Movies/series watched 2012-2023


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UK – ☆Brief Encounter (45), ☆How To Get Ahead in Advertising (89, x2), ♡ Carrington (95, x2), ☆Goodbye Christopher Robin (17), ☆Miss Sloane (16, x2), ☆Sightseers (12, x2), ☆Blue/Orange (05), ☆The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (21)
Howards End (92), The Remains of the Day (93), Wetherby (83), 49 Up (05), Deep End (71), We Need To Talk About Kevin (11), Prevenge (16), Internal Affairs (90, x2), All My Friends Hate Me (21)
Powell & Pressburger – ☆Black Narcissus (47)
David Hugh Jones – ☆84 Charing Cross Road (87, x2), ♡ Betrayal (83, x3), Jacknife (89), The Confession (99)
Ken Loach – ☆Cathy Come Home (66), My Name Is Joe (98), Route Irish (10)
Mike Leigh – ☆Secrets and Lies (96), ☆Topsy-Turvy (99), Mr. Turner (14)
Joe Wright Atonement (07), ⚠Hanna (11), The Woman in the Window (21, x2)

France – ☆Intouchables (11), ☆Clouds of Sils Maria (14), ♡ Ma vie de Courgette (My Life as a Zucchini, 16), ☆La fille de Brest (16), ☆Amélie (01), ☆La belle verte (96), ☆Holy Motors (12), ☆Entre les murs (The Class, 08), ☆La vie d’Adèle (Blue is the Warmest Colour, 13), ♡ The Artist (11, x2), ☆Il y a longtemps que je t’aime (I’ve Loved You So Long, 08), ☆Portrait of a Lady on Fire (19), ☆L’incroyable histoire du facteur Cheval (The Ideal Palace, 18)
L’Atalante (34), Diabolique (55), La Grande Illusion (37), Camille Claudel (88), The Taste of Others (00), Jean de Florette (86), Mouchette (67), Grave (Raw, 16), L’avenir (Things To Come, 16), À plein temps (Full Time, 21)
Louis Malle Ascenseur pour l’échafaud (Lift to the Scaffold, 58), ☆My Dinner with Andre (81), Damage (92)
Agnès Varda Cléo de 5 à 7 (62), ☆Sans toit ni loit (Vagabond, 85), ☆Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (The Gleaners & I, 00), ☆Visages villages (Faces Places, 17)
Claude Chabrol Le Boucher (70), La Cérémonie (95)
Jean Becker – ☆La tête en friche (My Afternoons with Margueritte, 10)
Bertrand Tavernier – ☆Ça commence aujourd’hui (It All Starts Today, 99)
Francis Veber Le Placard (The Closet, 01), Tais-toi! (Shut up!, 03)
Claire Denis Beau Travail (99)
François Ozon – ☆8 Women (02), Swimming Pool (03), 5×2 (04), ♡ Dans la maison (In the House, 12, x2)
Guillaume Canet – ☆Tell No One (06, x2), ☆Les Petits Mouchoirs (Little White Lies, 10, x2)
Jacques AudiardSur Mes Lèvres (Read My Lips, 01), ☆A Prophet (09), ☆De rouille et d’os (Rust and Bone, 12)
Quentin Dupieux Rubber (10), ♡ Wrong (12, x3), ⚠Wrong Cops (13), ☆Le daim (Deerskin, 19), Mandibules (Mandibles, 20)
Yann Gozlan Un homme ideal (A Perfect Man, 15), Boîte noire (Black Box, 21)
Swiss – ☆Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (76)
BelgiumLoft (08), Ferry (21)
Jaco van Dormael Toto the Hero (91), ☆The Eighth Day (96), Mr. Nobody (09), The Brand New Testament (15)
Dardenne brothers – ☆Le Fils (The Son, 02), Two Days, One Night (14)

EspañaTambién la lluvia (Even the Rain, 10), Mientras Duermes (While You Sleep aka Sleep Tight, 11), El desconocido (Retribution, 15), Elegy (08)
BuñuelViridiana (61), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (72)
Víctor Erice – ☆El espíritu de la colmena (The Spirit of the Beehive, 73)
AlmodóvarVolver (06), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (88)
Alejandro AmenábarTesis (96, x2), ☆Abre los Ojos (Open Your Eyes, 97), The Others (01), ☆Mar Adentro (The Sea Inside, 04)
Oriol Paulo El Cuerpo (12, x2), Contratiempo (16), ☆Durante la tormenta (18)
Guillem Morales – ♡ El Habitante Incierto (The Uninvited Guest, 04, x2), Los ojos de Julia (Julia’s Eyes, 10)
Rodrigo Cortés Buried (10), Concursante (The Contestant, 07)
Nacho Vigalondo – ♡ Los cronocrímenes (07), ☆Colossal (16, x2), ☆V/H/S Viral (segment “Parallel Monsters”) (14), Open Windows (14)
Mexico
Alfonso Cuarón Y tu Mama También (01), Gravity (13), A Little Princess, ☆Children of Men (06)
Guillermo del Toro Cronos (93), Pan’s Labyrinth (06)
Alejandro González Iñárritu Amores Perros (00), Babel (06)
Argentina – ☆Medianeras (14), Tesis sobre un homicidio (13), ☆4×4 (19)
Eliseo Subiela – ☆El lado oscuro del corazón (The Dark Side of the Heart, 92, x2), ♡ Hombre Mirando al Sudeste (Man Facing South-east, 86, x3), ☆Últimas imágenes del naufragio (Last Images of the Shipwreck, 89, x2), ☆No te mueras sin decirme adónde vas (Don’t Die Without Telling Me Where You’re Going, 95, x2), Pequeños Milagros (Little Miracles, 97)
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Sebastián Borensztein – ☆Un cuento chino (A Chinese story, aka Chinese Take-Away, 11, x2)
Juan José CampanellaEl mismo amor, la misma lluvia (99), El hijo de la novia (The Son of the Bride, 01), Luna de Avellaneda (04), ♡ El Secreto de sus Ojos (The Secret in Their Eyes, 09, x3)
Pablo Trapero Leonera (08), ☆Elefante Blanco (12)
Lucrecia MartelLa Ciénaga (The Swamp, 01), La Mujer sin Cabeza (The Headless Woman, 08)
Fabián Bielinsky – ☆Nueve Reinas (00, x2), El Aura (05, x2)
Damián Szifrón – ☆Relatos Salvajes (Wild Tales, 14, x3)
ColombiaLa Estrategia del Caracol (93), The Colors of the Mountain (10), La Cara Oculta (The Hidden Face, 11, x2)
Ciro Guerra – ☆El abrazo de la serpiente (Embrace of the Serpent, 15)

BrazilCity of God (02), O Homem do Futuro (The Man from the Future, 11), Serra Pelada (Bald Mountain, 13)
Walter Salles Central do Brasil (Central Station, 98), The Motorcycle Diaries (04)
José PadilhaElite Squad (07), Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (10)
Nigeria – Somewhere In Africa (11)
Germany – ☆The Lives of Others, Das Experiment (01), ♡ Barfuss (Barefoot, 05)
F. W. Murnau – ☆Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
Fritz LangM (31), ☆Scarlet Street (45)
Maria Schrader – ♡ I’m Your Man (21), ☆She Said (22)
Fatih AkinGegen die Wand (Head-On, 04)
Poland – ★Loving Vincent (17)
Roman Polanski Repulsion (65), Rosemary’s Baby (68), Chinatown (74), Frantic (88), The Ghost Writer (10)
Krzysztof Kieslowski A Short Film About Love (88), Trois Couleurs: Bleu (93), Blanc (94), ☆Rouge (94)
Austria – ★Die Wand (The Wall, 12, x2)
Josef von Sternberg – ☆Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel, 1930)
Michael Haneke Caché (05), Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages (Code Unknown, 00)
Hans Weingartner – ☆The Edukators (01), ☆Free Rainer (aka Reclaim Your Brain!, 07)
Dutch – ★The Sea That Thinks (00, x2), Instinct (19)
Paul Verhoeven Total Recall (90), Basic Instinct (92, x2), Starship Troopers (97), ☆Black Book (06), Elle (16, x2)

