Lists

1920s/Silent


1930s


1940s


1950s


1960s


1970s


1980s


1990s


2000s



Action

Africa


All Time/Century


Angola


Animation


Argentina


Art House

Asia


Australia


Austria


Avant-Garde


Bangladesh


Belgium


Bolivia


Brazil


Bulgaria


Burkina Faso


Canada

Chile


China/Hong Kong/Taiwan


Colombia


Comedy


Controversial/Daring


Cuba



Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic/Slovakia

  • CFB's Greatest Movies by Country, Chapter 5: Czechoslovakia
  • Film a Škola: The Golden Foundation of Czech and Slovak Cinema (1999)
  • Film Heritage's Top 50 Czech/Slovak Films (2007)
  • UNESCO's Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage – Czech Republic (1995)
  • UNESCO's Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage – Slovakia (1995)


Debuts

  • OFCS's 100 Best First Films (2010)
  • Time Out's 50 Greatest Directorial Debuts of all Time (2009)


Denmark



Documentaries



Drama/Melodrama


Ecuador

  • UNESCO's Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage – Ecuador (1995)


Egypt

  • Al Ahram's 15 Best Egyptian Films of All Time (2007)
  • Bibliotheca Alexandrina's 100 Most Important Egyptian Films (2006)
  • UNESCO's Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage – Egypt (1995)


Epics/Long Films

  • Film Comment's Trivial Top 20® (Expanded to 40): The Best Very, Very Long Films


Estonia

  • Estonian Film Critics' Top 10 (2002)


Ethiopia

  • UNESCO's Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage – Ethiopia (1995)


Europe

  • Cinemateca Portuguesa European Films Poll (1994)
  • Cinemateca Portuguesa European Films Poll: Obscure Titles (1994)
  • 24 Frames' The Cinema of the Balkans (2006)
  • 24 Frames' The Cinema of Central Europe (2005)
  • 24 Frames' The Cinema of Scandinavia (2005)
  • 24 Frames' The Cinema of the Low Countries (2004)


Film-making

  • Film Comment's Trivial Top 20® (Expanded to 50): The Best Films Set in the Film World


Film Noir

  • CFB's Top 100 Film Noir (2007)


Finland

  • UNESCO's Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage – Finland (1995)


Foreign

  • Empire's 100 Best Films of World Cinema (non-English language)
  • Film Comment: The Top 150 Unreleased Foreign Language Films of the Nineties (non-English language)
  • Film Magazine's Top 10 Foreign Films (2009) (non-Iranian)
  • ForeignFilms.com's Top 100 Foreign Films (non-English language)
  • Kinema Junpo (non-Japanese films)
  • 1926-1929 1930-1939 1940-1949 1950-1959 1960-1969 1970-1979
  • 1980-1989 1990-1999 2000-2009 2010-2019
  • Movieline Magazine's 100 Greatest Foreign Films (non-English language)


France

  • Cahiers du Cinéma’s Twenty Years of French Cinema: the Best French Films since the Liberation (1965)
  • Films de France's Top 100 French Film Comedies
  • Films de France's Top 100 French Films
  • French Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques's 10 Best French Films in the Sound Era (1979)
  • The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Top French Films (c2000)
  • Histoire(s) de Films Francais (2005)
  • The Times' 100 Best French Films (2005)
  • 24 Frames' The Cinema of France (2006)


Gangster/Crime

  • The Guardian's Greatest Films of All Time: The Crime 25 (2010)
  • Martin Scorsese's 15 Most Influential Gangster Films
  • 101 Gangster Movies You Must See Before You Die
  • Time Out's 1000 Films to Change Your Life: Critics' Choice – Heist Highlights
  • Time Out's 1000 Films to Change Your Life: Critics' Choice – Hitmen


Germany



Greece

  • Greek Film Critics Association's 10 Best Greek Films of All Time (2006)
  • UNESCO's Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage – Greece (1995)


The Holy See

  • UNESCO's Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage – The Holy See (1995)


Horror



Hungary



Independent

  • Empire Magazine's The 50 Greatest Independent Films


India



Indonesia

  • Tabloid Bintang's 25 Best Indonesian Films (2007)
  • UNESCO's Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage – Indonesia (1995)


Iran



Ireland



Israel/Palestine



Italy

  • CFB's Top 100 Italian Films (2006)
  • RAI's Best Italian Films (1995)
  • 24 Frames' The Cinema of Italy (2004)
  • UNESCO's Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage – Italy (1995)
  • Venice Days Cultural Association: 100+1 (1942-1978)


Ivory Coast

  • UNESCO's Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage – Ivory Coast (1995)


