List of Movie Lists
If you like movies, but do not want to waste your time on bad ones, you may want to watch only the good ones. There are several movie lists that help you to do that.
First, British movie critic Chris Tookey analyzed other critics’ ratings and came up with the list of The Top 100 Average critic Rating Movies. On his Web site, you can also find several interesting movie lists, like Top movies by genre etc.
Here are top ten movies from the list.
Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
Casablanca (1942)
High Noon (1952)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Grapes Of Wrath (1940)
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Grand Illusion / La Grande Illusion (1937)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
Third Man (1949)
Roger Ebert is a famous film critic and author. His book Great Movies I and II contain his in depth review of some of the greatest movies in history. On his Web site, you can find the list of the complete Great Movies(which is much larger than the list in the books). Since he doesn’t believe you can line up movies according to their merits, I will not list top ten movies from his list.
On IMDB site, you can find the top 250 movies according to user ratings. As you can see from the top 10 list below, the visitors to the IMDB seems to share a certain taste. But if you are fed up with those critics that recommend arty boring movies, you may want to have a look at this list.
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo. (1966)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Schindler’s List (1993)
12 Angry Men (1957)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Filmsite.org published 100 great movies, which is focused more on Hollywood classics(even though some recent movies and British movies are also included). If you want to watch only English language movies, have a look at this list.
On Filmsite.org, you can also find the 100 Best Films of the 20th Century chosen by Village Voice Critics’ Poll. Here are top 10 movies from the list.
1. Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
2. The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
3. Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
4. The Searchers (1956, John Ford)
5. The Man With a Movie Camera (1929, Dziga Vertov)
6. Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau)
7. L’Atalante (1934, Jean Vigo)
8. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
9. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966, Robert Bresson)
10. Rashomon (1950, Akira Kurosawa)
Sight & Sound, a British film magazine publishes 10 great movies each decade since 1962. In 2002, they published its largest poll to date. You can find more data here. The list itself is rather boring with usual suspects like Citizen Kane and La Règle du jeu. But the list of candidate, with more than 800 movies, can be useful.
in 2005, TIME Magazine published All-Time 100 movies list. Since the list is prepared by two in-house TIME critics (Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel), it shows some movies that are usually not on other lists, like The Fly(1986).
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die is a book with 1001 short review of 1001 movies(You can find the list here). It is one of the largest movie list, but don’t be disappointed if your favorite film is not listed there. There are plenty of movies that are not in the list. Interestingly, they update the list by dropping some of the movies that were in the book before. You wonder, “Do I have to watch those movies before I die or not?”
Now, you know which movie to watch. The problem is to find time to watch them all. You may have to make a plan, like watching 50 movies each year. If you follow this plan, and avoid any dangerous activities, and take care of your body well, you may manage to watch 1000 great movies. That would be something to be proud about…
