Scarab.
Magyar M?v�szeti Akad�mia's 53 Hungarian Films
The 53 Magyar Film is a list compiled in 2012 by Magyar M?v�szeti Akad�mia (The Hungarian Academy of Arts) of feature length Hungarian narrative films. The voting led by Sandor Sara yielded a list of 53 films between the years ranging from the first Hungarian film in 1931 up to 1994.
Muzeum Kinematografii w ?odzi's Best Polish Films
In 2015, the Museum of Cinematography in ?�d? asked 279 film professionals to vote for the best Polish films of all time. The top 65 films are ranked, all with 12 votes or more. The next 40 films are unranked, with 6-11 votes. The ballots are available on the .
Pixar Directors Recommend: Films for Kids Under 13
"You?re stuck inside, saving the world. So we asked a group of award-winning Pixar filmmakers to help self-isolating families plan the very best movie nights (and days, and nights, and days?). We asked a group of the renowned studio?s directors and story artists?the people behind WALL�E, Finding Nemo, Inside Out, Bao, La Luna, The Good Dinosaur, Purl, Cars 3, Toy Story 4 and more?to show up in your hour of need, and show up they have, with personal recommendations that we?ve split into three Letterboxd lists: All Ages, 7 to 12 Years and 12 Years and Over. From two-minute shorts to the entire Harry Potter collection, there?s something for every viewing window. From Charlie Chaplin to Greta Gerwig, the films cover a century of cinema; and from slapstick to horror, a multitude of genres. Our filmmakers were remarkably restrained, nominating more Studio Ghibli films than Pixar movies, though they collectively agreed that Toy Story should most definitely be there. So we?ll say it for them: please explore all the films of our contributing filmmakers: Angus MacLane, Domee Shi, Kristen Lester, Daniel Chong, Peter Sohn, Valerie LaPointe, Brian Fee, Enrico Casarosa and Andrew Stanton. Thanks, you wonderful people." This list combines the first two lists that Letterboxd created with the Pixar directors, to present a selection of films suitable to watch with children under the age of 13. Some film series explicitly include all films in the series, even though only the first film is included in the Letterboxd lists (see their notes for more information): Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, and Harry Potter. Individual lists on iCM
Time Out?s The 100 Best Thrillers
Everyone has their favourite genre but we can surely all agree that thrillers are the best. And if you don?t believe us, there?s a suspicious figure in that darkened doorway who?d like a word. From the early classics, like Alfred Hitchcock?s The Lodger or Fritz Lang?s M, to the films of David Fincher and Martin Scorsese, they?re rich in nerve-shredding, adrenaline-pumping rides into the darker recesses of the psyche. Thrillers show us horrors and weave in human dramas, but they use those raw materials to forge something particular: a sense of unease and suspense. With masterful control of those elements, Hitchcock could manipulate his audiences like puppets on a string, delivering shocks that reverberate through cinema history. Fincher?s Seven and Zodiac have carried on the legacy, while films like Pig, Nightmare Alley and The Card Counter show that the thriller is the genre for all eras. Even superhero flicks, like Captain America: Civil War and The Batman, have been borrowing liberally from the crime thriller. It is, unlike many of its ill-fated characters, alive and well. But what are the very best of them? As we?ve done with science fiction, horror films, romances, comedies, westerns and war films, we?ve dusted cinema for prints and taken a magnifying glass to its finest thrillers to boil them down to a tonne of all-timers. On the list? Murder, political intrigue, espionage, conspiracy, manipulation, gaslighting and, of course, crime. Lots of crime. Enjoy ? and hold on tight. Written by Abbey Bender, Joshua Rothkopf, Phil de Semlyen, Tom Huddleston, Andy Kryza & Tomris Laffly List created in June 2018 (updated June 2021) Last Updated: March 23, 2022
Asociatia Criticilor de Film's Best Romanian Films
In 2008, the Romanian Film Critics Association asked 40 critics, film historians, and journalists to vote for the best Romanian films. Each voter submitted a list of 10 films. This is a list of films that received at least 1 vote.
Amanda Award - Best Norwegian Film
The Norwegian film award
Locarno Film Festival - Golden Leopard
The Golden Leopard is the top prize at the Locarno International Film Festival, held annually in Locarno, Switzerland since 1946. Directors in the process of getting an international reputation are allowed to be entered in the competitive selection. The winning films are chosen by a jury. The award went under many names until it was named the Golden Leopard in 1968.
TIFF - People's Choice Award
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is the leading public film festival in the world, bringing the power of film to life each September. Starting out in 1976 as a collection of films from other festivals - a "festival of festivals" - the Toronto International Film Festival has become one of the most beloved cinematic events in the world, universally regarded as an ideal platform for filmmakers to launch their careers and to premiere their new work. It has been described as "the most important film festival in the world - the largest, the most influential, the most inclusive." * The major prize, the People's Choice Award, is given to a feature-length film with the highest ratings as voted by the TIFF-going populace. * Liam Lacey, The Globe and Mail, September 3, 2005.
Cine.gr's The Best of Greek Cinema
In 2011, 6 cine.gr editors published their , followed by a list of the top 60 Greek films (not compiled from the 6 lists but a separate list). This is the top 60 list. The list was published in 3 parts: , , .
CineChile's 50 Best Chilean Movies of All Time
Voted by more than 70 directors, actors, programmers, scholars, journalists and critics for CineChile website.
Yle News's Best Finnish Films
In 2012, YLE News asked 48 critics, journalists, and bloggers to vote for the best Finnish films of all time. This list includes all films that received at least 1 vote. See the for the vote counts.
