Category: Film

This year I watched 320 movies, 214 for the first time – and of those, these are my top 31, in some kind of order:

Bait (Mark Jenkins 2019)
In Fabric (Peter Strickland 2018)
The Million Ryô Pot (Sadao Yamanaka 1935)
Happiness (Aleksandr Medvedkin 1934)
One Cut of the Dead (Shin’ichiro Ueda 2017)
Nitrate Kisses (Barbara Hammer 1992)
Us (Jordan Peele 2019)
Revenge (Coralie Fargeat 2017)
The Murder of Mr Devil (Ester Krumbachová 1970)
Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley 2018)
Knives Out (Rian Johnson 2019)
Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler 2013)
The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass (Seijun Suzuki 1961)
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot (Robert D Krzykowski 2018)
Death of a Cyclist (Juan Antonio Bardem 1955)
The Mad Miss Manton (Leigh Jason 1938)
Deadpool 2 (David Leitch 2018)
A New Leaf (Elaine May 1971)
Turbo Kid (François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yohan-Karl Whissell 2015)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman 2018)
Eight Hours of Terror (Suzuki Seijun 1957)
Burning (Chang-dong Lee 2018)
The Big Short (Adam McKay 2015)
Eggshells (Tobe Hooper 1969)
Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway (Miguel Llansó 2019)
Liebelei (Max Ophüls 1933)
Fruit of Paradise (Vera Chytilová 1970)
Sometimes a Great Notion (Paul Newman 1971)
Possum (Matthew Holness 2018)
The Guilty (Gustav Möller 2018)
Arctic (Joe Penna 2018)

The full list of 320 is below, but first this year’s awards

Best title
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot (2018), although some tough competition from 2 Lava 2 Lantula! (2016), The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass (1961), Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway (2019), The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome’s Medical Collection (2003) and Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) (2011)

Best high concept utterly screwed up
Downsizing (2017)

Most delightful penis reveal
Border (2018)

Best escalation of violence in a pub
Bait (2019)

Most terrifying rabbits
A draw between The Favourite (2018) and Us (2019)

Best drowning
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)

Best use of Inception fart horn in a hilariously inept conclusion
Annihilation (2018)

Best gorilla/sandwich routine
Son of Ingagi (1940)

Most pointless Gerard Butler film
A draw between Geostorm (2017) and anything else I might have seen this year that he was in

Film Andrea most regretted coming to see with me in a cinema
Inland Empire (2006) – though in retrospect, she liked having seen it much more than she liked the actual process of seeing it

The Gee thanks for the recommendation Nick award
A draw between the two films Nick recommended: 6 Underground (2019) and Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)

Most brilliantly unexpected end credits
Assassination Nation (2018)

The 320
2 Lava 2 Lantula! (Nick Simon 2016)
6 Underground (Michael Bay 2019)
13 Tzameti (Géla Babluani 2005)
21 Jump Street (Phil Lord and Chris Miller 2012)
22 Jump Street (Phil Lord and Chris Miller 2014)
28 Days Later… (Danny Boyle 2002)
28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo 2007) 

Abwege (GW Pabst 1928)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Carol Reed 1965)
Akutarô/The Incorrigible (Seijun Suzuki 1963)
Akutarô-den: Warui hoshi no shita demo/Born Under Crossed Stars (Seijun Suzuki 1965)
The Alcohol Years (Carol Morley 2000)
Alice in Not So Wonderland (Stephen and Timothy Quay 2007)
Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott 2017)
American Animals (Bart Layton 2018)
Anna and the Apocalypse (John McPhail 2017)
Annie Oakley (George Stevens 1935)
Annihilation (Alex Garland 2018)
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (Jennifer Baichwall, Edward Burtynsky and Nicholas de Pencier 2018)
Ant-Man and the Wasp (Peyton Reed 2018)
Aquaman (James Wan 2018)
Arctic (Joe Penna 2018)
Ariel (Aki Kaurismäki 1988)
De Artificiali Perspectiva, or Anamorphosis (Stephen and Timothy Quay 1991)
The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston 1950)
Assassination Nation (Sam Levinson 2018)
L’assassin habite…au 21/The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (Henri-Georges Clouzot 1942)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (Joss Whedon 2015)
Avengers: Endgame (Anthony and Joe Russo 2019)
Avengers: Infinity War (Anthony and Joe Russo 2018) 

Badlands (Terrence Malick 1973)
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans (Werner Herzog 2009)
Bait (Mark Jenkins 2019)
Beast (Michael Pearce 2017)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin 2012)
Beoning/Burning (Chang-dong Lee 2018)
The Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen 1998)
The Big Short (Adam McKay 2015)
Bing feng: Chong sheng shi men/Iceman (Wing-Cheong Law 2014)
Black Rainbow (Mike Hodges 1989)
Black Rainbow (Mike Hodges 1989)
The Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez 1999)
Blue Story (Andrew Onwubolu 2019)
Bokeh (Geoffrey Orthwein and Andrew Sullivan 2017)
Bush Mama (Haile Gerima 1975) 

