Collections at Criticker

Pulled from podcasts at http://www.fthismovie.net/

Pulled from podcasts at http://www.fthismovie.net/

Includes and The Adventures of Robin Hood

Includes Blast of Silence, Un homme qui dort, Roald Dahl's Esio Trot, and Europa

Includes The Better Angels, Young Ones, White Bird in a Blizzard, and California Solo

Includes The Usual Suspects, The Bourne Ultimatum, Celda 211, and Gandhi

"Concha de Oro". The highest prize given to a film at the San Sebastián Film Festival. Note: "Le coeur au poing" is often listed online as the winner from 1958 but is actually from 1998.

Includes Jerry Cotton, Death in the Red Jaguar, Dead Body on Broadway, and Death and Diamonds

Includes Monanieba, A Short Film About Killing, and The Battle of Algiers

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

Includes Labyrinth of Passion, El juego más divertido, Sé infiel y no mires con quién, and La vida alegre

Includes Ere erera baleibu icik subua aruaren, Water for Maya, Stately Mansions Did Decree, and Dream Work

Films that refer to themselves - that highlight the fact that cinema is an illusion. Like "Ceci n'est pas une pipe".

Films that utilize elements based on the works or feature paintings of the artist René Magritte.

Includes See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Wedding Crashers, Elf, and Sharknado 2: The Second One

Includes Braveheart, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Gladiator, and Pocahontas

Air France on-board movies. Information taken from: http://www.airfrance.fr/FR/en/common/guidevoyageur/classeetconfort/divertissement_programme_airfrance.htm This is no official information. Your contribution to this collection is welcome.

Charles Bronson, action films, genre and exploitation, all here in this podcast. Link - http://ggtmc.libsyn.com/ Link To Their Blog - http://theggtmc.blogspot.com/ Not On Criticker - Surviving Edged Weapons (1988?)

aka Premio Goya a la mejor película Iberoamericana

I noticed the division in imdb of "common" and "less-common" countries (http://www.imdb.com/country/). This includes movies from all the countries that haven't made very many. Movies from countries like Cuba (which have already developed a national cinema) are not included. The movies from Fiji and Reunion are the first ones on criticker from these countries/territories/overseas departments. List: Faroe islands: Atlantic Rhapsody. Moldova: Chelovek idyot za solntsem and Kolybelnaya. Tajikistan: Moon Father. Ecuador: Ratas, ratones, rateros and Crónicas. Reunion: L'ile. Fiji: The Land Has Eyes. Samoa: The Orator.

ie. for each country, the one* movie with the largest number of rankings. (For international co-productions, I selected the movie whose director is also from that country.) Not included (mostly because all movies listed were made by directors of other nationalities): Aruba, Gabon, Luxembourg, Macau, Monaco, Namibia, Nicaragua. * Or two or more if there is a close tie. From Belarus: In the Fog and Earth (2012). From Bhutan: Travellers & Magicians and The Cup. From Bolivia: Yawar mallku and Sexual Dependency. From Bulgaria: Zift and Svetat e golyam i spasenie debne otvsyakade. From Canada: American Psycho and The Fly (because American Psycho seemed too American). From Colombia: Maria Full of Grace (non-Colombian director) and La Cara Oculta. From USA: The Matrix and Fight Club. From Finland: The Man Without a Past, Iron Sky, Mindhunters. Costa Rica: Gestacion and Del amor y otros demonios. Croatia: Border Post and Fine Dead Girls. Cuba: Buena Vista Social Club, I am Cuba (not directed by Cubans but should be here), and Strawberry and Chocolate. Cyprus: The Cherry Orchard (set in Paris but directed by Mihalis Kakogiannis) and Visions of Europe. Czech Republic: Kolya, followed by Little Otik. Dominican Republic: Jean Gentil and Ballplayer: Pelotero. East Germany: First Spaceship on Venus, followed by Ich war neunzehn. Egypt: Cairo Station and The Square. Guinea: Le ballon d'or and Dakan. Guinea-Bissau: The Battle of Tabato and Po di Sangui. Haiti: L'homme sur les quais, and Lumumba. Hong Kong: Kung Fu Hustle and Hero. India: The Fall, and 3 Idiots. Indonesia: Merantau and Lady Terminator. Iraq: Turtles Can Fly, Son of Babylon. Italy: Life is Beautiful and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Kenya: Nairobi Half Life and The First Grader. Spain: The Others, Talk to Her. Lithuania: Koridorius and Vanishing Waves. Mexico: Pan's Labyrinth (not particularly Mexican) and Amores Perros. Netherlands: The Vanishing and Black Book. Norway: Troll Hunter, Dead Snow, and Headhunters. Pakistan: Zibahkhana and Silent Waters. Peru: Anaconda and The Milk of Sorrow. Poland: The Pianist, and Three Colors: Blue. Trinidad and Tobago: I'm Santana: The Movie, and Doubles with Slight Pepper. Tunisia: The Silences of the Palace, and El-haimoune. Turkey: Eskiya and Head-On. Uganda: Who Killed Captain Alex? and Where Are You Taking Me? Uzbekistan: Aral, Fishing in an Invisible Sea, Bo Ba Bu, Ty ne sirota. Venezuela: Araya, La casa del fin de los tiempos, Secuestro Express. Vietnam: The Scent of Green Papaya and Cyclo. West Germany: The NeverEnding Story, Das Boot, Aguirre: The Wrath of God. Yemen: Al Bayt Al Kabeer (2013), The Mulberry House (2013). Note: 1. Cape Verde only had one movie listed (O Testamento do Senhor Napumoceno), whose director is Portuguese. 2. For Cyprus, Visions of Europe (2004) has a segment called "My House on Tape". Also for Liechtenstein: director Emmanuel Benben (segment of Paris Je T'Aime). See also: http://kinomusorka.ru/en/countries-page-10.html

