Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

Not Recommended

USA/Germany/Hungary

Feature Film

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Writers: Guillermo del Toro, Mike Mignola

Cinematographer: Guillermo Navarro

Composer: Danny Elfman

Cast: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Seth MacFarlane, Luke Goss, Anna Walton, Jeffrey Tambor

After thousands of years of peace, an Elf prince becomes determined to wage war against the human race; but Hellboy, now living in domestic bliss with Liz, certainly isn't about to allow him to just achieve his goal without a fight, in del Toro’s technically magnificent and sporadically entertaining sequel, which crucially misses (as it toys with Star Wars like silliness) the grounding in the human world of the first film. Iain.Stott

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Hellboy (2004)

Cautiously Recommended

USA/Czech Republic

Feature Film

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Writers: Guillermo del Toro, Peter Briggs, Mike Mignola

Cinematographer: Guillermo Navarro

Composer: Marco Beltrami

Cast: Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Selma Blair, Rupert Evans, Karel Roden, Jeffrey Tambor, Doug Jones, David Hyde Pierce

Hellboy, a large red demon raised by an American scientist at the The Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, finds that he must save the world, when a pair of ex-Nazis, bent on bringing forth Armageddon, attempt to open a gateway to hell, in del Toro’s mildly entertaining comic book movie, which just about manages to find the right balance between humour and action. Iain.Stott

Followed by Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008).

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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)

Recommended

USA/UK/Canada

Feature Film

Director: Edgar Wright

Writers: Michael Bacall, Edgar Wright, Bryan Lee O'Malley

Cinematographer: Bill Pope

Composer: Nigel Godrich

Cast: Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Mark Webber, Alison Pill, Ellen Wong, Jason Schwartzman, Johnny Simmons

When 22-year-old Torontan slacker Scott Pilgrim starts dating the pink-haired New Yorker Romona Flowers, he discovers that he must fight and defeat – in comic book/video game style – her seven evil exes for the privilege, in Edgar Wright’s exhaustingly exuberant and thoroughly entertaining adaptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley’s graphic novels, which is perhaps just a smidgen too long, as it runs out of steam a little towards the end when things begin to get just a tad repetitive. Iain.Stott

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Hairspray (2007)

Recommended

USA/UK

Feature Film

Director: Adam Shankman

Writers: Leslie Dixon, John Waters, Thomas Meehan, Mark O'Donnell

Cinematographer: Bojan Bazelli

Composer: Marc Shaiman

Cast: Nikki Blonsky, John Travolta, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Brittany Snow, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley, Queen Latifah, James Marsden

Based on Meehan and O'Donnell’s Broadway musical, which itself was based on John Waters’s 1988 film, Adam Shankman’s ebullient, thoroughly entertaining ‘60s set musical follows the progress of a plump Baltimore teenager, as she attempts to follow her dream of dancing on The Corny Collins Show, just as her social conscience is awakened by the racial inequality that she finds around her. Iain.Stott

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Tulpan (2008)

Recommended

Kazakhstan/Germany/Italy/Poland/Switzerland/Russia

Feature Film

Director: Sergei Dvortsevoy

Writers: Sergei Dvortsevoy, Gennadi Ostrovsky

Cinematographer: Jolanta Dylewska

Cast: Askhat Kuchinchirekov, Samal Yeslyamova, Ondasyn Besikbasov, Tulepbergen Baisakalov, Bereke Turganbayev, Nurzhigit Zhapabayev, Mahabbat Turganbayeva

Recently demobbed from the Russian navy, Asa returns to the Kazakh Steppe to live and work with his sister and her nomadic sheep herder husband, dreaming of one day having his own herd and his own home; but before he can strike out on his own, he must find a wife to take care of domestic duties, which is where the reluctant Tulpan comes into things, in Dvortsevoy’s gently funny and humanity-drenched docudrama-cum-rom-com. Iain.Stott

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The Social Network (2010)

Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: David Fincher

Writers: Aaron Sorkin, Ben Mezrich

Cinematographer: Jeff Cronenweth

Composers: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross

Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer, Max Minghella, Brenda Song, Rooney Mara, Rashida Jones

