All the films I've seen, ranked and sorted by year (work in very slow progress)

2006

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these yet:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times: The Gaze (Negah) (Farsi); Glue (historia adolescente en medio nada) (Dos Santos); Land of the Blind (Edwards); Short Film about the Indio Nacional (Or the Prolonged Sorrow of Filipinos) (Martin); The Lost Hum (Hanauta-dorobou) (Hirosue).

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead: Walking on the Wild Side (Han); Un matin bonne heure (Fofana); Het zwijgen (Song from the Other Side) (Van der Hout & Schrover); Du jour au lendemain (Le Guay).

Oops, patience is running out: Langer licht (Northern Light) (Lammers); Un jour d'été (A Summer Day) (Guérin); The Living and the Dead (Rumley).

Never mind: La perrera (The Dog Pound) (Nieto Zas); La leyenda del tiempo (The Legend of Time) (Lacuesta).

Avoid:

2005

1. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black)
2. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Nick Park & Steve Box)
3. The Wayward Cloud (Tian bianyi duo yun) (Tsai Ming-liang)
4. Caché (Hidden) (Michael Haneke)
5. King Kong (Peter Jackson)
6. Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (Mike Johnson & Tim Burton)
7. Monobloc (Luis Ortega)
8. Lonesome Jim (Steve Buscemi)
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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these yet: Good Night, and Good Luck (Clooney); Mi mejor enemigo: Patagonia, 1978 (My Best Enemy (Bowen Carranza); L'avion (Kahn); Nine Lives (Garcia); Un fil à la patte (Deville); Linda Linda Linda (Yamashita); Walk the Line (Mangold).

No masterpiece, but still worth a look: Damn Street (Hong Yan) (Li); Munich (Spielberg); Seven Invisble Men (Bartas); Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Gibney); Dead Time (Sanguedolce); Three Times (Zui hao de shi guang) (Hou).

Still good, but you might get bored at times: Madeinusa (Llosa); Where th Truth Lies (Egoyan); The Bow (Hawl) (Kim); Ski Jumping Pairs - Road to Torino (Riichiro & Masaki); Saw II (Bousman); The Ice Harvest (Ramis); Le petit lieutenant (Beauvois); Mutual Appreciation (Bujalski); 13 (Tzameti) (Babluani); Viva Zapatero! (Guzzanti); Grain in Ear (Mang zhong) (Zhang); L'ivresse du pouvoir (Chabrol); Taking Father Home (Bei ya zi de nan hai) (Ying).

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead: Tristan + Isolde (Reynolds); I'm the Angel of Death - Pusher III (Refn); 20 centimetros (Salazar); Zathura (Favreau); Heart, Beating in the Dark (Nagaski); Blue Cha Cha (Shen Hai) (Cheng); Mrs. Henderson Presents (Frears); Seven Swords (Qi jian) (Tsui); La boîte noire (Berry); Old Joy (Reichardt); Fun with Dick and Jane (Parisot); Midnight, My Love (Cherm) (Jaturanrassamee); J'ai vu tuer Ben Barka (Le Péron); Prime (Younger).

Oops, patience is running out: Analife (Goda); Gie (Riza); Cocaine Angel Tully); The Family Stone (Bezucha); Proof (Madden); Chaos (Giglio); Ode to Joy (Kazejak-Dawid, Komasa & Migas); The Matador (Shephard); The Fog (Wainwright); Nine Emotions (Navarasa) (Sivan); Spiele Leben (You Bet Your Life) (Svoboda); Song of Songs (Appignanesi); Avenge But One of My Two Eyes (Mograbi);.

Never mind: The Pink Panther (Levy); The Man (Mayfield); Bandidas (Roenning & Sandberg); Rumor Has It (Reiner); Green Street Hooligans (Alexander).

Avoid:

2004

1. The World (Shijie) (Jia Zhang-ke)
2. Home on the Range (Will Finn & John Sandford)
3. Citizen Dog (Wisit Sasanatieng)
4. Heimat 3 (Edgar Reitz)
5. Omagh (Pete Travis)
6. Bin-jip (Kim Ki-duk)
7. Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)
8. Birth (Jonathan Glazer)
9. Mean Creek (Jacob Aaron Estes)
10. Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)

Close but no cigar: Ray (Hackford); Un long dimanche de fiançailles (Jeunet); De-lovely (Winkler).

