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Time Out New York Top 50 Movies of the 2000s
Favs/dislikes: 9:0. Fourteen Time Out New York contributors collaborated on their picks for the best of the 2000s. Originally published November 2009. -
Top 50 Disturbing Films
Favs/dislikes: 9:0. Based on several lists available on Internet. Methodology: Eligibility: Lists with 10 to 30 entries. Not eligible: too specific lists such as "available on Netflix", documentaries only, "best of the decade", etc. and lists made by users in imdb, mubi, icm, etc Distribution of points: For ranked lists: #1: 20 points #2: 18 points and so on until #10: 2 points #11 or lower: 1 point Not ranked lists: points are splitted equally. For instance: lists with 15 entries: 20+18+...+2+1+1+1+1+1=115 / 15 = 7.67 => 8 points for each film. Tied films split the points Bonus for each additional entry: 2 points Tie-brake rules: #1: Total of points #2: Number of entries #3: Year of release #4: Alphabetical order About this list: Lists used: 63 Nominated films: 237 My Top 10 (based on nominated films) (in alphabetical order) Antichrist (2009) C'est Arrivé Près de Chez Vous (1992) Clockwork Orange, A (1971) Dogville (2003) Eraserhead (1977) Funny Games (1997) Idi i Smotri (1985) Irréversible (2002) Salò o le 120 Giornate di Sodoma (1975) Seul Contre Tous (1998) Others lists with the same methodology: Top 50 Business Films https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+business+films/baalman/ Top 50 Rock'n Roll Films https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+rockn+roll+films/baalman/ Top 50 Car Movies https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+car+movies/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Films https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+films/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Arts and Artists https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+art+and+artists/baalman/ Top 50 Dystopian Films https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+dystopian+films/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Politics https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+politics/baalman/ Top 50 Plot Twist Films https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+plot+twist+films/baalman/ Top 50 Surrealistic Films http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+surrealistic+films/baalman/ Top 50 Disturbing Films https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+disturbing+films/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Media https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+media/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Law https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+law/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Writers and Writing https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+writers+and+writing/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Conspiracy (Theories) https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+conspiracy+theories/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Mental Illness http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+mental+illness/baalman/ Top 50 Films About Serial Killers https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+serial+killers/baalman/ Top 50 Pandemic Movies https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+pandemic+movies/baalman/ Top 50 Films about Drugs https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/top+50+films+about+drugs/baalman/ -
Top 50 Films of Queer Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 9:0. The top 50 queer cinema films as voted on by users of Rateyourmusic.com's film page. -
TSZDT: The Top 100 Japanese Horror Films
Favs/dislikes: 9:0. The main TSZDT list features 26 Japanese films. Out of the 7,195 nominated films, 316 Japanese films have received at least one vote. This list contains an anthology that shares production countries. -
1920s
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. The top 250 films of the 1920s with a minimum rating of 7.0, sorted by number of votes. -
1990s
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. The top 250 films of the 1990s with a minimum rating of 7.0, sorted by number of votes. -
Cinema Escapist's The Best African Movies, From All 54 African Countries
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. An epic list of the top African films—from all 54 of Africa's countries. BY OSCAR HARDING, 10 FEB 19 09:35 UTC What are the best African movies? There are many ways to address that question, but Cinema Escapist will give you the most comprehensive answer—by highlighting the top films from all 54 African countries. While certain African nations (ex. Nigeria with Nollywood) have more prolific film industries than others, we believe there are cinematic gems from all around the continent. Thus, this list of the best African films contains one movie from each African country, including some you might not realize have cinematic output. Even if you aren’t an African cinema expert or hard-core cinephile, there’s something for you here. This list of the top African movies stretches across cinematic classics and modern flicks, and covers film genres including action, war, drama, romance, and more. Unlike other African film lists, our list tries to only include feature-length narrative movies directed by Africans, set in Africa, and produced in Africa. If a movie doesn’t meet that criteria, we’ll call it out. Without further ado, let’s look at the best African movies, from all 54 African countries. We’ll proceed in alphabetic order by country, from Algeria to Zimbabwe! Missing from imdb: - The Grand Marriage (2013, Comoros, dir. Faisal Al Otaibi) - The Last Fishing Boat (2014, Malawi, dir. Charles Shemu Joyah) - Jamila (2011, South Sudan, Daniel Danis) -
