4v291o

Watched on Sunday May 25, 2025.

D

Part of my ranking of Jafar Panahi.

D

Part of my anime series and kaiju rankings.

C/D

Part of my ranking of Peter Weir.

A/B

Part of my favourites of the 1980s.

D

Part of my ranking of Wes Anderson.

C

The uneasiness of Eraserhead meets the set-up of After Life, but it's way more morbid, uncanny and Kafkaesque with unexplained demands for conformity in leisure. In some ways a kind of dry run for The Truman Show.

Part of my ranking of Peter Weir.

B/C

Part of my ranking of Abbas Kiarostami.

B/C

Part of my favourites of the 2010s.

Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.

C

Part of my rankings of Hideaki Anno and anime series.

Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 10, 2025.

D

Part of my ranking of Jafar Panahi.

F

Part of my ranking of kaiju media and Roland Emmerich.

B/C

Part of my anime series ranking and kaiju ranking.

Watched on Tuesday May 6, 2025.

B/C

Part of my favorites of the 2000s and ranking of Jafar Panahi.

Part of my ranking of Ryūsuke Hamaguchi.

C/D

Part of my ranking of Sam Peckinpah.

D/E

Part of my ranking of kaiju films.

C

Part of my ranking of Abbas Kiarostami.

C/D

Part of my ranking of Mike Leigh.

D/E

Part of my ranking of Sam Peckinpah.

C

Part of my favourites of the 1970s and ranking of Sam Peckinpah.

C/D

Part of my ranking of Ishirō Honda.

Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.

C/D

Part of my ranking of Sam Peckinpah.

Watched on Saturday August 6, 2022.

B/C

Yakuza as shishi odoshi: fated to swallow the bloody water of pride, loss and bitterness till the tipping point where it is unleashed as violence and the lethal crack of a skull upon a rock. This sound should serve as a warning, but the blood pouring from the source only fuels the vengeful and worthless cycle of death.

Once a yakuza, always a yakuza.

Is it right to dream of a life outside prison?

Part of my favourites of the 1960s and ranking of Kinji Fukasaku.

E/F

Part of my ranking of Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger.

C/D

Part of my ranking of Sam Peckinpah.

Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 11, 2025.

C

Part of my favourites of the 1970s and ranking of Kinji Fukasaku.

D/E

Part of my ranking of Sam Peckinpah.

C/D

D/E

Part of my anime series ranking.

C

Part of my favourites of the 1970s and ranking of Sam Peckinpah.

E

A

Part of my favourites of the 2000s and ranking of Mike Leigh.

A/B

Part of my favourites of the 2000s and ranking of Hirokazu Kore-eda.

E/F

B

Part of my anime series ranking.

A/B

Part of my favourites of the 1970s and ranking of Kinji Fukasaku.

B

Part of my favourites of the 1970s and ranking of Kinji Fukasaku.

B

Part of my favourites of the 1970s and ranking of Kinji Fukasaku.

B/C

Part of my favourites of the 1970s and ranking of Kinji Fukasaku.

B/C

Part of my anime series ranking.

Part of my 2000s favourites lists.

Excludes This Is Not a Film since I don't rate documentaries.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. Crimson Gold
2. Taxi
3. The White Balloon
4. 3 Faces
5. The Circle

Contains almost every director's work I have seen and rated 5 or more films of. Spans 116 directors and 18 countries.

Details as to who the director is, how many films I've seen of theirs, their average score and links to my ranking of their work are in the notes.

A ✅ signifies I have seen every available feature film and/or television series of a director either retired or deceased. A ☑️ is for those who I have seen all of their released feature and/or serial works, but they are still active in the industry.

This list is ordered by my average rating of a director's movies/tv series. If directors' average scores are tied then it is ordered by which director I have seen more of their work. If again, there is a tie, it is ordered alphabetically by surname.

See my ranking of directors which nearly qualify for this list here.

See also my favourite films here.

