My Arbitrary Top 80 Favorite Films
By: Chris Casey
I love movies and I have tons of favorites.
I generally don’t like to make all-inclusive favorites lists. However, since someone special asked me to make a “Top 20 Favorite Films” list, I thought I would give it a shot. But, of course, I couldn’t just make it a Top 20…it has to be a Top 80!
And, trust me, it could easily have been a list of my Top 200 favorites!
As my favorites can change on a daily basis, keep in mind that any such list from me will be slightly, if not wholly, arbitrary.
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01Michael Curtiz
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02Sergio Leone
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03Carol Reed
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04John Sturges
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05Jean-Pierre Melville
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06Akira Kurosawa
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07Sergio Leone
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08William A. Seiter
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09Howard Hawks
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10John Huston
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11Howard Hawks
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12John Woo
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13John Woo
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14John Woo
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15Alfred Hitchcock
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16Seijun Suzuki
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17Joel Coen
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18Budd Boetticher
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19Budd Boetticher
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20Robert Aldrich
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21Robert Aldrich
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22Stanley Kubrick
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23Takashi Nomura
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24Takeshi Kitano
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25Takeshi Kitano
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26Kinji Fukasaku
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27Seijun Suzuki
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28Takumi Furukawa
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29Johnnie To
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30Howard Hawks
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31Sergio Corbucci
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32Sergio Corbucci
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33Marlon Brando
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34Sam Peckinpah
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35Sam Peckinpah
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36Sam Peckinpah
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37Sam Peckinpah
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38Sam Peckinpah
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39Stuart Heisler
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40George Marshall
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41Billy Wilder
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42George Pan Cosmatos
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43Frank Miller
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44Kenji Misumi
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45Howard Hawks
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46Frank Capra
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47Anthony Mann
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48Jules Dassin
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49Ringo Lam
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50Sergio Leone
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51Bernardo Bertolucci
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52Jean-Pierre Melville
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53Jean-Pierre Melville
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54Terence Young
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55Sergio Corbucci
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56Sergio Sollima
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57Sergio Leone
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58Rouben Mamoulian
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59Mario Camerini
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60Don Chaffey
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61Anthony Mann
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62Richard Brooks
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63Ringo Lam
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64Jacques Tourneur
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65Johnnie To
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66Frank Tuttle
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67Zhang Yimou
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68Mabel Cheung
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69Ram Gopal Varma
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70Samuel Fuller
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71Samuel Fuller
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72Samuel Fuller
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73Martin Ritt
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74Sydney Pollack
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75Arthur Penn
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76Paul Schrader
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77Allen Baron
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78Masaki Kobayashi
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79Francis Ford Coppola
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80Teddy Chan