Diskuterfilm.com's Top 30 from the 2000's (2010)
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. DiskuterFilm.com's Top 30 list of films from the 2000's, made in 2010. -
Filmspotting Best of the Decade (2000s)
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. The top films of the 2000s as selected by the members of the Filmspotting forum. The first 20 are in the top-tier and the rest are in the second-tier. Otherwise the list is unranked. -
Filmwell's "Religion in Film"
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. From the source: [quote=M. Leary][b][url=http://theotherjournal.com/filmwell/2010/02/17/religion-in-film-a-list-of-films-for-the-religious-studies-classroom/]Religion in Film[/url] – A List of Films for the Religious Studies Classroom[/b] When teaching courses on basic concepts in religious studies and comparative religion, I often find myself wondering what resources the history of cinema has to offer the classroom. Simply talking about rites of passage, religious language, or variations in Buddhist dogma while scribbling lecture aids on the chalkboard works well enough. But I often wish I could step back and integrate more cinema into the learning experience. There are a lot of lists out there for people interested generally in “religion and film” or “spirituality and film,” but many of these lists are too general to be of much use in helping people experience the finer points of different religious traditions. Day of Wrath and Winter Light, for example, are great films about faith and existence, but they aren’t necessarily films about the observable phenomena of religion. And while films like Youth Without Youth, The Last Wave, or 2001 usher us very generally into the gravity of sacred time, apocalypse, and myth, they aren’t that interested in comparative religion. Something like The Mission is certainly a religious film, but is it really a film about religion? So, that being said, what are the great films out there about the specifics of religious practice? The first impulse is to list relevant documentaries, of which there are many. And episodes of shows like Big Love, West Wing, and Caprica certainly belong in the religious studies classroom. How great are Jed Bartlett’s prayers as discussion starters about American civil religion? But I am curious about films that we leave with a greater sense of why and how people practice the nuts of bolts of religion, which are talked about in the classroom in terms of rites of passage, ritual, doctrine, sacred time and space, etc… So here is a starter list of films that in some way show us religion in action. Please feel free to suggest more in the comments.[/quote] -
iCM Forum's Favorite Coming of Age Movies Top 100
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. We all have to grow up some time, writers and directors also did at one point. Following the basic writing lesson of sticking to what you know, it is a stable theme to explore in movies (and other media). Coming of age film portrays the time of life when the protagonist(s) grows up, focusing on how he or she matures emotionally. Depicting the psychological and moral growth during the transition of a protagonist from youth to adulthood. Among others themes of self-discovery, sexual awakening and responsibilities vs. the loss of childhood dreams and naivete often play a big role. Protagonists are most often adolescents, although they can also be (slightly) younger or older. Often set in the past during the filmmakers own formative years, these movies are frequently infused with nostalgia. These are the 100 Favorite Coming Of Age movies of the iCMForum The complete list of all voted movies: https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/icm+forums+favorite+coming+of+age+movies+complete+list/lonewolf2003/ -
iCM Forum's Favorite Movies of the 21st Century Top 500
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. The top 500 favorite movies of this century so far at voted for in the poll for at ICMForum.com [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/icm+forums+favorite+movies+of+the+21st+century+2+votes+or+more/lonewolf2003/]At least 2 voters[/url] [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/icm+forums+favorite+movies+of+the+21st+century+1-5000/lonewolf2003/]Complete List part I[/url] [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/icm+forums+favorite+movies+of+the+21st+century+5001-7262/lonewolf2003/]Complete List part II[/url] -
iCM Forum's Favourite Canadian Films - Top 150
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. From the iCM Forum's August 2017 Poll, based on the contributions from 39 participants. -
iCM Forum's Favourite Central European Films - Top 444
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. As chosen by 36 participants on iCM's Unofficial Forum in April 2016. Films from Poland, Hungary, Czechia, and Slovakia. -
iCM Forum's Favourite Fantasy Movies Complete List
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. All movies voted for in the iCM Favourite Fantasy Movies poll. The Top 150 can be found here: https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/icm+forums+favourite+fantasy+movies+top+150/lonewolf2003/ -
