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IMDb's Thriller Top 50
Favs/dislikes: 261:8. Thrillers are often hybrids with other genres - there are action-thrillers, western-thrillers, film-noir thrillers, even romantic comedy-thrillers. Another closely-related genre is the horror film genre. Thriller and suspense films are virtually synonymous and interchangeable categorizations. They are types of films known to promote intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-wracking tension. The acclaimed Master of Suspense is Alfred Hitchcock. Spy films may be considered a type of thriller/suspense film. -
MovieSense 101
Favs/dislikes: 210:8. The 101 top movies as chosen by the readers and editors of MovieSense.nl [url=http://www.moviescene.nl/p/60662/moviesense_101_de_beste_101_films]Source[/url] -
The Times's 100 Best French Films
Favs/dislikes: 173:8. The 100 best French Films as chosen by The Times(UK), chosen in groups of ten films: Modern Classics, Modern Cults, Dramas, Romances, Thrillers, Comedies, Nouvelle Vague, Landmarks, Shorts, and Icons. [url=http://web.archive.org/web/20051029151003/http://e-paper.timesonline.co.uk:80/frenchfilm/1/articles/artikel_TMXA_1XA_20050409_1_39.html]Source[/url] -
Academy Award - Best Picture Nominees
Favs/dislikes: 496:7. This list contains all movies that have been nominated for Best Picture in the Academy Awards. [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture#Winners_and_nominees]Source[/url] -
Amanda Award - Best Norwegian Film
Favs/dislikes: 32:7. The Norwegian film award [url=http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000876/]Source[/url] -
BFI Flare's The Best LGBTQ+ Films of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 99:7. In celebration of their 30th anniversary, in 2016, the London LGBT Film Festival BFI Flare conducted a poll of over 100 programmers, critics and filmmakers asking for a top 10 list of the best LGBT films. Contains all films with at least 3 votes. [url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/30-best-lgbt-films-all-time]Source[/url] -
IMDb's 1910s Top 50
Favs/dislikes: 87:7. Movies really started making an impact in the 1910s, with audiences demanding more complicated plots and more information on the stars. This led to the rise of the great studios and the construction of many movie theaters. It was also a decade of innovation, with both the technology and the medium itself. D.W. Griffith's epic Birth of a Nation in particular helped film-making make a giant leap forward. The most popular genres were westerns, melodramas and slapstick comedies. -
IMDb's 1980s Top 50
Favs/dislikes: 223:7. The decade of the 1980s tended to consolidate the gains made in the seventies rather than to initiate any new trends. Designed and packaged for mass audience appeal, few 80s films became what could be called 'classics'. The era was characterized by the introduction of 'high-concept' films - with cinematic plots that could be easily characterized by one or two sentences (25 words or less) - and therefore easily marketable and understandable. The 80s also were the decade in which the sequel-mania really took off, which often resulted in hastily-made, inferior knockoffs made by lesser film-makers. -
IMDb's Drama Top 50
Favs/dislikes: 248:7. Dramas are serious, plot-driven presentations, portraying realistic characters, settings, life situations, and stories involving intense character development and interaction. Usually, they are not focused on special-effects, comedy, or action, Dramatic films are probably the largest film genre, with many subsets. See also the melodramas, epics (historical dramas), or romantic genres. Dramatic biographical films (or "biopics") are a major sub-genre, as are 'adult' films (with mature subject content). -
IMDb's Fantasy Top 50
Favs/dislikes: 273:7. Fantasy films, usually considered a sub-genre, are most likely to overlap with the film genres of science fiction and horror, although they are distinct. Fantasies take the audience to netherworld places (or another dimension) where events are unlikely to occur in real life - they transcend the bounds of human possibility and physical laws. They often have an element of magic, myth, wonder, and the extraordinary. -
IMDb's Music Top 50
Favs/dislikes: 105:7. Music films contain music performances by the cast, but necessarily not with a focus on a full-scale scores or song and dance routines (for which the musical genre exists). A music film may even be a concert recording. -
366 Weird Movies
