My Letterboxd Lists
622 lists from my Letterboxd: my favorites and rankings, the films in my collection by genre, era and movement, and the films of the directors and stars I love. Updated November 15, 2026.
Favorites & Rankings · Genres, Eras & Movements · Directors & Stars A–Z
Favorites & Rankings
- 600 Of My All-Time Favorite Films600 films
- Matthew Sheldon's Top 101 Films About Love101 films
- Top 100 Action Films100 films
- Top 100 Films of the 2010's100 films
- Top 100 Horror Films100 films
- My Top 30 Japanese Anime30 films
- 25 Worst Movies I Would Never Have25 films
Genres, Eras & Movements in my collection
- 100 Slashers100 films
- 1915 to 1929 Films83 films
- 1930's Films211 films
- 1940's Films263 films
- 1950's Films338 films
- 1960's Films473 films
- 1970's Films475 films
- 1980's Films495 films
- 1990's Films509 films
- 2000's Films494 films
- 2010's Films478 films
- 2020 to 2025 Films145 films
- Action Films260 films
- African Films150 films
- Alien Films50 films
- Animated Films160 films
- British Kitchen Sink Realism10 films
- Children/Family Films100 films
- Christmas Movies35 films
- Comedy655 films
- Comic Book Movies76 films
- Cop Films100 films
- Czech New Wave12 films
- Documentary Films154 films
- Exploitation Films100 films
- Fantasy Films200 films
- Film Noir100 films
- French Extremity Horror20 films
- French New Wave50 films
- Gangster Films150 films
- German Expressionism15 films
- Ghost Films65 films
- Giallo Films30 films
- History Films200 films
- Horror655 films
- Italian Neorealism30 films
- Japanese New Wave25 films
- Just the 1939 Films32 films
- LGBTQ Movies50 films
- Martial Arts Movies70 films
- Monster Films60 films
- Most Depressing Films30 films
- Musicals104 films
- Neo Noir Films100 films
- New German Cinema25 films
- Pixar Films9 films
- Poetic Realism10 films
- Romance Films200 films
- Russian Soviet Films30 films
- Samurai Films65 films
- Science Fiction250 films
- Screwball Comedies50 films
- Serial Killer Films50 films
- Shakespeare Adaptations15 films
- Teen Films75 films
- Vampire Films41 films
- Walt Disney Films10 films
- Westerns120 films
- Zombie Films41 films
Directors & Stars A–Z
A
- Abbas Kiarostami 9
- Abel Ferrara 5
- Agnes Varda 12
- Aki Kaurismäki 7
- Akira Kurosawa 18
- Alain Delon 7
- Alain Resnais 6
- Alan Arkin 9
- Alan J. Pakula 4
- Alan Ladd 4
- Alan Parker 4
- Albert Finney 8
- Alec Guinness 16
- Alejandro Jodorowsky 6
- Alexander Korda 3
- Alexander Mackendrick 3
- Alfred Hitchcock 33
- Al Pacino 22
- Anatole Litvak 3
- André De Toth 2
- Andrei Tarkovsky 7
- Andrey Zvyagintsev 3
- Andrzej Wajda 5
- Angela Lansbury 6
- Ang Lee 8
- Anna Karina 7
- Anna Magnani 6
- Ann Dvorak 3
- Anne Bancroft 4
- Anne Baxter 5
- Ann Sheridan 4
- Anthony Asquith 3
- Anthony Hopkins 20
- Anthony Mann 8
- Anthony Perkins 10
- Anthony Quinn 7
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul 4
- Arnold Schwarzenegger 8
- Arthur Penn 5
- Atom Egoyan 2
- Audrey Hepburn 12
- Ava Gardner 8
B
- Barbara Stanwyck 15
- Barbet Schroeder 5
- Basil Dearden 3
- Basil Rathbone 7
- Bela Lugosi 9
- Bela Tarr 4