The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (Stephen and Timothy Quay 1984)
Callan (Don Sharp 1974)
The Calligrapher (Stephen and Timothy Quay 1991)
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller 2018)
Capharnaüm/Capernaum (Nadine Labaki 2018)
Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross 2016)
Captain Marvel (Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck 2019)
Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey 1962)
Carry on Screaming! (Gerald Thomas 1966)
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz 1942)
Claudine (John Berry 1974)
The Comb (Stephen and Timothy Quay 1991)
The Congress (Ari Folman 2013)
Crash! (Charles Band 1976)
Croupier (Mike Hodges 1998) 

The Dark Mirror (Robert Siodmak 1946)
The Day After Tomorrow (Roland Emmerich 2004)
The Day Shall Come (Chris Morris 2019)
The Dead Don’t Die (Jim Jarmusch 2019)
Deadpool 2 (David Leitch 2018)
Dead Slow Ahead (Mauro Herce 2015)
Death Race 2000 (Paul Bartel 1975)
Decasia: The State of Decay (Bill Morrison 2002)
Deliverance (John Boorman 1972)
Dellamorte Dellamore/Cemetery Man (Michele Soavi 1994)
Destroyer (Karyn Kusama 2018)
Les deux timides (René Clair 1928)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee 1989)
Dou foh sin/Flash Point (Wilson Yip 2007)
Downsizing (Alexander Payne 2017)
Dreams of a Life (Carol Morley 2011)
Driving Miss Daisy (Bruce Beresford 1989)
Dune (David Lynch 1984)

Edge (Carol Morley 2010)
Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman 2014)
Eggshells (Tobe Hooper 1969)
Emil and the Detectives (Milton Rosmer 1935)
Emil und die Detektive/Emil and the Detectives (Gerhard Lamprecht 1931)
The End (Burt Reynolds 1978)
The Endless (Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead 2017)
The Equalizer (Antoine Fuqua 2014)
Eurydice: She, So Beloved (Stephen and Timothy Quay 2007)
Everyday Something (Carol Morley 2001)
Evolution (Lucile Hadzihalilovic 2015)
eXistenZ (David Cronenberg 1999)
Ex Voto (Stephen and Timothy Quay 1989)

Face/Off (John Woo 1997)
Fast and Furious (Justin Lin 2009)
Fast and Furious: Hobbs and Shaw (David Leitch 2019)
The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos 2018)
Une femme douce (Robert Bresson 1969)
First Man (Damien Chazelle 2018)
Forbidden Planet (Fred McLeod Wilcox 1956)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (Mike Newell 1994)
The Front Page (Lewis Milestone 1931)
Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler 2013)
Fumihazushita haru/The Boy Who Came Back (Suzuki Seijun 1958)

Gamer (Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor 2009)
Geostorm (Dean Devlin 2017)
Girl (Lukas Dhont 2018)
Gojira/Godzilla (Ishiro Honda 1954)
Gojira no gyakushû/Godzilla Raids Again (Motoyoshi Oda 1955)
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (Michael Dougherty 2019)
Goldstone (Ivan Sen 2016)
La grande illusion (Jean Renoir 1937)
Gräns/Border (Ali Abbasi 2018)
The Great Escape (John Sturges 1963)
Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn 2014)
Guardians of the Galaxy volume 2 (James Gunn 2017)

Hachijikan no kyôfu/Eight Hours of Terror (Suzuki Seijun 1957)
Hadaka no shima/The Naked Island (Kaneto Shindo 1960)
Hai tiin yakuza/Teenage Yakuza (Suzuki Seijun 1962)
Halloween (David Gordon Green 2018)
Happy Death Day (Christopher Landon 2017)
Happy Death Day 2U (Christopher Landon 2019)
The Happytime Murders (Brian Henson 2018)
The Heat (Paul Feig 2013)
High Life (Claire Denis 2018)
His Kind of Woman (John Farrow 1951)
The Hole in the Ground (Lee Cronin 2019)
Homo Sapiens (Nikolaus Geyrhalter 2016)
The Hurricane Heist (Rob Cohen 2018)

Iceman (Fred Schepisi 1984)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins 2018)
In Absentia (Stephen and Timothy Quay 2000)
In Fabric (Peter Strickland 2018)
Inland Empire (David Lynch 2006)
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (Stephen and Timothy Quay 1995)
Inventorium of Traces (Stephen and Timothy Quay 2009)
It’s Alive (Larry Cohen 1974) 

