A list of all the great and interesting films and shows I’ve seen recently.
List is ordered chronologically backwards.
★★★★★ Masterpiece / Classic / Favourite
★★★★½ Exceptional
★★★★ Great
★★★½ Good but some flawed elements
★★★ Interesting but flawed
★★½ Major flaws but some good ideas
Il Gattopardo (The Leopard)
★★★★★
dir. Luchino Visconti
Epic Historical Drama
[Italy / France, 1963]
Le Mépris (Contempt)
★★★★★
dir. Jean-Luc Godard
French New Wave Drama
[France, 1963]
City Lights
★★★★½
dir. Charlie Chaplin
Silent Romantic Comedy
[USA, 1931]
Aladdin
★★★★
dir. John Musker and Ron Clements
Animated Musical Fantasy Comedy
[USA, 1992]
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
★★★½
dir. Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise
Animated Musical Drama
[USA, 1996]
Frankenstein
★★★★★
dir. James Whale
Pre-Code Science Fiction Horror
[USA, 1931]
Primal: Season 2
★★★½
created by Genndy Tartakovsky
Adult Animated Action Horror
[USA, 2022]
Im Westen Nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front)
★★★★
dir. Edward Berger
Epic Anti-War
[Germany, 2022]
Entergalactic
★★★½
dir. Scott Mescudi and Kenya Barris
Adult Animated Music Television Special
[USA, 2022]
Descendant
★★★★
dir. Margaret Brown
Documentary
[USA, 2022]
Vertigo
★★★★★
dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Film Noir Psychological Thriller
[USA, 1958]
The Midnight Gospel
★★★½
created by Pendleton Ward and Duncan Trussell
Adult Animated Science Fantasy Dark Comedy
[USA, 2020]
We Own This City
★★★★
created by George Pelecanos and David Simon
Crime Drama Miniseries
[USA, 2022]
George Carlin’s American Dream
★★★★
dir. Judd Apatow
Two-Part Documentary
[USA, 2022]
Primal: Season 1
★★★★
created by Genndy Tartakovsky
Adult Animated Action Horror
[USA, 2019/2020]
大世界 (Have a Nice Day)
★★★★½
dir. Liu Jian
Adult Animated Dark Comedy
[China, 2017]
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman: Kanye West
★★★★
Presented by David Letterman
Talk-Show
[USA, 2019]
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
★★★★
dir. Marielle Heller
Biographical Drama
[USA, 2019]
Les Rivières Pourpres (The Crimson Rivers)
★★½
dir. Matthieu Kassovitz
Psychological Thriller
[France, 2000]
Athena
★★★½
dir. Romain Gavras
Epic Action Tragedy
[France, 2022]
A Night of Knowing Nothing
★★★★
dir. Payal Kapadia
Documentary
[France / India, 2021]
Geschwister – Kardeşler (Brothers and Sisters)
★★★
dir. Thomas Arslan
Drama
[Germany, 1997]
Girls5eva: Season 2
★★★½
created by Meredith Scardino
Musical Comedy
[USA, 2022]
Mo: Season 1
★★★★
created by Mo Amer and Rami Youssef
Comedy-Drama
[USA, 2022]
Haut et Fort (Casablanca Beats)
★★★½
dir. Nabil Ayouch
Drama
[Morocco / France, 2021]
Borgen: Season 4
★★★★½
created by Adam Prince
Political Drama
[Denmark, 2022]
Last and First Men
★★★½
dir. Jóhann Jóhannsson
Science Fiction
[Iceland, 2020]
The Janes
★★★★
dir. Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes
Documentary
[USA, 2022]
Irma Vep
★★★★
created by Olivier Assayas
Comedy-Drama Miniseries
[USA / France, 2022]
These lists might also be of interest:
Watch-List 04/22
Film Lists Archives