Category: Lists

In a theater
28 Years Later
After the Hunt
Afternoons of Solitude
Anemone
Ash
Avatar: Fire and Ash
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Black Bag
Black Phone 2
Blue Moon
Bring Her Back
Bring Them Down
Bugonia
By the Stream
Caught by the Tides
Caught Stealing
Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie
Cloud
Companion
The Damned
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
Dead Man’s Wire
A Desert
Die My Love
Dracula
Drop
Dust Bunny
Eddington
Eephus
Elio
Ella McCay
The Empire
F1: The Movie
Familiar Touch
Final Destination: Bloodlines
Frankenstein
Freaky Tales
The Friend
Friendship
Good Boy
Grand Tour
Hamnet
Harvest
Heart Eyes
Henry Johnson
Highest 2 Lowest
Honey Don’t!
A House of Dynamite
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
It Was Just an Accident
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
Jay Kelly
Jazzy
Keeper
The Legend of Ochi
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
A Little Prayer
Magazine Dreams
Marty Supreme
The Mastermind
Materialists
Mickey 17
Misericordia
The Monkey
My Dead Friend Zoe
My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow
Nouvelle Vague
Novocaine
An Officer and a Spy
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
One Battle After Another
One of Them Days
One to One: John & Yoko
Paddington in Peru
Parthenope
Pavements
Peter Hujar’s Day
The Phoenician Scheme
The Plague
Predator: Badlands
Presence
Queen of the Ring
Relay
Rental Family
Roofman
The Rule of Jenny Pen
Secret Mall Apartment
Sentimental Value
Seven Veils
The Shrouds
Sinners
Sister Midnight
Sisu: Road to Revenge
Sketch
The Smashing Machine
Sorry, Baby
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
Strange Harvest
The Surfer
Suspended Time
Together
The Ugly Stepsister
Universal Language
Videoheaven
Vulcanizadora
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Warfare
Weapons
The Wedding Banquet
When Fall Is Coming
Zootopia 2

At home
Predator: Killer of Killers

In theaters
2024 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animation
2024 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Live Action
Abigail
About Dry Grasses
Aggro Dr1ft
Alien: Romulus
All We Imagine as Light
Anora
The Apprentice
Arcadian
Babes
Babygirl
The Beast
Between the Temples
The Bikeriders
Blink Twice
Blitz
The Brutalist
Challengers
Civil War
Close Your Eyes
Coma
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Coup de Chance
Cuckoo
Daaaaaalí!
Dahomey
The Dead Don’t Hurt
Dìdi
A Different Man
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
DogMan
Drive-Away Dolls
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
The End
Ennio
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
Eureka
Evil Does Not Exist
The Fall Guy
Fancy Dance
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
Femme
The Fire Inside
The First Omen
Flow
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
GHOST: Rite Here Rite Now
Ghostlight
The Girl with the Needle
Gladiator II
God & Country
Good One
Green Border
Hard Truths
Here (2023)
Heretic
Hit Man
Housekeeping for Beginners
How to Have Sex
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
I Saw the TV Glow
I’m Still Here
Immaculate
In a Violent Nature
Inside Out 2
Io Capitano
Janet Planet
Juror #2
Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara
Kill
Kinds of Kindness
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Kneecap
La Chimera
The Last Showgirl
Last Summer
Late Night with the Devil
Limbo
Longlegs
Look Into My Eyes
Love Lies Bleeding
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
MaXXXine
Megalopolis
Monkey Man
Music
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
My Old Ass
National Anthem
Nickel Boys
No Other Land
Nosferatu
Oddity
Oh, Canada
The Old Oak
The Order
Out of Darkness
The Outrun
The People’s Joker
The Piano Lesson
Problemista
The Promised Land
Queer
A Quiet Place: Day One
A Real Pain
Remembering Gene Wilder
The Room Next Door
Rumours
Saturday Night
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Shayda
Sing Sing
Small Things Like These
Smile 2
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Sting
Stopmotion
Strange Darling
The Substance
Sugarcane
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Terrifier 3
Thelma
Trap
A Traveler’s Needs
Tuesday
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
Twisters
Vermiglio
Wicked: Part 1
The Wild Robot

