Perlle's "Movie List to Simplify Movie Lists"

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This list brings together movies from seven lists. Each movie is on at least three of the seven lists listed below.

Lists used:
1. Academy Awards
2. AFI 100
3. Los Angeles Film Critics Association
4. National Film Registry
5. National Society of Film Critics
6. New York Film Critics Circle
7. Sight and Sound International Critics Survey

  1. 1.
    8 1/2 - Criterion Collection

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  2. 2.
    2001 - A Space Odyssey
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  3. 3.
    All About Eve
    by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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  4. 4.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Lewis Milestone

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    Amadeus - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Milos Forman

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    An American in Paris
    by Vincente Minnelli

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  7. 7.
    Annie Hall

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  8. 8.
    The Apartment

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  9. 9.
    Ben-Hur
    by William Wyler

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  10. 10.
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    by William Wyler

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    The Bridge on the River Kwai
    by David Lean

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    Casablanca
    by Michael Curtiz

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  13. 13.
    Citizen Kane
    by Orson Welles

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  14. 14.
    City Lights (2 Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Chaplin

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  15. 15.
    Day for Night

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  16. 16.
    The Deer Hunter
    by Michael Cimino

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  17. 17.
    E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (Widesceen)
    by Steven Spielberg

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  19. 19.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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  20. 20.
    The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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    Gone With the Wind (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by George Cukor

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    Goodfellas (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese

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  24. 24.
    High Noon (Collector's Edition)
    by Fred Zinnemann

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  25. 25.
    It Happened One Night
    by Frank Capra

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  26. 26.
    Kramer vs. Kramer
    by Robert Benton

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  27. 27.
    L.A. Confidential
    by Curtis Hanson

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  29. 29.
    Marty
    by Delbert Mann

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  30. 30.
    My Fair Lady
    by George Cukor

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    Midnight Cowboy
    by John Schlesinger

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    Pulp Fiction

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  35. 35.
    Raging Bull (Special Edition)

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  36. 36.
    Ran - Criterion Collection
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  37. 37.
    Rocky

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  38. 38.
    Schindler's List (Full Screen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

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  39. 39.
    The Searchers
    by John Ford

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  40. 40.
    Singin' in the Rain
    by Stanley Donen

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    The Silence of the Lambs (Full Screen Special Edition)
    by Jonathan Demme

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    Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)

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  44. 44.
    Terms of Endearment
    by James L. Brooks

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  45. 45.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)

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    Unforgiven
    by Clint Eastwood

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  48. 48.
    Wild Reeds
    by André Téchiné

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  49. 49.
    West Side Story (Full Screen Edition)
    by Jerome Robbins

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Created by Perlle on Jun 12, 2006.
 

Comments

kthejoker

This list is the best starting point — 6 weeks ago

for anyone wanting to see The Great Films, mostly because it is full of “safe” films. A lot of times people really want these lists to suggest “underrated” or overlooked films. But this list really boils it down to a list of Great Films. It’s de facto definitive, because it has almost every facet of cinema represented (although the lack of animation and pre-awards ceremony films hurts it, obviously.)

There’s nothing on here that really requires a certain point of view to admire. You don’t have to be a J-horror buff, or a lover of gritty Burt Lancaster tough guys, or an admirer of Cassevetes’s intentional sloppiness or Tarkovsky’s dreamscapes or Frank Tashlin’s misogyny to appreciate these films.

Hopefully this list will get people going in the right direction – lots of threads run through this list – but distilling out the arthouse fare and some of the divisive movies – I can’t think of a better list to start with if you want to see the Great Films.

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