My Favorite IMDb Film Lists
These are IMDb lists that I think deserve special mention. Suggestions for other lists to include are welcome. Please send me a PM with your suggestion and a link to the list.
The films shown in this list are the first film in the other lists referenced. The text at the bottom of each entry is the description of the list in the author's own words.
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The films shown in this list are the first film in the other lists referenced. The text at the bottom of each entry is the description of the list in the author's own words.
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- DirectorRobert WiseStarsMichael RenniePatricia NealHugh MarloweAn alien lands in Washington, D.C. and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.by mhorg2018
My Favorite 25 Science Fiction Movies of all time.
OK, if I had to be in an isolation booth and could only choose 25 movies to have with me, these 25 SF films would be the one's I'd choose! - DirectorMike CahillStarsBrit MarlingWilliam MapotherMatthew-Lee ErlbachOn the night of the discovery of a duplicate Earth in the Solar system, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident.by kori-baum
unique films
They might not be unique to you but they are different than most films in a beautiful, shocking, or strange way, and that is why I like them. - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul HenreidA cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.by sunset-laurel
BEST MOVIES IN HISTORY - Drama, Thriller, Crime, Comedy, Documentary, Short,...NO Fantasy/Sci-Fi
This list is about movies that have a strong relation to life and not about some overrated Fantasy/Sci-Fi movies like Avatar which may be entertaining and have good ideas but never come close in terms of truthfulness, beauty etc. - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsDaniel Day-LewisMichelle PfeifferWinona RyderA tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.by makeawish_3
The Best Drama "Period Drama"!
Well it all started with Pride and Prejudice ... became of fan of period drama and coulden't rest till i had seen if not all then almost all of the movies and drama i could find .Have fun watching! - DirectorJoe WrightStarsKeira KnightleyMatthew MacfadyenBrenda BlethynSparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome their own pride and prejudice?by tatiana_panainte
My top 10 romantic movies
Everyone has its favorite movies that they want to watch over and over and over again. We watch them because they make us happy, because they make us cry, they make us think about our feelings, behavior and actions. This days I saw a list of romantic movies. They were amazing and has without a moment's hesitancy, entered my favorites list. - DirectorMike NicholsStarsElizabeth TaylorRichard BurtonGeorge SegalA bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young houseguests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.by bluzulu
Supporting Actress won Oscars
Movies where both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress won Oscars.
There are only 10 movies in Oscar history where both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actresses won for the same movie, and here they are. - DirectorChristopher NolanStarsChristian BaleHeath LedgerAaron EckhartWhen the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice.by Michal (IMDb)
Movie Posters Hanging in the IMDb Offices
IMDb is full of movie lovers, so of course we have posters hanging all over the walls! We don't pretend to have every movie poster ever made, but we like to think we have a pretty decent selection which spans the years. The list below is ordered from the most recent movies to the oldest. - DirectorBryan SingerStarsKevin SpaceyGabriel ByrneChazz PalminteriThe sole survivor of a pier shoot-out tells the story of how a notorious criminal influenced the events that began with five criminals meeting in a seemingly random police lineup.by Jordan H.
Movies with Great Writing
My husband and I share a love for movies with great writing. We love well written dramas and well written comedies. We've been working our way through the Oscar winners for best original screenplay, but are looking for more movies (especially ones that aren't too heavy).
If you have more suggestions, please post in the comments below! - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartKim NovakBarbara Bel GeddesA former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.by Col Needham
My All-Time Top 10 Movies - DirectorFritz LangStarsPeter LorreEllen WidmannInge LandgutWhen the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.by Ali Mandi
50 Films Every Film Lover Must Watch. (Intro. to Great Films)
Wanna watch good films and get familiar with important film-makers and genres from different eras but don't know where to start? This one is for you. No director will have more than 3 films on the list, you take the name and run with it!
The films are listed chronologically. - DirectorMartin BrestStarsAl PacinoChris O'DonnellJames RebhornA prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.by Jaimie Kanwar
The Greatest Movie Speeches/Monologues of all time!
