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. 396 new

    Dekalog

    1989, in 11 top lists Check
  2. 418 new

    Sátántangó

    1994 — a.k.a. Satantango, in 12 top lists Check
  3. 11 new

    Napoléon vu par Abel Gance

    1927 — a.k.a. Napoleon, in 24 top lists Check
  4. 3 new

    Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler

    1922 — a.k.a. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, in 14 top lists Check
  5. 402 new

    Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian

    1991 — a.k.a. A Brighter Summer Day, in 19 top lists Check
  6. 336 new

    O thiasos

    1975 — a.k.a. The Travelling Players, in 11 top lists Check
  7. 374 new

    Once Upon a Time in America

    1984, in 19 top lists Check
  8. 244 new

    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962, in 40 top lists Check
  9. 327 new

    Welt am Draht

    1973 — a.k.a. World on a Wire, in 2 top lists Check
  10. 206 new

    Ningen no jôken

    1959 — a.k.a. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love, in 12 top lists Check
  11. 165 new

    Shichinin no samurai

    1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check
  12. 278 new

    Andrey Rublyov

    1966 — a.k.a. Andrei Rublev, in 29 top lists Check
  13. 333 new

    The Godfather Part II

    1974, in 32 top lists Check
  14. 457 new

    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    2003, in 29 top lists Check
  15. 411 new

    Schindler's List

    1993, in 35 top lists Check
  16. 235 new

    Ningen no jôken

    1961 — a.k.a. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer, in 12 top lists Check
  17. 94 new

    Les enfants du paradis

    1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise, in 21 top lists Check
  18. 272 new

    Mne dvadtsat let

    1965 — a.k.a. I am Twenty, in 3 top lists Check
  19. 254 new

    Il gattopardo

    1963 — a.k.a. The Leopard, in 18 top lists Check
  20. 269 new

    Akahige

    1965 — a.k.a. Red Beard, in 10 top lists Check
  21. 334 new

    Barry Lyndon

    1975, in 24 top lists Check
  22. 263 new

    Kaidan

    1964 — a.k.a. Kwaidan, in 13 top lists Check
  23. 276 new

    Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie

    1965 — a.k.a. The Saragossa Manuscript, in 8 top lists Check
  24. 207 new

    Ningen no jôken

    1959 — a.k.a. The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity, in 11 top lists Check
  25. 450 new

    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    2002, in 26 top lists Check
  26. 225 new

    Rocco e i suoi fratelli

    1960 — a.k.a. Rocco and His Brothers, in 19 top lists Check
  27. 282 new

    Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo

    1966 — a.k.a. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, in 29 top lists Check
  28. 447 new

    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    2001, in 31 top lists Check
  29. 320 new

    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  30. 339 new

    Im Lauf der Zeit

    1976 — a.k.a. Kings of the Road, in 9 top lists Check
  31. 218 new

    La dolce vita

    1960 — a.k.a. La Dolce Vita, in 22 top lists Check
  32. 443 new

    Yi yi

    2000 — a.k.a. Yi Yi: A One and a Two..., in 19 top lists Check
  33. 257 new

    The Great Escape

    1963, in 14 top lists Check
  34. 310 new

    Patton

    1970, in 13 top lists Check
  35. 107 new

    The Best Years of Our Lives

    1946, in 30 top lists Check
  36. 42 new

    César

    1936, in 5 top lists Check
  37. 486 new

    The Hateful Eight

    2015, in 2 top lists Check
  38. 319 new

    Solyaris

    1972 — a.k.a. Solaris, in 28 top lists Check
  39. 300 new

    C'era una volta il West

    1968 — a.k.a. Once Upon a Time in the West, in 29 top lists Check
  40. 476 new

    Django Unchained

    2012, in 13 top lists Check
  41. 488 new

    Blade Runner 2049

    2017, in 9 top lists Check
  42. 477 new

    The Dark Knight Rises

    2012, in 7 top lists Check
  43. 80 new

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    1943, in 16 top lists Check
  44. 296 new

    Marketa Lazarová

    1967, in 9 top lists Check
  45. 355 new

    Stalker

    1979, in 22 top lists Check
  46. 200 new

    Anatomy of a Murder

    1959, in 13 top lists Check
  47. 191 new

    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    1957, in 32 top lists Check
  48. 496 new

    Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood

    2019 — a.k.a. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, in 10 top lists
    Check
  49. 369 new

    Amadeus

    1984, in 23 top lists Check
  50. 366 new

    Fitzcarraldo

    1982, in 14 top lists Check
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