I took the liberty of creating a spreadsheet of all the films to ever appear in a Filmspotting Top 100, and included their yearly placement for the 6 years we have conducted a Top 100. Here are some interesting factoids from that research:
There have been
178 films represented in a Top 100 at one time or another.
Letterboxd list.
I have seen 167 of those films. Here is a list of films I have NOT seen:
The Science of Sleep
Stalker
Duck Soup
Ran
Le Samourai
Happy Together
The Lives of Others
Ikiru
Fitzcarraldo
F*cking Amal
A Woman Under the Influence
Of those 178 films, only
39 films were represented every time. Here are those films, listed in order of their average placement on the lists:
The Godfather (1.83)
Casablanca (1.83)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (4.83)
Citizen Kane (6.33)
Seven Samurai (9.00)
Rear Window (9.33)
2001: A Space Odyssey (10.17)
Dr. Strangelove (12.00)
Singin' in the Rain (13.00)
Raider of the Lost Ark (13.17)
Pulp Fiction (13.33)
Once Upon a Time in the West (14.00)
Vertigo (14.83)
The Big Lebowski (18.50)
The Godfather, Part II (20.50)
It's a Wonderful Life (21.00)
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (23.00)
12 Angry Men (23.17)
There Will Be Blood (24.00)
Annie Hall (24.17)
Taxi Driver (24.83)
Sunset Blvd. (28.00)
The Third Man (32.17)
Jaws (32.83)
Apocalypse Now (33.00)
Days of Heaven (40.00)
A Clockwork Orange (41.17)
The Empire Strikes Back (41.67)
Lost in Translation (42.67)
Goodfellas (42.83)
Spirited Away (46.00)
Three Colors: Blue (50.00)
No Country for Old Men (50.50)
Die Hard (50.50)
Fight Club (52.00)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (57.50)
M (66.17)
The Night of the Hunter (69.00)
Chinatown (69.83)
Here is a list of the
25 films which appeared in 5 out of the 6 lists, listed again in order of their average placement on the lists with the year they were excluded listed:
Fargo (14.80) - 2008
8 1/2 (25.80) - 2014
Alien (27.40) - 2008
Psycho (34.00) - 2014
Mulholland Dr. (41.80) - 2008
Double Indemnity (42.20) - 2008
The Apartment (42.60) - 2008
Chungking Express (44.20) - 2012
The 400 Blows (44.60) - 2014
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (44.60) - 2012
Blade Runner (46.00) - 2008
Amelie (46.20) - 2009
North By Northwest (48.60) - 2014
Children of Men (49.60) - 2008
Magnolia (50.40) - 2014
Princess Mononoke (51.00) - 2014
City of God (51.20) - 2014
In the Mood for Love (52.00) - 2008
The Shawshank Redemption (58.60) - 2012
Memento (61.20) - 2009
Before Sunrise (63.60) - 2014
Rashomon (65.60) - 2010
Back to the Future (66.80) - 2008
The Princess Bride (70.40) - 2008
The Wizard of Oz (84.00) - 2008
The Highest Ranked film to be Unranked the
following year: Psycho - 27 in 2012, NR in 2014
The Highest Ranked film to be Unranked the
previous year: City Lights - NR in 2012, 14 in 2014