Most watched:
1. Ingmar Bergman (44)
2. John Ford & Yasujirō Ozu (33)
3. Akira Kurosawa (31)
4. Martin Scorsese (22)
5. Alfred Hitchcock & Zhang Yimou (20)

Highest average rating with 10+ watched:
1. William Wyler & Christopher Nolan (3.96)
2. Billy Wilder (3.95)
3. Hayao Miyazaki (3.92)
4. Howard Hawks & Hideaki Anno (3.79)
5. Stanley Kubrick (3.75)

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1. Tokyo Godfathers

   🇯🇵 Satoshi Kon ✅
   Seen: 5
   Average Score: 4.80

2. The Conversation

   🇺🇸 Francis Ford Coppola
   Seen: 6
   Average Score: 4.33

3. Secret Sunshine

   🇰🇷 Lee Chang-dong
   Seen: 5
   Average Score: 4.30

4. 12 Angry Men

   🇺🇸 Sidney Lumet
   Seen: 5
   Average Score: 4.30

5. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

   🇬🇧 Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
   Seen: 5
   Average Score: 4.20

6. Seven Days in May

   🇺🇸 John Frankenheimer
   Seen: 9
   Average Score: 4.17

7. Céline and Julie Go Boating

   🇫🇷 Jacques Rivette
   Seen: 5
   Average Score: 4.10

8. Lawrence of Arabia

   🇬🇧 David Lean
   Seen: 6
   Average Score: 4.08

9. A Silent Voice: The Movie

   🇯🇵 Naoko Yamada ☑️
   Seen: 7
   Average Score: 4.07

10. Wolf Children

    🇯🇵 Mamoru Hosoda
    Seen: 6
    Average Score: 4.00

...plus 103 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A list of directors that I have an interest in which nearly qualify for my directors league made in the spirit of Sam Williams' Official Top 50 Narrative Feature Films Under 5,000 Ratings.

This list contains many directors' work I've seen and rated 3 or 4 films of. Spans 65 directors and 16 countries.

Details as to who the director is, how many films I've seen of theirs, their average score and links to my ranking of their work are in the notes.

The ordering is done the same as the qualifying list.

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1. Asobi Asobase - workshop of fun -

   🇯🇵 Seiji Kishi
   Seen: 3
   Average Score: 4.67

2. La La Land

   🇺🇸 Damien Chazelle
   Seen: 3
   Average Score: 4.50

3. Yi Yi

   🇹🇼 Edward Yang
   Seen: 3
   Average Score: 4.50

4. Lady Bird

   🇺🇸 Greta Gerwig
   Seen: 3
   Average Score: 4.33

5. The Cranes Are Flying

   🇷🇺 Mikhail Kalatozov
   Seen: 3
   Average Score: 4.33

6. Loveless

   🇷🇺 Andrey Zvyagintsev
   Seen: 3
   Average Score: 4.33

7. Short Cuts

   🇺🇸 Robert Altman
   Seen: 4
   Average Score: 4.25

8. The Hunt

   🇩🇰 Thomas Vinterberg
   Seen: 4
   Average Score: 4.25

9. Judgment at Nuremberg

   🇺🇸 Stanley Kramer
   Seen: 3
   Average Score: 4.17

10. Yearning

    🇯🇵 Mikio Naruse
    Seen: 3
    Average Score: 4.17

...plus 55 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Ranking of the kaiju / big monster movies or series I've seen.

Directors with rankings elsewhere:
Hideaki Anno | Roland Emmerich | Jun Fukuda | Ishirō Honda | Peter Jackson

1. King Kong
2. Shin Godzilla
3. Godzilla Minus One
4. Godzilla
5. SSSS.GRIDMAN
6. Shin Ultraman
7. Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
8. Destroy All Monsters
9. Invasion of Astro-Monster
10. Mothra vs. Godzilla

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Every anime series I've seen ranked.

You can find my AniList here.

If a show is not present on Letterboxd, a corresponding movie, OVA, etc. has been used to represent it.

Number of seasons I've seen in the notes. If there are no notes, then it is either a miniseries or a second season has not yet been announced or released.

Recurring directors with ★★★★ scores or higher:
4 entries - Tatsuya Ishihara
3 entries - Seiji Kishi and Masaaki Yuasa
2 entries - Hideaki Anno, Tatsuyuki Nagai and Naoko Yamada

1. Ping Pong the Animation
2. Clannad: The Motion Picture

   Clannad
   Seasons 1 & 2

3. Asobi Asobase - workshop of fun -
4. Steins;Gate
5. K-On! The Movie

   K-ON!
   Seasons 1 & 2

6. Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
7. Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai
8. Violet Evergarden
9. Kanon
10. Tsukigakirei

...plus 94 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Part of my 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and overall favourites lists.

Excludes Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World because I don't have a good enough recollection of it to give a proper rating.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. The Truman Show
2. Dead Poets Society
3. Picnic at Hanging Rock
4. Homesdale
5. The Cars That Ate Paris

In companion with Other Films Within the House In Which I Live which other people own.

