User:Ssven2/Films that I have seen

This is the complete list of the film that I have seen thus far. The list will be updated from time to time by yours truly. For each of the sections, I have arranged the films according to their year of release and in alphabetical order. For the films that are given an "Epic!!!" rating, I included a picture in case one doesn't spot them. The pictures usually consist of either a poster or a still from the film or anything/anyone related to it.

I have also listed the top 50 films, directors, actors and actresses, many of whose films I have seen and enjoyed immensely. This too will be updated. I listed "the master of suspense" as the numero uno as he provides the complete package when it comes to presenting a film's story both visually and thematically. He is also quite adept at filmmaking techniques (Strangers on a Train, Vertigo and North by Northwest being some of them). These aspects are, in my opinion, the key features of a director.

Do feel free to suggest any films that are highly recommended or worth watching on the talk page. Ping me if you wish to (even though I'm watching this user page and its talk page). I have also created a list of must watch films. It is a special list of films that must not be missed. Do feel free to make a visit to that page too. Your suggestions of films may have the possibility of making it to the special list.

Keys

 * Rating key
 * ★ Kadu Mokka (See Roger Ebert's review of North for further details.)
 * ★½ Nee Onnum Avalavu Scene Illa (Really Average/Forgettable.)
 * ★★ Paarkalaam (One-time watch/Watchable.)
 * ★★½ OK
 * ★★★ Good
 * ★★★½ Very Good
 * ★★★★ Excellent
 * ★★★★½ Super Appu
 * ★★★★★ Epic!!!


 * Other Key
 * Om.svg - Denotes a film that has grown on me in a spiritual/moral/religious/devotional way.
 * SMirC-cry.svg - Denotes a film that made me cry.
 * Symbol thumbs up.svg - Denotes a film that has grown on me in other emotional ways (happy, feel good, patriotic, made me think philosophically to name a few).
 * - Denotes the best film of the decade (from "1930 - 1939" onwards).
 * - Denotes the best film in a given year (from "1930 - 1939" onwards).
 * - Denotes the second-best film in a given year (from "1930 - 1939" onwards).
 * - Denotes the third-best film in a given year (from "1930 - 1939" onwards).

Top 50 films
To me, these are some of the best films I have ever seen.


 * 1) The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)
 * 2) Sunset Boulevard (1950)
 * 3) Ikiru (1952)
 * 4) Psycho (1960)
 * 5) Ugetsu (1953)
 * 6) The Apu Trilogy (1955-1959)
 * 7) Dollars Trilogy (1964-1966)
 * 8) The Wages of Fear (1953)
 * 9) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
 * 10) Spirited Away (2001)
 * 11) Tokyo Story (1953)
 * 12) Vertigo (1958)
 * 13) Double Indemnity (1944)
 * 14) Citizen Kane (1941)
 * 15) Ben-Hur (1959)
 * 16) The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
 * 17) Rear Window (1954)
 * 18) City Lights (1931)
 * 19) The Kid (1921)
 * 20) Metropolis (1927)
 * 21) Gone with the Wind (1939)
 * 22) Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
 * 23) L.A. Confidential (1997)
 * 24) It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
 * 25) 12 Angry Men (1957)
 * 26) Titanic (1997)
 * 27) Bicycle Thieves (1948)
 * 28) A Clockwork Orange (1971)
 * 29) The Godfather (1972)
 * 30) Schindler's List (1993)
 * 31) Thiruvilaiyadal (1965)
 * 32) Lagaan (2001)
 * 33) The Breakfast Club (1985)
 * 34) Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
 * 35) Toy Story Series (1995-2010)
 * 36) The Shining (1980)
 * 37) Casablanca (1942)
 * 38) Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
 * 39) Scarlet Street (1945)
 * 40) Nayakan (1987)
 * 41) The Third Man (1949)
 * 42) The Elephant Man (1980)
 * 43) The Guns of Navarone (1961)
 * 44) Goodfellas (1990)
 * 45) Kadhalikka Neramillai (1964)
 * 46) Taxi Driver (1976)
 * 47) The Wicker Man (1973)
 * 48) The Miracle Worker (1962)
 * 49) Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
 * 50) The Player (1992)

Top 50 directors
Here is a list of the top 50 directors I have ever seen so far.


