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ICM Forum Country Polls: Czechia + Slovakia
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. Poll conducted in October 2023 37 participants 72 titles received 25+ points 176 titles in total -
Pixar Directors Recommend: Films for Families (All Ages)
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. "Kids deserve to watch great films, especially in these times. But where to turn when you need a quality watchlist of family films? Pixar to the rescue! A bunch of the renowned studio’s filmmakers have shown up in your hour of need, to make personal recommendations from the Pixar vault and far beyond, separated into three age groupings: All Ages, 7 to 12 Years and 12 Years and Over. The films are shown in alphabetical* order by date of release. Enormous thanks to Angus MacLane (co-director of Finding Dory and director of BURN·E, Toy Story of Terror! and Small Fry), Domee Shi (director of Bao), Kristen Lester (director of Purl), Daniel Chong (story artist on Cars 2, Inside Out, Toy Story of Terror!, and creator of We Bare Bears!), Peter Sohn (director of The Good Dinosaur), Valerie LaPointe (Head of Story on Toy Story 4, director of Lamp Life), Brian Fee (director of Cars 3), Enrico Casarosa (director of La Luna), and Andrew Stanton (director of WALL·E, Finding Nemo and Finding Dory). A note about this all-ages list: the films have been chosen with under-sixes in mind, but don’t write them off as movies for babies! Jacques Tati, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Studio Ghibli films feature here—they’re obviously suitable for the whole family. We encourage you to read the notes to see individual director recommendations (and some explanations!). For age groupings, you know your children best so explore all three lists and screen at your discretion. We cross-checked the age groupings with Common Sense Media, and then asked children’s film specialist Nicola Marshall to finesse them. Read more from Nicola in our blog." Note: The original list says "chronological order", but the films are clearly listed alphabetically by their title in English. Full list on iCM [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/pixars+picks+family+films/fergenaprido/]Pixar's Picks: Family Films[/url] The other lists on iCM [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/pixar+directors+recommend+films+for+families+7+to+12+years/fergenaprido/]Pixar Directors Recommend: Films for Families (7 to 12 Years)[/url] [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/pixar+directors+recommend+films+for+families+12+years+and+over/fergenaprido/]Pixar Directors Recommend: Films for Families (12 Years and Over)[/url] -
Films Fatale's The 100 Best Shot Films of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. November 1, 2021 WRITTEN BY ANDREAS BABIOLAKIS Movie is a casual term used for what was once commonly called the motion picture; films also works to describe the same storytelling medium. The point is that even before the films we know now came to be, they were once just twenty four still images per second, flipped in succession to create this illusion of movement. At its very core, it still is somewhat a photographical art form, with emphasis on framing, mise-en-scéne (the placement of focal points and other subjects within a shot to be aesthetically and narratively pleasing), and lighting and/or colour coordination. A lot of this is achieved by set design, makeup and hair, digital effects, and other external factors, but cinematography brings everything together in one visual amalgamation.There are many things to love about films, but cinematography goes as far back as the art form itself. I guess what I am saying is that this list is unquestionably the most difficult of the extra lists I have done on this site. I have quite possibly one hundred additional honourable mentions, and have had to cut so many films I adore because one hundred spots just aren’t enough. Alas, it is the satisfactory sounding number that I stuck with: the official one hundred that always makes lists of this nature sound important. Chances are you’re going to be livid with me, and I am mad at myself as well. These are the caveats of loving an endlessly plentiful medium like cinema, and trying to limit everything to barely a fraction of a percent of its entire history. If your favourite looking film isn't here, there is a high chance it was considered and appreciated, and reluctantly omitted. If anything, this list may have been even more painful to finalize than any of my film lists; yes, even the ‘60s one (which was the original most difficult list to conclude). When I say I was making final changed the night before this list was released, understand that I am writing this on Halloween. I don't need to celebrate this spooky holiday when my actual nightmares are already here. Anyway, let’s get down to business. What I’m looking for is a variety of qualifications. Firstly, how do these films look either in black-and-white or in colour? I am taking into consideration how much of these results are based on what is in front of the camera (like brightly coloured sets