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1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die's icon

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

The 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die list is actually a film reference book compiled by various critics worldwide and edited by Steven Jay...
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Roger Ebert's Great Movies

A list of movies which famous movie critic Roger Ebert considers to be the best movies of all-time. Ebert has written extensive reviews for each...
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Mark Cousins's The Story of Film: An Odyssey

"The Story of Film: An Odyssey, a 15-part series written and directed by award-winning film-maker Mark Cousins, is the story of international...
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Jonathan Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

This list contains the favorite movies of movie critic Jonathan Rosenbaum who writes for the Chicago Reader. The movies span virtually every...
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The Guardian's 1000 Films to See Before You Die's icon

The Guardian's 1000 Films to See Before You Die

"Well over a century has passed since the Lumière brothers frightened the life out of Parisians with The Arrival of a Train at a Station, and well...
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Amos Vogel's Film as a Subversive Art

"Film as a Subversive Art was first published in 1974. According to Vogel--founder of Cinema 16, North America's legendary film society--the book...
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The New York Times's Book of Movies

This list is drawn from "The New York Times Book of Movies: The Essential 1,000 Films to See", published in 2019. It contains a selection of 1000...
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1001 movies you must see before you die (all editions)'s icon

1001 movies you must see before you die (all editions)

The famous book of Schneider "1001 movies you must see before you die" has several editions. Every few years a new edition is published with new...
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Leonard Maltin's 100 Must-See Films of the 20th Century's icon

Leonard Maltin's 100 Must-See Films of the 20th Century

A list of the 100 20th century films as chosen by the film critic Leonard Maltin. This list appears in Maltin's book titled Leonard Maltin's Movie...
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Time Out's 1000 Films to Change Your Life's icon

Time Out's 1000 Films to Change Your Life

"Over 1,000 films are listed in this visually arresting, full-color celebration of the silver screen. Film personalities, including actors,...
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David Thomson's Have You Seen?'s icon

David Thomson's Have You Seen?

A personal introduction to 1000 movies by the provocative contemporary film critic and historian David...
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Halliwell's Top 1000: The Ultimate Movie Countdown's icon

Halliwell's Top 1000: The Ultimate Movie Countdown

"Trading on its impeccable reputation, Halliwell’s now presents it’s Top 1,000 favorite films. Starting at number 1,000, each entry includes a...
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Sight & Sound Critics Top 250 (2012)'s icon

Sight & Sound Critics Top 250 (2012)

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BBC's The 21st Century's 100 Greatest Films's icon

BBC's The 21st Century's 100 Greatest Films

For our poll to determine the 100 greatest American films, we surveyed 62 film critics from around the world. This time, we received responses...
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1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die - Deleted's icon

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die - Deleted

This is a list of all the movies from the "1001 Movies" list from Steven Jay Schneider & Co. that have been removed from the current list. Updated...
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François Truffaut's The Films in My Life

"The Films in My Life (Les Films de ma Vie) is Truffaut’s own selection of more than one hundred essays that range widely over the history of film...
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Top 1000/1001 Lists Consensus

Films listed in all 1000/1001 official lists available in ICM (except Beyond the Canon): They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? Jonathan Rosenbaum's...
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Paul Rotha's Silent but Not Forgotten

From a poll of 63 critics and film experts conducted in the 1970s by film critic and director Paul Rotha, each asked for a list of their 30 top...
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Roger Ebert's Annual Top Ten Lists

Every year since 1967 the famed film critic Roger Ebert has released a list of his ten favorite films of the year. In some recent years he has...
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BFI Flare's The Best LGBTQ+ Films of All Time's icon

BFI Flare's The Best LGBTQ+ Films of All Time

In celebration of their 30th anniversary, in 2016, the London LGBT Film Festival BFI Flare conducted a poll of over 100 programmers, critics and...
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Marshall Julius's Action! The Action Movie A-Z's icon

Marshall Julius's Action! The Action Movie A-Z

The "250 key movies" rated and reviewed in the book [i]Action! The Action Movie A-Z[/i] (1997) by Marshall Julius. Author's ratings: 1-14...
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101 War Movies You Must See Before You Die's icon

101 War Movies You Must See Before You Die

Steven Jay Schneider's 101 War Movies You Must See Before You Die The horror and the heroism of war has long been a staple of cinema and the...
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101 Gangster Movies You Must See Before You Die's icon

101 Gangster Movies You Must See Before You Die

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Guide for the Film Fanatic's icon

Guide for the Film Fanatic

In his Guide for the Film Fanatic (1986), Danny Peary provides short reviews for over 1600 “Must See” films. A list of Peary’s “Additional Must...
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Fangoria's 101 Best Horror Films You've Never Seen's icon

Fangoria's 101 Best Horror Films You've Never Seen

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Film Comment's 150 Best Films of the Decade (2000s)'s icon