How come you haven't seen these yet: Temporada de patos (Eimbcke); Kikyo (Hagiuda); Ae Fond Kiss… (Loach); 25 Degrées en hiver (Vuillet); Million Dollar Baby (Eastwood); 9 Songs (Winterbottom); Der Untergang (Hirschbiegel); Dear Frankie (Auerbach).

No masterpiece, but still worth a look: Mysterious Skin (Araki); Dias de Santiago (Mendes); Tony Takitani (Ichikawa); Saw (Wan); The Assassination of Richard Nixon (Mueller); Bienvenue en Suisse (Fazer); La femme de Gilles (Fonteyne); Mar adentro (The Sea inside) (Amenábar); The Stepford Wives (Oz); Café Lumière (Kohi Jikou) (Hou); The Manchurian Candidate (Demme); Soba (Coton); Before Sunset (Linklater); Calvaire (Du Welz); Palindromes (Solondz); Nobody Knows (Kore-eda); The Honeymooners (Schultz); Dalecarlians (Blom); Wild Side (Lifshitz); Podium (Moix).

Still good, but you might get bored at times: Samaria (Kim); A Good Woman (Barker); A Dirty Shame (Waters); Closer (Nichols); Kung Fu Hustle (Chow); Garden State (Braff); El cielito (Little Sky) (Menis); Darwin's Nightmare (Sauper); Folie privée (Private Madness) (Lafosse); Rize (La Chapelle); Aaltra (Delépine & Kervern); The Taste of Tea (Cha no aji) (Ishii); Mouth to Mouth (Murray); Breaking News (Dai Sigin) (To).

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead: Room (Henry); Sideways (Payne); Somersault (Shortland); The Upside of Anger (Binder); La mala educación (Bad Education) (Almodóvar); Strings (Ronnow-Klarlund); Crónicas (Cordero); My Summer of Love (Pawlikowski); Los muertos (Alonso); Two Great Sheep (Haoda yidui yang) (Liu); El crimen ferpecto (The Ferpect Crime) (de la Iglesia); Maria Full of Grace (Marston); A Home at the End of the World (Mayer); Mon ange (My Angel) (Frydman); Melinda and Melinda (Allen); Yes (Potter); Red Eye (Craven); House of Flying Daggers (Shimian maifu) (Zhang); Sommersturm (Summer Storm) (Kreuzpaintner); La demoiselle d'honneur (The Bridesmaid) (Chabrol); Steve + Sky (Van Groeningen); Pour le plaisir (Everybody Is a Killer) (Deruddere); Dopo mezzanotte (After Midnight) (Ferrario); Mindhunters (Harlin); The Libertine (Dunmore); It's All Gone Pete Tong (Dowse); Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; (Gondry); Ab-normal Beauty (Sei mong se jun) (Pang); The Door in the Floor (Williams); I Heart Huckabees (Russell); Stray Dogs (Sag-haye velgard) (Meshkini); The Grudge (Shimizu); Turtles Can Fly (Ghobadi); One Nite in Mongkok (Mongkok hakye) (Yee); Three Dots (Se noughta) (Sadat); The Teenager (Orzu ortida) (Tuychiev); Days and Hours (Kod amidze idriza) (Zalica).

Oops, patience is running out: Whisky (Rebella & Stoll); Woman Is The Future of Man (Yeojaneun namjavi miraeda) (Hong); King's Game (Kongekabale) (Arcel); The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Andersen); 06/05 - De film (06/05 - The Sixth of May) (Van Gogh); Layer Cake (Vaughn); To Take a Wife (Velakachta lecha isha) (Elkabetz & Elkabetz); The Wedding Date (Kilner); 4 (Khrzhanovsky); Lila dit ça (Lila Says) (Doueiri); Love Battlefield (Oi, chok chin) (Cheang); The Gravel Road (Chemman Chaalai) (Menon); El emir (The Prince) (Zran); O heroi (The Hero) (Gamboa); Adam & Paul (Abrahamson); So Cute (Gwiyeoweo) (Kim); Trona (Fenster); Let the Wind Blow (Have aney dey) (Gupta); Barbecue (Shaokao) (Jun); The Bourne Supremacy (Greengrass); The Village (Shyamalan); À tout de suite (Right Now) (Jacquot); Schizo (Omarova); Ghost in the Shell II: Innocence (Oshii); Tropical Malady (Sud pralad) (Weerasethakul); Wicker Park (McGuigan); Czech Dream (Cesky sen) (Remunda & Klusák); Babylon Disease (Babylonsjukan) (Espinosa); Hardcore (Illiadis); Ma mère (My Mother) (Honoré); The Forgotten (Ruben); Dawn of the Dead (Snyder); Dans les champs debataille (In the Battlefields) (Arbid); Familia rodante (Rolling Family) (Trapero); Mix (Lovy); Mur (Wall) (Bitton); Bitter Dreams (Khab-e talkh) (Amiryoussedi); Una de dos (One or the Other) (Taube); Private (Costanzo); Jovenes (Youth) (Termens & Torras); Chased By Dreams (Swapner din) (Dasgupta).