iCM Forum's Favourite Movies of the 1920s Complete List
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. The 1920s is a period in which the focus shifted more and more to feature movies instead of shorts. A period in which German Expressionism, Soviet Montage Editing, and Realism had a great impact on the development of movie aesthetics, which brought us (as some say) the highlights of silent movies. But it was of course last but not least also the decade of the birth of sound movies. Therefor the 1920s deserve their own poll. This a complete list of all nominated movies. The Top 200 can be found here: https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/icm+forums+favourite+films+of+the+1920s+top+200/lonewolf2003/ -
iCM Forum's Favourite War Movies Complete List
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. -
Indie Outlook's 180 Essential Films by Female Directors
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. Film critic Matt Fagerholm, assistant editor at RogerEbert.com, decided to compensate for the extreme lack of female directors being nominated for Best Director at the Academy Awards by curating a list of 180 essential films directed by women. -
Letterboxd Top 250 Narrative Feature Films by Women Directors
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. Ranked by average user rating on Letterboxd ELIGIBILITY RULES: • This list counts female co-directors, even if uncredited. • Includes cis, transgender and female-identifying directors. • Films must be feature-length (45+ minutes), with a theatrical and/or festival release. • Documentaries of any kind, short films, theater/stage, TV movies, TV series or miniseries, and episodes are excluded. • There is a 1,000 minimum vote threshold. -
Marie Claire's The 69 Best Porn Movies of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 8:1. "Watching pornography is a normal extracurricular activity for many women. Yet, the storylines in most porn flicks center on a delivery guy/repair man showing up unexpectedly (eye roll). Why should you sacrifice a good plot for great sex? Get you some porn that can do both. The best and most arousing porn films are often the ones that involve drama, relationships, and, ya know, things other than HD penises on the screen. But sometimes they can be hard to find. (Pun intended...?) In an effort to be helpful and sex positive, we've rounded up the best full-length porn movies—with ethical standards, feminist values, pretty cinematography, and good music to boot." - Mehera Bonner [b]The Best Classic Porn Movies[/b]: 1-17 [b]The Best Artsy Porn Movies[/b]: 18-32 [b]The Best Softcore Porn Movies[/b]: 33-37 [b]The Best Parody Porn Movies[/b]: 38-59 [b]The Best Porn Movies with Classic Tropes[/b]: 60-73 Note: "Taboo" and "I Am Curious" duologies and XConfessions trilogy are considered one entry thus 73 movies. -
Noirish: The Annex To John Grant's A Comprehensive Encyclopedia To Film Noir
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. "The purpose of Noirish is to act as an extension to the Encyclopedia -- an annex, if you like -- where I can add entries for movies that for one reason or another didn't make it into the printed book. In some instances, this is just because the movie concerned was released too late for inclusion. Most often, though, the reason was logistic. Although the Encyclopedia takes the broadest possible view of film noir, there were some movies that were either too obscure or too tangential to the theme to merit the use of precious page space: 800+ large-format pages -- nearly 700,000 words -- may seem a lot but, when you're trying to cover in excess of 3,000 movies, you soon learn to appreciate the constraints. That's why this enterprise has the title it has: Noirish. Many of the movies here are very borderline noir, and some aren't noir at all but have associational interest. Just because a movie's obscure doesn't mean it's lousy . . . although there'll be some lousy movies covered here. There'll also be plenty of movies that are, shall we say, undistinguished -- which is not to say they're without at least some points of interest, and certainly isn't to say they're not lots of fun to watch." -From John Grant on the site's "Modus Operandi" section *#641-687: Of Associated Interest - John Grant does not consider these films noir but has mentioned them due to similar themes, actors or influences. **The following are missing from IMDB: -The Twelve Shorts of Christmas #5: The Bloody Fish (2011) -Tango Silent Films: A Christmas Present for Hannah (2009), The Private Lesson (2010), Oh My, What a Night! (2011), Pornography (2012), One, Two, Three! (2012), Sadie’s Song (2011) -La Moglie (2007) -Peekaboo (2014) -
Out Magazine's 50 Essential Gay Films
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. "Which gay movies deserve a bigger audience? We asked our favorite directors, entertainers, and artists to help us compile a hit list." Published February 2011. Listed here in chronological order. -
