Le Schpountz’s Top 500 Favourite Movies (for Helen’s poll)

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My list is in chronologiical order.

Link to the poll: For HelenWelonmelon's Poll: Top 500 Favourite Film Lists
https://letterboxd.com/helenwelonmelon/list/poll-2023-top-500-favourite-film-lists/
https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/poll+2022+top+250+favourite+film+list+conducted+and+proudly+presented+by+helenwelonmelon+letterboxd/leschpountz/


-> Breakdown of the Directors:

12 x Akira Kurosawa

10 x Yasujirô Ozu

9 x Alfred Hitchcock

8 x Fritz Lang, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Quentin Tarantino

7 x Andrei Tarkovsky, Billy Wilder, Jean-Luc Godard, Stanley Kubrick

6 x Ethan & Joel Coen, Federico Fellini, Jean-Pierre Melville, Kar-Wai Wong, Masaki Kobayashi, Michael Powell (hereof 5 x with Emeric Pressburger), Orson Welles

5 x Charles Chaplin, Emeric Pressburger (thereof 5 x with Michael Powell), Ernst Lubitsch, François Truffaut, Howard Hawks, John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, Michelangelo Antonioni, Sergio Leone, Wim Wenders

4 x Béla Tarr, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Christopher Nolan, David Lynch, F.W. Murnau, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Capra, Henri-Georges Clouzot, John Cassavetes, Jules Dassin, Luis Buñuel, Marcel Carné, Mikio Naruse, Satoshi Kon, Sidney Lumet, Takeshi Kitano, Vittorio De Sica

3 x Carol Reed, David Lean, Edward Yang, Helmut Käutner, Hirokazu Koreeda, James Whale, Jean Renoir, John Huston, Louis Malle, Luchino Visconti, Mervyn LeRoy, Otto Preminger, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Jackson, Preston Sturges, Raoul Walsh, Richard Linklater, Robert Altman, Robert Bresson, Roberto Rossellini, Roman Polanski, Satyajit Ray, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Werner Herzog

2 x Andrzej Wajda, Costa-Gavras, Denys Arcand, Hayao Miyazaki, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Jacques Becker, Jacques Demy, Jean Cocteau, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, John Sturges, Josef von Sternberg, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Joseph Losey, Leo McCarey, Martin Scorsese, Max Ophüls, Mikhail Kalatozov, Ming-liang Tsai, Nicholas Ray, Park Chan-wook, Robert Rodriguez, Sam Peckinpah, Seijun Suzuki, Spike Jonze, Steven Spielberg, Sylvain Chomet, Tomm Moore, Victor Sjöström, Wes Anderson, William A. Wellman, Wojciech Has, Woody Allen

1 x Abel Ferrara, Abel Gance, Agnès Varda, Alain Resnais, Albert Lewin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Aleksey German, Alex Garland, Alexander Korda, Alexander Mackendrick, Alfonso Cuarón, Andrzej Zulawski, Ang Lee, Arthur Penn, Bernardo Bertolucci, Bernhard Wicki, Blake Edwards, Bong Joon Ho, Bryan Singer, Céline Sciamma, Charles Laughton, Charles Vidor, Charlie Kaufman, Chris Marker, Claude Sautet, Clint Eastwood, Curtis Hanson, Damien Chazelle, David Cronenberg, David Fincher, Denis Villeneuve, Dino Risi, Edgar G. Ulmer, Elem Klimov, Elia Kazan, Elio Petri, Elmar Klos & Ján Kadár, Erich von Stroheim, Ettore Scola, Franklin J. Schaffner, Frantisek Vlácil, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, George Cukor, George Lucas, George Miller, Georges Franju, Gillo Pontecorvo, Giuseppe Tornatore, Gregory La Cava, Grigoriy Chukhray, Henry Selick, Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Ingmar Bergman, Irvin Kershner, Isao Takahata, István Szabó, Jacques Tati, Jacques Tourneur, James McTeigue, Jean Vigo, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Jim Jarmusch, Jirí Menzel, John Boorman, John Boulting, John Frankenheimer, John Landis, Jonathan Demme, Joseph H. Lewis, Julien Duvivier, Kihachi Okamoto, Kim Ki-young, Konstantin Lopushanskiy, Lana & Lilly Wachowski, Larisa Shepitko, Leontine Sagan, Luc Besson, Mamoru Oshii, Marc Allégret, Marcel Pagnol, Marlen Khutsiev, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, Michael Curtiz, Michael Radford, Michael Wadleigh, Michel Gondry, Milos Forman, Noah Baumbach, Olivier Assayas, Otakar Vávra, Paul Schrader, Paul Thomas Anderson, Paul Verhoeven, Pedro Almodóvar, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, René Clément, Ridley Scott, Rob Reiner, Robert Aldrich, Robert Eggers, Robert Hamer, Robert Siodmak, Robert Wiene, Robert Zemeckis, Rouben Mamoulian, Salvador Simó, Samuel Fuller, Sergei Parajanov, Sergio Corbucci, Sofia Coppola, Stanley Donen, Ted Kotcheff, Terry Gilliam, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Tod Browning, Todd Phillips, Toshiya Fujita, W.S. Van Dyke, William Cameron Menzies, William Friedkin, William Wyler, Wolfgang Petersen, Yves Robert, Zoltán Fábri


-> Breakdown of the decades:

14 x 1920er
47 x 1930er
71 x 1940er
81 x 1950er
92 x 1960er
50 x 1970er
42 x 1980er
41 x 1990er
35 x 2000er
25 x 2010er
2 x 2020er


-> Most represented years:

