• The Lighthouse
  • Prince Avalanche
  • Swiss Army Man
  • Barry Lyndon
  • Fanny and Alexander

Fahrts!

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Jake J 31 films
  • Lucky
  • Manglehorn
  • Magnolia
  • Holy Motors
  • Toni Erdmann

Best Random Singing/Musical Performance In a Film That Isn't a Musical or About Singing In Particular

No particular order. Links to each performance in notes!

Please comment suggestions :)

Also check out this sister list: Best…

  • The Queen's Gambit
  • 8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
  • Algorithms
  • Barbaric Genius
  • Black and White Like Day and Night

Chess

This is a list of films in which the main premise centers around the game of chess or those who…

  • The Place Beyond the Pines
  • Waves
  • No Country for Old Men
  • The Devil All the Time
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

Protagonal Shifts

The main protagonist changes or transitions in some strange abrupt way at some point during the film

  • Your Choice!
  • Fallen Angels
  • Heaven Knows What
  • The Sacrifice
  • Crime Wave

What Do You Recommend?

Leave a comment with a film you think I'd like or one you think is great in general. I'll add…

  • The Challenge
  • Sherpa
  • North Face
  • K2
  • The Summit
  • Dogtooth
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Satantango
  • Punch-Drunk Love
  • The Lighthouse

Best Random Dance Sequence In a Film That Isn't a Musical or About Dancing In Particular

Links to watch each dance in notes!

This is a list of mostly unmotivated or surprising dance sequences or scenes…

  • About Endlessness
  • Smoke
  • A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
  • You, the Living
  • Songs from the Second Floor
  • The Red Balloon
  • Waterworld
  • Cast Away
  • Harold and Maude
  • Cinema Paradiso

Affecting On-screen Deaths of Inanimate Objects

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SPOILERS ABOUND! Suggestions are welcome, but I will only be listing deaths to which I personally had an emotional reaction…

  • 10 Cloverfield Lane
  • The Adventures of Milo and Otis
  • Alien
  • All Is Lost
  • Antichrist

The MinimaList (10 Characters Or Less)

List criteria: Films with only 10 or less onscreen characters, including extras.

  • Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
  • Che: Part One
  • Che: Part Two
  • Apocalypse Now
  • Margaret
  • Repulsion
  • Rosemary's Baby
  • The Tenant
  • The Twilight Samurai
  • The Hidden Blade

Unconventional Trilogies

These are trilogies that aren't necessarily linked by a continuation or evolution of plot, but rather thematically.