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American Beauty 1999

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The term "Lolita" refers to an under-aged, seductive girl, who often becomes the obsession of a much older man.

Originating from the character in the popular Vladimir Nabokov novel of the same name, multiple films have taken on some kind of variation of her and Humbert Humbert’s relationship.

Among these films that explore this complex from different angles, which is your favorite title?

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Essential movies for lonely people out there... if you want to feel something in this big big world.…

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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.

Any feedback is appreciated, especially other sites I may not have sourced. If you found this list interesting, I would really appreciate it if you can give my newish Youtube channel a subscribe. It really helps a lot. Thanks guys.

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/

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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

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Best Movies of the Decade

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#BEST ACTOR & CORRESPONDING MOVIE BY YEAR

  1. 1927/1928
    • Emil Jannings (Grand Duke Sergius Alexander) - The Last Command
    • Emil Jannings (August Schilling) - The Way of All Flesh
  2. 1928/1929
    • Warner Baxter (The Cisco Kid) - In Old Arizona
  3. 1929/1930
    • George Arliss (Benjamin Disraeli) - Disraeli
  4. 1930/1931
    • Lionel Barrymore (Stephen Ashe) - A Free Soul
  5. 1931/1932
    • Wallace Beery (Andy "Champ" Purcell) - The Champ
    • Fredric March (Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Edward Hyde) - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  6. 1932/1933
    • Charles Laughton (King Henry VIII of England) - The Private Life of Henry VIII
  7. 1934
    • Clark Gable (Peter Warne) - It Happened One Night
  8. 1935
    • Victor McLaglen (Gypo Nolan) - The Informer
  9. 1936
    • Paul Muni (Louis Pasteur) - The Story of Louis Pasteur
  10. 1937
    • Spencer Tracy (Manuel Fidello) - Captains Courageous
  11. 1938
    • Spencer Tracy (Father Flanagan) - Boys Town
  12. 1939
    • Robert Donat (Charles Edward Chipping) - Goodbye, Mr. Chips
  13. 1940
    • James Stewart (Macaulay "Mike" Connor) - The Philadelphia Story
  14. 1941
    • Gary Cooper (Sgt. Alvin York) - Sergeant York
  15. 1942
    • James Cagney (George M. Cohan) - Yankee Doodle Dandy
  16. 1943
    • Paul Lukas (Kurt Muller) - Watch on the Rhine
  17. 1944
    • Bing Crosby (Father Chuck O'Malley) - Going My Way
  18. 1945
    • Ray Milland (Don Birnam) The Lost Weekend
  19. 1946
    • Fredric March (Platoon Sergeant Al Stephenson) - The Best Years of Our Lives
  20. 1947
    • Ronal Colman (Anthony John) - A Double Life
  21. 1948
    • Laurence Olivier (Hamlet, Prince of Denmark) - Hamlet
  22. 1949
    • Broderick Crawford (Willie Stark) - All the King's Men
  23. 1950
    • Jose Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac) - Cyrano de Bergerac
  24. 1951
    • Humphrey Bogart (Charlie Allnut) - The African Queen
  25. 1952
    • Gary Cooper (Marshal Will Kane) - High Noon
  26. 1953
    • William Holden (Sgt. J. J. Sefton) - Stalag 17
  27. 1954
    • Marlon Brando (Terry Malloy) - On the Waterfront
  28. 1955
    • Ernest Borgnine (Marty Piletti) - Marty
  29. 1956
    • Yul Brynner (King Mongkut of Slam) - The King and I
  30. 1957
    • Alec Guiness (Lt. Colonel Nicholson) - The Bridge on the River Kwai
  31. 1958
    • David Niven (Major Angus Pollock) - Separate Tables
  32. 1959
    • Charlton Heston (Judah Ben-Hur) - Ben-Hur
  33. 1960
    • Burt Lancaster (Elmer Gantry) - Elmer Gantry
  34. 1961
    • Maximilian Schell (Hans Rolfe) - Judgment at Nuremberg
  35. 1962
    • Gregory Peck (Atticus Finch) - To Kill a Mockingbird
  36. 1963
    • Sidney Poitier (Homer Smith) - Lilies of the Field
  37. 1964
    • Rex Harrison (Professor Henry Higgins) - My Fair Lady
  38. 1965
    • Lee Marvin (Kid Shellen & Tim Strawn) - Cat Ballou
  39. 1966
    • Paul Scofield (Sir Thomas More) - A Man for All Seasons
  40. 1967
    • Rod Steiger (Police Chief Bill Gillespie) - In the Heat of the Night
  41. 1968
    • Cliff Robertson (Charly Gordon) - Charly
  42. 1969
    • John Wayne (Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn) - True Grit
  43. 1970
    • George C. Scott (General George S. Patton Jr.) - Patton
  44. 1971