Filtered through a pair of multi-million dollar lawsuits, Fincher’s slickly entertaining film details the birth of social networking website Facebook, following the ups and downs of Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin as they go from Harvard notoriety to world domination/litigious acrimony in a very short space of time. Iain.Stott

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Jeanne Dielman (1975)

Essential Viewing

Belgium/France

Feature Film

Original Title: Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Writer/Director: Chantal Akerman

Cinematographer: Babette Mangolte

Cast: Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte

Akerman’s exquisitely composed minimalist exploration of female bourgeois desperation powerfully depicts three days in the life of a widowed Brussels housewife, who sexually services a middle-aged gentleman or two each afternoon in order to make ends meet, following her as she goes about her daily routine of cooking, cleaning, shopping, and looking after her dopey teenaged son. Iain.Stott

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Alexandra (2007)

Recommended

Russia/France

Feature Film

Original Title: Александра

Writer/Director: Aleksandr Sokurov

Cinematographer: Aleksandr Burov

Composer: Andrey Sigle

Cast: Galina Vishnevskaya, Vasily Shevtsov, Raisa Gichaeva

A lonely, elderly woman travels to occupied Chechnya to visit her army officer grandson who is stationed there; and with a great sense of self-determined curiosity, she explores the base and local town, asking straight questions to any and everybody, in Sokurov’s low-key, humanist war film. Iain.Stott

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Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)

Highly Recommended

Canada

Feature Film

Writer/Director/Cinematographer: Guy Maddin

Cast: Darcy Fehr, Melissa Dionisio, Amy Stewart, Tara Birtwhistle, Louis Negin, Mike Bell, David Stuart Evans

Guy Maddin, star of the Winnipeg Maroons ice hockey team, begins to murderously lose control of his fingers when he becomes mistakenly convinced that he has had the blue hands of the sexy and mysterious Meta’s dead father surgically attached by the aged Dr. Fusi, in Maddin’s funny, spellbinding, and thoroughly bonkers silent horror movie pastiche, a tale of hockey, murder, sex, and vengeance. Iain.Stott

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Floating Clouds (1955)

Highly Recommended

Japan

Feature Film

Original Title: 浮雲

Director: Naruse Mikio

Writers: Mizuki Yōko, Hayashi Fumiko

Cinematographer: Tamai Masao

Composer: Saitō Ichirō

Cast: Takamine Hideko, Mori Masayuki, Okada Mariko, Yamagata Isao, Nakakita Chieko, Katō Daisuke

A woman (Takamine, outstanding) suffers years of pain and humiliation when she reignites, upon her repatriation to Tokyo, an affair that had begun during the war in French Indochina with a married, philandering government worker (Mori, excellent), whose mistresses keep getting younger and younger, in Naruse’s exquisitely crafted and beautifully acted melodrama, which perhaps lacks the subtle power of his very finest work. Iain.Stott

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Day of the Outlaw (1959)

Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: André De Toth

Writers: Philip Yordan, Lee E. Wells

Cinematographer: Russell Harlan

Composer: Alexander Courage

Cast: Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise, Alan Marshal, Venetia Stevenson, David Nelson, Nehemiah Persoff, Jack Lambert

A ruthless cowboy, forsaken by the town that he helped to build, puts his grievances to one side when a band of outlaws, which is being chased across Wyoming’s snow-covered landscape by the cavalry, arrives in town, putting everyone’s life at risk, in De Toth’s tense, authentic-feeling, and thoroughly unpredictable western. Iain.Stott

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Bitter Victory (1957)

Cautiously Recommended

USA/France

Feature Film

Director: Nicholas Ray

Writers: René Hardy, Gavin Lambert, Nicholas Ray, Paul Gallico

Cinematographer: Michel Kelber

Composer: Maurice Le Roux

Cast: Richard Burton, Curd Jürgens, Ruth Roman, Raymond Pellegrin, Anthony Bushell, Alfred Burke, Sean Kelly

