Collection of additional "must-see" Danny Perry's movies, presented in the back of his "Guide for the Film Fanatic"
546 movies missing. Imported from external source.
Over 1,000 films are listed in this visually arresting, full-color celebration of the silver screen. Film personalities, including actors, directors, cinematographers, and animators, write about their favorite films from a variety of angles. Martin Scorsese, Nicole Kidman, and Nick Hornby are among those who weigh in. Writers are matched to suitable (or sometimes surprising) themes and genres within the wider subject of how films can alter the course of a life. Movie stills and posters, trivia, and top-ten lists make this a book that can be dipped into or read from cover to cover. Great screen moments — endings, beginnings, kisses, death scenes — are given special spreads. The eclectic approach speaks to fans of big Hollywood blockbusters and factoid-reciting film geeks alike.
Source: https://www.amazon.com/Time-1000-Films-Change-Guides/dp/1904978738
The National Film Registry is the United States National Film Preservation Board's selection of films for preservation in the Library of Congress. The Board was established in 1988. Each year, 25 "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant films" are preserved, to increase awareness for its preservation. To be eligible for inclusion, a film must be at least ten years old but it is not required to be feature-length, nor is it required to have been theatrically released.
Source: https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/
This list is drawn from the second edition of "The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made", published in 2004. It contains a selection of 1000 reviews that have been printed in The New York Times in a time period of over seven decades. The majority of movies in this book are among the "10 Best Films" chosen by New York Times critics at the end of each year.
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 reviews that have been printed in The New York Times. The majority of movies in this book are among the "10 Best Films" chosen by New York Times critics at the end of each year.
Source: https://www.amazon.com/New-York-Times-Book-Movies/dp/078933657X
A list of all the films that have achieved 100% ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. The list is edited and expanded as new films achieve such rank.
Secondary Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_with_a_100%25_rating_on_Rotten_Tomatoes
The best movies of the 1940's decade.
IMDB filter
7.0 or higher rating
5,000 or more votes
Source:
Years 1931-2018 come from:
The New York Times: Book of Movies
the essential 1,000 films to see
2019 ed
Years after 2018 come from NYT website.
work in progress
There are discrepancies between the website and the book, particular for years after 2003. Please leave a comment for any errors you find.
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AFI's 100 Most Inspiring Films of All Time
These 100 movies inspire us, encourage us to make a difference and send us from the theatre with a greater sense of possibility and hope for the future.
The jurors have been asked to consider the following criteria in making their selections:
AFI defines an American film as an English language motion picture with significant creative and/or financial production elements from the United States. AFI defines a feature-length film as a motion picture of narrative format that is typically over 60 minutes in length. Only feature-length American films released before January 1, 2005, will be considered.
Source: http://www.afi.com/100Years/cheers.aspx
List of Nominees and Winners
RAY MILLAND "The Lost Weekend" - WINNER
BING CROSBY "The Bells of St. Mary's"
GENE KELLY "Anchors Aweigh"
GREGORY PECK "The Keys of the Kingdom"
CORNEL WILDE "A Song to Remember"
JAMES DUNN "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" - WINNER
MICHAEL CHEKHOV "Spellbound"
JOHN DALL "The Corn Is Green"
ROBERT MITCHUM "G. I. Joe"
J. CARROL NAISH "A Medal for Benny"
JOAN CRAWFORD "Mildred Pierce" - WINNER
INGRID BERGMAN "The Bells of St. Mary's"
GREER GARSON "The Valley of Decision"
JENNIFER JONES "Love Letters"
GENE TIERNEY "Leave Her to Heaven"
ANNE REVERE "National Velvet" - WINNER
EVE ARDEN "Mildred Pierce"
ANN BLYTH "Mildred Pierce"
ANGELA LANSBURY "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
JOAN LORRING "The Corn Is Green"
"BLOOD ON THE SUN" Art Direction: Wiard Ihnen; Interior Decoration: A. Roland Fields - WINNER
"EXPERIMENT PERILOUS" Art Direction: Albert S. D'Agostino, Jack Okey; Interior Decoration: Darrell Silvera, Claude Carpenter
"THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM" Art Direction: James Basevi, William Darling; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little, Frank E. Hughes
"LOVE LETTERS" Art Direction: Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson; Interior Decoration: Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
"THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY" Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt, John Bonar
"FRENCHMAN'S CREEK" Art Direction: Hans Dreier, Ernst Fegte; Interior Decoration: Sam Comer - WINNER
"LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN" Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Maurice Ransford; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little
"NATIONAL VELVET" Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Mildred Griffiths
"SAN ANTONIO" Art Direction: Ted Smith; Interior Decoration: Jack McConaghy
"A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS" Art Direction: Stephen Goosson, Rudolph Sternad; Interior Decoration: Frank Tuttle
"THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY" Harry Stradling - WINNER
"THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM" Arthur Miller
"THE LOST WEEKEND" John F. Seitz
"MILDRED PIERCE" Ernest Haller
"SPELLBOUND" George Barnes
"LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN" Leon Shamroy - WINNER
"ANCHORS AWEIGH" Robert Planck, Charles Boyle
"NATIONAL VELVET" Leonard Smith
"A SONG TO REMEMBER" Tony Gaudio, Allen M. Davey
"THE SPANISH MAIN" George Barnes
"THE LOST WEEKEND" Billy Wilder - WINNER
"THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S" Leo McCarey
"NATIONAL VELVET" Clarence Brown
"THE SOUTHERNER" Jean Renoir
"SPELLBOUND" Alfred Hitchcock
"THE TRUE GLORY" The Governments of Great Britain and the United States of America - WINNER
"THE LAST BOMB" United States Army Air Force
"HITLER LIVES?" Gordon Hollingshead, Producer - WINNER
"LIBRARY OF CONGRESS" United States Office of War Information Overseas Motion Picture Bureau
"TO THE SHORES OF IWO JIMA" United States Marine Corps
"NATIONAL VELVET" Robert J. Kern - WINNER
"THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S" Harry Marker
"THE LOST WEEKEND" Doane Harrison
"OBJECTIVE, BURMA!" George Amy
"A SONG TO REMEMBER" Charles Nelson
"SPELLBOUND" Miklos Rozsa - WINNER
"THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S" Robert Emmett Dolan
"BREWSTER'S MILLIONS" Lou Forbes
"CAPTAIN KIDD" Werner Janssen
"THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE" Roy Webb
"FLAME OF BARBARY COAST" Morton Scott, Dale Butts
"G. I. HONEYMOON" Edward J. Kay
"G. I. JOE" Louis Applebaum, Ann Ronell
"GUEST IN THE HOUSE" Werner Janssen
"GUEST WIFE" Daniele Amfitheatrof
"THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM" Alfred Newman
"THE LOST WEEKEND" Miklos Rozsa
"LOVE LETTERS" Victor Young
"THE MAN WHO WALKED ALONE" Karl Hajos
"OBJECTIVE, BURMA!" Franz Waxman
"PARIS--UNDERGROUND" Alexander Tansman
"A SONG TO REMEMBER" Miklos Rozsa, Morris Stoloff
"THE SOUTHERNER" Werner Janssen
"THIS LOVE OF OURS" H. J. Salter
"THE VALLEY OF DECISION" Herbert Stothart
"THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW" Arthur Lange, Hugo Friedhofer
"ANCHORS AWEIGH" Georgie Stoll - WINNER
"BELLE OF THE YUKON" Arthur Lange
"CAN'T HELP SINGING" Jerome Kern, H. J. Salter
"HITCHHIKE TO HAPPINESS" Morton Scott
"INCENDIARY BLONDE" Robert Emmett Dolan
"RHAPSODY IN BLUE" Ray Heindorf, Max Steiner
"STATE FAIR" Alfred Newman, Charles Henderson
"SUNBONNET SUE" Edward J. Kay
"THE THREE CABALLEROS" Charles Wolcott, Edward Plumb, Paul J. Smith
"TONIGHT AND EVERY NIGHT" Marlin Skiles, Morris Stoloff
"WHY GIRLS LEAVE HOME" Walter Greene
"WONDER MAN" Ray Heindorf, Lou Forbes
"It Might As Well Be Spring" in "State Fair" Music by Richard Rodgers; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II - WINNER
"Accentuate The Positive" in "Here Come the Waves" Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
"Anywhere" in "Tonight and Every Night" Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
"Aren't You Glad You're You?" in "The Bells of St. Mary's" Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Johnny Burke
"The Cat And The Canary" in "Why Girls Leave Home" Music by Jay Livingston; Lyrics by Ray Evans
"Endlessly" in "Earl Carroll Vanities" Music by Walter Kent; Lyrics by Kim Gannon
"I Fall In Love Too Easily" in "Anchors Aweigh" Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
"I'll Buy That Dream" in "Sing Your Way Home" Music by Allie Wrubel; Lyrics by Herb Magidson
"Linda" in "G. I. Joe" Music and Lyrics by Ann Ronell
"Love Letters" in "Love Letters" Music by Victor Young; Lyrics by Eddie Heyman
"More And More" in "Can't Help Singing" Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by E. Y. Harburg
"Sleighride In July" in "Belle of the Yukon" Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Johnny Burke
"So In Love" in "Wonder Man" Music by David Rose; Lyrics by Leo Robin
"Some Sunday Morning" in "San Antonio" Music by Ray Heindorf and M. K. Jerome; Lyrics by Ted Koehler
"THE LOST WEEKEND" Paramount - WINNER
"ANCHORS AWEIGH" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
"THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S" Rainbow Productions
"MILDRED PIERCE" Warner Bros.
