Charts: Lists

This page shows you the list charts. By default, the movies are ordered by how many times they have been marked as a favorite. However, you can also sort by other information, such as the total number of times it has been marked as a dislike.

  1. Criterion Collection Themes - Melodrama's icon

    Criterion Collection Themes - Melodrama

    Favs/dislikes: 2:0. One aim of art has always been to evoke intense feelings; for melodramatic cinema, that is its unabashed and overt raison d’etre. With themes of love, suffering, betrayal, sacrifice, and redemption, melodrama puts its audiences through the emotional wringer. Various national cinemas have made contributions to the genre—from Japan, we have Mikio Naruse’s dramas of steadfast women trapped in quiet domestic anguish; from France, Max Ophuls’s luxurious tragic romances; from Italy, Luchino Visconti’s opulent tales of amour fou and Raffaello Matarazzo’s contorted, epic expressions of thwarted desire. Historically, the Hollywood work of the German émigré Douglas Sirk has been considered the expressionistic epitome of the movie melodrama; his All That Heaven Allows, Magnificent Obsession, and Written on the Wind used the form to comment on 1950s America with a sophisticated mix of irony and forthright emotion. In the ’70s, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a fan of Hollywood melodrama, provocatively remade All That Heaven Allows as the heartbreaking interracial romance Ali: Fear Eats the Soul.
  2. Criterion Collection Themes - Samurai Cinema's icon

    Criterion Collection Themes - Samurai Cinema

    Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Samurai cinema, which includes both chanbara (action-oriented sword-fight films) and the historical jidai-geki film, focuses on the nationally mythologized samurai warriors of the twelfth to sixteenth century. Like the American western, the samurai film lends itself to tales of loyalty, revenge, romance, fighting prowess, and the decline of a traditional way of life. Akira Kurosawa’s samurai films have arguably been the most influential both in Japan and around the world; certainly the range of his approaches—from Seven Samurai’s epic scope to Yojimbo’s acidic black humor to Ran’s poetic despair—established the genre’s creative possibilities, influencing generations of filmmakers, including George Lucas and Quentin Tarantino. Key works of the genre, in its more traditional form, also include Masaki Kobayashi’s Samurai Rebellion, Masahiro Shinoda’s Samurai Spy, and Hiroshi Inagaki’s Musashi Miyamoto, the first part of his epic “Samurai Trilogy.”
  3. Criterion Collection Themes - Tearjerkers's icon

    Criterion Collection Themes - Tearjerkers

    Favs/dislikes: 2:0. There is a genre of classic films that, finely crafted as they are, we remember first and foremost for their ability to wring tears from us. Can one even think of Leo McCarey’s Make Way for Tomorrow or Vittorio De Sica’s Umberto D. without immediately recalling their beyond poignant ultimate scenes? And what would Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru or Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory be without those final waterworks (the characters’ and ours)? From Ozu family sagas to Sirk melodramas, we have a large selection of titles for those looking for a little cinematic catharsis. So come and cry along with Criterion.
  4. Criterion Collection Themes - Virtually Reality's icon

    Criterion Collection Themes - Virtually Reality

    Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Who needs silly, circumscribed categories like “fiction” or “documentary”? From such classic examples as Robert Flaherty’s original almost-ethnography Nanook of the North and Paul Strand and Leo Hurwitz’s political semidocumentary Native Land—about violations of civil liberties in everyday America—to contemporary hybrids by living artists like Abbas Kiarostami (Close-up) and Pedro Costa (In Vanda’s Room), these works blur the lines with panache.
  5. Criterion Collection Themes: Yakuza!'s icon

    Criterion Collection Themes: Yakuza!

    Favs/dislikes: 2:0. We have a killer selection of Japanese gangster films—or yakuza pictures—in the Criterion Collection, all from the genre’s heyday in the fifties and sixties. Tales of the criminal underworld marked as much by themes of honor and loyalty as by images of shocking, manic violence, they explore the codes and rituals of a society simmering right underneath “civilized” culture. Directors like Takumi Furukawa, Takashi Nomura, and especially Seijun Suzuki depict this bloody world of heists, double crosses, and rivalries with stylish excess, imitating their subjects’ freewheeling daredevilishness—Nomura’s A Colt Is My Passport and Suzuki’s Branded to Kill and Tokyo Drifter stand as some of the most visually inventive Japanese films of all time. And as proven by recent films from Takeshi Kitano and Takashi Miike, the genre doesn’t seem to be going out of fashion.
  6. Criterion Channel Expiring April 2021's icon

    Criterion Channel Expiring April 2021

    Favs/dislikes: 1:0.
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    Criterion Channel Expiring April 2022

    Favs/dislikes: 1:0.
  8. Criterion Channel Expiring August 2021's icon

    Criterion Channel Expiring August 2021

    Favs/dislikes: 1:0.
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    Criterion Channel Expiring August 2022

    Favs/dislikes: 1:0.
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    Criterion Channel Expiring August 2023

    Favs/dislikes: 1:0.
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    Criterion Channel Expiring August 31

    Favs/dislikes: 1:0.
  12. Criterion Channel Expiring December 2020's icon

    Criterion Channel Expiring December 2020

    Favs/dislikes: 1:0.
  13. Criterion Channel Expiring December 2021's icon

    Criterion Channel Expiring December 2021

    Favs/dislikes: 1:0.
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    Criterion Channel Expiring December 2022

    Favs/dislikes: 1:0.
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    Criterion Channel Expiring February 2021

    Favs/dislikes: 1:0.
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    Criterion Channel Expiring February 2022

    Favs/dislikes: 1:0.
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    Criterion Channel Expiring February 2024

    Favs/dislikes: 1:0.
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    Criterion Channel Expiring January 2021

    Favs/dislikes: 1:0.
  19. Criterion Channel Expiring January 2022's icon

    Criterion Channel Expiring January 2022

    Favs/dislikes: 1:0.
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    Criterion Channel Expiring July 2021

    Favs/dislikes: 1:0.
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    Criterion Channel Expiring July 2022

    Favs/dislikes: 1:0.
  22. Criterion Channel Expiring July 31's icon

    Criterion Channel Expiring July 31

    Favs/dislikes: 1:0.
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    Criterion Channel Expiring June 2020

    Favs/dislikes: 1:0.
  24. Criterion Channel Expiring June 2021's icon

    Criterion Channel Expiring June 2021

    Favs/dislikes: 1:1.
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    Criterion Channel Expiring June 2022

    Favs/dislikes: 1:0.
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