    • Gene Hackman (Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle) - The French Connection
  45. 1972
    • Marlon Brando (Vito Corleone) - The Godfather
  46. 1973
    • Jack Lemmon (Harry Stoner) - Save the Tiger
  47. 1974
    • Art Carney (Harry Coombes) - Harry and Tonto
  48. 1975
    • Jack Nicholson (Randle Patrick "Mac" McMurphy) - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
  49. 1976
    • Peter Finch (Howard Beale) - Network
  50. 1977
    • Richard Dreyfuss (Elliot Garfield) - The Goodbye Girl
  51. 1978
    • Jon Voight (Luke Martin) - Coming Home
  52. 1979
    • Dustin Hoffman (Ted Kramer) - Kramer vs. Kramer
  53. 1980
    • Robert De Niro (Jake LaMotta) - Raging Bull
  54. 1981
    • Henry Fonda (Norman Thayer Jr.) - On Golden Pond
  55. 1982
    • Ben Kingsley (Mahatma Gandhi) - Gandhi
  56. 1983
    • Robert Duvall (Mac Sledge) - Tender Mercies
  57. 1984
    • F. Murray Abraham (Antonio Salleri) - Amadeus
  58. 1985
    • William Hurt (Luis Molina) - Kiss of the Spider Woman
  59. 1986
    • Paul Newman (Fast Eddie Felson) - The Color of Money
  60. 1987
    • Michael Douglas (Gordon Gekko) - Wall Street
  61. 1988
    • Dustin Hoffman (Raymond Babbitt) - Rain Man
  62. 1989
    • Daniel Day-Lewis (Christy Brown) - My Left Foot
  63. 1990
    • Jeremy Irons (Claus von Bulow) - Reversal of Fortune
  64. 1991
    • Anthony Hopkins (Dr. Hannibal Lecter) - The Silence of the Lambs
  65. 1992
    • Al Pacino (Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade) - Scent of a Woman
  66. 1993
    • Tom Hanks (Andrew Beckett) - Philadelphia
  67. 1994
    • Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump) - Forrest Gump
  68. 1995
    • Nicolas Cage (Ben Sanderson) - Leaving Las Vegas
  69. 1996
    • Geoffrey Rush (David Helfgott) - Shine
  70. 1997
    • Jack Nicholson (Melvin Udall) - As Good as It Gets
  71. 1998
    • Roberto Benigni (Guido Orefice) - Life is Beautiful
  72. 1999
    • Kevin Spacey (Lester Burnham) - American Beauty
  73. 2000
    • Russell Crowe (Maximus Decimus Meridius) - Gladiator
  74. 2001
    • Denzel Washington (Detective Alonzo Harris) - Training Day
  75. 2002
    • Adrien Brody (Władysław Szpilman) - The Pianist
  76. 2003
    • Sean Penn (Jimmy Markum) - Mystic River
  77. 2004
    • Jamie Foxx (Ray Charles) - Ray
  78. 2005
    • Philip Seymour Hoffman (Truman Capote) - Capote
  79. 2006
    • Forest Whitaker (Ida Amin) - The Last King of Scotland
  80. 2007
    • Daniel Day-Lewis (Daniel Plainview) - There Will Be Blood
  81. 2008
    • Sean Penn (Harvey Milk) - Milk
  82. 2009
    • Jeff Bridges (Otis "Bad" Blake) - Crazy Heart
  83. 2010
    • Colin Firth (King George VI) - The King's Speech
  84. 2011
    • Jean Dujardin (George Valentin) - The Artist
  85. 2012
    • Daniel Day-Lewis (Abraham Lincoln) - Lincoln
  86. 2013
    • Matthew McConaughey (Ron Woodroof) - Dallas Buyers Club
  87. 2014
    • Eddie Redmayne (Stephen Hawking) - The Theory of Everything
  88. 2015
    • Leonardo DiCaprio (High Glass) - The Revenant
  89. 2016
    • Casey Affleck (Lee Chandler) - Manchester by the Sea
  90. 2017
    • Gary Oldman (Winston Churchill) - Darkest Hour
  91. 2018
    • Rami Malek (Freddie Mercury) - Bohemian Rhapsody
  92. 2019
    • Joaquin Phoenix (Arthur Fleck/Joker) - Joker
  93. 2020
    • Anthony Hopkins (Anthony) - The Father
  94. 2021
    • *** Will Smith (Richard Williams) - King Richard***
  95. 2022
    • Brendan Fraser (Charlie) - The Whale

Actors only show up next to their first movie until Trakt allows the same item multiple times on a list

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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/

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This is a list of all movies that have been in the IMDB Top 250 since 1996.

Recent Changes:
- 2024/03/01 - Dune: Part Two (2024)
- 2024/01/14 - Poor Things (2023)
- 2024/01/02 - 12th Fail (2023)
- 2023/12/25 - Godzilla Minus One (2023)
- 2023/07/21 - Oppenheimer (2023)
- 2023/06/03 - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
- 2023/05/05 - Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 (2023)
- 2023/03/25 - John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)

Source: http://250.took.nl/titles

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http://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/500-greatest-movies/

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A curated collection of the films that shaped my childhood and captured my heart, each one a masterpiece in my eyes. I’ve limited it to 119, though eternity beneath the stars offers infinite time to savor them all.

