Current Events > I have created a formula to find the best movies of all-time.

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No, you may not know the formula. It is secret, much like the Krabby Patty. All I will say is that it is NOT my personal list. Anyway I thought I would post the top 100. Here are the first 20 bc I am too lazy to actually type out 100 titles rn. Try to not complain about there being too many old movies since quite frankly there are more recent movies on this top 100 than most of these things you see. Thanks!

100. Sullivan's Travels (1941, Preston Sturges)
99. Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks)
98. The General (1926, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman)
97. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959, Alain Resnais)
96. The Shop Around the Corner (1940, Ernst Lubitsch)
95. F for Fake (1973, Orson Welles)
94. Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)
93. Jackie Brown (1997, Quentin Tarantino)
92. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013, Joel & Ethan Coen)
91. Phantom Thread (2017, Paul Thomas Anderson)
90. Children of Paradise (1945, Marcel Carne)
89. Greed (1924, Erich von Stroheim)
88. Fanny and Alexander (1982, Ingmar Bergman)
87. The Big Parade (1925, King Vidor)
86. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939, Kenji Mizoguchi)
85. Faust (1926, F.W. Murnau)
84. Ordet (1955, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
83. Late Spring (1949, Yasujiro Ozu)
82. A Separation (2011, Asghar Farhadi)
81. Jules and Jim (1962, Francois Truffaut)

https://www.justwatch.com/

Utilize that site to find where to stream them btw :)

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Jackie Brown is higher than Lawrence of Arabia, huh?

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Shotgunnova posted...

Jackie Brown is higher than Lawrence of Arabia, huh?

tbh with the formula we are really splitting hairs with the exact rankings, not a big deal, don't sweat it

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Did some cleaning and ready to post more. This is the rest of the bottom half of the top 100 movies ever made.

80. La Jetee (1962, Chris Marker)
79. A Touch of Zen (1971, King Hu)
78. Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi)
77. 12 Angry Men (1957, Sidney Lumet)
76. Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean)
75. Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)
74. Dog Day Afternoon (1975, Sidney Lumet)
73. A Matter of Life and Death (1946, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
72. To Be or Not To Be (1942, Ernst Lubitsch)
71. His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
70. Persona (1966, Ingmar Bergman)
69. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971, Robert Altman)
68. Inglourious Basterds (2009, Quentin Tarantino)
67. The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
66. The King of Comedy (1982, Martin Scorsese)
65. Zodiac (2007, David Fincher)
64. Tokyo Olympiad (1965, Kon Ichikawa)
63. Cure (1997, Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
62. Three Colors: Red (1994, Krzysztof Kieslowski)
61. The Exterminating Angel (1962, Luis Bunuel)
60. The Seventh Seal (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
59. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, John Huston)
58. Sweet Smell of Success (1957, Alex Mackendrick)
57. Black Narcissus (1947, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
56. Close-Up (1990, Abbas Kiarostami)
55. Pather Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray)
54. Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick)
53. Out of the Past (1947, Jacques Tourneur)
52. Only Angels Have Wings (1939, Howard Hawks)
51. The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder)

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ok here's more

50. In the Mood for Love (2001, Wong Kar-wai)
49. Stalker (1979, Andrei Tarkovsky)
48. Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen)
47. Barry Lyndon (1975, Stanley Kubrick)
46. Heat (1995, Michael Mann)
45. Star Wars: Episode V - Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner)
44. Badlands (1973, Terrence Malick)
43. Hoop Dreams (1994, Steve James)
42. Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (Chantel Akerman)
41. Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang)
40. Modern Times (1936, Charlie Chaplin)
39. High and Low (1963, Akira Kurosawa)
38. The Godfather: Part II (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
37. Chinatown (1974, Roman Polanski)
36. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1982, Steven Spielberg)
35. No Country for Old Men (2007, Joel & Ethan Coen)
34. Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino)
33. Goodfellas (1990, Martin Scorsese)
32. Fargo (1996, Joel & Ethan Coen)
31. Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)
30. Mulholland Dr. (2001, David Lynch)
29. The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)
28. In a Lonely Place (1950, Nicholas Ray)
27. The Ascent (1977, Larisa Shepitko)
26. A Woman Under the Influence (1974, John Cassavetes)
25. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946, William Wyler)
24. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
23. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, F.W. Murnau)
22. Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
21. Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, Stanley Kubrick)

maybe i'll post the top 20 before bed

thank you to my two loyal readers

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Forgot to post the rest before bed sorry everyone

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Forgot again

sorry

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This is a good list

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It's a simple formula. LOTR is number 1. Put whatever on 2-100.