and outfits), which aren’t really a product of the camerawork itself; however, I am rewarding the photography that makes the most of these situations and enhances these setups as much as possible. Secondly, how is the camera movement (zooms, pans, dolly work and more), and does the photography still look good during these techniques? I’m also considering the usage of various shot techniques, angles, shadows, landscapes, profiles, and virtually any other photographical result one can achieve. Something that also makes this list difficult: being in the digital age. I’m trying to stray away from films that are strictly (or mostly) digital masterpieces like Avatar or Sin City: I want this to be as based on the actual capturing of physical subjects as possible. Alright, we may as well get this over with. As difficult as it was to narrow this list down, it makes me only happier with just how tight these following films are within this criteria. Here are the one hundred best shot films of all time. This Top 100 has 104 titles because: #25 includes Olympia parts 1 & 2 #27 includes the entire Three Colours trilogy #28 includes The Godfather parts 1 & 2 (but not 3) -
Metro Weekly's 13 Camp Films Everyone Should See
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. From Hollywood's golden age to John Waters's trash cinema, the camp films that define a genre By Sean Bugg, Will O'Bryan and Doug Rule February 22, 2012 Camp, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. For some, a camp movie is the unintentional hilarity of an earnest story gone wildly awry. For others, the best camp movies are those in which the camp is intentionally baked in from the beginning. We all know that a camp movie by definition is filled with quotable lines, like Divine’s ”I told you cha cha heels! Black ones!” But a movie with memorable quotes isn’t necessarily camp, like Steel Magnolias‘ ”Drink your juice, Shelby.” It’s just all so confusing. So when we set out to pick our favorite camp movies, we focused on the movies that we’ve watched over and over until they’ve become part of our queer pop-culture DNA. They’re the movies we watch with old friends and the movies we introduce to new friends. They’re the movies that over decades have become the shared cultural touchstones for everything gay. And, frankly, they’re simply and supremely silly, even if they’re trying not to be. These aren’t the movies that won Academy Awards (with one notable exception). They’re the movies that gave us an attitude. -
Top Must-See Tunisian Films
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Tunisia is not well known to the outside world for its cinematic culture. Unlike some of its neighbors such as Egypt, it does not have the same rich cinematic heritage. Yet there are several notable films that stand out above the crowd. They are a reflection of Tunisia’s society and culture, and provide social commentary on uncomfortable topics. Tunisia Live presents a selection of popular Tunisian movies from before and after the 2011 revolution. By Zeineb Marzouk | Dec 29 2014 -
Paste's The 100 Best Vampire Movies of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. By Mark Rozeman, Jim Vorel and Paste staff | September 26, 2022 | 11:11am Existing in some form or another for thousands of years, these blood-sucking creatures serve as one of horror’s most creatively flexible monsters. Besides ghoulish monsters, they can be charmers, warriors, sex symbols, sources of comedy, nihilistic philosophers and aliens. Though mostly confined to horror, vampires have also bleed their way into everything from slapstick comedy to award-winning dramas. Oftentimes, these seemingly villainous predators can even serve as sympathetic protagonists or badass antiheroes. Moreover, vampirism itself has stood in as a natural metaphor for a great number of motifs—drug or alcohol addiction, sex, racism, xenophobia, religion, economic disparity and mental illness, to name just a few. Popularized in folklore and books, the vampire were a natural fit for the silver screen. Today, Paste is counting down the 100 greatest vampire films that cinema has to offer. First—a few caveats. One, unlike Paste’s previous lists numbering film noirs) or cinematic robots, there are far fewer vampire movies that one could classify as being truly “Great.” This scarcity of quality means that some of the earlier entries might be more problematic than those in the latter segment. In such cases, we have ensured that each installment has something of worth to offer viewers, whether it’s a great visual style, a clever story twist, a standout performance or production design so laughably strange and half-baked that it veers into “so bad, it’s good” territory. The Paste writers have also strived to curate a diverse selection of choices. Granted, filmmakers like Mario Bava and institutions like England’s Hammer Film Productions will be making multiple appearances, but we’ve worked to bring in variety whenever possibly. What’s more, though erotic horror is obviously a popular vampire subgenre, it’s one that we weren’t able to fully dive into without feeling as though we needed to have our souls cleansed afterwards. So if we’ve overlooked your favorite vampire-lesbian erotica, we apologize in advance. Finally—no, none of the Twilight or Underworld films are on this list. (A stand had to be made.) -