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (Edward Zwick 2016)
Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway (Miguel Llansó 2019)
Jiang hu er nü/Ash is Purest White (Jia Zhangke 2018)
Jigsaw (Michael and Peter Spierig 2017)
Jin yi wei/14 Blades (Daniel Lee 2010)
John Wick (Chad Stahelski and David Leitch 2014)
Joker (Todd Phillips 2019)
Jurassic World (Colin Trevorrow 2015) 

Kamera o tomeru na!/One Cut of the Dead (Shin’ichiro Ueda 2017)
Kemono no nemuri/The Sleeping Beast Within (Seijun Suzuki 1960)
Kick-Ass (Matthew Vaughn 2010)
Kick-Ass 2 (Jeff Wadlow 2013)
Kimi no wa wa/Your Name (Makoto Shinkai 2016)
The Kindergarten Teacher (Sara Colangelo 2018)
Kinoteka: Ident (Stephen and Timothy Quay 2008)
Knives Out (Rian Johnson 2019)
Kokoa (Moustapha Alassane 1985)
Koroshi no rakuin/Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki 1967)
Kozure Ôkami: Ko wo kashi ude kashi tsukamatsuru/Sword of Vengeance (Kenji Misumi 1972)
Kurôn wa kokyô mezasu/The Clone Returns Home (Kanji Nakajima 2008) 

The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time (Anthony C Ferrante 2018)
Lavalantula (Mike Mendez 2015)
Lazzaro felice/Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher 2018)
The Learning Tree (Gordon Parks 1969)
The Legend of Hell House (John Hough 1973)
The Lego Ninjago Movie (Charlie Bean, Paul Fisher and Bob Logan 2017)
Leningrad Cowboys Go America (Aki Kaurismäki 1989)
Liebelei (Max Ophüls 1933)
The Limehouse Golem (Juan Carlos Medina 2016)
Lone Star (John Sayles 1996)
Lost River (Ryan Gosling 2014)
The Love Witch (Anna Biller 2016)

Ma (Tate Taylor 2019)
The Mad Miss Manton (Leigh Jason 1938)
Mandy (Panos Cosmatos 2018)
Mansfield Park (Patricia Rozema 1999)
Man-Thing (Brett Leonard 2005)
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot (Robert D Krzykowski 2018)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford 1962)
Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov 1929)
The Man with the Iron Fists (RZA 2012)
Maska (Stephen and Timothy Quay 2010)
Maska (Stephen and Timothy Quay 2010)
The Meg (Jon Turteltaub 2018)
Menschen am Sonntag/People on Sunday (Robert Siodmak, Edgar G Ulmer 1930)
Mikkô zero rain/Smashing the O-Line (Suzuki Seijun 1960)
Mile 22 (Peter Berg 2018)
Miracle on 34^th Street (George Seaton 1947)
Monsters and Men (Reinaldo Marcus Green 2018)
Mr Nobody (Jaco Van Dormael 2009)
Muerte de un ciclista/Death of a Cyclist (Juan Antonio Bardem 1955)
My Fair Lady (George Cukor 1964)
Mystery Road (Ivan Sen 2013) 

National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Jon Turteltaub 2007)
Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow 1987)
A New Leaf (Elaine May 1971)
New Towns, Our Town: Stories on Screen (various 2019)
Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur 1957)
The Nile Hilton Incident (Tarik Saleh 2017)
Ninjô kami fûsen/Humanity and Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanaka 1937)
Nitrate Kisses (Barbara Hammer 1992)
Nocturna Artificiala (Stephen and Timothy Quay 1979)
Noisy Licking, Dribbling and Spitting (Vicky Smith 2014)
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock 1946) 

Ocean’s Eight (Gary Ross 2018)
The Old Dark House (James Whale 1932)
Once Upon a Time …in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino 2019)
Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo 1964)
Opium (Robert Reinert 1919)
Örökbefogadás/Adoption (Márta Mészáros 1975)
Otesánek/Little Otik (Jan Svankmajer 2000)
Out of Blue (Carol Morley 2018)
Out of the Furnace (Scott Cooper 2013)
Overlord (Justin Wyatt 2018)
Ovove stromu rajskych jime/Fruit of Paradise (Vera Chytilová 1970)

Pacific Rim Uprising (Steven S DeKnight 2018)
Paris, Texas (Win Wenders 1984)
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome’s Medical Collection (Stephen and Timothy Quay 2003)
La piel que habito/The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar 2011)
Pit Stop (Jack Hill 1969)
Possum (Matthew Holness 2018)
Prospect (Zeek Earl and Christopher Caldwell 2018) 

Qi jian/Seven Swords (Tsui Hark 2005)

