This is the composite listing of 63 of DVDBeaver's ListServ members' top 20 film choices. Each individual has shared his selections on the YMdb website listed on our page HERE. Big thanks to Jim Bach for the long hours it took compiling.

  DVD Beaver List 2005

2005 DVD Beaver Master Film Selections

Rank

Film (and click title for IMdb link)

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Director

Year

Total Votes

1

2001: A Space Odyssey

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Stanley Kubrick

1968

262

2

Vertigo

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Alfred Hitchcock

1958

246

3

Ordet

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Carl-Theodor Dreyer

1955

223

4

Tokyo monogatari

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Yasujiro Ozu

1953

187

5

Fa Yeung Nin Wa

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Wong Kar-Wai

2000

184

6

Sunrise

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FW Murnau

1927

176

7

8 1/2

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Federico Fellini

1963

159

7

Solyaris

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Andrei Tarkovsky

1972

159

9

Dekalog

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Krzysztof Kieslowski

1987

158

10

Stalker

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Andrei Tarkovsky

1979

155

11

Zerkalo

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Andrei Tarkovsky

1975

147

12

Persona

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Ingmar Bergman

1966

141

13

Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, La

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Carl-Theodor Dreyer

1928

134

14

Quatre cents coups, Les

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Francois Truffaut

1959

128

15

Trois couleurs: Bleu

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Krzysztof Kieslowski

1993

123

16

Andrei Rublyov

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Andrei Tarkovsky

1969

116

16

Shichinin no samurai

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Akira Kurosawa

1954

116

18

Atalante, L'

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Jean Vigo

1934

115

19

Au hasard Balthazar

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Robert Bresson

1966

114

20

Avventura, L'

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Michelangelo Antonioni

1960

111

21

Sjunde inseglet, Det

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Ingmar Bergman

1957

102

22

Rosetta

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Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne

1999

99

23

Smultronstället

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Ingmar Bergman

1957

98

24

Trois couleurs: Rouge

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Krzysztof Kieslowski

1994

94

25

City Lights

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Charles Chaplin

1931

93

25

Journal d'un curé de campagne

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Robert Bresson

1950

93

27

Paris, Texas

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Wim Wenders

1984

84

28

Citizen Kane

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Orson Welles

1941

83

29

Suna no onna

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Hiroshi Teshigahara

1964

79

30

Céline et Julie vont en bateau

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Jacques Rivette

1974

78

31

Eclisse, L'

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Michelangelo Antonioni

1962

73

32

Barry Lyndon

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Stanley Kubrick

1975

69

32

Werckmeister harmóniák

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Bela Tarr

2000

69

34

Blue Velvet

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David Lynch

1986

66

34

Ikiru

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Akira Kurosawa

1952

66

36

Règle du jeu, La

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Jean Renoir

1939

65

37

Umberto D

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Vittorio De Sica

1952

64

38

Lawrence of Arabia

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David Lean

1962

63

39

Notti di Cabiria, Le

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Federico Fellini

1957

62

39

Playtime

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Jacques Tati

1967

62

39

Sanshô dayû

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Kenji Mizoguchi

1954

62

42

Banshun

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Yasujiro Ozu

1949

61

42

Touch of Evil

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Orson Welles

1958

61

44

Conformista, Il

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Bernardo Bertolucci

1970

58

44

Himmel über Berlin, Der

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Wim Wenders

1987

58

44

Mouchette

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Robert Bresson

1967

58

44

Pather Panchali

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Satyajit Ray

1955

58

44

Viskningar och rop

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Ingmar Bergman

1972

58

49

Godfather, The

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Francis Ford Coppola

1972

57

50

Charme discret de la bourgeoisie, Le

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Luis Bunuel

1972

56

51

Rear Window

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Alfred Hitchcock

1954

55

51

Sullivan's Travels

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Preston Sturges

1942

55

53

Searchers, The

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John Ford

1956

54

54

Ladri di biciclette

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Vittorio De Sica

1948

53

55

Breaking the Waves

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Lars von Trier

1996

52

56

Chinatown

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Roman Polanski

1974

51

57

Dr. Strangelove

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Stanley Kubrick

1964

50

57

Faces

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John Cassavetes

1968

50

57

Un condamné à mort s'est échappé

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Robert Bresson

1956

50

60

Nattvardsgästerna

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Ingmar Bergman

1963

49

60

Sweet Hereafter, The

NOT REVIEWED YET

Atom Egoyan

1997

49

62

Black Narcissus

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Powell & Pressburger

1947

48

63

Hana-bi

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Takeshi Kitano

1997

47

64

Espíritu de la colmena, El

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Víctor Erice

1973

45

64

Hiroshima mon amour

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Alain Resnais

1959

45

66

Brazil

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Terry Gilliam

1985

44

66

Notorious

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Alfred Hitchcock

1946

44

68

Woman Under the Influence, A

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John Cassavetes

1974

43

69

C'era una volta il West

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Sergio Leone

1969

42

69

Modern Times

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Charles Chaplin

1936

42

69

Ta'm e guilass

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Abbas Kiarostami

1997

42

72

Maboroshi no hikari

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Hirokazu Koreeda

1995

41

73

Da hong deng long gao gao gua

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Zhang Yimou

1991

40

73

Dolce vita, La

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Federico Fellini

1960

40

73

Enfants du paradis, Les

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Marcel Carne

1945

40

73

Goodfellas

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Martin Scorsese

1990

40

77

Casablanca

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Michael Curtiz

1942

39

77

Chelovek s kinoapparatom

NOT REVIEWED YET

Dziga Vertov

1929

39

77

Offret

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Andrei Tarkovsky

1986

39

77

Walkabout

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Nicolas Roeg

1971

39

81

Star Wars

NOT REVIEWED YET

George Lucas

1977

38

81

Straw Dogs

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Sam Peckinpah

1971

38

83

Chongqing senlin

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Wong Kar-Wai

1994

37

83

Greed

NOT REVIEWED YET

Erich von Stroheim

1925

37

83

My Darling Clementine

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John Ford

1946

37

83

Taxi Driver

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Martin Scorsese

1976

37

87

Fanny och Alexander

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Ingmar Bergman

1982

36

87

Gertrud

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Carl-Theodor Dreyer

1964

36

89

General, The

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Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton

1927

35

89

Once Upon a Time in America

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Sergio Leone

1984

35

91

Argent, L'

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Robert Bresson

1983

34

91

Clockwork Orange, A

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Stanley Kubrick

1971

34

91

Grande illusion, La

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Jean Renoir

1937

34

91

Rashomon

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Akira Kurosawa

1950

34

91

Singin' in the Rain

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Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly

1952

34

91

Sunset Blvd.

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Billy Wilder

1950

34

97

Big Lebowski, The

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Joel Coen

1998

33

97

Saikaku ichidai onna

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Kenji Mizoguchi

1952

33

99

Bad ma ra khahad bord

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Abbas Kiarostami

1999

32

99

Pierrot le fou

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Jean-Luc Godard

1965

32





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