In a theater after its original release
In Our Day

At home
The Devil’s Bath
His Three Daughters
Tótem
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Woman of the Hour

In theaters
32 Sounds
Afire
Air
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
All of Us Strangers
American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Asteroid City
Barbie
Beau Is Afraid
BlackBerry
The Blackening
The Boogeyman
The Boy and the Heron
Bottoms
Close
Concrete Utopia
The Crime Is Mine
Dalíland
De humani corporis fabrica
Dicks: The Musical
The Disappearance of Shere Hite
Dream Scenario
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
The Eight Mountains
Elemental
The Eternal Memory
Every Body
Evil Dead Rise
Fallen Leaves
Ferrari
Four Daughters
Godland
Godzilla Minus One
A Haunting in Venice
The Holdovers
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Infinity Pool
Knock at the Cabin
John Wick: Chapter 4
Joy Ride
Joyland
The Killer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Kokomo City
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
M3GAN
Maestro
Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Master Gardener
May December
Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros
Monica
Monster
Moving On
Napoleon
No Hard Feelings
Nuclear Now
Of an Age
Oppenheimer
The Outwaters
Pacifiction
Passages
Passion (2008)
Past Lives
Perfect Days
Polite Society
Poor Things
Priscilla
Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé
Renfield
The Retirement Plan
Rimini
R.M.N.
Rustin
Saint Omer
Saltburn
Sanctuary
Scream VI
Showing Up
Sick of Myself
Silent Night
Sisu
Skinamarink
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Strange Way of Life (short)
Suitable Flesh
The Sweet East
Suzume
Talk to Me
The Taste of Things
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
The Teachers’ Lounge
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Thanksgiving
Tori and Lokita
Walk Up
What Happens Later
When Evil Lurks
Wonka
You Hurt My Feelings
The Zone of Interest

At home
Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
Wes Anderson shorts: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar; The Swan; The Rat Catcher; Poison
Creed III
Lynch/Oz
Our Body
Theater Camp
The Unknown Country

In theaters
2nd Chance
After Yang
Aftersun
All My Friends Hate Me
All Quiet on the Western Front
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Amsterdam
Armageddon Time
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Barbarian
Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Benediction
The Black Phone
Blonde
Bodies Bodies Bodies
Bones and All
Broker
Bros
Catherine Called Birdy
Cha Cha Real Smooth
Compartment No. 6
Corsage
Crimes of the Future
The Cursed
Dark Glasses
Decision to Leave
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
The Duke
Elvis
Emergency
Emily the Criminal
Empire of Light
EO
The Eternal Daughter
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song
Happening
Hatching
Hit the Road
Holy Spider
The Inspection
Jackass Forever
Lightyear
Living
Lux Æterna
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Men
The Menu
Moonage Daydream
Nanny
No Bears
Nope
The Northman
The Novelist’s Film
One Fine Morning
Pearl
Petite Maman
Pleasure
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
The Quiet Girl
Return to Seoul
Rifkin’s Festival
Riotsville, U.S.A.
RRR
Scream
She Said
Smile
The Son
Sr.
Stars at Noon
Tár
Terrifier 2
Three Thousand Years of Longing
Till
To Leslie
Top Gun: Maverick
Triangle of Sadness
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Vortex
The Whale
The Woman King
Women Talking
The Worst Person in the World
X

At home
Cow
Deadstream
Fire Island
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
Piggy
Prey
The Sadness
Soft & Quiet
Speak No Evil
Turning Red
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
You Won’t Be Alone

In theaters
About Endlessness
Annette
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
Being the Ricardos
Belfast
Belle
Benedetta
Bergman Island
Candyman
Censor
C’mon C’mon
Cry Macho
Don’t Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
Encanto
Flag Day
Flee
France
The French Dispatch
Godzilla vs. Kong
The Green Knight
The Guilty
Gunda
The Hand of God
The Harder They Fall
House of Gucci
In the Earth
In the Heights
Jockey
The Killing of Two Lovers
King Richard
Lamb
The Last Duel
Last Night in Soho
Licorice Pizza
Little Girl
Limbo
Malignant
The Matrix Resurrections
Memoria
Nightmare Alley
No Time to Die
Nobody
Old
Parallel Mothers
Pig
The Power of the Dog
Profile
A Quiet Place Part II
Raya and the Last Dragon
Red Rocket
The Rescue
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
Shiva Baby
The Souvenir: Part II
The Sparks Brothers
Spencer
Stillwater
The Suicide Squad
Titane
The Tragedy of Macbeth
The Truffle Hunters
West Side Story