Rabid (Jen and Sylvia Soska 2019)
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa 1950)
Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg 2018)
Red Sparrow (Francis Lawrence 2018)
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (Stephen and Timothy Quay 1988)
Resolution (Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead 2012)
Le retour d’un aventurier (Moustapha Alassane 1966)
The Return of Swamp Thing (Jim Wynorski 1989)
Revenge (Coralie Fargeat 2017)
The Ritual (David Bruckner 2018)
The Ruins (Carter Smith 2008)
Saat po long/SPL Kill Zone (Wilson Yip 2005)
Samba le grand (Moustapha Alassane 1977)
Sandanju no otoko/The Man with a Shotgun (Suzuki Seijun 1961)
San xia hao ren (Jia Zhanke 2006)
Saw (James Wan 2004)
Saw II (Darren Lynn Bousman 2005)
Saw III (Darren Lynn Bousman 2006)
Saw IV (Darren Lynn Bousman 2007)
Saw V (David Hackl 2008)
Saw VI (Kevin Greutert 2009)
Saw 3D (Kevin Greutert 2010)
Schaste/Happiness (Aleksandr Medvedkin 1934)
The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson 1943)
Sharknado (Anthony C Ferrante 2013)
Sharknado 2: The Second One (Anthony C Ferrante 2014)
Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (Anthony C Ferrante 2015)
Sharknado 4: The 4^th Awakens (Anthony C Ferrante 2016)
Sharknado 5: Global Swarming (Anthony C Ferrante 2017)
The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch 1940)
A Simple Favor (Paul Feig 2008)
Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 1952)
Skjelvet/The Quake (John Andrea Andersen 2018)
Den skyldige/The Guilty (Gustav Möller 2018)
Skyscraper (Rawson Marshall Thurber 2018)
Sleuth (Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1972)
Sometimes a Great Notion (Paul Newman 1971)
Songs for Dead Children (Stephen and Timothy Quay 2003)
Son of Ingagi (Richard C Kahn 1940)
Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley 2018)
Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley 2018)
Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley 2018)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman 2018)
Split Second (Tony Maylam 1992)
The Spy Who Dumped Me (Susanna Fogel 2018)
Stalin My Neighbour (Carol Morley 2004)
A Star Is Born (George Cukor 1954)
Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson 2017)
Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (JJ Abrams 2019)
Stella Dallas (King Vidor 1937)
Stille Nacht: Dramolet (Stephen and Timothy Quay 1988)
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married (Stephen and Timothy Quay 1992)
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods (Stephen and Timothy Quay 1993)
Stille Nacht IV: Can’t Go Wrong Without You (Stephen and Timothy Quay 1993)
Street of Crocodiles (Stephen and Timothy Quay 1986)
Streets of Fire (Walter Hill 1984)
Swamp Thing (Wes Craven 1982)
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles 1971) 

Tange Sazen yowa: Hyakuman ryô no tsubo /The Million Ryô Pot (Sadao Yamanaka 1935)
Tarzan and His Mate (Cedric Gibbons 1934)
Tarzan Finds a Son! (Richard Thorpe 1939)
Terminator Genisys (Alan Taylor 2015)
Te shu sen fen/Special ID (Clarence Yiu-leung Fok 2103)
Test pilota Pirx/Pilot Pirx’s Inquest (Marek Piestrak 1979)
La tête d’un homme (Julien Duvivier 1933)
Thale (Aleksander Nordaas 2012)
Thelma (Joachim Trier 2017)
The Thing (John Carpenter 1982)
The Third Man (Carol Reed 1949)
This Unnameable Little Broom (Stephen and Timothy Quay 1985)
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh 2017)
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) (Stephen and Timothy Quay 2011)
Tintin et le mystère de la Toisin D’or/Tintin and the Golden Fleece (Jean-Jacques Vierne 1961)
Tôge o wataru wakaikaze/The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass (Seijun Suzuki 1961)
Tokyo naito/Tokyo Knights (Seijun Suzuki 1961)
Tokyo Tribe (Sion Sono 2014)
Tomb Raider (Roar Uthuag 2018)
Transamerica (Duncan Tucker 2005)
Triple Threat (Jesse V Johnson 2019)
Trudno byt bogom/Hard to Be a God (Aleksey German 2o13)
Turbo Kid (François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yohan-Karl Whissell 2015)

Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. (Stephen and Timothy Quay 2013)
Us (Jordan Peele 2019)
Us (Jordan Peele 2019) 

A Vigilante (Sarah Daggar-Nickson 2018)
Vrazda ing. Certa/The Murder of Mr Devil (Ester Krumbachová 1970)