DenmarkDen du frygter (Fear Me Not, 08), In China They Eat Dogs (99), ☆Smukke mennesker (Beautiful People, aka Nothing’s All Bad, 10), Idealisten (15), Lad de små børn… (Aftermath, 04), ☆Den skyldige (The Guilty, 18, x2), ☆Shadow of a Hero (15), Shorta (Enforcement, 20)
Carl Theodor Dreyer – ☆Ordet (55)
Bille August – ☆Night Train to Lisbon (13, x3), Stille hjerte (14)
Søren Kragh-Jacobsen – ♡ Mifunes sidste sang (Mifune’s Last Song, aka Mifune, 99, x2)
Ole BornedalNattevagten (Nightwatch, 94), ☆Kærlighed på film (Just Another Love Story, 07, x3), Vikaren (The Substitute, 07)
Lars von Trier – ☆The Idiots (98), Direktøren for det hele (The Boss of It All, 06)
Lone Scherfig Italian for Beginners (00), Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself (02)
Jesper W. Nielsen – ☆Der kommer en dag (The Day Will Come, 16)
Henrik Ruben Genz – ☆Kinamand (Chinaman, 05)
Thomas Vinterberg Festen (98), Jagten (The Hunt, 12), ☆Far From the Madding Crowd (15), Kollektivet (The Commune, 16), Druk (Another Round, 20)
Susanne Bier Den eneste ene (99), ☆Elsker dig for evigt (Love You Forever, aka Open Hearts, 02, x2), Brødre (Brothers, 04), ☆After The Wedding (06, x2), Things We Lost in the Fire (07), ☆Haevnen (In a Better World, 10, x2), Den skaldede frisør (The Bald Hairdresser, aka Love Is All You Need, 12), A Second Chance (14)
Ole Christian MadsenFlame + Citron (08)
Per Fly Baenken (The Bench, 00), Arven (The Inheritance, 03), Drabet (05), ♡ Forestillinger (Performances, 07)
Niels Arden Oplev – ☆To verdener (Worlds Apart, 08), ☆Kapgang (Speed Walking, 14)
Anders Thomas Jensen – ♡ Adam’s Apples (05, x2), Blinkende lygter (Flickering Lights, 00), ☆De grønne slagtere (The Green Butchers, 03), ☆Mænd & høns (Men & Hens aka Men & Chicken, 15, x2), Riders of Justice (20)
Nicolas Winding Refn Valhalla Rising (09)
Jonas Elmer Let’s Get Lost (97), Monas verden (Mona’s World, 01)
Christoffer Boe Reconstruction (03), Allegro (05), ☆Journal 64 (The Purity of Vengeance, 18)
Nikolaj Arcel A Royal Affair (12)
Tobias Lindholm Kapringen (A Hijacking, 12), Krigen (A War, 15)
others with Nikolaj Lie Kaas – ♡ et rigtigt menneske (Truly Human, 01, x2), ♡ Sprængfarlig bombe (Clash of Egos, 06, x3), Sover Dolly på ryggen? (Almost Perfect, 12), Kvinden i buret (Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes, 13), Fasandræberne (Department Q: The Absent One, 14), Flaskepost fra P (Department Q: A Conspiracy of Faith, 16), ☆Du forsvinder (You Disappear, 17)
others with Trine DyrholmQueen of Hearts (19), En du elsker (Someone You Love, 14), Skytten (13), ☆Becoming Astrid (18), ☆Forbrydelser (In Your Hands, 04)

SwedenMy Life as a Dog (85), ☆Turist (Force Majeure, 14, x2), ☆Aniara (18)
Tomas Alfredson – ☆Let The Right One In (08)
Daniel AlfredsonThe Girl Who Played With Fire (09), The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest (09)
Norway – ☆Kon-Tiki (12), ☆Bølgen (The Wave, 15), De uskyldige (The Innocents, 21)
Morten Tyldum – ☆Headhunters (11, x2)
Joachim Trier – ☆Thelma (17), ♡ The Worst Person in the World (21, x2)
IcelandNói albinói (Noi the Albino, 03)
ItalyPerfetti sconosciuti (Perfect Strangers, 16)
Vittorio de SicaBicycle Thieves (48), ♡ Umberto D. (52)
Gillo Pontecorvo – ☆The Battle of Algiers (66), Burn! (Queimada, 69)
AntonioniL’Avventura (60), Blow-Up (66)
PasoliniThe Decameron (71), ☆Teorema (68)
Balkan
Emir Kusturica – ♡ Underground (95), ☆Black Cat, White Cat (98), Arizona Dream (92)
Milcho Manchevski – ☆Before The Rain (94)
Iran – ☆Davandeh (The Runner, 84)
Abbas Kiarostami Where is the Friend’s Home? (87), Certified Copy (10)
Majid Majidi – ☆Children of Heaven (97), ☆Rang-e khoda (The Colour of Paradise, 99), ☆Baran (01), The Willow Tree (05), ☆Avaze gonjeshk-ha (The Song of Sparrows, 08)
Asghar FarhadiAbout Elly (09), A Separation (11), ☆The Past (13), The Salesman (16)
Russia/USSRMorphine (08)
Mikhail Kalatozov – ☆Soy Cuba (64)
Sergei Parajanov – ☆Тени забытых предков (Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, 65)
Andrei Tarkovsky – ☆Solaris (72)
Andrey KonchalovskyRunaway Train (85)
Yuri Norstein – ♡ Ёжик в тумане (Hedgehog in the Fog, 75), ☆Сказка сказок (Tale of Tales, 79) hedgeh
India – ♡ Barfi! (12, x2), Kahaani (12), Queen (13), English Vinglish (12, x2), Paan Singh Tomar (12), Drishyam (15), Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (11), ☆Mardaani (14)
Rajkumar HiraniMunna Bhai M.B.B.S. (03), ★3 Idiots (09, x2), ★PK (14, x3)
Rajat Kapoor Ankhon Dekhi (13)
Ashutosh Gowariker – ♡ Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (01, x2), Swades: We, the People (04)
Anurag Kashyap Black Friday (04), Gulaal (09)
Shimit Amin Chak De! India (07), ☆Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year (09)
Dibakar Banerjee Khosla Ka Ghosla! (06)
S.S. Rajamouli – ⚠Baahubali: The Beginning (15)
Neeraj Pandey A Wednesday (08)
Vikramaditya Motwane Udaan (10), Lootera (13)
Nitesh Tiwari – ☆Dangal (16)
Ritesh Batra – ☆Dabba (The Lunchbox, 13)
others with Amitabh Bachchan – ☆Black (05), Pink (16)
others with Aamir KhanSarfarosh (99), ♡ Rang De Basanti (06, x2), ♡ Taare Zameen Par (Like Stars on Earth, 07, x2), ☆Dhobi Ghat (10), Dil Chahta Hai (11), Talaash (12), ☆Secret Superstar (17), Thugs of Hindostan (18)
others with SRK – ☆My Name is Khan (10), Dear Zindagi (16)

Japan – ♡ Tampopo, Uzumaki (Spiral, 00), Survive Style 5+ (04), 9 Souls (03), Battle Royale (00)
Kenji Mizoguchi – ☆Ugetsu Monogatari (53)
Akira Kurosawa Subarashiki nichiyôbi (One Wonderful Sunday, 47), Drunken Angel (48), Stray Dog (49), Shubun (Scandal, 50), Rashomon (50), ★Ikiru (52, x2), ☆Seven Samurai (54), I Live in Fear (55), Throne of Blood (57), ☆The Hidden Fortress (58), The Bad Sleep Well (60), Yojimbo (61), Sanjuro (62), Tengoku to jigoku (High and Low, 63), ☆Akahige (Red Beard, 65, x2), Dodesukaden (Clickety-Clack, 70), ★Dersu Uzala (75, x2), Ran (85), Yume (Dreams, 90)
Hayao Miyazaki – ☆Porco Rosso (92), ☆Howl’s Moving Castle (04)
Naomi Kawase – ♡ An (Sweet Red Bean Paste, aka Sweet Bean, 15, x2)
Satoshi KonMagnetic Rose (95), ♡ Perfect Blue (97, x3), ♡ Millennium Actress (01, x2), Tokyo Godfathers (03), ☆Paprika (06)
Katsuhito Ishii The Taste of Tea (04)
Makoto Shinkai – ☆5 Centimeters per Second (07), ☆The Garden of Words (13), ★Kimi no na wa. (your name., 16, x2)
Mamoru HosodaThe Girl Who Leapt Through Time (06)

