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 over a million titles have since been recorded - if the Internet Movie Database is anything to go by.
Out of these million-plus movies, our team of experts has picked what we believe is the essential 1,000 - those that best sum up the dazzling achievement and variety of the movies.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/film/series/1000-films-to-see-before-you-die
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Concepts like the Blockbuster is introduced. 1980s is called 'one of the weaker decades in cinema'. The rise of independent films revive cinema again in the 1990s.
[This is a series of lists listing films deemed important based on their technical, artistic, historical or cultural significance. This shall also serve as a good resource for film studies however it is extensively based on my own personal preferences.
Resources:
[1]r/truefilm, IMDb, AFI's top 100, Sight & Sound Critic's Directors' Top 100, and various others.
[2] Looking at Movies: https://www.amazon.com/Looking-Movies-Fifth-Richard-Barsam/dp/0393600653 and The Movie Book:
https://www.amazon.com/Movie-Book-Ideas-Simply-Explained-ebook/dp/B017AR0MUS
[3] Download Links:Qxr, Sartre, Garshasp for more iconic ones. Yify and others for the rest. (Piracy Is Illegal ffs & I shall not be responsible)
Excerpt From https://www.imdb.com/user/ur73738276/watchlist?sort=release_date%2Casc&view=detail listing films from 1981's *Christiane F to 2000's Traffic
PS: Trakt has incorrect dates for a great many titles. so use IMDb or wikipedia! This list uses IMDb and 'Rank' is the correct order. ]
Films already watched have been exempted. Imported 274/276
List of Nominees and Winners.
Gene Hackman in "Mississippi Burning"
Tom Hanks in "Big"
Dustin Hoffman in "Rain Man" - WINNER
Edward James Olmos in "Stand and Deliver"
Max Von Sydow in "Pelle the Conqueror"
Alec Guinness in "Little Dorrit"
Kevin Kline in "A Fish Called Wanda" - WINNER
Martin Landau in "Tucker The Man and His Dream"
River Phoenix in "Running on Empty"
Dean Stockwell in "Married to the Mob"
Glenn Close in "Dangerous Liaisons"
Jodie Foster in "The Accused" - WINNER
Melanie Griffith in "Working Girl"
Meryl Streep in "A Cry in the Dark"
Sigourney Weaver in "Gorillas in the Mist"
Joan Cusack in "Working Girl"
Geena Davis in "The Accidental Tourist" - WINNER
Frances McDormand in "Mississippi Burning"
Michelle Pfeiffer in "Dangerous Liaisons"
Sigourney Weaver in "Working Girl"
"Beaches" Art Direction: Albert Brenner; Set Decoration: Garrett Lewis
"Dangerous Liaisons" Art Direction: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Gerard James - WINNER
"Rain Man" Art Direction: Ida Random; Set Decoration: Linda DeScenna
"Tucker The Man and His Dream" Art Direction: Dean Tavoularis; Set Decoration: Armin Ganz
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit" Art Direction: Elliot Scott; Set Decoration: Peter Howitt
"Mississippi Burning" Peter Biziou - WINNER
"Rain Man" John Seale
"Tequila Sunrise" Conrad L. Hall
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" Sven Nykvist
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit" Dean Cundey
"Coming to America" Deborah Nadoolman
"Dangerous Liaisons" James Acheson - WINNER
"A Handful of Dust" Jane Robinson
"Sunset" Patricia Norris
"Tucker The Man and His Dream" Milena Canonero
"A Fish Called Wanda" Charles Crichton
"The Last Temptation of Christ" Martin Scorsese
"Mississippi Burning" Alan Parker
"Rain Man" Barry Levinson - WINNER
"Working Girl" Mike Nichols
"The Cry of Reason - Beyers Naudé: An Afrikaner Speaks Out" Robert Bilheimer and Ronald Mix, Producers
"Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie" Marcel Ophuls, Producer - WINNER
"Let’s Get Lost" Bruce Weber and Nan Bush, Producers
"Promises to Keep" Ginny Durrin, Producer
"Who Killed Vincent Chin?" Renee Tajima and Christine Choy, Producers
"The Children’s Storefront" Karen Goodman, Producer
"Family Gathering" Lise Yasui and Ann Tegnell, Producers
"Gang Cops" Thomas B. Fleming and Daniel J. Marks, Producers
"Portrait of Imogen" Nancy Hale and Meg Partridge, Producers
"You Don’t Have to Die" William Guttentag and Malcolm Clarke, Producers - WINNER
"Die Hard" Frank J. Urioste, John F. Link
"Gorillas in the Mist" Stuart Baird
"Mississippi Burning" Gerry Hambling
"Rain Man" Stu Linder
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit" Arthur Schmidt - WINNER
"Hanussen" Hungary
"The Music Teacher" Belgium
"Pelle the Conqueror" Denmark - WINNER
"Salaam Bombay!" India
"Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" Spain
