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AFI Top 100? Too stuffy.

IMBD Top 250? Too much recency bias.

Reddit Top 250? Too basic.

If you want to discover the real greatest films list, look no further.

Although I consider myself a film buff, I must admit a few shortcomings with this list up front. I am woefully inexperienced with silent films, and thus you'll find that nothing in my Top 250 was released before 1931. Additionally, as much as I love foreign films, I haven't watched as many as I would have liked to. I adore Ingmar Bergman and Fellini, for example, but I admittedly have only seen a small portion of their filmography. Finally, I generally hate musicals, so you'll find that there are only a handful on here and the list ignores some major "classics" in that genre.

A few interesting stats as I put the list into a spreadsheet:

Most featured directors
Martin Scorsese - 11 (!!)
Steven Spielberg - 7
Quentin Tarantino - 7
Stanley Kubrick - 6
Christopher Nolan - 5
Wes Anderson - 4
Joel and Ethan Coen - 4
Francis Ford Coppola - 4
Alfonso Cuarn - 4
Alfred Hitchcock - 4
Richard Linklater - 4
David Lynch - 4

Films by decade
1930s - 8
1940s - 6
1950s - 14
1960s - 19
1970s - 32
1980s - 32
1990s - 53
2000s - 44
2010s - 42

Films by genre*
*Roughly giving each movie one subjective category

Action - 20
Adventure - 11
Animated - 21
Comedy - 22
Documentary - 6
Drama - 95
Fantasy - 6
Horror - 12
Musical - 2
Sci-Fi - 18
Sports - 3
Superhero - 4
Thriller/Suspense - 20
War - 7
Western - 3

Films by (primary) country
Algeria - 1
Australia - 1
Brazil - 1
Canada - 2
China - 1
France - 4
Germany - 1
Hong Kong - 3
Italy - 8
Japan - 7
Mexico - 2
South Africa - 1
Sweden - 3
United Kingdom - 13
United States - 202 (obvious bias here)

I'm probably going to count these down with as much of write-up for each as I can do without it feeling like work (probably a few sentences). Enjoy!
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