Cinema Tropical's Best Latin American Films 2010-2019
Cinema Tropical, the leading presenter of Latin American cinema in the U.S., has compiled a list of the Top Ten Latin American Films of the Decade (2010-2019), based on a poll of 97 international film festival and cinemath�que programmers. In total, 229 films representing 17 Latin American countries were nominated for the distinction of being Best of the Decade, demonstrating the high quality and diversity of films from the region.
Ariel Award - Best Mexican Film
The Ariel is the Mexican Academy of Film Award. It has been awarded annually since 1947. The award recognizes excellence in motion picture making, such as acting, directing and screenwriting in Mexican cinema. It is considered the most prestigious award in the Mexican movie industry. The name "Ariel" was inspired by a series of short writings called El Ariel by Uruguayan writer Jos� Enrique Rod� that inspired generations of young Latin Americans in the first decades of the 20th century.
Lola Award - Best German Film
The winners for best picture category of the German national film award. In the years 1963 and 1970 the prize was shared between two winners, in 1987 and 1993 even between three.
FESPACO Film Festival - �talon de Yennenga
Started in 1969 to celebrate the burgeoning cinema of the African continent, the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) is a biannual festival for African films. They began awarding the "�talon de Yennenga" (Stallion of Yennenga) as the festival's top film prize in 1972.
Belgian Film Award - Best Film
These are the awards being given to the best Belgian films since 1987. From 1987 till 2005 this award was called the Joseph Plateauprijs. In 2005 the last award was given and there were no Belgian films awarded until 2010 (for Flemish movies the "Vlaamse Filmprijs", also called the 'Ensors') and 2011 (for Walloon movies the "Magritte du Cin�ma").
Gouden Kalf Award - Best Dutch Film
The Golden Calf (Gouden Kalf) is the grand prize of the Dutch Film Festival (Nederlands Film Festival), similar to Berlin's Golden Bear and Venice's Golden Lion. Ever since 1981, this price has been anually bestowed on Dutch film-makers, scenario writers, producers, actors and actrices. A selection of candidates is made by the festival staff and a pre-jury, after which an independent jury selects the winners.
Pinoy Rebyu's 100 Greatest Pinoy Films of All Time
In 2013, Filipino film blog invited around 200 film directors, screenwriters, critics, scholars, programmers, and archivists to send in a top 10 of their favourite Pinoy films. They received 81 ballots. This top 100, published in 2015, is an expanded version of the original top 50 they published in 2013. [quote]When we conducted our 2013 poll for the Greatest Pinoy Films of All Time, 81 respondents (critics, filmmakers, archivists, academics, etc.) provided us with a total of 204 films, ranging from obscure gems like Kidlat Tahimik?s Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons to the unabashedly campy No Other Woman. We decided then to limit the list to 50 because we had a lot of ties, and it seemed unwieldy to publish a top 100 list with so many ties. That was before we discovered a sensible method to break ties based on which of the tied films are ranked higher by their respective voters. We have since used that method to rank the 100 Best Performances of the Half-Decade. It?s a pretty boring task to detail the equation we used (you can message us if you want to know how we did it) so let us get on with the more exciting job of revealing which films are the 50 next best.[/quote]
Academy Award - Best Documentary
All winners in the Best Documentary Feature category. The first year it was awarded, 1942, it was given to four films and half of those were shorts - so only the two feature-lengths are included here. In 1946 there was no award in the category.
366 Weird Movies - Apocryphally Weird
The List of 366 is complete. Let?s start another list of 366 alternates, a mix of runners-up and movies that debuted too late for consideration in the . We?re calling this supplemental list ?Apocrypha,? and 366 Weird Movies site users helped pick the first few films to make the list. Let?s go for another 366! [i]The Happiness of the Katakuris[/i] received the highest number of total votes in 366 Weird Movies first Apocryphally Weird movie poll, making it arguably the most popular weird movie left off the 366 Weird Movies canon. The movie?s inclusion on the secondary list of Apocrypha titles was assured, and it?s a highly appropriate choice for the inaugural title in our runners-up category.
Annecy Festival - Cristal du court m�trage
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival (French: Festival international du film d'animation d'Annecy, officially abbreviated in English as the Annecy Festival, or simply Annecy) was created in 1960 and takes place at the beginning of June in the town of Annecy, France. Initially occurring every two years, the festival became an annual event in 1998. This prize was originally named the Grand Prix. In 1987 it was renamed the Grand Prix du court m�trage to differentiate it from the feature film prize. In 2003 it took its current name, the Annecy Crystal (le Cristal d'Annecy). The Cristal du court m�trage (Cristal for a Short Film) has been given out since the first festival in 1960.
Sector Cine's Best Mexican Films of All Time
In 2020 and inspired by Somos' original Top 100 Mexican movies list from 1994, digital magazine Sector Cine asked 35 experts to submit their ranked lists of 25 best Mexican films. 27 of them responded to the request, which resulted in this list.