1. The Abyss
2. Alien
3. Aliens
4. Alien³
5. Alien Resurrection
6. Prometheus
7. Alien: Covenant
8. The Bells of St. Mary's
9. Big Jake
10. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

...plus 439 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Every movie I have given a ★★★★★ or ★★★★½ rating organised in an attempted colour grade because I can't decide on a ranking.

Decades represented:
1920s (3 entries), 1930s (7 entries), 1940s (13 entries), 1950s (27 entries), 1960s (32 entries), 1970s (25 entries), 1980s (31 entries), 1990s (34 entries), 2000s (35 entries), 2010s (34 entries) and the 2020s (9 entries)

For specific director rankings, see my directors and near qualifying directors ranked lists.

Directors with multiple films in the list:
6 entries - Ingmar Bergman and Akira Kurosawa
5 entries - John Frankenheimer and Mike Leigh
4 entries - Francis Ford Coppola, Terry Gilliam, Satoshi Kon, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Hayao Miyazaki, Yasujirō Ozu, Martin Scorsese, Billy Wilder and William Wyler
3 entries - Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Jackson, Wong Kar-wai, Takeshi Kitano, Stanley Kubrick, Christopher Nolan, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger and Ridley Scott
2 entries - Robert Altman, Hideaki Anno, Claude Berri, Peter Bogdanovich, Frank Capra, Lee Chang-dong, Damien Chazelle, Charlie Chaplin, Brian De Palma, Pete Docter, David Fincher, Miloš Forman, Bob Fosse, Greta Gerwig, Mamoru Hosoda, Abbas Kiarostami, Masaki Kobayashi, David Lean, Sidney Lumet, Toshio Matsumoto, Jean-Pierre Melville, Roman Polanski, Nicholas Ray, Satyajit Ray, Jacques Rivette, Céline Sciamma, Makoto Shinkai, Quentin Tarantino, Thomas Vinterberg, Naoko Yamada, Edward Yang and Zhang Yimou

• Blade Runner
• Die Hard
• Twelve Monkeys
• Raging Bull
• Demons
• M
• The Deer Hunter
• The Godfather
• Tombstone
• Seven Samurai

...plus 240 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

For my overall favourites, see my favourite films list.

Directors with multiple films in this list:
4 entries - John Carpenter and Éric Rohmer
3 entries - Hayao Miyazaki, Satyajit Ray, Rob Reiner, Martin Scorsese and Yoshiyuki Tomino
2 entries - Claude Berri, Don Bluth, James Cameron, Brian De Palma, Terry Gilliam, Mike Leigh, Michael Mann, Mamoru Oshii, Steven Spielberg, Wim Wenders and Robert Zemeckis

1. Manon of the Spring
2. Brazil
3. Paris, Texas
4. Akira
5. Blow Out
6. Das Boot
7. Terrorizers
8. Scarface
9. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
10. Raging Bull

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Part of my 2000s, 2010s and 2020s favourites lists.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
3. Rushmore
4. The French Dispatch
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox
6. The Grand Budapest Hotel
7. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
8. Bottle Rocket
9. Moonrise Kingdom
10. Isle of Dogs

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

For my overall favourites, see my favourite films list.

Directors with multiple films in the list:
3 entries - Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Lokesh Kanagaraj
2 entries - David Fincher, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Souichi Masui, George Miller, Christopher Nolan and Junta Yamaguchi

1. The First Slam Dunk
2. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
3. Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
4. Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain
5. The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
6. Petite Maman
7. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
8. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
9. Violet Evergarden: The Movie
10. The Quiet Girl

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Part of my 1980s, 1990s, 2010s and overall favourites lists.

Excluding Homework since I don't rate documentaries.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. Taste of Cherry
2. Where Is the Friend's House?
3. Like Someone in Love
4. Through the Olive Trees
5. The Wind Will Carry Us
6. Life, and Nothing More…
7. Close-Up
8. Ten
9. Certified Copy

For my overall favourites, see my favourite films list.

Directors with multiple films in this list:
5 entries - Takashi Imanishi
4 entries - Hirokazu Kore-eda and Christopher Nolan
3 entries - Martin Scorsese, Naoko Yamada and Andrey Zvyagintsev
2 entries - Noah Baumbach, Lee Chang-dong, Damien Chazelle, Xavier Dolan, Greta Gerwig, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Christian Petzold, Céline Sciamma and Makoto Shinkai

1. Your Name.
2. Mommy
3. The Hunt
4. La La Land
5. A Separation
6. A Silent Voice: The Movie
7. It's Such a Beautiful Day
8. Lady Bird
9. Whiplash
10. Loveless