Korea – ♡ Bin-jip (3-Iron, 04, x2), Gwoemul (The Host, 06), Ajeossi (The Man from Nowhere, 10), ☆Gisaengchung (Parasite, 19)
Chan-wook Park Ah-ga-ssi (The Handmaiden, 16)
Jae-young Kwak – ☆My Sassy Girl (01)
ChinaHero (02), Born to Fly (23)
ThailandBad Genius (17)
AustraliaSunday Too Far Away, ☆Mary and Max, The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith (78), ☆Love and Other Catastrophes (96), Dead Calm (89), The Proposition (05), The Interview (98), ☆Bad Boy Bubby (93), $9.99 (08), He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (01), Tomorrow, When the War Began (10), Kenny (06), In Her Skin (09)
Peter Weir Gallipoli (81), Witness (85), The Mosquito Coast (86), ♡ Dead Poets Society (89), Fearless (93), The Way Back (10)
Bruce Beresford Don’s Party (76), ☆The Club (80), Double Jeopardy (99), Tender Mercies (83)
George MillerMad Max (79), Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (81), Lorenzo’s Oil (92)
John DuiganLawn Dogs (97)
Greg McLean – ☆Jungle (17, x2)
NZThe Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (88), ☆The Dark Horse (14), The Quiet Earth (85), ☆Chronesthesia (16, x2)
Peter Jackson – ♡ Heavenly Creatures (94), King Kong (05)
Jane Campion Sweetie (89)
Taika Waititi – ☆Eagle vs Shark (07), ☆Boy (10), ☆What We Do in the Shadows (14), ☆Hunt for the Wilderpeople (16)
Canada – ☆Starbuck (11)
Ted Kotcheff First Blood (82)
David CronenbergShivers (They Came From Within) (75), Rabid (77), The Brood (79), Scanners (81), The Dead Zone (83), ☆Videodrome (83), The Fly (86), ☆Dead Ringers (88, x2), M. Butterfly (93), Crash (96), ☆eXistenZ (99, x2), Spider (02), A History of Violence (05), Eastern Promises (07)
Guy Maddin – ☆Careful (92), ☆My Winnipeg (07)
Philippe Falardeau – ☆The Good Lie (14)
Denis Villeneuve Prisoners (13), ☆Enemy (13, x2), Sicario (15)
Xavier Dolan – ☆Mommy (14)

Shakespeare plays – King Lear (w Ian McKellen, 08), Much Ado About Nothing (Branagh, 93), ☆Richard III (McKellen, 95), Hamlet (Branagh, 96), ☆The Tempest (w Christopher Plummer, 10), Coriolanus (11), The Merchant of Venice (Pacino, 04), Twelfth Night (96), Macbeth (Nicol Williamson, 83)
Oscar Wilde plays – An Ideal Husband (99), The Importance of Being Earnest (52)
Bernard Shaw plays – Pygmalion (38), ☆Major Barbara (41), Saint Joan (57), Caesar and Cleopatra (45), ♡ Man and Superman (National Theatre Live, 15, x2)
National Theatre Live – ☆Skylight (14)
Charlie Kaufman, writer – ★Adaptation. (02), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (04), Being John Malkovitch (99), Human Nature (01), ♡ Synecdoche, New York (08, x2), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (02), Anomalisa (15), I’m Thinking of Ending Things (20)
Tennessee Williams, writer – ☆A Streetcar Named Desire (51), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (58), Sweet Bird of Youth (62), ☆The Night of the Iguana (64, x2)
Paddy Chayefsky, writer – The Hospital (71), ★Network (76), Altered States (80)
Philip K. Dick adaptations – Total Recall (90), Screamers (95), Minority Report (02), Impostor (01), ♡ A Scanner Darkly (06, x2), The Adjustment Bureau (11), Radio Free Albemuth (10)
from Kurt Vonnegut novels/stories – Slaughterhouse-Five (72), Breakfast of Champions (99), 2081 (09, 25min)
Raymond Briggs, writer/illustrator – ☆When the Wind Blows (86), Father Christmas (91), ☆Ethel and Ernest (16)
Stephen King, writer – Stand By Me (86), Misery (90), The Stand (94), The Green Mile (99), Secret Window (04), The Mist (07)
David Mamet, writer – Glengarry Glen Ross (92), Wag The Dog (97), The Edge (97)
David Mamet, writer/director – House of Games (87), Homicide (91), ☆Oleanna (94), The Spanish Prisoner (97), Spartan (04)
Robert Louis Stevenson novels – Treasure Island (90), The Wrong Box (66), Kidnapped (71)
Gerald DiPego, writer – ☆Instinct (99, x2), ☆Words and Pictures (13, x2)
Mike Judge, writer/director – ♡ Office Space (99, x2), ☆Idiocracy (06, x2), ♡ Silicon Valley (TV series, 14-)
Steven Knight, writer/director – ♡ Locke (13, x2), ☆Serenity (19)
Anders Thomas Jensen, writer – ♡ Mifunes sidste sang (Mifune’s Last Song, aka Mifune, 99, x2), In China They Eat Dogs (99), Blinkende lygter (Flickering Lights, 00), Elsker dig for evigt (Open Hearts, 02, x2), Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself (02), ☆De grønne slagtere (The Green Butchers, 03), Brødre (Brothers, 04), ♡ Adam’s Apples (05, x2), After The Wedding (06, x2), ♡ Sprængfarlig bombe (Clash of Egos, 06, x2), Den du frygter (Fear Me Not, 08), In a Better World (10, x2), Den skaldede frisør (Love is All You Need, 12), ☆Mænd & høns (Men & Hens aka Men & Chicken, 15, x2)

Michael Curtiz – ☆Young Man with a Horn (50)
Charlie Chaplin – ☆Modern Times (36)
Ernst Lubitsch One Hour With You (1932), ☆Design for Living (1933), Ninotchka (39), ☆The Shop Around the Corner (40), ☆To Be Or Not To Be (42), Trouble in Paradise (32), Cluny Brown (46)
Alfred E. Green – ☆Baby Face (33), The Jolson Story (46)
Archie Mayo The Petrified Forest (36)
W.S. Van Dyke The Thin Man (34), ☆I Love You Again (40)
William A. Wellman Night Nurse (1931)
Buster Keaton The Navigator (1924), The General (1926)
Laurel & Hardy movies Sons of the Desert (33)
William Wyler Wuthering Heights (39), ☆The Best Years of Our Lives (46)
Frank Capra It Happened One Night (34), ☆Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (36), ☆You Can’t Take It With You (38), ☆Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (39), ☆Meet John Doe (41), Arsenic And Old Lace (44), ☆It’s a Wonderful Life (46)
Howard Hawks Ball of Fire (41), His Girl Friday, Bringing Up Baby (38)
Marx brothers movies A Night at the Opera (35)
George Cukor The Philadelphia Story (40), Gaslight (44), Adam’s Rib (49)
Mae West movies – ☆I’m No Angel (1933)
George Stevens Giant (56)
Douglas Sirk Imitation of Life (59)
Orson Welles Citizen Kane (41), F for Fake (73)
Preston Sturges The Great McGinty (40), The Palm Beach Story (42), The Miracle of Morgans Creek (43), ☆Sullivans Travels (41), ♡ The Lady Eve (41, x2), Christmas in July (40), Hail the Conquering Hero (44), Unfaithfully Yours (48)

