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1001 movies you must see before you die (all editions)
Favs/dislikes: 165:1. The famous book of Schneider "1001 movies you must see before you die" has several editions. Every few years a new edition is published with new titles (after removing some other titles). Also there are editions especially for a certain country with additional titles from that country. In this list I'll try to collect as many titles as possible that were in at least one edition of this book. So far I included, apart from the original US editions (rank 1-1250), the Dutch (rank 1251-1261), the Swedish (rank 1262-1283), the Greek (rank 1284-1325), the Norwegian (rank 1326-1332), the Finnish (rank 1333-1351), the Danish (rank 1352-1363), the Brazilian (rank 1364-1375), the Hungarian (rank 1376-1381) and the French (rank 1382-1398) editions. I found information about the Portuguese, Spanish, Slovanian, Croatian, Turkish and Polish editions, but these didn't have additional titles. I’ll search for more editions. If you’ve got information about any other, please let me know. -
Sight & Sound Critics Top 250 (2012)
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1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die - Deleted
Favs/dislikes: 119:0. This is a list of all the movies from the "1001 Movies" list from Steven Jay Schneider & Co. that have been removed from the current list. Updated through the edition finalized in 2021. -
Top 1000/1001 Lists Consensus
Favs/dislikes: 113:3. Films listed in all 1000/1001 official lists available in ICM (except Beyond the Canon): They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? Jonathan Rosenbaum's 1000 Essential Films 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die Have You Seen . . . ?: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made Halliwell's Top 1000: The Ultimate Movie Countdown Note: The NYT list restricts releases from 1929 to 2002, therefore excludes silent e newly films. -
Roger Ebert's Annual Top Ten Lists
Favs/dislikes: 108:2. Every year since 1967 the famed film critic Roger Ebert has released a list of his ten favorite films of the year. In some recent years he has divided up the lists, making separate top tens (or twenties) for documentaries and foreign-language films. I've included all the lists here. -
Guide for the Film Fanatic
Favs/dislikes: 84:2. In his Guide for the Film Fanatic (1986), Danny Peary provides short reviews for over 1600 “Must See” films. A list of Peary’s “Additional Must See” titles (not reviewed in the book) is available here: https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/guide+for+the+film+fanatic+addendum/red.hexapus/ -
Fangoria's 101 Best Horror Films You've Never Seen
Favs/dislikes: 73:1. -
Film Comment's 150 Best Films of the Decade (2000s)
Favs/dislikes: 71:0. -
Jonathan Rosenbaum's List-o-Mania Or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love American Movies
Favs/dislikes: 68:0. Critic Jonathan Rosenbaum provides an alternative list to the AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list. -
Roger Ebert's Film of Year Since 1967
Favs/dislikes: 68:0. This is a list of every film that critic Roger Ebert has called the best film of that year. The list starts in 1967 and goes to 2012. *Special note: In 2008 and 2009 Ebert did not rank his choices. Therefore I went with whatever film he listed from that year on his best of the decade list. -
Donald Richie's A Hundred Years of Japanese Film
Favs/dislikes: 67:0. Called "the dean of Japan's arts critics" by Time magazine, Richie takes us from the inception of Japanese cinema at the end of the nineteenth century, through the achievements of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu, then on to the notable works of contemporary filmmakers. This revised edition includes analyses of the latest trends in Japanese cinema, such as the revival of the horror genre, and introduces today's up-and-coming directors and their works. This list is from the 'Selective Guide to Dvds and Videos' included at the back of the book, where Richie provided capsule reviews of the major subtitled Japanese films commercially available in DVD and VHS formats. -
J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum's Midnight Movies
Favs/dislikes: 61:1. "These are a few of the over 100 films discussed in Midnight Movies, a comprehensive and in-depth look at the subculture movies of the past three decades. Here is the complete history of cult films, their makers, and their audience; an examination of how films become "midnight movies," and what keeps audiences coming back to see them over and over; an exploration of the connections between subversive film and the subcultures from which it emerges." Missing films: ?? - Comedome-1 John Waters - Dorothy, The Kansas City Pothead (unfinished) -
Taschen's movies of the 70's
Favs/dislikes: 56:0. "This guide presents our selection of the best movies from the years 1970 to 1979, covering a wide range of genres, budgets, and cultures, and revealing details from behind the scenes. Packed full of photos and film stills, this opulent factbook pays homage to cinema around the world." Taschen is a famous art book publisher and its movie books are terrific. -
