Favourite Films
My, unordered, top 100 films. The best of the best.
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Spider-Man (Avengers) Collection 3 watched
The Avengers Collection 4 watched
The Dark Knight Collection 3 watched
The Lord of the Rings Collection 3 watched
Captain America Collection 3 watched
Star Wars Collection 9 watched
Thor Collection 3 watched
Iron Man Collection 3 watched
Spider-Man Collection 3 watched
Harry Potter Collection 8 watched
Toy Story Collection 4 watched
The Matrix Collection 4 watched
Alien Collection 4 watched
Americanized Godzilla Collection 4 watched
The Animatrix Collection 9 watched
The Apu Trilogy 3 watched
Austin Powers Collection 3 watched
The Avengers Collection 4 watched
Back to the Future Collection 3 watched
Before... Collection 3 watched
Bill & Ted's Most Excellent Collection 3 watched
Captain America Collection 3 watched
The Conjuring Collection 3 watched
The Dark Knight Collection 3 watched
Dead or Alive Collection 3 watched
The Decalogue 10 watched
Dollars Trilogy 3 watched
Evil Dead Collection 4 watched
Fantastic Beasts Collection 3 watched
Fear Street Collection 3 watched
Firefly Collection 3 watched
Friday the 13th Collection 11 watched
Futurama Collection 4 watched
Gamera (Heisei) Collection 4 watched
Gamera (Showa) Collection 8 watched
Gates of Hell Trilogy 3 watched
Ghostbusters Collection 3 watched
Godzilla Anime Trilogy 3 watched
Godzilla Collection 3 watched
Godzilla (Heisei) Collection 7 watched
Godzilla (Showa) Collection 15 watched
Guinea Pig Collection 6 watched
Halloween Collection 10 watched
Harry Potter Collection 8 watched
The Hobbit Collection 3 watched
The Human Condition 3 watched
The Hunger Games Collection 4 watched
Indiana Jones Collection 4 watched
Iron Man Collection 3 watched
John Wick Collection 3 watched
Lone Wolf and Cub Collection 6 watched
The Lord of the Rings Collection 3 watched
The Matrix Collection 4 watched
A Nightmare on Elm Street Collection 7 watched
Ocean's Collection 3 watched
The Orphic Trilogy 3 watched
Planet of the Apes (Reboot) Collection 3 watched
Re-Animator Collection 3 watched
Rebirth of Mothra Collection 3 watched
Rebuild of Evangelion Collection 4 watched
RoboCop Collection 3 watched
Rush Hour Collection 3 watched
Scream Collection 5 watched
Spider-Man (Avengers) Collection 3 watched
Spider-Man Collection 3 watched
Star Trek: Alternate Reality Collection 3 watched
Star Wars Collection 9 watched
Texas Chainsaw Massacre Collection 7 watched
Thor Collection 3 watched
Three Colors Collection 3 watched
Toy Story Collection 4 watched
The Twilight Collection 5 watched
Unnamed collection 6 watched
Unnamed collection 3 watched
Unnamed collection 3 watched
Unnamed collection 4 watched
Unnamed collection 3 watched
The Up Collection 9 watched
Wallace & Gromit Collection 4 watched
War and Peace Collection 4 watched
Ace Ventura Collection 2 of 3 watched
Blair Witch Collection 2 of 3 watched
The Boogey Man Collection 2 of 3 watched
Bridget Jones Collection 2 of 3 watched
Despicable Me Collection 2 of 3 watched
Divergent Collection 2 of 3 watched
The Godfather Collection 2 of 3 watched
High School Musical Collection 2 of 3 watched
The Jack Ryan Collection 2 of 3 watched
James Bond Collection 25 of 26 watched
Jumanji Collection 2 of 3 watched
Jurassic Park Collection 5 of 6 watched
Kidulthood Collection 2 of 3 watched
Kingsman Collection 2 of 3 watched
Kung Fu Panda Collection 2 of 3 watched
Living Dead Collection 3 of 4 watched
Mad Max Collection 3 of 4 watched
Mariachi Collection 2 of 3 watched
The Millennium Collection 2 of 3 watched
The Mummy Collection 2 of 3 watched
The Omen Collection 3 of 4 watched
Resident Evil Collection 5 of 6 watched
The Robert Langdon Collection 2 of 3 watched
Shrek Collection 3 of 4 watched
The Slumber Party Massacre Collection 2 of 3 watched