Favs/dislikes: 532:6. Celebrating the cinematically surreal, bizarre, cult, oddball, fantastique, strange, psychedelic, and the just plain WEIRD! [url=http://366weirdmovies.com/category/weird-movies/]Source[/url] -
Anthology Film Archives's Essential Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 88:6. A very special series of films screened on a repertory basis, the Essential Cinema Repertory collection consists of programs of shorts and hundreds of features assembled in 1970-75 by Anthology’s Film Selection Committee – James Broughton, Ken Kelman, Peter Kubelka, P. Adams Sitney, and Jonas Mekas. It was an ambitious attempt to define the art of cinema. The project was never completed but even in its unfinished state the series provides an uncompromising critical overview of cinema’s history. The titles are still being screened under the brand of "Essential Cinema". Now and then additional titles are added to the collection. [url=http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/about/essential-cinema]Source[/url] -
FESPACO Film Festival - Étalon de Yennenga
Favs/dislikes: 27:6. Started in 1969 to celebrate the burgeoning cinema of the African continent, the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) is a biannual festival for African films. They began awarding the "Étalon de Yennenga" (Stallion of Yennenga) as the festival's top film prize in 1972. [url=https://fespaco.org/]Source[/url] -
Hürriyet's The 100 Best Movies of Turkish Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 45:6. In 2017, Hurriyet asked 100 directors, actors, produces, and film writers to vote for the 100 best Turkish films. See [url=https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/kelebek/keyif/iste-100-kisilik-buyuk-jurinin-en-iyi-10-film-tercihleri-40406840]this page[/url] for the ballots. There are 102 titles because Gelin/Dugun/Diyet are listed as 1 entry. -
IMDb's 1930s Top 50
Favs/dislikes: 127:6. The 1930s decade has been nostalgically labeled "The Golden Age of Hollywood" (although most of the output of the decade was black-and-white). The 30s was also the decade of the sound and color revolutions and the advance of the 'talkies', and the further development of film genres (gangster films, musicals, newspaper-reporting films, historical biopics, social-realism films, lighthearted screwball comedies, westerns and horror to name a few). It was the era in which the silent period ended, with many silent film stars not making the transition to sound. It was in the 30s that Disney produced the first feature-length animated film, an animation hallmark. -
IMDb's Adventure Top 50
Favs/dislikes: 221:6. Adventure films are usually exciting stories, with new experiences or exotic locales, very similar to or often paired with the action film genre. They can include traditional swashbucklers, serialized films, and historical spectacles (similar to the epics film genre), searches or expeditions for lost continents, "jungle" and "desert" epics, treasure hunts, disaster films, or searches for the unknown. -
IMDb's Crime Top 50
Favs/dislikes: 217:6. Crime (gangster) films are developed around the sinister actions of criminals or mobsters, particularly bankrobbers, underworld figures, or ruthless hoodlums who operate outside the law, stealing and murdering their way through life. Criminal and gangster films are often categorized as film noir or detective-mystery films - because of underlying similarities between these cinematic forms. This category includes a description of various 'serial killer' films. -
AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs
Favs/dislikes: 134:5. Through the collective judgment of 1,500 leaders from across the American film community - screenwriters, directors, actors, producers, cinematographers, editors, executives, film historians and critics -, AFI has identified 100 movies that are considered the funniest. A wide array of funny films — from slapstick comedy to romantic comedy; from satire and black comedy to musical comedy; from comedy of manners to comedy of errors — were nominated for this distinction. [url=http://www.afi.com/100Years/laughs.aspx]Source[/url] -
Ariel Award - Best Mexican Film
Favs/dislikes: 29:5. The Ariel is the Mexican Academy of Film Award. It has been awarded annually since 1947. The award recognizes excellence in motion picture making, such as acting, directing and screenwriting in Mexican cinema. It is considered the most prestigious award in the Mexican movie industry. The name "Ariel" was inspired by a series of short writings called El Ariel by Uruguayan writer José Enrique Rodó that inspired generations of young Latin Americans in the first decades of the 20th century. [url=http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000001/]Source[/url] -