- Bernardo Bertolucci 6
- Bertrand Tavernier 3
- Bette Davis 18
- Billy Wilder 17
- Bing Crosby 5
- Blake Edwards 7
- Bob Hopkins 7
- Boris Karloff 9
- Brian DePalma 10
- Brian G. Hutton 2
- Brigitte Bardot 3
- Bruce Beresford 3
- Bruce Dern 17
- Bruce Lee 5
- Burt Lancaster 21
- Buster Keaton 11
C
- Carl Th. Dreyer 6
- Carol Lombard 4
- Carol Reed 5
- Cary Grant 21
- Catherine Deneuve 9
- Chantal Akerman 4
- Charles Boyer 6
- Charles Bronson 6
- Charles Burnett 2
- Charles Chaplin 11
- Charles Crichton 3
- Charles Laughton 13
- Charlton Heston 8
- Chishu Ryu 12
- Chris Marker 2
- Christopher Lee 12
- Claire Denis 7
- Clarence Brown 5
- Clark Gable 11
- Claude Berri 3
- Claude Chabrol 7
- Claude Rains 12
- Claudette Colbert 6
- Claudia Cardinale 7
- Clint Eastwood 16
- Clint Eastwood 9
- Cloris Leachman 2
- Coen Brothers 13
- Conrad Veidt 4
- Costa-Gavras 4
D
- D. W. Griffith 5
- Dana Andrews 9
- Daniel Day Lewis 16
- Dardienne Brothers 7
- Dario Argento 8
- David Cronenberg 11
- David Fincher 10
- David Lean 13
- David Lynch 13
- David Niven 7
- Dean Stockwell 8
- Deborah Kerr 9
- Dennis Hopper 17
- Denzel Washington 16
- Dirk Bogarde 7
- Donna Reed 4
- Don Siegel 6
- Doris Day 3
- Douglas Sirk 4
- Dustin Hoffman 20
E
- Edgar G. Ulmer 3
- Edmund Goulding 4
- Edward Dmytryk 4
- Edward G. Robinson 12
- Edward Yang 3
- Elia Kazan 12
- Eli Wallach 7
- Elizabeth Taylor 10
- Ellen Burstyn 7
- Emil Jannings 4
- Emmanuelle Riva 4
- Erich von Stroheim 3
- Eric Rohmer 11
- Erland Josephson 13
- Ermanno Olmi 2
- Ernest Borgnine 11
- Ernest Lubitsch 10
- Errol Flynn 7
- Ethel Barrymore 3
- Ettore Scola 2
- Eva Marie Saint 2
F
- F.W. Murnau 6
- Faye Dunaway 7
- Federico Fellini 15
- Fernando Rey 6
- Francesco Rosi 3
- Francois Truffaut 18
- Frank Borzage 4
- Frank Capra 9
- Franklin J. Schaffner 4
- Frank Sinatra 6
- Fred Astair 10
- Fredric March 12
- Fred Zinnemann 8
- Fritz Lang 18
G
- G.W. Pabst 5
- Gary Cooper 16
- Gary Oldman 20
- Gene Hackman 20
- Gene Kelly 6
- Gene Tierney 7
- Gene Wilder 5
- George A. Romero 6
- George C. Scott 8
- George Cukor 12
- George Lucas 7
- George Raft 4
- George Roy Hill 4
- George Sanders 10
- George Seaton 2
- Georges Franju 3
- George Stevens 10
- Gérard Depardieu 13
- Gillo Pontecorvo 2
- Ginger Rogers 8
- Giulietta Masina 8
- Glenn Ford 6
- Gloria Grahame 7
- Grace Kelly 6
- Greer Garson 5
- Gregory Peck 16
- Greta Garbo 7
- Gunnar Bjornstrand 16
H
- Hal Ashby 6
- Hanna Schygulla 6
- Harold Lloyd 5
- Harvey Keitel 16
- Hattie McDaniel 2
- Hayao Miyazaki 10
- Héctor Babenco 2
- Helen Mirren 9
- Henri-Georges Clouzot 6
- Henry Fonda 20
- Henry Hathaway 5
- Henry King 3
- Henry Koster 3
- Hideko Takamine 3
- Hirokazu Kore-eda 6
- Hiroshi Inagaki 3
- Hiroshi Teshigahara 3
- Home Invasion 40
- Hou Hsiao-hsien 3
- Howard Hawks 15
- Humphrey Bogart 26
- Humphrey Jennings 2
I
J
- J. Lee Thompson 3
- Jack Clayton 2
- Jack Conway 3
- Jackie Chan 7
- Jack Lemmon 13
- Jack Nicholson 21
- Jack Palance 8
- Jacques Audiard 3
- Jacques Becker 3
- Jacques Demy 6
- Jacques Rivette 4
- Jacques Tati 6
- Jacques Tourneur 5
- James Cagney 12
- James Coburn 7