Vulture's 55 Essential Queer Horror Films
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. By Jordan Crucchiola JUNE 26, 2018 From 1934 until 1967, Hollywood movies were shaped by the Production Code, otherwise known as the Hays Code. Written in 1930, but not implemented until four years later, this set of rules was generally intended to keep movies from “corrupting” the people who watched them. Given that homosexuality was considered either a physical or psychological malady in the early 20th century, the code effectively legislated any limited queer presence out of existence. While homosexuality was not explicitly banned in the Hays’ text, it was mandated that “no picture shall be produced that will lower the moral standards of those who see it. Hence the sympathy of the audience should never be thrown to the side of crime, wrongdoing, evil or sin.” It was also codified that only “correct standards of life” should be presented,” and that “sex perversion or any inference to it is forbidden.” In other words, for a long time, cinematic queers were pushed underground, relegated to existing only in subtext — and most often as villains. In order to get queer stories onscreen, filmmakers had to find creative ways to subvert the system. Horror films in particular have made for a fascinating case study in the evolving perceptions of queer presence; queer-horror filmmakers and actors were often forced to lean into the trope of the “predatory queer” or the “monstrous queer” to claim some sense of power through visibility and blatant expressions of sexuality. Below is a beginner’s guide to the most essential queer horror of the past 90 years. It also doubles as a timeline of the evolution of queer horror: How LGBTQA themes and characters went from hiding between the lines in movies with “gay sensibilities” in the 1930s to breaking out as Pride memes almost a century later — going from invisible (lesbian ghosts!) to closeted (literally, in the case of Dorian Gray) to fabulously out (who wouldn’t have given in to Catherine Deneuve’s Miriam Blaylock?), before finally being allowed to exist as multidimensional characters onscreen. From the coded abominations of James Whale’s taboo-skirting films of the 1930s to the Pride reign of The Babadook, here’s our guide to queer horror cinema. 1-7: The 1930s and 1940s — Fear the Queer Monsters 8-12: The 1950s — Kitschy Monsters and More Queer Subtext 13-17: The 1960s — Farewell to the Hays Code 18-22: 1970s — The Lesbian Vampires Are Loose! 23-32: 1980s — Resurgent Conservatism, the AIDS Crisis, and the Mainstreaming of Queer Culture 33-38: 1990s — New Queer Cinema and Gay Vampire Dads 39-47: 2000s — Out and (Getting) Proud 48-55: 2010s — They’re Here. They’re Queer. Get Used to It. -
ICM Forum Country Polls: Egypt
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. Poll conducted in September 2023 17 participants 23 titles received 25+ points 90 titles in total -
IFFK - Golden Crow Pheasant for Best Film
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. The International Film Festival of Kerala (abbreviated as IFFK) is a film festival held annually in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of Kerala, India. This film festival started in 1996 and is hosted by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy on behalf of Department of Cultural Affairs, Government of Kerala. The festival is held in November or December every year and is acknowledged as one of the leading cultural events in India. The FIAPF accredited the festival and a competition section was added to the event in 1999. The competition is limited to films produced in Asia, Africa or Latin America. The Golden Crow Pheasant Award: (Suvarna Chakoram) and a cash prize of Rs. 1,000,000/- (about US$20,000) to the best feature film to be shared equally by the director and the producer -
AMP's The 50 Best Chinese Language Films of the Decade (2011-2020)
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. The 50 Best Chinese Language (China, Hong Kong, Tibet, Bhutan, Taiwan) Films of the Decade (2011-2020) March 1, 2021 Panos Kotzathanasis Considering the political issues that torment the whole Sinophone world, and the ways all these countries (even this term is under consideration) are connected and clashing at the same time, coming up with a title and which films to include in that list is at least as difficult as winnowing the films in the list. Despite all the turmoil, however, films of utmost quality continue to come out from this region, if even the “Hollywood of the East” (aka Hong Kong) is definitely not in the place it used to be during the 90s, with the fact that Chinese “Better Days” and Taiwanese “A Sun” are shortlisted for the Oscar for Foreign Movie, highlighting the fact in the most eloquent fashion. In an effort to select some of the best Sinophone movies of the decade (2011-2020), we came up with 50 we felt were the ones that truly stand out in terms of quality, impact and sheer entertainment they offered. The order of this list could be different of course and the number much bigger, but our effort was towards presenting great films and not cataloguing all of them, always with a focus on diversity in style, themes, origin, and filmmaker -
