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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12 new
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check -
14 new
The Wind
1928, in 14 top lists Check -
15 new
City Lights
1931, in 34 top lists Check -
21 new
Mädchen in Uniform
1931, in 5 top lists Check -
22 new
Marius
1931, in 7 top lists Check -
26 new
Love Me Tonight
1932, in 11 top lists Check -
28 new
Shanghai Express
1932, in 9 top lists Check -
29 new
Trouble in Paradise
1932, in 17 top lists Check -
32 new
Design for Living
1933, in 6 top lists Check -
36 new
It Happened One Night
1934, in 29 top lists Check -
37 new
L'Atalante
1934, in 21 top lists Check -
38 new
The Scarlet Empress
1934, in 12 top lists Check -
44 new
My Man Godfrey
1936, in 12 top lists Check -
47 new
Make Way for Tomorrow
1937, in 16 top lists Check -
48 new
Pépé le Moko
1937, in 10 top lists Check -
49 new
The Awful Truth
1937, in 15 top lists Check -
51 new
Hôtel du Nord
1938 — a.k.a. Hotel du Nord, in 2 top lists Check -
53 new
Le quai des brumes
1938 — a.k.a. Port of Shadows, in 10 top lists Check -
55 new
La règle du jeu
1939 — a.k.a. The Rules of the Game, in 24 top lists Check -
56 new
Le jour se lève
1939 — a.k.a. Daybreak, in 12 top lists Check -
58 new
Ninotchka
1939, in 20 top lists Check -
62 new
His Girl Friday
1940, in 21 top lists Check -
66 new
The Philadelphia Story
1940, in 22 top lists Check -
67 new
The Shop Around the Corner
1940, in 14 top lists Check -
71 new
The Lady Eve
1941, in 20 top lists Check -
73 new
Casablanca
1942, in 39 top lists Check -
74 new
The Magnificent Ambersons
1942, in 15 top lists Check -
75 new
The Palm Beach Story
1942, in 14 top lists Check -
78 new
Romanze in Moll
1943 — a.k.a. Romance in a Minor Key, in 3 top lists Check -
80 new
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943, in 16 top lists Check -
85 new
Große Freiheit Nr. 7
1944 — a.k.a. Port of Freedom, in 3 top lists Check -
90 new
To Have and Have Not
1944, in 16 top lists Check -
91 new
Brief Encounter
1945, in 22 top lists Check -
93 new
I Know Where I'm Going!
1945, in 13 top lists Check -
94 new
Les enfants du paradis
1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise, in 21 top lists Check -
99 new
A Matter of Life and Death
1946, in 23 top lists Check -
100 new
Gilda
1946, in 13 top lists Check -
102 new
La belle et la bête
1946 — a.k.a. Beauty and the Beast, in 26 top lists Check -
104 new
Notorious
1946, in 24 top lists Check -
107 new
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946, in 30 top lists Check -
110 new
Unter den Brücken
1946 — a.k.a. Under the Bridges, in 4 top lists Check -
121 new
Red River
1948, in 17 top lists Check -
123 new
The Red Shoes
1948, in 27 top lists Check -
125 new
They Live by Night
1948, in 13 top lists Check -
136 new
La ronde
1950 — a.k.a. La Ronde, in 8 top lists Check -
139 new
Orphée
1950 — a.k.a. Orpheus, in 18 top lists Check -
141 new
Sunset Blvd.
1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check -
152 new
Singin' in the Rain
1952, in 37 top lists Check -
160 new
Chikamatsu monogatari
1954 — a.k.a. A Story from Chikamatsu, in 10 top lists Check -
162 new
On the Waterfront
1954, in 32 top lists Check
Last updated on May 30, 2023; source