Alfred HitchcockRebecca (40), ☆Shadow of a Doubt (43), Notorious (46), Rear Window (54), Dial M for Murder (54), Vertigo (58, x2)
John HustonThe Maltese Falcon (41), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (48), The African Queen, Reflections in a Golden Eye (67), The Man Who Would Be King (75)
Phil Karlson Walking Tall (73), Framed (75)
Elia KazanViva Zapata! (52), On the Waterfront (54), ☆A Face In The Crowd (57)
Billy Wilder – ☆Double Indemnity (44), Sunset Blvd. (50), ☆Ace in the Hole (51), Sabrina (54), Witness for the Prosecution (57), Some Like It Hot (59), The Apartment (60)
Stuart Rosenberg – ☆Cool Hand Luke (67), ☆WUSA (70)
Sidney Lumet – ☆12 Angry Men (57, x2), The Fugitive Kind (60), The Pawnbroker (64), The Hill (65), The Anderson Tapes (71), ♡ Serpico (73), Murder on the Orient Express (74), Dog Day Afternoon (75), ★Network (76), ♡ Equus (77), Prince of the City (81), The Verdict (82), Deathtrap (82), Running On Empty (88), Find Me Guilty (06), Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (07)
Stanley Kubrick Paths of Glory (57), Spartacus (60), Barry Lyndon (75), The Shining (80), Eyes Wide Shut (99)
Robert Aldrich The Flight of the Phoenix (65), The Frisco Kid (79)
Roger Corman – ♡ A Bucket of Blood (59, x2), The Little Shop of Horrors (60), House of Usher (60), Pit and the Pendulum (61)
John Frankenheimer The Manchurian Candidate (62), Black Sunday (77)
Sam PeckinpahStraw Dogs (71)
John Cassavetes Husbands (70), Minnie and Moskowitz (71), A Woman Under The Influence (74), Opening Night (77)
Karel Reisz The French Lieutenant’s Woman (81, x2)
John Schlesinger – ☆Midnight Cowboy (69), The Day of the Locust (75), Marathon Man (76), The Falcon and the Snowman (85)
Richard Donner Conspiracy Theory (97), ☆16 Blocks (06)
Francis Ford Coppolla The Conversation, The Godfather (72, x2), The Godfather: Part II (74), The Godfather: Part III (90), Apocalypse Now Redux (79)
William Friedkin Sorcerer (77)
John Boorman Hell in the Pacific (68), Deliverance (72)
Larry CohenGod Told Me To (76), Q: The Winged Serpent (82), The Stuff (85)
Steven Spielberg Duel (71), Artificial Intelligence: AI (01), Munich (05), Bridge of Spies (15)
Jack Gold – ☆The Naked Civil Servant (75), The Medusa Touch (64)
Sydney Pollack Jeremiah Johnson (72), ☆The Yakuza (74), 3 Days of the Condor (75), ♡ Tootsie (82), The Firm (93, x3)
Wolfgang Petersen – ☆Enemy Mine (85), The Perfect Storm (00)
Mike Nichols – ☆Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (66), ☆The Graduate (67), Silkwood (83), Closer (04), Heartburn (86)
Woody Allen Annie Hall (77), Manhattan (79), The Purple Rose of Cairo (85), Crimes and Misdemeanors (89), Mighty Aphrodite (95)
Martin Scorsese Mean Streets (73), The King of Comedy (82), After Hours (85), ☆Goodfellas (90, x2), The Age of Innocence (93), Casino (95, x2), Gangs of New York (02), ☆Bringing Out the Dead (99)
Mel Brooks The Producers (67)
George A. Romero – ☆Night of the Living Dead (68), The Crazies (73), Martin (78), Dawn of the Dead (78), Day of the Dead (85), Land of the Dead (05)
Ulu Grosbard True Confessions (81), Falling in Love (84)
Werner Herzog Aguirre – Wrath of God (72), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (74), Nosferatu the Vampyre (79), Fitzcarraldo (82), Where the Green Ants Dream (84), Cobra Verde (87), Invincible (01), Rescue Dawn (06), The Bad Lieutenant – Port of Call: New Orleans (09, x2), ♡ My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (09)
Screen Shot 2014-08-29 at 11.06.42 amJohn Carpenter Assault on Precinct 13 (76), Escape From New York (81), The Thing (82), They Live (88), In the Mouth of Madness (94, x2)
Stephen Frears The Grifters (90), Hero (92), High Fidelity (00), ☆Philomena (13)
Alan J. Pakula The Parallax View (74), All the President’s Men (76), Presumed Innocent (90)
Hal Ashby – ♡ Harold and Maude (71), ⚠Shampoo (75), ♡ Being There (79)
Brian De Palma Blow Out (81), Scarface (83), Snake Eyes (98, x2), Femme Fatale (02)
Dario Argento Phenomena (85)
Nicolas Roeg – ☆Walkabout (71), Don’t Look Now (73), Bad Timing (80)
Clint Eastwood Unforgiven (92), ☆Mystic River (03) , ♡ Gran Torino (08), Sully (16)
Terrence MalickBadlands (73), Days of Heaven (78), ☆The Thin Red Line (98), The New World (05), ★The Tree of Life (11), ⚠To The Wonder (12)
George Armitage Miami Blues (90), Grosse Pointe Blank (97)
Tony Scott Enemy of the State (98, x2), Man On Fire (04)
Tim Burton – ☆Ed Wood (94), Big Fish (03)
Alan Rudolph Choose Me (84), Breakfast of Champions (99)
Steve Martin movies – The Jerk (79), Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (82), The Man with Two Brains (83), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (88), L.A. Story (91), Bowfinger (99)
Ridley ScottAlien (79), Matchstick Men (03, x3), Body of Lies (08), The Martian (15), American Gangster (07)
Sam RaimiThe Evil Dead (81), Evil Dead II (87), ⚠Army of Darkness (92), A Simple Plan (98)
Mick Jackson – ☆Temple Grandin (10)
Harold Ramis – ♡ Groundhog Day (93), Analyze This (99)
Michael Cimino – ☆The Deer Hunter (78), Heaven’s Gate (80)
Joel Schumacher – ☆Falling Down (93, x2), A Time to Kill (96), Phone Booth (02, x2), The Number 23 (07)
Oliver Stone – ☆Snowden (16)
Terry Gilliam The Fisher King (91), Twelve Monkeys (95), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (98)
Tony Gatlif Gadjo Dilo (97), Vengo (00)
Abel Ferrara Bad Lieutenant (92), The Addiction (95)
Alan Parker Angel Heart (87), Mississippi Burning (88), The Life of David Gale (03)
Albert Brooks – ☆Real Life (79), Modern Romance (81), Lost in America (85, x2), ☆Defending Your Life (91), Mother (96), The Muse (99)
Ron Howard – ☆Apollo 13 (95), Ransom (96)
David Lynch – ⚠Mulholland Drive (01)
Barry Levinson Disclosure (94), Sleepers (96), Wag The Dog (97)
Robert Zemeckis Romancing the Stone (84), Back to the Future (85), Back to the Future Part II (89), Contact (97)
Warren Beatty – ⚠Heaven Can Wait (78), ☆Reds (81), ☆Bulworth (98)
Paul Schrader Blue Collar (78), American Gigolo (80), Light Sleeper (92), Affliction (97)
Stuart Gordon Re-Animator (85), From Beyond (86)
John Sayles Lone Star (96), Amigo (10)
Lawrence Kasdan – ♡ Body Heat (81, x3), The Big Chill (83), The Accidental Tourist (88), I Love You To Death (90), ☆Grand Canyon (91), French Kiss (95), Mumford (99)
Michael Mann Heat (95), The Insider (99), Collateral (04, x2)
Frank Oz What About Bob? (91), Death at a Funeral (07), ♡ Derek DelGaudio’s In & of Itself (20)
Anthony MinghellaThe Talented Mr. Ripley (99)
James L. BrooksTerms of Endearment, ♡ Broadcast News (87), ♡ As Good As It Gets (97), Spanglish (04)
Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris Little Miss Sunshine (06), Ruby Sparks (12)
Atom Egoyan – ☆Remember (15, x2)
Terry Zwigoff Bad Santa (03), ☆Ghost World (01), ☆Art School Confidential (06)
Kathryn BigelowStrange Days (95)
Hal Hartley – ♡ The Unbelievable Truth (89, x2), ♡ Trust (90, x2), ♡ Simple Men (92, x2), Surviving Desire (92, x2), Amateur (94), Henry Fool (97), ⚠The Book of Life (98), ⚠Fay Grim (06)
Danny Boyle Shallow Grave (94), 28 Days Later.. (02), Millions (04), Slumdog Millionaire (08), 127 Hours (10), Trance (13), Yesterday (19)
David O. Russell Flirting with Disaster (96, x2), Silver Linings Playbook (12)
Jim JarmuschNight On Earth (91), ⚠The Limits of Control (09)
James Cameron – ⚠The Terminator (84), Terminator 2 (91), Avatar (09)
Steven SoderberghContagion (11, x2), Side Effects (13, x2)
Richard LinklaterBefore Sunrise (95), ♡ A Scanner Darkly (06)
Cameron Crowe Jerry Maguire (96), Vanilla Sky (01)
Paul Greengrass The Bourne Supremacy (04), The Bourne Ultimatum (07), Captain Phillips (13)
Michael Bay Armageddon (98), Ambulance (22, x2)
Peyton Reed – ☆Yes Man (08, x2), Ant-Man (15)
Alexander Payne – ☆Citizen Ruth (96), Election (99, x2), ☆About Schmidt (02), Sideways (04), ☆The Descendants (11)
Lenny Abrahamson – ☆Room (15)
Ang Lee Life of Pi (12)
Paul Haggis Crash (04)
Farrelly brothers Dumb and Dumber (94), Kingpin (96), There’s Something About Mary (98)
Peter Farrelly – ☆Green Book (18)
Frank Darabont The Green Mile (99), The Mist (07)
Doug Liman The Bourne Identity (02), ☆Fair Game (10), ☆Edge of Tomorrow (14, x3)
Marc Forster Stay (05), Stranger than Fiction (06), World War Z (13, x2)
Jean-Marc Vallée Dallas Buyers Club (13), ☆Wild (14)
Roger Michell Changing Lanes (02)
Brad Anderson Next Stop Wonderland (98), Happy Accidents (00, x2), Session 9 (01), Transsiberian (08), The Call (13), Eliza Graves (aka Stonehearst Asylum, 14)
The Wachowskis The Matrix (99), Cloud Atlas (12)
Nicole Holofcener Walking and Talking (96), Please Give (10), ☆Enough Said (13)
Wes Anderson – ☆Rushmore (98, x2), ☆Moonrise Kingdom (12, x2), Bottle Rocket (96), Fantastic Mr Fox (09), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (04), The Royal Tenenbaums (01), The Grand Budapest Hotel (14)
Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini – ☆American Splendor (03)
Paul Thomas AndersonMagnolia (99), Punch-Drunk Love (02), The Master (12)
Andrew NiccolGattaca (97), S1m0ne (02), Lord of War (05), In Time (11), Anon (18)
David Fincher – ♡ The Game (97, x3), Fight Club (99), Panic Room (02), Zodiac (07), The Social Network (10, x2), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (11), ☆Gone Girl (14)
Coen brothersBarton Fink (91), The Big Lebowski (98, x3), Miller’s Crossing (90), No Country for Old Men (07), ☆Burn After Reading (08), Inside Llewyn Davis (13), ☆Raising Arizona (87)
Gary Ross Pleasantville (98)
Jason Reitman Up in the Air (09)
Christopher NolanFollowing (98), Memento (00), Insomnia (02), The Prestige (06), The Dark Knight (08), Inception (10), Interstellar (14)
Darren AronofskyPi (98), Black Swan (10)
Simon Pegg movies – ♡ Shaun of the Dead (04, x2), Hot Fuzz (07), Paul (11)
Tarsem Singh The Fall (06)
George Clooney Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (02), The Ides of March (11)
Neil Burger The Illusionist (06), Limitless (11)
Tom McCarthy – ♡ The Station Agent (03, x2), ☆The Visitor (07), ☆Win Win (11), ☆Spotlight (15), ☆Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made (20)
Vadim Perelman – ♡ House of Sand and Fog (03), The Life Before Her Eyes (07)
Adam McKay Anchorman – The Legend of Ron Burgundy (04), ☆Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (06), ☆Step Brothers (08), The Other Guys (10), The Big Short (15)
Joshua Marston Maria Full of Grace (04)
Shane Carruth Primer (04), Upstream Color (13)
Jared Hess – ☆Napoleon Dynamite (04), ♡ Gentlemen Broncos (09, x2), Don Verdean (15)
Martin McDonagh – ☆In Bruges (08), ☆Seven Psychopaths (12, x2), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (17)
Tate Taylor – ☆The Help (11), ☆Get On Up (14), The Girl on the Train (16, x2)
Duncan JonesMoon (09, x2), ☆Source Code (11, x2)
Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert – ☆Swiss Army Man (16, x2), ★Everything Everywhere All at Once (22)
Jeff Nichols Take Shelter (11), ☆Mud (12, x2)
John Michael McDonagh The Guard (11)
Lorene Scafaria Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (12), The Meddler (15)
Dan Gilroy Nightcrawler (14, x2)
Marielle Heller Can You Ever Forgive Me? (18), ☆A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (19)