Canadian Screen Award - Best Film
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Motion Picture to the best Canadian film of the year. The award was first presented in 1949 by the Canadian Film Awards under the title Film of the Year. Due to the economics of Canadian film production, however, most Canadian films made in this era were documentaries or short films rather than full-length narrative feature films. In some years, a Film of the Year award was not formally presented, with the highest film award presented that year being in the Theatrical Short or Amateur Film categories. In 1964, the Canadian Film Awards introduced an award for Best Feature Film. For the remainder of the 1960s, the two awards were presented alongside each other to different films, except in 1965 when a Feature Film was named and a Film of the Year was not, and in 1967 when the same film was named the winner of both categories. After 1970, however, the Film of the Year category was no longer used except in 1975, when due to the cancellation of the awards in 1974, it was presented alongside the Feature Film category as a de facto second Best Picture award, so that winners for both 1974 and 1975 could be named. As of 1980, the award was taken over by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television and presented as part of the Genie Awards ceremony; as of 2013, it is presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards. Film of the Year: 1-9, 12, 14*-15, 17-18, 23-24* Best Feature Film: 10-11, 13-14*, 16, 19-22, 24*-27 Best Motion Picture (Genie): 28-59 Best Motion Picture (CSA): 60-onward [b]Warrendale[/b] & [b]Les ordres[/b] won both Film of the Year and Best Feature Film. N.B. At the 21st awards, no Feature Film Award was given out, but was awarded Best Film Over 30 Minutes, so it's sometimes considered to have won. It appeared in this list before it was adopted, but we've left it off the list since it's not included in the source.
SonntagsZeitung's The 100 Best Swiss Films
Since 2001, the "SonntagsZeitung" has had a jury of experts select the 100 best Swiss films every five years. For this fourth edition, 36 film professionals (critics, festival directors, scientists) chose their absolute favorite from a list of 200 films and rated the remaining films accordingly. The entire range of Swiss films was available for selection. The most recent poll was held in 2016.
C�ndor de Plata Award - Best Argentinian Film
The Asociaci�n de Cronistas Cinematogr�ficos de la Argentina is an organization of Argentine-based journalists and correspondents. The association presents the Premios C�ndor de Plata honoring achievements in Argentine cinema. The awards are considered Argentina's equivalent of the Academy Awards.
Empire Russia's 100 Best Russian Films: Readers' Choice
In 2008, Empire Russia asked its readers to vote for the best Russian films. See also:
Maariv's Best Israeli Films of All Time
In 2013 the Hebrew language newspaper Maariv asked 20 critics and filmmakers which Israeli films they thought the best, the result of which is this list of 40 films.
Encuesta de cine argentino's Top Argentinian Films
National poll conducted by Taipei, La vida �til, and La tierra quema film magazines, building on the previous polls conducted by by the Museo del Cine in 1977 and 2000. There were 812 films nominated by 546 participants. The Top 103 films all received at least 11 points. Lists were limited to 10 films and considered unranked. , including all ballots.
The Athletic's Top 100 Sports Movies
Published March 30, 2020. When you grow up a sports fan, transferring that fandom from the backyard Wiffle ball game to the big screen at the local theater is a natural transition. We fall in love with movies that reflect our life experiences. We see our best friends in ?The Sandlot.? Or quote ?Happy Gilmore? relentlessly in the dorms. It?s why one person can find a movie like ?Field of Dreams? completely hokey while another turns to mush the moment Ray Kinsella?s dad pulls off his catcher?s mask and places it over his heart. We know what?s coming next. It means our opinions of these movies vary wildly. Especially when you work at a media company with 400-plus employees who are all sports diehards. And opinionated. So in trying to determine the Top 100 Sports movies of all time, we decided to make the process as democratic as possible. That meant a lot of rules, processes and restrictions. First, we asked everyone on staff to nominate their favorite sports movies. This list quickly got unwieldy. Within days, it was 300 movies deep. It included movies people desperately wanted on the ballot where the only sport was, say, guys in jeans playing beach volleyball. Even with extra time on our hands, we didn?t want people rating 500 movies. So we made some rules. To be considered, a movie had to be released in theaters at some point. That removed some really good television-only sports movies. (We?re looking at you ?? and ??.) For documentaries to make the final ballot, the doc had to be released in theaters (no TV docs) and be at least nominated for an Oscar; or added to the Library of Congress? National Film Registry; or make at least $1M at the box office; or be culturally significant. Finally, with a small panel of movie enthusiasts, we culled the list to make individual calls on borderline sports movies. Is ?The Big Lebowski? really a sports movie? When things got tough, they went bowling. So we think it is. But there?s a good debate to be had about many others. Next, we asked everyone to rate as many movies as they?ve seen on a scale of 1-100, with 100 being best. You could give Rocky a 100 as well as Space Jam, if you so pleased. And why wouldn?t you? In all, more than 120 panelists from The Athletic voted. The ratings were averaged out and sorted into the Top 100 below. To qualify for the final list, a movie needed at least 10 ratings from panelists. We hope it gives some entertainment inspiration for any extra spare time you might have. And it?s just the start. All week, we?re rolling out sports movie-themed stories. From a technical breakdown of Adam Sandler?s tackling skills in ?The Waterboy? to an oral history of the best dog basketball movie ever made. It?s going to be fun. We hope you enjoy. Grab your popcorn. Here goes.
iCheckMovies's Most Checked
The most checked movies on the iCheckMovies.com website.
IMDb's Sci-Fi Top 50
Sci-fi films are often quasi-scientific, visionary and imaginative - complete with heroes, aliens, distant planets, impossible quests, improbable settings, fantastic places, great dark and shadowy villains, futuristic technology, unknown and unknowable forces, and extraordinary monsters. Science fiction often expresses the potential of technology to destroy humankind and easily overlaps with horror films, particularly when technology or alien life forms become malevolent, as in the "Atomic Age" of sci-fi films in the 1950s.
