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What Makes This Movie Great? — List of Videos

By March 25, 2020September 6th, 2022No Comments
  1. Decalogue 1 (1989)
  2. Wall-E (2008)
  3. Decalogue 6 (1989)
  4. True Grit (2010)
  5. Rashomon (1950)
  6. Decalogue 10 (1989)
  7. Modern Times (1936)
  8. Big Night (1996)
  9. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
  10. THE APU TRILOGY (1955-1959)
  11. Grizzly Man (2005)
  12. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
  13. Breaker Morant (1980)
  14. Stagecoach (1939)
  15. Lola Montes (1955)
  16. Harakiri (1962)
  17. Idiocracy (2008)
  18. The LadyKillers (1955)
  19. Andrei Rublev (1967)
  20. MIRROR (1974)
  21. Paris, Texas (1983)
  22. Rear Window (1954)
  23. Nebraska (2013)
  24. Local Hero (1983)
  25. Chungking Express (1994)
  26. Duck Soup (1935)
  27. The Station Agent (2003)
  28. Notorious (1946)
  29. Metropolis (1927)
  30. REPO MAN (1984)
  31. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
  32. Carnival of Souls (1962)
  33. First Reformed (2017)
  34. My Man Godfrey (1936)
  35. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
  36. Ozu’s Good Morning (1959)
  37. Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960)
  38. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
  39. Nightcrawler (2014)
  40. Akira Kurosawa’s YOJIMBO (1961)
  41. Satyajit Ray’s The Music Room (1958)
  42. Jacques Tati’s Jour de Fete (1949)
  43. James Cameron’s Aliens (1985)
  44. Spike Lee’s Malcolm X (1992)
  45. Louis Malle’s Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
  46. Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull (1980)
  47. Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges (2008)
  48. George C. Scott in Patton (1970)
  49. Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon (1975)
  50. Terrence Malick’s DAYS OF HEAVEN (1978)
  51. Powell and Pressburger’s Black Narcissus (1947)
  52. Errol Morris’ Vernon, Florida (1981)
  53. Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard (1963)
  54. Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves (1996)
  55. Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street (1945)
  56. Oliver Stone’s JFK (1991)
  57. Tommy Lee Jones’ The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
  58. Martin Rosen’s Watership Down (1978)
  59. Roman Polanski’s Tess (1979)
  60. Frank Capra’s MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (1936)
  61. Powell and Pressburger’s “I Know Where I’m Going!” (1945)
  62. The Coens’ “Inside Llewyn Davis” (2013)
  63. Harold Lloyd in The Freshman (1925) and Speedy (1928)
  64. Elem Klimov’s Come and See (1985)
  65. Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas (1990)
  66. Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
  67. F.W. Marnau’s Nosferatu (1922)
  68. Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931)
  69. Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu (1979)
  70. Shindo’s Kuroneko (1968)
  71. Federico Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria (1957)
  72. Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale (2005)
  73. Kenzo Mizoguchi’s Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
  74. Three Colors Trilogy — RED (1995)
  75. Three Colors Trilogy — BLUE (1993)
  76. Three Colors Trilogy — WHITE (1994)
  77. Oliver Stone’s Platoon (1986)
  78. Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru (1952)
  79. Howard Hawks’ Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
  80. Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love (2000)
  81. Spike Jonze’s Her (2014)
  82. Luis Bunuel’s Belle du Jour (1967)
  83. Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows (1959)
  84. John Huston’s Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  85. The Guns of Navarone (1961)
  86. Robert Bresson’s A Man Escaped (1956)
  87. Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront (1954)
  88. Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
  89. Chinatown (1974)
  90. Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory (1957)
  91. Five Easy Pieces (1970)
  92. Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up (1966)
  93. Preston Sturges’ Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
  94. Jacques Tati’s Mon Oncle (1958)
  95. Jacques Tati’s Playtime (1967)
  96. Marlon Brando’s One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
  97. Mikhail Kalatozov’s The Letter Never Sent (1961)
  98. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  99. Milos Foreman’s Amadeus (1984)
  100. John Hughes’ The Breakfast Club (1985)
  101. Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove (1964)
  102. David Lynch’s The Elephant Man (1980)
  103. John Ford’s The Searchers (1957)
  104. Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957)
  105. Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear (1953)
  106. Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries (1957)
  107. Ingmar Bergman’s Through a Glass Darkly (1963)
  108. Ingmar Bergman’s Winter Light (1964)
  109. Terence Malick’s Knight of Cups (2015)
  110. David Lynch’s Eraserhead (1977)
  111. Ingmar Bergman’s Persona (1966)
  112. Alex Garland’s Ex Machina (2014)
  113. Ingmar Bergman’s Hour of the Wolf (1968)
  114. Robert Duvall in Tender Mercies (1983)
  115. Martin Scorsese’s After Hours (1985)
  116. Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
  117. Ingmar Bergman’s Autumn Sonata (1978)
  118. Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past (1947)
  119. Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused (1993)
  120. Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander (1982)
  121. Ingmar Bergman’s Virgin Spring (1960)
  122. Christopher Guest’s Waiting for Guffman (1996)
  123. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
  124. Martin Scorsese’s The Departed (2006)
  125. Babette’s Feast (1987)
  126. Abbas Kiarostami’s Where is the Friend’s House? (1987)
  127. Jean Renoir’s La Grande Illusion (1937)
  128. John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982)
  129. Abbas Kiarostami’s Life, And Nothing More (1992)
  130. Tim Burton’s Ed Wood (1994)
  131. Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice (1986)
  132. Abbas Kiarostami’s Through the Olive Trees (1994)
  133. Paul Schrader’s Mishima (1985)
  134. Todd Haynes’ Safe (1995)
  135. Michael Mann’s Thief (1981)
  136. Carl Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
  137. Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps (1935)
  138. Jules Dassin’s Night and the City (1950)
  139. Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid (1921)
  140. Powell and Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
  141. Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep (2014)
  142. Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down (2002)
  143. Michael Haneke’s Funny Games (1997)
  144. William Friedkin’s The French Connection (1971)
  145. The Lives of Others (2006)
  146. Cameron Crowe’s Say Anything … (1989)
  147. Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal (2019)
  148. Buster Keaton’s Seven Chances (1925)
  149. Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville (1965)
  150. Harrison Ford in The Fugitive (1993)
  151. Harold Lloyd in Why Worry (1923)
  152. Anthony Hopkins in The Father (2020)
  153. Christopher Guest’s Best in Show (2000)
  154. Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven (1992)
  155. Hell or High Water (2016)
  156. Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line (1998)
  157. Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low (1963)
  158. Brad Bird’s The Iron Giant (1998)
  159. Fritz Lang’s M (1931)
  160. Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949)
  161. Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979)
  162. Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation (1974)
  163. John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  164. Howard Hawks’ Bringing Up Baby (1938)
  165. Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master (2012)
  166. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)