In a theater after its original release
Days

At home
Judas and the Black Messiah
The Lost Daughter
Luca
The Mitchells vs the Machines
No Sudden Move
Saint Maud
Undine
The Velvet Underground

Film directors whom I’ve seen the most films by in a theater in their original release:

Woody Allen (16): Melinda and Melinda (2004); Match Point (2005); Scoop (2006); Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008); Whatever Works (2009); You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010); Midnight in Paris (2011); To Rome with Love (2012); Blue Jasmine (2013); Magic in the Moonlight (2014); Irrational Man (2015); Café Society (2016); Wonder Wheel (2017); A Rainy Day in New York (2019); Rifkin’s Festival (2020); Coup de Chance (2023)

Clint Eastwood (14): Million Dollar Baby (2004); Changeling (2008); Gran Torino (2008); Invictus (2009); Hereafter (2010); J. Edgar (2011); Jersey Boys (2014); American Sniper (2014); Sully (2016); The 15:17 to Paris (2018); The Mule (2018); Richard Jewell (2019); Cry Macho (2021); Juror #2 (2024)

Steven Soderbergh (14): Ocean’s Twelve (2004); Che (2008); The Girlfriend Experience (2009); The Informant! (2009); Contagion (2011); Haywire (2011); Magic Mike (2012); Side Effects (2013); Logan Lucky (2017); Unsane (2018); The Laundromat (2019); Magic Mike’s Last Dance (2023); Presence (2024); Black Bag (2025)

Ridley Scott (12): American Gangster (2007); Robin Hood (2010); Prometheus (2012); The Counselor (2013); Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014); The Martian (2015); Alien: Covenant (2017); All the Money in the Word (2017); The Last Duel (2021); House of Gucci (2021); Napoleon (2023); Gladiator II (2024)

Tim Burton (10): Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005); Corpse Bride (2005); Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007); Alice in Wonderland (2010); Dark Shadows (2012); Frankenweenie (2012); Big Eyes (2014); Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016); Dumbo (2019); Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

Steven Spielberg (10): Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008); The Adventure of Tintin (2011); War Horse (2011); Lincoln (2012); Bridge of Spies (2015); The BFG (2016); The Post (2017); Ready Player One (2018); West Side Story (2021); The Fabelmans (2022)

Wes Anderson (9): The Darjeeling Limited (2007); Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009); Moonrise Kingdom (2012); The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014); Isle of Dogs (2018); The French Dispatch (2021); Asteroid City (2023); The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)- short; The Phoenician Scheme (2025)

Ethan Coen (9): No Country for Old Men (2007); Burn After Reading (2008); A Serious Man (2009); True Grit (2010); Inside Llewyn Davis (2013); Hail, Caesar! (2016); The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018); Drive-Away Dolls (2024); Honey Don’t! (2025). All directed with Joel Coen except Drive-Away Dolls and Honey Don’t!

Pedro Almodóvar (8): Broken Embraces (2009); The Skin I Live In (2011); I’m So Excited! (2013); Julieta (2016); Pain and Glory (2019); Parallel Mothers (2021); Strange Way of Life (2023)- short; The Room Next Door (2024)

Noah Baumbach (8): Greenberg (2010); Frances Ha (2012); While We’re Young (2014); Mistress America (2015); De Palma (with Jake Paltrow) (2015); The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017); Marriage Story (2019); Jay Kelly (2025)

Joel Coen (8): No Country for Old Men (2007); Burn After Reading (2008); A Serious Man (2009); True Grit (2010); Inside Llewyn Davis (2013); Hail, Caesar! (2016); The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018); The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021). All directed with Ethan Coen except The Tragedy of Macbeth.

