The Great Escape 1963

Hey everyone, great to be back again. Some of you might remember a similar title from a list I made back in April, where I made a list of the top 250 movies with 13 sources, or a preview of this list I made last month.

I want to emphasize that this is NOT an official ranking nor my personal ranking; it is just a statistical and, personally, interesting look at 500 amazing movies. These rankings reflect the opinions of thousands of critics and millions of people around the world. And I am glad that this list is able to cover a wide range of genres, decades, and countries. So before I get bombarded with "Why isn't X on here?" or "How is X above Y?" comments, I wanted to clear that up.

I sourced my data from Sight & Sound (both critic and director lists), TSPDT, iCheckMovies, 11 domestic websites (Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, IMDb, Letterboxd, TMDb, Trakt, Blu-Ray, MovieLens, RateYourMusic, Criticker, and Critics Choice), and 9 international audience sites (FilmAffinity, Douban, Naver, MUBI, Filmweb, Kinopoisk, CSFD, Moviemeter, and Senscritique). This balance of domestic/international ratings made the list more well-rounded and internationally representative (sites from Spain, China, Korea, Poland, Russia, Czech Republic, Netherlands, and France).

As for my algorithm, I weighted websites according to both their Alexa ranking and their number of votes compared to other sites. For example, since The Godfather has hundreds of thousands of votes on Letterboxd but only a couple thousand on Metacritic, Letterboxd would be weighted more heavily. After obtaining the weighted averages, I then added the movie's iCheckMovies' favs/checks ratio and TSPDT ranking, if applicable. Regarding TSPDT, I included the top 2000 movies; as an example of my calculations, Rear Window's ranking of #41 would add (2000-41)/2000=0.9795 points to its weighted average. I removed movies that had <7-8K votes on IMDb, as these mostly had low ratings and numbers of votes across different sites as well. For both Sight & Sound lists, I added between 0.5 and 1 point to a movie's score based on its ranking, which I thought was an adequate reflection of how difficult it is to be included on these lists. As examples, a #21 movie would have 0.9 points added while a #63 would have 0.69 points.

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Some stats:

Decades:
1900s - 1 film
1910s - 1
1920s - 22
1930s - 22
1940s - 40
1950s - 65
1960s - 75
1970s - 58
1980s - 54
1990s - 64
2000s - 55
2010s - 43

Directors with multiple films:
12 films - Akira Kurosawa
10 - Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman
8 - Charlie Chaplin, Stanley Kubrick
7 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Billy Wilder, Hayao Miyazaki, Steven Spielberg
6 - Federico Fellini, Luis Buñuel
5 - Christopher Nolan, Buster Keaton, Fritz Lang, Howard Hawks, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen
4 - David Lynch, Ernst Lubitsch, F. W. Murnau, Francis Ford Coppola, John Ford, Lee Unkrich, Quentin Tarantino, Roman Polanski, Sergio Leone, Werner Herzog, William Wyler, Yasujirō Ozu
3 - Brad Bird, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Clint Eastwood, Coen Brothers, David Fincher, David Lean, François Truffaut, Frank Capra, Hirokazu Koreeda, James Cameron, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, John Huston, Masaki Kobayashi, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pete Docter, Peter Jackson, Richard Linklater, Ridley Scott, Robert Bresson, Satyajit Ray, Sidney Lumet, Vittorio De Sica, Wim Wenders
2 - Abbas Kiarostami, Alain Resnais, Andrew Stanton, Arthur Penn, Béla Tarr, Bong Joon-ho, Brian De Palma, Chris Marker, Edward Yang, Elia Kazan, Emir Kusturica, Frank Darabont, George Cukor, George Roy Hill, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Isao Takahata, Jacques Tati, Jean Cocteau, Jean Renoir, Jim Sheridan, John Cassavetes, John Lasseter, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Kenji Mizoguchi, Leo McCarey, Louis Malle, Luchino Visconti, Max Ophüls, Mike Leigh, Mike Nichols, Mikhail Kalatozov, Miloš Forman, Orson Welles, Otto Preminger, Park Chan-wook, Pedro Almodóvar, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Weir, Raoul Walsh, Robert Zemeckis, Sam Mendes, Stanley Donen, Terrence Malick, Terry Gilliam, Thomas Vinterberg, Victor Fleming, Wong Kar-wai, Zhang Yimou

Cloned from:
https://letterboxd.com/reelstats/list/the-500-greatest-movies-of-all-time-according/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_actual_events

Movies I want to watch but don't want to download to my server

Events such as the cultural revolution and the abolition of Hay's code contribute to the daring and more experimental nature of films of the 60s which were a prelude to what was to come in the 70s. 70s begins with worldwide major film movements. This period is considered to be the heyday of cinema with the release of many great films that would change the landscape forever.
[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 1961's *La Notte to 1980's Altered States
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 seen have been exempted. Imported 227/231