SpongeBob Collection 2 of 3 watched
Spy Kids Collection 3 of 4 watched
Tetsuo Collection 2 of 3 watched
The Transporter Collection 3 of 4 watched
X-Men Collection 6 of 7 watched
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Crew & studios
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Co-Directors
Masayuki 3
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Producers
Scott Rudin 51
Stan Lee 41
Tim Bevan 39
Eric Fellner 39
Kevin Feige 35
Bruce Berman 27
Tessa Ross 23
Jason Blum 23
Avi Arad 22
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Writers
Agnès Varda 30
Yasujirō Ozu 27
Joel Coen 22
Ethan Coen 21
Kōgo Noda 19
Stephen King 17
Ian Fleming 17
Woody Allen 16
Wes Anderson 15
David Lynch 15
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Editors
Michael Kahn 22
José Salcedo 17
Joel Coen 15
Ethan Coen 14
Paul Hirsch 14
Lee Smith 14
Jon Harris 13
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Cinematography
Dean Cundey 19
Bill Pope 16
Sven Nykvist 14
Peter Deming 14
Robby Müller 13
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Production Design
Stuart Craig 15
David Wasco 14
Rick Carter 14
Ken Adam 13
Carol Spier 12
Takeo Kita 12
Jess Gonchor 11
Peter Lamont 11
Wynn Thomas 11
Bo Welch 10
Arthur Max 10
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Art Direction
Hans Dreier 15
Gary Tomkins 14
Peter Dorme 12
Gary Jopling 11
Hal Pereira 10
Ray Chan 10
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Set Decoration
Nancy Haigh 19
Gene Serdena 14
Anna Pinnock 14
Jan Pascale 12
Larry Dias 12
Robert Gould 11
Jay Hart 11
Tim Croshaw 11
Anne Kuljian 10
Tammy S. Lee 10
Aric Cheng 10
George Lee 10
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Visual Effects
Craig Barron 16
John Knoll 15
Phil Tippett 14
Brian Adler 14
John Bruno 11
Tim Burke 11
Russell Earl 11
Ken Ralston 10
Janek Sirrs 10
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Composers
Hans Zimmer 40
Danny Elfman 38
Howard Shore 37
John Powell 19
Tyler Bates 18
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Sound
Skip Lievsay 57
Andy Nelson 46
Leslie Shatz 33
Anna Behlmer 31
Ron Bartlett 28
Paul Massey 28
David Parker 26
Tom Johnson 25
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Costumes
Edith Head 25
Mary Zophres 23
Ann Roth 18
Mark Bridges 18
Sandy Powell 15
Kym Barrett 12
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Make-Up
Bill Corso 25
Ve Neill 25
Sian Grigg 19
Rick Baker 17
Judy Chin 17
Donald Mowat 14
Julie Hewett 14
Luisa Abel 13
Naomi Donne 13
Dick Smith 12
Paul Engelen 12
Kate Biscoe 12
Flora Moody 12
Fern Buchner 11
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Studios
Paramount 157
20th Century Fox 110
Toho 89
Canal+ 83
Shochiku 53
BBC Films 48
Miramax 47
CNC 43
Lionsgate 41
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Co-Directors
Ágnes Hranitzky 4.5
Lee Unkrich 4.0
Mahiro Maeda 3.0
Masayuki 2.7
Kazuya Tsurumaki 2.5
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Producers
Giuseppe Amato 5.0
Kim Kyeong-taek 5.0
Evelyn O'Neill 5.0
Gary Kurtz 5.0
Yutaka Narita 5.0
Victor Lyndon 5.0
Syd Lim 5.0
Gilly Ruben 5.0
Craig Markey 5.0
Michael White 5.0
Fred Baker 5.0
Kristina Ceyton 5.0
Barry Jenkins 5.0
Mark Ceryak 5.0
Andrew Lauren 5.0
Ben Barenholtz 5.0
Vittorio De Sica 5.0
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Writers
Leigh Brackett 5.0
Lee Unkrich 5.0
Barry Jenkins 5.0
Kim Krizan 5.0
Edward Neumeier 5.0
James Baldwin 5.0
Cesare Zavattini 5.0
Terry Zwigoff 5.0
Paddy Chayefsky 5.0
Joseph Kessel 5.0
Georges Méliès 5.0
Nat Perrin 5.0
Karel Zeman 5.0
Charlie Kaufman 4.8
Andrei Tarkovsky 4.8
Greta Gerwig 4.8
Robert Altman 4.8
Masaki Kobayashi 4.8
Zenzō Matsuyama 4.8
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Editors
Hisashi Sagara 5.0
Simon Njoo 5.0
Valeriya Belova 5.0
Chen Po-Wen 5.0
Mario Morra 5.0
Mitsuzô Miyata 5.0