others with John Hurt – ☆The Shout (78)
others with James Stewart – ☆Harvey (50)
others with Jack NicholsonFive Easy Pieces (70), The Bucket List (07)
others with Robert De NiroMidnight Run (88), ☆Awakenings (90), The Intern (15), Dirty Grandpa (16)
others with Marlon BrandoThe Missouri Breaks (76), Superman (78), The Freshman (90), Don Juan DeMarco (94)
others with Cary GrantThe Awful Truth (37)
others with Bette DavisNow, Voyager (42), All About Eve (50)
others with Bill MurrayThe Razor’s Edge (84)
others with Nicolas Cage – ☆Vampire’s Kiss (88, x2), The Family Man (00), It Could Happen to You (94), Next (07), The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (22)
others with Irene DunneTheodora Goes Wild (1936), My Favorite Wife (1940)
others with Aubrey Plaza – ☆Ingrid Goes West (17), Black Bear (20), ☆Emily the Criminal (22)

MusicalsSingin’ in the Rain (52), ☆Stingray Sam (09)
Jerome KernRoberta (1935), ☆Show Boat (1936), Swing Time (1936), You Were Never Lovelier (42)
Rodgers & Hart – ♡ Love Me Tonight (1932)
Rodgers & HammersteinCarousel (1956)

Political – ☆Animal Farm (54), ☆The China Syndrome (79), Missing (82), In The Loop (09), ☆Dark Waters (19)

Animated – ☆Allegro Non Troppo (76), ♡ WALL-E (08), Megamind (10), Rango (11), ☆Inside Out (15), ☆Song of the Sea (14), ☆Coraline (09), Kubo and the Two Strings (16), 9 (09), ★It’s such a beautiful day (12, x2), ☆Ernest et Célestine (12), ☆Up (09), ☆Avril et le monde truqué (April and the Extraordinary World, 15)

Sci-Fi/Aliens – ♡ Galaxy Quest (99, x2), ☆Upgrade (18), ☆Monsters (10), ☆Rise of the Planet of the Apes (11), ☆Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (14), ☆War for the Planet of the Apes (17), ☆Death Race 2000 (75), ☆Passengers (16, x2), ☆Knowing (09), ☆Freaks (18), ☆Oxygène (21)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (79), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (82, x2), The Last Starfighter (84), Forbidden Planet (56), District 9 (09), The Machine (13), Under The Skin (13), Pandorum (09), Ex Machina (14), Predator (87), The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (84), Phase IV (74), Robot & Frank (12), Midnight Special (16), Deep Impact (98)

Zombie/HorrorWhite Zombie (1932), Quien puede matar a un niño? (Who Can Kill a Child?, 76), Cannibal Holocaust (80), Ring (99), Tremors (90, x2)
♡ [REC] (07, x2), ☆[REC]{}^2 (09), Cabin Fever (02), Bubba Ho-Tep (02), The Descent (05), Black Sheep (06), Pontypool (08), Dead Snow (09), Zombieland (09), Dead End (03)
Tucker and Dale vs Evil (10, x2), ☆Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (16), ☆Get Out (17, x2), ☆The Girl with All the Gifts (16, x2), ☆Når dyrene drømmer (When Animals Dream, 14), ☆Life After Beth (14), ♡ Kamera wo tomeruna! (One Cut of the Dead, 17, x2), ☆Color Out of Space (19), [REC]{}^3 Genesis (12), [REC]{}^4 Apocalypse (14), The Cabin in the Woods (11), Juan de los Muertos (Juan of the Dead, 11), It Follows (14), Open Grave (13), The Babadook (14), The Tunnel (11), It Stains the Sands Red (16), Us (19)
Future/Fantasy/Supernatural/Altered reality – ☆John Dies At The End (12, x2), ☆Jacob’s Ladder (90), ☆Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road (02), ☆The One I Love (14, x3), ☆The Frame (14, x2), ☆Zoom (15, x2), ☆The Nines (07), ☆Petite Maman (21)
What Dreams May Come (98), The Man From Earth (07), Cypher (02), Unbreakable (00), One Point O (aka Paranoia, 04), The Thirteenth Floor (99, x2), Coherence (13, x2), Cashback (06), Another Earth (11), Possible Worlds (00), Brain Dead (90), Stir of Echoes (99), The Double (13), The Lobster (15), The Uninvited (44), Chances Are (89), Premonition (07), November (04), Infinity Chamber (16), Julia and Julia (87), Quest for Love (71), The Call (20)
Time travel/time loop – ☆Somewhere in Time (80, x2), ☆12:01pm (91, 25min), 12:01 (93), Twice Upon a Yesterday (aka If Only…, 98), Timescape (92)
Los Cronocrimenes (Timecrimes, 07, x2), ☆The Butterfly Effect (04), ♡ Triangle (09, x3), Frequency (00), Deja Vu (06), The Lake House (06), The I Inside (04), Summer Time Machine Blues (05), Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (09)
♡ Safety Not Guaranteed (12, x3), ☆Happy Death Day (17), ☆Happy Death Day 2U (19), Looper (12), About Time (13), Predestination (14), Time Lapse (14), Sound of My Voice (11), The Infinite Man (14), ☆Palm Springs (20, x2), Before I Fall (17)

Comedy – ☆My Man Godfrey (36), ☆Tropic Thunder (08), ☆Serial Mom (94), ☆Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (97), ☆Bad Trip (21)
Hamlet 2 (08), The In-Laws (79), Young Frankenstein (74), Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (05, x2), Airplane! (80), Top Secret! (84), Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (94), Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (05), Kind Hearts and Coronets (49), The Hangover (09, x2), So I Married An Axe Murderer (93), The Invention of Lying (09), Innerspace (87), Zoolander (01), Wet Hot American Summer (01), Blockers (18), June Moon (1931), Noises Off (92), UHF (89), My Cousin Vinny (92), Legally Blonde (01)