IMDb's Film-Noir Top 50
Film noir ('black film') is a branch of the crime/gangster sagas from the 1930s. Strictly speaking, film noir is not a genre, but rather the mood, style or tone of various American films that evolved between the 1940s and 1960s. However, film noir has re-occurred in cyclical form in other years in various neo-noirs. Noirs are usually black and white films with primary moods of melancholy, alienation, bleakness, disillusionment, disenchantment, pessimism, ambiguity, moral corruption, evil, guilt and paranoia. They often feature a cynical, loner hero (anti-hero) and femme fatale, in a seedy big city.
Total Sci-Fi's The 100 Greatest Sci-Fi Movies
This list is the result of heated debate/scuffles between the frazzled writers of Total Sci-Fi. In addition to settling on the titles themselves, they also had to set the limits of what counts as a 'sci-fi film': they decided that superhero movies were out as that's a distinct genre all of its own, but comedies like Sleeper and Galaxy Quest possess enough genuine science fiction concepts to warrant inclusion, leading to this list of the 100 best Sci-Fi movies of all-time.
IMDb's Fantasy Top 50
Fantasy films, usually considered a sub-genre, are most likely to overlap with the film genres of science fiction and horror, although they are distinct. Fantasies take the audience to netherworld places (or another dimension) where events are unlikely to occur in real life - they transcend the bounds of human possibility and physical laws. They often have an element of magic, myth, wonder, and the extraordinary.
IMDb's Thriller Top 50
Thrillers are often hybrids with other genres - there are action-thrillers, western-thrillers, film-noir thrillers, even romantic comedy-thrillers. Another closely-related genre is the horror film genre. Thriller and suspense films are virtually synonymous and interchangeable categorizations. They are types of films known to promote intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-wracking tension. The acclaimed Master of Suspense is Alfred Hitchcock. Spy films may be considered a type of thriller/suspense film.
IMDb's Action Top 50
Action films usually include high energy, big-budget physical stunts and chases, possibly with rescues, battles, fights, escapes, destructive crises, non-stop motion, spectacular rhythm and pacing, and adventurous, often two-dimensional 'good-guy' heroes battling 'bad guys' - all designed for pure audience escapism. Includes the James Bond 'fantasy' spy/espionage series, martial arts films, and so-called 'blaxploitation' films. A major sub-genre is the disaster film.
IMDb's Independent Top 50
Independent is not a strict genre category, but is rather a grouping of films that are financed outside the regular channels of big production companies. Not being tied to those production companies, independent films often dare to tread outside the more familiar paths used by those companies.
IMDb's Drama Top 50
Dramas are serious, plot-driven presentations, portraying realistic characters, settings, life situations, and stories involving intense character development and interaction. Usually, they are not focused on special-effects, comedy, or action, Dramatic films are probably the largest film genre, with many subsets. See also the melodramas, epics (historical dramas), or romantic genres. Dramatic biographical films (or "biopics") are a major sub-genre, as are 'adult' films (with mature subject content).
IMDb's Horror Top 50
Horror films are designed to frighten and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic experience. Horror films feature a wide range of styles, from the earliest silent Nosferatu classic, to today's CGI monsters and deranged humans. They are often combined with science fiction when the menace or monster is related to a corruption of technology, or when Earth is threatened by aliens. There are many sub-genres of horror: slasher, teen terror, serial killers, satanic, Dracula, Frankenstein, etc.
IMDb's Shorts Top 50
Any title, specifically a "feature", with a running time of less than 45 minutes ie. 44 minutes or less. As such, shorts is not a genre category but a collection of films with a maximum specific length. Therefore, a short can be of any genre, although animation is one of the most prevalent.
IMDb's 1980s Top 50
The decade of the 1980s tended to consolidate the gains made in the seventies rather than to initiate any new trends. Designed and packaged for mass audience appeal, few 80s films became what could be called 'classics'. The era was characterized by the introduction of 'high-concept' films - with cinematic plots that could be easily characterized by one or two sentences (25 words or less) - and therefore easily marketable and understandable. The 80s also were the decade in which the sequel-mania really took off, which often resulted in hastily-made, inferior knockoffs made by lesser film-makers.
IMDb's Adventure Top 50
Adventure films are usually exciting stories, with new experiences or exotic locales, very similar to or often paired with the action film genre. They can include traditional swashbucklers, serialized films, and historical spectacles (similar to the epics film genre), searches or expeditions for lost continents, "jungle" and "desert" epics, treasure hunts, disaster films, or searches for the unknown.
IMDb's Crime Top 50
Crime (gangster) films are developed around the sinister actions of criminals or mobsters, particularly bankrobbers, underworld figures, or ruthless hoodlums who operate outside the law, stealing and murdering their way through life. Criminal and gangster films are often categorized as film noir or detective-mystery films - because of underlying similarities between these cinematic forms. This category includes a description of various 'serial killer' films.
IMDb's Mystery Top 50
Detective-mystery films are usually considered a sub-type or sub-genre of crime/gangster films (or film noir), or suspense or thriller films that focus on the unsolved crime (usually the murder or disappearance of one or more of the characters, or a theft), and on the central character - the hard-boiled detective-hero, as he/she meets various adventures and challenges in the cold and methodical pursuit of the criminal or the solution to the crime.
IMDb's Comedy Top 50
Comedies are light-hearted plots consistently and deliberately designed to amuse and provoke laughter (with one-liners, jokes, etc.) by exaggerating the situation, the language, action, relationships and characters. This section describes various forms of comedy through cinematic history, including slapstick, screwball, spoofs and parodies, romantic comedies, black comedy (dark satirical comedy), and more.
