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The Top 10%

My favourite 10% of all films I've logged on Letterboxd. These are very loosely ranked.

To be updated for every 10 movies I watch.

Per Decade:
1910s: 1
1920s: 13
1930s: 10
1940s: 18
1950s: 34
1960s: 59
1970s: 63
1980s: 44
1990s: 42
2000s: 43
2010s: 52
2020s: 10

Recurring Directors:
11 films - Martin Scorsese, Ingmar Bergman
10 films - Akira Kurosawa
8 films - Stanley Kubrick
7 films - Yasujiro Ozu, Andrei Tarkovsky, Satyajit Ray
6 films - Wong Kar-wai, Paul Thomas Anderson
5 films - Sergio Leone, Kenji Mizoguchi, Orson Welles, Christopher Nolan, Hong Sang-soo
4 films - Alfred Hitchcock, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Edward Yang, David Fincher, David Cronenberg, Hayao Miyazaki, Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho, Michael…

Block or Report
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    1

  • Stalker

    2

  • Chungking Express

    3

  • Apocalypse Now

    4

  • Persona

    5

  • Blade Runner

    6

  • Satantango

    7

  • Grave of the Fireflies

    8

  • The Passion of Joan of Arc

    9

  • Werckmeister Harmonies

    10

  • Pan's Labyrinth

    11

  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

    12

  • Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

    13

  • Possession

    14

  • A Brighter Summer Day

    15

  • Mirror

    16

  • Late Spring

    17

  • Seven Samurai

    18

  • Man with a Movie Camera

    19

  • Princess Mononoke

    20

  • Trainspotting

    21

  • Aguirre, the Wrath of God

    22

  • Night of the Living Dead

    23

  • Once Upon a Time in the West

    24

  • The Godfather Part II

    25

  • Shoah

    26

  • 12 Angry Men

    27

  • Memento

    28

  • A Clockwork Orange

    29

  • There Will Be Blood

    30

  • Moonlight

    31

  • Fish Tank

    32

  • Don't Look Now

    33

  • Yi Yi

    34

  • City of God

    35

  • Tokyo Story

    36

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    37

  • Citizen Kane

    38

  • Ugetsu

    39

  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    40

  • Pather Panchali

    41

  • The Wicker Man

    42

  • Alien

    43

  • The Godfather

    44

  • Die Hard

    45

  • Vertigo

    46

  • Ikiru

    47

  • Ran

    48

  • Sambizanga

    49

  • Andrei Rublev

    50

  • A Touch of Zen

    51

  • La Dolce Vita

    52

  • Greed

    53

  • Touch of Evil

    54

  • Terrorizers

    55

  • Uncut Gems

    56

  • O.J.: Made in America

    57

  • The Handmaiden

    58

  • Inherent Vice

    59

  • Parasite

    60

  • Hoop Dreams

    61

  • The Tree of Life

    62

  • Carol

    63

  • Beau Travail

    64

  • The Battle of Chile: Part I

    65

  • The Dark Knight

    66

  • Demons

    67

  • Shaun of the Dead

    68

  • Naked

    69

  • The Sacrifice

    70

  • Come and See

    71

  • A Woman Under the Influence

    72

  • The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

    73

  • Barry Lyndon

    74

  • Ghost in the Shell

    75

  • High and Low

    76

  • Harlan County U.S.A.

    77

  • Fanny and Alexander

    78

  • Wild Strawberries

    79

  • Children of Men

    80

  • The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

    81

  • One Battle After Another

    82

  • Pulp Fiction

    83

  • Funeral Parade of Roses

    84

  • Paths of Glory

    85

  • The Big City

    86

  • The Color of Pomegranates

    87

  • Lady Vengeance

    88

  • Cries and Whispers

    89

  • La Haine

    90

  • Rosemary's Baby

    91

  • Fireworks

    92

  • Soleil O

    93

  • Chinatown

    94

  • The Shining

    95

  • Shame

    96

  • The Battle of Algiers

    97

  • In Vanda's Room

    98

  • The Turin Horse

    99

  • Hard to Be a God

    100