Categories:

1. 100 Years of Greats! Use a random number generator to pick a year between 1923 and 2023, sort by most popular, and pick a film from the top 10. (1987)
2. 1920s
3. 1930s
4. 1940s
5. 1950s
6. 1960s
7. 1970s
8. 1980s
9. 1990s
10. 2000s
11. 2010s
12. 2020s
13. Creature Feature or Creature Documentary
14. Period Horror or Period Horror
15. Water Sports. Just Water Sports.
16. Directed by Hong Sang-Soo
17. Directed by Raj Kapoor
18. Directed by Ida Lupino
19. Directed by an Indigenous director whose work you haven’t seen before
20. A documentary parodied on Documentary Now!
21. Dark Feminist’s Dark Feminism
22. ningsterrr’s 🏳️‍🌈 Love is an act of defiance.
23. Nicole’s Deafness and Sign Language in Film
24. michelle grondine’s dear diary, my teen angst bs now has a body count
25. Katie Mitchell’s The 50 Greatest Films EVER MADE!
26. Frank Ocean’s 100 Favorite Films (List compiled by Jonathan Poritsky)
27. Made in Colombia by a Colombian director
28. Made in Pakistan by a Pakistani director
29. Made in an island nation by a director from that country
30. Adapted from a toy or board game
31. Revisit your childhood- A film that you remember having watched as a child, but haven’t seen since and haven’t logged
32. Directed by a Trans, Nonbinary, or GNC director whose work you haven’t seen before
33. Feature film originally released on YouTube (either in parts or as a whole)
34. TV Show Feature or Special (within the show cannon- no re-casted sequels or reboots)
35. Cinematography by Yu Lik-wai
36. Edited by Gloria Schoemann
37. Costumes designed by Ruth E. Carter
38. Production design by Jeannine Oppewall
39. Adapted from the writing of Haruki Murakami
40. The protagonist is a talking animal
41. The antagonist is a place, thing, or idea (i.e. NOT a person)
42. Pre-Code romantic comedy
43. Mexican Luchador film
44. Marāṭhī as the primary language
45. Latin listed as a spoken language
46. How low can you go? (Rated lower than a 2.5)
47. Can you go down low? (Rated lower than a 2)
48. All the way to the floor? (Rated lower than a 1.5)
49. Cha Cha Real Smooth (A film with a style of dance in the title.)
50. A film that inspired Goncharov (1973)
51. A film inspired by Goncharov (1973)
52. Any film from your watchlist!