Japan

  • Bunshun Bunko's Top 150 Japanese Films (1989)
  • CFB's Greatest Movies by Country, Chapter 3: Japan
  • Donald Richie's A Hundred Years of Japanese Film (2005)
  • Juzaburo Futaba's Top 100 Japanese Films of All Time
  • Kinema Junpo: Greatest Japanese Films (1979)
  • Kinema Junpo: Greatest Japanese Films (1989)
  • Kinema Junpo: Greatest Japanese Films (1995)
  • Kinema Junpo: Greatest Japanese Films (1999)
  • Kinema Junpo: Greatest Japanese Films (2009)
  • Kinema Junpo (yearly top 10s)
  • 1926-1929 | 1930-1939 | 1940-1949 | 1950-1959 | 1960-1969 | 1970-1979
  • 1980-1989 | 1990-1999 | 2000-2009 | 2010-2019
  • Kinema Junpo's Top 10 Japanese Period Dramas (2004)
  • 24 Frames' The Cinema of Japan and Korea (2004)


Kazakhstan

  • UNESCO's Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage – Kazakhstan (1995)


Laos

  • UNESCO's Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage – Laos (1995)


Latin America/Ibero-America

  • Arcadia: 25 mejores películas latinoamericanas de la historia (2005)
  • Cien años sin soledad: las mejores películas latinoamericanas de todos los tiempos (1999)
  • Cinema Tropical: The Top Latin American Films of the Decade (2000-2009)
  • Congreso de la Cultura Iberoamericana's Top 50 Ibero-American Films of the Last 40 Years (1960-2000)
  • Noticine's Top 100 Ibero-American movies (2008)
  • Sight & Sound's Key Latin American Films Since the Start of the 1998 Renaissance (2010)
  • Tierra en trance: el cine latinoamericano en 100 películas (1999)
  • 24 Frames' The Cinema of Latin America (2004)


Lebanon

  • UNESCO's Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage – Lebanon (1995)


Martial Arts


Mexico

  • CFB's Greatest Movies by Country, Chapter 16: Mexico
  • Nexos: Las mejores películas mexicanas de los últimos 30 años (2008)
  • PECIME (1931-1962)
  • PECIME (1962-1982)
  • SOMOS: Las 100 mejores películas del cine mexicano (1994)
  • UNESCO's Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage – Mexico (1995)


Musicals/Dance

  • Entertainment Weekly's 25 Best Musicals
  • Time Out's 1000 Films to Change Your Life: Critics' Choice – Let's Dance


Netherlands


New Zealand



Norway



Nouvelle Vague


Obscure/Cult/Unsung

  • Cinemateca Portuguesa European Films Poll: Obscure Titles (1994)
  • David N. Meyer's the 100 Best Films to Rent You've Never Heard Of
  • Empire's 250 Greatest Films You've Never Seen (2007)
  • Film Comment: The Top 150 Unreleased Foreign Language Films of the Nineties
  • Flavorwire: The 10 Best Zombie Movies You’ve Never Seen (2011)
  • FANGORIA's 101 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen
  • Further Beyond the Canon
  • Hidden Gems
  • Nerve: The Fifty Greatest Cult Movies of All Time (2011)
  • The Obscure, the Forgotten, and the Unloved
  • The Observer's 50 Lost Movie Classics (2006)
  • 101 Cult Movies You Must See Before You Die
  • Premiere Magazine’s 50 Unsung Classics
  • The Telegraph's 50 Most Underrated Films of All Time (2010)
  • The Times' 100 Best French Films: Modern Cults (2005)


Pakistan



Papua New Guinea

  • UNESCO's Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage – Papua New Guinea (1995)


Peru

  • UNESCO's Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage – Peru (1995)


Poland



Portugal

  • UNESCO's Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage – Portugal (1995)


Puerto Rico

  • UNESCO's Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage – Puerto Rico (1995)


Romance


Russia/USSR


Sci-fi/Fantasy



Shorts


Slovenia

  • UNESCO's Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage – Slovenia (1995)


South Korea



Spain



Sri Lanka


Superheroes

  • Time Out's 1000 Films to Change Your Life: Critics' Choice – Superheroes


Sweden



Switzerland



Television

  • The BFI TV 100
  • Channel 4's 50 Greatest TV Dramas (2007)
  • The Guardian's Top 50 Television Dramas of All Time (2010)
  • Radio Times: 40 BBC2 Favourites from Across the Years (2004)


1000+ Films

  • The Guardian: 1000 Films to See Before You Die
  • Halliwell's Top 1000 Movies
  • Have You Seen...? - A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films by David Thomson
  • Jonathan Rosenbaum's 1000 Essential Films
  • The New York Times: The Best 1000 Movies Ever Made


They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?

