Monday, March 24, 2014

A shining achievement—my top 200 favorite movies and/or animes

Since I have received several requests to name my favorite films, and since I have by now reviewed over 3000 films, I think it is about time to disclose my favorite list, movie or anime. It is entirely my subjective opinion, so arguing here is redundant for once. Naturally, I haven't seen every film ever made, so this list might change as unknown classics are reviewed.

Naturally, there are many more great films, but if I had to draw the line, this is the list I choose. If your favorite film isn't there, well, what can I say? Maybe it really is great, but simply isn't close enough to my heart or taste to pass the threshold to be here.

There are some exceptions. "Daria", for instance, is a TV show, not a movie or an anime, but was so extraordinary it just had to be included. Today I'm also glad I've checked out some obscure, unknown titles. For instance, I've never, ever heard of "Maison Ikkoku" or "Legend of the Galactic Heroes" before I've seen them, and had there not been a recommendation that mentioned them, I wouldn't have bothered watching them. Turns out "Maison" is the greatest love story of the 20th century, while "Legend" is the greatest essay on political ploy and intruiges there is. A single recommendation assured their spot on the list, and there are definitely more gems that rarely someone heard of.

If we look at the statistics, the most number of movies or animes is from the 80s with a total of 47 films (24%), followed by the 90s with 38 films (18%). The 70s take the 3rd place with a total of 29 films on the list, and the 60s with 26 (15%).

My Top 210+ favorite films:

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Inferno / L'Inferno
Intolerance

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The Battleship Potemkin / Bronenosec Potyomkin
The Circus
Faust / Faust – Eine deutsche Volkssage
The General
Help! / Au secours!
The Nibelungs: Siegfried / Die Nibelungen: Sigfried
Safety Last!
Sherlock, Jr.
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
One Week

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All Quiet on the Western Front
Angels with Dirty Faces
Animal Crackers
City Lights
Duck Soup
Fury
Gulliver's Travels
It Happened One Night
King Kong
M
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Ninotchka
The Public Enemy
Scarface
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Swing Time
Trouble in Paradise
The Wizard of Oz

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Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Fantasia
Gaslight
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Dictator
His Girl Friday
The Magnificent Ambersons
Munchausen
Paisa
The Philadelphia Story
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
To Be or Not to Be

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All About Eve
Bad Day at Black Rock
The Cranes are Flying / Letyat zhuravli
H-8
The King and the Mockingbird / Le roi et le o'iseau
Nights of Cabiria / Le notti di Cabiria
On the Waterfront
Rear Window
Rififi / Du rififi chez les hommes
Rio Bravo
The Road / La strada
Shane
The Subject / Der Untertan
Touch of Evil
The Wages of Fear / La salaire de la peur
Witness of the Prosecution

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2001: A Space Odyssey
Alphaville
The Apartment
Au Hasard Balthazar
Daisies / Sedmikrasky
The Graduate
Happy End
The Hawks and the Sparrows / Uccellacci e uccellini
I Am Cuba / Soy Cuba
Lawrence of Arabia
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
My Night at Maud's / My nuit chez Maud
The Ninth Circle / Deveti krug
Once Upon a Time in the West
One, Two, Three
Persona
Psycho
Sayat Nova
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors / Tini zabutykh predkiv
Ulysses
The Conformist / Il conformista
Dark Star
Day for Night / La Nuit americaine
Decameron / Il Decameron
Dersu Uzala
Duel
Amadeus
An American Werewolf in London
Asterix Versus Caesar / Asterix et la surprise de Cesar
Back to the Future
Balkan Spy / Balkanski špijun
Barefoot Gen / Hadashi no Gen
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Blade Runner
Blood Simple
The Blues Brothers
The Brother from Another Planet
Castle in the Sky / Tenkuu no Shiro Laputa
A Chinese Ghost Story / Sien nui yau wan
Come and See / Idi i smotri
Conan the Barbarian
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Dark Eyes / Oci ciorne
Drowning by Numbers
The Elm-Chanted Forest / Čudesna šuma
Evil Dead II
Ghostbusters
Hannah and Her Sisters
Heaven Help Us
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Kiki's Delivery Service / Majo na Takkyubin
Kimagure Orange Road: I Want to Return to That Day / Kimagure Orange Road: Ano hi ni Kaeritai
The Land Before Time
The Last Temptation of Christ
Legend of the Galactic Heroes / Ginga Eiyu Densetsu
Maison Ikkoku
Manhunter
Parenthood
Queen Millennia / Shin taketori monogatori: Sen-nen joo
Repentance / Monanieba
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise / Oritsu Uchugun: Oneamisu no Tsubasa
The Secret of the Sword
Terms of Endearment
They Live
Tootsie
Top Secret!
Who's That Singing Over There? / Ko to tamo peva
The World According to Garp
Zelig

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Armitage III

2 comments:

Mario500 said...

Why did you use initials for the first names of the directors referenced in the article instead of their entire first names?

Marin Mandir said...

The reason is that this way this post will not show up when you search for a certain director on the blog.