Adam McKay (8): Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004); Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby (2006); Step Brothers (2008); The Other Guys (2010); Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013); The Big Short (2015); Vice (2018); Don’t Look Up (2021)

Martin Scorsese (8): The Aviator (2004); Shutter Island (2010); Hugo (2011); The Wolf of Wall Street (2013); Silence (2016); Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019); The Irishman (2019); Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

Denis Villeneuve (8): Incendies (2010); Prisoners (2013); Enemy (2013); Sicario (2015); Arrival (2016); Blade Runner 2049 (2017); Dune (2021); Dune: Part Two (2024)

Bong Joon-ho (7): The Host (2006); Tokyo! (segment: “Shaking Tokyo”) (2008); Mother (2009); Snowpiercer (2013); Okja (2017); Parasite (2019); Mickey 17 (2025)

Danny Boyle (7): Millions (2004); Slumdog Millionaire (2008); 127 Hours (2010); Trance (2013); Steve Jobs (2015); T2 Trainspotting (2017); 28 Years Later (2025)

Guillermo del Toro (7): Pan’s Labyrinth (2006); Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008); Pacific Rim (2013); Crimson Peak (2015); The Shape of Water (2017); Nightmare Alley (2021); Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (with Mark Gustafson) (2022)

Luca Guadagnino (7): I Am Love (2009); A Bigger Splash (2015); Call Me by Your Name (2017); Suspiria (2018); Bones and All (2022); Challengers (2024); Queer (2024)

Hong Sang-soo (7): On the Beach at Night Alone (2017); The Day After (2017); The Novelist’s Film (2022); Walk Up (2022); A Traveler’s Needs (2024); By the Stream (2024); What Does That Nature Say to You (2025)

Richard Linklater (7): Bernie (2011); Before Midnight (2013); Boyhood (2014); Last Flag Flying (2017); Hit Man (2023); Blue Moon (2025); Nouvelle Vague (2025)

Terrence Malick (7): The New World (2005); The Tree of Life (2011); To the Wonder (2012); Knight of Cups (2015); Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey (2016); Song to Song (2017); A Hidden Life (2019)

Christopher Nolan (7): The Dark Knight (2008); Inception (2010); The Dark Knight Rises (2012); Interstellar (2014); Dunkirk (2017); Tenet (2020); Oppenheimer (2023)

Alex Ross Perry (7): Listen Up Philip (2014); Queen of Earth (2015); Golden Exits (2017); Her Smell (2018); GHOST: Rite Here Rite Now (2024); Pavements (2024); Videoheaven (2025)

In theaters
The Devil to Pay
The Father
First Cow
Gretel & Hansel
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Kajillionaire
The Lodge
Minari
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Nomadland
On the Rocks
Onward
The Photograph
Possessor
Promising Young Woman
A Rainy Day in New York
Rebecca
Tenet
Time
The Traitor
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Weathering with You
Wolfwalkers

In a theater after its original release
Bacurau
The Human Voice (short)

At home
Another Round
The Assistant
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Collective
Da 5 Bloods
David Byrne’s American Utopia
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Disclosure
Driveways
Host
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
The Nest
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
The Painter and the Thief
Pinocchio
The Prince
Psychomagic, a Healing Art
Rewind
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
She Dies Tomorrow
Small Axe: Mangrove; Lovers Rock; Red, White and Blue; Alex Wheatle; Education
The Vast of Night
Welcome to Chechnya
Zombi Child

