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1001 MOVIES YOU MUST SEE BEFORE YOU DIE is just one of the books in the popular 1001 before you die series, with everything from music, books and other forms of arts. This books contains original essays contributed by over 70 critics edited by Steven Jay Schneider. The first edition was released in 2003, and each year there's been upgraded additions with films from the following years. The book has reached huge popularity, and also been on best seller lists in Australia.

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World Cinema

See the list of films by country here!


As for most of you, there’s no surprise that the country with most movies in this book is of course the United States of America, followed by France which have 118 films.

Some films are made by multible countries, like the Gladiator (2000) which is a movie produced by both USA and UK. But I've choosed to categorize each film by nationality and language, like Night of Cabiria (1957) which is a film produced by both Italy and France. But the facts that the story is set in Italy, and the characters speaks Italian, makes it 100% Italian.

France and Italy is the two countries which have collaborated most, more than any movies in this book, with a total of 46 productions.


Sometimes Language doesn't matter, we have The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) which is an Italian and Spanish production, but the movies is in English. But in this case it's because most of the crew are Italian, pluss the director is also Italian. and also it's filmed in Europe.

Academy Awards winners and nominees for best foreign film has also a important role, Because the academy's rules is one individual submission film per country. One example is Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) is a movie by Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and USA. But It have been choosen as the submission for Taiwan and then categories only as Taiwanese.



The film with most production countries is Lars Von Trier's Dancer in the Dark which is a collaboration between 13 different countries: Denmark, German, Netherlands, USA, UK, France, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Spain, Argentina, Italy.


Here's a list of countries by number of film:


USA
589
France
118
UK
90
Italy
43
Germany
31
Japan
28
Russia
18
Australia
15
Hong Kong
14
Sweden
12
India
11
Iran
10
Spain
Taiwan
9
Poland
8
Brazil
Canada
China
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
New Zealand
7
Mexico
South Korea
6
Netherlands
5
Switzerland
4
Hungary
Ireland
Turkey
3
Algeria
Argentina
Austria
Belgium
Cuba
Israel
South Africa
2
Armenia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Egypt
Finland
Jamaica
Mali
Morocco
Norway
Palestinian Territories
Philippines
Senegal
Serbia and Montenegro
Ukraine
Vietnam
Yugoslavia



See list of countries here!


Directors

See complete list of directors

Ingmar Bergman have most foreign language films than any other directors, with a number of 10 films followed by Luis Bunuel and Jean-Luc Godard with 9 each.

The director with most films that are still alive is Martin Scorsese with a total of 11 films, followed by Steven Spielberg with 9 films.

The longest time-span between a directors first and last film is tied between Alfred Hitchcock and Luis Bunuel who both have the gap of 43 years, both from 1929 to 1972. (Hitchcock: From Blackmail to Frenzy, Bunuel: From An Andalusian Dog to The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie).

The last name that appears most times are both Marshall (Garry, George, Penny, Rob) and Kim (Ji-woon, Ki-duk, Ki-yoing, Sang-jin) which both appears 4 times. Garry and Penny Marsall are brothers and sisters, while none of the Kims are related.



There is three brother collaborations : Joel and Ethan Coen, Peter and Bobby Farrelly, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani.

Other directors that is related to each other but does not work together are: Francis Ford and Sofia Coppola (father and daughter) Yash and Aditya Chopra (father and son) Garry and Penny Marshall (brother and sister) Marcel, and Max Ophüls (father and son) Carl and Rob Reiner (father and son) Ridley and Tony Scott (brothers).

There's three trilogy's; Antonioni's "Alienation Trilogy" (L'Avventura, La Notte, L'eclisse), George Lucas' original Star Wars Trilogy, Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Ring Trilogy. Lars von Trier's Golden Heart Trilogy (Breaking the Wave, The Idiots, Dancer in the Dark), Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy. Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings and the Apu Trilogy is the only trilogy that is connected to each other. the Star Wars Trilogy is the only one with multiple directors.

Here's a list over the directors with the largest number of films.


Alfred Hitchcock

19
Martin Scorsese

12
Howard Hawks

11
Ingmar Bergman
John Ford
John Huston
Stanley Kubrick
Steven Spielberg

10
Luis Bunuel
Jean-Luc Godard

9
Woody Allen
Federico Fellini
William Wyler

7
Robert Altman
Michellangello Antonioni
Joel and Ethan Coen
George Cukor
Michael Curtiz
Akira Kurosawa
David Lean
Michael Powell
Jean Renoir
Orson Wells
Billy Wilder

6
Bernardo Bertolucci
Robert Bresson
James Cameron
Frank Capra
Charlie Chaplin
David Fincher
Francis Ford Coppola
D.W. Griffith
Buster Keaton
Fritz Lang
Ang Lee
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Vincent Minnelli
Emeric Pressburger
George Stevens
Francois Truffaut

5


Complete list of all directors

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