Never mind: The Hunter (Anshi) (Aprymov); Bombón el perro (Bombon: the Dog) (Sorin); The Long Weekend (Holden); Zulu Love Letter (Suleman); BUENA VIDA (delivery) (Di Cesare); El abrazo partido (Lost Embrace) (Burman); River's End (Gavkhouni) (Afkhami); Vento di terra (Marra); Tarfaya (Aoulad-Syad); Somewhere in between (Coulibeuf).

Avoid:

2002

1. 24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom)
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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these yet:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind: Historias minimas (Minimal Stories) (Sorin).

Avoid: AKA (Roy).

2001

1. Me without You (Sandra Goldbacher)
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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these yet:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind: Gas Attack (Glenaan).

Avoid:

1997

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these yet:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look: Funny Games (Haneke).

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind: Regarde la mer (See the Sea) (Ozon).

Avoid:

1991

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these yet:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead: Stranger (Yoru no stranger - Kyofu!) (Nagasaki).

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1982

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these yet:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look: Querelle (Fassbinder).

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1979

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these yet:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead: L'adolescente (Moreau).

Oops, patience is running out: Island of Mutations (L'isola degli uomini pesce) (Martino).

Never mind:

Avoid:

1977

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these yet:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead: The Summer Yuki Gave up Rock Music (Yuki ga rock o suteta natsu) (Nagasaki).

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1976

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times: Insiang (Brocka).

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1975

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead: Mutter Küster fahrt zum Himmel (Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven) (Fassbinder).

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1970

1. Peau d'âne (Donkey Skin) (Jacques Demy)
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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either: Bande de cons! (Bunch of Assholes!) (Lethem).

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1969

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these yet:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead: Tepepa (Petroni).

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind: L'étreinte (The Embrace) (Collet & Drouot).

Avoid: L'amour c'est gai, l'amour c'est triste (Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad) (Pollet).

1968

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look: The Immortal Story (Welles).

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1967

1. Les demoiselles de Rochefort (The Young Girls of Rochefort) (Jacques Demy)
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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these yet:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look: Mouchette (Bresson).

Still good, but you might get bored at times: The Graduate (Nichols).

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1966

1. The Sand Pebbles (Robert Wise)
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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1965

1. Viva Maria! (Louis Malle)
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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look: Stage Sisters (Wutai jiemei) (Xie).

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead: Seven Women (Ford).

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1964

1. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look: Il vangelo secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew) (Pasolini).

Still good, but you might get bored at times: The Great Killing (Dai satsujin) (Eiichi).

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid: Lorna (Meyer).

1963

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look: Father Takes a Bride (Xiao er nü) (Wang).

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out: Le feu follet (The Fire within) (Malle).

Never mind:

Avoid:

1962

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either: Le procès de Jeanne d'Arc (The Trial of Joan of Arc) (Bresson).

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out: Ivanovo detstvo (My Name Is Ivan) (Tarkovski).

Never mind:

Avoid:

1961

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look: Underworld USA (Fuller).

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1960

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead: Zazie dans le métro (Malle).

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1959

1. Gigi (Vincente Minnelli)
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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either: Misterios de ultratumba (The Black Pit of Dr. M) (Mendez).

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out: The Crimson Kimono (Fuller).

Never mind: .

Avoid:

1958

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either: Les amants (The Lovers) (Malle).

No masterpiece, but still worth a look: Lettre de Sibérie (Letter from Siberia) (Marker).