In Ray’s well acted and crafted though somewhat uninspired Second World War pic, a daring but stuttering raid on Rommel’s desert headquarters becomes complicated considerably by the fact that the two British officers leading it are both in love with the same woman – one is married to her, and the other was her lover at the outbreak of hostilities, but had not seen her again until just before the fateful operation. Iain.Stott

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Y Tu Mamá También (2001)

Recommended

Mexico/USA

Feature Film

Original Title: Y tu mamá también

Director: Alfonso Cuarón

Writers: Alfonso Cuarón, Carlos Cuarón

Cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki

Narrator: Daniel Giménez Cacho

Cast: Diego Luna, Gael García Bernal, Maribel Verdú

In the summer before they are due to start at university, two friends – one from a wealthy, powerful family and the other from more humble origins – take a road trip with a sexy twenty-something Spanish woman, who has just received two pieces of bad news, spending their days and nights having sex, smoking weed, and getting drunk, in Cuarón’s socially conscious coming-of-age tale, a gently funny and quietly devastating work. Iain.Stott

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Bewitched (2005)

Not Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: Nora Ephron

Writers: Delia Ephron, Nora Ephron, Sol Saks

Cinematographer: John Lindley

Composer: George Fenton

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Jason Schwartzman, Kristin Chenoweth, Heather Burns

A witch who has recently shunned her heritage for a life ordinariness (and possibly love) finds herself cast opposite a fading movie star in the retooling of ‘60s favourite Bewitched (1964-1972), swapping magic, excitement, and warlocks for egotists and sycophants, in Ephron’s sporadically entertaining if generally misfiring Hollywood satire, which should really have been played a tad straighter. Iain.Stott

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Late Autumn (1960)

Highly Recommended

Japan

Feature Film

Original Title: 秋日和

Director: Ozu Yasujirō

Writers: Noda Kōgo, Ozu Yasujirō, Satomi Ton

Cinematographer: Atsuta Yūharu

Composer: Saitō Kojun

Cast: Hara Setsuko, Tsukasa Yōko, Okada Mariko, Sada Keiji, Kuwano Miyuki, Mikami Shinichirō, Saburi Shin, Ryū Chishū

With gorgeously expressive mise en scène and some delightful performances, Ozu’s gently funny film follows the progress of three middle-aged friends as they conspire to find a suitable husband for the 24-year-old daughter of a deceased friend of theirs; but when she proves unenthusiastic, they shift their attentions to her mother, from whom the young woman appears reluctant to depart. Iain.Stott

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CFB's Top 5 Obscure Films of 1924 (2010)

1. L’Inhumaine (1924)
2. Help! (1924)
3. Life Caught Unawares (1924)
4. Crossing the Great Sagrada (1924)
5. Trip to Mars (1924)

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CFB's Top 20 Films of 1924 (2010)

1. The Last Laugh (1924)
2. Sherlock Jr. (1924)
3. The Navigator (1924)
4. Greed (1924)
5. The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
6. Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)
7. Girl Shy (1924)
8. Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild’s Revenge (1924)
9. The Marriage Circle (1924)
10. He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
11. Entr’acte (1924)
12. Michael (1924)
13. Waxworks (1924)
14. Aeita: Queen of Mars (1924)
15. The Iron Horse (1924)
16. The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924)
17. Peter Pan (1924)
18. Hot Water (1924)
19. The Saga of Gosta Berling (1924)
20. The Red Lily (1924)
21. Ballet Mecanique (1924)
22. The Hands of Orlac (1924)
23. Symphonie Diaganale (1924)

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Michael (1924)

Not Recommended

Germany

Feature Film

Director: Carl Th. Dreyer

Writers: Carl Th. Dreyer, Thea von Harbou, Herman Bang

Cinematographers: Karl Freund, Rudolph Maté

Composer: Pierre Oser (1993)

Cast: Benjamin Christensen, Walter Slezak, Nora Gregor, Robert Garrison, Max Auzinger

A near destitute Russian countess comes between a renowned middle-aged painter and his muse, the eponymous aspiring artist, when she persuades the old master to paint her portrait, which at first inspires feelings of jealousy in Michael, before he falls for her himself and they leave the old man all alone to paint his magnum opus, in Dreyer’s strangely uninvolving melodrama, which lacks the light touch of his later masterpieces. Iain.Stott

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The L-Shaped Room (1962)

Recommended

UK

Feature Film

Director: Bryan Forbes

Writers: Bryan Forbes, Lynne Reid Banks

Cinematographer: Douglas Slocombe

Cast: Leslie Caron, Tom Bell, Brock Peters, Cicely Courtneidge, Avis Bunnage, Patricia Phoenix, Gerald Sim, Emlyn Williams

An unmarried pregnant 27-year-old French woman, who has yet to decide whether to keep her baby or not, moves into a crumbling boarding house, filled with fellow misfits and outcasts, and forms a number of friendships, including a tentative romance with a struggling young writer, in Forbes’s gentle, touching, and beautifully acted coming-of-age tale. Iain.Stott

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Pyaasa (1957)

Essential Viewing

India

Feature Film

Original Title: प्यासा

Director: Guru Dutt

Writer: Abrar Alvi

Cinematographer: V.K.Murthy

Composers: S.D. Burman, Sahir Ludhianvi

Cast: Guru Dutt, Mala Sinha, Waheeda Rehman, Rehman, Johnny Walker, Kum Kum, Leela Misra

Vijay, a down-on-his-luck poet, struggles vainly to get his compositions published, but is met with nothing but hostility from all – including his uncaring elder brothers and, particularly, the vengeful husband of his university girlfriend, who is a successful publisher – except from his doting mother, his loyal friend Abdul, and a smitten tart-with-a-heart, Gulabo; but when he is mistakenly thought to have committed suicide, his work suddenly becomes the talk of the town, in Dutt’s dynamically directed, sumptuously shot, and affectingly acted musical melodrama, a socially conscious masterpiece. Iain.Stott

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Pripyat (1999)

Highly Recommended

Austria

Feature Documentary

Director/Cinematographer: Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Writers: Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Wolfgang Widerhofer

Documentarian Nikolaus Geyrhalter travels to Pripyat, the town in which the workers of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant lived prior to the disaster of 1986, examining with striking black and white photography the decaying remnants of the abandoned environment, meeting with those who make their living in the area and the few stubborn, elderly residents who still refuse to leave their homes, in this restrained yet very powerful documentary. Iain.Stott

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Total Sci-Fi Online: The 100 Greatest Horror Movies (2009)

1. The Shining (1980)
2. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
3. The Wicker Man (1973)
4. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
5. Psycho (1960)
6. Alien (1979)
7. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
8. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
9. Halloween (1978)
10. Jaws (1975)
11. Nosferatu (1922)
12. Suspiria (1977)
13. Don't Look Now (1973)
14. Dracula (1958)
15. An American Werewolf in London (1981)
16. The Haunting (1963)
17. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
18. The Wolf Man (1941)
19. The Omen (1976)
20. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
21. The Exorcist (1973)
22. The Innocents (1961)
23. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
24. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
25. Aliens (1986)
26. The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
27. The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920)
28. The Thing (1982)
29. Black Sunday (1960)
30. Evil Dead II (1987)
31. Repulsion (1965)
32. Dead of Night (1945)
33. Carrie (1976)
34. Ring (1998)
35. Hellraiser (1987)
36. The Fly (1986)
37. Duel (1971)
38. Gremlins (1984)
39. Let the Right One In (2008)
40. Poltergeist (1982)
41. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
42. Cat People (1942)
43. Frankenstein (1931)
44. The Birds (1963)
45. The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
46. Peeping Tom (1960)
47. Dracula (1931)
48. Friday the 13th (1980)
49. Eyes Without a Face (1960)
50. Kwaidan (1964)
51. The Mummy (1932)
52. Village of the Damned (1960)
53. The Company of Wolves (1984)
54. Day of the Dead (1985)
55. Eraserhead (1977)
56. Witchfinder General (1968)
57. Martin (1977)
58. Night of the Demon (1957)
59. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
60. The Old Dark House (1932)
61. The Tenant (1976)
62. The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
63. Misery (1990)
64. White Zombie (1932)
65. The Last House on the Left (1972)
66. Island of Lost Souls (1932)
67. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
68. The Howling (1981)
69. The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
70. Vampyr (1932)
71. The Grudge (2002)
72. Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
73. Santa Sangre (1989)
74. Martyrs (2008)
75. The Black Cat (1934)
76. Braindead (1992)
77. The Devil Rides Out (1968)
78. Near Dark (1987)
79. Phantasm (1979)
80. This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse (1967)
81. Child's Play (1988)
82. The Descent (2005)
83. The Sixth Sense (1999)
84. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
85. House of Wax (1953)
86. Saw (2004)
87. Re-Animator (1985)
88. Salem's Lot (1979)
89. The Others (2001)
90. [•REC] (2007)
91. Brain Damage (1988)
92. Audition (1999)
93. Drag Me to Hell (2009)
94. Rabid (1977)
95. Scream (1996)
96. Switchblade Romance (2003)
97. Cemetery Man (1994)
98. Blood and Black Lace (1964)
99. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
100. Candyman (1992)

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Total Film: The 50 Greatest Horror Movies of All Time (2005)

1. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
2. Halloween (1978)
3. Suspiria (1977)
4. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
5. The Shining (1980)
6. Psycho (1960)
7. The Wicker Man (1973)
8. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
9. Don't Look Now (1973)
10. Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
11. The Thing (1982)
12. Carrie (1976)
13. The Exorcist (1973)
14. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
15. Witchfinder General (1968)
16. The Haunting (1963)
17. The Evil Dead (1981)
18. Peeping Tom (1960)
19. Alien (1979)
20. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
21. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
22. The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
23. Switchblade Romance (2003)
24. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
25. An American Werewolf in London (1981)
26. Night of the Demon (1957)
27. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
28. A Bay of Blood (1971)
29. Audition (1999)
30. Shivers (1975)
31. The Innocents (1961)
32. The Devil Rides Out (1968)
33. Les Diaboliques (1955)
34. Dead Ringers (1988)
35. Inferno (1980)
36. Martin (1977)
37. The Howling (1981)
38. Vampyr (1932)
39. Candyman (1992)
40. The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
41. Scream (1996)
42. Targets (1968)
43. The Sect (1991)
44. The Descent (2005)
45. Braindead (1992)
46. Hour of the Wolf (1968)
47. Eraserhead (1977)
48. Nekromantik (1987)
49. The Beyond (1981)
50. Hellraiser (1987)

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Time Out's 50 Greatest Animated Films

1. My Neighbour Totoro (1988)
2. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
3. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979)
4. Fantasia (1940)
5. Toy Story (1995)
6. Spirited Away (2001)
7. Yellow Submarine (1968)
8. Belleville Rendez-Vous (2003)
9. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (1999)
10. Robin Hood (1973)
11. Bambi (1942)
12. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
13. Dumbo (1941)
14. Gandahar (1988)
15. The Iron Giant (1999)
16. Akira (1988)
17. The Brave Little Toaster (1987)
18. The Jungle Book (1967)
19. When the Wind Blows (1986)
20. Pinocchio (1940)
21. Whisper of the Heart (1995)
22. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
    Coraline (2009)
23. Perfect Blue (1998)
24. The Incredibles (2004)
25. Watership Down (1978)
26. Princess Mononoke (1997)
27. Antz (1998)
    A Bug's Life (1998)
28. Persepolis (2007)
29. The Secret of NIMH (1982)
30. Porco Rosso (1992)
31. WALL·E (2008)
32. Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)
33. Aladdin (1992)
34. Ghost in the Shell (1995)
35. Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)
36. The Lord of the Rings (1978)
37. The Soldier's Tale (1984)
38. Ratatouille (2007)
39. Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (2007)
40. Animal Farm (1954)
41. FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992)
42. Fritz the Cat (1972)
43. Happy Feet (2006)
44. Waking Life (2001)
    A Scanner Darkly (2006)
45. The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
46. Paprika (2006)
47. Sleeping Beauty (1959)
48. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
49. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
50. Heavy Metal (1981)

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Time Out's 100 to Watch (2006)

• After Life (1998)
• L'Age d'Or (1930)
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
• Alphaville (1965)
• L'Atalante (1934)
• An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
• L'Avventura (1960)
• Beau Travail (1999)
• Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
• La Bête Humaine (1938)
• Bicycle Thieves (1948)
• Branded to Kill (1967)
• Cat People (1942)
• Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
• Chinatown (1974)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• Come and See (1985)
• The Conversation (1974)
• Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
• Days of Being Wild (1990)
• The Deer Hunter (1978)
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
• Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
• Double Indemnity (1944)
• Dracula (1931)
• The Elephant Man (1980)
• Eloge de l'Amour (2001)
• Eraserhead (1977)
• Far from Heaven (2002)
• Frankenstein (1931)
• The General (1927)
• Gloria (1980)
• The Godfather (1972)
• Godzilla (1954)
• Gohatto (1999)
• La Grande Illusion (1937)
• The Green Ray (1986)
• La Haine (1995)
• Hana-Bi (1997)
• Heat (1995)
• Imitation of Life (1959)
• In a Lonely Place (1950)
• In the Company of Men (1997)
• In the Mood for Love (2000)
• Insignificance (1985)
• Irma Vep (1996)
• Le Jour se Lève (1939)
• The Killers (1946)
• Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
• King Kong (1933)
• Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
• Knife in the Water (1962)
• Land and Freedom (1995)
• Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
• The Limey (1999)
• The Magnificent Seven (1960)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
• The Man Without a Past (2002)
• A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
• Metropolis (1927)
• My American Uncle (1980)
• My Neighbour Totoro (1988)
• Night and Fog (1955)
• The Night of the Hunter (1955)
• Ninotchka (1939)
• North by Northwest (1959)
• Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
• A One and a Two... (2000)
• Ordet (1955)
• Pickpocket (1959)
• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
• Rashomon (1950)
• Ratcatcher (1999)
• Sans Soleil (1983)
• The Scent of Green Papaya (1993)
• The Searchers (1956)
• Seven Samurai (1954)
• Sherlock Jr. (1924)
• Short Cuts (1993)
• Singin' in the Rain (1952)
• Some Like It Hot (1959)
• The Son (2002)
• Sonatine (1993)
• The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)
• Sullivan's Travels (1941)
• Sur Mes Lèvres (2001)
• Taxi Driver (1976)
• The Five Obstructions (2003)
• Things to Come (1936)
• Time Out (2001)
• Touch of Evil (1958)
• 2046 (2004)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
• Vertigo (1958)
• The Wild Bunch (1969)
• The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
• Witchfinder General (1968)
• Woman of the Dunes (1964)
• Z (1969)

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Time Out: The 50 Greatest World War II Movies

1. Come and See (1985)
2. The Thin Red Line (1998)
3. Das Boot (1981)
4. The Big Red One (1980)
5. Went the Day Well? (1942)
6. Kanal (1957)
   Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
   Cross of Iron (1977)
7. Rome, Open City (1945)
8. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
9. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
10. Hell in the Pacific (1968)
11. The Dirty Dozen (1967)
12. To Be or Not to Be (1942)
13. Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
14. Shoah (1985)
15. Listen to Britain (1942)
    Fires Were Started (1943)
16. Attack (1956)
17. The Army in the Shadows (1969)
18. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
19. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
20. Paratroop Command (1955)
21. Battle of Britain (1969)
22. Schindler's List (1993)
23. Kelly's Heroes (1970)
24. Night and Fog (1955)
25. Soldier of Orange (1977)
26. Black Book (2006)
27. Casablanca (1942)
28. Mephisto (1981)
29. The Great Escape (1963)
30. Ice-Cold In Alex (1958)
31. Downfall (2004)
32. Millions Like Us (1943)
33. The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
34. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
    Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
35. Germany, Pale Mother (1980)
36. Where Eagles Dare (1968)
37. Europa (1991)
38. A Walk in the Sun (1945)
39. The Pianist (2002)
40. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
41. Mr. Klein (1976)
42. Hannibal Brooks (1969)
43. Days of Glory (2006)
44. The Dam Busters (1955)
45. Empire of the Sun (1987)
46. Triumph of the Will (1935)
47. The Last Metro (1980)
48. Stalingrad (1993)
49. The Keep (1983)
50. Escape to Victory (1981)