Noir – ☆Detour (45, x2), ☆In a Lonely Place (50), ☆The Usual Suspects (95)
Laura (44), Leave Her to Heaven (45), Blonde Ice (48), The Third Man (49), D.O.A. (49), Pickup on South Street (53), The Last Seduction (94)

Crime/Suspense/Thriller – ☆Revenge (17, x2), ☆A Most Violent Year (14), ☆The Perfection (18), ☆Promising Young Woman (20, x2), ☆7500 (19)
The Night of the Hunter (55), Coma (78)
No Way Out (87), ☆The Vanishing (88, x2), Sea Of Love (89, x2), Black Widow (87)
Silence of the Lambs (91), One False Move (92), Red Rock West (93), Malice (93), Speed (94), Primal Fear (96, x2), Face/Off (97), Breakdown (97, x2), Run Lola Run (98), Wild Things (98), Arlington Road (99), A Perfect Murder (98)
Don’t Say a Word (01), Lucky Number Slevin (06, x2), Inside Man (06), Michael Clayton (07, x2), Awake (07), Fracture (07), Gone Baby Gone (07), The Glass House (01), Basic Instinct 2 (06)
The Next Three Days (10, x2), The Lincoln Lawyer (11), Jack Reacher (12), Who Am I – No System is Safe (14), Green Room (15), The Guest (14), The Accountant (16), Blue Ruin (13), The Gift (15, x2), Arbitrage (12, x2), The Town (10), Game Night (18), The Place Beyond the Pines (12), Now You See Me (13), Spinning Man (18), Run All Night (15), Searching (18, x2), The Commuter (18), Sicario: Day of the Soldado (18), Close (19), Peppermint (18, x2), Red Sparrow (18), ⚠John Wick (14), Bad Samaritan (18, x2), Calibre (18), A Simple Favor (18, x2), Fractured (19), The Kindergarten Teacher (18)
No matarás (20, Cross the Line), I Care a Lot (20), I Came By (22, x2), Watcher (22), Nobody (21), Fall (22), I’m Your Woman (20)

Satire – ☆Four Lions (10, x2), Last Action Hero (93), Natural Born Killers (94), ♡ Sorry to Bother You (18)

Mockumentary – ☆No Men Beyond This Point (15)

Social issues – ☆Disconnect (12), ☆Let No Man Write My Epitaph (60), Death of a Salesman (66), War Games (83), Kramer vs Kramer (79)

Based on true stories – ☆Inherit the Wind (60), ☆Le scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, 07), ☆Freedom Writers (07), ☆The King’s Speech (10), ☆Pirates of Silicon Valley (99), ☆The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel (20), ☆The Man Who Knew Infinity (15), ☆The Tale (18), ☆Lou Andreas-Salomé: The Audacity to be Free (16), ☆Tetris (23), ☆The Good Nurse (22)
The Right Stuff (83), Walker (87), Rembrandt (36), Running With Scissors (06), Man on the Moon (99), Peaceful Warrior (06), Into The Wild (07), Saving Mr. Banks (13), Hannah Arendt (12), October Sky (99), The World’s Fastest Indian (05), Donnie Brasco (97), Spare Parts (15), Million Dollar Arm (14), Lenny (74), Wilde (97), Searching for Bobby Fischer (93), Breach (07), Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (09), The Founder (16, x2), I, Tonya (17), The Lost City Of Z (16), Molly’s Game (17, x2), The Imitation Game (14), The Winslow Boy (99), Takedown (00), A Million Miles Away (23), Adrift (18)

From famous books/plays – ♡ Six Characters in Search of an Author (BBC, 92, x2), ♡ Anne of Green Gables (85), ♡ Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel (87), ☆I Am David (03), Billy Budd (62), Jane Eyre (43), Doctor Faustus (67), Great Expectations (1946)

Rites of passage/Life – ♡ Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (86), ☆Ordinary People (80), ☆The Way (10), ☆Eighth Grade (18)
My Bodyguard (80), Wonder Boys (00), Withnail & I (87), It’s Kind Of A Funny Story (10), The Big Kahuna (99), Clubbed (08), The Perks of Being a Wallflower (12), Lady Bird (17), Mistress America (15), ♡ Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (21)

Love/Life – ☆The Big Sick (17), ☆My First Mister (01), ☆A Star Is Born (1937), ☆Love Affair (1939), When Harry Met Sally (89)
The Notebook (04), A Single Man (09), Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (01, x2), Me And You And Everyone We Know (05), Nine Lives (05), Crazy, Stupid Love (11), Rocky (76), Local Hero (83), Solitary Man (09), Pay It Forward (00), Kolya (96), Secretary (02), The Wife (17), Little Children (06), Intersection (94)

Superhero – ♡ Defendor (09, x2), ♡ Kick-Ass (10, x2), ☆Kick-Ass 2 (13), ☆Wonder Woman (17), ☆Guardians of the Galaxy (14), ☆Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (17), ☆Special (06)
Super (10), Avengers: Infinity War (18)

Martial arts – ☆The Foreigner (17, x2), The Way of the Dragon (72), Police Story (85)

Others – ☆The Stunt Man (80), ☆The Quest for Fire (81), ☆Frozen River (08), ☆American Perfekt (97), ☆The Love Witch (16), ☆They Look Like People (15), ☆Thoroughbreds (17)
Up! (76), Risky Business (83), From Here to Eternity (53), Seven Pounds (08), About a Boy (02), Random Harvest (42), Female Perversions (96), Black Orpheus (59), Exam (09, x3), The Rapture (91), Miracle Mile (88), Nocturnal Animals (16), Frozen (10), Tragedy Girls (17), Open Water (03), The Invitation (15, x2), Late Night (19), D.E.B.S. (04), Cam (18), The Lost Daughter (21)
Awful – ⚠I’m Still Here (10), ⚠Crank (06), ⚠Miami Connection (87)

Short films

The Cry of Jazz (59), La Cabina (The Telephone Booth, 72), ☆Skhizein (08, 13min)
Wladyslaw StarewiczFétiche (The Mascot, 33)
Maya DerenMeshes of the Afternoon (43)
Chris Marker – ☆La Jetée (62), Junkopia (81), 2084 (84)
Stan Brakhage Window Water Baby Moving (59)
David CronenbergThe Italian Machine (76), Camera (00), The Nest (13)
Jan SvankmajerDimensions of Dialogue (83), Darkness Light Darkness (89), Food (93)
Guy Maddin The Heart of the World (00)
Don Herzfeldt Ah, L’Amour (95), Genre (96), Billy’s Balloon (98), Rejected (00), ☆World of Tomorrow (15, x2), World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People’s Thoughts (17), ☆World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime (20)
Spike Jonze – ☆I’m Here (10)

Short non-fiction/documentary

Not Knot (91, knots and geometry Thurston-style) youtube
Marshall Riggan – ☆The Fiddler (75, youtube)
Todd HaynesSuperstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (88, unauthorised doll version)
Hannah GautreyThe Wooden House (15, 11min, artist Wesley West)

Documentaries

Dziga Vertov – ☆Man with a Movie Camera (29)
Chris Marker – ☆Sans Soleil (83)
Tony Palmer – ☆The Harvest of Sorrow (Rachmaninov, 98)
Patricio Guzmán – ☆La batalla de Chile, Primera parte: La insurreción de la burguesía (75), ☆Nostalgia de la luz (Nostalgia for the Light, 10), ☆El botón de nácar (The Pearl Button, 15)
Werner HerzogFata Morgana (71), The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (74), La Soufrière (77), Portrait Werner Herzog (86), Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun (89), ☆Lessons of Darkness (92), Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices (95), Little Dieter Needs To Fly (97), My Best Fiend (99), Julianes Sturz in den Dschungel (Wings of Hope, 00), The White Diamond (04), ♡ Grizzly Man (05), Encounters at the End of the World (07), Happy People – A Year In the Taiga (10), Cave of Forgotten Dreams (10), ☆Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (16), Into the Inferno (16), ☆Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (19), ☆Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (20)
Les BlankBurden of Dreams (80), Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (82, 20min)
Errol Morris – ☆Gates of Heaven (78), The Thin Blue Line (88), Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (97), Tabloid (10)
Ross McElwee – ♡ Sherman’s March (85)
Bob Connolly & Robin AndersonFirst Contact (82), ☆Joe Leahy’s Neighbours (89), ☆Black Harvest (92), Rats in the Ranks (96), ☆Facing the Music (01)
José Padilha – ☆Bus 174 (02), ☆Secrets of the Tribe (10)
Laura Poitras – ☆Citizenfour (14, Ed Snowden)
Alex GibneyZero Days (16, the Stuxnet worm), ☆Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief (15), ☆Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (15), ☆Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown (14), ☆Finding Fela! (14)