"SPELLBOUND" Selznick International Pictures
"QUIET PLEASE!" Frederick Quimby, Producer - WINNER
"DONALD'S CRIME" Walt Disney, Producer
"JASPER AND THE BEANSTALK" George Pal, Producer
"LIFE WITH FEATHERS" Eddie Selzer, Producer
"MIGHTY MOUSE IN GYPSY LIFE" Paul Terry, Producer
"THE POET AND PEASANT" Walter Lantz, Producer
"RIPPLING ROMANCE" Screen Gems
"STAIRWAY TO LIGHT" Herbert Moulton, Producer; Jerry Bresler, Executive Producer - WINNER
"ALONG THE RAINBOW TRAIL" Edmund Reek, Producer
"SCREEN SNAPSHOTS' 25TH ANNIVERSARY" Ralph Staub, Producer
"STORY OF A DOG" Gordon Hollingshead, Producer
"WHITE RHAPSODY" Grantland Rice, Producer
"YOUR NATIONAL GALLERY" Joseph O'Brien and Thomas Mead, Producers
"STAR IN THE NIGHT" Gordon Hollingshead, Producer - WINNER
"A GUN IN HIS HAND" Chester Franklin, Producer; Jerry Bresler, Executive Producer
"THE JURY GOES ROUND 'N' ROUND" Jules White, Producer
"THE LITTLE WITCH" George Templeton, Producer
"THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S" RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, Stephen Dunn, Sound Director - WINNER
"FLAME OF BARBARY COAST" Republic Studio Sound Department, Daniel J. Bloomberg, Sound Director
"LADY ON A TRAIN" Universal Studio Sound Department, Bernard B. Brown, Sound Director
"LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN" 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton, Sound Director
"RHAPSODY IN BLUE" Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson, Sound Director
"A SONG TO REMEMBER" Columbia Studio Sound Department, John P. Livadary, Sound Director
"THE SOUTHERNER" General Service, Jack Whitney, Sound Director
"THEY WERE EXPENDABLE" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director
"THE THREE CABALLEROS" Walt Disney Studio Sound Department, C. O. Slyfield, Sound Director
"THREE IS A FAMILY" RCA Sound, W. V. Wolfe, Sound Director
"THE UNSEEN" Paramount Studio Sound Department, Loren L. Ryder, Sound Director
"WONDER MAN" Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon Sawyer, Sound Director
"THE HOUSE I LIVE IN" Special Award - WINNER
"WONDER MAN" Photographic Effects by John Fulton; Sound Effects by Arthur W. Johns - WINNER
"CAPTAIN EDDIE" Photographic Effects by Fred Sersen, Sol Halprin; Sound Effects by Roger Heman, Harry Leonard
"SPELLBOUND" Photographic Effects by Jack Cosgrove
"THEY WERE EXPENDABLE" Photographic Effects by A. Arnold Gillespie, Donald Jahraus, Robert A. MacDonald; Sound Effects by Michael Steinore
"A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS" Photographic Effects by Lawrence W. Butler; Sound Effects by Ray Bomba
"THE HOUSE ON 92ND STREET" Charles G. Booth - WINNER
"THE AFFAIRS OF SUSAN" Thomas Monroe, Laszlo Gorog
"A MEDAL FOR BENNY" John Steinbeck, Jack Wagner
"OBJECTIVE, BURMA!" Alvah Bessie
"A SONG TO REMEMBER" Ernst Marischka
"MARIE-LOUISE" Richard Schweizer - WINNER
"DILLINGER" Philip Yordan
"MUSIC FOR MILLIONS" Myles Connolly
"SALTY O'ROURKE" Milton Holmes
"WHAT NEXT, CORPORAL HARGROVE?" Harry Kurnitz
"THE LOST WEEKEND" Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder - WINNER
"G. I. JOE" Leopold Atlas, Guy Endore, Philip Stevenson
"MILDRED PIERCE" Ranald MacDougall
"PRIDE OF THE MARINES" Albert Maltz
"A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN" Tess Slesinger, Frank Davis
List of winners:
1937 — Gale Sondergaard as Faith Paleologus in "Anthony Adverse"
1938 — Alice Brady as Molly O'Leary in "In Old Chicago"
1939 — Fay Bainter as Aunt Belle Massey in "Jezebel"
1940 — Hattie McDaniel as Mammy in "...Gone with the Wind"
1941 — Jane Darwell as Ma Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath"
1942 — Mary Astor as Sandra Kovak in "The Great Lie"
1943 — Teresa Wright as Carol Beldon in "Mrs. Miniver"
1944 — Katina Paxinou as Pilar in "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
1945 — Ethel Barrymore as Ma Mott in "None but the Lonely Heart"
1946 — Anne Revere as Mrs Araminty in "National Velvet"
1947 — Anne Baxter as Sophie MacDonald in "The Razor's Edge"
1948 — Celeste Holm as Anne Dettrey in "Gentleman's Agreement"
1949 — Claire Trevor as Gaye Dawn in "Key Largo"
1950 — Mercedes McCambridge as Sadie Burke in "All the King's Men"
1951 — Josephine Hull as Veta Louise Dowd Simmons in "Harvey"
1952 — Kim Hunter as Stella Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
1953 — Gloria Grahame as Rosemary Bartlow in "The Bad and the Beautiful"
1954 — Donna Reed as Alma Burke in "From Here to Eternity"
1955 — Eva Marie Saint as Edie Doyle in "On the Waterfront"
1956 — Jo Van Fleet as Cathy Ames / Kate Trask in "East of Eden"
1957 — Dorothy Malone as Marylee Hadley in "Written on the Wind"
1958 — Miyoshi Ukemi as Katsumi Kelly in "Sayonara"
1959 — Wendy Hiller as Pat Cooper in "Separate Tables"
1960 — Shelley Winters as Petronella Van Daan in "The Diary of Anne Frank"
1961 — Shirley Jones as Lulu Bains in "Elmer Gantry"
1962 — Rita Moreno as Anita in "West Side Story"
1963 — Patty Duke as Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker"
1964 — Margaret Rutherford as The Duchess of Brighton in "The V.I.P.s"
1965 — Lila Kedrova as Madame Hortense in "Zorba the Greek"
1966 — Shelley Winters as Rose-Ann D'Arcey in "A Patch of Blue"
1967 — Sandy Dennis as Honey in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
1968 — Estelle Parsons as Blanche Barrow in "Bonnie and Clyde"
1969 — Ruth Gordon as Minnie Castevet in "Rosemary's Baby"
1970 — Goldie Hawn as Toni Simmons in "Cactus Flower"
1971 — Helen Hayes as Ada Quonsett in "Airport"
1972 — Cloris Leachman as Ruth Popper in "The Last Picture Show"
1973 — Eileen Heckart as Mrs. Baker in "Butterflies Are Free"
1974 — Tatum O'Neal as Addie Loggins in "Paper Moon"
1975 — Ingrid Bergman as Greta Ohlsson in "Murder on the Orient Express"
1976 — Lee Grant as Felicia Karpf in "Shampoo"
1977 — Beatrice Straight as Louise Schumacher in "Network"
1978 — Vanessa Redgrave as Julia in "Julia"
1979 — Maggie Smith as Diana Barrie in "California Suite"
1980 — Meryl Streep as Joanna Kramer in "Kramer vs. Kramer"
1981 — Mary Steenburgen as Lynda West-Dummar in "Melvin and Howard"
1982 — Maureen Stapleton as Emma Goldman in "Reds"
1983 — Jessica Lange as Julie Nichols in "Tootsie"
1984 — Linda Hunt as Billy Kwan in "The Year of Living Dangerously"
1985 — Peggy Ashcroft as Mrs. Moore in "A Passage to India"
1986 — Anjelica Houston as Maerose Prizzi in "Prizzi's Honor"
1987 — Dianne Wiest as Holly in "Hannah and Her Sisters"
1988 — Olympia Dukakis as Rose Castorini in "Moonstruck"
1989 — Geena Davis as Muriel Pritchett in "The Accidental Tourist"
1990 — Brenda Fricker as Bridget Fagan-Brown in "My Left Foot"
1991 — Whoopi Goldberg as Oda Mae Brown in "Ghost"