W. (Oliver Stone 2008)
Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff 1971)
Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg 1971)
Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg 1971)
Watermark (Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky 2013)
Wet Job (Shaun O’Riordan 1981)
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons (Stephen and Timothy Quay 2010)
Wong Fei Hung/Once Upon a Time in China (Tsui Hark 1991)
Wong Fei Hung II: Nam yee tung chi keung/Once Upon a Time in China II (Tsui Hark 1992)
World War Z (Marc Forster 2013)

xXx (Rob Cohen 2002) 

Yi dai zong shi/The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-Wai 2013)
Yi ge rende wu lin/Kung Fu Killer (Teddy Chan 2014)
Yip Man 3/Ip Man 3 (Wilson Yip 2015) 

Zama (Lucrecia Martel 2017)
Zatôichi abare-himatsuri/Zato-ichi Goes to the Fire Festival (Kenji Mitsumi 1970)

 

 

In 2018, I watched 357 films; of the 219 I saw for the first time, here are my top 32 films of the year:

1. A Fábrica de Nada/The Nothing Factory (Pedro Pinho 2017)
2. Mandy (Panos Cosmatos 2018)
3. Marlina Si Pembunuh Dalam Empat Babak/Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (Mouly Surya 2017)
4. La Pointe Courte (Agnès Varda 1955)
5. Hrútar/Rams (Grímur Hákonarson 2015)
6. Keanu (Peter Atencio 2016)

with the next 26 in alphabetical order
The Angels’ Share (Ken Loach 2012)
Arcadia (Paul Wright 2017)
L’aveu/The Confession (Costa-Gavras 1970)
Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako 2006)
Behind the Door (Irvin Willat 1919)
Black Panther (Ryan Coogler 2018)
Blackkklansman (Spike Lee 2018)
Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S Craig Zahler 2017)
Le couperet/The Ax (Costa-Gavras 2005)
Hausa/House (Nobuhiko Ôbayashi 1977)
Le jeune Karl Marx/The Young Karl Marx (Raoul Peck 2017)
Jupiter’s Moon (Kornél Mundruczó 2017)
The Mafu Cage (Karen Arthur 1978)
Nobi/Fires on the Plain (Tsukamoto Shinya 2014)
Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer 1955)
Populaire (Régis Roinsard 2012)
Le silence est d’or/Silence is Golden (René Clair 1947)
The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro 2017)
Shin Godzilla (Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi 2016)
Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley 2012)
Sweet Country (Warwick Thornton 2017)
Talk to Me (Kasi Lemmons 2007)
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh 2017)
Le Trou (Jacques Becker 1960)
Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes 2017)
You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay 2017)

For anyone interested, here is the complete list:
12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen 2013)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick 1968)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Alfred Werker 1939)
The Adventures of Tintin (Steven Spielberg 2011)
Ae Fond Kiss… (Ken Loach 2004)
A Fábrica de Nada/The Nothing Factory (Pedro Pinho 2017)
After Earth (M. Night Shyamalan 2013)
All the President’s Men (Alan J Pakula 1976)
American Mary (Jen and Sylvia Soska 2012)
American Sniper (Clint Eastwood 2015)
Amintiri din epoca de aur/Tales from the Golden Age (Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu and Ioana Uricaru 2009)
Amistad (Steven Spielberg 1997)
The Angels’ Share (Ken Loach 2012)
Animal Factory (Steve Buscemi 2000)
The Apartment (Billy Wilder 1960)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola 1979)
Arcadia (Paul Wright 2017)
The Assignment aka Tomboy (Walter Hill 2016)
Atomic Blonde (David Leitch 2017)
Atomic Rulers of the World (Koreyoshi Akasaki, Teruo Ishii, Akira Mitsuwa 1965)
L’aveu/The Confession (Costa-Gavras 1970)
Away from Her (Sarah Polley 2006)

Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako 2006)
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick 1975)
Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (Zack Snyder 2016)
Baywatch (Seth Gordon 2017)
Beau Travail (Claire Denis 1999)
Beauty and the Beast (Bill Condon 2017)
Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh 2013)
Behind the Door (Irvin Willat 1919)
Beloved (Jonathan Demme 1998)
Betrayed (Costa-Gavras 1988)
Beyond Skyline (Liam O’Donnell 2017)
Beyond the Black Rainbow (Panos Cosmatos 2010)
The BFG (Steven Spielberg 2016)
The Big Sick (Michael Showalter 2017)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento 1970)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento 1970)
Black Dynamite (Scott Sanders 2009)
Blackkklansman (Spike Lee 2018)
Blackkklansman (Spike Lee 2018)
Black Panther (Ryan Coogler 2018)
Blade Runner: The Director’s Cut (Ridley Scott 1991)
Body and Soul (Micheaux 1925)
The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise 1945)
Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S Craig Zahler 2017)
Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg 2015)
Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks 1938)
Bush Mama (Haile Gerima 1979)

