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. 182 new

    12 Angry Men

    1957, in 30 top lists Check
  2. 299 new

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  3. 460 new

    2046

    2004, in 6 top lists Check
  4. 41 new

    The 39 Steps

    1935, in 16 top lists Check
  5. 253 new

    8½

    1963, in 35 top lists Check
  6. 229 new

    Accattone

    1961, in 8 top lists Check
  7. 143 new

    Ace in the Hole

    1951, in 21 top lists Check
  8. 316 new

    Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes

    1972 — a.k.a. Aguirre, the Wrath of God, in 18 top lists Check
  9. 398 new

    Ah Fei jing juen

    1990 — a.k.a. Days of Being Wild, in 11 top lists Check
  10. 487 new

    Ah-ga-ssi

    2016 — a.k.a. The Handmaiden, in 13 top lists Check
  11. 269 new

    Akahige

    1965 — a.k.a. Red Beard, in 10 top lists Check
  12. 176 new

    Akasen chitai

    1956 — a.k.a. Street of Shame, in 7 top lists Check
  13. 215 new

    Akibiyori

    1960 — a.k.a. Late Autumn, in 3 top lists Check
  14. 50 new

    Aleksandr Nevskiy

    1938 — a.k.a. Alexander Nevsky, in 10 top lists Check
  15. 329 new

    Alice in den Städten

    1974 — a.k.a. Alice in the Cities, in 10 top lists Check
  16. 491 new

    Alita: Battle Angel

    2019, in 1 top list Check
  17. 133 new

    All About Eve

    1950, in 25 top lists Check
  18. 270 new

    Alphaville: Une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution

    1965 — a.k.a. Alphaville, in 13 top lists Check
  19. 369 new

    Amadeus

    1984, in 23 top lists Check
  20. 321 new

    Amarcord

    1973, in 17 top lists Check
  21. 351 new

    Amator

    1979 — a.k.a. Camera Buff, in 5 top lists Check
  22. 346 new

    Der amerikanische Freund

    1977 — a.k.a. The American Friend, in 8 top lists Check
  23. 439 new

    Amores perros

    2000, in 17 top lists Check
  24. 200 new

    Anatomy of a Murder

    1959, in 13 top lists Check
  25. 278 new

    Andrey Rublyov

    1966 — a.k.a. Andrei Rublev, in 29 top lists Check
  26. 345 new

    Annie Hall

    1977, in 34 top lists Check
  27. 177 new

    Aparajito

    1956 — a.k.a. The Unvanquished, in 15 top lists Check
  28. 226 new

    The Apartment

    1960, in 28 top lists Check
  29. 352 new

    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 37 top lists Check
  30. 201 new

    Apur Sansar

    1959 — a.k.a. The World of Apu, in 19 top lists Check
  31. 83 new

    Arsenic and Old Lace

    1944, in 9 top lists Check
  32. 470 new

    Aruitemo aruitemo

    2008 — a.k.a. Still Walking, in 7 top lists Check
  33. 194 new

    Ascenseur pour l'échafaud

    1958 — a.k.a. Elevator to the Gallows, in 10 top lists Check
  34. 142 new

    The Asphalt Jungle

    1950, in 15 top lists Check
  35. 356 new

    Atlantic City

    1980, in 14 top lists Check
  36. 49 new

    The Awful Truth

    1937, in 15 top lists Check
  37. 338 new

    Az ötödik pecsét

    1976 — a.k.a. The Fifth Seal, in 4 top lists Check
  38. 168 new

    Bad Day at Black Rock

    1955, in 7 top lists Check
  39. 406 new

    Bad Lieutenant

    1992, in 6 top lists Check
  40. 144 new

    Bakushû

    1951 — a.k.a. Early Summer, in 9 top lists Check
  41. 202 new

    Ballada o soldate

    1959 — a.k.a. Ballad of a Soldier, in 15 top lists Check
  42. 259 new

    Bande à part

    1964 — a.k.a. Band of Outsiders, in 13 top lists Check
  43. 127 new

    Banshun

    1949 — a.k.a. Late Spring, in 16 top lists Check
  44. 334 new

    Barry Lyndon

    1975, in 24 top lists Check
  45. 401 new

    Barton Fink

    1991, in 8 top lists Check
  46. 464 new

    Batman Begins

    2005, in 11 top lists Check
  47. 283 new

    La battaglia di Algeri

    1966 — a.k.a. The Battle of Algiers, in 29 top lists Check
  48. 478 new

    Before Midnight

    2013, in 6 top lists Check
  49. 422 new

    Before Sunrise

    1995, in 14 top lists Check
  50. 461 new

    Before Sunset

    2004, in 18 top lists Check
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