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20 Essential Films For An Introduction To The Wuxia Genre
10 Essential Francois Ozon Films You Need To Watch
10 Great Post-Apocalyptic Films That Are Worth Your Time
14 Essential Films For An Introduction To The Horror Cinema Of Hammer And Amicus
The 30 Best Suspense Thrillers Not Directed By Alfred Hitchcock
10 Essential Milos Forman Films You Need To Watch
10 Great Non-Godzilla Kaiju Films That Are Worth Your Time
The 15 Greatest Avant-Garde Filmmakers Of All Time
15 Essential Films For An Introduction To Iranian Cinema
The 10 Best Directorial Debuts of the Past 5 Years
10 Essential Don Bluth Films Every Animation Fan Should See
20 Great 80s B-Horror Movies That Are Worth Your Time
12 Great Movies That Will Change Your View On Their Respective Genre
10 Essential Wim Wenders Films You Need To Watch
15 Essential Films For An Introduction To The Cinema Of Ealing Studio
20 Overlooked 60s Thrillers That Are Worth Your Time
20 Of The Best Experimental Short Films You Can Watch Online
10 Essential David Lean Films You Need To Watch
10 Great Modern French Horror Films That Are Worth Your Time
The 20 Best Dennis Hopper Movies You Need To Watch
The 30 Best Directorial Debuts In The History Of Cinema
12 Essential Mike Nichols Films You Need To Watch
12 Essential Federico Fellini Films You Need To Watch
16 Essential Films for An Introduction To Greek Cinema
The 25 Best Jack Nicholson Movies You Need To Watch
15 Essential Sidney Lumet Films You Need To Watch
The 10 Greatest Pioneers of Animation You Should Know About
5 Reasons Why ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ Is a Typical Film of American New Wave
25 Great Australian Cult Films That Are Worth Your Time
10 Essential Films For An Introduction To The British New Wave
The 20 Best American Independent Films of The 1990s
12 Reasons To Make You Love The Films Of Wes Anderson
The 20 Best Films Adapted from Stephen King’s Works
16 Great Genre Films of the Past 5 Years You Might Have Missed
10 Essential Francis Ford Coppola Films You Need To Watch
10 Dark and Disturbing Animated Films That Are Worth Your Time
The 20 Most Divisive Films of The Modern Era
12 Hilarious Mockumentaries That Are Worth Your Time
The 30 Best Movie Musicals Of All Time
The 15 Best Robin Williams Movies You Need To Watch
15 Japanese Fantasy-Action Films That Will Make Your Head Spin
The 25 Greatest Films You May Never Get To See
The 15 Best Leonardo DiCaprio Movies You Need To Watch
The 15 Best African American Films Of All Time
10 Filmmaking Lessons Troma’s “The Toxic Avenger” Can Teach You
The 25 Best Films Directed By Female Filmmakers
10 Essential Abbas Kiarostami Films You Need To Watch
The 15 Best Spaghetti Westerns Ever Made
10 Essential Michael Mann Films You Need To Watch
15 Essential Director’s Cuts That Cast the Originals in a New Light
15 Great Filmmakers And Their Thematic Obsessions
The 20 Best Documentaries Of All Time
The 10 Best Films That Redefined The American Dream
The 15 Best Final Films of Legendary Hollywood Actors
The 10 Best Audrey Hepburn Movies You Need To Watch
10 Films That Had The Biggest Influences On Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs
The 15 Best Robert De Niro Movies You Need To Watch
10 Great Film Directors Who Died Early In Their Careers
20 Overlooked 90s Thrillers That Are Worth Your Time
The 20 Greatest Transformative Performances of All Time
15 Lessons You Can Learn From Thelma Schoonmaker About Film Editing
The 15 Best Movies Making Use of The Found Footage Concept
10 Essential Abel Ferrara Films You Need To Watch
The 15 Best Al Pacino Movies You Need To Watch
10 Essential Jan Švankmajer Films Every Animation Fan Should See
The 25 Best Films About Character’s Descent Into Madness
10 Films That Had The Biggest Influences On The Films of Wes Anderson
10 Essential Ang Lee Films You Need To Watch
10 Essential Fritz Lang Films You Need To Watch
The 20 Best Horror Films Based On Folk Tales Around The World
12 Lesser-Known Comedies That Are Worth Your Time
10 Essential Marilyn Monroe Films You Need To Watch
12 Essential François Truffaut Films You Need to Watch
The 25 Best Films of The South Korean New Wave
10 Essential Roman Polanski Films You Need To Watch