HollyWood Movies based on Popularity

Movies that were featured on Friendly Fire podcast. The show is hosted by Benjamin Ahr Harrison, Adam Pranica and John Roderick. Check it out at: https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/friendly-fire/

feel free to comment any corrections and suggestions!

notes & titles not referencing movies
1x5: heart of darkness // referencing heart of darkness by joseph conrad
1x8: the outsiders // s.e. hinton's novel is the intended reference but the movie is notable enough for me to list it
1x10: the lost weekend // charles jackson's novel which the film is based on is a more accurate point of reference
2x2: nighthawks // nighthaws painting by edward hopper
2x12: the wicked and the divine // the wicked and the divine comic book series
2x13: the tell-tale heart // referencing the tell-tale heart by edgar allan poe
2x17: the noose tightens // book 1 chapter 4 'the noose tightens' from art spiegelman's 'maus' series
2x18: a night to remember // movie about the titanic is more popular but ~thematically~ seems less likely
2x22: brave new world // referencing brave new world by aldous huxley, all adaptations have been flops
3x2: fortune & men's eyes // the film is based off a widely acclaimed play of the same title - both the play and the screenplay were written by the same man and are very similar productions
3x7: the man in black // not entirely sure, there is a movie but given the concept of the man in black in the episode it's more likely a reference to the antagonist in lost
3x9: no exit // references the play no exit by john paul-sartre
3x12: bizarrodale // quite literally have no idea if this is even based off anything, seems like a dc comics thing maybe but i need to look in to it more
3x15: american dreams // not sure if this is right but i'm running with it
3x19: fear the reaper // might be referencing fear the reaper by j.n. chaney and scott moon, book #2 in 'the last reaper' series (??)
3x21: the dark secret of harvest home // miniseries is based off thomas tryon's 1973 novel
3x22: survive the night // could also be referencing the 2015 novel by danielle vega?
4x1: in memoriam // isn't based on anything as it's a memorial episode
4x5: witness for the prosecution // the film is based off a 1925 short story of the same title by agatha christie
4x16: the locked room // the locked room by maj sjöwall & per wahlöö
4x18: lynchian // what the fuck yall know about david lynch
4x19: killing mr. honey // killing mr. griffin by lois duncan
5x3: graduation // i have some movie here but honestly it's probably just because well. it's the graduation episode
5x4: purgatorio // dante's purgatorio
5x5: homecoming // possibly the homecoming play by harold pinter
5x8: lock & key // locke & key comic books probably
5x15: return of the pussycats // well they sure returned!
5x18: next to normal // is this not self explanatory
5x19: riverdale rip (?) // literally do not know
6x1: welcome to rivervale // introductory title
6x3: mr. cypher // maybe vaguely alludes to cypher from the matrix? tbd
6x4: the witching hour // probably the anne rice novel

Movies Based Factually or Loosely on True Stories & Biographies. Note: Although some may be loosely based on a true story or on the situations in life. They portray the times & life of the times.

He completed high school and joined his father in the mines (an experience that resulted in a lifetime fear of being in enclosed spaces) and then served in WW II. After his return from the war, Bronson used the GI Bill to study art (a passion he had for the rest of his life), then enrolled at the Pasadena Playhouse in California. One of his teachers was impressed with the young man and recommended him to director Henry Hathaway, resulting in Bronson making his film debut in Marinen kalder (1951).

Movies released during the 1960s to watch

30 Films Quentin Tarantino wants you to see according to IndieWire

https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/quentin-tarantino-favorite-movies/screen-shot-2019-05-16-at-9-02-27-am/

Tous les films du podcast 2 Heures de perdues, https://www.2hdp.fr/
Les saisons 1 et 2 n'étant plus disponibles, la liste commence à la saison 3 (épisodes "Revival" inclus).

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/

IMdBs Top 250 Movies is always changing and can feel overwhelming to someone trying to tackle this list. Below is a list of films that have always been on the Top 250 list. For the past 24 years these films have never dropped out of the Top 250 and is a great place to start.

List made using data from IMDB Top 250 History - https://250.took.nl/titles/recurrence/

Source: Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzUYPt0OAGY | Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94VIY4pgHnc

James Duncan Rolfe is an American actor, filmmaker, video game/film critic, and internet personality. Rolfe is best known for creating and starring in the web television series Angry Video Game Nerd, a joint production of Rolfe's Cinemassacre Productions, GameTrailers, and ScrewAttack on the online video platform YouTube. His other projects include reviews of board games and classic horror films. Rolfe began creating homemade video productions in the late 1980s. He has created more than 270 films, including shorts, features and webisodes, during his career. His career as an Internet celebrity took off in 2004 with the beginning of the Angry Video Game Nerd. Two years later, Rolfe gained mainstream attention when one of his videos went viral after friend and collaborator Mike Matei persuaded him to publish them on the Internet. Between this time, he filmed videos he created on his own and most of them have been released on his website, Cinemassacre.