fish_beauty's "My 1000 favorite films [WIP - 363 and counting]"

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Welcome to my 1000 Favorite Films list. This is a work in progress and won’t be finished for several years.

I don’t make any claim that these are the best movies of all time. (I don’t know how one could ever measure it.) They are the films which have dug their claws into me the deepest. I’ve found favorites in every corner in which I’ve looked so you’ll films on this list which are drawn from a wide assortment of decades, countries, and genres.

For the moment, I’ve minimized the number of short films in this list. Once this list nears its conclusion, I’ll reconsider them and add the appropriate number.

In general, I seem to agree with a lot of the critics regarding many of the great films. Consequently, you’ll see the usual celebrated films all over my list. There are also some oddball personal favorites, and those you’ll just have to accept as my own idiosyncratic choices.

This list is far short of 1000 films because there is a large chunk of film history that I am still learning about. I anticipate adding many more from the 1960s through today.

Take my list with a grain of salt and I hope you find some of your own favorites here.

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  1. 101.
    The Major and the Minor (Universal Cinema Classics)
    by Billy Wilder

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  2. 102.
    To Be or Not to Be
    by Ernst Lubitsch

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  3. 103.
    Cabin in the Sky
    by Vincente Minnelli

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  4. 104.
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    Why We Fight (WWII Capra Series)
    by Anatole Litvak

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  5. 105.
    Hangmen Also Die
    by Fritz Lang

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  6. 106.
    Meshes of the Afternoon
    by Maya Deren

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  7. 107.
    Ossessione
    by Luchino Visconti

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  8. 108.
    Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)
    by Tex Avery

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  9. 109.
    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - Criterion Collection
    by Emeric Pressburger

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  10. 110.
    Carl Theodor Dreyer - Day of Wrath
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

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  11. 111.
    A Canterbury Tale - Criterion Collection
    by Emeric Pressburger

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  12. 112.
    Double Indemnity
    by Billy Wilder

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  13. 113.
    Ivan the Terrible - Pt. 1
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

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  14. 114.
    The Uninvited
    by Lewis Allen

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  15. 115.
    I Know Where I'm Going! - Criterion Collection
    by Emeric Pressburger

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  16. 116.
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    A Diary for Timothy
    by Humphrey Jennings

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  17. 117.
    Brief Encounter - Criterion Collection
    by David Lean

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  18. 118.
    Detour
    by Edgar G. Ulmer

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  19. 119.
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    Donald's Crime (1945, Jack King)

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  20. 121.
    Roma, Città Aperta (Open City) in Original Italian
    by Roberto Rossellini

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  21. 122.
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  22. 123.
    The Clock
    by Vincente Minnelli

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  23. 124.
    A Matter of Life and Death (AKA Stairway to Heaven)
    by Emeric Pressburger

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  24. 125.
    The Murderers Are Among Us
    by Wolfgang Staudte

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  25. 126.
    Duel in the Sun
    by King Vidor

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  26. 127.
    It's a Wonderful Life
    by Frank Capra

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  27. 129.
    Notorious - Criterion Collection

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  28. 130.
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    Paisa/Paisan
    by Roberto Rossellini

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  29. 131.
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    Shoeshine (1946) (Sciuscià)
    by Vittorio De Sica

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  30. 132.
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    by William Wyler

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  31. 133.
    The Big Sleep
    by Howard Hawks

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  32. 134.
    The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
    by Robert Clampett

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  33. 135.
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    No Regrets for Our Youth

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  34. 136.
    Black Narcissus - Criterion Collection
    by Michael Powell

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  35. 137.
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    The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)
    by Yasujiro Ozu

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  36. 138.
    Out of the Past
    by Jacques Tourneur

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  37. 139.
    The Cat Concerto (1946)
    by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera

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  38. 140.
    The Lady from Shanghai

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  39. 141.
    Bicycle Thieves (Criterion Collection)
    by Vittorio De Sica

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  40. 142.

  41. 143.
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    Lucky Ducky (1948, Tex Avery)

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  42. 144.
    The Fallen Idol - Criterion Collection
    by Carol Reed

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  43. 145.
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    The Search
    by Fred Zinnemann

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  45. 147.
    Late Spring - Criterion Collection
    by Yasujiro Ozu

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  46. 148.
    Begone Dull Care (1949)
    by Norman McLaren

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  47. 149.
    Champion
    by Mark Robson

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  48. 150.
    High Diving Hare (1949)
    by Friz Freleng

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