[Poll] 2025 Insert Credit Forums Favorite Films

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In 2021 we conducted a survey of the forums’ favorite movies. Many of us weren’t around back then and it’s time for an update.

Please submit a list, in any order, of 10 films you love. Specify the year of release for all list items as well as the version if there are several, for example The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976 // 108-minute cut). Where multiple versions exist and none in particular is declared, I will assume the most popular version.

Remember this is not a contest, it’s a survey. Everyone is welcome to participate!

movieFAQs:

  • What is a film?
    • Does it feel like a film? —> It’s a film. (documentary, animation, music videos, experiments, individual TV episodes)
    • Does it feel more like something else? Not a film. (entire TV series, video games, the phonebook)
  • Can I rank my list?
    • You may rank your list for the sake of show-and-tell, but it will not have any effect on the final tally.

Like the latest edition of the video game poll, votes are cumulative. Unlike with games, if a film from the 2021 results receives no votes in 2025, that film is kicked off the list. For example, last time Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) received 3 votes. If it receives 2 votes in this instance, it will be noted for 5 votes. If it receives no votes this time, it will be back down to 0 for this poll and start there for any future polls. Hopefully this reflects the change in voting population since 2021 and doesn’t backfire in some horrible and unforeseen fashion.

Feel free to make changes to your list before the end of the submission period. Just reply to your previous post and tag me to make sure I see it.

Submit your list by May 30, 2025 10:00 PM.

Thank you for playing.

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See 2021 results here.

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Oh, so you’re remaking that list? Let me think and I’ll edit and put my own 10 movies, then :blush:

Céline and Julie go boating (1974)
Enthusiasm (1930)
The Passion of Joan d’Arc (1928)
The Crowd (1928)
Film Socialisme (2010)
Away with words (1999)
Pièce touchée (1989)
Tea and sympathy (1956)
An affair to remember (1957)
Mammame (1986)

Honourable mentions (not avantgarde films, since those are very difficult to see or share sometimes):
Rio Bravo (1959)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)
The Brown Bunny (2003)
Faust (1926)
Les Vampires (1915) - didn’t count it down since I feel it’s a film saga rather than a film per se, but dope thing, truly

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It begins

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Past Lives supremacy

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Alright, I’ll go.

  • Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  • Some Like It Hot (1959)
  • The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928; Criterion edition with accompanying Richard Einhorn 1994 composition Voices of Light)
  • Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind (1984)
  • The Princess Bride (1987)
  • Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  • The Terminator (1984)
  • Amelie (2001)
  • Apollo 13 (1995) Cat Balou (1965)
  • Excalibur (1981)
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Can I get a negative vote for Past Lives

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I wasn’t around for the 2021 poll, so this is exciting! I feel like my taste may be a little more basic than others on the forum, movies aren’t a thing I’ve dived into super deep, but these are still movies I love dearly.

Ikiru (1952)
Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Inland Empire (2006)
Rat Film (2016)
Supermarket Woman (1996)
A Short Film About Killing (1988)
The Cremator (1969)
The Invisible Man (1933)
Strike (1925)
Born in Flames (1983)

That was harder to narrow down to 10 than I expected! Had to make some tough cuts. I would like to give honorable mentions to Sex House (2012), Lucky (2017) and A Wolf House (2018). I love those too but slightly less than the other 10.

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Films I’ve seen a few times and still want to come back to. Many I am probably neglecting at the moment, but will get them next list:

  • Point Break (1991)
  • Dr. Strangelove (1964)
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  • Chungking Express (1994)
  • Mad Max Fury Road (2015)
  • Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)
  • Porco Rosso (1992)
  • Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
  • MacGruber (2010)
  • Beauty and the Beast (1991)
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Goated

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Oof, this is a category where my IRL normie acquaintances think I’m a weirdo, but I’m going to come off as remarkably lame in this crowd.

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Me and my garbage taste! These aren’t in any order because I’m not sure I could put them in order if I tried:

  • The Wicker Man (1973)
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
  • Time Walker (1982)
  • The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
  • Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920)
  • Righting Wrongs (1986)
  • Hereditary (2018)
  • Godzilla vs Hedorah (1971)
  • Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
  • Per Aspera Ad Astra (1981)

(This list edged out a few, like The Night Stalker (1972), Star Trek the Motion Picture (1979), and Dr Mabuse the Gambler (1922)-- they still deserve to be mentioned though!)

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Oooo have u read Richard Martin’s section of the film’s cinematic architecture? I was already enamored with it but that gave me an even higher appreciation for it

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One of the best opening night experiences of my life. Still shocked that theater wasn’t sold out.

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I haven’t, no! That sounds cool.

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I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve rewatched it for everything agent Desmond

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Very nearly made my list as well. Probably my favorite Godzilla. So much fun to look at.

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Come and See (1985)
Parasite (2019)
Drunken Master 2 (1978)
The Good, The Bad, The Weird (2008)
The Wind That Shakes The Barley (2006)
ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS DOOM (2020)
Sorry To Bother You (2016)
Once Were Warriors (1994)
Amadeus (1984)
Shoah (1985)

Might make some changes at some point but maybe not. It’s mostly my list from last time with some cooler replacements

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It’s probably the biggest constant favourite in this list for me since the 90’s, even though the reasons I love it are constantly changing.

It’s so vivid and colourful! That’s the joy of it!

Glad to see some more 1920’s love here!

Honestly this should be my secret 11th pick, it’s a real great one. It’s shockingly difficult to watch legitimately these day for some reason.

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Adventures of a Dentist (1965)
Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984)
Cure (1997)
Heart of Glass (1976)
I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
Junk Head (2017)
Poor Things (2023)
Princess Mononoke (1997)
Rebels of the Neon God (1992)
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)

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Yeahhhh that’s a good one.

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