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Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Best Films

• Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
• Aparajito (1956)
• The Awful Truth (1937)
• Baby Face (1933)
• Bande à Part (1964)
• Barry Lyndon (1975)
• Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
• Blade Runner (1982)
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
• Brazil (1985)
• Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
• Build My Gallows High (1947)
• Camille (1936)
• Casablanca (1942)
• Charade (1963)
• Chinatown (1974)
• Chungking Express (1994)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• City Lights (1931)
• City of God (2002)
• Closely Observed Trains (1966)
• The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
• The Crowd (1928)
• Day for Night (1973)
• Dekalog (1989)
• Detour (1945)
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
• Dodsworth (1936)
• Double Indemnity (1944)
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
• 8½ (1963)
• Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)
• Farewell My Concubine (1993)
• Finding Nemo (2003)
• The Fly (1986)
• The Four Hundred Blows (1959)
• The Godfather (1972)
• The Godfather: Part II (1974)
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
• Goodfellas (1990)
• A Hard Day's Night (1964)
• His Girl Friday (1940)
• Ikiru (1952)
• In a Lonely Place (1950)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
• It's a Gift (1934)
• It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
• Kandahar (2001)
• Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
• King Kong (1933)
• The Lady Eve (1941)
• The Last Command (1928)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• The Legend of Drunken Master (1994)
• Léolo (1992)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
• Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
• The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
• Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
• Metropolis (1927)
• Miller's Crossing (1990)
• Mouchette (1967)
• My American Uncle (1980)
• Nayakan (1987)
• Ninotchka (1939)
• Notorious (1946)
• Olympia (1938)
• On the Waterfront (1954)
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
• Pather Panchali (1955)
• Persona (1966)
• Pinocchio (1940)
• Psycho (1960)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
• Pyaasa (1957)
• Raging Bull (1980)
• Schindler's List (1993)
• The Searchers (1956)
• Sherlock Jr. (1924)
• The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
• Singin' in the Rain (1952)
• The Singing Detective (1986)
• Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
• Some Like It Hot (1959)
• Star Wars (1977)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
• Sunrise (1927)
• Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
• Swing Time (1936)
• Talk to Her (2002)
• Taxi Driver (1976)
• Tokyo Story (1953)
• A Touch of Zen (1969)
• Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
• Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
• Umberto D. (1952)
• Unforgiven (1992)
• White Heat (1949)
• Wings of Desire (1987)
• The World of Apu (1959)
• Yojimbo (1961)

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The Royal Film Archive of Belgium: Most Important and Misappreciated American Films Since the Beginning of Cinema: A Revaluation