Social/Political/Business/ActivismDavid Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (20), ☆The Social Dilemma (20), ☆McLibel (05), ☆Harlan County U.S.A. (76), ☆The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Chavez: Inside The Coup, 03), Manda Bala (Send A Bullet, 07, kidnapping/corruption in Brazil), ☆How To Start A Revolution (11, Gene Sharp, revolutions), Let The Fire Burn (13, MOVE vs police), ☆1971 (14, FBI office break-in), ☆Merchants of Doubt (14, exposes pundits-for-hire paid to discredit the truth about smoking/toxic chemicals/global warming/the unsustainable American Way – and why the U.S. right is in denial about global warming), Miss Representation (11, U.S. women in power and their portrayal in media/movies/tv/etc), ☆The Corporation (03, a history of corporations and how they got this way), ☆Silenced (14, persecuted US gov whistleblowers), ☆The Red Pill (16, the men’s rights movement), ☆Pete Seeger: The Power of Song (07), ☆Letter from Masanjia (Chinese political prisoners, 18), ☆American Factory (a Chinese-owned factory in the US, 19), Icarus (Russian doping in sport, 17), ☆Murder on a Sunday Morning (01), ☆The Brainwashing of My Dad (15), ☆The Snake Charmer (Aamir Khan, 17), Downfall: The Case Against Boeing (22)
Scott Noble – ☆Lifting the Veil, ☆Human Resources (10) Watch all Noble’s films here.
Robert Greenwald – ☆War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (13)
The Yes Men – ☆The Yes Men (03), ☆The Yes Men Fix The World (09), The Yes Men Are Revolting (14)
Adam Curtis – ★The Century of the Self (02), ☆All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace (11)
Real life/lives – ★Maidentrip (13), American Movie (99, + Coven), ☆Etre et Avoir (To Be And To Have, 02), ☆Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son about his Father (08), ♡ Man On Wire (08), This Way Of Life (2009, NZ), An Ecology of Mind (10, Gregory Bateson), Senna (10), Life Itself (14, Roger Ebert), Alone in the Wilderness (04), Hoop Dreams (94), Being in the World (10, know-how, Hubert Dreyfus, Heidegger), Touching the Void (03), Stories We Tell (12), Weiner (16), ♡ The Parking Lot Movie (10), Magnus (Carlsen, 16), ☆Regarding Susan Sontag (14), ☆Superheroes (11, real-life superheroes), ☆India in a Day (16), ☆The Work (17, group therapy in prison), ☆Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (Fred Rogers, 18), ☆Tell Me Who I Am (19), ☆Three Identical Strangers (18), ☆Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me (17), ☆The Biggest Little Farm (18), The Truffle Hunters (20), ☆Playing with Sharks: The Valerie Taylor Story (21)
Music etc. – ☆Land of Look Behind (82, Jamaica, Rastafarianism, Bob Marley), Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (88), ☆Intangible Asset No. 82 (08, Korean music), Searching for Sugar Man (12, Rodriguez), Artifact (12), Marley (12), Mongolian Bling (12, Mongolian rappers), Beware of Mr. Baker (12, Ginger Baker), ♡ Brasileirinho (choro, 05), ☆Score: A Film Music Documentary (16), Jaco (15), Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary (16), Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes (22), ☆Charlie Haden: Rambling Boy (09), ☆Motian in Motion (20)
Art/MoviesThe Pervert’s Guide To Cinema (06, Zizek), ☆Between the Folds (08, origami), De Palma (15), ☆Jodorowsky’s Dune (13), Lost In La Mancha (12), ☆M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity (18), ☆Iris (14, Apfel), ☆Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey (11)
Computers etc – ☆Revolution OS (01, history of GNU/Linux/free software vs open source), In the Realm of the Hackers (03), We Are Legion (12, 4chan/Anonymous), ☆The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (14), Killswitch (14, free internet), ☆Facebookistan (15, facebook vs freedom/openness/justice), ☆AlphaGo (17)
Travel – ☆Somewhere Else Tomorrow (14), ☆Somewhere Else Together (19)
CrimeThe Tinder Swindler (22), Abducted in Plain Sight (17)
OthersNot Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (08, Australian movies of the 70s), Who Is Bozo Texino? (05), ☆The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (07), Married to the Eiffel Tower (08), The Pirate Bay – Away From Keyboard (13), ☆That’s Not Funny (14, history of modern comedy), ☆Dark Days (00, NYC subway dwellers), ♡ Kumaré (11, guru impersonator), ☆My Octopus Teacher (20), Fyre (19), ☆The Queen of Trees (05)
Namida to warai no happî kurasu: 4 nen 1 kumi Inochi no jugyô (Children Full of Life, 03)

tv series

Mini-series

UK – ☆I, Claudius (76), ☆Brideshead Revisited (81), ☆Edge of Darkness (85), ☆The Singing Detective (86), ☆A Very British Coup (88), ☆G.B.H. (91), ♡ Our Friends in the North (96)
Tipping The Velvet (02), State of Play (03), The State Within (06), Dead Set (08, x2), ☆Lost in Austen (08)
The Shadow Line (11), ♡ The Wrong Mans (13-14, x3), ☆The Honourable Woman (14, x2), ☆Babylon (14), You, Me and the Apocalypse (15, x2), ★Not Safe for Work (15, x2), ☆The Secret (16), Crashing (16), ☆Camping (16), ♡ Year Friends (16), ☆Informer (18), ☆Cunk on Britain (18), ☆Bodyguard (S1, 18, x2), Safe (18, x2), ☆Mrs Wilson (18), ☆The Night Manager (16, x2), ☆A Very English Scandal (18), The Capture (19), ☆SS-GB (17), ☆Dreaming Whilst Black (18), ☆Giri/Haji (19)
The Nest (20), ★I May Destroy You (20), ☆Behind Her Eyes (21, x2), ☆The Stranger (20), ☆Us (20), ☆Landscapers (21)

USAThe Night Of (16), Olive Kitteridge (14), ☆Chernobyl (19), ☆Maniac (18)
The Queen’s Gambit (20), ☆Messiah (20), ☆The Good Lord Bird (20), ♡Brand New Cherry Flavor (21), ☆The Dropout (22), ☆Station Eleven (21-22), ♡ Beef (23), Inventing Anna (22, x2)

Denmark – ♡ Forestillinger (Per Fly’s Performances, 07), Hjørdis (15), Efterforskningen (The Investigation, 20), ☆Når støvet har lagt sig (When the Dust Settles, 20), Kastanjemanden (The Chestnut Man, 21)
FranceLe chalet (17), Une chance de trop (No Second Chance, 15), ☆Transferts (17), ☆Au-delà des murs (Beyond the Walls, 16), ☆L’Effondrement (19)
Belgium – ☆Tabula Rasa (17, x2)
AustraliaTomorrow, When the War Began (16), ☆The Tourist (22)
GermanyGladbeck (18), ☆Unorthodox (20), ☆Ein paar Tage Licht (21, Algiers Confidential)
SpainSé quién eres (17), ☆El desorden que dejas (The Mess You Leave Behind, 20), El inocente (21)
Norway – ★Stories from Norway (18, x2), Furia (21)
Sweden – ♡ Folk med ångest (Anxious People, 21), The Playlist (22)
Canada – ♡ Fragile (19), Joan of Arc (99)
Israel – ★Chazarot (Rehearsals, 20)