Calamity Jane (David Butler 1953)
Le capital (Costa-Gavras 2012)
Il capitale umano/Human Capital (Paolo Virzí 2013)
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz 1942)
Chelovek s kino-apparatom/Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov 1929)
Classe tous risques (Claude Sautet 1960)
Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (Chuck Bail 1975)
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (Madeleine Olnek 2011)
Colossal (Nacho Vigalondon 2016)
Come on George! (Anthony Kimmins 1939)
Con Air (Simon West 1997)
A Corner in Wheat (DW Griffith 1909)
Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg 2012)
Le couperet/The Ax (Costa-Gavras 2005)
Cowboys & Aliens (Jon Favreau 2011)
Creed (Ryan Coogler 2015)
The Creeping Garden (Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp 2014)
Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir 1936)
Cronos (Guillermo del Toro 1993)

A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg 2011)
A Dark Song (Liam Gavin 2016)
Daughters of Darkness (Harry Kümel 1971)
Daughters of Darkness (Harry Kümel 1971)
Daughters of the Dust (Dash 1991)
Dead Slow Ahead (Mauro Herce 2015)
Dead Slow Ahead (Mauro Herce 2015)
Derrida (Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman 2002)
Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa 1975)
Destry Rides Again (George Marshall 1939)
Deux jours, une nuit/Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne 2014)
Dinoshark (Kevin O’Neill 2010)
Doctor Strange (Scott Derickson 2016)
Domino (Tony Scott 2005)
Don’t Breathe (Fede Alvarez 2016)
Dope (Rick Famuyiwa 2015)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee 1989)
Double Indemnity (Wilder 1944)
Dressed to Kill (Roy William Neill 1946)
Drive Angry (Patrick Lussier 2011)
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Mamoulian 1931)
The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland 2015)
Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan 2017)
Dünyayi Kurtaran Adam (Çetin Inanç 1982)

Eden à l’Ouest/Eden is West (Costa-Gavras 2009)
Efter brylluppet/After the Wedding (Susanne Bier 2006)
Elena (Andrey Zvyagintsev 2011)
The Emperor Jones (Murphy 1933)
Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse 1973)
Exit (Peter Lindmark 2006)

Fae yeung nin wa/In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai 2000)
Fae yeung nin wa/In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai 2000)
Die Fälscher/The Counterfeiters (Stefan Ruzowitzky 2007)
Family Life (Ken Loach 1971)
Fast & Furious (Justin Lin 2009)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam 1998)
The First Purge (Gerard McMurray 2018)
The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer 2015)
Flash Gordon (Mike Hodges 1980)
Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund 2014)
For Colored Girls (Tyler Perry 2010)
Friday Foster (Arthur Marks 1975)

Gamer (Neveldine/Taylor 2009)
The General (Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton 1926)
Get Carter (Mike Hodges 1971)
Ghost in the Shell (Rupert Sanders 2017)
Ghost Stories (Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman 2018)
The Girl Can’t Help It (Frank Tashlin 1956)
The Girl with All the Gifts (Colm McCarthy 2016)
Gloria (Sebastián Lelio 2013)
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola 1972)
The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola 1974)
Godzilla (Gareth Edwards 2014)
The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin 1925)
Going in Style (Zach Braff 2017)
Gojira (Honda 1954)
Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding 1932)
The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin 1940)
The Great Train Robbery (Edwin S. Porter 1903)
The Guard (John Michael McDonagh 2011)

Halloween (Carpenter 1978)
Hands Across the Table (Mitchell Leisen 1935)
Hard Times (Walter Hill 1975)
Hausa/House (Nobuhiko Ôbayashi 1977)
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper 1991)
Hellboy (Guillermo del Toro 2004)
Hell is a City (Val Guest 1960)
Hereditary (Ari Aster 2018)
Hidden Figures (Thedore Melfi 2016)
His Wooden Wedding (Leo McCarey 1925)
His Wooden Wedding (Leo McCarey 1925)
Hostiles (Scott Cooper 2017)
The House of Fear (Roy William Neill 1945)
House on Bare Mountain (Lee Frost 1962)
Huo yuanjia/Fearless (Ronny Yu 2006)
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi 2016)
Hrútar/Rams (Grímur Hákonarson 2015)

I Am Legend (Francis Lawrence 2007)
I Am Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoni 2017)
In Bruges (Martin McDonagh 2008)
Independence Day: Resurgence (Roland Emmerich 2016)
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird 1999)
I See Ice (Anthony Kimmins 1938)
It (Andy Muschietti 2017)
It Comes at Night (Trey Edward Shults 2017)
It’s in the Air (Anthony Kimmins 1938)
I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur 1943)