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Part of my anime series ranking and my 1990s, 2000s and overall favourites lists.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. Tokyo Godfathers
2. Paprika
3. Millennium Actress
4. Perfect Blue
5. Paranoia Agent

Part of my 1970s and overall favourites lists.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. The Conversation
2. Apocalypse Now
3. The Godfather Part II
4. The Godfather
5. The Godfather Part III
6. The Outsiders

Part of my 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and overall favourites lists.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. Secret Sunshine
2. Oasis
3. Poetry
4. Burning
5. Peppermint Candy

Part of my 1950s, 1970s and overall favourites lists.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. 12 Angry Men
2. Network
3. Serpico
4. Dog Day Afternoon
5. Murder on the Orient Express

Part of my 1940s and overall favourites lists.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
2. The Red Shoes
3. Black Narcissus
4. A Matter of Life and Death
5. The Battle of the River Plate

Part of my 1950s, 1960s and overall favourites lists.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. Seven Days in May
2. Days of Wine and Roses
3. Birdman of Alcatraz
4. The Manchurian Candidate
5. The Train
6. The Last Tycoon
7. Seconds
8. Ronin
9. The Young Savages

Part of my 1960s, 1970s, 2000s and overall favourites list.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. Céline and Julie Go Boating
2. The Nun
3. The Story of Marie and Julien
4. Duelle
5. Va Savoir (Who Knows?)

Part of my 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1980s and overall favourites lists.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. Doctor Zhivago
3. The Bridge on the River Kwai
4. A age to India
5. Brief Encounter
6. Summertime

Part of my anime series ranking and my 2010s, 2020s and overall favourites lists.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. A Silent Voice: The Movie
2. K-On! The Movie
3. The Heike Story
4. Liz and the Blue Bird
5. Tamako Market
6. Tamako Love Story
7. The Colors Within

Part of my 2000s, 2010s, 2020s and overall favourites lists.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. Wolf Children
2. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
3. Belle
4. Summer Wars
5. Mirai
6. The Boy and the Beast

Part of my Mobile Suit Gundam ranking and my 2010s and overall favourites lists.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin III - Dawn of Rebellion
2. Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin V: Clash at Loum
3. Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin IV – Eve of Destiny
4. Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin I - Blue-Eyed Casval
5. Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin II - Artesia's Sorrow
6. Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin VI – Rise of the Red Comet

Part of my 1940s, 1950s and overall favourites lists.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. In a Lonely Place
2. Johnny Guitar
3. Rebel Without a Cause
4. They Live by Night
5. Born to Be Bad
6. On Dangerous Ground

Part of my anime series ranking and my 2010s and 2020s favourites lists.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai
2. Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid
3. Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl
4. Rascal Does Not Dream of a Sister Venturing Out
5. Akiba Maid War

Part of my 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and overall favourites lists.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. The Little Foxes
2. The Best Years of Our Lives
3. The Big Country
4. Funny Girl
5. Ben-Hur
6. These Three
7. Roman Holiday
8. Detective Story
9. Wuthering Heights
10. Dodsworth

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Part of my 2000s, 2010s, 2020s and overall favourites lists.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. Inception
2. The Prestige
3. The Dark Knight
4. Interstellar
5. Batman Begins
6. Dunkirk
7. The Dark Knight Rises
8. Oppenheimer
9. Memento
10. Insomnia

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Part of my 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and overall favourites lists.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. Ace in the Hole
2. The Apartment
3. Sabrina
4. The Lost Weekend
5. Witness for the Prosecution
6. Double Indemnity
7. Stalag 17
8. Sunset Boulevard
9. The Spirit of St. Louis
10. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Part of my 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s and overall favourites lists.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
2. Princess Mononoke
3. My Neighbor Totoro
4. Ponyo
5. Spirited Away
6. Porco Rosso
7. The Wind Rises
8. Castle in the Sky
9. Howl's Moving Castle
10. Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Part of my 2020s and overall favourites lists.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
2. Drive My Car
3. Evil Does Not Exist
4. Asako I & II
5. GIFT

Part of my 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and overall favourites lists.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. Blow Out
2. Scarface
3. Carlito's Way
4. Sisters
5. Carrie
6. Phantom of the Paradise
7. Mission: Impossible
8. Snake Eyes
9. The Untouchables

Part of my kaiju ranking and 2000s and overall favourites lists.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
4. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
5. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
6. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
7. King Kong

Shinkai's films are liminal; always centred on the entrances and exits of individuals who revive the lives of their protagonists. These main characters cry 'stay with me!' and act with urgency, daring to enter even when the door is shut. Having found what they were missing in life and losing it, they are resolute in doing anything to get it back. It's all about thresholds and whether we're willing to cross them. It's no wonder these films feature shots where the perspective lay in doorways: those of trains, of houses. To be united with the one you love takes just one step past a thin boundary to the other side, past a barrier that is designed to be opened, but Shinkai always succeeds in making it feel like one monumental leap through space, through time, and finally into their heart.