Starting with the following, I'm going to try and compile a definitive list of the greatest speeches ever captured on film... - DirectorTerry GilliamStarsJonathan PryceKim GreistRobert De NiroA bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.by Kurt_Voakes
Top 10 Dystopian Films
The future is a very open environment to explore. The possibilities are endless. Everytime you fall asleep, you will have no idea exactly when or where you will wake up. You can't predict with an absolute certainty how things are going to turn out. That's one aspect of the future that I have always admired, unpredictability. It gives freedom to explore a whole new world that appears alien or impossible to us, but yet is approaching closer to reality as technology evolves. It might not take place in our universe of reality, or timeline for that matter, but below are what I consider to be the best examples of dystopian futures. - DirectorRintarôStarsMasako NozawaMasako IkedaYôko AsagamiThe adventures of a brave young boy who travels from planet to planet in a determined quest to avenge his mother's death.by mjf314
Top 50 obscure animated movies
These are my favorite animated feature films with less than 1000 votes. All of these films are available with either English subtitles or English audio. If you need help finding any of them, send me a PM. - DirectorChristopher NolanStarsLeonardo DiCaprioJoseph Gordon-LevittElliot PageA thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.by Col Needham
Unresolved Endings
Spoilers Ahead If you like everything tidied up neatly at the end of the movie with no unresolved questions then avoid the movies in this work-in-progress list. Your first reaction as those end credits roll is likely to be "Huh?"
If you embrace the unexpected and like to end the movie yourself after weighing the evidence as to what really happened, you're in for a treat. Even if in some cases the rest of the movie sucks, the ending will "really bake your noodle later on" to quote The Oracle in The Matrix
I will add to this as I remember new cases.
There's a keyword on the site but I disagree with some of those. It's very clear what has happened at the end of The Prestige for example. - CreatorBurt DubrowStarsJerry SpringerPeter A KellySteve WilkosAmong his peers' other talk-shows, Jerry's is of the more passionate and of the more sensational. His topics range from bisexual affairs to rape. His guests are more believable than some other talk-shows.by IMDb-Editors
Shows That Took TV to New Lows Over the Past 20 Years
Contrary to popular belief, there are plenty of worthwhile series on television. But if many people declare TV to be detrimental to society, the bane of morality and the assassin of profound thought, feel free to blame the shows on this list. Shockingly enough, almost all of them are reality shows, many of which were brought to us by Fox. - DirectorChristopher NolanStarsLeonardo DiCaprioJoseph Gordon-LevittElliot PageA thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.by Col Needham
Col Needham's Top 20 Movies from 1990-2010
I'm the founder and CEO of IMDb and here are my favourite movies from the last 20 years. Of course this list needs a little trimming to say the least ... - DirectorDavid FincherStarsBrad PittEdward NortonMeat LoafAn insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.by kavian_z1364
20 under 20. The 20 best Movies of past two decades.
Checking out more than 4000 movies, following is the list of those which touched me in a sense that every movie lover would go to cinemas to be touched. Visually , Intellectually and artistic. More than a triumph, these movies are accomplishments of those who took an idea and shaped it into a applause worthy work of art. Combinations of continuous emotion-triggering images, which for the past two decades, became more than just a passing memory for most of us.
They became, as one of the greatest directors of all time 'Martin Scorsese' says, "Memories of Our Life Time". - DirectorSean PennStarsDavid MorseViggo MortensenValeria GolinoA Vietnam vet comes home to his small town and finds himself in conflict with rules that his brother has vowed to uphold.by Guy30032
My Top Twenty Movies in the Last Twenty Years
These are not the twenty most influential movies of the last twenty years. They are however twenty of the best films every made and of all the movies in the past twenty years, these are the ones I wouldn't want to live without. Seeing as it would take me the better part of a day to try and order these films from favorite to least, I decided to just list them by year. Starting with The Indian Runner and The Fisher King for 1991 and ending with 2008's The Reader. - DirectorStanley KubrickStarsKeir DulleaGary LockwoodWilliam SylvesterAfter uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.by chunky_lover_68
Oscar Buzz Presents: The Return of the Top 250
HAPPY 20TH ANNIVERSARY IMDb!
Oscar Buzz Presents: The Return of the Top 250
(a film poll for fanboys and fangirls of all ages)
The purpose of this poll is to shine a light on the decerning tastes of fellow buzzers in a show of movies that correspond closely with their personal definititions of good filmmaking in the hopes that the list will serve as a moderatly acurate depiction of a buzzers taste in general. It's also an excuse to celebrate what Oscar Buzz would deem as exceptional cinema. While it's near immpossible to fully represent the taste of everyone who inhabits this glorious message board, it's possible we will come across a film or two that is enjoyed by both those who voted and those who didn't.
