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Edgar Wright’s 1,000 Favorite Movies

This list of personal favorites was assembled by Edgar Wright and Sam DiSalle in July 2016, and is semi-regularly updated. Films are ordered by year, and alphabetized within each year (our list matches MUBI’s source list order, but some films are listed under alternative names).

Note from Edgar, August 2016:

“This is a personal and subjective list of 1,000 favourite movies from 100 years of cinema. It’s not a set text or intended as any bible of ‘greatest’ films. I decided to put this together as a fluid list for my own enjoyment, amusement and reference. I hope it’s fun for you to pore over and dive into some of the films you haven’t seen or haven’t heard of.

Don’t…

Block or Report
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  • Nosferatu
  • Safety Last!
  • Sherlock, Jr.
  • The Gold Rush
  • Faust
  • The General
  • Metropolis
  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
  • The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
  • Steamboat Bill, Jr.
  • The Passion of Joan of Arc
  • Underground
  • Blackmail
  • Man with a Movie Camera
  • Un Chien Andalou
  • Animal Crackers
  • L'Âge d'Or
  • Morocco
  • People on Sunday
  • City Lights
  • Dracula
  • Frankenstein
  • Little Caesar
  • M
  • Monkey Business
  • The Public Enemy
  • Freaks
  • Island of Lost Souls
  • Love Me Tonight
  • Scarface
  • The Mummy
  • The Music Box
  • The Old Dark House
  • 42nd Street
  • Duck Soup
  • Footlight Parade
  • Gold Diggers of 1933
  • King Kong
  • Mystery of the Wax Museum
  • Sons of the Desert
  • The Invisible Man
  • The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
  • Dames
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much
  • The Merry Widow
  • The Scarlet Empress
  • The Thin Man
  • Twentieth Century
  • A Night at the Opera
  • Bride of Frankenstein
  • Top Hat
  • Modern Times
  • Sabotage
  • The Awful Truth
  • You Only Live Once
  • Angels with Dirty Faces
  • Block-Heads
  • The Adventures of Robin Hood
  • The Lady Vanishes
  • You and Me
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • The Roaring Twenties
  • The Wizard of Oz
  • Dance, Girl, Dance
  • Foreign Correspondent
  • His Girl Friday
  • The Bank Dick
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • The Thief of Bagdad
  • The Westerner
  • 49th Parallel
  • Citizen Kane
  • Sullivan's Travels
  • Suspicion
  • The Maltese Falcon
  • Cat People
  • Mrs. Miniver
  • Road to Morocco
  • Saboteur
  • To Be or Not to Be
  • Went the Day Well?
  • I Walked with a Zombie
  • Shadow of a Doubt
  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
  • Arsenic and Old Lace
  • Double Indemnity
  • Lifeboat
  • Murder, My Sweet
  • Brief Encounter
  • Dead of Night
  • Detour
  • I Know Where I'm Going!
  • Rome, Open City
  • The Lost Weekend
  • A Matter of Life and Death
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Green for Danger
  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • Notorious