IMDb's 1970s Top 50
Although the 1970s opened with Hollywood experiencing a financial and artistic depression, the decade became a creative high point in the US film industry. Restrictions on language, adult content and sexuality, and violence had loosened up, and these elements became more widespread. The counter-culture of the time had influenced Hollywood to be freer, to take more risks and to experiment with alternative, young film makers (nicknamed "Movie Brats"), as old Hollywood professionals and old-style moguls died out and a new generation of film makers arose and caused Hollywood to be renewed and reborn.
Amos Vogel's Film as a Subversive Art
"Film as a Subversive Art was first published in 1974. According to Vogel--founder of Cinema 16, North America's legendary film society--the book details the "accelerating worldwide trend toward a more liberated cinema, in which subjects and forms hitherto considered unthinkable or forbidden are boldly explored." So ahead of his time was Vogel that the ideas that he penned some 30 years ago are still relevant today, and readily accessible in this classic volume. Accompanied by over 300 rare film stills, Film as a Subversive Art analyzes how aesthetic, sexual, and ideological subversives use one of the most powerful art forms of our day to exchange or manipulate our conscious and unconscious, demystify visual taboos, destroy dated cinematic forms, and undermine existing value systems and institutions." This list contains all movies in the revised version from 2021. Included in this list are movies: 1. with dedicated texts. 2. shown in movie stills. 3. mentioned otherwise as an example of subversive cinema in the context of the text it is mentioned in. Excluded from this list are movies that are mentioned in any other way than an example of subversive cinema. The movies are sorted by appearance in the book. Some movies appear multiple times. In that case, the preferred position is the dedicated text, then a movie still and lastly a mention. The book is divided into parts: Introduction (#1 - #20) Part 1 - Weapons of Subversion: The Subversion of Form (#21 - #170) Part 2 - Weapons of Subversion: The Subversion of Content (#171 - #355) Part 3 - Weapons of Subversion: Forbidden Subjects of the Cinema (#356 - #572) Part 4 - Towards a New Consciousness (#573 - #598) #599 is the back cover.
IMDb's Western Top 50
Westerns are the major defining genre of the American film industry - a eulogy to the early days of the expansive American frontier. They are one of the oldest, most enduring genres with very recognizable plots, elements, and characters (six-guns, horses, dusty towns and trails, cowboys, Indians, etc.). Over time, westerns have been re-defined, re-invented and expanded, dismissed, re-discovered, and spoofed.
Akira Kurosawa's A Dream Is a Genius
"From Chapter 3 of A Dream is a Genius, 1999. Akira Kurosawa discusses his top 100 films with his daughter, Kazuo. Kurosawa limits his choices to one film per director."
TSPDT's Brief Encounters
This list is a ranked list of the top 250 shorts as compiled by the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They website as a companion to their Top 1000 films. This follows a project originally started and abandoned in 2009 to do the same, the preliminary list for which was the original source of this list. Source (dead link)
IMDb's War Top 50
War films acknowledge the horror and heartbreak of war, letting the actual combat fighting (against nations or humankind) on land, sea, or in the air provide the primary plot or background for the action of the film. War films are often paired with other genres, such as action, adventure, drama, romance, comedy (black), suspense, and even epics and westerns, and they often take a denunciatory approach toward warfare. They may include POW tales, stories of military operations, and training.
IMDb's Family Top 50
These are non-offensive, wholesome, and entertaining films that do not include topics or scenes with violence, foul language and other profanity, religious issues, gratuitous sexuality and so on, and are specifically designed for children 12 and under (or for family viewing). Children's and family-oriented films may actually be suitable for all age groups, and cover a wide range of genre categories (comedy, adventure, fantasy, musicals, etc.).
IMDb's Documentary Top 50
Strictly speaking, documentary films are non-fictional, factual works of art. Originally, the earliest documentaries were either short newsreels, instructional pictures, or travelogues (termed actualities) without any creative story-telling or staging. But they have branched out and taken many forms, and have sometimes become propagandistic and non-objective. Mockumentaries are comedic parodies of documentaries. Some documentaries have been considered propagandistic.
IMDb's History Top 50
A genre of film that deals with a major historical event and the actual historical figures involved in it. Often great liberties are taken with the facts to facilitate a 2-hour running time or a particular political agenda. These films pay a great deal of attention to re-creating events that live mostly in our memories or in textbooks. Earlier historical films tended to concentrate on eras and political figures who were far from the present and put little emphasis on undermining the accepted mythologies of history. Some films dealing with historical past would fall into some other genres and types: westerns, musicals, fantasy, war dramas, biographies, etc.
IMDb's Musical Top 50
Musical/dance films are cinematic forms that emphasize full-scale scores or song and dance routines in a significant way (usually with a musical or dance performance integrated as part of the film narrative), or they are films that are centered on combinations of music, dance, song or choreography. Major subgenres include the musical comedy or the concert film.
IMDb's 1940s Top 50
The early years of the 40s decade were not promising for the American film industry, however, Hollywood film production rebounded and reached its profitable peak of efficiency during the years 1943 to 1946. Advances in film technology (sound recording, lighting, special effects, cinematography and use of color) meant that films were more watchable and 'modern'. The films themselves took on a more realistic rather than escapist tone, as they had done during the Depression years of the 30s. The 40s also were the decade that saw the birth of a new genre in film noir ("black film") pared with the revival of gangster films.
IMDb's Romance Top 50
A sub-genre for the most part, this category shares some features with romantic dramas, romantic comedies, and sexual/erotic films. These are love stories, or affairs of the heart that center on passion, emotion, and the romantic, affectionate involvement of the main characters (usually a leading man and lady), and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage. Romance films make the love story the main plot focus.