Series

Every episode of –
UK: Blake’s 7 (78-81), ♡ This Life (96-7), I’m Alan Partridge (97-02), ♡ That Mitchell And Webb Look (06-10), ☆The Book Group (02-03), ♡ Peep Show (03-15, x2), ♡ Green Wing (04-07), ☆Survivors (08-10, x2), ♡ Outnumbered (07-16)
Black Mirror (S1-5, 11-), Spy (11-12), ♡ Fresh Meat (11-16), ♡ A Touch of Cloth (12-14), ☆Hunderby (12), ♡ Line of Duty (S1-6, 12-), ☆Ambassadors (13), ♡ In The Flesh (13-14, x2) , ☆Utopia (13-14), ☆Broadchurch (13-17, x2), ☆Detectorists (14-17), Back (S1-2, 17-), Catastrophe (15-19), ★Fleabag (16-19, x2), ☆After Life (S1, 19-), ☆The End of the Fucking World (17-19), ☆Years and Years (S1, 19-), ☆Motherland (S1-3, 16-), ♡ Derry Girls (18-22), ☆This Way Up (S1-2, 19-), ☆The Crown (S1-2, 16-), ☆Upstart Crow (S1-3, 16-), ☆Ghosts (S1-2, 19-), ★Stath Lets Flats (S1-3, 18-), ♡ Home (19-20), Zomboat (19)
Staged (20-), ☆We Are Lady Parts (S1-, 21-), ☆Starstruck (S1-2, 21-), Bad Sisters (S1-, 22-), The Lazarus Project (S1-, 22-), Cunk On Earth (S1-, 22-)
USA: V (83-5), ♡ Moonlighting (85-9)
The Wire (02-08), Day Break (06), Burn Notice (07-13), ♡ Yacht Rock (05-10)
Awake (12), ♡ Enlightened (11-13, x2), ♡ Silicon Valley (14-19), Fargo (S1-3, 14-), ★Rick and Morty (S1-5,13-), ♡ Nathan For You (13-17), ☆Halt and Catch Fire (14-17), ☆Counterpart (S1,17-), ☆Big Little Lies (17-19), ☆Ozark (17-22), ☆Patriot (15-18), ♡ Succession (S1-3, 18-), ★Undone (S1-2, 19-, x2), ★Joe Pera Talks With You (18-21), ♡ The OA (16-19), Imposters (17-18)
Upload (S1-2, 20-), ☆Middleditch & Schwartz (S1-, 20-), ☆Avenue 5 (S1, 20-), ☆Our Flag Means Death (S1-, 22-), ★Severance (S1-, 22-), ♡ Somebody Somewhere (S1-, 22-), ♡ Pantheon (22), ★The Rehearsal (S1-, 22-)

Brazil: ☆Cidade dos Homens (City of Men, 02-05), ♡ O Mecanismo (The Mechanism, S1-2, 18-), Reality Z (S1-, 20-), ♡ Aruanas (S1-2, 19-), Cidade Invisivel (Invisible City, 21-)

Colombia: ☆Frontera Verde (Green Frontier, S1, 19-)

Australia: ☆SeaChange (98-00,19), ☆Danger 5 (11), ☆Glitch (15), Secret City (16), ☆No Activity (15-18), ☆Fisk (S1-2, 21-), Bloom (19-20), ☆Frayed (S1-2, 19-), True Colours (S1-, 22-), ☆Colin from Accounts (S1-, 22-)

New Zealand: ☆This Is Not My Life (10, x2), ☆Wellington Paranormal (S1-3, 18-), ☆The Casketeers (S1-2, 18-), ☆Creamerie (S1-, 21-)

Denmark: ♡ Matador (78-82), ♡ Krøniken (04-07), ♡ Forbrydelsen (07-12), ♡ Borgen (10-22), ♡ Arvingerne (The Legacy, 14-17), ♡ Bedrag (Fraud aka Follow The Money, S1-3, 16-), ♡ Rita (12-20), ☆Norskov (15-17), ♡ Herrens veje (Ride Upon the Storm, S1-2, 17-), Gidseltagningen (Below the Surface, S1-2, 17-), The Rain (18-20), ♡ Friheden (Pros and Cons, S1-2, 18-), ♡ Badehotellet (Seaside Hotel, S1-8, 13-), ♡ Kamikaze (21), Elvira (S1, 22-)
France: ♡ Engrenages (05-20), ♡ Les hommes de l’ombre (Spin, 12-16), ♡ Le Bureau des Légendes (The Bureau, S1-5, 15-), ♡ Un Village Français (09-16), ☆Baron Noir (S1-2,16-), Missions (S1,17-), ☆The 7 Lives of Lea (22-), ♡ Standing Up (22), Astrid et Raphaëlle (S1-3,19-)
España:♡ Vis a vis (15-19), ♡ Merlí (15-18), ♡ Vida Perfecta (Perfect Life, S1-2, 19-), ☆Antidisturbios (20), ☆Hierro (19-22)
Norway: ♡ SKAM (15-17), ☆Øyevitne (Eyewitness, 14), ♡ Heimebane (S1-2, 18-), ★Norsemen (S1-3, 17-), ☆Hjem til Jul (Home for Christmas, 19-20), ♡ Pørni (S1-3, 21-), ☆Twin (S1-, 19-)
Israel: ♡ Hatufim (Prisoners of War, S1-2, 09), ♡ Lehiyot Ita (13-17), ☆Kfulim (False Flag, S1-2, 15-18), ☆Kvodo (Your Honor, S1-2, 17-), ☆Manayek (S1-2, 20-), ☆Guf Shlishi (A Body That Works, S1-, 23-)
Netherlands: ☆Overspel (11-15), ☆Klem (17-20)
Sweden: Advokaten (S1-2, 18-), ☆Enkelstöten (The Simple Heist, 17-19), ☆Kaliphat (S1-, 20-), ☆Love & Anarchy (S1-2, 20-), ♡ Tunna blå linjen (Thin Blue Line, S1-, 21-)
Mexico: ♡ Desenfrenadas (S1, 20-)
Japan: ★Midnight Diner (09-14), ★Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories (S1-2, 16-)
Germany – ☆How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) (S1-3, 19-), ☆Charité (S1-2, 17-)
Belgium – ☆Undercover (S1-3, 19-)
South Korea – ★Crash Landing on You (19-20), ♡ Extraordinary Attorney Woo (22)
CanadaAnne with an E (17-19), ♡ C’est comme ça que je t’aime (Happily Married, S1-2, 20-)
Turkey – ★Bir Başkadir (S1-, 20-), ☆Fatma (S1-, 21-)
Italy – ★My Brilliant Friend (S1-3, 18-)

Lots of – ♡ The Thick of It (S1-3), ♡ Derren Brown, Penn & Teller, Les Revenants, Orphan Black (S1-3), Narcos (S1-2, 15-), ☆Mr. Robot (S1-2, 15-), The Expanse (15-), Master of None (15-), Nighty Night (04-5), The Walking Dead (S1-7, 10-), The Americans (S1-4,13-8), Farina (Cocaine Coast, S1, 18), John Adams (08), Cordon (S1,14-), ☆Bad Banks (S1, 18), True Detective (S1-2, 14-), Poldark (15-), Homeland (S1-7, 11-), Wentworth (S1-3, 13-21), ☆Atiye (S1-2, 19-21), ☆Barry (S1-2, 18-), ☆Russian Doll (S1, 19-), ☆Dix pour cent (Call My Agent!, S1-3, 15-), La casa de papel (S1-2, 17-21), ☆Tehran (S1-, 20), Beforeigners (S1, 19-), Okkupert (Occupied, S1-2, 15-)

Some of – ♡ South Park (97-), Ripping Yarns (76-9), The Staircase (04), ☆Paranoia Agent (04), House of Cards (US version, S1, 13-), Bron (The Bridge, 11-18), The Man in the High Castle (15-), 100 Centre Street (01-02), ☆Yes Minister (80-84), Louie (10-15), Broad City (14-), Bojack Horseman (14-), Isabel (11-14), Braquo (09-16), 1864 (14), Fear the Walking Dead (S1, 15-), The Real Hustle (06-12), Vikings (13-), Community (09-15), Fortitude (S1, 15), Jeeves and Wooster, El Ministerio del Tiempo, Big Train (88-02), The Sketch Show (S1, 01-03), Dark (S1-, 17-20)

TV documentaries/Documentary series

John Berger – ☆Ways of Seeing (72)
Robert Hughes – ☆The Shock of the New (82), ☆Goya: Crazy Like a Genius (02)
William Peters – ☆A Class Divided (85)
Terry JonesCrusades (95)
Tim Cope – ★On the Trail of Genghis Khan (10)
Aamir Khan – ★Satyamev Jayate (12-14)
How to with John Wilson (S1-, 20-)
The Test: A New Era for Australia’s Team (20)
What Plants Talk About (13)
The Colours of Infinity (95, fractals, w. Mandelbrot, Barnsley)
Tiger King (20-21)
Bad Vegan (22)
The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman (22)
Evil Genius: The True Story of America’s Most Diabolical Bank Heist (18)
Wild Wild Country (18)

Some of/now watching: The Open Mind (links to episodes), ☆The Nazis: A Warning from History (97), Terry Jones’ Medieval Lives (04), ☆The World at War (73-6), ☆Your Inner Fish (14), ☆Connections (78), ☆The Story of Film: An Odyssey (11)

Other TV

The Wave (81)

TV interviews/discussions/talks

☆John Berger and Susan Sontag – To Tell A Story (83)
☆Charlie Kaufman 2011 BAFTA speech – youtube
Chomsky + Foucault

Lecture series

☆Biology of Human Behaviour – Robert Sapolsky, Stanford U. on youtube. 25 lectures.