15 x 1960, 1962
14 x 1959
12 x 1946, 1957, 1966
10 x 1950, 1964
9 x 1931, 1948, 1961, 1965, 1967, 2003
8 x 1944, 1945, 1954, 1955, 2019
7 x 1932, 1939, 1947, 1973, 1976, 1984, 1988, 1994
6 x 1940, 1943, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1963, 1974, 1977, 1981, 2001
5 x 1933, 1938, 1941, 1951, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1979, 1986, 1991, 1992, 1997, 2000


-> Breakdown of the countries:
201 x United States (40,2 %)
70 x France (14,0 %)
57 x Japan (11,4 %)
34 x Italy (6,8 %)
32 x United Kingdom (6,4 %)
26 x Germany (5,2 %)
18 x Soviet Union (3,6 %)
12 x Poland (2,4 %)
7 x Taiwan (1,4 %)
5 x Hong Kong (1,0 %)
5 x Hungary (1,0 %)
5 x Mexico (1,0 %)
4 x Czechoslovakia (0,8 %)
4 x South Korea (0,8 %)
4 x Spain (0,8 %)
3 x India (0,6 %)
3 x Sweden (0,6 %)
2 x Australia (0,4 %)
2 x Canada (0,4 %)
2 x Denmark (0,4 %)
2 x Ireland (0,4 %)
1 x Algeria (0,2 %)
1 x Greece (0,2 %)


In a comparison to my votes for the poll from 2022, the following films from the top 250 at that time unfortunately no longer qualified for the new top 500:

The Crowd (1928, King Vidor, United States)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936, Frank Capra, United States)
Lost Horizon (1937, Frank Capra, United States)
You Can't Take It with You (1938, Frank Capra, United States)
Midnight (1939, Mitchell Leisen, United States)
The Mortal Storm (1940, Frank Borzage, United States)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952, Vincente Minnelli, United States)
The Magnificent Seven (1960, John Sturges, United States)
Vyssí princip (1960, Jirí Krejcík, Czechoslovakia)

However, these films remain among my favorites.

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  1. 417 new

    Pulp Fiction

    1994, in 38 top lists Check
  2. 472 new

    The Dark Knight

    2008, in 27 top lists Check
  3. 462 new

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    2004, in 28 top lists Check
  4. 473 new

    Inglourious Basterds

    2009, in 17 top lists Check
  5. 320 new

    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  6. 437 new

    The Matrix

    1999, in 30 top lists Check
  7. 457 new

    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    2003, in 29 top lists Check
  8. 447 new

    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    2001, in 31 top lists Check
  9. 441 new

    Memento

    2000, in 27 top lists Check
  10. 450 new

    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    2002, in 26 top lists Check
  11. 444 new

    Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

    2001 — a.k.a. Amélie, in 27 top lists Check
  12. 433 new

    The Big Lebowski

    1998, in 26 top lists Check
  13. 311 new

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  14. 348 new

    Star Wars

    1977, in 40 top lists Check
  15. 357 new

    Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

    1980, in 25 top lists Check
  16. 466 new

    V for Vendetta

    2005, in 10 top lists Check
  17. 408 new

    Reservoir Dogs

    1992, in 26 top lists Check
  18. 405 new

    The Silence of the Lambs

    1991, in 36 top lists Check
  19. 452 new

    Kill Bill: Vol. 1

    2003, in 18 top lists Check
  20. 416 new

    Léon

    1994 — a.k.a. Léon: The Professional, in 23 top lists Check
  21. 399 new

    Goodfellas

    1990, in 31 top lists Check
  22. 182 new

    12 Angry Men

    1957, in 30 top lists Check
  23. 333 new

    The Godfather Part II

    1974, in 32 top lists Check
  24. 411 new

    Schindler's List

    1993, in 35 top lists Check
  25. 299 new

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  26. 468 new

    No Country for Old Men

    2007, in 23 top lists Check
  27. 425 new

    The Usual Suspects

    1995, in 24 top lists Check
  28. 365 new

    Blade Runner

    1982, in 36 top lists Check
  29. 343 new

    Taxi Driver

    1976, in 34 top lists Check
  30. 363 new

    Raiders of the Lost Ark

    1981 — a.k.a. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, in 29 top lists Check
  31. 282 new

    Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo

    1966 — a.k.a. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, in 29 top lists Check
  32. 352 new

    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 37 top lists Check
  33. 476 new

    Django Unchained

    2012, in 13 top lists Check
  34. 464 new

    Batman Begins

    2005, in 11 top lists Check
  35. 456 new

    Oldeuboi

    2003 — a.k.a. Oldboy, in 34 top lists Check
  36. 260 new

    Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...

    1964, in 37 top lists Check
  37. 469 new

    There Will Be Blood

    2007, in 20 top lists Check
  38. 386 new

    Full Metal Jacket

    1987, in 18 top lists Check
  39. 73 new

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  40. 463 new

    Kill Bill: Vol. 2

    2004, in 9 top lists Check
  41. 163 new

    Rear Window

    1954, in 31 top lists Check
  42. 465 new

    Sin City

    2005, in 10 top lists Check
  43. 455 new

    Lost in Translation

    2003, in 19 top lists Check
  44. 413 new

    The Nightmare Before Christmas

    1993, in 15 top lists Check
  45. 477 new

    The Dark Knight Rises

    2012, in 7 top lists Check
  46. 445 new

    Mulholland Dr.

    2001 — a.k.a. Mulholland Drive, in 26 top lists Check
  47. 199 new

    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
  48. 68 new

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  49. 101 new

    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
  50. 483 new

    The Grand Budapest Hotel

    2014, in 16 top lists Check
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