IMDb's 1960s Top 50
Cinema in the 1960s reflected the decade of fun, fashion, rock 'n' roll, tremendous social changes and transitional cultural values. It was not a good decade for US films, as production declined and foreign films gained tremenduous influence. British cinema in particular flourished as it released a number of films that used a new wave of grim, non-fictional, social realism, dubbed or styled "Kitchen Sink" due to its angry, every-day working-class heroes, frank dialogue, and negative post-war themes. However, countries like Japan, Italy and France also claimed their spots in the forefront of cinema.
IMDb's Biography Top 50
Biopics' is a term derived from the combination of the words "biography" and "pictures." They are a sub-genre of the larger drama and epic film genres, and although they reached a hey-day of popularity in the 1930s, they are still prominent to this day. These films depict the life of an important historical personage (or group) from the past or present era. Biopics cross many genre types, since these films might showcase a western outlaw, a criminal, a musical composer, a religious figure, a war-time hero, an entertainer, an artist, an inventor or doctor, a politician or President, or an adventurer.
IMDb's 1930s Top 50
The 1930s decade has been nostalgically labeled "The Golden Age of Hollywood" (although most of the output of the decade was black-and-white). The 30s was also the decade of the sound and color revolutions and the advance of the 'talkies', and the further development of film genres (gangster films, musicals, newspaper-reporting films, historical biopics, social-realism films, lighthearted screwball comedies, westerns and horror to name a few). It was the era in which the silent period ended, with many silent film stars not making the transition to sound. It was in the 30s that Disney produced the first feature-length animated film, an animation hallmark.
IMDb's 1950s Top 50
In the period following WWII when most of the films were idealized with conventional portrayals of men and women, young people wanted new and exciting symbols of rebellion. Hollywood responded to audience demands through the rise of the anti-hero and anti-heroines, with Marlon Brando, James Dean and Marilyn Monroe being the main stars. Studios tried to counter the rise of television through all sorts of (mostly failed) inventions like 3-D, Smell-O-Vision, and cinerama. Risks were taken with lavish, overstated, spectacular epics and musicals.
IMDb's 1920s Top 50
The 1920s were an innovative decade in which both "talkies" and color films made their first appearance. Film became so popular that the first real stars arose in the persons of Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. A lot of European stars were imported during the 20s, such as Fritz Lang and Greta Garbo. That was not all Europe had to offer as German Expressionism became an influential artistic movement. The most popular genres were swashbucklers, historical extravaganzas and melodramas. The greatest output of films was actually in the 1920s and 1930s, which was made possible by the studios' factory-like production system.
BFI's 360 Classic Feature Films Project
Deciding that Londoners should have the opportunity to view a film masterpiece approximately every day during the course of the year, BFI film archivist David Meeker approached the board of directors at the BFI in 1982 with his idea of compiling a list of 360 of the world?s cinema masterpieces, collect brand new, state-of-the-art prints of each film and issue a companion book for each movie. This list of films, referred to as the 360 Classic Feature Films project, was published in Sight and Sound's June 1998 issue.
Total Film's 50 Amazing Films You've Probably Never Seen
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Paul Rotha's Silent but Not Forgotten
From a poll of 63 critics and film experts conducted in the 1970s by film critic and director Paul Rotha, each asked for a list of their 30 top silent films. This makes for a list of the Top 338 Silent Films. Ties are sorted by imdb original title. Several movies are considered lost: Th�r�se Raquin Die Abenteuer eines Zehnmarkscheines The Last Moment 4 Devils
IMDb's Music Top 50
Music films contain music performances by the cast, but necessarily not with a focus on a full-scale scores or song and dance routines (for which the musical genre exists). A music film may even be a concert recording.
IMDb's Sport Top 50
Films that have a sports setting (football or baseball stadium, arena, or the Olympics, etc.), event (the 'big game,' 'fight,' 'race,' or 'competition'), and/or athlete (boxer, racer, surfer, etc.) that are central and predominant in the story. Sports films may be fictional or non-fictional; and they are a hybrid sub-genre category, although they are often dramas or comedy films, and occasionally documentaries or biopics.
IMDb's Mini-Series Top 50
The term "miniseries" is used to refer to a single finite story told in separately broadcast episodes. Before the term was coined, such a form was always called a "serial", in the same way that a novel appearing in episodes in successive editions of magazines or newspapers is called a serial.
BFI's 100 Cult Films
"?Some films should never have been made. They are too unsettling, too dangerous, too challenging, too outrageous and even too badly made to be let loose on unsuspecting audiences. Yet these films, from the shocking Cannibal Holocaust to the apocalyptic Donnie Darko, from the destructive Tetsuo to the awfully bad The Room, from the hilarious This Is Sp?�nal Tap to the campy Showgirls, from the asylum of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari to the circus of Freaks, from the gangs of The Warriors to the gangsters of In Bruges and from the flamboyant Rocky Horror Picture Show to the ultimate cool of The Big Lebowski, have all garnered passionate fan followings. Cult cinema has made tragic misfits, monsters and cyborgs, such as Edward Scissorhands or Blade Runner's replicants, heroes of our times. 100 Cult Films explains why these figures continue to inspire fans around the globe. Cult film experts Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik round up the most cultish of giallo, blaxploitation, anime, sexploitation, zombie, vampire and werewolf films, exploring both the cults that live hidden inside the underground (Nekromantik, Caf� Flesh) and the cult side of the mainstream (Dirty Dancing, The Lord of the Rings, and even The Sound of Music). 100 Cult Films is a true trip around the world, providing a lively and illuminating guide to films from more than a dozen countries, across nine decades, representing a wide range of genres and key cult directors such as David Cronenberg, Terry Gilliam and David Lynch."