10 Essential Films For An Introduction To German Expressionist Cinema
The 25 Best So-Bad-Its-Good Films of All Time
10 Great Animated Films That Can Be Enjoyed More By Adults Than Children
The 15 Best Samurai Films NOT Directed By Akira Kurosawa
15 Essential Marlon Brando Films You Need To Watch
10 Essential Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger Films You Need To Watch
10 Essential Christian Bale Films You Need To Watch
15 Great Thrillers That Were Influenced By Italian Giallo Films
10 Essential Screwball Comedies You Need To Watch
12 Essential Coen Brothers Films You Need To Watch
10 Essential Kenji Mizoguchi Films You Need To Watch
15 Great Diva Films That Are Worth Your Time
The 15 Best Non-Hollywood Animated Films Of The 2000s
10 Reasons Why “There Will Be Blood” Is A Modern Classic of American Cinema
15 Lesser-Known Cult Films You Should Check Out
10 Essential John Huston Films You Need To Watch
15 Thought-Provoking Sci-fi Films That Are Worth Your Time
10 Essential Peter Sellers Films You Need To Watch
10 Films That Can Teach You Everything You Need To Know About Sound Design
10 Essential Richard Linklater Films You Need To Watch
20 Great Hong Kong Cult Films That Are Worth Watching
10 Films That Marked The Decline Of Legendary Filmmakers’ Careers
20 Great Postmodernist Films That Are Worth Your Time
15 Essential Buster Keaton Films You Need To Watch
10 Essential John Carpenter Films You Need To Watch
15 Of The Best Horror Films With Social-Political Subtext
10 Essential Latin American Documentaries You Need To Watch
The 30 Greatest War Films In Cinema History
10 Essential Films For An Introduction To Caribbean Cinema
20 Recent Movies That Clearly Hoped For Oscars But Failed
20 Great Black Comedies That Are Worth Your Time
14 Lesser-Seen Italian Exploitation Films That Are Worth Watching
12 Essential Bill Murray Films You Need To Watch
10 Essential Wes Craven Films You Need To Watch
15 Masterpieces of Akira Kurosawa Every Movie Fan Should See
10 Essential Comedies From The Early Days Of Cinema
10 Essential Yasujiro Ozu Films You Need To Watch
25 Of The Most Underrated Horror Films From The 1980s
5 Case Studies of Jean-Luc Godard’s Innovative Filmmaking Techniques
20 Of The Best Documentary Shorts You Can Watch Online
10 Essential Hayao Miyazaki Films You Need To Watch
10 Essential Films From The Czech New Wave
15 Essential Clint Eastwood Films You Need To Watch
8 Eighties Movies With Excellent Practical Effects
8 Reasons P.T. Anderson’s Magnolia Is Exactly Like Robert Altman’s Short Cuts
7 Sci-Fi Films Based On The Short Stories By Philip K. Dick
15 Essential Jimmy Stewart Films You Need To Watch
15 Great Filmmakers Whose Films Demand Your Patience
15 Essential Satyajit Ray Films You Need To Watch
15 Great British Prison Films That Are Worth Your Time
15 Essential Martin Scorsese Films You Need To Watch
12 Essential Brian De Palma Films You Need To Watch
10 Great Cold War Films That Are Worth Your Time
15 Essential Werner Herzog Films You Need To Watch
15 Great Horror Films That Don’t Need Gore To Be Effective
10 Essential Woody Allen Films You Need To Watch
10 Essential Godzilla Movies Every Horror Fan Should See
15 Famous Movies That Have Subtle Hidden Meanings
10 Essential Krzysztof Kieślowski Films You Need To Watch
15 Sleeper Films Of The New Hollywood Era That Are Worth Seeing
10 Essential Mike Leigh Films You Need to Watch
25 Great Films About Childhood That Are Worth Your Time
12 Essential Films For An Introduction To Turkish Cinema
20 Great Films With Multiple Female Leads That Pass The Bechdel Test
The 30 Best Non-English Language Horror Films of the Past 25 Years
15 Essential Italian Neorealism Films You Need To Watch
10 Of The Most Innovative Filmmakers Working Today
20 Of The Greatest Minor Characters In Modern Movies
30 Essential German Films You Need To Watch
20 Of The Best Films Depicting Crumbling Marriages
20 Essential Films From Roger Corman And His Film School
20 Great Japanese Cult Films That Are Worth Watching
10 Of The Most Promising Up-And-Coming Filmmakers You Should Keep An Eye On
20 Great Hollywood Costume Designers You Should Know About
20 Disturbing Home Invasion Movies That Are Worth Your Time
10 Overlooked Werewolf Movies You May Not Have Seen