Top 100 Egyptian Movies
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. List of 100 best Egyptian movies, based on a survey of Egyptian film critics in 1997. -
ICM Forum's Queer Members' Recommended Queer Films
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. A list of films recommended by some of the queer members of the Unofficial Film Forum for the June 2023 Queer Cinema Challenge. For more information on the individual films selected by each person, [url=https://forum.icmforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=812759#p812759]see this post[/url]. Missing from imdb/icm: The Art of Edith Surreal (2023) -
ICM Forum Country Polls: Greece + Cyprus
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Poll conducted in July 2023 25 participants 39 titles received 25+ points 125 titles in total -
Pixar Directors Recommend: Films for Families (12 Years and Over)
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. "Kids deserve to watch great films, especially in these times. But where to turn when you need a quality watchlist of family films? Pixar to the rescue! A bunch of the renowned studio's filmmakers have shown up in your hour of need, to make personal recommendations from the Pixar vault and far beyond, separated into three age groupings: All Ages, 7 to 12 Years and 12 Years and Over. Enormous thanks to Angus MacLane (co-director of Finding Dory and director of BURN·E, Toy Story of Terror! and Small Fry), Domee Shi (director of Bao), Kristen Lester (director of Purl), Daniel Chong (story artist on Cars 2, Inside Out, Toy Story of Terror!, and creator of We Bare Bears!), Peter Sohn (director of The Good Dinosaur), Valerie LaPointe (Head of Story on Toy Story 4, director of Lamp Life), Brian Fee (director of Cars 3), Enrico Casarosa (director of La Luna), and Andrew Stanton (director of WALL·E, Finding Nemo and Finding Dory). A note about this twelves-and-over list: the directors acknowledge some of their choices lean more ‘adult’, and advise discretion. “My kids love horror and I’m a bad parent. Anything horror. Even bad horror,” says Brian Fee, while Peter Sohn notes that his Hitchcock choices are “obviously for older kids, but I showed my kids The Empire Strikes Back and when they blew up C-3PO, that apparently was scarier than anything in Rear Window”. Meanwhile, Valerie LaPointe has included “an ’80s Extravaganza list for older kids. Guaranteed something offensive or ridiculous but great fodder for your children to mock your childhood. So naturally, I will force them upon my own children. Talking points!” We encourage you to read the notes to see individual director recommendations (and some explanations!). For age groupings, you know your children best so explore all three lists and screen at your discretion. We cross-checked the age groupings with Common Sense Media, and then asked children's film specialist Nicola Marshall to finesse them. Read more from Nicola in our blog." Full list on iCM [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/pixars+picks+family+films/fergenaprido/]Pixar's Picks: Family Films[/url] The other lists on iCM [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/pixar+directors+recommend+films+for+families+all+ages/fergenaprido/]Pixar Directors Recommend: Films for Families (All Ages)[/url] [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/pixar+directors+recommend+films+for+families+7+to+12+years/fergenaprido/]Pixar Directors Recommend: Films for Families (7 to 12 Years)[/url] -
ICM Forum Country Polls: Netherlands
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. Poll conducted in August 2023 25 participants 44 titles received 25+ points 205 titles in total -
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. -
Sight & Sound 2022 Poll - Films on all ballots
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. Temporary list, the title of which may also change Eventually this list will be composed of every single film appearing on a ballot for Sight & Sound's The Greatest Films of All Time 2022 poll. Still to be done: rectifying entries for trilogies and multiple films, the mess that is Twin Peaks nominations, and add missing films to imdb so they can be imported to icm. For official list determining purposes... Films on 5+ ballots: 1-833 (up to Zabriskie Point) Films on 4+ ballots: 1-1022 (up to Zimna wojna [Cold War]) Films on 3+ ballots: 1-1344 ( up to Zui hao de shi guang [Three Times]) Films on 2+ ballots: 1-1976 ( up to Ze soboty na neděli [From Saturday to Sunday]) Two 2-vote films are not yet on imdb: Fatima's Letter (1992 Alia Syed) Hayachine no fu [Ode to Mount Hayachine/The Poem of Hayachine Valley] (1983 Sumiko Haneda) Video games nominated so cannot be imported to icm (all with only 1 vote): Bioshock (2007) Home - A VR Spacewalk (2016) Notes on Blindness (2016) More data and statistics are available in a [url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11BGihZPt8niqlBCpnXEh3yCEe9jzes9uoi6GU690PqU/edit?usp=sharing]Google Spreadsheet[/url], including male/female divide, country representation, and more (also a work in progress). Also taking requests for stats. Send a PM or comment on the [url=https://forum.icmforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=5795&view=unread#unread]ICM Forum Thread about this poll[/url] -
