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The Top 250 Best Movies of All Time Map. The greatest films of all time: download the data, as a spreadsheet. Greatest films of all time: Psycho Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/ The Guardian/Observer greatest films of all time are being revealed and you can follow the whole lot here.

The greatest films of all time: download the data, as a spreadsheet

Each day, our top 25 movies will be released, and each day here on the Datablog we will add them to our and the sortable table below. Today is the horror 25. We're led by Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. What films would you add to the list? Horror crashes through boundaries and challenges the prohibitions of taste and thinkability in a way few other genres can match. We've added loads of extra info to the spreadsheet, including the key Guardian and IMDB links, plus the country of origin. The full list - so far Download the data • DATA: download the full list as a spreadsheet Can you do something with this data? Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group World government data • Search the world's government datasets.

About - The Essential 100. Best Exploitation Flicks: Machete’s Over-the-Top Ancestors. The 50 Best Movies of the Decade (2000-2009) If comparing music from Gillian Welch and Outkast in our 50 Best Albums of the Decade is like apples and oranges, ranking films like Amélie, The Dark Knight and Mulholland Drive is more like apples, ice cream and foie gras.

The 50 Best Movies of the Decade (2000-2009)

But despite the wild variety among our 50 Best Movies from 2000-2009, each is an exquisitely made, exceptionally satisfying piece of cinema that we believe will endure well after the decade has ended. There are masters like Martin Scorcese and Lars Von Trier, and relative newcomers like Fernando Meirelles and Anna Boden. There are documentaries, comedies and dramas, as well as animated films and even a super-hero flick. Mirroring a decade of globalism, the filmmakers are from the United States, New Zealand, Taiwan, Germany, Ireland, France, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Denmark, Romania, Thailand, Brazil, and nearly every part of the U.K.

Let these be our recommendations for your Netflix queue—or in the case of #21, a theater near you. Top 100 Tuesday: 100 Best Movies of the Decade. EmailEmail Since we first published our 100 Best Movies of the Decade in 2009, films have continued to get bigger and better.

Top 100 Tuesday: 100 Best Movies of the Decade

Here’s an update to the original list. Here’s what we originally wrote five years ago. We are leaving Kubrick behind and fast approaching Hyams. If you get that reference, go grab yourself a cookie. Quick Year-to-Year by the Numbers: 2009 – 11 2008 – 11 2007 – 7 2006 – 14 2005 – 12 2004 – 8 2003 – 7 2002 – 12 2001 – 10 2000 – 8 100. 99. 98. 97. 96. 95. 94. 93. 92. 91. 90. 89. 88. 87. 86. 85. 84. 83. 82. 81. 28 DAYS LATER… (2002) – Danny Boyle. The Best Films Of The Year... So Far.