Paste Magazine: The 100 Best Documentaries of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. In documentary filmmaking, truth is almost always filled with lies. It’s just the nature of the form, really—of any filmmaking at all, for that matter. Even a home video recording, if you’ve ever made or watched or starred in one, is marred by manipulation: Whether you’re aware you’re being “watched” or not, your truth is a sort of surreal quilt of camera placement, cuts and atmosphere, totally mitigated by the lens and then, further down the food chain, the ultimate observer. If you know you’re being watched, you act accordingly; if you don’t, the recording may carry a subtle tone of voyeurism, of intrusiveness—the feeling that something isn’t quite right. And yet, from direct cinema to Dogme 95, truth has always been an idealistic goal for many filmmakers, and not necessarily the purity of it, but the translation of its most deeply held essentials. Arguably, documentary filmmaking has always been at the forefront of that aim, though during much of its primordial beginnings—especially throughout the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s—documentary filmmakers trolled truth as if it was yet another stuffy branch of bourgeoisie power. In Land Without Bread (1933), Luis Buñuel parodied the white guilt of popular travelogue docs of the time, pointing out that sadness and economical devastation existed in Spain itself—no need to travel to some faraway land. In Nanook of the North (1922), the life of an Inuit clan was notoriously messed with. And Man with a Movie Camera (1929) pretty much just made a bunch of shit up. Their goals weren’t to leave truth unfondled, but to say that an unfondled truth is an unexplored one: shallow and meaningless. Once Jean Rouche, Frederick Wiseman, D.A. Pennebaker and the Maysles, however, pioneered and then defined throughout the 1950s and ’60s what came to be known as cinéma vérité, documentary filmmaking shouldered the burden of truth, resolving to allow life to operate on its own, brushed only briefly by the manipulative fingers of the filmmaker. This was coupled with advances in filmmaking technology, notably that equipment became lighter, and more mobile. In turn, crews shrank, and coverage became paramount. That Nick Broomfield’s films are filmed with a minute crew on minute budgets, or that Oscar-winning Searching for Sugar Man (2012) was captured partly on an iPhone camera, means that today, as it is with most art, anyone can be a documentary filmmaker. Which isn’t a bad thing. Because truth belongs to the people, by definition—it is ours to shape and hone and mold into something that enriches each of our lives and each of our worldviews however we see fit. That the following list leans heavily on films released in the past five years isn’t a coincidence, nor is it a factor of some shortsighted list-making. Instead, it points directly to our increased capacity to capture, reproduce and respect truth. If anything, we’re coming full circle. Will the truth set you free? Probably not, but we believe the following 100 documentaries are the all-time greatest attempts to find out. -
Paste's 100 Greatest War Movies
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. War. What is it good for? Well, if nothing else, then a tidy template for cinema: conflict, clear protagonists and antagonists, heightened emotions, and a generally unpredictable, lawless atmosphere which—as per the western—has since the dawn of cinema offered an elastic dramatic environment in which filmmakers can explore men at both their best and worst. And make no mistake, the war movie is almost always about men. It’s the most masculine of genres, the fact that armies have throughout history often been almost exclusively male seeing to it that men almost always dominate these things. It’s a genre that emphasizes action and existential angst. It’s also a malleable genre, and one that could broadly include all manner of films that we ultimately ruled out of the running in this list. With this top 100, we’ve made the decision to include only movies whose wars are based on historical conflicts, so none of the likes of Edge of Tomorrow or Starship Troopers. We’ve picked films that deal with soldiers, soldiering and warfare directly, meaning wartime movies set primarily away from conflict, often told largely or exclusively from the civilian perspective—a category which includes such classics as The Cranes Are Flying and Hope & Glory, Grave of the Fireflies and Forbidden Games—didn’t make the cut. Post-war dramas, like Ashes and Diamonds and Germany, Year Zero, as well as films that go to war for only a fraction of the running time, such as From Here to Eternity and Born on the Fourth of July, were also excluded. Some tough choices were made on what actually constituted a “war movie.” Resistance dramas feature in this list, but Casablanca doesn’t appear. Likewise Robert Bresson’s A Man Escaped and Sidney Lumet’s The Hill. It was decided ultimately that the war was too much a peripheral element in these films. On the other hand, while both western The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and biopic The Imitation Game feature war prominently, they, like Casablanca (a romance with noir and thriller elements) plus A Man Escaped and The Hill (both prison movies), belong more obviously to other genres. We’ve also decided not to include movies which focus on the Holocaust here; those are set to appear in another feature entirely. Regarding the films that do feature here: our 100 hail from all over the world. These films were released as recently as last year and as far back as 1930. They range from comical to harrowing, action-packed to quietly introspective, proudly gung-ho to deeply anti-war. They are a diverse set of movies; they are also worthy of being called the 100 greatest war movies ever made. Published May 2017 -
Senses of Cinema's Top Tens
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. All films cited from individual lists
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