One thing to note is the regualar occurance of ties for placement between films. This is especially evident from films #200 to #150. The total number of films featured in this list is 233. There are 35 ties in all, with the highest ammount of films tying for one spot being three. In total 290 films make the final list.
In regards to poll data, The Oscar Buzz Top 250 was compiled from 74 top 100 movie ballots sent to me by various users from Oscar Buzz between the months of May and July 2010. This poll was also open to the users of Film General and Lists and Recomendations message boards for the month of June as a way to create diviersity and ensure different results are achieved from the list. OUtsourcing was also necessary to achieve a higher ammount of ballots necessary for presenting a top 250 with out having endless ammount of ties.
This list was presented on Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 at 12:00pm on the Oscar Buzz Message Board on IMDb.com.
So without further adieu, lets pull back the curtain on this years Top 250 Films. - DirectorTod BrowningStarsLionel BarrymoreElizabeth AllanBela LugosiWhen a nobleman is murdered, a professor of the occult blames vampires, but not all is what it seems.by J. Spurlin
Movies and Shows for Skeptics
In your typical screen fare, omens prove true, ghosts are real, monsters do exist, psychics are genuine, superstition is accurate, extraterrestrials are here, conspiracy theorists have the truth, God works in mysterious but irrefutable ways while skeptics are forced to change theirs or fall victim to divine retribution, blood-soaked fangs, malicious poltergeists, path-crossing black cats, sinister government forces and the like. But sometimes we get a different point of view.
NOTE: This list will be updated periodically. - DirectorIshirô HondaStarsTakashi ShimuraAkihiko HirataAkira TakaradaAfter a dinosaur-like beast - awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing - ravages Tokyo, a scientist must decide if his similarly dangerous weapon should be used to destroy it.by LordRIB
51 Out Of A Thousand Film Creatures That Rock. Good Bad and Ugly.
Included in 'creatures' is Robots, ghosts and more. My respect to all the film makers who brought them to me. Even when the films themselves were often not as great as the creatures were. Never stop making them. - RIB - DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsIvana BaqueroAriadna GilSergi LópezIn the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.by vert2712
30 great non-English language films from the last 20 years
In no particular order, a list of great/entertaining movies made outside of English-speaking countries. Most of these have been remade in English, or have been released internationally to some acclaim. And yes, the omission of "Life Is Beautiful" is deliberate. - DirectorDavid YatesStarsDaniel RadcliffeEmma WatsonRupert GrintAs Harry Potter begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as "the property of the Half-Blood Prince" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past.by Susana Peypoch
The 20 Best Movie Scores of the Past 2 Decades
Music - when well written - can turn into the very essence of a film; it's not just there to fill the silence, but to make it interesting.
Here's a list of the 20 movies I think have the best original music, the ones composers have made even better through music.
It's not hierarchical, but some personal preferences might have gotten the best of me... - DirectorSeth GordonStarsSteve WiebeBilly MitchellMark AlpigerDie-hard gamers compete to break world records on classic arcade games.by ryancarroll88
The 10 Best Documentary Villains
I think it's safe to say that though the documentary style of filmmaking has been around for a while, it has taken an unexpected rise in the 21st century, and a whole slew of recent documentary films have become beacons for specific social and political movements like never before. This newly popularized style of muckraking is no doubt powerful, and the most effective of these films really bend and fold the reality into a dramatic narrative in a way that speaks directly to its audience. But at the root of every problem is an antagonizer, someone or something that pulls the strings, and it's usually the role of the documentary to call these adversaries out and expose their wrongdoings to the entire world. When done right, these evildoers enter the realm of some of the greatest and most memorable movie villains ever – Hannibal Lecter, Dracula, Darth Vader, HAL 9000, and so on. So, here it goes – my list of the 10 best documentary villains.
[link]http://classywithatouchofsleaze.blogspot.com/2010/07/10-best-documentary-villains.html[/link] - DirectorShane CarruthStarsShane CarruthDavid SullivanCasey GoodenFour friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.by hb
Top Time Travel Films
One of my favorite genres, especially if I don't know it's a time travel film on the way in (which was the case with Primer).
A hard genre to pull off well, and all these films succeed. I left a few 'obvious' ones off - like Donnie Darko and The Butterfly Effect as I did not like these as much as one the ones on this list.