Taschen's movies of the 90's
Favs/dislikes: 56:0. "This guide presents our selection of the best movies from the years 1990 to 1999, covering a wide range of genres, budgets, and cultures, and revealing details from behind the scenes. Packed full of photos and film stills, this opulent factbook pays homage to cinema around the world at the end of the 20th century." Taschen is a famous art book publisher and its movie books are terrific. -
Jonathan Rosenbaum's 100 Favorite Films
Favs/dislikes: 55:0. The 100 favorite films of film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum. All of these appear on his extended top 1000, but for those looking for a more manageable list of his biggest recommendations, here it is. -
Dennis Grunes: A short chronology of world cinema
Favs/dislikes: 52:0. Films listed in Grunes' 2010 book by that title. His selections have a decidedly leftist sociopolitical slant. Notes: 1. For some reason IMDb won't let me add "Diavolo in corpo" (1986), but I managed to add it via ICM at the end. 2. For "September 11" (2002) Grunes specifies the final segment by Shohei Imamura. 3: Not found on IMDb: "Here and perhaps elsewhere" (Houna wa noubbama hunak, 2003) by Lamia Joreiga; "Passages" (2005) by Jon Jost. -
Dictionary of Films from Jacques Lourcelles
Favs/dislikes: 52:0. 1508 movies up to year 1992. Movies from every part of the world selected and analyzed by Jacques Lourcelles, a french cinema critic. A lot of movies (mostly french) you won't find on any other lists -
Taschen's movies of the 80's
Favs/dislikes: 50:0. "This guide presents our selection of the best movies from the years 1980 to 1989, covering a wide range of genres, budgets, and cultures, and revealing details from behind the scenes. Packed full of photos and film stills, this opulent factbook pays homage to cinema around the world." Taschen is a famous art book publisher and its movie books are terrific. -
Time Out's best horror films
Favs/dislikes: 48:1. Time Out proudly presents the 100 best horror movies, as chosen by those who write in, direct, star in and celebrate the genre. Time Out polled well over 100 horror enthusiasts – including big names like Roger Corman, Guillermo del Toro, Simon Pegg, Clive Barker and Alice Cooper, and horror legends like Coffin Joe, Kim Newman and Tom Six – and came up with a definitive top 100 list. The list was first produced in 2012. The list was revised in 2016 with the inclusion of new voters, including Stephen King. After the top 100 I have included the runners up: every film nominated by the contributers. -
Les 100 chefs-d'oeuvre du suspense (100 Suspense Masterpieces)
Favs/dislikes: 47:0. 100 Suspense Masterpieces by Alain Charlot "Le film noir, Humphrey Bogart, le film catastrophe, Hitchcock, le film d'espionnage, John Huston, le cinéma policier et criminel, autant de genres et de noms qui vous sont familiers et qui ont généré de grandes œuvres. De "M le Maudit" à "Sueurs froides", de "L'arnaqueur" à "La tour infernale", ces œuvre émouvantes et brutales ont pour point commun le suspense. Voici cent films pour frissonner." With 100 Suspense Masterpiece, Alain Charlot selects classics from different genres, Noir, Disaster film, Spy film, Procedural film that all have as common ground a key ingredient, suspense! -
1000 Best Movies of the 20th Century
Favs/dislikes: 46:1. A compilation of 19 lists of best movies from worldwide renowned movie magazines and movie critics. Methodology (french) http://bit.ly/frEXXn -
Danny Peary's Cult Movies
Favs/dislikes: 46:1. "'Cult Movies' is a 1981 book by Danny Peary, consisting of a series of essays regarding what Peary described as the 100 most representative examples of the cult film phenomenon. Two sequels were published, Cult Movies 2 (1983) and Cult Movies 3 (1988), with each book reviewing fifty additional cult films." -
jimbotender's Erotic & Sexually Explicit Films
Favs/dislikes: 46:1. An X-rated section or as the AMPAA calls it: NC-17.To hell with ratings, feast your eyes and souls!!!! The list still needs a fragrance so...any sort of assistance will be a significant contribution to this project ;) [note: 101+ are personal additions to the list] -
Jonathan Rosenbaum's Annual Top Ten Lists
Favs/dislikes: 46:1. The annual top ten lists of critic Jonathan Rosenbaum since 1974. Note: As far as I can find, he didn't make a list from 1977-1980 or 1982-1986. For lists made since 2005, I've used the following links: http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=17851 http://legacy.indiewire.com/critic/jonathan_rosenbaum/ http://www.wbez.org/episode-segments/2011-12-15/call-best-and-worst-year-global-film-94937# In recent years he has sometimes created multiple, unique lists for different organizations - I've added all the films mentioned on the various lists for a given year. -
Stephen King's "Danse Macabre"
Favs/dislikes: 44:0. A list of about 100 horror/thriller/mystery movies recommended by Stephen King in the appendix to his non-fiction study of horror genre "Dance Macabre"
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