Sunday, February 1, 2009

IMDB 250 - Alphabetical

[Internet Movie Database 250 - Alphabetical List] Voted by Site Regulars, rankings/voted removed (updated 1/25/09) I used the English film title for foreign films like The Seven Samurai, City of God, Cinema Paradiso,The Bicycle Thief, unless the film was released with its foreign title like La Dolce Vita, Rashomon, or anime films. You can see the IMDB 250 list ranked by ratings averages at their site here: Internet Movie Database Top 250 I highlighted those from my Top 100 (78 so far) 12 Angry Men (1957) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 8½ (1963) A Clockwork Orange (1971) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Ace in the Hole (1951) Alien (1979) Aliens (1986) All About Eve (1950) All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Amadeus (1984) American Beauty (1999) American History X (1998) Amores perros (2000) Anatomy of a Murder (1959) Annie Hall (1977) Apocalypse Now (1979) Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Back to the Future (1985) Batman Begins (2005) Beauty and the Beast (1946) Ben-Hur (1959) Big Fish (2003) Blade Runner (1982) Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Braveheart (1995) Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Brief Encounter (1945) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Casablanca (1942) Casino (1995) Children of Men (2006) Chinatown (1974) Cinema Paradiso (1988) Citizen Kane (1941) City Lights (1931) City of God (2002) Cool Hand Luke (1967) Crash (2004/I) Crazy Class Wakes Up (1976) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) Das Boot (1981) Diaboliques, Les (1955) Dial M for Murder (1954) Die Hard (1988) Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Dolce vita, La (1960) Donnie Darko (2001) Double Indemnity (1944) Downfall (2004) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Duck Soup (1933) Ed Wood (1994) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) – anime Fargo (1996) Fight Club (1999) Finding Nemo (2003) For a Few Dollars More (1965) Forrest Gump (1994) Frankenstein (1931) Frost/Nixon (2008) Full Metal Jacket (1987) Gandhi (1982) Gladiator (2000) Glory (1989) Gone with the Wind (1939) Goodfellas (1990) Gran Torino (2008) Grave of the Fireflies (1988) - animated Great Expectations (1946) Groundhog Day (1993) Harold and Maude (1971) Harvey (1950) Heat (1995) High Noon (1952) His Girl Friday (1940) Hotel Rwanda (2004) In Bruges (2008) In the Heat of the Night (1967) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Into the Wild (2007) It Happened One Night (1934) It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Jaws (1975) Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) King Kong (1933) L.A. Confidential (1997) Laura (1944) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Léon (1994) Let the Right One In (2008) Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) Life is Beautiful (1997) Life of Brian (1979) Little Miss Sunshine (2006) Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) M (1931) Magnolia (1999) Manhattan (1979) Memento (2000) Metropolis (1927) Milk (2008) Million Dollar Baby (2004) Modern Times (1936) Mononoke-hime (1997) - anime Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Mystic River (2003) Network (1976) Nights of Cabiria (1957) No Country for Old Men (2007) North by Northwest (1959) Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) Notorious (1946) Oldboy (2003) On the Waterfront (1954) Once Upon a Time in America (1984) Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) Paths of Glory (1957) Patton (1970) Planet of the Apes (1968) Platoon (1986) Psycho (1960) Pulp Fiction (1994) Raging Bull (1980) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Ran (1985) Rashômon (1950) Ratatouille (2007) Rear Window (1954) Rebecca (1940) Requiem for a Dream (2000) Reservoir Dogs (1992) Rocky (1976) Roman Holiday (1953) Rope (1948) Rosemary's Baby (1968) Safety Last! (1923) Saving Private Ryan (1998) Scarface (1983) Schindler's List (1993) Se7en (1995) Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) -anime Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Sin City (2005) Singin' in the Rain (1952) Sleuth (1972) Slumdog Millionaire (2008) Snatch (2000) Some Like It Hot (1959) Spartacus (1960) Stalag 17 (1953) Stand by Me (1986) Star Wars (1977) Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) Strada, La (1954) Strangers on a Train (1951) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) Sunset Boulevard (1950) Sweet Smell of Success (1957) Taxi Driver (1976) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) The African Queen (1951) The Apartment (1960) The Battle of Algiers (1966) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) The Bicycle Thief (1948) The Big Lebowski (1998) The Big Sleep (1946) The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) The Conversation (1974) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) The Dark Knight (2008) The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) The Deer Hunter (1978) The Departed (2006) The Elephant Man (1980) The Exorcist (1973) The General (1927) The Godfather (1972) The Godfather: Part II (1974) The Gold Rush (1925) The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (1966) The Graduate (1967) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) The Great Dictator (1940) The Great Escape (1963) The Green Mile (1999) The Hustler (1961) The Incredibles (2004) The Kid (1921) The Killing (1956) The Lady Vanishes (1938) The Lion King (1994) The Lives of Others (2006) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) The Lost Weekend (1945) The Maltese Falcon (1941) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) The Manchurian Candidate (1962) The Matrix (1999) The Night of the Hunter (1955) The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) The Philadelphia Story (1940) The Pianist (2002) The Prestige (2006) The Princess Bride (1987) The Seven Samurai (1954) The Seventh Seal (1957) The Shawshank Redemption (1994) The Shining (1980) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) The Sixth Sense (1999) The Sting (1973) The Terminator (1984) The Thing (1982) The Third Man (1949) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) The Usual Suspects (1994) The Wages of Fear (1953) The Wild Bunch (1969) The Wizard of Oz (1939) The Wrestler (2008) There Will Be Blood (2007) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Touch of Evil (1958) Toy Story (1995) Trainspotting (1996) Twelve Monkeys (1995) Umberto D. (1952) Unforgiven (1992) V for Vendetta (2005) Vertigo (1958) WALL·E (2008) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Wild Strawberries (1957) Witness for the Prosecution (1957) Yojimbo (1961) [Notable Omissions: E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, My Fair Lady, Open Range, Babe, Hannah and Her Sisters, Parenthood, The Last Emperor, The King and I, Auntie Mame, Ronin, Winged Migration, Fly Away Home, Never Cry Wolf, Beauty and the Beast (animated, 91), In Cold Blood, The Game, Dances With Wolves, Field of Dreams, House of Games, The Grifters, Chicago, Out of the Past, Traffic Notable Foreign Omissions: The Conformist, Yimou's 'Hero' (China), Chungking Express/Fallen Angels (Hong Kong), Diva (France), Fitzcarraldo (Germany), Run Lola Run (Germany), To Live (China), The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Italy) C'mon, really, people! r.u. kidding? Life of Brian, Rosemary's Baby, Snatch, Exorcist, The Shining, Pan's Labyrinth, Magnolia, Heat, The Big Lebowski, The Green Mile, Elephant Man, Nights of Cabiria, For a Few Dollars More, Once Upon a Time in the West, Crash (04), The Thing remake ?? (Life of Brian, Snatch, and The Thing are better than Traffic?) When I checked, Hero's avg would have it tied for 185th-250th but it was ranked just below those decimally. A few 10 votes and it'll be on the list. Babe as well, best children's film ever.

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