1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die is a film reference book edited by Steven Jay Schneider with original essays on each film contributed by over 70 film critics.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1001_Movies_You_Must_See_Before_You_Die
Since 1984, the Criterion Collection has been dedicated to publishing important classic and contemporary films from around the world in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements. No matter the medium—from laserdisc to DVD and Blu-ray to streaming—Criterion has maintained its pioneering commitment to presenting each film as its maker would want it seen, in state-of-the-art restorations with special features designed to encourage repeated watching and deepen the viewer’s appreciation of the art of film.
Films listed in order of spine numbers. Releases with multiple films are listed as individual items where appropiate.
Last Update: Releases up to July 2024 (Spine #1228)
Source: https://www.criterion.com/shop/browse/list?sort=spine_number
This list contains all movies that have been nominated for Best Picture in the Academy Awards.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture#Winners_and_nominees
List of winners:
1929 — Janet Gaynor as Angela in "Street Angel", as Diane in "7th Heaven" and as The Wife in "Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans"
1930 — Mary Pickford as Norma Besant in "Coquette"
1930 — Norma Shearer as Jerry in "The Divorcee"
1931 — Marie Dressler as Min Divot in "Min and Bill"
1932 — Helen Hayes as Madelon Claudet in "The Sin of Madelon Claudet"
1934 — Katharine Hepburn as Eva Lovelace in "Morning Glory"
1935 — Claudette Colbert as Ellen Andrews in "It Happened One Night"
1936 — Bette Davis as Joyce Heath in "Dangerous"
1937 — Luise Rainer as Anna Held in "The Great Ziegfeld"
1938 — Luise Rainer as O-Lan in "The Good Earth"
1939 — Bette Davis as Julie Marsden in "Jezebel"
1940 — Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in "...Gone with the Wind"
1941 — Ginger Rogers as Kitty Foyle in "Kitty Foyle"
1942 — Joan Fontaine as Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth in "Suspicion"
1943 — Greer Garson as Kay Miniver in "Mrs. Miniver"
1944 — Jennifer Jones as Bernadette Soubirous in "The Song of Bernadette"
1945 — Ingrid Bergman as Paula Alquist in "Gaslight"
1946 — Joan Crawford as Mildred Pierce in "Mildred Pierce"
1947 — Olivia de Havilland as Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris in "To Each His Own"
1948 — Loretta Young as Katie Holstrom in "The Farmer's Daughter"
1949 — Jane Wyman as Belinda MacDonald in "Johnny Belinda"
1950 — Olivia de Havilland as Catherine Sloper in "The Heiress"
1951 — Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn in "Born Yesterday"
1952 — Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
1953 — Shirley Booth as Lola Delaney in "Come Back, Little Sheba"
1954 — Audrey Hepburn as Princess Ann in "Roman Holiday"
1955 — Grace Kelly as Georgie Elgin in "The Country Girl"
1956 — Anna Magnani as Serafina Delle Rose in "The Rose Tattoo"
1957 — Ingrid Bergman as Anna Koreff / Anastasia in "Anastasia"
1958 — Joanne Woodward as Eve White / Eve Black / Jane in "The Three Faces of Eve"
1959 — Susan Hayward as Barbara Graham in "I Want to Live!"
1960 — Simone Signoret as Alice Aisgill in "Room at the Top"
1961 — Elizabeth Taylor as Gloria Wandrous in "BUtterfield 8"
1962 — Sophia Loren as Cesira in "Two Women"
1963 — Anne Bancroft in "The Miracle Worker"
1964 — Patricia Neal as Alma Brown in "Hud"
1965 — Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins in "Mary Poppins"
1966 — Julie Christie as Diana Scott in "Darling"
1967 — Elizabeth Taylor as Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
1968 — Katharine Hepburn as Christina Drayton in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"
1969 — Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice in "Funny Girl" / Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine in "The Lion in Winter"
1970 — Maggie Smith as Jean Brodie in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"
1971 — Glenda Jackson as Gudrun Brangwen in "Women in Love"
1972 — Jane Fonda as Bree Daniels in "Klute"
1973 — Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles in "Cabaret"
1974 — Glenda Jackson as Vickie Allessio in "A Touch of Class"
1975 — Ellen Burstyn as Alice Hyatt in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"
1976 — Louise Fletcher as Nurse Mildred Ratched in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
1977 — Faye Dunaway as Diana Christensen in "Network"
1978 — Diane Keaton as Annie Hall in "Annie Hall"
1979 — Jane Fonda as Sally Hyde in "Coming Home"
1980 — Sally Field as Norma Rae Webster in "Norma Rae"
1981 — Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn in "Coal Miner's Daughter"
1982 — Katharine Hepburn as Ethel Thayer in "On Golden Pond"
1983 — Meryl Streep as Sophie Zawistowski in "Sophie's Choice"
1984 — Shirley MacLaine as Aurora Greenway in "Terms of Endearment"
1985 — Sally Field as Edna Spalding in "Places in the Heart"
1986 — Geraldine Page as Carrie Watts in "The Trip to Bountiful"
1987 — Marleen Matlin as Sarah Norman in "Children of a Lesser God"
1988 — Cher as Loretta Castorini in "Moonstruck"