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Tag

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Im more interested in this formula than any list that it generated

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Pandamonic posted...

It's a simple formula. LOTR is number 1. Put whatever on 2-100.

thats three movies

cant have three movies at 1

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Zombified_Toast posted...

Im more interested in this formula than any list that it generated

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Not one marvel movie in the bunch? Maybe in the top 10

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Not a single Nolan movie

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Zithers posted...

thats three movies

cant have three movies at 1

Not with that attitude

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Zithers posted...

thats three movies

cant have three movies at 1

Sure ya can. My 3 favorite movies are LOTR, Blade Runner and The Godfather.

3 movies.

Surely not 8 movies. I mean 7. godfather 3 haha no

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Pandamonic posted...

Sure ya can. My 3 favorite movies are LOTR, Blade Runner and The Godfather.

3 movies.

Surely not 8 movies. I mean 7. godfather 3 haha no

sir

Blade Runner and The Godfather are actual movies

LOTR is not. Unless you are counting the animated movie which might be called that. Cant remember. But also probably not the movie you are referring to.

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16-BITTER posted...

All I will say is that it is NOT my personal list.

I have created a formula

my personal list would be my top 100 movies

this is not my top 100 movies. have not even seen a bunch of these

hope this clears up everything

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Zithers posted...

sir

Blade Runner and The Godfather are actual movies

LOTR is not. Unless you are counting the animated movie which might be called that. Cant remember. But also probably not the movie you are referring to.

Well then I have to expand my official top 5 movies to a top 17.

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Middle hope posted...

Not one marvel movie in the bunch? Maybe in the top 10

Garioshi posted...

Not a single Nolan movie

pretty sure none are deserving although I dont think Ive fed them all into formula machine

i imagine memento and tdk could break into the top 1,000 if I did that

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Lol, people bout to freak out.

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Pandamonic posted...

Well then I have to expand my official top 5 movies to a top 17.

what are you top 5/17 movies ?

i think mine are 2001, rear window, the good the bad and the ugly, there will be blood, and maybe the band wagon or Sherlock jr or the before trilogy (counts as one movie)

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LightningAce11 posted...

Lol, people bout to freak out.

My pitchfork is ready.

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top 20 incoming since people are poasting now gimme a min I gotta do this on the phone since my laptop pooped the bed this morning

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Zithers posted...

what are you top 5/17 movies ?

i think mine are 2001, rear window, the good the bad and the ugly, there will be blood, and maybe the band wagon or Sherlock jr or the before trilogy (counts as one movie)

Ok 17 was just a random number lol.

All 3 LOTR movies, Blade Runner/2049, Godfather 1&2, The Thing, City Of God, but the last 2 change from time to time.
So 9.

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ok here they are. The 20 best movies ever made. According to my secret formula that is NOT my personal taste btw

20. North by Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
19. Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)
18. The Third Man (1948, Carol Reed)
17. The Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton)
16. Sherlock Jr. (1924, Buster Keaton)
15. Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
14. There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson)
13. Alien (1979, Ridley Scott)
12. Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)
11. Singin' in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
10. Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
09. The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
08. City Lights (1931, Charlie Chaplin)
07. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
06. Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
05. Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)
04. Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
03. Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
02. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
01. The Red Shoes (1948, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)

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Pandamonic posted...

Ok 17 was just a random number lol.

All 3 LOTR movies, Blade Runner/2049, Godfather 1&2, The Thing, City Of God, but the last 2 change from time to time.
So 9.

good movies dude

own four of those on Blu-ray Disc

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You have a strange algorithm to come up with those favorites in that order.

I have at least heard of the top 10 movies except for #1. I'm gonna have to check that out.

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16-BITTER posted...

Using a formula you've curated to ensure that most everything on the list is something you approve of.

It's the same thing with more steps

i think its probably a better formula than any other Ive seen such as Reddit/IMDb and possibly even they shoot pictures

maybe a bit of recency bias but oh well

Certainly has flaws but then again so do all of these things

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FortuneCookie posted...

You have a strange algorithm to come up with those favorites in that order.

what do u think is strange specifically

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Rear Window and Do The Right Thing ranking higher than Seven Samurai and The Godfather.

FortuneCookie posted...