"Beetlejuice" Ve Neill, Steve La Porte, Robert Short - WINNER
"Coming to America" Rick Baker
"Scrooged" Tom Burman, Bari Dreiband-Burman
"The Accidental Tourist" John Williams
"Dangerous Liaisons" George Fenton
"Gorillas in the Mist" Maurice Jarre
"The Milagro Beanfield War" Dave Grusin - WINNER
"Rain Man" Hans Zimmer
"Calling You" from "Bagdad Cafe" Music and Lyric by Bob Telson
"Let the River Run" from "Working Girl" Music and Lyric by Carly Simon - WINNER
"Two Hearts" from "Buster" Music by Lamont Dozier; Lyric by Phil Collins
"The Accidental Tourist" Lawrence Kasdan, Charles Okun and Michael Grillo, Producers
"Dangerous Liaisons" Norma Heyman and Hank Moonjean, Producers
"Mississippi Burning" Frederick Zollo and Robert F. Colesberry, Producers
"Rain Man" Mark Johnson, Producer - WINNER
"Working Girl" Douglas Wick, Producer
"The Cat Came Back" Cordell Barker
"Technological Threat" Bill Kroyer, Brian Jennings
"Tin Toy" John Lasseter, William Reeves - WINNER
"The Appointments of Dennis Jennings" Dean Parisot, Steven Wright - WINNER
"Cadillac Dreams" Matia Karrell, Abbee Goldstein
"Gullah Tales" George deGolian, Gary Moss
"Bird" Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Vern Poore, Willie D. Burton - WINNER
"Die Hard" Don Bassman, Kevin F. Cleary, Richard Overton, Al Overton
"Gorillas in the Mist" Andy Nelson, Brian Saunders, Peter Handford
"Mississippi Burning" Robert Litt, Elliot Tyson, Rick Kline, Danny Michael
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit" Robert Knudson, John Boyd, Don Digirolamo, Tony Dawe
"Die Hard" Stephen H. Flick, Richard Shorr
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit" Charles L. Campbell, Louis L. Edemann - WINNER
"Willow" Ben Burtt, Richard Hymns
"Die Hard" Richard Edlund, Al DiSarro, Brent Boates, Thaine Morris
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit" Ken Ralston, Richard Williams, Edward Jones, George Gibbs - WINNER
"Willow" Dennis Muren, Michael McAlister, Phil Tippett, Chris Evans
"The Accidental Tourist" Frank Galati, Lawrence Kasdan
"Dangerous Liaisons" Christopher Hampton - WINNER
"Gorillas in the Mist" Screenplay by Anna Hamilton Phelan; Story by Anna Hamilton Phelan, Tab Murphy
"Little Dorrit" Christine Edzard
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" Jean-Claude Carrière, Philip Kaufman
"Big" Gary Ross, Anne Spielberg
"Bull Durham" Ron Shelton
"A Fish Called Wanda" Screenplay by John Cleese; Story by John Cleese, Charles Crichton
"Rain Man" Screenplay by Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow; Story by Barry Morrow - WINNER
"Running on Empty" Naomi Foner
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One man's journey to watch 3650 movies of the 80s
From Chapter 3 of A Dream is a Genius, 1999. Akira Kurosawa discusses his top 100 films with his daughter, Kazuo. Kurosawa limits his choices to one film per director.
Todo el mejor cine de la historia
Liste des films présents dans le livre et le site Movieland www.movieland.io
All credits go to IMDb user: RDLongoria
All credits go to IMDb user: RDLongoria
Spanning the length of Roger Ebert's career as the leading American movie critic, this book contains all of his four-star reviews written during that time. A great guide for movie watching.
Taken from external source. 64 movies missing from original.
The 100 "Top Films" Kurosawa listed in the book "A Dream is a Genius".
Akira Kurosawa discusses his top 100 films with his daughter, Kazuo. Kurosawa limits his choices to one film per director.
Source: http://ww.criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=7192
PART 1 (1929-1946)
PART 2 (1947-1964)
PART 3 (1965-1984)
PART 5 (2003-2019)
PART 6 (2020-2024)
1-12 — 1985 Winners
13-52 — 1985 Nominees
53-67 — 1986 Winners
68-100 — 1986 Nominees
101-116 — 1987 Winners
117-152 — 1987 Nominees
153-164 — 1988 Winners
165-207 — 1988 Nominees
208-223 — 1989 Winners
224-260 — 1989 Nominees
261-275 — 1990 Winners
276-311 — 1990 Nominees
312-324 — 1991 Winners
325-363 — 1991 Nominees
364-376 — 1992 Winners
377-408 — 1992 Nominees
409-423 — 1993 Winners
424-463 — 1993 Nominees
464-475 — 1994 Winners
476-513 — 1994 Nominees
514-529 — 1995 Winners
530-569 — 1995 Nominees
570-585 — 1996 Winners
586-626 — 1996 Nominees
627-641 — 1997 Winners
642-691 — 1997 Nominees
692-702 — 1998 Winners
703-748 — 1998 Nominees
749-760 — 1999 Winners
761-801 — 1999 Nominees
802-815 — 2000 Winners
816-859 — 2000 Nominees
860-872 — 2001 Winners
873-911 — 2001 Nominees
912-927 — 2002 Winners
928-961 — 2002 Nominees
The Guardian's 1000 Films to See Before You Die
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