- James Dean 3
- James Mason 11
- James Stewart 22
- James Whale 6
- Jane Campion 4
- Jane Fonda 8
- Jane Greer 3
- Janet Leigh 8
- Jane Wyman 6
- Jan Troell 4
- Jaromil Jireš 2
- Jean-Louis Trintignant 8
- Jean-Luc Godard 17
- Jean-Paul Belmondo 7
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet 5
- Jean-Pierre Léaud 18
- Jean-Pierre Melville 9
- Jean Arthur 10
- Jean Cocteau 4
- Jeanette MacDonald 6
- Jean Gabin 8
- Jean Harlow 7
- Jean Negulesco 3
- Jeanne Moreau 13
- Jean Renoir 13
- Jean Simmons 8
- Jean Vigo 3
- Jennifer Jones 7
- Jet Li 6
- Jiří Menzel 2
- Joan Bennett 6
- Joan Blondall 9
- Joan Crawford 10
- Joan Fontaine 8
- Joanne Woodward 4
- Joel McCrea 6
- Joe Pesci 10
- John Barrymore 4
- John Boorman 4
- John Carpenter 10
- John Cassavettes 8
- John Cleese 4
- John Cromwell 3
- John Ford 21
- John Frankenheimer 6
- John Garfield 7
- John Gielgud 9
- John Gilbert 3
- John Hughes 3
- John Hurt 13
- John Huston 15
- John Schlesinger 5
- John Sturges 6
- John Waters 7
- John Wayne 20
- John Woo 4
- Jon Voight 8
- Josef von Sternberg 10
- Joseph Cotton 16
- Joseph H. Lewis 2
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz 11
- Joseph Losey 3
- Judi Dench 3
- Judith Anderson 9
- Judy Garland 6
- Jules Dassin 5
- Julie Andrews 5
- Julie Christie 9
- Julien Duvivier 2
- Juliette Binoche 14
K
- Kaneto Shindo 3
- Karl Malden 13
- Katherine Hepburn 15
- Keisuke Kinoshita 2
- Kenji Mizoguchi 9
- Ken loach 2
- Ken Russell 3
- Kim Jee-woon 3
- Kim Novak 3
- King Vidor 5
- Kinji Fukasaku 2
- Kirk Douglas 16
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa 2
- Klaus Kinski 8
- Kon Ichikawa 5
- Krzysztof Kieslowski 8
- Kyoko Kagawa 4
L
- Lana Turner 5
- Larisa Shepitko 2
- Lars von Trier 9
- Lauren Bacall 10
- Laurence Olivier 17
- Lee J. Cobb 8
- Lee Marvin 12
- Lee Remick 6
- Lee Van Cleef 7
- Leni Riefenstahl 3
- Leo McCarey 8
- Leonardo Dicaprio 17
- Leos Carax 3
- Leslie Howard 6
- Lewis Milestone 4
- Lillian Gish 9
- Lindsay Anderson 3
- Lionel Barrymore 9
- Liv Ullmann 12
- Lizabeth Scott 4
- Lon Chaney 3
- Lon Chaney Jr 5
- Loretta Young 2
- Louis Malle 11
- Luc Besson 3
- Luchino Visconti 9
- Lucio Fulci 8
- Luis Bunuel 17
M
- Maggie Smith 7
- Marcel Carné 4
- Marcello Mastroianni 9
- Marco Ferreri 2
- Marilyn Monroe 10
- Mario Bava 8
- Mario Monicelli 3
- Mark Robson 5
- Mark Sandrich 4
- Marlene Dietrich 12
- Marlon Brando 22
- Martin Landau 5
- Martin Ritt 4
- Martin Scorsese 24
- Martin Sheen 7
- Marx Brothers 7
- Mary Astor 9
- Masahiro Shinoda 3
- Masaki Kobayashi 6
- Maureen O' Hara 5
- Maurice Chevalier 6
- Maurice Pialat 4
- Max Ophüls 6
- Max von Sydow 24
- Melvyn Douglas 8
- Merle Oberon 3
- Mervyn LeRoy 9
- Meryl Streep 13
- Meryl Streep 12
- Michael Caine 21
- Michael Curtiz 13
- Michelangelo Antonioni 10
- Michel Piccoli 14
- Mickey Rooney 6
- Mike Leigh 8
- Mike Nichols 8
- Mikhail Kalatozov 3
- Mikio Naruse 2
- Miklós Jancsó 2
- Milos Forman 6
- Ming-liang Tsai 3
- Mira Nair 2
- Miriam Hopkins 10
- Mitchell Leisen 4
- Monica Vitti 6
- Montgomery Clift 11
- Morgan Freeman 13
- Myrna Loy 8
N
- Nagisa Ōshima 10