101 Gangster Movies You Must See Before You Die
A selection of 101 essential gangster and crime films, from classic mob pictures to modern thrillers.
IMDb's 1910s Top 50
Movies really started making an impact in the 1910s, with audiences demanding more complicated plots and more information on the stars. This led to the rise of the great studios and the construction of many movie theaters. It was also a decade of innovation, with both the technology and the medium itself. D.W. Griffith's epic Birth of a Nation in particular helped film-making make a giant leap forward. The most popular genres were westerns, melodramas and slapstick comedies.
Annecy Festival's 100 Films for a Century of Animation
In 2006, to celebrate the end of the first century of animation, Annecy International Animation Film Festival asked 30 animation specialists from around the world to vote for the top 100 animated short films.
BFI's 100 Road Movies
From the earliest days of American cinema, the road movie has been synonymous with American culture and the image America has presented both to itself and the world. But the road movie is not uniquely American, and other national cinemas have offered their own take, adapting it to reflect their own sensibilities and geographies. Whatever its nationality, the road movie has presented a means by which to challenge and confront convention, remaining an ever-changing, fascinating metaphor for life. Beginning with an expansive essay tracing its historical development, "100 Road Movies" provides a comprehensive guide to the development of what is perhaps one of the most enduring, popular, and reflexive of sub-genres.
HKFA's The Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures
To celebrate one hundred years of Chinese cinema, Hong Kong Film Awards released a list of The Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures. Among the 103 films on the list, there are 11 films from China (pre-1949), 13 films from the mainland China (post-1949), 61 films from Hong Kong, 16 films from Taiwan (post-1949), 1 Hong Kong/mainland China co-production and 1 Taiwan/Hong Kong co-production.
Cannes Film Festival - Jury Prize
The Jury Prize is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It is considered the third most prestigious prize at the film festival, after the Palme d'Or and the Grand Prix. Since 1967, the official name of the award has been simply the Prix du Jury, but it has had two other names since its creation in 1946: the International Jury Prize, which was awarded for that year only, and the Prix sp�cial du Jury (1951?1967) that was given among other secondary prizes. In 1954, after facing much criticism about the whimsical nature of these awards, the Festival authorities decided to turn to a more traditional prize-giving arrangement. Since then, the Prix sp�cial du Jury reappeared only twice: Christopher Hampton won that award for Carrington along with the regular Prix du Jury given to Xavier Beauvois for Don't Forget You're Going to Die in 1995; and David Cronenberg won for Crash in 1996, which was the only prize allotted by the International Jury for that year. N.B.: In 2004, the Jury Prize was specially awarded to Irma P. Hall for acting in The Ladykillers, so the film is not included in the list here. Tropical Malady was also awarded the Jury Prize.
iCheckMovies's 2020s Top 100
The most-checked films of the 2020s on iCheckMovies, reflecting community viewing and favorites so far this decade.
BBC's The 100 Greatest Comedies of All Time
So this year BBC Culture decided to get serious about comedy. We asked 253 film critics ? 118 women and 135 men ? from 52 countries and six continents a simple: ?What do you think are the 10 best comedies of all time?? Films from any country made since cinema was invented were eligible, and BBC Culture did nothing to define in advance what a comedy is; we left that to each of the critics to decide. As always, we urged the experts to go with their heart and pick personal favourites, films that are part of their lives, not just the ones that meet some ideal of greatness. List added August 2017
Nickel Ode�n's Best Spanish Films
From a poll of 100 notable Spaniards asking for their top 10s, conducted by the magazine Nickel Ode�n for their Winter 1995 issue.
National Film Archive of India's 125 Great Indian Films
In 1995, FIAF asked National film archives to send lists of films important in Film History, Film and The Other Arts, Film and Reality, and National Productions. This list has all the Indian films nominated by the National Film Archive of India. The first 26 in the first 3 categories, followed by 99 from the National category.
IMDb's 2020s Top 50
IMDb's highest rated movies of the 2020s.
FilmTV's The Best Italian Films
Greatest Italian films according to 109 critics/scholars and 50 filmmakers. Note - this entry is just for one segment of an anthology film: Ro.Go.Pa.G = La ricotta (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1963)
Dutch Film Festival's Dutch Film Top 50
In 2008 Nederland 2, the Dutch Film Festival, cinema.nl and VPRO banded together to let the general public vote for the Dutch Film Top 50. The public was able to vote for 3 films from a preselected list of 800+ Dutch films. Around 15000 people submitted their vote. This list is the result of that poll.
BAFTA Award - Best British Film
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts' Best British Film Award, originally given from 1948 to 1968. In 1993, an award for Best British Film was restored with the creation of the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film, named after the important British film director.
Abraccine's The 100 Best Brazilian Films
Made by Abraccine (Brazilian Association of Cinema Critics) based on the personal lists of its associates.
Sitges Film Festival - El Kong Premi a la millor pel�l�cula
The Sitges Film Festival (Catalan: Festival Internacional de Cinema Fant�stic de Catalunya) is a Spanish genre film festival and is one of the most recognizable film festivals held in Europe. Formerly known as the Maria Award, the Kong honours the best horror, fantasy, or science fiction film at the festival, as chosen by an international jury.
Korean Screen's 100 Greatest Korean Films
In 2021, Korean Screen asked 158 critics from 28 countries to vote for the greatest Korean films ever.
