Collections at Criticker

Includes Philomena, Captain Phillips, Gravity, and The Wolf of Wall Street

Includes An American in Paris, Shall We Dance, Rhapsody in Blue, and Porgy and Bess

Includes Taistelu Turusta, May 18, Winter on Fire, and Istanbul United

Includes Race the Sun, The Solar Film, and Catching the Sun

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Includes Blow Out, Maverick, No Small Affair, and The River

http://beyondthecanon.blogspot.com/2009/12/further-beyond-canon.html

Includes Guinea Pig: Android of Notre Dame, Guinea Pig: Flowers of Flesh and Blood, Guinea Pig: Devil Woman Doctor, and Rakkî Sukai Daiyamondo

Films where there is action, martial arts and/or guns & explotions.

http://filmlondon.org.uk/funding/feature-film-funding

Any movie that refers to (in a significant manner), is based on the writings of, or has as a character the Marquis de Sade.

Includes La tierra y la sombra, Kater, The Clan, and Smrt u Sarajevu

Includes Assassination Tango, Our Last Tango, Take the Lead, and The Tango Lesson

Includes Our Last Tango, and Assassination Tango

Includes Carrington, Erasing David, The Piano, and An Organization of Dreams

Includes The Martian, Victoria, Enragés, and Sensoria

Includes Jacky au royaume des filles, El Incidente, Kung Fu Elliot, and Realiti

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/check-out-spike-lees-list-of-essential-films-every-filmmaker-must-see-20130726

Includes The Wild Blue Yonder, Hostel, Sin City, and The Birthday

Includes Zhest, Edmond, Tideland, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

Includes Son of Rambow, Kyonetsu no kisetsu, Ojisan tengoku, and Koruto wa ore no pasupoto

Includes Fanboys, Gachi Boi, Dark Floors, and Let the Right One In

Includes The Men Who Stare at Goats, Salvage, House, and Solomon Kane

Includes Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster, Woochi, The Life and Death of a Porno Gang, and Troll Hunter

Includes Paranormal Activity 3, The Loved Ones, Bullhead, and Juan de Los Muertos

Includes The ABCs of Death, Errors of the Human Body, Vanishing Waves, and Vulgaria

Includes The Sacrament, De Wederopstanding van een Klootzak, Mood Indigo, and The Green Inferno

Includes Cowboys & Aliens, Eurotrip, I Am Number Four, and Small Time Crooks

Includes Tintin and the Lake of Sharks, The Crab with the Golden Claws, and The Adventures of Tintin

Includes Eyeborgs, V for Vendetta, Equilibrium, and Person of Interest

Those excellent epic battles that leave you in awe in the sheer scale of the men involved and the superb work done by the cast and crew to create such intense on-screen action.

Includes I mitici, Stramilano, All Screwed Up, and Fiasco in Milan

A genre and movement of film noted for its emphasis on social equality and intellectualism that rose to prominence in Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_Novo#List_of_key_films

Includes The Faculty, Kids, Varsity Blues, and Never Been Kissed

Includes 127 Hours, Bonnie and Clyde, There's Something About Mary, and Fargo

Includes The Battle of Algiers, Spirit of the Beehive, Pather Panchali, and The Battle of Chile: Part 1

Includes Rugrats Go Wild, The New World, Kurt Josef Wagle og legenden om Fjordheksa, and Polyester

Films that received the highest possible rating in Halliwell's Film Guide (2005 edition)

Includes The Omega Man, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Surrogates, and Bicentennial Man

Includes and Savage

Includes Hannibal Rising, Red Dragon, Manhunter, and Serial Killers: The Real Life Hannibal Lecters

Includes Bride of Frankenstein, Sniffles and the Bookworm, Billy Frankenstein, and Tales of Frankenstein

Includes Human Capital, La Ciénaga, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, and Amour

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yip_Man

Includes The Chronicles of Riddick, Pitch Black, Riddick: Blindsided, and Riddick

Includes American Sniper, Birdman, Selma, and The Imitation Game

Includes Alien, Akira, and Aliens

is the term for a group of Japanese film directors emerging from the late 1950s through the early 1970s. The term also refers to their work, in a loose creative movement within Japanese film, from a similar time period.

Films reflective of the time in which they were made, more so than other films made in the same period. As such the goal is to pick one or two film per year.

Every nominee for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. An interesting mix of renowned masterpieces as well as quite a few films that have fallen into obscurity. notes: - The winners are listed first, and then the also-rans. Otherwise, they're listed chronologically (by year of nomination). - Some films were nominated a year or two before or after their official release date. - The award has been given since 1947 but there was no official nominees list until 1956. - There was no award given in 1953. - One film, Un Lugar En El Mundo (1992), was announced as a nominee but later disqualified & removed from the final ballot. I've included it here. - If you're only interested in the winners, there's a fine collection, "Oscar: Best Foreign Film" moderated by PeaceAnarchy. - based on information from Wikipedia.