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Welcome to "Cult / Cinephilia" – a captivating cinematic journey that transcends the conventional boundaries of film. This carefully curated playlist on Traktv is an invitation to explore the world of cult movies, where art meets intellectual provocation.

Immerse yourself in innovative narratives, stunning visuals, and extraordinary performances that defy established norms. Each film on this list is a unique piece, chosen for its ability to provoke deep reflections, inspire heated debates, and leave an indelible mark on your cinematic memory.

From underground cinema classics to lesser-known indie treasures, "Cult Cinephilia" is a cinematic odyssey that embraces diversity and celebrates artistic expression in all its forms. Get ready to be transported to surreal worlds, question reality, and enjoy a cinematic experience that challenges traditional expectations.

This playlist is a tribute to visionary filmmakers and forgotten masterpieces that deserve a prominent place in the pantheon of cult cinema. Fasten your seatbelts and embark on this unique journey through an eclectic collection of films that challenge, thrill, and inspire. "Cult Cinephilia" awaits you, avid explorer of alternative cinema.

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This is a list of all the movies on the Top 100 Movies Scratch Off Poster - The Ultimate Collection

https://www.amazon.com/Enno-Vatti-Movies-Scratch-Poster/dp/B07KPF7L87

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Movies with at least 75% rating on trakt (and enough votes). No documentaries, reality tv or anime.

(Find the post-2010 list here: https://trakt.tv/users/themlethem/lists/highly-rated-movies-post-2010)

(Find the tv show list here: https://trakt.tv/users/themlethem/lists/highly-rated-shows-pre-2010)

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"Song Title" Singer Movie
"Stuck in the Middle With You" Steeler's Wheel Reservoir Dogs
"Don't You (Forget About Me)" Simple Minds The Breakfast Club
"Be My Baby" The Ronettes Mean Streets
"Lust for Life" Iggy Pop Trainspotting
"All Star" Smash Mouth Shrek
"I'm Shipping Up To Boston" The Dropkick Murphies The Departed
"The Good, The bad and the Ugly" Ennio Morricone (also "The Ecstacy of Gold") Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo
"Don't Stop Me Now" Queen Shaun of the Dead
"Everybody's Talkin'" Harry Nillson Midnight Cowboy
"Stayin' Alive" The Bee Gees Saturday Night Fever
"The End" The Doors (also "Flight of the Valkyries" Wagner) Apocalypse Now
"Born To Be Wild" Steppenwolf Easy Rider
"Oh Yeah" Yello (Also "Twist and Shout" The Beatles) Ferris Bueller's Day Off
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" Judy Garland The Wizard of Oz
"Tiny Dancer" Elton John Almost Famous
"We'll Meet Again" Vera Lynn Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
"Pure Imaginmation" Gene Wilder Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
"Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" The First Edition The Big Lebowski
"Singin' In the Rain" Fred Astaire Singin' in the Rain
"Misirlou" Dick Dale & His Deltones Pulp Fiction
"Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" Harry Belafonte Beetle Juice
"Thus Spake Zarathustra" Strauss 2001: A Space Odyssey
"Mrs Robinson" Simon & Garfunkle (also "Sounds of Silence") The Graduate
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" Burt Bacharach Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
"Gimme Shelter" The Rolling Stones (also "My Way" Sid Vicious) GoodFellas
"The End of the World" Skeeter Davis Girl, Interrupted
"Louie Louie" The Kingsmen National Lampoon's Animal House
"The Times They Are A-Changin" Bob Dylan Watchmen
"People are Strange" Echo & the Bunnymen The Lost Boys
"Iko Iko" The Belle Stars Rain Man
"Lose Yourself" Eminem 8 Mile
"Fight the Power" Public Enemy Do the Right Thing
"Extreme Ways" Moby The Bourne Identity
"Old Time Rock and Roll" Bob Seger Risky Business
"American Woman" The Guess Who American Beauty
"Goodbye Horses" Q Lazzarus The Silence of the Lambs
"You Could Be Mine" Guns n' Roses Terminator 2: Judgment Day
"Show Me ythe Way to Go Home" Irving King Jaws
"Bohemian Rhapsody" Queen Wayne's World
"Danger Zone" Kenny Loggins Top Gun
"The Power of Love" Huey Lewis and the News Back to the Future
"Where Is My Mind?" The Pixies Fight Club
"Hot Stuff" Donna Summer The Martian
"Unchained Melody" The Everly Brothers Ghost
"Mad World" R.E.M Donnie Darko
"I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing" Aerosmith Armageddon
"Tequila" The Champs Pee-wee's Big Adventure
"The Windmills of My Mind" Noel Harrison The Thomas Crown Affair
"Redbone" Donald Glover Get Out

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Favorite shows and movies over time

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