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500 Favourite Films

10/09/2025

My 500 favourite films. Created for Helen's poll.

This list is unranked and sorted by release date (oldest first). For a ranked list of my favourite films, see here.

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  • Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
  • The Dying Swan
  • Broken Blossoms
  • True Heart Susie
  • The Phantom Carriage
  • Nosferatu
  • Häxan
  • Sherlock Jr.
  • The Great White Silence
  • Greed
  • The Last Laugh
  • The Gold Rush
  • Battleship Potemkin
  • The General
  • Napoleon
  • Metropolis
  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
  • The Passion of Joan of Arc
  • Man with a Movie Camera
  • A Cottage on Dartmoor
  • The Blue Angel
  • Earth
  • City Lights
  • Limite
  • I Was Born, But...
  • A Story of Floating Weeds
  • An Inn in Tokyo
  • Modern Times
  • The Only Son
  • Sisters of the Gion
  • Bringing Up Baby
  • The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
  • His Girl Friday
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • Citizen Kane
  • The Maltese Falcon
  • To Be or Not to Be
  • The Magnificent Ambersons
  • Casablanca
  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
  • Double Indemnity
  • Rome, Open City
  • Brief Encounter
  • The Big Sleep
  • Paisan
  • Odd Man Out
  • Black Narcissus
  • Nightmare Alley
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • Bicycle Thieves
  • The Red Shoes
  • The Third Man
  • Late Spring
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • Rashomon
  • All About Eve
  • The Young and the Damned
  • The Idiot
  • Early Summer
  • Awaara
  • Singin' in the Rain
  • The Life of Oharu
  • The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
  • Ikiru
  • Ugetsu
  • Sawdust and Tinsel
  • Tokyo Story
  • Sansho the Bailiff
  • Seven Samurai
  • Dial M for Murder
  • Rear Window
  • La Strada
  • Godzilla
  • A Story from Chikamatsu
  • Pather Panchali
  • The Ladykillers
  • The Searchers
  • Aparajito
  • Throne of Blood
  • The Seventh Seal
  • Pyaasa
  • 12 Angry Men
  • Nights of Cabiria
  • Wild Strawberries
  • The Cranes Are Flying
  • Paths of Glory
  • Touch of Evil
  • Vertigo
  • The Music Room
  • The Hidden Fortress
  • Some Like It Hot
  • Apur Sansar
  • Hiroshima Mon Amour
  • Araya
  • North by Northwest
  • La Dolce Vita
  • Breathless
  • Peeping Tom
  • The Apartment
  • Psycho