1989 — Jodie Foster as Sarah Tobias in "The Accused"
1990 — Jessica Tandy as Daisy Werthan in "Driving Miss Daisy"
1991 — Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes in "Misery"
1992 — Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling in in "The Silence of the Lambs"
1993 — Emma Thompson as Margaret Schlegel in "Howards End"
1994 — Holly Hunter as Ada McGrath in "The Piano"
1995 — Jessica Lange as Carly Marshall in "Blue Sky"
1996 — Susan Sarandon as Sister Helen Prejean in "Dead Man Walking"
1997 — Frances McDormand as Marge Gunderson in "Fargo"
1998 — Helen Hunt as Carol Connelly in "As Good as It Gets"
1999 — Gwyneth Paltrow as Viola de Lesseps in "Shakespeare in Love"
2000 — Hilary Swank as Brandon Teena in "Boys Don't Cry"
2001 — Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich in "Erin Brockovich"
2002 — Halle Berry as Leticia Musgrove in "Monster's Ball"
2003 — Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf in "The Hours"
2004 — Charlize Teron as Aileen Wuornos in "Monster"
2005 — Hilary Swank as Maggie Fitzgerald in "Million Dollar Baby"
2006 — Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash in "Walk the Line"
2007 — Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen"
2008 — Marion Cotillard as Édith Piaf in "La Vie En Rose"
2009 — Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz in "The Reader"
2010 — Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy in "The Blind Side"
2011 — Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers in "Black Swan"
2012 — Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady"
2013 — Jennifer Lawrence as Tiffany Maxwell in "Silver Linings Playbook"
2014 — Cate Blanchett as Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis in "Blue Jasmine"
2015 — Julianne Moore as Alice Howland in "Still Alice"
2016 — Brie Larson as Joy "Ma" Newsome in "Room"
2017 — Emma Stone as Mia Dolan in "La La Land"
2018 — Frances McDormand as Mildred Hayes in "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"
2019 — Olivia Colman as Queen Anne in "The Favourite"
2020 — Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland in "Judy"
2021 — Frances McDormand as Fern in "Nomadland"
2022 — Jessica Chastain as Tammy Faye Bakker in "The Eyes of Tammy Faye"
2023 — Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Quan Wang in "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
The movies on this list don't necessarily mean the movie is bad, it's just overhyped. Some of the movies listed are also listed in my Worst Films of All-Time
Source: IMDB
Filter: Votes >= 10000
Order: Votes Descending
Date: 2014-08-23
Movies nominated for the Oscars since 1960.
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-romantic-comedies-of-all-time/
UPDATED: 2/13/24
Original Edition (2003) + additions (2004-2021) in that order. http://1001films.wikia.com/wiki/The_List
2021 Edition Additions:
The Vast of Night (2019)
The Assistant (2019)
Rocks (2019)
Saint Maud (2019)
Tenet (2020)
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
Soul (2020)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
Lovers Rock (2020)
Nomadland (2020)
Since 1984, the Criterion Collection, has been dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements for a wider and wider audience. The foundation of the collection is the work of such masters of cinema as Kurosawa, Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Hitchcock, and Kubrick. Each film is presented uncut, in its original aspect ratio, as its maker intended it to be seen. To date, more than 150 filmmakers have made it into the collection.
Source: https://www.criterion.com/library/list_view?b=Criterion&m=dvd&s=spine
This is a list based on the show 'The Movies' on CNN and compiled by a user on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/ct3rer/every_single_movie_mentioned_on_cnns_the_movies/
Romantic comedy (also known as the portmanteaus romedy or romcom) is a genre with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles. A fairy-tale-style happy ending is a typical feature.
Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's 100 Years…100 Laughs is a list of the top 100 funniest movies in American cinema. A wide variety of comedies were nominated for the distinction that included slapstick comedy, action comedy, screwball comedy, romantic comedy, satire, black comedy, musical comedy, comedy of manners and comedy of errors. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 13, 2000.
Source: http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/laughs100.pdf
Attraction and schmaltz and shenanigans, oh my.
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 and every one of these movies.
All the reviews are available online as well thanks to rogerebert.com
Imported frome external source. 19 movies missing.
Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's 100 Years…100 Passions is a list of the top 100 greatest love stories in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 11, 2002, in a CBS television special hosted by American film and TV actress Candice Bergen.
Source: http://www.afi.com/100years/passions.aspx
All the movies with "Must-See" badge on Metacritic. Movie gets the badge when it has a score of 81 or higher and has been reviewed by at least 15 pro critics.