Forgotten Classics

This video series showcases movies that most people haven’t heard of. They’re all good — ranging from great to fun to pretty good.

  1. Delmer Daves’ The Hanging Tree (1959 Western)
  2. Roberto Rosselini’s The Machine That Kills Bad People (1952 fantasy comedy)
  3. Ermen Sharbayev’s Revenge (1989 poetic folktale from Kazakhstan)
  4. Jafar Panahi’s The White Balloon (1995)
  5. Luchino Visconti’s Le Notti Bianche (1954)
  6. The King of Kong (2006)
  7. Preston Sturges’ Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
  8. One False Move (1992)
  9. Ingmar Bergman’s Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)
  10. Before the Rain (1994)
  11. King Rat (1965)
  12. The Mouse That Roared (1959)
  13. Touching the Void (2003)
  14. Ikarie XB-1 (1963)
  15. Ingmar Bergman’s Brink of Life (1958)
  16. Black Robe (1991)
  17. The Dresser (1983)
  18. Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger (1975)
  19. Brian De Palma’s Body Double (1984)
  20. Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer (2010)
  21. Joseph Cedar’s Footnote (2011)
  22. The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982)
  23. Sergio Leone’s Duck You, Sucker (1971)
  24. Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man (1995)

The Under-Rated

This video series praises good films that I think are underrated. To determine what’s underrated, I look at metrics on aggregate internet ratings sites, such as imdb and letterbox.

  1. Peter Weir’s The Mosquito Coast (1986)
  2. Jean-Luc Godard’s Made in U.S.A. (1966)
  3. Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem (2013)
  4. George Miller’s Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
  5. Robert Altman’s Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976)
  6. Darren Aronofsky’s mother! (2017)
  7. Bong Joon-ho’s The Host (2006)
  8. Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

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