Jane Got a Gun (Gavin O’Connor 2015)
Le jeune Karl Marx/The Young Karl Marx (Raoul Peck 2017)
Jägarna 2/False Trail (Kjell Sundvall 2011)
Jigokumon/Gate of Hell (Teinosuke Kinugasa 1953)
Jimmy’s Hall (Ken Loach 2014)
John Wick: Chapter 2 (Chad Stahelski 2017)
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (Jake Kasdan 2017)
Jupiter’s Moon (Kornél Mundruczó 2017)
Just Another Girl on the IRT (Leslie Harries 1992)
Justice League (Zack Snyder 2017)

Katalin Varga (Peter Strickland 2009)
Keanu (Peter Atencio 2016)
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett 1978)
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (Matthew Vaughn 2017)

Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig 2017)
The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges 1941)
Låt den rätte komma in/Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson 2008)
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean 1962)
The League of Gentlemen (Basil Dearden 1960)
The Lego Movie (Phil Lord and Chris Miller 2014)
Let George Do It! (Marcel Varnel 1940)
Leviafan/Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev 2014)
Limbo (John Sayles 1999)
Lincoln (Steven Spielberg 2012)
Logan (James Mangold 2017)
Logan Lucky (Steven Soderbergh 2017)
Long men kezhan/Dragon Inn (King Hu 1967)
Looking for Eric (Ken Loach 2009)
Losing Ground (Kathleen Collins 1982)
Louise-Michel (Benoît Délepine and Gustacve Keverne 2008)
Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman 2016)
Love Before Breakfast (Walter Lang 1936)

The Mafu Cage (Karen Arthur 1978)
The Magnificent Seven (Antoine Fuqua 2016)
Ma Loute/Slack Bay (Bruno Dumont 2016)
Mad City (Costa-Gavras 1997)
Mandingo (Richard Fleischer 1975)
Mandy (Panos Cosmatos 2018)
The Man in Grey (Leslie Arliss 1943)
Man of Steel (Zack Snyder 2013)
Man of the World (Richard Wallace and Edward Goodman 1931)
Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg 2014)
Marlina Si Pembunuh Dalam Empat Babak/Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (Mouly Surya 2017)
Maurice (James Ivory 1988)
The Meg (Jon Turteltaub 2018)
Memento (Christopher Nolan 2000)
Miami Vice (Michael Mann 2006)
Michael Kohlhaas/Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (Arnaud des Pallières 2013)
Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz 1945)
Missing (Costa-Gavras 1982)
The Missing Person (Noah Buschel 2009)
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (Christopher McQuarrie 2015)
Mom and Dad (Brian Taylor 2017)
Monsters: Dark Continent (Tom Green 2014)
Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter, David Silverman and Lee Unkrich 2001)
Monsters vs. Aliens (Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon 2009)
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins 2016)
A Moving Image (Shola Amoo 2016)
Mugen no jûnin/Blade of the Immortal (Takashi Miike 2017)
Una Mujer Fantástica/A Fantastic Woman (Sebastián Lelio 2017)
The Mummy (Alex Kurtzman 2017)
Munich (Steven Spielberg 2005)
Music Box (Costa-Gavras 1989)
My Darling Clementine (Ford 1946)
My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (Liv Corfixen 2014)

National Treasure (Jon Turteltaub 2004)
Nelyubov/Loveless (Andrei Zvyagintsev 2017)
Nelyubov/Loveless (Andrei Zvyagintsev 2017)
New Town Utopia (Christopher Ian Smith 2017)
Night Catches Us (Tanya Hamilton 2010)
Night of the Comet (Thom Eberhardt 1984)
Nina (Cynthia Mort 2016)
Nobi/Fires on the Plain (Tsukamoto Shinya 2014)
Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford 2016)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Herzog 1979)

Oblivion (Joseph Kosinski 2013)
One Week (Edward F Cline, Buster Keaton 1920)
Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer 1955)

Pacific Rim: Uprising (Steven S DeKnight 2018)
The Pearl of Death (Roy William Neill )
Peterloo (Mike Leigh 2018)
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson 2017)
Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard 1965)
Pillow Talk (Michael Gordon 1959)
Pitch Perfect 3 (Trish Sie 2017)
Pitfall (André De Toth 1948)
La Pointe Courte (Agnès Varda 1955)
Populaire (Régis Roinsard 2012)
The Post (Steven Spielberg 2017)
Prevenge (Alice Lowe 2016)
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (Angela Robinson 2017)
Proud Mary (Babak Najafi 2018)
The Purge (James DeMonaco 2013)
The Purge (James DeMonaco 2013)
The Purge: Anarchy (James DeMonaco 2014)
The Purge: Election Year (James DeMonaco 2016)
Pursuit to Algiers (Roy William Neill 1945)

A Quiet Place (Jon Krasinski 2018)