One of the gifts a movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered. Here are more than 300 reconsiderations and appreciations of movies from the distant past to the recent past, all of movies that I consider worthy of being called “great.” / Roger Ebert
» rogerebert.com/great-movies
Sorted by year descending.
Winners and nominees (Winners first)
1927/28: 1, 2, 3
1928/29: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
1929/30: 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
1930/31: 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
1931/32: 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26
1932/33: 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36
1934: 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48
1935: 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60
1936: 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70
1937: 71 ,72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80
1938:
81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90
1939:
91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100
1940:
101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110
1941:
111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120
1942:
121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130
1943:
131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140
1944:
141, 142, 143, 144, 145
1945:
146, 147, 148, 149, 150
1946:
151, 152, 153, 154, 155
1947:
156, 157, 158, 159, 160
1948:
161, 162, 163, 164, 165
1949:
166, 167, 168, 169, 170
1950:
171, 172, 173, 174, 175
1951:
176, 177, 178, 179, 180
1952:
181, 182, 183, 184, 185
1953:
186, 187, 188, 189, 190
1954:
191, 192, 193, 194, 195
1955:
196, 197, 198, 199, 200
1956: 201, 202, 203, 204, 205
1957:
206, 207, 208, 209, 210
1958:
211, 212, 213, 214, 215
1959:
216, 217, 218, 219, 220
1960:
221, 222, 223, 224, 225
1961:
226, 227, 228, 229, 230
1962:
231, 232, 233 ,234, 235
1963:
236, 237, 238, 239, 240
1964:
241, 242, 243, 244, 245
1965:
246, 247, 248, 249, 250
1966:
251, 252, 253, 254, 255
1967:
256, 257, 258, 259, 260
1968:
261, 262, 263, 264, 265
1969:
266, 267, 268, 269, 270
1970:
271, 272, 273, 274, 275
1971:
276, 277, 278, 279, 280
1972:
281, 282, 283, 284, 285
1973:
286, 287, 288, 289, 290
1974:
291, 292, 293, 294, 295
1975:
296, 297, 298, 299, 300
1976:
301, 302, 303, 304, 305
1977:
306 ,307, 308, 309, 310
1978:
311, 312, 313, 314, 315
1979:
316, 317, 318, 319, 320
1980:
321, 322, 323, 324, 325
1981:
326, 327, 328, 329, 330
1982:
331, 332, 333, 334, 335
1983:
336, 337, 338, 339, 340
1984:
341, 342, 343, 344, 345
1985:
346, 347, 348, 349, 350
1986:
351, 352, 353, 354, 355
1987:
356, 357, 358, 359, 360
1988:
361, 362, 363, 364, 365
1989:
366, 367, 368, 369, 370
1990:
371, 372, 373, 374, 375
1991:
376, 377, 378, 379, 380
1992:
381, 382, 383, 384, 385
1993:
386, 387, 388, 389, 390
1994:
391, 392, 393, 394, 395
1995:
396, 397, 398, 399, 400
1996:
401, 402, 403, 404, 405
1997:
406, 407, 408, 409, 410
1998:
411, 412, 413, 414, 415
1999:
416, 417, 418, 419, 420
2000:
421, 422, 423, 424, 425
2001:
426, 427, 428, 429, 430
2002: 431, 432, 433, 434, 435
2003:
436, 437, 438, 439, 440
2004:
442, 442, 443, 444, 445
2005: 446, 447, 448, 449, 450
2006:
451, 452, 453, 454, 455
2007:
456, 457, 458, 459, 460
2008:
461, 462, 463, 464, 465
2009:
466, 467, 468, 469, 470, 471, 472, 473, 474, 475
2010:
476, 477, 478, 479, 480, 481, 482, 483, 484, 485
2011:
486, 487, 488, 489, 490, 491, 492, 493, 494
2012:
495, 496, 497, 498, 499, 500, 501, 502, 503
2013:
504, 505, 506, 507, 508, 509, 510, 511, 512
2014:
513, 514, 515, 516, 517, 518, 519, 520
2015: 521, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 527, 528
2016:
529, 530, 531, 532, 533, 534, 535, 536, 537
2017:
538, 539, 540, 541, 542, 543, 544, 545, 546
2018:
547, 548, 549, 550, 551, 552, 553, 554
2019:
555, 556, 557, 558, 559, 560, 561, 562, 563
2020/21: 564, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571
2022: 573, 572, 574, 575, 576, 577, 578, 579, 580, 581
2023: 586, 582, 583, 584, 585, 587, 588, 589, 590, 591
2024: 598, 592, 593, 594, 595, 596, 597, 599, 600, 601
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.
All credits go to IMDb user: RDLongoria
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 and every one of these movies.
Source: https://www.rogerebert.com/great-movies
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