The 15 Best Noir Films Of The 1950s
The 20 Most Anticipated Movies In The History Of Hollywood
20 Masterpieces of Luis Buñuel Every Film Fan Should See
10 Essential George A. Romero Films Every Horror Fan Should See
10 Essential Takashi Miike Films You Might Want To Watch
The 25 Greatest Palme d’Or Winners In Cannes History
The 11 Greatest Years In American Cinema History
20 Essential Films From The Japanese New Wave
15 American Comedies of the 21st Century That Are Actually Worth Watching
The 15 Best Noir Films Of The 1940s
20 Great Films About Religious Cults That Are Worth Your Time
12 Essential Pedro Almodóvar Films You Need To Watch
The 15 Greatest Actors Turned Directors In Hollywood History
25 Of The Best Camp Films In Cinema History
15 Of The Most Profound Director-On-Director Influences
20 Unexpectedly Controversial Movies In Recent Memory
10 Things Quentin Tarantino’s “Reservoir Dogs” Can Teach You About Filmmaking
20 Great New Hollywood Films That Reflect The Zeitgeist
12 Great French Crime Films That Are Worth Your Time
15 Essential Billy Wilder Films You Need To Watch
10 Films That Can Teach You Everything You Need To Know About Film Editing
10 Essential Michael Haneke Films You Need To Watch
10 Essential Mario Bava Films Every Horror Fan Should See
10 Essential Tim Burton Films You Need To Watch
The 30 Greatest Westerns In Cinema History
15 Reasons Why Sam Raimi’s First Two Spider-Man Films Were Much Better Than Marc Webb’s
The 10 Most Important Independent Filmmakers Working In Hollywood Today
20 Famous Hollywood Actresses Who Can’t Actually Act
30 Essential Chinese-Language Films You Need To Watch
10 Masterpieces of World Cinema Every Movie Fan Should See (Part 2)
25 Great Claustrophobic Movies That Are Worth Your Time
10 Essential Dario Argento Films Every Horror Fan Should See
20 Essential Feminist Films You Need To Watch
10 Overlooked Films By Alfred Hitchcock You Might Have Missed
20 Great Jackie Chan Movies You Can Enjoy
20 Great Crime Films That Are Based On True Events
The 20 Best Neo-Noir Films Of The 2000s
15 Insane Movie Head-Trips You Won’t Regret Taking
10 Essential Lars Von Trier Films You Need To Watch
15 Of The Best Satirical Films In Cinema History
15 Great South Korean Crime Films That Are Worth Your Time
10 Essential David Cronenberg Films You Need To Watch
15 Masterpieces of Alfred Hitchcock Every Film Fan Should See
20 Essential French New Wave And Left Bank Films/a>
The 25 Greatest Performances In A Horror Movie
20 Of The Best Movies That Are About Movies
20 Great Existential Films You Need To Watch
The 32 Best Death Scenes In Horror Movie History
The 20 Best Neo-Noir Films Of The 1990s
25 Great Psychological Thrillers That Are Worth Your Time
20 Essential Johnnie To Films You Need To Watch
10 Great Movies That Should Probably Have A Wider Release
15 Essential Spanish Films You Need To Watch
10 Reasons Why “The Night of the Hunter” is a Classic of American Cinema
The 20 Best Neo-Noir Films Of The 1980s
10 Things “Star Wars” Can Teach You About Filmmaking
The 20 Best Neo-Noir Films Of The 1970s
20 Great Documentaries That Blur The Lines Between Reality And Fiction
20 Masterpieces of Ingmar Bergman Every Film Fan Should See
20 Movie Roles That Would Have Been Great with Different Actors
25 Great Exploitation Films You Probably Haven’t Seen
20 Great Movies That Take Place Predominantly At Night Time
10 Masterpieces of World Cinema Every Movie Fan Should See
15 Great Films With Distinctive Visual Style
15 Great Films With Distinctive Visual Style
20 Movie Characters That Are Easy To Hate
20 Essential Australian Films You Need To Watch
The 20 Best Body Horror Films In Cinema History
25 Indie Gems You Can Watch On Netflix Right Now
The 20 Most Memorable Films Set in San Francisco
15 Important Films Shot With a Hand Held Camera
20 Famous Movie Scenes Made Better By Great Song Choices
The 21 Best Horror Comedies Of The Last 35 Years
10 Things Sam Raimi’s “The Evil Dead” Can Teach You About Filmmaking
The 10 Most Difficult to Spot Cameos in the American Films of Alfred Hitchcock
25 Of The Best Short Films You Can Watch Online
20 Essential African Films You Need To Watch
11 Great Films That Inspire Uncomfortable Viewing
Charting The McConaissance: The 10 Best Performances of Matthew McConaughey