For each country and year (2007-2014 or eariler if available), I included the top-grossing (sometimes top 2 or 3) movies from each country listed on boxofficemojo. This should complement my other collection (http://www.criticker.com/?fl&filter=e35973 ) of movies by country with the most rankings on criticker. The flaw with that collection is that top-grossing movies in some countries have few rankings on criticker. Source: http://boxofficemojo.com/intl/

Includes Blind Shaft, and Roger Dodger

Collection for films relating to the Pink Panther cartoon character.

Includes The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, Delicatessen, Tawan young wan yoo, and Wild at Heart

Australian "Ozploitation" films from the 1970s and 1980s (mentioned in documentary 'Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!')

A list of 250 short films which was to be released on the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? website but so far has not. Someone managed to scrounge a preliminary list from sources that shall remain anonymous, which is the list we present here.

Includes The Descendants, Empire Records, and The Dead Inside

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

Includes The Wild Pack, Ratas, ratones, rateros, La Vendedora de rosas, and Sin Nombre

Includes Epidemic, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Knife in the Water, and The Elephant Man

Includes The Replacement Killers, Total Recall, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Includes The Battle of Neretva, Belyy tigr, Battle of the Bulge, and Fury

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0027177/filmotype

Effective use of close-ups and extreme close-ups. Includes a few historically important movies and movies with inconic close-ups: * The 400 blows: Antoine looking through a metal fence - the close up emphasizes the feeling of being trapped and alone * Psycho: zooming into the drain and out of the eye after the shower scene * The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: close-up of the eyes to build tension before the three-way gunfight. * Citizen Kane: "Rosebud" * Persona: a lot of close-ups of faces * On the Waterfront: "I Coulda Been a Contender" * The Passion of Joan of Arc: the close-ups make Falconetti's emotions more intense, and also create a feeling of claustrophobia * Blue Velvet: zooming into the beetles in the opening scene; later, the severed ear, symbolizing Jeffrey Beaumont's descent into a dark underworld. The movie ends with a zoom out of Jeffrey Beaumont's own ear, after his life has gone back to normal (however, the last shots of the fence and the fireman that we saw in the beginning suggest there is still darkness lurking below, somewhere). Not included: Twin Peaks (TV series), with memorable, creepy close ups of people's mouths as they talk. Lynch uses them to create tension; here is a compilation from his films: http://welcometotwinpeaks.com/lynch/david-lynch-close-ups/

Includes Bereketli topraklar üzerinde, Devlet Kusu, Uzun Hikaye, and Gurbet kuslari

Includes Nu devant un fantôme, La metamorfosis de Franz Kafka, Franz & Kafka, and Who Was Kafka?

Includes Blood, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Boy Meets Girl, and Begotten

Includes The Thing, The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa, Metamorphosis, and Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life

Includes Death Valley 69, Downtown 81, Alphabet City, and Blank City

Includes Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, Viktoria, Watchers of the Sky, and God Help the Girl

Includes Restless, The Yards, Last Days, and Lake Consequence

In content or delivery.

Includes Moulin Rouge!, The Young Girls of Rochefort, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and All That Jazz

Includes Slacker, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Me and You and Everyone We Know, and Survive Style 5+

Includes 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dogville, Mulholland Drive, and Survive Style 5+

Includes Acéphale, Le Lit de la vierge, Home Movie, autour du 'Lit de la vierge', and Le Révélateur

Includes Davaci, Reis Bey, and 12 Angry Men

Includes Paranoia, 42, The Wolverine, and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

Includes Zübük, Köyden Indim Sehire, Sürü, and Namuslu