1992 — Mercedes Ruehl as Anne Napolitano in "The Fisher King"
1993 — Marisa Tomei as Mona Lisa Vito in "My Cousin Vinny"
1994 — Anna Paquin as Flora McGrath in "The Piano"
1995 — Dianne Wiest as Helen Sinclair in "Bullets over Broadway"
1996 — Mira Sorvinino as Leslie Ash / Linda Ash / Judy Cum in "Mighty Aphrodite"
1997 — Juliette Binoche as Hana in "The English Patient"
1998 — Kim Basinger as Lynn Bracken in "L.A. Confidential"
1999 — Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth I in "Shakespeare in Love"
2000 — Angelina Jolie as Lisa Rowe in "Girl, Interrupted"
2001 — Marcia Gay Harden as Lee Krasner in "Pollock"
2002 — Jennifer Connely as Alicia (Lardé) Nash in "A Beautiful Mind"
2003 — Catherine Zeta-Jones as Velma Kelly in "Chicago"
2004 — Renée Zellweger as Ruby Thewes in "Cold Mountain"
2005 — Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn in "The Aviator"
2006 — Rachel Weisz as Tessa Quayle in "The Constant Gardener"
2007 — Jennifer Hudson as Effie White in "Dreamgirls"
2008 — Tilda Swinton as Karen Crowder in "Michael Clayton"
2009 — Penélope Cruz as María Elena in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
2010 — Mo'Nique as Mary Lee Johnston in "Precious"
2011 — Melissa Leo as Alice Eklund-Ward in "The Fighter"
2012 — Octavia Spencer as Minerva 'Minny' Jackson in "The Help"
2013 — Anne Hathaway as Fantine in "Les Misérables"
2014 — Lupita Nyong'o as Patsey in "12 Years a Slave"
2015 — Patricia Arquette as Olivia Evans in "Boyhood"
2016 — Alicia Vikander as Gerda Wegener in "The Danish Girl"
2017 — Viola Davis as Rose Lee Maxson in "Fences"
2018 — Allison Janney as LaVona Fay Golden in "I, Tonya"
2019 — Regina King as Sharon Rivers in "If Beale Street Could Talk"
2020 — **Laura Dern as Nora Fanshaw in "Marriage Story"
2021 — Youn Yuh-jung as Soon-ja in "Minari"
2022 — **Ariana DeBose as Anita in "West Side Story"
2023 — Jamie Lee Curtis as Deirdre Beaubeirdre im "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
Collection of additional "must-see" Danny Perry's movies, presented in the back of his "Guide for the Film Fanatic"
546 movies missing. Imported from external source.
AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers is a list of the 100 most inspiring films of all time.
These 100 movies inspire us, encourage us to make a difference and send us from the theatre with a greater sense of possibility and hope for the future. A jury of 1,500 film artists, critics and historians selected the classic IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, starring James Stewart, as the most inspiring movie of all time.
Source: https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-cheers
Movies primarily about animals
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This list is drawn from the second edition of "The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made" (St. Martin's Griffin, $24.95), edited by Peter M. Nichols and published in 2004. For additional information about the list, read Peter M. Nichols's preface, or A. O. Scott's introduction.
Pre 1960's Classic movies, dance, actors & biographies from an earlier era that brought movies into our lives.
(Click on the actor's photo for more info & their movies.)
Classic movie list: https://www.filmsite.org/classicsfilms
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