BFI's 100 Animated Feature Films
Favs/dislikes: 172:5. This list is from Andrew Osmond's book [url=http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_17635.html]100 Animated Feature Films[/url] (2011). "Andrew Osmond provides an entertaining and illuminating guide to the endlessly diverse styles, cultures, and visions of the genre, with entires on 100 of the most interesting and important animated films from around the world, from the 1920s to the present day." [url=http://shop.bfi.org.uk/books/100-animated-feature-films-book.html#.Wgyw3GhSzIU]Source[/url] -
Cahiers du Cinéma's Annual Top 10 Lists
Favs/dislikes: 264:5. Cahiers du cinéma is an influential French film magazine founded in 1951. The magazine has picked its top ten films of the year, most years. Top ten films were not picked in the years 1952-1954, 1969-1980, and in the year 2003. Rankings can be viewed in my source list URL, or via the link provided in the comments section. In some cases, films tie for a certain spot in the yearly top 10; for example, 2012's #4 spot is tied between three films (consequently, there is no #5 or #6). Some directors definitely appear to be heavily preferred by those responsible for selecting the list. This list does not include the special "best of 1990s" and "best of 2000s" decade lists, though most of those twenty films are included here. (The exceptions are David Lynch's TV show Twin Peaks on the 1990s list, and Gus Van Sant's Elephant, Abdellatif Kechiche's The Secret of the Grain, and Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds on the 2000s decade list.) Other anomalies: The TV show "24" tied for the #10 spot in 2002, along with Gus Van Sant's Gerry. Gerry also tied for #6 on the 2004 list. A TV episode "Travolta et moi" (dir. Patricia Mazuy) from the show "Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge..." was selected as #6 in 1994. Claire Denis' episode "US Go Home" from the same series rated #9 in 1994. Raul Ruiz's Les trois couronnes du matelot (Three Crowns of the Sailor) tied for #7 in 1983 and tied for #8 in 1982. 1968's #4 spot for Histoires extraordinaires is specifically for Federico Fellini's segment "Toby Damnit." 1965's #4 spot for Paris vu par... is specifically for the Jean Rouch episode. 1959's #3 spot was claimed by Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible. Since Part II was released in 1958, it is possible that the award was for Part II, but since my sources didn't specify a part and both parts may have been shown together, I have included Parts I & II in the list. Love it or hate it, here it is... [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahiers_du_cin%C3%A9ma%27s_Annual_Top_10_Lists]Source[/url] -
Cine.gr's The Best of Greek Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 30:5. In 2011, 6 cine.gr editors published their [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/cine.grs+the+best+of+greek+cinema+preface/mjf314/]lists of the top 10 Greek films[/url], followed by a list of the top 60 Greek films (not compiled from the 6 lists but a separate list). This is the top 60 list. The list was published in 3 parts: [url=http://www.cine.gr/article.asp?id=11261]60-41[/url], [url=http://www.cine.gr/article.asp?id=11275]40-21[/url], [url=http://www.cine.gr/article.asp?id=11276]20-1[/url]. [url=http://www.cine.gr/article.asp?id=11276]Source[/url] -
Cinema Tropical's Best Latin American Films 2000-2009
Favs/dislikes: 61:5. This list a list of the Top Latin American Films of the Decade (2000-2009), is based on a survey of distinguished critics, scholars and film professionals based in the New York City area. The list has been compiled by Cinema Tropical. [url=https://www.cinematropical.com/10-best-films-aughts]Source[/url] -
Grindhouse Cinema Database's Top Grindhouse Classics
Favs/dislikes: 120:5. This list has been compiled by aggregating the movies in three different lists: [url=http://www.grindhousedatabase.com/index.php/The_Deuce_Top_20_(2007-08)]The Deuce Top 20 (2007-08)[/url], [url=http://www.grindhousedatabase.com/index.php/The_Deuce_Top_20_(2008-09)]The Deuce Top 20 (2008-09)[/url] and [url=http://www.grindhousedatabase.com/index.php/Quentin_Tarantino%27s_Top_20_Grindhouse_Classics]Quentin Tarantino's Top 20 Grindhouse Classics[/url]. The movies in this list all belong to classic international exploitatation/cult cinema movies.
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