Dana Bunescu 5.0
Charles Burnett 5.0
Leslie Jones 4.8
Lee Unkrich 4.7
Wong Ming-Lam 4.7
Tricia Cooke 4.7
Jacques Witta 4.7
Willard Nico 4.7
Abbas Kiarostami 4.6
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Cinematography
Yorick Le Saux 5.0
Walt Lloyd 5.0
Julia Fabry 5.0
Radek Ładczuk 5.0
Mitch Breit 5.0
Peter Smokler 5.0
Lars Skree 5.0
David Raedeker 5.0
Gábor Medvigy 5.0
Yoshio Miyajima 4.8
Jean Rabier 4.8
Vadim Yusov 4.7
Henri Alekan 4.7
Mahmoud Kalari 4.7
Farhad Saba 4.7
Claire Duguet 4.7
Sam Levy 4.6
Christian Berger 4.6
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Production Design
Chris Jones 5.0
Thomas Grézaud 5.0
Anna Asp 5.0
Georges Méliès 5.0
Masao Yamazaki 5.0
Heidi Lüdi 5.0
Björn Thulin 5.0
Andrzej Rafał Waltenberger 5.0
Mikhail Bogdanov 4.8
Giuseppe Bassan 4.7
Keiko Mitsumatsu 4.7
Bernard Evein 4.7
Piero Poletto 4.7
Nelson Lowry 4.5
Patti Podesta 4.5
Stephonik Youth 4.5
Michael Seymour 4.5
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Art Direction
Eric Dean 5.0
Robert Parle 5.0
Rocio Gimenez 5.0
Roger Christian 5.0
Satoshi Kuroda 5.0
Peter Andrus 5.0
Gayle Simon 5.0
Carl Jules Weyl 5.0
Julie Ann Horan 5.0
Leslie Dilley 4.7
Bernard Evein 4.7
Shigemasa Toda 4.7
Arthur Lawson 4.7
Kazue Hirataka 4.7
Kazuo Oga 4.5
Pedro Moura 4.5
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Set Decoration
Ian Whittaker 5.0
Zach Selter 5.0
Lynn Christopher 5.0
Béla Zsolt Tóth 5.0
Sándor Katona 5.0
Yang Hong-sam 4.7
Simon Guilbault 4.5
Meriam Rodriguez 4.5
Leslie McCarthy-Frankenheimer 4.5
Michele Poulik 4.5
Jenny Oman 4.5
Kieron Thomas 4.5
Lorna Cashmore 4.5
Jim Wallis 4.5
Lisa Fischer 4.5
Edgar G. Ulmer 4.5
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Visual Effects
Kim Blanchette 5.0
Marty Pepper 5.0
Camille Geier 4.7
Rohan Claassen 4.5
Kent Houston 4.5
Pierre Rousseau 4.5
Olivier Cauwet 4.5
Jeremy Hattingh 4.5
Tolga Goktekin 4.5
Megumi Kagawa 4.5
Erik Shepherd 4.5
Benoît Brière 4.5
Tom Wood 4.5
Kenneth Coyne 4.5
Aurelia Abate 4.5
Kent Burton 4.5
Steve Dellerson 4.5
Mark Driscoll 4.5
Jeremy Dawson 4.5
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Composers
Eduard Artemyev 5.0
Michael Galasso 5.0
Javier Navarrete 5.0
Robert Schumann 5.0
Giovanni Fusco 4.8
Fabio Pignatelli 4.7
Massimo Morante 4.7
Bo Harwood 4.7
David Byrne 4.7
Jonny Greenwood 4.6
Zdeněk Liška 4.5
Michael Abels 4.5
Daniel Lopatin 4.5
Carmine Coppola 4.5
Brad Fiedel 4.5
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Sound
Tu Duu-chih 5.0
Iwao Ôtani 5.0
Gordon Davidson 5.0
Sam Gemette 5.0
Leslie Hodgson 5.0
Tex Rudloff 5.0
Julien Sicart 5.0
Ed Downham 5.0
Richard Quinn 5.0
Richard Chaim 5.0
Semyon Litvinov 5.0
Diego Garrido 5.0
Bo Persson 5.0
Bo Harwood 5.0
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Costumes
Nelli Fomina 5.0
Deirdre Scully 5.0
Yoshirô Muraki 5.0
Céline Sciamma 5.0
Andrea Galer 5.0
Grace Snell 5.0
János Breckl 5.0
Jo Slater 5.0
Hanna Ćwikło 5.0
Yoshiko Samejima 5.0
Inger Pehrsson 4.8
Casey Storm 4.8
Anthea Sylbert 4.7
George Newman 4.5
Karen Young 4.5
Anna Tringali 4.5
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Make-Up
Vera Rudina 5.0
Allan Snyder 5.0
Aïda Carange 5.0
Janine Jarreau 5.0
Marie Luiset 5.0
James Ryder 4.7
Cecilia Drott 4.6
Graham Freeborn 4.5
Dania Simental 4.5
Nick Maley 4.5
Jack H. Young 4.5
Tammy Ashmore 4.5
Navya La Shay 4.5
Amy L. Forsythe 4.5
Jorjee Douglass 4.5
Jennifer Harty 4.5
Ed Voight 4.5
Maurizio Trani 4.5
Ronaldo Abreu 4.5
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Studios
Lilies Films 5.0
Hold Up Films 5.0
Haut et Court 5.0
Tequila Gang 5.0
Brooksfilms 5.0
Muhan Investment 5.0
Causeway Films 5.0
South Australian Film Corporation 5.0
Filmfonds Wien 5.0
TSR 5.0
Abbas Kiarostami Productions 5.0
Star-Film 5.0
Piraya Film 5.0
Spring Films 5.0
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