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Cien años sin soledad: Greatest Latin American Films
Favs/dislikes: 64:1. All the films that received two or more votes in a poll of 36 critics and film specialists from 11 different countries - as listed in the book "Cien años sin soledad: Las mejores peliculas Latinoamericanas de todos los tiempos" compiled by Carlos Galiano and Rufo Caballero. Vote breakdown: #1 received 30 votes #2 - 22 votes #3-5 - 21 #6-8 - 17 #9 - 16 #10 - 14 #11 - 13 #12 - 12 #13 - 11 #14-16 - 10 #17-18 - 9 #19-29 - 8 #30-33 - 7 #34-41 - 6 #42-46 - 5 #47-57 - 4 #58-69 - 3 #70-107 - 2 [url=https://www.amazon.com/Cien-Anos-Sin-Soledad-Spanish/dp/9591005040/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511463916&sr=1-1&keywords=9789591005045]Source[/url] -
FLM's Best Swedish Films of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 64:3. In 2012, FLM asked 50 film critics and academics to vote for the best Swedish films of all time. The original list was a top 25. In 2022 FLM ran a new poll with 72 participants, again producing a top 25. This list contains all films with at least 2 votes. Votes for Utvandrarna/Nybyggarna and Jag är nyfiken - gul/blå were combined. [url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTzgJ_E3ni71I67E5bYDkyP_MuEotgewbwzHXz-8u19t9UHlDFC3hKZtE1Gs5c3c4uQtPwiBU26R09X/pub]2022 All Films and Ballots[/url] [url=http://flm.nu/2012/08/de-25-basta-svenska-filmerna-genom-tiderna/]2012 Source[/url] [url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AhCbA3xledPhdDF6Qjd2LU5tbnBrYlFGTy1OU2g5bnc]2012 All Films and Ballots[/url] -
Roy Menarini's Il Grande Cinema Italiano
Favs/dislikes: 65:3. 250 films from throughout Italy's history, 1905-2011. From the book by Roy Menarini. [url=https://www.amazon.com/grande-cinema-italiano-Roy-Menarini/dp/8874550650/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1448737166&sr=8-1&keywords=Il+Grande+Cinema+Italiano]Source[/url] -
TIFF's Top Canadian Films
Favs/dislikes: 65:1. In 2015 TIFF organized its decennial poll of Critics, Programmers, Academics and Film Professionals asking 220 of them to name the top Canadian Films of all time. 399 films received votes, this list comprises the 134 films which received at least 3 votes. [url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160704203521/http://tiff.net/canadas-all-time-top-ten]Source[/url] -
BFI's 100 Westerns
Favs/dislikes: 66:1. "Addresses the perennial appeal of the Western, exploring its 19th century popular culture, and its relationship to the economic structure of Hollywood. This work considers the defining features of the Western and traces its main cycles, from the epic Westerns of the 1920s and singing cowboys of the 1930s to the Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s." [url=https://www.amazon.com/Westerns-Screen-Guides-Edward-Buscombe/dp/1844571114]Source[/url] -
Galloway's Samurai Film Handbook & Companion
Favs/dislikes: 66:2. This list combines 2 books by Patrick Galloway: #1-51: [url=http://www.amazon.com/Stray-Dogs-Lone-Wolves-Handbook/dp/1880656930]Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves: The Samurai Film Handbook[/url] (2005) #52-91: [url=http://www.amazon.com/Warring-Clans-Flashing-Blades-Companion/dp/1933330783]Warring Clans, Flashing Blades: A Samurai Film Companion[/url] (2009) "Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves provides essential background on the samurai warrior in Japanese culture to help explain what makes these tales of loyalty, revenge and explosive swordsmanship so watchable. It covers top directors and stars and has over 50 original reviews of a wide variety of films, from classics like Samurai Trilogy and Yojimbo to influential films like Lady Snowblood, plus newly released hits like Takeshi Kitano’s Zatoichi." "Warring Clans, Flashing Blades picks up where Galloway’s fan-favorite Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves left off, delving deeper into the samurai film and its spin-off genres—yakuza, ninja, and matatabi." [url=https://www.amazon.com/Stray-Dogs-Lone-Wolves-Handbook/dp/1880656930]Source[/url] [url=http://www.amazon.com/Warring-Clans-Flashing-Blades-Companion/dp/1933330783]Source[/url] -
Annecy Festival's 100 Films for a Century of Animation
Favs/dislikes: 69:1. In 2006, to celebrate the end of the first century of animation, Annecy International Animation Film Festival asked 30 animation specialists from around the world to vote for the top 100 animated short films. -
HKFA's The Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures
Favs/dislikes: 69:4. To celebrate one hundred years of Chinese cinema, Hong Kong Film Awards released a list of The Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures. Among the 103 films on the list, there are 11 films from China (pre-1949), 13 films from the mainland China (post-1949), 61 films from Hong Kong, 16 films from Taiwan (post-1949), 1 Hong Kong/mainland China co-production and 1 Taiwan/Hong Kong co-production. -
Scott Hocking's 100 Greatest Films of Australian Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 69:3. From the book by Scott Hocking. From indigenous issues and rites of passage, to sexual repression, mateship, larrikins and more, Australian films provide a cultural snapshot of our sunburnt country, as seen through the lenses of some of the world’s finest filmmakers. [url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6284687-100-greatest-films-of-australian-cinema]Source[/url] -
BFI's 100 American Independent Films
Favs/dislikes: 70:0. The top 100 American independent films as selected by Jason Wood, author of BFI Screen Guides' "100 American Independent Films." [url=https://shop.bfi.org.uk/books/100-american-independent-films-book.html#.XleHAWhKg2w]Source[/url] -
TSPDT's Ain't Nobody's Blues but My Own
Favs/dislikes: 71:11. As a counterpart to the fairly mainstream TSPDT top 1000 list, the Ain't Nobody's Blues But My Own list has been created. The movies on this list had as its solely criterium: they must be mentioned at most once in a top list. 250 film critics/film makers got to choose exactly one of the aforementioned movies. The list hadn't been on the website of TSPDT for several years and hadn't been updated for many years as well. In January 2019 the owner of the site sent us a new update. It's not listed on his website, but you can view the spreadsheet [url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EJKX9yOpKk3dT9BizPambwxhbjfMd7QAWxzlT31l4f8/edit?usp=sharing]here[/url]. The list contains 253 titles instead of 250, because the vote for Buddha's Palm consists of four parts. -
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. -
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] -
LoveHKFilm.com's The Best Hong Kong Films Ever
Favs/dislikes: 73:3. 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] -
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] -
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] -
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] -
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] -
101 Gangster Movies You Must See Before You Die
Favs/dislikes: 83:2. -
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] -
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] -
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] -
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.
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