Inside Kino's The Most Successful German Films Since 1962
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. Fritz has the [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/all-time+german+box+office+hits/fritz/]Top 50 already on icm[/url], but I was interested in the Top 100. As of: August 23, 2020 All information relates to the Federal Republic of Germany (GDR results are not taken into account). German films and co-productions released after January 1, 1962 are taken into account. The ranking is sorted by number of admissions, not amount of money. Most of the pre-1980 films are estimates. Hunger Games - Mocking Jay Part 2 specifically states 3D. -
ICM Forum Country Polls: Argentina
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Poll conducted in May 2023 31 participants 56 titles received 25+ points 217 titles in total -
ICM Forum Country Polls: China
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Poll conducted in April 2023 29 participants 55 titles received 25+ points 230 titles in total -
Bored Panda's 100 Of The Weirdest Movies Of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. May 2022 Saimonas Lukošius and Justė Kairytė - Barkauskienė Is the titillation of Hollywood production beyond you? No longer interested in just some basic European cinema? Looking for something new, unexplored, and uncharted? Well, then you are exactly in the right place, for we’ve rounded up the weirdest movies of all time that will check each of the boxes of good old kooky surrealist cinema. We’ve already made a list dedicated to freaky movies, but weird movies fall into an entirely different category. If the freaky ones are often gory or violent, then these kooky gems will most definitely mess with your head, your eyes, or your perception of reality. These unique movies often rely on visual metaphors or hidden meanings, so they are also quite a heavy watch in their own right. No, they most likely will not make you cringe or cover your eyes, but they will nonetheless shake you to your core. And how could they not when you have such grand movies as The Holy Mountain and Inland Empire right at the top with less-known glorious black humor absurdities like Conspirators Of Pleasure or Sweet Movie a bit further down? I think we can agree that this selection will cater to the needs of even the most accomplished cinephile, and if it doesn’t - then add in the unique movies we’ve missed, would you? So, the weirdest movies of all time are just a smidgen down below, as always. Vote for the surrealist films that tickled your fancy, and share this article with all the cinema connoisseurs that you know! -
Sight & Sound 2022 - Directors' Poll Top 100
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. Placeholder list for now since I don't see it added elsewhere on icm yet -
Wolfcrow's 100 Films to See for Cinematography
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Great films all filmmakers and cinematographers must see for cinematography. By wolfcrow. [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zer1JOOxZQ]Watch the video on YouTube[/url] Criteria for grading a film on cinematography Most people, even filmmakers who should know better, have the erroneous notion that cinematography is all about pretty pictures. Not true. Cinematography has multiple disciplines. I’m looking for mastery over all disciplines. Truly great cinematography is also pioneering, and advances the art and craft of filmmaking. [url=https://wolfcrow.com/what-is-cinematography/]Here’s my definition of cinematography[/url]. Here are the four disciplines I’ve considered: 1 Film lighting artistry Film lighting decides how everything looks. To get a perfect score in this category the film must have pioneering lighting. What if there’s no artificial lighting? In that case I consider natural lighting, practicals and exposure. 2 Camera angles artistry Composition is important in photography. In cinematography, composition is the art of framing multiple shots that need to be combined as a coherent whole. Most times these shots are from different angles. Sometimes it’s just a fixed angle, and sometimes there’s motion, too. Finding the right angle is hard. Finding it consistently over an entire film is genius. A perfect score in this category signifies the film broke new ground in composition, camera angles and blocking. 3 Camera movement artistry When you add camera movement, things get really tricky. To paraphrase Orson Welles in gender neutral terms, that’s what separates the greats from the pretenders. To get a perfect score a film must either advance the art and craft of camera motion. In other words, every frame a painting, even when it moves. What if there’s no camera movement? The score reflects camera angles artistry. After all, restraint is much the hallmark of art as abandon. However, when deciding between two movies of other equally great cinematography disciplines, the one that utilized camera movement gets the advantage, because it’s that much harder. 