 * 1) Alfred Hitchcock
 * 2) Stanley Kubrick
 * 3) Billy Wilder
 * 4) Akira Kurosawa
 * 5) Satyajit Ray
 * 6) Hayao Miyazaki
 * 7) Yasujirō Ozu
 * 8) Charlie Chaplin
 * 9) Fritz Lang
 * 10) Frank Capra
 * 11) Andrei Tarkovsky
 * 12) Ingmar Bergman
 * 13) Kenji Mizoguchi
 * 14) George Cukor
 * 15) William Wyler
 * 16) K. Balachander
 * 17) Sidney Lumet
 * 18) Orson Welles
 * 19) A. P. Nagarajan
 * 20) David Lean
 * 21) David Lynch
 * 22) Henri-Georges Clouzot
 * 23) Hrishikesh Mukherjee
 * 24) John Ford
 * 25) Stanley Kramer
 * 26) Powell and Pressburger
 * 27) Roman Polanski
 * 28) Jules Dassin
 * 29) Isao Takahata
 * 30) C. V. Sridhar
 * 31) Raj Kapoor
 * 32) Jean Renoir
 * 33) Sergio Leone
 * 34) Woody Allen
 * 35) Christopher Nolan
 * 36) Francis Ford Coppola
 * 37) Martin Scorsese
 * 38) Kenji Mizoguchi
 * 39) Ridley Scott
 * 40) John Huston
 * 41) Mani Ratnam
 * 42) Peter Jackson
 * 43) Steven Spielberg
 * 44) Terrence Malick
 * 45) Leo McCarey
 * 46) Mike Nichols
 * 47) Robert Altman
 * 48) Howard Hawks
 * 49) Clint Eastwood
 * 50) Elia Kazan

I also hold in high esteem other directors, particularly;-


 * A. Bhimsingh
 * A. C. Tirulokchandar
 * Aditya Chopra
 * Alejandro González Iñárritu
 * Ang Lee
 * Anurag Kashyap
 * Ashutosh Gowariker
 * B. R. Panthulu
 * Bala
 * Balu Mahendra
 * Ben Affleck
 * Cecil B. DeMille
 * Cheran
 * Chimbu Deven
 * David Fincher
 * Edward Zwick
 * Gautham Menon
 * George Lucas
 * Guru Dutt
 * Jacques Tati
 * James Cameron
 * K. Asif
 * K. Bhagyaraj
 * K. S. Ravikumar
 * Kadiri Venkata Reddy
 * Kamal Haasan
 * Karan Johar
 * Karthik Subbaraj
 * Kasinathuni Viswanath
 * Krishnan-Panju
 * Otto Preminger
 * P. Bharathiraja
 * P. Vasu
 * Quentin Tarantino
 * R. V. Udayakumar
 * Rajkumar Hirani
 * Richard Attenborough
 * Robert Aldrich
 * Robert Zemeckis
 * S. Shankar
 * S. P. Muthuraman
 * S. S. Rajamouli
 * Sanjay Leela Bhansali
 * Satoshi Kon
 * Singeetam Srinivasa Rao
 * Sooraj Barjatya
 * Sundar C.
 * Tim Burton
 * Upendra
 * Vetrimaaran
 * Vincente Minnelli
 * Vishal Bhardwaj
 * Visu
 * Warren Beatty
 * Yash Chopra

Actors and actresses whom I admire
There are countless actors and actresses whose work I admire, but the following are among the best ones I've come across IMHO.
 * Actors


 * 1) Cary Grant
 * 2) Humphrey Bogart
 * 3) James Stewart
 * 4) Charlie Chaplin
 * 5) Laurence Olivier
 * 6) Dilip Kumar/Raj Kapoor
 * 7) M. G. Ramachandran/Sivaji Ganesan
 * 8) Gary Cooper
 * 9) Henry Fonda
 * 10) Clint Eastwood
 * 11) James Dean/Montgomery Clift
 * 12) Jack Nicholson
 * 13) Clark Gable
 * 14) Spencer Tracy
 * 15) Fred Astaire/Gene Kelly
 * 16) Marlon Brando
 * 17) Harrison Ford
 * 18) Sean Connery
 * 19) Rajesh Khanna
 * 20) Amitabh Bachchan/Dharmendra
 * 21) Kamal Haasan/Rajinikanth
 * 22) Glenn Ford/Sidney Poitier
 * 23) Peter O'Toole/Richard Burton
 * 24) Max von Sydow
 * 25) James Cagney
 * 26) Gregory Peck
 * 27) Robert Mitchum
 * 28) Groucho Marx/Peter Sellers
 * 29) Mickey Rooney/William Holden
 * 30) Al Pacino
 * 31) Robert De Niro
 * 32) Gene Wilder
 * 33) Steve McQueen
 * 34) Burt Lancaster/Kirk Douglas
 * 35) Jim Carrey
 * 36) Jeremy Irons
 * 37) Paul Newman
 * 38) Jack Lemmon/Walter Matthau
 * 39) Robert Downey Jr.
 * 40) Benedict Cumberbatch
 * 41) Russell Crowe
 * 42) Edward G. Robinson
 * 43) John Wayne
 * 44) Eddie Murphy
 * 45) Dustin Hoffman
 * 46) Michael Caine
 * 47) William Powell
 * 48) Tom Cruise
 * 49) Akshay Kumar
 * 50) Aamir Khan/Salman Khan/Shah Rukh Khan


 * Actresses


 * 1) Katharine Hepburn
 * 2) Ingrid Bergman
 * 3) Bette Davis
 * 4) Anne Bancroft
 * 5) Nargis
 * 6) Judy Garland/Rita Hayworth
 * 7) Shirley MacLaine
 * 8) Elizabeth Taylor
 * 9) Savitri
 * 10) Audrey Hepburn
 * 11) Padmini
 * 12) Anna Magnani
 * 13) Vyjayanthimala
 * 14) Ava Gardner
 * 15) Barbara Stanwyck
 * 16) Grace Kelly
 * 17) Gene Tierney
 * 18) Julie Andrews
 * 19) Marlene Dietrich
 * 20) Claudette Colbert
 * 21) Doris Day
 * 22) Joan Crawford
 * 23) Hilary Swank/Sigourney Weaver
 * 24) Rosalind Russell
 * 25) Marilyn Monroe
 * 26) Barbra Streisand
 * 27) Faye Dunaway
 * 28) Sharmila Tagore
 * 29) Carole Lombard
 * 30) Madhubala
 * 31) Liv Ullmann
 * 32) B. Saroja Devi
 * 33) Jodie Foster
 * 34) Vivien Leigh
 * 35) Lauren Bacall
 * 36) Meryl Streep
 * 37) Olivia de Havilland
 * 38) Kate Winslet
 * 39) Naomi Watts
 * 40) Diane Keaton
 * 41) Cate Blanchett
 * 42) Ginger Rogers
 * 43) Sophia Loren
 * 44) Glenn Close
 * 45) Juhi Chawla/Madhuri Dixit
 * 46) Kathleen Turner
 * 47) Julia Roberts
 * 48) Sharon Stone
 * 49) Angelina Jolie
 * 50) Sandra Bullock

Film documentaries

 * Beyond the Movie: The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003)
 * Cary Grant: A Class Apart (2004)
 * Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2003)
 * Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)

Television series seen

 * Aarya (2 Seasons)
 * Andor (1 Season)
 * Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens (2 Seasons)
 * The Big Bang Theory (12 Seasons)
 * Big Little Lies (2 Seasons)
 * Bob Hearts Abishola (3 Seasons)
 * The Book of Boba Fett
 * Breathe
 * Brooklyn Nine-Nine (8 Seasons)
 * Call My Agent: Bollywood
 * Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2 Seasons)
 * Cobra Kai (5 Seasons)
 * Criminal Justice (3 Seasons)
 * The Crown (5 Seasons)
 * Dark (1 Season)
 * Dead to Me (2 Seasons)
 * Delhi Crime (2 Seasons)
 * Downton Abbey (6 Seasons)
 * Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives
 * The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
 * The Fame Game (1 Season)
 * Friends (10 Seasons)
 * Game of Thrones (8 Seasons)
 * The Gilded Age (1 Season)
 * Hawkeye
 * His Dark Materials (3 Seasons)
 * House of the Dragon (1 Season)
 * How I Met Your Mother (9 Seasons)
 * Hush Hush (1 Season)
 * Inside Edge (3 Seasons)
 * Jaanbaaz Hindustan Ke
 * Karenjit Kaur – The Untold Story of Sunny Leone (1 Season)
 * Kota Factory (2 Seasons)
 * The Last of Us (1 Season)
 * Legends of Tomorrow (6 Seasons)
 * Little Things (3 Seasons)
 * Loki (1 Season)
 * The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (1 Season)
 * Lucifer (6 Seasons)
 * The Mandalorian (2 Seasons)
 * Mare of Easttown
 * Mirzapur (1 Season)
 * Miz & Mrs. (3 Seasons)
 * Mom (8 Seasons)
 * Moon Knight
 * Ms. Marvel
 * National Treasure: Edge of History
 * Obi-Wan Kenobi
 * Panchayat (2 Seasons)
 * Permanent Roommates (2 Seasons)
 * Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
 * Riverdale (4 Seasons)
 * Sacred Games (2 Seasons)
 * Schitt's Creek (1 Season)
 * Sex Education (1 Season)
 * She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
 * Sherlock (4 Seasons)
 * Stranger Things (4 Seasons)
 * Squid Game
 * Supernatural (12 Seasons)
 * Typewriter
 * The Walking Dead (10 Seasons)
 * WandaVision
 * What If...? (1 Season)
 * The Wheel of Time (1 Season)
 * Willow (1 Season)
 * Young Sheldon (5 Seasons)

Films that I have seen

 * User:Ssven2/Films that I have seen (Pre 1990s)
 * User:Ssven2/Films that I have seen (1990s and beyond)

Must watch films

 * User:Ssven2/List of must watch films

Films to watch

 * User:Ssven2/Films to watch