Rear Window and Do The Right Thing ranking higher than Seven Samurai and The Godfather.

as I said earlier we are really really splitting hairs with the exact rankings, but especially in the top ten, and especially in a small six slot window

its more like a different tier every 20ish movies probably

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Pandamonic posted...

I have at least heard of the top 10 movies except for #1. I'm gonna have to check that out.

bro do a free two week trial of criterion channel

the red shoes and lots of others from this top 100 are on there

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Gonna give this a bump and then let my son die peacefully

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I liked seeing Hiroshima Mon Amour on there, but damn, not a single Godard film? No 400 Blows? That stings.

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FortuneCookie posted...

Rear Window and Do The Right Thing ranking higher than Seven Samurai and The Godfather.

I know. I honestly though that, with the exception of Seven Samurai, the top ten was pretty weak. Still a good list, but most of it is old, black/white movies.

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Payzmaykr posted...

I know. I honestly though that, with the exception of Seven Samurai, the top ten was pretty weak. Still a good list, but most of it is old, black/white movies.

why wouldnt a list of the best movies ever largely be older movies? The feature length film has existed since at least 1912. Theres simply more of them and theyve already stood the test of time compared to more recent movies

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good mix of movies there. I'm more interested in what the formula is than the actual results though

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Zithers posted...

bro do a free two week trial of criterion channel

the red shoes and lots of others from this top 100 are on there

Unfortunately that's not available where I live, but there are... other ways...

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Pandamonic posted...

Unfortunately that's not available where I live, but there are... other ways...

fully support pirating when movies arent made available

all conglomerates who withhold art should be destroyed

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Interesting list, Ive seen most of these and some of my favorites are on there. Only one movie (The Ascent) directed by a woman is obviously an issue. I love The Red Shoes, but seeing it at the top makes me curious about your methodology since you dont usually see it so high on these lists.

Misc. things:

• 4 Hitchcock in the top 20 is a lot
• no Godard
• only one Ozu
• no Rashomon
• 3 Tarantino in a top 100 is pushing it
• 4 Powell and Pressburger films makes me think you used the BFI top 100 British films as a reference (nothing wrong with that. I like their movies, its just unusual seeing them featured so prominently)
• no John Ford
• only one Buuel
• only one Truffaut
• happy to see a couple documentaries in there
• no animation
• The Night of the Hunter is my top movie, so good to see it so high
• happy with Do the Right Thing being so high too. I think its star is rising and it should naturally climb its way up top film lists
• Bergman topping out at 60 is odd

Overall, fine list and Id like to know more about its creation if youre willing to share (PM me?)

No sharing

the list is skewed towards more popular movies which is why theres a bit of recency bias (IE the QT, PTA, Coen bros showing up so much) and some of the more widely seen older directors (Hitchcock) show up a lot.

And then its mostly safer entry level older movies. Also very surprised by the archers love tbh.

unsure of how to make ratings weighted bc im dumb so we will have to settle for this tbh

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Do you mind if I copy the list to a doc on my computer so I can watch these?

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Never heard of #1 movie

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Hinakuluiau posted...

Do you mind if I copy the list to a doc on my computer so I can watch these?

why would i mind? go for it bro. lots of good movies in there

for the record i have not seen the following 22 movies:

97. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959, Alain Resnais)
90. Children of Paradise (1945, Marcel Carne)
89. Greed (1924, Erich von Stroheim)
88. Fanny and Alexander (1982, Ingmar Bergman)
87. The Big Parade (1925, King Vidor)
86. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939, Kenji Mizoguchi)
80. La Jetee (1962, Chris Marker)
79. A Touch of Zen (1971, King Hu)
69. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971, Robert Altman)
64. Tokyo Olympiad (1965, Kon Ichikawa)
63. Cure (1997, Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
62. Three Colors: Red (1994, Krzysztof Kieslowski)
61. The Exterminating Angel (1962, Luis Bunuel)
56. Close-Up (1990, Abbas Kiarostami)
54. Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick)
49. Stalker (1979, Andrei Tarkovsky)
44. Badlands (1973, Terrence Malick)
43. Hoop Dreams (1994, Steve James)
42. Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (Chantel Akerman)
41. Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang)
27. The Ascent (1977, Larisa Shepitko)
26. A Woman Under the Influence (1974, John Cassavetes)

wonder if they're any good. they're on the list of 100 best movies ever so they must be but you never know. they could be bad.

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