Maren Ade
Woody Allen
Michael Almereyda
Pedro Almodóvar
Paul Thomas Anderson
Wes Anderson
Dario Argento
Darren Aronofsky
Olivier Assayas
Ari Aster
John G. Avildsen
Ramin Bahrani
Annie Baker
Sean Baker
Bob Balaban
Noah Baumbach
Don Bluth
Peter Bogdanovich
Bertrand Bonello
Danny Boyle
Catherine Breillat
Albert Brooks
Mel Brooks
Charles Burnett
Steve Buscemi
David Byrne
Louis C.K.
Bruce Campbell
Jane Campion
John Carpenter
Nuri Bige Ceylan
George Clooney
Joel and Ethan Coen
Francis Ford Coppola
Sofia Coppola
Roger Corman
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Robert De Niro
Brian De Palma
Guillermo del Toro
Jonathan Demme
Claire Denis
Bas Devos
Robert Downey Sr.
Julia Ducournau
Lena Dunham
Robert Eggers
Ralph Fiennes
Stephen Frears
William Friedkin
Costa-Gavras
Ricky Gervais
Greta Gerwig
Alex Gibney
Terry Gilliam
Jonathan Glazer
Michel Gondry
Lee Grant
David Gordon Green
Luca Guadagnino
Christopher Guest
James Gunn
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Andrew Haigh
Mia Hansen-Løve
Todd Haynes
Matthew Heineman
Eliza Hittman
Joanna Hogg
Sang-soo Hong
Christophe Honoré
Armando Iannucci
James Ivory
Raven Jackson
Steve James
Jim Jarmusch
Barry Jenkins
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Charlie Kaufman
Harmony Korine
Yorgos Lanthimos
Nadav Lapid
Spike Lee
Mike Leigh
Sebastián Lelio
Herschell Gordon Lewis
Jerry Lewis
Richard Linklater
David Lowery
David Lynch
David Mamet
Michael Mann
Elaine May
Martin McDonagh
Scott McGehee and David Siegel
Jonas Mekas
Bennett Miller
Rebecca Miller
Mike Mills
John Cameron Mitchell
Michael Moore
Brett Morgen
Errol Morris
Oren Moverman
Cristian Mungiu
Mira Nair
Morgan Neville
Gaspar Noé
Tom Noonan
Joshua Oppenheimer
Ruben Östlund
Frank Oz
Al Pacino
Chan-wook Park
Alexander Payne
D.A. Pennebaker
Alex Ross Perry
Matías Piñeiro
Sarah Polley
Sam Raimi
Lynne Ramsay
Dee Rees
Nicolas Winding Refn
Kelly Reichardt
Jason Reitman
Chris Rock
Seth Rogen
Alice Rohrwacher
George A. Romero
Ira Sachs
Benny and Josh Safdie
Jeremy Saulnier
John Sayles
Jerry Schatzberg
Jane Schoenbrun
Paul Schrader
Barbet Schroeder
Céline Sciamma
Martin Scorsese
Albert Serra
Michael Showalter
Trey Edward Shults
Chris Smith
Kevin Smith
Steven Soderbergh
Todd Solondz
Steven Spielberg
Ben Stiller
Whit Stillman
Joe Swanberg
Joachim Trier
Tsai Ming-liang
John Turturro
Agnès Varda
Gore Verbinski
Paul Verhoeven
Taika Waititi
Denzel Washington
John Waters
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Charlotte Wells
Wim Wenders
Sean Price Williams
Frederick Wiseman
Edgar Wright
Chloé Zhao
Rob Zombie
Terry Zwigoff

In a theater
1917
3 from Hell
Ad Astra
Amazing Grace
Apollo 11
Arctic
The Art of Self-Defense
Ash Is Purest White
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice-Guy Blaché
The Beach Bum
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Blinded by the Light
Bombshell
Booksmart
Brittany Runs a Marathon
Cats
Clemency
Climax
Crawl
Cunningham
Dark Waters
David Crosby: Remember My Name
The Dead Don’t Die
Dragged Across Concrete
Dumbo
Everybody Knows
The Farewell
Fighting with My Family
Ford v Ferrari
Giant Little Ones
Gloria Bell
The Golden Glove
Greta
Hail Satan?
Harriet
Her Smell
A Hidden Life
High Life
Hotel Mumbai
Hustlers
The Image Book
The Irishman
The Kid Who Would Be King
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Judy
Just Mercy
Knives Out
The Laundromat
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
The Lighthouse
Little Woods
Long Shot
Maiden
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Marriage Story
Meeting Gorbachev
Midsommar
Motherless Brooklyn
The Mustang
Non-Fiction
Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
One Cut of the Dead
Pain and Glory
Parasite
The Peanut Butter Falcon
Peterloo
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Queen & Slim
Rambo: Last Blood
Ready or Not
Richard Jewell
Rocketman
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Shadow
Shazam!
Sorry Angel
The Souvenir
Sword of Trust
Sunset
Synonyms
Toy Story 4
Transit
Uncut Gems
Us
Waves
Western Stars
Where’s My Roy Cohn?
The White Crow
Woman at War

At home
By the Grace of God
Chained for Life
Dolemite Is My Name
High Flying Bird
In Fabric
Little Women
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
The Nightingale
Piercing
Queen of Hearts
Sauvage / Wild
Wild Rose