  • January, 2012
  • January, 2011
  • January, 2010
  • December, 2008
  • December, 2007
  • December, 2006


Thrillers




21st Century
They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?

  • January, 2012
  • January, 2011
  • January, 2010
  • January, 2009
  • January, 2008


UK

  • The BFI 100
  • The BFI TV 100
  • CFB's 100 Essential British and Irish Films
  • Time Out's 100 Best British Films


Ukraine

  • UNESCO's Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage – Ukraine (1995)


USA

  • Cahiers du Cinema’s Best American Films of the Sound Period 1963
  • A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
  • The Royal Film Archive of Belgium: Most Important and Misappreciated American Films Since the Beginning of Cinema: A Revaluation
  • UNESCO's Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage – USA (1995)


Venezuela

  • UNESCO's Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage – Venezuela (1995)


War



Yearly

A.V. Club
2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011

Cahiers du Cinéma
1950-1959 | 1960-1969 | 1970-1979 | 1980-1989 | 1990-1999 | 2000-2009
2010-2019

CFB's Films of the Year
1920-1929 | 1930-1939 | 1940-1949 | 1950-1959 | 1960-1969 | 1970-1979
1980-1989 | 1990-1999

Cinema Scope
2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010

Film Comment (Released Films)
2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009
2010 | 2011

Film Comment (Unreleased Films)
2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009
2010 | 2011

FIPRESCI Grand Prix
2002/03 | 2003/04 | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09
2009/10 | 2010/11

indieWIRE (Best film)
2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011

indieWIRE (Best documentary, first film, undistributed film)
2009 | 2010 | 2011

Keyframe
2011

Kinema Junpo (Foreign films)
1926-1929 | 1930-1939 | 1940-1949 | 1950-1959 | 1960-1969 | 1970-1979
1980-1989 | 1990-1999 | 2000-2009 | 2010-2019

Kinema Junpo (Japanese films)
1926-1929 | 1930-1939 | 1940-1949 | 1950-1959 | 1960-1969 | 1970-1979
1980-1989 | 1990-1999 | 2000-2009 | 2010-2019

Metacritic
2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009
2010

MSN Entertainment
2011

Sight & Sound
2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011

Slant Magazine
2009 | 2010 | 2011

Sydney Film Critics (Best film)
2009 | 2010 | 2011

Sydney Film Critics (Undistributed film)
2009 | 2010 | 2011

Time Out
2011

The Village Voice (Best film)
2001 | 2002 | 2004 | 2005 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011

The Village Voice (Best documentary, first film, undistributed film)
2010 | 2011


Yugoslavia/Bosnia and Herzegovina/Croatia/
Macedonia/Montenegro/Serbia/Slovenia

  • Hollywood Magazine's Greatest Croatian Films of All Time (1999)
  • UNESCO's Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage – Macedonia (1995)
  • UNESCO's Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage – Yugoslavia (1995)


Zombie

  • All Top Movies: The Top 10 Greatest Zombie Movies (2009)
  • AskMen: Top 10 – Zombie Movies
  • Boston.com: Top 25 Zombie Movies of All Time (2011)
  • Eat My Brains: Top Ten Zombie Movies (2004)
  • Entertainment Weekly: 25 Best Zombie Movies of All Time (2010)
  • Flavorwire: The 10 Best Zombie Movies You’ve Never Seen (2011)
  • Hell Horror: Top 10 Zombie Movies (2011)
  • IGN: Top 10 Zombie Movies (2008)
  • Movie Moron: Top 10 Best Zombie Movies (2009)
  • retroCrush: The 20 Best Zombie Movies of All Time (2009)
  • Shoot for the Head: Zombie Studies – 10 of the Best Zombie Movies (2009)
  • Stars & Popcorn: Top 10 Zombie Movies (2010)
  • Supermaw: Top 10 Greatest Zombie Films (2010)
  • Topless Robot: The 10 Greatest Zombie Films of All Time (2008)
  • WickedChannel.com: Top Ten List – Zombie Movies (2011)
  • ZC Zombie Command: Top 5 Nazi Zombies Movies
  • Zombie Rama: Top Ten Zombie Films
  • The Zombie Zone: Best Zombie Movies of the Decade (2000s)


Other Odds and Ends

  • Film Comment's Trivial Top 20® (Expanded to 50): Best Films Directed by Actors
  • Film Comment's Trivial Top 20® (Expanded to 50): Best Last Films
  • Film Comment's Trivial Top 20® (Expanded to 50): Best One-Word-Title Films (Pre-1960)
  • The London Film Critics’ Circle's Top Ten Films of the Last 30 Years (2009)
  • The Observer Film Quarterly's Best British Films of the Last 25 Years (2009)
  • Sight & Sound's Top Ten Films of the Last 25 Years (2002)