RYM's highest rated film of each film movement
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The films are sorted by RYM rating. I only included movements that have at least 1 film in RYM's overall top 10,000.
This list includes 66 movements. Click the movement to read a description. Click "top" to see the top rated films.
1. New Hollywood (top), 2. Japanese New Wave (top), 3. Taiwanese New Wave (top), 4. German Expressionism (top), 5. New German Cinema (top), 6. Italian Neorealism (top), 7. French New Wave (top), 8. Soviet Montage (top), 9. Poetic Realism (top), 10. New American Cinema (top), 11. Cinema politico Italiano (top), 12. Parallel Cinema (top), 13. Left Bank (top), 14. New Iranian Cinema (top), 15. French Impressionist Cinema (top), 16. Dogme 95 (top), 17. Remodernist Film (top), 18. Fifth Generation (top), 19. New Queer Cinema (top), 20. Ukrainian Poetic Cinema (top), 21. British New Wave (top), 22. Polish Film School (top), 23. Czechoslovak New Wave (top), 24. Soviet New Wave (top), 25. Cinema Novo (top), 26. Australian New Wave (top), 27. Third Cinema (top), 28. Trümmerfilm (top), 29. Finnish New Wave (top), 30. Romanian New Wave (top), 31. No Wave Cinema (top), 32. New Objectivity (top), 33. Cinema of Moral Anxiety (top), 34. Ozploitation (top), 35. Sixth Generation (top), 36. Hungarian New Wave (top), 37. Surrealist Movement (top), 38. Kitchen Sink Realism (top), 39. Imperfect Cinema (top), 40. New Argentine Cinema (top), 41. Socialist Realism (top), 42. Berliner Schule (top), 43. L.A. Rebellion (top), 44. New Chilean Cinema (top), 45. Cinéma du look (top), 46. Canuxploitation (top), 47. New French Extremity (top), 48. Lettrist Cinema (top), 49. Iranian New Wave (top), 50. Cinema Marginal (top), 51. Dada (top), 52. Straßenfilm (top), 53. Stalinist Musical (top), 54. Keiko-eiga (top), 55. Cinéma pur (top), 56. Yugoslav Black Wave (top), 57. Mumblecore (top), 58. Barcelona School (top), 59. Race Film (top), 60. Young German Cinema (top), 61. Novo Cinema (top), 62. Budapest School (top), 63. Novísimo Cine Chileno (top), 64. Cine Quinqui (top), 65. Absolute Film (top), 66. British Documentary Film Movement (top)
Last updated: May 1, 2020
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The Godfather
1972, in 42 top lists Check -
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Suna no onna
1964 — a.k.a. Woman in the Dunes, in 22 top lists Check -
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Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian
1991 — a.k.a. A Brighter Summer Day, in 19 top lists Check -
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Metropolis
1927, in 36 top lists Check -
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Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
1972 — a.k.a. Aguirre, the Wrath of God, in 18 top lists Check -
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Ladri di biciclette
1948 — a.k.a. Bicycle Thieves, in 36 top lists Check -
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Les quatre cents coups
1959 — a.k.a. The 400 Blows, in 26 top lists Check -
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Chelovek s kino-apparatom
1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check -
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Les enfants du paradis
1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise, in 21 top lists Check -
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As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief...
2000, in 6 top lists Check -
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La battaglia di Algeri
1966 — a.k.a. The Battle of Algiers, in 29 top lists Check -
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Pather Panchali
1955, in 21 top lists Check -
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La jetée
1962 — a.k.a. La Jetée, in 19 top lists Check -
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Nema-ye Nazdik
1990 — a.k.a. Close-Up, in 21 top lists Check -
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Napoléon vu par Abel Gance
1927 — a.k.a. Napoleon, in 24 top lists Check -
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Festen
1998 — a.k.a. The Celebration, in 18 top lists Check -
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A torinói ló
2011 — a.k.a. The Turin Horse, in 8 top lists Check -
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Da hong denglong gaogao gua
1991 — a.k.a. Raise the Red Lantern, in 21 top lists Check -
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Paris Is Burning
1990, in 12 top lists Check -
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Tini zabutykh predkiv
1965 — a.k.a. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, in 12 top lists Check -
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Kes
1969, in 11 top lists Check -
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Popiól i diament
1958 — a.k.a. Ashes and Diamonds, in 16 top lists Check -
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Spalovac mrtvol
1969 — a.k.a. The Cremator, in 13 top lists Check -
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Ivanovo detstvo
1962 — a.k.a. Ivan's Childhood, in 12 top lists Check -
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O Pagador de Promessas
1962 — a.k.a. The Given Word, in 9 top lists Check -
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Walkabout
1971, in 13 top lists Check -
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Cabra Marcado Para Morrer
1984 — a.k.a. Twenty Years Later, in 6 top lists Check -
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Germania anno zero
1948 — a.k.a. Germany Year Zero, in 11 top lists Check -
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Kahdeksan surmanluotia
1972 — a.k.a. Eight Deadly Shots, in 3 top lists Check -
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4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile
2007 — a.k.a. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, in 13 top lists Check -
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Stranger Than Paradise
1984, in 14 top lists Check -
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Tagebuch einer Verlorenen
1929 — a.k.a. Diary of a Lost Girl, in 8 top lists Check -
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Amator
1979 — a.k.a. Camera Buff, in 5 top lists Check -
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Mad Max 2
1981 — a.k.a. The Road Warrior, in 14 top lists Check -
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Zhantai
2000 — a.k.a. Platform, in 10 top lists Check -
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A tanú
1969 — a.k.a. The Witness, in 2 top lists Check -
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Un chien andalou
1929 — a.k.a. An Andalusian Dog, in 25 top lists Check -
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
1962, in 7 top lists Check -
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Memorias del subdesarrollo
1968 — a.k.a. Memories of Underdevelopment, in 11 top lists Check -
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Historias extraordinarias
2008 — a.k.a. Extraordinary Stories, in 6 top lists Check -
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Neotpravlennoe pismo
1960 — a.k.a. Letter Never Sent, in 4 top lists Check -
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Toni Erdmann
2016, in 13 top lists Check -
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Killer of Sheep
1978, in 14 top lists Check -
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La batalla de Chile: La lucha de un pueblo sin...
1975 — a.k.a. The Battle of Chile: Part I, in 8 top lists Check -
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Les amants du Pont-Neuf
1991 — a.k.a. The Lovers on the Bridge, in 11 top lists Check -
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Black Christmas
1974, in 3 top lists Check -
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Seul contre tous
1998 — a.k.a. I Stand Alone, in 6 top lists Check -
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Traité de bave et d'éternité
1951 — a.k.a. Venom and Eternity, in 1 top list Check -
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Tabiate bijan
1974 — a.k.a. Still Life, in 3 top lists Check -
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Sem Essa, Aranha
1970, in 1 top list Check
Last updated on May 2, 2020; source