Movies by Lists - Wes Anderson favorite films (49 [47]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 8½A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies. | 1963 | Federico Fellini (*) | Drama | 8.0 (115.2K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| 101 DalmatiansWhen a litter of Dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella de Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement. | 1961 | Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family | 7.3 (162.7K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| 2001 A Space Odyssey The Monoliths push humanity to reach for the stars; after their discovery in Africa generations ago, the mysterious objects lead mankind on an awesome journey to Jupiter, with the help of H.A.L. 9000: the world's greatest supercomput | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Adventure, Sci-Fi | 8.3 (642.5K votes) | 149 | 20211228 |
| Apartment, TheA Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue. | 1960 | Billy Wilder (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8.3 (175.7K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Aranyer DinratriA group of Calcutta city slickers, including the well-off Asim (Soumitra Chatterjee), the meek Sanjoy (Subhendu Chatterjee) and the brutish Hari (Samit Bhanja), head out for a weekend in the wilderness. | 1970 | Satyajit Ray (*) | Drama | 8.2 (2.6K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Au Hasard BalthazarThe story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette. | 1966 | Robert Bresson (*) | Drama | 7.9 (19.6K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Bakuchi-uchi - Inochi-huda [Fate Deals the Card of Death]Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral. | 1971 | Hal Ashby (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (76.2K votes) | 91 | 20220315 |
| Barry LyndonAn Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England. | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Adventure, Drama, History, War | 8.1 (161.6K votes) | 185 | 20211228 |
| Belle de JourA frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute. | 1967 | Luis Buñuel (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.7 (43.2K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Big Risk, The [Classe tous risques]A ruthless criminal flees from the pursuit, involving more and more casualties. | 1960 | Claude Sautet | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.5 (4.6K votes) | 103 | 20241012 |
| Brewster McCloudAn introverted loner living in the bowels of the Astrodome plots to develop - with the aid of a mysterious guardian angel - a pair of wings that will help him fly. | 1970 | Robert Altman (*) | Comedy, Fantasy | 6.9 (4.9K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Charlie Brown Christmas, ADepressed at the commercialism he sees around him, Charlie Brown tries to find a deeper meaning to Christmas. | 1965 | Bill Melendez | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Music | 8.3 (41.9K votes) | 25 | 20231128 |
| Clockwork Orange, AIn the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned. | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Crime, Sci-Fi | 8.3 (799.7K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Consider All Risks [Classe Tous Risques]A ruthless criminal flees from the pursuit, involving more and more casualties. | 1960 | Claude Sautet | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.5 (3.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Earrings of Madame De..., TheWhen an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despa | 1953 | Max Ophüls (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.0 (9.7K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Exterminating Angel, TheThe guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave. | 1962 | Luis Buñuel (*) | Drama, Fantasy | 8.1 (32.4K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| FacesA middle-aged man leaves his wife for another woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner. The film follows their struggles to find love amongst each other. | 1968 | John Cassavetes (*) | Drama | 7.6 (10.4K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Fallen Idol , TheA butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy. | 1948 | Carol Reed (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (8.5K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Friends of Eddie Coyle, TheAfter his last crime has him looking at a long prison sentence for repeat offenses, a low level Boston gangster decides to snitch on his friends to avoid jail time. | 1973 | Peter Yates | Crime, Drama | 7.5 (10.3K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Graduate, TheA disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter. | 1967 | Mike Nichols (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8.0 (266.7K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Harold and MaudeYoung, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral. | 1971 | Hal Ashby (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (75.9K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| I Became a Criminal [They Made Me a Fugitive]After WW2, former RAF airman Clem Morgan joins a gang of black-market smugglers-thieves but when a robbery goes wrong, Clem is caught , framed for a policeman's murder, and is sent to prison where he plots his escape and revenge. | 1947 | Alberto Cavalcanti | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.2 (1.5K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| La An' a LampA gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme. | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 8.0 (14.3K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Last Detail, TheTwo Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way. | 1973 | Hal Ashby (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 (24.1K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Last Tango in ParisA young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex. | 1972 | Bernardo Bertolucci (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.0 (52.7K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| L'Enfance NueAn anguished foster child takes to mischief and lies as his foster parents do their best to love and care for him. But it might be too little, too late in this emotionally devastating portrayal of the orphaned child. | 1968 | Maurice Pialat (*) | Drama | 7.5 (2.4K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, TheFrom the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military. | 1943 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Drama, Romance, War | 8.1 (14.4K votes) | 163 | 20211228 |