4 Color design artistry A great part of cinematography is production design. Attention paid to the color palette pays off with a more coherent world and mood. Why must it not be rewarded? To get a perfect score here the colors must have advanced the art of cinematography. Movies shot on film get the benefit here, because most things had to be done on set. Color timing wasn’t as precise as the color grading tools we have today. What if there’s no color? A significant portion of great cinematography is in black and white. One can approach this from two perspectives. Either one assumes that filming in color is tougher, because the added element of color makes everything harder. On the other hand you can assume that black and white has its own language, and it must be treated on par with color. I decided to go with a compromise you might not agree with, but works for me. I averaged the scores of the other three categories and that’s what black and white films get under the color category. Strangely, it doesn’t lead to unexpected results. A more direct comparison is impossible anyway. What happens when there’s a tie? I value film over digital. I value the year the film was made, and otherwise I value camera movement above other departments because it just makes all the other cinematography disciplines that much harder to perfect as well. When you move the camera, lighting becomes more complicated, camera angles become harder to pull off, and color needs to be perfect. I value color second, film lighting third, and camera angles fourth. Don’t get me wrong. Camera angles artistry is critically important, and is the foundation of cinematography. However, it is also the one with convention to guide you. It’s a safety net that other disciplines don’t have. -
Stacker's 100 Best International Movies of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. WRITTEN BY: Molly Pennington April 24, 2021 From 'Metropolis' to 'Parasite': 100 best international movies of all time International cinema has always had a profound influence on American movies. At the same time, many of the great films in languages other than English retool the styles and genres of popular American movies. Have you ever forgotten you were reading subtitles as you were swept up in the action on screen? Westerns, film noirs, and even romances tap into universal visual languages of movement, action, and emotion that draw in worldwide audiences. Stacker’s list of the 100 best international movies includes the science fiction masterpiece of German Expressionist style, “Metropolis,” with its epic, futuristic city and iconic robot gone bad. You’ll also find the smash hit “Parasite,” a taut thriller from South Korea that captured acclaim across the globe for its suspenseful, tragicomic look at two families from different classes. We feature work from major auteurs of European cinema like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut of the French New Wave, Vittorio De Sica of Italian neorealism, and Spanish surrealist Luis Buñuel. Our list also includes major Japanese masterpieces from Akira Kurosawa, Masaki Kobayashi, and Hirokazu Koreeda, Hong Kong cinema’s Wong Kar-wai, Tawainese auteurs Ang Lee and Edward Yang, and contemporary films from South Korea’s Lee Chang-dong and Bong Joon-ho. International cinema often has a political or philosophical bent—a rebel core—as it frequently explores the human condition within histories of oppression. While African cinema and women directors are underrepresented on this list and across the international film festival circuit, Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” from France in 2019 masterfully reinvents ideas around gendered gaze. Get ready for films you’ve heard about and obscure gems that just may become your new cinematic obsession. Stacker compiled data (from July 2020) on all international movies to come up with a Stacker score—a weighted index split evenly between IMDb and Metacritic scores. To qualify, the film had to be directed by a non-American, be primarily in a language other than English, have a Metascore, and have at least 5,000 votes. Ties were broken by Metascore, and further ties were broken by IMDb user rating. Stacker’s list combines the scores from critics and audiences to give you a sense of a movie’s greatness. Check out our list to see what you’ve already watched—and what great and underappreciated must-see to add to your watchlist. -
Russia Beyond's Top 100 Russian and Soviet Movies
Favs/dislikes: 1:1. You can’t consider yourself a film buff unless you’ve seen at least half of these movies. We’ve arranged them from plain good to absolute masterpieces and timeless classics that have become part of the Russian psyche. The 5 Sherlock Holmes miniseries are counted as one entry at #8. Ivan Groznyy only includes to part one; part two was referenced but not included in the list.
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