Still good, but you might get bored at times: I Want to Live! (Wise).

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind: Verboten! (Fuller).

Avoid:

1957

1. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller)
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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either: China Gate (Fuller).

No masterpiece, but still worth a look: Ascenceur pour l'échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows) (Malle); El vampiro (The Vampire) (Mendez).

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1956

1. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either: Un condamné à mort s'est échappé (A Man Escaped) (Bresson).

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times: Moby Dick (Huston).

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead: Run of the Arrow (Fuller).

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1955

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead: Great Day in the Morning (J. Tourneur).

Oops, patience is running out: House of Bamboo (Fuller).

Never mind:

Avoid:

1952

1. Roma, ore undici (Rome 11:00) (Giuseppe De Santis)
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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times: Park Row (Fuller).

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead: The Captive City (Wise).

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1951

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either: The Day the Earth Stood Still (Wise).

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times: People Will Talk (Mankiewicz).

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead: The Steel Helmet (Fuller); Fixed Bayonets (Fuller).

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1950

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either: Non c’e pace tra glu ulivi (No Peace under the Olive Trees) (De Santis).

No masterpiece, but still worth a look: The Baron of Arizona (Fuller); The Life of Wu Xun (Wu Xun zhuan) (Sun).

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead: Born Yesterday (Cukor).

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1949

1. Colorado Territory (Raoul Walsh)
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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1948

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either: Germania anno zero (Rossellini); Caught (Ophuls).

No masterpiece, but still worth a look: Blood on the Moon (Wise).

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead: Spring in a Small Town (Xiao cheng zhi chun) (Fei).

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1947

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either: Pursued (Walsh).

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead: The Late George Apley (Mankiewicz).

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1946

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times: The Diary of a Chambermaid (Renoir).

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead: The Woman on the Beach (Renoir).

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1945

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead: The Southerner (Renoir); The Body Snatcher (Wise).

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1943

1. Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look: Cat People (J. Tourneur).

Still good, but you might get bored at times: This Land Is Mine (Renoir).

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead: The Leopard Man (J. Tourneur).

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1942

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look: One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (Pressburger & Powell).

Still good, but you might get bored at times: I bambini ci guardano (Children Are Watching Us) (De Sica).

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1941

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times: Swamp Water (Renoir).

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead: La nave bianca (The White Ship) (Rossellini).

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1940

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either: The Grapes of Wrath (Ford).

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1939

1. Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch)
2. La règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game) (Jean Renoir)
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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid: Sergeant Madden (von Sternberg).

1937

1. La grande illusion (Grand Illusion) (Jean Renoir)
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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look: Song at Midnight (Yeban gesheng) (Ma-xu).

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1936

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times: The King Steps out (von Sternberg).

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1935

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these yet:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead: The Devil Is a Woman (von Sternberg); Crime and Punishment (von Sternbeg).

Oops, patience is running out: Le crime de monsieur Lange (The Crime of Monsieur Lange) (Renoir).

Never mind:

Avoid:

1934

1. The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg)
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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look: The Goddess (Shen nü) (Wu).

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind: The Black Cat (Ulmer).

Avoid:

1933

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either: The Invisible Man (Whale).

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1932

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either: Shangai Express (von Sternberg).

No masterpiece, but still worth a look: Blonde Venus (von Sternberg).

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1931

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look: Inspiration (Brown).

Still good, but you might get bored at times: Dishonored (von Sternberg).

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind: An American Tragedy (von Sternberg).

Avoid:

1930

1. Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel) (Josef von Sternberg)
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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times: Morocco (von Sternberg).

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1929

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead: Thunderbolt (von Sternberg); Tire-au-flanc (Renoir).

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1928

1. The Last Command (Josef von Sternberg)
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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1927

1. Berlin, die Symphonie der Großstadt (Berlin, Symphony of a Great City) (Walter Ruttman)
2. Underworld (Josef von Sternberg)
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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these yet:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1925

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times: The Salvation Hunters (von Sternberg).

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1921

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either: The Kid (Chaplin).

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

1910

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Close but no cigar:

How come you haven't seen these either:

No masterpiece, but still worth a look:

Still good, but you might get bored at times:

Not bad, but why don't you read a book instead:

Oops, patience is running out:

Never mind:

Avoid:

Speaking about madness!