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Mandel's Top 500+ Films Ranked - 22nd July 2022

I used this site to compile a top 500+ using pairwise preferences.

So these are my top films ACCORDING TO SCIENCE.

After literal hours spent doing this compensated by my employer (thank you), the list looks good but with a few oddities.

Why 500+? I ranked feature films and short films. I included as many films as necessary until I reached 500 feature films. This happens to be 500 feature films with 52 short films scattered between. If you apply a filter to remove short films, you're left with my top 500 feature films.

Also included are miniseries, documentaries, and comedy/music shows.

I will not update this list regularly, but I will create a new one once a year or so.

  • World of Tomorrow

    1

  • A Scanner Darkly

    2

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    3

  • The Adventures of Mark Twain

    4

  • It's Such a Beautiful Day

    5

  • Over the Garden Wall

    6

  • Synecdoche, New York

    7

  • The Meaning of Life

    8

  • Bo Burnham: Make Happy

    9

  • Night of the Living Dead

    10

  • Mary and Max

    11

  • The Room

    12

  • Your Face

    13

  • Hair High

    14

  • Ikiru

    15

  • The Seventh Seal

    16

  • Mirror

    17

  • The Blue Umbrella

    18

  • The Lawnmower Man

    19

  • Hedwig and the Angry Inch

    20

  • Uncut Gems

    21

  • As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    22

  • Arrival

    23

  • Everybody Wants Some!!

    24

  • The Tragedy of Man

    25

  • The Lighthouse

    26

  • Eyes Wide Shut

    27

  • Toy Story

    28

  • The Toxic Avenger

    29

  • Office Space

    30

  • Spirited Away

    31

  • Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh

    32

  • The Shawshank Redemption

    33

  • American Beauty

    34

  • The Royal Tenenbaums

    35

  • More

    36

  • Solaris

    37

  • Requiem for a Dream

    38

  • I'm Thinking of Ending Things

    39

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    40

  • Magnolia

    41

  • Perfect Blue

    42

  • Black Dynamite

    43

  • Black Christmas

    44

  • Adventure Time: Distant Lands

    45

  • Anomalisa

    46

  • Paths of Glory

    47

  • World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts

    48

  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    49

  • Waking Life

    50

  • Make Way for Tomorrow

    51

  • The Maxx

    52

  • Phenomena

    53

  • Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

    54

  • Scream

    55

  • Until the End of the World

    56

  • Psycho

    57

  • Open Your Eyes

    58

  • The Mist

    59

  • Inside Llewyn Davis

    60

  • Sunshine

    61

  • Night of the Living Dead

    62

  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

    63

  • Sicario

    64

  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    65

  • Son of the White Mare

    66

  • Gone Girl

    67

  • Pulp Fiction

    68

  • Y Tu Mamá También

    69

  • Idiocracy

    70

  • Heavy Metal

    71

  • Exotica

    72

  • Baby Driver

    73

  • A Trip to the Moon

    74

  • Stalker

    75

  • When Harry Met Sally...

    76

  • The House That Jack Built

    77

  • The Warriors

    78

  • Fantastic Planet

    79

  • The Princess Bride

    80

  • How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

    81

  • Funny Games

    82

  • La La Land

    83

  • GoodFellas

    84

  • 12 Angry Men

    85

  • There Will Be Blood

    86

  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    87

  • The Exterminating Angel

    88

  • AD/BC: A Rock Opera

    89

  • Still Life

    90

  • Melancholia

    91

  • Clerks

    92

  • It's a Wonderful Life

    93

  • I Spit on Your Grave

    94

  • Stand by Me

    95

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    96

  • The Time Machine

    97

  • Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood

    98

  • Trash Humpers

    99

  • Welfare

    100