| Mean StreetsA small-time hood tries to keep the peace between his friend Johnny and Johnny's creditors. | 1973 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (106.5K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Minnie and MoskowitzA museum curator falls in love with a crazy parking attendant. | 1971 | John Cassavetes (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.3 (4.7K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| MouchetteA young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man. | 1967 | Robert Bresson (*) | Drama | 7.8 (11.3K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Oliver TwistIn Charles Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home. | 1948 | David Lean (*) | Drama | 7.8 (12.2K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Pigs and Battleships [Buta to gunkan]A young hoodlum decides to work for a criminal organization that is tearing itself apart. | 1961 | Shohei Imamura (*) | Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance | 7.5 (2.3K votes) | 108 | 20220414 |
| Queen Of Spades, TheAn elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the wom | 1949 | Thorold Dickinson | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 7.2 (1.8K votes) | 95 | 20220414 |
| Rear WindowA wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window, and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend. | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Mystery, Thriller | 8.5 (474.2K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Rise of Louis XIV, The [La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV]After the death of Cardinal Mazarin, young king Louis XIV decides to assert his power to control the aristocracy. | 1966 | Roberto Rossellini (*) | Biography, History | 7.2 (1.5K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| River, TheThe growing pains of three young women contrast with the immutability of the holy Bengal River, around which their daily lives unfold. | 1951 | Jean Renoir (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (6.1K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Rosemary's BabyA young couple trying for a baby move into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, but find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors. | 1968 | Roman Polanski (*) | Drama, Horror | 8.0 (207.9K votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| S.W.A.L.K [Melody]Two youngsters declare to their parents that they want to get married as soon as possible. | 1971 | Waris Hussein | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.6 (2.8K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| SabotageA Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel. | 1936 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Crime, Thriller | 7.1 (16.4K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Silent World, The [Le monde du silence]A documentary about the undersea explorers and how they penetrate into the underwater world. | 1956 | Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Louis Malle | Documentary, Adventure, Biography | 7.0 (1.6K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Spy Who Came In From the Cold, TheInstead of coming in from the Cold War, British agent Alec Leamas chooses to face another mission. | 1965 | Martin Ritt (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.6 (16.6K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Sweet Smell of SuccessPowerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician. | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick (*) | Drama, Film-Noir | 8.0 (30.8K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Taking of Power by Louis XIV, The [La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV]After the death of Cardinal Mazarin, young king Louis XIV decides to assert his power to control the aristocracy. | 1966 | Roberto Rossellini (*) | Biography, History | 7.1 (1.7K votes) | 90 | 20240826 |
| ToniIn the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in agriculture. Many mingle with locals and settle down permanently - like Toni, an Italian who has moved in with Marie, a Frenchwoman. Even a well | 1935 | Jean Renoir (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (1.8K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Trouble in ParadiseA gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme. | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 8.0 (14.3K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| VertigoA former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed. | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 8.3 (389.4K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| WalkaboutTwo city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe. | 1971 | Nicolas Roeg (*) | Adventure, Drama | 7.6 (24.8K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Whos Afraid of Virginia WoolfA bitter middle-aged couple, her derisive of his lowly position at a New England college, ask a new colleague and his wife over for drinks, and use them to fuel anguish and emotional pain toward each other through a distressing night | 1966 | Mike Nichols (*) | Drama | 8.0 (73.6K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Yokosuka Navy PrisonTwo Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way. | 1973 | Hal Ashby (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 (24.1K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |