My Favorite Krzysztof Kieslowski Films

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   The Decalogue (1988)
(Polish TV Miniseries)

2.   Three Colors: Red (1994)

3.   Three Colors: Blue (1993)

4.   Three Colors: White (1994)

5.   The Double Life Of Veronique (1991)

6.   A Short Film About Love (1988)

7.   A Short Film About Killing (1988)

8.   No End (1985)

9.   Camera Buff (1979)

10. The Scar (1976)

11. Blind Chance (1987)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   The Office (1966)

2.   Tramway (1966)

3.   Concert of Requests (1967) 

My Favorite Steve James Films

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Documentaries)

1.   Hoop Dreams (1994)

2.   The New Americans (2004)
(co-directed with Gordon Quinn and Gita Saedi)
(Television)

3.   The Interrupters (2011)

4.   Life Itself (2014)

5.   Stevie (2003)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *) (Documentaries)

1.   Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (2016) 

2.   Head Games (2012)

3.   At the Death House Door (2008)

4.   Reel Paradise (2005)

My Favorite Alfred Hitchcock Films

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Vertigo (1958)

2.   Marnie (1964)

3.   Family Plot (1976)

4.   Under Capricorn (1949)

5.   The Birds (1963)

6.   The Wrong Man (1956)

7.   The Trouble with Harry (1955)

8.   Psycho (1960)

9.   Rear Window (1954)

10. Frenzy (1972)

11. I Confess (1953)

12. Strangers on a Train (1951)

13. Rope (1948)

14. Notorious (1946)

15. North by Northwest (1959)

16. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

17. The Lady Vanishes (1938)

18. Sabotage (1936)
(I watched it online)

19. The 39 Steps (1935)

20. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

21. Stage Fright (1950)

22. Lifeboat (1944)

23. Rebecca (1940)

24. Foreign Correspondent (1940)

25. To Catch a Thief (1955)

26. Dial M for Murder (1954)

27. Suspicion (1941)

28. Young and Innocent (1937)
(I watched it online)

29. Rich and Strange (1931)
(I watched it online)

30. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
(no relation to the 2005 film)

31. Murder! (1930)

32. Blackmail (1929)

33. The Ring (1927)

34. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)

35. Topaz (1969)

36. Spellbound (1945)

37. Torn Curtain (1966)

38. Saboteur (1942)

39. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour – Season 1 (1962)
39a. Episode: “I Saw the Whole Thing”
(Television)

40. The Paradine Case (1947)

41. Secret Agent (1936)
(I watched it online)

42. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

43. Number 17 (1932)
(I watched it online)

44. The Manxman (1929)
(I watched it online)

45. The Farmer’s Wife (1928)
(I watched it online)

46. Downhill (1927)

47. Champagne (1928)
(I watched it online)

48. Easy Virtue (1928)
(I 
watched it online)

49. Waltzes from Vienna (1934)
(I watched it online)

50. Jamaica Inn (1939)
(I watched it online)

51. The Skin Game (1931)
(I watched it online)

52. Mary (1931)

53. The Pleasure Garden (1925)
(I watched it online)

54. Juno and the Paycock (1930)
(I watched it online)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 1 (1955)
1a. Episode: “Revenge”
1b. Episode: “Breakdown”
1c. Episode: “The Case of Mr. Pelham”
(Television)

2.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 2 (1956/1956/1957)
2a. Episode: “Wet Saturday”
2b. Episode: “Mr. Blanchard’s Secret”
2c. Episode: “One More Mile to Go”
(Television)

3.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 3 (1957/1958/1958)
3a. Episode: “The Perfect Crime”
3b. Episode: “Lamb to the Slaughter”
3c. Episode: “Dip in the Pool”
(Television)

4.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 4 (1958/1959)
4a. Episode: “Poison”
4b. Episode: “Banquo’s Chair”
(Television)

5.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 5 (1959)
5a. Episode: “Arthur”
5b. Episode: “The Crystal Trench”
(Television)

6.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 6 (1960/1961)
6a. Episode: “Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat”
6b. Episode: “The Horseplayer”
(Television)

7.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 7 (1961)
7a. Episode: “Bang! You’re Dead”
(Television)

My Favorite Alan Clarke Films

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   The Firm (1989)
(TV Film)
(No relation to the 1993 Tom Cruise film)

2.   Made in Britain (1982)
(TV Film)

3.   Scum (1979)

4.   Scum (1977)
(TV Film)

5.   Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   Elephant (1989)

My Favorite Samuel Fuller Films

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Shock Corridor (1963)

2.   Park Row (1952)

3.   White Dog (1982)

4.   Pickup on South Street (1953)

5.   The Steel Helmet (1951)

6.   Run of the Arrow (1957)

7.   The Big Red One (1980)

8.   Forty Guns (1957)

9.   Verboten! (1959)

10. The Naked Kiss (1964)

11. China Gate (1957)

12. Underworld U.S.A. (1961)

13. Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (1974)

14. The Crimson Kimono (1959)

15. House of Bamboo (1955)

16. Merrill’s Marauders (1962)

17. Fixed Bayonets! (1951)

18. The Baron of Arizona (1950)

19. I Shot Jesse James (1949)

20. Hell and High Water (1954)

21. Street of No Return (1989)

22. Shark! (1969)
(a.k.a. “Caine” or “Maneater”)

23. The Virginian – Season 1 (1962)
23a. Episode: “It Tolls for Thee”
(Television)

24. Chillers (1990)
24a. Episode: “The Day of Reckoning”
(Television)

My Favorite John Frankenheimer Films

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

2.   The Comedian (1957)
(Episode of “Playhouse 90”)
(Television)

3.   Seconds (1966)

4.   Days of Wine and Roses (1958)
(Episode of “Playhouse 90”)
(Television)

5.   Seven Days in May (1964)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   Tales from the Crypt (1992)
(Episode: “Maniac at Large”)
(Cable/Television)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   Ronin (1998)

2.   52 Pick-Up (1986)

3.   French Connection II (1975)

My Favorite John Ford Films

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   The Sun Shines Bright (1953)

2.   The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

3.   Wagon Master (1950)

4.   7 Women (1966)

5.   Sergeant Rutledge (1960)

6.   The Long Gray Line (1955)

7.   Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

8.   Donovan’s Reef (1963)

9.   Two Rode Together (1961)

10. The Horse Soldiers (1959)

11. Gideon’s Day (1958)
(a.k.a. Gideon of Scotland Yard)

12. The Rising of the Moon (1957)
(Anthology)

13. The Wings of Eagles (1957)

14. The Searchers (1956)

15. The Quiet Man (1952)

16. Fort Apache (1948)

17. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

18. My Darling Clementine (1946)

19. The Long Voyage Home (1940)

20. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

21. The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)

22. The Whole Town’s Talking (1935)

23. Judge Priest (1934)

24. Pilgrimage (1933)

25. Hangman’s House (1928)

26. Four Sons (1928)

27. Upstream (1927)

28. 3 Bad Men (1926)

29. Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)

30. Doctor Bull (1933)

31. They Were Expendable (1945)

32. How Green Was My Valley (1941)

33. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

34. Stagecoach (1939)

35. Rio Grande (1950)

36. Wagon Train – Season 4 (1960)
36a. Episode: “The Colter Craven Story”
(Television)

37. 3 Godfathers (1948)

38. Mogambo (1953)

39. The Fugitive (1947)
(no relation to the TV series or the 1993 film)

40. Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)

41. The Hurricane (1937)

42. Wee Willie Winkie (1937)

43. The Informer (1935)

44. The Lost Patrol (1934)

45. Flesh (1932)

46. Just Pals (1920)

47. Hell Bent (1918)

48. Bucking Broadway (1917)

49. Straight Shooting (1917)

50. The Iron Horse (1924)

51. Tobacco Road (1941)

52. Air Mail (1932)

53. When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)

54. The Last Hurrah (1958)

55. Mister Roberts (1955)
(co-directed with Mervyn LeRoy)

56. Mary of Scotland (1936)

57. What Price Glory (1952)

58. Arrowsmith (1931)

59. The World Moves On (1934)

60. Four Men and a Prayer (1938)

61. The Shamrock Handicap (1926)
(I watched it online)

62. Up the River (1930)

63. Riley the Cop (1928)
(I watched it online)

64. Submarine Patrol (1938)
(I watched it online)

65. Men Without Women (1930)

66. Seas Beneath (1930)

67. The Blue Eagle (1926)
(I watched it online)

68. Born Reckless (1930)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   How the West Was Won (1962)
1a. Segment: “The Civil War (1861-1865)”
(Anthology)

2.   By Indian Post (1919)
(I watched it online)

My Favorite Rainer Werner Fassbinder Films

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
(German Miniseries)

2.   Querelle (1982)

3.   The Third Generation (1979)

4.   In a Year of 13 Moons (1978)

5.   Despair (1978)

6.   The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972)

7.   Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)

8.   Effi Briest (1974)

9.   Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

10. The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)

11. Veronika Voss (1982)

12. Fox and His Friends (1975)

13. Lola (1981)
(no relation to the 1961 film)

14. Mother Kusters’ Trip to Heaven (1975)

15. Chinese Roulette (1976)

16. Satan’s Brew (1976)

17. I Only Want You To Love Me (1976)
(German TV Film)

18. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)

19. Martha (1974)
(German TV Film)

20. World on a Wire (1973)
(German TV Serial)

21. Whity (1971)

22. Gods of the Plague (1970)

23. Katzelmacher (1969)

24. The American Soldier (1970)

25. Love Is Colder Than Death (1969)

26. Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970)
(co-directed with Michael Fengler)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Anthology Films)

1.   Germany in Autumn (1978)
(Documentary)

My Favorite Clint Eastwood Films

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   White Hunter Black Heart (1990)

2.   Bird (1988)

3.   Play Misty for Me (1971)

4.   Gran Torino (2008)

5.   The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

6.   A Perfect World (1993)

7.   Unforgiven (1992)

8.   Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

9.   Million Dollar Baby (2004)

10. Mystic River (2003)

11. Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

12. Pale Rider (1985)

13. Honkytonk Man (1982)

14. Bronco Billy (1980)

15. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) 

16. High Plains Drifter (1973)

17. The Blues (2003)
Episode: “Piano Blues”
(Documentary)
(Television)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   The Mule (2018)

2.   American Sniper (2014)

3.   Richard Jewell (2019)

4.   Sully (2016)

5.   Breezy (1973)

6.   Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

7.   The Gauntlet (1977)

8.   Firefox (1982)

9.   Sudden Impact (1983)

10. The Eiger Sanction (1975)

My Favorite George Cukor Films

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Sylvia Scarlett (1935)

2.   Bhowani Junction (1956)

3.   Adam’s Rib (1949)

4.   A Star Is Born (1954)

5.   Les Girls (1957)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   A Double Life (1947)

2.   Edward, My Son (1949)

3.   The Actress (1953)

4.   The Marrying Kind (1952)

5.   Pat and Mike (1952)

6.   Holiday (1938)

7.   The Philadelphia Story (1940)

8.   Love Among the Ruins (1975)
(Television)

9.   The Women (1939)

10. Travels with My Aunt (1972)

11. It Should Happen to You (1954)

12. The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951)

13. Born Yesterday (1950)

14. Gaslight (1944)

15. A Woman’s Face (1941)

16. Camille (1936)

17. Little Women (1933)

18. Dinner at Eight (1933)

19. David Copperfield (1935)