Film Comment's 150 Best Films of the Decade (2000s)

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Roger Ebert's Film of Year Since 1967

This is a list of every film that critic Roger Ebert has called the best film of that year. The list starts in 1967 and goes to 2012. *Special...
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Donald Richie's A Hundred Years of Japanese Film

Called "the dean of Japan's arts critics" by Time magazine, Richie takes us from the inception of Japanese cinema at the end of the nineteenth...
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Jonathan Rosenbaum's List-o-Mania Or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love American Movies's icon

Jonathan Rosenbaum's List-o-Mania Or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love American Movies

Critic Jonathan Rosenbaum provides an alternative list to the AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list.
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Geoff King's Film Comedy

All the comedies mentioned in the filmography of the book "Film Comedy" by Geoff King, published in 2002. "From slapstick to satire and subtle...
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J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum's Midnight Movies's icon

J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum's Midnight Movies

"These are a few of the over 100 films discussed in Midnight Movies, a comprehensive and in-depth look at the subculture movies of the past three...
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BBC's The 100 Greatest Comedies of All Time

So this year BBC Culture decided to get serious about comedy. We asked 253 film critics – 118 women and 135 men – from 52 countries and six...
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BBC's The 100 Greatest Films Directed by Women's icon

BBC's The 100 Greatest Films Directed by Women

From a critic poll published in November 2019. Olympia is one...
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Taschen's movies of the 70's

"This guide presents our selection of the best movies from the years 1970 to 1979, covering a wide range of genres, budgets, and cultures, and...
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Taschen's movies of the 90's

"This guide presents our selection of the best movies from the years 1990 to 1999, covering a wide range of genres, budgets, and cultures, and...
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Jonathan Rosenbaum's 100 Favorite Films's icon

Jonathan Rosenbaum's 100 Favorite Films

The 100 favorite films of film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum. All of these appear on his extended top 1000, but for those looking for a more...
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Dennis Grunes: A short chronology of world cinema's icon

Dennis Grunes: A short chronology of world cinema

Films listed in Grunes' 2010 book by that title. His selections have a decidedly leftist sociopolitical slant. Notes: 1. For some reason...
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Time Out's The 101 Most Romantic Films's icon

Time Out's The 101 Most Romantic Films

Romance may be dead in the real world, but in cinema, it’ll live forever. Love is simply too elemental of an emotion for filmmakers to ever...
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Dictionary of Films from Jacques Lourcelles's icon

Dictionary of Films from Jacques Lourcelles

1508 movies up to year 1992. Movies from every part of the world selected and analyzed by Jacques Lourcelles, a french cinema critic. A lot of...
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Taschen's movies of the 80's

"This guide presents our selection of the best movies from the years 1980 to 1989, covering a wide range of genres, budgets, and cultures, and...
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Time Out's best horror films

Time Out proudly presents the 100 best horror movies, as chosen by those who write in, direct, star in and celebrate the genre. Time Out polled...
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jimbotender's Erotic & Sexually Explicit Films's icon

jimbotender's Erotic & Sexually Explicit Films

An X-rated section or as the AMPAA calls it: NC-17.To hell with ratings, feast your eyes and souls!!!! The list still needs a fragrance...
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Les 100 chefs-d'oeuvre du suspense (100 Suspense Masterpieces)'s icon

Les 100 chefs-d'oeuvre du suspense (100 Suspense Masterpieces)

100 Suspense Masterpieces by Alain Charlot "Le film noir, Humphrey Bogart, le film catastrophe, Hitchcock, le film d'espionnage, John Huston,...
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1000 Best Movies of the 20th Century

A compilation of 19 lists of best movies from worldwide renowned movie magazines and movie critics. Methodology (french) http://bit.ly/frEXXn
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Danny Peary's Cult Movies's icon

Danny Peary's Cult Movies

"'Cult Movies' is a 1981 book by Danny Peary, consisting of a series of essays regarding what Peary described as the 100 most representative...
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Jonathan Rosenbaum's Annual Top Ten Lists

The annual top ten lists of critic Jonathan Rosenbaum since 1974. Note: As far as I can find, he didn't make a list from 1977-1980 or...
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Taschen's movies of the 2000's

All movies featured in the book "Movies of the 2000's by Taschen
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Stephen King's "Danse Macabre"

A list of about 100 horror/thriller/mystery movies recommended by Stephen King in the appendix to his non-fiction study of horror genre "Dance Macabre"
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Taschen's movies of the 60's

"This guide presents our selection of the best movies from the years 1960 to 1969, covering a wide range of genres, budgets, and cultures, and...
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1,000 Best Movies on DVD by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone's icon

1,000 Best Movies on DVD by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone

Peter Travers, movie critic for Rolling Stone, compiles the 1,000 best films available on DVD. Peter Travers has been the movie critic for...
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