- Na Hong-jin 2
- Natalie Wood 6
- Nicholas Ray 7
- Nicholas Roeg 5
- Norman Jewison 7
- Norman Z. McLeod 4
- Norma Shearer 4
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan 3
O
P
- Park Chan-wook 7
- Patricia Neal 6
- Paul Leni 2
- Paul Muni 4
- Paul Newman 16
- Paul Schrader 5
- Paul Thomas Anderson 10
- Paul Verhoeven 6
- Pedro Almodovar 10
- Peter Cushing 6
- Peter Falk 6
- Peter Lorre 8
- Peter O'Toole 9
- Peter Sellers 9
- Peter Watkins 2
- Philippe Noiret 6
- Philip Seymour Hoffman 20
- Pier Paolo Pasolini 12
- Pietro Germi 2
- Piper Laurie 2
- Powell & Pressburger 11
- Preston Sturges 6
Q
R
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder 10
- Randolph Scott 8
- Raoul Walsh 8
- Ray Milland 8
- René Clair 4
- René Clément 3
- Rex Harrison 6
- Richard Attenborough 6
- Richard Brooks 6
- Richard Burton 9
- Richard Conte 5
- Richard Fleischer 6
- Richard Harris 6
- Richard Widmark 9
- Ridley Scott 9
- Rita Hayworth 3
- Ritwik Ghatak 2
- Robert Aldrich 6
- Robert Altman 9
- Robert Bresson 11
- Robert De Niro 32
- Robert Donat 3
- Robert Duvall 21
- Robert Flaherty 2
- Robert Hamer 2
- Robert Mitchum 16
- Robert Montgomery 4
- Roberto Rossellini 9
- Robert Redford 9
- Robert Rossen 3
- Robert Ryan 11
- Robert Shaw 5
- Robert Siodmak 6
- Robert Stevenson 3
- Robert Wise 14
- Robin Williams 15
- Rock Hudson 7
- Rod Steiger 9
- Roman Polanski 10
- Ronald Coleman 4
- Rosalind Russell 4
- Rouben Mamoulian 4
- Roy Scheider 7
S
- Sal Mineo 5
- Sam Peckinpah 6
- Samuel Fuller 9
- Sam Wood 7
- Sandrine Bonnaire 4
- Satoshi Kon 4
- Satyajit Ray 8
- Sean Connery 13
- Sean Penn 17
- Seijun Suzuki 6
- Sergei Eisenstein 6
- Sergei Parajanov 2
- Sergio Corbucci 2
- Sergio Leone 6
- Sergio Martino 4
- Setsuko Hara 6
- Shelley Winters 9
- Shinya Tsukamoto 6
- Shirley McClane 7
- Shohei Imamura 8
- Sidney Lumet 14
- Sidney Poitier 11
- Sion Sono 2
- Sophia Loren 2
- Spencer Tracy 16
- Spike Lee 8
- Stanley Donen 6
- Stanley Kramer 6
- Stanley Kubrick 12
- Stephane Audran 6
- Sterling Hayding 7
- Steve McQueen 11
- Steven Spielberg 21
- Susan Hayward 6
- Sydney Pollack 5
- Sylvester Stallone 8
- Sylvia Sidney 6
T
- Takashi Shimura 7
- Takeshi Kitano 2
- Tatsuya Nakadai 17
- Teinosuke Kinugasa 2
- Terence Davis 2
- Terence Fisher 4
- Teresa Wright 7
- Terrence Malick 5
- Thelma Ritter 9
- Theo Angelopoulos 2
- Thomas Vinterberg 3
- Tilda Swinton 16
- Tippi Hedrin 2
- Tobe Hooper 6
- Todd Browning 4
- Tom Hanks 16
- Tony Curtis 7
- Tony Richardson 5
- Toshiro Mifune 18
- Trevor Howard 7
- Tyrone Power 3
V
- Vanessa Redgrave 11
- Veronica Lake 5
- Victor Erice 3
- Victor Fleming 4
- Victor Sjöström 3
- Vilgot Sjöman 3
- Vincent Minnelli 7
- Vincent Price 16
- Virginia Mayo 2
- Vitorrio Gassman 6
- Vittorio de Sica 7
- Vivien Leigh 4
- Volker Schlondorff 3
W
- W. S. Van Dyke 3
- Walter Brennan 11
- Walter Huston 6
- Walter Matthau 9
- Warren Oats 6
- Werner Herzog 15
- Wes Anderson 9
- Wes Craven 10
- William Dieterle 4
- William Friedkin 6
- William Holden 12
- William Powell 8
- William Wellman 8
- William Wyler 20
- Wim Wenders 10
- Wong Kar-Wai 9
- Woody Allen 23