1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. Sunrise (1927)
3. Greed (1924)
4. Intolerance (1916)
5. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
6. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
7. Nanook of the North (1922)
8. The General (1927)
9. The Gold Rush (1925)
10. The Crowd (1928)
11. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
12. The Searchers (1956)
13. Modern Times (1936)
14. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
15. Scarface (1932)
16. Trouble in Paradise (1932)
17. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
18. Vertigo (1958)
19. Stagecoach (1939)
20. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
21. King Kong (1933)
22. Psycho (1960)
23. City Lights (1931)
24. Broken Blossoms (1919)
25. Touch of Evil (1958)
26. Casablanca (1942)
27. The Wind (1928)
28. Duck Soup (1933)
29. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
30. The Scarlet Empress (1934)
31. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
32. It Happened One Night (1934)
33. Gone with the Wind (1939)
34. Nashville (1975)
35. The Big Sleep (1946)
36. Sherlock Jr. (1924)
37. On the Waterfront (1954)
38. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
39. Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
40. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
41. To Be or Not to Be (1942)
42. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
43. Rear Window (1954)
44. Foolish Wives (1922)
45. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
46. The Wedding March (1928)
47. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
48. You Only Live Once (1937)
49. The Wild Bunch (1969)
50. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
51. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
52. Paths of Glory (1957)
53. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
54. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
55. White Heat (1949)
56. Salt of the Earth (1954)
57. Rio Bravo (1959)
58. Red River (1948)
59. My Darling Clementine (1946)
60. Underworld (1927)
61. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
62. High Noon (1952)
63. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
64. The Great Train Robbery (1903)
65. The Band Wagon (1953)
66. All About Eve (1950)
67. Tabu (1931)
68. Some Like It Hot (1959)
69. The Navigator (1924)
70. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
71. Love Me Tonight (1932)
72. A Woman of Paris (1923)
73. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
74. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
75. Freaks (1932)
76. Chelsea Girls (1966)
77. The Big Parade (1925)
78. Morocco (1930)
79. Lonesome (1928)
80. Fury (1936)
81. Force of Evil (1948)
82. Written on the Wind (1956)
83. Tol'able David (1921)
84. The Tarnished Angels (1958)
85. Scorpio Rising (1964)
86. Johnny Guitar (1954)
87. The Covered Wagon (1923)
88. Wavelength (1967)
89. A Star Is Born (1954)
90. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
91. North by Northwest (1959)
92. Ninotchka (1939)
93. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
94. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
95. The Informer (1935)
96. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
97. Easy Rider (1969)
98. The Big Heat (1953)
99. To Have and Have Not (1944)
100. Shanghai Express (1932)
101. A Place in the Sun (1951)
102. Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
103. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
104. Louisiana Story (1948)
105. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
106. 42nd Street (1933)
107. The Docks of New York (1928)
108. Anatahan (1953)
109. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
110. The Jazz Singer (1927)
111. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
112. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
113. Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
114. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
115. Safety Last! (1923)
116. The River (1938)
117. Our Hospitality (1923)
118. Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
119. Little Caesar (1931)
120. Hallelujah! (1929)
121. The Conversation (1974)
122. The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
123. The Awful Truth (1937)
124. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
125. Way Down East (1920)
126. Swing Time (1936)
127. The Southerner (1945)
128. Seven Chances (1925)
129. A Night at the Opera (1935)
130. The Merry Widow (1934)
131. The Kid (1921)
132. Five Easy Pieces (1970)
133. Faces (1968)
134. America, America (1963)
135. True Heart Susie (1919)
136. Top Hat (1935)
137. Strangers on a Train (1951)
138. Shadows (1959)
139. Build My Gallows High (1947)
140. Limelight (1952)
141. The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
142. East of Eden (1955)
143. Double Indemnity (1944)
144. The Birds (1963)
145. Wild River (1960)
146. Twentieth Century (1934)
147. They Live by Night (1948)
148. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
149. 7 Women (1966)
150. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
151. The Nutty Professor (1963)
152. Isn't Life Wonderful? (1924)
153. Holiday (1938)
154. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
155. The Godfather (1972)
156. Frankenstein (1931)
157. The Fountainhead (1949)
158. Dog Star Man (1962-1964)
159. Ride the High Country (1962)
160. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
161. The Pirate (1948)
162. Our Daily Bread (1934)
163. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
164. The Marriage Circle (1924)
165. Marnie (1964)
166. Laura (1944)
167. The Lady Eve (1941)
168. The Hustler (1961)
169. Heaven Can Wait (1943)
170. Fantasia (1940)
171. Elmer Gantry (1960)
172. Dodsworth (1936)
173. The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
174. Camille (1936)
175. The Cameraman (1928)
176. The Apartment (1960)
177. Wagon Master (1950)
178. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
179. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
180. The Struggle (1931)
181. Stark Love (1927)
182. Shock Corridor (1963)
183. Shane (1953)
184. The Public Enemy (1931)
185. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
186. Moonfleet (1955)
187. The Misfits (1961)
188. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
189. His Girl Friday (1940)
190. The Great Dictator (1940)
191. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
192. City Girl (1930)
193. The Cheat (1915)
194. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
195. Blonde Venus (1932)
196. The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
197. Badlands (1973)
198. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
199. Applause (1929)
200. Angel (1937)

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