Charts: Lists

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

  1. Paste's 100 Greatest War Movies's icon

    Paste's 100 Greatest War Movies

    Favs/dislikes: 8:0. War. What is it good for? Well, if nothing else, then a tidy template for cinema: conflict, clear protagonists and antagonists, heightened emotions, and a generally unpredictable, lawless atmosphere which—as per the western—has since the dawn of cinema offered an elastic dramatic environment in which filmmakers can explore men at both their best and worst. And make no mistake, the war movie is almost always about men. It’s the most masculine of genres, the fact that armies have throughout history often been almost exclusively male seeing to it that men almost always dominate these things. It’s a genre that emphasizes action and existential angst. It’s also a malleable genre, and one that could broadly include all manner of films that we ultimately ruled out of the running in this list. With this top 100, we’ve made the decision to include only movies whose wars are based on historical conflicts, so none of the likes of Edge of Tomorrow or Starship Troopers. We’ve picked films that deal with soldiers, soldiering and warfare directly, meaning wartime movies set primarily away from conflict, often told largely or exclusively from the civilian perspective—a category which includes such classics as The Cranes Are Flying and Hope & Glory, Grave of the Fireflies and Forbidden Games—didn’t make the cut. Post-war dramas, like Ashes and Diamonds and Germany, Year Zero, as well as films that go to war for only a fraction of the running time, such as From Here to Eternity and Born on the Fourth of July, were also excluded. Some tough choices were made on what actually constituted a “war movie.” Resistance dramas feature in this list, but Casablanca doesn’t appear. Likewise Robert Bresson’s A Man Escaped and Sidney Lumet’s The Hill. It was decided ultimately that the war was too much a peripheral element in these films. On the other hand, while both western The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and biopic The Imitation Game feature war prominently, they, like Casablanca (a romance with noir and thriller elements) plus A Man Escaped and The Hill (both prison movies), belong more obviously to other genres. We’ve also decided not to include movies which focus on the Holocaust here; those are set to appear in another feature entirely. Regarding the films that do feature here: our 100 hail from all over the world. These films were released as recently as last year and as far back as 1930. They range from comical to harrowing, action-packed to quietly introspective, proudly gung-ho to deeply anti-war. They are a diverse set of movies; they are also worthy of being called the 100 greatest war movies ever made. Published May 2017
  2. Paul Thomas Anderson's Favorite Films's icon

    Paul Thomas Anderson's Favorite Films

    Favs/dislikes: 8:0.
  3. Polarizing Movies's icon

    Polarizing Movies

    Favs/dislikes: 8:0. Movies with a significant number of both favorites and dislikes. I combined several "polarizing" formulas into one big super formula to calculate this list.
  4. Poliziotteschi's icon

    Poliziotteschi

    Favs/dislikes: 8:0. Poliziotteschi films constitute a subgenre of crime and action film that emerged in Italy in the late 1960s and reached the height of their popularity in the 1970s. Poliziotteschi films are also known as poliziottesco, Italo-crime, Euro-crime, poliziesco or simply Italian crime films.
  5. Porno Noir: A Curated List's icon

    Porno Noir: A Curated List

    Favs/dislikes: 8:0. What is it about noir and neo-noir infused with adult film elements that fascinates me so much? Honestly I have no idea. Regardless, I've sought to compile a list of all known films of the XXX variety that bake in elements of classic noir such as Dixie Ray Hollywood Star, gritty neo-noir like Sex Wish and even proto-noir pastiches like Gangland Bangers. This is almost certainly not a complete list but I'll try to keep it updated as I discover additional films that fall into this ludicrously specific sub-genre.
  6. Portuguese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film's icon

    Portuguese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

    Favs/dislikes: 8:0.
  7. Pre-code Horror (1930-1934)'s icon

    Pre-code Horror (1930-1934)

    Favs/dislikes: 8:1.
  8. Rachel Weisz filmography's icon

    Rachel Weisz filmography

    Favs/dislikes: 8:0.
  9. Rolling Stone: The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time's icon

    Rolling Stone: The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time

    Favs/dislikes: 8:0. Published in Rolling Stone Magazine Issue 1271 October 6, 2016 The Rolling Stone staff along with 52 writers, producers and critics cast their ballots to pick their favorite shows
  10. Rolling Stone Top 50 Science Fiction Films of the 1970s's icon

    Rolling Stone Top 50 Science Fiction Films of the 1970s

    Favs/dislikes: 8:0.
  11. Rosamund Pike Filmography's icon

    Rosamund Pike Filmography

    Favs/dislikes: 8:1. An official list of all films with actress Rosamund Pike.
  12. Ryan Reynolds Filmography (Updated)'s icon

    Ryan Reynolds Filmography (Updated)

    Favs/dislikes: 8:0.
  13. Science Fiction Cinema: Between Fantasy and Reality's icon

