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Time Out's The 100 Best French Films
Favs/dislikes: 102:2. The 100 best French films according to a diversified professional jury, published in Timeout France. [url=https://www.timeout.fr/paris/films/100-meilleurs-films-francais-home]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] -
Tom Vick's Asian Cinema: A Field Guide
Favs/dislikes: 95:0. Asian Cinema: A Field Guide (2007) by Tom Vick is a book about the history of cinema in various regions throughout Asia. This is a list of films mentioned in the book. [b]Part One: The Old Guard[/b] China: Tradition and Resistance (#1-76) Japan: Cinema of Extremes (77-268) India: All That and then Some (269-358) [b]Part Two: Postwar Booms[/b] Hong Kong: The Fine Art of Popular Cinema (359-453) Korea: Rising from the Ashes of History (454-578) [b]Part Three: Recent Arrivals[/b] Iran: A Continuing Conversation (579-637) Taiwan: The Little Island that Could (638-682) [b]Part Four: New Players[/b] [b]South and Southeast Asia: Coming Into Focus[/b] Bangladesh (683 & 684), Bhutan (685 & 686), Cambodia (687-689), Indonesia (690-696), Malaysia and Singapore (697-711), Nepal (712 & 713), Pakistan (714), The Philippines (715-739), Sri Lanka (740-744), Thailand (745-774), Tibet (775-780), Vietnam (781-792) [b]Central Asia and the Middle East: Global Intersections[/b] The Former Soviet Republics, Afghanistan, and Mongolia (793-808), The Middle East (809–841), Turkey (842-852) [b]Part Five: Where to Go from Here[/b] (List of websites and books) [url=https://www.amazon.com/Asian-Cinema-A-Field-Guide/dp/0061145858/]Source[/url] See the [url=http://www.imdb.com/list/ls070806393/]IMDb list[/url] description for a list of films missing from IMDb. -
IMDb's Sport Top 50
Favs/dislikes: 94:8. Films that have a sports setting (football or baseball stadium, arena, or the Olympics, etc.), event (the 'big game,' 'fight,' 'race,' or 'competition'), and/or athlete (boxer, racer, surfer, etc.) that are central and predominant in the story. Sports films may be fictional or non-fictional; and they are a hybrid sub-genre category, although they are often dramas or comedy films, and occasionally documentaries or biopics. -
Marshall Julius's Action! The Action Movie A-Z
Favs/dislikes: 94:10. The "250 key movies" rated and reviewed in the book [i]Action! The Action Movie A-Z[/i] (1997) by Marshall Julius. Author's ratings: 1-14 *****, 15-22 ****½, 23-51 ****, 52-92: ***½, 93-140: ***, 141-182: **½, 183-211 **, 212-226 *½, 227-244 *, 245-250 ½ "Vengeful cops and car chases, lunatic villains and martial arts masters, male-bonding, gun fights and super secret agents, swords and sorcerers, wartime Nazi-bashing, boys' own adventures, casual destruction and general death-defiance... this is what we want to see, and if you feel the same way, "Action!" is for you, a fan's guide to the wackiest genre of 'em all, with 250 key movies rated and reviewed" -Introduction [url=https://www.amazon.com/Action-The-Movie-A-Z/dp/0253210917]Source[/url] -
Berlin International Film Festival - Golden Bear
Favs/dislikes: 91:2. Up to 400 films are shown every year as part of the Berlinale's public programme, the vast majority of which are world or European premieres. Films of every genre, length and format can be submitted for consideration. The Golden Bear (German Goldener Bär) is the highest prize awarded for the best film shown during this festival. The first festival had a Golden Bear winner for each category: [url=https://www.berlinale.de/en/archive/jahresarchive/1951/03_preistraeger_1951/03_preistraeger_1951.html]drama, comedy, documentary, thriller & adventure, and music[/url] [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Bear]Source[/url] -
101 War Movies You Must See Before You Die
Favs/dislikes: 89:1. Steven Jay Schneider's 101 War Movies You Must See Before You Die The horror and the heroism of war has long been a staple of cinema and the background for many different story genres, from anti-war comedies such as M*A*S*H to the heroic feats of combat troops and fighter pilots played by the likes of John Wayne and other screen favorites. Here are the 101 most memorable war films ever produced. [url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7249742-101-war-movies-you-must-see-before-you-die]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] -
European Film Award - Best Film
Favs/dislikes: 88:1. The European Film Awards are presented annually by the European Film Academy to recognize excellence in European cinematic achievements. The awards are given in over ten categories of which the most important is the Film of the year. They are restricted to European cinema and European producers, directors, and actors. The awards were originally called the Felix Awards but the name was changed to the European Film Awards. [url=https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000230/overview/?ref_=ev_sa_1]Source[/url] -
