World's Best War Films

A scene from David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia, who used guerrilla tactics with a small army to sever communications and supply lines against the Ottoman Empire in WW1
Updated: 6.01.11 (* = new additions)

I’ve expanded this list to include civilian stories during wartime (A Canterbury Tale, Mrs. Miniver), to the “Indian Wars” (the U.S. vs Native Americans, ie Dances With Wolves, Into the West),

World's Best Foreign Language Films

This is a subset of the non-English language films from all the other lists (my preferences, these are not from the Top Ranked on the Net survey we did - that post is listed seperately, as over 400 foreign language films made that list), with a few more worthy films added (* = new additions)

Updated: 5.13.11
8 ½ (1963) Italy, bw
13 Tzameti (2006) France, bw*
The 400 Blows (1959) France, bw*
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My Favorite 100 Movies

[Updated 1.5.11]
Films in gold won Best Picture Oscars®
(* = recent addition)

The Top 20 (alpha order): 2001, All About Eve, Babe, The Best Years of Our Lives, City of God (Brazil), Cinema Paradiso (Italy), The Conformist (Italy), Dr. Strangelove, The Godfather II, Hannah and Her Sisters, Hero (China), Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring (France), Lawrence of Arabia, Lord of the Rings

World's Best Nature Films

World's best nature films (updated 1/03/13) *=new




Baraka (Ron Fricke, 1992, doc.)*

The Bear (L'ours, 1988)
Flight of the Navigator

Fly Away Home

March of the Penguins (doc.)

Never Cry Wolf (1983)

Planet Earth (2007; mini-series, doc.)

Touching the Void

Walkabout (1971)

White Fang

Winged Migration (2001, doc.)



Dir: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats, 2001, France (10*

World's Best Romance Films

The world's best romance films, those without comedy Films in gold won Best Picture Oscars® (* = new additions)










A Room With a View (also in Romantic Comedy)
A Town Like Alice (mini-series)
A Very Long Engagement [photo rt]
The Age of Innocence
An Education * [photo top]
Atonement
Bad Timing, a Sexual Obsession
Brideshead Revisited (mini-series)
Casablanca
Children of a Lesser God
The

World's Best Children's Films

Live Action / or Mixed
A Christmas Story
A Boy Ten Feet Tall
The Bad News Bears
Babe
Black Stallion, The
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (animated/live mix)
The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T
Mary Poppins (animated/live action mix)
My Dog Skip
Peter Pan (2002, animated/live action mix) Animated
101 Dalmations (animated)
Beauty and the Beast (animated)
Cars (computer animated)
Finding Nemo (computer

World's Best Musical and Concert Films

A Coal Miner's Daughter
A Hard Days Night
All that Jazz
An American in Paris
Amadeus
Black Orpheus (France/Portugal)
Bride and Prejudice (India)
Carmen (Spain, flamenco version)
Chicago
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
The King and I
The Music Man
My Fair Lady
Singing in the Rain
Strictly Ballroom
West Side Story


Concert Films
The Cranberries: Live Dead Can Dance: Toward the

World's Best Crime Films

The worlds best crime and mystery films
Films in gold won Best Picture Oscars®


Atlantic City
Chinatown
Chungking Express (China)
City of God (Brazil)
The Conversation
The Departed
Diva (France)
Double Indemnity (bw)
Gangs of New York
The Godfather
The Godfather, Pt. II
Goodfellas
The Grifters
Heavenly Creatures
House of Games
La Femme Nikita (France)
The Lives of Others (Germany)
The Maltese