A Raisin in the Sun (Petrie 1961)
Raising Arizona (Joel and Ethan Coen 1987)
Rampage (Brad Peyton 2018)
Relatos salvajes/Wild Tales (Damián Szifron 2014)
Requiem for a Village (David Gladwell 1976)
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (Paul W.S. Anderson 2016)
River’s Edge (Tim Hunter 1986)
Robots (Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha 2005)
Rosa Luxemburg (Margarethe von Trotta 1986)
Route Irish (Ken Loach 2010)

Sabita naifu/Rusty Knife (Toshio Masuda 1958)
The Salvation (Kristian Levring 2014)
Sankofa (Haile Gerima 1993)
Save the Green Planet! (Joon Hwan-Jang 2003)
The Scarlet Claw (Roy William Neill 1944)
The Sealed Room (DW Griffith 1909)
Serbuan maut/The Raid (Gareth Huw Evans 2011)
Shanty Tramp (José Prieto 1967)
The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro 2017)
The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro 2017)
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (Roy William Neill 1942)
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (John Rawlins 1942)
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (Roy William Neill 1943)
Sherlock Holmes in Washington (Roy William Neill 1943)
Shin Godzilla (Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi 2016)
Shiraz: A Romance of India (Franz Osten 1928)
Le silence est d’or/Silence is Golden (René Clair 1947)
The Silence of the Lambs (Demme 1991)
Singin’ in the Rain (Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen 1952)
Skyline (Colin and Greg Strause 2010)
Skyscraper (Rawson Marshall Thurber 2018)
Solo: A Stars Wars Story (Ron Howard 2018)
Sono otoko, kyôbô ni tsuki/Violent Cop (Takeshi Kitano 1989)
Spare a Copper (John Paddy Carstairs 1940)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (Jon Watts 2017)
The Spider Woman (Roy William Neill 1943)
The Spook Who Sat By the Door (Ivan Dixon 1973)
The Square (Ruben Östlund 2017)
Stand By Me (Rob Reiner 1986)
Star Trek Beyond (Justin Lin 2016)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (JJ Abrams 2015)
Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley 2012)
Straight Outta Compton (F Gary Gray 2015)
Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock 1951)
Suburbicon (George Clooney 2017)
Suffragette (Sarah Gavron 2015)
The Sugarland Express (Steven Spielberg 1974)
Super 8 (JJ Abrams 2011)
Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock 1941)
Suspiria (Dario Argento 1977)
Suspiria (Dario Argento 1977)
Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino 2018)
Sweet Country (Warwick Thornton 2017)
Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Asssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles 1971)

Talk to Me (Kasi Lemmons 2007)
Tarzan Escapes (Richard Thorpe 1936)
Tarzan the Ape Man (W.S. Van Dyke 1932)
The Terminal (Steven Spielberg 2004)
The Terminal Man (Mike Hodges 1974)
Terror By Night (Roy William Neill 1946)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper 1974)
They Live (John Carpenter 1988)
The Thing (John Carpenter 1982)
Thoroughbreds (Cory Finley 2017)
Those Awful Hats (DW Griffith 1909)
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh 2017)
T Men (Anthony Mann 1947)
Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa 2008)
To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (Beeban Kidron 1995)
Toy Story (John Lasseter 1995)
Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter, Ash Brannon and Lee Unkrich 1999)
Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich 2010)
Le Trou (Jacques Becker 1960)
Turned Out Nice Again (Marcel Varnel 1941)

The Unchanging Sea (DW Griffith 1910)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer 2013)
Unleashed (Louis Leterrier 2005)

Vestern/Western (Valeska Grisebach 2017)
Vivacious Lady (George Stevens 1938)
The Visit: An Alien Encounter (Michael Madsen 2015)

War for the Planet of the Apes (Matt Reeves 2017)
War Horse (Steven Spielberg 2011)
War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg 2005)
The Watermelon Woman (Dunye 1996)
We’re Not Dressing (Norman Taurog 1934)
The Wicked Lady (Leslie Arliss 1945)
The Wicker Man (Hardy 1973)
Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders 1988)
Witchfinder General (Michael Reeves 1968)
The Woman in Green (Roy William Neill 1945)
The Women (George Cukor 1939)
Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes 2017)
Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins 2017)
The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock 1956)
Wuxia/Dragon (Peter Ho-Sun Chan 2011)

X-Men: Apocalypse (Bryan Singer 2015)
xXx: Return of Xander Cage (DJ Caruso 2017)

Yip Man/Ip Man (Wilson Yip 2008)
Yip Man 2/Ip Man 2 (Wilson Yip 2010)
You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay 2017)

Z (Costa-Gavras 1969)
Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow 2012)
Zouzou (Marc Allégret 1934)
Zwartboek/Black Book (Paul Verhoeven 2006)