    Science Fiction Cinema: Between Fantasy and Reality

    Favs/dislikes: 8:1. All movies from the Films Cited section in the book [url=http://www.amazon.com/Science-Fiction-Cinema-Between-Fantasy/dp/0813541735?tag=viglink20340-20]Science Fiction Cinema: Between Fantasy and Reality[/url], written by Christine Cornea. "From E.T. the Extraterrestrial and Back to the Future to Blade Runner and Alien, science fiction films have been achieving blockbuster status for decades. Moreover, some major studio releases, such as Star Wars, The Matrix, and 2001: A Space Odyssey, as well as many low-budget films have become etched in film history as international cult classics. Offering a broad historical and theoretical reassessment of this popular genre, Christine Cornea explores the development of science fiction in cinema from its very beginnings to the present day. Each chapter offers analyses of particular films, situating them within a wider historical/cultural context while also highlighting a specific key thematic issue. Cornea provides vital and unique perspectives on the genre, including discussions of the relevance of psychedelic imagery, race, the "new woman of science," generic performance, and the prevalence of "techno-orientalism" in recent films. Enriching the book are new interviews with some of the main practitioners in the field, such as Roland Emmerich, Paul Verhoeven, Ken Russell, Stan Winston, William Gibson, Brian Aldiss, Joe Morton, Dean Norris, and Billy Gray. While American films are Cornea's main focus, she also engages with a range of pertinent examples from other countries and explains why science fiction lends itself well to transnational reception."
  14. Science Fiction Cinema: From Outer Space to Cyberspace's icon

    Science Fiction Cinema: From Outer Space to Cyberspace

    Favs/dislikes: 8:0. Science Fiction Cinema: From Outer Space to Cyberspace charts the dimensions of what has become one of the most popular genres in the cinema. From lurid comic-book blockbusters to dark dystopian visions, science fiction is seen as both a powerful cultural barometer of our times and the product of particular industrial and commercial frameworks. Geoff King and Tanya Krzywinska outline the major themes of the genre, from representations of the mad scientist and computer hacker to the relationship between science fiction and postmodernism, exploring isssues such as the meaning of special effects and the influence of science fiction cinema on the entertainment media of the digital age. The Short Cuts series is a comprehensive list of introductory texts covering the full spectrum of Film Studies, specifically designed for building an individually-styled library for all students and enthusiasts of cinema and popular culture.
  15. Scream Factory's icon

    Scream Factory

    Favs/dislikes: 8:0. Scream Factory is a branch of Shout! Factory, dedicated to releasing horror and science-fiction films with cult followings. Scream Factory has released a slate of fan-favorite thrillers from the 1980s, many of which have never been available on Blu-ray before. Each title is presented in anamorphic widescreen, and most are released in a “Collector’s Editions” with new bonus content, archival materials, a collectible cover featuring newly rendered retro-style artwork, a reversible wrap with original theatrical key art and more. This list includes all previously released and announced Scream Factory titles.
  16. Senses of Cinema's Top Tens's icon

    Senses of Cinema's Top Tens

    Favs/dislikes: 8:0. All films cited from individual lists
  17. Sergei Parajanov filmography's icon

    Sergei Parajanov filmography

    Favs/dislikes: 8:0. Movies made by Sergei Parajanov.
  18. Sidney Poitier Filmography's icon

    Sidney Poitier Filmography

    Favs/dislikes: 8:1.
  19. Sight & Sound 2022 - Directors' Poll Top 100's icon

    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
  20. Sight & Sound's 50 best films of 2020's icon

    Sight & Sound's 50 best films of 2020

    Favs/dislikes: 8:0.
  21. Sin in Soft Focus - A Selection's icon

    Sin in Soft Focus - A Selection

    Favs/dislikes: 8:0. 100 Pre-Code films from the book Sin in Soft Focus by Mark Viera. Films selected for this list had complete financial information available: cost, rentals, profit/loss. Currently unavailable: Convention City
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    Social psychology

    Favs/dislikes: 8:0. Milgram experiment Stanford prison experiment The Asch Conformity Experiment The Good Samaritan Experiment Bystander Apathy Experiment /-effect / Kitty Genovese Third Wave Bobo Doll Experiment Sherif’s Robbers Cave Experiment
  23. Stanley Donen Filmography's icon

    Stanley Donen Filmography

    Favs/dislikes: 8:0. All of the films directed by Stanley Donen
  24. Stephen King film adaptations's icon

    Stephen King film adaptations

    Favs/dislikes: 8:0. A complete list of film adaptations of work by Stephen King, including miniseries, screenplays written by him, films based on novels and short stories he's written, and anything that can be in any other way related to his work.
  25. Strange Encounters's icon

    Strange Encounters

    Favs/dislikes: 8:0. psychotronic movies/shorts/vhs specials that seems to have got lost in the mail...info/propaganda/sub-culture shlock that has been undervalued. Please feel free to suggest any!
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