Part of my 2010s, 2020s and overall favourites lists.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. Your Name.
2. Weathering with You
3. Suzume
4. 5 Centimeters per Second
5. The Garden of Words
6. The Place Promised in Our Early Days
7. Children Who Chase Lost Voices

Part of my 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and overall favourites lists.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. Bringing Up Baby
2. Only Angels Have Wings
3. Rio Bravo
4. To Have and Have Not
5. Red River
6. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
7. El Dorado
8. Hatari!
9. Ball of Fire
10. His Girl Friday

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Part of my anime series ranking, kaiju ranking and my 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s and overall favourites lists.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
2. Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
3. Neon Genesis Evangelion
4. Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance
5. Gunbuster
6. Ritual
7. Shin Godzilla
8. Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
9. Love & Pop
10. His and Her Circumstances

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Part of my 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and overall favourites lists.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. Paths of Glory
2. Barry Lyndon
3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
4. The Shining
5. The Killing
6. Spartacus
7. Killer's Kiss
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey
9. Full Metal Jacket
10. Fear and Desire

Part of my 1960s, 1970s and overall favourites lists.

See my directors league list for more director rankings.

1. Once Upon a Time in the West
2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
3. For a Few Dollars More
4. Duck, You Sucker
5. A Fistful of Dollars
6. Once Upon a Time in America

Part of my 2000s, 2010s, 2020s and overall favourites lists.

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1. The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House
2. After the Storm
3. Our Little Sister
4. Still Walking
5. Nobody Knows
6. The Third Murder
7. Like Father, Like Son
8. Shoplifters
9. Maborosi
10. I Wish

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Part of my 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and overall favourites lists.

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1. Secrets & Lies
2. Happy-Go-Lucky
3. Another Year
4. Vera Drake
5. Naked
6. All or Nothing
7. Life Is Sweet
8. Four Days in July
9. Grown-Ups
10. Nuts in May

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Part of my 2000s, 2010s, 2020s and overall favourites lists.

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1. Pulse
2. Journey to the Shore
3. Tokyo Sonata
4. Before We Vanish
5. Creepy
6. Wife of a Spy
7. To the Ends of the Earth
8. Foreboding
9. Real

Part of my 1990s, 2000s and overall favourites lists.

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1. Magnolia
2. Punch-Drunk Love
3. There Will Be Blood
4. The Master
5. Phantom Thread
6. Hard Eight
7. Licorice Pizza

This blue/black aesthetic is super satisfying.

Part of my 1980s and 1990s favourites lists.

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1. Titanic
2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
3. The Abyss
4. The Terminator
5. True Lies
6. Avatar
7. Aliens

Part of my 1940s, 1960s, 1970s and overall favourites lists.

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1. Le Samouraï
2. Le Cercle Rouge
3. Army of Shadows
4. The Silence of the Sea
5. A Cop
6. Le Doulos
7. Léon Morin, Priest

Serene, poetic, comic, cruel.

Part of my 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and overall favourites lists.

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1. A Scene at the Sea
2. Violent Cop
3. Kikujiro
4. Brother
5. Sonatine
6. Boiling Point
7. Fireworks
8. Kids Return
9. Zatoichi
10. Dolls

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Part of my 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and overall favourites lists.

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1. The Great Dictator
2. Modern Times
3. City Lights
4. The Kid
5. The Gold Rush
6. Monsieur Verdoux
7. The Circus
8. A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
9. A King in New York
10. Limelight

Part of my 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and overall favourites lists.

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1. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Reservoir Dogs
4. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
5. Inglourious Basterds
6. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
7. Death Proof
8. Django Unchained
9. Jackie Brown
10. The Hateful Eight

Part of my anime series ranking.

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1. Kanon
2. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
3. Nichijou: My Ordinary Life
4. Sound! Euphonium the Movie – Our Promise: A Brand New Day
5. Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me

Part of my anime series ranking.

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1. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
2. Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part II: Eternal
3. Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part III: Rebellion
4. Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part I: Beginnings
5. Fireworks

Part of my 1980s, 1990s, 2010s and overall favourites lists.

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1. Grave of the Fireflies
2. Only Yesterday
3. My Neighbors the Yamadas
4. The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
5. Pom Poko