IMDb's Mini-Series Top 50
Favs/dislikes: 88:18. The term "miniseries" is used to refer to a single finite story told in separately broadcast episodes. Before the term was coined, such a form was always called a "serial", in the same way that a novel appearing in episodes in successive editions of magazines or newspapers is called a serial. -
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. -
Sight & Sound's 75 Hidden Gems
Favs/dislikes: 87:1. As part of the Sight & Sound magazine's 75th anniversary, the editors asked 75 critics from around the world to select a single film that is "unduly obscure and worthy of greater eminence." [url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qJMgmiPnrXYlG_c1LzVXF0SlXGL89u0E/view?usp=sharing]Source[/url] -
Empire's The Greatest Movie Sequels
Favs/dislikes: 86:28. This list contains the greatest movie sequels as selected by the Empire Online website. Following the official definition of what a sequel is, it also includes movies that are not a second installment in a series. [url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/50greatestsequels/]Source[/url] -
Golden Foundation of Czech and Slovak Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 86:2. A poll conducted by more than 100 Czech film experts to determine the best and most important works of Czech and Slovak cinema. [url=http://web.archive.org/web/20090417060346/http:/www.uh.cz/p100/p100/anketa.htm]Source[/url] -
BFI's 100 Cult Films
Favs/dislikes: 85:1. "Some films should never have been made. They are too unsettling, too dangerous, too challenging, too outrageous and even too badly made to be let loose on unsuspecting audiences. Yet these films, from the shocking Cannibal Holocaust to the apocalyptic Donnie Darko, from the destructive Tetsuo to the awfully bad The Room, from the hilarious This Is Spı¨nal Tap to the campy Showgirls, from the asylum of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari to the circus of Freaks, from the gangs of The Warriors to the gangsters of In Bruges and from the flamboyant Rocky Horror Picture Show to the ultimate cool of The Big Lebowski, have all garnered passionate fan followings. Cult cinema has made tragic misfits, monsters and cyborgs, such as Edward Scissorhands or Blade Runner's replicants, heroes of our times. 100 Cult Films explains why these figures continue to inspire fans around the globe. Cult film experts Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik round up the most cultish of giallo, blaxploitation, anime, sexploitation, zombie, vampire and werewolf films, exploring both the cults that live hidden inside the underground (Nekromantik, Café Flesh) and the cult side of the mainstream (Dirty Dancing, The Lord of the Rings, and even The Sound of Music). 100 Cult Films is a true trip around the world, providing a lively and illuminating guide to films from more than a dozen countries, across nine decades, representing a wide range of genres and key cult directors such as David Cronenberg, Terry Gilliam and David Lynch." -
Tim Dirks's 100+ Most Controversial Films of All-Time
Favs/dislikes: 85:2. Films always have the ability to anger us, divide us, shock us, disgust us, and more. Usually, films that inspire controversy, outright boycotting, picketing, banning, censorship, or protest have graphic sex, violence, homosexuality, religious, political or race-related themes and content. They usually push the envelope regarding what can be filmed and displayed on the screen, and are considered taboo, "immoral" or "obscene" due to language, drug use, violence and sensuality/nudity or other incendiary elements. Inevitably, controversy helps to publicize these films and fuel the box-office receipts. [url=http://www.filmsite.org/controversialfilms.html]Source[/url] -
101 Gangster Movies You Must See Before You Die
Favs/dislikes: 83:1. -
The Spaghetti Western Database's Essential Top 50 Films
Favs/dislikes: 83:5. The top 50 best Spaghetti Westerns list has been compiled from 200 user-supplied top 20 lists at the spaghetti-western.net website. Last Updated: February 3, 2024. [url=https://forum.spaghetti-western.net/t/vote-for-our-official-top-20/190/3261]Source[/url] -
Golden Horse's 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films
Favs/dislikes: 78:1. In a 2010 survey, the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival asked 122 film professionals to vote for the 100 greatest Chinese-language films. Most of the voters were from Taiwan, but film professionals from Hong Kong and China and Chinese cinema experts from other countries participated as well. You can see the individual ballots on the [url=http://100.goldenhorse.org.tw/juries/]Golden Horse website[/url]. [url=http://100.goldenhorse.org.tw/]Source[/url] -
Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej's 100 Years of Polish Film
Favs/dislikes: 77:2. The Polish Film Institute created this list for the 100th anniversary of Polish cinema. The films were selected by Polish critics Rafał Marszałek and Andrzej Bukowiecki using the following criteria: "their acknowledged artistic value, national and international awards granted, the influence exerted within a certain film trend, and finally the attendance records indicating the interest aroused among the cinema goers." [url=http://web.archive.org/web/20101119083114/http://100latpolskiegofilmu.pl/en/movies/]Source[/url] -
National Board of Review Award - Best Film
Favs/dislikes: 76:2. The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures was founded in 1909 with the purpose of endorsing films of merit and champion the new. Every year since 1932 they have given an award to the film they deem the best of the year. [url=http://www.nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/2017/]Source[/url] -
BFI's 100 Film Musicals
Favs/dislikes: 75:1. "From the coming of sound to the 1960s, the musical was central to Hollywood production. Exhibiting – often in spectacular fashion – the remarkable resources of the Hollywood studios, musicals came to epitomise the very idea of 'light entertainment'. Films like Top Hat and 42nd Street, Meet Me in St. Louis and On the Town, Singin' in the Rain and Oklahoma!, West Side Story and The Sound of Music were hugely popular, yet were commonly regarded by cultural commentators as trivial and escapist. It was the 1970s before serious study of the Hollywood musical began to change critical attitudes and foster an interest in musical films produced in other cultures. Hollywood musicals have become less common, but the genre persists and both academic interest in and fond nostalgia for the musical shows no signs of abating. 100 Film Musicals provides a stimulating overview of the genre's development, its major themes and the critical debates it has provoked. While centred on the dominant Hollywood tradition, 100 Film Musicals includes films from countries that often tried to emulate the Hollywood style, like Britain and Germany, as well as from very different cultures like India, Egypt and Japan. Jim Hillier and Douglas Pye also discuss post-1960s films from many different sources which adapt and reflect on the conventions of the genre, including recent examples such as Moulin Rouge! and High School Musical, demonstrating that the genre is still very much alive." [url=http://shop.bfi.org.uk/books/bfi-screen-guides/100-film-musical-book.html#.Wg3fhGhSzIU]Source[/url] -
BFI's 100 Road Movies
Favs/dislikes: 72:0. From the earliest days of American cinema, the road movie has been synonymous with American culture and the image America has presented both to itself and the world. But the road movie is not uniquely American, and other national cinemas have offered their own take, adapting it to reflect their own sensibilities and geographies. Whatever its nationality, the road movie has presented a means by which to challenge and confront convention, remaining an ever-changing, fascinating metaphor for life. Beginning with an expansive essay tracing its historical development, "100 Road Movies" provides a comprehensive guide to the development of what is perhaps one of the most enduring, popular, and reflexive of sub-genres. -
LoveHKFilm.com's The Best Hong Kong Films Ever
Favs/dislikes: 72:3. In 2012, LoveHKFilm.com asked its readers to vote for the best Hong Kong films ever. 166 people participated - mostly normal fans, but also some film fest personnel and producers. This was LoveHKFilm.com's final poll, following three decade polls ([url=http://www.lovehkfilm.com/blog/damnyoukozo/2010/01/07/top-50-of-the-decade-postmortem-full-list-stats-and-other-stuff/]2000s[/url], [url=http://www.lovehkfilm.com/blog/damnyoukozo/2010/04/08/top-100-of-the-nineties-postmortem-full-list-plus-random-notes/]1990s[/url], [url=http://www.lovehkfilm.com/blog/damnyoukozo/2012/03/31/top-100-hong-kong-films-of-the-eighties-postmortem-full-list-stats/]1980s[/url]). [url=http://www.lovehkfilm.com/blog/damnyoukozo/2013/05/04/the-best-hong-kong-films-ever-postmortem-full-list-stats-apology/]Full list with points and runners up[/url] [url=http://www.lovehkfilm.com/blog/damnyoukozo/2012/12/17/the-best-hong-kong-films-ever-numbers-200-171/]Countdown with images and descriptions of each movie[/url] [url=http://www.lovehkfilm.com/blog/damnyoukozo/2013/01/03/the-best-hong-kong-film-performances-part-5-the-best-performance-ever-the-full-list/]Best performances[/url] -
Wei Jun Zi's 100 Classic Martial Arts Films
Favs/dislikes: 72:2. The best martial arts films, selected by critic Wei Jun Zi and published on Sohu.com in 2008. [url=http://yule.sohu.com/s2008/100gf/]Source[/url]
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