15 Great Films That Deviate From Genre Expectations
The 20 Most Significant Sci-Fi Films of the 1980s
15 Great Films With Extremely Simple Plots
30 Essential Latin American Films You Need To Watch
10 Unconventional Teen Movies You Shouldn’t Miss
5 Ways Kubrick’s Masterpiece “2001: A Space Odyssey” Can Be Interpreted
15 Films So Unique They Could Never Be Replicated
20 Directors Who Are Good At Making Visually Stunning Films
12 Flop Horror Films That Would Make Superb Foundations For Remakes
10 Films That Can Teach You Everything You Need To Know About Production Design
15 Visually Striking Films With Amazing Color Palettes
20 Futuristic Movies Whose Future Has Passed Us By
10 Ways In Which “The Grand Budapest Hotel” Is A Quintessential Wes Anderson Film With A Difference
20 Religion-Themed Movies You Might Enjoy
10 Reasons Why “True Detective” Is The Greatest Mini-Series Ever Aired
10 Great Films Made By Not-So-Great Directors
10 Great Vincent Price Films Every Horror Fan Should See
8 Strange Kung Fu Movies You Probably Haven’t Seen
20 Great Fan Films You Can Watch On Youtube
15 Good Movies You Should Never Watch On A Date
15 Great Films That Were Butchered In Their Original Release
The 10 Greatest Movie Macguffins That Are NOT In A Hitchcock Film
15 Film-Defining Bathroom Scenes In Movies
The 25 Greatest Director-Actor Collaborations In Cinema History
20 Movies You Might Not Know Were Directed By Famous Actors
25 Great Movies Featuring Prominent LGBT Characters
20 Mentally Disturbed Movie Characters Oscar Loved
The 10 Best Movies Of Harold Ramis
15 Great Movies Never To Win Best Picture
14 Fictional Movie Bands You Wish You Could Join
The 10 Most Ingenious Techniques Used By Alfred Hitchcock
20 Great Movies With Unnamed Main Characters
20 Famous Actors Who Died During The Filming Of A Movie
The 15 Greatest Long Takes In Cinema History
13 Great Films That Defy Genre/Hybrid Categorization
10 Filmmaking Lessons John Carpenter’s “Halloween” Can Teach You
14 Awesome Actors Who Need To Make A Comeback
The 22 Most Unsettling Nightmare Sequences In Movies
10 Best “Making Of” Documentaries You Need To Watch
12 Beautiful Movies You Can Watch On Netflix Right Now
The 10 Best Uses Of A Fragmented Narrative In Film History
The 15 Best Prison Break Movies Of All Time
10 Films That Can Teach You Everything You Need To Know About Cinematography
The 20 Greatest Performances By A Non-Traditional Actor
20 Great Asian Movies You Probably Haven’t Seen
20 Bad Movies Made By Great Directors
17 Little-Known Animated Movies You Should Watch
21 Great Lo-Fi Sci-Fi Films You Need To Watch
Top 10 Rock Stars Turned Movie Composers
20 Great Movies On Netflix You Probably Haven’t Seen
15 Movies That Largely Consist of People Just Talking
15 Great Movies That Will Leave You Emotionally Drained
10 Films That Can Teach You Everything You Need To Know About Film-making
The 15 Best Journalism Movies Ever Made
15 Must-See Documentary Films Of The 2000s
20 Classic Comedies You Should Make Time For
8 Superhero Movies That Prove The 3rd Film Curse Exists
The 14 Best Uses Of Rock Songs In Movies
20 Awesome Horror Movies Streaming On Netflix Right Now
The 15 Best Movies Set In A Small Town
13 Movies You Should Never Watch With Your Significant Other
The 10 Most Brilliant Psychopaths In Movies
20 Overlooked Movies Made By Famous Directors
10 Movies That Revolutionized American Film Culture
The 10 Most Exquisitely Lit Films Of All Time
15 Movies With Shockingly Realistic Ending
10 Movies That Didn’t Do Their Source Material Justice
17 Disturbing Horror Movies You Will Never Watch Again
Rediscovering Hammer Horror: Top 10 Hammer Horror Films
The 10 Best Movies Adapted From A Shakespeare Play
10 Sci-Fi Movies So Bad They Are Hilarious
10 Horror Movies That Revolutionized The Genre
The 10 Best Generation X Directors
The 10 Most Divisive Movies Of The Century
The 10 Best Documentaries In Recent Memory
The 20 Weirdest Movies Of The 21st Century
20 Awesome Indie Movies You Probably Haven’t Seen
The 10 Scariest Serial Killer Movies Of All Time
10 Supporting Actors Who Stole The Show
10 Horror Movies We Hope Never Get Remade
The 10 Most Underrated Movie Performances In Recent Memory
The 10 Worst Superhero Movies Of All Time