ASC's 100 Milestone Films in Cinematography of the 20th Century
On January 8, 2019, the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) celebrated its 100th anniversary. As part of the celebration, the Society released that day a list of 100 cinematographic masterpieces of the 20th Century, as voted on by ASC members. The first ten films are ranked by number of votes. The remaining films are listed chronologically.
iCheckMovies's Pre-1910s Top 100
The most-checked films from the pre-1910s era on iCheckMovies: early shorts, actualities, and foundational cinema.
Kinema Junpo Award - Best Japanese Film
Japan's oldest film award. Awarded yearly by Kinema Junpo magazine since 1927
iCheckMovies's 2010s Top 100
The most-checked films of the 2010s on iCheckMovies, as voted and tracked by the community.
TCM?s Pre-Code Essentials
From Turner Classic Movies and the creators of @precodedotcom, this is the essential film-by-film guide to must-see cinema from the pre-Code era?a wild and wonderful time in Hollywood history before strict enforcement of a censorship code that ruled moviemaking for decades. With unparalleled freedom in the Golden Age of Hollywood, movies produced during the ?pre-Code? era between 1930 and 1934 boldly confronted a wide range of provocative subjects, including sexual freedom, the glorification of outlaws, racial taboos, and class consciousness. Films of the period include beloved classics like Grand Hotel(1932) and King Kong(1933) but also lesser-known gems like I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang(1932) and Ann Vickers (1933). These films, produced at the height of the Great Depression, pushed the limits of contemporary social norms at a time when Hollywood studios were desperate to attract audiences?by any means necessary. Pre-Code Essentials invites modern readers to engage with that history while diving deep into movies that remain, as they were then, adventurous and uncompromising.
Dovzhenko Centre's Top 100 Ukrainian Films
The top 100 is a list of the best films in the history of Ukrainian cinema counted as a large-scale survey of representatives of the national and international film critic community. The purpose of the rating is a creation and rediscover the national film canon and attempt to determine the best Ukrainian films in the history of cinema. The Union of Film Critics of Ukraine and independent film experts were asked to prepare their own top 10 best Ukrainian films from the time of the cinema invention to now (2021). The July Storms duology & the Kazaki series were both counted as a single entry.
iCheckMovies's 2000s Top 100
The most-checked films of the 2000s on iCheckMovies, reflecting community engagement with that decade’s titles.
iCheckMovies's 1920s Top 100
The most-checked films of the 1920s on iCheckMovies, from silent classics to early sound and international landmarks.
iCheckMovies's 1980s Top 100
The most-checked films of the 1980s on iCheckMovies: blockbusters, cult favorites, and arthouse standouts.
iCheckMovies's 1990s Top 100
The most-checked films of the 1990s on iCheckMovies, from indie breakthroughs to mainstream and international hits.
The New Republic?s The 100 Most Significant Political Films
Published: June 22, 2023. "We wanted to do something special for this double July-August issue of The New Republic, but we weren?t sure what; then it hit us that summer is movie season, so why not combine that fact with this magazine?s great passion and come up with a list of history?s best political movies? (TNR, by the way, is no stranger to motion pictures. For decades, the magazine published the work of famed twentieth-century critic Stanley Kauffmann, and we continue to run trenchant film analysis today.) It was that germ of an idea that led us to reach out to J. Hoberman, one of the leading film critics of the last half-century, to curate this project. Hoberman changed it from ?best? to ?most significant? and led us in assembling a list of around 130 critics to whom we wrote, asking them to participate. We were pleased that 79 wrote back with their lists."
Golden Lotus Award - Best Indian Feature Film
The National Award for Best Feature film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, India, and was constituted in the year 1954. This is one of the Golden Lotus Awards (Swarna Kamal) given among National Film Awards. It is announced for films produced in a year across the country, in all Indian languages. It is the most prestigious award in the Indian Cinema.
iCheckMovies's 1930s Top 100
The most-checked films of the 1930s on iCheckMovies, including Hollywood golden age and pre-war classics.
iCheckMovies's 1940s Top 100
The most-checked films of the 1940s on iCheckMovies: wartime and post-war Hollywood and world cinema.
iCheckMovies's 1950s Top 100
The most-checked films of the 1950s on iCheckMovies, from studio-era classics to the rise of international art cinema.
iCheckMovies's 1910s Top 100
The most-checked films of the 1910s on iCheckMovies: feature-length emergence and silent-era milestones.
iCheckMovies's 1970s Top 100
The most-checked films of the 1970s on iCheckMovies: New Hollywood, world cinema, and enduring cult titles.
iCheckMovies's 1960s Top 100
The most-checked films of the 1960s on iCheckMovies: New Wave, counterculture cinema, and international classics.
AACTA Award - Best Australian Film
The AACTA Award for Best Film is an award presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), a non-profit organisation whose aim is to "to identify, award, promote and celebrate Australia's greatest achievements in film and television". The inaugural award was presented in 1969 by the Australian Film Institute, becoming a competitive award in 1976. Since 2011 it has awarded by the Academy, established by the AFI in 2010. From 1969-1975, the award was presented as a gold, silver, bronze or grand prix prize, or in some years, a cash prize. * The 'Michael' segment of Three to Go was the one given the award in 1970. * The Babadook and The Water Diviner both won the award in 2014.
Annecy Festival - Cristal du long m�trage
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival (French: Festival international du film d'animation d'Annecy, officially abbreviated in English as the Annecy Festival, or simply Annecy) was created in 1960 and takes place at the beginning of June in the town of Annecy, France. Initially occurring every two years, the festival became an annual event in 1998. The Cristal du long m�trage (Cristal for a Feature Film) has been given out since 1985.
